The Meaning And Importance Of The Wave Sheaf

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By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze



Meaning And Importance
         According to God's directives in the bible:
  1. The wave sheaf is a first fruit offering that is waved before God at the altar.

  2. It refers to Jesus Christ, who is the first fruit of creation, the first to rise from the dead – resurrection.

  3. Likewise, in every family, there are the first fruits – first born sons and daughters.

  4. It reminds those who are first fruits (first born sons and daughters) of their position and duties.

  5. It reminds humanity to comply with all the laws and directives that God gave about first fruits.

  6. It is a reminder to the Israelites that they are the first fruits among humanity

"Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 15 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty); 16 and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labours which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labours from the field.

"Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.” Exodus 23:14-17

The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the Lord your God. Exodus 23:18-19

How To Offer Firstfruits To God
         If you offer a grain offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your firstfruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads. 15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. 16 Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the Lord. Leviticus 2:14-16

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. 14 You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23:14

The Offering Of Firstfruits Is An Everlasting Practice It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23:14