Newsletter 5862-007
The 3rd Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle
The 32nd year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 22nd of the 2nd month, 5862 years after the creation of Adam
The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of the Tithes to the Widows and Orphans
April 11, 2026
Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,
It is the 35th day of counting the Omer.
With this Shabbat we are now on Day 35. It is the 5th Sabbath since the waving of the Omer on March 5, 2026. When Israel left Egypt on Passover day, they too were counting the days up until Shavuot. Like many of you, they had no idea why they were counting. They were transitioning from being slaves in debt to sin into a priestly line that serves Yehovah.
But right after they met with Yehovah at Mount Sinai, they went back to sin and created the golden calf and worshipped it. Then one year later they doubted the One who had parted the Red Sea and destroyed the Egyptians. Then Yehovah had them all die in the wilderness over the next 40 years. How many of you are not counting the Omer, not counting the time until we meet Yehovah?
From Everlasting to Everlasting
Psa 90:1 A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. O Jehovah, You have been our dwelling-place in all generations.
Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
Psa 90:3 You turn man to dust, and say, Return, sons of men.
Psa 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight are as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Psa 90:5 You carry them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep; in the morning they are like grass which grows up.
Psa 90:6 In the morning it sprouts and shoots up; in the evening it is cut down, and dries up.
Psa 90:7 For we are burned up by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are troubled.
Psa 90:8 You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your face.
Psa 90:9 For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.
Psa 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Psa 90:11 Who knows the power of Your anger? And as Your fear is, so is Your wrath.
Psa 90:12 So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.
Psa 90:13 Return, O Jehovah! How long? And give pity to Your servants.
Psa 90:14 Satisfy us early with Your mercy, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
Psa 90:15 Make us glad according to the days of our affliction, the years in which we have seen evil.
Psa 90:16 Let Your work appear to Your servants, and Your glory to their sons.
Psa 90:17 And let the beauty of Jehovah our God be on us; and establish the work of our hands on us; yea, the work of our hands, establish it.
How many of you are returning to the sin you were supposed to leave back in Egypt? How many of you will be left to die in the wilderness because you just do not believe the one who called you?
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There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and you and I are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s, Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
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Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion in our archived section, you can then go to the 1st year, which is the 1st year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every Newsletter. There, you can scroll down to the proper date and see that this Shabbat, we could very well be midrashing about:
Numbers 1
Ezekiel 40-42
1 john 3-4
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2025. We go through the entire Bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire Bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
Counting the Omer
Counting the Omer
Shavuot in Upper New York
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Friday 5:30PM Erev Supper, Kiddish, Fellowship.
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Sister Murdered in Peru
Sister Murdered in Peru
Hilda Carmen Monteverde Diaz died April 1 in a bus shooting in Peru. Her name in the USA was Carmen Peters.

The Martyrdom of the Saints in the Last Days
We are living in the last days, and Scripture repeatedly warns that the martyrdom of the saints will increase as the end draws near. This is not a surprise to Yehovah — it is part of His prophetic plan. Here are the key passages that speak directly to this reality:
Revelation 6:9-11
When the fifth seal is opened, John sees the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony they held. They cry out, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?”
Revelation 11:7-10
After the Two Witnesses finish their 1,260-day ministry, the beast from the abyss will attack them, kill them, and their bodies will lie in the street of the great city. The whole world will celebrate their deaths.
Revelation 13:7 – “It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them.”
Revelation 12:17 – “The dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her offspring — those who keep God’s commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.”
Matthew 24:9-10
“Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other.”
Ezekiel 5:1-2, 12
Yehovah tells the prophet to shave his head and beard, divide the hair into three parts: one third burned with fire, one third struck with the sword, and one third scattered to the wind and pursued with the sword.
“Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him…
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18)
- Pray daily for one another’s protection and boldness.
- Encourage each other with the sure hope of the resurrection.
- Remain faithful, even unto death, knowing we will receive the crown of life (Revelation 2:10).
“Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.” (Revelation 2:10)May we all be found faithful when our time comes, and may we comfort one another with these words until we see our King face to face.
