Remembering Pentecost
We have to remember the meaning of Pentecost and understand that from the first
time when God gave the law to Moses, till the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon all
flesh; God is giving us a message that He wants to have relationship with us.
The word Pentecost means fifty. The first Pentecost was fifty days after God
delivered the Israelites out of Egypt. God established Israel as His special people.
God spoke to Moses to bring the people to the Mount of Sinai, so that He could
speak to them (Exodus 19:9-11,16-19) “and the Lord Yahweh said to Moses, lo, I
come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you; and
believe you for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord Yahweh.
And the Lord Yahweh said to Moses, go to the people, and sanctify them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And be ready against the third day; for
the third day the Lord Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people upon
mount Sinai. And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightings, 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. And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at
the lower part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because
the Lord Yahweh descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the
smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of
the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God
answered him by a voice”.
God precedes to give them ten commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) “and God spoke
all these words, saying. I am the Lord Yahweh your God, which have brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods
before Me. You shall not make to you any graven image; or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth. You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for
the Lord Yahweh your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me. And
showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord Yahweh your God in vain; for the Lord
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain. Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work. But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any
work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant,
nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. For in six days the Lord
Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day; wherefore he Lord Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which
the Lord Yahweh your God gives you. You shall not kill (murder). You shall not
commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey,
nor any thing that is your neighbor’s”.
Now because the people were afraid, they stepped back from the voice of God
(Exodus 20:18-19) “and all the people saw the thundering, and the lightning, and
the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it,
they moved away, and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, speak you with us,
and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, less we die”.
God’s desire was to speak to all the people, but because of their fear, the people
choice rather to let Moses talk with God and then tell them what He said, and they
said that they would obey. But later they were jealous of Moses, and wanted to
choose another leader. When Moses sent the twelve spies into the promise land to
search it out and there came back ten with a bad report and stirred up the people
with fear and in Numbers 14:4 it says “and they said one to another, let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt”.
This caused them to wander in the wilderness for forty years, and all of this was
against the will of God.
The Bible tells us to “Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (James 4:7-8a). This
means that if we draw back from Him, He cannot draw near to us. Don’t let your
relationship with God be on a second hand basic.
Now after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Pentecost was brought
forth again. Jesus prophecy about the coming Pentecost in (Acts 1:2-5,8) “until the
day in which He (Jesus) was taken up, after that He through the Holy Spirit had given
commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen. To whom also He showed
Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forth
days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And being
assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from
Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which says He, you have heard of
Me. For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit
not many days from here. But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is
come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem, and in all
Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth”.
Many people were in Jerusalem remembering the giving of the law to Moses, and
God used this occasion to bring many into the church (Acts 2:1-16) “and when the
day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues; as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were
confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And
they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, behold, are not all these
which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein
we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asis. Phrygia, and
Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of
Rome, Jews and proselytes. Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt,
saying one to another, what means this? Others mocking said, these men are full of
new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to
them, you men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you,
and hearken to my words. For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is
but the third hour of the day (9am). But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
Joel”.
The prophet Joel prophecy in Joel chapter 2, and it says in Acts 2:17-21 “and it shall
come to pass in the last days says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams. And on My servants and on My
handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And
I will show wonders in heaven above, and sings in the earth beneath, blood, and fire,
and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved”.
After Pentecost we are all called the sons of God (Ephesians 2:11-19) “wherefore
remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are call
uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands.
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made
near by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, who has made both one, and has
broken downs the middle wall of partition between us. Having abolished in His flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in
Himself of two one new man, so making peace. And that He might reconcile both to
God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. And came and
preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near. For
through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now therefore you
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
household of God”.
God is still pouring out His Spirit upon people even today, we are told to be filled with
the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: June 7, 2011
We have to remember the meaning of Pentecost and understand that from the first
time when God gave the law to Moses, till the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon all
flesh; God is giving us a message that He wants to have relationship with us.
The word Pentecost means fifty. The first Pentecost was fifty days after God
delivered the Israelites out of Egypt. God established Israel as His special people.
