Pentecost (Greek) Shavuot (Hebrew) begins at sunset on Thursday, May 25 and ends at sundown on Saturday, May 27
Other names associated with the festival Festival of "Harvest" (Ex 23:16), Festival of Weeks (Ex 34;22 Lev 23:15-22, Deut 16:16, 2 Chron 8:13, Num 28:26)
The 7 Feasts (Appointed Times) of the Lord (Lev 23) represent God's Timeline for the Ages. The Feasts were planned, written & fixed. Before the sun, moon & heavens were set as acting witness's to God plan (Gen 1:14).
Lev 23:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
(MY NOTE: Strong's 4744, Holy Convocation = a rehearsal, set apart assembly, calling, reading. For 1500 years the Israelies rehearsed these Appointed Times.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?" (Job 7:10)
Paul tells us in Colossians 2:17 that all of these special days were appointed by God to reveal the Messiah/Christ Jesus to the world as part of God’s great plan for His creation.
The 7 Feasts of the Lord
1) Passover, 2) Unleavened Bread, 3) Firstfruits, 4) Pentecost, 5) Rosh Hashanah 6) Yom Kippur 7) Tabernacles
"These Feasts (Appointed Times) were/are foreshadows" of the things to come. The reality, however, is found in the Lord Jesus Christ
Deut 16:16: Three mandatory Pilgrimage "HARVEST Feasts". Every Jewish male 20 yrs & up was required to travel to the Temple MT & attend.
Passover, Pentecost & Tabernacles! Three HARVEST festivals. Soul HARVEST/resurrection foreshadows!
All resurrected in his own "order" as seen in (1 Cor 15:24)
1 Passover: Barley "HARVEST" (Matt 27:52). First Soul HARVEST. This one has already happened!
2 Pentecost Wheat "HARVEST" the MAIN/Largest. (Acts 2:41) 3000 Souls HARVESTED.
3 Tabernacles Fruits/oil "HARVEST" (Ex 23) Final ingathering Soul HARVEST!
At the 1st Pentecost on Mt Sinai (Ex 19), is when Moses gave the Law. God sealed a COVENANT with the Israelites. Marking them his own set-apart people & a Nation was born.
Temple Mt on the 1st Pentecost post resurrection. (Acts 2) God sealed, via the indwelling Holy Spirit & a New Covenant was opened to all peoples. "Believers were filled/sealed with the Holy Spirit. References of the Holy Spirit as an eternal seal: 2 Cor 1:22, Eph 1:13-14, Eph 4:30, 2 Tim 1:14, 2 Cor 5:5.
Pentecost foreshadow
BOOK OF RUTH
For 3500 yrs the Book of Ruth was read every Pentecost. The story of Boaz a Kinsman Redeemer. A shadow of Christ & his Bride/Church. Boaz a wealthy landowner of the tribe of Judah. Takes Ruth, a gentile for his wife.
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: ""spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid"" for thou art a near kinsman.
(MY NOTE: Spread therefore thy skirt (TALITH) over thine hand maid: This verse is a marriage proposal. When a Jewish man married a woman, he threw the end of his his skirt (TALITH) over her head, covering her, to signify that she was now under his covering/protection. When we say yes to Christ, he seals us with his Holy Spirit of covering/protection)
Rabbinic traditions:
DECORATING THE BRIDE:
Another shadow on Pentecost: A time spent tradition called ""decorating the bride"". (The Church is the Bride of Christ) Jews stayed up all night studying Scripture. In the hope that they will receive a special blessing. They believe that God will favorably answer prayer by briefly opening up the heavens and supply a blessing. Sounds like Thes 4:16 to me! Christ is coming soon for his Bride/Church.
FESTIVAL WITHOUT A DATE
Pentecost was also referred to as "the festival without a date." Originally this Feast didn’t have a fixed date. After 70 A.D. the sixth of Sivan becomes a fixed date. They simply knew it was 50 days after firstfruits. With leap months, it was impossible to fix it. Because its date is beyond reckoning. Pentecost the main Harvest Festival is a perfect model for the catching-up/rapture, of the Body of Christ/Church.
JUDGMENT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES:
There is a belief in Jewish tradition that trees are judged by God. A shadow of the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ.
Paul gives a picture of the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ. 2 Cor 5:10. The fruit of one’s works will be judged & rewarded. No judgment for sin here, Christ was judged & paid for ALL the believers sins on the cross. (Col 1:14 & Rom 4:7)
Scriptural background, making a case for Pentecost to be the coming: """Catching-up (Rapture)"""
1st Pentecost - Ex 19:1 the 3rd month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
1st post resurrection Pentecost - Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Ex 19:16 (b) There were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount,
Acts 2:2 suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind & it filled all the house where they were sitting
Ex 19:19 (c) "the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud"
1 Thes 4:16 (B) "the voice of the archangel, and with the trump" of God:
Hos 6:2 (B) In the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
(MY NOTE: We're now early into the 3rd day)
Ex 19:16 (A) it came to pass on the 3rd day in the morning
Ex 19:20 (A) And "the LORD came down" upon mount Sinai,
1 Thes 4:16 (A) For the "Lord himself shall descend" from heaven with a shout,
Ex 19:20 (B) The LORD "called Moses up" to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
1 Thes 1:17 Then we which are alive and remain "shall be caught up" together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
Ex 19:6 (A) And "ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests", and an holy nation.
Rev 1:6 (A) And "hath made us (His Church) kings and priests" unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Could the Body of Christ/Church be "HARVESTED" this Pentecost? I pray yes!
