Joseph F. Dumond

Isa 6:9-12 And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed. Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land laid waste, a desolation, and until Jehovah has moved men far away, and the desolation in the midst of the land is great.
Published: Apr 19, 2019

News Letter 5855-008
The 3rd Year of the 4th Sabbatical Cycle
The 24th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 13th day of the 2nd month 5855 years after the creation of Adam
The 2nd Month in the Third year of the Fourth Sabbatical Cycle
The 28th Day of Counting the Omer The 4th Sabbath
The 4th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Third Year Tithe for the Widows and Orphans and Levites
The Sabbatical Cycle of Sword, Famines, and Pestilence

April 20, 2019

Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,

Every time I read this section in Luke I think of the 10 tribes of Israel and how they will be cleansed, but never thank the one who cleanses them. But the foreigner is the only one who does give thanks for what has been done for them. I say this in regards to the Marriage supper we are all striving to be at. You will understand as you read this weeks message.

Luke 17:11 On the way to Jerusalem he was passing along between Samaria and Galilee. And as he entered a village, he was met by ten lepers, who stood at a distance and lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” When he saw them he said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went they were cleansed. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”

Spotless and Ready for the Wedding

We have been talking to you as we do the counting of the Omer about sevening ourselves and getting ready for when our husband comes for us. We are now at the 4th Sabbath and the 28th day of Counting the Omer.

We have also shared how the 5 foolish virgins did not seven themselves and when they would go to get the oil they would not have the time they would need to seven oneself. This process of sevening takes time to do weeks and years of doing the Sabbaths and Holy Days.

In order for them to get to know Yehovah and have the oil in them to be able to go and meet Him, they must keep the annual Holy Days and they must be keeping the weekly Sabbath and working on keeping the Sabbatical Year. All of these things take time. Let me ask you, how many more chances does every have to keep each Holy Day before the middle of 2020. The answer is one more time.

And we also spoke to you about the threshold and how Yehovah is to carry us over it. That threshold representative of the covenant that was cut with us.

As I was restudying many of these things which seems like a review each Holy Day season a study done by Ephraim and Ramona Franks came to me. I have studied with them in Israel and online a number of times since 2005. Ephraim even commented on my presentation of the Jubilee cycles back in 2009.

Before we get into Ramona’s study of the word Naga ugn, I would like to look at some scriptures Paul wrote about to the Assembly and them being ready for when He comes for them as a spotless bride. And as we study with Ramona when she talks about sprinkling the blood seven times to cleanse us I want you to remember what you have already learned about sevening of ourselves.

Ephesian 5:22 Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands, as to the Lord, for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly. *He* [is] Saviour of the body. But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it, in order that he might sanctify it, purifying [it] by the washing of water by [the] word, that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless. So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself. For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly: for we are members of his body; [we are of his flesh, and of his bones.] Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh. This mystery is great, but *I* speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly. But *ye* also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife [I speak] that she may fear the husband.

Many a pastor has used this section to force the women to submit to their husbands. I am not going to do that today. We are talking about getting ready for our Husband Yehovah as we do the counting of the Omer and sevening of ourselves.

Paul also wrote;

2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Ephesians 5:27 and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Colossians 1:22 But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence–

We are in the process of making ourselves spotless and unblemished and to be ready for the wedding.

Mat 25:1 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, lord, open to us.’ But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Cleansing of the Bride

Here is the study from Ramona Franks and I am going to interject here and there along the way.

Friday, April 12, 2019

Hebrew Insights into Parashat Metzo’rah Vayikra (Leviticus) 14-15 with Hebrew Tools for Everyday Use

Parashat Metzo’rah forms a sequel to Parashat Tazri’a and is defined by the words: “the Torah of the leper for the day of his cleansing” (Lev. 14:2).  Just as it was the priest who diagnosed the state of leprosy, it is only he who could now determine if “the affliction – or plague – of leprosy is healed” (v. 3 literal translation, emphasis added). This “affliction” or “plague” (which some of the English translations omit and in others it is “plague” or “infection”) is “nega.” It stems from the root n.g.a (noon, gimmel, ayin), with the primary meaning being “to touch.” The most famous ‘touch’ in Scripture that had a significant influence on all the afflictions we are dealing with here is found in B’resheet (Genesis) 3:3:  “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, Elohim has said, `You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die'” (italics added). The Children of Yisrael were likewise charged not to touch Mount Chorev (Ex. 19:12,13). The root n.g.a is found also in Yisha’yahu (Isaiah) 53:4 and 8, where it says about Messiah, “We esteemed Him stricken [nagu’ah], and “for the transgressions of My people He was stricken [nega]” (emphasis added). Thus, His affliction on our behalf becomes the healing touch for all of our “n’ga’eem” (afflictions), which were brought forth by the initial ‘touch’ of the forbidden fruit in the Garden.

Here is the meaning of this word.

Hebrew H5060

Naga ugn w

naw-gah’

A primitive root; properly to touch, that is, lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): – beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

Isa 52:11  Turn aside! Turn aside! Come out from there, touch not the unclean. Come out of her midst, be clean, you who bear the vessels of Yehovah.

When we took from the Tree of Good and Evil we committed adultery by going after other gods. Eve took the word of Satan and acted upon them. She and Adam touched  Naga the forbidden fruit. Leprosy is to be touched – Naga ugn.

Referring back to the person being cleansed
 It is now incumbent upon him to take two living and clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop for his offering. One of the birds was to be killed in an earthen vessel over “living” (‘running,’ in English) water. The living bird is to be taken with the cedar wood, the scarlet and the hyssop, all of which are to be dipped in the blood of the dead bird, over “living” (‘running’) water (ref. 14:4-6). Interestingly, “living” is mentioned four times in this short passage. “Scarlet” in Hebrew is “tola’at shani,” which is literally a “worm of scarlet” (i.e. the worm from which the dye was extracted). Incidentally, in Parashat F’kudey (Ex. 38:21 – ch. 40) the term “worm of scarlet” – tola’at shani – was rendered scarlet thread – signifying the blood of the atonement and was mentioned along with the gold, the blue and the purple. Yet here, the worm may denote a very humble status (e.g. Ps. 22:6; Is. 41:14). “Hyssop” is the translation (actually a form of transliteration) of “ezov,” symbolic one of the lowliest plants, especially when compared to the cedar. In Mlachim Alef (I Kings) 4:33 we read: “
from the cedar tree of Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall.” In contrast to the worm and the hyssop, the cedar symbolizes grandeur and eminence.

Next, the earthen vessel also connotes humility (e.g. “we have this treasure in earthen vessels” 2nd Cor. 4:7). Whether this combination of the lowly with the lofty denotes different types of individuals, or whether it is pointing to the characteristics within the individual (who is to reform from the sin of pride and haughtiness and become humble and submissive), is an issue that has been hotly debated. However, regardless of the answer to this question, for cleanliness to be declared the bird’s blood must be sprinkled seven times on the person undergoing the purification.

In the course of this cleansing process, the priest had to go outside the camp to the place where the afflicted person was quarantined (14:8). In the previous Parasha we noted that the phrase “outside the camp” (“the city” or “the gate”), has a dual connotation. In Vayikra (Leviticus) 4:12 and 6:11, there was “a clean place outside the camp.” Here in 14:40, 41, and 45 reference is made to “an unclean place outside the city.” Both places are singled out, and are in fact related. The priest who goes outside the camp comes in contact with the unclean, or afflicted person, much like our High Priest who (in order to cleanse us) had to come to our contaminated world so that we could join Him “outside [His] camp” (ref. Heb. 13:13).

The Mount of Offence where the Red Heifer and the Sin offerings were made was outside the camp. See our article on Golgatha.

On the “eighth day,” after the seven day watch (ref. 14:23) and the concurrent bodily purging, the person undergoing the cleansing comes forth with his offerings. Notice, this selfsame individual goes through a ritual similar to the dedication for service of A’haron and his sons (cf. Ex. 29:20,21; Lev. 8:23, 24). And so we read: “The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot
 And of the rest of the oil in his hand, the priest shall put some on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the blood of the trespass offering” (14:25-28). Atonement is thus granted, as well as anointing for ‘hearing,’ ‘doing,’ and ‘walking’ (see Hebrew Insights into Parashat Tetzaveh, Ex. 29:20).

I have looked up Tetzaveh for you and brought the section she is referring to here.

