The Feast of First Fruits

The LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil-an offering made to the LORD by fire, a pleasing aroma-and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. (Lev. 23:9-14)

The Feast of First fruits was a celebration of the first fruits of the barley harvest. This was its agricultural significance. However this celebration has a much deeper spiritual and relevant meaning.

The barley harvest was the first harvest celebration of the year. Then counting out fifty days from firstfruits came the Feast of Pentecost. This celebrated the beginning of the wheat harvest.

THE SPRING FEASTS AND THE NEW COVENANT

In the three spring feasts we see the redemption story of the Messiah. The three spring feasts were fulfilled in the destiny of the one we call Messiah Yahshua.. They were accurately fulfilled down tothe minutest detail and on the very day of the lunar calendart they were due. Christ was crucified on Passover, in the grave on Unleavened Bread.
In the case of the Feast of Firstfruits on the morrow after the sabbath of Passover something wonderful and unexpected happened. Our Saviour once again fulfilled the feast. He rose from the dead on the first day of the week. This was on the morrow after the sabbath following Passover. Thus in His resurrection from the dead He fulfilled the Feast of Firstfruits. Resurrection Sunday came on the very day in which the Feast of Firstfruits had been celebrated, (and foreshadowed), in the Old Covenant since the feast was given by YHVH/God through Moses to the covenant people as they gathered at Sinai.
THE FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS IS FULFILLED IN THE NEW COVENANT.
CHRIST IS RESURRECTED FROM THE DEAD RIGHT ON FIRSTFRUITS.
The Feast of Firstfruits was fulfilled by Jesus in His resurrection. He was the "firstfruits from the dead". 1 Corinthians 15
20. But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
21. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead.
22. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
23. But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.
Jesus is called "the Firstfruits of those that rise from the dead". (I Corinthians 15:20) Three days and nights after His crucifixion and early in the morning Jesus rose again from the grave. The Resurrection of Jesus came on the first day of the week. That day happened to be the 17th of Nisan, right on the Feast of Firstfruits. Note that the sabbath or 'high day" of the first day of the seven days of Unleavened Bread is then followed by a regular weekly seventh day sabbath, (or Saturday). There were two sabbaths back to back that year, which was 32 A.D.

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