Today is the 4th day of the 2nd week of seven weeks. Today is the 11th day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.
Update April 15th 2015
Today is eleven days, which is one week and four days of the omer. Today I am very much looking forward to being with our Lord. Not because I want to be out of this broken and torn world, but more because I long to have my heart burn, as these disciples did, listening to God explain the Scriptures. What a day and eternity it will be to listen to our Lord’s voice explaining all that we can see only dimly now!
Original Post April 18th 2012
25 Abib/Nissan 31 AD
And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem. And they were talking with each other about all these things which had taken place. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus Himself approached and began traveling with them. But their eyes were prevented from recognizing Him. And He said to them, “What are these words that you are exchanging with one another as you are walking?” And they stood still, looking sad. One of them, named Cleopas, answered and said to Him, “Are You the only one visiting Jerusalem and unaware of the things which have happened here in these days?” And He said to them, “What things?” And they said to Him, “The things about Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word in the sight of God and all the people, and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him. “But we were hoping that it was He who was going to redeem Israel. Indeed, besides all this, it is the third day since these things happened. “But also some women among us amazed us. When they were at the tomb early in the morning, and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive. “Some of those who were with us went to the tomb and found it just exactly as the women also had said; but Him they did not see.” And He said to them, “O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! “Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?” Then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures. And they approached the village where they were going, and He acted as though He were going farther. But they urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” So He went in to stay with them. When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him; and He vanished from their sight. They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?” Luke 24: 13-31
We use a very cool audio tool we downloaded from Bible Gateway. It is the audio Bible with Max McLean reading. He reads from the King James version. We use it for our Bible devotion in the mornings, he reads and we follow along with two other versions. But how cool would it have been to have Jesus explain the Scriptures to you, starting with Moses and all the prophets! I bet their hearts were burning! We’ve all had those times when while we’re searching the Scriptures, and you feel like God has saved that portion just for you.
There are a lot of people who look for excitement in their religious experiences. They look for emotional highs. They look to discover some kind of a miracle or phenomena that they can get all excited about; an angel appeared, or some other type of phenomena. These men said, “Did not our hearts burn when He talked to us and opened the scriptures to us?” Chuck Smith
In this 21st century we’re a pretty desensitized bunch. I think we miss His still small voice (1 Kings 19:12) I believe Christians in America today have to discipline themselves to dedicate time, to listening for God’s voice. We are constantly being bombarded with a barrage of images and sounds — TV, Radio, I-Pods, Video Games, Cell Phones, etc., etc., etc. Some of us never have any quiet and/or silence, except when we’re sleeping, and sometimes not even then. To me it is a phenomenon and a miracle every time the Holy Spirit is able to get through all the world’s chatter and we experience that burning in our hearts.
Emmaus: Emmaus was situated, according to the testimony both of Luke and Josephus, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, that is, about seven miles and a half. It has generally been confounded with Emmaus, a city of Judah, afterwards called Nicopolis; but Reland has satisfactorily shown that they were distinct places; the latter, according to the old Itinerary of Palestine, being situated 10 miles from Lydda, and 22 miles from Jerusalem. D’Arvieux states, that going from Jerusalem to Rama, he took the right from the high road to Rama, at some little distance from Jerusalem, and “travelled a good league over rocks and flint stones, to the end of the valley of terebinthine trees,” until he reached Emmaus; which “seems, by the ruins which surround it, to have been formerly larger that it was in our Saviour’s time. The Christians, while masters of the Holy Land, re-established it a little, and built several churches. Emmaus was not worth the trouble of having come out of the way to see it.” Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
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