From the beginning

Foretold

Jesus said Moses wrote about Him. It is not a secret code. It is a lot of page: a line, the numbers He counted, the signs He named, and the days He appointed.

Walk it the way the text walks. The Hebrew is still on the page. When a preacher stretched a name, or forced a number, we say so.

The line

It runs from a garden to a town, in the order the text already walks.

01Seed02Names03Nations04Priest05Ram06Joseph07Scepter08I AM09Lamb10Bread11Rock12Curtain13Goat14Serpent15Prophet16Redeemer17House18Pierced19Stone20Immanuel21Branch22Egypt23Bethlehem24Donkey25Silver26Covenant

The numbers

It counts a week, a wait, and a people, then fourteen generations, ten words, a third day, seventy, and a tally.

SevenFortyTwelveFourteenThird dayTen wordsSeventy447

The signs

He named them Himself: a fish, a star, a prophet, a rest, and a bow.

JonahStarElijahSabbathBow

The days

These are appointed times: first fruit, fifty days, booths, and a year of release.

01First fruit02Weeks03Booths04Jubilee

The days · 01 of 04 · Leviticus 23 · 1 Corinthians 15

First fruits

The first sheaf is waved. Then the rest of the field is not a guess. He rose, and Paul names the day.

The text
When you come into the land and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord.

The word

בִּכּוּרִים

first fruits, the first of the field, a sheaf waved (bikkurim)

Walk this word

The appointed time

  1. 01Appointed times

    Leviticus 23:2

    These are the appointed feasts of the Lord. Holy convocations. Days He named, not days a decoder found.

  2. 02Wave the sheaf

    Leviticus 23:11

    The day after the Sabbath the priest waves it. The first of the harvest belongs to God before anyone eats the new grain.

  3. 03He was raised on the third day

    1 Corinthians 15:4

    Paul is already counting. Buried. Raised the third day, according to the Scriptures. Then he reaches for the sheaf.

  4. 04Christ the firstfruits

    1 Corinthians 15:20

    The firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Then those who belong to Him. The order is the point. A sheaf, then a field.

The first sheaf

Waved after the Sabbath. Given. The field still waits.

Then the rest

Those who belong to Him, at His coming.

Read it this way

Leviticus 23 lays out appointed times. After the Sabbath that follows Passover, a sheaf of the first of the harvest is waved. Bikkurim is first fruits — the beginning of the field, given to God, so the rest may be gathered. Nobody pretends the first sheaf is the whole harvest. It is the pledge that the field is coming.

Paul says it without blinking: Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. Then: each in his order, Christ the firstfruits, then those who belong to Him. The women walk to the tomb after the Sabbath, at dawn. The first sheaf of a new field. The day was already on the calendar.

Then it is named

The other room. Same line. A Person with a name.

1 Corinthians 15:20Matthew 28:1

Some sayFirstfruits is agricultural. Paul borrowing the word for Easter is later poetry.

The first sheaf is not the whole harvest. It is why you trust the field. Paul names who was waved.

Open Leviticus 23

The copies sometimes differ — that is Witness. Words you already say out loud sit in Words with weight. Foretold is what the page already says. It is not a decoder ring.