What Is Holiness – Kedushah?

Holy Unto The Lord

קֹ֖דֶשׁ לַֽיהוָֽה

Holy to Yahweh

qodesh Yhvh

kedushah/kadushah – Holy Unto The Lord!

Kodesh l’Adonai:

Lord in Hebrew is יהוה, YHWH,

6944 qodesh: apartness, sacredness

Original Word: קֹדֶשׁ
Transliteration: qodesh
Phonetic Spelling: ko’-desh

Holiness Unto The Lord 

written in Hebrew 

‘Kodesh L’ADONAI’

HOLINESS (holy) UNTO THE LORD;

 Sanctum Domino (Vulgate);

Ἅγιον τῷ Κυρίῳ παντοκράτορι (Septuagint).

This was the inscription upon

the golden plate on the mitre of the high priest. 

Mitre in Hebrew: mitsnepheth,

something rolled round the head;

the turban or head-dress of the high priest

Exodus 28:4 Exodus 28:37

Exodus 28:39; 29:6.

Exodus 39:30 And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

Leviticus 8:9

Leviticus 19:1-2

The Israelites were commanded to be

Holy

on account of their relationship with

The Holy One of Israel

K’dosh Yisrael or Qedosh Yisra’el

הקדוש של עם ישראל

The term Holy One of Israel

is used more than 30 times in the Bible.

Bible references: 2 Kings 19:22; Ps. 71:22; 78:41; 89:18; Isa. 1:4; 17:7; 30:11; 41:14; 43:3, 14; 45:11; 47:4; 48:17; 54:5; Jer. 50:29; 51:5 and a total of about forty five times.

Against the Holy One of Israel!  2 Kings 19:22.

The English translation of the word, does not very clearly convey the acurate meaning, as seen in Hebrew. In the English language, the words

one and of

are added to the translation

הקדוש של ישראל,

meaning: the Holy One of Israel.

In Hebrew, it is written as:

Holy Israel –  קדוש ישראל,

and the difference is significant.

The English language conveys:

a belonging to,

but also

a distinctly separate association.

The Hebrew, however, communicates

oneness.

Indicating the Shema.

The Lord is One.

In other words, Holy Israel is another name given to Adonai.

He is Holy, and He is also Israel/Yisrael.

The implication is that Yeshua/Jesus,

Who is the Word of God revealed in the flesh,

is called Holy Israel,

and therefore it could be said,

He and Israel are inseparably one.

The Holy One –

The One set apart

as completely perfect and unique,

transcending the realm of the finite, the fallen,

and the imperfect.

Only God is worthy of worship, for He alone is Holy. 

Strong’s Hebrew: 6918. קָדוֹשׁ (qadosh) — sacred, holy

holy One, saint.

Or

qadosh {kaw-doshe’}; from qadash; sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) God (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary — holy (One), saint. HEBREW qadash.

1Peter 1:13-16; 1Cor. 6:9-20.

The Torah defines a

Holiness Code

that contains more commandments for His children concerning practical ethics beginning with Lev. 19 1-2.

His Spirit is the Ruach Ha Kodesh

the Holy Spirit 

Hebrew: רוח הקודש ‎,

ruach ha-kodesh

Literally: spirit of Holiness Who will always guide us into the Truth and into the Fathers presence by WAY of  Messiah Yeshua HaMashiach.

But just what is holiness?

In Hebrew the word: kedushah

means: sanctity or set apartness.

It comes from the root word k d sh

Root: קֹ֫דֶשׁ 

qof, dalet, shin

sounds like k’desh/k’dosh

and other words that use this same root include:

kadosh – holy קדוש

Holy: kadosh, kodesh (Strong’s 6918, 6944)

The root word kodesh actually means:

to consecrate.

So the word Holy means:

consecrated, dedicated, set apart…

קָדוֹשׁ. qadosh.

is frequently translated as holy, which is an abstract word.

When we use the word holy, as in a holy person, we usually associate this with a righteous or pious person.

If we use this concept when interpreting the word holy in the Hebrew Bible, then we are misreading the text, as this is not the meaning of the Hebrew word qadosh!

Qadosh literally means:

to be set apart for a special purpose.

A related word, qedesh,

is one who is also set apart for a special purpose

but not in the same way we think of holy. Deut 23:17.

Israel was qadosh

because they were separated from the other nations as:

servants of Elohiym.

The furnishings in the tabernacle were also qadosh, as they were not to be used for anything except for the work in the tabernacle. While we may not think of ourselves as holy, we are in fact

set apart from the world to be Elohiym’s servants

and His representatives/ambassadors. 

Holiness could be described as a:

state of consecration produced by ethical separation from profane culture when viewed in practical terms relating to human beings and their relationship to the Father.

Kadosh

encompasses the whole sphere of the sacred and

set apart things that are totally separate

from anything that is profane and sinful.

According to

Isaiah 57:15/Is 40:25

this means:

elevated and lofty and

beyond all comparison

and utterly unique, entirely righteous

Is 57:15 glorious and awesome

Ps 99:3 full of light and power

Is 10:7 and is chosen and favored as Gods own

Ezek 22:26.

Holiness is a name for the Lord Himself:

Ha kadosh barukh hu – the Holy One blessed is He.

Isa. 40:25

The idea of holy therefore suggests: separation..

meaning:

the realm of the holy

is entirely set apart from

the common, the habitual, or the profane.

The holy is singular, awe inspiring, even terrible or dreadful.

Neh 1:5 Ps 68:35

As the Holy One, God is

utterly unique, distinct, sacred and set apart as

the only One of His kind.

Only God is worthy of worship, for He alone is Holy – Kadosh.

As the Holy One ( ha’kadosh ),

the Lord of Hosts ( Adonai Tzeva’ot)

He alone is worthy of true worship and adoration, since He alone is peerless, without rival and stands in relation to the world as Creator and Lord.

Only the Lord is infinitely and eternally

known to Himself as Anochi.

Ezek. 3:15

I am that I am.

Holiness then implies more than an abstract separation as is often suggested but rather means:

separation from that which is common, mundane or evil,

(evil meaning: out of harmony with God).

In other words

holiness implies: absolute moral goodness and perfection.

God is not just Holy…

He is 

Holy, Holy, Holy!

 

Isaiah 6:1-3

In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple. Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

And one called out to another and said, 

“Holy, Holy, Holy, is YHWH of hosts, the whole earth is full of His glory.”

“Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, YHWH Tsabaoth, melo kal ha’aretz ke-vodoh”

In Scripture, finding the same three words in a row is rare. Two other instances are in Jeremiah and Ezekiel.

This use of this grammatical emphasis, is most often with double words and occurs frequently in the Hebrew scriptures. It is a way of emphasizing the point and by repeating the same word; it was like putting an exclamation mark today. Seeing the same three words one after the other, was like shouting.

In the B’rit Chadashah/New Testament, John/Yocahannes used this word repetition too, and he experienced a vision similar to Isaiah’s:

Revelation 4:8

And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come!”

Kadosh – Holy, holy, holy As the Holy One ( ha’kadosh ), the Lord of Hosts ( Adonai Tzeva’ot) 

Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh, YHWH Tsabaoth, melo kal ha’aretz  

We are to be a reflection of Our Heavenly Father God’s Holiness!

Holy is not a word that we should flippantly and disrespectfully throw around, like the terms of exclamation like: “holy cow” or “holy guacamole”.

Holy is rich in meaning and it is one of the main descriptors of Our Heavenly Father/God.  To those who have a relationship with Him, it is a descriptor of us too. WHY? Because He calls us to be Holy and because we are to be a representation of His glory on earth. That’s a great responsibility which we should not take lightly!

Leviticus 19:2-4

“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I YHWH your God am holy.’

Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am YHWH your God. Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am YHWH your God.”

Leviticus 20:26

‘Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I YHWH Am Holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.’

The Call to Holiness

Various practical commandments are given in the Torah through which His people were sanctified or set apart, to be kadosh/holy; and therefore prepared to enter a relationship with God.

God is not unreachable because He encompasses all of creation but those who are called into presence must be holy themselves.

Practical holiness results in sanctification which is gained through obedience to His commandments. These commandments include both those directing us to do something and those telling us to stop from doing something. In addition decrees are given that further separate the Israelites from the customs and profanity of the nations surrounding them.

The call to holiness is given

3 times in Leviticus 19:2; 20:7; 20:26.

Because the Lord is Holy, the Israelites could not be in relationship with Him if they had been involved in idolatrous or profane practices.

