Today is known as the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot as well as Pentecost.
The Feast of Weeks/ Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Torah (YHVH's instructions) on Mt. Sinai which Moses received from YHVH and relayed to the people at the same place where YHVH would have Moses build the tabernacle and where the covenant vow between YHVH and His people was made. Over 1500 years later, on the same day, Pentecost, (Pente means 50 in Greek) the Holy Spirit was poured out on the disciples where they gathered to pray at the Temple (Acts 2), sealing the renewed covenant that Yeshua came to reestablish. (See former post, "The Restoration of All Things)
The Feast of Weeks/Shavuot is the only Feast that does not have a set day but is counted up to 50 to determine the day. The time of counting is call the "Counting of the Omer". The omer was a measure of flour ground from grain from the early harvest beginning at the Feast of First Fruits.
"From the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering (on First Fruits), count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days, up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:15-16) The disciples were counting the days after Yehsua rose from the dead as they did every year. That is how they knew Yeshua ascended into heaven on the 40th day. (Acts 1:3)
The Feast of First Fruits is the first day after the Sabbath after Passover. Passover was fulfilled by Yeshua as the Passover Lamb, crucified. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was fulfilled by Yeshua being the sinless Bread of Life buried, and the Feast of First Fruits was fulfilled by Yeshua when He rose from the dead, the first to rise.
"For now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep." (1Corinthians 15:20)
Numbers in Hebrew have meanings. Seven means fullness or completion. There are patterns of seven everywhere in Scripture.
Here are many examples:
The seventh day, the Sabbath, is separated from all other days as the day of YHVH's rest. (Genesis 2:2-3, Leviticus 23:3)
There are a week of days (7) to Shabbat (the Sabbath)
There are a week of weeks (49 days) to Shavuot
There are a week of months for the seven Feasts (Month 1-7. All of YHVH's Feasts fall in the first seven months and the 3 fall feasts all fall in the seventh month of Tishrei. (On YHVH's calander)
The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts seven days.
The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) lasts seven days.
There are a week of Years (7 years) to the Shmita year (the land was to rest every seven years)
There are a week of Shmitas up to the Jubilee year (Every 50 years is the Jubilee year)
There are a week of Millenniums: 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2000 years from Abraham to Yeshua, 2000 years from Yeshua until His 1,000 year reign.
There are weeks of years; 7x69 plus seven= 490 years in Daniel 9
Seven also speaks of finality or new beginnings. After the 1,000 year millennial reign of Yeshua will come the New Heaven and new Earth. (Revelation 20:4, 21:1-5)
In addition:
There are Seven Spirits of YHVH (Isaiah 11:2,3)
There are Seven Eyes of YHVH that roam the earth (Zacharia 4:10)
The golden lamp stand (Menorah) in the temple has seven branches
In Revelation chapter one there are seven congregations, seven spirits which are before His throne, seven golden menorahs, and seven stars.
In Revelation there are seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowels of wrath.
Seven is a very significant number to YHVH!
The next Feast on YHVH's calender is the Feast of Trumpets, the first day of the seventh month of Tishrei on YHVH's calander (around the middle of September), the first of the 3 Fall Feasts. The 4 Spring feasts were fulfilled by Yeshua at his first coming, the 3 fall feasts will be fulfilled at His second coming. We continue to celebrate the Spring feasts, commemorating what YHVH has done through the Living Word, Yeshua and look forward to celebrating the Fall feasts as we rehearse all the events to occur when He returns again!
One day in the future on the Feast of Trumpets, Yeshua will return and raise His people from the dead.
"....for as in Adam all die, so also in Yeshua the Messiah all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Messiah, the first fruit; afterward those of Messiah at His coming...In a moment, in a blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet, for a trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed." (1 Corinthians 15; 22, 23, 52)
HalleluYa!
Blessings!
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