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In this YouTube video, Perry Stone explains the importance of the annually repeated cycles and patterns of God’s mandated seven Feasts and His Law of Firstfruits. He uses these annual Feasts’ cycles and patterns to prove they are shadows of the things to come, primarily the Pre-Tribulation Rapture. Perry also explains how the biblical literal firstfruits’ harvests are symbolic of the last days and end times’ Raptures (Gatherings) of Souls. That’s right . . . . Raptures, as in more than one!
Adonai said to Moshe, “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘After you enter the land I am giving you and harvest its ripe crops, you are to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the cohen. He is to wave the sheaf before Adonai, so that you will be accepted; the cohen is to wave it on the day after the Shabbat. ~ Leviticus 23:9-11, CJB (Barley, First of all the Firstfruits)
Observe the festival of Shavu‘ot with the first-gathered produce of the wheat harvest, and the festival of ingathering at the turn of the year. ~ Exodus 34:22, CJB (Wheat, Second of all Grain Firstfruits)
until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai. You must bring bread from your homes for waving — two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven — as firstfruits for Adonai. ~ Leviticus 23:16-17, CJB (Wheat, Second of all Grain Firstfruits)
You will also give him the firstfruits of your grain, new wine and olive oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep. ~ Deuteronomy 18:4, CJB (Grapes “New Wine” First Firstfruits of all Fruits)
All the best of the olive oil, wine and grain, the first portion of what they give to Adonai, I have given to you. ~ Numbers 18:12, CJB (Majority of Barley, Wheat, and Grapes’ Harvested Crops Are for Farmers and Their Families’ Consumption)
Perry says there will be two Firstfruits Harvests, but I believe there are three Firstfruits Harvests, and my belief is based on the fact that the three major crops harvested in Israel are: Barley, Wheat, and Grapes. In the natural, all three of these crops have Firstfruits (the first to ripen grain or fruit, which is given to God).
So then the three Firstfruits Harvests of Souls that I believe happen are: 1. Firstfruits of Barley (initially, Christ and those who raised with Him after His bodily Resurrection AND secondly, the Bride of Christ—every Overcomer from Pentecost to the Rapture of the alive in Christ Overcomers; see Matthew 27:52-53, 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17); 2. Firstfruits of Wheat (Perry says they are the 144,000, but I believe these Firstfruits are the saved martyred left behind Tribulation Jewish elect AND the saved martyred left behind Gentile Believers who have been severely sifted via threshing—cutting the stalk first and then slicing the head; sounds like a beheading; see Revelation 6:9, Revelation 17:6; Revelation 20:4); and 3. Firstfruits of Grapes (the “new wine” who are the Jewish 144,000; see Isaiah 65:8, Acts 2:15-17, Matthew 9:17, John 15:1-5, Luke 5:33-39, Ephesians 5:18; Revelation 7:1-8, and Revelation 14:1-5).
NOTE: I am sorry that the above posted video cannot be viewed. Please accept my sincerest apology.
I have posted video after video after video from different people’s YOUTUBE channels, where these videos in which Perry Stone teaches about The Rapture Law of First Fruits had been published, only to have each one of these shared videos blocked on this blog. The only reason for blocking the viewing of these videos that I can see is that apparently some third party, possibly Voice of Evangelism (VOE) or Perry Stone/Manna-Fest, or both since Perry Stone/Manna-Fest is VOE, has done so because of copyright infringement!
While there are more videos with the same content in them on YouTube, this servant of the Lord who does not expect to be paid for spreading His Gospel Truths won’t be posting any of them here on this freely shared blog! It is a shame that the spreading of the Gospel has become nothing more than a business!
Interesting thoughts. Thanks for sharing them.
Praise God! Thank you. You’re welcome. Sharing is my pleasure. God bless!
Could the 2 witnesses be a first fruit? dies, went to the father and came back after 3 days…First of the wine harvest?
Nikki,
Thank you for stopping by my blog, for reading this posting, and for commenting on it. Yes, the two witnesses are some of the firstfruits who are raptured around Mid-Tribulation (Pre-Wrath). However, since the two witnesses had first been raptured as humans who never died a physical death (Enoch before the Flood and Elijah before the First Coming of Christ), this truth suggests that the two witnesses will be counted in the Barley harvest of souls. As I mentioned in my posting, barley is the first to ripen crop of all the crops grown in Israel. Thus, Enoch and Elijah both were initially raptured alive, because they very early had become examples of God’s spiritually mature firstfruits!
Every blessing,
Nadine
Ah Thank you, YES that does make sense. THANK YOU.
I have been struggling for ages to understand the rapture, as taught by so many (One rapture), as scripture seems to speak of contradicting events .
I have only just been shown the harvests and so my eyes have only been opened two days, it is all so new…THANK YOU LORD!
THANK YOU so very much for your informative blogs and I do agree with you regarding the grape harvest, it does make sense but may I ask a question, again it may be silly. Forgive me!
Q: As I understand the Barley harvest is the early harvest (Passover) yet the rapture would be at the feast of Trumpets…Can you shed some light and make it clear for me.
Many many thanks
Nikki
Nikki,
Father God mandated three agriculture-related pilgrimages to Jerusalem that were connected to three specific annual feast days (cf. Exodus 23:14-17: First there was the mandated pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the seven-day springtime festival of Unleavened Bread—which includes PASSOVER or the main reason for being in Jerusalem—Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits). This seven-day festival was centered around the barley harvest. Secondly, there was the mandated pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the early summer Festival of Harvest, also called the Feast of Pentecost or Feast of Weeks, which usually was in early June, when the Wheat and Barley were ripe. Thirdly, there was the mandated pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the autumn 8-day festival of Ingathering or the FRUIT Harvest called the Feast of Tabernacles, which is connected to the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement, and these feasts happen 15 days before the Ingathering begins. This Ingathering festival is when olives, grapes, and other fruits are harvested, and when the fruit of the spring, summer, and fall harvests are eaten during the seven days of Tabernacles (cf. Exodus 34:18-23). The eighth day is a convocation day.
Now the three mandated feasts of Israel—which are Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles—also represent the three stages of salvation, which are justification, sanctification, and glorification. While the firstfruits of barley was harvested in the springtime, the full harvest of Barley took place in early summer. This means that the Barley firstfruits of springtime symbolize the justification stage of Barley overcomers. Pentecost is in early summer, so summertime symbolizes the complete sanctification stage of the Barley overcomers and some Wheat believers. The autumn Feast of Tabernacles, which as I mentioned is connected to the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement, connects all of these Fall feasts to glorification stage of believers. The Barley overcomers are the first to be raptured, and they are rapture pre-Tribulation, which means before the Day of Atonement, which also is symbolized as the Day of Judgment. Since the final trumpet that apostle Paul speaks about only is blown on the Feasts of Trumpets, it is this final/last trumpet that signifies the first resurrection of the dead—the time when the dead in Christ who are overcomers will arise from their graves and be raptured up into Heaven in their GLORIFIED bodies so that they can receive the crown of life, white linen robe, mansion, and all other overcomer promises. Some Wheat and Grapes will be glorified too, but not on Feast of Trumpets. They will be glorified either around Atonement or right before Tabernacles. Tabernacles is the time when God will host the Marriage Supper of the Lord.
I hope the above explanations help you. Every blessing . . . . .
Nadine