David's Comment: The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit

Leviticus 23:15-17 'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD. 'You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the LORD. (NKJ) I have shared a number of times how the Biblical feasts are a precise prophetic picture of what would take place hundreds, if not thousands of years later under the New Covenant. There is much to learn about,Yeshua, the Holy Spirit and God's plan of salvation from the Biblical feasts that God calls "My appointed times". Next Tuesday afternoon Israel will begin to celebrate the Biblical feast of Shavuot, which means the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost as it is known in Christianity. In Exodus 19 the Israelites arrived at Mt Sinai. The Lord called Moses up the mountain. The spirit of the Lord came down. The mountain shook, there was smoke & fire, thunder and lightning, and God wrote His law on tablets of stone with fingers of fire. This life changing event occured 49/50 days after Passover. In Acts chapter 1 we see that Yeshua commanded His disciples not to leave Jerusalem until they received what had been promised. Then on the 50th day after Passover it happened - the re-fulfillment of what happened on Mt Sinai. On the day of the Feast of Shavuot the Jews in

Jerusalem were all assembled together to celebrate the Feast according to YHVH's instructions in the Torah that He gave them at the original Shavuot on Mt Sinai. The Holy Spirit of the Living God came down, there was a noise like a mighty rushing wind, and tongues of fire wrote the law on their hearts. What happened in Jerusalem about 2000 years ago was an exact fulfillment of what happened at Mt Sinai about 1500 years earlier. At the original Shavuot God came down and wrote his Torah on tablets of stone. At the re-fulfillment in Jerusalem God came down again and wrote His same Torah on the hearts of the disciples. I want to show you something else here. When I first saw this, I was totally amazed at how incredible our God is ! At Mt Sinai 3000 people died. At the re-fulfillment 3000 were born again - exactly the same number. Why did God do that ? And He made sure it as written down in the Bible, so that we would read about it one day WHY ? Do you think God is trying to tell us something - maybe to give us a clue to help us see that His feasts are still important and that ALL of His people should celebrate His "appointed times." I want to encourage you, as your church celebrates Pentecost this weekend, take a look back at the original event and asked the Holy Spirit to give you even more revelation about the relevance of the Biblical feasts. Perhaps you could even call your pastor during the week and asked him if he could incorporate a teaching connecting Shavuot and Pentecost in his message to Pentecost Sunday . Let us all join our hearts in prayer over the next few days that as the Jewish people prepared to celebrate Shavuot and Christians around the world prepared to

celebrate Pentecost, that the God of Israel will once again pour out His Holy Spirit in a powerful way on his people. That as the Jewish people celebrate Shavuot, He will pour out His Holy Spirit on the body of Messiah here in Israel and in the Messianic congregations in the nations, and that He will open the eyes of the Jewish people who don't yet believer in Yeshua, and at the same time fill them with His Holy Spirit . And we will pray with you, from Israel, that he will also pour out His Holy Spirt on the Church in every nation, and that He will also open the eyes of your family and friends, neighbors and the people you work with, to see that He is God and that his Son, Yeshua, is the only way to enter into an eternal relationship with Him. In Yeshua's Name - AMEN The Lord bless you as you bless Israel by standing in defense of her right to exist in the land given to the Jewish people by the God of Israel. Lets pray that Israel will turn back to their God. Do not be silent at this most strategic time, but share this with your fellow Christians, share it with your pastors, and with anyone you have a chance to speak to. Lets also pray a for break-through to the Muslims, and please remember to pray for all of the soldiers in the IDF - they are defending and fighting for the soon coming Kingdom of God.

Shabbat Shalom

.... David & Josie