Don’t miss the blessing for the new Hebraic month of Cheshvan which begins Friday at sundown on Friday, October 28th! We will join Chuck Pierce at Global Spheres (formerly Glory of Zion) for their live webcast from Corinth, Texas. Starts at 8pm!
WHAT IS FIRSTFRUITS AND WHY DOES IT MATTER?
In Deuteronomy 26:1 & 2 it says:
“And it shall be, when you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.”
You see, in God’s cycle of life, He not only gave His people a weekly celebration (Sabbath)…and a set of yearly appointment times…He also gave a MONTHLY FEAST; “Rosh Chodesh”!
Rosh Chodesh is an expression of Firstfruits! So to understand Rosh Chodesh we need to understand Firstfruits. God promised His children that if they would honor Him by giving Him the FIRSTFRUITS of their harvest, then he would bless them. (Neh. 10:35-39)
Proverbs 3:9-10 says, “Honor the LORD…with the FIRSTFRUITS of all your crops; then your barns will be filled to overflowing and your vats will brim over with new wine.”
Romans 11:16 says, “If the FIRSTFRUITS is holy, then the whole batch is holy.”
And, finally, in 1 Corinthians 15:20; scripture says that by His resurrection, JESUS released the FIRSTFRUIT blessing of a new creation! “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”
So as we honor the Lord at the beginning of each new Hebraic month and bring Him the first of our time, the first of our worship, the first of our praise, the first of our heart, the first of our devotion, and the first of our crops (finances); we establish a cycle of blessing that will carry through for the entire month!
