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Reading only part of the scriptures relating to the period of time from the resurrection of Jesus to the initial sending of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, will present only part of the message and in most cases not in the order of the actual events. Contained is a chronological summary as taken from Matthew, Mark, Luke, John ...
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We can see from Scripture that the current Bible calendar then changed to the Solar Julian Calendar at the beginning of the Mystery Church Age that started at Pentecost which followed the Jewish Feast of Weeks. In Acts 11:15-16, Peter indicates that Pentecost was the beginning of the Church Age:
- Shavuot in Early Christian Communities: Paul’s Letter to The Corinthians
- The Holy Spirit on Pentecost: Acts of The Apostles
- The Development of The Pentecost Festival in The Church
- Baptism on Pentecost, Shavuot and Conversion
- Confirmation: A Pentecost Practice That Moved to Shavuot
- Confirmation in The Liberal Jewish Movements
- The Mutual Influence of Shavuot and Pentecost
Towards the end of the Second Temple period, Paul mentions Shavuot in his First Letter to the Corinthians.Paul, a Jew (see esp. Acts 23:6, “I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees”) who became an early apostle of Jesus, dedicated his ministry to including non-Jews among the fold of what we now call early Christians, including communities that he helped...
The Acts of the Apostles, a text composed a generation or two after Paul,tells how, on the Shavuot/Pentecost following Jesus’ crucifixion, the Holy Spirit rested upon his disciples: Acts 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2:2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and i...
In the early years of Christianity, Pentecost was celebrated as the “seal” (σφραγίς, sphragis) of a 50-day period of (Easter) celebration, first attested in the late second centuryC.E., especially in North Africa and in some parts of the eastern churches. Since Easter is always on a Sunday, Pentecost too is always on a Sunday.Kneeling and fasting, ...
By the fourth century it was common for Christians to administer baptism at Pentecost.The usual term for Pentecost in English, Whitsun (“White Sunday”), probably derives from the fact that the newly-baptized were dressed in white garments. Judaism does not have a comparable practice on Shavuot. Nevertheless, while Shavuot is not a day in which conv...
When baptism was still practiced on Pentecost, they were then anointed with oil as a sign of the gift of the Spirit. Once the practice developed of administering baptism to babies, unable to make the baptismal promises themselves,the anointing on Pentecost came to be a separate ritual, attached to a new rite, “confirmation” of baptism, giving adult...
People who grew up in the Orthodox Jewish world have likely never heard of confirmation as a Jewish practice, but confirmation has been a practice in the Reform (and eventually Conservative) movement for more than two centuries. On the Shavuot of 1811, the Jacobsontempel in Seeson Westphalia, was the first synagogue to hold such a ceremony. Even no...
Thus, we end with the inverse of where we started. In modern times, Pentecost has exerted some influence on Jewish practices for Shavuot, with the introduction of confirmation in the liberal movements. At its core, however, Pentecost derives from the festival of Shavuot, both in how it commemorates a revelation of sorts from each respective religio...
The Feast of Weeks, in Hebrew, Shavuot (pronounced Shah-voo-oat), is also known by the Greek word Pentecost because it comes 50 days after the Passover Sabbath. Shavuot was also a harvest festival to thank God for the wheat harvest. According to Jewish tradition, it is also the day that Moses received the law on Mount Sinai. The first Shavuot ...
SPRING FEASTS – Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Weeks (Pentecost) . FALL FEASTS – Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Tabernacles.
each year the Jewish males were required to – in essence – lay THEMSELVES before God. In Dt. 16:16 God told the Jews that ALL the Jewish males were to bring THEMSELVES to Jerusalem – before the Lord – at 3 feasts each year: Passover; Pentecost (Shavuot); Tabernacles.
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Jul 3, 2024 · Shavuot, the Jewish Pentecost, is a holiday that commemorates the single most important event in Israel’s history: the giving of the Torah (the first five books in the Hebrew Bible) to Moses at Mount Sinai.
