How To Count To 50

                        This is a study of types fulfilled. I am not promoting sabbath keeping as a certain day today.
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How To Count To 50 Years -  Starting fresh means the first initially uncounted year gets revisited. They were supposed to recount the first year in the land at every seventh sabbatical; 49 becomes 50. They had a reset button. 


A Short Summary-

When you enter the land have a sabbath year. Then work 6 years. Then have a sabbath on the 7th year. This is actually the 8th year in the land but the count to seven starts after the initial sabbath. Count 7 sabbath years to the 49th year. This is actually the 50th year in the land and the eighth sabbath. Proclaim a jubilee year. 

 


Leviticus 25:1-10 Interlinear Translation And Yahwey spoke to Moses, on mount Sinai, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, "When you come into the land which I am giving to you then the land will rest for a sabbath to Yahwey. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather her increase. The seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest for the land; a sabbath to Yahwey. Your field you will not sow and your vineyard you will not prune. The self-seeded growth of your harvest you will not reap and the grapes of your privatized vines you will not gather. A year of rest it is to the land. And the sabbath of the land will provide food to you and to your male servant and to your female servant and to your hired hand and to your guests who are living with you; and to your beast and to the animal which is in your land. All her increase is for their food. And you will count seven sabbaths of years, seven years seven times, and the days of the seven sabbaths of years will come to be forty-nine years. And then you will blast a trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. In the day of the atonements you will sound a trumpet through all your land and you will honor the fiftieth year and you will proclaim freedom in the land to all its inhabitants. A jubilee it is to you and every man will return to his property and to his family". 


The common error of not seeing the entry into the land as a sabbath year, results in two sabbath years back to back, on the 49th and 50th year. The second century BC book of Jubilees everywhere assumes a 49 year cycle, which keeps the Jubilees in phase with the sabbath years. The 490 years of Daniel are represented as ten Jubilee cycles. The 49th sabbatical year simply included the first uncounted year in the land making it the Jubilee year that reverts to the typical neverending grace year; when they entered a fully functional land already prepared for a people. Hence the first year in the land is perpetually carried forward and re-enacted in every 49th year. Starting over means the first year gets re-used in every count to 50.

 

This was to be their economic reset button. Debt was limited, interest banned and every tribe had a secure plot of land. At least that was Yahwey's plan for them. What actually took place is a different story. Their 70 year exile was for not keeping the sabbaths for 490 of the years.


A Strong Foundation Leads To A 50 year Anniversary 
Setting aside the first year of marriage is actually a biblical standard from Deuteronomy 24:5, “If a man has recently married, he must not be sent to war or have any other duty laid on him. For one year he is to be free to stay at home and bring happiness to the wife he has married.” Most wives would love the idea of their husbands devoting a whole honeymoon year to their happiness! 

Ezekiel 40 mentions the 574 BC 10th day of the month that was 25 years after the exile. Seventeen Jubilee cycles back from Ezekiel's vision was the 1406 BC entry into the land of Canaan. The land entry in the spring was actually 3 months prior to the fall Jubilee (or year of release). They were charged with missing ten of the Jubilees.
 
Ezekiel 40:1
THE HOUSE IS MEASURED 
ECB 1  In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city is smitten, in this selfsame day, and the hand of Yah Veh being on me, brings me there

The exodus was on the 14th day of the month (Nisan). The lamb was chosen on the 10th day, which was the same day Jesus curses the fig tree as He entered the old land of Jerusalem after his 3 1/2 year ministry; for his week of crucifixion and resurrection. This is called the second exodus or the exodus fulfilled. Jerusalem needed a new breath of life. It needed to be spiritually reborn.

Joshua 4:19
YLT 19 And the people have come up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamp in Gilgal, in the extremity east of Jericho; 

The Jubilee year actually begins at the start of the civil year, which was the seventh month in the land. Jubilee starts on the 10th day of Tishri. Tishri is the seventh month and it represents the marriage which can only take place after the new land has been cleansed and the new law of the land has taken hold.

Every sabbath year in the seventh month read the law to everyone.


Deuteronomy 31:10-13

LITV 10 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of seven years in the appointed time, the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles, 11 when all Israel comes in to see the face of Jehovah in the place which He chooses, you shall proclaim this law before all Israel, in their ears. 12 Assemble the people, men and women, and the little ones, and your alien who is within your gates, so that they may hear, and so that they may learn, and may fear Jehovah your God, and take heed to do all the words of this law; 13 and their sons who have not known shall hear, and shall learn to fear Jehovah your God all the days which you live on the land where you are crossing over the Jordan to possess it.

After the first two battles of Jericho and Ai, Joshua read the whole law to everyone. According to that law, the first sabbath year of rest began at that time; in the seventh month, which used to be considered the first month by Noah. 


Joshua 8:35

LITV 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the aliens that walked among them.

