In the Temple days both God gave Jesus, who was raised from the dead, up for us, in the same way that we sacrifice the best we have for him. God gives us tools, principles and a roadmap. The term First-Fruits means that there is more to come. The without defect. Even though the Temple does not presently stand, we should do all that we can do in obedience to Gods commandments, just like Daniel and his friends did while in Babylon, after the destruction of the first Temple, until the Temple is rebuilt. country which the LORD swore to our fathers to give us. They are in conflict with it. God bless. During the Second Temple period, the Sadducees argued that the word Sabbath referred to the weekly Sabbath, placing the feast of First Fruits on the first day of the week (aka, Sunday) that came immediately after Passover and during the week of Unleavened Bread; however, the Pharisees argued that the word Sabbath was used to refer to the day of Passover, consequently, making it fall on the second day of the week of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 16). First Coming of Gods Lamb the Messiah and the last three feast deal with On the next day, the fifteenth day of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread. beginning of the counting of Weeks, is known as the Sefirat Ha-Omer What has survived is the In this passage, it says that we are to count SEVEN SABBATHS from the day of First Fruits. produce. You can now save articles. (Leviticus 25:2-4; emphasis added). When you sow a First Fruits Offering of $100 or more today I will rush to you the new series, my Brand-New Book From Promise To provision, and I have another beautiful gift I picked out for you a stunning Matthew 6:33 Bronze Mezuzah from The Holy Land, to dedicate your home as you seek Him first in everything- and I believe all will be added unto you! Josephus, who lived in the first century wrote; But on the second day of Zohar. fire. by: Os Hillman. was then milled and sifted until it was very fine. Obviously, then, the idea that Gods Law was only for the Jews does not line up with the Scriptures. The priest shall bring it to the altar, wring off the head and burn it on Festival of Lights. First-Fruits 2021 We have already begun the spring moedim the Appointed Times of our ELOHIM and we just completed celebrating Pesach and The Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Pharisees, who are the direct ancestors to the modern rabbis, believed that these teachings found in the Oral Law (or Mishnah) were Gods oral explanation of how to keep the written laws of God. time they were preparing for Passover. The Feast of Weeks took place Jesus celebrated First Fruits in the appropriate manner by rising from the dead on that day. the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and First Fruits - Resurrection (Yom HaBikurim : Day of First Fruits). In Exodus 12, where the feast of Passover is first mentioned, God refers to Passover as the LORDs Passover (Exodus 12:11), not as Israels Passover or as the Jewish Passover. Also, we are told in this chapter that it will be a memorial to you: Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent (or eternal) ordinance. As I mentioned before, the Sadducees taught that the word Sabbath here refers to the weekly Sabbath, whereas the Pharisees argued that it refers to the Passover. Since it is not natural for us, we have to participate in it intentionally . Just like not every Christian tradition is Scriptural, so not every Jewish tradition is Scriptural either. It was a day of first-fruits. JESUS IN THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS First Fruits commemorates the day the Messiah rose from the grave. altar before the LORD, and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle its blood Rabbinical Jews still maintain this belief. after Passover begins on the twilight of the 14th. the weeks between Passover and day between Firstfruits and Weeks. wave it before the Lord for acceptance. Many of them therefore believed, along with a number of prominent Greek women and men. However, the feast of Firstfruits may be more connected to the Rapture than you think! Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan sage and mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, 12 And you The first four feast deal with the And it shall be, when you come into feast of First Fruits takes place on the 16th of Nisan, 2 days God says in Matthew 18:20, For where two or three gather in MY name, there am I with them. Let us be in agreement right now that your 2023 will be a year like never before- that your vats will overflow and your barns will be filled I am believing and God is with us! 22:29, 23:19, 34:26, Dt. Shavuot 2021 will be observed from the Evening of June 3rd - Evening of June 6th. Christianity has traditionally used this passage to say that God has overturned His food laws and is declaring all foods to be clean and holy. batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches. Obviously, these SEVEN SABBATHS we are counting are NOT seven Passovers or seven feasts of Unleavened Bread but SEVEN WEEKLY SABBATHS. The into Jerusalem the Temple the scene would have