COUNTING THE OMER
LINKS PASSOVER TO SHAVUOT
Shemot 3:12
Vayikra 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day that ye brought the omer of the wave offering; seven Shabbatot shall be complete:
A OMER IS A TENTH OF AN EPHAH Exodus 16:36 Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
A SHEAF REPRESENTS PEOPLE - Genesis 37:5; Genesis 37:7 represent a person or a group of people
The journey from leaving Egypt (a type of the world and world's consist) consists of a time of preparation (counting the omer) to meet with the Elohim of Israel at Mount Sinai
COUNTING THE OMER REPRESENTS GROWING IN SPIRITUAL MATURITY - to as believers Ephesians 4:14; Ephesians 4:15
THE OMER WAS THRESHED (BEATEN) REPRESENTS HUMILITY Isaiah 41:14; Isaiah 41:15
MOUNT SINAI REPRESENTS HUMILITY
THE HUMBLE WILL BE EXALTED Isaiah 57:15; Matthew 18:4, Matthew 23:12; Philippians 2:8; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of Elohim, that he may exalt you in due time:
THE OMER WAS PARCHED IN FIRE -
FIRE REPRESENTS JUDGMENT - Genesis 19:24; Exodus 9:23 Jeremiah 52:13, Revelation 20:10
FIRE REPRESENTS REFINEMENT AND PURIFICATION Psalm 12:6; Zechariah 13:9, Malachi 3:3
FIRE REPRESENTS THE TRIALS OF OUR FAITH 1 Peter 1:7, James 1:2 James 1:3, James 1:12
THE OMER WAS TOSSED IN THE WIND - OMER TOSSED TO THE WIND REPRESENTS EVERY KIND OF DOCTRINE - Ephesians 4:8; Ephesians 4:11; Ephesians 4:13; Ephesians 4:14
THE OMER WAS GROUND INTO FINE FLOUR REPRESENTS REFINEMENT, PURIFICATION AND BEING MADE WHITE (RIGHTEOUS)- Isaiah 48:10; Daniel 12:10; Revelation 3:5
13 SIEVES MEANS UNITY OR ONENESS - the word Echad has the gematria 1 8 4 = 13; ISRAEL CAMPED = UNITY Exodus 19:2; ACTS 2 = UNITY = ONE ACCORD Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
ספירת העומר
Sefirat HaOmer
Counting the Omer
Day 2 CH"M 1
17 Nisan 5776
ברוך אתה יי אלהינו מלך העולם אשר קדשנו במצותיו וצונו על ספירת העומר
Barukh attah HaShem Eloheinu Melekh ha'Olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tizivanu al sefirat ha'omer.
Blessed are you, HaShem our G-D, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with Your commandments and commanded us to count the omer.
היום יום שני לעומר
Ha'yom yom sheni l'omer
Today is two days of the Omer
ראשית הקציר
Reishit Katzir - First Harvest
יום התחייה
Resurrection Day
חג שמח
Chag Sameach
Tehilim (Psalms) 16:10-11
10 for you will not abandon me to Sh’ol, you will not let your faithful one see the Abyss.
11 You make me know the path of life; in your presence is unbounded joy, in your right hand eternal delight.
Torah:
Shemot (Exodus) 13:1-16; Bamidbar (Numbers) 28:16-25
Haftarah:
Tehilim (Psalms) 16:1-11
Brit Chadashah:
Kehilat Corinth Alef (1 Corinthians) 15:20-23
HOW DO YOU COUNT THE OMER ?
Days and Weeks of the Omer are Counted
For Days:
"Today is one day of the Omer"
For Weeks:
"Today is seven days which are one week of the Omer"
For Days and Weeks:
"Today is twenty-six days which are three weeks and five days of the Omer"
The fiftieth day is Shavuot.
It is a custom that following the counting of the omer, you read Psalm 67. IS A PRAYER FOR THE MESSIANIC ERA?
According to rabbinic tradition the association is that this psalm has forty-nine words which corresponds to the seven complete weeks (49 days) of the counting of the omer.
See a powerpoint slide presentation of Shavuot and omer
How to Wave the Two loaves of Challah
Sowing in the morning, sowing seeds of kindness,
Sowing in the sunshine, sowing in the shadows,
Fearing neither clouds nor winter's chilling breeze;
By and by the harvest, and the labor ended,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
Going forth with weeping, sowing for the Master,
Though the loss sustained our spirit often grieves;
When our weeping?s over, He will bid us welcome,
We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves.
SEFIRAS HA'OMER
Vayikra 23
The Counting of The Omer starts on from the FirstFruit which the bring the sheaf of wave offering then starting counting seven Shabbatot forty-nine days (7 X 7=49).
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