FirstFruits to Shavuot (Pentecost) - The Counting of the Omer

Kind: captions Language: en on this feast of first fruits night also the passover and unleavened bread weekend that we just went through we celebrated the crucifixion of messiah on passover where he was laid in the tomb on unleavened bread and as he rises on first fruits that's what the feast is called the feast of first fruits where he rises from the dead so we wanted to celebrate this tonight and also to extend the journey that's mentioned in the bible when we read leviticus 23 there's a journey after the feast of first fruits which most christians do not understand in the bible but there's this beautiful journey of purification that we're going to get into with the feast of first fruits and then we have a count of 50 days into the feast of shavaot which we know today as pentecost that's what it means penti means 50. so that's where pentecost means but it's the feast of weeks as we're about to get on god's calendar so we first would like to backtrack a little bit uh if you didn't join us on last video that we did on friday night uh with the uh celebrate or thursday night i'm sorry with the celebration of passover uh and the journey that we were on on god's calendar we'll go through that real quick in summary but if you've been with us then you know what we're talking about when it comes to god's calendar and also his feast days but we'll spend a little bit of time in summary and then we'll catch up on the feast of first fruits and then this beautiful journey that we're all about to go on with the feast of weeks to the feast of shava oat but my friends it all begins with god's calendar as we've mentioned so many times before if we're not on god's calendar we won't understand some of these divine appointments that he wants us to be a part of for you and me and the church to be a part of these beautiful intimate seasons that he has appointed uh for messiah to intersect with human history i mean this is totally phenomenal uh when you really think about it meditate on it it's totally amazing uh what he's done in this but we'd like to back up god's calendars in genesis 1 14 that's when he created the sun and the moon for divine appointments the word for seasons in that passage is moed which means a divine appointment so if you're not familiar with that spend some time with it again you can review the video that we did on thursday night for passover and i go through the scriptures with you but for redundant sake and also uh to move forward with the feast of first fruits we're just going to summarize it but he made his calendar for divine appointments that's what the word seasons means in hebrew so he's going to have these divine appointments for messiah to intersect with human history at his first coming events and also his second coming events as well it's totally amazing but then when we go to leviticus 23 most people would know this as the feast days of the lord the word for feast is the same word that's four seasons in the calendar in genesis 1 14. it's moed which means a divine appointment so what we have in genesis 1 14 is the moed for seasons which means a divine appointment and then leviticus 23 the word for feast is the same word moed which means a divine appointment so the lord is correlating his calendar in genesis 1 14 which is the hebrew jewish calendar of the day because it's the only calendar that goes by the sun and the moon to messiah's divine appointments and that's when we read the gospels he was crucified on passover it's very clear in all four gospels he was buried on unleavened bread and then he rose on the feast of first fruits which we celebrate today some celebrated tomorrow etc but it depends on how you look at it but anyhow we're in the seasons of first fruits but it's so important my friends to understand god's calendar you know divine appointments leviticus 23 divine appointments and he fulfilled those first four divine appointments to the exact day hour in detail the ceremony uh last thursday this past thursday we went through passover unleavened bread and first fruits the first three that he fulfilled and again he was crucified on passover he was laid in the tomb on unleavened bread and he rose on first fruits and that's throughout the gospels it perfectly correlates to leviticus 23 the calendar and also the prophetic foreshadow that's mentioned in exodus in exodus 12 with the passover lamb etc so if you didn't go through that video with us and you're new to this please review that there's other people out there that go has great information as well uh for you so just it's so important to understand what time we're in on god's calendar the season uh that we're in and tonight we celebrate the feast of first fruits which is the resurrection of the messiah like i said there's debate on when you celebrate the feast of first fruits whether it's today or actually literal three days and three nights that would be tomorrow night early morning on tuesday but anyhow we're going to celebrate it tonight and then we're going to see this beautiful journey that he wants all of us to be a part of to go on this purification journey and we're going to see the prophetic foreshadow in exodus and also in the gospels as well what messiah himself told the disciples through the counting of the omer is what it's called it's a it's really a spiritual alia if you will for 50 days to get intimate with the lord every day's account in this account up it's the only feast that counts up to the jubilee if you will to the 50th day and that's what it means and we're going to get into all these beautiful things and tie-ins with what the number 50 means shabbat oat first fruits how it all connects as we go forward on god's calendar and his feast of weeks is what it's called but first let's uh read if you have your holy bible turn to first corinthians 15 20-23 and we will go through the feast of first fruits and real quick like we won't go through the commandment but we'll go through what paul said and then we'll go to the feast of weeks but in first corinthians 15 20 through 23 it says but in fact christ has been raised from the dead the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep for as by man came to death by a man has come also to the resurrection of the dead for as in adam we all die so also in christ shall we all be made alive but each in his own order christ the firstfruits then at his coming those who belong to christ since i wanted to start with this passage since it is the feast of first fruits he is the first fruits of mankind i know a lot of people uh correlate easter with his name but that's uh pagan or origins and that's not in the holy bible but the feast of first fruits is he is the first fruits of mankind of the resurrection of the dead he's the firstborn so he is the feast of first fruits and we need to acknowledge what the holy bible has identified him as and he is that feast of first fruits just like the apostle paul said so i wanted to begin with that since we did go through that in the last video so if you didn't watch that one you can go back and review the feast of first fruits and how he uh fulfilled everything to the day hour and detail of the ceremony is totally amazing when you look at it but i wanted to this is the cornerstone that the counting of the omer begins is the feast of first fruits uh the resurrection where they wave the sheaf and just like we discovered in the last