Yeshua is alive! From His resurrection and the emptying of His grave, He began — as the omer (the sheaves of wheat waved before God each of the 50 days by the priests beginning the day after the Sabbath during Passover week as proof by faith of the coming harvest) — to show Himself alive with many infallible proofs to Mary and to His apostles and on to the other of His disciples — all together about 500 people. Not that many, and far less than the eyewitnesses at Mt. Sinai when YHVH manifested His presence to Moses and the children of Israel. Once again we see that numbers are not crucial with the living God to change a people or to do His works. Israel was not chosen to be His ‘peculiar’ people because of their great number, and certainly not because of any inherent righteousness; yet…through Israel He has given a microcosm of all humanity for an example to the Church — to all people everywhere anywhere at all times who come to the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob through the Messiah Yeshua of the Tribe of Judah, yet Who is also the representative Son of Man and also the express image of the invisible God. What a God! What a Savior!
So we press on to enter into that blessed hope of our own resurrection or rapture, and towards the great harvest to come as the fullness of the Gentiles comes into the Kingdom, and the salvation of all Israel, with an innumerable multitude of sheep nations to serve Yeshua, the King of Israel and the Jews.