Last week we compared the Mishkan’s building instructions with the six days of Creation (ref. Ex. 24:16). This week we are also required to make a similar analogy. In Parashat Trumah the Menorah was listed in third place, while here the oil for the “perpetual light” is mentioned first, recalling of course the light mentioned in the beginning of the Creation account. The instructions for making the oil emphasize not only its purity and clarity (27:20, the word there being “zach,” denoting both), but also that it is to be made by beating or pounding (the olives). This type of oil is therefore named “katit,” the root of which is k.t.t. (kaf, tav, tav), meaning to “beat or crush.”  Made, as it is by crushing and pounding, this oil is to be for a continual light (“ner tamid”). As such it reflects very clearly our unchanging Messiah (Heb. 13:8) Who is without sin and therefore pure (Heb. 4:15b), had been bruised and crushed (Is. 53:4), and is the Light of the world (John 8:12; 9:5). An analogous description of Him as the Anointed One Who is also the Word (John 1:1), and the way/path (John 14:6) is found in Tehilim (Psalms) 119:105: “Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”.2

It was up to the priests, A’haron and his sons, who were later to be anointed with the anointing oil to “set” the oil and its lighting “before YHVH” (27:21). Afterwards Moshe was “to bring near A’haron
 and his sons” to “himself” (literal translation for “summoning” or “take for yourself,” 28:1). In the process of sanctifying the priests, Moshe was also told to, “take one bull and two rams without blemish, and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil,” to make them of “fine wheat flour” and to “put them into one basket” which he was, again, to “bring near” (29:1-3, the translations may omit “bring near”). Immediately after that, he was told once again “to bring near A’aron and his sons to the opening of the tent of meeting
” (v. 4, literal translation, emphasis added). In all three cases the verb is “karev,” of the root k.r.v  (kof, resh, bet/vet), meaning to “bring near or close.” This root is also the root for “korban,” “sacrifice” or “offering.” In 29:8 we are told that A’aron’s sons were to be “brought near,” as was the bull, which was to be slaughtered after the priests were to lay hands on it (v. 10). This is the first instance of the “laying of hands” – “samoch”(s.m.ch, samech, mem, kaf/chaf), with the primary meaning of the verb being to “lean upon.” In the case of the “laying of hands,” as is preformed here by the priests, there is an identification with the “korban” which is about to give up its life, symbolizing ultimate submission. Thus, the particular selection of verbs used here forms an introduction to the sacrificial system and to its significance. It is by virtue of the sacrifice that a “drawing near” to the Father can occur, followed by “leaning” and “relying” on Him. According to King David, “though [a man] falls, he is not cast down; for YHVH upholds – “somech” – his hand on him” (Psalms 37:24). In Tehilim 145:14 we read again:  “YHVH upholds all who fall.”  It is also in YHVH’s hand that the two trees/branches/sticks of Ezekiel 37:19 become one. But just before that (v. 17), when they are still in the hand of the prophet, the latter is told to “bring close” – ka’rev – those branches, one to the other (commonly translated “join”).

The blood of the second ram, of the two that were to be slaughtered, was to be put on the priests’ right earlobe, right thumb, and the right big toe (29:20). In their service to YHVH, these servants’ relationship with Him was to be marked by listening and obeying (which is denoted by one and the same word in Hebrew), by doing His deeds, and walking in His paths.3

Returning to the original study.

Since quite a substantial offering was being expected of the person being cleansed, provision was made “if he is poor and cannot afford it
” (14:21). “Cannot afford” is expressed by a typical picturesque idiom, “his hand is unable to reach,” as “hand reaching” (of this type) denotes financial well being.  “To reach,” stemming from the root n.s.g (noon. sin, gimmel), also means “to pursue, or overtake.”

“When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give [“natan”] you as a possession, and I put [literally “give”, natan ] the leprous plague [“nega,” referred to above] in a house in the land of your possession
” (14:34), is a non-ambiguous declaration that shows clearly that the cause of the “nega” (which, as we noticed above was not a mere natural phenomenon) is YHVH Himself. Do take note – the above is dealing specifically with a built up structure. The usage of the verb “natan,” employed here twice for “give” and “put,” reinforces both YHVH’s involvement in the matter, and the fact that He is also its primary cause.

A house so plagued is to be “emptied out” of its content (14:36).  “Pina” – of the root p.n.h (pey, noon, hey, meaning “to turn”), is the verb used here.  In Parashat Trumah (in Ex. 25:20), we have already encountered p.n.h, in relationship to the “showbread” (“bread of the face“) and the faces of the cherubim placed on the Ark of the Covenant (“face” being “panim”). In the course of “emptying out” the house there is a “turning” – that is, “making way” and by implication a “clearing” or an “emptying out.” The act of emptying out one’s house (and taking it apart, if need be, 14:40-45) has a further symbolic meaning. We thus read in 2 Corinthians 5:1: “For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from Elohim, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” According to Midrash Rabba 17:7: “And I will put the plague of tza’ra’at in the house of the land of your possession (14:34) – this refers to the Temple.” Here is what Malbim, citing another source, has to say about this very thing: “The use of the term venatati [“and I will give”] regarding tza’ra’at prompted Rabbi Yehuda to consider the plague in a positive light as a medium for the elimination of sin and iniquity”. [1] However, this passage not only deals with the tza’ra’at which pertains to buildings, but also with the type which affects clothing (v. 55), while mentioning other related conditions, namely “a scale, a swelling, a scab, and a bright spot” (ref. 14:54, 55).

Scale” is “netek,” from the root n.t.k (noon. tav, kof), meaning “to pull off, draw, disconnect, or remove.” Ee’yov (Job) laments: “
my purposes are broken off – “nitku”
” (Job 17:11 italics added). And again in Jeremiah, “my tent is plundered, all my chords are broken
” (10:20, italics added). The swelling is called “s’et,” of the root n.s.a (noon, sin, alef), meaning “to lift, carry or hold up.” S’et, as such, according to B.D.B Lexicon is “exaltation, dignity or swelling”. [2] Ee’yov (Job – 41:25), speaking of Leviathan, says: “When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid” (italics added). “Scab” is the translation of “sapa’chat,” which is of the root s.f.ch (samech, fey, chet), meaning “to join, or add.” It can also refer to that which is overgrown. In Chavakuk (Habakkuk) 2:15 we read, “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, joining him to your wineskin, even to make himdrunk, that you may look on his nakedness!” (Italics added). Finally, the “bright spot” is “baheret,” of the root b.h.r (bet, hey, resh), which means “bright or brilliant,” used almost exclusively in relationship to a physical condition. However, one reference in Ee’yov (Job) 37:21 seems to indicate a light so bright that men cannot look at it.

Lining up the terms, according to their respective connotations, will create the following picture: A breaking or removal (possibly from the Almighty) will lead to the attitude of loftiness resulting in rebelliousness and pride, followed by wrong attachments. From there the path is open to what may appear as an effulgence, but is actually nothing more than a blinding false light. The entire body of instructions is finalized by the words: “
to teach on the day of the unclean, and on the day of cleansing; this is the Torah of the tza’ra’at” (14:57, literal translation). Thus, this long passage, which starts in verse 34, is solely for the purpose of teaching (“le‘horot”) the Torah (as it pertains to the issue at hand). Torah impartation, therefore, is what it takes to counteract the sequence portrayed above and its dismal results.

The next section of the Parasha (chapter 15) deals with unclean discharges omitted by the body (which are the natural outcome of the sequel of conditions described above). “This was an emblem of the corruption of nature, and of all evil things that are in or flow out of the evil heart of man, which are defiling to him”[3] (see Mat. 15:18).

“If a woman has a discharge of blood for many days, other than at the time of her customary impurity [her regular menstrual cycle], or if it runs beyond her usual time of impurity, all the days of her unclean discharge shall be as the days of her customary impurity. She shall be unclean [for as long as she has the discharge]
 Whoever touches those things [which she has handled] shall be unclean
” (15:25, 27). This injunction makes the episode recorded in the Gospels, of Yeshua healing the woman with the issue of blood, most remarkable (ref. Matt. 9:19-22; Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:43-48)! Yeshua does not appear to be alarmed by the fact that an unclean woman has touched him. In fact, He does not even refer to her as such. As much as Yeshua respected the regulations of Torah (being the Torah incarnate), it was the Torah of Life and NOT the “letter” which He advocated and practiced. Yeshua ministered the life of the (Re)New(ed) Covenant, as defined by 2nd Corinthians 3:6: A “new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.”

[1] New Studies in Vayikra Part 1, Nechama Leibowitz, trans. Aryeh Newman. Eliner

Library, Department for Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora.

Hemed Books Inc., Brooklyn, N.Y.

[2] The New Brown, Driver, Briggs, Gesenius Lexicon, Francis Brown Hendrickson,

Publishers, Peabody, Mass. 1979.

