"The Feast Of Firstfruit"

(208) Shane Vaughn Teaches "The Feast Of Firstfruit" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veknEp_gqso Transcript: (00:00) [Music] Our Story begins here in a field of golden grain and then 50 days later our story winds up right here in this room above the temple in Jerusalem it's commonly referred to as the upper room a very simple room but something happened here that changed the world as we know it it was the culmination of one of the Feast of Israel and in this video I want to explain to you one of the least understood Feast of Israel and yet contained within the imagery and the symbolism of this Festival is a feast that will forever change your (01:01) understanding about your life and the purpose of your life hello I'm Shane Von with first Harvest Ministries and I'm here to tell you the grandest story you've ever heard it's a story that's all about you before I begin that explanation today I want to talk to you about our Creator God his name is Yahweh and he is the creator of Heaven and Earth the creator of all things he is not only a Creator but he is a master Storyteller and I'm going to tell you his story in this video while we're standing in this Antiquated room I want (01:51) to tell you an Antiquated story but yet a story that finds new meaning every day in the life of the believer God has a story with seven chapters and this story is all about his plan to redeem Humanity you see humanity is God's creation and he plans to get that creation back how does he plan to do it the entire story is in the seven pictures that you see on your screen right now I want you to look at these closely these are pictures you know God is our father and most of the times when a father is going to tell a child a story (02:51) he does so in such a simple way you know all children's books are famous for those pictures I remember when I was a child I loved those pictures in the story book yahe has a planet full of children that he loves and he wants his gospel to be so simple that he wrote it in pictures again it's the seven pictures that you see on the screen the first picture is the picture of a lamb the next picture is the picture of a little piece of bread a flat piece of bread we call it unleavened bread the next picture is a picture of a barley (03:47) grain the next picture is the picture of a trumpet the next picture is a picture of a chain the next picture is a picture of planet Earth and then the final picture is of a great big Throne if you know the story behind those pictures you know what the majority of humanity is clueless of the plan of Yahweh for the ages now if you're watching this and you're not familiar with the term Yahweh don't be alarmed we've not lost our marbles that is the Hebrew Hebrew name of your God you might want to get to know it in these seven pictures is the (04:37) story that we're going to talk about in this video a few weeks ago we started a series of festivals called the Feast of Israel they're not the Feast of the Jews they are yahweh's festivals and he instructed his church his Israel his people to every year return to these pictures return to the story of Truth and to act those stories out like little children so that when Satan bombards us with lies that our father is never going to return that we're never going to see the kingdom of God that everything is out of order the (05:26) whole world is upside down there is nothing happening everything stays the same those that do not keep these Feast might be prone to believe the sophistry of Satan the cumulous lies that pour forth from the dragon's mouth like water but there is a people on the Earth today that know better why because they know these pictures the first picture was the lamb that was Passover we won't go over it in this video I'll just link right there and you can go watch that if you're on our YouTube channel right after that comes the Feast of unleavened (06:12) bread we'll not go over that here I'll link to it right there and you can go and watch it on YouTube but the third picture is the one that I want you to look at in this video called The Feast of first fruit now we're not going to read a lot of the text but you can turn there in your Bibles I'll put the scriptures on the screen you can find the text for the Feast of first fruit the setting comes from The Book of Leviticus 23 verse 10 and 11 it follows the Feast of unleavened bread 8 days after Yeshua resur directs from the grave on a (07:01) Saturday evening around 6:00 we go 7 days from there and then the next day will be the Sunday or the first day of the week following his resurrection now why do we wait till the 8 days I'll link right there to the video you can watch that I won't go into it in this video now I want to talk to you about what Leviticus says it says after the Feast of unleavened bread that the children of Israel would Gather in what they called a spring harvest in the land of Israel there are two Harvest every year there's an early (07:49) Harvest it comes in the early part of the year it's the spring Harvest a small Harvest it doesn't compare to the fall Harvest very small very little Harvest but