When the day of Pentecost [was being fulfilled] had come, they were all together in one place.
“Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest..
Exodus 34:18a
From a Festival of Weeks to Pentecost
How is Pentecost the firstfruits of these last days?
Have you ever thought about it?
Followers of Jesus Christ often miss the significance of the very festivals our Lord observed.
We sometimes miss Pentecost by idolatry of its imagery.
(The Holy Spirit is NOT a dove — it descended on men and women receiving it ‘like a dove.’)
Signs of Pentecost
John MacArthur - 2 min.
And when He had said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
John 20:22 NASB20
Jews debate the times and significance of these festivals to this very day. Christians and Messianic Jews recognize the miraculous moving of the Holy Spirit promised by the Lord.
From the Law of Moses:
34:23 שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה יֵרָאֶה כָּל־זְכוּרְךָ אֶת־פְּנֵי הָֽאָדֹן יְהוָה אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃
23 Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.
- Passover – pecach
- Feast of Weeks – Chag Shavu’os
- Festival of Ingathering – Chag HaAsif
In the year of our Lord 2021
https://www.messianicspokane.com/sukkot-chaghaasif
5/17/2021 (Read Festival parshot) {source linked above}
Shavuot
NOTE these Scriptures from celebration by Messianic Jews of these last days
Ex 19:1-20:22; Num 28:26-31; Ezek 1:1-28; 3:12; Acts 2:1-47
50 Days
The connection of Pentecost is the counting of fifty days.
Shavuot connects this counting back to the Passover, recounting the Law of Moses.
Pentecost counts back to the Resurrection of the Messiah Jesus in Body sacrificed for us and Spirit satisfying sanctity of the Lord’s holiness.
Fifty days after Jesus resurrection and instruction of the New Covenant with all who believe, the LORD gave the Holy Spirit to those chosen by grace.
Pentecost – First Fruits of the Church
IF the Holy Spirit reveals Scripture to the spirit of your heart, then read Luke’s account from his two-part message to the church: his Gospel and the history of the first century church in Acts of the Apostles.
The Resurrection & Pentecost
Please read the above secure link to the Scripture of the Good News of Pentecost.
May those with ears to hear and hearts to receive accept the Word of God through Scripture and the grace of the New Covenant through Christ our Lord who was and IS and will be forever, our Good News of eternal life.
Between Receiving the Holy Spirit and death of this body
I have written of these last days previously. Perhaps now the Spirit will move you to talk of Jesus and the certain hope of the resurrection for those Christ has given the Holy Spirit of God.
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