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Iyyar 10, 5764 / May 1, 2004
Iyyar 10, 5767 / April 28, 2007
Iyyar 10, 5770 / April 24, 2010
Iyyar 10, 5773 / April 20, 2013
Iyyar 13, 5776 / May 21, 2016
Iyyar 13, 5779 / May 18, 2019
Iyyar 13, 5782 / May 14, 2022
“Blessed are You, Yahweh our God,
King of the Universe,
Who has
sanctified us by His Word, and instructed us to count the Omer.
Today is twenty-eight days of the
Omer; it is four weeks of the Omer.”
Vayizchar Elohim et-Noach / Elohim Remembered Noah
SCRIPTURES should be read first
The Prophet Habakkuk complained
(ch.1) of a world of iniquity, violence, and destruction.
Yahweh replied (ch.2): judgment may
tarry, but it will come. Disgrace will come to the wicked. Woe comes to him who
makes his own gods! “Yahweh is in His Holy Temple; let all the earth be
silent before Him!”
Then Habakkuk prayed in a wild,
passionate song (ch.3): “Yahweh, I have heard the report about You and I
fear. . . . In wrath remember mercy. . . The Holy One comes from Mount Paran
(Sinai). . . He has rays flashing from His hand . . . Before Him goes
pestilence, and plague comes after Him.”
David sang (Psalm 6): “O
Yahweh, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chasten me in Your wrath. Be
gracious to me, O Yahweh, . . . Depart from me, all you who do iniquity, for
Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping. Yahweh has heard my supplication,
Yahweh receives my prayer. All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
they shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.”
As in Noah's day, the earth awaits judgment.
Today (Iyyar 10, 5764) is the Sabbath
before the date that the rains of Noah’s flood began.
Months of the Year
Nisan
Iyyar
17 rain began
40 days (hot?) rain and
fountains
Sivan
28 rain stopped
Flood prevailed 150 days
Tammuz
Av
Elul
Tishrei 17
Ark landed (Tabernacles - Kingdoms of world become God's Kingdom)
Heshvan
Kislev
1 waters receding (Hanukkah)
Tevet
1 tops of mountains visible (Hanukkah)
40 days
Shevat 12
Noah opened window, sent out raven and dove
7 days
Shevat 19
Noah sent out dove
7 days
Shevat 26
Noah sent out dove
Adar
Nisan
1 waters gone – earth muddy (New Year)
+ 13 days to crucifixion,
+ 3 days to resurrection,
+ 40 days to ascension
Iyyar
27 earth dry
40 days for rain and
fountains-of-the-deep to deluge the earth.
6 months of total coverage – on
sixth month water receded to mountain tops (at Hanukkah).
5 more months for earth to become
dry (on ascension day).
From Iyyar 17 to Iyyar 27, Noah was in
the ark exactly one Solar year.
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Then Elohim remembered Noah – a
type of Yeshua.
(Gen 8:14) – “And in the second
month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.”
On the twenty-seventh day of
Iyyar – forty-three days after Nisan 14, the Preparation of the Passover – the
earth was dry.
Yeshua was crucified on Nisan 14, at
the Preparation of the Passover. He rose after three days and three nights.
After forty more days, on Iyyar 27, He ascended into the heavens. The “Water of
Life” was gone from the earth.
Nisan 14:
“Let the children of Israel also prepare the Passover at his appointed
season. "On the fourteenth day of this month, between noon and sunset, you shall
prepare it (the Passover lamb) at its appointed time; you shall prepare it
according to all its statutes and according to all its ordinances.”
– Numbers 9:3 (explained in Talmud: Pesachim 66a); see also Exodus
12:6. "Preparation of the Passover sacrifices started at
noon. The daily burnt offering was slaughtered at the seventh-hour-and-a-half
(1:30 PM) and offered up at the eighth-hour-and-a-half (2:30 PM), followed by
the Passover sacrifice." - Mishnah: Pesachim 4:1 & 5:1. “And it was the
Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour (noon): and . .
. they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Yeshua in
the midst.” - John 19:14-18 “Now from the sixth hour (noon) there was darkness
over all the land unto the ninth hour (3:00 PM).”
–
Matthew 27:45. “The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that
Sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken,
and that they might be taken away.” - John 19:21.
Nisan 17 is
the third day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It is three days and nights
after the Passover was slain and Yeshua was placed in the heart of the earth.
The end of the day (before sunset) is time for a resurrection. “For just as
Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, so shall the Son
of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
–
Matthew 12:40.
