The Prophetic Harvests of God: From First Fruits to Final Judgment
The Lord has always used the physical to point to the spiritual, the natural to reveal the supernatural. One of the clearest examples of this divine pattern is seen in the biblical harvests of Israel. Each one was timed to a feast, and each one revealed a mystery of Christ and His redemptive plan. “And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” Leviticus 23:9–11 (KJV) This was the Feast of Firstfruits, tied to the barley harvest. It was not merely a ceremony of thanks. It was a prophetic shadow of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The sheaf of barley, waved before the Lord, symbolized the first and best, set apart and accepted. “And ...