Rose Treasure's Final Two Reports
Rose Treasure’s Final Two Reports
If you’d like to follow along on this Barley Search Journey, Rose is keeping a daily journal on her blog. She will share as regularly as she can, giving her own personal perspective of the events.
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Cycles of Seven
Cycles of Seven

The Feast of Weeks
Lev 23:15 And you shall count to you from the next day after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete.
Lev 23:16 To the next day after the seventh sabbath you shall number fifty days. And you shall offer a new food offering to Jehovah.
Genesis 1–2 establishes the first and most basic pattern:
- God created the heavens and the earth in six days.
- He rested on the seventh day and sanctified it as the Sabbath (Genesis 2:2-3).
This 7-day week is the prototype for every larger cycle of seven in Scripture. The Weekly Sabbath is not only the first appointed time (moed); it is the foundational pattern that reveals God’s entire 7,000-year plan for mankind.
Just as God worked six days and rested on the seventh, human history follows the same pattern:
- 6,000 years (six “days”) of human labor and rule under the curse.
- Followed by the 7th millennium — the true Sabbath rest of the earth under the reign of the Messiah.
This is why the Weekly Sabbath is repeatedly called a “sign” (Exodus 31:13-17) — it points forward to the coming 7th millennium of rest.
Every seventh year is a Sabbatical (Shemitah) year:
- The land rests (Leviticus 25:1-7).
- Debts are released.
- Slaves are set free.
This 7-year cycle is not optional. It is commanded, and Leviticus 26 explicitly states that if Israel refuses to keep the Sabbatical years, God will enforce the land’s rest through exile and famine — in multiples of seven.
Yehovah commanded seven annual Holy Days (moedim) that form a complete prophetic outline of His plan of salvation for mankind. These are not “Jewish feasts” but appointments with God that reveal the major steps in redemption:
- Passover (Pesach) – The Lamb is slain on the 14th and eaten on the 1st day of Unleavened Bread the 15th day. Pictures the death of the Messiah as our Passover Lamb.
- The 7 Day Feast of Unleavened Bread – Removal of sin (leaven). Pictures the seven millennial days of mankind putting sin out of our existence. Satan is killed at the end of the 7th day just like the Egyptian are destroyed in the Red Sea. The Feast of Firstfruits – The wave offering of the first sheaf. Pictures the resurrection of the Messiah as the firstfruits of the dead. This is also part of the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
- Feast of Weeks (Shavuot / Pentecost) – The giving of the Torah at Sinai and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts. Pictures the harvest of the first believers and the writing of the Torah on our hearts and the pouring out of teh Holy Spirit in the last days on all flesh.
- Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) – The sounding of the shofar. Pictures the coming of the Thief in the night while the watchmen are asleep and the warning of coming 10 days/years of judgment.
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) – The cleansing of the nation. Pictures the final atonement and judgment of the world. Satan is to be locked away at the end of the 6th millenial day and then cast in the Lake of Fire at the end of the 7th millennial day.
- Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) – Dwelling with God in booths. Pictures the Millennial Kingdom when the Messiah will tabernacle with His people on earth. It is also a picture of the seven day wedding as the bride readies herself.
- Shemin Atzeret, or the 8th Day Feast. It pictures the Groom coming and taking His bride and this is the time when Yehovah will come and dwell with mankind here on earth. It is the start of the 8th millennium.
These seven Holy Days are divided into the Spring Feasts (1–3), which were fulfilled at the first coming of the Messiah, and the Fall Feasts (4–7), which will be fulfilled at His second coming. Together they form a complete roadmap of Yehovah’s salvation plan from redemption to final rest.
The ultimate time unit in the Torah is the Jubilee:
(Leviticus 25:8-10)
- 7 Sabbatical years = 49 years.
- The 50th year is the Jubilee (the 50th is year 1 of the next cycle).
- All land returns to its original owners, slaves are freed, and the cycle resets.
This is the heartbeat of biblical time. The Jubilee is the ultimate picture of redemption and restoration.
