wheat—life; honey—the sweetness of the Bridegroom’s love of the coming One; oil—the fullness of the Holy Spirit; and balm—healing. Balm of Gilead! What does Gilead mean? Perpetual Fountain. “The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:14). There is no limit of the Balm of Gilead, the healing of the Perpetual Fountain, for we are told in Revelation 22:17, “Whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.” Why then is not the health