Some say Ezekiel 40 could not be a Jubilee year because no one was in the land to observe it. The blast of the shofar every 49 years in the fall had already gone unheeded for ten Jubilee cycles; not to mention every seventh year of release. It probably seemed to involve too much sacrifice of wealth. They had to exercise faith in their personal Elohim to provide for them. Not only were the people supposed to train their greedy hearts to trust in their sovereign owner as they rested on every weekly sabbath, but every sabbatical year of release as well. His land was the means for everyone's blessings, which meant knowing and trusting Him. Money lenders and merchants have been known to change or ignore the humane laws of the land, in order to serve themselves.

Exodus 20:2
CLV 2 I am Yahweh your Elohim Who brought you forth from the land of Egypt, from the house of servants.

The Lord then spoke to Moses at Mount Sinai, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'When you come into the land which I shall give you, then the land shall have a sabbath to the Lord. Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, but during the seventh year the land shall have a sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord…You are also to count off seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, so that you have the time of the seven sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years. You shall then sound a ram's horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you (Leviticus 25:1-4, 8-10, NASB).


50 Days instead of 50 Years 
Jesus entered the O.C.land of Jerusalem on sabbath eve as eschaton Adam. He cursed the tree and cleansed the temple of the corrupt merchants and money changers (Under King of Judea Herod Antipas, the Jews were allowed to move into the Gentile's temple court, to exchange money and sell animals). After His 'passion' week, old covenant Adam was rebirthed to enter the new covenant (creation) on the next weekly sabbath. Fifty days later the inslaved land is free to be betrothed to the new covenant soul.

How To Count To 50 Days

The annual betrothal anniversary day is like the golden marriage anniversary; except sabbath to sabbath is 50 days instead of 50 years. They were typically betrothed 53 days after sacrificing the passover lamb and escaping the death of the firstborn, which consequently set the firsborn free to leave the land of slavery. On the third day, after they were released, they may have made their first offering in the wilderness. The typical betrothal was 50 days later at Sinai, when they agreed with God's plan to make them into a great nation. The marriage part of the covenant arrived 40 years later when the made-new body entered the promised land. That was called the body of Moses, which was only a type of the body of Christ. The new covenant people of Yahwey assembled on Pentecost for the Spirit made betrothal, which was 53 days after the Lamb of God applied his blood to the post and lintel of the cross. The body of Moses was betrothed-again, by the Spirit on Pentecost.


Sabbath to Sabbath 


Leviticus 23:15-16 YLT 15 `And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; 16 unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah;


The Hebrew word translated 'Morrow' has two root words that mean, 'on or upon' and 'the fresh or morning breeze'. Hebrew days start at dusk but people awaken at dawn and count what day it is. Even Genesis days are counted from the morning.


Genesis 1:5 YLT 5 and God calleth to the light `Day,' and to the darkness He hath called `Night;' and there is an evening, and there is a morning—day one.

what word means "the day after a specific day"? (english.stackexchange.com) 

A: "The morrow of…" Strictly this means "the morning of", but to talk of "the morrow" would be to talk of the coming morning, and so "the morrow" is the next day. Alas "on the morrow of Christmas … meal on the 24th than the 25, and why Hallowe'en is on the night before, rather than after All Hallows; by the old reckoning, the day had started at sundown. "The morrow of…" is not in very common use … 
answered Dec 30 '14 by Jon Hanna

Yes, morrow can meaning morning. We did not used to have to resort to such reduplications as “tomorrow morning”, because the morrow sufficed. – tchrist Jan 30 '13 at 14:03

Here is Leviticus 23:15-16 from Thompson's English version of the LXX:
15 That from the morrow of these sabbaths; from the day on which you offer up the dedicated sheaf, you shall reckon for yourselves seven whole weeks, 16 even till the morrow after the last week, you shall reckon fifty days, and then offer a sacrifice of new corn to the Lord.

Notice the same exact Greek word Thompson translates 'morrow of' in verse 15 is translated 'morrow after' in verse 16. 

It could easily mean this: From the morning of these sabbaths (plural) after the omer of the heave-offering, you should count seven periods of seven to the morning of the last period of seven, when you reach 50 days, then you shall bring a new-grain offering to the Lord.  

The sabbath is the only day with a name. All other work days are in a count toward this day of rest. The twelve tribes were enabled to enter the new betrothal covenant because of the rescue work of Yeshua the messiah. But there is a Hebrew word that means 'the next day' that is commonly translated as 'the day after'. There is a major one day difference between the next occuring sabbath day and the day after the next sabbath day. This common error places Resurrection and Pentecost on the first day of the work week instead of the weekly sabbath rest. Yeshua stands into the new covenant (on a sabbath; with the completed image of Yahwey) as the new head human and Yahwey's congregation is betrothed into that covenant (while sitting at a sabbath feast) fifty days later. 


Ephesians 2:8-9 LITV 8 For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; 9 not of works, that not anyone should boast;

Genesis 2:2 ECB  And by the seventh day Elohim finishes the work he worked; and on the seventh day he shabbathizes from all the work he worked: 

Some people think no pleasure was allowed on the sabbath day. The pleasure of working was generally not allowed on the sabbath, but the food was already prepared to eat. So they were allowed to worship, fellowship and eat all day. Yeshua is the bread from heaven. Yeshua is the image of God that we worship; the sabbath fellowship feast.

