When is the beginning of the count to the Feast of Weeks?
REVISED VERSION UPLOADED 6/16/22
To keep this article very brief, the focus will be mainly on the
Wave Sheaf Offering from which the Count to Pentecost starts.

 Under the Old Covenant, Yahweh in His infinite wisdom gave His people Israel instruction for a week-long Harvest Festival. It was an annual Festival to celebrate their deliverance from slavery in Egypt. The celebration was also for them to start the very first of their grain harvest.
   On the day before the Festival, Yahweh required Israel to furnish, sacrifice and roast a lamb. The sacrifice of a lamb was the main feature and it required action to start the Celebration.
   During the Harvest Festival Yahweh required for Himself an offering of the first new grain before they could harvest or eat the new grain. The waving of Wave Sheaf Offering was the main feature and it required action during the Festival.
   Israel had no idea that the Passover and the Feast of the Days of Unleavened Bread with its Wave Sheaf Offering were active prophetic parables.
   The sacrificing of the Passover Lamb was an active prophetic parable of Messiah Yahshua, the Lamb of Yahweh, being sacrificed to deliver mankind from their sins to save them from the death penalty. Without Yahshua’s sacrifice to start the Harvest Festival there would be no harvest of mankind from the dead into the Eternal Kingdom of Yahweh.
   The day of Yahshua’s sacrifice was specified to be on the fourteenth day of the first month. It was followed by the Festival of the Days of Unleavened Bread. The first and last day was specified to be on the fifteenth and the twenty first day of the first month. There was no limitation on which day of the week that the Passover and the first and last day of the Days of Unleavened Bread could fall on.
   The Wave Sheaf Offering was a very important active prophetic parable of the “Raised from the Dead” Yahshua being accepted as the First of the Firstfruits to Yahweh in the harvest of mankind from the dead into the Eternal Kingdom of Yahweh. This is the most special high point within the Festival It is so special that it is enclosed within the first Holy Day and the last Holy day of the Festival of the Days of Unleavened Bread.
   Unlike the Passover and the first and last day of the Days of Unleavened Bread the Wave Sheaf Offering was not given a specific day of the month, but it was given a specific day of the week-i.e., “the Morrow after the Sabbath.”
   Leviticus 23 (11) And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it … (15) And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: (16) Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto Yahweh.
   Please notice that in each case in the chart at the end of this article the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering (W.S.O.) and the beginning of the count to the Feast of Weeks falls within the Days of Unleavened Bread. As an example, the chart shows the Wave Sheaf Offering took place right in the middle of the Days of Unleavened Bread in 31 A.D. (I think that was when it was fulfilled by Yahshua, but I could be wrong.)
   Three very important events were enclosed within the two annual Sabbaths (i.e., the first and last day of the Days of Unleavened Bread). These three events portrayed Yahshua being in the grave three days and three nights; His rising from the grave on the third day and His ascension to Heaven to present Himself to be accepted as the Wave Sheaf Offering to our Heavenly Father.
   In order to prepare for the festival containing those three important events, Yahweh had to furnish the sacrifice which was Yahshua the Lamb of Yahweh. This He did on the fourteenth day of the first month. Without the sacrifice of the Lamb of Yahweh there would not have been a need for the Passover or the Harvest Festival of the Days of Unleavened Bread with its Wave Sheaf Offering. Neither would there be a harvest of mankind from the dead into the Eternal Kingdom of Yahweh.
   This year (2022) the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering falls on the morrow after weekly Sabbath, and on the morrow after the Passover and on the first Day of the Days of Unleaven Bread all at the same time as it did on the first Passover in the Promised Land.
   The Children of Israel came into the Promised Land and camped at Gilgal on the tenth day of the first month.          Joshua 4 (19) And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, & encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
   After the males recovered from the circumcision, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even.
   Joshua 5 (8) And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. (9) And Yahweh said unto Joshua, this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. (10) And the Children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
   Please notice what they ate on the morrow after the Passover.
   Joshua 5 (11) And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
   That morrow after Passover was the first Day of the Days of Unleaven Bread as well as the Wave Sheaf Offering, otherwise, they could not have eaten the parched grain.
   Leviticus 23 (14) And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your Elohim: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
   Passover had to have been on the weekly Sabbath that year since the Wave Sheaf Offering always comes on the morrow after the Sabbath and the first day of the Days of Unleavened Bread always comes on the morrow after the Passover.
   Conclusion: On the day before the Festival started, Yahweh required Israel to furnish, sacrifice and roast a lamb. The sacrifice of a lamb was the main feature and it required action to start the Celebration.
   During the Harvest Festival Yahweh required for Himself an offering of the first new grain before they could harvest or eat the new grain. The waving of Wave Sheaf Offering was the main feature and it required action during the Festival and not after it.
   The Wave Sheaf Offering was always between the two annual Sabbaths, never after, the Days of Unleaven Bread. It starts the count to Pentecost and it is always on the morrow after the weekly Sabbath as is shown in the chart at the end of this article and as stated in Leviticus 23:11, 15 & 16.