They were

called to be separate

from all that was unholy

Lev. 22:44-45.

The call to holiness was based on the fact that they were Gods possession because He had separated them from the Nations.

Lev. 20:26

Yes, we are to be Holy, but how do we live up to that?

Are we worthy enough to be His reflection on earth?

Messiah Yeshua/Jesus was.

He was, and is, the perfect reflection of God.

Throughout the B’rit Chadashah /New Testament, Yeshua /Jesus is referred to as the

Holy One of God,

from the very announcement of His birth:

Luke 1:28-35

“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

We are called to holiness through the letters of Shaul/Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:19-20a

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price.

and reminded of holiness once again in Revelation, where those around the throne cry

קָדוֹשׁ. Qadosh holy.

and from the prophets statements…

“In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD’S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 14:20-21

קֹ֖דֶשׁ HOLY qō-ḏeš

לַֽיהוָ֑ה Yah-weh; TO YAHWEH

The word holy in the Hebrew means to set-apart or separateness. While godly behavior is the result of being made holy unto the Lord, IT IS NOT a requirement to receive salvation, we come as we are.

When we become born again by His Holy Spirit, Yeshua HaMasiach/ Jesus Christ’s righteousness and holiness is IMPUTED to us.(meaning it is accredited to our account.) 

We are set apart unto the Lord as vessels for His use, in the same way as God set apart pots and vessels under the old testament/Tanakh, to be used in his service.

The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of holiness, because He is the sanctifier of all our Father’s vessels and makes them acceptable for His use by the washing of the word and regeneration of His Spirit of Holiness.

When the scriptures say:

Without holiness, no man shall see God. Heb. 12:14.

This means being born of His Holy Spirit into new life in Yeshua/Jesus. Without being born again of the Spirit of holiness one cannot be made Holy and therefore we would have no inheritance in the kingdom of God. 

God’s indwelling Spirit empowers His children to live lives that please Him. The scriptures tell us that all who seek to be justified by the law are not holy but defiled, defiled by the sinful nature whose works are as filthy rags in God’s sight. 

Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God IMPUTETH righteousness without works. Romans 4:6

IMPUTED: attributed/given on behalf of another. 

Yeshua/Jesus places His righteousness on our record,

when we trust upon Him for salvation

and this is what makes us holy

and not our behavior, whether we are good or bad. 

Holy is the Greek is hagios

which means:

to be in awe, venerate, regenerated.

When we are regenerated and set free from sin, we become holy vessels unto the Lord.

Faith in Yeshua/Jesus is our righteousness

and our fruit is then holy. 

Lev. 20:26 you shall be holy to me for I the lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples that you should be mine.

Western Christianity has sadly earned the title of being a cheap religion. For onlookers, many so called christian lifestyles do not look any different from the non believers in the world.

This world revolves around and caters to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. These things may please the flesh in the short term, but they work death. The Bible says that the pleasures of sin are only for a season. They are short lived. They do not satisfy. They do not give peace. They end in death. They fool us. Satan is the ruler of this world. The world that we are living in is his kingdom.

Keeping the 10 sayings is not impossible as the scriptures tell us the rich young ruler had kept them from his youth, and Elizabeth and Mary among others had also kept them.

Yet today so many say that we aren’t able to keep them and we are under grace not law!

We are to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect and it is possible through Jesus/Yeshua,

if we will choose to follow Him.

Though many say, no one is perfect, it’s really a way out, and to condone sin and compromise away from the standard Messiah sets for all who would be His talmidim/disciples. And in His words, how are we to do greater works than these, if we are not walking as He walked? We have His spirit within us now, since Pentecost; before then all generations who kept Torah did it without His indwelling spirit… so we have little to no excuse today. Not a welcome statement for those who still choose to live their own life on their own terms and still believe they are saved in their own understanding of salvation based on their own terms.

It is impossible that the Holy One could tolerate sin since this would invalidate the distinction between the sacred and profane and thereby weaken the nature of Holiness itself. That which is Holy, is in total opposition of the profane and therefore the Lord God has to hate and oppose that which violates the sacred and holy.

Where there is no fundamental change and no sacrificial putting away of ungodly habits and behavior, there can be no holiness. Many claim salvation and holiness by grace alone; neither understanding, nor appreciating, the cost involved and the seriousness of our precarious position before a Holy God; before Whom no sin can be present. It is only through Jesus/Yeshuas’ sacrifice that we can even dare to think that we can approach the Holy Creator and King of the universe. This was only possible by way of all the statutes and ordinances in the Torah until He died and shed His blood in our place.

We take this relationship so lightly and often without the reverential respect which we should willingly show from a humble, repentant and grateful position.

We are called to holiness, just as the priest wore upon his head the band with that word inscribed upon it; we are grafted in by His mercy and grace, into the family of His chosen children. This is a Hebrew Book and He is the Hebrew Messiah. Salvation is of the Jews, it was given to them first and we are privileged to be among those gentile nations offered the gift of eternal life and restoration relationship with a Holy God.

Now as the scripture says, we are priests unto the Lord, called to minister to and for Him while we remain here on the earth.

Are we truly making ourselves able to wear the band upon our foreheads, saying, Holiness unto the Lord?

Are we doing all that we are required to do? We are not to throw out the commandments He gave, but to apply them to our lives and to walk a set apart sanctified life before Him. Don’t let’s be of those accused of following a cheap religion with no cost to ourselves. We are to lay down our life, to lose it for Him and for the gospel; and in so doing find it through a life of being

kedushah – Holy Unto The Lord!

Strong’s Hebrew: 6944. קֹ֫דֶשׁ (qodesh) — apartness, sacredness

From qara’; something called out,

מִקְרָא miqrei callings

miqra

קודש לאל

קָדוֹשׁ. Qadosh holy

kaw-doshe’

אַתָּה ʼattâh, at-taw’; 

you are holy ata kadosh

קָדוֹשׁ. Qadosh holy

Strong’s Hebrew: 5844. עָטָה (atah) — self

atah: self. Original Word: עָטָה.

Part of Speech: Verb. 

Transliteration: atah.

Phonetic Spelling: (aw-taw’)

Definition: to wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself.

the word 

ata 

in the Hebrew language is

אתא

H859 – ‘atâ – Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon (kjv)

אַתָּה ʼattâh, at-taw’; or (shortened);

אַתָּ ʼattâ at-taw’; or אַתֵּנָה 

Strong’s Concordance. atah: self.

Original Word: עָטָה. 

Phonetic Spelling: (aw-taw’)

Definition: to wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself.

In the passage from 1Peter, the call to holiness is established on the hope that will be brought to us at the revelation of Messiah in the end of days and in 1Cor., Paul outlines the same moral restrictions that determine

a called out people of God.

Believers in the Jewish Mashiach/Messiah are to be free from sin that pervades surrounding culture and in particular from sexual immorality, which is idolatry. The follower of the Mashiach Yeshua/Jesus, is not exempt from

the call to personal holiness

since Messiah and His Father are the

same yesterday today and forever.

Our carnal nature always will lean to a meaning and understanding that ‘let’s us off the hook’ so to speak; one that makes it easier for us to live a compromised lifestyle and still think we can get all the blessings and benefits here and now and also eternal life in heaven.

We need to wake up toreality and count the true cost of Who and what we truly believe and follow.

As the days grow darker and the morals of the world become increasingly in complete opposition to all that our Heavenly Father requires for His family; there is a call for sobriety and being genuine, we must make the effort to be authentic in our lives and to walk in the fullness of the calling upon us.

That call is to

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week,

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily.

Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer,

Savior, Lord, and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.

Was Messiah A Son Of The Commandments?

We may be more familiar with the term for a ceremony in Israel

called in Hebrew

Bar/Bat Mitzvah.

It is one of the best known Jewish customs,

bar mitzvah for a boy

and

bat mitzvah for a girl.

Bar בַּר ‎

is a Jewish Babylonian Aramaic word meaning:

son  בֵּן ‎,

ben in Hebrew,

while bat בַּת means:

daughter in Hebrew, and

mitzvah מִצְוָה ‎

means: commandment or law.

When a Jewish boy turns 13, he has all the rights and obligations of a Jewish adult, including the commandments of the Torah.

It is a time when the child assumes responsibility for his or her own life and faith in God at what is considered the Biblical age of responsibility/ accountability. – twelve for a girl and thirteen for a boy. The child crosses over from being a child into an adolescent generally girls mature earlier than boys.

