Counting the Omer, not coil

Counting the Omer, the one counting actually commanded by God. The traditional church has two countdown periods, Advent for anticipating Yeshua’s birth and Lent for preparing our hearts to remember Yeshua's Crucifixion and celebrate His Resurrection. Those two seasons are of highest importance. But God commanded only one counting, and it isn’t either one of those.

This is the regular print book. If you prefer, buy the same book in spiral/coil binding here.

Counting the Omer is one of the Moadim, one of the Appointed Times set by God in the Bible as “a statute forever.” It is a seven week long wait time, in which He commanded us to count the days. Instead of a countdown, it is a count up 50 days long. When Adonai tells us to count these days, He has a reason. If someone says, “I’m counting the days,” it usually means they are looking forward to something really awesome. They might be counting the days until graduation or until they change jobs or maybe retirement or a vacation, or better yet, until their wedding or the arrival of a new baby! So there must be something awesome that God has us counting towards; something amazing to expect.

In the Bible, the counting was towards something supernaturally and spiritually spectacular twice. Let’s study those two events, find out how they are connected, and see what we can anticipate for our own lives as we do the counting this year.

This book is part of Rabbi Jim Appel's Appointed Time Series. See the other books here.

SEE INSIDE LOTS OF SAMPLE PAGES: the Table of Contents and the whole introduction chapter, plus the Appendix charts at the back of the book! (Some changes since we uploaded these pages.)

Here is Rabbi Jim telling his congregation about this Omer book: