#A50: WHY THE JEWISH SHAVUOT IS NOT THE CHRISTIAN PENTECOST

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by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
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One was asked to respond to a statement that the Rapture Event is presumably not going to occur, on what is understood to be ‘Pentecost’ that the Christian Church observes in June, but the Rabbinical Jews observe as Shavuot. One’s whole Premise is that the Rapture’s Timing could be on ‘Pentecost’, but not on what is misunderstood to be the same as the Jewish Feast of the First Fruit of the New Wheat i.e., Shavuot. 

Rather, that it is the Feast of New Wine. Then there is the Confusion as to when that Shavuot Feast is determined and if it is really the Pentecost Event as recorded in Acts 2. One does not believe that the Jewish Feast called Shavuot in June is the same as the New Testament Pentecost Account of Acts 2. Although the Description of how to count the Days are given in Leviticus, the precise start of the Day Count is subject to Interpretation. The main Issue is what is the ‘Sabbath’ that determines the ‘Day After’.
 

One presently subscribes to the Interpretation of what is called the ‘Counting of the Omer’, if one uses Nisan 15 as the Start Date. Rabbinical Judaism asserts that the Day Count commences the Day after Passover, Nisan 15. This is when the Israelites left Egypt. This Formula puts Shavuot in early June. Then there are those, mainly some Christians that are convinced that the Day Count, being interpreted as ‘Complete Sabbaths’ are to start after the Weekly Sabbath. In this case, the Feast of Shavuot or what the Traditional Christian Church calls Pentecost will fall in Mid-June. The Passover Sabbath is a Special Annual Holy Day that can fall on any Day of the Week. See Leviticus 23:4–7. But in the case of Counting from the Omer, there are 2 considerations.

1. Day after Passover High Day Sabbath?

2. Day after Weekly Sabbath?
 

What one has proposed, is how the Leviticus 25 Text insinuates what one has called a ‘Double-Count’. It is comprised of the 7 Sabbaths or 49 Days, but then a subsequent Day Count of 50 Days. This would be a total of 99 Days, 100 Days all-inclusive. But from what Day after the Sabbath? One is more convinced it is from Nisan 15. This Notion is not widely accepted. Neither is the introduction accepted of the New Understanding of the New Wine Feast corresponding to the Acts 2 Pentecost. Even then, there is still some Discrepancy as to what that New Wine Date corresponds to. It is because the ‘Complete Sabbaths’, that are interpreted is being used from the Weekly Sabbath. Thus, it is 1 week ahead of a Nisan 15 ‘Sabbath’ High Holy Day, etc.

Which Sabbath?
It is mainly a Debate of when the ‘Sabbath’ begins. One actually started-out the Research into the New Wine Theory using the 99-Day New Wine Count from the Weekly Sabbath, a Sunday. What changed one’s Mind is when one correlated the Timeline with the Exodus Journey to Sinai, from Nisan 15. A ‘Sabbath’ just denotes a Day of Rest. That can be the Weekly Sabbath or a Holy Feast, wherein YHVH prescribes no Work, i.e., Rest, etc. One had naturally interpreted the Weekly Sabbath as being the ‘Correct’ Start Date. After all, a Sabbath is the Weekly Sabbath, right? No.
 

One has come to be convinced that a Sabbath is just that, a Day designated to be a Holy or Separated Day of Rest. In that case, all and any Feast Days of Observance prescribe by YHVH are Sabbaths. And that is precisely the case when factoring the ‘High Day Sabbath’ of Passover. This is why one has come to recalibrate the Sabbath to better reflect the Nisan 15 Exodus Timeline, as a Template. Then later, one used the Timeline of the Exodus to cross-reference the Day Count from Nisan 15 and it has a better match, in one’s Estimation and Calculation. This puts the 99th Day in Mid-July.
 

