This PENTECOST!
“When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” Acts 2:1-4
Once again, we have come to that awesome time in the Church calendar- The Pentecost, or The Feast of Weeks. In the Jewish calendar, this feast (Shavout in Hebrew) took place seven full weeks (or the fiftieth day) following the Feast of First Fruits. For this reason, it is also Pentecost, a word meaning fifty.
The life and ministry of Jesus the Messiah mirrored the major festivals of the Jews in significant ways. It was on the same day as their Passover was to start, that Jesus was crucified on that tree outside Jerusalem. Such that, while Jews from all over the world were preparing their slain lambs for the Passover feast, God’s lamb was already being lowered from the tree, having fulfilled that law. And while the High Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened bread was commencing, the Father’s leaven of life had already been separated from his beloved son as he cried out Eloi Eloi; and, as he gave up the ghost. And on that third day, while they were waving the First Fruits of the barley harvest before the Lord, Jesus was being sanctified and approved by God in heaven, having risen from the dead as the first fruit from the dead for all the saints.
Consequently, in a similar fashion, as Jews from all over the world gathered for this second of three annual feasts, for which they were mandated to return to Jerusalem to worship, God honoured the earthly timeline with a spiritual affirmation. He came through with heaven’s SHAVOUT and the Church was born! Halleluyah!
Join us this Sunday (via Zoom) as we celebrate this glorious visitation of God’s Spirit that came, and still comes to us even today.
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Love and Blessings
Team Vinespring
