2:1 ¶ 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.
Pentecost, or the fiftieth day, is the feast of harvest, the firstfruits, the second
of the three great feasts under the Law celebrated at Jerusalem according to
Strong. The Jews call it Shavout. It is the culmination, to modern Jews, of the
entire Passover season and commemorates the giving of the Ten Commandments from
Mount Sinai. It is a celebration of God’s covenant with the Jews and we find it
here as fulfilled in Christ as Passover was fulfilled in Christ. The Jews are
missing out on a great and wonderful thing here partly because of a hardened
heart and partly because of the perfidy of Christians in history.
Exodus 23:16 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.
There is; 1. Feast
of Unleavened Bread or Passover. Hebrew Pesach or Greek Pascha. 2. Feast of
Harvest or Pentecost. Hebrew Shavuot. 3. Feast of Ingathering or
Feast of Booths or Tabernacles.
Leviticus 23:15 ¶ And ye
shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye
brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: 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.
It was the fiftieth day
after the offering of firstfruits after Passover and it was indeed, at this
time in Acts, quite a harvest. The disciples were visited by a sound like a
powerful wind (a simile which uses like or as to make a comparison between two different
things to aid in understanding), tongues like
as of fire (a figure of speech called a simile, not tongues of fire, but like as of fire) landed on each of them,
and they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak in other languages,
each as the Spirit gave them.
So, you have Passover,
Christ the Passover Lamb, Pentecost, the harvest that creates the church, and
Tabernacles, the gathering of the church at the end.
A tongue, or glossae in Greek, is a distinct language or dialect
spoken by a unique people. It is not gobbledygook. These figures of speech are
similes, unlike things joined by as as in
as of a rushing mighty wind and like
as of fire as a description of the tongues.
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