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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Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle.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 I and you 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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The Perpetual Calendar

We have available from our website a calendar you can use to keep track of the days of the month based on when the Barley is ripe and when the moon is sighted. ALl you have to do is download it. https://sightedmoon.com/perpetual-calendar/

With the new year about to begin, you can learn about the calendar as you record it. This is a great tool to have and it is free to anyone who wants it.

Counting the Omer Week Four

Deuteronomy 16:9 You shall count seven weeks to yourselves. Begin to count the seven weeks from the time you began to put the sickle to the grain.

Leviticus 23:9-14  9 And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying, 10 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, When you have come into the land which I give to you, and shall reap the harvest of it, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah to be received for you. On the next day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to Jehovah. 13 And its food offering shall be two-tenths part of fine flour mixed with oil, a fire offering to Jehovah for a sweet savor. And the drink offering of it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And you shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor green ears, until the same day, until you have brought an offering to your God. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

WEEK FOUR | 4 שבוע

Day Twenty-Two | A Prayer For Help | Psalm 119:169-176

Today is the first day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-second day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

169 My cry comes before You, O יהוה. Make me understand according to Your Word. (Psalm 119:169)

170 Let my prayer come before You. Deliver me according to Your Word. (Psalm 119:170)

171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your laws. (Psalm 119:171)

172 My tongue sings of Your Word, for all Your commands are righteousness. (Psalm 119:172)

173 Your hand is a help to me, for I have chosen Your orders. (Psalm 119:173)

174 I have longed for Your deliverance, O יהוה, and Your Torah is my delight. (Psalm 119:174)

175 My being lives, and it praises You; and Your right-rulings help me. (Psalm 119:175)

176 I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commands. (Psalm 119:176)

Day Twenty-Three | True Happiness | Psalm 1:1-6

Today is the second day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-third day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

1 Blessed is the man who shall not walk in the counsel of the wrong, and shall not stand in the path of sinners, and shall not sit in the seat of scoffers. (Psalm 1:1)

2 But his delight is in the Torah of יהוה, and he meditates in His Torah day and night. (Psalm 1:2)

3 For he shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of water, that yields its fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither, and whatever he does prospers. (Psalm 1:3)

4 The wrong are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind blows away. (Psalm 1:4)

5 Therefore, the wrong shall not rise in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Psalm 1:5)

6 For יהוה knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wrong comes to naught. (Psalm 1:6)

Day Twenty-Four | Confidence In Yehovah | Psalm 11:1-7

Today is the third day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-fourth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

In יהוה I have taken refuge. Why do you say to me, “Flee to your mountain like a bird?” (Psalm 11:1)

2 For look! The wrong bend a bow, they set their arrow on the string, to shoot in darkness at the upright in heart. (Psalm 11:2)

3 When the foundations are destroyed, what shall the righteous do? (Psalm 11:3)

4 יהוה is in His set-apart Hĕḵal (Temple), the throne of יהוה is in the heavens. His eyes see, His eyelids examine the sons of men. (Psalm 11:4)

5 יהוה tries the righteous, but His being shall hate the wrong and the one who loves violence. (Psalm 11:5)

6 Upon the wrong He rains snares. Fire and sulphur and a scorching wind are the portion of their cup. (Psalm 11:6)

7 For יהוה is righteous, He has loved righteousness. The upright shall see His face. (Psalm 11:7)

Day Twenty-Five | What Yehovah Requires | Psalm 15:1-5

Today is the fourth day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-fifth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

1 יהוה, who does sojourn in Your Tent? Who does dwell in Your set-apart mountain? (Psalm 15:1)

2 He who walks blamelessly, and does righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart. (Psalm 15:2)

3 He has not slandered with his tongue, he has not done evil to his neighbor, nor lifted up a reproach against his friend. (Psalm 15:3)

4 In whose eyes a reprobate one is despised, but he esteems those who fear יהוה, he who swears to his own hurt and does not change. (Psalm 15:4)

5 He has not put out his silver at interest, and has not taken a bribe against the innocent. He who does these is never moved. (Psalm 15:5)

Day Twenty-Six | The Creation of Yehovah | Psalm 19:1-7

Today is the fifth day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-sixth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

The heavens are proclaiming the esteem of Ěl; and the expanse is declaring the work of His hand. (Psalm 19:1)

2 Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. (Psalm 19:2)

3 There is no speech, and there are no words. Their voice is not heard. (Psalm 19:3)

4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them He set up a tent for the sun. (Psalm 19:4)

