So, every year since 2012 we have been counting 50 from Passover to Pentecost. And so I thought I would share some of what we had discovered those many years ago. The following excerpt from Judaism 101 is a simple explanation of Shavu’ot / Festival of Weeks / Pentecost, Leviticus 23.
The counting reminds us of the important connection between Passover and Shavu’ot: Passover freed us physically from bondage, but the giving of the Torah on Shavu’ot redeemed us spiritually from our bondage to idolatry and immorality. Shavu’ot is also known as Pentecost, because it falls on the 50th day.
Today we can be freed by the sacrifice Yeshua made for us on Passover, and just like those gathered in Jerusalem for Shavu’ot in about 31 AD, who believed that Yeshua was the Messiah; received the Holy Spirit, we too can receive the Holy Spirit to redeem us spiritually from our bondage to sin.
Hebrews is teaching that, when we are born again, God gives us a new heart and a new spirit, and the result is that the law of God written in Scripture is no longer offensive to us. We are no longer hostile to it like Paul says in Romans 8:7. We are not hostile to the word of God, but rather, we are submissive. We delight to do God’s commandments. It doesn’t mean that we know them all by heart, because they are written on our hearts. It doesn’t mean that. It means that, when we read them in the word, the inclination to do them is in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. This is a great work of the Holy Spirit, purchased by the blood of Christ called the new covenant. That is what I think is going on in Hebrews 10 — and it is an awesome privilege for Christians. – John Piper
I pray that this Pentecost the Holy Spirit will bless you and your family abundantly!
Be blessed (happy) and set apart (holy) by the Word of our Father – Yehovah in heaven!
You can read our attempt in 2012, of writing a devotional about counting the omer Counting Pentecost here.
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