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).
Richard considers another possibility other than the three main methods for determining the timing of Shavuot/Pentecost 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. Richard contends that a connection to the weekly Shabbat has an important bearing on what God is trying to teach with the festivals of Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits and Shavuot.
At the time of the Exodus, YHWH (God’s personal name in Hebrew, often translated as “the LORD”) told the people of Israel to have a “lamb for a household” (Exodus 12:3). Usually 10 people could manage to consume a whole lamb. Smaller groups joined together to form a chaverim, Hebrew for “a group of friends,” and that formed a mishpokhah, “a family group.” Paul talks about believers being the “household of God” (1st Timothy 3:15) because there is a “lamb for the household.”
https://hallel.info/wp-content/uploads/file/070428%20Observing%20and%20Remembering%20the%20Feasts%20of%20the%20LORD.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 52:14 — 12.0MB)Subscribe: RSSSpeaker: Susan Pierce [contact] “You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.” —Deuteronomy 16:12 = El Shaddai in Hebrew. It points to a hidden The name of HaShem, YHVH, has been translated mostly […]
Learn how to see Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus) in the qorbanot (offerings, sacrifices) presented in the Tabernacle on the moedim (appointed times, festivals) of Yom Teruah (Day of Blowing Trumpets), Yom haKippurim (Day of Atonement) and Sukkot (Tabernacles).
The timing of the exodus, travel to the sea, crossing the sea and travel to Mt. Sinai to receive God’s instructions mirrors Messiah’s deliverance of us from slavery to sin, taking us to baptism and then leading us toward His instructions.
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 (Note: For an updated and fuller treatment on the question of the timing of the wave sheaf offering, see our primer on Shavuot/Pentecost.) Thought questions Why do Christians celebrate the resurrection of Messiah […]