[3] Gill Commentary, Online Bible

Hebrew Tools for Everyday Use

From Parashat Metzorah we obtaine “nega” – affliction – that we examined above in connection, as was mentioned, to the verb “to touch” – la’ga’at. A plagued house was to be emptied out, with the verb used there being the same one that is in use today. The noun evacuation, emptying out etc. is pin’nuy.  We already had “horim” – parents – in one of our previous Tools. In the Parasha’s text we encountered “to teach” – le’horot – from which comes “ho’ra’ah” which is “instruction”. Another verb in the Parasha is “natan” – to give. Let’s see how all of those work together.

Don’t touch!

Lo la’ga’at (literally not to touch)

Before the evacuation they gave instruction/s

Lifney ha’pinuy hem natnu ho’ra’a – ho’ra’ot

Lev 14:1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “This shall be the law of the leprous person for the day of his cleansing. He shall be brought to the priest, and the priest shall go out of the camp, and the priest shall look. Then, if the case of leprous disease is healed in the leprous person, the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two live clean birds and cedarwood and scarlet yarn and hyssop. And the priest shall command them to kill one of the birds in an earthenware vessel over fresh water. He shall take the live bird with the cedarwood and the scarlet yarn and the hyssop, and dip them and the live bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the fresh water. And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field. And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

“And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary. For the guilt offering, like the sin offering, belongs to the priest; it is most holy. The priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. Then the priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it into the palm of his own left hand and dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand and sprinkle some oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering. And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed. Then the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord. The priest shall offer the sin offering, to make atonement for him who is to be cleansed from his uncleanness. And afterward he shall kill the burnt offering. And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the grain offering on the altar. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

“But if he is poor and cannot afford so much, then he shall take one male lamb for a guilt offering to be waved, to make atonement for him, and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and a log of oil; also two turtledoves or two pigeons, whichever he can afford. The one shall be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering. And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing to the priest, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, before the Lord. And the priest shall take the lamb of the guilt offering and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb of the guilt offering. And the priest shall take some of the blood of the guilt offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot. And the priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand, and shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord. And the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the lobe of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot, in the place where the blood of the guilt offering was put. And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put on the head of him who is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before the Lord. And he shall offer, of the turtledoves or pigeons, whichever he can afford, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, along with a grain offering. And the priest shall make atonement before the Lord for him who is being cleansed. This is the law for him in whom is a case of leprous disease, who cannot afford the offerings for his cleansing.”

A Third Wave Offering

What I am looking at here is the cleansing of the bride of Yehovah. And I am doing this as we count the 7 Sabbath as we count the Omer. As we seven ourselves and add flasks of oil to our selves in preparation for His coming. We the Bride must be spotless and without blemish.

Col 1:22  in the body of His flesh through death, to present you set-apart, and blameless, and unreproveable before Him,

Blameless is G299

amo?mos

am’-o-mos

From G1 (as a negative particle) and G3470; unblemished (literally or figuratively): – without blame (blemish, fault, spot), faultless, unblameable.

and unreprovable is G410

anegkle?tos

an-eng’-klay-tos

From G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G1458; unaccused, that is, (by implication) irreproachable: – blameless.

At the end of the 7 Sabbaths is then the 8th Sabbath of Shavuot on the 8th day which is also the first day of the week. Again this connects us to the Jubilee cycle and the 8th day of Sukkot or Shemini Atzeret.

Read again what you are told in Lev 14:7

And he shall sprinkle it seven times on him who is to be cleansed of the leprous disease. Then he shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird go into the open field. And he who is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes and shave off all his hair and bathe himself in water, and he shall be clean. And after that he may come into the camp, but live outside his tent seven days. And on the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair from his head, his beard, and his eyebrows. He shall shave off all his hair, and then he shall wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he shall be clean.

“And on the eighth day he shall take two male lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish, and a grain offering of three tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, and one log of oil. And the priest who cleanses him shall set the man who is to be cleansed and these things before the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And the priest shall take one of the male lambs and offer it for a guilt offering, along with the log of oil, and wave them for a wave offering before the Lord. And he shall kill the lamb in the place where they kill the sin offering and the burnt offering, in the place of the sanctuary.

The Blood of the bird is sprinkled 7 times. Then He is cleansed.

Lives outside his tent 7 days and then on the 7th day to shave his entire body.

Then on the 8th Day-a direct relation to Shemini Atzeret and the Jubilee year and Shavuot, the man is set where? At the entrance to the Tent, at the Threshold of the doorway. The place the lamb is killed, the place of the sin offering is outside the camp on the Mount of Offence. And they are to be waved as a wave offering.

Do you recall what the wave offering is?

Lev 23:9 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest, and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, so that you may be accepted. On the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Lev 23:9 is using 2 tenths of Ephah while the Leprosy offering is using 3 tenths.

The only other wave offering was done at Lev 23:15

The Feast of Weeks
“You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven, as firstfruits to the Lord. And you shall present with the bread seven lambs a year old without blemish, and one bull from the herd and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord. And you shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. And you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

You are being told something here in the cleansing of the Leper and it has to do with the 8th Day which is related to the Jubilee years and Shavuot and the wave offerings as well as the Bride of Yehovah in getting her blemishes off.. Do you understand this?

Pentecost’s Hidden Meaning

In the Old Testament the word Pentecost is not there. This Feast Day was referred to as “Feast of Weeks” (Exodus 34:22; Deuteronomy 16:9-10), because it was celebrated seven weeks after the offering of the Barley Sheaf. Also known as the “Feast of the Harvest” (Exodus 23:16), because it came at the end of the wheat harvest, and it was also known as the “Feast of First Fruits” (Exodus 34:22; Numbers 28:26), because it marked the beginning of the first fruits of the wheat harvest being offered at the Temple. It is referred to in the New Testament as “Pentecost” a term derived from the Greek word pentekoste (meaning fiftieth).

The counting of the fifty what?

In ancient Israel, the grain harvest lasted seven weeks, beginning with the Barley Harvest right after Passover and ending with the wheat harvest seven weeks later on, or Pentecost. The Barley Harvest was key to the whole religious calendar, because Passover could not be observed until at least some of the barley was ready for harvest. The offering of the first Barley Wave Offering took place on the day after the weekly Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. This meant that if no barley was ready for harvest, the celebration of Passover had to be delayed by intercalating an additional month in the lunar calendar. Since barley ripens a few weeks before wheat, the ceremony of the Barley Wave Sheaf Offering, which fell on the day after the weekly Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread, marked the starting point of the fifty day countdown to Pentecost.

This point is often not readily understood as to its importance and is also often confused or mixed up, thereby causing some to start their counting of the fifty days on the wrong day. As a result, I am going to spend some extra time here. Please bear with me.

The term “Feast of Week” refers to the entire period of the grain harvest which extends itself over the course of seven weeks from the first cutting of the Barley to the completion of the wheat harvest. But it was only the beginning and the end of the Feast that were marked by a Wave Offering (a Tenuphah).

The date of the Feast of Weeks was reckoned by counting seven weeks from the first putting of the sickle to the Barley: You shall count seven weeks for yourself; beginning from the time you first put the sickle to the grain. (Deuteronomy 16:9) The real challenge was to determine which day the first sheaf of barley, known as the Omer, was to be cut and presented as a Wave Offering before Yahweh.

This determination was based on the instructions given in the Book of Leviticus:

16 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to Yahweh. (Leviticus 23:15-16)

We are to count from the “day after the Sabbath.” Since the term Sabbath is used to refer to both the seventh day of the week and to the annual Feast mentioned in the same chapter (Leviticus 23:8, 21, 23, 32, 34), the real question is, “What is the meaning of “Sabbath” here, the seventh day of the week or the festival day?”

The Pharisees, as well as Philo and Josephus, all claim it was the day after the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Sadducees, Boethusians, Karaites and Samaritans all took the word Sabbath to mean a weekly Sabbath and not an annual one due to the fact that the word Sabbath by itself was never used to denote an annual festival. So who is right?

I believe we should allow Yeshua to show us. We all know He was killed as the Passover Lamb on Nisan 14. We know He died in AD 31 and that Nisan 14 was a Wednesday. The Sign of Jonah had to be completed in all of its phases. The only sign that was given to us that Yeshua was the Messiah was the Sign of Jonah. Yeshua said that the function of three days and three nights in the belly of the whale or great fish of Jonah was the same as His ministry, and that He would be three days and three nights in the belly of the earth (as the great fish). That was the only sign given to prove His ministry. So Thursday was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Friday was the Preparation Day for the weekly Sabbath. Saturday was the weekly Sabbath, thus, three days and three nights. So Yeshua arose from the grave on the Sabbath just before sunset, just as He was placed in the grave Wednesday late afternoonñ€”again, just before sunset for three days and three nightsñ€”just as prophesied.