it keeps them going until their big Harvest gets there in the fall so this was their spring Harvest and Yahweh told them whenever the spring Harvest comes in I want you to go out there and gather a bundle of that Harvest together and that's going to be called the first fruits now the first fruits is Holy it belongs to the Lord it is imperative that we understand (08:38) this the Feast of first fruit is not primarily about Jesus Christ now all the other feasts are but this is the one Feast out of the seven that is primarily about you and your family and your children this Feast is all about the first fruit yua Jesus is not the first fruit now before you jump to to the gun or the conclusion and you think I've lost it because it does seem that Jesus is the first fruit let me break it down for you yua Jesus is not what this Festival is about this Festival is about a harvest a first (09:40) harvest if you know anything about our ministry you know that the name of our ministry is first harvest I I was going to name it first fruits Ministries but people already think that we're fruity enough so we decided to go with first heart vest the reason we named our ministry first harvest is because of this Festival the first harvest this is what this Festival is about a harvest of a bunch of fruit now how does Yeshua play into that oddly enough and it's very odd but yet it makes perfect sense if you'll watch this lesson all the way (10:27) till the end the world is very excited about the resurrection of yua Jesus and rightly so it's a wonderful amazing event it was the first event like that in history a man that rose from the dead that was a human rose from the dead never to die again now others rose from the dead but they died again yua Rose to the gift of eternal life to live forever was the first now in this Festival after they gathered in the first harvest they were supposed to go to the Harvest and pull out one grain of barley the first of the first (11:20) fruits I need you to remember what I'm teaching you right now this Festival is about the first fruits not the first of the first fruit now does that degrade in any way the resurrection no the world is very focused on the resurrection that's why they love their Easter celebration so much and you know many people tell me you know y'all are focused on Passover his death but we're focused on his resurrection it causes us to wonder why Yahweh and all of the feast put the resurrection of yua during the Feast of unleavened bread and 8 Days Later has a (12:06) festival but there seems to be no major focus on the resurrection of Christ there is an answer for that question and the answer makes you want to shout I'm telling you it really does because Yahweh your God your creator was never Focus F used on the one son or the first sheep of the first fruit you see Yahweh never had a desire in the beginning of time to have a son I want you to mark that down right here in your mind yahweh's dream was not for a son yahweh's dream was for a family of sons so the resurrect ction that Yahweh (13:01) has in focus and in mind is the resurrection of his entire family his sons the Elohim the god family or the family of God however you want to say it it is imperative brothers and sisters that you understand human carnal Minds is focused on the seed son yua Jesus is the seed son but he is not the Harvest that yahwe dreams about the one that he has in mind he is simply the first of that Harvest so while the world is focused on one man's resurrection and there's nothing wrong with that please don't misunderstand me (13:55) the reason they have to focus on an Easter Sunrise service is because they don't keep the Feast of first fruit they do not understand that the resurrection that God wants you excited about is your Resurrection or the resurrection of the first harvest of which yua Jesus is the first but he is not the Harvest he is the first of that Harvest Hallelujah turn with me to the book of 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 22 now I'm in no way saying the resurrection of Christ is anything less than phenomenal but what I am saying is (14:48) sometimes you need to see the bigger picture there's a reason that Yahweh is focused on the bigger picture 1 Corinthians 15 CH 22 and verse 23 for as in Adam all die even so in Christ shall all be made alive but every man in his order Christ the first fruit fruit and then afterwards they that are Christ at his coming listen carefully Christ is the first of the first fruits you are the first fruits so this Feast that we are in right now it starts Sunday uh I (15:54) believe April the 19th is the date we're at right now 2020 it starts today right now we start celebrating for 7 weeks this Festival of your future turn with me to uh 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 16 and 17 1 Thessalonians chap 4 16 and 17 whenever you get the revelation of the first harvest you will understand everything it'll it'll change your paradig we'll start at 16 of chapter 4 for yua himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the Archangel and with the Trump of Yahweh and the dead in Christ shall rise (16:51) first