"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! |