Luke 18:11-14   ECB 11 The Pharisee stands and prays these with himself, Elohim, I eucharistize you, that I am not exactly as the rest of humanity - plunderers, unjust, adulterers, or even as this customs agent: 12 I fast twice on the shabbath, I tithe all - as much as I possess. 13 And the customs agent, stands afar off, and wills not even so much as to lift his eyes to the heavens; but strikes on his chest, wording, Elohim, kapur/atone for me a sinner. 14 I word to you, this one descends to his house justified rather than the other: for everyone who exalts himself, is humbled; and whoever humbles himself, is exalted. (How long does a fast last? If breakfast breaks the all night fast then everyone fasts once a day. Is it a shock that a boasting Pharisee could count for himself two fasts in a single sabbath?)

The count to 50 is from the 'morrow of the first weekly sabbath' to 'morrow of the eighth weekly sabbath'  not  'morrow after'.


Leviticus 23:15-16 (The word 'after' is twice added to this translation)

Brenton 15 And ye shall number to yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which ye shall offer the sheaf of the heave-offering, seven full weeks: 16 until the morrow after the last week ye shall number fifty days, and shall bring a new meat-offering to the Lord.

The word translated sheaf is omer. An omer is a dry measure. It is a real stretch to call an omer a bundle of stalks. So some think the count to 50 starts a day after the passover wave offering rather than the firstfruits grain offering. Since this is always Nissan 16th there is no need to count to 50. Pentecost to them is always on Sivan 6.

Leviticus 23:15-16 (The word 'after' is not added to this translation)

Julia Smith 15 And ye counted to you from the morrow of the Sabbath from the day ye brought the handful of lifting up; seven Sabbaths shall be complete. 16 Till from the morrow of the seventh Sabbath, shall ye number fifty days; and ye brought a new gift to Jehovah

The counting of the seven sabbaths begins on the morning of the First Fruit sabbath; according to Leviticus 23:15-16 above. This is an old testament reference to the octave of sabbaths referred to generally as 'one of the sabbaths'. The eighth sabbath is a super-sabbath because it reverts to the first of the eight sabbaths, which was the initial uncounted sabbath. Jesus entered the new covenant land on a sabbath so there was nothing to count to. He had already arrived. Then the old covenant believers began their count to seven; seven times. This is how they counted: one, two, three, four, five, six, Sabbath.


Leviticus 23:15 ABP And you shall count to yourselves from the next day of the sabbaths... 


The day Jesus entered the new covenant (resurrection) was the uncounted never-ending sabbath. The day the church entered the new covenant was the eighth sabbath. In the 50 year count, the eighth sabbath becomes the Jubilee year when everyone returns to their inheritance land. In both counts to 50, whether days or years, the eighth sabbath becomes the uncounted first sabbath, alluding to the seventh prophetic day of Genesis, which is the only day that has no evening or morning. And this is why ten Jubilees equals 490 years not 500 years. The day the church entered the never-ending sabbath day of Christ was on Pentecost. 


Revelation 21:25 ECB 25 and the gates thereof are never no way shut by day; for there is no night there: 

Adam did get the 'gates' of his place shut on him. The old Adam's family was finally ended in AD 70. Humanity is now Christian not Adamic. Adam is not the head of God's corporate body. He is under Christ. We are not cursed under law. We are blessed in the body of Christ.

How to count 50 days from the Exodus to Mount Sinai
Exodus 19:1 CLV 1 In the third month after the going forth of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, on this day they entered the wilderness of Sinai.

We know the passover lamb was prepared on the 14th day of the first month, which was called Nissan. So they left Egypt the next day; on the 15th day of the first month. On the first day of the third month they arrived at Sinai. From the 15th of the first month to the 15th of the second month is about 30 days. So they arrived in the wilderness of Sinai on about the 46th day after the exodus. They would accept God's proposal to make them into a great nation on the 50th day after their first offering in the wilderness, which was probably three days after they left Egypt. This had it's new covenant fulfillment three days after the Lamb of God was crucified; the resurrection of Yeshua on firstfruits started the fulfillment count to 50 days. 

Pentecost celebrated the acceptance of the proposal from Yahwey. Moses didn't bring the stone tablets until maybe 100 days or more later.  Pentecost was fulfilled by the arrival of the Holy Spirit who took their heart of stone and gradually gave them a heart of flesh; the heart of the messiah. Today Pentecost is not a required celebration, but it would be the anniversary day of the new spiritual betrothal covenant and the old betrothal in the flesh anniversary day, but not the receiving of the law anniversary day.

Shortly after arriving at Sinai, Moses went up the mountain for the first of eight ascensions. God told Moses of his plan to make a holy nation. The people agreed to the plan (betrothal) and Moses went back up the mountain the next day. 

