Pentecost/Shavuot (Feast of Weeks): Celebrating Our Father and Our Savior Sending Us All Truth5/31/2020 Good Morning Pentecost/Shavuot!...
FATHER thank You for this NEW DAY. We ask that you cover us with YOUR MIGHTY HAND. Let us understand YOUR MIGHTY WILL so that we may see YOUR MIGHTY AND INFINITE GLORY. We ask this in YOUR PERFECT SON YESHUA, JESUS CHRIST's NAME. Amen. - Pentecost/Shavuot: Celebrating Our Father and Our Savior Sending Us All Truth First, let's get some context and the back-story. If you recall, Yeshua, Jesus, spent forty days after His resurrection with His disciples (Acts 1:3). We can only imagine how powerful those days were...the Risen Savior in a glorified body talking and praying with His close friends (Luke 24:39–43). But it wasn't meant to last long. Yeshua had to ascend to the Father and establish His Everlasting Reign by receiving, as The Son of God, all dominion, power, and authority (Luke 24:44–51, Daniel 7:13–14). Watching Our Savior Yeshua ascend to heaven (Acts 1:11), the apostles must have felt an immediate and heavy sense of loss. Yeshua steadied them with an important promise: “you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now” (Acts 1:5). HalleluYah!!! We know what comes next! Tongues of Fire would descend upon the apostles and they began speaking different languages, or "speaking in tongues", to all the foreigners there gathered in Jerusalem. "suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a Mighty Rushing Wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Acts 2:2–4) This was the moment, they finally "got it!" "It" being the knowledge of how everything fit together, how Yeshua, Jesus Christ connected everything, and The Message they were to "proclaim to the world." They had struggled to understand, waited on The King, and now it was literally The Moment of Truth. Yeshua, told the disciples: "When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all The Truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” (John 16:7, 13–14) According to The Gospel, Israelites from every tribe and every nation under heaven were gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate Pentecost (Greek), which they called Shavuot (Hebrew) or Feast of Weeks. Upon hearing what had happened, a multitude of the nations gathered to find the apostles declaring The Gospel in languages that each person could understand. As they marveled, because they knew these men were not educated in their language, Peter explained the miracle as the fulfillment of God’s Word: "But this is that which was uttered through the prophet Joel: “And in the last days it shall be, God Declares, that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.” (Acts 2:16-19) The apostle Peter goes on to explain and proclaim what has happened in their hearing is the validation of the Lordship of Yeshua the Messiah and the realization of the Promises of God (Acts 2:29–36). Those gathered are “cut to the heart,” and three thousand of them receive The Good News of Jesus as Messiah and are baptized (Acts 2:41). The rest of the Book of Acts develops the world-transforming changes that began in these moments at Pentecost/Shavu’ot. What an amazing thing Our Father has done. This is just a brief piece of the wonderful Story of Pentecost or Shavuot, The Feast of Weeks. I encourage everyone to do a study on this Holy Festival as Our Father has many mysteries for us to learn and grow from in His Telling Of This Event. I would love nothing more than to share all the wonderful things I have gleaned upon studying this wonderful Holy Festival of God, but I believe it would take an entire book... they definitely would not fit in this devotion today. As we celebrate this Wonderful Day of God, let us remember The Amazing Gift of Our Father's Holy Spirit, or Ruach Ha'Kodesh in Hebrew... which means "Holy Breath of God." (Check out John 20:21-24. Wow!) Let us give an offering of Love, Appreciation, and Obedience to Our God Who Saves Us. While I can't fit all the information about The Feast of Weeks in this devotion, I will leave some wonderful extra facts below about this Awesome day Our Father Has Blessed us with. I will do 5 in honor of Pentecost. May God Our Father Bless Each and everyone of you this day with His Ruach Ha'Kodesh (Holy Spirit) and may The Light of God Shine Through you and out to the rest of the world. It is in Yeshua, Jesus Christ Our Savior's name I pray for these things. Amen. Bonus Content: Pentecost - The Feast of Weeks - Shavuot: Just The Facts Here are a few facts about This Wonderful Day and Feast, or as also translated Rehearsal, Our Father has given us. 1.) Pentecost, is the same day as Shavuot or Feast of Weeks. It is one of The Holy Festivals declared to Moses when Our Father gave Him The Instructions or the first five books of The Bible (The Torah). 