We are walking in today: Men Of Torah Day--The Power Is Found In The Instructions To Count
Witness measure throughout the Bible: H4060 middah measure, measurement, stature, size, garment
Exodus 16:18; Proverbs 20:10; 2 Chronicles 12:7; Matthew 7:2; 2 Peter 1:2
Acts 2:41-42
So those who accepted what he said were immersed, and there were added to the group that day about three thousand people. They continued faithfully in the teaching of the emissaries, in fellowship, in breaking bread and in the prayers.- CJB
The power is found in the instructions to count. Since we have found that our Yahweh does things in cycles. Ecclesiastics 1:9 states nothing new is under the uun and all things are done in decency and in order.
1 Corinthians 14:40
but let all things be done in a proper and orderly way. - CJB
So we learn to count seasons, days and months--from one Feast Day and its season to the next as a perpetual regulation from generation to generation. The same Feast Days implemented some thousands of years ago. Given to Adam then to Moses than to Israel, this is the never changing except for the sacrifices of animals because the ultimate sacrifice, Yeshua paid it all. Cancelling the power of the laws of sin and death--that will be another lesson but not to be overlooked.
Due to all the feast days of Yahweh pointing to Him. Every part of the feast days is observed to the specific time of year since its establishment. The significance isn't just for selfish man-made traditions. That all point to everything other than what Yahweh established from the beginning. I repeat. All of Yahweh's feast days once again points back to Him and can be found not only in the scriptures, but they are to be observed as a sign of a covenant between the children of Yahweh or the children of many gods (The nations outside of Torah).
Hence counting the Omer
Leviticus 23:15:21
“‘From the day after the day of rest — that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving — you are to count seven full weeks, until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai. You must bring bread from your homes for waving — two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven — as firstfruits for Adonai. Along with the bread, present seven lambs without defect one year old, one young bull and two rams; these will be a burnt offering for Adonai, with their grain and drink offerings, an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai. Offer one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. The cohen will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Adonai, with the two lambs; these will be holy for Adonai for the cohen. On the same day, you are to call a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live. - CJB
Counting the wheat sacrifice for 50 days, 7 weeks plus 1 day. Were to be established to count up on to the harvest that Yahweh provided every year for His people. Leading up to Shavuot (Pentecost) this count begins after the biblical feast day Passover. Celebrating our freedom from bondage and Yahweh's protection. As the Hebrew slaves set free from Egypt, so are we likewise to celebrate Passover as commanded for our freedom from this current system of Egypt. The Redemption of the first born to cross over from pagan idolatry worship. As Abraham did when Yahweh called him from Chaldea. He crossed over from pagan worship into the Hebraic lifestyle. As did the children of Israel when they left Egypt and crossed over the Red Sea back into the Hebraic lifestyle.
So in like terms is the Lamb that is slain and the blood poured on the doorpost in the Old Testament. In the same way the crucifixion and beating of Yeshua--is the same typification. Yahweh uses as a cycle of examples that all point to His death Resurrection and Victory in our lives.
Colossians 1:14-18
It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation, because in connection with him were created all things — in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities — they have all been created through him and for him. He existed before all things, and he holds everything together. Also he is head of the Body, the Messianic Community — he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might hold first place in everything. - CJB
From the children of Israel, of old, all the way up to the present time. We are commanded every year to come to the holy place to present our offerings every year in thankfulness. The thankfulness of the harvest of the previous year to receive blessings for the next year to come.
So now as Yeshua and his disciples celebrated Passover. Then Yeshua completed the eternal cycle established by Yahweh slain for the redemption of the children of Israel and three days later being raised from the dead. So He Himself fulfilling the scriptures as being the Lamb that was sacrificed from before the foundations of the Earth.