God spoke to Moses to bring the people to the Mount of Sinai, so that He could
speak to them (Exodus 19:9-11,16-19) “and the Lord Yahweh said to Moses, lo, I
come to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you; and
believe you for ever. And Moses told the words of the people to the Lord Yahweh.
And the Lord Yahweh said to Moses, go to the people, and sanctify them today and
tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes. And be ready against the third day; for
the third day the Lord Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people upon
mount Sinai. And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightings, 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. And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at
the lower part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because
the Lord Yahweh descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the
smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of
the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God
answered him by a voice”.
God precedes to give them ten commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) “and God spoke
all these words, saying. I am the Lord Yahweh your God, which have brought you
out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods
before Me. You shall not make to you any graven image; or any likeness of
anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth. You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for
the Lord Yahweh your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me. And
showing mercy to thousands of them that love Me, and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord Yahweh your God in vain; for the Lord
Yahweh will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain. Remember the
Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work. But the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord Yahweh your God; in it you shall not do any
work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant,
nor your cattle, nor your stranger that is within your gates. For in six days the Lord
Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the
seventh day; wherefore he Lord Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which
the Lord Yahweh your God gives you. You shall not kill (murder). You shall not
commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your
neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey,
nor any thing that is your neighbor’s”.
Now because the people were afraid, they stepped back from the voice of God
(Exodus 20:18-19) “and all the people saw the thundering, and the lightning, and
the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it,
they moved away, and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, speak you with us,
and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, less we die”.
God’s desire was to speak to all the people, but because of their fear, the people
choice rather to let Moses talk with God and then tell them what He said, and they
said that they would obey. But later they were jealous of Moses, and wanted to
choose another leader. When Moses sent the twelve spies into the promise land to
search it out and there came back ten with a bad report and stirred up the people
with fear and in Numbers 14:4 it says “and they said one to another, let us make a
captain, and let us return into Egypt”.
This caused them to wander in the wilderness for forty years, and all of this was
against the will of God.
The Bible tells us to “Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will
flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you” (James 4:7-8a). This
means that if we draw back from Him, He cannot draw near to us. Don’t let your
relationship with God be on a second hand basic.
Now after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Pentecost was brought
forth again. Jesus prophecy about the coming Pentecost in (Acts 1:2-5,8) “until the
day in which He (Jesus) was taken up, after that He through the Holy Spirit had given
commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen. To whom also He showed
Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forth
days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And being
assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from
Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which says He, you have heard of
Me. For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit
not many days from here. But you shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is
come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me both in Jerusalem, and in all
Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth”.
Many people were in Jerusalem remembering the giving of the law to Moses, and
God used this occasion to bring many into the church (Acts 2:1-16) “and when the
day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues; as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under
heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were
confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And
they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, behold, are not all these
which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein
we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in
Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asis. Phrygia, and
Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of
Rome, Jews and proselytes. Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our
tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt,
saying one to another, what means this? Others mocking said, these men are full of
new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to
them, you men of Judaea, and all you that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known to you,
and hearken to my words. For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is
but the third hour of the day (9am). But this is that which was spoken by the prophet
Joel”.
The prophet Joel prophecy in Joel chapter 2, and it says in Acts 2:17-21 “and it shall
come to pass in the last days says God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams. And on My servants and on My
handmaidens I will pour out in those days of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And
I will show wonders in heaven above, and sings in the earth beneath, blood, and fire,
and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into
blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. And it shall come to
pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved”.
After Pentecost we are all called the sons of God (Ephesians 2:11-19) “wherefore
remember, that you being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are call
uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hands.
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of
Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without
God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made
near by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, who has made both one, and has
broken downs the middle wall of partition between us. Having abolished in His flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in
Himself of two one new man, so making peace. And that He might reconcile both to
God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby. And came and
preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were near. For
through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now therefore you
are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the
household of God”.
God is still pouring out His Spirit upon people even today, we are told to be filled with
the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18).
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: June 7, 2011
