update april 20th 2018
Today is the 6th day of the 2nd week of seven weeks. Today is the 13th day of the counting of fifty days from the day of the waving of the Omer on the morrow after the Sabbath.
UPDATE April 17th 2015
Looks like we parents dropped the ball!
I remember Pentecost being marked on calendars when I was a kid, I always wondered what it was, I know I could have asked and my parents would have known, but if my kids had of asked me, I would have had to look it up. I remember when I was a kid thinking all those holidays were just for Catholics.
“And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘With a powerful hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
(Exo 13:14 NASB)
I don’t know. Was it the Protestants that stopped observing Pentecost? Or I am I totally off the mark?
“These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. “You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
(Deu 6:6-7 NASB)
Jesus said, In Leviticus, do this forever
On the same day, you are to call a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; this is a statute forever through all your generations, no matter where you live.
(Lev 23:21)
thou shalt rejoice
and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy bondman, and thy handmaid, and the Levite that is in thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow that are in thy midst in the place that Jehovah thy God will choose to cause his name to dwell there.
(Deu 16:11 Darby)
Christ rose 2000 years ago, Pentecost was on the calendar 45 years ago, what happened?
Original Post April 20th 2012
27 Abib 1313 AD
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? Exo 12:26
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest: Lev 23:10
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:
even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto the Lord Lev 23:15-16
Jewish tradition says that the counting is intended to remind us of the link between Passover, which commemorates the Exodus, and Shavu’ot or Pentecost, which commemorates the giving of the Torah. It reminds us that the redemption from slavery was not complete until we received the Torah.
I think Pentecost is Greek for “fiftieth day”, but that is just because that is the best I have come up with. All of the definitions are talking about post Jesus, I have been trying to figure out how the word was used before, as it seems certain that it was a holy day that the Apostles were used to celebrating, I thought it may just mean “50” in Greek, but I can’t find any Greek etymology like we have the Latin etymology.
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