Archbishop Michael-John
30th May 2009, 11:42 AM
Shalom, Привет, Greetings and Blessings to you on the two days of Feast of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) or Pentecost,
The Arian Catholic Church is now gathering pace with new Churches, Ecclesiae and home Church groups forming and being welcomed into our full Communion in Southern England, the Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Argentina and throughout the United States. We wish you and all our new comers to the Arian Catholic Church a special Pentecost with God’s love and the love of the Messiah!
6th and 7th Sivan are known as the Biblical Feast of Shavuot (and today, Saturday, is the Pentecost High Sabbath), which speaks of origination. It symbolizes Jeshua giving us the gift of the Holy Spirit which inaugurated the Second Covenant and Church Age. The coming of the Holy Spirit fell precisely on the next feast 50 days after First Fruits, on what we call Pentecost. The symbolism is obvious as two loaves of bread are offered, which is a picture of the First and Second Testaments.
Pentecost circa 1 500 BC
Fifty days after the first Passover, Moses is up on Mt. Sinai and he receives from God the first written Word to the nation of Israel (the Ten Commandments). These were God’s blueprints of how Israel and mankind are to live and conduct their lives. 1 500 Years Later, Jeshua (Jesus) the Messiah is born!
Pentecost 31 AD
It was on this Jewish holiday of Shavuot, exactly 50 days after Passover, when the disciples were all together in one accord and in one place.
“Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house.” All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (Acts 2). This event was prophesied in Joel 2:28 and 3,000 Jewish souls were saved in one day!
These are no mere coincidences. First, the Law (Torah - Word of God) was given to Moses at Mt. Sinai on Shavuot, and then, on the exact same day (Shavuot) about 1,500 years later the Law (Torah) was written on the people’s hearts as the Holy Spirit filled all those who believed in the Lord Yeshua, as it says in Jeremiah 31:31-33:The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Readings for PentecostLeviticus 23:10-14, 15-16 & 17-22Deuteronomy 16:9, 10-12 & 16Exodus 19:1 - 20:23 & 34:33Ezekiel 1:1-28 and 3:12Acts 2:1-4 andI Corinthians 15:20-23Prayers
Please join us in prayer this weekend as we look forward to welcoming more ministers into the Church, which has extra significance at Pentecost, and to reaching more people around the world with the true message of the Messiah Jeshua’s Gospel. At this time we are also praying for missing Madeline McCann and her family, for a resolution to the financial crisis that is affecting people around the world, for a resolution to the political tensions in North Korea and for everyone who is suffering or struggling with their faith at this time.
The Arian Catholic Church is now gathering pace with new Churches, Ecclesiae and home Church groups forming and being welcomed into our full Communion in Southern England, the Ukraine, Russia, Germany, Spain, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Argentina and throughout the United States. We wish you and all our new comers to the Arian Catholic Church a special Pentecost with God’s love and the love of the Messiah!
6th and 7th Sivan are known as the Biblical Feast of Shavuot (and today, Saturday, is the Pentecost High Sabbath), which speaks of origination. It symbolizes Jeshua giving us the gift of the Holy Spirit which inaugurated the Second Covenant and Church Age. The coming of the Holy Spirit fell precisely on the next feast 50 days after First Fruits, on what we call Pentecost. The symbolism is obvious as two loaves of bread are offered, which is a picture of the First and Second Testaments.
Pentecost circa 1 500 BC
Fifty days after the first Passover, Moses is up on Mt. Sinai and he receives from God the first written Word to the nation of Israel (the Ten Commandments). These were God’s blueprints of how Israel and mankind are to live and conduct their lives. 1 500 Years Later, Jeshua (Jesus) the Messiah is born!
Pentecost 31 AD
It was on this Jewish holiday of Shavuot, exactly 50 days after Passover, when the disciples were all together in one accord and in one place.
“Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house.” All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (Acts 2). This event was prophesied in Joel 2:28 and 3,000 Jewish souls were saved in one day!
These are no mere coincidences. First, the Law (Torah - Word of God) was given to Moses at Mt. Sinai on Shavuot, and then, on the exact same day (Shavuot) about 1,500 years later the Law (Torah) was written on the people’s hearts as the Holy Spirit filled all those who believed in the Lord Yeshua, as it says in Jeremiah 31:31-33:The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Readings for PentecostLeviticus 23:10-14, 15-16 & 17-22Deuteronomy 16:9, 10-12 & 16Exodus 19:1 - 20:23 & 34:33Ezekiel 1:1-28 and 3:12Acts 2:1-4 andI Corinthians 15:20-23Prayers
Please join us in prayer this weekend as we look forward to welcoming more ministers into the Church, which has extra significance at Pentecost, and to reaching more people around the world with the true message of the Messiah Jeshua’s Gospel. At this time we are also praying for missing Madeline McCann and her family, for a resolution to the financial crisis that is affecting people around the world, for a resolution to the political tensions in North Korea and for everyone who is suffering or struggling with their faith at this time.