Today: Hidden Insights From The Feast of FirstFruits. Clearly, Jesus was the firstfruits from the dead. He is our bread of life. He brings us thru the waters of baptism into the new kingdom. Let’s not skip over that. but also, there is more than the flatfooted assertion that First Fruits was in Passover. It is. It is not in Pentecost as we were taught. However, there is a connection. FirstFruits begins the counting of the omer. Today this is merely counting of 49 days until Pentecost,where another first fruits sare waved. That is the wheat harvest, baked with leaven, while FirstFruits waves barley sheaves. Originally, the omer was a volume measurement of grain, offered each day in the Temple. Again, we see the harvcest which we are, hidden in the feast ritual, just as Jesus Messiah was hidden in so many ways. Mentioned: https://bibleview.org/en/bible/moses/feastsandfast-firstfruits/ The glory of God to hide a matter and the glory of kings to seek it out. Hope this has been fun for you. Must hear from you if I am to keep this podcast up, as I have competing duties. I do so love it — and you. Let me hear from you. Let’s have a healthy relationship and good community. Comment: Yes! I found the verse that made me question my earlier, correct, discovery. Yes, The Feast of FirstFruits is after the Sabbath in or just after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which of course is immediately right after and connected to Passover. This is contrary to what we were taught in the Move, but well known elsewhere. (Yes, more recently, there have been some preachers who preach this correctly, but I was sitting under Sam Fife.) So: here is the verse that I ran across in my recent readings: Numbers 28:26 (NIV) “On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the LORD an offering of new grain during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.” Here is the explanation. In Numbers, mentioned is Passover, Weeks, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles. The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost does include waving first fruits of the wheat harvest, in leavened cakes. That is 5. The First of FirstFruits includes waving sheafs of barley. Lev 23 includes The Passover & Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonment, Feast of Tabernacles. That is 7. (Of course, we also think of Spring Feasts, Feast of Weeks, and Fall Festivals, being 3. Of course Move trained people recognize the 3 and 7 from the Tabernacle. When we hear 5, we think of the 5 fold.) The point for me at this time is that Firstfruits is the hidden resurrection. And the counting of the omer until the next waving of the firstfruits of grain, and this time with leaven — that is the hidden sonship of the church. Apologies for not getting that spelled out into the audio. Maybe God planned that so you will know to come to the website. The post Hidden Insights From The Feast of FirstFruits appeared first on Jesus Pattern Son.
