Christ is the firstfruits.
He is the first
of those who sleep.
But now is Christ risen
from the dead,
and become the firstfruits
of them that slept.
Firstfruits is the first portion of the harvest, the guarantee of what follows. Christ is the firstfruits of them that slept. His resurrection is the pledge that those who belong to Him will also be raised. Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming. The firstfruits offering in the Old Testament pointed to the resurrection of Christ on the day after the sabbath.
- Christ is the firstfruits of them that slept.
- His resurrection guarantees ours.
- Afterward they that are Christ’s at His coming.
- The firstfruits is the first and the pledge of the harvest.
- The empty tomb is the beginning of the harvest.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
But now is Christ risen
from the dead,
and become the firstfruits
of them that slept.
Christ the firstfruits;
afterward they that are Christ’s
at his coming.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 is the key text.
- 1 Corinthians 15:23 gives the order: Christ the firstfruits, then those who are His.
- The firstfruits offering was waved on the day after the sabbath (Leviticus 23:10-11).
- The resurrection of Christ is the first of the harvest of the dead.
- Romans 8:23 speaks of the firstfruits of the Spirit.
- James 1:18 calls believers a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.
- First – The first of the harvest.
- Pledge – The guarantee of what follows.
- Christ – The firstfruits of them that slept.
- Order – Christ, then they that are His.
- Resurrection – The empty tomb is the beginning.
- Coming – Afterward at His coming.
- 1 Corinthians 15:20 – “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:23 – “But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.”
- Leviticus 23:10-11 – “Ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.”
- Romans 8:23 – “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.”
- James 1:18 – “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:4 – “And that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
- Colossians 1:18 – “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.”
- Revelation 1:5 – “The first begotten of the dead.”
- Romans 6:5 – “For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection.”
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16 – “The dead in Christ shall rise first.”
- Revelation 14:4 – “These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.”
- Exodus 23:19 – “The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God.”
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord.
Christ is the firstfruits. His resurrection is the pledge that those who belong to Him will also be raised.
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