"The
Pilgrimage---Festival of Weeks you are to make for yourselves,
of the first-fruits of the wheat cutting ..." Exodus 34:22
During Temple times the priests offered two loaves of leavened
wheat bread in the Temple to mark the end of the Omer (period
after Pesach or Passover) to mark the beginning of a new agricultural
season.
Is it of interest to anyone as to
why "leavened" wheat bread rather than unleavened bread?
Pentecost,
(English for Shavuot) or "feast of weeks" is a celebration
of "first fruits" (bikkurim) and the receiving of the
Torah at Mount
Sinai.
Today, throughout Israel and the Diaspora it is customary to decorate
the home and synagogue with flowers, fruit and greens. Processions
with dancing and singing carrying the 'first fruits' continues-(mostly
in Israel)
As Apostolic
people (Pentecostals of the World - PAW, Apostolic Assemblies,
& UPC - United Pentecostals) let us be reminded of
this Special Day that Jesus, our Messiah, chose on which to
pour out His Spirit on His followers.
Book of Acts, Chapter 2
(Brit Hadasha,
New Testament)
May we REJOICE, with singing and dancing, on this Day
of First Fruits,
Pentecost!
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