![]() Along with this barley bread offering of the Omer, a single lamb was offered as a burnt offering.īy divine design, the rituals of offering the barley omer in the Temple coincided with the death and resurrection of the Yeshua. The remainder of the dough was baked into loaves of unleavened barley bread to be shared among the priesthood. He touched it to the altar and offered a portion of it on the altar as a memorial portion. As Miriam from Magdala encountered the risen Messiah in the garden, the High Priest was waving the dough before the LORD as a wave offering. And while the disciples were trying to imagine what had become of the Master's body, the priesthood was busy mixing the barley flour with oil and frankincense to make it into a bread offering. Then while the Master passed those last silent hours before his awakening, the priests refined the freshly milled flour by sifting it through 13 sieves.īefore the flour was ready for the altar, the women had already discovered the empty tomb and reported it to the disciples. So it was that very night, while the Master was still in the sleep of death, that the priests in the Temple threshed, roasted and ground the barley omer into flour. Until the barley omer was harvested and offered in the Temple, the rest of the crops were not deemed kosher. The produce of the land could not be enjoyed until God had received his due. The commandment of the barley omer served to remind Israel that the land and its produce belonged first to God. Barley is the first crop to ripen in Israel, so the omer was always a barley sheaf. According to Torah, no grain or produce from the new year's crops could be used or eaten until the first omer of grain to ripen was harvested and brought to the Temple. The harvest ritual of gathering this barley omer was for a special first fruits offering to the LORD. The baskets contained more than enough grain to constitute a full sheaf's worth: enough to fulfill the mandate of Leviticus 23:10. They were delivered to the priesthood in the Temple. That night the baskets of grain were carried to Jerusalem. (Menachot 10:3)Īfter the sun had set and the Sabbath was over, just hours before the Master rose from his tomb, the barley was reaped and collected in three baskets. On the same day that the Master was bound and crucified, the apostles of the Sanhedrin bound up the standing barley into bundles while it was still attached to the ground so that it would be easier to reap. On the same day that the Master was tried before an assemblage of priests and judges from the Sanhedrin, apostles of the Sanhedrin were sent out to a barley field not far from Jerusalem. ![]() ![]() It is an obscure appointment on the Biblical calendar, sometimes called the First Fruits of the Barley Harvest, but better known simply by its Biblical name, "The Omer." The Omer is a minor festival with major Messianic implications. The command to bring the first sheaf of the harvest to the Temple is of great significance to the disciples of Yeshua. He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath." (Lev. "When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest an omer of the first grain you harvest. This mitzvah ("commandment") derives from the Torah commandment to count forty-nine days beginning from the day on which the Omer, an offering containing an omer-measure of barley, was offered in the Temple in Jerusalem: Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord." ![]() “‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. The counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר, Sefirat HaOmer) is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between the Festival of Passover and Shavuot as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16. ![]()
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