Bread

the bread of life John 6:31-35;Ex 12:17-18; 16:4
These verses compare Jesus to Manna that "rained" down from heaven.

The interesting aspect of this Miracle in the desert was that it took place on the feast of unleavened bread. This is one of seven stated feasts defined by Moses. There were three clustered around Passover (in the Spring) three clustered around Rosh Shan nah (in the fall), then last being the feast of Pentecost. This happened soon after the first green sprigs came up in the spring crop. Fifty days after Passover it was a kind of thanksgiving ahead of time. The statement being If I see the first sprig I have the harvest , by Faith.

This Manna then was Gods supply of unleavened Bread. The feast signified a removal of all Yeast (an evidence of foreign matter that substantially changed the Lump of dough.) This picture becomes an OT type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Torah is peppered with such pictures that taken as a whole lend credence to the assertion that Jesus (Joshua-deliverer to his family) was in fact the Messiah of Israel.

In John 6 Jesus making this assertion that He was the Unleavened bread pictured in Ex 12 exploded in the minds of these disciples who had just seen the feeding of the multitudes by a little boy's lunch. Using the phrase "I am" in the sentence "I am the bread from heaven, screamed "God" "God" "God" to the hearer not unlike the saliva beginning to flow when the sound of the dinner bell rings at a time that diner is expected to be ready. The only time God ever answered that he had a name he answered "I AM." The implication: I am what ever you need at the time, I am with out any prior creator and with out any completing process. For anyone to use this phrase was either the max of blasphemy or in Jesus' case a simple statement of Truth.

The distressing quality of this "what-is-it" (Manna) was that it did not come down at any set time, it rotted after one night (except on Sabbath), and it always tasted the same. Not needing to be cooked, it did not lend itself to spice variation. While being a complete food in itself, Manna was a complete food, just what was needled.
We now know that eating a balanced diet of meat,milk,bread, fat, fruit and vegetables; leaves a body satisfied with the weight times ten of calories(200 # needs 2000 calories!).

These calories are obtained with:
two meat ounces, one fruit serving (four ounces,),
one vegetable (four ounces,) one milk (four ounces,)
one-half fat (two ounce,) two bread (twenty-five carbohydrates.)
for each fifty pounds of body weight desired.

100#
four meat ounces, two fruit serving (four ounces,),
two vegetable (four ounces,) two milk (four ounces,)
one fat (two ounce,) four bread (twenty-five carbohydrates.)

150#
six meat ounces, three fruit serving (four ounces,),
three vegetable (four ounces,) three milk (four ounces,)
one and one-half fat (two ounce) six bread (twenty-five carbohydrates.)

175#
seven meat ounces, three-four fruit serving (four ounces,),
three-four vegetable (four ounces,) three-four milk (four ounces,)
one and one-half fat (two ounce )seven bread (twenty-five carbohydrates.)
200#
eight meat ounces, four fruit serving (four ounces,),
four vegetable (four ounces,) four milk (four ounces,)
two fat (two ounce) eight bread (twenty-five carbohydrates.)

bread servings (@ 12-14 grams carb)
(Note me at, milk or nuts may have fat embedded)
(Also any sugar or starch food like potato or pasta will be work in the body as a bread.)
Additionally a person may drop ten percent of intake in each of the food groups and not experience hunger. This will cause a gradual loss of weight over a prolonged period, say 10% in three to four months. Assuming there are not other factors like using food to medicate or comfort, the person will experience satisfaction with the stated calorie levels. A group called "First Place" provides additional support and information for those with the unwanted load of excess pounds. Counseling and Addiction support groups address the emotional nature of "phantom hunger." Ultimately these are a type of idolatry where a person seeks to fill "a God sized hole" with something other than Himself. Additionally People differ as to how well they metabolize) these calories. There are differences based on age ,sex, and heredity.

When Jesus promises that when one "eats" of "the bread I shall give" he will never hunger or thirst, this is what He is actually saying. It turns out that fear causes the body to clamp the stomach area interfering with the normal discharge of Urea. The body immediately sends a "thirst alert" to the intent that the additional water will wash out the system of this pH charged imbalance. The same stomach response will inhibit the digestion process, leaving a lack of nutrients in the blood stream, skewing the blood sugar balance. This registers as hunger. If a person will simply trust Jesus in situations of stress leading to fear, the person will not hunger or thirst unnaturally. (Fulfilling Jesus promise, or rather proving the trueness of the scripture.)

In conclusion the old or new covenant described by the Old or the New Testament provides a workable lifestyle that when implemented will answer all of life's issues and concerns. In Short one man said the scriptures were Gods Operation manual