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Offering the Loaf of Barley

Counting the Omer

The process of offering up the Barley

Symbolism of the Sheaf
A sheaf in the bible can be used to typify a person or persons (Genesis 37:5-11). It can also be a spiritual representation of people who accept the Messiah into their hearts.

1. Nissan 17 Following day after Passover, Priest and People gathered in Jerusalem barley fields.
2. Barley sheafs were carried by priests back to the Holy Temple
3. Priest would sift the barley through 13 sieves
4. Like the High Priest in the Temple, Jesus is our High Priest
5. Priest would beat and roast barley into a coarse meal
6. Pan lifted by the priest before the altar, frankincense, and olive oil were added.
7. Priest carried the pan of prepared barley to the southwest corner alter and waive the Omer before God.
8. Finally the priest would ascend to the altar, where he would scoop out a handful of the Omer grain, and drop it into the alter fire.
9. This was followed by the bringing of a single male lamb offering as a burnt offering
10. From this point on, the barley from the new harvest could be consumed by all.
11. The remaining grain that had been brought up to the Holy Temple by the priests would then be eaten by the priests.
12. The marketplace of Jerusalem, in anticipation of this moment, were already laden with grain products.
13. Day 50 Pentecost 50 = consummation, Websters likens it to a marriage

What does this mean for the Barley Firstfruits Bride?
Gifts offered up are a shadow of things to come.
Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

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Remember Barley is offered up BEFORE Wheat. We must be gone before Pentecost if the Harvests the Lord laid out are Harvest types of peoples. Wheat is then sifted by the tribulum board.

Counting of the Omer (or Sefirat Ha'omer, Hebrew: ספירת העומר) is a verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Jewish holidays of Passover and Shavuot. This mitzvah derives from the Torah commandment to count forty-nine days beginning from the day on which the Omer, a sacrifice containing an omer-measure of barley, was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem, up until the day before an offering of wheat was brought to the Temple on Shavuot. The Counting of the Omer begins on the second day of Passover (the 16th of Nisan) for Rabbinic Jews, and after the weekly Shabbat during Passover for Karaite Jews, and ends the day before the holiday of Shavuot, the 'fiftieth day.'

The idea of counting each day represents spiritual preparation and anticipation for the giving of the Torah[citation needed], which was given by God on Mount Sinai at the beginning of the month of Sivan, around the same time as the holiday of Shavuot. The Sefer HaChinuch states that the Jewish people were only freed from Egypt at Passover in order to receive the Torah at Sinai, an event which is now celebrated on Shavuot, and to fulfill its laws. Thus the Counting of the Omer demonstrates how much a Jew desires to accept the Torah in his own life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_of_the_Omer

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I think this website says it best!! Please read if you have the time! God bless!

End Time Harvest: Barley, Wheat, and Grapes
"Three separate phases that differ in timing, as well as in the crop harvested. These are the three phases of the harvest - first the barley crop, next the wheat crop, and finally the crop of grapes."

The Barley Harvest and Rapture of the Saints

The Wheat Harvest and the Tribulation Rapture

The Final Harvest and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ!

http://www.rap-con.com/signs/end-time-harvest-barley-wheat-and-grapes

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Monday April 23rd is the first day of the month of Iyar. I feel that as Nissan is the "month of redemption" there is a good chance we are gone before that time.

April 19th is Holocaust Remembrance Day

Good video on significance of Counting the Omer

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Finally finished the video. It looks "boring" ya know, but really good if you can watch! Each day has an important message for us, not just about "counting the omer".

Good stuff!
Michelle =)

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Truly, we are all counting the days, until we are with Him forever.

Love & blessings...Tender Reed

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
— John 14:27

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It is neat as each day (one for each day of the week) of counting signifies the grinding of our character and purifying us as we count.
Each week devoted to one of God's characteristics.

1. Loving Kindness
2. Strength in relation to loving kindness
3. Compassion and Mercy related to loving kindness
4. Victory/Triumph as it relates to loving kindness
and so on....pretty cool.

A holy time like each day is a Feast day. Each day bringing us farther from the world "Egypt" and closer to getting ready to see Him face to face!

If you can't watch the whole thing, start one hour in.

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1993 Watcher,

I don't log on. I just read the postings and comments on RITAN everyday. But I just have to let you know how much I appreciate all your research. I've really been encouraged by all your postings. Especially the last six months of waiting and watching for our Lord.
Thank You!

YSIC, Susan

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Thanks so much rapture ready! I am "rapture ready" myself!

Messiah In The Counting Of The Omer Holiday
This is the time between Jesus crucifixion on Passover and the sending of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. During this time, Jesus preached to spirits that were in prison (1 Pet. 3:19), came out of the tomb, showed his resurrected body to others, and ascended into heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father. At the end of this time, day 50, the comforter (Holy Spirit) was sent to those who were waiting for it (Acts Chapter 2). Day 50, Shavuot was also considered a First Fruits offering and on that day, we were offered the First Fruits of believing in Christ, which is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

There is also a progressive theme during these days involving other holidays. First is the holiday known as Day Of Remembrance. This falls on the 19th day of the counting of the omer. We remember those that died.

Next is the holiday known as Day Of Independence. This falls on the 20th day of the counting of the omer. Here Israel celebrates her independence.

Then comes the holiday known as Day Of Jerusalem.This falls on the 43rd day of the counting of the omer. Here Israel celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem.