5 And it is like a bridegroom coming out of his room. It rejoices like a strong man to run the path. (Psalm 19:5)

6 Its rising is from one end of the heavens, and its circuit to the other end. And naught is hidden from its heat. (Psalm 19:6)

7 The Torah of יהוה is perfect, bringing back the being. The witness of יהוה is trustworthy, making wise the simple. (Psalm 19:7)

Day Twenty-Seven | A Prayer For Guidance | Psalm 25:4-10

Today is the sixth day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-seventh day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

4 Show me Your ways, O יהוה. Teach me Your paths. (Psalm 25:4)

5 Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the Elohim of my deliverance. On You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25:5)

6 Remember, O יהוה, Your compassion and Your kindnesses, for they are from everlasting. (Psalm 25:6)

7 Do not remember the sins of my youth, and my transgressions. According to Your kindness remember me, for Your goodness’ sake, O יהוה.) Psalm 25:7)

8 Good and straight is יהוה ;therefore, He teaches sinners in the way. (Psalm 25:8)

9 He guides the meek ones in right-ruling, and He teaches the meek ones His way. (Psalm 25:9)

10 All the paths of יהוה are kindness and truth, to those who guard His covenant and His witnesses. (Psalm 25:10)

Day Twenty-Eight | Longing For Yehovah | Psalm 63:1-8

Today is the seventh day of the fourth week of seven weeks. Today is the twenty-eighth day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath. Today is Sabbath, the fourth Sabbath of seven Sabbaths. Today completes the fourth week of seven weeks.

1 Elohim does favor us and bless us. Cause His face to shine upon us. Selah. (Psalm 67:1)

2 For Your way to be known on earth, Your deliverance among all nations. (Psalm 67:2)

3 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim, let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:3)

4 Let the nations be glad and sing for joy! For You judge the peoples uprightly, and lead the nations on earth. Selah. (Psalm 67:4)

5 Let the peoples praise You, O Elohim; let all the peoples praise You. (Psalm 67:5)

6 The earth shall give her increase; Elohim, our own Elohim, blesses us! (Psalm 67:6)

7 Elohim blesses us! And all the ends of the earth fear Him! (Psalm 67:7)

O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You. My being has thirsted for You. My flesh has longed for You in a dry and thirsty land without water. (Psalm 63:1)

2 Therefore I have had a vision of You In the set-apart place, to see Your power and Your esteem. (Psalm 63:2)

3 Because Your kindness is better than life, my lips do praise You. (Psalm 63:3)

4 Therefore I bless You while I live. In Your Name I lift up my hands. (Psalm 63:4)

5 My being is satisfied as with marrow and fat, and my mouth praises You with singing lips. (Psalm 63:5)

6 When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. (Psalm 63:6)

7 For You have been my help, and in the shadow of Your wings I sing. (Psalm 63:7)

8 My being has closely followed You. Your right hand did uphold me. (Psalm 63:8)

Second Passover

The Passover Celebrated

Num 9:1  And Jehovah spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,

Num 9:2  Let the sons of Israel also keep the Passover at its appointed time.

Num 9:3  In the fourteenth day of this month, between the evenings, you shall keep it in its appointed time. You shall keep it according to all its statutes, and according to all the ceremonies of it.

Num 9:4  And Moses spoke to the sons of Israel to prepare the Passover.

Num 9:5  And they prepared the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month between the evenings, in the wilderness of Sinai. According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so all the sons of Israel did.

Num 9:6  And there were certain men who were defiled by the dead body of a man, so that they could not prepare the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

Num 9:7  And those men said to him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back that we may not offer an offering of Jehovah in its appointed time among the sons of Israel?

Num 9:8  And Moses said to them, You wait, and I will hear what Jehovah will command about you.

Num 9:9  And Jehovah spoke to Moses saying,

Num 9:10  Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean because of a dead body, or in a journey afar off, he shall still keep the Passover to Jehovah.

Num 9:11  They shall keep it the fourteenth day of the second month at evening, eating it with unleavened cakes and bitter herbs.

Num 9:12  They shall leave none of it until the morning, nor break any bone of it. According to all the ordinances of the Passover they shall keep it.

Num 9:13  But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and holds back from preparing the Passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people. Because he did not bring the offering of Jehovah in His appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

Num 9:14  And if a stranger shall live among you, and prepares the Passover to Jehovah, he shall do according to the ordinance of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land.

This year 2024 has been a testing year in the first year of the 10 Years of Awe. It is a time of judging by Yehovah. I know the calendar issues are hard to understand at times, and when you have people you trust bringing a different reports, it becomes even harder. I know Hezekiah got to do a do-over with the remnant of Israel and keep the second Passover when they all missed the first one.

