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rejected, while his brother Abel offered the sac rifice of an animal whose blood had been shed and was accepted (Gen. 4:3-5).
We need the Lord Jesus to be both our gen erating life and our redeeming life. By His death on the cross two things came out of Him—the blood to redeem us and the water to generate us (John 19:34). His shed blood brought redemp tion to us, and the water from His wounded side imparted His life to us. The five barley loaves were accompanied by the two fishes. It is impos sible for barley to shed blood; therefore, it could never redeem us. The two fishes represent the animal life for redemption. The Lord is repre sented by both the barley loaves and the fishes, for He is our vegetable life to generate us and our animal life to redeem us.
THE LIFE SUPPLY TO US
It is interesting to note that the five barley loaves and two fishes came from a small boy, not a big man. This is very meaningful, because the Lord wants to indicate to us that He is our life, not as someone big, but as someone small. Both barley loaves and fishes are small items, signify ing the smallness of Christ as the life supply to us. The miracle-seeking people considered Him