In the Gospel of Matthew we read:

1 Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. (Matthew 28:1)

In the Gospel of Luke we find:

1 Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them, came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 But they found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 Then they went in and did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 And it happened, as they were greatly perplexed about this that behold, two men stood by them in shining garments. 5 Then, as they were afraid and bowed their faces to the earth, they said to them, ñ€ƓWhy do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but is risen! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee, 7 saying, “˜The Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.8 And they remembered His words. 9 Then they returned from the tomb and told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. 10 It was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them, who told these things to the apostles. (Luke 24:1-10)

But it is in the Gospel of John that we learn even more:

1 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 Then she ran and came to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid Him.” 3 Peter therefore went out, and the other disciple, and were going to the tomb. 4 So they both ran together, and the other disciple outran Peter and came to the tomb first. 5 And he, stooping down and looking in, saw the linen cloths lying there; yet he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb; and he saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.

8 Then the other disciple, who came to the tomb first, went in also; and he saw and believed. 9 For as yet they did not know the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went away again to their own homes. 11 But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. 13 Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” 14 Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.

15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’”18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her. 19 Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” (John 20:1-19)

I have emphasized in bold that it was the first day of the week, before dawn, and Yeshua had not yet ascended to heaven, but was about to. It was the first day of the week. I have presupposed that you understand that the Wave Sheaf Offering is Yeshua. Let me back up a little.

The Wave Sheaf Offering seems to have been waved at 9 AM on the Sunday morning during the feast of the Passover. The general Wave Offering was brought by the worshipper and made in conjunction with the priest. (Exodus 29:24-25) We know that the Samaritans and the Sadducees kept a Sunday Wave Sheaf and a Sunday Pentecost. That is an important factor in history. The Jews do not keep the Wave Sheaf because they keep a Sivan 6 Pentecost, which came from the traditions of the Pharisees in Rabbinical Judaism, after the Temple was destroyed. We know that the Samaritans keep the 14th and 15th, in keeping with the concept of the Wave Sheaf, and count the Omer from Sunday onwards during the Feast. So from the Temple period and throughout, Samaritans included, Pentecost has been kept on a Sunday. The Early Church kept Pentecost on a Sunday. Only the Jews kept a Sivan 6 and only after the Temple had been destroyed.

The Wave Sheaf Offering needs to be kept in mind in order to understand the full implications of Yeshua’s sacrifice, and the power that He was given in terms of His resurrection from the dead. The Wave Sheaf Offering is an ancient requirement of Israel within the Torah. The ordinance is found in Leviticus 23:9-14, Exodus 29:24-25 and in other passages as well. It is poorly understood by scholars and ignored by many. It is a mandatory ordinance associated with the Feast of the Passover and controls both the timetable of Pentecost from year to year and the consumption of the new harvests. To put it in a modern perspective, we should look at the significance of the timing of Yeshua’s death. (Leviticus 23:9-14)

The Wave Sheaf Offering was known as sfirat ha’omer, that is, “the counting of the Omer,” because on this day we begin to count the fifty days to Pentecost.

A good description of this is found in Leviticus:

10 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 Its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord, for a sweet aroma; and its drink offering shall be of wine, one-fourth of a hin. 14 You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your God; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. (Leviticus 23:10-14)

This cutting of the first barley sheaf was a lively ceremony. The sheaf was cut the evening before on the edge of the city in front of a small crowd of worshippers. And they would do as they were told in Deuteronomy:

And it shall be, when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you possess it and dwell in it, 2 that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the Lord your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide. 3 And you shall go to the one who is priest in those days, and say to him, I declare today to the Lord your God that I have come to the country which the Lord swore to our fathers to give us. 4 Then the priest shall take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God. 5 And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous

6 But the Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and laid hard bondage on us. 7 Then we cried out to the Lord God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and looked on our affliction and our labor and our oppression. 8 So the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm, with great terror and with signs and wonders. 9 He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey; 10 and now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you shall set it before the Lord your God, and worship before the Lord your God. 11 So you shall rejoice in every good thing which the Lord your God has given to you and your house, you and the Levite and the stranger who is among you. (Deuteronomy 26:1-11)

But it should be duly noted that the Sheaf had to be prepared before it was waved in front of the Lord in accordance with Leviticus:

11 No grain offering which you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven nor any honey in any offering to the Lord made by fire. 12 As for the offering of the first fruits, you shall offer them to the Lord, but they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet aroma. 13 And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt. 14 If you offer a grain offering of your first fruits to the Lord, you shall offer for the grain offering of your first fruits green heads of grain roasted on the fire, grain beaten from full heads. 15 And you shall put oil on it, and lay frankincense on it. It is a grain offering. 16 Then the priest shall burn the memorial portion: part of its beaten grain and part of its oil, with all the frankincense, as an offering made by fire to the Lord.(Leviticus 2:11-16)

So here we see that the First Fruits were a grain offering; an Offering of Green Ears, or green heads. It was to be roasted. The grain was to be beaten from the husks of the Barley. And it was to have salt added to it, as well as Frankincense.

If we ignore the Wave Sheaf Offering we are missing out on a significant part of the Passover Sacrifice. Yes, we all understand that Yeshua was the Passover Lamb. And we can connect the dots in this regard. But answer me this: When was a lamb (in animal form) ever beaten? When did a lamb have its body beaten so badly that the flesh was exposed so that the bones of the lamb’s ribs could be counted? It was not. Not a bone was to be broken. But the Barley Sheaf was to be beaten. It was to be beaten until the grain was exposed and fell from the husk – whereas the lamb (in animal form), was never beaten. The Lamb in one sense represented Yeshua and in another sense the Barley also represented Yeshua. Yeshua would then have to be killed as the Lamb and beaten as the Barley and presented before Yahweh. Each and every detail that was prophesied in Scripture was to be fulfilled on that Passover day.

Yeshua being beaten is foretold by the prophet Isaiah:

4 Surely He has borne our griefs (sic) And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. (Isaiah 53:4-5)

The consecration of the First Fruits sanctifies the whole harvest, since the part stands for the whole.

As the Apostle Paul put it in Romans:

16 If the dough offered as first fruits is holy, so is the whole lump. (Romans 11:16)

By the symbolic gesture of consecrating the First Fruits, the whole of the harvest was consecrated to Yahweh. The idea that the consecration of a part of the whole exercises a sanctifying influence on the all of the whole is also applied in the Bible to the plan of salvation.

In Jeremiah and Hosea respectively we read:

3 Israel was holiness to the Lord, The first fruits of His increase. (Jeremiah 2:3)

10 As the first fruits on the fig tree in its first season. (Hosea 9:10)

How so? Because Israel was called by Yahweh to exercise a sanctifying influence on all nations. Similarly, as Christians, we are a kind of first fruits of His creatures: (James 1:8), because we are called to be a sanctifying influence in the world. Those who arose from the dead at the time of Yeshua’s resurrection became the First Fruits, that is, the pledge of all those who will rise at the time of Yeshua’s return. (Matthew 27:52-53; Ephesians 4:8; I Thessalonians 4:13-18) The 144,000 saints who follow the Lamb are: first fruits for Yahweh and the Lamb. (Revelation 14:4)

Paul, in I Corinthians, specifically calls Yeshua’s resurrection the First Fruits of those who will rise from the dead:

20 But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the first fruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. (I Corinthians 15:20-24)

In this passage, Paul speaks of Yeshua twice as the First Fruits, not only to indicate He was the first to rise bodily from the grave, but also that by so doing, He fulfilled the Offering of the First Fruits at Passover and at Pentecost. We have noted that the Omer of the Sheaf of Barley was waved before Yahweh, by the priest as a pledge of the full harvest that would follow. The ceremony was performed on the day after the weekly Sabbath at about 9 AM, Sunday morning. The Wave Sheaf Offering, specifically the roasted Omer of grain, with salt and Frankincense, was a type of Christ, the First Fruits, or pledge, of the great harvest that will follow when all the righteous dead are raised at the Second Coming of Yeshua.

In I Corinthians and I Thessalonians respectively we read:

23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming. (I Corinthians 15:23)

16 And the dead in Christ will rise first. (I Thessalonians 4:16)

Yeshua rose from the dead on the eve of the very day that the Wave Offering was presented in the Temple (Leviticus 23:14; Luke 23:56, 24:1) As the first sheaf was a pledge and assurance of the ingathering of the entire harvest, so the resurrection of Yeshua is a pledge that all who put their trust in Him will be raised from the dead.

