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readsofawe · 6 months
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#readsofawe photo challenge: first fruits
I've eaten tons of lychee flavored foods before, but never the fruit itself. It's so sweet! And what better to pair it with than The Lost Ryū by Emi Watanabe Cohen, an equally sweet middle grade book about cross-cultural connections, and also dragons!
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eretzyisrael · 7 months
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FIRST FRUITS
"And it will be, when you come into the land which the Lord, your God, gives you for an inheritance, and you possess it and settle in it, that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land, which the Lord, your God is giving you. And you shall put [them] into a basket and go to the place which the Lord, your God, will choose to have His Name dwell there." - Deut. 26:1-2
This week’s Torah portion, Ki Tavo, begins with the mitzvah (commandment) of Bikkurim, first fruits. Moses instructs the Jews that when they settle in the Holy Land, every year at harvest time they must bring some of the first crop of fruit to the Kohen (priest) serving in the Temple in Jerusalem. It says in the Midrash that it was for Bikkurim that the world was created.
What is so significant about this particular mitzvah that the entire world was created for it? The Slonimer Rebbe (1911-2000) explains that what God wants most is for us to dedicate ourselves to serving Him, and Bikkurim is the ultimate example of that. Imagine a farmer, working his field by the sweat of his brow all year. When the first fruit finally appears, his immediate impulse is to pluck a piece from the tree and enjoy a delicious bite. Instead, he makes the difficult journey to Jerusalem to dedicate his fruit to God. Overcoming one's physical desires to express gratitude to our Creator is the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, and there is nothing more important to God than that.
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thequeerofdelphi · 8 months
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My lovely altar on this hot Lammas 2023
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igotswag77 · 1 year
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#StarWars #Kwanzaa
#StarWars #Kwanzaa - the 7 lightsaber forms align with the 7 principles of Kwanzaa or the Nguzo Saba. There is no emotion there is only The Force.
The lightsaber forms of Star Wars align with the 7 principles or Nguzo Saba of the first fruits harvest of Kwanzaa. How cool is that? To become a Jedi and use a lightsaber, one could follow the 7 principles of: Umoja – Day 1 – means Unity of family, legacy and tradition Kujichagulia – Day 2 – means Self-Determination – manifesting one’s own destiny Ujima – Day 3 – means Collective Work and…
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The fact that they waited until he'd gotten home... Lawd, have mercy! That's what real homegrown terror looks like - attacks at our seemingly weakest points, in our most vulnerable areas, and where we and those we love feel the safest. It's demonic, spiteful in excess, and a dirty, sorry excuse for human rebuttal. Stay safe, my people. Stay woke. Stay watchful and prepared to both struggle and endure.
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graveyarddirt · 2 years
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First Fruits is a religious offering of the first agricultural produce of the harvest. In classical Greek, Roman, and Hebrew religions, the first fruits were given to priests as an offering to deity. In Christian faiths, the tithe is similarly given as a donation or offering serving as a primary source of income to maintain the religious leaders and facilities. -- Wiki, 'First Fruits'
Who says your First Fruits offering has to be a platter of raw produce?
Throughout July I freeze our native berries - blackcurrants, redcurrants, strawberries, cherries, raspberries, & gooseberries - as they ripen and come into season, then at Lammas I bake these muffins using a mix of our frozen "first fruits".
* This recipe can easily be altered to be made gluten-free and/or dairy-free!
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Honor the Lord with Your Increase
Esteem יהוה with your goods, And with the first-fruits of all your increase; — Proverbs 3:9 | The Scriptures (ISR 1998) The Scriptures 1998 Copyright © 1998 Institute for Scripture Research. All Rights reserved. Cross References: Exodus 22:29; Exodus 23:19; Deuteronomy 26:2; 2 Chronicles 31:21; Psalm 144:13; Proverbs 11:25; Isaiah 43:23
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allscripture · 2 years
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7 Promises During Pentecost First Fruits
"Some fell on good soil and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as he had planted."    MATTHEW 13:8
1. Overflowing Wisdom
"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.'"                     Exodus 24:12
2. Overflowing Anointing
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."                       Acts 1:8
3. Overflowing Prosperity
"I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people..."                         Exodus 19:4-5
4. Overflowing Financial Blessing
"Honor the LORD with your riches, and with the first of all you grow. Then your store-houses will be filled with many good things and your barrels will flow over with new wine."                    Proverbs 3:9-10
5. Overflowing Spiritual Blessing
"Honor the LORD with your riches, and with the first of all you grow. Then your store-houses will be filled with many good things and your barrels will flow over with new wine."                 Proverbs 3:9-10
6. Opening Windows of Heaven
"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse... and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it."                    Malachi 3:10
7. Rebuking the Devourer
"I will speak sharp words to the destroyer for you, so that it may not destroy the fruits of the ground. And your vine in the field will be sure to give its grapes," says the LORD of All."                     Malachi 3:11
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splendidly · 2 years
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Happy Lughnasadh! Merry Lammas! 🌾🍎🌻✨
Gently gathering the physical, emotional, and spiritual young fruits of the season in the dwindling summer atmosphere. Taking a moment to check in with myself and discern where the fecund and fallow need tending. I am profoundly grateful for the care, hard work, creativity, and grace the seasons, plants,animals, and souls around me have shared so that I may exist in this world. Forever in awe of the mystery of renewal and growth and the magic of the Wheel of the Year🌹🥮🕯🍓
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psalmonesermons · 10 months
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Pentecost or Shavuot?