Passover Celebrated

2Ch 30:1 And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

2Ch 30:2 And the king and his leaders, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, took counsel to keep the Passover in the second month.

2Ch 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not made themselves pure enough, nor had the people gathered to Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.

2Ch 30:5 And they established a decree to send a notice throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Jehovah, the God of Israel at Jerusalem. For not many of them had done as it was written.

2Ch 30:6 And the runners went with the letters from the king and his rulers to Israel and Judah, and according to the command of the king, saying, O sons of Israel, turn again to Jehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and He will return to the remnant of you who have escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.

2Ch 30:7 And do not be like your fathers and like your brothers who sinned against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and He made them for a horror, as you see.

2Ch 30:8 And do not be stiff necked like your fathers. Yield yourselves to Jehovah and enter into His temple which He has sanctified forever. And serve Jehovah your God, so that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

2Ch 30:9 For if you turn again to Jehovah, your brothers and your sons will have mercies before those who lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land. For Jehovah your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.

2Ch 30:10 And the runners passed from city to city in the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun. But they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

2Ch 30:11 However, men from Asher and Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the command of the king and of the rulers, by the Word of Jehovah.

2Ch 30:13 And many people gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month, a very great congregation.

2Ch 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense they took away, and threw them into the torrent Kidron.

2Ch 30:15 And they killed the Passover on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed and made themselves pure, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of Jehovah.

2Ch 30:16 And they stood in their place in their manner, according to the Law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood from the hand of the Levites.

2Ch 30:17 For many in the congregation were not sanctified. And the Levites were over the killing of the Passovers for every one who was not clean, to sanctify them to Jehovah.

2Ch 30:18 For many of the people, many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not been cleansed, but ate the Passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, May the good LORD pardon everyone

2Ch 30:19 who prepares his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

2Ch 30:20 And Jehovah listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

2Ch 30:21 And the sons of Israel found at Jerusalem kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with great gladness. And the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day with loud instruments to Jehovah.

2Ch 30:22 And Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who taught the good knowledge of Jehovah. And they ate the appointed things seven days, offering peace offerings and making confession to Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

2Ch 30:23 And the whole gathering agreed to keep another seven days. And they kept another seven days with gladness.

2Ch 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep. And the rulers gave to the congregation a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep. And a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

2Ch 30:25 And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

2Ch 30:26 And there was great joy in Jerusalem. For from the days of Solomon the son of David the king of Israel there was nothing like this in Jerusalem.

2Ch 30:27 And the priests, the Levites, arose and blessed the people. And their voice was heard, and their prayer came to His holy dwelling-place, to Heaven.

It is also my understanding that Noah buried his grandfather Methuselah, who was born in 687 after Creation and died at the age of 969. This means he died in the year of the flood. If Noah had to bury his Grandfather in 1656, then it is possible it was during the time of or just before Passover in the first month. For this reason, I speculate that Noah could not keep the first Passover but kept it in the second month on the 15th day. After the Holy Day was kept, then the waters were let loose on the 17th day of the 2nd month.

Gen 7:11  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, in this day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened up.

The dates for the second Passover this year will be on March 26, starting the night before. Ask Yehovah if this is OK to do and celebrate it with Him at this time. He will know your heart. The testing is going to get even harder as we get closer to the end. If you are keeping March 26 as the 2nd Passover date, then all the other Holy Days are counted from the First Passover or month of Aviv and not the second. So Shavuot will still be on Sunday, April 21, 2024.

We have explained how there are many people who keep the commandments in the book of Revelation, and yet they do not flee with the woman into the wilderness. Those who don’t flee are then martyred by the Beast. Why do they not flee? I propose it is because they are keeping Passover one month later. Does that sound exactly like the problem we are wrestling with this year? It is time to take Yehovah very seriously; in just 6 more years, this final test will happen, but those on the wrong side will be martyred. I am not trying to scare you, but I am telling all of you to come to grips with all the calendar issues and begin to understand how to determine the holy days. Your lives depend on it.

Rev 12:13  And when the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who bore the man child .

Rev 12:14  And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the serpent’s face.

Rev 12:15  And the serpent cast out of his mouth water like a flood after the woman, so that he might cause her to be carried away by the river.

Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman. And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the river which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

Rev 12:17  And the dragon was enraged over the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her seed, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The Month of Chum

Let me begin this section with two reports about the barley that have come in this week.