video if the whole sheath was messiah and if he's accepted by the father then we will be accepted as well just as paul says in first corinthians 15. so this is the day that we start the counting of the omer and you might ask yourself what is the counting of the omer it's basically a count of 50 days with the lord i know some people uh with lent and all the all these things that are traditions of the of the church they start before passover well that's not biblical but what is biblical is what what i'm talking about the counting of the omer if we follow the lord's festivals just like he told moses moses this is your first month in nissan and this is where we count the sabbath this is where we count the feast days in order and right now we're on the third feast day literally on the feast of first fruits and then there's this beautiful journey to the feast of shavuot or most would know this as pentecost with the 50th day but it's such an intimate time it's a purification journey we're going to see this with the exodus foreshadow of the children of israel leaving egypt why that was so important for them and why i believe he's told us every year to do this at this festival to go on this purification journey most believe that after the resurrection everything kind of quits you know so to speak until the next festival or whatever but that's not true with the spring feast it's a 50-day count from the feast of first fruits he wants all of us to be intimate with him and go on this purification journey and basically get egypt out of us whatever's left in the in us with egypt so to speak just like the just like the children of israel did but you can look at it as a journey to a jubilee to the 50th day and that's so important the number 50 in the bible means liberty freedom you know this is a season of liberation you know think about the children of israel leaving egypt it was freedom liberty the season of liberation and it just wasn't for pastor it was passover on ford you know as they crossed the red sea went into the desert and then went to sinai uh for the 50th day where they received the torah but also as we know when the holy spirit was poured out on the same day so we're going to get into all these beautiful tie-ins with this i really appreciate you guys joining us on this night tonight but it is called the feast of weeks uh the feast of shava oat you know which is the counting of the omer if you will and it's found in leviticus 23. so if you have your holy bible we'll go to leviticus 23 verse 9 through 12 and we'll skip around but we when we identify that it's just a journey that he has us all from passover unleavened bread first fruits and then this beautiful journey for the feast of shavuot we're going to see in the scriptures why it was so important for them in exodus why it was so important for the disciples in the gospels and why i believe he said it's the everlasting ordinance for us to do this so that we can become purified uh if you will cleansed even more so than what we already are it's a beautiful thing but in leviticus 23 verse 9 uh we'll begin in verse 9 it says this and this is where all of the feast days are or the divine appointments are if you will and remember before i read leviticus 23 if you're just joining us and you didn't uh weren't with us on the last video these are the lord's feasts in leviticus 23 he says it twice in verse one and two that these are his divine appointments these are his feast days okay a lot of people call them the jewish feast days which they are but we have to remember that god created the sun and the moon it's his calendar it's his feast days that he gave to the jewish people to give to us so that we can all worship as one new body and one new man together there's not two ways to worship there's one way and it's stated in the holy bible so i wanted to make that clear that these are the divine opponents of the lord and he says it twice but in verse 9 in leviticus 23 it says adonai said to moses tell the people of israel after you enter the land i am giving you to harvest its crops you are to bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the levites he is to wave the sheaf before adonai so that you will be accepted and then the levite is to wave it on the day after the sabbath which is today okay so it's the day after the sabbath from passover on the day that you wave the sheaf you are to offer a male lamb without blemish in its first year as a burnt offering for adonai so he makes it very clear that the feast of first fruits if you remember from last the last video is the priest will wave the sheaf for it to be accepted and then that means the remaining people will be accepted as well that's why messiahs caught the feast of first fruits because he was the one that was crucified uh for our sins and he is accepted by the lord of course he is and then we are to follow him at the second coming uh event so to speak uh at the day of the lord in verse 14 it says and this is where you get into uh the feast of weeks it says you are not to eat bread dried grain or fresh grain until the day you bring the offer for your god this is a permanent regulation throughout your generations no matter where you live from the day after the day of rest which is the sabbath the day that you brought the sheep for waving which is the feast of first fruits you are to count seven full weeks until the day after the seventh week you are to count 50 days and then you are to present a new grain offering to adonai on the same day you are to call a holy convocation which last week we understand that to be a dress rehearsal uh mikra is the hebrew word do not do any kind of ordinary work this is a permanent regulation throughout your generations no matter where you live so the lord's telling us to go on this beautiful seven week journey with him after the day of the sabbath okay which was yesterday okay so you had passover on friday night and then the sabbath it was a double sabbath actually it was a weekly sabbath and a high holy sabbath of unleavened bread and then the following day is the feast of first fruits which is what we were in today this is when he wants you to count the omer or count the weeks if you will and that tells you it always starts on sunday because pentecost is always on sunday or shavuot is always on sunday if you read this it says count seven full weeks and it says count the day after the sabbath which is obviously sunday today so there's the command that he's given us in leviticus 23 that he wants to go on this beautiful purification journey and it is a holy convocation on the feast of shava oat it's a beautiful thing it's always on a sunday that's when the torah was given as we will see that's when the blessed holy spirit was poured out on the same day it's totally amazing messiah had to fulfill these divine appointments to the exact day hour in detail of the ceremony he had to he's the jewish messiah and just like we discovered in last week's video or last time's video on thursday night he had to fulfill every jot and tittle he's got to fulfill everything so those who want to throw away the torah is basically eliminating all of the things that he has to fulfill including the feast days or the divine opponents of the second coming and also the everlasting covenants that are everlasting all of these things are everlasting so i'm not sure how we can misinterpret what the lord says here so there's the command that he wants us