Revelation 5:12
and they shouted out,“Worthy is the slaughtered Lamb to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise!” - CJB
-compared to-
Leviticus 23:15-21
15 “ ‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. 17 From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the LORD. 18 Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the LORD. 19 Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering. 20 The priest is to wave the two lambs before the LORD as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the LORD for the priest. 21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.So those who accepted what he said were immersed, and there were added to the group that day about three thousand people. They continued faithfully in the teaching of the emissaries, in fellowship, in breaking bread and in the prayers.- CJB
The power is found in the instructions to count. Since we have found that our Yahweh does things in cycles. Ecclesiastics 1:9 states nothing new is under the uun and all things are done in decency and in order.
1 Corinthians 14:40
but let all things be done in a proper and orderly way. - CJB
So we learn to count seasons, days and months--from one Feast Day and its season to the next as a perpetual regulation from generation to generation. The same Feast Days implemented some thousands of years ago. Given to Adam then to Moses than to Israel, this is the never changing except for the sacrifices of animals because the ultimate sacrifice, Yeshua paid it all. Cancelling the power of the laws of sin and death--that will be another lesson but not to be overlooked.
Due to all the feast days of Yahweh pointing to Him. Every part of the feast days is observed to the specific time of year since its establishment. The significance isn't just for selfish man-made traditions. That all point to everything other than what Yahweh established from the beginning. I repeat. All of Yahweh's feast days once again points back to Him and can be found not only in the scriptures, but they are to be observed as a sign of a covenant between the children of Yahweh or the children of many gods (The nations outside of Torah).
Hence counting the Omer
Leviticus 23:15:21
“‘From the day after the day of rest — that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving — you are to count seven full weeks, until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai. You must bring bread from your homes for waving — two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven — as firstfruits for Adonai. Along with the bread, present seven lambs without defect one year old, one young bull and two rams; these will be a burnt offering for Adonai, with their grain and drink offerings, an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai. Offer one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. The cohen will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Adonai, with the two lambs; these will be holy for Adonai for the cohen. On the same day, you are to call a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live. - CJB
Counting the wheat sacrifice for 50 days, 7 weeks plus 1 day. Were to be established to count up on to the harvest that Yahweh provided every year for His people. Leading up to Shavuot (Pentecost) this count begins after the biblical feast day Passover. Celebrating our freedom from bondage and Yahweh's protection. As the Hebrew slaves set free from Egypt, so are we likewise to celebrate Passover as commanded for our freedom from this current system of Egypt. The Redemption of the first born to cross over from pagan idolatry worship. As Abraham did when Yahweh called him from Chaldea. He crossed over from pagan worship into the Hebraic lifestyle. As did the children of Israel when they left Egypt and crossed over the Red Sea back into the Hebraic lifestyle.
So in like terms is the Lamb that is slain and the blood poured on the doorpost in the Old Testament. In the same way the crucifixion and beating of Yeshua--is the same typification. Yahweh uses as a cycle of examples that all point to His death Resurrection and Victory in our lives.
Colossians 1:14-18
It is through his Son that we have redemption — that is, our sins have been forgiven. He is the visible image of the invisible God. He is supreme over all creation, because in connection with him were created all things — in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities — they have all been created through him and for him. He existed before all things, and he holds everything together. Also he is head of the Body, the Messianic Community — he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might hold first place in everything. - CJB
From the children of Israel, of old, all the way up to the present time. We are commanded every year to come to the holy place to present our offerings every year in thankfulness. The thankfulness of the harvest of the previous year to receive blessings for the next year to come.
So now as Yeshua and his disciples celebrated Passover. Then Yeshua completed the eternal cycle established by Yahweh slain for the redemption of the children of Israel and three days later being raised from the dead. So He Himself fulfilling the scriptures as being the Lamb that was sacrificed from before the foundations of the Earth.
Revelation 5:12
and they shouted out,“Worthy is the slaughtered Lamb to receive power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and praise!” - CJB
-compared to-
Leviticus 23:15-21
Yeshua is the wheat offering. He told them before He left to tarry 50 days.
