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"THE WAVING OF THE OMER" Leviticus 23:10-12
The morning after the Shabbath following Passover, i.e. in the early morning hours of the first day of the week, the priest waved a sheaf of the First Fruit before the L-RD as commanded. This sheaf, called omer, was cut from freshly ripened, standing grain. The waving of the omer was accompanied by a sweet savor offering for acceptance of a male lamb a year old without blemish. The hour at which the priest would stand before the veil in the temple to wave the omer was a fixed hour .
Yeshua is the fulfillment of the omer. He ISour Omer! He is the Firstborn of all who shall be raised from the dead unto imperishable life like His129. (Formerly G-d "redeemed" every firstborn Israelite's life with a Levite for the life of every Egyptian firstborn taken by the destroyer. The law of G-d is unalterable: for life taken life must be given)130.
By Yeshua, G-d redeemed "life" from the clutches of death. Death received what was its rightful claim --- the dead body of the Son of Man. Yeshua's imperishable life was given for every perishable life taken, because no man took it from Him. He laid it down of His own accord131. But death could not keep the Son of G-d. The redemption price had been paid132 --- for all time, for all men who would believe, from the House of Israel first and also from the Gentiles.
That particular night the priest who was to wave the omer - I don't believe it was Caiaphas himself p but another priest chosen by lot - stood in utter shock before the rent veil. No mere man could have done this. Had G-d torn the veil? All of Jerusalem had just witnessed the strange events following Yeshua's death. This priest probably knew as well as any that Yeshua was arrested and condemned to death on the basis of false accusations. His innocent blood was on the heads of the priests and the Sanhedrin.
Shaking and trembling, he began to wave the omer at the set hourq for the early morning sacrifice. Suddenly the ground shook under his feet. Another earthquake! What if Yeshua of Nazareth was indeed Who He claimed to be, the Son of G-d and the Messiah of Israel?! Terror stricken, the priest dropped the omer and fled the temple, only to run into people wrapped in burial cloths, wandering in the street!r
How could he know that at the precise instant at which he waved the omer the power of G-d quickened His Son and raised Him from the dead?!133 Although men may not have heard it, I am sure there was a great shout of joy and triumph in heaven, and screams of utter horror in hell!
Death, where is your sting!?134Satan, where is your power!?135 But some of the righteous Jews, whose tombs opened at the time of Yeshua's death, heard heaven's shout! The power that entered Messiah's body to raise Him back up to His imperishable life was so great it quickened them also back to life, whether imperishable or still perishable, I don't know. But many saw them entering the city still wrapped in their burial cloths136.7. Messiah's Ascension, and the Counting of the "Omer"
From the morning after the Sabbath when the omer was brought as a wave offering, Israel was commanded to count seven full weeks until the morning after the seventh Sabbath, i.e. fifty days137. Of those fifty days “...Yeshua presented Himself alive after His passion by many proofs, appearing to the apostles and many disciples for forty days...” 138
Finally, on the fortieth day since the waving of the omer, the day of His resurrection, Yeshua gathered His eleven apostles (Judas Ischariot had been the twelfth) about Him on the Mt. of Olives and commissioned them to be His witnesses of the New Covenant, of His death and resurrection, in Jerusalem and all Judea and Samaria until the ends of the earth. He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the Father. For He would not leave them forsaken but, as promised, send them the Holy Spirit to empower them to bear testimony of G-d’s salvation, with signs and wonders confirming their witness.
Having said these things He was suddenly lifted up, and a cloud took Him out of their sight. While they were gazing with amazement two angels stood by them and told them that “This Yeshua, who was taken up from you to heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
The raising up of G-d’s Firstborn from the dead began on Shavuot, the Festival of First Fruits139.
Through Yeshua, the "Omer" of this First Fruit harvest, the Firstbornof all the firstborn from the dead, G-d is raising up a new race of man, immortal, incorruptible, recreated in the Image and after the Likeness of His Son, the Last A-dam, of heavenly origin and divine natures. Yeshua is the divine Promised Seed of Abraham. The nation Israel is G-d’s chosen people through whom He was manifested as is written, Im-anu-el/G-d with us. Israel is the womb and Messiah the Seed within this womb. As believers continue to be ingrafted into Him through baptism, the “Body” of Messiah grows and the “womb” expandst.
| 139 Also called "Feast of Weeks" during which the giving of the Law on Mt. Sinai is commemorated, and known by Christianity as "Pentecost". |
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