Pentecost

Interestingly these celebrations may not involve many of our readers as oftentimes the churches in our circles do not make much of this day on the calendar. God commanded his people to observe the Festival.

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Christians throughout the world will celebrate Pentecost Sunday and the coming of the Holy Spiritin a new and fresh way to begin the church agethis coming Sunday.

. 17 hours agoPentecost always occurs 50 days after the death and resurrection of Jesus and 10 days after his ascension into heaven. The word Pentecost is Greek and it means 50th day Fifty days after Easter Sunday we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and their followers and the beginning of their Earthly ministry to make disciples of all nations. Pentecost is also a Jewish holiday which the Jews use to celebrate the end of Passover. Pentecost is significant in both the Old and New Testaments.

Pentecost is a major festival in the Christian church and is celebrated by believers on the Sunday that falls on the 50th day of Easter. The Greek word means fifty and refers to the fifty days that have elapsed since the wave offering of Passover. It is the Greek name for the Festival of Weeks. It was an earth-shaking occurrence in history that displayed one of the majestic moves of God.

Because Easter is a moveable feast without a fixed date and Pentecost. This was a significant feast in the Jewish calendar that celebrated God giving them the Ten Commandments 50 days after the Exodus from Egypt. On that day God gave the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai. The Pentecost was the Jewish harvest-home and the people were especially exhorted to rejoice before Jehovah with their families their servants the Levite within their gates the stranger the fatherless and the widow in the place chosen by God for his name as they brought a free-will offering of their hand to Jehovah their God.

The word Pentecost comes from a Greek word meaning fiftieth. Pentecost is actually the Greek name for a festival known in the Old Testament as the Feast of Weeks Leviticus 2315. 10 hours agoThe Bible gives many details about Pentecost as it is both a Jewish feast and a day that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit. In these Old Testament passages we find the historical and Biblical origins of what we now call Pentecost.

It lasted for but one day. 1 day agoPentecost Sunday. The Christian festival of Pentecost falls on the 50th day after the resurrection of Jesus. It contains a high degree of spiritual significance that marked the birth of the Church of Jesus.

As the passover feast celebrated the exodus of the Israelites from the slavery of Egypt so Pentecost celebrated Gods gift of the ten commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. Pentecost is the mark of Gods new covenant and the birth of the Church of Jesus. Pentecost that is the fiftieth day from a Greek word meaning fiftieth or Harvest Feast or Feast of Weeks may be regarded as a supplement to the Passover. The Day of Pentecost is a well-known holiday celebrated by Christians.

The Bible has much to say about Pentecost a Greek word. From the sixteenth of Nisan seven weeks were reckoned inclusively and the next or fiftieth day was the day of Pentecost which fell on the sixth of Sivan. The Descent of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 123b-7 12-13.

The word has its roots in the Greek word pentecoste which means 50th day. Pentecost also known as Whitsunday will be celebrated on June 5 this year. Pentecost comes from the Greek pentekoste which means fiftiethThe ancient Jewish feast of Pentecost as it is occasionally called in the Greek Old Testament is also called the Feast of Weeks or of First Fruits in Hebrew ShavuotIn the year of Jesus passion this was also 50 days after the Resurrection more or less and was the occasion of the coming of the. The Jewish Festival of Pentecost called Shavuot meaning weeks in Hebrew falls on the fiftieth day after the original Passover.

The obvious miracle was that they were able to speak about Jesus in a way that attracted people. In the Old Testament Pentecost was the feast which occurred fifty days after Passover.