05/31/2025
Reflection for the Last Day of the Omer (Psalm 90:12) by Simonette Cherepanov
Here we are again, the road map at the beginning of this journey of counting the Omer for ourselves :-) As we stand at the foot of the mountain, we remember Bethlehem — the House of Bread, where Naomi and Ruth’s story of redemption points to the Gentile coming home. Like Abraham, Ruth crossed over — the meaning of “Hebrew” — to find a home in the covenant of God.
Yeshua, the Bread of Life, fed us in the wilderness with every word that comes from the mouth of God (Deut. 8:3; Matt. 4:4; Luke 4:4). His Bread not only provides physical nourishment and safety, but also emotional love, connection and spiritual strengthening of His image in us.
For seven sevens — 49 days — we counted as commanded (Lev. 23), learning that our provision comes from Abba, not from the world’s systems (aka Egypt, Pharaoh kept them by fear oppressed and abused). In the desert our Father transforms the trauma from Egypt by His Truth, He shows us The Way and He gives us The Life found only in Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Christ, John 14:6
Seven, the number of maturity and completion, brought us to the base of Mount Sinai.
Here, we stand and say, “I do” — “I will hear and obey Your commandments all the days of my life,” betrothed to Your Word until we see Messiah, Your Word made flesh, face to face.
To all the sojourners who counted the Omer with me this year: thank you for walking this journey of transformation and renewal of our vows to Messiah. Tomorrow, we meet at the base of the mountain to celebrate, to say “I do” again. And then begins our journey toward the Fall Feasts, waiting with great expectation that perhaps at the Feast of Trumpets, or even tomorrow, we will hear the final blast — the fulfillment of all that our Father has promised. We don’t know the day, but we know to sit at His feet, to watch, and to wait in hope.