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Apostolic Writings Discussions Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Matthew 28:1: What is meant by ‘first day of the week’ in Greek?

More than 2,000 years of debate lies behind the question of when Messiah Yeshua rose from the dead. Rather than an esoteric inquiry, timing matters because Yeshua’s life, death, and resurrection happened “according to the Scriptures.”

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Appointments With God Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Timing of the Festivals of Firstfruits & Shavuot — Seven Sabbaths & 50 Days

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070526%20Timing%20of%20Firstfruits%20and%20Shavuot%20-%207%20Shabbats%20and%2050%20days%20-%20Part%201.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:45 — 7.2MB)Subscribe: RSSTeacher: Richard Agee This is the third in a series of Bible studies exploring the connection in thought and time between Passover, Festival of the Wave Offering (Firstfruits or Bikkurim), Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matzot) and the Festival of Sevens (Shavuot or Pentecost). For […]

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Appointments With God Firstfruits Pentecost/Shavuot

Timing of the festivals of Firstfruits & Shavuot — Journey Into the Wilderness of Zin

There are three primary ways Judaism and Christianity use to determine when Shavuot — Hebrew for “weeks,” “sevens” or Sabbaths — will come. Richard considers another possiblity related to encampments the people of Israel during their exodus from slavery in Egypt leading up to their receiving the 10 Commandments from God at Mt. Sinai. The number of encampments after the people went through the sea and escaped Pharaoh’s army, the connection of those encampments with the weekly Shabbat (seeExodus 16) and the potential for a mistranslation of “day after the Sabbath” and “after the Sabbath, on the first day of the week” suggests that Yeshua’s resurrection and Shavuot came on weekly Shabbats. This isn’t just esoteric Bible-babbling. This connection to the Shabbat has an important bearing on what God is trying to teach with the festivals of Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits and Shavuot.

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Appointments With God Firstfruits Unleavened Bread

When Was the Wave Sheaf Offering and Yeshua’s Resurrection?

https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070407%20Date%20of%20Wave%20Sheaf%20Offering.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:34 — 12.9MB)Subscribe: RSSFeast of Unleavened Bread 2007 — Day 5 Speaker: Richard Agee Thought questions Why do Christians celebrate the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua on Sunday? Where did the early Christians get that idea? Why is it called a “wave offering”? What does God do with […]