#A83: PENTECOST NEW WINE THEORY

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by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org

‘He chose to give us Birth through the Word of Truth, that we would be a Kind of First Fruits of His Creation’. -James 1:18

The Rapture will be as a Birth, a Harvest, and that of a First Fruit. Which one? The First Fruits of the New Wine that corresponds to the 2nd ‘Shavuot’ Count of 50 Days from Nisan 15, one contends. Critics of the Pentecost New Wine Theory assert that because the Feast of New Wine is not explicitly in the Bible, it is ‘Extra-Biblical’ and therefore not to be considered even relative or relevant. If that is the case, then because the word ‘Rapture’ is not in the Bible, explicitly and in English, GOD-forbid we believe in it.  
 

The same goes for the Argument of the words Trinity and Bible, etc. As to Extra-Biblical Feasts being augmented and assimilated in the Bible by the Jews? There is the example of Hanukkah. Nowhere in the Bible is the word Hanukkah taught nor prescribed by YHVH to celebrate it. Yet we see Jesus celebrating it in the Gospels. Does not Jesus know that he is in the ‘Wrong’ for doing that. How dare He. 

So, as to the issue of the First Fruit Feasts, that of the Wheat, Wine and Oil, one will attempt to show that indeed, they were noted in the Bible and in fact tithed from them. The Bible is not an ‘All-in-All’ Mechanical Manuel or Farmer’s Almanac that lists every possible Detail of Everything. True, the 3 Penta-Feasts of the Wheat, Wine and Oil are not explicitly noted to be celebrated in the Torah. A Reason is because the 3 First Fruit Feasts were tied to the Temple and the Agricultural Cycles.

When the Temples were destroyed and the People of the Promised Land were Evicted, they ‘Lost’ sight and practice of such Time Markers, etc. In Time, in the Caves of Qumran is where the Essenes preserved that Lost Knowledge because at the center of their Core Beliefs is that 1 Day, a Temple in the Future would require them again. And these 3 First Fruit Feasts were to be rediscovered at the End of Time for that very purpose. They are to be reconsidered and applied to the End Times Timeline. Why?
 

In one’s Estimation, it is because the 3rd Temple is coming and the Church Age is closing that will end with the Rapture. And it is thus, one’s Conjecture that the Feast of New Wine, being a First Fruit is what will coincide with the Birth of the Bride, i.e., the Rapture. Was it any Coincidence that after World War 2, in 1947 that the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered? And that included the Temple Scrolls that recorded the 3 first fruit feasts, etc. Since 1947, Israel was ‘Reborn’, Re-Discovered. The Language of Hebrew also came back to Life as it was a Dead Language for nearly 2000 Years.  

Shavuot is not Pentecost
And thus, the discovery of the Temple Scrolls, of which it is the longest Scroll, proved that this Ancient Sect of Judaism observed the 3 First Fruit Festivals. Why? Again, because YHVH saw it fit to have them be rediscovered for the Last Generation to contemplate on them and see their Connection to conclude the Church Age and Prophecy specific to the Rapture and its possible Timing, I.e., the Feast of New Wine. 

Obviously, this has been one’s Working Theory for Years. The other Argument is that Shavuot, Sivan 6 that the Jews only celebrate in Early June is the same as what the Christians Celebrate in Acts 2. Not so. As one has presented, Sivan 6 was 10 Day out from the Israelites reaching the Foot of Mount Sinai. The Jews in their Commentaries acknowledge that Shavuot is just a Commemoration of the Giving of the Law, not the exact Date when Moses came down the Mountain with the 2 Tablets of Stone, etc. 

Then the other Augment is that what occurred in Acts 2, with all those Multitudes and the 3000 Jews getting saved is ‘Proof’ that it was the June Shavuot. Shavuot or what is the Feast of Weeks was 1 of the 3 Mandated Assemblies that all Jewish Men of Military Age had to present themselves at the Temple in Jerusalem. Not so. In Acts 2:5, the Greek word translated as the Jews ‘Dwelling’ means a Permanent Residence.
 

