WHAT IS SHABUOTH? (OR, WHAT IS PENTCOST?)

The main thing to keep in mind is that Shabuoth is a wedding anniversary. It commemorates the day Yahuah and Yisrael entered into the Everlasting Covenant. Yisrael was not "born" at Sinai (Mt. Horeb), Yisrael entered into the marriage covenant with the Maker of Heaven and Earth, Yahuah. At the first Shabuoth, the Covenant was inscribed in stone tablets. Acts 2 records this same Covenant being written in men's hearts. Shabuoth is Hebrew for "weeks" (Shabua means "week"), based on the Hebrew word for "seven", SHEBA. Seven weeks after the deliverance, Yisrael entered into the Everlasting Covenant with Yahuah, and it is the day Yahuah "gave" His TORAH to Yisrael, to share with all the world's nations. "Giving" is different from "receiving". At Acts 2, Yisrael "received" the TORAH into their hearts, and the 120 Natsarim gathered in the upper room at the Temple were the first to receive this living Spirit, the Mind of Yahuah into their hearts. The "giving" of TORAH occurred 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt; but there is some dispute among Yahusha's followers as to when to "count" the 50 days (Pentecost is Greek for "count 50"). Unless we "receive" a love for TORAH, we will perish:

2Th 2:9-12: "The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and wonders of falsehood, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those perishing, because they did not receive the love of the Truth, in order for them to be saved. And for this reason Elohim sends them a working of delusion, for them to believe the falsehood, in order that all should be judged who did not believe the Truth, but have delighted in lawlessness." (lawlessness is "ANOMIA" in Greek, being without TORAH. The "Truth" is the Word of Yahuah that is to be obeyed by His wife Yisrael, and His Word is TORAH, the "instructions". To "walk" in the "Light" means to live in TORAH.

The Orthodox "rabbis" practicing the religion called "Judaism" (teachings which descend from the sect of the Prushim, or "Pharisees") always begin the count to Shabuoth from the "morrow after the Sabbath", being the annual Sabbath of the first day of Matsah. The first day of Matsah is on Abib 15, so they observe the Wave-Sheaf offering (First-Fruits) on Abib 16 every year. This ignores an important "Messianic" element, the "sign of Yonah", which only Natsarim seem to be aware of. The understanding of "First-Fruits" being the resurrection of Yahusha is vital, but the "sign of Yonah" is also linked to the resurrection.

The starting point becomes obvious when we look at these two things; First-Fruits, and the sign of Yonah. First-Fruits, or "Wave-Sheaf" was the resurrection, and the week Yahusha rose it involved the "sign of Yonah". This is why many of us track First-Fruits by the "morrow after the Sabbath", being the weekly Sabbath.

OBSERVING ABIB 16 - WITHOUT THE SIGN OF YONAH

When the 15^th of Abib coincides with a weekly Sabbath, it’s fine to begin the count of the omer from the 16^th of Abib. The Wave-Sheaf is "First-Fruits", and is a "shadow" of Yahusha's resurrection. The “barley” sheaf represents Yahusha’s resurrected body, “waving” because it was stilled, but began to “move” again after being “harvested” (killed). The week of His resurrection, He would not allow Miryam to touch Him because He had not yet ascended to present Himself; and this happened well beyond Abib 16 that particular week. When Yahusha was placed into the tomb, the 15th of the moon fell on what is today called a “Woden’s day” just before sunset, and “Thor’s day” of that week was the annual Sabbath.

The Pharisees (Orthodox rabbis) who don’t believe in Yahusha don’t have this sign of Yonah, so they err in reckoning the starting point. After 3 nights and 3 days, at the close of the weekly Sabbath, He rose from the dead. The “morrow” (1^st day of the week) after the Sabbath He presented Himself before Yahuah as the Wave-Sheaf (First-Fruits) offering, fulfilled by His resurrection because His body was the fulfillment represented by the Wave Sheaf. The week Yahusha was buried, He was dead and in the tomb on Abib 16, so He did not resurrect as First-Fruits until the end of the weekly Sabbath. He presented Himself as First-Fruits on the "morrow after the Sabbath", sometime AFTER being discovered by Miryam at the garden tomb.

If First-Fruits is not determined by counting from the weekly Sabbath, and First-Fruits is always observed on Abib 16, then Yahusha missed it and did not present Himself as the First-born (First-Fruits) from the dead at the correct time, and the “sign of Yonah” (3 days and 3 nights) failed as the sign He offered that He is the Mashiach. We know this is not the case, and the correct understanding solves this perfectly. Yahusha was in the tomb on Abib 16 during Matsah, and did not wave Himself until 3 nights and 3 days after His death and burial. So, the reason the Orthodox err in their setting the observance of First-Fruits is that they don’t have a clue that it is a shadow-picture of Yahusha’s resurrection. Christians don’t seem to know it either, since they have no observance reflecting the Wave-Sheaf (First-Fruits) offering. Sadly, many Natsarim teachers are misinformed about this also, and they are following the pattern of those who do not believe Yahusha is the Mashiach of Yisrael.

The reconciliation of both Christianity and Judaism is the faith of the Natsarim, the original sect of believers who followed Yahusha.

brother Lew

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