This is possibly where our relatively recent western term of becoming a teenager has its roots. The word teenager was seldom used until 1939 when it was mentioned in a headline in the Journal of Education for a review on a book study entitled Adolescence: A Study in the Teen Age, albeit it was hyphenated as Teen-Agers. Even though a lot of publications of the 1950s sought to explain this adolescence change, it wasn’t until the 20th century that historians began to analyze this phenomenon.

The roots of the 

bar mitzvah, 

which literally means

son of the commandments,

are obscure.

The actual term never once appears in the Hebrew Bible. 

Because there is no specific Scriptural reference to a

Bar/Bat Mitzvah,

its historical background is more difficult to determine as there are no specific references to the ceremony in the Hebrew scriptures. However there are many statements supporting the idea that there is an age of accountability in following Gods way; and from the ancient writings of the Rabbis, we learn that they considered the age of 12 or 13 to be the age of accountability and physical maturity.

The child is now expected to assume more duties and responsibilities of religious life such as:

celebrating the feasts of the Lord,

fasting on fast days, and

wearing a prayer shawl in the synagogue.

Before this time, the parents would generally assume all responsibility for the child’s actions, vows, discipline and religious training. However, this begins to transition to the child at this time, which is marked by this special ceremony; which did not become commonplace until the Middle Ages, as an official initiation for boys into adolescence and Jewish religious duties.

By the age of 13, a Jewish boy would usually have completed his early Hebrew and religious studies.

A similar ceremony for girls at the age of 12 (based on the assumption that girls mature slightly sooner than boys), the Bat Mitzvah, is a modern adaptation to give girls a similar honor and blessing as their male counterparts.

While the beginnings of the modern bar mitzvah ceremony appeared as early as the sixth century C.E., it was not until the Middle Ages that a fully developed ritual emerged. By the 13th or 14th century, the custom of calling a boy up to the Torah was established as the way of recognizing entry into manhood.

The first use of bar mitzvah for the Jewish coming-of-age ritual seems to date to a 15th-century rabbi named Menahem Ziyyoni. 

The bar mitzvah ceremony at that time was a modest affair with two or three major components.

First, was an aliyah.

Aliyah 

עלייה

means ascent, 

referring both to the physical ascent

onto the platform where the Torah is read

and

to the spiritual elevation experienced at that time.

The Hebrew word

aliyah

translates as

elevation or going up.

It is used both for being

called up to the Torah reading

and for

moving to the Land of Israel.

The root of this word is עלה

(Ah-L-H, Strong’s #5927), which means to go up.

Traditionally, a boy is honored with an 

aliyah 

on the first

Torah-reading-day

that follows his thirteenth birthday.

Some wait for the first Shabbat that follows the

bar mitzvah.

In order to receive an

aliyah,

one must be familiar with the procedure of being called up to the Torah and know the blessings recited before and after the reading.

This meant that the

bar mitzvah boy was,

for the very first time in his life,

called up to make a blessing over the public readings from the Torah, the sacred handwritten scroll containing the Five Books of Moses.

In addition, the bar mitzvah boy

often delivered his first public discourse,

teaching the community and

offering thanks to his parents and visiting guests.

So the question asked concerning Messiah.

What do the scriptures tell us?

in Luke 2:41-47, there are scriptures

that may suggest the timing of

His Bar בַּר mitzvah מִצְוָה ‎

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.

  Here we have the only passage recorded concerning any details, from His infancy to the day of His showing to Israel at 29 years old, so it seems it must be of great importance.

Is this when Yeshua/Jesus became

a son of the commandments?

There is no specific reference to bar mitzvah, however His age is clearly noted. The further question of His actual birthday date may have a bearing, or that He was in His 13th year although still 12?

It was the 7 day Feast of the Unleavened Bread and the Festival of Pesach/Passover/First fruits and beginning of Counting from the Omer to Shavuot.

Yeshua/Jesus, His Mother, and His foster-father Joseph made the journey by foot from Nazareth to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem with many other pilgrims. They remained in Jerusalem during the whole week, spending their time in worship and devotion as did the rest of the Jews.

If we were not already aware, now we know that at age 13

Jewish boys become Bar Mitzvah;

they are:

sons of the covenant.

We see in this story that Yeshua/Jesus accompanied His parents to Jerusalem for the Passover/Pesach and that they were part of a company, which was probably made up of extended family and close friends.

Pesach/Passover was one of

three pilgrimage festivals instituted in the Torah called:

שלושה רגלים   Shalosh or Shlosha Regalim:

פֵּסַח Passover/Pesach, (Exodus- physical salvation)

שָׁבוּעוֹת Pentecost/Shavuot/Weeks (Acts – Spiritual salvation)

and סוּכּוֹת Sukkot/Tents, Booths or Tabernacles –

(Joyous thanks for God’s encompassing protection.)

Exodus 23:17, 34:20; Is.1:12

Deut. 16:16;

שָׁל֣וֹשׁ פְּעָמִ֣ים ׀ בַּשָּׁנָ֡ה יֵרָאֶ֨ה כׇל־זְכוּרְךָ֜ אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י ׀ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ בַּמָּקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִבְחָ֔ר בְּחַ֧ג הַמַּצּ֛וֹת וּבְחַ֥ג הַשָּׁבֻע֖וֹת וּבְחַ֣ג הַסֻּכּ֑וֹת וְלֹ֧א יֵרָאֶ֛ה אֶת־פְּנֵ֥י יְהֹוָ֖ה רֵיקָֽם׃

Three times a year—on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast of Weeks, and on the Feast of Booths—all your males shall appear before your God יהוה in the place that [God] will choose. They shall not appear before יהוה empty-handed,

The three (foot) pilgrimages,

that required attendance at the Temple in Jerusalem;

all three festivals have both agricultural and national significance.

These festivals are mitzvot (plural of mitzvah – הַמִצווֹת).

Many see mitzvah simply as a command or a good deed, however there is a richer and more complex meaning of mitzvah.

This aspect of mitzvah is as physical actions that reminds us of aspects of our connection to God and of all connections to our Heavenly Father, the festivals of Passover/Pesach and Sukkot/Tents are among the strongest.

The 3rd festival, Shavuot/Weeks/Pentecost, actually celebrates the connection itself.

Shavuot/Pentecost, a week of weeks (49 days) after the Pesach/Passover, was God bonding Himself to the His people.

 His parents went, every year.

This was their faithful custom, their lives being positively encompassed by the law.

Exodus 23:17.

It does not appear that infants/young children were obliged to be present; and yet all the men and older male children are positively ordered to attend the

 Shalosh or Shlosha Regalim

at Yerushalayim/Jerusalem

three times in the year, every year. Exodus 34:23.

However, women were absolved from this requirement. They were not expected to make the trip because of the demands of managing a home and being a mother to the children, who weren’t expected to make pilgrimage either. For the family of Yeshua/Jesus, it was probably that this was the very age at which the male children were obliged to appear before the Lord at the three public festivals – the feast of unleavened bread, of weeks, and of tabernacles.

According to the Jewish writings, it was also the age at which they were obliged to begin to learn a trade. They may have considered it the right time to take Him with them, in order to celebrate that miracle deliverance out of Egypt which God had wrought for His people; the memory of which was carefully to be transmitted to every succeeding generation.

Here it should be noted, we also have Miryam/Mary, and perhaps other women close to her, making the journey to the Holy City.

It is mentioned in commending the obedience of Miryam/Mary and Joseph/Yosef, that they gave diligent observance to outward worship of God. This was not of their own choosing, but by the divine command, that they undertook this annual journey.

The law/Torah, commands the, males “only to, appear before the Lord,” (Exodus 23:17.) This does not entirely exclude females, but spares them by way of kindness; this compassionate consideration, distinguishes the true faith in the one true God from all vain and wicked religion and superstitions.

While she may always have taken her children with her, this time was special because Yeshua/Jesus had reached maturity in the faith, so this story is a glimpse into the quality of Miryam/Mary’s deep and abiding faith.

Passover/Pesach/Unleavened Bread was an eight-day festival,

And when they had fulfilled the days; 8 days in all, 1 the passover, and 7, the days of unleavened bread: 

That year Yeshua/Jesus remained in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem. Joseph and Mary /Yosef and Miriam, didn’t realize this, supposing that He was somewhere in the caravan.

They spent a whole day on the road before they began searching for Him among their relatives and friends. He would have travelled close to them as a ‘child’ as they went up to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem but on the return journey as He was now ‘of age’, they assumed He would have walked back with the men.

