Chosen People Celebrate Shavuot

Want to hear more about how God is working with the Chosen People?  Just ask Cathy Wilson, she is the  representative for Chosen People Ministries in the Valley of the Sun.  Cathy visits many Jewish people in any given week and shares the truth of God's Word with each one of them.  Her style is individual and dedicated. Here is just a sampling of the things Cathy has to share with all who will listen.

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At sundown, on June 8, 2011 the Jewish community celebrated Shavuot. (Shavuot commemorates God giving the Law to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai).

The Torah in Leviticus 23:15-21, tells us that the Feast of Shavuot is to be celebrated  "Seven (7) weeks or on the 50^Th day following the Feast of First Fruits, which always occurs the day after the Sabbath following Passover.  It is also the day the followers of Jesus celebrate the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

On the Feast of Shavuot, seven (7) weeks, or on the 50^Th day following the Feast of First Fruits (Jesus rose from the dead on the Feast of First Fruits during the Passover week) . . . the roads up to Jerusalem were crowded with Jewish pilgrims.  Why?  We read in Deut. 16:16 that God had commanded all Jewish males to appear before HIM in Jerusalem, THREE (3) times each year: on the Feast of Passover, on the Feast of Shavuot (which is also the day of Pentecost), and on the Feast of Tabernacles. 

Connect the Dots: SHAVUOT, the giving of the law; PENTECOST, the giving of the Holy Spirit. Both happened on the same day, years apart.  Check out the link to read of the amazing contrast noted in Scripture regarding SHAVUOT and PENTECOST.   In both, God opened the way of communication to man: SHAVUOT so that the Jews would know God's law; PENTECOST so that God's message of salvation could be taken to the world.

PENTECOST DESCRIBED

  

Acts 2:5 tells us that there were in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost – Jews – devout men – from EVERY nation under heaven.

 Acts 2:2 – there was a powerful sound from where the disciples were gathered - “like the blowing of a violent wind. . . .”

The rushing mighty wind probably has connection with the fact that in both the Hebrew (ruwach) and Greek (pneuma) languages, the word for Spirit (as in Holy Spirit) is the same word for breath or wind.  The sound from heaven is the sound of the Holy Spirit – the life giving Spirit of God - being poured out on the disciples.

Acts 2:6 – “When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.”

And there appeared unto them tongues as of fire (Acts 2:3) that rested on each of the disciples.....
Acts 1:8 - Jesus had told them that the Holy Spirit would come upon them – and they would be witnesses – they would SPEAK of Him.  Jesus told them, “. . . and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

And so, on this Feast of Shavuot/Feast of Pentecost, the 50^Th day following Jesus’ resurrection – God empowered the disciples – Jewish men - to follow their destiny to bless all the nations of the world by sharing the message of REDEMPTION, DELIVERANCE through the MESSIAH JESUS. 

Learn more: feast-of-shavuot-pentecost.pdf
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