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The Scriptures 2009
Lev 23:9  And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying, 
Lev 23:10  "Speak to the children of Yisra'ěl, and you shall say to them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest to the priest. 
Lev 23:11  'And he shall wave the sheaf before יהוה, for your acceptance. On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest waves it. 
Lev 23:12  'And on that day when you wave the sheaf, you shall prepare a male lamb a year old, a perfect one, as an ascending offering to יהוה, 
Lev 23:13  and its grain offering: two-tenths of an ěphah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to יהוה, a sweet fragrance, and its drink offering: one-fourth of a hin of wine. 
Lev 23:14  'And you do not eat bread or roasted grain or fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim – a law forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 
The Feast of Weeks
Lev 23:15  'And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven completed Sabbaths. 
Lev 23:16  'Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to יהוה. 
Lev 23:17  'Bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread, of two-tenths of an ěphah of fine flour they are, baked with leaven, first-fruits to יהוה. 
Lev 23:18  'And besides the bread, you shall bring seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are an ascending offering to יהוה, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to יהוה. 
Lev 23:19  'And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old, as a slaughter of peace offerings. 
Lev 23:20  'And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first-fruits, as a wave offering before יהוה, besides the two lambs. They are set-apart to יהוה for the priest. 
Lev 23:21  'And on this same day you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves, you do no servile work on it – a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 


Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira) is a verbal counting of each of the 49 days between the holy days of Passover and Shavuot. The period of 49 days is known as the "omer period" or simply as "the omer" or "sefirah".

The count has its origins in the biblical command of the Omer offering (or sheaf-offering), which was offered on Passover, and after which 49 days were counted, and the Shavuot (Pentecost) holy day was observed. The Temple sacrifices have not been offered since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, but the counting until Shavuot is still performed. Shavuot is the only major Biblical holiday for which no calendar date is specified in the Torah; rather, its date is determined by the omer count.

The Counting of the Omer begins after the weekly Shabbat during Passover. According to all practices, the 49-day count ends the day before Shavuot, which is the 'fiftieth day' of the count.

The omer ("sheaf") is an old Biblical measure of volume of unthreshed stalks of grain, the amount of grain used for the Temple offering.

A Pastor in Arizona once said this, "When a body becomes a business, what do you call that? Most call it prostitution. So I have a question for you. Is your church incorporated?

We know that in the early congregation the body of Messiah, or the Ekklesia was not involved with the government.  The problem with your church or ministry being incorporated or holding a 501C3 is that it gives the government power over your church or ministry. It gives them the preeminence, when Yeshua alone has the preeminence.

What are your thoughts on this?

I know this woman is right. I had a passenger that had a demon and after I dropped the passenger off the demon remained in my car. The holy Spirit quicken me and showed me it was a spirit of oppression. I began singing a praise song and the demon left. When our name is written in the lambs book of life we have power over them.

Wolves in sheep's clothing are also tyrants. These people don't have a spiritual mindset and usually are self willed. Like Diotrephes in the third epistle of John they want to be first among the brethren and take the preeminence. These are spots in our feasts and damage the image of Messiah because they do not represent Messiah though they claim they do. These are typically narcissistic men. They do not serve Messiah but rather the adversary and you can tell by their actions. You will know them by their fruit.

But beware of the false prophets who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are savage wolves. By their fruits you shall know them. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? So every good tree yields good fruit, but a rotten tree yields wicked fruit. A good tree is unable to yield wicked fruit, and a rotten tree to yield good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. So then, by their fruits you shall know them
Matthew 7:15-20 TS2009

The dichotomy between what is "sacred" and what is "worldly" is a
pagan conception and not the mindset of the Ekklesia. In the Kingdom
of Elohim, ordained spiritual elitism has no foundation since every
believer has the discernment from God to recognize those who have
particular giftings that God has given them. Among the early Ekklesia,
the word "ordain" did not mean to be put into an official title, but
rather it was an affirmation of the gifting and character of an individual
that is recognized.

