THE 50TH DAY
FEAST OF WEEKS
To most this may seem a strange title for a religious article but to those who know the truth it makes perfect sense. Jesus said, "ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." Well, mankind's freedom will begin in the year of fifty which derived from the fiftieth day. The fiftieth day is the DAY OF PENTECOST, one of the Lord's high holy days. This day represents the year that Jesus will return and free his servants. Read Leviticus 25:10
Even though we have many churches which are named after this holy day, no one seems to know the truth surrounding it. Most people that are in these churches and other churches don't even know that Pentecost merely means FIFTY. In Leviticus 23:15-16,21, the Lord told his servants to count seven (7) Sabbaths (49 DAYS) and on the day after the seventh Sabbath have a holy gathering. Thus we have The Day of Pentecost.
This is what Peter and the rest of the Apostles were observing in Acts the Second Chapter. They were not tarrying for the Holy Ghost as tradition teaches but they were observing this holy day of Pentecost. "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place." (Acts 2:1)
Peter and the other apostles were joined in one accord honoring the Pentecost. It was and still is the law to have a holy gathering on this day. In Leviticus 23:21 it says,...."it shall be a statue FOREVER in all your dwellings throughout your generations."
I know many of you believe that all the Lord's holy days were nailed to the cross when Jesus died. Some will even venture to say that when the Lord said, "it shall be a statue forever," he really didn't mean forever. As strange as that may sound, if that were the case, why was the apostle Paul of the New Testament still observing this and the other Holy days long after Jesus had been NAILED TO THE CROSS? "For Paul had determined to sail by Eph'esus, because he would not spend the time in Asia; for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem The Day of Pentecost." (Acts 20:16) Paul also mentions the validity of the Pentecost in I Corinthians 16:8. Maybe the apostle Paul understood what the Lord meant when he said, it shall be a statue forever.
Therefore, we today, still must observe The Day of Pentecost just as Jesus, Peter, Paul, and all the Apostles and Prophets did. For we like them, understand that this holy day points to the year of Jubilee when that great trumpet will sound freeing the people of God. "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement, shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. "...and ye shall hallow the Fiftieth year...." (Leviticus 25:9-10) The apostle Paul understood this and wrote, "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." (I Corinthians 15:52)
So you see it's much more to the day of Pentecost than speaking in tongues. Leviticus 25:13 lets us know that when this great trumpet of jubilee sounds everybody will return to the land of their nativity. The prophet Isaiah verified this saying,"...Then shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land." (Isaiah 13:14)
In that year he that knows the truth shall be free!