Phew. I wish I didn't have to publish things before doing final edits, but that seems to be the way I work. If you read it before, the substack version has several changes now. The most important point is—
...if the Holy Spirit was given at the END of Pentecost (the last day of the wheat harvest overlapping the Firstfruits of New Wine, as noted in Acts 2:1 by Tyler of Generation 2434), then why has the church celebrated the beginning (or Firstfruits) of Pentecost for almost two millennia?
The only event the day actually commemorates is the giving of the Law through Moses on Mt. Sinai seven weeks after the Exodus from Egypt, which is called Shavuot. It was one of the three required annual pilgrimages where Jewish male adults were to be present at the Temple in Jerusalem to offer the firstfruits of their wheat harvest. Pentecost is also a Day of Obligation in the liturgical churches, one of three (Easter and Christmas are the other two).
So far, nothing has actually happened on that day that is significant to the church. So far....🧐
Of course it would be significant TO ISRAEL if we were Raptured on their observance of the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot. If Pentecost is the day that the church is Raptured, the problem with using church dates is that Passover and Easter are calculated in different ways by the eastern Orthodox and the western Catholic/Protestant church, and these fall on different days.
Since the first day of Pentecost (Firstfruits of the wheat harvest) is 49 days from the first day of the barley harvest, we would have to know the day of the Feast of Firstfruits after Passover to calculate the correct date for the Feast of Weeks. Are the rabbis to be relied on to calculate this correctly, since they changed the way they calculated the calendar after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D.? I'm not sure they can be. And outside of Israel Shavuot is a two day festival anyway. Which day?
These are the eastern Orthodox dates for Pentecost (Julian calendar):
2024: June 23
2025: June 8
2026: May 31
2027: June 20
And these are the western Catholic/Protestant dates (Gregorian calendar):
2024: May 19
2025: June 8
2026: May 24
2027: May 16
So here are more ways that no man can know the day or the hour. Certainly not the hour—there are 24 time zones, with Christians living in each one! We will only know that God foretold the date of the Rapture in the Bible when we look back in hindsight. Right now we must take it on faith.
But if the Rapture DOES happen on the day of Pentecost, and we want to be with the church when that happens, or at least have been with the church in the previous 24 hours, we'll have to attend all the Sunday services in person in May and June! 😄🙌
Shalom! The Lord has revealed to me this year that Pentecost (Shavuot) is actually the day of Yeshua's birth!I It is because He is our Kinsman Redeemer who restores both Jew and Gentile back to God. This is the hidden celebration in the Feast, praise God!
Phew. I wish I didn't have to publish things before doing final edits, but that seems to be the way I work. If you read it before, the substack version has several changes now. The most important point is—
...if the Holy Spirit was given at the END of Pentecost (the last day of the wheat harvest overlapping the Firstfruits of New Wine, as noted in Acts 2:1 by Tyler of Generation 2434), then why has the church celebrated the beginning (or Firstfruits) of Pentecost for almost two millennia?
The only event the day actually commemorates is the giving of the Law through Moses on Mt. Sinai seven weeks after the Exodus from Egypt, which is called Shavuot. It was one of the three required annual pilgrimages where Jewish male adults were to be present at the Temple in Jerusalem to offer the firstfruits of their wheat harvest. Pentecost is also a Day of Obligation in the liturgical churches, one of three (Easter and Christmas are the other two).
So far, nothing has actually happened on that day that is significant to the church. So far....🧐
Of course it would be significant TO ISRAEL if we were Raptured on their observance of the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot. If Pentecost is the day that the church is Raptured, the problem with using church dates is that Passover and Easter are calculated in different ways by the eastern Orthodox and the western Catholic/Protestant church, and these fall on different days.
Since the first day of Pentecost (Firstfruits of the wheat harvest) is 49 days from the first day of the barley harvest, we would have to know the day of the Feast of Firstfruits after Passover to calculate the correct date for the Feast of Weeks. Are the rabbis to be relied on to calculate this correctly, since they changed the way they calculated the calendar after the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D.? I'm not sure they can be. And outside of Israel Shavuot is a two day festival anyway. Which day?
These are the Shavuot dates (https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/671902/jewish/When-Is-Shavuot-in-2022-2023-2024-2025-and-2026.htm) for the next few years:
2024: June 11-13
2025: June 1-3
2026: May 22-23
2027: June 10-12
These are the eastern Orthodox dates for Pentecost (Julian calendar):
2024: June 23
2025: June 8
2026: May 31
2027: June 20
And these are the western Catholic/Protestant dates (Gregorian calendar):
2024: May 19
2025: June 8
2026: May 24
2027: May 16
So here are more ways that no man can know the day or the hour. Certainly not the hour—there are 24 time zones, with Christians living in each one! We will only know that God foretold the date of the Rapture in the Bible when we look back in hindsight. Right now we must take it on faith.
But if the Rapture DOES happen on the day of Pentecost, and we want to be with the church when that happens, or at least have been with the church in the previous 24 hours, we'll have to attend all the Sunday services in person in May and June! 😄🙌
Shalom! The Lord has revealed to me this year that Pentecost (Shavuot) is actually the day of Yeshua's birth!I It is because He is our Kinsman Redeemer who restores both Jew and Gentile back to God. This is the hidden celebration in the Feast, praise God!