First Fruits & Wave Sheaf Offering: Yahuah Yireh

In Israel, the first harvest of the spring is barley, the grain associated with the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Wave Sheaf, and the First Fruits Offerings.  As an offering, it was tied in sheaves and brought to the High Priest to be 'waved' before Yahuah as the ‘First Fruit’ of the Spring harvest.  The sheaves were to be the very best of the entire crop; and the commandment required the offering be made before any of the barley harvest was eaten.  It is an ordinance that stands throughout our generations:

 'And Yahuah spoke unto Mosheh, saying, Speak unto the    children of Yisra'el, and say unto them, When you are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the    harvest thereof, then shall you bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahuah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it…

and you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering unto your Mighty One: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.'  ~ Leviticus 23:9-11 and 14~

The Wave Sheaf Offering is forever connected to the Feast Of Shavuot, aka, The Feast of Weeks, aka, the Feast of Pentecost, or simply Pentecost in the Christian religion.

The Wave Sheaf and Shavuot are the only two Appointed Times that are not given specific dates, e.g., the Pesach, or Yom Teruah are, where Yahuah specifically states; 'on the 15th Day of this month', or, 'on the 1st Day of that month', in the Scriptures. 

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