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Corn
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types
or Job 24:24 (b) This is a picture of the fruitless and useless life of the wicked whose plans are frustrated by GOD.
Psalm 4:7 (b) This type indicates the temporal prosperity of the people of this earth. They are happy when their crops increase. David was more happy than they with just the presence of GOD in his life.
Psalm 65:13 (c) This may be taken to indicate GOD's great blessing upon His people and His loving care for them.
Psalm 72:16 (b) Probably this represents the great blessing that shall come upon Israel and which will radiate out to the nations of the earth when GOD restores His people to be the head of the nations. CHRIST is the principal grain. It may be that this blessing refers also to the Word of GOD.
Proverbs 11:26 (c) This is a type of the blessed ministry of the Word of GOD, its promises, its assurances, and its Gospel messages, all of which are for the rich blessing of men. Those who fail to distribute the precious things from the Scripture are compared to persons who withhold corn when the people are hungry.
Isaiah 36:17 (b) This type is used by the King of Assyria to assure Israel that they would be contented in his land of Babylon even though they were strangers.
Hosea 2:22 (b) The figure here describes the blessing that will come to Palestine when Israel is fully restored as a nation.
Hosea 14:7 (a) As the grain comes up freshly in the spring, so Israel will, again grow as a thriving nation.
Amos 9:9 (a) This is a prophecy concerning the scattering of Israel among the nations. He will not overlook a single grain.
John 12:24 (a) This is plainly a type of the Lord JESUS who had life in Himself and who, when buried, could not be kept down but rose the third day. It is a type also of the believer who has GOD's eternal life in him. The Holy Spirit is the gardener who takes the grain of earth, the Christian, plants him in His harvest field where He wants him to be, and places him where he will produce the best crop. (See Matthew 13:38).
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Watson, Walter. Entry for 'Corn'. Wilson's Dictoinary of Bible Types. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wdt/c/corn.html. 1957.
