Num 28:26-27 | KingComments | STEP | The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost follows fifty days, or seven weeks, after the Passover, which means that it is celebrated in the third month. At this feast the first fruits of the harvest are brought to the LORD as a new grain offering. What is happening here must be distinguished from the sheaf of the first fruits that is brought after the Passover ( ). The sheaf of the first fruits speaks of the resurrection of Christ as the First Fruits from the dead ( ). However, the Feast of the first fruits or Pentecost speaks of what happens in Acts 2. There, at the day of Pentecost, the believers are baptized into one body and the church is formed ( ). The church is as a body connected to Christ as the Head and is “a kind of first fruits among His creatures” ( ).

‏ Numbers 28:26-27

Offerings on the Feast of Weeks

The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost follows fifty days, or seven weeks, after the Passover, which means that it is celebrated in the third month. At this feast the first fruits of the harvest are brought to the LORD as a new grain offering.

What is happening here must be distinguished from the sheaf of the first fruits that is brought after the Passover (Lev 23:9-14). The sheaf of the first fruits speaks of the resurrection of Christ as the First Fruits from the dead (1Cor 15:20). However, the Feast of the first fruits or Pentecost speaks of what happens in Acts 2. There, at the day of Pentecost, the believers are baptized into one body and the church is formed (Acts 2:1-4). The church is as a body connected to Christ as the Head and is “a kind of first fruits among His creatures” (Jam 1:18).