The first report is from Devorah and is dated March 21, the day after she went out. March 21 represents the 10th day of the month, as some are now using it to determine if the barley is Aviv or not. When you read Devorah’s report, you will notice—or you should notice—that she does not find any ripe barley. You will also notice that she does not go to the Negev but only stays in the Jordan Valley. She also does not provide any pictures with her report. When Randy and I were there in the Jordan Valley, on February 25, 2024 the barley was in the worm and dough stage. We were not able to get back to report on this area on Wave Sheaf Day as we were in the Negev at that time.  But the fields we looked at were very close to be ready to be made into a Wave Offering. Check Point Charley was in the head but they were empty.

The second report I am going to share with you is from Brian Convery, who just went to Israel and has now returned and posted his report with pictures. Listen to what he is saying about the barley condition. He states categorically that it is shattering and provides video evidence. He also states the fields are now all a golden brown.

You are to judge, so look and judge. This Sabbath is March 23, 2024. It is the 12th of what some are calling the 1st month and what the majority are calling the 12th or 13th month. After you read their reports I will continue to our teaching about what is Aviv, which I had prepared before I had seen these two reports.

Dear Friends,

We’re glad to be back from our 2nd Barley Inspection of the season, and want to thank the Creator for His protection, and all of you, for your heartfelt prayers and support.

The purpose of this inspection was to determine whether the barley in the Plains of Jericho (Joshua 5:10-12), became Aviv by the10th of this Biblical Month (21 March 2024). The reason being, that some understand Chodesh HaAviv to be the month in which the barley becomes Aviv intime for Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread). This understanding is based on the fact that the barley is described as being Aviv at Chag HaMatzot (Ex 9:31, Lev 23:10, Joshua 5:10-12), that Yom HaNafat HaOmer (The Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering) is when the sickle begins on the standing grain (Dt16:9), and that we’re supposed to bring the reshit (first) of our harvest to the Priest (Lev 23:10) at this time.

Just to remind you, Aviv Barley is when the barley has finished developing (Ex 9:31,Ex 23:15, Lev 23:10, Lev 23:14, Dt 16:9, Dt 16:16-17, Joshua 5:10-12), however there’s still a lot of moisture remaining in the seeds. Therefore, if one were to harvest at this stage, the heads (that’s the top part of the stalk that holds the seeds), would either need to be left in the sun to finish drying, or they can be dried immediately by parching them with fire (Lev 2:14, Lev 23:14,Joshua 5:10-12, Rut 2:14, 1 Samuel 17:17, 1 Samuel 25:18, 2 Samuel 17:28).

We carried out this inspection on 20 March 2024, which was the 9th day of the Biblical Month. We focused our inspection on the Plains of Jericho (Joshua 5:10-12), which is today referred to as the Jordan Valley, because we know that the barley should be Aviv by Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) in this region(Joshua 5:10-12). You are invited to watch the video of us testing the seeds on the inspection.

JORDAN VALLEY 00:10 – Field #1 – Planted This planted field was in the worm stage. The farmer had smushed the stalks into bundles, presumably he plans on cutting them soon for silage. 03:40 – Field #2 – Volunteer This volunteer field is right across the street from Field #1, and was also in the worm stage. 06:29 – Field #3 – Planted This planted field had mostly empty seeds, with a few in the worm and Aviv stages. 16:39 – Field #4 – Volunteer This volunteer field is right across the street from Field #3, and was mostly empty, with a few in the worm and Aviv stages. 19:36 – Field #5 – Planted This planted field had a lot of empty and worm stage seeds.

SDE TRUMOT (Just North of the Jordan Valley) 27:13 – Field #6 – Volunteer This volunteer field had mostly empty seeds with a few in the worm and Aviv stages. 33:38 – Field #7 – Planted This planted field had a lot of empty seeds with a few in the worm and Aviv stages.

Those of you who have been following our reports for a while, know that we tend not to share when we plan on beginning the year. Instead, we provide this first-hand reliable report on the development of the barley, along with some Bible passages for your consideration. We hope this report has been helpful to you in deciding when to begin the year, and remember, it’s important to begin the year in the month which you believe to be Chodesh HaAviv (Ex 13:3-4, Ex 23:15, Ex 34:18, Dt 16:1), regardless of what month you may currently be in, as one’s understanding is constantly increasing.

As the barley is going to continue ripening very quickly now, we don’t see a need to carry out more Barley Inspections this season. However,we are looking forward to being in touch with you again as we get closer to theupcoming New Moon Observation (9 April 2024). Be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and social media platforms, so you receive the information regarding the upcoming New Moon Observation, as soon as it comes out.

We want to once again thank the Creator for His protection, and all of you, for your heartfelt prayers and support. And a special thanks to everyone who participated in this Barley Inspection with us. You not only served as a witness to the state of the barley, but also shared many valuable observations and insights, which contributed to its overall success. That being said, the observations, interpretations, and opinions presented in this report, are those of Devorah Gordon, and may or may not represent those of the other participants on this inspection.

