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Feast of Unleavened Bread 2007
Speaker: Daniel Agee [contact]
= b’khor in Hebrew literally means "bursting forth" and is commonly translated as "firstfruits"
Thought questions
- How do the prophets discuss "firstfruits"?
- How do those who plant a tree or crop see the budding, ripening and harvesting feel?
- How different is God in this regard?
- How many of the seven Shabbats of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks or Pentecost) have happened prophetically?
- 8 sets of 490 years from Adam to the Second Adam (Messiah)
- 8 sets after the temple is established to the New Jerusalem temple
- 8 sets from Abraham to today; promise of God for offspring and all the land be his so we expect he will have more offspring and establish Israel
- How does this relate to the Festival of Firstfruits?
- What is the Firstfruit?
- First grain
- First fruit
- First born
- First in a family to believe in Messiah
- What two items does the firstborn son get from his father?
- Inheritance
- Blessing
- What is the Firstfruit?
- Why did Jacob, Ephraim and David get the firstborn blessing, even though they weren’t firstborn?
- What happened to Adam’s blessing after Adam?
- Why are only certain descendants mentioned?
- What is a "firstfruit" according to Micah 7:1–2 and Jeremiah 31:9?
- Why are firstfruits such a complicated picture in the prophetic writings?
- Why aren’t we the firstfruits?
- Who rose from graves at the time of Messiah’s death?
- When did God start counting the firstfruits?
- If you have people before Messiah came to Earth who are upright but they must believe in Messiah, can they enter the kingdom of heaven?
- What is the value of point out the people included in the sixth seal of Revelation 6?
- How does this relate to discussions with Jews who are familiar with the apostolic writings (New Testament) that say only those who believe in Yeshua can be saved?
- Examples of "firstfruits"
- Ephraim is My firstborn — Psalm 89:7
- Israel is My firstborn — Exodus 4:22
- All firstborn of man and beast is Mine — Exodus 13
- Levi is My firstborn — Hosea
- Israel is My grapes, your fathers are my firstborn — Exodus 34
- Israel, you are no longer My firstborn — Micah
- Messiah is God’s Firstborn
- Does lineage matter in whether someone is a "firstfruit"?
- What happens at Shavuot, and how is that connected to a tree being harvested?