Exodus 19:3-6  KJV 3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; 4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (1Peter 2:9 YLT 9 and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;  Luke 2:32 LITV 32 a Light for revelation to the nations, and the Glory of Your people Israel.)

The 50 day count would begin at the first weekly sabbath; on the third day after the passover lambs were slain in Egypt. 

Exodus 3:18 CLV 18 Then they will hearken to your voice, and you will enter, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, we pray, let us go a way of three days into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our Elohim.

The phrase 'one of the sabbaths' occurs seven times in the Bible:


1. Matthew 28:1 Concordant Literal Version: Now it is the evening of the sabbaths. At the lighting up into one of the sabbaths came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the sepulcher. ('evening of the sabbaths' is like our familiar holiday Hebraism called Christmas Eve. It begins at dusk when the new Hebrew day begins. 'evening of the sabbaths' commences the 50 day harvest celebration. We say Christmas Eve like they said Sabbaths Eve.)
 
2. Mark 16:2 CLV And, very early in the morning on one of the sabbaths, they are coming to the tomb at the rising of the sun.

3. Luke 24:1 CLV Now in the early depths of one of the sabbaths, they, and certain others together with them, came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they make ready.

4. John 20:1 CLV Now, on one of the sabbaths, Miriam Magdalene is coming to the tomb in the morning, there being still darkness, and is observing the stone taken away from the door of the tomb.

5. John 20:19 CLV It being, then, the evening of that day, one of the sabbaths, and the doors having been locked where the disciples were gathered together, because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst and is saying to them, "Peace to you!" (This episode was 20 plus hours into the resurrection sabbath)

6. Acts 20:7 CLV Now on one of the sabbaths, at our having gathered to break bread, Paul argued with them, being about to be off on the morrow. Besides, he prolonged the word unto midnight. (According to Acts 20:16, Paul was trying to get to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost; the last one of the sabbaths in the 50 days.)

7. 1Corinthians 16:2 CLV On one of the sabbaths let each of you lay aside by himself in store that in which he should be prospered, that no collections may be occurring then, whenever I may come. (These sabbaths are in the season of spring harvesting. What better time to set aside some income? In the old covenant, the firstfruits went to the priesthood. Paul was taking a collection to the born-again people of God in Jerusalem.)

These seven verses are the reason we say Jesus rose on Sunday. In my opinion the phrase 'one of the sabbaths' refers to one of the sabbaths in the 50 day count to Pentecost; also known as The Feast Of Weeks.

The phrase 'the first sabbath' occurs only once in the Bible:


Mark 16:9 CLV Now, rising in the morning in the first sabbath, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom He had cast out seven demons.

The phrase 'second-first sabbath' occurs only once in the Bible:


Luke 6:1 YAH SHUA, ADONAY OF THE SHABBATH 

ECB 1 And so be it, on the second first shabbath, he goes through the spores; and his disciples pluck the kernels and eat rubbing them in their hands.

This was puzzling to me: why does Mark 16:9 specify 'the first sabbath' following so closely after Mark 16:2 that had just generally called resurrection day 'one of the sabbaths'? Evidently 'one of the sabbaths' was some kind of first century veiled reference to the uncounted sabbath in the seven sabbath (really eight sabbath ) count toward The Feast Of Weeks. I can't tell you which one it is without breaking protocol by counting it. So when I say, "one of the sabbaths" you just know which one I am talking about. It's the only one I can't specify because it is supposed to remain uncounted.  

 

Some people are saying these two phrases: 'the first sabbath' and 'one of the sabbaths' are idioms that really mean, 'first day of the week' and are anything but a sabbath. This is very tricky to me. Neither the word for day nor the word for week is in any of these eight verses. In fact the word for first is only in Mark 16:9.

 

So now what do I do with Luke 6:1 when it specifies, 'the second-first sabbath'? Is this really an idiomatic reference to a second Sunday? On this specific day the Pharisees were being bothered by the disciples who were eating the grain from the field. Eating was usually allowed on a sabbath unless it was the firstfruits before the offering was given, which was done first thing in the morning. It was the preparation of food that was not allowed on a sabbath. The Pharisees asked, "Why do you do what is not allowed on the sabbaths?" They saw the disciples seperating the grain by rubbing them in their hands before eating them. The legalists were watching closely. Yeshua covers both aspects. He first asks them if they had even read of David's men who entered the house of Yahwey then ate what belonged to the priests and were still innocent. Secondly, Yeshua tells them He is the master of the sabbath not them. Yeshua's disciples were certainly more privilaged than David's men. 


According to the Apostolic Bible (APB), the very first sabbath of this festival season was called the 'great one'. The sabbath called the 'great one' is the first day of Unleavened Bread. Yeshua was placed in the tomb near twilight, right before this great day began. The first day of Unleavened Bread is called a special sabbath no matter what day of the week it falls on. The second-first sabbath is therefore the First Weekly Sabbath, when Yeshua was resurrected. It is the first of the eight in the chart at the top of this page.   


