Blessings, blessings, & more blessings !
What a day of UNITY in full celebration of Pentecost/Shavuot we experienced this past weekend on the New Hampshire Seacoast. ' Baruch HaShem ' ....... Praise G_d !
With some of our Fellowship joining me at my Home Church of Advent Christian Church in Eliot Maine for Sunday services, after service fellowship (awesome) at our little Church on The River,
we 'caravan-ed' to meet the rest of our brothers and sisters in YESHUS / JESUS for further celebration of His Feast of Shavuot !
At 85 Years Young, ....... 'Sweet Lou' displayed his CornHole prowess !
( By note of appreciation, Lou offers his Home for our shared Shabbat & Hebrew classes )
INDEED ! HIS LIGHT SHINES BRIGHTLY
WE LOVE YOU LOU !
Some of the RUBIES of our Crowns !
Being blessed with Messianic Rabbi Henry Morse's ' Hebrew Guidance ',
I shared a quick overview of Biblical 'Shavuot' countenance before we
shared this awesome day of Holy Spirit celebration
ENJOY !
The Feast of First Fruits (Yom HaBikkurim)
Leviticus 23:9-14
Historically, the Feast of First Fruits was the day that the
Hebrew slaves went down into the Red Sea and emerged
alive on the other side, while Pharaoh was swallowed up
by the Red Sea. This set the Israelites free as the First
Fruits from Egyptian bondage. The Feast of First Fruits
falls on the day after the Sabbath, during the week of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is the first Sunday after
the fifteenth of Nisan/Aviv. When God brought the children
of Israel into the Promised Land, they were to bring
the best first fruits of their harvest and present them to
the Lord. Josephus records that the people did not partake
of the harvest until the first fruits were presented (Antiquities
of the Jews 3.10.5). It is unfortunate that modern
Christianity has come to call this feast Easter, whose name
is derived from the Babylonian Goddess Ishtar.
Yeshua, the First Fruits Fulfills
Feast of First Fruits
“But now Moshiach has been raised from the dead, the first
fruits of those who are asleep. For since by a man came
death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, so also in Moshiach all shall be
made alive. But each in his own order: Moshiach the first
fruits, after that those who are Moshiach’s at His coming,...”
— I Corinthians 15:20-23
Yeshua is the First Fruits. Yeshua is first in order and
preeminence, just as the offering of fruits is to be the first
and the “best portion”. He was resurrected on the Feast of
First Fruits, the first day after the Sabbath.
“Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the
first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other
Mary came to look at the grave... And the angel answered
and said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid; for I
know that you are looking for Yeshua who has been crucified;
He is not here, for He has risen, just as He
said...’” — Matthew 28:1, 5-6
Yeshua also being The High Priest and always one to observe
the Feasts of Israel, gave a first fruits offering of
people!
“...and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the
saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming
out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the
holy city and appeared to many.” — Matthew 27:52-
53.
The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost; Hebrew: Shavuot)
Leviticus 23:15-22
God instructed the children of Israel to count seven Sabbaths
from the day after the first Sabbath during the Feast
of Unleavened Bread. The day following the forty-ninth
day is the Feast of Weeks, on the 6th of Sivan. The forty nine
days are called “The Counting of the Omer”. They
connect the Feast of First Fruits (the barley harvest) with
the Feast of Weeks (the beginning of the wheat harvest).
On the Feast of Weeks, a wave offering of two loaves of
bread made of fine flour and leaven is presented to the
Lord.
Some scholars believe that the giving of the Law to Moses
and the people of Israel occurred on the Feast of Weeks.
Holy Spirit Given on the Feast of Weeks
Following His resurrection, Yeshua appeared to His disciples
and told them to wait in Jerusalem until He sent
forth “the promise” of His Father (Luke 24:49).
We know the Ruach (Holy Spirit) was given exactly fifty days following
Yeshua’s resurrection, because the New Testament
clearly mentions that it occurred on Pentecost.
“And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all
together in one place. And suddenly there came from
heaven a noise like a violent, rushing wind, and it filled
the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared
to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves,
and the rested on each one of them. And they were all
filled with the Holy Spirit...” — Acts 2:1-4
The two loaves of leavened bread offered to God during
this feast represent the Jew and non-Jew together as one
body in Yeshua. The fine flour in which the loaves are
made represents the perfect righteousness of Yeshua. The
leaven represents the sin in the lives of the Jew and the
non-Jew until Yeshua’s return.
If the scholars are correct about the giving of the law to
Moses, the Feast of Weeks depicts both the giving of the
law and the giving of the Holy Spirit.
Charlie joined us after his Salvation Army Services, and our Brother in Messiah, Tim Rivera
made sure to hook up with us between Intercessory Prayer Events !
HOW MUCH GRILLED LAMB CAN ONE MAN EAT ???
CAN YOU SEE THE LIGHT ?
Having the 'Divinely Arranged' chance to Fellowship with our park neighbors, Turkish immigrants !
We mentioned Yeshua / Jesus, and they even asked for our contact info. & would like to join us again !
BLESSED IS HIS HOLY NAME and MAJESTY !
People are People, Life Can Be Simple, Place it at The Foot of the CROSS !
SHALOM & G_d Bless !
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