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Leviticus 23:17 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
Since the Feast of Firstfruits was a harvest festival, representing an end result, baked loaves, rather than unbaked flour, were waved to be accepted by God. The leaven in the loaves represented the fact that God's spiritual firstfruits had sin in their lives. (Of course, they had to repent of sin and be cleansed by Christ to be acceptable to God.) There were two loaves—one to represent the patriarchs, judges, prophets and kings of the Old Testament period whom God called, and the other to represent the true Christians of the New Testament church. Pentecost, or Firstfruits, pictures God's first spiritual harvest—mortal human beings translated into spirit-composed God Beings! God's church shall be that firstborn harvest (Hebrews 12:23)—born into God's Family at Christ's return.
Pentecost: Only 'Firstfruits' Now Called!
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