Pentecost Service 2012

INTRO: This Sunday we commemorate the day of Pentecost. Our subject this morning is, "Pentecost In God's Plan of Redemption." And this is shown to us most clearly in the seven biblical feasts God prescribed for Israel.

The name Pentecost derives from the words, 'fiftieth day'. The Jewish calendar is very interesting to me, as well as the seven feasts Israel was instructed by God to keep. In the Jewish Calendar, there are two new year's days. The secular year, beginning from creation, began with the month Tishri. It corresponds about to mid September to mid October our Calendar. But go to Exodus 12 (read 1-2). This is the month in which Passover fell and it was to be the first month of their sacred year. So the seventh month of their civil year was the first month of their sacred year and the first month of their sacred year was the seventh month of their civil year and so on.