Please take note. The High Priest did not present before Yahweh just one head of grain, but a whole Omer of Barley. Salt and Frankincense were also added.

Similarly, Yeshua did not come forth from the grave alone, for “many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised.” (Matthew 27:52) Paul tells us that when Yeshua ascended on high, He led a host of captives. (Ephesians 4:8 RSV) Those who were raised at Yeshua’s death and came out of the tombs after His resurrection, (Matthew 27:53) ascended with Yeshua to heaven as trophies of His power to resurrect all who sleep in the grave. Just as the Omer of Barley was a pledge of the coming harvest, so the saints who Yeshua raised at the time of His death are a pledge of a future harvest of saints.

We must pause here and ponder the following verse:

13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. (John 3:13)

This was Yeshua speaking to Nicodemus, and when Yeshua said it, it was true. No one but Yeshua had gone to heaven. Not until Yeshua died, and was raised up from the grave. Then He took a host of saints to heaven.

I have just quoted much in the way of Scripture to prove this, and Paul himself says as much. But now take a look at what John, the Revelator is shown in his vision in the Book of Revelation:

1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, ñ€ƓCome up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this.ñ€ 2 Immediately I was in the Spirit; and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. 3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. 4 Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. 5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, (sic) thunderings, (sic) and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. 6 Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back. 7 The first living creature was like a lion, the second living creature like a calf, the third living creature had a face like a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.

8 The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come! 9 Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created. (Revelation 4:1-11)

There are now 24 elders in heaven sitting on thrones, wearing white robes. These are the saints who ascended to heaven with Yeshua at His resurrection. If this is beyond your comprehension, then stop here and reread all that I have said up until now. These are the First Fruits. Yahweh is showing us that He is going to do as He said and raise us up from the dead. This is so unbelievable: Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job, Moses and the Prophets. All the Scriptures say First Fruits. Never has Scripture referred to first fruit in the singular vernacular, or Yeshua alone, but always in the sense of there being others.

Who are these elders again? Elder is found in the Strong’s Concordance #4245 originally spelled presbuvteroÃƾ in the Greek and means elder, of age, the elder of two people, advanced in life, an elder, a senior, forefathers, a term of rank or office. Note also that it means forefathers humans who were born and lived before us. These 24 elders were not created by Yahweh, in heaven, but were born on Earth and lived and died having not received the promise. Here, John is telling us they are now in heaven with Yahweh and have now received that promise. How great and wonderful is this?! How unbelievable?!

Also note that in Matthew 5:13, Yeshua told His disciples that they and we are the salt of the Earth. We are the salt of the Wave Offering.
The meaning of Pentecost is found not only in the Offering of First Fruits which took place on the first and fiftieth day, but also in the fact that it lasted fifty days, that is to say seven times seven weeks, plus a day. From this characteristic, the usual titles are derived, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost (fiftieth).

Understanding is gained through reasoning out the meaning of the seventh day Sabbath – which is the basis for the seven weeks construct of time. The Sabbath provided release and liberation from the hardship of life and social inequalities, not only every seven days but also every seven years (Sabbatical Year, Leviticus 25:4) and every seven weeks of years. (Jubilee Year, Leviticus 25:8)

The common denominator between the seven weeks of days and the seven weeks of years is the number 50, which was the symbol of the remission of debts.

As with other great feasts, a special offering was made in addition to the daily burnt offering. The main offering of Pentecost was a special cereal offering consisting of two loaves of bread.

Again, Leviticus provides us with a closer look:

15 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16 Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. 17 You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the first fruits to the Lord. 18 And you shall offer with the bread seven lambs of the first year, without blemish, one young bull, and two rams. They shall be as a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet aroma to the Lord. 19 Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering. 20 The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21 And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. (Leviticus 23:15-21)

The loaves were made with flour milled from the new wheat crop and baked with leaven. The loaves were presented as a Wave Offering on behalf of all the people. None of the bread was placed on the altar because it was baked with leaven. Along with the two loaves, two lambs were offered as a Wave Offering. Pentecost was an offering of loaves with leaven as a Wave Offering, just as the Omer of Barley was a Wave Offering of First Fruits. Pentecost’s Wave Offering had leaven in it and it too was a First Fruits Offering. It was also accompanied by a Sin Offering.

Although we all know that on Pentecost Yahweh gave to Israel the Torah by His very own voice, with thunder and trumpets blasting (Exodus 19-20) and also of the Holy Spirit to the Church (Acts 2:3), do we realize Pentecost holds yet another secret? It is the day the second harvest of saints is to be raised up from the grave, and even those who are still alive at the appointed time. They are the second Wave Offering of leavened loaves.

In the Gospel of John, Yeshua says to His disciples:

32 I have food to eat of which you do not know. 33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought Him anything to eat? 34 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, There are still four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: One sows and another reaps. 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors. (John 4:32-38)

Yeshua said the fields are already white for the harvest. When He said don’t look ahead and say four more months, He was saying don’t look to the harvest at the Fall Feast Days. Look now at Pentecost instead, which is four months before the Feast of Trumpets (the day the Messiah returns), the Day of Atonement (the Jubilee Year the year of release from bondage, the time when Satan is put away) and the Feast of Tabernacles (the Wedding Feast).

In the Gospel of Matthew, Yeshua spoke in another parable to His disciples, saying:

24 The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. 26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. 27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares? 28 He said to them, An enemy has done this. The servants said to him, Do you want us then to go and gather them up? 29 But he said, No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn. (Matthew 13:24-30)

Pentecost is the wheat harvest and the wheat is lost amongst the many false followers of the Messiah. The tares are then separated. By their works you’ll know them, and the wheat is then saved in the King’s barn, or storehouse.

In the Gospel of Matthew, Yeshua, in His own words goes on to explain:

36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said to them: He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. 38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. 39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. 40 Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. 41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, 42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear! (Matthew 13:36-43)

Then, in Matthew, Yeshua told His disciples about the end-times:

22 And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened. (Matthew 24:22)

How could He shorten the time for the elect, unless, instead of our redemption taking place on the Feast of Trumpets as we have always been taught, it takes place on the Feast of Pentecost? He must do all things in relation to the Holy Days that He has had Israel reenacting since Mount Sinai. The Holy Days are a dress rehearsal for future events.

In conclusion, Yeshua was the Wave Sheaf of Passover or First Fruits, with an “S” for more than one, and ascended to heaven with a host of captives, as Paul has said. The apostle John says that there are 24 elders in heaven today wearing crowns and worshipping Yahweh. These are those Yeshua led with Him on that Sunday that the Wave Offering of Barley was presented in the Temple. The Wave Offering of Pentecost, or the two wheat loaves, are those who have followed this way of life, and obeyed the Laws of Yahwehñ€”although not perfectly as is represented by the leaven in the offering. Nonetheless, this includes all those who have died since Yeshua’s death in AD 31 right up until His return.

This is not a second resurrection. But it is part of the first resurrection that began on the day Yeshua was raised from the dead. Just as the Wave Sheaf Offering during the Days of Unleavened Bread is the beginning, so is Pentecost the conclusion of the Wave Offering 50 days later. Those raised with Messiah in AD were the beginning and those alive at His return, along with those who have died in His name, will be raised up by the One who those under the altar await.

In the Book of Revelation we read:

9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? 11 Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed. (Revelation 6:9-11)

Here, His chosen ones who have been slain are given white robes just as the 24 elders who were dressed in white, representing Righteousness, in preparation for the Wedding Feast. Matthew 22 vividly illustrates how we must come clothed in Righteousness in order to be a part of the Wedding Feast.

Finally, in the Book of Psalms we read:

172 My tongue shall speak of Your word, For all Your commandments are righteousness. (Psalm 119:172)

I paraphrased the preceding information from a book written by Samuele Bacchiocchi entitled, God’s Festivals. (pp. 166-180). I say paraphrased because although he wrote well and in great detail, he arrived at a number of unsubstantiated conclusions. So I have taken his writings, corrected his mistakes and added the obvious conclusions thereby arriving at the conclusions I have now put forward.

