Shavuot/Pentecost and the Pattern of Sevens

Today is known as the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot as well as Pentecost.
The Feast of Weeks/ Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Torah (YHVH's instructions) on Mt. Sinai which Moses received from YHVH and relayed to the people at the same place where YHVH would have Moses build the tabernacle and where the covenant vow between YHVH and His people was made. Over 1500 years later, on the same day, Pentecost, (Pente means 50 in Greek) the Holy Spirit was poured out on the disciples where they gathered to pray at the Temple (Acts 2), sealing the renewed covenant that Yeshua came to reestablish. (See former post, "The Restoration of All Things)

The Feast of Weeks/Shavuot is the only Feast that does not have a set day but is counted up to 50 to determine the day. The time of counting is call the "Counting of the Omer". The omer was a measure of flour ground from grain from the early harvest beginning at the Feast of First Fruits.

"From the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering (on First Fruits), count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days, up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:15-16) The disciples were counting the days after Yehsua rose from the dead as they did every year. That is how they knew Yeshua ascended into heaven on the 40th day. (Acts 1:3)

The Feast of First Fruits is the first day after the Sabbath after Passover. Passover was fulfilled by Yeshua as the Passover Lamb, crucified. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was fulfilled by Yeshua being the sinless Bread of Life buried, and the Feast of First Fruits was fulfilled by Yeshua when He rose from the dead, the first to rise.
"For now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep." (1Corinthians 15:20)


Numbers in Hebrew have meanings. Seven means fullness or completion. There are patterns of seven everywhere in Scripture.
Here are many examples:

The seventh day, the Sabbath, is separated from all other days as the day of YHVH's rest. (Genesis 2:2-3, Leviticus 23:3)
There are a week of days (7) to Shabbat (the Sabbath)
There are a week of weeks (49 days) to Shavuot
There are a week of months for the seven Feasts (Month 1-7. All of YHVH's Feasts fall in the first seven months and the 3 fall feasts all fall in the seventh month of Tishrei. (On YHVH's calander)
The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasts seven days.
The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) lasts seven days.
There are a week of Years (7 years) to the Shmita year (the land was to rest every seven years)
There are a week of Shmitas up to the Jubilee year (Every 50 years is the Jubilee year)
There are a week of Millenniums: 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2000 years from Abraham to Yeshua, 2000 years from Yeshua until His 1,000 year reign.
There are weeks of years; 7x69 plus seven= 490 years in Daniel 9

Seven also speaks of finality or new beginnings. After the 1,000 year millennial reign of Yeshua will come the New Heaven and new Earth. (Revelation 20:4, 21:1-5)
In addition:
There are  Seven Spirits of YHVH (Isaiah 11:2,3)
There are Seven Eyes of YHVH that roam the earth (Zacharia 4:10)
The golden lamp stand (Menorah) in the temple has seven branches
In Revelation chapter one there are seven congregations, seven spirits which are before His throne, seven golden menorahs, and seven stars.
In Revelation there are seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowels of wrath.

Seven is a very significant number to YHVH!
The next Feast on YHVH's calender is the Feast of Trumpets, the first day of the seventh month of Tishrei on YHVH's calander (around the middle of September), the first of the 3 Fall Feasts. The 4 Spring feasts were fulfilled by Yeshua at his first coming, the 3 fall feasts will be fulfilled at His second coming. We continue to celebrate the Spring feasts, commemorating what YHVH has done through the Living Word, Yeshua and look forward to celebrating the Fall feasts as we rehearse all the events to occur when He returns again!

One day in the future on the Feast of Trumpets, Yeshua will return and raise His people from the dead.
"....for as in Adam all die, so also in Yeshua the Messiah all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Messiah, the first fruit; afterward those of Messiah at His coming...In a moment, in a blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet, for a trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed." (1 Corinthians 15; 22, 23, 52)

HalleluYa!

Blessings!

The Restoration of all Things

Next weekend  (Saturday May 26th at sundown through Sunday May 27th at sundown) is the Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot, also known as Pentecost. On this day in history, YHVH gave the Torah (YHVH's word of instruction) to Moses on Mt. Sinai and a Covenant was made between YHVH and His people. He had rescued them (and anyone else who wanted to join them) from Egypt 50 days earlier when they crossed the Red Sea. The Torah was the wedding vows that His people pledged to follow, instructions on how to live in relationship with the Living Elohim (God) and fellow man.  But that covenant was broken by His people when they turned away from Him (time and time again) and YHVH had to grant a bill of divorce to His people. (YVHV did not divorce His people as He would never break covenant with them. it wasa due to their unfaithfulness to Him.)

"Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had commmitted adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her trecherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also...Return to Me, O backsliding children", says the Lord, "For I am married to you. I will take you, one from the city and two from a family and I will bring you to Zion." (Jeremiah 3: 8,14)
At different times both Judah and Israel (the Southern and Northern Kingdom of Israel) were taken into captivity, Israel by Assyria and Judah by Babylon.

Yeshua (Jesus' name in Hebrew) the Living Word of God (the Living Torah) came to renew the Covenant between YVHV and His people (Judah, Israel and anyone else who wanted to join in) through His death, burial and resurrection from the dead. He lived out the Torah perfectly. 50 days later on Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended on His people and indwelt them in order to write His Word (Torah, Yeshua) on their hearts. This is the Renewed Covenant. It was the beginning of the restoration of all things.

"Behold the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah-not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord. I will put my law (Torah) in their minds and write it on their hearts; and I will be their Elohim and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31:31-33)

After Pentecost (Pente means 50 in Greek) Peter and John were at the Temple for afternoon prayers when they came across the lame man and healed him in the name of Yeshua. Peter then went on and told all those who rushed to see this great thing:

"Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we made this man walk? The Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Elohim of our fathers, glorified His servant, Yeshua whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you and killed the prince of Life whom Elohim raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this  perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Yet now brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which Elohim foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, He has fulfilled. Repent, therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Yeshua Messiah,, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which Elohim has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began." (Acts 3:12-21)

And

"Therefore behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that it shall no more be said, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,' but, 'The Lord lives who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north and from all the lands where he had driven them." For I will bring them back into their land which I gave to their fathers." (Jeremiah 16:14-17)

 See below how Elohim is bringing together the Restoration of all Things:

And there will be a wedding, when once again we are fully restored:

"Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory, for the marriage supper of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready. And it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me, write, 'Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, these are the true sayings of Elohim.'

(Revelation 19:7-9)

Shabbat Shalom and be blessed!