The Messianic Light

If you ask most Messianic and Hebrew Roots believers how many Feasts there are, they will reply with “seven.” Is that really the best and most complete answer?

Are you ready to begin counting the Omer? As we approach Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, some of the things we do are traditions. But not this one;…

I remember as a youngster seeing this countdown in the newspaper announcing how many shopping days were left until Christmas. Back then, that number was important because it had gaps – it did not include Sundays, And the countdown didn’t start until the day after Thanksgiving.

The Feast of Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks, is celebrated in late spring at the time of the early wheat harvest in Israel. The exact Hebrew date is not specified in Scripture. Shavuot is at the end of a period of counting fifty days, or seven weeks – thus the name Shavuot, a Hebrew word meaning “weeks,” or Pentecost, from a Greek word meaning “fiftieth.”