The Festival of Pentecost

Yeshua: The Hebrew Word for Jesus

THE SEVEN FESTIVALS OF THE MESSIAH By Eddie Chumney

And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest... (Exodus [Shemot] 34:22 NAS).

You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you (Deuteronomy [Devarim] 16:9-10 NAS).

The Omer: Countdown to Sinai
The period called "the omer" begins the day following the sabbath during Passover (Pesach) and continues until Shavuot (Pentecost). The Torah commanded that seven weeks be counted from the time of the offering of the omer...

Because of this ritual of counting, the period between Passover (Pesach) and Pentecost (Shavuot) came to be known as the omer. In fact, Shavuot does not have a fixed calendar date in the Bible, but rather falls on the day after the completion of the omer count -- that is, the fiftieth day after the omer offering is brought.

Learn more of the wedding, wind and trumpets of The Feast of Pentecost here.

Editor's note: Pentecost begins Thursday, May 28, 2009 at sundown. The observance continues through nightfall, Saturday, May 30 2009.

See related video, Season of Signs: Passover Through Pentecost 2008 .