Sunday we celebrate Pentecost! Pentecost was one of the “must attend” festivals of the Jews. During this time they came from wherever they lived back to Jerusalem, bringing their tithes and celebrating the harvest! As with the other Jewish festivals there were certain celebrations and sacrifices and offerings which were prescribed in the Law for the day of Pentecost. On Pentecost, the High Priest was to take two loaves of freshly baked wheat bread and offer them before the Lord. The wheat bread was made from the newly harvested wheat.

In short, Pentecost in the time of the Apostles was a great and grand harvest celebration. The streets of Jerusalem were clogged with thousands of pilgrims who had come from every point of the compass to celebrate the goodness of God and the bringing in of the wheat harvest.

It is not a coincidence that the Holy Spirit came during the Jewish festival of Pentecost. Come this Sunday at 10:30a CST onsite in Dixon or online and explore God’s larger plan that may have not been readily apparent at the time but, when realized, makes an amazing statement as to God’s plan of salvation.