Given this Nisan 15 Exodus Timeline, it would corroborate that the Sabbath Count does not begin with what has come to be believed in some Christian Minds, to start after the Weekly Sabbath. Thus, as most are still not convinced of Pentecost corresponding to the Feast of New Wine in Mid-July, it is, in one’s Interpretation how those that will expect the Rapture to occur on ‘Pentecost’, which is the Shavuot of the Jews will not occur, and cannot occur, etc. This is why, if one’s Theory about the New Wine Pentecost is when the Rapture is to occur, it will catch off-guard 99.99% of those Professing Christians that are looking and anticipating the Rapture on ‘Pentecost’, i.e., Shavuot. 

Or simply put, one is looking at the ‘Wrong Pentecost’. So, will there be no Rapture on Pentecost? Based on the Calculations that the Rapture’s Timing will not or cannot occur on ‘Pentecost’ or what the Jews call Shavuot? One would agree. Yes. One agrees for what one will say next. It is because what the Jews call Shavuot in Early June, is not the Acts 2 Account of what the Christians call Pentecost. One surmises that the Acts 2 Pentecost Event was the 2nd ‘Shavuot, which just means a Set of 7 Sabbaths. This is what one calculates was when ‘Pentecost had fully come’. 

It is where and when the End of the Church Age is to Correspond, its End will be as it was at its Beginning, etc. And it just so happens that it corresponds to the Feast of the First-Fruit of the New Wine. One is more convinced that ‘When Pentecost had fully come’ could refer to a Completion of a Time Period or Segment. This is to insinuate a Calendar Date where there is a Delineation made and was known to the 1st Century Jews. And that is? The End and Beginning of the Astrological New Year. And that was at the Sign of Leo, precisely on a July 23. The Acts 2, 2nd Shavuot or Pentecost was the 2nd of 3 First Fruit Feasts. See Chart for an Illustration below.

3 PENTECOST FEASTS OF SUMMER

Shavuot is not Pentecost - Leviticus 23:16

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1iM-1pITiGT2TG2L9uAyeRYlRH8rSQt7B
 

A Pentecost Rapture?
Then one has come to research how in the Ancient Middle East, this Astrological Leo New Year is when the Resurrection of the Bodies of the Dead would rise and go to Heaven through the Lion’s Gate, etc. So, one agrees that Early June is when the Rapture ‘will not’ occur. But as noted, there is then a Qualifier in one’s part. It is because one has the preconceived Notion, disregarding Church Tradition, that the First Fruit of the New Wine corresponds to the Pentecost that occurred in Acts 2. As noted, most do not accept or are not aware of the 3 Penta-Feasts, of which Shavuot was the 1st of the 3, according to the Temple Scrolls.
 

1. New Wheat – Early June
 

2. New Wine – Mid July
 

3. New Oil – Early September

If that was the case, there could not have been or would have been that direct Inference to the Disciples being accused of being ‘Drunk’ on the New Wine. And it is precisely on July 23 when that Demarcation of Harvest Types, pertinent to their First Fruits of the New Wine is celebrated and observed, etc. It echoes the Wedding at Cana and the Wedding of Boaz to Ruth after the Wheat Summer Harvest. Now, does the Rapture Timing have to be on a Feast Day? Well, does the Scriptures teach that one will ‘See the Day Approaching’?…
 

‘But let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching’. -Hebrews 10:25

SEE DAY APPROACHING

βλέπετε τὴν ἡμέραν ἐγγίζουσαν 

https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/heb/10/25/t_conc_1143025

The Bible teaches that those that Watch and See the Blessed Hope, will see ‘The Day’ approaching. Thus, it cannot be a Random Day, in one’s Interpretation. Or else one would not know Where? and When? to Watch and See ‘that’ very Day approaching. To ‘Watch’ is generic and prescribed, generally. But what to watch? What Day? Then that becomes a Focus, despite only being allowed to perceive it through a Dim Glass (1 Corinthians 13:12 ) and if by some Revelation, see it in part approaching. So, it will be on a Specific Day then. Perhaps that is what the Verse is insinuating. 

