Happy Passover from Roi Garcia, Senior Rabbi and Congregational Leader of Baruch HaShem Congregation.
Passover, Unleavened Bread & Firstfruits
Lev 23:4 These are appointed seasons of HaShem, holy gatherings which you shall proclaim in their appointed seasons:
Lev 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings is the Passover to HaShem.
Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to HaShem; you shall eat unleavened things seven days.
Lev 23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service;
Lev 23:8 and you shall bring near a fire offering to HaShem seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service.
Lev 23:9 And HaShem spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:10 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you come in to the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have brought in the sheaf, or the beginning of your harvest, to the priest, Lev 23:11 then he shall wave the sheaf before HaShem for your acceptance; on the morrow of the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Sheaf - The original word, “omer”, means either a sheaf , or a measure . The offering which was waved was most likely a small sheaf of barley, the grain which is first ripe. The first fruits of the wheat harvest were offered seven weeks later in the loaves of Shavuot. The two offerings thus figure the very commencement and the completion of the grain harvest;
The messengers of the sanhedrim went out (from Jerusalem over the brook Kidron to the fields near it) on the evening of the feast, (i.e. at the going out of the fifteenth) and at the beginning of the sixteenth of Nisan, and bound the standing corn in bundles, that so it might be the more easily reaped; and all the neighbouring cities gathered together there, that it might be reaped in great pomp; and when it was dark, one said to them, is the sun set? they said, yes. With this sickle (shall I reap?) they said, yes. In this basket (shall I put it?) they said, yes. If on a sabbath day, he said to them, On this sabbath day (shall I do it?) they said, yes (n). These questions were put and answered three times; then they reaped it and put it into the baskets, and brought it to the court.
2Ki 23:21 And the king commanded all the people, saying, Perform a Passover to HaShem your God, as it is written in this Book of the covenant.
2Ki 23:22 Surely none has been performed like this Passover from the days of the Judges who judged Israel even to all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Judah; 2Ki 23:23 but in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was prepared to HaShem in Jerusalem. 2Ki 23:24 And also the mediums and the spirit-knowers and the family gods, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away in order to fulfill the Words of the Law that were written in the Book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of HaShem.
2Ki 23:25 And there was no king before him like him, who turned to HaShem with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the Law of Moses; and after him none rose up like him.
Rom 8:23 And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting for adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
1Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1Co 5:7 Thoroughly clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For Messiah our Pesach also has been sacrificed.
1Co 5:8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1Co 15:1 Now I make known to you, brethren, the good news which I announced to you, which you also took alongside, in which you also stand,
1Co 15:2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word of the good news which I announced to you, unless you believed in vain.
1Co 15:3 For I delivered to you in the first place what I also took alongside, that Messiah died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
1Co 15:4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures,
1Co 15:20 But now, in fact, Messiah has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
1Co 15:21 For since death is through man, through a Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Messiah all shall be made alive.
1Co 15:23 But each in his own order: Messiah, the first fruit, afterwards those who are Messiah’s at His coming,
Passover pictures the death of Yeshua
Unleavened Bread pictures the burial of Yeshua.
FirstFruits pictures the resurrection.
