Also observed was the eating of un-leavened bread, all the old leaven was to be removed from all the homes. The Feast of Pentecost has some unique practices, it celebrated both the end of the grain harvest, the most important of the food staple, and also celebrated the giving of the Law on Mt.
Sinai, both themes were emphasized. A unique offering was a wave offering by the High Priest of two loaves of Leavened bread, the only time leaven is used in an offering during the feasts. The leaven represents something added to the bread, most of the time it is descriptive of the leaven of sin, as implied in the use of unleavened bread during The feast of Unleavened Bread. The sacrifice of the Lamb was to atone for the leaven of sin in the believer. In Pentecost the addition of leaven is descriptive of the added element of the Holy Spirit to the believer.
John touches on this added element, the coming of the Holy Spirit, in chapters The journey of Israel from Egypt to Mt. Chapter is a description of the failure of the law to produce righteousness. Romans 7 is a description of the power of sin through the Law not to save but to condemn.
Romans 8, the first part of the chapter, show victory not defeat when a person lived by the Spirit of the Law. That freedom is illustrated in Acts when Paul is saying good-by to the Ephesians. The Church became the embodiment of the Gospel and Israel, rejected for a time because of unbelief, to be restored to a position of grace in the end of the present age when they accept Jesus, whom they pierced, as Messiah.
The last three Sacred Feasts are prophetic of this time of Israels trial and redemption. Jesus separated the disciples experience of the distinct persons of the trinity in terms of time.
In Acts nearly all the accounts we have of individuals coming to faith in Christ have encounters with the Spirit at some time after their hearts had been won e. If we are open to God we receive all that Christ has secured for us through the cross, His resurrection and ascension, including baptism in the Spirit but as our eyes are opened to all these gifts in Christ.
Like in Acts 8 there are many genuine believers who love the Lord who have heard virtually nothing about the promise of the Spirit. When they do the love in their hearts becomes a thirst and a hunger for more.
And God answers the cry of their hearts. If we say we receive everything in Christ at the moment we come to faith that that is potentially true but often not the experience of the believer. Sometimes apparently correct doctrine seems to be a box that God will simply not be constrained by! When did we officially stop celebrating it and why? I believe you intended to quote Joel , but you quoted Joel by mistake. Orthodox Study Bible.
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David C 4 years ago. Check the Hebrew text. But why choose this feast day? Pentecost is an agricultural festival. Believers presented to the Lord two loaves of bread, made from fine flour, and baked with leaven, as the first-fruits of the wheat harvest.
In addition to the grain offering, they offered one bull, two rams, seven lambs, along with a sin offering of a male goat, and two male lambs for a peace offering Lev ; Num Since the first sheaf of the barley harvest was presented to YHWH on the day after Passover Lev , and the first sheaf of the wheat harvest was offered fifty days later , Passover and Pentecost marked the beginning and end of the grain harvest.
Over time, Pentecost came to be celebrated as the anniversary feast of the giving of the Law or the establishment of the covenant at Sinai. There are hints in the OT itself, however, that Pentecost was linked to the giving of the law. Since they left on the day after Passover, in the middle of the first month Exod , 6 , the fiftieth day after Passover would have fallen within this third month. Also, in 2 Chr , the Chronicler describes a gathering in Jerusalem, during the third month, where the covenant was celebrated and renewed.
The public holiday has become more of a culinary festival of dairy dishes. Traditional Jews still light candles and recite blessings, adorn their homes and synagogues with greenery, eat dairy foods, study the Torah, read the book of Ruth and attend Shavuot services.
In Acts 1, just before the resurrected Jesus was taken up into heaven , he told the disciples about the Father's promised gift of the Holy Spirit , which would soon be given to them in the form of a powerful baptism. He told them to wait in Jerusalem until they received the gift of the Holy Spirit, which would empower them to go out into the world and be his witnesses.
A few days later, on the Day of Pentecost, the disciples were all together when the sound of a mighty rushing wind came down from heaven, and tongues of fire rested on the believers.
The Bible says, "All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. They spoke with Jewish pilgrims of various languages from all across the Mediterranean world. The crowds observed this event and heard them speaking in different languages.
They were amazed and thought the disciples were drunk on wine. Then the apostle Peter got up and preached the Good News of the kingdom and people accepted the message of Christ. That same day they were baptized and added to the family of God. The book of Acts continues to record the miraculous outpouring of the Holy Spirit that began on the Feast of Pentecost.
This Old Testament feast revealed "a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ " Colossians When the Jews accepted the Torah, they became servants of God. Similarly, after Jesus went up to heaven, the Holy Spirit was given at Pentecost.
When the disciples received the gift, they became witnesses for Christ. Jews celebrate a joyous harvest on Shavuot, and the church celebrates a harvest of newborn souls on Pentecost. Some of the most exciting events in the New Testament revolved around the Day of Pentecost in the book of Acts , chapter 2.
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