Pentecost

Act 2:1-4 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

The above text states that when the day of Pentecost was fully come, now in order to understand what the day of Pentecost was, we need to go back to the Old Covenant which is our school master


What is the day of Pentecost?

Lev 23:5-16 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.


Note verse 16 speaks of counting 50 days from the day of the passover, peshach, and this day is called Pentecost or shavu'ot

When is Pentecost this year?

Now to determine when the day of pentecost will be we have to calculate from the day of the passover (peshach) fifty days, this year the day of passover was as follow

1. According to the jewish calendar March 30 th
2. According to One ness Apostolics either March 29 or March 30
3. According to other Christian churches April 2

Now we must count 50 days from this day

1. For the Jews the day of Pentecost will fall on May 18
2. For One ness Apostolics Pentecost will fall on May 17 or May 18
3. For Other Christians Pentecost will fall on May 21

Pentecost is also the day that the church was birthed with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, upon the Apostles in the upper room

It is just sad that we no longer study these festivals to know their importance