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FIRST FRUITS
WITHOUT THE

SIGN OF YONAH?
It is a fact that Yahusha was in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights, as Yonah was in the belly of the great fish. We know with certainty He was in the tomb on Abib 15, 16, and 17. The traditional interpretation among "orthodox rabbis" is the understanding that "First-fruits", the wave-sheaf offering, is observed on Abib 16, the "morrow after the Sabbath". They are not thinking of the weekly Sabbath here, but rather the annual day of rest on the first day of Matsah, the 15th day of the first moon. If this is correct, and Yahusha did not present Himself as the wave-offering on Abib 16, then that would mean His resurrection is in no way any reflection of the First-fruits wave offering. First-fruits would then have no connection to "resurrection". Thesign of Yonah illuminates the connection between Passover and First-fruits. These two things were foreshadowed in the redemptive feasts, and infused with the sign of Yonah, we have a three cord rope which affirms them as evidence of His office of Mashiach. To observe Abib 16 consistently as the morrow after the Sabbath will cause us to believe Shabuoth is not actual weeks, but rather random groups of 7-days that add-up to 49. The morrow after the 7th Sabbath makes Shabuoth the 50th day, but the JPS Version* translates it as the morrow after the 7th week. The error is in the word underlying week - the word is Sabbath, not week. The Wave-Sheaf (omer) is "First-Fruits", and is a shadow of Yahusha's resurrection. The barley sheaf represents Yahushas resurrected body. After it was cut down, His body began to move again (wave). Yahusha is the wave-offering, and ascended into
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the Throne room of the Ancient of Days to present Himself as First-fruits. The day of His resurrection, He would not allow Miryam to touch Him because He had not yet ascended to present Himself; and this happened well beyond Abib 16 that particular week. When Yahusha was placed into the tomb, the 15th of the moon fell on what is today called a Wodens -day just before sunset, and Thors day of that week was the annual High Sabbath. THE SIGN OF YONAH: 3 DAYS & 3 NIGHTS The sign of Yonah becomes a prominent feature between Passover and First-fruits. The Pharisees who dont believe in Yahusha dont have this sign of Yonah, so they err in reckoning the starting point. After 3 nights and 3 days, at the close of the weekly Sabbath, He rose from the dead. The morrow (1st day of the week) after the Sabbath He presented Himself before Yahuah as the Wave-Sheaf (First-Fruits) offering, fulfilled by His resurrection because His body was the fulfillment represented by the Wave Sheaf. If FirstFruits is not determined by counting from the weekly Sabbath, and First-Fruits is always observed on Abib 16, then Yahusha missed it and did not present Himself as the First-born (First-Fruits) from the dead at the correct time, and the sign of Yonah (3 days and 3 nights) failed as the sign He offered that He is the Mashiach. Yahusha was in the tomb on Abib 16 during Matsah, and did not wave Himself until 3 nights and 3 days after His death and burial. The reason the Orthodox err in their setting the observance of First-Fruits is that they dont have a clue that it is a shadow-picture of Yahushas resurrection. Christians have no observance reflecting the Wave-Sheaf offering, since Constantine declared let us have nothing in common with the hostile rabble of the Yahudim. Sadly, many Natsarim teachers are misinformed about this also, and they are following the pattern of those who do not believe Yahusha is the Mashiach of Yisrael.

This moon is the beginning of moons for you, it is the first moon of the year for you.
EX 12:2

ABIB (ripe grain harvest) 1st moon of year - Ex. 12:2

Sunset Mar 31 through sunset APR 1, 2014 This is not a day of rest, but only the 1st day of the 1st moon, in SPRING of the new year. The sun is at, or very near, the equator, and plants are beginning to bud. A new cycle has begun.

Memorial of Yahushas death

Sunset APR 13: beginning of 14th day of 1st moon
NOT A REST DAY
APR 14 IS A PREPARATION DAY FOR THE FIRST DAY OF MATSAH

Yahusha was impaled during the daylight part of the 14th of the first moon, but He observed this Memorial with His talmidim the evening before, at the arrival of the 14th. Remember: Passover is not a when, but a Who. YAHUSHA IS OUR PASSOVER.

PESACH end of 14th day of 1st moon

APPLYING THE BLOOD - THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB CLEANSES US - BY HIS WOUNDS WE ARE HEALED

Nearing sunset APR 14: On the14th day of the 1st moon, between the evenings, is the Passover to Yahuah.
Lev. 23:5

MATSAH Unleavened Bread For 7 Days

REST ON FIRST AND LAST DAY

MATSAH

FIRST DAY: FULL MOON, REST DAY: Sunset APR 14 through sunset APR 15 LAST DAY: Sunset APR 20 through sunset APR 21 On the15th day of this month is the festival of Matsah to Yahuah - seven days you eat unleavened bread. Lev 23:6
THIS SHADOW-PICTURE DEPICTS CLEANING OUT THE LEAVEN FROM OUR HEARTS, PREPARING US TO RECEIVE THE GOOD SEED OF TORAH, 50 DAYS LATER AT SHABUOTH. COMMEMORATES ISRAEL BEING DELIVERED FROM EGYPTIAN SLAVERY AFTER JUDGMENT OF ALL FIRST-BORN MALES IN LAND.

*JPS Version: Jewish Publication Society

WEDDING FEAST:
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The Passover was eaten on this night, the beginning of the 15th of the 1st moon, a night of vigil for the slaying of the first-born, and the great deliverance of Yisrael from Mitsrayim from the land of slavery. For 7 days, all Israel is to abstain from leavened bread. This applies to all immersed believers.

