This is a comparison of the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) and Pentecost:
- celebrating end of the barley harvest and the first fruits of the wheat harvest
- fiftieth day of counting the harvest after Passover
God gave the Torah through Moses to the Jewish people <> God sent His Holy Spirit to the early Jewish believers
Celebrating the anniversary of God's covenant with Israel <> God fulfilled His promise to send the Holy Spirit.
God appeared to Moses on Mt Sinai in the form of fire (Ex 19:18-19) <> Tongues of fire descending on disciples (Acts 2:3)
Jewish traditions associates multiple tongues with events at Sinai "every word proceeding from God's mouth divided into seventy tongues" (b Shab 88b)
Josephus mentioned strong winds that became a mighty tempest on the third day of Israel's stay at Sinai (J.Ant. 3:80) <> A sound like the "blowing of a violent wind" (Luke 2:2)
Peter's proclamation of the gospel resulted in 3000 new believers (Acts 2:41) <> 3000 individual died when the nation rebelled against God by worshipping the golden calf at the bottom of Mt Sinai (Ex 32:1-29).
Shavuot is the day the Israelites offered God the first fruits of the harvest <> The Spirit begins God's work of redemption.
Ref: L Hirsch
- celebrating end of the barley harvest and the first fruits of the wheat harvest
- fiftieth day of counting the harvest after Passover
God gave the Torah through Moses to the Jewish people <> God sent His Holy Spirit to the early Jewish believers
Celebrating the anniversary of God's covenant with Israel <> God fulfilled His promise to send the Holy Spirit.
God appeared to Moses on Mt Sinai in the form of fire (Ex 19:18-19) <> Tongues of fire descending on disciples (Acts 2:3)
Jewish traditions associates multiple tongues with events at Sinai "every word proceeding from God's mouth divided into seventy tongues" (b Shab 88b)
Josephus mentioned strong winds that became a mighty tempest on the third day of Israel's stay at Sinai (J.Ant. 3:80) <> A sound like the "blowing of a violent wind" (Luke 2:2)
Peter's proclamation of the gospel resulted in 3000 new believers (Acts 2:41) <> 3000 individual died when the nation rebelled against God by worshipping the golden calf at the bottom of Mt Sinai (Ex 32:1-29).
Shavuot is the day the Israelites offered God the first fruits of the harvest <> The Spirit begins God's work of redemption.
Ref: L Hirsch
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