Hi all !


This Sunday is Pentecost, otherwise known as the Feast of FirstFruits.

Christ is called the firstfruits: But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept (1Cor. 15:20)


1Cor.
15:23
But each in his own turn: Christ, [i]the firstfruits[i]; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.


Acts 2 says: "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come....". What it's actually saying is, when the Fiftieth day was now come, they were all together is one place.

The Fiftieth day from what ?


We Christians, we who are redeemed, are the called the FirstFruits unto God:

James
1:18
He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.


"They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased [redeemed] from among men and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb" - Rev. 14:4.


It seems that Pentecost - Feast of FirstFruits - is too Christian (Acts 2) to be ignored, and it's puzzling why so many Christians do ignore this particular holy day, since we are the FirstFruits to God and to the Lamb.

It really is an important feast day . . . the birthday of the Church, really. Without the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, the Jesus story would be just another dubious myth from the past, and Christianity would have never emerged to become the world religion that it is.

Hi all.
Enjoy the weekend.


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Jesus is called the "firstfruits" of the dead (1 Cor. 15:20, 23).


Leave it to a Jew like Paul to continue using life-long references to his familiar holy days in discussing the Christian symbolism in Christ.


Did Paul think Gentile converts would actually understand all these Jewish references, like, Christ being the "firstfruits", and Christ being our "Passover".


Didn't only the Jewish converts get it when Paul said to get the "leavening" out of the congregation so it wouldn't infect the "unleavened" majority (1 Cor. 5: 5-9) ?

The gentile converts must have sat there scratchin' their heads, with all this jewish-speak. It's a wonder they didn't get up and leave.