I suppose I’m going to get into a lot of trouble this year. One of the reasons I was disfellowshiped last year was for being vocal about the differences I hold concerning the feasts from other groups. Se la vie when you refuse to follow the doctrines of men and believe that there is an ancient narrow path that is the only acceptable path.
So what comes next? Next, I must tell you what is being said and is commonly held as truth before I can show you why it’s wrong. Are you ready? here we go….
Micheal Rood for years has said that the priesthood crossed the Kidron Valley bridge and brought the barley back across to the temple in order to make two unleavened barley loaves to wave as a Wave Sheaf or First Fruits offering. Focus on minutes 3:44-4:09 in his video in the next link where he says as much and then says that he can’t prove it in the scriptures but there’s a record of this happening which he does not give any reference to anyway as any kind of proof. As we know, Messiah came to replace the wicked Levitical Priesthood as the Melech Tzadik High Priest, so why would we want to follow what those Levities and the Pharisees did anyway??? Rood’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=227&v=Xr-Eb8lPHIA
So, two barley loaves? Is that even scriptural? And what about the statement that it had to happen on a Saturday night after sunset to avoid the rest of Shabbat? Aren’t the priests the ones that WERE to work on the sabbaths? All sabbaths?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane [i. e., degrade and put to common use] the sabbath, and are guiltless?
So why would that matter? Btw, I do believe that First Fruits were to be presented on yom rishon but for a very, very different reason.
Hebrew word definitions are enclosed with (); my comments are enclosed with [].
Lev 2:14 And if thou offer a *meat offering* (×× ×× or ××³× ×× : to be lead to do) of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt *offer* (קר×: approach, draw near) for the meat offering [to be lead to do so] of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn *beaten* (×רש – a crushing, grains, grits, groats) out of full ears. 15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering. 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial (××××¨× from the root ××ר : to remember) of it [a small portion of the whole], part of the beaten (×רש – a crushing, grains, grits, groats) corn [Crushed barley grains] thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The Wave Sheaf for First Fruits was an omer, a measured amount, that’s what the word Wave Sheaf means, omer. It was not baked into loaves or cakes as we see them doing when the Israelites came out of Egypt. It was offered as a ground barley meal/flour offering covered in olive oil and topped with frankincense.
The next link is from the Temple Institute showing these exact steps, notice the lack of bread. https://www.templeinstitute.org/the_omer_offering.htm
Here’s is a video link to the wave sheaf practice by the Temple Institute https://www.facebook.com/22738684968/videos/10150532386924969/ Please notice they honor the 16th day as First Fruits which I am not in agreement with because scripture teaches us a different day. Also, you will see that they are offering the domestic hybrid barley, not the volunteer barley.
So let me ask you this, can you follow a man’s calendar that does not even understand that the Wave Sheaf was an offering of crushed barley?
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a *tender plant*, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him *stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted*.
5 But he was *wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him*; *and with his stripes we are healed. (see the red strain wild barley below).
Messiah’s symbol is the ROSH (beginning) first fruit of barley that was smitten, bruised and ground into a Wave Sheaf. He was harvested on Passover, that is cut down as a harvest from among men. And dried, laid in the belly of the earth, three days, after which He was raised into new-life as the HEAD first fruit and as the new High Priest, he then offered His fruit fruits (the saints that rose when He rose) to the Father in Heaven.
This then answers another question. When should the barley be harvested? âMark 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.â And the latest acceptable date? Three days before the wave sheaf offering. Just as the Messiah was in the belly of the earth for three DAYS and three NIGHTS, in that order.I suppose I’m going to get into a lot of trouble this year. One of the reasons I was disfellowshiped last year was for being vocal about the differences I hold concerning the feasts from other groups. Se la vie when you refuse to follow the doctrines of men and believe that there is an ancient narrow path that is the only acceptable path.
So what comes next? Next, I must tell you what is being said and is commonly held as truth before I can show you why it’s wrong. Are you ready? here we go….
Micheal Rood for years has said that the priesthood crossed the Kidron Valley bridge and brought the barley back across to the temple in order to make two unleavened barley loaves to wave as a Wave Sheaf or First Fruits offering. Focus on minutes 3:44-4:09 in his video in the next link where he says as much and then says that he can’t prove it in the scriptures but there’s a record of this happening which he does not give any reference to anyway as any kind of proof. As we know, Messiah came to replace the wicked Levitical Priesthood as the Melech Tzadik High Priest, so why would we want to follow what those Levities and the Pharisees did anyway??? Rood’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=227&v=Xr-Eb8lPHIA
So, two barley loaves? Is that even scriptural? And what about the statement that it had to happen on a Saturday night after sunset to avoid the rest of Shabbat? Aren’t the priests the ones that WERE to work on the sabbaths? All sabbaths?
Mat 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane [i. e., degrade and put to common use] the sabbath, and are guiltless?
So why would that matter? Btw, I do believe that First Fruits were to be presented on yom rishon but for a very, very different reason.
Hebrew word definitions are enclosed with (); my comments are enclosed with [].
Lev 2:14 And if thou offer a *meat offering* (×× ×× or ××³× ×× : to be lead to do) of thy firstfruits unto the LORD, thou shalt *offer* (קר×: approach, draw near) for the meat offering [to be lead to do so] of thy firstfruits green ears of corn dried by the fire, even corn *beaten* (×רש – a crushing, grains, grits, groats) out of full ears. 15 And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering. 16 And the priest shall burn the memorial (××××¨× from the root ××ר : to remember) of it [a small portion of the whole], part of the beaten (×רש – a crushing, grains, grits, groats) corn [Crushed barley grains] thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The Wave Sheaf for First Fruits was an omer, a measured amount, that’s what the word Wave Sheaf means, omer. It was not baked into loaves or cakes as we see them doing when the Israelites came out of Egypt. It was offered as a ground barley meal/flour offering covered in olive oil and topped with frankincense.
The next link is from the Temple Institute showing these exact steps, notice the lack of bread. https://www.templeinstitute.org/the_omer_offering.htm
Here’s is a video link to the wave sheaf practice by the Temple Institute https://www.facebook.com/22738684968/videos/10150532386924969/ Please notice they honor the 16th day as First Fruits which I am not in agreement with because scripture teaches us a different day. Also, you will see that they are offering the domestic hybrid barley, not the volunteer barley.
So let me ask you this, can you follow a man’s calendar that does not even understand that the Wave Sheaf was an offering of crushed barley?
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?
2 For he shall grow up before him as a *tender plant*, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him *stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted*.
5 But he was *wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him*; *and with his stripes we are healed. (see the red strain wild barley below).
Messiah’s symbol is the ROSH (beginning) first fruit of barley that was smitten, bruised and ground into a Wave Sheaf. He was harvested on Passover, that is cut down as a harvest from among men. And dried, laid in the belly of the earth, three days, after which He was raised into new-life as the HEAD first fruit and as the new High Priest, he then offered His fruit fruits (the saints that rose when He rose) to the Father in Heaven.
This then answers another question. When should the barley be harvested? âMark 4:29 But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.â And the latest acceptable date? Three days before the wave sheaf offering. Just as the Messiah was in the belly of the earth for three DAYS and three NIGHTS, in that order.Updated Mar 4, 2019, 11:51 PM
The blooming flowers on the Land have begun while at the same time the last of the winter figs are still on the trees. This is something to keep an eye on, because the leaves will need to fall off of these fig trees and then put on new figs before Aviv (historically this is the pattern of the Land) and then more towards summer new leaves will be added to these trees.
