Verses 9-14: the Feast of Firstfruits EV 23:9-14{Next, the Day After the First Sabbath Following the Gathering in of the Barley Harvest, Which Is Also the First Day of a New Week, a Sheaf of the Firstfruits Is to Be Brought to the Priest and Waived Before Jehovah. the Lord Was Put to Death on a Friday, After Which He Spent the Entire Sabbath in the Tomb. Then, Early the Next Day, the First Day of the Week, He Arose From Among the Dead and Became "the Firstfruits of Them That Slept" (1 Cor. 15:20). Accordingly, the Feast of Firstfruits Speaks of Christ's Resurrection From Among the Dead. It Was the Day He Gained the Victory Over Death and Everything That Was Against Us
What is meant though by waving the sheaf of firstfruits before Jehovah? Why is it done? As the Son was in His lifetime, the Father's delight, so is He now in resurrection life as well. Therefore, it gives the Father pleasure to have Him thus presented before Him. The former is seen in the meal offering of Lev. 2, and the latter in the sheaf of firstfruits in our chapter. Since death is in view in neither of them, but rather, life, they are both meal offerings.