The feast of Pentecost is the next festival we will look at.
The term Pentecost comes from the Greek word that means fifty.
This festival goes by many names some of which are Shavuot, the feast of harvest, the feast of weeks, and the latter first fruits.
This feast is one of three festivals that is important to Jewish agricultural, and the second big feast that is in the Jewish calendar year.
The festival comes fiftieth day after the Passover.
It is celebrated during the month of May or June.
It was given the name Feast of Weeks because of God and He commanded that the Jews to count 49 days from the second day of Passover.
This festival was a time of joy and giving thanks for the new grain of wheat in the summertime harvest.
The Feast of Weeks
15 ‘You shall count from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf (tied bundle of grain) of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths (seven full weeks). 16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. Leviticus 23:15-16 AMP
The Feast of Weeks
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you first put the sickle to the standing grain. 10 Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give [to Him] just as the Lord your God blesses you; 11 and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite who is within your [city] gates, and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are among you, at the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His Name (Presence). 12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to obey these statutes. Deuteronomy 16: 9-12 AMP
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