Jewish people celebrate Shavuot and the harvest of wheat, while Christians celebrate Pentecost and the harvest of the church. Both holidays commemorate the giving of the law at Mount Sinai and the empowering of believers by the Holy Spirit. Pentecost marks when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples in tongues of fire, empowering the early church and inaugurating the age of grace.

2. LEARNING TO PROPHESY
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3. AS JEWISH PEOPLE CELEBRATE
SHAVUOT, WE CHRISTIANS CELEBRATE
PENTECOST DAY.
May 16th - 18th, 2021 Celebration of Shavuot in the Diaspora,
May 23rd, 2021 Christian Celebration of Pentecost

4. SHAVUOT
FEAST OF WEEKS,
PENTECOST
The Feasts of the Lord

5. SHAVUOT, THE FESTIVAL OF WEEKS
• The feast of weeks is the second one of the so-called
Pilgrimage Feasts. (Deuteronomy 16:16)
• It occurs 7 weeks after Passover.
• (Leviticus 23:15)
• It is celebrated by the end of spring harvest, the harvest of
wheat.
• Commanded to give offering according with what the Lord
has given you. (Deut 16:17)

6. LEVITICUS
23:15-16
(NKJV)
• The Feast of Weeks
• 15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves
from the day after the Sabbath, from the
day that you brought the sheaf of the
wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be
completed. 16 Count fifty days to the day
after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall
offer a new grain offering to the LORD.

7. LEVITICUS
23:17 (NKJV)
• 17 You shall bring from your dwellings two
wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah.
They shall be of fine flour; they shall be
baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits
to the LORD.

9. PROPHETIC
PICTURE:
ONE LOAF
IS ISRAEL.
• Jeremiah 2:3
• New King James Version (NKJV)
• 3 Israel was holiness to the LORD,
The firstfruits of His increase.
All that devour him will offend;
Disaster will come upon them,” says
the LORD.’”

10. PROPHETIC
PICTURE:
THE OTHER
LOAF IS THE
CHURCH, THE
BRIDE OF THE
LORD.
• James 1:18
• New King James Version (NKJV)
• 18 Of His own will He brought us forth by
the word of truth, that we might be a
kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

11. IN THE HEART OF GOD
• Both braided loafs are a suite offering to the Lord.
• Israel is His elected people with whom He has a
covenant and many promises and prophecies yet to be
fulfilled.
• The Church is in His heart, is the Bride of His dear Son

12. SUMMERHARVEST

13. THE GIVING
OF THE LAW
AT MOUNT
SINAI

14. DEUTERONOM
Y 4:13
(NKJV)
• 13 So He declared to you His
covenant which He commanded
you to perform, the Ten
Commandments; and He wrote
them on two tablets of stone.

15. PHYSICAL
DELIVERANCE
AND
SPIRITUAL
DELIVERANCE
• Passover brought physical
deliverance, by coming out of Egypt
the place of slavery.
• The giving of the Law delivers from
spiritual bondage as idolatry and
immorality.
• So, there is a celebration of the
physical and of the spiritual
deliverance in these two Feasts of
the Lord.

16. JOHN 1:17
(NKJV)
•17 For the law was given through
Moses, but grace and truth
came through Jesus Christ.

17. OUR
CELEBRATION

18. TONGUES AS
OF FIRE

19. ACTS 2:1-4
(NKJV)
COMING OF
THE HOLY
SPIRIT
• 2 When the Day of Pentecost had fully
come, they were all with one accord in
one place. 2 And suddenly there came a
sound from heaven, as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it filled the whole
house where they were sitting. 3 Then
there appeared to them divided tongues,
as of fire, and one sat upon each of
them. 4 And they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak with other
tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance.

20. THE HOLY
SPIRIT IS
WHO
PROPELS US
• The Holy Spirit empowers.
• The Holy Spirit Transforms.
• The Holy Spirit takes away fear.
• The Holy Spirit fills with Love, Joy and
peace.
• The Holy Spirit guides.
• The Holy Spirit imparts gifts.
• The Holy Spirit is “The other Helper”

21. ACTS 2:14-16
(NKJV)
PETER’S
SERMON
• 14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven,
raised his voice and said to them, “Men
of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem,
let this be known to you, and heed my
words. 15 For these are not drunk, as you
suppose, since it is only the third hour of
the day. 16 But this is what was spoken by
the prophet Joel:

22. ACTS 2:36-37
(NKJV)
CUT TO THE
HEART
• 36 “Therefore let all the house of Israel
know assuredly that God has made this
Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and
Christ.”
• 37 Now when they heard this, they were
cut to the heart, and said to Peter and
the rest of the apostles, “Men
and brethren, what shall we do?”

23. REPENT,
BE BAPTIZED
AND HAVE
THE PROMISE
OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT.
• Acts 2:38-39 (NKJV)
• 38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and
let every one of you be baptized in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of
sins; and you shall receive the gift of the
Holy Spirit. 39 For the promise is to you
and to your children, and to all who are
afar off, as many as the Lord our God will
call.”

24. ACTS
2:40-41
(NKJV)
• A Vital Church Grows
• 40 And with many other words he testified
and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved
from this perverse generation.” 41 Then
those who gladly received his word were
baptized; and that day about three
thousand souls were added to them.

25. THE GIFTS
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

26. 1
CORINTHIANS
12:8-10 (NKJV)
• 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom
through the Spirit,
• to another the word of knowledge
through the same Spirit,
• 9 to another faith by the same Spirit,
• to another gifts of healings by the
same Spirit,
• 10 to another the working of miracles,
• to another prophecy,
• to another discerning of spirits,
• to another different kinds of tongues,
• to another the interpretation of tongues.

27. •Jewish people celebrate the
feast of harvest and offers the first fruits.
•They celebrate the
giving of the law.
•We celebrate the
harvest of our Lord which is His church,
•We celebrate the empowering to his children
given to us by His Holy Spirit.

28. HAPPY SHAVUOT
HAPPY PENTECOST