One in
Messiah Congregation
קָּהָל
אֶחָד
בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
A part of the Congregation of Israel
עֲדַת
יִשְׂרָאֵל
April
24, 2016
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Yehovah has His own calendar
Today is the daytime hours of the first month,
Nisan, day 16
Esth.3 [7]
In the first month, that is,
the month Nisan
בַּחֹדֶשׁ
הָרִאשׁוֹן,
הוּא-חֹדֶשׁ נִיסָן
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Feast of Unleavened Bread - חַג
הַמַּצּוֹת
First fruits בִּכּוּרֵי
“Offering
time”
50 days from First Fruits:
Feast of Weeks, Hag Sh'vu-ot - חַג
שָׁבֻעֹת “Offering time”
Feast of Harvest Hag ha katseer - חַג
הַקָּצִיר
(A Sabbath) Sunday, (there are 2 Sabbaths in a row)
Remember we will be counting "weeks" not omers
An "omer" is a "sheaf" of barley
עמר omer - A dry measure of 1/10 ephah (about 2 liters)
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Here are
the dates again
Ha Aviv / Nisan 21 – end of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, Friday, the 29th of April, starts the evening before.
Sivan (3rd month) Feast of Week -
June 12, 2016, Sunday or 1st day, a Sabbath
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Messiah / Christ the firstfruits
firstfruits בִּכּוּרִים
1Cor.15
[20 ] But now is Messiah / Christ risen from the
dead, and become the firstfruits
of them that slept .
[23 ] But every man in his own order: Messiah /
Christ the firstfruits; afterward
they that are Christ's at his coming.
Rev.1
[
5]
And from Yeshua the Messiah / Jesus Christ,
who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the
prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from
our sins in his own blood,[ 6] And hath made us
kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
[7] Behold,
he cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall see
him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds
of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.[
8] I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to
come, the Almighty.
Dan.7
[
13]
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with
the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him
near before him.
בּכּוּר bikkur bik-koor'
From H1069; the first fruits of the crop: - first fruit (-ripe [figuratively),
hasty fruit.
1) first-fruits
1a) the first
of the crops and fruit that ripened, was gathered, and offered to God according
to the feast of weeks / Pentecost
1b) the bread
made of the new grain offered at feast of weeks / Pentecost
1c) the day of
the first-fruits (feast of weeks / Pentecost )
Part of
Speech:
noun masculine plural
Exod.23 [16] And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou
hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of
the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out
of the field.
[19] The
first of the firstfruits of thy land
thou shalt bring into the house of the Yehovah thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Exod.34[ 22] And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest , and the feast
of ingathering at the year's end.
[26] The
first of the firstfruits of thy land
thou shalt bring unto the house of the Yehovah thy God. Thou shalt not
seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Lev.2
[12]
As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Yehovah: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a
sweet savour.
[14] And
if thou offer a meat offering of thy firstfruits unto the Yehovah, thou shalt offer for the meat offering of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by
the fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.
Lev.23
[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:
[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 Yehovah.
[20] And
the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Yehovah,
with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Yehovah
for the priest.
Num.18
[12]
All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the
firstfruits
of them which they shall offer unto the Yehovah, them
have I given thee.
Num.28
[26]
Also in the day of the firstfruits,
when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Yehovah,
after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy
convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
Deut.18[ 4] The firstfruit also of
thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the
first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give
him.
Deut.26
[
10]
And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O Yehovah,
hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the Yehovah thy God, and worship before the Yehovah
thy God:
2Kgs.4
[42]
And there came a man from Baal-shalisha, and brought
the man of God bread of the firstfruits,
twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he
said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
2Chr.31
[5]
And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in
abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine,
and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the fields; and the tithe of all
things brought they in abundantly.
Neh.10
[35]
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year,
unto the house of the Yehovah:
[37] And
that we should bring the firstfruits of our
dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of
oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes
of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all
the cities of our tillage.
Neh.12
[44]
And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures, for
the offerings, for the firstfruits,
and for the tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the
portions of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the
priests and for the Levites that waited.
Neh.13
[31]
And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for
the firstfruits. Remember
me, O my God, for good.
Prov.3[ 9] Honour the Yehovah with thy substance,
and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Jer.2
[3]
Israel was holiness unto the Yehovah, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that
devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith
the Yehovah.
Ezek.20
[40]
For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the
height of Israel, saith the Lord Yehovah,
there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there
will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits
of your oblations, with all your holy things.
Ezek.44
[30]
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of
all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest's: ye shall also give
unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest
in thine house.
Ezek.48
[14]
And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor
alienate the firstfruits of the land:
for it is holy unto the Yehovah.
Rom.8
[23]
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within
ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.
Rom.11
[16]
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
Rom.16
[5]
Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus,
who is the firstfruits
of Achaia unto Christ.
1Cor.16
[15]
I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas,
that it is the firstfruit s of Achaia, and
that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)
Jas.1
[18]
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
that we should be a kind of firstfruits
of his creatures.
Rev.14
[4]
These are they which were not defiled with women; for
they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits
unto God and to the Lamb.
The resurrection
John.11 [25] Yeshua said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
[26] And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
Believest thou this?
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The resurrection
1 Cor.15
[1] Moreover, brethren, I
declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have
received, and wherein ye stand;
[2] By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached
unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
[3] For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received,
how that Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures;
[4] And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
[5] And that he was seen of Cephas, then of
the twelve:
[6] After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of
whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
[7] After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.
[8] And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due
time.
[9] For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an
apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
[10] But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was
bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more
abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
[11] Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye
believed.
[12] Now if Messiah be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some
among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
[13] But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Messiah not
risen:
[14] And if Messiah be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your
faith is also vain.
[15] Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have
testified of God that he raised up Messiah: whom he
raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
[16] For if the dead rise not, then is not Messiah raised:
[17] And if Messiah be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in
your sins.
[18] Then they also which are fallen asleep in Messiah are perished.
[19] If in this life only we have hope in Messiah, we are of all men
most miserable.
[20] But now is Messiah risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
[21] For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of
the dead.
[22] For as in Adam all die, even so in Messiah shall all be made alive.
[23] But every man in his own order: Messiah the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
[24] Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to
God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority
and power.
[25] For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
[26] The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
[27] For he hath put all things under his
feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all
things under him.
[28] And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son
also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all.
[29] Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the
dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for
the dead?
[30] And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?
[31] I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Messiah Yeshua
our Lord, I die daily.
[32] If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus,
what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow
we die.
[33] Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
[34] Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the
knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
[35] But some man will say, How are the dead
raised up? and with what body do they come?
[36] Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not
quickened, except it die:
[37] And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may
chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
[38] But God giveth it a body as it hath
pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
[39] All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of
men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
[40] There are also celestial bodies, and
bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the
terrestrial is another.
[41] There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and
another glory of the stars: for one star differeth
from another star in glory.
[42] So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption;
it is raised in incorruption:
[43] It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in
glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
[44] It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is
a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
[45] And so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
[46] Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is
natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
[47] The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord
from heaven.
[48] As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the
heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
[49] And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear
the image of the heavenly.
[50] Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
[51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
[52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed.
[53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
[54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
[55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
[56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
[57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Yeshua
the Messiah.
[58] Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast,
unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain
in the Lord.
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Shalom
שָׁלוֹם