THE SICKLE TO THE SHEAF OF BARLEY

CLUE #12 Translation Time

Posted by Lora Guthrie February 16, 2010 at 6:28 AM

RAPTURE – CATCHING AWAY TIME FRAME

THE SICKLE TO THE SHEAF OF BARLEY

But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. Mark 4:29

CLUE 12 IS THIS, A PROMISE OF MORE TO COME…..for the harvest, THE HARVEST OF THE FIRSTFRUITS!

Summary: The firstfruits harvest means a promise of more to come for the coming harvest, the firstfruits are dedicated and set aside for God. The barley first fruit was cut at the shaft by the sickle on the first day of the Feast of Firstfruits and lifted up and waved before God! The picture and principal example of this process is by far the most accurate we have for a type of rapture, the sickle cutting the sheaf and the priest lifting it up and waving before the lord. A pattern was set and established by Jesus the firstfruit rising from the dead on this day, the Feast of Firstfruits, followed by the Old Testament saints who slept. CLUE #12 is this, that there is a promise of more to come on this very day, which the New Testament saints should be caught up on this day based on the meaning of this feast day, the “third day”, and the pattern set by Jesus and the Old Testament saints. That being said, the Feast of Firstfruits falls on the 16/17 of Nissan, the 17th of Nissan has many other significant occurrences on this day. We will look at these days and see how more of the puzzle pieces fit together and examine the text and the patterns set and established concerning the catching away/rapture.

In the natural there is the barley harvest, the scriptures use the harvest and liken it to the harvesting of people for his kingdom. The firstfruits already belong to him, the firstfruits were set aside and dedicated to HIM.

NOTE: THE SICKLE WAS TAKEN TO THE SHAFT AND WAS LIFTED UP AND WAVED BEFORE THE LORD ON THE FIRST DAY OF FIRSTFRUITS. As we know people can also be firstfruits, the promise of more to come for the harvesting of the firstfruit saints. We know that the first harvest of old testament saints happened on firstfruits; Mat 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose. This gives us the model or the promise of more to come with the harvest of future firstfuit saints, 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

THE FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS, The literal meaning of firstfruit: A promise of more to come: "Firstfruits" refers to the first portion of the harvest which is given to God. Most notably the firstfruits are:

• The promise of the fruits to come in time;

• A pledge or hope of the greater harvest to follow;

• The firstfruit specially dedicated to God

Note that the Feast of Firstfruits was instituted when the nation of Israel was still wandering, without land or crops. It was observed in faith that God would lead the people to the land He had promised. The promise of the harvest to come. He we have a picture of the promise of the firstfruit catching away and him taking us into heaven our promise land with him!

Month 1 (Nissan) 16/17 a pattern set and established

(Some scholars say the 16th and others say 17th )

COULD IT BE THIS EASTER SUNDAY? Nissan 17

This Easter Sunday happens to fall on Nissan 17, on the Feast of Firstfruits. Let see if the pattern fits for the catching away of the bride

WHEN WILL HE RETURN?

THE ANSWER IS IN THE PATTERN SET: What day, what Feast

1. Christ arose……… On Nissan 16/17 Feast of Firstfruits ( again there is debate over which day, I do not wish to point to a certain day in this study)

2. The Saints that Slept arose……. On Nissan 16/ 17, Feast of Firstfruits

3. The dead in Christ will rise first……

4. Those who are alive and remain will meet them in the air….? Nissan 16/17

5. Firstfruits will meet him in the air…… ? Feast of Firstfruits Nissan 16/17

LOOK FOR CLUE WORDS: FIRSTFRUIT, HE ROSE ON FIRSTFRUIT, THOSE THAT SLEPT ROSE ON FIRSTFRUIT. The Feast of Firstfruit is a clue which falls on Nissan 17!

But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Cor 15:20

HEBREW WORD MOED= DIVINE APPOINTMENTS

Feast of Firstfruit is a divine appointment, set, repeated and established.Moed, Set Time, Festival: Moed, "festival time," Strong's #4150, means "set festival time, divine appointment, a fixed, set time or season, festival, an assembly convened for a definite purpose, appointed time or place of solemn assembly, set or solemn feast."

A pattern was set with the Feast of Firstfruit which is a divine appointment, for the raising and the catching away. Jesus rose from the dead, he raised up saints that slept, and then was caught up to the father before he appeared too the disciples and then to many. Jesus was the Firstfruit from the grave and those that slept, he will come again and bring those with him, and raise up the dead first and then catch up those that are the bride which are alive and remain.

NISSAN 17, A PROMISE OF MORE TO COME, THE Moed, divine appointed time has become a pattern which has been set, and duplicated and will again at his coming.

FIRSTFRUITS IS A DIVINE APPOINTMENT SET FOR THE DAY OF NISSAN 17 – THE HISTORICAL EVIDANCE FOR NISSAN 17

NISSAN 17

1. Nissan 17, Noah’s Ark safely rested on Mt. Ararat (Gen 8:4)

2. Nissan 17, Hebrews entered Egypt (Exodus 12:40-41) 430 years before deliverance.

3. Nissan 17, Moses led the Israelites through the Parting of the Red Sea (Exodus 3:18, 5:3)

4. Nissan 17, Israel entered and ate the first fruit of the Promised Land (Joshua 5:10-12)

5. Nissan 17, Cleansing of the Temple by Hezekiah

(800 years after entering the Promised Land. (2 Chronicles 29:1-28)

6. Nissan 17, Queen Esther saved the Jews from Elimination (Esther 3:12, 5:1)Hammon

7. Nissan 17, The Resurrection of Messiah

IN THE NATURAL AND THE PHYSICAL WE NEED TO LOOK FOR THE PATTERNS ESTABLISHED BY GOD IN HIS WORD. WHAT ARE THE PATTERN ALREADY ESTABLISHED?

