The Day of Pentecost is the day in which the Holy Ghost was poured out on the followers of Jesus that were praying in an upper room in Jerusalem. This was the fulfillment of the promised New Covenant. (Jeremiah 31:31-34)
The Day of Pentecost is also the Jewish holy day celebrating the giving of God’s Law at Mount Sinai.
Each covenant was confirmed with blood.
Moses said it was the blood that confirmed the covenant the LORD made with the people giving them His law. (Exodus 24:8)
Jesus said His blood was the blood of the new covenant (testament). (Matthew 26:28)
Jesus also said, “This is my blood of the new testament (covenant), which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” (Matthew 26:28)
Jesus’ blood of the new covenant fulfills the prophecy of Jeremiah. The LORD said that in the new covenant, “I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31, 34)
How did Moses confirm the covenant of the law with blood?
Exodus 24:5-8 KJV - And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD. And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant [this blood confirms the covenant], which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
Hebrews 9:18-20 KJV - Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood. For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
How did Jesus confirm the new covenant with blood?
Matthew 26:28 KJV - For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Jesus was the sacrifice. He is the Lamb of God. Though our sins are scarlet, He washes them white as snow by His blood. When He was at the point of death, He was offered vinegar on hyssop. When the soldier pierced His side, blood and water came out.
John 1:29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
The blood Jesus shed comes upon us when we are water baptized in Jesus name for the remission of sins.
Revelation 1:5 KJV - And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood
Peter preached the new covenant on the day of Pentecost.
Acts 2:38 KJV - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Those that entered into the new covenant confirmed it with the blood of Jesus.
Acts 2:41 KJV - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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