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Let’s continue on here in Exodus 16, and let’s pick it up in verse 4.
“Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for
you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I
may prove them…” Now let’s understand something here is very, very
important. How many times does God say that I will prove you, that I
will test you, that I want to know what your choice is going to be?
“…That I may prove them, whether they will walk in My law, or no.” Now
that’s what God wants to know. For the New Testament are you willing
to walk in the way of God and love God and keep His commandments and keep
all the words of Christ? We’ll see that’s going to be very important.
“And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare
that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather
daily” (vs. 5). Now the whole long and short of this whole story of
Exodus 16 is this: the fifteenth day of the second month was a weekly
Sabbath when this sermon was given. The morning after the Sabbath they
gathered the manna for six days. And on the sixth day they gathered
twice as much. God, in this event, also revealed and established the
Sabbath, without a doubt, and it was to test whether they would walk in His
ways or not. You can read the rest of the story.
Some when out on the Sabbath when they were told not to go out. Verse
27, “And it came to pass, that
there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and
they found none. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to
keep My commandments and My laws? See, for that the LORD hath given
you the Sabbath…” The Sabbath and the holy days brethren, are a gift from
God. That’s what they are. He’s given it.
Now with this established, that this day that this sermon was given on was
on the Sabbath, now we will go ahead and follow through with the chart and
we will see exactly how the flow of events transpire, coming right up unto
the giving of the Ten Commandments. Now I want you to go ahead and
take the copy of the chart that you have and follow along with what I’m
describing here with the chart.
The chart that you have, which I want you to follow along with, it’s
entitled “Count Pentecost”. So we’re going to see several things that
are important here. We’re also going to see, not only how to count it,
but how Pentecost ties right in and is directly connected on a day by day
basis from the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread all the way down
to the 50th day.
Now let’s begin with the chart right here. This is sunset, which
begins the day. It ends the 13th
and the Passover then is on the 14th. At midnight is where it
was, right here at this point, this is midnight right in the middle of the
black on the 14th, where God passed over in the land of Egypt and
destroyed all the firstborn. Now what I want you to do is come down
with your chart now, come all the way down here on the side. Let’s
come down here to this day, the 15th day. You will see this
is the second month, the 15th day. That’s what we are
talking about in Exodus 16. Now it’s very easy to figure out when the
Passover day was during the time of the Exodus by counting back thirty days.
So that is how we arrive back to know that the Passover being the 14th
was here. Then we know on the day portion of the 14th they
gathered at Ramsees and began leaving that very self-same day, the beginning
of the 15th. Right as the sun was going down they were
leaving. They left with a high hand and they traveled first of all to
Succoth and then the kept the Sabbath. Here is the weekly Sabbath
during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Now remember the instruction on how to count to Pentecost and God was
actually counting to Pentecost with all of these events leading to Mt.
Sinai. So the morrow after this Sabbath, which is over here this day.
This day, right here on the 18th
is the morrow after the Sabbath. Now you were to count seven Sabbaths,
or seven weeks, which then is 49 days plus one day to the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath.
Now let’s quickly go through this and count this. Let’s come clear to
the end. There is the first Sabbath. Here is the second Sabbath, so
that’s 14 days. Here is the third Sabbath, 21 days. Here is the
fourth Sabbath, 28 days, and this is when they received the message in the
sermon that beginning on the next day, over here, they would be receiving
the manna. So I’ve got it listed here – manna, manna, manna, manna,
manna, double manna, no manna. Then you come to the end of the fifth
week. Down here the next week is the sixth week. Now I’ve got listed
out here in the third month, I’ve got the days listed so we have the seventh
week. So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Sabbaths shall be complete unto
the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall you number 50 days, and there is
the morrow after the seventh Sabbath. And this is the day of Pentecost
right here.
Now what we need to understand, you will see right here a little number 1
on the 30th day of the second month. Now the reason I have
that little 1 here is simply this. Because there are some people who
say that the second month only has 29 days. There are some people who
say it has 30 days. So what I did was give a secondary count showing
that if this day were the first day of the third month then it would be 1,
2, 3, 4, as you follow along with the little numbers, 5, 6, 7, and then 8.
If the second month had 30 days then it would be 30 and then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7. Now the reason that I have this is so we will see and understand
exactly the events that took place.
