Pentecost - Part 5

 Pentecost - Part 5

On Sunday May 28th we celebrate Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost means "Fiftieth" and is 7 Sundays after Easter. The holiday of Pentecost is also called The Feast of Weeks and Shavuot.

On the Jewish calendar, Shavuot is celebrated this year from sunset May 25th to nightfall May 27th. It is a two-day holiday that commemorates the date over 3,000 years ago when God gave the Torah (the Law) to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai.

"Shavuot" means "weeks," occuring seven weeks after Passover. Shavuot is also the celebration of the wheat harvest and the ripening of the first fruits. It is called, "Day of the First Fruits" and also the "Harvest Festival."

Jesus, in His perfect timing, chose this day to pour out His Spirit upon His followers, beginning His new covenant with His church.

"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." - Acts 2:1-4 

On Pentecost, Jesus wrote His law on believer's hearts, fulfilling the prophecy of Jeremiah of the new covenant.

"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." - Jeremiah 31:33 

These believers would be the first fruits of the harvest.