“But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the Firstfruits of them that slept.”
(I Corinthians 15: 20)
The Feast of Firstfruits was fifty days after the Jewish Passover and was so named because Israel was to bring the first sheaf of grain to the High Priest as an indication that the entire harvest belonged to God and there was more to follow. We know it as “Pentecost,” observed fifty days following the Passover.
Christ is the “Firstfruits” of the resurrection, indicating that not only was His the first resurrection ever, but the rest would follow at that great resurrection when all the dead in Christ would be resurrected and called from their graves, followed by the rapture of the Christians living at that time.
The most important thing a person can do is to be saved now and be ready when that time comes.
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