Now notice back up here on the day of the Exodus, they’re leaving on the 15th
day of the first month. Now I want you to follow right on down, right
straight through every one of the weeks, right on down until we come to the
time of the same day, right here. This is the same day of the week in
the third month that they left coming out of the land of Egypt where we will
pick up the story to begin when we get back to the scriptures.
Now then, on this day the 5th day, Moses went up on the mountain
and talked to God and came down and said, “The third day God is going to
talk with you.” Today, tomorrow, and the third day they were to wash
their clothes and prepare for the Sabbath on Friday. Then they were to
keep the Sabbath, which then would be the second day, so I’ve got it
numbered. You see the little number down here in the lower right-hand
corner, number 1. Number 2 for the Sabbath, and then number 3 for the
third day showing the day of Pentecost when the Ten Commandments were given.
So Moses went up in the morning and got the message. He delivered it
to the people. So the third day, 1, 2, 3, then God came down from on
top of the mountain to give the Ten Commandments. Now we’re also going
to learn something else very important here for us to realize. If
there was a Monday Pentecost then you would have a problem of four days.
You would have 1, 2, 3, 4 days. So you cannot have a Monday Pentecost.
You cannot have a 51st day Pentecost because it’s an
impossibility. We are to count 50 days to Pentecost. But also it
fits in with the giving of the law showing that they came into the
wilderness of Sinai on the same day of the week that they left the land of
Egypt. Let’s just follow that right back up so we can review that and
see that all the way back up here. There it is. There on a
Thursday, as we would call it, or the 5th day of the week, and
coming right on back down again. Their journey took them to the Mt.
Sinai and they got there in the wilderness of Sinai on the same day of the
week in the third month that they left the land of Egypt. So now we
will go to the scriptures and we will see how all this fits in and you
follow right along with your chart.
Now let’s come to Exodus 19:1, and we’ll go through the scriptures.
Now I want you to go ahead and refer back to your chart in case it’s unclear
to you. And so you can follow along with this because this becomes a
very profound and important thing for us to realize that in the Old Covenant
on the day of Pentecost God gave the Ten Commandments. God spoke from
heaven.
Exodus 19:1, “In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone
forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day…” That means the same day of
the week as it is right on the chart. You just follow right down the
seven weeks and you come right down to the same day of the week. “For
they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of
Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the
mount. And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of
the mountain saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel; ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how
I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto Myself” (Ex. 19:1-4).
Now eagles’ wings is a type of protection. They had to walk there.
They had their part. That’s important for us to realize in our
understanding concerning God, that there are certain things we have to do,
certain things we have to accomplish.
Now here is a very key and important thing concerning the covenant given to
Israel. “Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice indeed [which means
truly]…” Notice again the condition “if”. All covenants have
conditions. This covenant had conditions. All covenants have
laws. This covenant has laws, just like the New Covenant that was
given through Christ. There are conditions. We will see the
conditions are nearly identical. The proposition is different because
here they were given physical promises for physical obedience in the letter
of the law. In the New Covenant they are given spiritual promises for
spiritual blessings for keeping the words and commandments of God in the
spirit and loving God. Now we’ll contrast that here in just a minute.
But I want you to understand what He says. And everything that we
have brethren, is obeying the voice of God and these are the words of God in
print for us, and so if God were to come down here and talk to us today as
He did to the children of Israel, as Jesus did to the apostles and disciples
and to the world He would say the same thing. “If you will indeed or
truly obey My voice.” Now notice how broad it is. What does it
mean “obey His voice”? That means anything God says. Does that
mean you have a right to pick and choose the words? No. Does
that mean you can tell God which words you will and will not do? No.
The condition is, “If you will obey My voice”, which means anything God
tells you. That’s what it means.
And continuing He says, “…and keep My covenant…” So a covenant has
performance. God said if you do this, I will do this. If you do
this, I will do this. All the way through. “…And keep My
covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for
all the earth is mine.” God says don’t worry about what’s going
to happen to you, because I own all the earth. “And ye shall be unto
Me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the
words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel” (vs. 5-6).
