Dear Family!
Today is Sunday, April 12, 2020; and, it is Day 1 in our Counting toward Pentecost.
HE IS RISEN! (Luke 24:6) And, HE HAS BEEN ACCEPTED OF THE FATHER! Today is the day after the Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. We begin counting 50 days starting today.
We will complete seven full Sabbaths; and then, comes the Feast of Pentecost. There is great significance in these Feast days, and there is also great significance in actually counting 50 days, 7 Sabbaths (7 X 7 = 49) plus the fiftieth day.
During these Days of Unleavened Bread, it would be good to think upon Jesus being accepted of the Father as the Wavesheaf. Scriptures pointing to this are throughout the Bible. Here are a few: Leviticus 23:11-15. Also, compare John 20:17; where Jesus had not yet ascended to the Father and would not allow Himself to be touched; with Matthew 28:9; this is where Jesus allowed His disciples to hold Him by the feet and worship Him. Thereafter, He remained with them for 40 days and then was taken up into heaven (Acts 1).
Over 2000 years ago, God prepared and accepted the spiritual Wavesheaf; and, the counting has begun. As we do the counting physically now, day-by-day, let us learn the lessons God has prepared for us.
Leviticus 23:10-17 (10) Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: (11) And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. (12) And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. (13) And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. (14) And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (15) And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: (16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. (17) Ye 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.
May God Bless you and put His name upon you. You are the firstfruits He has chosen!
Ben Faulkner
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