underline that word first there's your first harvest your first fruit verse 7 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds not in some distant place called heaven but right there in the clouds to be displayed across the sky as trophies of Grace we will rise to meet the Lord in the air we did not meet him 7 years earlier in a pre-tribulation rapture we are meeting him for the first time at the seventh trumpet when the dead are resurrected if your church has you going (17:37) to heaven any second before this moment you're under false teaching it's not the truth you will meet the Lord at the seventh trumpet when he comes down to collect his first harvest or his first fruit and so shall we ever be with the Lord let's go to the Book of Romans Romans chap 8 and verse 29 The Book of Romans chap 8 and verse 29 for whom he did Forno he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first born among many Brethren did you hear that yua is the firstborn of many Brethren (18:42) why because yahweh's Dream from the beginning was not for a firstborn son it was for many born Sons this Festival that we are celebrating right now is celebrating the many born Sons of Yahweh the Apostle Paul said in his writings he said that yua was made perfect through his suffering that he might be the captain of our Salvation leading many Brethren unto the same place that he is in this Festival is about you it is not as much about what Christ did in the resurrection as much as it is is about your coming Resurrection when you will have been (19:35) conformed to the image of the Son of God if you're coming up in the first resurrection you will be the first harvest you will be the first fruit because you look just like your elder brother that started this entire process this is why uh God Yahweh was not a afraid for Jesus or yua to die because it was yua himself that said if the seed falls in the ground oh Hallelujah in Dy that it would produce a harvest yua I wish you would get this in your mind was the seed son he was the first son of many sons and the festival that starts (20:28) today is a celebration of the many sons of Yahweh that are being transformed right now as I preach to you their minds are being changed by the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit they are being made worthy of the first resurrection Paul said and I'll put it on the screen he said not to count yourself as having apprehended already the first resurrection just because you're saved and believed in Christ because Paul said he didn't know if even he would make that first harvest because the only ones that will go up in the (21:12) first harvest brothers and sisters the only one will be those that have been conformed changed transformed by the renewing of their minds into the very image let me explain something to everybody watching everybody wants a new body and I don't blame you we're going to get one there's a theophany waiting for every one of us but before you get a new body you've got to get a new mind a new way of thinking why because when your body comes up in the resurrection if your mind has not been transformed by the indwelling (21:56) presence of the Holy Spirit it will not match up with the new body beloved please hear me now that body is coming up to rule and to reign with Christ it must be just like Christ and your mind goes back to God when you die that's your spirit it goes back to God it's waiting for the resurrection when that Spirit your thoughts your memories your Recollections they will judge you at the Judgment they will come back into your mind and if that mind is not a Christ mind if it's not learned to love its enemies right now it won't start loving (22:39) them in the resurrection this new body needs a new mind and that's what the holy spirit is doing among the first fruits as I speak to you he's filling people with his presence in the waters of baptism and in that Spirit comes the abil to overcome sin which is commandment breaking and from that power you shall I said you shall have power over these things that do so easily beset us all the Wonder of it hallelujah praise God turn with me to Romans 11 verse 16 for if the first fruit be holy the Lop is also holy if the root be holy so (23:35) are the branches Yeshua was made perfect or Holy by the things he suffered and the Bible said because he's holy when he comes to live in Me by the agency of the holy spirit because he's holy he's going to begin working inside of me the Bible said work out your salvation because why he brings salvation into the mind but then you've got to work it out Hallelujah the Bible said be rooted and grounded he brings in the root that root is Holy and if we are hidden with him we shall also be holy let's go to the Book (24:24) of James chapter 1 and verse 18 and see what the brother of Our Lord has to say concerning these things James 1:1 18 of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creation listen to me carefully God has a three-step plan to redeem mankind you beloved listen to me you are part of the first step of that three-step plan if you have no idea what I'm talking about neither did I in days going by I'm going