Simply put, God needed to keep it simple, he set divine appointments as shadows of things to come (moeds); he sets and establishes patterns in these divine appointments, Feast days. With Pentecost, God came down and Moses went up; the law was given to Moses on Mt. Sinai. On Pentecost in Acts, the Holy Spirit came down and the disciples went up into the upper-room; the Holy Spirit was given. Passover the lamb’s blood protected the Israelites from the angle of death passed over and preserved them. On Passover Jesus became our Passover Lamb, HE was the sacrificial lamb, on the third day he arose. Three days from the Passover of the death angel in Egypt, the Israelites passed and left the bondage of Egypt and passed through the Red Sea, which was day three –Firstfruits. The journey to the promise land should have been an 11 day journey. According to Deuteronomy 1:2, Israel should have journeyed to the border of the Promised Land from Mt. Sinai in 11 days---but because of unbelief did not. The passing through the Red Sea on the third day, is what God appointed as Firstfruits; this is the day that Jesus conquered death and passed over from death to life. Firstfruits was the day the dead rose, Firstfrutis should and most likely will be the day the dead in Christ will rise first and those who are alive and remain will meet them in the air in the clouds. Do you see the pattern? We can be sheep sometimes, how can we miss this picture???

THE PATTERN IS SET, WE THAT ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL HAVE DEATH PASSOVER US! WE WILL NOT TASTE DEATH! 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. ( latter rain is March April Month 1, Nissan)

I do not know if his return is this year or the next year, the signs are all there, it should be. (see Clue #5) but we can look at Firstfruits, Nissan 17 as a pattern, a moed = divine appointment, it has been established by Jesus the firstfruits from the dead, and everyman in his own order after him. There is no better day then Nissan 17, no better pattern presented or set for us the divine appointment of Feast of Firstfruits.

LET THE SCRIPTURE BE OUR WITNESS TO THE PATTERN FOR THE CATCHING AWAY ON THE FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS- THE THIRD DAY

NISSAN 17 GRAVES WERE OPEN, SAINTS AROSE ON FIRSTFRUITS

1. Mat 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

NISSAN 17 CHRIST AROSE FROM THE DEAD ON FIRSTFRUITS

But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Cor 15:20

NISSAN 17 FUTURE PATTERN REPEATED? IT IS THE BEST FIT

1 Thessalonians 4 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

JESUS THE FIRSTFRUITS FROM THE DEAD WILL RAISE THE DEAD IN CHRIST FIRST

15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

THE FIRSTFRUIT BRIDE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH THEM 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

PAUL EXPECTS THEY SHOULD KNOW AND EXPECT WHAT DAY IT SHOULD BE, THEY BEING THE CHURCH, THE BRIDE….Is it because it is so obvious to the church back then? Yes! They were familiar with the feast and the early church fathers kept the feast for up to 300 AD.

MOST CHRISTIANS DO NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND THE PATTERNS AND PROPHETIC SIGNIFIGANCE WITH THE FEAST DAYS. Look at the text carefully…..

I DON’T NEED TO TELL YOU WHAT TIME AND WHAT SEASON, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE SEASON, THE TIME:1 Thes. 5: 1But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. ( these seasons are divine appointments, moeds the people of that time had some knowledge of these feast days)

SCRIPTURES: 1 THES 5: 2-5

TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT WATCHING: 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. A thief to who?

ANSWER: THOSE WHO ARE NOT WATCHING SHALL NOT ESCAPE 3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them-(Those not watching, not you)as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. (they shall not escape…… but not you!)

IF YOU WATCH THIS DAY WILL NOT OVERTAKE YOU 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (Because you know what day Jesus rose from the dead, firstfruits.)

BECAUSE YOU ARE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT YOU WILL WATCH AND KNOW 5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. LIGHT: 1) a torch, light2) a lamp, the flame of which is fed with oil

CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT- WHO WERE NOT OVERTAKEN? The five wise had the oil the light- the five foolish had no oil no light and are compared to those who are overtaken, and he says to them I know you not.

THOSE WHO HAD NO LIGHT: THE FIVE WISE AND THE FIVE FOOLISH Matthew 25 1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. 8And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. 11Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. 12But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. ((WATCH DO NOT BECOME THE FOOLISH VIRGIN)) Have the light, the oil, THE OIL AND THE LIGHT VIRGINS ARE PREPARED AT ALL TIMES FOR HIS COMING.

RECEIVE, HEAR, HOLDFAST, REPENT, WATCH OR YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR I WILL COME.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee. Rev 3:3

THE SICKLE IS TAKEN TO THE BARLEY ON THE FIRSTDAY OF FIRSTFRUITS! THE PROMISE OF MORE TO COME OF THOSE WHO SLEEP, AND TO THOSE FIRSTFRUITS WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN, THE PATTERN HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AND SET!

Oh that you may be the bride of Christ!

In His Name, Be the Bride!

Lora Shipley

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SOURCES AND NOTES:

ARK RESTED ON NISSAN 17 http://biblestudies.suite101.com/article.cfm/genesis_and_types_of_the_lord_jesus_christ_ii

Firstfruits meaning of the name: Jews for Jesus http://jewsforjesus.org/publications/newsletter/1997_03/firstfruitsthenandnow

MOED: http://www.biblestudy.org/bibleref/holy-days/hebrew-greek-words-for-holy-days.html

http://www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org/pentecost-Day-420-bible-prophecy-1.htm

http://innertech.com/blog/2009/05/enoch-the-torah-the-feast-of-weeks-the-feast-of-first-fruits-the-good-news/

http://www.templeinstitute.org/shavuot.htm

http://www.ariel.org/feasts.htm