I want to make it perfectly clear from the get-go that the day of Pentecost will always fall on a sunday. I say this with half my brain tied behind my back. I am 100% perfectly accurate. Here is why: the day of Pentecost is the day after seven sabbaths are complete. It is the morrow or next day after the last sabbath that is the day of Pentecost. That is a no brainer. The day that follows the Jewish sabbath day is sunday. Now if anyone can prove that is false, have at it.
Let's go back and reconstruct this from the Old Testament.
According to Leviticus 23, the Passover feast comes first. Then comes the countdown to the day of Pentecost. But it is not called the day of Pentecost. The name Pentecost only means fiftieth (50th). It means 7 x 7 sabbaths or 49 days, and the morrow after the last sabbath is the 50th and the day of Pentecost.
How is it calculated using Leviticus 23?
The evening and day of Passover is after sundown Abib 14. So Passover supper actually falls on Abib 15 which is also the first day of unleavened bread. Passover uses only unleavened bread. So it begins the seven days of unleavened. bread.
According to Leviticus 23 the count down to Pentecost begins with the sabbath after Passover. Let's say Passover fell on a Wednesday night to sundown Thursday night. Let's say Jesus was crucified Thursday morning and buried on Thursday evening at sundown. You can count the days and see Jesus was resurrected on Sunday the third day. But this is not our focus. Passover was from sundown Wednesday to sundown Thursday. The first sabbath to begin counting to the day of Pentecost is that Saturday. Now count seven sabbaths or 49 days. The 50th falls on the day after the last sabbath which is a Sunday.
This year Passover occurred after sundown Monday April 14th. The first sabbath to begin counting seven sabbaths was April 19th. Seven sabbaths takes us up to Saturday June 7th. And the day after is June 8th. Starting on April 19th our first sabbath is April 26, second is May 3, third is May 10, fourth is May 17, fifth is May 24, sixth is May 31, and seventh is June 7. The morrow after the seventh sabbath is the day of Pentecost.
This is so very simple, yet novices and other liars are making up their own false days of Pentecost. They assume if the Catholic church gets anything right it is still false. Well, the fact is, the day of Pentecost is calculated by the Jewish calendar and not by Catholics. Jews choose their religious days not Rome. Jews chose June 8th as the day of Pentecost because it accurately falls on the right day counting from the first sabbath after Passover.
I write this, because there is absolutely no need for novices to pervert the simple manner to calculate the day of Passover and the day of Pentecost.
This coming Sunday is the day of Pentecost. Celebrate it. It is the birthday of the New Testament Church.
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