22/05/2026
MORE THAN JUST A CELEBRATION; DO THE MATHEMATICS. LINE UPON LINE. PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT. SCRIPTURES CONNECTING SCRIPTURES. THE FEAST OF HARVEST/FIRSTFRUITS, SHAVOUT/PENTECOST IS AN ETERNAL MICOMMANDMENTS FOR SOULS CONSECRATION, DEDICATION, AND EMPOWERMENT BY SPIRIT AS FIRSTFRUITS OF GOD IN THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH OF ETERNAL LIFE.
Beyond the physical joy and excitements of festival celebration and temporal blessings of harvest on the works of our hands, this great annual feast of the LORD holds eternal merits of eternal life for the believers whose souls will be resurrected and gathered into the great feast of the kingdom of the God to come!
THE FIRSTFRUITS...
Exodus 23:16,14-15 (NLT)
“Each year you must celebrate three festivals in my honor. First, celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread... SECOND, CELEBRATE THE FESTIVAL OF HARVEST, WHEN YOU BRING ME THE FIRST CROPS OF YOUR HARVEST. Finally, celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the harvest season, when you have harvested all the crops from your fields."
1 Corinthians 15:20,23 NIV
"But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him"
Revelation 14:4,14-16 (NIV)
"These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as firstfruits to God and the Lamb"
"I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, “Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested"
THE BREAD...
Leviticus 23:15,17 NLT
“From the day after the Sabbath—the day you bring the bundle of grain to be lifted up as a special offering—count off seven full weeks...From wherever you live, bring two loaves of bread to be lifted up before the lord as a special offering. Make these loaves from four quarts of choice flour, and bake them with yeast. They will be an offering to the lord from the first of your crops"
John 6:47-48 (NLT)
“I tell you the truth, anyone who believes has eternal life. Yes, I am the bread of life! Anyone who eats the bread from heaven, however, will never die"
Luke 14:15
"When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 19:16-17
"Just then a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life? “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, keep the commandments.”
To observe this commandment and receive the Spirit of obedience keep God's Word and love the LORD is equal to our working out our salvation in Christ with patience!
Shalom and Happy Feast of Pentecost 2026! May The LORD seal you with His Holy Spirit this holy feast!
Levite CHUKS OKEOMA
Senior Pastor/Priest
ZIONhills Global Assembly