Shavuot (Shabuot or Weeks)

The Feast of Shavuot (Shabout) or Weeks, and many know it as Pentecost.

This day is one of the eight Feasts of Yahuah according to Leviticus 23. This feast is part of the spring feasts - 3^rd feast of Yahuah.

Leviticus 23:15-22 is the instruction for the Feast of Shabout (Pentecost). And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering unto Yahuah.

Messiah fulfilled this day when He ascended to heaven after He was resurrected and He is now with Father Yahuah sitting at His right hand preparing for His bride.

Messiah is the first fruit; He overcame death and the grave - 1 Corinthians 15:20-26.

Messiah as the first-fruit, ascended to Father, entered into the Set-apart place once and for all, having then sprinkled His blood, making atonement for our sins (Hebrews 9:11-14).

On this Feast day the Torah (Instructions) was given on Mount Sinai and on this Feast day the Set-Apart Spirit (Holy Spirit) descended on the earlier believers of 3000 (Acts 2:1-4), becoming true believers in Messiah, filled with His Spirit, the law was now written on their hearts.

Pentecost or Feast of Weeks took place when the Covenant was made with Israel and His law was codified. It is a memorial of events at Mount Sinai.

In the New Testament, the Spirit of Yahuah was given on Pentecost (Acts 2) to empower Yahuah's people to keep the commandments.

The early disciples in Acts were obediently keeping this special day. It was upon this very day of Pentecost in Acts 2 that the Set-apart Spirit (Holy Spirit) was sent to earth to remain permanently.

Prior to that day the Set-apart Spirit was given to certain individuals for a specific purpose, and then was taken away.

This was nine days after the ascension of Yahshua (Jesus), and one of the Feasts was about to begin.

Acts 2:1 reveals, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. The disciples were all gathered in Jerusalem, awaiting the promise of the Father, when they were all endued with Power from on High (Acts 2:2-21).

This day of Pentecost was the birth or beginning of the New Testament Ekklesia – the Called-out Ones.

Yahusha had promised He would send the Comforter (Set-apart (Holy) Spirit) in John 16:7.

He told His disciples not to depart from Jerusalem but to await the promise of the Father, that they would be baptized of the Set-apart Spirit in a few days (Acts 1:4-5).

Ruach ha Kodesh (Hebrew) means Set-apart Spirit or as many known as the Holy Spirit.

Yahusha (Jesus) became this Old Testament symbol by presenting Himself as the Wave Sheaf offering in John 20:15-17, thus fulfilling Leviticus 23:10-11.

It is important that we understand the historical meaning of Yahuah's Feast Days so we comprehend the purpose He is working out on earth and how He is sanctifying His people.

These special days are a shadow of things yet to come; a future prophecy of events yet to unfold. Paul writes for us: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath Day, which are a shadow of things to come; but the body of Messiah, Colossians 2:16-17.

Do notice that Paul warns us not to let simple man judge in respect to keeping a Feast Day or Sabbath Day for they "are a shadow of things to come." They foreshadow future events meaning they are prophetic.

This is what Messiah promised all believers that they would receive!

HalleluYAH!