When they could not find him they returned to Jerusalem/Yerushalayim.

On the 3rd day they found Him sitting in the temple court among the rabbis not only listening but questioning what they said.

Everyone who heard him was astonished at his insights and his responses.

Yeshua/Jesus tarried behind taking part in the sacred services of the festival, and the conversations held all around the city. 

It appears, they supposed that He had set out with some of His relations, or acquaintances, and was

in the company – Εν τη συνοδια,

a word that properly translated means:

a company of travelers.

As at the three great festivals, not only all the men that were able, but many women likewise, usually attended the celebration at Jerusalem, and for their greater security against the attacks of robbers on the road, they traveled in large groups.

All who came, not only from the same city, but from the same area or district, made one company and they carried basic necessities with them, and tents for their lodging at night. Sometimes in hot weather, they traveled all night and rested in the day. These companies are now call caravans; and in several places they had houses prepared for them to stay in, called caravanseries.

This account of how they traveled gives us an obvious answer to the question often posed:

How could Joseph and Mary make a day’s journey without discovering, before night, that Yeshua/Jesus was not in the company?

In the daytime, it’s not unreasonable to suppose that the travelers would mingle with different parties of their families, friends and acquaintances; however when they were about to encamp in the evening, every one would join their respective families.

Then as it was growing late and Yeshua/Jesus did not appear, His parents first looked for Him where they supposed He would be, among His relations and acquaintances, so, when they didn’t find Him they, anxiously returned to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem to look for Him.

So after three days, they found Him, to their great joy, in one of the chambers of the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, who taught there publicly at certain seasons, and especially in time of the appointed great feasts.  It appears there were no less than three assemblies of the doctors, who had apartments in the temple.

It was customary to propose doubts concerning the meaning of the precepts of the law, and the traditions of the elders, which was generally done by way of questions. If Yeshua/Jesus were, with others, at the feet of these teachers, where learners generally sat, He might be said to be in the midst of them, as they sat on benches placed in a semi-circular form raised above their hearers and disciples.

At age 13 Jewish boys become Bar Mitzvah;

they are

sons of the covenant/commandments.

They learn how to read scripture publicly in the synagogue and to expound on them because, at this age Jewish boys were being prepared for entrance into the adult affairs of the synagogue.

(Luke 2:41-42).

Had Yeshua/Jesus been younger, He might not have been indulged by the elders.

And all that heard him were astonished 

The word εξι σταντο, here rendered were astonished, and εξεπλαγησαν, in the next verse, are much more forcible expressions than the words whereby we translate them.

They indicate, that they were in

astonishment,

and

struck with admiration.

As Messiah Himself told us that, on this occasion, He was employed on His Father’s business; it is probable that, in His answers and objections, He modestly hinted at the errors by which the Jewish teachers had now greatly altered His Fathers’ written law. Remembering that at this time, the schools of learning for the Jews was at its height, and that at the age of 12, Messiah was no doubt superior to the greatest rabbis and Jewish doctors of the Torah/law, there was obvious reason for the admiration mentioned here.

And it came to pass, after 3 days they found Him.

They did not find Him when they first got there, and when they did He was in the Temple, sitting in the middle of the doctors of the law/Torah; as He was listening to them and asking questions. And all of those that heard him were astonished at his understanding and his answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why have you dealt with us like this? behold, your father and I have sought you sorrowing. Luke 2:46-48


Notice His mother says

your father and I referring to Yosef/Joseph,

and He corrects her

And He said unto them, How is it that you were looking for me? Did you not know that I must be about My Fathers’ business?

Luke 2:49 

He didn’t recognize Joseph as His father at this point, saying…

“I must be about my Father’s business.”

These are the first recorded words of Yeshua/Jesus.

They are important, because they express

the purpose of His existence.

That being…

“I must be about my Father’s business.”

Yeshua/Jesus stayed behind in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem, not because He didn’t want to go home, or be in His parents’ company, but because He had business to do there, and was letting His earthly physical parents know that…

He had a Father in heaven, whom He was to be more observant of than them; and respect to His Heavenly Father must not be construed as being disrespectful to them.

The Jewish doctors (of the Torah/law/teaching), say that at twelve years old children must begin to:

fast from time to time,

that they may learn to fast on the day of atonement;

and that at thirteen years old a child

begins to be:

a son of the commandments,

that is:

obliged to perform the duties of an adult, having been from his infancy,

by virtue of his circumcision/brit milah,

a son of the covenant.

It is not stated whether this was the first time that Yeshua/Jesus had gone up to Jerusalem/Yerushalayim to worship at the feast. He had probably done it for some years previously, having spirit and wisdom above His years as the scripture records;

and all should attend on public worship that can hear with understanding, Nehemiah 8:2.

In other words His parents found Him where any good

bar mitzvah boy

would be,  because receiving the blessing of the rabbis was common in ancient tradition. It caught everyones attention that this student was amazing, even the rabbis, with the wisdom of His teaching/drash. Surely this bar mitzvah boy was someone special and as we know only too well,

One who would later proclaim Himself to be the Messiah.

 41 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.   42 And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.   43 And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.   44 But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.   45 And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.   46 And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.   47 And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.   48 And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.   49 And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?   50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.  

51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.   52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

In the Jewish form of instruction, rabbi/teacher and talmid/student, often took turns at asking and answering questions, many of which were concerned with details of the law/Torah/teaching/instructions. The teachers/rabbis in Yerushalayim/Jerusalem noted that Yeshua/Jesus was different from other talmid/students, both in the questions He asked and in the answers He gave.

His concern was not with trivial details of the traditional teaching, but with a real understanding of the mind and ways of God.

Luke 2:43-47.

He reminded His earthly, physical parent(s) of His very unique relationship with His heavenly Father/Avinu and of the need for Him to know

and

do His Father’s will.

50 And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.  

At the time they did not fully understand what He meant, but Miryam/Mary kept thinking about it, the scriptures say she pondered all these events in her heart.

Yeshua/Jesus, on His part, knew that He still had to be obedient to His earthly parents…

 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.   52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

The conclusion and answer to our question is that…

ANY Jewish young person is automatically a

bar or bat mitzvah

at those ages.

They don’t have to do anything at all

except reach the right age!

What is called a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah,

is just a public recognition of that success in reaching the right age. So at that point in time give or take a few months, Messiah didn’t get or have a bar mitzvah.

He became one!

because every Jewish boy becomes a

bar mitzvah

automatically at age 13.

He is knowledgeable enough to take part in the public actions of an adult, and that is what the young person typically does: stand up before a congregation and demonstrate minimal mastery of basic adult duties.

But even if they know nothing at all, and do nothing at all, they are still bar or bat mitzvah at (respectively) 13 or 12.

So the answer seems clear that even if the visit to Yerushalayim/Jerusalem at 12, was not the timing of His Bar Mitzvah according to Jewish custom and scripture; whenever Yeshua/Jesus became 13 years + 1 day He was automatically

a son of the commandments!

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week,

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily.

Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer,

Savior, Lord, and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.

Olam hazeh and Olam haba

Olam Hazeh  עולם הזה

and

Olam Haba  הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא

are both referenced in

Matthew 24:3 Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives and His disciples came to Him and asked, “Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?”

And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the Disciples came unto him privately, saying,

Tell us, when shall these things be? (regarding the destruction of the Temple)

And what shall be the sign of thy coming  (His return)

and of

the end of the age. (His Reign following all things being completed.)

The second two questions are the same ones believers ask today!

What shall be the sign of thy coming?

and

when is the close/end of the age?

The olam hazeh  עולם הזה is this world age

Pronounced: oh-LAHM hah-ZAY.

olam haba הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא   is The World to Come

The spiritual afterlife is referred to in Hebrew as

Olam Ha-Ba

Pronounced: oh-LAHM hah-BAH.

There are other references to this age and the age to come: 

Matthew 12 :32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in

this age – olam hazeh  עולם הזה ;

or in

the age to come – olam haba הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא

He was speaking of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit/His spirit of Holiness/Ruach haKodesh.

The original words in Greek,

ουτε εν τουτω τω αιωνι, ουτε εν τω μελλοντι,

may be rendered,

neither in this age, or dispensation,

nor in the age, or dispensation, to come,

(οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ). 

Neither in this world (age, aioni), neither in the world to come. 

The age to come (העולם הבא) olam haba.

Luke 18:30 Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times more in this age and in the age to come, eternal life.” 

Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time/olam hazeh, and in the world to come/olam haba, life everlasting. Kjv.

