“You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.”
Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. The two remaining festivals mark the agricultural year's key transitions: the summer grain harvest (Pentecost, Feast of Weeks) and the autumn ingathering (Tabernacles, Feast of Booths). Both are named by their agricultural content — firstfruits of sown crops and the final ingathering. Acts 2:1 connects the Pentecost event to the Feast of Harvest — the firstfruits of the new covenant community are given on the feast of firstfruits. James 1:18 says God chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. The agricultural feast is the type of the spiritual harvest.
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Exodus 23:16
“You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor.”
Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. The two remaining festivals mark the agricultural year's key transitions: the summer grain harvest (Pentecost, Feast of Weeks) and the autumn ingathering (Tabernacles, Feast of Booths). Both are named by their agricultural content — firstfruits of sown crops and the final ingathering. Acts 2:1 connects the Pentecost event to the Feast of Harvest — the firstfruits of the new covenant community are given on the feast of firstfruits. James 1:18 says God chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. The agricultural feast is the type of the spiritual harvest.
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Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. The two remaining festivals mark the agricultural year's key transitions: the summer grain harvest (Pentecost, Feast of Weeks) and the autumn ingathering (Tabernacles, Feast of Booths). Both are named by their agricultural content — firstfruits of sown crops and the final ingathering. Acts 2:1 connects the Pentecost event to the Feast of Harvest — the firstfruits of the new covenant community are given on the feast of firstfruits. James 1:18 says God chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created. The agricultural feast is the type of the spiritual harvest.