Luke 6:1  ABP And it came to pass on the sabbath that followed the great one... (Apostolic Bible Polygot)


Luke 6:1  YLT And it came to pass, on the second-first sabbath... (Young's Literal Translation)


Therefore: the second-first sabbath is the sabbath that followed the great one.


The APB translation of Luke 6:1 follows the tradition of not using the word 'first', in order to avoid counting the unending sabbath day.

 

The Greek version of Leviticus 23:6-11 uses the word 'first' for the two different first sabbaths. The Septuigint was the common first century Greek bible most often quoted by the writers of post resurrection script, who also completed the bible in the Greek language (either that or the Masorites have changed the existing Hebrew manuscripts so much that it appears that way). The two uses of the word 'first' are for the first day of the Unleavened bread count and for the first day in the count to Pentecost. It was either last year's wheat grain or this year's barley grain they were eating without leaven. Unleavened bread begins the barley harvest. They were preparing for the new wheat harvest that begins at Pentecost. By removing all leaven from their houses they were symbolically cleansing the land. The new leaven for the new wheat was arriving on the barley grain. By the time the wheat harvest arrives they will have barley malt to get new yeast from. Today the ostensible Jews sell all their leaven to someone they know so they can buy it back when the holiday is over. This kinda subverts the whole point when they keep their old leaven. 


Matthew 16:11-12  ALT 11 "How do you(p) not understand that [it was] not concerning bread I said to you(p) to be guarding against the leaven [or, yeast] of the Pharisees and Sadducees?" 12 Then they understood that He did not say to be guarding against the leaven [or, yeast] of the bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  

  Brenton's Septuigint  Leviticus (Great sabbath; first day in the count to seven) 

23:6-8 And on the fifteenth day of this month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord; seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread. 7 And the first day shall be a holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work. 8 And ye shall offer whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord seven days; and the seventh day shall be a holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work.

                      (Weekly sabbath; first day in the count to seven-sevens)
23:9-11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When ye shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then shall ye bring a sheaf, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest; 23:11 and he shall lift up the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day the priest shall lift it up.


  

  KJV Leviticus

23:11  And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahwey, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
 

Notice the major one day difference between Brenton's and KJV's renderings of Leviticus 23:11. Brenton's is the morrow of the first day and KJV's is the morrow after the sabbath. The word 'after' is not in the Hebrew or the Greek text. It is unfortunately added to most modern translations. It should be translated, 'the morrow of the sabbath' which would then line up with, 'the morrow of the first day'; that is the morning of the first weekly sabbath not the great sabbath of passover. The first weekly sabbath is first fruits, which is the first day in the count to 50, which is the second-first sabbath of Luke 6:1, which is not the first day of the week. The great sabbath is the first day in the count to 7 days of unleavened bread.


Leviticus 23:15-16

YLT 15 `And ye have numbered to you from the morrow of the sabbath, from the day of your bringing in the sheaf of the wave-offering: they are seven perfect sabbaths; 16 unto the morrow of the seventh sabbath ye do number fifty days, and ye have brought near a new present to Jehovah;

 

Exodus 13:6-9 ECB 6 seven days you eat matsah and the seventh day is a celebration to Yah Veh: 7 eat matsah seven days: yes, neither is fermentation seen with you nor yeast seen with you in all your borders. 8 And tell your son in that day, saying, Because of what Yah Veh worked to me in going from Misrayim. 9 - and it becomes a sign for you on your hand and for a memorial between your eyes, that the torah of Yah Veh is in your mouth: for with a strong hand Yah Veh brings you from Misrayim.


On the third day Jesus was raised while it was still dark but the priests didn't make the weekly sabbath offering till the light of the day appeared. The two root words of morrow mean, 'on or upon' and 'the fresh or morning breeze'. The offerings didn't begin until the sun rose into the light of day. The Hebrew day actually began in the dark 12 hours earlier. 


Jesus was the only begotten of God until Pentecost. He was the first born of Mary who died as the Passover Lamb of God. He was resurrected during the barley harvest to the first day of the 50 day count toward Pentecost. He also became the first one to be born again by his Father. He would send the Holy Spirit to bring his new birth to the wheat harvest. The new life for the wheat harvest was symbolically in the new leaven. When the wheat harvest arrived they would have to get their new yeast from the barley malt because the old yeast was all removed from the land. Yeast fills the bread with air to make the bread rise. 


Deuteronomy 16:3-4  YLT 3 `Thou dost not eat with it any fermented thing, seven days thou dost eat with it unleavened things, bread of affliction; for in haste thou hast come out of the land of Egypt; so that thou dost remember the day of thy coming out of the land of Egypt all days of thy life; 4 and there is not seen with thee leaven in all thy border seven days, and there doth not remain of the flesh which thou dost sacrifice at evening on the first day till morning. (Jesus was in the tomb before the morning of Unleavened Bread.)

The first sabbath that follows the first day of Unleavened Bread is the weekly sabbath that starts the count to Pentecost, which is also called the second-first sabbath. Jesus becomes the second firstborn covenant man on this day; the only begotten of God was born again to be firstborn of the new covenant. The last became first.


