Pentecost And The Three Feasts
Pentecost And The Three Feasts "When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place." Acts 1:2 PENTECOST: "Pentekoste", fiftieth; from "pentekonta" (fifty) and "pente" (five) Pentecost, meaning "the fiftieth day", is the second of the three great Jewish feasts, celebrated at Jerusalem yearly, the seventh week after the Passover, in grateful recognition of the completed harvest. THREE FEASTS: - Feast of Unleavened Bread - Feast of Harvest - Feast of Ingathering "Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of th