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Feast of Weeks also called Shavuot, and Pentecost. It is a major festival
and has a dual significance: historical and agricultural like Passover and
Tabernacles. It marks the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the
wheat harvest. It is considered the closing festival of the Passover season.
It is a celebration to reawaken and strengthen personal relationships with
G-d by re-dedication to the observance and study of the Torah. It is an
anniversary celebration of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the
Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. On the day when Moses received the law 3,000
souls died due to disobedience, G-d has never taken His covenant with us
casually. He is a jealous G-d. The Feast is one of the tree times when all
young men were required to appear before the L-rd. Historically the main
activity on the feast was the presentation of a wave offering to the L-rd, two
loaves of bread with leaven Lev. 23:15-21. The bread was to be brought
with seven male lambs, a young bull and two rams as a burnt offering. The
sin offering was a male goat. During the second Temple period, everyone
gathered together in their home town and slept the night in the town streets.
In the morning the overseer would walk among the people saying get up, let
us go into the house of Zion, to the house of the L-rd our G-d. Those in
Jerusalem would join a procession carrying fresh dates, pomegranates and
grapes. Those at the back would carry dried fruit, figs and raisins. The bull
offering was led before them, whose horns were overlaid with gold, with an
olive branch and a crown on his head. Each family brought two loaves of the
finest bread. Only the best fruits were chosen. The wave offering expressed
the Hebrews’ dependence on G-d for the harvest and their daily bread. This
was a thanksgiving offering. This day was a holy convocation. It was one of
the days on which all Israel was to meet G-d and one another, at the place
which the L-rd should choose. The 10 commandments are read, the night is
spent studying, preparing and praying. It is a custom to adorn the synagogue
and home with flowers and greens. In honor of the Torah which caused the
desert to bloom and sprout flowers. The book of Ruth is also read. It is
customary to eat a dairy meal. Sweet and nourishing milk and honey are
symbolic of the Torah. Cheese blintzes are customarily served hot with sour
cream or applesauce. This day also commemorates the day on which the
Holy Spirit was given to believers Acts 2. On that day 3,000 souls were
saved. It is the birthday of the church, when the Holy Spirit came to unite the
believers in one body. All believers are baptized into he same body with
Messiah the head of the church. From the moment of birth, this community,
the early church intended itself not a new religion but rather an awakening
movement within Judaism. They continued to observe Jewish laws and
worshipped regularly in the Temple. What distinguished them was their
conviction that Yeshua as the promised Messiah would reappear to restore
the Kingdom of Israel.
and has a dual significance: historical and agricultural like Passover and
Tabernacles. It marks the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the
wheat harvest. It is considered the closing festival of the Passover season.
It is a celebration to reawaken and strengthen personal relationships with
G-d by re-dedication to the observance and study of the Torah. It is an
anniversary celebration of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai and the
Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. On the day when Moses received the law 3,000
souls died due to disobedience, G-d has never taken His covenant with us
casually. He is a jealous G-d. The Feast is one of the tree times when all
young men were required to appear before the L-rd. Historically the main
activity on the feast was the presentation of a wave offering to the L-rd, two
loaves of bread with leaven Lev. 23:15-21. The bread was to be brought
with seven male lambs, a young bull and two rams as a burnt offering. The
sin offering was a male goat. During the second Temple period, everyone
gathered together in their home town and slept the night in the town streets.
In the morning the overseer would walk among the people saying get up, let
us go into the house of Zion, to the house of the L-rd our G-d. Those in
Jerusalem would join a procession carrying fresh dates, pomegranates and
grapes. Those at the back would carry dried fruit, figs and raisins. The bull
offering was led before them, whose horns were overlaid with gold, with an
olive branch and a crown on his head. Each family brought two loaves of the
finest bread. Only the best fruits were chosen. The wave offering expressed
the Hebrews’ dependence on G-d for the harvest and their daily bread. This
was a thanksgiving offering. This day was a holy convocation. It was one of
the days on which all Israel was to meet G-d and one another, at the place
which the L-rd should choose. The 10 commandments are read, the night is
spent studying, preparing and praying. It is a custom to adorn the synagogue
and home with flowers and greens. In honor of the Torah which caused the
desert to bloom and sprout flowers. The book of Ruth is also read. It is
customary to eat a dairy meal. Sweet and nourishing milk and honey are
symbolic of the Torah. Cheese blintzes are customarily served hot with sour
cream or applesauce. This day also commemorates the day on which the
Holy Spirit was given to believers Acts 2. On that day 3,000 souls were
saved. It is the birthday of the church, when the Holy Spirit came to unite the
believers in one body. All believers are baptized into he same body with
Messiah the head of the church. From the moment of birth, this community,
the early church intended itself not a new religion but rather an awakening
movement within Judaism. They continued to observe Jewish laws and
worshipped regularly in the Temple. What distinguished them was their
conviction that Yeshua as the promised Messiah would reappear to restore
the Kingdom of Israel.
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