It is thus not about an Imminence but a calculated Approach. That being said, allow one to interpret the opposite of Imminency and suggest that when the Rapture occurs, it will be precisely on a Feast Day. And one’s Assertion is that it will be at the corresponding Acts 2 Pentecost that one is convinced correlates to the Feast of New Wine. How so? It is not that the Rapture has to necessarily have to occur on a Precise Feast Day, but that the End of the Church Age does. What? The Rapture is just the Concluding Act and Event that closes it. Jesus stated that He would be with the Church, until the ‘End of the Age’, etc. What Age? The Church Age.

The Church Age

It had a specific Beginning and it will have its specific End. This supposition is based on the Discussion with Brethren of how the 7 Feasts of YHVH are being literally fulfilled by Jesus, in that the 2nd Coming will be as His 1st Coming. Then Realize that as one overlays the 7 Feasts with the 7 Branches of the Menorah, the Spring and Fall Feasts pivot on the Center Stem. This Typology is of the Vine, the Fig Tree. And having this Chiastic Fold, the Church Age corresponds to Pentecost that began in Acts 2. And?
 

It has not been completed fully. It is ‘In-Progress’. It will not be consummated until the Rapture Event concludes the Age the Royal Commission, etc. If this is the Prophetic Pattern presently, then the Spring Feasts correspond in that way to the Fall Feasts, that are yet to occur after the Church Age concludes. And the subsequent Feast of YHVH to be literally fulfilled by Jesus Yom Teruah or the Feasts of Trumpets. 

Consider that when Jesus returns with the Bride and Armies of Heavenly Angels, He 1st will rescue the Jewish Believing Remnant at Petra/Bozrah. Then Jesus confronts and combats the Armies at Armageddon, etc. These Series of Initial Events correspond, in one’s Mind to the Feast of Trumpets, which is about War, the Cry of War and Victory. Then it is at Yom Kippur that the Kings are Anointed and the Jubilee is Proclaimed. It is wherein Jesus, as the Prophet, Priest and now King will literally fulfill the 3 remaining Fall Feasts, in that Order. 

In one’s Interpretation, Jesus enters the Holy of Holies and cleanses it and is crowned, and proclaimed King of the Jews and the World. Then at Sukkot, Jesus gathers the Nations for the Goat and Sheep Judgment as the Transition is acquired to implement the Kingdom Millennial Reign Protocols. This is one’s Understanding and Interpretation. In stating all that, one’s Point is that if Jesus returned on Yom Kippur, what happened to the Prophetic Fulfillment of Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets? 

Thus, the Fall Feast of Yom Teruah cannot be ‘Skipped’. Realize that it is Jesus ultimately that is the Living Vine, and the Fig Tree, etc. One’s Point is that the Present Age of Grace that is the Church Age, typified by the 7-Fold Churches of Asia is wherein Non-Jews are being given the Grace to be grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel’s Promises, etc. This Age of Grace thus only has a set Number of Years, Months and Days then to its ‘Prophetic Shelf Life. One strongly suggests that Prophecy is Pattern, and the Beginning is as the End and the End will be as the Beginning.

YHVH has always moved and had His Prophetic Mile-Markers precisely occur on Feast Days and Anniversaries. So, one is saying that as the Church Age clearly began in that Acts 2 Pentecost, associated with the New Wine, it would be logical to presume that it could very well ‘End’ as it began, on a similar Acts 2 Timing of when Pentecost ‘Fully Comes’. This is one’s Working Theory, anyway. And that the Acts 2 Pentecost was on the 2nd Shavuot, or the Feast of the First Fruits of the New Wine. This occurs around a July 23 Delineation of the Astrological Leo Year. Coincidence? Plausible? Perhaps. But nonetheless, the ‘Day Approaching’ insinuates a specific Day, and one that is perhaps known or to be known as it does approach. 

Definition of Insanity?

This is why one does not subscribe to the Theory of the Rapture’s Imminency. Sure, YHVH is Sovereign and the Rapture Day can occur at any Time, on any Random Year, Month and Day. But when in the Bible has YHVH done or Jesus did anything ‘random’ and imminent? Here is another Observation, just pointing it out.  But as mentioned when asked to do so, without even reading the Posts to get an Idea of what has been said, it is just that most 99.9% of Professing Christians consider the Jewish Feast of Shavuot to be the Christian ‘Pentecost’ of Acts 2. So, just be aware, that as you all know very well know of one’s Theory of the New Wine, it is what one believes is instead corresponding to the Acts 2 Pentecost Account. 