to link to it right there you got to watch that God's threep plan to redeem Humanity the first (25:24) part of that plan is called the first fruit or the first harvest this Feast that we've started now is a celebration of that first harvest that you are becoming every day as the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost is working in your life so that it can make you a first fruit of his creation he's going to get us creation but he starts with the first fruit I want to show you who these people are the Book of Revelation CH 14 and verse 4 The Book of Revelation 14 and verse 4 these are they now I'm fixing to introduce you to (26:17) the first fruits the first harvest of God now he said earlier that you the Beloved are are are are are being prepared for that position here's what he said in verse 4 these are they which are not defiled with false religious systems now your Bible might say women but we understand that what this is talking about the false church is a woman just like the true church is so these people have not slept in the bed of false religion they are virgins they have not accepted inside of them the seed of every Tom Dick and (27:07) Harry behind the pull pit they've not accepted the seed of the Babylonian lies of the greasy Grace and of the mess that they hear in the church today these are a separate people they are virgins these are they which follow the word whatever it says now your Bible will say they follow the lamb wherever he goes well brothers and sisters yua is the word of God and so when it says the lamb that's the word so I just said they follow the word wherever it takes them they'll lose friends along the way they'll lose family people they love (27:55) dearly because they're following the word word it'll lead you all the way out of Babylon if you're not careful let's keep reading these were redeemed from among men who are these people they are not all of the creation these are the redeemed but there's more to the story being the first fruit unto Yahweh and to Yeshua your Bible will say God in the lamb same thing these people that's in this Resurrection are the redeemed this is not the Jews this is not natural Israel this is the one new man the new Israel the New Jerusalem which is made (28:51) up of the Lost tribes of the House of Israel and former Gentiles that have joined themselves to Israel they are redeemed now in their mouth verse 5 was found no G no mistruth for they are without sin Before the Throne of Yahweh these are humans little humans that have been transformed to the image of the son of Yahweh so much that they duplicate him they look just like him they Lambs just like he was standing on Mount Zion they duplicated the Messiah so much so that there is no sin in them now how can that be every one of us sin do we (29:48) not here is the secret to this verse of scripture the Bible said that when the Holy Spirit comes in you he gives you power to rise above sin the moment you're baptized in his name and you receive the power of the Holy Spirit A New Life Starts for you right there nothing before that is even remembered from that moment forward Yeshua was baptized same thing from that moment forward no sin well the 144,000 bear the same testimony now brother Von that's impossible we all have Wicked thoughts we all have bad thoughts see that's the problem you've (30:35) been led to believe that a bad thought is a sin brothers and sisters birds fly over your head every day but when they build a nest there is when we have a problem a human is going to have thoughts that are ungodly because the prince of the power of the air transmits those thoughts into our mind so what is sin that's what we have to understand there's a Bible answer going to put it on the screen right now the Bible answer is that sin is the transgression of the law of God that your church says has been done away with so if sin is the (31:16) transgression of the law which is the Ten Commandments of almighty God if they're done away with there is no more sin but we know better than that it just takes a little thought to think about it we know better than that these people are in such a place that God calls them sinless how did they get to that place your answer is in verse number 12 of the same chapter here is the testimony of the Saints what Saints the 144,000 the first fruit the one that this Festival is all about here's their testimony they have kept the Commandments of (32:02) Yahweh they didn't believe the lies of the modern day church that said that God loved them no matter what they did it was all they knew better they didn't drink the Kool-Aid they lived holy and circumspectly before God but not only that they had the faith of yua I want to talk to you from my heart today there are religions of Plenty in the world they're everywhere everywhere you go you'll find a religion and some of them let's just take Judaism for an example Judaism let's say the Muslims for an example they're very strict (32:47) religions they keep the Commandments there's no doubt about it they don't break the Sab now whether they keep the spirit of The Commandments that's another subject that I will be