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Showing posts with label Feast of Weeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Feast of Weeks. Show all posts
Monday, March 12, 2018
10,000 Spirited Christians To Ascend On Jerusalem in 2020 for Feast of Weeks, Pentecost - Breaking Israel News
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Shalom Today Ministry organized Pentecost / Shavuot – (the Feast of Weeks) meeting in Younsei Baptist Church, Youahanabad, Lahore (Pakistan)
This year when we celebrated the feast of Pentecost and we invited 100 people to come and join us and we clearly asked them, “These are not Jewish feasts, Its Biblical feasts”. Brother Tanveer Shahid shared the word of God on the topic “What’s different between the gifts of the Holy Spirit and what’s fruits of the Holy Spirit” on the first session.
After his teaching Mr. Moses Julius chairman of Shalom Today Ministry shared the word of God on the topic “ The giving of the Laws and The giving of the Holy Spirit” on Pentecost / Shavout – (the feast of weeks). People really enjoyed the teaching and worship. During the meeting Holy Spirit touch many people and they were started crying and confess from their Sin’s and committed to walk in His ways.
Shalom Today Ministry is thankful to Evangelist Nadeem Gafoor, Brother Sabir, Sister Ruby Khokhar, Brother Wilson Jan and his prayer team those were standing with us in prayers and moral support.
At the end of the meeting we distributed food among all the participants. If God put burden in your heart to Promote the true teaching of the Bible then Join hands with us.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
Pentecost: The Purpose and the Commandments -Tsvi Sadan ISRAEL TODAY
Pentecost: The Purpose and the Commandments
Sunday, June 04, 2017 | Tsvi Sadan ISRAEL TODAY
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Pentecost, or Feast of Weeks, is the conclusion of Passover that took place seven weeks earlier. The two holidays are connected via the Counting of the Omer which started on the second day of Passover. The counting of 49 days represents the preparation and anticipation for the giving of the Torah, that, according to Jewish tradition, was given on Pentecost.
Following this line of thought, on Passover the people of Israel were freed from the bondage of the Egyptian slavery hence, from the physical aspect of slavery. On Pentecost, with the giving of the Torah, the people of Israel were made free from the bondage of the natural laws through obedience to the divine commandments which are in the Torah.
This perceived contradiction of law and freedom baffles Christians, many of whom have been trained to think of the Law as enslaving rather than making one free. Secular Jews also tend to think along these lines. For them the Torah takes away the freedom to live as one wishes.
But from the long-held Jewish perspective, the Pentecost marks a joyous event in which the people of Israel agreed to accept the Torah, something that shouldn't be taken for granted, given the natural reaction to the many laws that, as stated, seemingly restricts rather than extends freedom.
The contradiction between Law and freedom has occupied Jewish sages from time immemorial, and their conclusions are profound. Commenting on the physical aspect of the divine Tablets as described in Exodus 32:16 – "the tablets were God’s work, and the writing was God’s writing engraved on the tablets" – the Talmudic sage rabbi Joshua son of Levi takes advantage of the Hebrew language, and slightly changes the vowels of "engraved" to reach the conclusion that one should read "freedom" - (herut instead of harut). "Freedom on the tablets" thus have become the way in which Jews view the commandments.
How the commandments make one free was explained by the renowned scholar Yeshayahu Leibowitz, in his 1953 article, "Practical Commandments." Human beings, he reasons, can't escape the laws of nature. This means that man is bound to the "causal chain of forces … which act upon him and within him." The natural man is enslaved to the natural laws, and as such is "just like the cattle grazing in the pasture, which are also free from the Torah and Commandments; that is, from any law externally imposed.” This bondage includes will and reason. The conclusion, then, is that for man to be truly free, he must have external, divine, forces working within him; forces that are provided through the commandments.
From this perspective, for Jews to be free from their beastly nature, they must accept other laws than human laws in order to transcend nature. Israel is therefore, since the giving of the Law are under a divine unnatural law, that has the external power to elevate them to a higher state that can make them a light to the world.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Sunday is Shavuot - the Feast of Weeks! - Israel Today Staff
Sunday is Shavuot - the Feast of Weeks!
Tuesday, June 07, 2016 | Israel Today Staff
The Jewish festival of Shavuot has many facets: the Feast of Weeks - 7 weeks being counted from Passover, or the Harvest Festival. Tradition has it that the Torah was given to the children of Israel via Moses by God on this day. In Israel this festival is a happy day when Torah is traditionally studied through the night and mainly dairy foods are consumed.
"And thou shalt keep the commandments of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; Deut 8:6-8
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