This alone would be a cause to doubt any possible Rapture Timing to include the Traditional June Date each Year. As for one’s July 23 (723) Rapture High Watch Date? One just wishes to reiterate that one does recognize that one is ‘Missile-Locked’ until further notice. One cannot change that. The Holy Spirit has to move in one’s Mind to think or believe otherwise, as shown only by Him. But having said that, in any given Year, one is only focused on July 23, that it will be ‘It’. If it is a ‘Nothing Burger’, then one will have to abandon the Theory, as best one has understood it. 

So, one realizes that although one supports other Brethren’s High Watch Days, one has more than a Speculation or Calculation about July 23. It crosses over into being a Conviction. After all, is it not the Definition of Insanity, ‘Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results? One would be ‘Insane’ if one continues to do so with each Passing Year. For the past Decade or so, one has narrowed-down only on this Theory and Feast Day as being the Highest Rapture Watch, in any given Year. 

And since 2021, that it somehow corresponds to this particular Date, ‘723’. One had interpreted that Numerical Factor as being July 23. Why? It was based on what was either an ‘Open Vision’ or Dream of seeing the Number ‘723’ being painted by Hand as it appeared across a blank, Gray-Colored Canvas board, etc. All that, in part, is why one is ‘Missile-Locked’ on the July 23 (723) Date. Then on subsequent and further Research, this Date has been reinforced. 

It has been based on the Lion’s Gate Correlation and the Ancient Astrological Calendar wherein, the Sign of Leo Starts and Ends on July 23, (723). Perhaps they have all been Clues and Pieces of the Rapture Puzzle. But one is placing them together to surmise the precise Rapture Day and Time, as best as one can and as others have also. So, of course one is open and expectant to see if any other Rapture High Watch Dates will have the Rapture occur: Passover, Resurrection Day, Jewish Shavuot, Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpet, Yom Kippur or even Sukkot or Tabernacles?
 

So, when then in July 23? One must consider that the Eve of July 23 in the Western Hemisphere is actually June 22 in Israel. One is assuming it would correspond to the 1st Watch of the Day, being from 6am to 9am, Jerusalem ‘Zero Time’. Meaning that July 23 is the 22nd in the Western Hemisphere. Imagine that? Presuming to know, exactly the Year, Month, Week, Day, and Hour.

So, just to reiterate, when the Israelites reached the Foot of Mount Sinai, exactly 2 Months or 60 Days from Nisan 15, the 3 Days was how YHVH then made that Proposal to the Nation of Israel, singularly. This is the Covenant and what one asserts is what will be ‘Confirmed with the Many’, i.e., the L’Rabbim or the Elders of Zion for the Tribulation Period, etc. The Elders of Zion or the Sanhedrin rejected the Son of the Father.
 

But then one must realize that based on the subsequent Day Count, one calculates that the Hard Copy of that Covenant in the Form of the 2 Tablets of Stone were not procured by Moses until the 99th Day. And this is when it pertains to the Golden Calf incident, which one then correlates to that Timeframe being the Acts 2 Pentecost and corresponds to the Feast of the New Wine. And thus, the Revelry in the Camp with the Golden Idol and how 3000 Died that Day.
 

This is the Key Clue of how at the Acts 2 Pentecost Account, there was that direct inference to the New Wine and 3000 Israelites got saved. It was the Reverse of the Curse, and the start of the Church Age. This is why one then postulates that the Church Age will end, as it began and that this is where one can see the 3rd Theme of one’s Salvation in Jesus. It is the Glorification that is to occur next. Perhaps at this precise Timing, at the Feast of the New Wine. Thus, why one calculates a July Pentecost and that being on the Feast of the New Wine. Will it be this Year? Time will always tell the Truth.
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