1John 5:10-13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life/chayai olam, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

John 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Hebrews 6:5. 4. It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5 who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age/olam haba, 6and then have fallen away—to be restored to repentance, because they themselves are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting Him to open shame.…

Olam Hazeh –

This World – עוֹלָם הַזֶה

is the world in which we live, where each of us is given the opportunity to honor the Name of the Lord by performing

Mitzvot 

מצוות

Mitzvot is the plural of mitzvah, 

and means: commandment.

People in Israel often use mitzvot as a kind of shorthand for being observant of traditional Jewish laws and traditions.

This means being a doer of the things/teachings/commandments. James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

DO what it says.

Luke 11:28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Luke 8:21 But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”

John 13:17 If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

John 6:27 Labor not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

The single most important mitzvah of all of Scripture is

to trust in Yeshua/Jesus as our LORD and Savior.

Everything else centers on this.

The two great commandments are the Ve’ahavta

Love the LORD with all your heart

and the obligation to love others as yourself

For the Hebrew the

heart or lev 

is

the centre of being where all parts of our soul existence converge.

The lev/levav /heart, is not the seat of emotion.

The heart is

the point of convergence for all aspects of the human existence,

while it manifests emotion

it is NOT the sole domain of emotion.

Therefore, we understand heart to mean core being.

Thus when the Scripture says 

The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9)

it does not mean

The emotion of man (alone) is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked,

rather it means:

Humanity now has a fallen nature that is manifested within the core of its existence.

In terms of rabbinical definition this sin affected aspect of our nature is called:

Yetzer ha-ra – inclination of the evil.

The lev/levav /heart…..

…the convergence of our entire being.

We now know His Glory,

and even though our EYES fail us,

our hearts, the convergence of our entire being,

SEEs beyond the power of death to the Olam Haba/world to come.

This is ahava/love, because this is what remains and while we live in this fallen world we have faith, hope and love however, in the world to come/olam haba, only love will remain. Why? because faith is belief against fear and doubt, in the Olam Haba there will be neither. Hope is the assurance of things unseen, in the Olam Haba ALL will be revealed.

(Matt. 22:36-40). 36 “Rabbi, which of the mitzvot in the Torah is the most important?” 37 He told him, “‘You are to love Adonai your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.’[a] 38 This is the greatest and most important mitzvah. 39 And a second is similar to it, ‘You are to love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All of the Torah and the Prophets are dependent on these two mitzvot.”

Basically the meaning is that, if you do the above

you will not lie to, covet, or steal

what belongs to your neighbor;

you will not murder him,

nor commit adultery with them.

It includes ALL that is incorporated in the 10 sayings.

He did not come to abolish the law but to fulfill it

and the greatest commandment is love not sacrifice.

 

Matthew 5:17. Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.

This He completed perfectly.

The greatest act of love is to lay down one’s life for a friend. He called us His friends and laid down His life and it should follow that if He is our friend then we are to be willing to do the same for Him.

This is what we are told to be doing with our life by Messiah, our Lord and Savior Yeshua HaMashiach/Jesus the Christ.

Why do we keep questioning and discussing who is called and who is not?

We are all called ….it is simply up to the individual whether we hear; and when we do, do we accept and answer the call, or continue with our own life?

People continually ask what is the will of God for me? It is so clear in Messiahs own words… It’s just that most choose to ignore it saying and thinking it’s for someone else to do.

This is what we are to be doing in Olam Hazeh

it will determine our future in Olam Haba.

Those things that Yeshua/Jesus told us to occupy our time with are all listed in…

Matthew 25:35-40 and Matthew 28:19. Amp. Bible.
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

And we are to be occupied with learning and teaching His Word, according to his or her gifts, and behaving in an honest and decent manner with our fellow human beings.

1 Timothy 3:16.

Remembering that how we treat others and what we do to them; or what we do for or against them, we are in fact doing it to Yeshua/Jesus in both word and deed. Matt.25:40.

In Judaism and classical Jewish theology

Olam ha-zeh – עולם הזה – this world,

is a concept of: the real world.

Olam hazeh means: the everyday world that we live in.

Life in this world – olam ha’zeh; is also called:

Chayei Sha’ah – חיי שׁעה – Fleeting life.

So called, because it is absorbed in the physical and social structures of this worlds’ systems: working, eating, pursuing pleasures, etc., etc.

The ideas about Olam Hazeh and Olam Habah are to be understood rather as cosmic and metaphysical.

Why?

Because they relate to the universe outside of ourselves and they are in terms of the all encompassing goal, pattern and plan, that our Heavenly Father has put in place for His creation.

From the point of view of the human soul, these are experienced as

Chayei Sha’a – fleeting life and

חיי שׁעה

Chayei Olam – eternal life, respectively.

John 17:3 In the New Covenant/Testament/brit Chadashah,

eternal life/chayei olam,

is identified as:

the knowledge of the one true living God. The One Who sent His Son Yeshua into the world /Olam as the Messiah.

Eternal life/chayei olam, is having and maintaining a conscious relationship with the Father/God, through His Messiah, Jesus/Yeshua. Because our Father abides in eternity this means we are to live in the here and now by faith and have the understanding, the reality, that the eternal elements of the unseen realm of the spirit exists all around us.

We could say that our faith SEEs the Olam Haba/the world to come, and is preparing us to enter into its reality even while we are still in the Olam Hazeh/This world.

Heaven in Judaism – Shamayim שָׁמַיִם‎ šāmayīm, the Hebrew word for heavens, (literally heavens, im for the plural), identifies one element of the three-part biblical cosmology.

Which comprises:

Heavens, Earth, and the underworld.

The Hebrew Bible depicted a three-part world, with the

heavens – shamayim above,

Earth – eres in the middle,

and the

underworld – sheol below.

After the 4th century BCE this was gradually replaced by a Greek scientific cosmology of a spherical earth surrounded by multiple concentric heavens.

Revelation 5:13  And every creature which

is in heaven,

and on the earth,

and under the earth,

and such as are in the sea,

and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. King James Version (KJV

John is recording his vision in the book of Revelation when he writes, And no man

in heaven,

nor in earth,

neither under the earth,

was able to open the book. Rev. 5:3

Philippians 2:10 in the New King James Version says, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

of those in heaven, and

of those on earth, and

of those under the earth.

The Hebrew word for heaven is

שמים shamayim.

Strong’s Hebrew: 2319. חָדָשׁ chadash – new

Strong’s Hebrew: 776. אָ֫רֶץ  erets  – earth, land

ארץ  חדש

in Jewish theology,

olam ha-ba/the world to come,

is either

the world after death

or

the new creation

or

restoration of the world that is to follow

the messianic millennium.

Because this latter interpretation came from the teachings and exhortations of the prophets, it was especially popular during the period of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (516 BC–AD 70). Whatever the interpretation of ʿolam ha-ba, for Jews it meant the end of uncertainty, miseries, and strife.

In Jewish literature olam ha-ba and olam ha-zeh/this world, are in contrast to one another. They believe that olam ha-zeh/this world, is a time to prove oneself worthy of participating in the world to come. Their understanding of the resurrection of the dead is that it will occur in the messianic age, a time referred to in Hebrew as the Olam Ha-Ba, the World to Come, but that term is also used to refer to the spiritual afterlife. For them, when the Messiah comes to initiate the perfect world of peace and prosperity, the righteous dead will be brought back to life and given the opportunity to experience the perfected world that their righteousness helped to create. The wicked dead will not be resurrected.

We understand that Messiah has already come and are awaiting His soon return.

Following the millennium, it describes a time after the world is perfected under the rulership of Messiah.

This term also refers to the afterlife where the soul passes after the death of the body.

It can be contrasted with olam hazeh, this world.

Ephesians 1:21

Yochanan/John Chapter 3:3 speaks of

SEEing the kingdom of God

 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot

SEE the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of heaven [of God]

resembles a concept in rabbinic Judaism called

tikkun ha-olam,

which literally means:

mending the world.

Tikun Olam – Repairing/mending the World.

When one enters (or joins) the kingdom of heaven, one becomes a partner with God in spreading redemption throughout a hurting world. That person goes out and feeds the hungry; clothes the naked; visits those who are in hospital and prison; prays for the sick and defends the rights of the orphan and widow. A person who has entered the kingdom of heaven gets involved in people’s lives. He or she pursues a lifestyle characterized by

tikkun ha-olam

or mending our world:

where there is hatred, he or she bestows love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

In John 3 we see Yeshua/Jesus discussing aspects of this with Nicodemus:

“If one is not fathered, born from above, he cannot have power, permission, ability to see the kingdom, dominion, rule, royal power, kingship of the God.”

