07/20/2014
THE DAY OF FIRST FRUITS !!!
THE THIRD FEAST OF THE ELOHIM MENTIONED IN THE BOOK OF LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23, IS CALLED 'BIKKURIM' (THE FIRST FRUITS). ANOTHER INTERESTING POINT IS THAT IT FALLS ON THE THIRD DAY OF PESACH (PASSOVER).
ON THE FOURTEEN DAY OF NISAN 'PASSOVER' BEGINS, FOLLOWED ON THE SECOND DAY WITH 'UNLEAVENED BREAD' AND ON THE THIRD DAY IT IS 'BIKKURIM' (FIRST FRUITS).
WHY IS BIKKURIM SO IMPORTANT TO US WHO BELIEVE IN THE PROPHETICAL SCRIPTURES THAT ARE FOUND IN THE OLD COVENANT AND COMPLETED IN THE NEW COVENANT, IN AND THROUGH THE VERY PERSON OF Y'SHUA (JESUS) OUR LORD? LAMA (WHY)?
BECAUSE, Y'SHUA JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF BIKKURIM, AS WRITTEN AND CONFIRMED IN HOLY WRIT FOR OUR BENEFIT NOW AND (OLAM) ALWAYS.
WITHOUT THE REDEMPTIVE LINE MENTIONED IN GOD'S WORD, THAT HAS PROGRESSED FROM THE DAYS OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD EVEN UNTIL NOW, WE WOULD BE WITHOUT HOPE AND IN ETERNAL DARKNESS.
EL SHADDAI (THE ALMIGHTY GOD), HAS GIVEN TO US HIS LIGHT AND SALVATION THROUGH HIS HOLY WORD, THAT IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME GOD SENT HIS SON TO BE OUR 'FIRST FRUITS'. THOSE INDIVIDUALS (ISRAEL) THAT ACTUALLY LIVED IN THE DAYS OF THESE INITIAL PROCLAMATIONS THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD WOULD PROVIDE FOR ALL OF MAN KIND AND THROUGHOUT THE AGES A WAY OF BEING FORGIVEN OF SIN AND IT'S SORROW, AND HE DID.
YOU AND I HAVE ALSO BENEFITED FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THESE SACRIFICES AS DESCRIBED, NOT ONLY FOR ISRAEL, DEMONSTRATING GOD'S LOVE FOR THEM AND ULTIMATELY HIS PRECIOUS ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE THROUGH Y'SHUA (JESUS) OUR LORD FOR THEM AS WELL AS FOR US, THANK YOU LORD.
IN REFERENCE TO OUR SUBJECT 'BIKKURIM', HERE IS A WONDERFUL SCRIPTURE THAT WE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY READING,