Yom HaBikkuwriym, Day of First Fruits, Newsletter Abib 20/April 7th 2018

Instead, we are going to study and discuss from the scriptures, the Feast of First Fruits, and it's connection to our Messiah’s resurrection.

We will be answering all your questions related to Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, the timing of the resurrection, and more!

So please tune in, if you have any questions pertaining to the following topics:

1.) The Lunar Sabbath error, and how it has caused many to count 100 days rather than 50 days leading up to Shabuot/Pentecost.

See the blog: The Lunar Sabbath Controversy:

3.) Unleavened Bread: Does it begin on the evening of the 14th of Abib, or the evening of the 15th of Abib?

4.) Lent & Easter Sunday: What is Lent? Where did it originate? Does the name “Easter” come from the pagan goddess “Ishtar?” Did our Messiah resurrect on Sabbath before sundown, or on Sunday morning? And why is this important?

5.) Good Friday: Did our Messiah die on Good Friday? Why is this so important? How does Good Friday make our Messiah appear to be a false prophet? 

6.) First Fruits: The true resurrection day of our Messiah, and the beginning of the counting of the seven sabbaths leading up to Shabuot/Pentecost. Why does this matter?

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First Fruits Resurrection Day is coming this Ereb Shabbat, which is Saturday Evening going into Sunday! 

See this blog for greater understanding of the resurrection on Yom ha’Bikkuriym, aka Day of First-Fruits!

It is the self-same day of our Messiah’s Resurrection, and immediately following that, the High Priest cut the first barley of the spring harvest.

The next day, during the morning sacrifice, he offered up the wave-sheaf offering as his FIRST FRUITS as soon as the sun went down.

Exactly When did our Messiah Resurrect from the Dead?

Was it on Sunday Morning? Or was it on the Sabbath Day?

You will be surprised to find out that the High Priest in the Temple harvested the first barley of the year immediately after our Messiah resurrected!

He then offered up the Wave Sheaf Offering of “First-Fruits” of the Barley the morning after our Messiah resurrected!

There seems to be some question as to when the High Priest was to offer the wave sheaf offering in the Temple according to Leviticus 23:11:

Yahuwshuwa Messiah acted as the Passover sacrifice, but when he resurrected he was the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek who was commanded to “wave” the first fruits offering of souls before YaHuWaH “on the morrow after the Sabbath.” 

Romiym (Romans) 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the FIRST FRUITS of the Ruwach/Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach resurrected at Havdalah (exiting the Sabbath).

Afterward, he went to the heavenly Temple as the High Priest to wave the “first fruits offering.”

However, it was not barley that he waved.

Instead, Yahuwshuwa waved before YaHuWaH, the souls of men as his first-fruits offering!

His resurrection on the seventh day of the week points us to the Sabbath Millennium when he will also resurrect his bride in the final wheat harvest at the last day!

Some are confused as to why we did not celebrate the resurrection of Messiah this past Sunday.

In some years, Passover happens to fall on the 4th day of the week (Wednesday) as it did the year that Yahuwshuwa died in 30 C.E. This is primarily because the Hebrew Calendar is based on Lunar Cycles.

In those years where it duplicates 30 C.E., we have the same scenario of “three days and three nights” landing at the end of the weekly Sabbath on the 7th day of the week.

However, the Feast of First Fruits, (when our Messiah resurrected), does not always fall on the 18th of Abib (three days and three nights after Passover).

Our Messiah died on Passover/Pesach in the afternoon (3:00 p.m.) on the 14th of Abib, when the Passover Lamb is supposed to be killed “between the two evenings.”

He was buried that night before the sun went down, and his body was laid in the tomb by the 15th of Abib, which began the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We begin counting “three days and three nights” from the moment he drew his last breath.

If you count exactly 72 hours later (3 periods of 24 hours), he resurrected BEFORE the sun went down on the weekly Sabbath day, which was the 7th day of the week. Thus, he died on the 4th day of the week (what we today call Wednesday), and he resurrected on the 7th day of the week (Sabbath).

Matthew 28:1 confirms this:

The Greek word for “dawn” (ephiphosko) means “to draw on… the beginning of something, a mixture of light and darkness.”

It is equivalent to the Hebrew word “nesheph” which can mean either “dusk,” before sundown, or “dawn,” before sunrise.

So you see, the Greek word for “dawn” used in Matthew 28:1 can mean either dawn or dusk (twilight). The KJV translators thought this was on Sunday Morning, but it was at the end of the Sabbath as it began to grow dark. The new calendar date of the week began to “dawn” at the end of the weekly Sabbath (Saturday evening) before sundown.

The new calendar date changes at sundown according to Genesis 1:5.

In that year when our Messiah died, Passover fell on the 4th day of the week, but it does not always fall on the 4th day of the week.

Hence, First Fruit does not always fall on the 18th of Abib, which is 3 days after the 14th of Abib. This year, Passover fell on the 1st day of the week, rendering First Fruits on the following Sabbath at sundown.

First Fruits always falls on the first day of the week (Saturday after sundown into Sunday):

Some people think that the “sabbath” that is being spoken of in the above verse, is the High Sabbath of Unleavened Bread. However, the Hebrew word for a “High Sabbath” is always “shabbatown.”

The Hebrew word for the weekly seventh day Sabbath is “shabbat.” In Leviticus 23:11, the word is “shabbat” not “shabbatown.”

This is the reason why the resurrection day is not always going to fall three days and three nights after Passover. We count the resurrection day on “First Fruits,” because that is the Feast that he resurrected on.

In the year that he died, First Fruits just happened to fall 3 days and 3 nights after Passover.

See these blog links below for better understanding:

I’ve noticed that everyone wants to discredit the KJV Scriptures due to the fact that they use the word “Easter” instead of Passover (Pascha in Greek) in Acts 12:4.

However, if you read Acts 12:3-4 in CONTEXT, it becomes obvious WHY the KJV translators thought that this word should be “Easter.”

Here is an explanation of why the King James Translators used the word “Easter” in ONE ISOLATED place in the entire New Testament Scriptures:

The translators apparently thought that Herod arrested Keefa (Peter) during the days of Unleavened Bread, and was holding him until AFTER the days of Unleavened Bread, intending to kill him on Herod's favorite pagan holiday---Easter!

Dr. David Daniel’s explains in this article that the KJV translators did this on purpose. They deduced that if Keefa (Peter) was arrested during the days of Unleavened Bread, and then held until AFTER the days of Unleavened Bread, this could not have been on Passover, since Passover comes BEFORE the days of Unleavened Bread.

Their deduction was that Herod, (being a pagan), would have wanted to kill Keefa/Peter on his favorite pagan holiday, which is Easter.

Even though I think the KJV translators got it wrong, their motives were not to treat Passover and Easter as if they are the same thing!

They deduced that Passover came first on the 14th, and “Then were the days of Unleavened Bread” on the 15th of Abib (Acts 12:4).

If the KJV translators were bent on using the word “Easter” instead of “Passover,” then why didn’t they do so in EVERY OTHER PLACE where the word “Passover” appears in the scriptures?

Shabbat Shalom, family in Messiah!

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Shabbat Shalom mishpachah & Chag Sameach Yom HaBikkuriym for the last day of Matzah!

With all the love of our Messiah, Yahuwshuwa,

Maria Merola Wold