REVELATI ON ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Twenty Nine - Followers of the Lamb - Conclusion

 These three firstfruits (Jesus Christ, the 144000, and the great crowd) have interesting correspondencies in the festivals celebrated  according to the Mosaic Law. On Nisan 16, during the festival of Unfermented Cakes, a sheaf of the firstfruits   of the barley harvest was offered to Jehovah.  (Leviticus 23:6-14) Nisan 16 was the day Jesus was resurrected from  the dead. On the 50th day from Nisan 16, in the third month, the Israelites  celebrated the festival of the harvest of the first ripe fruits of the wheat  harvest.  (Exodus  23:16; Leviticus 23:15, 16) This festival came to be known as the Pentecost (from a Greek word meaning "fiftieth"), and it was at Pentecost C.E. that the first members of the 144,000 were anointed with holy spirit. Finally, in the seventh month when the whole harvest was gathered in, there was the Festival of Booths, a time of joyful thanksgiving when the Israelites dwelt for a week in booths made of, among other things, psalm branches.  (Leviticus 23:33-43)  Correspondingly, the great crowd, who are part of the great ingathering, give thanks before the throne with "psalm branches in their hands." - REVELATION 7:9.

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