Now it was a very short message. It’s kind of like a wedding, or a
marriage proposal. Will you marry me? If you will marry me I
will be your husband and do thus and such. And was not the Old
Covenant a marriage agreement? Yes it was. Is not the New
Covenant a betrothal agreement for a marriage when Christ returns? Yes
it is. Now we don’t have time to go into it this year but you go back
and you study the whole book of Ruth, because the book of Ruth is a type of
the Church with Ruth and Boaz. Boaz being an older man, the ancient of
days in type. And Ruth being the New Testament Church. And also
of Gentile extraction who was made part of Israel. So that’s important
for us to understand. This is a marriage covenant requiring
performance by the husband, being God, and the wife being Israel.
“And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before
their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. And all the
people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will
do.” It’s the same way in a marriage covenant. Do you so and so
promise to take so and so as your lawful wedded wife? To provide for
her, to support her, in sickness and health, in riches and wealth? For
better for worse, until death do we part? To love her, to cleave her,
to cherish her until death do we part? I do. And do you so and
so promise to take so and so for your lawful wedded husband? To submit
to him, to obey him in everything in the Lord, to reverence him, to honor
him and to do those things that are pleasing to him? Yes, I do.
I say that you are married in the name of God. Now this is exactly
what’s happening here. Here’s the proposal. The people said we
will. God said I will. So Moses returned all the words of the
people to the Lord and said, “Ok God, the people said we’ll do it.”
God says, “All right we’ll do it.”
“And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that
the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever.
And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. And the LORD
said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow,
and let them wash their clothes [that is today, obviously they wouldn’t do
it on the Sabbath], and be ready against the third day…”(vs. 9-11). So
today, tomorrow, the third day. Friday, Sabbath, Sunday. So
Friday He came down and the message was given. They were preparing for
the Sabbath. They washed their clothes. Sabbath they rested,
didn’t come near their wives, and then the first day of the week being a
Sunday… And of course there’s no such thing as a pagan day. Pagans
name their own days. God created them. A pagan cannot make a day
that God has created, pagan. So the day of Pentecost is a holy day.
And holy because God gave His Holy law. Holy because God gave His Holy
Spirit as we will see tomorrow.
“…For the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people
upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round
about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into
the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be
surely put to death: There shall not a hand touch it, but he shall surely be
stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not
live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount” (vs.
11-13). Come up to the bottom of it.
Now here’s something for us to understand that’s important. The
trumpet is blown on the day of Pentecost. The trumpet is blown on
every single holy day. Please understand that because this will be
important when we come to when does the last trumpet sound?
Verse 14, “And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and
sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. And he said unto
the people, Be ready against the third day; come not at your wives.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning…”, which then is the day
of Pentecost. The 50th day, the Jubilee, the release.
How bout that, isn’t that something? Yes indeed. “…That there
were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the
voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was
in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the
came to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount [that
is right down at the base of the mountain]. And mount Sinai was
altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the
smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked
greatly” (vs. 14-18).
“And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.” This was a
tremendous event. God coming down on Mt. Sinai to bring the Ten
Commandments to the children of Israel and to establish the covenant with
them. “And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and
Moses went up. And the LORD said unto Moses, Go down, charge the
people, lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze, and many of them
perish. And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them. And Moses
said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou
chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. And
the LORD said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou,
and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to
come up unto the LORD, lest He break forth upon them. So Moses went
down…” (vs. 19-25), told the people the final instructions. Everything
was ready.
What is the first thing that God wanted the people to know? The very
first thing. Now with this great display, don’t you think this was
important? Also on a holy day, how profound the giving of the Ten
Commandments was. How profound it was that God came down and
established this covenant with the people.
“And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which
have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20:1-2). The very first
thing God wants us to understand is He is God alone. No other gods, no
other way, no other form other than what God has said should be. These
are the words of God. So He wanted them to be sure and have no other
gods before Him.
Then He said, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any
likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is
in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou
shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God
am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me” (vs. 3-5).
So if you don’t keep the commandments of God you hate Him. If you make
idols you hate God. If you have an idol, regardless if it’s in your
mind or a physical thing that you make or build or construct, you hate God.
That’s what God is saying. That’s why it’s so important that
everything else keys from the first commandment of you shall have no other
gods before Me. And then goes right on down with every one of them.
Now notice verse 6, “And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me,
and keep My commandments.” Question: do you want mercy from God?
Yes. How do you receive mercy from God? Because you’re
rebellious, because you throw all of the commandments of God away? No.
Do not the Protestants, Catholics try and claim the mercy of God? Yes.
