The Counting of the Omer (a measure of barley) is a minor commandment in the Torah, yet rich in meaning. A process and period of ASCENDING, it is a daily COUNT UP, not count down, until Day 50 Shavuot (Pentecost). The Feast of Weeks is at 7 weeks plus 1 day. For example, Day 44 is 6 Weeks and 2 Days of the Omer. The Daily Ascending, Counting Up, is intended to foster greater appreciation and enthusiasm about the gradual sure nearness of Appointed Time #4, the Midst of the Menorah of the 7 Lamps. Going to Messiah's Lamp #4, continuity is enhanced, from Passover until the wheat harvest for Israel symbolically begins at Shavuot (Pentecost). Only on Day 50 is the barley season for Israel symbolically and technically complete. The Messiah is associated with the Head, the First of the harvest, the barley First Fruits. His Body is the symbolic Remainder of the barley harvest. Might He return for the Ascending Body on Feast # 4 of Shavuot (Pentecost)? Or 3 days before, to create 3 days of Preparation? As was done in the Times of Moses. before the First Shavuot of many signs and wonders? Shavuot will be 5-25 to 26 according to the Torah Calendar. Blessed be the current period of 50 Days, of a process of Spiritual Ascending, in the Counting of the Omer! Ascension Days!

With Love and Shalom,
Jean