to count this is the first day of the omer and he wants us to count every day looking forward to that jubilee that remembrance of the giving of the torah that remembrance of giving of the holy spirit you cannot separate the holy spirit from the torah you cannot he's he breathed upon all of it as we all know and the word of god is the word of god when you put those two together those are the two great witnesses that we have is the word of god messiah and the blessed holy spirit we cannot cut out the torah just because some want to do that of today but it will never be cut out as we know it we sent out in jerusalem you know for a thousand years to the nations it's a beautiful thing it is liberty uh just like king david said in psalms uh 119. so there's the command that we've discovered in leviticus 23 and now let's go on this journey together as we look at the prophetic foreshadow in the exodus account then we'll go to the gospel account and look at the disciples and and the journey that they went on with the counting of the omer also with messiah as well and personally what we can do to receive this because remember it's a commandment forever throughout the generations he wants us to go through this every year with him as an intimate relationship or a purification relationship just like he does on sabbath just like he does on the new moon and all the other feast days he's appointed these times these point appointed times these fixed times that are forever you know so i hope that we all get on his calendar and his uh divine opponents but it's interesting when we look at the prophetic foreshadow of egypt and before we get into the counting of the omer remember what moses said a couple of times to pharaoh uh remember they were going to leave on passover but moses said let us go on a three-day journey to slaughter the slaughter to the lord they want to sacrifice to the lord well guess what that's the feast of first fruits right there and you can find that in exodus 3 18 exodus 5 3 and also in exodus 8 27 where they petitioned and told pharaoh that they need a three-day journey which means from passover three days to the feast of first fruits to sacrifice to the lord so right there you see a foreshadow of the feast of first fruits but the counting of the omer some people say what is the counting of the omer we're going to see we're going to identify the counting of the omer in the exodus account in exodus 16. so if you want to go ahead and turn to exodus 16 we will find where the counting of the omer began uh where its origins were but basically he wanted to get egypt out of the children of israel remember they were in egypt for 215 years okay i know some believe it's 430 but that was from the promise to abraham when abraham left babylon 430 years from there to the same day nissan 15 that's when they left egypt so they were only in egypt when you do the calculations uh throughout the verse of the levite levi and also joseph etc they were in egypt for 215 years so they obviously acclimated and adopted some of the pagan origins of the idols etc that's why they needed to go on this purification journey with the lord for 49 days and they were ready on the 50th day the jubilee to receive the instructions or the ways of the lord as i call them okay so it's a it's a 49 day journey with the 50th day being shava oat or pentecost but in exodus 16 we find this counting of the omer while it was instituted so if you have your holy bible we can go to exodus 16 1 through 3. they were journeying to a limb and they were very hungry remember they left egypt with just unleavened bread they had to go out and hate so to speak so they were very hungry and in verse four and five i'll read this to you it says the lord said to moses behold i will reign bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day that i may test them whether they walk in my law or not see he went ahead and started testing them to purify them right after they left egypt before they got to sinai and it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in and it shall be as twice as much as they gather daily okay so what the lord is doing is number one he's given them food to eat so they wouldn't starve death because he's he's their redeemer number two he wanted to start the discipline with them with the instructions of the lord the ways of the lord remember they were caught up in the egyptian society with idols and false ways of worship etc and the lord had to start the purification journey for the children of israel to sinai with starting the discipline you know with the obedience if you will that he he requires all of us to be a part of and this is where the sabbath was uh instituted as well so they were commanded to get a quota every day for six days and on the sixth day they were going to have a double portion because of the sabbath and that they were there wasn't going to be any manna drop down on the sabbath and look at what he said whether they will walk in my instructions or not i know some people call it law i call it instructions or the ways of the lord and so he wanted to test them right out of the gate in verse 15 and 16 we'll skip down there and it says and moses said to them this is the bread which the lord has given you to eat this is the thing which the lord has commanded let every man gather it according to each one's need one omer for each person according to the number of persons let every man take for those who are in his tent so the lord made it very clear that he wanted them just to take one omer again that's why they count every day one over one day every day one omer for each person according to the number of persons let every man take those who are in his tent so he wanted them to be disciplined not to be uh greedy or over indulgence of the bread if you will he wanted to be very disciplined every day bread and then a double portion on the sixth day getting ready for the sabbath because there was none on the sabbath so to speak so when we continue on verse 32-34 it says then moses said this is the thing which the lord has commanded fill an omer with it to be kept for your generations that they may see the bread which i fed you in the wilderness and then when i brought you out of the land of egypt and moses said to aaron take a pot and put an omer of manna in it and lay it before the lord to keep for all your generations as the lord commanded moses so aaron laid up before the testimony to be kept manna kept in a jar in the ark of a covenant with aaron's rod and the ten commandments i mean this is totally amazing this is how important the omer was to lord and still is he put it in the ark of the covenant with aaron's rod and also the testimony of a jar with manna in it for them to remember you know the affliction of egypt but also the purification that they were receiving right then and there and if you were if you've been born again which i'm sure everybody on this call has been we know that there's a discipline there's a purification there's a cleansing that goes on when we're born again and we break off all of the bondage of the world if you will or the sins of the iniquities and all those things and we turn and we go a different route we follow the ways of the lord well this is no different every year he wants us to purify ourselves passover is a beautiful season of liberty of freedom and in whatever we may be dealing with throughout the year or years this is a great time to pray into the