Today is still the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread a.k.a First Fruits until Sunset. One reason this is important to Christians is the year Jesus died on the Cross, on the Saturday as he lay in the tomb, it was the 1st Day of the feast of Unleavened Bread and the 1st Shabbat (Sabbath) of The Feast of Unleavened Bread. The main prayer during the Sabbath Service for the Feast of Unleavened Bread that took place on the Saturday while Jesus was in the Tomb is:

Blessed are You, O Lord our God,
King of the universe,
Who brings forth bread from the earth.

During this time, who was buried in the earth? Jesus. Jesus who was born in Bethlehem (which means “House of Bread”!) Jesus who said, 'I am the Bread of Life!' Whether they knew it or not, those people blessing God for bringing bread out of the earth had their prayers answered in the most spectacular way ever. I don't believe this is a coincidence, do you?

Today is also the 1st day of the Counting of the Omer (Hebrew: סְפִירַת הָעוֹמֶר, Sefirat HaOmer, sometimes abbreviated as Sefira, is a ritual in Judaism. Every day of The feast of unleavened Bread a sheaf of wheat (omer offering) was made before God. The counting of the Omer consists of a verbal counting of each of the 49 days between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot, the next big pilgrimage Feast in the Hebrew Calendar. This period known as the "omer period" or simply as "the omer" or "sefirah", is observed by Jews, Samaritans; Messianic Jews and many Christians.

For Jews, the omer period is one of preparation and anticipation for the giving of the Torah at Shavuot. But the forty-nine days of the Omer almost matches the number of days Jesus remained on earth appearing to his disciples between the resurrection and the Assention. The feast of Shavuot is what we call Pentecost.

Interestingly in Kabbalah each of these 49 days represents an aspect of each person's character that can be improved or further developed. They have books which are a daily guide for this personal character growth during the counting of the Omer. The first week they work on the character elements of Chesed a Hebrew word that is found in Psalms and translated as "loving kindness".