First Fruits Not Easter
Discover how First Fruits celebrates God’s harvest provision, predicts Jesus resurrection and the rapture not Easter.
The Feast of First Fruits is an annual holiday celebrated in the month of Nisan. It reminded Israel of God’s provision in the Promised Land.
Israel acknowledged God’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt and his provision of food and protection in the promised land.
The Celebration:
The people were required to bring a sheaf of the first barley grain harvested each year to the priest. The priest would take the sheaf and wave it before the Lord the day after the Sabbath that followed the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Unleavened Bread started on the 15th day of Nisan, and it was a holy convocation or appointed Sabbath, not the actual Sabbath day.
During this feast two Sabbath days will fall in the same week, one an appointed Sabbath and the other the actual Sabbath or Saturday.
ON THE DAY AFTER THE ACCUAL SABBETH:
“Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. Lev 23:10-11
TWO THINGS TO NOTE ON FIRST FRUITS:
- The first cut of wheat or first fruits was received by the priest; he blesses it and waves it before God as a wave offering. The First Fruits are blessed of the Lord.
- A harvest always follows the FirstFruits; the rest of the harvest in the field receives the same blessing as the first fruits. So, when the farmer makes his 2nd cut, 3rd cut etc., whatever he or she cuts or harvest, is blessed of God just like the FirstFruits.
JESUS IS OUR FIRST FRUITS:
Jesus is our First Fruits, 1Co.15:20; 23; 48-49 and like our First Fruits we will receive a glorified body like his at the rapture. Rember it is a harvest celebration; and the other fruit receive the same blessing as the First Fruits.
We bare Christ physical image at the rapture. We bare Christ spiritual image now. Ro.8:9; Col.3:10; 2Co.3:18,
JESUS ROSE ON FIRST FRUITS:
Nisan 14th (Passover) fell on a Wednesday the year Jesus died. The next day Nisan 15th was a Thursday and the 1st day of Unleavened Bread. The first day of Unleavened Bread is always a holy convocation or appointed Sabbath day. The actual Sabbeth day Nisan 17th arrived two days later on Saturday.
The Feast of First Fruits always falls after the actual Sabbath day. Therefore; it fell on Nisan 18th the first day of the week or Sunday.
We all know Sunday is the same day Jesus rose from the dead.
Furthermore, the priest waved the sheaf before the Lord as a wave offering on the first day of the week.
Jesus presented himself to the Father at the same time the priest waved the sheaf before the Lord. Jn.20:17
THE FIRST TO RISE FROM THE DEAD:
Remember, a harvest always follows first fruits, Jesus our FirstFruits rose from the dead.
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. 1 Cor 15:20-23 (ESV)
Jesus died on Passover, was buried on the feast of Unleavened Bread, and rose on the Feast of FirstFruits, just as Moses foreshadowed in the feast of the Lord.
Read more about Passover.
Easter is not a Hebrew holiday; Moses says nothing about Easter in the law, yet he has much to say about the Feast of First fruits.
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