Genesis 6:3 gives the total length of human history under the curse:
The Hebrew word translated “years” here is shaneh — the same word used for Jubilee cycles. God gave mankind exactly 120 Jubilee cycles (120 × 49 = 5,880 years) before the 7th millennium of rest begins.
- We are currently in the 120th Jubilee cycle.
- Aviv 2026 = year 5862 from Creation (as taught and documented on Sightedmoon.com).
- The 6th millennium ends around 2045 CE.
- The 7th millennium of rest (the true “Sabbath” of the earth) begins then.
This is why the current 5th Sabbatical Cycle (2023–2030) and the 10 Years of Awe (2024–2033) are so critical — we are in the final stretch of the 120th Jubilee.
The Bible repeatedly escalates judgment in multiples of seven when God’s people disobey:
- Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 — “I will punish you seven times more for your sins… seven times more… seven times more… seven times more.”
- The curses (drought, famine, pestilence, captivity) compound in sevens until repentance or the full measure is reached.
Revelation is saturated with sevens:
- 7 churches, 7 seals, 7 trumpets, 7 bowls, 7 thunders.
- The beast has 7 heads; the dragon has 7 crowns.
- The 3½ years (half of 7) of the Two Witnesses’ ministry (Revelation 11:3) and the Great Tribulation.
These are not coincidences. They are the same divine clock ticking.
Because the Jubilee cycles are measurable and verifiable (We now have 68 biblical, historical, and archaeological proofs confirming the 49-year cycle), they function as a precise roadmap:
- 2020 — exact midpoint of the 120th Jubilee (Daniel 9:27 — “in the midst of the week” the daily was taken away). In the midst of the 70th Jubilee….
- October 7, 2023 — exactly 1,290 days later (Daniel 12:11).
- 2026 (Aviv) — year 5862: the Red Heifer sacrifice, the beginning of the Two Witnesses’ 1,260-day ministry, the declaration of no rain for 3½ years, and the global famine already being triggered by the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
The curses of Leviticus 26 are compounding right now in sevens because we have reached the final Jubilee cycle. The patterns are not abstract — they are unfolding in real time.
Conclusion: The Clock Is Loud
God did not hide His plan. He embedded it in the most repeated number in Scripture — seven — so that anyone who studies the Torah with an open heart can see the timeline.
The Sabbatical year pictures the release that will come in that millennium.
The Seven Annual Holy Days lay out the complete step-by-step plan of salvation.
The Jubilee proclaims liberty and restoration.
Cycles of Eight
Cycles of Eight
Immediately following the seven days of Sukkot comes the Eighth Day, called Shemini Atzeret (“the Eighth Day Assembly”). It is described in the very next verse:
(Leviticus 23:36)
(Numbers 29:35)
Nothing more is said. No reason is given for why it is a solemn assembly, why it is holy, or what it commemorates. The Jews therefore do not fully understand its meaning. We must discover it by carefully studying the consistent patterns of eight throughout Scripture.
The Bible repeatedly shows the same sequence:
- Aaron and his sons remained inside the Tent of Meeting for seven full days of consecration and purification. Only on the eighth day were they allowed to come out and begin serving Yehovah as priests (Leviticus 8:33-35; 9:1).
- Many healings and purifications required seven days of cleansing. Only on the eighth day was the person declared clean and restored to service (Leviticus 14:8-10 for leprosy; Leviticus 15:13-15 for bodily discharges; Numbers 6:9-10 for Nazarite vows).
Seven days represent the full cycle of cleansing and preparation. The eighth day is the day of new life, service, and entrance into the presence of Yehovah.
1. Cleansing from Leprosy (Tzara’at) – Leviticus 14:1-32
- The person with leprosy is examined by the priest.
- After the initial inspection and the bird ritual, the person washes their clothes, shaves, and bathes.
- They remain outside their tent for 7 days.
- On the eighth day, the person brings two male lambs, one ewe lamb, flour, and oil for the guilt offering, sin offering, and burnt offering.