lord with this because this is a season of liberty a season of miracles is the month of nisan if you've watched our new moon teachings this is a beautiful time of favor for god's people you and me all the believers this is a beautiful time to really receive uh the verdicts of the courts of heaven uh down on earth during this month er which is the next month and then savannah you know this 50-day journey is just a incredible time and that includes uh you know our faith as well but when we look at the exodus foreshadow of uh the counting of the omer we all know the story about them going through the desert them having a lot of challenges a lot of challenges that they've had with discipline with hunger with thirst with emmilac remember amlac attacked him as well so they went on this purification journey to increase their faith because again they came out of bondage they came out of captivity and that's why the lord took them around you know not to the land of the philistines because they were not ready they were not ready to face a war with the philistines because of their faith they were also weary and they've been in bondage for 215 years you know building the cities of remissions and all of these things that we know in the scriptures so they he had to take them to get egypt out of them and that's what he wants with us as well that there if there's any egypt left in us this is a beautiful time to really petition the lord to cleanse ourselves and to be ready if you will for the feast of shabbat or pentecost as we remember the blessed holy spirit being poured out on that day and also the giving of the torah so as they went through the season of liberation through the desert as we all know the story we're going to turn to exodus 19 now which is that catches us up to about the 47th day if you will before the 50th day okay and i would encourage you to read this beautiful liberation that they had the testing of them with the food with the water with amalek etc and identify with it not only on a historical level but also on a personal level as well what we need to all be basically doing ourselves as well during the season but in exodus 19 1-25 this is the fourth shadow this is the one that messiah was going to fulfill this feast of shava oak this feast of pentecost and it says this in the third month which is the month of savannah okay it's not talking about march remember it's on god's calendar uh it's not talking about the gregorian calendar it says in the third month which is the month of savannah after the children of israel had gone out of the land of egypt on that same day they came to the wilderness of sinai and moses went up to god and the lord called to him from the mountain saying thus you shall say to the house of jacob and tell the children of israel you have seen what i have done to the egyptians how i bore you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself now therefore if you indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people for all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words which you all speak to the children of israel so this is totally incredible we'll stop here uh the third month which again on the biblical calendar is the month of savan we can think of it as our june on the gregorian calendar this is when they came to the sinai it was basically on savann one if you will six days five days before the giving of the torah was going to be come down upon them with the lord and moses as well and then look at what happens these moses goes up to to the lord and then he says hey i bore you on eagles wings which basically means they traveled day and night you know it was a long journey for 50 days but he bore them on eagle's wings and gave them in my mind supernatural uh strength uh to travel day and night 24 hours just like the scripture says and then look what he says if you will again if you will and obey my voice and keep my covenant then you all people for the earth is mine he wants he wanted them to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation okay so what does this mean this is when most people call it the sinai covenant or the mosaic covenant okay if you do this then i will do that that it was contingent it was a bilateral agreement it was a marriage if you will let's not get it confused with the abrahamic covenant or the davidic covenant because those two were just the lord saying i will do this to you for you abraham or david i will do this for you david it was not contingent upon david or abraham okay this was only on the lord's sovereign righteousness were those two covenants going to be fulfilled the abrahamic and the davidic covenant which includes the new covenant they all three work together but this is talking about the mosaic covenant and it is bilateral it is conditional meaning that if that generation did not obey and as we see in the scriptures then he would get rid of that generation exile them destroy them or send them into captivity and then the next generation would have the opportunity to be a part of the abrahamic covenant okay so it does not neglect the abrahamic covenant or the davidic covenant or the new covenant the mosaic covenant was if you do this then i will do that and throughout history we've seen the mosaic covenant come to fruition sometimes in destruction in exile think about the babylonians think about the spies think about the romans you know they did not obey the lord and they were exiled they were destroyed you know the city was destroyed in the rome and also babylonian destruction so that's how the mosaic covenant works but we cannot get it confused with god's promises of the abrahamic covenant the davidic covenant and obviously the new covenant but he wanted them to be a kingdom of priest and a holy nation you know it was jew and gentile remember a mixed multitude left included gentiles even pharaoh's daughter left with them which is pretty amazing in first chronicles 4 we see that so as we continue on verse 7 it says this so moses came and called for the elders of the people and laid before them all these words which the lord commanded them then all the people answered together and said all the lord has spoken we will do so moses brought back the words of the people to the lord and the lord said to moses behold i come to you in a thick cloud that the people may hear when i speak with you and believe you forever so moses told the words of the people to the lord in verse 10 it says then the lord said to moses go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow and let them wash their clothes okay this is savannah three remember savannah three and then on the third day you have savant six which is shava odor let them be ready for the third day for on the third day the lord will come down on mount sinai in the sight of all the people you shall set bounds for the people all around saying take heed to yourself that you do not go up on the mountain or touch his base whoever does that will surely be put to death not a hand shall touch him but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow whether man or beast he shall not live when the trumpet sounds long they shall come near the mountain so moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people they washed their clothes and he said to the people be ready for the third day do not come near your wives so this was savannah 3 the lord said on the third day from savannah 3 he was going to come down remember