It means that all these Jews, although from all of the Roman Empire, were not Pilgrims come to observe and assemble at the June and Jewish Shavuot, etc. This is Scriptural Proof that explains why it could not have been the Feast of Shavuot. It is because the Acts 2 Pentecost, corresponding to the First Fruits of the New Wine was and is not a Pilgrimage Feast. The people who heard the Disciples on Pentecost speaking in the Language from where the Jews immigrated back to Israel were Residents. 

Note that for the Year 2025, the Jewish Shavuot or Sivan 6 occurred on June 2. This was the 153 Day of the Gregorian Year. What was unique about it, is that the Jewish Shavuot has not occurred on the 153 Day in the past 10 Year Prior nor will occur in the Post 2025 Years. So the next Argument is when to ‘Count the Morrow after the Sabbath’. If one uses the Exodus Timeline, that being from Nisan 15 as the Morrow after the Passover, which is considered a High Day Sabbath, then the following.

June 2, 2025 + 50 Days = July 23, 2025
 

= New Wine Acts 2 Pentecost End of Wheat Harvest (the Rapture Timing?)

Here below are the primary Calendar Types that incorporate the 3 Feasts of the Wheat, Wine and Oil. However, they differ based on when they start the ‘Morrow after the Sabbath’ Day Count. Even these Communities that do recognize that there are 3 First Fruit Feast have a Discrepancy of Interpreting when and what the Morrow after the Sabbath should be and start from. One Calendar starts the Omer Count from Nisan 15, another will start it on Sunday, the Day after the Weekly Sabbath. Then another Calendar will wait 1 complete Weekly Cycle to start from there and then, etc. For the Year 2025, one will list the 3 Main Type of Calendars considering when the Feast of the New Wine is to be celebrated, etc. 

ESSENE CALENDAR 

Festival of New Wine (Dead Sea Scroll 4Q394) is based on the Enoch Calendar of 364 Days. The Essene Calendar has their First Fruits of New Wine Date on: July 21, 2025. 

https://dsscalendar.org/DSS-Greg.php?Y=2025 

ZADOKITE CALENDAR 

The New Year is determined after the Spring Equinox on March 20. The Zadokite Calendar has their First Fruits of New Wine Date on: July 27, 2025.

https://zadokway.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Zadok-Way-Calendar-2025-2026.pdf

HEBREW CALENDAR
The Hebrew Calendar, based on the Hillel II has Tammuz 17 on July 15. Note that Rabbinical Jews do not acknowledge this Feast any longer. Then 1 Week later would be New Wine on July 23, 2025. This corroborated a Nisan 15 Start Date. 

http://www.cgsf.org/dbeattie/calendar/?roman=32 

If one uses the Year 2025 and the Counting of the Omer from Nisan 15, then the following. 

Sunday Night April 13, 2025

1 Day after Passover on Nisan 15 = The Omer. Commemoration of the Exodus.

https://www.chabad.org/holidays/sefirah/omer-count.asp?date=03/31/2025

+ 50 Days

= June 2-3 (153th Day of Year) Jewish Feast of Weeks or Sivan 6
 

+ 50 Days
 

= July 22-23 (99th Day as in Sinai and New Wine) Possible Rapture Timing?

Now, one does acknowledge that if one does start the Day Count from a Sunday after the Weekly Sabbath, after the Passover, i.e., Nisan 18, it would correspond to a July 26-27 Date. The Solar Calendar and the Zadok Calendar use this Day Count. So, for the Year 2025, it is July 27, not accounting for the Jewish Day beginning on July 26 at Sunset, etc. See Website for the ‘Solar Calendar’. In fact, when one 1st started to research the 3 First Fruits of 50 Days each, one started from this Time Marker. 

https://bsc.messianiclight.com

The following will now delve into the Scriptural Evidence, one believes supports one’s Notion that the 3 First Fruit Feast were acknowledged in the Old Testament and were even tithed from. The Fenton Translation is more accurate to prove that there is a Subsequent 50 Day Count, for a total of 100 Days, all-inclusive. This puts the Wheat Harvest ending in July, the True Shavuot. Note that the word, ‘Shavuot’ just means ‘50’. This is to say that each of the 3 First Fruit Feasts are technically all Shavuots.

