First Fruit Harvest at Shavout 2016 We are the Lord's Bride and shall be going to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, after He comes to get us on HIS RETURN. For there we shall love and mate and UNITE together for 45 days, til we return to the Earth at the battle of Armegeddon, to cleanse it. So interestingly, the timing of His return has to be exactly at the time of the First Fruits celebrations Revelation 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, [being] the FIRST FRUITS unto God and to the Lamb. See FirstResurrection1.html This FIRST HARVEST, is the Shavolut celebration and holy day of the Jews. It comes exactly 50 days after the Passover. In Christian terms, it is fifty days after the Lord's Crucifixion on Pentecost. https://www.themessianiccentre.com/ Seven “Sabbaths”, or the counting of the seven Sabbaths between the Sabbath after Passover to Shavuot (Pentecost), is a period of fifty days known as the ‘Counting of the Omer.’ An omer was a unit of measure used in the ancient world for trade and commerce, and it was also used in the various Temple systems for sacrifices. According to the Bible, on the day after the Sabbath after the Passover (the 1st day of the week, Sunday) there was to be a wave offering consisting of sheaves of grain from the field. As new sprouting sheaves of barley became visible in the fields, people would cut some of them down and bring them into the Temple as an offering. The High Priest, on behalf of the people of Israel, waved two of these sheaves before the Lord for the people to be accepted. Leviticus 23:17 makes a strange connection between the sheaf/wave offering and the acceptance of the people of Israel. You would think the wave offering would be for the Lord to bless the crops and the harvest, but instead, the wave offering is for the people to be accepted. This odd ceremony is part of the Feast of the First Fruits, or in other words the Feast of the First Offerings from the Harvest to Come. But this ceremony is not odd or strange because it is 'we' that are the first harvest. The Lord accepting us, His BRIDE to our Marriage Supper. For similarly, at Pentecost, the Lord after three days in the grave (in hell witnessing to the prisoners) and 47 days witnessing to His disciples left at the Mount of Olives in the Ascension. Act 1:10 - 11 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. And this will again happen on the same exact day, the Day of Pentecost, the Day of the Harvesting. For on Pentecost we shall be harvested unto HIM, as that is what the Lord has said according to His patterns, and history and celebrations, and WORD. More later on this exact timing and why it matches exactly with the other dates on the Lord's return, as well as more on the 45 Day Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and what we do then in the SECOND HARVEST of Revelation. http://jewishmag.com/32MAG/omer/omer.htm |