Our second report from Abib of God.

Thursday March 20, 2024

Good Morning Dear Brethren and the rest of you as well.

Nice to be home, it is good to be home in my little piece of the earth.

And yes, many of you guys who view this Page and our website are brethren in our calling from Father unto His Son Jesus/Yeshua the Christ/Messiah. But there are a lot of folks who are not part of that calling who use the information we provide in our postings. And that is a welcomed and a good thing is it not.

And then there are some who need special noting from time to time; like grifters, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and such placed in the Abib Calendar narrative here at the end of the age to distort, contort, and outright deceive. They have a vital task in separating the chaff from the actual grain. They like their father are used to test our resolve quite often. And let us not forget the Tares and Mixed Multitude who use every opportunity they can to display their unbiblical rants.

Please understand this is not a condemnation of them all, but just a simple understanding of the facts surrounding their patterned purpose.

It is good to be home. Can’t repeat it enough. An eventful trip in many ways. From being put on the no-fly list to Israel by one of our adversaries and to meeting old friends it has been quite satisfying watching the spirit of our Elohim connect all the dots in this wonderful Month of Abib. But I hate the flights and time spent in airports. The flight back is 13.5 hours in the air on just the Tel Aviv to Miami leg of it. This lovely one had people hacking and gagging on phlegm buildups and let’s not forget some puking in the isles.

It has been a very busy year putting up posts daily and starting with the reporting back in October. The only reason we intensified it after October is because the early rains had started in many locations in the Land. Thus, the seed in the ground germinated for another Abib Growing Cycle. Some understand the tremendous importance of the early rains stating in October and some are completely clueless to this fact. Like a good attentive farmer, we then follow the grain growth through the season to its maturity. That is a must if you want to be able to project when you will need the manpower for a harvest.

The NW Negev is as beautiful as I have ever seen it. A patch quilt and mosaic of all the different shades from green to yellow in the maturing process of the grains growing there. Just think what it will look like come the actual wavesheaf day on March 31st.

Once again, it is important to state clearly, we do not cut a wavesheaf, nor wave one. For me the function was fulfilled with the actions of my Savior when He qualified to be the First of the Firstfruit of many brethren and then beaten out prior to shedding His blood as the Passover Lamb of Fathers household.

We are tasked with getting the timing of it correct so we can keep the appointed times of meeting with our Elohim in the annual rehearsals/holy days they have declared. And yes, it is designed to start immediately after the Wavesheaf has been accepted when the farmers returned home after their keeping the Passover events at the Temple in Jerusalem. It has a spiritual reality of it which puts the exclamation mark on it.

In many respects the same physical activity is in play with those in Judaism who conduct inspections. Neither do they cut a wavesheaf offering but for a different reason. There is no Temple to bring it to in following the command to do so. Thus, they too only need to get the timing correct. I say only not in a light way. But a specific and truthful way just like us.

In both camps some have integrity and some do not. Once again, all part of the testing here at the end of the age.

I promised you some videos so I have attached a few of them that most are looking to review.

The very first is of a field of wheat which has been taken over by the red strain wild barley. I have never seen such a beautiful sight as this one this year. The wheat is at the Leviticus 2:14 minimum but the wild barley is easily shattered and can be ground into flour. Just look at the size of this field of red strain wild. It towers over the stiff-necked wheat just as it should. By the way there are over 3 dozen confirmed groupings of wild barley found in Israel. They are even different in genetic structure from ones that grow on south facing hills, with those that grow on north facing hills. And many such differences are found in the Land.

You have heard me talk about this strain of wild barley since a few years after we started making in Land inspections. It is always the healthiest and as a friend of mine says strongest of the strains. You have also heard me relate this to the spiritual equivalent of our Lord and Savior. The red streaks running through the seeds tell me they reflect the shed blood of Him as a result of the beatings/winnowing He took as my Wavesheaf Offering prior to being killed as the Passover Lamb. Look at the volumes of it here in the distance still standing as opposed to the spot I am standing in which was knocked down by the rain.

Then another video of wild barley at my first stop outside of Kiryat Maliki on route 3 in the NW Negev. By the way the intersection of 3 and 232 (Hodaya) is all yellow in color as it is one of our traditionally early locations, year in and out.

Then just a simple reminder of what many fields look like in the upper Jordan Valley and south ridge of the Jezreel Valley. This is wheat with wild barley growing in it. Both are in the dough stages. After that is a comparison photo from yesterday from the same general location in the Upper Jordan Valley from one of the photographers we follow. See how easy it is. They can do the leg work for you if you know how to read grain. For instance, how do we know this wheat holds aviv standard seeds? Look at the awns starting to spread. Wheat gets very ugly and scraggly when it is moving through stage 8 dough growth.

