Lesson: How to Keep the First Fruits

HOW TO KEEP THE FIRST FRUITS!

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What is the First Fruits?

• Lev 23:16-17,18

• An offering consisting of a new grain offering in the form of two loaves of bread, burnt and drink offerings to Yahawah

• John 6:30-35 ie.Yahawashi!

Yashai Our First Fruit

• 1 Cor 15:21-23 Yashai the first fruits and after that those that belong to him.
• 1 Corinthians 15:20 Yashai the firstfruits of them that slept.
• Isaiah 26:19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.

How was it Kept?

• Lev 23:19-22

• 21 There was a holy convocation
• 22 You shall leave of your first fruits harvest for the poor
• Lev 22:10-13 No stranger ate of the FF

• Deut 12:1-28 witness to the above.

• 6 the firstlings ie. first fruits were brought to the temple
• 10-12 They were eaten in the place of Yah’s choosing.

• 17-18, 26 You must eat and make sacrifices in the place Yah has chosen. You must not eat these at home.
• 27 The flesh was eaten and the blood burned

• 8 & 14 do not do what you feel like doing in regard to his sacrifices.

• 28 & 32 Do what he says and do not add or take away

How We Can Keep It Today!

Deut 12:8-9 Yah will choose that place when we have gotten rest from our enemies

• Q- Are we in the land and have we gotten rest from our enemies?

• A- No.
• Q - So how do we keep these feasts?

• A - Our brother Tobit has the answers

• Tobit 1:3-8 How Tobit kept the feasts when in Jerusalem
• Tobit 2:1-6 How Tobit kept the feasts in Neneve

• A good dinner was prepared for Tobit while he was keeping FF in captivity and he shared it with poor righteous israelites.

• Lev 23:22 we were to leave the remainder of our harvest for the poor and stranger within our gates

• Q - In our captivity Can we eat and drink, give alms and share with our people?
• A - Hell Yes we can

• Matt 23:23 judgment mercy and faith are the weightier matters
• Hosea 14:2-3 the calves of our lips
• Heb 13:15-16 God is well pleased with the sacrifice of giving, sharing & communing

How Can We Share With The Poor & Strangers in Israel Today?

Tobit 1:7-8 Give like Tobit

• Make a donation to a poor Israelite family
• Spend money on Israelite artists and artisans
• Make a donation to a poor stranger dwelling in Israel
• Make a donation to a ministry doing the work of Yah

The Men Must Give 

Deut 16:16-17 Give according to the blessing of Yah, a little if you have a little to give and much if you have much

PART 2

What to Do On the Day of Firstfruits

Num 28:26-31 have a holy convocation

• 26 Bring a new grain offering

• Have a holy convocation
• Do not work a job

• 27 Bring a symbolic burnt offering

• Lamb of the first year, bulls, rams

• 30 Do not bring goats as burnt offerings

• 28 Grain offering of fine flour

• What is fine flour?

• 2 Kings 7:1-18 fine flour precept
• Gen 18:1-8 fine flour precept 2
• Numb 18:12 fine flour

• By translation

• 31 Remember your drink offering

• Num 28:7 the drink offering

• Quarter hin of wine

• Quarter hin is 1.69L just over 1.5 bottles of 750ml wine

• Deut 26:10-11 worship before Yah at the presentation of the FF

CONCLUSION

In the last days we give the spiritual sacrifices of righteousness unto our God with symbols of the FF ritual in our meals. This is a time to give of the increase that Yah has given to you to his people, priests and singers who need it. Let us keep the Pentecost in spirit and truth.

All Praises to Yahawah in the name of Yahawashi!