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Numbers 28:17-20
On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast, unleavened bread shall be eaten for
seven days... You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two bulls
and one ram and seven male lambs one year old, having them without defect. For their
grain offering, you shall offer fine flour mixed with oil...

The fine barley flour of Passover was to be mixed with oil. This was "the anointed
firstfruits." Paul says that these are the first to be resurrected. When Paul writes of those
who are last to be resurrected, he concludes with the statement, " For [Christ] must reign
until He has put all His enemies under His feet." Grapes are harvested and then crushed
under the feet of men. From ancient days, this was the method of extracting the juice from
the grape.
Paul attaches to his words on the order of the resurrection the words "He must reign
until He has put all His enemies under His feet." These words express the thought that the
resurrection work of God among mankind will not be complete until the enemies of God are
crushed and then reconciled to the Father. These will be last in resurrection. Like grapes
which are trodden under the feet of man, the enemies of God will be trodden under God's
feet, experiencing His wrath.

Isaiah 63:2-6
Why is Your apparel red, and Your garments like the one who treads in the winepress? "I
have trodden the wine trough alone, and from the peoples there was no man with Me. I
also trod them in My anger, and trampled them in My wrath; and their lifeblood is
sprinkled on My garments, and I stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance was in
My heart, and My year of redemption has come. And I looked, and there was no one to
help, and I was astonished and there was no one to uphold; so My own arm brought
salvation to Me; and My wrath upheld Me. And I trod down the peoples in My anger, and
made them drunk in My wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

God's work among mankind will not be finished until all mankind has appeared before
God. Each group of men must be harvested from the earth, "for as in Adam all die, so also
in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order." The enemies of God, like
grapes, will be harvested last of all. They must endure the wrath of God. Before the ages are
concluded, all who were incensed with Yahweh will be ashamed. They will confess "Surely
in Yahweh I have righteousness and strength."
Yahweh was very deliberate in choosing these three crops to represent the various
groups of men to be resurrected. Not only are the three resurrections of man observed in
the Old Testament in the feasts established by Yahweh, they are proclaimed all the way to
the last book of the Bible. In Revelation chapter fourteen, all three resurrections are in view.

Revelation 14:1-5
Then I looked, and behold, the Lamb was standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one
hundred and forty-four thousand, having His name and the name of His Father written
on their foreheads... These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they
have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes.
These have been purchased from among men as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. And
no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.

In these words we see the overcomers in Christ. These are firstfruits unto God and to