Then we have a witness from where Todd was crowned king of this location a few years ago. It is once again aviv. By the way that is an inspectors inside joke.

And one more look at a domestic 2 row and 6 row barley field in the NW Negev that is aviv. Now look at the other signs in it. We have wild barley aviv and bowing. Those are the big beautiful heads in the forefront. And look at the wild oats blowing in the wind as well. They are empty hulls as is the pattern in a good location. The wild oats drop seeds about 2 weeks before the barley reaches true maturity when in good agricultural ground. Just a beautiful sight isn’t it you old timers! There are many similar ones this year in the Negev.

And let’s not forget or ignore in the process the incredible weather ahead for Jerusalem and the rest of the Country plays in it. Here is the 10-day forecast for Jerusalem starting with today. It wasn’t like that on Monday night up into Tuesday. Gramma would say: “it rained cats and dogs.” The maturing process will even escalate more rapidly now. That is a simple agricultural fact. With these high temps in Jerusalem at the top of the Judean Mountains just think of the heat in the lower level grain growing regions.

Once again, the NW Negev has clearly won the race to receive the crown of the First of the Firstfruits this year. It isn’t even close. Thousands of acres of barley and wheat have been cut in the past 2 weeks for silage and hay. There are still thousands of acres in and entering the dough stages still standing but will not be allowed to reach the age which they can be machine harvested: or in simple terms, 9-11 percent moisture content. Thus, thousands of acres of Leviticus 2:14 plus domestic grain to date. Also, large swaths of wild barley by itself in and at the aviv stage. Some past it as well, all growing in agriculturally used soils. Yes, it is the Month of Abib.

By the way I will get back with emails soon. Thanks for your patience, it’s been quite hectic. Someone tried to hack our email accounts but were caught before they could. Thus, I could not see them until returning home.

From Bridget, Brenda, Linda and myself we hope you have a wonderful festival season ahead. And as the saying goes: “until we meet again” our peace we give to you!

March 21, 2024, was the 10th day of the second month. It was also the first month for some who declared last month an Adar Beit or a 13th month.

There is a new Takanot that we are eagerly watching to be enacted while searching for the barley. That the barley must be Aviv on the 10th day of the month or it is an Adar Beit. Without any scriptural command in Leviticus to follow this, some have created a new takanot and mai’asim out of the command to bring in the lamb on the 10th day of the month. This was never a command to bring in the barley on the 10th day of the month. So, we are watching to see how those who promote and follow this newest takanot are going to implement it.

This year, in 2024, we see two of the “Christian” barley searching groups implementing this new Takanot and keeping Passover this week on March 26. At the same time, the two Karaite barley searcher groups and all those on the Hillel calendar are keeping Passover next month, which is April 22 and 24, depending on their beliefs. For those following Devorah right now, it is the 12th month, and for those following the main body of Karaites and Yoel HaLevi, this is the 13th month.

It certainly is a mess, isn’t it?

This note is for the silent majority who are searching for the truth and weighing the evidence. I will show you the evidence in a moment. I am not accusing anyone here. I am pointing out some facts that need to be remembered.

Have you considered how we got to this position with so many different groups all claiming to be following Yehovah? At the exact same time, this confusion with the calendar is present, we have also entered the 10 days or years of Judgment, the time when the Saints are to be sealed and also when they will be martyred.

Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, Until when, Master, holy and true, do You not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?Rev 6:11 And white robes were given to each one of them. And it was said to them that they should rest yet for a little time, until both their fellow servants and their brothers (those about to be killed as they were ) should have their number made complete.

Revelation 7:14  And I said to him, Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are the ones who came out of the great tribulation and have washed their robes, and have whitened them in the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 13:15  And there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might both speak, and might cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

Revelation 17:6  And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.

Matthew 10:21  And brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. And the children shall rise up against their parents and cause them to be put to death.

Matthew 23:34  Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city; 35  so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.

John 16:2 They shall put you out of the synagogue. But an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he bears God service.

Hebrews 11:40  for God had provided some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

These final 10 years of judgment usher in the 7 Trumpet plagues of Revelation 8. But before Revelation 8 begins, there is this one little verse stopping the Trumpet plagues until something else first takes place.

First, notice the very first trumpet plague.

The Seventh Seal and the Golden Censer

Rev 8:1  And when He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.

