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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Anticipate Your Resurrection
Description: “Begin to count the seven weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain.” DEUTERONOMY 16:9The Feast of Weeks was the day when people brought the first sample of the harvest as a gift to the Lord. In Exodus 23:16, it is called, “the firstfruits of your labour.”In the New Testament, Jesus is described as the firstfruits: “Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep” (1 Cor. 15:20). The firstfruits was a sample, a taste, a pledge of what was to follow in the harvest.When Jesus...