19 Comments

  1. Stephen Skillitzi

    So, taking the extra eschatological mile, does the [Jh.4:35] “four months until the harvest [Shavuot until Teruach feasts]” correspond to the Dumond-calculated 12-year gap from the second group of the “Firstfruits” resurrections [living after 31 C.E. to 2033 C.E.] until the completion of the 120th. jubilee [2045 C.E.]? Echoing Matt.24:22 “days cut short”? With the non-24-Elders, ie the remainder of the pre-Messianic saints, included in 2033 C.E. Shavuot rapture? That is, they [the non-24-Elders] precede marginally, but on the same day, the after first-Advent saints [reflecting 1Cor. 15:23 “each one in his own order”].

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      The 4 months to the harvest would be referring to the great harvest of the 7th month. This is the 3rd Chag which is to take place at the end of the 7th Millennium.
      The part unless those days were cut short is speaking about the end of the 6th Millennial day in the year 2045. Unless those days/ years were cut short i.e. back to 2033 no flesh would remain alive. And it is at this time at Shavuot that all those who have died since 31 AD and are in the faith along with those who are alive will be “Raptured” then.
      is this just the 144,000 or is it them and a large number of others. Ask me in 2034.

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  2. Vickie Hughes

    Hi Joe and Shabbat Shalom,
    As always, this was an excellent post. I was wondering if you noticed another association with the word “natan.”
    This may be totally off the wall, but the name “Benjamin (tribe of) Natan-yah -u” seems prophetic.
    Could it possibly be…..”YHWH puts the plague on the tribe of Benjamin”….in these end times?

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      I know what NAtan is but I am not getting where you are drawing your sources from so I can double check them. I need scriptures.

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  3. Jan

    Great newsletter and always very good to review about Pentecost again. I took special notice of this part. I’m going to quote what Ramona says:
    “When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give [“natan”] you as a possession, and I put [literally “give”, natan ] the leprous plague [“nega,” referred to above] in a house in the land of your possession
” (14:34), is a non-ambiguous declaration that shows clearly that the cause of the “nega” (which, as we noticed above was not a mere natural phenomenon) is YHVH Himself.
    Homes having a “leprous plague” would be equivalent to mold.
    Yehovah sent the 10 tribes into exile and we migrate westward into the western nations. We have turned greatly away from Yehovah and following His Way.
    The USA is filled with mold. So is Australia. I’m not sure about the other countries. There isn’t a single state in the USA that isn’t plagued with high levels of mold. I know many who have mold toxicity and they even have trouble finding homes or apartments in dry Arizona due to flash floods. Mold spores remain even after remediation. People can become hyper-sensitive. A mold-toxic person can not live in that home, while the next person doesn’t notice anything.
    The NW, the NE, and the South and SE are greatly afflicted. The Midwest, even with long winters is afflicted. Colorado is horrific for mold. Mold doesn’t have to be visible in the home. It is hidden in the attic from a roof leak. It is in the woods and then enters our home. It is in our food due to commercial storage methods and poor, depleted soil. I know this first hand with lab work as proof. Everything from grains to beans to root vegetables. It is in the air of surrounding corn fields. High levels of the same mold family as toxic black mold. I know this too. I’ve had it all. As one who has been exposed to mold most of my life, I’ve become very aware of it now.
    NOW…TELL ME Yehovah hasn’t brought this upon us! Yes, we have brought it upon ourselves too via poor land practices, but our nation’s sin as led us to accept these practices. It aligns with the curses too. The curse of plagues including mold, heavy metals, Lyme, and the 20 coinfections that come with Lyme that plague every state and most every country in the entire world, including Israel.
    “The sins of our Fathers” results in damaged DNA being passed down and yes, there is a gene that breaks down mold and many have inherited a bad gene from one or both parents. Poor genes from our parents also reduces the working of our methylation / detox pathways. So AGAIN….THIS is from YEHOVAH!
    All of this has me most interested in the “Ten Lepers” story which I see as applying to the Ten Tribes.
    I want to point out too that it is this story where Yeshua says “Go”. He does not pronounce healing over them ahead of time as other stories of healings do. He doesn’t cast out spirits nor tell them to wash in the pool of Shiloah, nor anything. Just “Go”
    Luk 17:13-14  And they lifted up their voices, saying, “?????, Master, have compassion on us!”  And having seen them, He said to them, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And it came to be, that as they were going, they were cleansed. 
    Additionally, he says “Show yourselves to the priests”. In the other leper story we see this:
    Mar 1:40  And a leper came to Him, calling upon Him, kneeling down to Him and saying to Him, “If You desire, You are able to make me clean.” 
    Mar 1:41  And ?????, moved with compassion, stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I desire it. Be cleansed.” 
    Mar 1:42  And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was cleansed. 
    Mar 1:43  And having strictly warned him, He immediately sent him away, 
    Mar 1:44  and said to him, “See, say none at all to anyone, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Mosheh ordered, as a witness to them.” 
    Yeshua, with the Ten Lepers, only says to show yourself to the priest. He doesn’t tell them to offer the gift of Moshe. So I looked up what Moshe says to do in The Law. Here it is:
    Lev 14:11-12  “And the priest who is cleansing shall present the man who is to be cleansed, with these offerings, before ????, at the door of the Tent of Appointment.   “And the priest shall take one male lamb and bring it as a guilt offering, and the log of oil, and wave them as a wave offering before ????. 
    “It forms no exception to this principle, that a trespass-offering was also prescribed in the case of a healed leper (Lev_14:12), and in that of a Nazarite, whose vow had been interrupted by sudden defilement with the dead (Num_6:10-12), since leprosy was also symbolically regarded as a wrong to the congregation as a whole, * while the interruption of the vow was a kind of wrong directly towards the Lord.”
    Therefore, if these Ten Lepers standing afar off, does represent us “far off in distance and in time”, then Yeshua simply said to GO. He did NOT say to offer the sacrifice of Moshe again since Yeshua already fulfilled this. We instead offer up our praise for His sacrifice.
    So, when does he heal us? I’ll keep my opinion on this to myself since it is my own speculation.
    NOW, to switch subjects, you mention the 24 elders as recorded by John’s vision. This vision doesn’t necessarily indicated reality at THAT time. It may very well be a vision for the future. In this case, the 12 can be the 12 disciples and 12 Patriarchs from the Tanakh. Paul could be in the mix as well. Maybe the 12 Patriarchs are there now and awaiting the 12 disciples at the Shavuot resurrection or maybe all 24 are chosen at the same time at some point prior to the 8th day or 7th day. Do let me know if you have additional proof pointing to that vision being a present day reality vision. I just don’t think it is. Just like Moses saw ahead in time. And so did others.

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  4. Jeff & Ellen Sabino

    Shalom Joseph! Thank you for your newsletters – deep & insightful! We look forward each week to a good Bible study. We just want to ask what your plans for the Fall Feasts 2019. It seems that our plans on relocating to the Philippines will happen on mid- Sept. & it happens to be just on time for the Feast of Tabernacles for Sept. 14 ?? We emailed Aike in Manila thru FB but has gotten no response. Corette just said that she will likely be there (& maybe will go to Palawan with us). We just want to be able to plan things for our stay in Manila as somebody is coming with us & also our container will be coming about that time also. Do you have plans on going back to the Philippines? If so please let us know & we can even take you to Palawan & show you our mountain property there. Hope to see you there.

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  5. Kevin Nosan

    Hi Joseph: Need help am confused. Your saying Jeshua and others where first fruits and Shavout at the seconded coming will be the completion of first fruits right? Thus that would be the first resurrection right? Rev.20:5 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years was ended. This the first resurrection.” This can’t be right. Also you state and I agree his second coming in the clouds will be Trumpets right? 1Thes: 17-17. and the Lord will descend from heaven …….and the trump of God: and the dead rise first followed by those living right? Well that should be Trumpets, you say it will happen the following Shavout. I get what your saying but doesn’t it go against his showing at Trumpets. How many resurrections are there? I thought first resurrection was First Fruits, Second Resurrection at second coming in clouds and maybe third resurrection at judgement. OK then moving on have you ever asked yourself what Jeshua did for those twelve hours from the time he rose on the Sabbath say 5:30pm to 5:30 am when Mary Mag. showed up. My guess he went to town hooked up with those risen from the grave and hit the local tavern surely they where thirsty lol. Again moving on; read your Daniel prophecy and it was amazing, but later you mention Jeshua went to England /Ireland with Joseph of Armethia and that in Ireland there is a testament to Jeshua being ruddy. My first thought was Adam, Jacob,David, Jeshua and Donald Trump( he is ruddy-red head). Also you mention that Daniel wasn’t about Jeshua but was about David and that Jehovah would raise up David again. Could Trump be that David-like man. You state that England,USA, Canada, NZ, and Australia are brothers and currently in England there is chaos on leaving the EU. In order for those brothers listed to be destroyed England can’t be in the Eu. Trump is going to England in June and I have this feeling he is going to say to England “COME OUT OF HER” and England will. That should get the ball rolling and then there is the 2020 election. You realize as I that we lose until his second coming and being resurrected in the clouds is the best scenario, however there are versus that state we will be protected and that doesn’t necessarily just mean Moab/Jordon, it could be in all those listed brothers countries. Just some thoughts.

