Pentecost focuses on the firstfruits of the wheat harvest. This wheat harvest depicts God's harvest of firstfruits when Christ returns. God has called His people to be firstfruits. God calls Pentecost the Feast of Harvest. The Hebrew word qasir lies underneath the word harvest. This word comes to mean harvest, but the base idea behind the word is cutting or severing. When a field of grain is reaped, the stalks are cut with something very sharp. Then they are gathered up and brought in. These two words are not the same as the word for ingathering. Ingathering is the Hebrew word asip. It means to gather or to bring in. This refers to the ingathering of fruit or grapes. Wheat that is gathered in around Pentecost is ripe around Pentecost. It is cut out of the field and harvested. The wave sheaf is cut. The priests go out into the field before the barley harvest. They take a sheaf of grain and cut it with a very sharp implement. This sheaf is brought in to be offered. The wave sheaf represents Christ the firstfruits. It is a symbolic action for dying. When it is cut out of the field, that plant is killed. Christ Himself was cut off from the land of the living. The Pentecost harvest fifty days later reflects the same process. People live over those fifty days or fifty years in the analogy. Then they are cut off. If they have produced fruit over those fifty years or however long their conversion happens to be and they die in the faith, they will be resurrected to glory when they are resurrected and be acceptable before the Father. In Exodus 23:16 God narrows the focus of the Day of Pentecost to the firstfruits of labors which have been sown in the field. This is how God thinks of this day. The focus on Pentecost is seeing His people out in the field laboring. God wants to see them out in the field all the time producing. The fifty days of the Pentecost count can represent the years of spiritual lives until the harvest. God wants His people focused and active in their growth, producing fruit all the days of their lives.