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­Be that as it may, this second feast was a prophetic picture of Christ's sinlessness and burial, subsequent to the Passover or Crucifixion.

(9) "You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. (10) Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the LORD your God blesses you. ­Here, Moses recounts the observance of the Feast of Weeks, which is also known as the Feast of Pentecost which comes after the First Fruits. ­They were to count seven weeks, or seven Sabbaths, adding up forty­nine days, then it was celebrated the first day of the week, the fiftieth day. ­This is why it's called the Feast of Pentecost, “pent” means “five,” or in this case fifty. This is a prophetic picture of the birth of the Church age.

(11) You shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. (12) And you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to observe these statutes. ­It's important to understand that this particular feast was an opportunity to offer thanksgiving to the Lord, as opposed to a sacrifice to the Lord. ­In other words, when the harvest came in, the Israelites would present a grain offering to the Lord by waving two loaves of "leavened bread." ­This particular feast is most fascinating because it's the last one to be fulfilled, which was on the day of Pentecost in the second chapter of Acts.

­The prophetic parallels between the Israelites then, and us as the church now, are profound, in that they speak of and point to Jesus the Christ. ­The two loaves were brought together just as the two tablets of the law showing us our sin were brought together, and fulfilled by Jesus Christ. ­The two loaves were also brought together just as two peoples the Jews and Gentiles were brought together birthing the church of Jesus Christ.

­The Israelites waved two leavened loaves up, down, left, then right in the shape of a cross, just as Jesus paid for our leaven/sin on the cross. ­Fifty days after leaving Egypt, the Israelites arrive at Mt. Sinai just as fifty days after the resurrection the disciples tarry at Mt. Zion on Pentecost. ­The Israelites, with fire hear the tongue of the Lord, when Moses came down with the law just as there were tongues of fire that came down.

­Moses came down breaking the tablets because of their sin just as forgiveness came down for breaking the law because Jesus paid for our sin. ­When the law came down 3,000 of them died that day just as when the Holy Spirit came down 3,000 of them were saved/harvested on that day.

Exodus 32:28 NIV The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died.

Acts 2:41 NIV Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

­There's even more to this feast as it relates to the gleaning from the harvest, which is yet another prophetic picture of Christ as our redeemer.

Leviticus 23:22 NIV "'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.'"

­The first cut at harvest was to be short of all their fields so the needy to glean a second time, just as we all fall short and need the second birth. ­The poor and needy would then come and gather during this harvest, just as Jesus will soon come and gather us; redeem us, at this harvest. ­This picture is so beautifully painted on the canvass of the book of Ruth, when she meets Boaz, the Lord of the harvest, and kinsman redeemer.