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Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. Now on the day when you wave the sheaf you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect for a burnt offering to the Lord. Its grain offering shall then be two tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil an offering by fire to the Lord for a soothing aroma, with its libation, a fourth of a hin of wine. Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places' " (Leviticus 23:9-14 NAS).
The Festival of First Fruits is observed on the seventeenth of Nisan that is three days after Passover. The festival was observed by a person taking one sheaf of the standing harvest and bringing it to the priest. This one sheaf was considered “the sheaf of the first fruits”. The priest was the one responsible for offering it to G-d by waving it in the house of G-d, the Temple.
G-d commands throughout the Bible several times that we are to offer Him the first fruits, first born, first harvest, etc. Here are a couple of passages to reference. Exodus 23:16,19: 34:26; Leviticus 2:12,14; 23:20; Numbers 18:12-15,26; Deuteronomy 18:1-5; 26:2-4,10; 2 Chronicles 31:5; Nehemiah 10:35-39; Proverbs 3:9; Jeremiah 2:3; Ezekiel 44:30; 48:14; Malachi 3:8-14; Hebrews 6:20; 7:1-8.
How does Yeshua (Jesus) fit into The Festival of the First Fruits? Have you noticed Yeshua as “the sheaf of the first fruits”? As noted before Passover begins on the Fourteenth of Nisan and that was the day Yeshua was sacrificed. He promised us He would rise three days and three nights after He was sacrificed which made that day the seventeenth of Nisan, The Festival of First Fruits. As you can see there are several references to Yeshua as the First born and First Fruits of G-d.