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      You Asked
      Hi Joseph: Need help am confused. Your saying Jeshua and others where first fruits and Shavout at the seconded coming will be the completion of first fruits right?
      Yes There is a First Fruits offering during the Days of Unleavened Bread. This is the barley offering. It took place, in reality, the day Yehshua ascended to Heaven with those Saints who came out of the graves in 31 C.E. The next Wave Offering of First Fruits is Shavuot when the Wheat is waved. We are the wheat and need to be ready for that day.
      Next question
      You asked
      Rev.20:5 “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years was ended. This the first resurrection.” This can’t be right.
      You need to read this properly in context. It is talking about the start of the 1000 years when Satan is locked away. Those who resist Satan are part of the first resurrection at this time which takes place at the start of the 1000 years period. Then the rest of the dead will not live until the end of the 1000 years.
      Rev 20:1 And I saw an angel come down from Heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years. And he cast him into the abyss and shut him up and set a seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more until the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that he must be loosed a little time. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him a thousand years.
      YOu asked
      Also you state and I agree his second coming in the clouds will be Trumpets right? 1Thes: 17-17. and the Lord will descend from heaven 

.and the trump of God: and the dead rise first followed by those living right? Well that should be Trumpets, you say it will happen the following Shavuot. I get what you’re saying but doesn’t it go against his showing at Trumpets. How many resurrections are there?
      There are 3 harvests. Unleavened Bread Shavuot and Sukkot. These are the 3 Chags. Trumpets and Atonement are not part of any of the Chags. They are not part of the Harvests. So we had the Saints at Unleavened Bread when Yehshua came to life and they ascended with Him on Wave Sheaf day in 31 C.E. The next harvest is of the wheat and it is to take place at Shavuot the end of the Great Tribulation and I am saying that is in 2033 CE. If you read the description of the coming of Yehovah in Exodus 19 it is described in the exact same way as 1 Thes. Trumpets was when He was born in 3 BC. Trumpets is again when He comes to war with Satan. I suspect this to be a period of 10 years until is completed att he end of the Great Tribulation in 2033 with Satan be bound and thrown into the pit. This begins in 2024 if my understanding of the Jubilee cycles is correct. Exactly what this entails I do not know. The two witnesses begin to work in 2026 and are killed in 2030. The Great Tribulation begins with their death and end when Satan is removed on Atonement in 2033.
      You asked
      Could Trump be that David-like man.
      No President Trump is not the reincarnated King David. King David is to be raised up when the Saints are all raised up at the same time on the Feast of Shavuot at the end of the Great Tribulation in 2033.

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      • Kevin Nosan

        Is this wrong in me thinking he comes when no man knows the day or hour, on the last trumpet (7th) in the clouds taking first those in the grave putting on incorruptible bodies and those living into immortal bodies in a twinkling of an eye? What is the timeline? Is it first Trumpest then he waits eight months or so to Shavout to harvest or is it Shavout first then waits till Trumpets to fight Satan? Once he is here why wait in either scenario. Is there trumpets at Shavout I don’t know could be I guess? 2) Joe you need to get your IT guy to make purchasing of books more user friendly. Tried buying Prophecy of Abraham and got warning it wasn’t a secure sight therefore I didn’t buy, Tried buying 2300 and 2016 together but they where E-books so I didn’t buy. Lastly I saw on site Abraham, 2300,2016 and charts but you can’t cart them seems you have to buy each individually and also the listed price is not the actual price at least for Abraham. Or you could give me a phone number to call and I can buy them that way. Lastly you say he died in 31CE and Micheal Rood says 28CE. What ”s interesting is that both of you agree he was born 3BC and both of you suggest to your followers to prove it just don’t take our word for it. So I did at least I think I did and conclude there is only two passovers and 28 CE seems right. Luke says he was about thirty years old. At his death I figure he was 30yrs 6 months old. Help me out on this how do you get 31CE.

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        • Joseph F. Dumond

          Joh 4:35 Do you not say, It is yet four months, and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already. The twinkling of the eye is speaking of Shavuot. The Trumpets sound on Shavuot as I said go and read Exodus 19.
          Thousand have bought through our site with no problem if that is where you were looking.
          You can buy the 2300 and the 2016 books as hard copies fro the same publisher Xlibris or from Amazon.
          Yes we have a bundle package of the POA and 2300 and 2016 and the charts as a bundle package and it is in e-book format.
          And yes the price of the hard copy of the Prophecies of Abraham has skyrocketed through the roof. I was originally selling it for 36.10 and I made $2 from that sale. It has now shot up to over $60.99 by the publisher. I still make $2 from each sale.
          Yes, Yehshua died in 31 AD. Michael says there are two Passovers. I count three. Luke says He was about 30 when He began His ministry at Passover in 28 CE. The acceptable year which is a Shemitah year. If he began His ministry in the Shemitah year of 28 and I believe he did, then you have now ruled out one of only two years when He could have been killed on Wednesday and have the crescent moon to begin the month so that the 14th is on a Wednesday. Both 28 and 31 CE. are the only two years that match these criteria and both use a leap year in order to do so. So when you count from 28, 29, 30, 31. 3 1.2 year ministry. I do not agree with Michael and his chronology of the gospels being 70 weeks.

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  6. Kevin Nosan

    Hi Joe; points I further would like to explore, just as I posted “in Silence of the Lambs” about the duality taking place during the 1st Passover. I starts a Aviv 10 when the Jews are commanded to pick a blemish free yearling lamb and inspect it.They do so for four days. What’s Jeshua doing these four days he is at the Temple being inspected by the Pharisees and the people. Now the point it says a yearling a blemish free yearling. A yearling can be as much as 1 1/2 year old it can’t be 2 years old. You stated you disagree with Rood two year passover theory whereas you count three passovers,( I sent a private E-mail to your address giving you my phone numbers but I didn’t get a response to that if you even received it and you didn’t point out where those three passovers are in scripture. Conclusion if three passovers Jeshua is a two year old and not a yearling. Most Christians believe in a 3 1/2 ministry which means 4 passovers.With two passovers Joshua is 1years 6 weeks till his death, if you add the 40 days after resurrection you get 1 year 3 months. Both within the limits of a yearling. My second point is about Shavout,you mention “don’t look out four months to the feast it’s white ready to be harvest now look”( paraphrase) I don’t think he is talking about wheat,( I searched the net looking for pictures of white growing wheat and found none it mostly yellowish or golden not white.) I think he is talking about the village coming out to see him thru the fields after the woman at the well told them the Messiah was there. Wouldn’t you put on your best white clothing to meet the Messiah i would. I think this dialogue is spiritual even though there is a feast then. Jeshua is telling his apostles( fishers of men) that their coming to him (the village men and women in white) Pentecost is the feast yes it is a reward, but the 49 days to it is the spiritual awakening to get the reward/feast. Therefore Passover the first feast with a resurrection, Shavout a spiritual awakening feast no resurrection and Sukkot the last feast preceded by Jeshua resurrecting the saints on trumpets for Sukkot. I think.

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  7. Jan

    I noticed a comment by Kevin, and this is why I am writing.
    I watched a teaching this past week that was interesting. It explained in ancient times, a white stone was given to find a person on trial innocent. A black stone if he was guilty. This usage of stones extended to voting as well. Stones were used to vote for the desired people.
    This is related to the usage of ‘white’ that we see in Scripture. The actual word white from a spiritual sense is brilliant in brightness; not just white in color. We see this in Yehshua called white and in His set-apart ones called white.
    Here are some verses:
    Mat 17:2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white G3022 as the light.
    John 20:12 And seeth two angels in white G3022 sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
    And this gives more understanding to this verse:
    Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white G3022 stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
    He that overcomes is VOTED and selected by Yehovah by giving us a white stone. And this white stone symbolizing that we have been found NOT GUILTY.
    Our new body. Clothed as the brightness of the sun…
    Rev 3:5 He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white G3022 raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
    Rev 6:11 And white G3022 robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
    Now this also points to the resurrection at Shavuot of the righteous dead, which is the purpose of writing this.
    This same word (G3022) is used here to indicate the WHITE harvest is now, not later.
    John 4:35  “Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and the harvest comes’? See, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white (G3022) for harvest – already! 
    Seems to be a clear connection of the harvest of THIS field of “brightness as the sun” is four months before the next harvest.
    This is a Shavuot harvest of those found NOT GUILTY and now clothed in the brightness of the sun.