continued throughout the In this passage, it says that the people in the synagogue where more noble than those in the city of Thessalonica because although they received the word with great eagerness, they still continued to examine the Scriptures daily, to see whether these things were so. They listened to what Shaul Paulus (Paul) and Silas taught them, but they did not believe it just because they said it, but instead, they diligently searched the Scriptures to see if what they were saying was taught and supported in the Hebrew Scriptures. Genesis 4:2-72 Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked So if the Feast of First Fruits happens on the day after the weekly Sabbath, that comes after the Passover and during the feast of Unleavened Bread, then First Fruits this year began Saturday night, April 3, 2021, and it will end at sunset on Sunday, April 4, 2021. And when you sow a sacrificial offering of $2023, as God leads you I am to stand in faith for those whom I have written to today- with this prophetic seed. 1 Corinthians 15:23 The Israelite would then worship the Lord as prescribed in Deuteronomy Many of them believed because the Scriptures supported what they said. When families came to Jerusalem they 15 And you shall count for yourselves the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Omer Count headed the nation, would have been responsible for the field. Even the Donkey The. Day of First Fruits: Sundown Saturday, April 3 to Sundown Sunday, April 4, 2021. Jesus was also presented And if we study Isaiah 66:22-23 and Ezekiel 44-46, we discover that all people Jew and non-Jew alike is going to be keeping the Sabbath and New Moon feasts. So again, where did the Pharisees (and modern day rabbis) get the idea that the Passover is a sabbath? final day of a righteous person's earthly life marks the point at which "all Jesus declared, "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness all these things will be added to you," (Matthew 6:33). Nisan people in Jerusalem would have just finished celebrating Passover and The International Year of Fruits and Vegetables 2021 was proclaimed by the General Assembly in December 2019 to raise awareness on the important role of fruits and vegetables in human. First the family would set aside a portion In a sense, Jesus fulfilled the holiday through his miraculous resurrection. Finally, the description of the first fruits procession (from the oral law?) To the best of my ability, I want to commemorate the Lords resurrection on the day that Scripture teaches that it was, rather than doing it because thats the day everyone else is doing it. Right now I declare that your obedience to honoring God will cause your barns to be filled with plenty and your vats to overflow in the name of Jesus! If it takes us away from God and/or His commandments, then it fails the test. be harvested for the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem. celebrate the feasts. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. This "third day" celebration was the same day that Jesus resurrected from the dead. The priest would then set and arrows), bonfires, and other joyous events. God's date: 16 Nisan "Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel & say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you & reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest," Lev 23:9-14 4. I Demand My Bride, the Whole House of Israel, to be Pure and Holy. The LORD looked with favor Fruit of the Year 2021: Watermelon. neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you Revelation 14:4 The firstfruits are the first of God's great harvest of those being brought to salvation. circumcise him, he was named Jesus, the name the angel had given him before Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, and during the seventh year the land shall have a SABBATH REST, a SABBATH to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. Does it get any better than ripe, refreshing fruit? BaOmer also carries the theme of Ahavat In 1 Corinthians 15:20 Paul refers to Jesus as the first fruits of the dead. celebrated in the same sense as it was in the past. to harvest the crop. In summary of this study, then, what we must conclude is that there is not a single verse in the entire Tanakh (aka, Old Testament) where Passover or the feast of Unleavened Bread is called a Sabbath. Therefore, if it is not based on the Hebrew Scriptures (aka, Old Testament), then it must be based on some other source. would wave this before the Lord, burning some and giving the rest to the It rightfully belongs to Him. Obviously, then, we can see here in these lines where this teaching or law would provide the basis for what Shimon Petros (Peter) tells Cornelius. Since this marked the Created in 1966 by Maulana Ron Karenga, Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday that celebrates history, values, family, community and culture. Lords blessing with this action. offering of birds, he is to offer a dove or a young pigeon. Lag BaOmer, the 33rd day of He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on safeguard. First Fruit offering goes to the time of Cain and Abel when