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First Fruits

The Torah names

First Fruits of the Barley Harvest

According to Dead Sea Scrolls: occurs on Sunday, Nisan 26 each year.

Pentecost is the 15th day after First Fruits of the Barley Harvest

Reap the harvest, bring the sheaf of the firstfruits to the priest, he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. (Leviticus 23)

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15

Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures James 1

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Romans 8

And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24

But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death.  1 Corinthians 15