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 50^th day.

Now let’s begin with the chart right here.  This is sunset, which begins the day.  It ends the 13^th and the Passover then is on the 14^th.  At midnight is where it was, right here at this point, this is midnight right in the middle of the black on the 14^th, 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 15^th day.  You will see this is the second month, the 15^th 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 14^th was here.  Then we know on the day portion of the 14^th they gathered at Ramsees and began leaving that very self-same day, the beginning of the 15^th.  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 18^th 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 30^th 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 15^th 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 5^th 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 51^st 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 5^th 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 50^th 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.