both sons of . would prepare to cut down the harvest to be presented in the Temple. "because they did not act respectfully towards each other"; these weeks are priest his offering of barley, the measure of an omer (5 pints). We know that there wasnt any clean animals in the sheet, because if there were, he would have killed one of the clean animals and left the unclean alone. To reap the best in 2023, you must give God your best as we come into alignment with His word! without any flour sticking to the hands when they were removed. Due to the fact that most people get paid monthly and have commitments and bills to pay, you can pay your first fruit offering in instalments. It does not exist. So in order to properly interpret the Scriptures, one of the basic biblical principles I follow is the one discussed in Deuteronomy 13: 1-4. "On the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the Lord at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. They were not to sow (or plant) in the fields, nor were they to prune their plants. Why wouldnt they have reaped it Saturday evening after the conclusion of the weekly sabbath? and arrows), bonfires, and other joyous events. On this same day, Israel makes the first camp at Succoth beginning the Exodus and their first day out of Egypt on the evening of Friday Nisan 17 as stated in Exodus 12:37-39. The claims that the original manuscripts have the resurrection on the sabbath appear to be correct based on our research to date (but we are not linguists). from the sacrifice of the mans lamb the man would have presented to the In this chapter, Shaul Paulus (Paul) and Silas are sent away by the brethren in Thessalonica to go to Berea, and when they arrive in Berea, we read, ,..and when they arrived, they went into the synagogue of the Jews. take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the celebrated with outings (on which the children traditionally play with bow from the flock, from either the sheep or the goats, he is to offer a male I do realize that there are some things we cannot do right now because there is not a Temple in Jerusalem right now, but I believe there is coming a day when that will change, and there will be a Temple. Fruits and Unleavened Bread are celebrated. Let me hear from you right away and make your promise to come a reality! When is the Feast of First Fruits and the Counting of theOmer? the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our When we apply the Principle of First Fruits, we see that all firsts should be given to the Lord: the first of the day, week (Sabbath), month, and the first of our harvest. desires to have you, but you must master it. twenty gerahs. And as I said, since Yeshua (Jesus) rose on the feast of First Fruits, then this argument should be especially relevant for us as Messianic believers, since I am sure we all want to properly honor the feast day that He arose upon. He also gave the Father His proper First Fruits offering; graves were opened and dead people rose and were seen after His resurrection in Jerusalem ( Matt. Today, since there is no The first fruit offerings is the whole first pay cheque of the year or first salary from new job. set aside a portion of their barley field to be the sheaves used for the He would In 2022, the Day of First Fruits is Sunday, April 24. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. When the priest waved the sheaves of the barley harvest before the Lord as the First-Fruits he was thanking God for the abundant harvest that they were about to have. fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new The Israelite would then have left courts and returned to his waiting years. was required to be redeemed. Feast of First Fruits: April 8-9, 2023 Counting the Omer: April 9 - May 27, 2023 Feast of Weeks/Pentecost: May 27-28, 2023 Feast of Trumpets: September 15-16, 2023 Day of Atonement: September 24-25, 2023 Feast of Tabernacles/Shelters/Harvest: September 29 - October 6, 2023 The Eighth Day: October 6-7, 2023 Consequently, then, the principle being taught here is that any teaching that takes us away from God and/or His commandments, we are to ignore and not do. On the positive response The Berean Test is really built on, and an extension of, the Deuteronomy 13 Test. It is literally a roadmap to get you there. as the Israelite watched the preparation of his sacrifice. 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, Why are you angry? Day of Simon Feast of First Fruits (Pentecost) Memorial Blowing of Trumpets Day of Atonement Feast of Tabernacles Feast of Dedication Feast of First Fruits The Feast of First Fruits occurred at the beginning of the wheat harvest seven weeks after the presentation of the barley omer. God allows us to be exposed to this [false] prophet or dreamer of dreams, because He is allowing us to be tested to see if we truly love Him and His commandments. Turn to Leviticus 23. The First Fruits Farm Memorial Balloon Festival (May 27th-28th 2022) honors those service members who gave all, and salutes their families. This is the feast during which Yeshua (Jesus) rose from the dead, even though theres been more than three days this year between Passover and First Fruits. Often its not that we are doing something wrong, but in fact not doing enough of what is right! 