But do they love Him and keep His commandments? No. That’s why
they don’t receive it.
Commandment number three. “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD
thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh His
name in vain” (vs. 7). And of course the most vain pronouncement using
the name of God is to preach false doctrine, isn’t it? That is worse
than all the swearing and cursing you will hear anywhere. Anyone comes
along and uses the name of God to teach a false doctrine to bring other
gods, to bring idols, that’s taking the name of the Lord your God in vain.
That’s why it’s the third commandment.
And then the fourth one, “Remember the Sabbath” because that’s the day that
God has sanctified. That is the day that memorializes the creation
that God has made. And that is the day in which God fellowships with
us.
Then He goes and gives all the rest of the commandments, “Honor thy father
and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy
God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit
adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false
witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt no covet thy neighbour’s
house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor
his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbour’s. And all the people saw the thunderings, and the
lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when
the people saw it, the removed, and stood afar off” (vs. 12-17).
And what did they say? “This is too much. We can’t stand the
voice of God. Now Moses, you go speak to God, and you come and tell us
and we’ll hear you. Don’t let God speak with us lest we die” (vs.
18-19, paraphrased).
“And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you,
and that His fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. And the
people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God
was” (vs. 20-21). And then God gave them all the statutes and
judgments. Now you go all the way through chapter 21, 22, 23, and
chapter 24.
Let’s come to chapter 24 and verse 1, and let’s see then after the speaking
of the Ten Commandments, then the people confirmed the covenant with God,
which should properly be called the covenant with Israel. Now I know
we call it the Old Testament but testament is really not quite correct.
It should be covenant. And everywhere in the Old Covenant where it is
testament, it should be covenant. And it should not really be called
the Old Covenant because there are many covenants. There are covenants
that are given by God which are older than the one which was given to
Israel, which were the covenants to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Those are actually older covenants. Then you go clear back to the
covenant with Noah and his sons after the flood, and that is even older yet.
So the terminology “Old Testament” comes from the book of Hebrews where it’s
talking about the former covenant with Israel, which now is being replaced
and faded away. The covenant not the laws, to bring in the fullness of
the New Covenant with the Church. So God did this so that they would
learn to fear him, that they would understand their obligations under the
Old Covenant. They would understand God’s obligations. God said
if you do this, I’ll bring you into the land, I will bless you, I will make
sure that you’re fruitful in everything that you do. I will fight
you’re battles for you, I will love you, I will watch over you. You
will be an example to whole world, and here are My statutes, which you’re
going to do.
And we come to Exodus 24:1 now, “And He said unto Moses, Come up unto the
LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of
Israel; and worship ye afar off. And Moses alone shall come near the
LORD…” So Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu the sons of Aaron, and the 70 elders came
up, so high up on the mountain. And then Moses came up to the top of
the mountain. “…They shall not come nigh; neither shall the people go
up with him. And Moses came and told the people all the words of the
LORD [every one of them], and all the judgments…” Now you might circle in
your Bible “all” because that becomes very important. “…All the words
of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one
voice, and said, All the words [it’s important I want you to understand
there are words in a covenant. And those words started out with, what
did we see? “If you will obey My voice indeed.” Did God speak
the Ten Commandments? Yes. Did God speak the statutes and
judgments? Yes. Were they from the voice of God, the words of God?
Yes. So they said All the words which the LORD hath said will we do”
(vs. 1-3).
Now to make sure there was no misunderstanding, “Moses wrote all the words
of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning [which was the day after
Pentecost then], and builded an altar under the hill [or that is right at
the base of it], and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of
Israel. And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered
burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of
the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the
covenant…”(vs. 4-7), all the words which God had spoken. The reason
they were written down is very simple. How long can you remember a
verbal instruction in detail? You can’t. So it was written down.
Because it’s written down makes it not less the words of God.
So, “…he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the
people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be
obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the
people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made
with you concerning all these words” (vs. 7-8). Now that’s going to be
very important for us to understand.
Notice what God did. First of all He began calling them in the land
of Egypt. With all of His signs and mighty wonders that He did leading
up to the Passover, and on the Passover at midnight, right at the high hour
of the pagans, He killed all the firstborn of Egypt. He judged all the
gods of Egypt, all their idols, and everything that they had, and saved the
children of Israel. They left Egypt with a high hand. God
brought them through the wilderness, brought them to Mt. Sinai, proposed
this marriage covenant with them, and they said, “We will, we will do, we
will keep everything that God has told us to do. Yes we will.”
