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Mentioned in the last post, these Spring feasts corresponded with the barley harvest. Barley is the first winter crop to be planted and it is now ripe. The ceremony instituted by the Lord was that the first sheaves of barley (the first fruits) were to be cut and used for a wave offering before Him. His acceptance of the First fruits was a pledge of a full harvest to come.
In Jesus' day, the Sadducees who ran the temple offered the First Fruit on the Sunday after Sabbath as per their interpretation. Later, the Pharisee's tradition held that the First Fruits were done on Nisan 16. I will keep to the version used in Jesus' time.
This is the day Christ was resurrected. Sometime early Sunday morning Jesus rose from the dead. He is not the first to rise from the dead, but the others (Lazarus, for example) eventually died. He is the first that will never die ---but has eternal life. The parallel between Jesus' resurrection and the First fruits is unmistakable. Jesus is the First fruit of a new harvest. God pledges a full harvest to come! We are part of that harvest! Hallelujah!
"But now Christ has been rasied from the dead, the first fruits of those who are aleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. but each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that thos who are Christ's at His coming. " --1 Corinthians 15:20-23
Mentioned in the last post, these Spring feasts corresponded with the barley harvest. Barley is the first winter crop to be planted and it is now ripe. The ceremony instituted by the Lord was that the first sheaves of barley (the first fruits) were to be cut and used for a wave offering before Him. His acceptance of the First fruits was a pledge of a full harvest to come.In Jesus' day, the Sadducees who ran the temple offered the First Fruit on the Sunday after Sabbath as per their interpretation. Later, the Pharisee's tradition held that the First Fruits were done on Nisan 16. I will keep to the version used in Jesus' time.
This is the day Christ was resurrected. Sometime early Sunday morning Jesus rose from the dead. He is not the first to rise from the dead, but the others (Lazarus, for example) eventually died. He is the first that will never die ---but has eternal life. The parallel between Jesus' resurrection and the First fruits is unmistakable. Jesus is the First fruit of a new harvest. God pledges a full harvest to come! We are part of that harvest! Hallelujah!
"But now Christ has been rasied from the dead, the first fruits of those who are aleep. For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. but each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that thos who are Christ's at His coming. " --1 Corinthians 15:20-23
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