Blameless First Fruits
- lastdays13
- Nov 3, 2025
- 1 min read
The Blameless First Fruits
The sole focus of these 144,000 is serving the Lord. Their attention is not divided. They were "purchased from mankind as first fruits to God and to the Lamb." (14:4). The idea of the first harvest (רֵאשִׁית reshit) or first fruits (הַבִּכּוּרִים habukkurim) was an ancient Israelite agrarian concept.
We see it already in Ex. 23:19: "You shall bring the choice first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God." In Lev. 23:10 sons of Israel were to be taught something similar: "'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest'”. In Num. 18:12 it becomes clear that the idea has to do with offering God the very best: “All the best of the fresh oil and all the best of the fresh wine and of the grain, the first fruits of those which they give to the Lord, I give them to you.”