Moses had the children of Israel
slay lambs on Nisan 14, and eat the Passover Feast on Nisan 15: then three days
after slaying the lambs, on Nisan 17, he led God's people out of the Red Sea
onto the shore - in a prophetic type of Yeshua’s resurrection.
Iyyar 27: “The first account I
composed, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day
when He was taken up, after He had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the
apostles whom He had chosen. To these He also presented Himself alive, after His
suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them for a period of forty
days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.” – Acts 1:1-3.
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Noah obeyed one-day-at-a-time.
He waited for God’s command to enter
the ark (v.7:1);
he waited for God to close the door
(v.7:16);
he waited for God to tell him to leave
(v.8:15).
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“He had by the Holy Spirit given
orders to the apostles whom He had chosen”.
Considering Acts 1:
(V.3-8) For these forty
days (we are in the forty days between the resurrection and ascension), He
presented Himself alive to the Apostles, with many convincing proofs. He taught
the Apostles concerning the Kingdom of God, and told them that it was not for
them to know the times for events that God had determined. He gathered them
together to give them commandments:
The Apostles were the “Sheliach
Tzibbur”(Angels of the Church), the
messengers from Jerusalem to the churches – He told them not to leave Jerusalem;
He told them to wait for
the promise of being empowered by the Holy Spirit, and then they would be
witnesses to the whole world.
We will consider the ascension in three weeks, on
the Sabbath preceding its date.
Readings:
Amen*
1 Then God (Elohim)
remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the
ark; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2
Also the fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and
the rain from the sky was restrained; 3 and the water receded steadily from the
earth, and at the end of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased.
Amen* 4
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested
upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 And the water decreased steadily until the tenth
month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the
mountains became visible. 6 Then it came about at the end of forty days, that
Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven,
and it flew here and there until the water was dried up from the earth. 8 Then
he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the
land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of her foot, so she
returned to him into the ark; for the water was on the surface of all the earth.
Then he put out his hand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself.
10 So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the
ark. 11 And the dove came to him toward evening; and behold, in her beak was a
freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the
earth.
Amen* 12
Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; but she did not
return to him again. 13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in
the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the
earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the
surface of the ground was dried up. 14 And in the second month, on the
twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.
Habakkuk
3:1-5
A prayer of Habakkuk the
prophet, according to Shigionoth. 2 Yahweh, I have heard the report about Thee
and I fear. O Yahweh, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of
the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy. 3 God comes from Teman, and
the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor covers the heavens, and the
earth is full of His praise. 4 His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays
flashing from His hand, and there is the hiding of His power. 5 Before Him goes
pestilence, and plague comes after Him.
Psalm
6 For the choir
director; with stringed instruments, upon an eight-string lyre. A Psalm of
David.
1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Thine anger, nor chasten me in Thy
wrath. 2 Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, for I am pining away; heal me, O Yahweh,
for my bones are dismayed. 3 And my soul is greatly dismayed; but Thou, O Yahweh
-- how long? 4 Return, O Yahweh, rescue my soul; save me because of Thy
lovingkindness. 5 For there is no mention of Thee in death; in Sheol who will
give Thee thanks? 6 I am weary with my sighing; every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears. 7 My eye has wasted away with grief; it has
become old because of all my adversaries. 8 Depart from me, all you who do
iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping. 9 Yahweh has heard my
supplication, Yahweh receives my prayer. 10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and
greatly dismayed; they shall turn back, they shall suddenly be ashamed.
Acts
1:1-14
1
The first account I composed, Theophilus, about all that Yeshua began to do and
teach, 2 until the day when He was taken up, after He had by the Holy Spirit
given orders to the apostles whom He had chosen. 3 To these He also presented
Himself alive, after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them
over a period of forty days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom
of God. 4 And gathering them together, He commanded them not to leave Jerusalem,
but to wait for what the Father had promised, "Which," He said,
"you heard of from Me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you shall be
baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now." 6 And so when they
had come together, they were asking Him, saying, "Lord, is it at this time
You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?" 7 He said to them, "It is
not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own
authority; 8 but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you;
and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
and even to the remotest part of the earth. 9 And after He had said these
things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him
out of their sight. 10 And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He
was departing, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them; 11 and they
also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This
Yeshua, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the same
way as you have watched Him go into heaven." 12 Then they returned to
Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's
journey away. 13 And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room,
where they were staying; that is, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip
and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the
Zealot, and Judas the son of James. 14 These all with one mind were continually
devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of
Yeshua, and with His brothers.
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