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Congratulations to Brother John, who began full-time ministry just Yesterday!   :-)

NEW MEXICO MEETING:
Do you live in New Mexico and desire to meet with other believers? This is the last call for a meeting of all interested folks from New Mexico to be held in the Albuquerque area. If you are interested please email us right away!

Listener Q + A

Listener Comment on "Natural branches" Q+A
   Wow, this Listener Q&A was outstanding. Deep and yet to the point clarity. Thank you for this very timely blessing.

Listener Comment on "Flee from Idolatry" radio message.
   I was able to meet with my soon-to-be former pastor today and turned in my notice of resignation with the position I hold in the church. Thank you for bringing our story to the attention of other people who may not know what demonic influences our children are facing everyday and the lack of leadership of those we look to for spiritual guidance...the pastors in our churches. Please pray for me as I search for a new church home. I am hoping my daughter, granddaughters follow me and don't stay in the church I am fleeing! I am trusting our Father to lead me to where He wants me to be. Please pray that I will hear His voice in choosing a new church home.
   After my granddaughter returns from her mission trip at the end of the month, I am going to give that pastor the link to your website. I most definitely want him to hear it. Somehow, I doubt if he gives us or the church an apology. I'm sure he will never tell the church about any of this. If he doesn't repent, I would hate to be in his shoes. G-d made the 1st Commandment to be the 1st for a good reason. Even after David committed adultery and murder, G-d kept him as Israel's king. As bad as those sins are, the worse sin of all is putting another god before the One True God. He will forgive but there must be true repentance.

Listener Comment on "Natural branches" Q+A
   Wow, this Listener Q&A was outstanding. Deep and yet to the point clarity. Thank you for this very timely bless

Listener Comment - Counting the Omer on our Tsiyon Calendar
   I would really appreciate it if next year, when you begin the counting of the omer; that you would use a different system then you have this year. Just putting omer count does not help those of us who lose track of what day in the counting it is. Try Omer day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, etc. thanks

Tsiyon Answer - Counting the Omer on our Tsiyon Calendar
Thanks for your suggestion regarding the counting of the Omer on our Tsiyon calendar. Recently Dawn re-posted a message from Eliyahu explaining basic details of the Omer count, which can be found here.

Here is the message for your convenience:

Start of the Omer Count of 7 Shavuot +1 day to Pentacost

Seven shabua (pronounced sha-bu-ah and/or sha-vu-ah) cycles are to be counted from the day after "the Sabbath" to bring us to the feast commonly called "Pentecost." After which Sabbath of the month does the count begin? Joshua, on first coming into the Land, kept this on the day beginning the day after Passover, which is the 2nd Sabbath of the month, commencing the count on the 15th of the month of Abib (also Aviv). We know this because no new grain could be eaten until the offering commencing this shabua count had been made. See verses below.

Lev 23:10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap its harvest, then you shall bring the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest:
Lev 23:11 and he shall wave the sheaf before YHWH, to be accepted for you. On the next day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12 On the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt offering to YHWH.
Lev 23:13 The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to YHWH for a pleasant aroma; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
Lev 23:14 You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven shavuot shall be completed:
Lev 23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Shabua you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to YHWH...

Jos 5:10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
Jos 5:11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
Jos 5:12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

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Notice that we are given specific instructions as to how to count the Omer, and that is NOT day by day. Here are the instructions once again:

Lev 23:15 “‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven shavuot shall be completed:
Lev 23:16 even to the next day after the seventh Shabua you shall number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meal offering to YHWH...

Notice in verse 15 that we are to count "seven shavuot" (sabbath cycles) to the day after "the seventh Shabua", which equals fifty days. We understand this to mean that the sabbath cycles are what must be counted, plus one more day, which is why we do the counting in the way we do on our calendar. On the other hand, we understand that some may see this to mean they should count each day, day by day, which they are, of course, free to do. More about this can be found in my book, Holy Time.

May you [ALL] enjoy a Blessed Shavuot!