God accepts the lambs blood
Leviticus 23 explains all of God’s festivals proclaimed holy convocations,
Beginning verse 9, we find instructions for the wave-sheaf offering.
The Israelites were not allowed to harvest any of the early grain crop until this day.
Then, on the day following the weekly Sabbath, in a solemn ceremony of
the Levitical priesthood,The sheaf was then brought to the priest.
The priest solemnly waved it before the Eternal to be accepted for them.
This event always occurred during the Days of Unleavened Bread.
This pictures the resurrected Christ ascending to heaven to be accepted by
His Father as the very first human to be actually born of God
-the firstfruit of the first harvest of souls!
By comparing John 20:17 with Matthew 28:9, you will see that Christ presented
Himself before the Father on the morning after His resurrection the previous evening
(1 Corinthians 15:20, 23; Romans 8:29; Colossians 1:15, 18).
This fulfillment of the wavesheaf offering actually occurred on Sunday,
the morrow after the Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread.
The word Pentecost is a Greek word, used in the New Testament, but not in the Old.
It signifies “fiftieth (day). Old Testament this feast is called “feast of firstfruits,” and “feast of weeks.”
Pentecost pictures the first part of the spiritual harvest— the calling out of the Church
the called-out ones—which, for the New Testament dispensation, began on Pentecost,
On that day the Holy Spirit came to dwell within flesh, as prophesied by Joel.
On the 50th day (Pentecost) in Old Testament times, two “wave loaves” (Leviticus 23:17, 20)
were brought out of the habitations of the congregation as the firstfruits unto the Lord.
Just so the New Testament Church was gathered out of this world as the firstfruits of
His salvation, in fulfillment of the meaning of the wave loaves.
And just as the wave sheaf was lifted up into the air and waved, symbolizing Christ’s trip to
heaven and return, so the wave loaves were lifted up and waved, symbolizing that we too
shall for a moment leave this solid Earth when we ascend to meet in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17)
before we return with Him to stand on the Mount of Olives as He begins His millennial rule
(Acts 1:11; Zechariah 14:3-4).
17Ye shall bring out of your habitations [two] wave loaves of two tenth deals:
they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
I believe one loave is you or me, later too if when accepted by God