Counting Pentecost ~ Day Forty Five ~ Of One Heart

Update May 22nd 2018

Today is the 3rd day of the 7th week of seven weeks. Today is the 45th day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.

Original Post May 22nd 2012

1 Sivan 1313 BC

On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone forth out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai, and there Israel pitched their tents over against the mount. – Exo 19:1-2

It is hard to write about this day in our journey through history, it is known as a day when nothing happened –

[On the first of Sivan] Moses did not say anything at all to the Jewish people, since they were weary from the journey. –Talmud

But I found a commentary by a Hebrew theologian where he analyzes the original Hebrew words in the verses:

…..note the grammatically unconventional use of the singular vayichan (“and he camped,” rather than vayachanu, “and they camped”) in speaking of the entire Jewish people. the Torah wishes to inform us that “they camped as a single man, with a single heart, unlike all other encampments, which were accompanied by dissent and dispute.” – Rashi

The Israelites had known since Moses the Deliverer arrived in Egypt, where they were going and they knew that their deliverance was to be more than just a physical freedom from the bondage they had endured but a whole new relationship with the Lord. After grumbling and murmuring their way across the desert they know that they have arrived in the shadow of the mount of God and that they need to establish a camp that was “as a single man with a single heart.”

So come to find out the children of Jacob are doing the exact same thing on 1 Sivan 1313 BC as the disciples of Jesus were doing on 1 Sivan 31 AD in the upper room. Gathered, waiting and praying, united, of one mind, of one heart…..

These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. – Act 1:14