49 Days: From Passover to Shavuot (Pentecost)
Counting of the Omer 2019 began in the evening of Saturday, April 20
and ends in the evening of Saturday, June 8, 2019
Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: ספירת העומר, Sefirat HaOmer, is an important verbal counting of each of the forty-nine days between God’s Holy Days of Passover and Shavuot (Feast of Weeks in English and as Pentecost in Ancient Greek) as stated in the Hebrew Bible: Leviticus 23:15–16.
GOD chose this Appointed Time for two major blessings on mankind. First, for the giving of the Torah[1] which was given by God on Mount Sinai at the beginning of the month of Sivan, around the same time as the holy day of Shavuot. Second the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles in the Upper Room and other followers of Yeshua/Jesus while they were in Jerusalem celebrating Shavuot, (the Feast of Weeks, as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–31). In Christian tradition, this event represents the birth of the early Church.