the symbolism as we go into the gospel account of the holy spirit there was a trumpet sound and we will see other symbolism that let's just remember as we go to the gospel account because again messiah is going to fulfill this to the exact day our detail of the ceremony as we will see in verse 16 it says then it came to pass on the third day which is savannah 6 which is the feast of shava oat in the morning remember that as we get to the gospel account that there were thunderings and lightnings a thick cloud on the mountain and the sound of a trumpet was very loud so that all the people who were in the camp trembled and moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with god and they stood at the foot of the mountain can you believe that i mean could you imagine standing on at the base of mount sinai with the lord coming down i mean that's that's phenomenal now mount sinai was completely in smoke because the lord descended upon it in fire so remember that its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace and the whole mountain quaked greatly and when the look and the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder moses spoke and god answered him by voice saying then the lord came came down upon mount sinai on top of the mountain and the lord called moses to the top and moses went up so we know the story uh once he came down he gave the torah he gave the ten commandments to moses and then moses ascended and went up with him for those 40 days as we know so this is so important they went on this beautiful journey from passover the blood on the doorpost the next day on unleavened bread they left egypt you know on this journey for 50 days to the mount of sinai to receive the torah the ways of the lord to be a kingdom of priest and a holy nation and we see that throughout the even the new testament scriptures first peter uh he talks about it as well the book of revelation god always has wanted us to be a kingdom of priest jew and gentile one new body one new man and in my mind that's what it was when we let when they left egypt it was the mixed multitude the one new body one new man they went through the red sea and was baptized quote unquote if you will just like the scripture says and then they were on their journey after being washed if you will to being purified through the desert with the discipline with the obedience of the sabbath with the manna with the uh rock of water et cetera with amalek all of these things to purify their faith as we know uh after forty days uh when moses was up receiving the torah or receiving the ways of the lord the commandments of the lord we know that the golden calf was was made and they made it with their gold and with the silver that the egyptians gave them which is kind of interesting that the lord gave them favor with the egyptians and they gave them gold and silver silver and what did they do with it they built the golden calf and it's so important maybe you guys know this or not that there was three groups and each group was different there was one group who thought the golden calf was god the other group the other third i believe that it was kind of like an intercessory kind of like moses or even messiah to god and then there were the levites and the levites did not bow they did not do anything number one because they feared the lord number two they were moses brethren but the lead none of the levites bowed down to the golden calf and they were the ones who slaughtered the three thousand people and in my mind that's why god has given them that everlasting promise and they will be in the millennial kingdom with messiah in his midst now you can read that in ezekiel 40 through 48 those are millennial kingdom chapters and they will they have they will be in the midst of with them because they did not fall down into idolatry but as we know the golden calf was instituted moses came down for 40 days and then they slaughtered 3 000 people died and please remember that as we go forward into the gospel account so we see this beautiful journey that they were all my friends from egypt purification to mount sinai to receive the torah to be holy priest a holy nation for the lord god a lot of them failed that journey but there were for there were many that were loyal to the lord god almighty and also loyal to their brethren moses that they did not fall into idolatry and they wanted to obey the commandments of the lord if you will so now let's go to uh the fulfillment messiah's fulfillment of the feast of shabbat oat and we're going to see a lot of great and beautiful things on this and we will begin with luke 24 verse 44 through 49. if you have your scriptures you can turn to that with me and we will read that together and again while you're turning there so important he's going to fulfill these beautiful things to the exact day hour and detail of the ceremony just like we discovered with passover with unleavened bread with first fruits he fulfilled those to the exact day hour in detail of the ceremony and even the counting of the omer okay unto the feast of shava oat he fulfilled it as well as we were about to see so as we look at luke 24 44 through 49 and again this kind of starts the fulfillment of the counting of the omer and also the shava oat which is pentecost at his first coming events it says this then he said to them these are the words which i spoke to you while still with you that all things must be fulfilled that were written in the law of moses the torah and the prophets and the psalms concerning me and he opened their understanding that they might comprehend the scriptures now this is after he was resurrected okay then he said to them thus it is written that it was necessary for the christ to suffer and rise from the dead the third and the repentance and remission of sin shall be preached in his name to all nations beginning at jerusalem and you are witnesses to these things behold i send the promise of my father upon you but tarry in the city of jerusalem until you are endured with power from on high this is totally amazing so he wanted them to understand how important again when messiah was teaching when paul was teaching uh when the disciples were teaching they were teaching out of the torah they were teaching out of the prophets they were teaching out of the psalms the new testament wasn't written at that time okay not saying the new testament is not important of course the new testament is important but it's really a confirmation of all these ways that the lord wants us to walk in and gives a great understanding for jew and gentile with these things so we need to keep that in mind but he opened their mind and to comprehend the scriptures to let them know that he is that prophesied messiah that had to die had to be resurrected for all of our sins and then look at what he told them he told them to stay in jerusalem you know to it was going to start at jerusalem then samaria and then all of the nations of course it was going to be jerusalem and we have to ask ourselves why is that well it goes back into the torah messiah told them that because they were commanded three times a year to be in jerusalem the feast of passover which encompasses unleavened bread and first fruits the feast of pentecost shavuot and the feast of tabernacles in deuteronomy 16 16 you can find that that the jewish people were commanded three times a year on those festivals to be there well you have to ask yourselves why well