There is a messianic theme that fits for believers. First we remember and recognize Jesus' death. Then through our faith we become independent of the hold Satan had over us. We have at this point gained our freedom. Despite those two very big blessings, we still have another to look forward to: our reunification with Christ Jesus. After our death here, we will be together with him.

http://www.jewishroots.net/holidays/counting-the-omer/counting-omer.htm

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Here is another great site!
Look at the picture of the pyramid, pretty cool!
Also look at the chart of the Barley and Wheat! The Wheat starts to ripen about midway through the count! If we are the Barley (Bride of Christ/Firstfruits) then maybe we are gone midway through the count!
The Counting of the Omer
http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Spring_Holidays/Sefirat_HaOmer/sefirat_haomer.html

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Interesting theory, not sure, but a good read. =) I wish I could copy/paste the whole thing, but it's too long, PLEASE READ, GOOD STUFF! Just an idea...

Countdown to Pentecost
Jesus, when he ascended to heaven on the 40th day, broke the pattern of the counting of the Omer. He, in fact, left 9 days uncounted……Could it be that he left those days for later ….for similar conditions on earth?

Paine’s book, Miracle of Time, poses this interesting question….If we are at the culmination of church history, surely we should ask whether the Bible holds any clear information concerning the order of events when the Rapture takes place. First of all, the New Testament speaks of resurrections "each in his order." Pauls said in 1 Cor. 15: 23, "But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back."

How much time can elapse between the dead in Christ shall arise '"first" and "afterwards" we who are alive and still on the earth will be caught up? Most Bible scholars and believers have assumed ALL of these events will happen in the twinkling of an eye—in a nano second. But there is a pause in that verse, and some pauses in Bible chronology have been quite lengthy. So we have to come to consider the blessed possibility that for a period of time, however short, possibly, possibly, POSSIBLY, the incomplete 9 days of the counting of the omer, we who are alive and part of the Bride of Messiah may see resurrected saints & the Lord in the same way that He appeared to His disciples at various times walking through walls up to the 40 days of the counting of the omer after His Resurrection.

God is a harvester and his harvest ultimately is souls, and, my friends, it is Harvest time, big time.

http://www.olivetree.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=156:countdown-to-pentecost-counting-the-omer-a-other-musings&catid=63:blog&Itemid=141

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In regards to counting the omer, I have been trying to find a "list" of what each day might represent. Here is a great site showing the 49 aspects of character that the Israelites worked on developing while they wandered in the dessert of Sinai. These aspects correspond to the combinations of the seven lower sefirot which are called midot or character qualities from the Hebrew. Great site full of knowledge.
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http://www.betemunah.org/omer.html#_ftnref35

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Wonderful website teaching on the seasons and Harvest times!

Nissan (Aviv) Beginning of the Barley Harvest
Iyar Barley Harvest (Between April 22nd and May 21st)
Pentecost time is the time of the Wheat Harvest
(I personally believe that the 144,000 will be the firstfrutis of the wheat harvest)

The Word of God mentions only two seasons: Summer and Winter

Song of Solomon 2 10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

http://www.bible-history.com/geography/seasons_months_israel.html

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Abib and the Harvest

The month of the Abib is the month which commences after the barley has reached the stage of Abib. 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the month the barley has moved beyond the stage of Abib and is ready to be brought as the "wave-sheaf offering" (Hanafat HaOmer). The "wave-sheaf offering" is a sacrifice brought from the first stalks cut in the harvest and is brought on the Sunday which falls out during Passover (Hag HaMatzot). This is described in Lev 23,10-11:

"When you come to the land which I give you, and harvest its harvest, you will bring the sheaf of the beginning of your harvest to the priest. And he will wave the sheaf before YHWH so you will be accepted; on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest will wave it."

From this it is clear that the barley, which was Abib at the beginning of the month, has become harvest-ready 15-21 days later (i.e by the Sunday during Passover). Therefore, the month of the Abib can not begin unless the barley has reached a stage where it will be harvest-ready 2-3 weeks later.

That the barley must be harvest-ready 2-3 weeks into the month of the Abib is also clear from Dt 16,9 which states:

"From when the sickle commences on the standing grain you will begin to count seven weeks."

From Lev 23,15 we know that the seven weeks between Passover (Hag Hamatzot) and Pentecost (Shavuot) begin on the day when the wave-sheaf offering is brought (i.e. the Sunday which falls out during Passover):

"And you shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the sheaf of waving; they will be seven complete Sabbaths."

Therefore, the "sickle commences on the standing grain" on the Sunday during Passover, i.e. 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the month of the Abib. If the barley is not developed enough so that it will be ready for the sickle 2-3 weeks later, then the month of the Abib can not begin and we must wait till the following month.

The following month?????????? Could be a possibility. Very interesting...

Read more
http://www.karaite-korner.org/abib.shtml

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We are still in the time of the Barley Harvest. The Lord wants us to learn about all of the harvests and why he will require us to attend 3 of the Feasts of the Lord during the millenium and what significance they have.

Scripture reveals that the three major harvest Feasts ("moedim") of Israel - Pesach, known as Passover; Shavuot, also called Pentecost; and Sukkot, called Tabernacles - are shadows of things to come. That is, they are prophetic, and tell us of many "things to come." One thing the Feasts reveal is that the Feasts themselves speak of the three separate phases of the one harvest, each occurring in its own order. As we examine the following passages, we get the understanding that there is more than one resurrection, and that the harvest occurs in several phases over a span of time.

A WONDERFUl Read:
http://www.thewayprepared.com/studies/3-foldharvest.html
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Awesome 1993 Watcher! Thank you. *:)

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Feast of weeks or feast of harvest ends on Shavuot/Pentecost.Does it mean that the harvest of souls or age of grace shall come to it's end on this day?

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