Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. Ezek 36:22,23
Does anyone believe that had taken place?
What exactly is it the heathen (nations, Gentiles) see by which God is sanctified? Is it not their re-gathering and their re-birth by the Holy Spirit?
Why do you think there is, a day, of holy convocation, called the day of first-fruits, the feast of first-fruits? Why first fruits? Why not just fruits? Feast of fruits. Why put first in front of the word fruits. First-fruits of what? Spirit, Romans 8:23. What will having that first-fruits of spirit, the Spirit of adoption, do for one? Is it not this? Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. ----- Is that the same thing mas this?> Romand 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. ------ Does that take place at the same moment as the following? 1 Cor 15:23 YLT and each in his proper order, a first-fruit Christ, afterwards those who are the Christ's, in his presence,
Passover = Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. 14th Christ dies on the cross
15th a day of holy convocation - 1st day of unleavened Christ is dead in the tomb
16th Christ is dead in the tomb
17th on, in, after the third day, Christ is made alive out of the dead, regenerated.
21st a day of holy convocation 7th day of unleavened. We have been unleavened. 1 Cor 5:7,8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. - Raised, because of, our justification.
Therefore let us keep the feast (of unleavened bread) Paul says, yet we say that was for Israel not the church. What think ye?
On the day after the weekly sabbath following the death of the Passover Lamb, the day of first-fruits of the spirit. Even we who have the first-fruits of the Spirit groan within ourselves. A term used relative to desiring to be born.
Phil 2:10,11
Pride