Season 10 • Episode 1
Leviticus 23 • Mark 16
The Waved Sheaf
Story Time: The Empty Tomb, The Tabernacle Altar & The Firstfruits Sheaf
Jesus rises on the exact morning of Firstfruits as the High Priest waves the golden barley sheaf to guarantee the harvest.
Theme Verse (Leviticus 23:10–11): “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted.”
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The Empty Tomb, The Tabernacle Altar & The Firstfruits Sheaf
Main Characters in S10E1 (3)
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Jesus Christ
The eternal Son of God and promised Messiah — who calmed the Galilean storm, washed His disciples' feet, bore our judgment on the cross, rose as Firstfruits, and returns on a white horse as King of Kings.
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The High Priest of Israel
The consecrated Sanctuary mediator in Leviticus 23 who waved the single sheaf of Firstfruits barley on the morning after the Sabbath and, fifty days later at Pentecost, lifted the two leavened loaves before the LORD.
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Mary Magdalene
Delivered by Jesus from seven demons, faithful witness at the cross, and first herald of the empty tomb at dawn on the Feast of Firstfruits.
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Hebrew • H1061
Bikkurim — “Firstfruits”
The earliest agricultural produce of the spring barley harvest, offered to God first in faith that He would bless and provide the rest of the crop.
Hebrew • H6016
Sefirat HaOmer — “Counting the Omer”
The explicit biblical command in Leviticus 23 to verbally count 50 days (seven full weeks) from the waving of the Firstfruits barley sheaf to Pentecost.
Hebrew • H8573
Tenufah — “Waved Offering”
An offering lifted up and waved horizontally and vertically before the altar—not burned or destroyed, but presented alive to the Lord.