Fenton Translation 

One just has to ask, from which Sabbath and which First Fruit? The Wheat, Wine or Oil? Here lies the Confusion among the Christians that have allowed the Jewish Sages to confuse the issue. Why? The True Pentecost of Acts 2, the 2nd Shavuot of the New Wine commemorates the Changing of Covenants, as it was on Mount Sinai. The Acts 2 Event legitimized the Church Body on Earth as the New Agent to be handling, teaching, preaching and evangelizing the World with Power from High, etc.

This Divine Commission is what the Jews had failed to accomplish. Notwithstanding, Israel is in a ‘Time-Out’ until the Age of Grace is completed and then YHVH will direct His Attention back to Israel to deal, once and for all, with their ‘Stiff-Neck’ Rebellion and Rejection of Jesus. This is the purpose of the Last 7-Year Tribulation Period and why YHVH reserved that Last prophetic Week. It is to complete Daniel 70th Prophetic Week of Years, etc. Here is the Fenton Translation of Leviticus 23:15-17.

‘You shall also count for yourselves from the Day after the Sabbath that you bring the Wave-Sheaf, 7 Sabbaths. They must be complete. Then after the 7 Sabbath, you shall count 50 Days, when you shall present a New Offering to the Ever-Living. You shall bring from your Dwellings 2 Wave Cakes of 2/10 of Fine Flour. They shall be Fermented, -- baked in an Oven for the Ever-Living’. -Leviticus 23:15-17

Here now will be the other Old Testament Scriptural Proof of how the Feast of New Wine was interwoven in the Timing of the Seasonal Crops of the Yearly Harvest Cycles.
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NEHEMIAH 12:44
This Verse instructs on how there are only to be 3 Feasts of the Jews gathering.
 

NEHEMIAH 12:44
This Verse shows how the First Fruit Harvests were offered by presenting the Tithe. 

NEHEMIAH 13:5
This Verse discloses how the New Wine and the New Oil were offered at those Times, corresponding. It is because the Wine and Oil are Summer Harvests, etc.
 

Note also that it states that the Wheat Harvest was coinciding or concluding, in one’s Interpretation, when the Wine Harvest began. 

NEHEMIAH 13:12

This Verse cannot get any more clear: ‘Then brought all Judah the Tithe of the Corn [Wheat] and the New Wine and the Oil unto the Treasuries’. 

JOEL 2:15-19 AND 2:24
Then the Bible speaks of a Time when Wheat is still on the Threshing Floor while the New Wine and the New Oil are in the Vats.
 

HAGGAI 1:10-11 AND NUMBERS 18:11-12
Early June, that is the Jewish Shavuot or Sivan 6 is a Spring -Time Maker. The Grapes and the Olives are barely budding as they are a Summer Crop and Harvest, etc.

EXODUS 9:18-35
In this Passage, what one needs to observe is how, when the Plague of Hail came down on Egypt, their Crops were destroyed, except the Wheat. And? This proves that at the Time of the Exodus, being in April or Nisan is when the Wheat was just barely breaking through the Ground and no Kernels were formed. This means that by Sivan 6 or Shavuot, the ‘Feast of Weeks’ was only pertaining to the of the First Fruits of the Wheat, not its Harvest, etc. 

HISTORICAL TEXTS
Notice what Philo, an Ancient Jewish Sage said about the Feast of Weeks that the Jews presently call ‘Shavuot’ and the Christians erroneously call Pentecost. What this will show and prove, in one’s Mind is that the Ancient Jews knew that Shavuot is in June. And that there was then an anticipation of the True and Complete Shavuot or Pentecost. 

The Solemn Assembly on the Occasion of the Festival of the Sheaf having such a Great Privileges, is the Prelude to another Festival of still Greater Importance; for form this Day the 50 Day is reckoned, making up the Sacred Number of 7, 70s, with the additions of a Unit as a seal of the Whole’.
 