- The priest performs the atonement rituals, applies blood and oil to the right ear, thumb, and big toe, and the person is officially declared clean and fully restored to the community and to service.
They are not etymologically related (different roots: צ-ר-ע vs. ע-צ-ר). However, there is a thematic connection in the broader biblical pattern you are exploring:
- Tzara’at causes a person to be separated / isolated (restrained from the community) for seven days of cleansing.
- Atzeret is a day when the people are gathered and restrained (held back) in a solemn assembly after seven days of the main festival.
Both involve a form of restraint or separation:
- Tzara’at = negative separation due to impurity (isolation until the 8th day when the person is declared clean and restored).
- Atzeret = positive, holy separation/gathering (the people are “held back” on the 8th day for a special, intimate time with Yehovah after the seven days of Sukkot).
In the patterns of eight you have been studying:
- Seven days = preparation, cleansing, or completion of a cycle.
- The eighth day = restoration, new beginning, and full entrance into Yehovah’s presence.
The affliction of tzara’at requires seven days of cleansing before the person can be restored on the eighth day.
Shemini Atzeret is the solemn assembly on the eighth day after seven days of Sukkot, when the people are gathered for a special time with Yehovah.The shared idea of “restraint/separation” (one negative, one positive) helps illuminate why the eighth day is so significant: after the period of restraint or preparation (seven), comes the day of restoration and intimate dwelling with God.This fits beautifully with the larger pattern:
- Seven = cleansing / preparation / completion.
- Eight = restoration / new life / Yehovah dwelling with His purified people.
2. Cleansing from Bodily Discharges (Zav / Zavah) – Leviticus 15:13-15 (for men) and Leviticus 15:28-30 (for women)
- A man with an abnormal bodily discharge (zav) or a woman with an irregular flow (zavah) counts 7 clean days after the discharge stops.
- On the eighth day, the person brings two birds (turtledoves or young pigeons) — one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.
- The priest makes atonement, and the person is declared clean and restored to full participation in the community and worship.
3. Cleansing for a Nazarite Who Became Defiled – Numbers 6:9-12
- If a Nazarite becomes defiled by touching a dead body, he must shave his head on the seventh day of his defilement.
- On the eighth day, he brings two turtledoves or two young pigeons — one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering — to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
- He also brings a year-old lamb for a guilt offering.
- The priest makes atonement, and the Nazarite is cleansed and can resume his vow (the days before his defilement are lost and do not count).
4. Cleansing After Childbirth – Leviticus 12:1-8
- After giving birth to a son, the mother is unclean for 7 days + 33 days of blood purification (total 40 days).
- After giving birth to a daughter, she is unclean for 14 days + 66 days of blood purification (total 80 days).
- At the end of the purification period (which ends on what functions as the “eighth day” in the broader cleansing pattern), she brings a burnt offering and a sin offering.
- The priest makes atonement, and she is declared clean and restored to full worship and community life.
5. Cleansing of a House with Suspected Leprosy (Mold) – Leviticus 14:33-53
- The house is shut up for 7 days.
- On the eighth day, the priest returns. If the plague has spread, the affected stones are removed and replaced. If it has not spread, the house is pronounced clean after the appropriate rituals (bird ceremony, blood, and cedar wood).
Summary of the Pattern In every major cleansing ceremony in the Torah:
- There is a seven-day period of waiting, washing, shaving, or isolation (representing full cleansing and preparation).
- Only on the eighth day is the person (or house) officially declared clean, brought offerings, atoned for, and restored to service or full fellowship with Yehovah and the community.
This consistent 7 + 1 pattern is the key to understanding the deeper meaning of Shemini Atzeret (the Eighth Day) and the Last Great Day (the 7th day of Sukkot). The seven days represent the time of preparation and cleansing. The eighth day is when Yehovah declares His people clean and ready to dwell with Him forever.