1Corinthians 15:20 LITV But now Christ has been raised from the dead; He became the firstfruit of those having fallen asleep.


By the way, when Matthew and Mark tell of this same confrontation (Luke 6:1) with the Pharisees they only say that Jesus went through the grainfields at that season on the sabbaths (plural) and do not specify that it was the 'second-first' sabbath as Doctor Luke does:


Matthew 12:1 CLV At that season Jesus went through the sowings on the sabbaths. Now His disciples hunger, and they begin to be plucking the ears and to be eating."  


Mark 2:23 LITV And it happened, He went along through the grain fields in the sabbaths. And His disciples began to make way, plucking the heads of grain.

 

Now if 'one of the sabbaths' and 'first sabbath' and 'second-first sabbath' and 'sabbath that followed the great one', somehow all mean Sunday, then what does it mean to simply say, "sabbaths" in the two verses above? Can 'sabbaths' in general really be made to mean every day of the week including the seventh day? So if first sabbath is Sunday then second sabbath must be Monday and then the third sabbath must be Tuesday. Can there be a more tortuous exegesis? If they wanted to denote what day of the week the special sabbath was on they could say, "the Great Sabbath is on the fifth day of the week this year". I do believe 'one of the sabbaths' refers to one of the eight weekly sabbaths in the fifty day count to Pentecost. At least two verses tell us which one of the sabbaths. Both Mark 16:9 and Luke 6:1 tell us which sabbath of the eight they are referring to: the first sabbath in Mark is more specifically called the second-first sabbath in Luke; both of which refer to the resurrection sabbath. First century Jewish readers knew exactly what sabbath they meant. Evidently the writers of the Apostolic Bible did too. 

 

So, why are the so called idiomatic expressions for Sunday as 'one of the sabbaths' or 'the first sabbath' or 'the second-first sabbath', only found in the Bible after Malachi? And why is there no historical evidence of such an absurd idea until after Yeshua the messiah is resurrected on 'one of the sabbaths' more specifically called 'the first sabbath' and even more specifically called 'the second-first sabbath'?


John 19:31 ALT  Therefore, the Jews, so that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was the preparation [day] (for the day of that Sabbath was a great [one]), asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken away.


Yeshua was burried right before the Great Sabbath started and resurrected as the new covenant man on the first weekly sabbath. He finished the work of the sixth prophetic day by completing the image of Yahwey in the eschaton Adam. The new covenant doesn't then start over at prophetic day one. Yeshua carried His nation forward into His completed work. He is Lord of the sabbath.

 

Colossians 2:16-17 Therefore let no one judge you in food or in drink or in the particulars of a festival, or of a new moon, or sabbaths, which are a shadow of the things which are about to be, but now the body is of the annointed (an epethet of Yeshua indicating He was the messiah; the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation [body] prophesied in the Hebrew Bible).


Luke 4:16-19  ECB 16 And he goes to Nazareth where he was nurtured: and as his custom, he enters the synagogue on the day of the shabbaths and rises to read: 17 and he is given the scroll of the prophet Yesha Yah: and he unfurls the scroll, and finds the place where it is scribed, 18 Spirit of Yah Veh is upon me, because he anoints me to evangelize the poor; he apostolizes me to heal the crushed in heart; to preach forgiveness to the captives and sight to the blind; to apostolize the crushed in forgiveness; 19 to preach the acceptable year of Yah Veh. Isaiah 61:1, 2


The day of the shabbaths is also a reference to the uncounted first sabbath in the octave of sabbaths. If we would just go back to Genesis instead of Constantine we would have no doubts as to which day of the Hebrew week these sabbaths were on. The day of the sabbaths (plural) is translated as the sabbath day (singular) in most of our English translations. Otherwise it would naturally be associated with "one of the sabbaths" in the seven sabbath count toward Pentecost. The uncounted sabbath was usually referenced generically as "one of the sabbaths" since it was not to be counted until the 49th day became 50 and entered into the never-ending (hence never-counted) first sabbath.


Pentecost represents the recieving of the proposal to become a great nation. It is the betrothal part of the covenant. Pentecost was 50 days after the resurrection; Jesus was 40 days in the new land and ten days with the father before sending the Holy Spirit to betroth his seated people by writing the law of Christ on their minds. In reverse order, the new covenant 'law' is being written on their hearts by the Holy Spirit before they are driven out of the land by the old covenant 'law keepers'. And the new covenant man remains in perfect standing with the Father and able to lift the bride into his image. Unlike Moses, Yeshua goes on ahead into the promised land to graciously prepare a place for his soon to be standing bride to enter. She was not stood up after she was stood up. That nonsensical sentence is the result of our belief that Jesus did not marry the church after he betrothed her.


Jeremiah 31:31 CLV 31 Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Yahweh, And I have made with the house of Israel And with the house of Judah a new covenant,


Hebrews 10:8-10  8 Further up, when saying that "Sacrifice and approach present and ascent approaches and those concerning sin Thou dost not will, neither dost Thou delight in them (which are being offered according to law), 9 then He has declared, "Lo! I am arriving to do Thy will, O God! He is despatching the first, that He should be establishing the second." 10 By which will we are hallowed through the approach present of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time. 


