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Pentecost 1996 —“Count to Pentecost”— May 25, 1996 

“Now let’s cover something in Leviticus 23 from the King James, coupled with Joshua 5, and then back to Genesis 15.  We’re going to see something very interesting.  Actually we will have Leviticus 23, Joshua 5, Exodus 12, and Genesis 15.  So let’s take it right here and we want to focus in on this particular command, which is Verse 14 of Leviticus 23: 

“ ‘And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God….’  Now when was the first opportunity they had to bring an offering of the harvest unto God?  Well that was when they entered the land, because you go back up here and it says in Verse 10, Leviticus 23, “Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When ye be come [or you enter] into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof….’  Now let’s go to Joshua 5 and see where they entered into the land.  And I want you to, if you don’t have it, write for the booklet that was written by Dwight Blevins on Understanding God’s Command for the Wave Sheaf.  And here in Joshua 5 is when the first wave sheaf offering was waved.  And it was done on the 15th day of the first month in the year that they crossed the Jordan.

“Now let’s read it.  Let’s pick it up here in Joshua 5:9: ‘And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.  Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.  And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.  And they did eat of the old corn* of the land….’  See they weren’t to eat of any corn.  No bread, no grain, green or parched.  But they did eat of the old corn of the land.  Some people say this means the new corn or the new grain.  Either way, doesn’t make any difference, because they had to have that new wave sheaf offering waved before they could eat any grain whether it was new or whether it was old.  ‘… On the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day’ (Josh. 5:9-11). 

“Now we just read ‘selfsame day’ over here in Leviticus 23.  Selfsame day.  Let’s tie this in, the ‘selfsame day.’ by going back to Exodus 12.  And we will see how that ties right in with the beginning of the 15th day of the first month, the beginning of the Exodus.  And then we will go back to Genesis 15.  I’ll just refer you there.  We covered that on some other lessons that we had, other Bible studies.  But that was the day that the sacrifices were offered as we understand the sacrifices that Abraham offered**, and then the prophecy that they would be in the land 400 years was given that night after the sacrifices, which then had to be the 15th day of the month” (Coulter, “Count to Pentecost,” pp. 8-10).

Part 1: “Count to Pentecost”—May 25, 1996

Part 2: “Count to Pentecost”—May 25, 1996

*Gavoor, the Hebrew word translated “old corn” simply means produce or yield and has no reference to age. 

**See Chapters 21 through 23 of The Christian Passover by Fred R. Coulter for a detailed explanation of the significance of Abraham's sacrifices.

Transcriptions of Pentecost Sermons by Fred R. Coulter

Pentecost 1995:  “Day 49 to Pentecost”— June 3, 1995

Pentecost 1996:  “Count to Pentecost”— May 26, 1996

Pentecost 1998:  “Pentecost Never on Monday -- Always on Sunday”— May 16, 1998

Pentecost 1999:  “Pentecost and the Sea of Glass #1”— April 17, 1999

Pentecost 2000:  “Day 49”— June 10, 2000

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