Guest blogger Linda Morris (aka Batnabas)
What is the difference? Is it important? Those of you who know me, or have read other things I have written, will not be surprised that my answer is ‘Yes.’ An emphatic ‘Yes.’ Because this is partially to blame for the church – in general – moving away from its Hebraic roots.
Pentecost is an important date in the Christian calendar. We sing songs proclaiming that God poured out His Holy Spirit on that day and “the church was born.” You will hear people preaching the same. Well it was not, and I am sorry if this offends you. But I am not apologising for it.
Jesus did NOT come to start a new religion. Neither did Paul.
The crowd in Jerusalem, in Acts chapter 2 were primarily Jews, but some gentiles (non-Jews) would have been there too. We know that the disciples plus Jews and others who had accepted Jesus as their Messiah were among them. The reason they were there was to fulfil the Biblical command to observe the feast of Shavuot. They were to present the firstfruits of the wheat harvest to God (Lev 22:15-17). Nowadays, it also represents the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. So they celebrate God’s provision for them physically and spiritually at Shavuot.
They received another gift from God that day – the Holy Spirit!
Jesus is called the firstfruits (1 Cor 15:23).
At Shavuot, the Book of Ruth is read, mainly because it is a story about a harvest, but it also tells the story of Ruth, a Moabite woman, joining herself to the Jews. This gives a little hint that God would join the gentiles to His people in the future, through Jesus. Ruth is one of 4 women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus, who were all gentiles. The only other woman in this list was His mother, Mary, who of course was Jewish.
Ruth said, “your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.”
Ruth joined herself to the Jews, but many Christians have at best, separated themselves from the Jews, and at worst turned against them, even hating them. The beginning of this was in the 4th century at the Council of Nicea when the church split from its Jewish roots. One of the results of this is that some years there can be a gap of a few weeks between the Jews celebrating Passover and the Christians celebrating Easter, depending on our calendars.
Another is the erroneous teaching that the Jews were unfaithful to God, therefore He broke His Covenant with them and replaced them with the church! This is called ‘Replacement Theology’ and is quite rife in the Christian church.
Don’t you see? If God broke His Covenant with the Jews He can just as easily break His Covenant with us! Are Christians perfect? Are we always faithful to Him? If we believe that God breaks His Covenants, then what are we doing going to church?
If He is not a Covenant-keeping God, then we are wasting our time!
Unfortunately, we have lost a lot by casting off our root, particularly in the area of understanding the Bible. I have often thought that as Christians we just float along the surface in Bible study. By discovering and accepting our Hebraic roots we gain such a deeper understanding of Scripture, of God, of Jesus. It brings the Bible to life.
Tom Bradford, a Bible teacher in America, has said that ‘even open-minded Bible commentary writers find themselves at the end of a promising road to new discoveries of the Bible because they are unwilling to pursue it. It could be disruptive to the inner workings of the institutional church.’ He also says that in recent years there has been an upsurge internationally in Christians turning to Hebraic Roots teaching which he attributes to the Holy Spirit. So it seems that many Christians are realising that there is so much to gain, so much to learn. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Once you start, you wonder why you did not do it sooner.
I am not in any way advocating that we all convert to Judaism. That is a backward step. The Messianic Jewish movement (Jews who have accepted Jesus as their Messiah) is growing rapidly in Israel and among Jewish communities in other countries. When people in the UK accept Jesus, they say ‘the prayer’ committing their lives to Jesus and approach the faith through Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Messianic Jews have the whole story. The Covenant with God, the ‘Law and Prophets’ (The Tanakh – our Old Testament) which tells the whole story of God’s love for His people and the promised Messiah. We are not New Testament people – we are Bible people. It is a fascinating book, and you will discover and be amazed and excited by all the new things you can learn when you look at it in its Hebraic setting. If you need help with how to access this aspect of Bible study let us know and we will be glad to guide you.
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Proverbs 3:9 (KJV), "Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase."
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allengreenfield · 21 days
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dejahisashmom · 2 months
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Deuteronomy Chapter 26
This chapter is about the first fruits, tithes, & following God's commands. This chapter covers these topics after the ancient Israelites got into the Promised Land.
This chapter is about the first fruits, tithes, & following God’s commands. This chapter covers these topics after the Israelites go into the Promised Land. Also, making sure that God’s commands are being heeded because the Israelites are ‘special.’ (We aren’t going to get into a religious/political debate about this. That’s not what this blog is about. That’s for others to discuss & debate. Just…
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sundayandsunday · 3 months
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First fruits
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preacherpollard · 8 months
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How To Avoid Defrauding Deity
Neal Pollard At the end of the Old Testament, the prophet Malachi simply asked, “Will a man rob God?” (3:8). Now that’s not a thought that naturally occurs to most. It would seem impossible to take by force what belongs to an all-powerful, all-knowing Being. Knowing about His supernatural nature, who would dare to try? Especially when you read that those who do so are  “cursed by a curse” by the…
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