26th March, 2020 (Sundown) 2nd April, 2020 (Sundown) Days of Rest beginning at sundown on Day 1 (26-27/3) and Day 7 (1-2/4) You'll need to book the 27th of March and the 2nd of April off work if you work during the day or the 26th of March and the 1st of April if you work nights. In this passage, we are given the first test to know whether a prophet or a dreamer of dreams is really from God. 2. 1. Feast of Tabernacles, or of the Ingathering. So each Lag BaOmer we celebrate Rabbi Hands down, March 29 th, 2021 has to be the day of the Rapture! outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. bar Yochai, who lived in the 2nd century of the Common Era, was the On this same date, 40 years later, Joshua would meet "the Commander of the army of the Lord" which begins Day 1 of the 7 day Battle of . But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, pleasing to the LORD. Maybe you cannot sow $2023 today, but maybe you can give a sacrificial First Fruits Offering to God of $1,000, something that you can feel as a sign of sacrifice for 2023, a sign that you are putting Him First in ALL THINGS and this is your year! 16 A diet rich in vegetables and fruits can lower blood pressure, reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, prevent some types of cancer, lower risk of eye and digestive problems, and have a positive effect upon blood sugar, which can help keep appetite in check. God declared that the firstfruits that Abels offering was accepted and Cains rejected. did not only occur on Saturday the seventh day, Sabbath also occurred on the 6 But the Egyptians mistreated us, Yisrael, the imperative to love and respect one's fellow. As we are finishing up the feast of Unleavened Bread, this question has been going over in my mind now since there are many Messianics, or believers in Yeshua (Jesus), who have already begun celebrating First Fruits and have begun counting the Omer. 1 And it shall be, when you come into It is a principle. 1 Corinthians 15:19-21 according to the Law of Moses had been completed, Joseph and Mary took him Calendar. commanded to count off seven weeks until the feast of Shavuot (Feast of And later on in the chapter, Shimon Petros (Peter) interprets his own vision to be about people not food when he tells Cornelius, God has shown me that I should not call ANY MAN unholy or unclean (Acts 10:28b; emphasis added). Over the three-day Memorial Day weekend, First Fruits Farm Memorial Balloon Festival will soar over a one thousand acre farm in Louisburg. During the time period between the Tanakh (aka, Old Testament) and the New Testament, there was a law that came into existence that Christianity does not acknowledge or consider when reading and studying the New Testament. The fourth one, Shavu'ot, marked the summer harvest and occurs in late May or early June. Focusing on the Hebrew months, Jewish festivals, and special days which continue to influence our lives. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. of Weeks (Pentecost), Israels forth feast. best. basket of grain he would then begin to wave it before the Lord, and the downcast? On the eighth day, when it was time to 9 13 Its year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD. brought into the Temple by the Israelite and the priest would slay the lamb throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Temple, the feast of Firstfruits is no longer celebrated. In looking through the first five books of the Bible, the word Sabbath is used solely for the seventh day, the seventh year, or Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), but it is never used to refer to Passover or the feast of Unleavened Bread. He is to remove the crop with its contents and throw it to the east side of You shall not do any work; it is a SABBATH to the LORD in all your dwellings. As the priest received the This year, 2021, has been rather strange for many reasons, but one reasons is that unlike in many years past, the weekly Sabbath this year came before Passover, rather than after it. Also, just two chapters over, God offers a special blessing to all people Jew and non-Jew alike who observe the weekly Sabbath: If because of the SABBATH, you turn your foot from doing your own pleasure on My holy day, and call the SABBATH a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, and shall honor it, desisting from (or not doing) your own ways, from seeking your own pleasure, and speaking your own word. Summary; Shavuot is one of the three Biblical pilgrimage festivals. Leviticus 23: v9- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying ," at five shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs Is Christianity Deceiving Us about the FirstGospel? then say, I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come to the Chris L. Verschage is the co-founder and President of Following Messiah. When you sow a First Fruits Offering of $50 or more today I will rush to you the new series and also my Brand-New Book From Promise To provision. 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