Friday, October 1, 2010

Third Angel's Carrot?

Sometimes I have really random thoughts while I'm mindlessly sorting carrots. One of them that I had the other day was actually very interesting. When we sort carrots, they start out in a big drum. It's called the washing drum. It goes round and round, with water being sprayed into it. This washes the carrots. There are little ridges inside this drum, which spiral around. When the drum is rolling, the spiraled ridges push the carrots out of the drum, and onto a conveyor belt. They got through a few other conveyor belts, and finally onto the bagging belt. There we collect the carrots that we are supposed to. Most often, we collect what are called "number ones". These are the carrots that are as perfect as possible. They are no shorter than 5 inches, no wider than 1 1/2 inches, and no skinnier than 1/2 inch. These are the carrots that you buy in the store.
There are also "number two" carrots. These ones were no shorter than 4 inches. They could be broken, but couldn't be less than 1/2 inch wide and no more than 1 1/2 inches wide. These were the juicing carrots. I've sorted those too, but we normally don't sort them until after the #1's have been sorted out.
Then, there are the #3's. These are all of the carrots that are larger than the #1's and smaller than the #2's.
A person who is sorting #1'a will only look for those. The others are not a concern. When we start sorting out #2's, we will be looking for both #1's and #2's. We want to get all the #2's possible, but we also want to be sure to get the #1's as well. Although I have never done it before, when we start sorting #3's, we will be looking for any #1's, but we will also be looking for the #2's.
This reminds me of a discussion we were having in Bible the other day. I don't remember exactly where this discussion came up from, or why we were talking about it, but the Three Angel's Message is kind of like that. William Miller taught the first angel's message. Later, the second angel's message was taught, and the first was taught along with it. Now, in our day, the Third angel's message is being proclaimed. It is our duty to proclaim it, and the first two. They are a three fold message that must go out to the world now. Christ is coming soon! We must be sure that the whole world knows!

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