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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:
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‘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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