Wave Sheaf Day (the day after the weekly Sabbath during Unleavened Bread) is an 8th-day event. It was the very first time in history that a group of saints (the 24 elders of Revelation) were raised from the dead and brought into heaven as firstfruits.The next wave offering of the same kind occurs at Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). In 2026, Shavuot falls exactly eight years from now in 2033. On that day:
- The living saints will be changed into spirit beings.
- Those who have died in the faith will be raised.
This is another powerful 8th-day resurrection and transformation event.
This ties directly back to the beginning:
- Adam and Eve are believed to have chosen the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil on the 50th year after Creation — the very first “Jubilee” year.
- Adam lived 930 years and died 50 years before the end of the first millennial day (the first 1,000-year “day”).
The first Jubilee year ended in tragedy because mankind chose independence from God instead of clinging to Him as their true possession. The Jubilee command is therefore a perpetual call to reverse that choice: to return to our original possession — Yehovah — and to cling to Him alone.In the Jubilee year:
- Every person returns to their achuzzah (possession).
- Land returns to its original owners.
- Slaves are set free.
- All debts are cancelled.
This is the ultimate picture of the eighth day: after the fullness of seven Sabbatical cycles (49 years), comes the great release, restoration, and new beginning. The Jubilee proclaims that we are to return to our King, our true Possession, and cling to Him forever.
The pattern is consistent across all of Scripture:
- After the 7th millennium of rest, Satan will be released for a short time, defeated, and cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:7-10).
- Immediately following that judgment comes the 8th millennium — the eternal new beginning when Yehovah will fully dwell with men on earth in a new heavens and new earth.
Seven = completion, cleansing, and preparation.
Eight = new life, resurrection, restoration, and eternal dwelling with Yehovah.
40th Day of Ascension
40th Day of Ascension
What Does Mem B’Omer Mean for Us Today? We began counting the Omer this year on March 8, 2026 (the day after the weekly Sabbath following First Fruits). Counting forward, the 40th day of the Omer falls on April 16, 2026. This day is traditionally known as Mem B’Omer (מ”ם בעומר).
- Mem (מ”ם) is the Hebrew letter Mem, which has the numerical value of 40 in gematria.
- B’Omer (בעומר) means “in the Omer” or “of the Omer.”
- So Mem B’Omer = the 40th day of the 49-day count between Passover/First Fruits and Shavuot (Pentecost).
- 40 days of rain during the flood
- Moses on Mount Sinai for 40 days receiving the Torah
- The 12 spies in the land for 40 days
- Israel’s 40 years in the wilderness
- Yeshua’s own 40 days of fasting and temptation before His ministry
During these 40 days of the Omer in 31 AD, Yeshua was preparing His disciples. He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures (Luke 24:45), taught them concerning the Kingdom of God, and commissioned them to be His witnesses. On the 40th day, the preparation was complete. His physical presence with them (“God with us”) came to an end, and the era of the Holy Spirit (“God in us”) was about to begin. The 40 days represent a time when God equips His people for the coming harvest at Shavuot. Yeshua used this exact season to ready the disciples so they would be prepared to receive the power of the Holy Spirit on Shavuot.
The Ascension – A Prophetic Picture
When Yeshua ascended on the 40th day, He fulfilled prophecies such as Psalm 68:18 and Ephesians 4:8-10:
“He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.” He “led captivity captive and gave gifts to men.” He took His place at the right hand of the Father and sent the Holy Spirit to empower His Body on earth. This fits the beautiful pattern we see in the counting of the Omer:
- Passover – Redemption by the blood of the Lamb
- First Fruits – Resurrection
- The 40 days – Preparation and revelation
- Shavuot – The giving of the Spirit and the presentation of the two loaves
The Two Leavened Loaves
On Shavuot, the priests waved two loaves of leavened bread made with wheat. These two loaves represent the two houses of Israel — the House of Judah and the House of Israel (Ephraim). Just as the single sheaf at First Fruits represented the resurrection of the Messiah along with at least the 24 elders of Revelation, the two loaves at Shavuot picture the regathering and restoration of both houses of Israel under the power of the Holy Spirit at the end of the Great Tribulation. This is a powerful reminder that God has not forgotten either house and is working to bring them back together as one stick in His hand (Ezekiel 37).
