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Christ Is Firstfruits Of The Resurrection

Christ Is Firstfruits Of The Resurrection


The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a feast that is often mistaken for Passover. Passover is one 24 hour period, while the Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts for seven days. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is also a rest day where no work is to be done. That would also exclude attending a grave site to prepare a body on the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Passover was always on the Seventh Day of Rest, Preparation Day was always the day before, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread was always the day after the Sabbath Day of Rest and the Passover. A biblical definition of firstfruits would include the first of most anything that come from the ground or animals. The people would bring a ceremonial sheaf (bundle) of grain from the field, for the wave offering. The offering was a ceremonial bundle offering, and not a bringing of the harvest from the field, to the temple.

The biblical calendar is a 364 day a year calendar, which places the holidays on the same day of the week every year. When Christ was hung on the stake, both calendars were in use; the Biblical Calendar, and the Civil Hebrew Calendar. Which calendar do you think Christ and the disciples used; the Biblical Calendar, or the Civil Hebrew Calendar?


All three of these holidays involved firstfruit offerings at the Temple.

Passover
was in the early spring, and it included firstfruits from the first harvest of barley.

Shavuot was in the late spring, and it included firstfruits from the wheat harvest. Among the many different offerings given, was a "wave offering" of two loaves of leavened bread. This was also a firstfruits offering.

Sukkot was in the fall, and it was the final harvest which included firstfruits of olives and grapes.

The feast day of Unleavened Bread was always on a Sunday when using the Biblical Calendar. That particular Sunday was also a REST DAY where no work was to be done. The women would not have attended his body that day because it was against the law.

Luke 23:56
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.


The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread


Exodus 12:16
On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

1 Corinthians 15:20
But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

1 Corinthians 15:23
But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

The Firstfruits offering was on the day after Unleavened Bread.

Unleavened Bread Firstfruits Sheaf Wave


Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”
Offering the Firstfruits
9 The Lord said to Moses, 10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.


Passover Sabbath

Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of Jacob, and Salome, they (had / AIT) bought spices so that they might go to anoint Yahshua's body.

Luke 23:56
Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandments.

Luke 24:1
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.
The word "day" is not in the original text.

John 19:40
Taking Yahshua’s’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen. This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.

Christ resurrection was the first part of the week, not the first day.



Resurrection

The first day of the week to the Jews is Sunday. The first day of the week to the Romans was Monday. The first day of the week after the two holy days is Monday. The seventh day Sabbath was about to begin when Christ died on the stake.


Matthew 28:1
After the Sabbath, [plural] at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

"first day of the week" According to who or what? If Matthew 28 is addressing Romans, then it may mean Monday. And if it is speaking of being after the holy days of rest, then that also would be Monday. That Saturday and Sunday were both holy days. It was against biblical law for the women to attend Christ grave that Sunday.

In Satan worship Sunday is his day. The Sabbath of the lord was Sunday. Satan was also called lord, and Sunday was his day. Just a trivial note.
Scripture says "three days" and "three nights." There is no doubt from what is written that Christ died just before sundown on Friday the 13th. Three days and three nights from Friday before sundown would be:

Night 1 - Friday night
Day 1 - Saturday
Night 2 Saturday night
Day 2 - Sunday
Night 3 - Sunday night
Day 3 - Monday

Putting the resurrection at Monday before sundown.



First fruits was observed the third day after Passover and the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

The resurrection was the first part of the week, not the first day.
Thanks for that.

I would offer In one way it would seem like a weekend rest. They worked 7 days a week prior in Egypt with no rest.

God desired he give them a three day weekend a trip to the wilderness The god of this world as Pharaoh denied it and increased the survivor food needed to live. (Genesis 3:19)

Yoked with Christ every minute is rest if we hear his voice and do not harden our hearts . But as ceremonial law a shadow of the suffering of Christ beforehand it was fulfilled during the three day and nights demonstration of the Father and Son .The vail representing the circummsion of first born of God was rent the demonstration over. The government of God was restored to it founder and builder God

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Both the day of preparation and the day it is eaten are used to represent the gospel rest yoked with Christ. It spoke of his work in us giving us His rest.. both in the preparing and the eating and sharing with the less fortunate.

No survival work could be done on either days . Christ represented the strength they had to begin the work(preparation) and finish it (the eating or taking in ).

Christ once a year he increased that 2 day weekend rest after Unleavened Bread to 9 days to share the gospel

Sabbath is not a time sensitive word . It simply mean rest. . . .yoked with Christ our burden can be lighter

One person resisted the shadow ordinance. One day of rest "preparing" and waited to the day it was to be eaten(2nd)

Sabbath day (again not preparation day) gathering wood to prepare manna . He was used as a example

Sabbath day, first day of the week, the day he said let there be children of light .

Numbers 15:32-King James Version And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
 
Thanks for that.

I would offer In one way it would seem like a weekend rest. They worked 7 days a week prior in Egypt with no rest.

God desired he give them a three day weekend a trip to the wilderness The god of this world as Pharaoh denied it and increased the survivor food needed to live. (Genesis 3:19)

Yoked with Christ every minute is rest if we hear his voice and do not harden our hearts . But as ceremonial law a shadow of the suffering of Christ beforehand it was fulfilled during the three day and nights demonstration of the Father and Son .The vail representing the circummsion of first born of God was rent the demonstration over. The government of God was restored to it founder and builder God

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Both the day of preparation and the day it is eaten are used to represent the gospel rest yoked with Christ. It spoke of his work in us giving us His rest.. both in the preparing and the eating and sharing with the less fortunate.

No survival work could be done on either days . Christ represented the strength they had to begin the work(preparation) and finish it (the eating or taking in ).

Christ once a year he increased that 2 day weekend rest after Unleavened Bread to 9 days to share the gospel

Sabbath is not a time sensitive word . It simply mean rest. . . .yoked with Christ our burden can be lighter

One person resisted the shadow ordinance. One day of rest "preparing" and waited to the day it was to be eaten(2nd)

Sabbath day (again not preparation day) gathering wood to prepare manna . He was used as a example

Sabbath day, first day of the week, the day he said let there be children of light .

Numbers 15:32-King James Version And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
Most likely the person profaned the sabbath when questioned.
 
Who is clinging to pagan ways?
Angels are Pagan, along with Christmas, Easter, The Cross, Sunday Sabbath, Hell.
If you don't keep any of these, then I can't call you a Pagan Christian.
 
Angels are Pagan,
No they aren't. You'll meet them one day.
along with Christmas, Easter,
True, but they are great times of the year to witness to people.
The Cross,
There is nothing wrong with the cross.
Sunday Sabbath,
There is nothing wrong with worshiping God on a Sunday, and we no longer are required to keep the Saturday Sabbath.
True. There is no Dante's Inferno version of hell. The final state of the unsaved will be death in the lake of fire.
If you don't keep any of these, then I can't call you a Pagan Christian.
How can a person keep hell?
 
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