Pentecost
What is Pentecost, and why is it important?

Pentecost is the second of three pilgrimage feasts. All adult males were expected to go to Jerusalem for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feasts of the LORD were important in three ways: 1. Agricultural, 2. Memorial, and 3. Prophetic. With regard to its agricultural aspect, Pentecost came at the end of the wheat harvest. It is not necessary to be a farmer to understand the lesson from the agricultural aspect of the Feasts of the Lord. If we trust and obey God, He will give us everything we need.

            Pentecost occurs in the third month of the Jewish year. There is a Jewish tradition that God gave the Ten Commandments on the day of Pentecost. This is plausible because the Children of Israel did arrive at Mt. Sinai at the beginning of the third month after leaving Egypt (Exodus19:1). There is also a tradition that God made His covenant with Noah by placing the rainbow in the sky on the day of Pentecost. Again, this is plausible because Noah came out of the ark at the end of the second month just a few days before Pentecost would have occurred (Genesis 8: 14).

            God made a covenant with Noah when he came out of the ark. God also made a covenant with the Children of Israel on Mt. Sinai. The Feast of Pentecost is also known as the Feast of Oaths. Every year on the day of Pentecost God’s people would renew their covenant with God. Jesus told His disciples to stay in Jerusalem and “wait for the promise of the Father” (Acts 1: 4).  On the day of Pentecost, God renewed His covenant with them by pouring out His Holy Spirit upon them.

            This renewal of our covenant with God is still important today. What is this covenant? Jeremiah explains:

³¹ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

³² Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

³³ But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 31: 31 -33 (KJV)

On Pentecost, our prayer should be that God writes His law in our Hearts.

 By Dr. John Oliver

Pentecost Celebration

Join us June 16 at 4:30 for dinner as we celebrate Pentecost and learn more about this special day! Dr. John Oliver will present his research on why Pentecost is when it is and what the day is about.

Pentecost 2025
North American Division voted on May 29, 2024

On May 29, 2024, the North American Division Executive Committee voted to approve Pentecost 2025, an initiative for church leaders and members to seek the Holy Spirit’s power and mobilize for evangelism to hold at least 3,000 proclamations initiatives division-wide in 2025. Starting in July, Adventists, with approval from their church board, can sign up to be part of Pentecost 2025, with the option to apply for startup funds.

By NAD

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