Pentecost/ Shavuot

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Ancient Greek
Hebrew

Pentkost [hmera], Hag ha Shavuot

Fiftieth day

The Name Pentecost is an old Greek and Latin name to represent the Jewish Harvest Festival Pentecost is also known as Shavuot which means Festival of Weeks and Ancient Israeli celebration signifying the giving of the Law on Sinai (The Ten Commandments) to Moses. In The Christian Faith it commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the remaining eleven Apostles of Christ in the Upper Room. Pentecost is celebrated 50 days after Easter Sunday or seven weeks after the Exodus (Passover).
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 Names: Pentecost; feast of Weeks; feast of Harvest; feast of First Fruits; Shavuot Weeks: counting down the weeks of the Omer (7wks or 50days) Harvest: tradition TIME OF HARVEST in the Jewish calendar

Feast of First fruits: bringing the first frit of your field to the Lord
Shavuot: Feast of weeks
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 Pentecost can be looked at from three different perspectives:

1. As the day of the infilling of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles Acts 2:1, 20:16 and 1 Corinthians 16:8. 2. As the Feast of weeks Exodus 34:22, Deuteronomy 16:10, 16. 3. As the Feast of Harvest

Exodus 23:(16) 14-16. Ruth 1:16-18, book of Ruth.

I will attempt to look at Pentecost from the perspective of the Feast of Harvest
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 This is the time of the harvest This is the time for the First Fruits to be brought to the Lord

The time for freewill offering, being thankful

This is the time of rededication This is the time for the males to come before the Lord

This is the time for saints to remember the first born of the Lord (Jews)
This is a time of remembering the giving of the Torah, the word

This is the time to remember why we serve the Lord

This is the time to remember our Jewish roots/ foundation This is the time to remember the poor and unfortunate

Jesus was the first fruit raised from the dead, he gave an offering to the father, he was harvested
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 Traditionally the book of Ruth is read during the Shavuot, during the time of the spring Harvest. Ruth is a picture of the willing acceptance of the Jewish lifestyle, just as Israel willingly accepted the Torah without knowing its content. Ruth believed in order to understand. Ruth 1:16-18. ----- when we think of Ruth we may think that Ruth is just a love story about how a woman met the man chosen and ordained by God to change the direction of her life and assist her into her destiny as the grandmother of King David and the very lineage that Christ came through.

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 But its more than that, Ruth is the symbol of every Gentile who has ever come to faith through Israels God (Ruth was a moabitess who embraced God, the ways of God and his laws and decided to follow Him, she embraced the people of Israel, His first born, what about you?). Every Gentile believer has come down from the land of famine to the spiritual realm of abundance in Jesus Christ. he has come to give us life, and give it more abundantly (John 10:10).
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 Ruth responded to her Boaz and received him and his people, she already had the mind-set before she met Boaz, she had said to Naomi your people shall be my people and your God my God she embraced her Boaz and left her Moabite life and ways behind.
But the church has missed the mark somewhat, she have not embraced her Boaz like Ruth, instead she has been selective and only eaten the bread of Boaz (Christ), and has turned her back on His people. She has not abandoned her filthy past. Must we be like the church or be like Ruth? Remember Gods People and His laws that he gave through them. Ruth represent the redemptive love (Lev 25:32-55).
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 Jesus is called the bread of life, and the bread of life harvested from the fields as in the story of Ruth and Boaz, Jesus was born just outside of Beth-Lehem (House of Bread).

Jesus Christ Yeshua HaMoshiach is our example, if He can give a harvest to the Lord what about us. Now is the time to bring the First Fruits to the Lord in gratitude for what he has given you. We cry out for our harvest, we need to seek out our harvest, what can we present to the Lord this Pentecost? Lev 23:9-11, 15-17, 22.

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 The Lord also asked for the males to be presented to him at this time (Exodus 23:17; 34:22-23), see this is the time of redemption, this is the time to get back in alignment, get back to God, give up your old ways and take on His ways, this is the time to get serious. God took the Jews out of Egypt to separate them from Pagan cultures and save them from destruction. If He can take the enslaved Jews out of bondage from Egypt, what about you? What is your Egypt today? Solution: The giving of the Torah, the word, the Laws of Moses
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 The journey from Egypt to Sinai was 50days, when the Commandments and laws of God were given to man. This was the time of Full adoption. The Lord covenanted with His people and fully adopted them unto himself. And to be fully adopted unto the Lord, he means business with you, he want you to walk like him, be like him and to please him.
How can two walk together unless they agree? When we look back at Ruth how could she walk into her destiny unless she was in agreement with Naomi and then in agreement with Boaz? She would have missed her call, and not fulfillher destiny.

I declare in Jesus name you shall not miss your call!

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You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnessesto the end of the earth Acts1:8

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