What This Means for us in 2026.
We are once again walking through the same 50-day season the disciples experienced in 31 AD. On April 16, 2026 — the 40th day of the Omer — we remember that Yeshua completed His earthly work and ascended so the Holy Spirit could come and empower His people to finish the assignment. This day calls us to examine our own lives. Are we allowing Yeshua to prepare us during this season? Are we studying the Scriptures with open hearts as He opened the minds of the disciples? Are we ready for the fresh outpouring the Father still desires to send?
If we understand that 2033 is the time when the 50th day resurrection of the Saints will take place, then we must also understand that the 10 day or 10 years began in 2024. Then the 40th year before this began in 1984. Do you know what was going on at that time? Nehemia Gordon was beginning to question the calendar as a young teen.
Precise Timeline from His Own Words and Reliable Sources
- Questioning the rabbinic calendar began when he was a young teenager (early to mid-teens), after his father told him that the rabbis had changed the original biblical calendar. In a 2023 Hebrew Voices episode, Nehemia described this period:
“I’m coming at them from the perspective of a teenager, all I have is Mandelkern’s Concordance of the Tanakh, and I’m opening it up and trying to figure out, ‘Okay, I know the rabbis changed the calendar, my father told me that when I was a kid. What was the original calendar? And barley? Well, how would that even work?’ It took me a long time to figure that out. It took a lot of experience to figure it out…”This was purely intellectual curiosity at home — reading a concordance and trying to understand the biblical system. There is no evidence of any systematic study, field observation, or crescent-moon research at this stage.
- Actual research and organized exploration of the aviv barley calendar + crescent moon began in 1988.
Multiple independent sources, including an academic paper in the Jewish Bible Quarterly (2017) and Nehemia’s own materials, state explicitly:“Starting in 1988, Nehemia Gordon… has been organizing and leading annual searches for aviv barley in Israel. As far as we are aware, these are the first such searches in modern times.”This marks the beginning of his active, systematic work — going into the fields of Israel each spring to observe barley ripeness stages combined with new-moon sightings.
He was 16 years old at the time.
Nehemia Gordon was born in 1972. In 1988 he turned 16 (his birthday is in November).Quick Context
- Before 1988 he had already begun questioning the rabbinic fixed calendar as a young teenager (he grew up in an Orthodox Jewish family but later became Karaite).
- 1988 marks the precise beginning of his active, systematic fieldwork and public study of the observational barley + crescent moon calendar.
- He has continued this work every year since, and it became the foundation of his well-known teachings on the biblical calendar.
This information comes directly from his own materials and independent scholarly references—no earlier year is documented for the start of his barley/crescent moon research.
Myself, I had just started to learn about the Sabbath in 1981-1982 and was baptized in 1983. I want to encourage you all to examine this counting of the Omer looking at it as 40 years in our time with the 50th year being the year we are to be changed and made into spirit beings in 2033.
The same Yeshua who ascended on the 40th day will return in like manner (Acts 1:11) in 2033. As we continue counting the Omer toward Shavuot, let us use these days for serious preparation — drawing closer to Him, seeking understanding, and readying ourselves for the work that lies ahead. He is risen. He has ascended. And He is coming again. May the remainder of this Omer count be a time of real spiritual preparation in each of our lives.
- They were united (“with one accord”).
- They were devoted to prayer — actively praying and waiting in obedience, not hiding in fear.
- The group included the apostles, certain women, Mary, and Yeshua’s brothers — about 120 of them were there waiting.
How should we be in this 120th Jubilee cycle? exactly as they were.
How the Barley Search Set the Date for Easter
How the Barley Search Set the Date for Easter
The Barley Watch and Constantine’s Frustration:
How Observational Passover Timing Led to Our Modern Easter Rule
The Observational Jewish Calendar in the Fourth Century
“For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things… Hence it is that on this point as well as others they have no perception of the truth, so that, being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Easter twice in the same year. Why then should we follow those who are confessedly in grievous error? Surely we shall never consent to keep this feast a second time in the same year… Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd; for we have received from our Saviour a different way.”
