Each year there is an obscure yet important Torah Commanded 50 Day Count Up, not count down, of a unit of barley grain called the omer. Barley was the first harvest of the 2 grain crops of Israel and the first of the 7 crops (species) of the land of Israel. First the barley, secondly the wheat. First things first. The continuity of the Barley Harvest Theme extends for Israel annually since days of old, all the way from Nisan 1 when the barley is in an early state of near maturation, called abib or aviv until Pentecost. Although the barley comes due by the Second Passover, the barley harvest season extends over a period of The Counting of the Omer for 50 Days (7 weeks x 7 weeks+1day) until Pentecost (Shavuot).

   The Season of The Atonement of the Messiah (First Passover) and The Resurrection (Feast of First Fruits) and The Ascension was The BARLEY SEASON! The great Pentecost 10 days after The Ascension was the symbolic Last Day of The Barley Season. The Messiah of Israel, Christ the Lord, represents The Barley Harvest and Season, with those special events at the ending of His earthly life. The 50 Day Commanded Counting of the Omer creates the period of CONTINUITY for Israel of Barley Season complete and the Wheat Season begun. Ending and beginning. The Barley Harvest and Barley Season find symbolic completion only on counted up Day 50 at Pentecost (Shavuot)! Messiah is The HEAD of the Barley Harvest! His bride / body is the COMPLIMENT, the remainder of the Barley Harvest. So? Might His bride, His body, be transformed on The Last Day, as the Last of the Barley Harvest, symbolically speaking, to completion, fullness, and wholeness on some future Pentecost? Has the 50 day count up and the last major days of the Messiah's life during Barley Season given us invaluable clues, wrapped up in mystery and obscurity, all these years? Some are promised to be "lifted up" on The Last Day. Could it be The Last Day of the Barley Season? First the Head, then the Body? Complete in one great Pentecostal Day? The Day of The Blessed Hope? In 2019? We shall know soon if it will be 5-11 or 12, 2019 on the Torah Calendar...


With Love and Shalom,
Jean