I have been reading the posts about the Resurrection, it seems that not many people take into consideration the "master pattern" for fulfillment that Christ confirmed in Mat 5:17
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Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill, For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.."
You could actually call that an "Absolute", and in.. John 11:25 - "
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection,"
With Jesus being the Resurrection, he is confirming his fulfillment will be according to Law in Mat 5:17, and within the Law in Lev 23:17-20, there is a wonderful description of the firstfruit resurrection contained in the practice of the annual wave offering to God of the firstfruit wave loaves. in understanding the firstfruit offering to God, the pattern of the resurrection is very clear to see.. There is more info on this here>
http://resurrectiontruth.com/ Take a look..it makes scriptural sense!!
That's an interesting page. The particular offering occured after the celebration of firstfruits was acted out during planting time - three days after passover. Many tourists would stay over for the day of firstfruits, but would leave before pentecost, and the future event it foretold of this firstfruit ritual with deep meaning. Jesus literally walked in and fulfilled each of these spring feast events by the days leading to and hours of His death, burial, and resurrection - leading to an even greater event.
Three days following the passover would be the day of first fruits celebration, where the sprout was taken and exmined from the fields by a priest. It was also this morning that Jesus arose from the dead as the firstfruits - indeed, He had bore the entire sin of man on the cross, "becoming sin (2Co 5:21)" to the point that God looked away from sin and Jesus cried, "Abba, why hast thou forsaken me?", while experiencing the anguish and shame of all mankind for our sakes.
The fulfillment of this wave offering would come at Penecost when the wheat came together into the bread.
Seven weeks later, the temple priest would arrive early and harvest two bundles of grain at the fields. He returned to the temple and prepared the loaves by threshing, crushing, and grinding the wheat until it was fine flour into which he added water and slipped them into a fired oven for baking.
It would be taken out and held at the high hour of Penecost before the Lord.
The divine Seed that had dwelt in one Man now dwelt within the loaf of many men. They were now one body. The Church of Jesus Christ was born.
The significance of two loaves might also be that they are the two witnesses upon earth to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. They are the house of Israel and the house of Judah to whom the New covenant is given, along with those grafted in branches. (Heb. 8:6-10) These two houses and witnesses will be reunited under one King according to all the prophets, yet many seem to want to put the house of Judah out by itself when there is a clear remant of both houses that will be saved. The 10 tribes of the lost sheep of the house of Israel were scattered into the Gentile nations with Ephraim as their head - the son of Joseph. Ephraim is God's firstborn. Is it not interesting that he being the firstborn and receiving the promise to Abraham of seed numbering in "the stars of the sky" and "sands of the sea"would reached instead of only the two tribes within the house of Judah? God knew where these numbers would be able to be realized by fruition - within the "hamon goyim", Gentile nations or "many nations" that God promised Abraham he would be the father of.
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble:
for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and
church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Hebrews 8:6 ¶ But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.
8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hosea 1:10 "Yet the number of the children of Israel Shall be as the sand of the sea, Which cannot be measured or numbered. And it shall come to pass In the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ There it shall be said to them, ‘You are sons of the living God.’11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Amos 9:9 "For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
Jer 3:18 In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
Eze 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Ge 17:4 ¶ As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father <01>
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have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 ¶ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