2.) Pentecost/Shavuot is not only the day that the Holy Spirit came down to the apostles, but it is also the day that Moses descended Mt. Sinai with The Commandments. I was blown away when I first learned this. God Is Amazing at using His Holy Spirit and helping us to "connect the jots." Shavuot commemorates the day when the Israelites received the Torah during their desert wanderings approximately 3,328 years ago, and is the only Holy Festival given to Israel mentioned in the Torah (First Five Books of The Bible) without a specific calendar date. Rather, it is to be celebrated 50 days after the second day of Passover. Some say that Passover and Shavuot are really one celebration or rehearsal and that the Exodus from Egypt was only complete with the giving of God's Instructions for us. 3.) If you remember the story, when Moses descended Mt. Sinai at the very first Shavuot/Pentecost, the Israelites were worshiping a golden calf idol and consequently about 3,000 people perished because of this sin. On Pentecost, fourteen hundred years later, when The Apostles gained The Holy Spirit, about 3,000 people were saved. How awesome is that? God is showing us in His Word - His Redemption Process For Us. A thought that went through my head: "I wonder if the 3,000 people that were saved were the descendants of the 3,000 who perished?" As amazing as Our God and Father is... it wouldn't surprise me if He Perfectly Redeemed those families that had perished by way of idolatry. Sometimes it is hard to understand what Our Father is doing in the stories of instruction that He Gives us in His Word... but if we pay attention and let the story play out, we are allowed to see how Wise, Loving, Kind, Gracious, and Merciful Our God is in giving these stories of instruction. 4.) Shavuot, which means “Festival of Weeks” or “Sevens” is just one name for the holiday. It also goes by Pentecost, The Birthday of The Church, Harvest Festival (Chag HaKatzir), Day of the First Fruits (Yom Habikurim), and The Stoppage/Restrain (Atzeret – a reference used to highlight the prohibition against work on this day), and Time of the Giving of the Torah (Z’man Matan Torah). 5.) There were certain celebrations and sacrifices and offerings which were prescribed in God's Instructions for the day of Pentecost. On Pentecost, the High Priest was to take two loaves of freshly baked wheat bread and offer them before the Lord. The wheat bread was made from the newly harvested wheat. In short, Pentecost in the time of the apostles was a great and grand harvest celebration. The streets of Jerusalem were clogged with thousands of pilgrims who had come from every point of the compass to celebrate the goodness of God and the bringing in of the wheat harvest. Food for thought: I had one of my awesome Brother's point something out to me this morning and I would like to share. The High Priest, which is a picture of Yeshua, was to wave freshly baked wheat bread as an offering before Our Father and Israel on this Festival. Yeshua did!... let me explain: The apostles were the picture of the raw wheat grain that was to be offered. The two loaves of wheat bread were a picture of the two houses of Israel or the twelve tribes. Think about it, Jesus separated those 12 men, the wheat, from the pharisees and the religiously oppressive people, the tares. The 12 apostles were representative of each of the 12 tribes or two houses of Israel. What does it take to turn raw wheat grain into Bread... Fire! Yeshua and Our Father sent down The Fire of The Holy Spirit to make His Twelve Apostles Bread for the nations!!! Bread from Heaven just like the manna!!! Yeshua offered 12 men as a raw wheat grain offering. God Our Father sent His Holy Spirit to change those 12 men into Bread. Our High Priest Yeshua used this Bread as a wave offering in front of Our Father and a multitude of nation in the Holy City of Jerusalem...just as The Instructions require!!! Absolutely amazing!!! All I can do is end with... Wow!!! In honor of Our Father’s Day... FIRE 🔥: https://youtu.be/BVEGGDzi5q4 Happy Pentecost/Shavuot/Feast of Weeks Everyone!!!
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