ANYONE ELSE RESURRECTED WITH JESUS (3)?
(Message by Tanny Keng)
0. Introduction
a) In Leviticus 23 God gave commands regarding one of his Feast days, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In verses 10-11 the Lord told Moses for Israel:
i) "'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf (margin: handful or omer) of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it . . .' " (Leviticus 23:10-11, NKJV throughout).
1. Was Jesus he only one resurrected?
a) The wheat is already in harvest. A head of wheat, rubbed it back and forth in to break the grains out, blew away the chaff, and counted 29 grains. Of course, one planted grain often sprouts into two or three stems or branches, each bearing thirty or so grains, as it is written:
i) "But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold (three or more stems), some sixty (two stems), some thirty (one stem)." (Matthew 13:8).
b) Of course, any farmer is very interested in what kind of crop he is going to have. My parents grow wheat and beans. They go to the field after the wheat head is out, pull up a root, and see how many stems it has produced and how many grains per head. That is their profit! The chaff and the straw are not important.
c) Another analogy may be confusing: The Bible refers to Jesus in several ways as a root or stem (Isaiah 11:10; Romans 11:16, 15:12; Revelation 5:5, 22:16). However, in Revelation 22:16 Jesus also shows that he is ONE of the grains that comes back, "the root and the offspring of David."
i) In Revelation 1 it says: " . . . Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead . . ." (Revelation 1:4-5)
d) The word firstborn refers to the resurrection to glory - spirit, and not to flesh and blood. Therefore, Jesus is the seed sown, but also one of the seeds produced.
0. Introduction
a) In Leviticus 23 God gave commands regarding one of his Feast days, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In verses 10-11 the Lord told Moses for Israel:
i) "'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf (margin: handful or omer) of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it . . .' " (Leviticus 23:10-11, NKJV throughout).
1. Was Jesus he only one resurrected?
a) The wheat is already in harvest. A head of wheat, rubbed it back and forth in to break the grains out, blew away the chaff, and counted 29 grains. Of course, one planted grain often sprouts into two or three stems or branches, each bearing thirty or so grains, as it is written:
i) "But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold (three or more stems), some sixty (two stems), some thirty (one stem)." (Matthew 13:8).
b) Of course, any farmer is very interested in what kind of crop he is going to have. My parents grow wheat and beans. They go to the field after the wheat head is out, pull up a root, and see how many stems it has produced and how many grains per head. That is their profit! The chaff and the straw are not important.
c) Another analogy may be confusing: The Bible refers to Jesus in several ways as a root or stem (Isaiah 11:10; Romans 11:16, 15:12; Revelation 5:5, 22:16). However, in Revelation 22:16 Jesus also shows that he is ONE of the grains that comes back, "the root and the offspring of David."
i) In Revelation 1 it says: " . . . Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead . . ." (Revelation 1:4-5)
d) The word firstborn refers to the resurrection to glory - spirit, and not to flesh and blood. Therefore, Jesus is the seed sown, but also one of the seeds produced.
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