This week we start a series on Pentecost, and the importance of the Holy Spirit. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with an your dailyeword. Pente means 50, and the number 50 is symbolic of liberty, freedom or deliverance. Every 50th year in Israel was called the Year of Jubilee. We are looking toward the day of Pentecost as we begin talking about the Holy Spirit.. Here is your daily eword.
The Promise of the Father was given to the Church on the Day of Pentecost. This event was the sealing of the NEW COVENANT that God had established with His people. In the Old Testament, everything was done by the letter of the Law. In the New Testament we are told to be led by the Spirit, because the Spirit gives life. Among the celebrations in the Old Testament was to give a “WAVE OFFERING”. The meaning of this word is to “quiver, vibrate up and down, or to rock to and fro.” Each household was to bring 2 loaves of bread baked WITH LEAVEN. (or yeast) Passover is to have unleavened bread without yeast. Pentecost is a celebration with leavened bread. Christ the Passover Lamb of God was sinless and perfect = unleavened bread. Pentecost tells us that God will use and move in imperfect people = Leavened Bread. The 120 that were filled with the Holy Spirit were God’s “wave offering” for the people in the town thought they were drunk by the way they acted and spoke. God poured out His Spirit in imperfect people. The Feast of the Harvest of Firstfruits was part of the 7-week celebration culminating on the Day of Pentecost. This day was to be a day of rejoicing in the goodness of God. We rejoice in our God who chose to fulfill the law in Jesus and to establish a NEW COVENANT established upon better promises. Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? That is the question that was asked in Acts chapter 19., verse 2. The prerequisite for being filled with the spirit is to be born again. Let me ask you, “Have you received the Holy Spirit since you believed?” I hope you have!