There are many points to this teaching; in essence Yeshua/Jesus is saying that the Kingdom of God/Malkut Shamayim, cannot be gained through Torah observance alone. He is also saying that being born physically into the sin affected world is a death sentence, unless… one is born anew from above by His Spirit.

He is also indicating to the power/Spirit/ruach of God being essential in order to walk continually in righteousness and to enter into the Olam Haba/World to come.

The sight, He is referring to is, spiritual sight that can only be received from Our Heavenly Father by His Spirit and through His Son the King, Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.

All of this teaching is directly opposed to the teaching that says that repentance, Torah observance, mitzvot, and prayer alone can earn one entry into the Olam Haba.
 
Therefore, unlike the rabbis of the Talmud, 

Yeshua/Jesus does NOT teach that conversion to Judaism will birth a person anew, instead, that:

ONLY repentance and salvation through the redemptive work of God through His Messiah, will bring newness of life to the individual.
 
Kingdom of the God –

Malkut Shamayim – Kingdom of the Heavens

Dan. 4:3; 1 Chr. 29:10-12,

This points to our Heavenly Father’s divine reign over the present world made new; rid of all sin and evil etc.; and it’s a more correct understanding than the traditional and extra Biblical, Christian concept, of a heaven somewhere in the clouds.

Instead, by the tikun olam/repairing of the world,

it indicates that the present world will be

cleansed, restored, and renewed

by

God

through the atoning Blood

of His Son Yeshua/Jesus,

and He will transition it into the

Olam Haba/world to come.

Interestingly this is supported by both the Old Tesament/Tanakh and the New Testament/Brit Ha-Chadashah.
 
Messiah simply points to the physical birth first and says that both it and a spiritual birth are needed. He doesn’t tell Nicodemus that he is incorrect and continues to explain that everyone is born through the mothers waters breaking, but something more is needed if we are to enter God’s Kingdom/Malkut Shamayim.

We must be born of God’s Spirit,

born anew,

from above.

The words water and Spirit can be found in both

the

tevilot/immersions/baptisms of

 Yochanan/John the Immerser /Baptist

and Messiah/Yeshua/Jesus.

Water represents the tevilah/baptism of repentance

and

The Spirit the tevilah/baptism of Spirit and Fire from above.

Without Messiah Yeshua/Jesus’

tevilah/baptism of death and His resurrection

we are unable to receive His Spirit.

In Him alone we have access to what is needed for our Salvation, His very own Spirit, and the Spirit of His Father in us.

His Spirit births in us the desire to repent/teshuvah/turn around, to turn back to God. Then only through Messiah are we able to receive the fullness of the gift of His Holy Spirit/Ruach haKodesh/Spirit of Holiness

Who births us anew from above

into a life reconciled to God.

Born out of water refers to the breaking of a mother’s waters at physical birth and it speaks of being born into this world/God’s creation affected by sin.
 
And of the Spirit refers to being born anew, fathered by God through His Spirit. In the same way that physical birth breaks water and through blood brings new life into the present world, so too spiritual birth breaks the living waters of MessiahYeshua/Jesus and through His blood atonement, it births anew the soul of a human being into the Olam Haba/world to come.

This means that an individuals entry into the Olam Haba/world to come, starts at the moment of being born anew by His Spirit through Messiah Yeshua/Jesus and continues all the way through physical death and into everlasting living.

This is why Messiah said:
 
I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live: And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.

John/Yochanan 11:15-16
 
In the previous verses the earthly things are explained and show the progression from physical birth, through spiritual renewal and into the Olam Haba. It seems that Messiah is not making a separation between the physical and the spiritual as some might think, instead, the earthly things include spiritual things and are the explanation of a merging between the physical birth and the spiritual birth from above.
 
Here is appears Yeshua/Jesus’s teaching shows the final shape of tikun olam/repairing of the world. The Bible clearly teaches a renewed heavens and earth and New Jerusalem descending from heaven at the end of the age.

Through Yeshua/Jesus, as His children, we are empowered to begin the work that will be completed by Messiahs return and the Father dwelling with His own/ finally fulfilled in Tabernacles/Sukkot.

 This we must understand will be under a renewed heavens and not in some Greco-Roman, gnostic inspired, heavenly kingdom in the sky.

Those who accept God’s redemptive offer have already begun to live eternally v.16.

Those who refuse God’s redemptive offer are already dying eternally v.18.

All creation is offered an opportunity to receive Our Heavenly Father’s offer of redemption and to be born anew from above.

11. Do this, knowing that at the present time/olam hazeh, it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; 

Verse 11 begins a repetition of metaphors which contrast evil and good: sleep/death and salvation, night and day, darkness and light.

When a person with a hebraic mindset reads, Present time, he understands it to refer to the olam hazeh/present world, our current existence within time and space. Here Paul/Shaul, compares the present state of the world to death, using sleep which was a metaphor common to the rabbis teaching, and was also used by Yeshua/Jesus Himself as a reference for death/temporal death while awaiting final judgment.

Paul/Shaul told them to:

Stop living as though you are still dead like those living under wrath, you’re not, you’re a new creation, act like those who are awake/already alive eternally in Messiah. For now salvation/Yeshua/Jesus, is nearer to us than when we first believed. 12 The night/olam hazeh/the present world subject to wrath is almost gone, and the day/olam haba/the world to come is near.

This salvation is the final resurrection and the

olam haba/world to come,

the physical return of

Salvation/Yeshua/Jesus/Himself.

The night, a symbol for this present age/olam hazeh

and the dark acts of humanity, is almost finished.

The day, a symbol for the world to come/olam haba,

is very close in terms of our Heavenly Father’s plan for the reconciliation of creation.

Sometimes it may seem so far off, however, we are cautioned that we should understand our position from His perspective. This present darkness is only temporary, and just like any night, it will end and if, as Paul/Shaul tells us, it is near, then we are now quickly approaching the dawn.

Here we are informed that there are clearly two worlds:

the olam hazeh,

literally translated as: world this one,

and olam haba

world the coming or the world to come,

meaning: eternity.

In Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, we need not fear what comes next because what comes next is:

the Olam Haba/world to come

which is, through Him.

In Messiah Yeshua/Jesus,

we are assured of everlasting life,

not because we won’t die physically

but because having died to self, we will live in Him.

No longer do we need to surrender to the power of death which is the fear of the unknown because the promise of Our Heavenly Father is that we are known in Him and that through His Son we will exist in right relationship with Him for all eternity and in Him there is no unknown.

Any religion that teaches we can repair the world by our own efforts is a religion of anti-Christ.

The true tikun olam is impossible without

the redeeming work of the King Messiah Yeshua/Jesus

at His first coming;

and

the renewing work of the King Messiah Yeshua/Jesus

upon His return.

Maybe if we understood the Hebrew mindset and language better, the incomplete verbal action which is associated with the

olam ha’ba; we would recognize that it is 

already but not yet,

in exactly the same way that we talk about the role of Messiah Yeshua/Jesus being completely finished….

already but not yet!

  It becomes evident that this idea of the olam ha’ba

helps greatly to redirect our motivation and energy on the mission here in the olam hazeh

because the two are not totally separated from each other and Hazeh will become Ha’ba in our Heavenly Father’s perfect timing. 

If the olam ha’ba is coming,

then the really serious issue in our chaim/lifes

is whether or not we will be ready for His and its arrival?

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim and mishpachah!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week,

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily.

Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation in the 

olam ha’ba/world to com…

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer,

Savior, Lord, and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.

What If Any, Is The Connection Between Adam And Omer?

The Days of Omer

are a time of

reflection and growth

in preparation for

Shavuot.

For those new to

Our Fathers Appointed Times in His Annual Calendar

here is a brief explanation of

what it is

when it is

and

what it is for.

More can be read at:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/counting-our-blessings-with-omer/ 

https://www.minimannamoments.com/daily-devotions-for-the-49-days-of-omer/

Saying the

בְּרָכָה blessing/berakah

for

Counting the Omer (transliteration)

Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha’olam, asherkid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tzivanu al sfirat ha’omer. 

Hayom yom echad ba’omer.

BA-RUCH A-TAH ADO-NAI E-LO-HE-NU ME-LECH HA-OLAM ASHER KID-E-SHA-NU BE-MITZ-VO-TAV VETZI-VA-NU AL SEFI-RAT HA-OMER.

Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us concerning the counting of the Omer.

The season of Passover/Pesach

includes the week of Unleavened Bread

and the start of the Counting FROM the Omer

50 days towards Pentecost/Shavuot.

Some scholars say The Omer is counted every evening after nightfall, from the second night of Passover/Pesach, until the night before Shavuot/Pentecost.

There are disputes as to which day is the first day, and this has been going on since before Jesus/Yeshuas’ time; and can be studied further if the reader so desires.

Here is given a basic understanding of

the pattern

a reason to follow the main outlines for personal growth;

and

to remember and realize what Messiah has accomplished for us.

The 2 links given above have more details concerning the Omer.

The Book of Leviticus, ספר ויקרא

Vayik’ra 23:9 – 16

From the day after the Shabbat for 49 days.

In chp. 23 after the 7 day feast of

unleavened bread/Matzah

which western Christianity totally misses…

we come to a moed/appointed time

that does not have a name.

However the scripture says that at this moed or appointed time the children of Israel are commanded, notice it is not a suggestion! They are commanded to bring

an omer to the priests.

 

An omer is simply a sheaf;

specifically a bundle of grain

from the beginning of the first crop or harvest.

Which was most likely barley see Exodus/sh’mot 9:31…

Shemot, Shemoth, or Shemos

שְׁמוֹת ‎  Hebrew for: Names,

Book of Exodus.

…referring to the names of the Israelites who come to Egypt with Jacob.

The priest is then to

wave the omer

before Adonai/Lord God, as a

wave offering,

so that the omer

and the entire harvest will be accepted.

 Note on Leviticus 8:27:

He then put all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering before the LORD.

Moses took the sacred portions of the peace offering along with the breads of the grain offering and placed them into the hands of Aaron and his sons. (See previous post for more detail). As they held the sacred elements, Moses presented them as a grain offering, implying that Moses must have joined hands with the priests in holding these elements. Hand in hand with Moses, still clutching the sacred portions of the sacrifices in their hands, the new priests offered the elements before God in a wave offering.

Facing the Sanctuary/Mishkan where the shekinah presence of the Father rested, they lifted the portions before the Almighty.

Then Moses took the elements back from the new priests and offered them up on the altar.

This has a Messianic implication for believers!

People may often feel unworthy to pray/talk with the Father, and sometimes people find it difficult to lift his or her heart to heaven.

We ask ourselves, how can we even dare to approach the Father when we are bowed down with the shame of sin and guilt?

Lets think on this as we approach our Heavenly Father in worship and in prayer, offering before Him the service of our hearts, the scarred hands of our High Priest/Messiah Jesus/Yeshua join with ours to lift the offering/presentation before the Father.

He lifts our hands together with His

in a wave offering

before the Almighty! Wow!

We are to understand the pattern

that our Heavenly Father set in place by WAY

of His Appointed Times/Feasts/Moedim,

which were given to us as

an annual rehearsal

for the future fulfillment by Messiah.

This was what Yeshua/Jesus completed

He was the

first fruit

the omer of the harvest of souls

presented to His Father

so that the entire harvest

all those who in the then future and still continuing today

would be acceptable to the Father. Wow!

Then from the day of your

bringing in the omer of the wave offering

count 50 days

and you will bring near a new offering to Adonai.

Vayikra 23; 15,16

The Book of Leviticus, ספר ויקרא

‘Va•ik•ra,’ means ‘And [the Lord] called,

Hebrew: ויקרא‎, Wayiqra, 

This was the precursor to

Shavuot/Pentecost

and the outpouring of

His Ruach HaKodesh

upon all flesh

fulfilling Joels prophecy of

the last days/end times/ end of the age.

This Shavuot was preceded by

the day of the wave offering and

49 days were to be counted forward to

bringing the new offering from the wheat harvest.  

shmot 34:2

and on that day 3000 souls were added…  

There is an inference to the time of counting, that the wheat crops are continuing to grow and ripen but will be ready for harvest when the counting is complete!

It also ensures the correct time (agriculturally), for the farmers to harvest the crops.

A further prophetic picture emerges if we recall that Egypt/מצרים (mitsrayim / meets-rah-yeem), is the type of the world system. This was where both the children of Israel/Yisrael, and ourselves have been freed from its’ slavery; and the one who had prepared the way for them to sojourn and be safe during the plagues so long before was Joseph. Joseph, a type of Jesus/Yeshua who had the dream of the 12 sheafs bowing /waving to his sheaf. The 12 tribes did bow down to Joseph, the type of Messiah; and One day every knee shall bow to the One who was the fulfillment of the Omer, the Wave offering before the Lord/Adonai.

Some call this day

Yom haBikurim/bikuriym Day of the First Fruits.

The scripture 23:9 does not mention bikuriym

which is the word often translated as

first fruits

in verse 10 is actually

reshiyt which means beginning

(familiar from bereshiyt/Genesis) .

The day following the first day of

Unleavened Bread

is called

Yom HaBikkurim י ום הביכורים 

the Day of Firstfruits,

or

Reshit Ha’Katzir  ראשית הקציר

the first of the harvest.

Reishit Qatzir ראשׁית קציר

The spring-time feast of Reishit Qatzir

Beginning of the Harvest

Numbers/B’midbar 28:26 clearly says that

Shavuot/Pentecost the moed/appointed time,

occurring 50 days later

is yom habikuriym ..

Shmot 23:16 and vayikra 23:17

also agree that

bikuriym

in this context is associated with

Shavuot/Pentecost.

Walking through the spring feasts moedim /mo’ediym we see a picture of our own walk with Messiah.

At Pesach/Passover, we are reminded of how we are set free from the bondage of sin;

then during the feast of matzah/unleavened bread, we have the chance to practice walking in our unleavened state/without sin.

As we continue towards Shavuot/Pentecost, we can count from the Omer. We are like the crops of wheat growing towards maturity, ultimately to become an abundant harvest for the Lord/Adonai.

Some important themes or subject matter for this season would be: sowing

growing

increase

being fed and nourished by His word

and

being mindful and focused

of how we are growing towards maturity in Him.

This time is often referred to as:

s’fiyrat haomer – counting the omer;

this is not exactly correct as it is

not the omers being counted but the days, that is:

the days from the day of the first offering of the Omer.

We should therefore say

counting FROM the omer  

s’fiyrat meomer /sefirat ha-omer 

מרעמ   ספירת  

The counting is to begin

according to scripture the 16th day of the first month.

Which is the first day after the first day of matzah/unleavened bread.

Yom haBikkurim /Day of the First Fruits

is at the same time.

Counting of the Omer 

סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר‎,

Sefirat HaOmer,

sometimes abbreviated as

Sefira or the Omer;

is always on 16th of Nisan /Aviv.

From sunset to sunset and is counted AFTER sunset.

This מִצְוָה – mits-vah – command, decree; derives from the Torah commandment to count forty-nine days beginning from the day on which the עֹמֶר  oh-mer – omer is offered.

The week of matzah unleavened bread

together with the

counting from the omer

is part of the

spiritual preparation

prior to the outpouring of His Spirit of Holiness 50 days after His Resurrection at Pentecost/Shavuot.

They had to wait in Jerusalem/Yerushalayim which would have been very dangerous for the Talmidim/Disciples of Messiah. However they were obedient and received the fullness of His Spirit/Ruach, to empower them to go out into all the world with the good news and make disciples/talmidim of all nations…….

Each year this is a great opportunity for every believer who wants to walk as His disciple/talmid

to do a spiritual check up.

We willingly get physical/medical check ups and its often required by employers/insurers. We get our vehicles/cars/transport checked regularly change the oil and tires yet we often neglect the most important area of our life and that is where we are spiritually.

This is an important if not a critical point of assessment and we tend to keep going along, without checking ourselves to see if we are still in the right condition to continue the journey as well as the right direction. We could even check our own oil level and pressure! For a car it’s important that the oil lubricates the engine parts, stopping friction from overheating and blowing up; and that there is the right amount so the engine does not dry out and seize up. So an annual spiritual checkup is just as critical for us and we should not leave it just for one time a year; however, this is a good time to do a personal one. Spiritual maintenance helps to prevent burnout when we will become unable to function effectively in our own lives and of little to no use in aiding and serving others.

How does Adam figure in this?

Take a trip all the way back in Genesis/B’resheet to the time when our Heavenly Father called to Adam in the garden, asking:

Where are you?

Genesis 3:9

It was not that He didn’t know where Adam was physically because Our Heavenly Father knows and sees everything and nothing takes Him unawares.