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  8. Kevin Nosan

    Hi, Joe: It’s been awhile 5-18-19 since last text. Still waiting for you to say where that third passover is in scripture, but keep in mind you need four passovers to get a 3 1/2 ministry, so tell me where the forth passover is also in scripture. You say 28AD and 31 AD are only years where a death on Wed. can occur and because 28AD is a Shemitah year (thus saith Joseph Dumond) that’s when his ministry starts. Seems to me a Shemtitah Year in which the Jews are to forgive debt and return the land etc. After all what’s he doing on the cross getting a sun tan or forgiving are debts are trespasses are sins. Shemitah year I actually learned that from you. He died 28 AD. Seems to me your try to force fit scripture into your charts. Example; the sign of Jonah, Jeshua never said 3days and 3 nights” was the same as his ministry”, implying at least a 3 year ministry. that’s false teaching.Other Example; the Dedication of the Temple is Hannakah an it was observed since about 160 BC. It wasn’t invented you say in 200AD. You say you can’t add to scripture but who gives you the right to delete scripture. Then you delete Hannakah and force feed the Dedication into Tabernacles. That’s nonsense. How you going to delete Purim? Example; You say Daniel was talking about 12 tribes not just Judah so you can force fit the burning bush as the starting point of his prophecy to rebuilt the wall and Jerusalem. What Wall? Where in scripture do you find a wall in Jerusalem that needs to be rebuilt before Moses or Joshua enter the land? Daniel was talking to Judah only I doubt he had any concern for the 10 tribes that where dispersed about 200 years earlier.Example; Even an 8th grade student who knows a millennium equals a thousand years and lives on a cattle farm in Canada would not say 980 years equals 1000 years. He wouldn’t round up, on the other hand if you asked him if 1029 years was a millennium he would say Yes and some. I think your charts might be off and suggest you run the program using 1029 years. Might even be more interesting. Lastly even that boy witnessing the butchering of a 3 1/2 year old cow would not say it is a yearling. If Jeshua had a 3 1/2 year ministry died on the cross he is not the Messiah for he has to be a yearling. Virtually ever teaching you do has contradictions, you contradict yourself even within your teaching. However I still learn from them. Use your charts to align with scripture not re-align scripture to suit your charts. Don’t take this as negative criticism, take it as constructive advise, you don’t need to change scripture to suit your narrative. God bless you Joe.

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      WOW even a fool who remains silent seems wise. But others don’t remain silent and show the world who they are. Kevin sorry. Your post shows you do not understand many things. Please do keep reading. You still have time.

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      • Kevin Nosan

        Hi, Joe: Just one question then. You have stated you counted three passovers. Now I know you know more about the Bible than me, that’s a given. Please then help this old fool and tell me what book, chapter and verse is that. I really need to know where that third passover is. It is a simple question to a knowledgeable Bible scholar. You got to know. Please tell me. Thanks

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  9. Kevin Nosan

    Hi Joe , still waiting for your answer, the third passover? where?

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    • Joseph F. Dumond

      John mentions the first in John 2, the second Passover in 6:4 and the third one in 11:55; 12:1; 13:1; 18:28, 39; and 19:14.
      Joh 2:13 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
      Joh 6:4 And the Passover was near, a feast of the Jews.
      Joh 11:55 And the Jews’ Passover was near. And many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover in order to purify themselves.

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      • Kevin Nosan

        Thanks Joe; You just debunked your own 3 1/2 ministry down to 2 years 3 months.Thanks again. 6.4 is not found in any 1st or 2nd century documents or manuscripts. It first appearance is 4th century, at the same time as Eusebius the inventor of the 3 1/2 ministry. Coincidence? Also Eusebius states Jesus ministry is 1 year after John the Baptist is imprisoned, meaning you need to find 3 passovers before john’s imprisoned. Good luck with that. Clement of Alexandria says ministry a little over 1 year whereas Origen says 1 year 3 months. Jn 2-passover, Jn 5 unnamed feast (it is Pentecost), Jn 6.4 Passover (THINK A whole year goes by, no second Pentecost) then just jump into Jn 7 tabernacles, Jn 9 Hanukkah Jn 12 passover. Jn 6.4 was deceptively added in. I’ll give back your advise keep reading there is still time.

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  10. Jan

    Kevin. Not sure at all what newsletters you are reading. Not the same ones I read.
    You say this:
    You say 28AD and 31 AD are only years where a death on Wed. can occur and because 28AD is a Shemitah year (thus saith Joseph Dumond) that’s when his ministry starts. Seems to me a Shemtitah Year in which the Jews are to forgive debt and return the land etc. After all what’s he doing on the cross getting a sun tan or forgiving are debts are trespasses are sins. Shemitah year I actually learned that from you. He died 28 AD.
    Joe says and his calendar say:
    28AD is the year He began His ministry and yes, it is a Shemita year backed up by well over 45 hard facts. Tombstones fit these Shemita years. You can’t deny the tombstones. He died in 31 AD.
    You say:
    Example; the sign of Jonah, Jeshua never said 3days and 3 nights” was the same as his ministry”, implying at least a 3 year ministry.
    Joe says:
    3 days and 3 nights are the prophecy Yehshua said He would be in the grave. NOT the length of His ministry. Joe has never used the 3 days and 3 nights to justify a 3 1/2 year ministry.
    You say:
    Then you delete Hannakah and force feed the Dedication into Tabernacles. That’s nonsense. How you going to delete Purim?
    Joe says:
    Show me in Scripture where YHVH commands you to keep these as annual Moedim?
    He lists the Moedim in Lev 23. I don’t see Chanukah nor Purim there. When you add Moedim you change the shadow picture.
    This next comment proves you haven’t read 2300 Days of Hell nor the newsletters explaining this.
    You say:
    Example; You say Daniel was talking about 12 tribes not just Judah so you can force fit the burning bush as the starting point of his prophecy to rebuilt the wall and Jerusalem. What Wall? Where in scripture do you find a wall in Jerusalem that needs to be rebuilt before Moses or Joshua enter the land? Daniel was talking to Judah only I doubt he had any concern for the 10 tribes that where dispersed about 200 years earlier.
    Joe says:
    King David commanded the walls to be rebuilt. This is historical fact. That is the starting point of the 62 Jubilee cycles. The burning bush led up to that point and is the 7 Jubilee cycles so you are misrepresenting what he wrote.
    Now you say this:
    Example; Even an 8th grade student who knows a millennium equals a thousand years and lives on a cattle farm in Canada would not say 980 years equals 1000 years.
    Joe says according to what GOD says:
    A Day is AS a thousand years. It does not say it is a thousand years.
    Now this is absolutely proven via the sabbatical and Jubilee calendar due to the dates aligning. Many have argued there are 50 years in a J cycle and this 50th year is standalone. FALSE! Joe has now proven via new dead sea scroll evidence that the 50th year …. the year after 7 Sabbatical cycles is INDEED the first year within those 49 years. HARD FACTS!
    The idea of 6 millennial years x 1,000 years each is false. The only way to get this is to use 50 year cycles and once again…. as I said above…. Joe now has FIVE hard facts attesting to THIS fact that he is correct. It is FIVE HARD FACTS proving the 50th year is the FIRST year in a new Jubilee cycle and therefore each JC is indeed 49 years.
    Now you say this…,
    Lastly even that boy witnessing the butchering of a 3 1/2 year old cow would not say it is a yearling. If Jeshua had a 3 1/2 year ministry died on the cross he is not the Messiah for he has to be a yearling.
    I would respond this way…
    Yehshua died at 33. That is a “yearling” in terms of man’s age. You can’t compare a heifer’s age to a human’s age. Cows don’t live to be 80-90 years old!
    Now you end with this:
    Virtually ever teaching you do has contradictions, you contradict yourself even within your teaching. However I still learn from them. Use your charts to align with scripture not re-align scripture to suit your charts. Don’t take this as negative criticism, take it as constructive advise, you don’t need to change scripture to suit your narrative. God bless you Joe.
    I respond as:
    It is obvious you have a preconceived agenda to meet and Joe’s teaching doesn’t align with your agenda, therefore you consider him wrong. You misconstrue and seemingly intentionally misrepresent what he has said and taught. Sadly, you don’t want to learn. However, Joe has the HARD FACTS on his side and what do you have? All I see is misrepresentations of what Joe has taught in his newsletters, videos, and books.

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