2007-05-18 Pentecost Sabbath

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in IAUA (ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father, Greetings on this day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath. I hope this newsletter finds you in good health and happy in the service of the Lord. This is the 1st day of the 3rd month of God's Sacred Calendar. It is four days until the evening of Pentecost Sabbath (Wednesday, May 23 on the Gregorian calendar). It is sixteen weeks and five days until the beginning of the Fall Sacred Holydays starting with the evening of the 1st day of the 7th month which is Trumpets Sabbath (Thursday, September 13 on the Gregorian calendar). A newsletter reader encourages me: _____ Please say something in your next email/newsletter, about Pentecost; just more info, how some people observe it, Bible references, etc. _____ Pentecost is the last of the Spring Sacred Holydays. In a sense it is a bridge between the Spring Sacred Holydays and the Fall Sacred Holydays. It is possibly the most exciting because it is filled with anticipation of the future hope for the final outpouring of the Holy Sprit. The term Pentecost appears only in the New Testament and is a Greek word which simply means fiftieth day. The word day is only implied. Lets start with a review of some of the statutes specifying its observance. Here it is called the feast of harvest. It was required to be observed in Jerusalem. Exodus 23:14-17 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. Here it is called the feast of weeks and again mentions the 'firstfruits'. Exodus 34:22 22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. It is interesting to note that the seven week or fifty day count is a parallel to the seventh of seven years or fifty year count for the jubilee. Leviticus 23:16 16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. The events of the New Testament are the most well known of the fulfillments of this holyday. Act 2:1-4 1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. These fascinating events of the Old Testament are not as well recognized as also being a fulfillment of Pentecost. It is probable that because of the changing length of the month that the holyday fell on the third day instead of the fifth or sixth day of the third month. Exodus 19:1, 11, 16 1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. It is fascinating to compare these fulfillments with one of Ellen's earliest visions of a possible Pentecost fulfillment we hope and expect to see very soon. "We heard the voice of God like many waters, which gave us the day and hour of Jesus' coming. The living saints, 144,000, in number, know and understand the voice, while the wicked thought it was thunder & an earthquake. When God spake the time, he poured on us the Holy Ghost, and our faces began to light up and shine with the glory of God as Moses did when he came down from Mount Sinai. By this time the 144,000 were all sealed and perfectly united." {DS, January 24, 1846 par. 1} From this it is clear that the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is the time of the sealing of the 144,000 which are therefore also the 'firstfruits' (Leviticus 23:17) of the final fall harvest ingathering as the Messiah was the 'firstfruits' (Leviticus 23:10) of the spring harvest. Surely this will be a Pentecost fulfillment on the holyday that God has proclaimed to be observed. This Wednesday I will be taking a day of rest from work and praying that the final outpouring will soon come. I wish that I could be observing God's holyday with other believers as commanded by God. It is heartbreaking that there are so few who believe and practice all of God's law. I wonder if there are even yet 144,000 ready to be sealed? Do you fervently pray and does your heart yearn for that final Pentecost? I pray that we may all continue to strive for love, peace and unity in truth preparing for the soon coming of IAUShUO (ee-uh-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah, the Son of God. Shabbat Shalom, Frank T. Clark Webmaster@IAUA.name www.IAUA.name Next: 2007-05-25 Pentecost Sabbath Feedback

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