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בִּכּוּר Bikkur | First Fruits is celebrated by offering the first fruits of all that was produced and bringing it to the Levites for a free will offering unto the Most High YHWH. All of the Israelites would gather having a Holy Convocation. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings (Ref Vayiqra|Leviticus 23:14).
Key Information
Background Insight: Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:9-22; Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 | 34:22; Devariym (Deuteronomy) 16:9-12, Yahusha (Joshua) 5:11, Ma'asiym (Acts) 2:1-11
Bikkur: Hebrew בִּכּוּר bikkûwr
During Feast of First Fruits, a person would go to the standing harvest of their field and take one sheaf and bring it to the priest. The lone sheaf was called the "sheaf of First Fruits." The priest would then take the sheaf and wave it before YHWH in the Temple at Jerusalem (Leviticus 23:9-11). No one could eat of the bread or roasted grain of the barley harvest until the "sheafs of First Fruits" had been presented to the Most High and accepted for Israel. This "First-Fruits" offering before YHWH would have included other offerings such as a burnt offering and a meal offering. It was to be presented in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem (where Yah has put His name) during the feast of Unleavened bread. According to scripture, this offering would have taken place on a Sunday, the day after the regular Sabbath which would fall during the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is also the day to begin the "Counting of the Omer"; a fifty day counting that leads to the next feast day, Shavuot. There are six things that these passages above lay down as the foundations for the Feast of First-Fruits in the Torah:
1. The Timing of the Feast – Leviticus 23:10
2. The Day of the Feast – Numbers 28:26; Leviticus 23:11:
3. The Duty of the Priest – Leviticus 23:11:
4. Three Offerings of the Feast – Leviticus 23:12-13; Numbers 28:27-30:
a. Burnt Offering
b. Meal Offering
c. Drink Offering
5. Prohibition of the Feast – Leviticus 23:14:
6. Command of the Feast – Leviticus 23:14:
How to Observe
How do we observe/celebrate?
We observe and celebrate First Fruits by offering the first fruits of all that was produced and bringing them to the Levites for a free will offering to the Most High. We would gather and feast and remember the Feast of First Fruits in scripture.
And the Feast of Qatsiyr, the firstfruits of your labors, which you have sown in the field: and the Feast of Aciyph, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors out of the field.
SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 23:16 את CEPHER
And you shall observe the Feast of Qatsiyr (Harvest), of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Aciyph (ingathering) at the year's end. SHEMOTH (EXODUS) 34:22 את CEPHER
Are these Feasts of him done away with?
NO.
Qolasiym (Colossians) 2:16-17: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath day: things which ARE a shadow of things to come; but the body of Messiah.
Should we observe Feast Days?
YES.
In Vayiqra (Leviticus) chapter 23 we're told four different times that these feast days are to be a "statute forever, throughout your generations" (Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41).
Sources: Cepher Bible with Apocrypha | Hebrew Israelites, Biblical Feast Days by Unknown Hebrew | Hebrew Lexicon | Blue Letter Bible
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