Pentecost

This festival is known by several names in the Bible and is known as the Feast of Harvest (Exodus 23:16), and the Feast of Weeks (Exodus 34:22) based upon the instruction to count fifty days from the weekly Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. Seven Sabbaths are to be completed (49 days) and on the day after the seventh Sabbath is the Feast of Pentecost, therefore Pentecost always falls on the first day of the week which is Sunday. Instruction for counting fifty is found in Leviticus 23:15-16. In the New Testament it is known as Pentecost which means “fiftieth.” It is believed that the ten commandments were given at Mount Sinai on the Day of Pentecost, and a great miracle occurred on the Day of Pentecost when the Lord God gave his holy spirit unto those gathered to celebrate his holy day as seen is Acts 2. The holy spirit of the Lord seals us as part of his first fruits and makes us heirs unto the Kingdom of God. The Feast of Pentecost is the feast of the first fruits and the resurrection of the saints shall occur on the Day of Pentecost when the seventh trumpet sounds and the dead in Christ will be resurrected and shall rise up to meet Jesus in the clouds. (Leviticus 23:10-21, Matthew 24:30-31, Acts 2:1-4, 1 Corinthians 15:20-23, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17)