Rev 8:2  And I saw the seven angels who stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

Rev 8:3  And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer. And many incenses were given to him, so that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints on the golden altar before the throne.

Rev 8:4  And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God from the angel’s hand.

Rev 8:5  And the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar, and cast it into the earth. And voices and thunderings and lightnings and an earthquake occurred.

The Seven Trumpets

Rev 8:6  And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Rev 8:7  The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were cast on the earth. And the third part of trees was burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

The very first Trumpet plague, in which one-third of all the trees and all the grass are burned up, is prevented from happening until the sealing of the Saints takes place in Chapter Seven.

Rev 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth so that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

Rev 7:2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

Rev 7:3 saying, Do not hurt the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

Rev 7:4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousands, having been sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel.

Notice in the chart below precisely how hot it has been not just in the first three months of this year but also over last year.

We are in the final ten years…the final time of judgment after six millennia. And we are watching for the sealing of the Saints to take place before the Trumpet Plagues begin. How does this happen? As you just read there is a large earthquake.

In our article about the Mark of Yehovah, we show you what His mark is. I encourage you to sign up for free and read this entire article. Let me take out this next section to show you something.

Again, we have a mark on the forehead by Yehovah who mourns over the evil being done. We now have the following 6 verses in Revelation concerning the mark:

17 “and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:17)

11 “And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” (Revelation 14:11)

2 “And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.” (Revelation 15:2)

2 “So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image.” (Revelation 16:2) 20 “Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.” (Revelation 19:20)

4 “And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.” (Revelation 20:4)

Next, we are going to look up the word “signs”. There were 83 verses given, so I looked for signs that related to hands and foreheads.

1 “Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.” 3 And Moses said to the people: “Remember this day in which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. 4 On this day you are going out, in the month Abib. 5 And it shall be, when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month. 6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days. And no leavened bread shall be seen among you, nor shall leaven be seen among you in all your quarters. 8 And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, ‘This is done because of what the Lord did for me when I came up from Egypt.’ 9 It shall be as a sign to you on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. 10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.” (Exodus 13:1- 10)

Here we have a sign that would be on our hand and a memorial on our forehead (between our eyes). What is that sign? In Exodus, it was the keeping of Passover was a sign on our hands and between our eyes. In Exodus 31, it is not just the days of Unleavened Bread, but all the Sabbaths, plural, which are a sign that we are to keep from year to year.

12 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 13 “Speak also to the children of Israel, saying: ‘Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’” 18 And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. (Exodus 31:12-18)

We also have the following verses explaining to us that these commandments are to be bound in our hand and to be kept in front of minds always and for ever.

1 “Now this is the commandment, and these are the statutes and judgments which the Lord your God has commanded to teach you, that you may observe them in the land which you are crossing over to possess, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, to keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged. 3 Therefore hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe it, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord God of your fathers has promised you, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’ 4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates. (Deuteronomy 6:1-9)

1 “Therefore you shall love the Lord your God, and keep His charge, His statutes, His judgments, and His commandments always… (Deuteronomy 11:1)

18 “Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 19 You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. 20 And you shall write them on the door posts of your house and on your gates, 21 that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, like the days of the heavens above the earth. 22 “For if you carefully keep all these commandments which I command you to do–to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, and to hold fast to Him– 23 then the Lord will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves. 24 Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the River Euphrates, even to the Western Sea, shall be your territory. 25 No man shall be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put the dread of you and the fear of you upon all the land where you tread, just as He has said to you. (Deuteronomy 11:18- 25)

10 “Therefore I made them go out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them.’12 Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. 13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised My judgments, ‘which, if a man does, he shall live by them’; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out My fury on them in the wilderness, to consume them. 14 But I acted for My name’s sake, that it should not be profaned before the Gentiles, in whose sight I had brought them out. 15 So I also raised My hand in an oath to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, ‘flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands, 16 because they despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but profaned My Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols. 17 Nevertheless My eye spared them from destruction. I did not make an end of them in the wilderness. 18 “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; 20 hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ (Ezekiel 20:10-20)

With the preceding verses, we can easily see that the mark of Yehovah is the keeping of His laws, Sabbaths and Holy Days. When we keep them, they become a Sign on our Hand and a Sign between our Eyes. “The hand” signifies the way we live, our way of life, the way we work or conduct ourselves. The expression, “Between our eyes,” signifies the way we think and how we will treat others. It is our heart, our innermost being, our thoughts. With this understanding we can now read the following verses in Revelation with a clearer understanding.

