What is Pentecost? The Feast of Weeks (Part Nine)

The word “Pentecost” is used only in the New Testament and is found in three verses. (Acts 2:1, Acts 20:16, and 1 Corinthians 16:8) It means "the fiftieth day." It is the seventh week after the Passover.

In the Old Testament, Pentecost is called the Feast of Weeks – It is seven weeks between Passover and Pentecost.

We can see a correlation between Passover and the Feast of Weeks to our New Testament salvation.

The Passover represents repentance and baptism in Jesus name. As the Hebrews in Egypt shed the blood of a lamb, applying the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of their house, we repent, applying the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, by water baptism in Jesus name (our body is the house of our soul).

As the death angel passed over the Hebrews when he saw the blood of the lamb, so the death angel will pass over us when he sees the blood of the Lamb, Jesus. (Revelation 2:11, 20:6)

As God wrote His ten commandments on tables of stone on the Feast of Weeks, God wrote His law on hearts by the Holy Ghost on Pentecost.

Pentecost is also the celebration of the wheat harvest and the ripening of the first fruits. Thus, it is also called "First Fruits” and the “Feast of Harvest.” (Exodus 23:16, 34:22, Numbers 28:26, Deuteronomy 16:9-12, 16:16, 2Chronicles 8:13) (Also, Romans 8:23, 1Corinthians 15:20-23)

These verses describe the Pentecost (Feast of Weeks) of the Old Testament:

Deuteronomy 16:10 KJV - And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:

Deuteronomy 16:11 KJV - And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Deuteronomy 16:12 KJV - And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

We can see these verses fulfilled in our New Testament Pentecost.

We offer up ourselves as a freewill offering to the Lord by repentance and as a living sacrifice. (Romans 12:1, 1Peter 2:5)

The infilling of the Holy Ghost, the Pentecostal experience, is truly a time of rejoicing! It is joy unspeakable and full of glory. (1Peter 1:8)

And, this rejoicing in the Spirit is “in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place His name there.” When we are baptized in Jesus name, the LORD has placed His name upon us. (Acts 15:17, James 2:7).

With our sins forgiven by water baptism in Jesus name, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost within us, we remember where the Lord brought us from – out of the bondage of sin. (Deuteronomy 16:12)

Jesus, the Creator of the universe, robed Himself in human flesh so that He could die in our place for our sins. God loves us this much! (John 3:16)

Because of our love for Jesus, we repent of our sins and keep His commandments, living a holy and overcoming life for Him. (John 14:15)