teaching on in a very few few short days called The Hidden law you really want to watch that but the Jews the Muslims they keep a very strict code of Commandments now to be in the 144,000 they've got one qualification to put them there there's another religion called Christianity now Christianity has the faith of yua they believe in yua they (33:27) Place their faith they believe he was the son of God they believe he died for their sins they've accepted that they put their faith in yua but the truth of the matter is this one without the other will put you in the second Resurrection not the first one the first resurrection of the first fruit company or the first harvest are people that bear this testimony they've kept the Commandments of God and the faith of yua see the Jews have the Commandments without the faith in Christ Christians have faith in Christ without (34:03) the Commandments but there is a people rising up in this day during the restoration of all things they're called the house of Israel not the nation of Israel they are the Church of the Living God they are Abraham's children and Abraham's children is always called the house of Israel so the Feast of first fruit as I come to a close lasts for 49 days now it's ironic isn't it that the Feast of Passover is one night the Feast of unleavened bread is seven days all the other Feast are one day or seven days but this Feast is the longest Feast (34:53) of them all and yet the least celebrated why so long why 49 days of counting until the last day which is the day of Pentecost you know it's a funny thing the modern Church says they don't keep the Feast of Israel that God did away with them but I promise you in June they will all be keeping the last day of the Feast of first fruit so they do keep the feast just one of them now this is 49 days long because there's a message message in the counting what is the message we read it a while ago that we must be transformed into the image of the Son of (35:38) God so that we might be counted worthy to be part of the first fruits so here's the thing one night for Passover seven days for unleavened bread but a a life time if you will a lifetime of being transformed in into the quality of the first fruit company today we start counting June the 7th will end our count and all of the Saints will come into a grand assembly to celebrate the day when the Holy Spirit poured out his law into the hearts of men and gave us the supernatural power to obey that law and to walk circum IR sply before God (36:30) brothers and sisters this Feast is part three of God's seven part story we started at Calvary and that's where most religions stop most denominations have a favorite part of the story that they build a church around I'll explain it real quickly the Baptist the the episcop the presan all all of them have built a church around the Feast of Passover of course they don't they don't realize it's around that Feast it's around the cross which is what Passover represents is the cross the blood but there are a few people the the Wesley and Holiness (37:11) people the Holiness churches uh some of the old Holiness churches that preach unleavened bread sanctification getting your life clean before God they they build a church around that message then you come over here this is known as the Pentecostal Feast uh the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the 50th day of this Feast well they built a church around the outpouring of the Holy Ghost and they stopped right there now the next Festival starts in the seventh month of the year and those festivals are called the fall festivals these are the spring (37:51) festivals the first Festival is trumpets that represents the second coming of Messiah well there's a group of churches called the Adventist churches that are built primarily around the second Advent of our Lord and I could go on and on and on but in this day God is raising up a people that will take every chapter put them into one book live it out practice it out preach it out and believe it and live for it I pray that this message would cause you to want to celebrate the Feast of first fruit some of you may be (38:33) asking how do I celebrate you can do it in various ways we recommend decorating the home we recommend uh you know the color of this Festival is blue uh put up some blue over the mantle over the door maybe out your door uh on your door piece that would be a good you know like we did for Passover now go put blue up that represents the Law of God which will be given at Mount Saia which is the day of Pentecost so it's a festival of the law of God that's appropriate uh baskets of fruit uh maybe you know if you don't want to keep real fruit out (39:12) all 49 days uh find some faux fruit put it out maybe some loaves of bread uh they have them at Hobby Lobby they're not the real bread just set them out as a reminder of this Festival some grain some seed what ever but do something to celebrate it tell your children about it that we're counting down the days till the first harvest receives the power that they need to be in the first Resurrection May Yahweh bless you and keep you until next time bye-bye