Full English translations of the letter appear at:
- New Advent / Church Fathers: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/25023.htm (especially Chapter 18)
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf201.iv.vi.iii.xviii.html
The phrase “they sometimes celebrate Easter twice in the same year” (where “Easter” here translates the Greek “Pascha,” referring to the Jewish Passover that Christians were sometimes following) was Constantine’s way of highlighting what he portrayed as confusion or error in the Jewish calendrical system. He was not claiming that Jews or Christians normally held two separate festivals in one solar year, nor was he accurately describing a standard or intentional Jewish practice. Instead, he used the remark as rhetorical ammunition within his broader anti-Jewish polemic to justify complete separation.
The Core Issue
By Constantine’s time, the Julian calendar served as the empire’s official timekeeping system, with the vernal equinox fixed for ecclesiastical purposes around March 21. The bishops at Nicaea built directly on this solar stability. They ruled that Pascha would no longer follow the variable Jewish observational calendar. Instead, it would be observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon, occurring on or after the vernal equinox (using the Julian calendar’s fixed equinox date). This single decision achieved several goals at once:
- It eliminated any ongoing reliance on Jewish messengers, Sanhedrin declarations, or barley crop reports from the Land of Israel.
- It prevented the possibility of “two Easters” falling within one solar year by anchoring the calculation to the predictable solar framework Caesar had established.
- It promoted uniformity across the empire, which aligned with Constantine’s overarching desire for imperial and ecclesiastical harmony.
The rule that emerged directly from Constantine’s frustration with waiting on Jewish barley observations and “instruction” became the foundation of Western Easter dating that remains in use today. Every spring, when Easter falls on its computed Sunday, it stands as a lasting consequence of that fourth-century break: Christians no longer needed to depend on field reports from Jerusalem or risk any calendrical overlap that could be portrayed as error.
The barley search—once the concrete agricultural trigger for delay, uncertainty, and dependence—thus became irrelevant to Christian practice. Constantine’s push for independence produced the fixed astronomical method (sun and moon within a stable solar year) that we inherit nearly 1,700 years later, set against the earlier backdrop of Caesar’s solar reform. This historical sequence illustrates how an ancient Torah-based requirement to watch for aviv barley in Israel indirectly helped shape one of Christianity’s most visible annual traditions through the lens of imperial frustration and the drive for uniformity. Primary sources for further reading:
- Eusebius, Life of Constantine Book 3 (full context of the letter): https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/25023.htm
- Nehemia Gordon’s study linking aviv barley to Nicaea: https://www.nehemiaswall.com/aviv-barley-and-the-spirit-of-constantine
- Overview of the Julian calendar reform with references to ancient authors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
This account draws strictly from the primary letter preserved by Eusebius, the known mechanics of the pre-Hillel observational calendar, and established historical context around the Julian reforms. It avoids later interpretive overlays or apologetics.






Joseph: Thank you for the Cycles of Sevens and Cycles of Eight charts – really helpful, and yes we’re counting the Omer, hope others are too.
After attending a teaching at the SDA Church on the Council of Nicaea and how Christian doctrine was cobbled together there, I left the church (2007). Soon after I discovered Michael Rood and Nehemiah Gordon and Sighted Moon,
Roman Emperor Constantine, in 321 AD, declared Sunday the mandatory day of worship (not rest) throughout the empire, negating Yehovah’s seventh-day Sabbath. In 325AD, to end the Arian heresy (Yeshua was a created being, not co-eternal with God the Father) and unify religious doctrine, he convened the Council of Nicaea. They created the Trinity, joining Christ and the Holy Spirit with God declaring them one and for reasons you showed, replaced Passover with Easter. (no mention of the Easter Bunny or colored eggs) Christianity was declared the state religion by the Roman Emperor Theodosius in 380 CE.