Acts 1:1-4,14
Dear Theophilos: In the first book, I wrote about everything Yeshua set out to do and teach, until the day when, after giving instructions through the Ruach HaKodesh to the emissaries whom he had chosen, he was taken up into heaven. After his death, he showed himself to them and gave many convincing proofs that he was alive. During a period of forty days, they saw him, and he spoke with them about the Kingdom of God. At one of these gatherings, he instructed them not to leave Yerushalayim but to wait for “what the Father promised, which you heard about from me. These all devoted themselves single-mindedly to prayer, along with some women, including Miryam (Yeshua’s mother), and his brothers. - CJB
Luke 24:49
Now I am sending forth upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been equipped with power from above.” He led them out toward Beit-Anyah; then, raising his hands, he said a b’rakhah over them; and as he was blessing them, he withdrew from them and was carried up into heaven. - CJB
So even after He was dead He was seen by His disciples celebrating the counting of the Omer after Passover.
Luke 24:25-32
He said to them, “Foolish people! So unwilling to put your trust in everything the prophets spoke! Didn’t the Messiah have to die like this before entering his glory?” Then, starting with Moshe and all the prophets, he explained to them the things that can be found throughout the Tanakh concerning himself. They approached the village where they were going. He made as if he were going on farther; but they held him back, saying, “Stay with us, for its almost evening, and it’s getting dark.” So he went in to stay with them. As he was reclining with them at the table, he took the matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it and handed it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him. But he became invisible to them. They said to each other, “Didn’t our hearts burn within us as he spoke to us on the road, opening up the Tanakh to us?” -CJB
His death is the Passover of our sins. The instructions were given to the disciples to tarry 50 days and the instructions given in Leviticus 23:15-21 are identical. The Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) fell on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost). 50 days after Yeshua, redeeming us all with His blood. The Omer is counted 50 days before Shavout. The connection is powerful when the instructions are given to count. How much more instructions do we need other than to study the word of Almighty God Hebraiclly? Returning His word to it's original context and intent. There is so much meaning that is misunderstood and misinterpreted due to a Greek mindset approach.
Luke 44:44-49
Yeshua said to them, “This is what I meant when I was still with you and told you that everything written about me in the Torah of Moshe, the Prophets and the Psalms had to be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds, so that they could understand the Tanakh, telling them, “Here is what it says: the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day; and in his name repentance leading to forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to people from all nations, starting with Yerushalayim. You are witnesses of these things. Now I am sending forth upon you what my Father promised, so stay here in the city until you have been equipped with power from above.” - CJB
This comes from the unchanging instruction given regarding determining the exact day of Pentecost which was first given some 1,500 years before His disciples would participate in its fulfillment of reality at Pentecost. Can you imagine what would have happened on this day which is known in Hebrew as Shavuot if the disciples had not counted the 49 days? No wonder Yahweh instructed that seven Sabbaths are to be counted day by day.
They would have all missed the giving of the fire of His Spirit on the day Yahweh spoke the covenant of the Ten Commandments. Why? His word is unchanging, Yahweh, who changes not, means what He says when He says it!
There are great parallels to the account of the book of Acts and Exodus:
· Yahweh came down to Mount Sinai and the Holy Spirit came down on the Disciples.
· Yahweh came down in fire at Sinai and the Ruach HaKadesh came down as fire on the Disciples.
· Yahweh came down in fire at Sinai and there was sound of lightning and thunder on Sinai and there was a sound of rushing wind on the Disciples.
· Yahweh spoke the Ten Commandments and the Disciples spoke in languages or tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
When Yahweh speaks we need to listen and do what He asks or we will miss His blessing. Yahweh instructs us to count the days up to Shavuot.
"And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath... Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord." Leviticus 23:15-16
Yahweh told Moses that He will make His people a set apart (holy) people called out to be a priest to all nations, He keeps His eternal promises. Is there any doubt, look to the scritpures, all is fulfilled and yet so many are waiting for the begin while His purposes stand and are being completed in those who seek and obey His instructions as they are being taught and understanding opened in His great mercy and grace. Fiveamprayer get a hold of this one! We are to count! He is our daily portion--measure our days as we count up to expectation--Shavout! To hear this again click here.
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