05/24/2026
Happy Shavuot (or Pentecost, in Greek)! 🎉
Today we celebrate both the giving of the Law of Moses on Mt. Sinai and the giving of the Spirit in Jerusalem (Acts 2). We sure are glad Yahveh was still keeping His feasts even after the death and resurrection of Yahshua. 😉
In the counting of these 50 days from the spring feasts, we’re reminded that the focus is not always the final destination but also the journey getting there. May we all continue in our journey and pursuit of Yahveh and Messiah, each and every day!
Leviticus 23:15-22 (TS2009) “ ‘And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, you shall count for yourselves: seven completed Sabbaths. Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days, then you shall bring a new grain offering to יהוה. Bring from your dwellings for a wave offering two loaves of bread, of two-tenths of an ĕphah of fine flour they are, baked with leaven, first-fruits to יהוה. And besides the bread, you shall bring seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and one young bull and two rams. They are an ascending offering to יהוה, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering made by fire for a sweet fragrance to יהוה. And you shall offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old, as a slaughter of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them, besides the bread of the first-fruits, as a wave offering before יהוה, besides the two lambs. They are set-apart to יהוה for the priest. And on this same day you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves, you do no servile work on it – a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. And when you reap the harvest of your land do not completely reap the corners of your field when you reap, and do not gather any gleaning from your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the stranger. I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”
Acts 2:1-4 (TS2009) And when the Day of the Festival of Shaḇu‛ot had come, they were all with one mind in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from the heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and settled on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Set-apart Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to speak.