The office of Pastor or Rabbi is commonly a magnet for Narcissistic
types who view the role as the "head of the church." Scripturally, the
word Pastor is used in plural form. What this means is, there is no
Scriptural evidence that there was a singular senior head pastoral
practice among the early Ekklesia. Pastor, as many know, is the Latin
word for shepherd, and the Greek word for pastors is rendered as
poimenas, which also means shepherds. Therefore, a pastor is not a
professional title, but a metaphor for one of the various functions of
the Ekklesia. A shepherd is a person who cares for and nurtures the
people of Elohim, but not within the context of a professional
hierarchical title.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the first among
them, does not receive us. So if I come, I shall call to mind his works which
he does, babbling against us with wicked words. And not satisfied with that,
he himself does not receive the brothers, and forbids those who wish to,
putting them out of the assembly.
3 John 1:9,10 TS2009

The Pastoral office as defined in our western world is not the Biblical
model, but rather man made which is a distortion of gifting. The
Ekklesia were led only by Messiah where his body is recognized by
men who were all of equal standing. Everyone in the body was recognized
by their spiritual maturity and not by their hierarchical
elitism.

We can trace the deviation from the biblical Pastoral office back to
Ignatius of Antioch (AD 35-107) and the role of the bishop. The bishop
required absolute obedience in the "church" and was given complete
authority.

The ordination into an office originates from pagan rites by
empowering an individual through divine streams to become
venerable, honorable, and separated. It is the syncretism of Old
Testament priesthood with Greek hierarchy. In contrast, every person
who was part of the early Ekklesia set not themselves higher than one
another, but in humility served each another. This is the model in
scripture that Yeshua gave us.

The church we read about in the Bible was organized in a very simple way. A general
pattern was to have two or more qualified men overseeing each local congregation or
church. These men could be referred to as the "eldership". Each man must meet
several high qualifications which the Bible lists in two passages. Elders are the spiritual
leaders of a congregation. They also watch out for the souls of the members like a
shepherd.

Yeshua HaMashiach is the head of every local church or assembly. Not a Pastor, in fact
in the early assembly there were pastors.

The first day of Pesach (Passover). April 15, 2025

The head of the Biblical New year.

Spring Mo'adim (Appointed Times)
Leviticus 23
1. Passover ( Pesach )
Pesach this year will begin on the evening of April 13, 2025 since the first day of the new year occurred on March 31, 2025.

TLV Leviticus 23:5  During the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Adonai's Passover.  Passover, or Pesach, begins during the full moon in the first month of the year, usually on the 14th day of Nisan. Pesach is called the "feast of freedom" because it celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and memorializes the night when the faithful were protected by the blood of the lamb.This is a clear picture of the sacrifice of Yeshua the Mashiach as Seh HaElohim – the Lamb of Elohim who takes away the sins of the world. Passover then, is on the fourteenth day from the commencement of the new year and is eaten after twilight on that day, which is then the start of the fifteenth day and the first High Sabbath of the week of Unleavened Bread. ... For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.

2. Unleavened Bread ( Chag Hamotzi )
Lev 23:6  On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Matzot to Adonai. For seven days you are to eat matzah.
Lev 23:7  On the first day you are to have a holy convocation and you should do no regular work.
Lev 23:8  Instead you are to present an offering made by fire to Adonai for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation, when you are to do no regular work.
Unleavened Bread starts the day after Passover and lasts 7 days. The festival in itself extends over seven days with the first and the last days being high holy day Sabbaths in which no regular work is done and it is commenced by the Passover memorial.
Eating unleavened bread commemorates the Exodus of Israel from Egypt. Since there wasn't enough time for the dough to rise when Israel fled, Elohim memorialized the event with the commandment to eat only unleavened bread for seven days (Deut. 16:3).

3. First Fruits ( Yom habikkurim )
Marks the beginning of the counting of the Omer. Seven weeks until Shavu'ot (Feast of Weeks). Lev 23:9  Adonai spoke to Moses saying:
Lev 23:10  "Speak to Bnei-Yisrael and tell them: When you have come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you are to bring the omer of the firstfruits of your harvest to the kohen.
Lev 23:11  He is to wave the omer before Adonai, to be accepted for you. On the morrow after the Shabbat, the kohen is to wave it.
Lev 23:12  On the day when you wave the omer you are to offer a male lamb without blemish, one year old, as a burnt offering to Adonai.

(First Fruits and counting the Omer begins on the Weekly Sabbath)
From Scripture In Its Original Order, these verses read: "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 'When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring the premier sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.... And you shall count to you beginning with the next day after the Sabbath, beginning with the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete; even unto the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days. And you shall proclaim on the same day that it may be a holy convocation' " (Lev. 23:10-11, 15-16).

