The Spring Season – The Time Of The Sowing
THE FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS THE DAY OF BRINGING THE FIRST SHEAF («Reishit Katzir» OR «Yom Rishon»)
Month of Aviv (Nisan). Calculated date. Falls on the first day of the week (i.e. Sunday: – ‘on the next day after the Weekly Sabbath’), following the Feast of Unleavened Bread
PAST EVENTS INDICATING PROPHECY
The day of the omer, when the sheaf of first fruits is brought before YHWH upon the day of entering the Promised Land (Israel)
When you have come into the land I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH (the priest will lift it up before YHWH), that you may be accepted. On the next day after the sabbath (weekly sabbath) the priest shall wave it before YHWH. And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to YHWH. Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to YHWH, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your YHWH; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev. 23:10
FULFILLED PROPHECIES
Prophetic significance of Messiah – The First born among those resurrected from the dead
I have found My servant David; with My holy oil I have anointed him, with whom My hand shall be established; Also My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague those who hate him. But My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him, and in My name his horn shall be exalted. Also I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers. He shall cry to Me, “You are my Father, My YHWH, and the rock of my salvation.” Also I will make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth. My mercy I will keep for him forever, and My covenant shall stand firm with him. His seed also I will make to endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, If you know?
Now YHWH had prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his Elohim from the fish’s belly. And he said: “I cried out to the YHWH because of my affliction, and He answered me. “Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice. For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your billows and Your waves passed over me. Then I said, ‘I have been cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.’ But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation. But the fact is that the Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have died. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah all shall be made alive. But each one in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits, afterward those who are Messiah ‘s at His coming (second coming).
And He is the head of the body, the Congregation, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might hold first place in everything. Having made His decision, he gave birth to us through His Word of Truth that can be relied upon, in order that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
Ps. 89:20; Prov.30:4; Jonah 1:17; Mtt.12:39; Lk.11:29; 1Cor.15:20; Col.1:18; Jam.1:18
This is the true date of the resurrection of Yeshua
After Sabbath (weekly Sabbath), as the next day was dawning, Miryam of Magdala and the other Miryam went to see the grave. Suddenly there was a violent earthquake, for an angel of YHWH came down from heaven, rolled away the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were as white as snow. The guards were so terrified at him that they trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the women: “Don’t be afraid. I know you are looking for Yeshua, who was executed on the stake. He is not here, because He has been raised – just as He said! Come and look at the place where He lay. Then go quickly and tell the disciples: “He has been raised from the dead, and now He is going to the Galil ahead of you.” You will see Him there. Behold, I have told you.” So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word. And as they went to tell His disciples, behold, Yeshua met them, saying: “Rejoice!”
When Sabbath (weekly Sabbath) was over, Miryam of Magdala, Miryam the mother of Ya`akov, and Shlomit bought spices in order to go and anoint Yeshua. Now when He (Yeshua) rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene.
Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. On entering, they discovered that the body of Yeshua was gone! They were standing there, not knowing what to think about it, when suddenly two men in dazzlingly bright clothing stood next to them. Terror-stricken, they bowed down with their faces to the ground. The two men said to them: “Why are you looking for the living among the dead? He is not here; He has been raised.”
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Miryam from Magdala went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. “Stop holding onto me,” Yeshua said to her: “Because I haven’t yet gone back to the Father. But go to my brothers, and tell them that I am going back to my Father and your Father, to my YHWH and your YHWH.”
Matthew (28:1-8); Mark(16:1-9);Luke (24:1-4);John (20:1-17)
THE FOLLOWING EVENTS HAPPENED AT THE EXACT SAME TIME
The nation of Israel entering the Promised Land
Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, Unleavened Bread and parched grain, on the very same day. Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.
Josh. 5:10
The day of Abraham’s test: to bring Isaac (the firstborn) as a sacrifice, which was later substituted by a ram
And it came to pass in the seventh week, in the first year thereof, in the first month in this jubilee, on the twelfth of this month, there were voices in heaven regarding Abraham, that he was faithful in all that He told him, and that he loved YHWH, and that in every affliction he was faithful. And the prince Mastêmâ came and said before YHWH, “Behold, Abraham loveth Isaac his son, and he delighteth in him above all things else; bid him offer him as a burnt-offering on the altar, and Thou wilt see if he will do this command, and Thou wilt know if he is faithful in everything wherein Thou dost try him” […]And I called to him from heaven, and said unto him: “Abraham, Abraham;” and he was terrified and said: “Behold, (here) am I.” And I said unto him: “Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything to him; for now I have shown that thou fearest YHWH, and hast not withheld thy son, thy first-born son, from me.” And the prince Mastema was put to shame; and Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold a ram caught . . . by his horns, and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called that place “YHWH hath seen”, so that it is said YHWH hath seen: that is Mount Sion […] And Abraham went to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham dwelt by the Well of the Oath. And he celebrated this festival every year, seven days with joy, and he called it the festival of YHWH according to the seven days during which he went and returned in peace. And accordingly has it been ordained and written on the heavenly tablets regarding Israel and its seed that they should observe this festival seven days with the joy of festival.
The Book of Jubilees Chapter 17, 18
Esther entered Artaxerx’s palace and the king held out his scepter
Now it happened on the third day (this was after the three day fast, which followed the order of Aman regarding the extermination of Hebrews – (Esth.3:12) that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house. So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter.
Esth.5:1
Restoration of the Second Temple
Now they began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of YHWH. Then they sanctified the house of YHWH in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month (Aviv) they finished. Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, “We have cleansed all the house of YHWH, the altar of burnt offerings with all its articles, and the table of the showbread with all its articles.”
2 Chron. 29:17
The Counting Of The Days Of The Omer Before The Feast Of Shavuot.
Counting 49 days (7 full weeks) from the day the sheaf is brought in (the Feast of Firstfruits)
PAST EVENTS INDICATING PROPHECY
Count the days of the ‘omer’ until the feast of Shavuot
And you shall count from the day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering (firstfruit), seven sabbaths (seven full weeks) shall they be. Count fifty days until the day after the seventh week.
You are to count seven weeks. You are to begin counting seven weeks from the time you first put your sickle to the standing grain.
Lev. 23:15; Deut. 16:9
FULFILLED PROPHECIES
When Yeshua revealed himself during the 40 (forty) days
After His death he showed Himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that He was alive. During a period of forty days they saw Him, and He spoke with them about the Kingdom of YHWH.
He appeared for many days to those who had come up with Him from the Galil to Yerushalayim; and they are now His witnesses to the people.
And afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brothers at one time, the majority of whom are still alive, though some have died.
Act.1:3; Act.13:31; 1Cor.15:6
The time of expecting that which was promised by the Father, YHWH Elohim, in Jerusalem
At one of these gatherings, He instructed them not to leave Yerushalayim but to wait for “what the Father promised, which you heard about from me. For Yochanan used to immerse people in water; but in a few days, you will be immersed in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit)!”
Act.1:4