in my mind on the feast of tabernacles that's when messiah was born okay and that's for another uh episode if you will uh obviously the feast of passover is when he was going to be crucified unleavened bread buried the feast of first fruits raised so he wanted them in jerusalem for that and then the feast of shavuot that's when he was going to pour out the holy spirit upon mankind so he was wanting them to be in jerusalem for that as well obviously so we have to understand the basis of torah and what's commanded or the new testament scriptures even the gospels would not make any sense well you won't you will not understand it if you don't know leviticus 23 what is passover what is unleavened bread all of these quote unquote jewish terms that people want to identify with they're really god's ways that he wants us to identify with his son because guess what his son is a hundred percent jewish the son of david the son of abraham you know it's what he's called in the scriptures and from the line of the tribe of judah you know jude he's a jew a 100 jew so we need to identify with him in his jewish heritage because guess what it's going to be completely 100 jewish in the millennial kingdom you know i think a lot of gentiles are going to be surprised at how jewish it is but he's got to fulfill these things as the jewish messiah for the torah for the prophets for the psalms just like he said he was going to do it and he still has some to fulfill at his second coming events and throughout the millennial kingdom you know so it's so important to realize that that our messiah is a hundred percent jewish you know yes he's the son of man and uh died for all of our sins but he came as the seed of the woman in genesis 3 15 that will crush the serpent's head the seed of abraham the seed of david you know he's the new covenant all of these things work together and they put him in his proper identity okay so now let's go to acts one verse one through four and we'll continue uh on the gospel account of the fulfillment of the counting of the omer and also shavuot acts one verse one through four it says the former account that this is dr luke speaking and he was a gentile actually uh luke was it says until the day in which he was taken up after he through the holy spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering after the resurrection by many infallible proofs being seen by them for 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of god and being assembled together with them he commanded them not to depart from jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me i mean this is totally amazing so this is the reason he told them to stay in jerusalem was because of the omer he wanted them to receive the power of the holy spirit it was going to be poured out in jerusalem it was the promise of them you know for them so to speak so this is totally amazing a lot of people will wonder why they were in jerusalem for so long well they were commanded to to stay in jerusalem deuteronomy 16 16 and also because messiah wanted them to receive the power of the holy spirit amen during messiah's first coming events this is some of the things that so important with the counting of the omar these are some of the events that occurred during the counting of the over and again it starts after the resurrection of the messiah which is the feast of but he appeared to two believers traveling on the road in luke 24 he appeared to the disciples in the house and told him to receive the holy spirit and luke 24 and john 20 talks about that he appeared to the disciples including doubting thomas in john 20. he appeared to the disciples while they were fishing in john 21 and then uh in the book of in the book of mark he goes through the times that he revealed himself as well in mark 16. so these are so important i mean he appeared to 500 people during the counting of the omar this is so important for the believers to understand because it all happened during the counting of the omar towards the feast of shava oat where the holy spirit was going to be poured out he wanted people to understand that he was alive he was resurrected he did fulfill the prophets the psalms and the torah accordingly to three nights in the three days and three nights he is the resurrected he is the first fruits of mankind and he wanted to put those in the scriptures for all of us to understand during the counting of the omer is pretty phenomenal now as we go towards uh the next scripture we'd like to read is acts one uh four through eleven and this is kind of gets into the feast of shava ot as far as the gospel account before the power of the holy spirit was poured out upon them in verse 4 it says in being assembled together with them he commanded them not to part from jerusalem but wait on the promise of the father which he said you have heard from me for john truly baptized you with water but you shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many days from now therefore when they had come together they asked him saying lord will you at this time restore the kingdom to israel and he said to them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons divine appointments which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive power when the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in jerusalem first judea and samaria second and third and then to the ends of the earth so there is an order to the lord first to the jewish people remember what did paul say in romans 1 jew first and then to the gentiles you know so the messiah obviously was the same way it goes from jerusalem first then to judea samaria then to the ends of the earth so to speak so this all happened during the counting of the omer and now as we read in verse 9 through 11 this is messiah's ascension well which happened on the 40th day of the omer which by is no coincidence 40 if we look at the number 40 is a time of testing if you will and then the 10 that the 10 after that is the perfection of divine order so messiah was ascended on the 40th day of the counting of the omer not by any coincidence of what i just said and then the last 10 days of that perfection of divine order is what the number 10 means and uh and then the 50th day which means jubilee freedom liberty which torah and the holy spirit both give us when looked at in the right context in acts 1 9-11 it says now when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight and while they looked steadfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men stood uh in white apparel and said to them men of galilee why do you stand gazing up into heaven this same jesus who was taken up from you to heaven will come like in in like manner as you saw him go to heaven and that reversed back to zechariah 14. so this scripture is so amazing because he ascended into a cloud as we know he's coming in a cloud to get us and we need to understand whether this when the uh two men told them why are you looking up into heaven to me that's telling them to go spread the gospel why are you gazing in the heaven we need to be doing our part part in god's kingdom right now yes anticipating the return of the of the messiah of course we are but also to keep steadfast and doing our part in god's kingdom uh while we uh while we wait on his arrival so there's two different mindsets there's yes we're looking for his arrival but let's do our part in god's kingdom instead of just waiting for his arrival so