Lunar Sabbath
a time tested tradition

    First Fruits Is First Day of Week

    High Level 3

    Fact

    First Fruits is 'the morrow after the Sabbath' - the first day of the week

    Evidence

    • Leviticus 23:11 - Wave sheaf 'on the morrow after the Sabbath'

    • Leviticus 23:15 - Count from 'the morrow after the Sabbath' to Pentecost

    • 'Morrow after the Sabbath' = first day of the week

    • Combined with FirstFruitsAlwaysOn16th: if 16th = first day, then 15th = Sabbath

    • This fixes the relationship between the weekly cycle and the monthly cycle

    • New Testament confirms: resurrection on First Fruits, 'first day of the week'

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    Scriptural Authority Very High Hermeneutical Principles Very High

    This fact connects First Fruits to the weekly cycle. Combined with FirstFruitsAlwaysOn16th, it proves that the 15th must always be a Sabbath and the 16th always the first day of the week - anchoring weeks to months.