Source
THE WORKS OF PHILO
The Special Laws, II, the 7th Festival, XXX (176), Page 584

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This is why in the New Testament, it states, ‘When Pentecost had fully come’, etc. The Acts 2 Event is that ‘Greater Feast’ and because it coincides with the First Fruit Feast of the New Wine, and the New Covenant. And thus, one contends, perhaps the Rapture’s Timing. Now the following Section will consider the following from what Jesus alluded to in terms of when a Rapture-Type Event is to occur. The Evidence is that the Time and Place will be at the End of a Summer What Harvest. It will be when the Wheat has been harvested and begun to be Milled.
 

‘And they were oblivious, until the Flood came and swept them all away. So will it be at the coming of the Son of Man. 2 Men will be in the Field: one will be taken and the other left. 2 Women will be grinding at the Mill: one will be taken and the other left’. -Matthew 24:39-41

By Definition, Millstones are large, flat, circular Stones used for Grinding Grains like Wheat into Flour. They typically come in pairs, with 1 Stone stationary, the Bed-Stone and the other rotating above it, the Runner-Stone. They create a Grinding Action. Here is a really Good Sermon of the Olivet Discourse and how Pastor Nolan delineates what pertains to the Rapture and that of the 2nd Coming, that is confused by most. Note how the Timing of the Rapture is tied to the End of the Wheat Harvest as the Women are Grinding it at the Mill. 

Video

JESUS AND THE END OF THE WORLD 

Pastor Allen Nolan Sermon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pokppwOCFck
 

Calendar Calculations 

One will tie all this up in how when one studied and plotted the Exodus Timeline, something was off. So, in acknowledging varying Calendar Calculations, one has used the Exodus Account as a Standard from which the Day Count is purely arrived at, and in that way. And as noted, the Traditional Interpretation of Leviticus 23 only stipulates the Count to go as far as the First Fruits of the Wheat or what the Jews presently call Shavuot only, and the Christians, in one’s Estimation misapply it to being the Acts 2 Event of Pentecost. Here is the Problem and one's Augment against it.  
 

1) If only the 1st 50 Day Count is used and argued exclusively, being the Acts 2 Event of Pentecost, realize that the First Fruits of the New Wine are impossible to have been available and ready to drink, as ‘New Wine’.
 

2) If Shavuot or the 1st 50 Day Count is considered one in the same as the Christian Pentecost of Acts 2, then realize that the Typology of Boaz waiting to marry Ruth on the very same Day the Wheat Harvest occurred, totally contradicts how it is specially stated in Scripture that they waiting until both the Barley and the Wheat Harvest was completed. This means that it would have been impossible for them to have married in a June Shavuot Timing, which is the beginning of the Wheat Harvest, not its End, etc.
 

As to the Feast of New Wine corresponding to the Month of Av, and the 9th Day? As one has stated, the Day Count is erroneously being correlated in one’s Estimation. The Acts 2 Pentecost New Wine Event does correspond with the Golden Calf Incident. But it is not on the 9th of Av per the Exodus Timeline. Perhaps, but one did the best to read the account in Exodus and correspond the Event to the Days on the Timeline. True, one cannot know for sure on this side of the Rapture.
 

But one is convinced that YHVH is precise, to the Year, Month, Week, Day and Hour. He is the Great Mathematician after all. He does leave Clues but Humans are Fallen and have limited Comprehension. And it is True, the People that are handling such Knowledge, Revelation and Understanding are confused about it, aside from 99% of the World that does not even seek to inquire about such Things, to their detriment. 

But to a degree that there is so much Calendar Confusion, on purpose one would say, is enough reason to have most Bible-Believers just ‘Opt-Out’ of such Contention that does unfortunately Divide the Body of Christ. It Is good to be reminded though, that Prophecy, the End Time, when is the Rapture, or when does the Tribulation Period start, or who is the AntiChrist and when the 3rd Temple is to begin is of no ‘Private Interpretation’. All such Events, as foretold in the Bible will occur, regardless of one’s attempt to discern their Timing.
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