Quickening Power Part 5 "The Wave Sheaf"
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And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then 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.
Introduction.
Introduction.
In 1752 Benjamin Franklin took his son to fly a kite in a thunderstorm, and learned that lightning was electricity, and that electricity could be conducted and controlled.
127 years later, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.
What Benjamin Franklin showed could be done, Thomas Edison did.
Once someone shows something can be done, others can do it. (David and Goliath)
That is the principle of the wave sheaf.
Bro. Branham first mentions the wave sheaf in a Message titled “Feast of the Trumpets” in 1964, but only in relation to the Seven Church Ages. He gets his words mixed up and corrects it in the first Q&A in 1964.
(Show Chart of Seven Feasts of the Lord)
Basically he said Seven Sabbaths, but he meant Seven Months. The Church Age Period was represented by the period between Pentecost and Atonement, not by the 50 days between Firstfruits and Pentecost.
You remember there, the sheaf turns into a loaf of bread after that time. When the sheaf of…one sheaf, then all goes into one loaf.
Oh, it’s a great teaching there; I didn’t touch the edge of it. But if you happen to catch that on your tape, remember, look in the Bible.
(Seven Months)
Some minister might pick that up, and then you’d have it, you see, there. 64-0823M - Questions And Answers #1
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
Lets go back and see what Bro. Branham was saying in “It is the Rising of the Son”.
83 If there would be any holy ritual, it should come forth on the sabbath day, which was the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday. But did you notice, in this memorial, to wave it on the first day of the week?
84 “The sheaf, which was the first of your seed that you planted, when it comes up and ripened, you cut down this sheaf and take it to the priest.
And let him take it and wave it before the Lord, for your acception, that you are accepted. You have come with your sheaf, and he is to wave it before the Lord, on…”
85 Not on the sabbath, the seventh day; but on the first day, which we call Sunday, S-u-n-d-a-y.
86 Course, that’s a Roman word, which they called it the sun day for the sun god. But how it is changed!
87 It’s not s-u-n anymore. It’s the S-o-n d-a-y, the Son day, that that corn of Wheat (God’s first One up from the dead) is to be waved over the congregation, that we are His Seed;
and that’s the first of the Seed of those that slept, waved upon the first day of the week. On Sunday, He raised up. Waved good-bye, and ascended up on High, in the presence of the people.
88 Notice, It was the first corn of God’s Wheat that had been raised from the dead, God’s first corn of Wheat.
By God’s quickening Power, God had quickened His life, raised Him up from the dead, and He was the Firstfruits of those that slept, the Firstfruit. He was that Sheaf.
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
ἀπαρχή, first-fruits, the earliest crop of the year; hence also metaph., for example, of the earliest converts in a district.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.
89 That’s why they had to wave that sheaf, for it was the first one that come to maturity. And it was waved as a memorial of thanksgiving to God, believing that the rest of them would come. It was a sign.
90 And, today, because He was the first Son of God to come to full maturity, to be in God, He was plucked up from the earth and is waved over the people.
Oh, what a glorious lesson! By the quickening Power, the first One! Although, He had been typed; and many times, as we’ll see later, that He was typed.
But this was really the Firstfruit of them that slept. He was waved over the promised Seed that had promise of Life.
(Bro. Branham then applies the type in two more ways. Principal: Dual fulfillment)
91 He was waved at the Day of Pentecost, “when there came a sound from Heaven like a waving, mighty rushing wind,” and was waved over the people, the pentecostal people that was up at Pentecost, waiting for the Blessing to come.
(This could also be typed as the wave loaf)
(Notice: HE was waved. Christ is the Firstfruits, He is also the Bread, in a different body. One Loaf One Sheaf)
92 And to be waved again, we realize, in the last day, according to Luke 17:30, in the Son day again, “in the day that the S-o-n of man will be revealed,” or waved again over the people.
(A son of man, revealing The Son of Man. A wave Sheaf, revealing The Wave Sheaf)
93 Now, Who is the Son of man? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”
(The Word is the Son of Man)
Pay attention, this is a foundational teaching of this Message.
People have always had difficulty with this.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
He made it sound like it was His literal flesh and blood, but it wasn’t. He did that to stumble them, but those ordained to life believed.
The angel was not the Son of man; he was the messenger from the Son of man. The Son of man is Christ; He is the One that you’re feeding on. You’re not feeding on a man; a man, his words will fail. But you’re feeding on the unfailing Body-Word of the Son of man. 65-0725M - The Anointed Ones At The End Time
(Back to It is the Rising of the Son)
And if all the teaching that we have, and confirmation of the Word of God; by Word of God, by signs, by wonders, we see today,
that in the Book of Luke here, that as we just quoted from the 17th chapter and the 30th verse; and Malachi 4, and the different Scriptures that we are acquainted with,
that that Word again is waved over the people, that the dead traditions of man is dead, and the Son of God is alive again with the baptism of the Holy Spirit right among us, and is giving us Life.
94 As Christ was the first One to raise, from all the prophets, and so forth; although typed in many places, He was the Firstfruits of those that slept.
In the Bride, coming of Christ, coming out of the church, there’ll have to be a Sheaf waved again in the last days. Oh, my!
95 Waving of the sheaf! What was the sheaf? The first one that come to mature, the first one that proved it was a wheat, that proved it was a sheaf.
96 Hallelujah! I’m sure you see what I’m talking about. It was waved over the people. And the first time there will come forth, for the Bride age, for a resurrection out of dark denominationalism, will be a Message,
that the full maturity of the Word has turned back again in Its full Power, and being waved over the people, by the same signs and wonders that He did back there.
97 “Because I live, ye live also,” speaking to His Wife. “Because I live, ye live also.” What a resurrection that that was! And what a resurrection this is, to be quickened from the dead, “to be made alive in Christ Jesus,” by God’s quickening Power.
98 He was waved to them. The Word, which He was, was waved back to them on the Day of Pentecost, the Word made manifest. Now, and as I say, It’s to be waved again in the last day.
65-0418M - It Is The Rising Of The Sun
What was waved in grain form must be waved in edible form.
During the fifty days the grain was harvested, hauled to the mill and ground up to become bread.
The Bread is what the Holy Ghost on the Word produces.
The Sheaf cannot lay on the ground, it must be waved before the congregation.
The Bread cannot lay on the ground it must be waved.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Conclusion.
Conclusion.
The same Priest that waved the Sheaf, waved the Loaf.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
Let me go through the winnowing, let me go through the grindstone, let me become bread, so He can pick me up and wave me before the people. Here they are! Resurrected again. Because I live, Ye Live Also.
(Handkerchief wave offering in “Does God Ever Change His Mind About His Word” preached the night of “It is the Rising with the Son)