Hi dear joseph, i wanted to ask with regard to your observing pesach. You said that in 2025, Nisan 14 fell on a shabbat march 15 2025 and in 2026, Nisan 14 was on March 4 2026. If this is correct, the number of days from one to another is about 355 days ( similar to 12 lunar cycles ) but is not 365.25 days and so is not really one earth year. Can i then ask how do you account for this discrepancy and what are the implications for this continual shortfall over the years? Should not one passover to the next passover be 365.25 days instead of only 355 or 354 days?
A Hebrew year is 354 days. Yes it is short of the solar year of 365 days by 11 days each year. This is the reason an Adar Bet is added about every three years depending on the whether or not the barley is Aviv. You are giving weight to the solar year and assuming it is what rules. This is where you error. The year has always depended on when the first fruits of barley would be ready to make the wave offering in the month of Aviv, Green Ears or green heads of grains. In 2027 Passover could very well be 11 days before this year of March 5. It will depend on whether or not there is Aviv Barley ready to be waved, which is why we must go and search.
Again this brings to mind exactly what Yehshua said. No Man can know the day or the hour. Which month is the Feast of Trumpets in 2027? No one knows. And then once we do know the timing of each month, then we still will not know which day the Feast of Trumpets is on until the moon is actually sighted by two witnesses.
It still amazes me. History, proven, which changed days, times and seasons of God, when presented as historical documentation, most deny it. I believe the problem stems as most have no idea as they were not taught this. Nor did they seek to prove if what they were taught is true! We have put so much unfounded trust into “scholars”, in our minds, it negates the need to prove. The one and only thing that brought me here at SM, is the mantra “Prove All Things”! It has taught me how and why to search. It has answered years long wonderings of why so many denominations, all have the truth! Most important message gleaned? As if that is not enough? Coming to Gods commands as a child, even not understanding the why, and obeying in childlike faith that God means what He says, that obedient faith (repenting), has allowed the power and knowledge release of Yehovahs Spirit! It has caused me to praise “Let it rain Lord! Let it rain!” You are worthy of praise, honor, and glory! To whom else can we run to for power in truth”! “Who else controls all things! Who else but You could orchestrate such glorious happenings and wisdom”! “Cannot help but bow, on my face, in awe”. One more thing…..This all came, these revelations by Yehovah, restoring things that were lost and ready to die; Yehova used one man’s faith and cry, send me, to be a part of shaking a world back to reality, along with just a handful of others! Imagine if we all would ask, seek, obey, cry out…….What is Yehovah waiting to do with us?
Regarding: Cycles of 8 / Every major cleansing ceremony found in the Torah:
When looking at Numbers 19 verse 19
Num 19:19 And the clean one shall sprinkle the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day. And on the seventh day he shall cleanse himself, and shall wash his garments and bathe in water, and shall be clean in the evening.
After the 7day period during which the waters of cleansing, which contains the ashes of the red cow is twice sprinkled upon the person who was defiled by touching someone who had died, the person being cleansed is only clean “in the evening”, which points to: After the completion of 7 days – At the start of the 8th day / “in the evening”
Shalom dear ones..
All Glory and praise Elohim Adoni creator, that he is here with us today always present presence standing to care for each one.. remember we are in His hands being formed and readied for such an hour to bring forth fruit to this darkness that is moving quickly at His command, to bring forth his kingdom that is righteousness and goodness.. Father Elohim Adoni said look up, your redemption draws close.. be happy and rejoice in His Majesty power and steadfastness!
Joseph, what a wonderful message this was very enlightening, 7-8 the seventh and eighth. Seven in His completeness, as we are being brought to this completeness in Spirit and truth, as we enter into his righteousness in his image, and will become the remnant of people in His Majesty power and anointing, to walk in His light as the spirit falls down on His sheep, that know and hear His voice.. then we will enter in the new beginning after this Wonder being bought into Yeshua kingdom of peace, joy, love, we then enter into the New beginnings, back to the garden setting, that Yehovah Elohim Adoni creator planned in the beginning.. so wonderful. Thank you for faithfulness in His Majesty anointing.