Thayer defines the word rendered 'despatch' as: 

1) to take up, to lift up (from the ground) 
1a) to take up for myself as mine 
1b) to own (an exposed infant) 
2) to take away, abolish 
2a) to do away with or abrogate customs or ordinances 
2b) to put out of the way, kill slay a man

 

Hebrews 10:16 CLV 16 'This is the covenant which I shall be covenanting with them after those days,' the Lord is saying, 'imparting My laws to their hearts, I shall be inscribing them on their comprehension also, 

 

Jubilee represents the first year of entering the land in the marriage part of the covenant. Ezekiel recieves a temple vision on the very day and month they first entered the promised land, which was 14 years after being removed from the land; on the tenth day of the Nissan. It was approxiamately 574 BC and was supposed to start a Jubilee anniversary (in the seventh month); another 50 years of national marriage to Yahwey, celebrated by living an awesome year of trusting Yahwey to provide, paying off debts and returning to the original tribal allotments. Instead Ezekiel was recieving a vision of a temple, and it didn't represent the one Herod would remodel that Jesus said would be destroyed by the Roman empire. Ezekiel envisioned a temple that would encompass the whole city. 


The city of God extending from heaven is itself cube shaped like the Holy of Holies and has within it no localized temple because everyone in the city of God already lives in his presence. Christ is the high priest and the preisthood includes all believers. It is the new and better covenant because the Holy Spirit betrothal did lead to the permanent marriage.


Revelation 21:1-3, 22  And I saw a new heaven and a new land, for the first heaven and the first land passed away, and the sea is no more. 2 And I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven from God, having been prepared like a bride, having been adorned for her Husband.3  And I heard a loud voice out of Heaven, saying, Look the tabernacle of God with humanity! 22 And I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty is its temple, also the Lamb.


The Truth Is Deliberately Distorted By False Witnesses

John 2:19-21  ALT19 Jesus answered and said to them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up!" 20 Then the Jews said, "This temple was built [in] forty and six years, and You will raise it up in three days?" 21 But that [One] spoke concerning the temple of His body.  (The Body Of Christ)


Mark 14:58 ALT 58 "We heard Him saying, 'I will tear down this temple made with human hands, and by three days, I will build another not made with human hands.'" 


 Matthew 26:61  ALT 61 But later two false witnesses having come forward, said, "This One said, 'I am able to tear down the temple of God and by three days to build it." 


First Adam Entered The Land On Or Near A Sabbath

Adam was not placed in the garden on the first day of creation. Adam moved into the land on or approaching the sabbath; after God completed His world and declared it good. Adam was covenanted in the wilderness on the sixth day and placed into the garden. After Jesus completed His work as last Adam, He also entered the new good land on or approaching a sabbath eve. But Jesus entered the new land on the Nissan 17th sabbath not the Nissan 10th sabbath as Josua did. Jesus did not have to be in the new land for a time before making an offering from the previous days of reaping. He took the work he did from the last week of the old to the first day of the new. 


Jesus was in the new covenant holy place after his resurrection. Symbolically the holy place was 40 cubits long. Jesus would take 40 days after the resurrection before ascending to the most holy place. The portico was 10 cubits long. It would be 10 more days before the Holy Spirit arrived to bring his people to the holy place.



The first day in the old land was the 10th. The first day in the new covenant was the 17th. 

The 17th is the unending, uncounted sabbath day of Messiah.

 


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Noah's ark was a type of sabbath day resurrection.

Genesis 8:4 YLT 4 And the ark resteth, in the seventh month, in the seventeenth day of the month, on mountains of Ararat;


Nissan was the seventh month to Noah. 

Leaving Egypt was a type of new birth for the nation, so Yahwey changed what was Noah's seventh month of the year to be Israel's first month of the year, indicating a new beginning in the seventh month. In the fulfillment of these types, Jesus was born into Israel's seventh month, which was His beginning as a human before His rebirth. He entered the types to rescue his people by fulfilling the types. Jesus was born again in the first month.


Nissan became the first month to Moses

Exodus 12:1-2 YLT 1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 `This month is to you the chief of months—it is the first to you of the months of the year;


The betrothal (resurrection) of the reborn human nation arrived in the third month on Pentecost and the marriage to the new Human arrived in the seventh month. 


On the Day of Atonement, the High Priest went through many preparations to enter into the Holy of Holies on behalf of his people. God's throne room in Heaven is the most perfect and the most intimate dwelling place for His bride. 


She is rid of the "old man" of sin in the waters of baptism, symbolized also by the Days of Unleavened Bread. She doesn't buy back the old leaven when she has the new.