3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” (Revelation 7:3)

4 They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. (Revelation 9:4)

16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, (Revelation 13:16)

1 Then I looked, and behold, a* Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him one hundred and forty-four thousand, having His Father’s name written on their foreheads. (Revelation 14:1)

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. (Revelation 20:4)

4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. (Revelation 22:4)

1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:1-12)

Notice here in Thessalonians that the mystery of lawlessness (not keeping Yehovah’s Laws) is at work. The lawless one is Satan performing signs and lying wonders, unrighteous deceptions on those who would not love the truth of Yehovah and keep his laws. On them Yehovah will send strong delusion that they should continue to believe a lie. What Lie? Satan is the father of all lies.

44 “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.” (John 8:44)

If you are not keeping the commandments, then you are a liar if you also say, you obey Yehovah. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. (1 John 2:4)

So, keeping the Holy Days at the wrong time is the same as keeping the Sabbath at the wrong time.

We are commanded to keep the month of Aviv and to keep the Passover IN THE MONTH OF AVIV. It was in the month of Aviv that the Exodus took place. All 5 groups this year have different views about what is Aviv and when it is Aviv. You must wade through all the talk and discover what Yehovah tells you is Aviv. Moses struck the rock instead of speaking to it, and he was not allowed into the Promised Land because of that one small thing. And this in spite of all the other great things he did. Was it not a little thing to hit the rock instead of speaking to it? He was, after all, told to hit the rock once before.

Is keeping Passover in the wrong month a little thing or a big thing?

Deu 16:1 Observe the month Abib, and keep the Passover to Jehovah your God. For in the month of Abib, Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

I want you to focus in on this word Aviv. In the Paleo Hebrew, the original meaning of this word Aviv, is:

B) Bba% (Bba% ABB) ac: ? co: Grain ab: ?

b^m) Biba% (Biba% A-BYB) – Green Grain: The new green ears of growing grain as the parent seeds attached to the stalk (pole) of the next generation of crops. Also Abib, the name of a month in the Hebrew calendar. [freq. 8] |kjv: abib, corn| {H24}

It is the month when you have NEW GREEN EARS of barley. It is the month of GREEN EARS. This is what Aviv means. If all the fields are turning brown, then the barley is no longer green ears but they are now ripe or brown ears.

If you go to Abib of God on Facebook, you will see all the pictures they are posting as of March 19, 2024, in which the barley fields are now all brown. The fields in the north will still be green, but those in the south are now turning brown. They are not Aviv or green ears.

Somewhere in our understanding we all have, including myself, accepted the meaning of the word Aviv to be ripe heads of barley turning brown. But this is not what the Bible says “in the month of Aviv” means. It is the month of Green Ears. But the barley must be far enough along that there is an Omers worth of green heads that can be roasted and then turned into flour. This is a very thin line. Passover did not take place in the month of Brown Heads of Grain.

Even the ancient barley ceremony harvested the barley after the Sabbath during the days of Unleavened Bread. This ancient ceremony demonstrates the barley had nothing to do with the 10th of the month like the lambs. This ceremony demonstrated the resurrection of Yehshua and the Saints, who were the first of the first fruits, as Paul describes them, who came back to life. This was a huge miracle in 31 AD when it came to fruition. All those years leading up to this time were rehearsals of this major event that only Matthew 27:50 even mentions. No one else did, and yet it is the greatest event to have taken place. Yehshua and the host of captives came back to life. Without this event, we would never understand the meaning of the Wave offering at Shavuot, but because we do understand what the Barley Wave Sheaf Offering represented, we can with certainty understand the wheat two loaves of bread Wave Offering and what it means. And because of the Jubilee Cycles, we can also know exactly when this event will be fulfilled in our lifetime.

This is why it is so important to understand that the month of Aviv is the month of Green Ears, not the month of Brown ears. In Hebrew, the word brown is Chum. I was going to return to Israel and show all the fields of Chum ears to demonstrate this to you, but others are already doing so without knowing it.

This was a very tough year for determining the barley. It required faith and knowledge of the barley’s life cycle. It is the first year in the final ten years of judgment. It is the first trumpet plague year. Before that trumpet begins, the Saints must be sealed, and then there will be a great earthquake. There are only 12,000 from each tribe.

Now that you understand the word Aviv means green ears, return to reading the report from Abib of God and decide if this is the month of Green ears or the month of Brown ears. And if you see the pictures Abib of God is posting then what will the barley fields look like next month? The farmers have already begun to harvest. Does that in itself not tell you something? They are harvesting before Wave Sheaf Day for those keeping Passover this month and they are harvesting over a month to early for those keeping Passover in April.

Deu 16:1 Observe the month Abib, and keep the Passover to Jehovah your God. For in the month of Abib, Jehovah your God brought you forth out of Egypt by night.

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