27/05/2023
PENTECOST (SHAVOUT in Hebrew)
This is one of the 7 feasts in the bible that the church must announce and observe as in Leviticus 23 because its an ordinance. These feasts fell in the Biblical Calendar during the agriculture calendar. Unfortunate, most Christians lack knowledge on the subjects of 7 feasts in the Bible and say its for the Jews. Hosea 6:4,Genesis 1:2 NKJV.
Leviticus 23:15 MSG
15 "Count seven full weeks from the morning after the Sabbath when you brought the sheaf as a Wave-Offering,16 fifty days until the morning of the seventh Sabbath. Then present a new Grain-Offering to GOD.17 Bring from wherever you are living two loaves of bread made from four quarts of fine flour and baked with yeast as a Wave-Offering of the first ripe grain to GOD.18 In addition to the bread, offer seven yearling male lambs without defect, plus one bull and two rams. They will be a Whole-Burnt-Offering to GOD together with their Grain-Offerings and Drink-Offerings--offered as Fire-Gifts, a pleasing fragrance to GOD19 Offer one male goat for an Absolution-Offering and two yearling lambs for a Peace-Offering.20 The priest will wave the two lambs before GOD as a Wave-Offering, together with the bread of the first ripe grain. They are sacred offerings to GOD for the priest.21 Proclaim the day as a sacred assembly. Don't do any ordinary work. It is a perpetual decree wherever you live down through your generations.22 "When you reap the harvest of your land, don't reap the corners of your field or gather the gleanings. Leave them for the poor and the.
Pentecost in the Old Testament was also the time when YHWH came down in form of fire on Mt Sinai to give Moses THE TORAH. It was also a time when YHWH gave his Bride ( Israel & other nations ) a marriage contract(KETUBA in Hebrew) she answered ," I do ".
Exodus 19:9-11MSG
9 GOD said to Moses, "Get ready. I'm about to come to you in a thick cloud so that the people can listen in and trust you completely when I speak with you." Again Moses reported the people's answer to GOD.10 GOD said to Moses, "Go to the people. For the next two days get these people ready to meet the Holy GOD. Have them scrub their clothes.11 so that on the third day they'll be fully prepared, because on the third day GOD will come down on Mount Sinai and make his presence known to all the people.
Acts 2:1-4 ; 5- MSG
1 When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force--no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole buildi.3Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks,.4 and they started speaking in a number of different languages as the Spirit prompted them.
Let's celebrate the in filing of God's power we have been given that we can navigate to be effective in this dark world! We cant not become nor do anything without the power of The Holy Spirit. He is the enabling power that can change one who who nobody into somebody!
He is the creative power behind all ingenuity as solutions for mankind. Lets speak and work with boldness to establish what God has assigned us to do in this generation. God is waiting for a true EKKLESIA to image at a time like this.
Lets Arise!
Pastor Alice M.Ms Silla