Elohim's instructions in Leviticus 23 make it clear that the weeks of counting must be seven full weeks, each ending with the weekly Sabbath day. The seventh weekly Sabbath will always be the forty-ninth day in the count. No other method of counting can fit the scriptural command to count exactly fifty days from the day after the first Sabbath to the day after the seventh Sabbath. The only day after the weekly Sabbath is the first day of the week: "Even unto the day after the seventh Sabbath you shall number fifty days." This command shows that the count is not only seven complete weeks—49 days—but includes one additional day, making a total of fifty days. The fiftieth day is to be proclaimed as a holy convocation. In Old Testament times, this annual holy day was called the Feast of Weeks, or the Feast of Firstfruits. In New Testament times, the name was changed to the day of Pentecost. The English word Pentecost is transliterated from the Greek word penteekostee, which means "the fiftieth."

The instructions in Leviticus 23 show that the count to Shavuot (Pentecost), or Firstfruits, begins with the day the sheaf is waved. On this day, the wave sheaf was reaped and offered to Elohim as the first of the firstfruits, marking the beginning of the spring barley harvest. Deuteronomy 16 confirms that the beginning of the harvest was also the beginning of the seven-week count to Pentecost: "You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you first began to put the sickle to the grain. And you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God..." (Deut. 16:9-10).

During the Feast of Unleavened Bread there is always a Sabbath (7th day). The day after the Sabbath we are told to bring the "first fruits" of the harvest which is the first ripe barley in the field and raise it as a wave offering; this is the day of First Fruits.

First Fruits marks the beginning of the counting of the Omer. Think about it, think about how Messiah is connected with this. Messiah is the first fruit and takes us to Shavu'ot (Pentecost). This connection is important. Since Elohim does not do things sporadically. He does things by design and for a purpose.

Elohim wanted a special feast during which the Jews would acknowledge the fertility of the fine land He gave them. They were to bring the early crops of their spring planting (first fruits) to the priest at the Temple to be waved before the Lord on their behalf. This was to be done "the morrow after the Sabbath".

4. Pentecost ( Shavu'ot )
When the Spirit of Elohim comes down as he did on Mt. Sinai with Moshe and in the upper room after Messiah ascended to the Father.. Fifty days from the morrow after the sabbath after Passover is Shavuot or the Day of Pentecost. It is believed that it was on this day that Elohim visited His people after their exodus from Egypt.

The new moon (first sliver) was sighted on the evening of March 30, 2025 by several witnesses in the United States and other parts of the world. This makes March 31, 2025 Rosh Hashanah (First day of the new year). This time is important because it sets the time line for the Spring Moedim and Fall Moedim throughout the year.

Last year had 13 months, which more than likely would indicate that we will only have 12 months in this year. The Bible never provides an exact number of months for the biblical year. What it does provide is the method to begin the year and count each subsequent month. The Bible confirms that the first month of the biblical year is called "Abib" pronounced "Aveev." Deuteronomy 16:1 TS2009 states, "Guard the new moon of Aḇiḇ, and perform the Pěsaḥa to יהוה your Elohim, for in the new moon of Aḇiḇ יהוה your Elohim brought you out of Mitsrayim by night."

There are people who keep the Moedim on different dates for corporate reasons as I have been told. Is this okay to do? Absolutely not! Elohim commanded these times according to his calendar, not one we create. These people who do not keep Elohim's time line disturb the order and confound all the days, the holy with the unclean and the unclean day with the holy. They will go wrong as to the months and Sabbaths and Feasts and Jubilees.

Jubilees 6:
37 For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the kodesh with the unclean, and the unclean day with the kodesh; for they will go wrong as to the months and Shabbats and feasts and jubilees.

38 For this reason I command and testify to you that you may testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb them, so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new months and seasons and Shabbats and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

Scripture tells us that Elohim loves a hilarious giver.

Qorintiyim Bĕt (2 Corinthians) 9:7 TS2009
[7] Let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not of grief or of necessity, for Elohim loves a joyous giver.

https://bible.com/bible/316/2co.9.7.TS2009

The more I receive the more I give. I have a bunch of domains and websites that I share with the online community. And not that I'm bragging but just to let you know this is my way of giving. I have my own network of internet servers that I pay for by myself. I get a small amount of money from my web hosting company but not near enough to cover expenses. And as I receive donations in this work in turn I share that with other ministries.

Anytime you give to this work it goes into ministry. If I ever receive enough money from donations to pay for my servers and everything related that would be great. If this work ever got to a point where I received more than enough I would use it to support other ministries as well. I would only consider earning a living off this if I just couldn't work anymore and I had to rely on this. I would love to be able to do that but for now I'm not in that position. So every dollar that is brought into this work at this point is used 100% for ministry.