Pentecost

May 19th  is Pentecost – Don’t forget to wear red and join us for Bible study at 8:30 and Worship at 10:00! 

Pentecost is ‘Shavuot” in Hebrew, meaning “Feast of Weeks” 

Pentecost is 7 full weeks and 1 day after the Feast of Firstfruits, for a total of 50 days (Pentecost in Greek means “fiftieth” day) and took place 10 days after Jesus ascended (Acts 1:3) 

Pentecost was a celebration of the end of the wheat harvest (Numbers 28:26), an offering of 2 loaves of wheat bread made with leaven (Leviticus 23:16-17). Pentecost commemorated the giving of the law which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai, Jews refer to it as the “season of the giving of the law”. Now, we celebrate Pentecost as the day in with God poured out His Spirit (Acts 2:1-21) 

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