 

Romans 6:3,6,7 - 3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed ...7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 


1 Corinthians 5:7-11 CLV 7 Clean out, then, the old leaven, that you may be a fresh kneading, according as you are unleavened. For our Passover also, Christ, was sacrificed for our sakes" 


Ephesians 5:27-29 ECB 27 to present to himself a glorious ecclesia - not having stain or wrinkle or any such; but that it be holy and unblemished. 28 Thus the men are indebted to love their women as their own bodies. Whoever loves his woman loves himself. 29 For no one ever yet hates his own flesh; but nurtures and cherishes it, even exactly as Adonay the ecclesia:


The Marriage Supper of the Lamb takes place in the seventh month.


The church overcame the adversary and the beast. For the Spirit of the law of Christ overcomes the adversarial law of sin and death and His humanity rejects the number of the beast. The beast was stuck on 666 but Messiah sevens us. We drink with Him anew in His kingdom. We enter his feast of Sabbath rest. After the Day of Atonement comes the week of Tabernacles. Tabernacles is the seventh month of the year wedding that lasts for seven days. It follows the seventh seven of Pentecost and the seventh seven of Jubilee. We are not stuck in the sixth day as Augustine taught, nor are we starting over in the first day as Constantine taught. We now worship in His uncounted-neverending sabbath. It is not 666 or 111 or 911. It is 777, which was the new human's answer to the rule of the beast. We have entered into Messiah's seventh day sabbath. The types have been fulfilled in Christ.


Hebrews 9:28 ECB 28 thus the Messiah was offered once to offer the sins of many; and to them who await him he appears the second - apart from sin to salvation.

 

YLT 28 so also the Christ, once having been offered to bear the sins of many, a second time, apart from a sin-offering, shall appear, to those waiting for him—to salvation! 


Hebrews 9:3 reveals where he is coming out of.


Hebrews 9:3  YLT 3 and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called `Holy of holies,'


At his resurrection, Jesus entered through the veil (his flesh) into the Holy place of the new covenant. This was his first appearance as High Priest of the new world order. The first typical veil was torn open at his death.


At his accension, Jesus entered into the most holy place, behind the second veil, to prepare the place for his people to live in. If the typical high priest did not come out of the Most Holy Place and return to the holy place, then the sacrifice was not accepted and the people were not blessed in God's land. Jesus became the once for all High Priest of the new covenant. At the marriage Yeshua moved His bride from the holy place into the most holy place. 


Unlike Moses, Jesus went into the promised land to prepare the place while the church left 'Egypt'. The church then entered the wilderness journey of their covenant transition guided by the Holy Spirit and the messengers of God. The second typical veil was removed in AD 67 or 70 when Jesus came out of the real Most Holy Place veil. This was the second appearance of the high priest and the second veil he came out of. Jesus' first appearance as High priest was His 3rd day resurrection into the holy place, as High Priest of the new covenant priesthood. The first appearance was in His flesh and it lasted 40 days.


The betrothal covenant brought them into the new covenant Holy Place to prepare them for heaven. The wedding took them into the new covenant Most Holy place.


Revelation 12:6 YLT 6 and the woman did flee to the wilderness, where she hath a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her—days a thousand, two hundred, sixty. 


The true to their Word Jews fled after the stoning of Stephen. The church persecution began; unbelieving Jews began persecuting believing Jews.


Acts 8:1-4  LITV 1 And Saul was consenting to the doing away of him. And in that day a great persecution took place on the church which was in Jerusalem; and all were scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men together carried Stephen and made a great lamentation over him. 3 But Saul ravaged the church, entering house by house, dragging both men and women, he delivered them to prison. 4 Then, indeed, the ones who had been scattered passed through, preaching the gospel, the Word.


Paul still tended to keep the typical sabbaths even after he found his true sabbath fulfillment in the messiah. He lived in the transition era as the types were being realized. Since the first Christians were necessarily Hebrews, those Christians continued practicing the sabbath laws until consummation; the typical temple still stood. Without faith in Christ no one can have eternal life and find true rest in God. Paul however did not require sabbath keeping for Gentiles any more than he required circumcision.    


Romans 14:4-5

ECB 4 You - who are you to judge the housekeeper of another? unto his own adoni he stands firm or falls. Yes, he stands: for Elohim is able to stand him. 5 One judges one day above another; another judges every day. Each of you, assure fully in your own mind. 

 

Hebrews 4:7-11

ECB 7 again, he decrees a day, wording in David, Today, after so long a time - exactly as it is said, Today whenever you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Psalm 95:7, 8. 8 For if Yah Shua * had shabbathized them, than he had not ever after have spoken about another day. 9 So a shabbatism remains to the people of Elohim. 10 For whoever enters his shabbath also shabbathizes from his own works - exactly as Elohim from his. 11 So be diligent to enter that shabbath, lest anyone fall in the same example of trustlessness.

 

* Yah Shua can be translated: Jesus, Joshua or Yeshua. This verse is referring to the successor of Moses whom we prefer to call Joshua. He was a type of Christ because he took the people into the typical promised land. The true rest is in the Joshua who came in the first century.

 

Matthew 11:29  (Learn to Trust Yeshua)

YLT 29 take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,