Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) is called the firstfruits of the resurrection (1st Cor. 15:20), and why are we called firstfruits of creation (James 1:18)? Pentecost originally was a celebration of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest and followed 50 days after the celebration of the firstfruits of the barley harvest. What is God teaching here about Yeshua and us?
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/080426%20First%20of%20the%20Harvest.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:03:42 — )Subscribe: RSSWhy is Messiah Yeshua (Jesus) called the "firstfruits of the resurrection"? How is the biblical celebration of Firstfruits around Passover time connected to Yeshua? Richard explores what God is teaching about a "harvest" of people for God through Messiah. View a larger image. Speaker: […]
God’s ways may be mysterious, but when He lays out patterns and times important historical events accordingly, He is inviting us to learn more about what He is doing. There’s a “new beginning” lesson in the spring festivals of the LORD on Yeshua (Jesus).
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.”
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 […]
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.
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 […]