Now whenever there is a covenant there is always the shedding of blood.
Always. And the shedding of the blood in this case was the blood of
the animals. And they said, “All these words we will do.” Now
question: can God add more words to this? Yes He can. God can.
But in order to do that He has to make a new covenant. Now you can
take these words which are here and you can make other judgments and
interpretations from them based on what is here but you are not changing the
covenant.
Now when it comes to the New Covenant the same principle applies. And
in order to have the New Covenant there was the blood of the New Covenant
which was what? The blood of Jesus Christ. And there were the
words of the covenant, were there not? Yes indeed. Let’s see
those. Let’s see and how it ties right in with Passover, Feast of
Unleavened Bread, and coming right on down to Pentecost. So we will
finish today where we will begin tomorrow.
Let’s come to John 14. And as we know and we have studied, and I’ve
said again and again and again, which is absolutely true. And I want
us to understand it. I want us to grasp it. I want it to be a
very part of our heat and minds and beings that we will never forget it.
John 14, 15, 16, and 17 are the words and the promises of the New Covenant.
Everything else flows from here. Everything that Jesus did is recorded
in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John relate right back to the words of the
covenant that we have in John 14, 15, 16, and 17. Everything that we
have here in John 14, 15, 16, and 17 are the basic words of the covenant and
the prophecy of the things that will take place, and the ultimate reward of
being at one with God. Now let’s come to John 14 and let’s review a
couple of very key important verses. And we will see how this flows
right along with the same proposition that God gave Israel. Exactly.
John 14:6, remember how we read about the way they were to walk in with the
Old Covenant, or the covenant with Israel? But here with the covenant
with the Church God says through Jesus, He said, “…I am the way, [and] the
truth, and the life: no [one] man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”
Now this covenant is very profound. This covenant is spiritual.
This covenant is eternal. There are conditions, all based upon the
love of God. And these conditions are stated here very clearly.
Let’s just look at a couple of them as they relate back to the same
fundamental principle that we saw concerning the covenant with Israel.
Verse 15, “I ye love Me, keep My commandments.” You can find that
all…we covered that in the beginning, didn’t we, leading up to the day of
Pentecost where they said, “All the words that God has spoken we will do.”
Question: will you do all the words of Jesus Christ in the New Covenant?
All the words that Christ has spoken? All the words that He inspired
the apostles to preach and to write? That’s what we need to think of
as we’re coming down to the observance of Pentecost.
Now let’s come down to verse 21. “He that hath My commandments, and
keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved
of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him.”
And that means spiritually through God’s Holy Spirit and the very
commandments of God because He’s talking about sending the comforter, the
Holy Spirit.
Verse 23, after Judas, who was not Iscariot, wanted to know how this
phenomenon would be that He would show Himself to them and not the world.
“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love Me, he will keep My words:”
And what are Jesus words? Jesus words are the words of the covenant,
which is called the New Covenant in relation to the covenant with Israel.
“…And My Father will love him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode
with him.”
Then He defines the rejection of the New Covenant. “He that loveth Me
not keepeth not My sayings…” Remember what God said? “If you will
indeed obey My voice and keep My commandments…” He’s saying the same
thing here. The one who is not loving Me is not keeping My
commandments. So anyone who comes along and says, “Well, you don’t
have to keep this commandment of God, or that commandment of God.”, is
a liar and the truth is not in them. And they are not conveying the
words of Christ. If they are saying that they’re not loving Him.
“…And the word which ye hear is not Mine, but the Father’s which sent Me.”
Now you see how all of this ties in. The Feast of Pentecost is very
important. In the covenant with Israel it’s connected with the
Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and reaches it’s fullest point
50 days later at Mt. Sinai where God gave the Ten Commandments. Now in
the covenant with Jesus Christ we have the same exact principle for the New
Covenant. If we love God we’re going to keep His commandments.
If we love Him we will obey His voice and keep His word. And further
more than God says He will give us the Holy Spirit to do it and accomplish
it, and that’s where the day of Pentecost comes in because just like in the
Old Covenant, the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread were connected with
the Feast of Pentecost, so the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread are
connected with the Feast of Pentecost in the covenant with the Church being
the New Covenant.
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