to speak let's do our part in his kingdom okay and you can read zechariah 14 as that goes into the day of the lord isaiah 19 he comes on a cloud to egypt so that's for another time but that's his first stop if he comes in the clouds and we meet him in the clouds then there's a transition going on there but then he comes down to egypt in the cloud which is his first stop on his second coming events uh you can read that in isaiah 19. okay so now let's go into uh one more thing before i go to the day of pentecost is when he said uh in the scripture above that you should not know that or you don't know the times in the seasons that the father is in the father's hands and when they asked him will he restore the kingdom to israel he did not rebuke them at all he just told them that it wasn't for them to understand the times and the seasons because obviously they were going to be passed on by the time that come through our second coming events but it's so important that he will restore the kingdom to israel and for gentile believers we need to understand that that he's got to fulfill these these scriptures and restore the kingdom to israel just like they were looking for at the first coming events but they just didn't realize that he had to be sacrificed for all of mankind and then come back as the conquering king or messiah ben david if you will at his second coming events but he will restore the kingdom back to israel my friends and the prophets have thoroughly uh said that over and over and that is literal uh israel literal jerusalem for the millennial kingdom of a thousand years so now let's look at acts 2 uh 1-15 and this is the day of shavao this is pentecost as we know it and penty again means 50. that's why it's called pentecost because it's a 50-day journey to the liberation of the blessed holy spirit and also the remembrance of the giving of god's ways his instructions the original revelation which is the torah acts 2 verse 1 it says when the day of shavuot or pentecost had fully come they were all with one accord in one place wouldn't that be so beautiful if the church was on one accord in one place one day we will both jew and gentile excuse me and suddenly there came a sound from heaven so remember the trumpet at sinai became a sound of heaven as of a russian mighty wind which is the ruach akadesh the holy spirit he's symbolic for the wind the wind's symbolic for the holy spirit and it filled the whole house where they were sitting then there appeared to them dividing tongues as a fire remember what came on sinai fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance in verse 5 it says and there were dwelling in jerusalem jews devout men from every nation under heaven and when this sound occurred the multitude came together and were confused because everyone heard them speaking his own language then they were all amazed and marveled saying to one another look are all not these who are speak galileans and how is it they hear in their own language in which they were born parthians medians those dwelling in mesopotamia judea and so forth and so on visitors from wrong jews their arabs you know all the people we were here speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of god so they were all amazed and perplexed saying to one another whatever could this mean others mock saying they are full of new wine so this is interesting when we go back to the top of the scripture we have to understand that the same symbolism that was in sinai happened at pentecost fire when all of these things filled with the holy spirit tongues all of these beautiful things it was fulfilled on the same day that the torah was given so that's not by any question coincidence and again the holy spirit and the torah are connected the word of god which is the torah as well is connected to the blessed holy spirit we cannot separate those from each other now this is amazing when you see that they were speaking in new tongues devout men we have to understand why were all these people there what goes back to what we discussed before they were commanded to be there so all of the jewish people and some that were not jewish they came they made aliyah for the festival of sha'a oat because they were required to by deuteronomy 16 16 to be there that's why you see all these different jewish people from all these different nations and although they spoke in their own language libya egyptian whatever it may be they were still hearing in their own language which shows you kind of like it was the reverse of the tower of bible i don't know if you've ever thought about that but the tower of babel god confused the language so that they could not communicate together well at pentecost at shava ode when the holy spirit was poured out they could all hear the same it was it's totally amazing if you think about the curse was reversed uh from the tower of babel on the feast of pentecost because they could all hear in their own language what another was saying so i think that's pretty phenomenal and then uh they uh then some of the jewish people who were not believers in it said they are full of new wine and then we get peter's response which is pretty remarkable in verse 14 it says but peter standing up with the eleven raised his voice and said to them men of judea and all who dwell in jerusalem let this be known to you and heed my words for these are not drunk as you suppose since it is only the third hour of the day so peter was making a remark saying it was only 9 a.m in the morning that's the third hour is 9 a.m in the morning they are not drunk and they're just filled with the blessed holy spirit again remember when was the torah given it was given at 9 00 a.m in the morning the morning sacrifice if you will so again messiah is going to fulfill it to the exact day hour and teach off the ceremony and that's why these are in here for us to understand it's going to be perfect as he is perfect on the exact timing of the original foreshadow which was the exodus account of passover unleavened bread first fruits and then obviously counting of the omer to shove a oat so again once we look at this as well uh what's so amazing that mount sinai 3 000 people died and as we're about to read when the holy spirit was put out 3 000 were saved and i find that very interesting acts 2 verse 40 through 41 it says and with many other words he testified and exhorted them saying be safe from this perverse generation then those who gladly received his word were baptized and about 3 000 souls were added to them praise the lord so we see when we look at the beautiful beautiful feast of first bruise the counting of the omer to the feast of shava oat it goes so much into being cleansed and purified and being ready for the feast of shavuot and i know we're not living in the exact time as the disciples did or even at sinai but the lord said that this is a forever statute this is from generation to generation from year to year and what i believe he's telling us is once the new biblical year begins in the month of nisan that's the first biblical month where god told moses that this is your first month you know to count the feast days to count the sabbaths do all these beautiful things he wanted us to go on a beautiful purification journey at the beginning of his year we can think of it as april first nissan one he wanted us to go through this beautiful cleansing purging purification process repentance which is not heard of much in the