The Feast of First Fruits Mystery

The Jewish feast and holidays were placed by God on certain days as a sign of His work. The Feast of First Fruits took place the first day after the Passover Sabbath.  This was the beginning of the spring harvest.   The farmer would take the first sheaves of his crop and consecrate it to the LORD.  The first grain from his fields represented all the grain that was to follow.  By consecrating the first fruit of his crop to God, the whole harvest therefore was consecrated to God.

This grain sacrifice was a new day showing that winter and its hardships were past.  The death which winter brings was now turning to life.  Spring had arrived.  Rebirth and life would now rule the day. This feast was the beginning of a new and bright season where God blessed His people and gave hope.

Jesus Christ was crucified on Passover and the day after the Passover Sabbath was the day he arose from the dead.  He was resurrected on the Day of the Feast of First Fruits.  Jesus Christ was our first fruits.  He was the first fruit which was lifted up to the LORD as a representative of the all mankind. He is the one who turns our winters into spring.  Our lives can now be reborn into a new and bright hope, because of Jesus.  He died and rose again as our representative.

Because Christ overcame death and this world, so can we.

"But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him." 1 Corinthians 15: 20-23

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