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Shadows of things to come

FIRST FRUITS - SHADOW OF THE RESURRECTION Sunset APR 19 through sunset Apr 20 The Wave-sheaf (omer, bundle) offering is traditionally thought of as being Abib 16, however Yahusha is the omer, and ascended to perform this on the morrow after the weekly Sabbath. The count to Shabuoth (7 x 7 complete weeks) is determined by getting this correct. This offering, called the first-fruits, was fulfilled by Yahusha when He resurrected. During the festival of Matsah (Unleavened Bread), the High Priest would wave the first-fruits of the barley harvest on the morrow after the Sabbath. Yahusha became the wave-sheaf offering because the resurrection was the object, and the wave sheaf was the shadow. 7th day of Matsah: 21st day of 1st moon Sunset APR 20 through sunset Apr 21
(REST DAY) LAST DAY OF MATSAH COMMEMORATES THE PASSING THROUGH WATER OF ISRAEL AND DROWNING OF THE ARMIES OF PHARAOH.

Yom Teruah (REST DAY) 1st day of 7th moon: Sunset Sept. 24 through sunset Sept 25
YOM TERUAH (DAY OF SHOUT) - WE HEAR A SHOFAR BLOWN, SHADOW OF THE LAST TRUMP: THE COMING DAY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD WHEN THE VOICE OF A GREAT MESSENGER WILL SHOUT LIKE A TRUMPET.

Yom Kaphar (REST DAY) 10th day of 7th moon: Sunset Oct 3 through sunset Oct 4
YOM KAPHAR, DAY OF COVERING; REMINDS US OF THE BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE (MAL 3:16) AND THE REDEMPTION OF THE LIVING FOLLOWING THE RAISING OF THE DEAD. THE FIRSTFRUITS GROUP WHO ARE ALIVE AT HIS RETURN WILL BE CHANGED IN THE WINK OF AN EYE, CLOTHED WITH IMMORTALITY.

SHOFAR (RAMS HORN)

OMER, WAVE-SHEAF

Sukkoth (REST DAY) 15th day of 7th moon: Sunset Oct 8 through sunset Oct 9
LEV 23:33: TENTS OR BOOTHS - REMINDS US OF ISRAEL LIVING IN TENTS 40 YEARS, BUT LOOKS FORWARD TO THE CONSUMMATION OF THE WEDDING FEAST AT THE RETURN OF YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH ON THE DAY OF YAHUAH, FOLLOWING THE GREAT TRIBULATION AND JUDGMENT OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS. YAHUSHA WAS BORN ON THE FIRST DAY OF SUKKOTH, IN A TEMPORARY DWELLING.

SHABUOTH (Hebrew, weeks) 50th day

(REST DAY)

Sunset Jun 7 to sunset Jun 8, 2014 From the morrow after the weekly Sabbath during Matsah, we count 7 intact, true weeks to the morrow after the 7th Sabbath, the morrow being the 50th day, always falling on the 1st day of a week.
THE YAHUDIM CALCULATE FROM ABIB 16 IN THEIR COUNT TO SHABUOTH, YET WE KNOW YAHUSHA WAS IN THE TOMB ON ABIB 16, AND HAD NOT YET RESURRECTED AS FIRSTFRUITS (WAVE SHEAF).

Closing day of festival (REST DAY) LEV 23:36 Sunset Oct 15 through sunset Oct 16 22nd day of 7th moon: Last Great Day
YAHUSHA WAS CIRCUMCISED ON THE EIGHTH DAY AFTER HIS BIRTH, AND THIS EIGHTH DAY LOOKS FORWARD TO A RE-NEWED CREATION WHERE RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS.
ALL HEARTS WILL BE CIRCUMCISED WITH A LOVE FOR TORAH.

LOVE IS THE PURPOSE OF EXISTENCE

LOVE ME, AND KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.

Shabuoth commemorates the giving of Torah at Sinai, the wedding anniversary of Yahuah and Israel. Torah means instruction. This Covenant is a marriage.
TRADITIONALLY CALLED PENTECOST, GREEK FOR COUNT 50. FULFILLED AS RECORDED AT ACTS 2, WHEN TORAH WAS WRITTEN ON HEARTS OF NATSARIM, RENEWING THE COVENANT, RESTORING ISRAEL TO YAHUAH THROUGH THE INDWELLING OF YAHUSHAS SPIRIT. IT IS NOT A BIRTHDAY, IT IS A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. SEE JER 31:32 120 NATSARIM RECEIVING THE POWER OF YAHUSHAS SPIRIT, HE INSCRIBED HIS TORAH

"Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come for the body of Mashiach." Col 2:16-17 See also Is 8:20
WE DISTRIBUTE ORTHODOX HEBREW CALENDARS
Hebrew calendars from Torah Institute contain the true 7-day weeks, and are produced by Orthodox rabbis. These calendars will use certain inappropriate words such as the name of the month Tammuz. Also, because they dont recognize the sign of Yonah, they consistently calculate the count to Shabuoth from Abib 16, rather than the Sabbath of the week during Matsah. The last page will explain this.

Q: Was Messiah upset with the religious leaders of the day for keeping the Torah, or breaking it?
A: Mt 15:3, 23:3, 23:28,Mk 7:8,9,13,
Jn7:19

IN THEIR HEARTS
THE GIVING OF THE TORAH AT SINAI EXPLAINS ACTS 2. FIRE (SHEKINAH) FELL UPON THE OBEDIENT NATSARIM.

Q: Is Messiah upset with the religious leaders of today for keeping the Torah, or breaking it?
A: Hebrews 13:8