church today repentance but he wants us to repent and be purified and cleansed and restored after these 50 days so this is a very important time not only for history but with the gospel account of the holy spirit or also with the ex's account this is for you and me as well on a personal note now that we should be going through this season of liberation of freedom of if we've allowed anything in our life from the previous year or whatever it may be then we need to cleanse it we need to repent we need to go on this beautiful purification journey and that began at exodus that passover and then through first fruits and then through the 49 days and then on the 50th day there should be a jubilee as we remember the pouring out of the holy spirit and also the giving of god's ways his torah any anything like that so friends i hope this has been helpful for you we're in a great season of favor of liberation of freedom and no matter where you are on your walk with the lord number one if you're not saved in the lord please be saved you know that's the most important thing get into the lord if you're already saved and get in more and that's what the counting of the omar is about is to really get intimate with the lord really kind of shut out the outside world as much as we possibly can and really get intimate with him for 50 days and then once pentecost comes shovel comes i believe there will be a transition in all of our lives like we've never seen so that's how we personally look at it each year i think it's by the commandment of the lord in leviticus 23 and i pray that you share this with other people and be a light to other people with this you know again the church has it backwards if you will with the lent thing before passover or in their case easter but the biblical account says that there is a cleansing afterwards you know just like the children of israel were cleansed through their journeys and he messiah the disciples told them to terry in jerusalem as well he wants us to tarry for 50 days with him intimately and really go on this beautiful journey so if i can encourage you to do that i know god will do some great things in your life you know but first it takes us to obey and get on our faces and really listen to what he's got in store for all of it and if you're in a great season of your life you know uh this is another way to get even deeper with the lord we can always get deeper we can all always being filled more with the holy spirit remember in the book of acts the holy they were dwell and filled over and over with the holy spirit so we can all be enfield even more and more by the blessed holy spirit and my friends it all started at the new moon on nissan 1 passover nissan 14 crucifixion and then the resurrection of the feast of firstfruits and now now we're on four to the 49-day or 50-day uh journey and the count starts tonight if you're asking yourself how do we count the omer you can research this online there's a lot of prayers out there that are tradition but he just wants you basically to count to 50 days you know but there are some beautiful blessings out there and uh that you can find online you know what i'd what i do is just praise the lord bless the lord our god with all of our soul might and strength and this is the counting of the omer day number one and so forth so forth and so on but there's some beautiful prayers out there that the jewish people do uh somewhere in hebrew etc that i do those myself you know but you can find those online but when it all comes down my friends just like with passover there's a lot of beautiful traditions out there but the commandments to eat lamb bitter herbs and unleavened bread and do your communion you know that's the commandment you know there's a lot of beautiful traditions that you know the jewish people do that people like me do as well i do a passover seder as well but when you get down to the bones of it follow the commands of the bible and you can't go wrong with that same way with the counting of the umer it tells us to count 50 days some of these other things that he wants you to do with the grain etc remember that's for the high priest to do for you so at this current time yes we do have the high priest messiah yeshua of course but on this earth right now we don't have a high priest that could do these things for us so he wants us to count the omer okay and not get into what the high priest should be doing for the people because we don't have a high priest most of us do not live in jerusalem which you had to be and we don't have a temple so you know you really can't do some of these things that the torah is talking about unless those three aspects are there and one day we will be there doing all of these beautiful things with the messiah the king of kings who is the high priest who is the mekilzadek so to speak the order of mechizedek so i hope this has been helping my friends go to this with abundance of joy of my friends because this is what it is what messiah has done for us he has liberated us from all bondage so if there's any kind of bondage or change that have crept back into your life my life or whatever life whoever's life there is repent close the gate and go forward this is a season of liberation a season of freedom of jubilee you know i cannot stress that enough this is a great time of favor for god's people jew and gentile who are believers in the lord okay so it's a wonderful time and i pray that you go on this journey remember what messiah has done for all of us go on this beautiful journey and then a jubilee is coming uh on the feast of shavao pentecost which i believe is june 5th okay don't quote me on that because i'm going to just start counting for today and hopefully get there so that's what we should do is just count the day you know thinking about that it's amazing that chavao does not have a day associated with it in the feast days nissan 14 does tishri won the feast of trumpets uh tishri 10 yonkophor tabernacles all of these days have dates to them but god wants us to count the days to shavuot shava oate does not have a specific day for that reason he wants us to count with him and go on this personal purification journey this intimate relationship with him because it's the only feast that doesn't have a day that we should be doing it on because he wants us to count them so it's a beautiful thing when we read it i know you're going to dive into it i am as well and we'll be doing a uh video on the feast of shavuot i'm sure i'll be doing some more videos on other things as well during that time of 50 days but we really appreciate you guys joining us tonight and also if you join us on passover as well we really appreciate it as well of that as well we hope y'all had a great weekend and i know the lord's doing a marvelous thing with all of us right now and let the holy spirit have his way with all of us as we go through this purification journey so friends i hope you have a great counting of the omer have a great chavo pentecost we'll be with you on shavuot pentecost but on the omer have a great great time spending with the lord as we count up to 50 to jubilee on our season of liberation and friends as always may god bless you may he keep you may his face shine upon you and give you his grace may he lift up his countenance upon you and your family and give you guys his ever lasting shalom amen i hope you all have a great night and enjoy the beautiful season that we're in hallelujah