The Holy Spirit given on Pentecost
There is a biblical pattern for the most important events in Christian church development. This pattern is called the Mosaic festivals. There were seven festivals that Moses gave to the people of Israel. The first was Passover, which began their release from the bondage of Egypt. Passover was to be celebrated yearly. But there is a secret to these festivals that few Christians know about today.
The centerpiece for the Passover was an unblemished lamb, who’s blood was sprinkled on the lintel and the doorposts, of the homes of the Israelites in Egypt. That first festival, was to became a blueprint for the Christian church. In John 1:29, John the Baptist says,
“The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, ‘Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!’”
Jesus became the perfect Lamb of God, fulfilling the first of seven festivals prescribed by God through Moses. Jesus died on the exact day of the yearly festival, Passover. The fourth festival is known as Weeks (Pentecost), because it counted seven weeks from the Passover. It represented the day that Moses received the Ten Commandments written on stone on Mt. Sinai. This was also a required yearly festival. Look at the perfect timing of this in Acts 2:1-4,
“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.”
This yearly festival of Moses is celebrated by Jews once a year. Moses was given the Law written on two stone tablets, the Ten Commandments. The Holy Spirit reveals God’s laws to our hearts. In 2 Corinthians 3:2-3,
“You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.”
The Holy Spirit gives you a very close, upfront and personal relationship with God. You can train yourself to hear from the Holy Spirit.
Our prayer for today:
Father, train me to hear Your Spirit inside of me every day, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
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