The Bikurim Omer is Not a Feast

Bikurim is not a feast, not a miqra (called-out assembly), and not a mow’ed (appointed meeting).

It’s the lifting of an omer, a sheaf of the first harvested grain. The omer is typically barley which is waved before YHWH on the day after the Shabat that falls during Chag Matsah.

There is no given calendar date. There is no community gathering, it was done by the priest.

The omer wave offering is the starting point for counting fifty days to the real feast: Shabu'ot. And here’s the kicker: Mosheh never performed it. The omer wave was only to be done in the Land of Promise - after the harvest of Yisra’el’s soil. Until then, it wasn't able to be observed.

During the Exodus the 'Ibry ~ Hebrews were eating manna (sap nests made by a manna scale beetle), not waving barley. But that didn’t stop religious systems from twisting it. Christianity falsely merged Bikurim with the first Pesach, claiming the people “passed over” at sunrise to fulfill a symbolic “harvest of first fruits of the resurrection.” In so-doing, they hijacked the omer, turning it into a feast day to support their myth of a “third-day resurrection.”

However, was no instruction given for bikurim at that time, and neither Mosheh nor the people had any idea what it was! Christians synchronized their fabricated messiah’s death with Pesach, Matsah and their misappropriation of the omer. They even dragged in Yonah’s three days in the belly of the beast, misreading it as a resurrection prophecy, all to justify human sacrifice - a practice strictly forbidden in the Torah.

YHWH never treated the omer as a festival. It’s not one of the seven mo’ed miqra’ey. It’s not a set-apart gathering. It’s a single priestly offering which marks when to start counting. It’s not a prophecy. It’s not a shadow of a future sacrifice. It’s a grain offering. That’s it.

The omer calibrates the count from Pesach (14th) and Matsah (15th) as a floating day, anchored to the natural weekly Shabat so that we count seven complete Shabats (weeks and natural shabats) to arrive at Shabu’ot, which literally means Seven Sevens.

Let’s stop adding to Yah’s word or bending His calendar to fit myths and traditions. Bikurim is not a feast. It’s an omer.

Also note: Anyone claiming to be a prophet of YHWH while purporting a false feast schedule is a liar.