The Feast Of First Fruits

The second High Day on the annual timeline is The Day of Firstfruits. It is always on a Sunday (by our modern calendar) and begins the 7 week Feast of Firstfruits (also called The Feast of Weeks). This feast ends with The High Day of Pentecost which is usually in late May or June. Pentecost is also always on a Sunday. What this 7 week period depicts is this so-called "church age" that we have been in since 30A.D. The fact that this time is bracketed by the only two always-on-Sunday High Days is proof that Sunday HAS been the principle day of worship for over 1,900 years. But that is now changing.

The Day of Firstfruits is actually the very day that Jesus/Yashua was resurrected. It was that first day of the week (Sunday) just AFTER sunset on that 7th day (Saturday). He had been deceased and in the tomb since sundown on that Wednesday (exactly 72 hours). The event of His resurrection was the FIRST fullfillment of this Day. Paul referred to Jesus as "Christ the firstfruit". And we, the rest of the true church, were also referred to as firstfruits. So, we can see that the future resurrection of the dead-in-Christ will also be on this Day. It will be in the Spring of the last year of the Tribulation Period.

How is this Day calculated? It falls on the Sunday just after the Saturday Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. I didn't actually know of it's existence as a High Day until March 2006 when I discovered it in Numbers 28:26 . This is the only verse in The Bible that specifically mentions it as a High Day. So, it is understandable that the sabbatarian churches missed it for so many centuries. They had mistaken this reference to be one concerning Pentecost.

Next: Rapture Day ( my term for it! ).

--RPC, Monday February 9, 2009