Healing the Soul and Mind (Jesus as the Obedient and Faith Offering for a Greater Harvest)

Firstfruits (Yom habikkurim) shows us Jesus' resurrection. He rose from the dead on this very day of this Feast, becoming the "firstfruits" of all who will eventually be raised to eternal life. Firstfruits is celebrated on the third day after the start of Passover (the day after the Sabbath). This is not the weekly Sabbath, but the Holy Day that is the first day of Unleavened Bread. This day honors GOD with the first of the Barley Harvest, and points to the resurrection, where Jesus became the "firstfruits" of those “who have fallen asleep.” 

Firstfruits is the Father’s Way of teaching “the first portion guarantees the rest.” In Leviticus 23:9–14, Israel brought the first of the Barley Harvest to the priest and offered it to the LORD, trusting that more harvest was coming. Yeshua fulfills this with precision: He did not merely come back to life—He rose as the Representative beginning of a whole new creation. That is likely why Paul says, “Messiah has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” –1 Corinthians 15:20

If you are as I am, a grafted-in believer, this matters because my (our) faith is anchored in an Israel-rooted promise that now includes us (Romans 11:17–18 & Ephesians 2:12–13).

Yeshua’s resurrection is not just proof; it is a Covenantal pledge. If the Firstfruits has been accepted, then the full harvest of resurrection life [Jew and Gentile in Messiah] must follow 1 Corinthians 15:22–23. In “Yeshua style,” Firstfruits announces the grave is not the end, and the Kingdom of GOD’s coming harvest belongs to Him.

What does all of that mean? Firstfruits guides you and in I how to offer GOD our first and best: first trust, first allegiance and first obedience, because by faith (and submission), we have been made alive with Messiah. There will come a day when we will live from resurrection.