Other names associated with the festival Festival of "Harvest" (Ex 23:16), Festival of Weeks (Ex 34;22 Lev 23:15-22, Deut 16:16, 2 Chron 8:13, Num 28:26)
The 7 Feasts (Appointed Times) of the Lord (Lev 23) represent God's Timeline for the Ages. The Feasts were planned, written & fixed. Before the sun, moon & heavens were set as acting witness's to God plan (Gen 1:14).
Lev 23:
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
(MY NOTE: Strong's 4744, Holy Convocation = a rehearsal, set apart assembly, calling, reading. For 1500 years the Israelies rehearsed these Appointed Times.
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?" (Job 7:10)
Paul tells us in Colossians 2:17 that all of these special days were appointed by God to reveal the Messiah/Christ Jesus to the world as part of God’s great plan for His creation.
The 7 Feasts of the Lord
1) Passover, 2) Unleavened Bread, 3) Firstfruits, 4) Pentecost, 5) Rosh Hashanah 6) Yom Kippur 7) Tabernacles
"These Feasts (Appointed Times) were/are foreshadows" of the things to come. The reality, however, is found in the Lord Jesus Christ
Deut 16:16: Three mandatory Pilgrimage "HARVEST Feasts". Every Jewish male 20 yrs & up was required to travel to the Temple MT & attend.
Passover, Pentecost & Tabernacles! Three HARVEST festivals. Soul HARVEST/resurrection foreshadows!
All resurrected in his own "order" as seen in (1 Cor 15:24)
1 Passover: Barley "HARVEST" (Matt 27:52). First Soul HARVEST. This one has already happened!
2 Pentecost Wheat "HARVEST" the MAIN/Largest. (Acts 2:41) 3000 Souls HARVESTED.
3 Tabernacles Fruits/oil "HARVEST" (Ex 23) Final ingathering Soul HARVEST!
At the 1st Pentecost on Mt Sinai (Ex 19), is when Moses gave the Law. God sealed a COVENANT with the Israelites. Marking them his own set-apart people & a Nation was born.
Temple Mt on the 1st Pentecost post resurrection. (Acts 2) God sealed, via the indwelling Holy Spirit & a New Covenant was opened to all peoples. "Believers were filled/sealed with the Holy Spirit. References of the Holy Spirit as an eternal seal: 2 Cor 1:22, Eph 1:13-14, Eph 4:30, 2 Tim 1:14, 2 Cor 5:5.
Pentecost foreshadow
BOOK OF RUTH
For 3500 yrs the Book of Ruth was read every Pentecost. The story of Boaz a Kinsman Redeemer. A shadow of Christ & his Bride/Church. Boaz a wealthy landowner of the tribe of Judah. Takes Ruth, a gentile for his wife.
Ruth 3:9 And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: ""spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid"" for thou art a near kinsman.
(MY NOTE: Spread therefore thy skirt (TALITH) over thine hand maid: This verse is a marriage proposal. When a Jewish man married a woman, he threw the end of his his skirt (TALITH) over her head, covering her, to signify that she was now under his covering/protection. When we say yes to Christ, he seals us with his Holy Spirit of covering/protection)
Rabbinic traditions:
DECORATING THE BRIDE:
Another shadow on Pentecost: A time spent tradition called ""decorating the bride"". (The Church is the Bride of Christ) Jews stayed up all night studying Scripture. In the hope that they will receive a special blessing. They believe that God will favorably answer prayer by briefly opening up the heavens and supply a blessing. Sounds like Thes 4:16 to me! Christ is coming soon for his Bride/Church.
FESTIVAL WITHOUT A DATE
Pentecost was also referred to as "the festival without a date." Originally this Feast didn’t have a fixed date. After 70 A.D. the sixth of Sivan becomes a fixed date. They simply knew it was 50 days after firstfruits. With leap months, it was impossible to fix it. Because its date is beyond reckoning. Pentecost the main Harvest Festival is a perfect model for the catching-up/rapture, of the Body of Christ/Church.
JUDGMENT OF THE FRUIT OF THE TREES:
There is a belief in Jewish tradition that trees are judged by God. A shadow of the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ.
Paul gives a picture of the Judgment Seat (Bema) of Christ. 2 Cor 5:10. The fruit of one’s works will be judged & rewarded. No judgment for sin here, Christ was judged & paid for ALL the believers sins on the cross. (Col 1:14 & Rom 4:7)
Scriptural background, making a case for Pentecost to be the coming: """Catching-up (Rapture)"""
1st Pentecost - Ex 19:1 the 3rd month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
1st post resurrection Pentecost - Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
Ex 19:16 (b) There were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount,
Acts 2:2 suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind & it filled all the house where they were sitting
Ex 19:19 (c) "the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud"
1 Thes 4:16 (B) "the voice of the archangel, and with the trump" of God:
Hos 6:2 (B) In the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
(MY NOTE: We're now early into the 3rd day)
Ex 19:16 (A) it came to pass on the 3rd day in the morning
Ex 19:20 (A) And "the LORD came down" upon mount Sinai,
1 Thes 4:16 (A) For the "Lord himself shall descend" from heaven with a shout,
Ex 19:20 (B) The LORD "called Moses up" to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
1 Thes 1:17 Then we which are alive and remain "shall be caught up" together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
Ex 19:6 (A) And "ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests", and an holy nation.
Rev 1:6 (A) And "hath made us (His Church) kings and priests" unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Could the Body of Christ/Church be "HARVESTED" this Pentecost? I pray yes!