Adams new spiritual condition was not a surprise to the Father but He wanted Adam to own up as to what had happened to him spiritually after he was disobedient and fell in sin.

We could and should put our own name in that very searching question….

Where are we?

Right now today ….where are we?

Our Heavenly Father is asking us

about our spiritual condition

and

about our position in covenant relationship with Him.

Where are we spiritually?

Are we still on the narrow Way?

We may be doing great in the natural sense, everything may be going along fine. Or we may be filled with our own ways, our own goals and dreams; and not pressing in to the things of Jesus the Messiah/Yeshua, as we know to do if we are to call ourselves His talmidim/disciple.

So there is somewhat of a connection with Adam and Omer in that, Adam needed to check his spiritual condition and do what he was required to do on his part to fix that broken fellowship caused by his sin.

In the same way we are to take the time to assess our spiritual position before the Father and refresh our relationship in covenant with Him by the power of His Ruach haKodesh/Spirit of Holiness. This is a time of turning towards the Father, a time of introspective teshuvah /repentance.

As we count from the omer it’s a time of

reflection and growth

in preparation for

Shavuot/Pentecost/Feast of Weeks.

When we also remember Moses/the Giving of Torah and the celebration of covenant/marriage with the children of Israel who had just come out of bondage and needed guidelines for life/chaim.

 

According to the Torah (first 5 books of the old covenant), it took seven weeks for the Israelites to travel from Egypt to Mount Sinai.

The name Shavuot/Pentecost, meaning “weeks,”

refers to this seven-week period.

Each day is counted, which is known as the Counting of the Omer, or Sefirat HaOmer.

In the days of the Temple, the counting marked the seven weeks from the wheat harvest on the spring festival of Passover, to the harvesting of barley on Shavuot.

Festival of Reaping – חג הקציר (Exodus 23:16)

The Three Pilgrimage Festivals,

in Hebrew Shalosh Regalim (שלוש רגלים),

are three major festivals in Judaism

Pesach (Passover),

Shavuot (Weeks or Pentecost),

and Sukkot (Tabernacles, Tents or Booths)

when all ancient Israelites who were able would make a pilgrimage to the Temple in Jerusalem, as commanded by the Torah.

Each of the three pilgrimage festivals marks a new period in the agricultural season:

Passover is also known as Chag ha-Aviv, the Spring Festival, which marks the beginning of the new planting season. The basic meaning of the word aviv, is the stage of growth in grain when the seeds have reached full size but have not yet dried.

Chag ha-Katzir, or the Jewish Harvest Festival of Reaping, is when the first crop of the season is ready. This happens at the time of Shavuot.

The next agricultural step is for all of the crops to be gathered. This happens with the third pilgrimage festival, Sukkot, which is also referred to as the Festival of Gathering, Chag Ha-Asif.

Day of the First Fruits – יום הבכורים (Numbers 28:26)

Yom Habikurim (Day of the First Fruits) comes from ancient times, when people would bring Bikkurim, their first and best fruits, as an offering to the Holy Temple. Bikkurim were brought from the Seven Species for which the land of Israel is praised: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates (Deuteronomy 8:8).

Shavuot and Pentecost

The Greek name for the Shavuot holiday, Pentecost, means “Fiftieth day.” This name refers to the fifty days between Passover and Shavuot.

 See other posts for more detail.

The scripture

teach us to number our days

takes on a new meaning in light of

counting from the omer.

Counting 49 or 7 weeks 7×7 is like counting a complete cycle counting 7x shabbats/Sabbaths. Weekly Shabbat is a cycle straight from Genesis and 7×7 is also like a cycle. The Moedim/Appointed Times of The Lord, and His set apart people, is an annual cycle following a planned specific pattern repeated, so we will remember His instructions, His Patterns that we are to follow –

fulfilled in Jesus/Messiah

that we may continue to remember and

follow the pattern, the WAY. Come Follow Me!

One final thought is that it was during these days of

counting from the omer

that the risen/resurrected Messiah Yeshua

was seen by His talmidim /disciples. John 20:19-25.

It is recorded that Messiah stayed forty days after His resurrection on this earth. He met with His talmidim/disciples again on the mount of Olives and ordered them to wait until they received His Ruach haKodesh/Holy Spirit. 

This has to be significant because nothing is happenstance with our Heavenly Father. There indeed is something about this period of time between His Resurrection and the giving/outpouring of His Spirit  that is so prophetic and powerfilled that it should give us great pause for thought!

He also appeared to so many other people.

Mary of Magdala Mark 16:9

Joanna Mary mother of James Matthew 28:9

the 2 on the road to Emmaus. Luke 24:13-32

References include: the gospels. Matt 28:8-10. Mark  

Peter had also met the risen Christ. Luke 24:34.

Eight days later again Messiah manifested Himself before His disciples/talmidim, and this time Thomas was there and he touched Yeshua/Jesus and believed Him from that moment. John 20:26-31

The third time Messiah came to meet His talmidim/disciples where they were on the seashore and He had breakfast with them.

He also showed another miracle by telling them to cast the net and the net was full of around 153 fish. John 21

   There are references both in John and in Acts.

Jesus/Yeshua ascended to heaven after this meeting with His disciples. Acts 1:3-12.

Messiah appeared five times on the first day of the week. He continued to meet His disciples and teach them during the forty days between Passover/Pesach and His Ascension.

Saint Augustine in his book 

De Consensu Evangelistarum 

(Harmony of the Gospels from about AD 400)

catalogues ten appearances of Christ.

1st to the women at the sepulchre;

2nd to the same on the way from the sepulchre;

3rd to Peter;

4th to the two disciples going to the town of Emmaus

5th to several of them in Jerusalem when Thomas was not present

He came again a 6th time when Thomas saw Him

7th time was by the sea of Tiberias at the capture of the fishes;

the 8th was on the mountain of Galilee, according to Matthew;

the 9th occasion is expressed by Mark, ‘at length when they were at table,’ because no more were they going to eat with Him upon earth;

the 10th was on the very day, when no longer upon the earth, but uplifted into the cloud, He was ascending into heaven.

However, Saint Thomas Aquinas notes, “But, as John admits, not all things were written down. And He visited them frequently before He went up to heaven,” in order to comfort them. Hence it is written (1 Corinthians 15:6-7) that “He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once . . . after that He was seen by James”; of which apparitions no mention is made in the Gospels.

 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, it is recorded that Messiah was seen by over 500 people at one time after His resurrection. Over a period of 40 days up to the day Yeshua/Jesus went back Home He was seen by, and talked to a number of individuals. He said He would come back the same way He went to Heaven.

From the very B’resheet/Genesis – beginning we were created to walk before the Father in obedience to His statutes, ordinances and ways.

The first Adam failed – the last Adam succeeded

and showed us the WAY back to the Father, the truth/emet of our condition and the life/chaim that we can live and have because of His sacrifice.

He was also

The Unleavened Bread from heaven

The Omer that was waved and

The Firstfruits from the dead.

And furthermore counting from the

Omer to Shavuot

He is the outpouring ON the harvest

through His Spirit of Holiness/Ruach HaKodesh.

This was so He could be with us always even to the end of the age; empowering all believers who unlike the first Adam, will choose to be obedient and follow Him.

50 days for us to reflect and repent and be ready for the outpouring that we will remember at Pentecost/Shavuot; refreshing and reviving us again to be witnesses to Him as He has commanded us.

Time to consider our ways

and choose life.

The question that Adam and Eve were asked still applies, because the very same question that He asked mankind in the Beginning, (B’reshyt/Genesis), is the same question He is asking mankind today!

Where are you?

So it would seem there is a connection between

Adam and Omer…

Let us allow the re-newed spirit imparted to us by the last Adam direct our steps these next days as we count them from Omer; not as a religious observance, but as one

desiring the fullness

of all Messiah won for us at Calvary

so we can be effective and bring glory

to the Name above every name.

Father teach us to count our days!

and let’s… 

Make each and every day count!

 

שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם‎,

Shalom aleikhem

chaverim/friends and mishpachah/family!

Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week,

you are greatly loved and prayed for daily.

Please don’t leave here without assurance of your salvation.

Let the deep inner knowing that you are sealed to the day of redemption by the Blood of Messiah Jesus/Yeshua bring you His shalom right now!

Not sure ..you can be…

Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord, and soon returning King

and that you have a personal relationship with Him.

It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.

You are very precious in His sight.

SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.

I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.