PENTECOST – 1996

“Count To Pentecost”

Fred Coulter – May 25, 1996

This is a special video leading up to the Feast of Pentecost, so we’re going to entitle this one, “How To Count Pentecost, And The Events Leading Up To Pentecost, Past, Present, and Future, or The Beginning and the End.”  Now let’s understand something very important concerning the holy days of God.  They are all connected one with the other.  One follows the other in an automatic connection.  And especially the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost, there is a continuation all the way through.  And we will see that.  I’m going to have some special charts showing about the time of the Exodus up to the first Pentecost.  And then I’m also going to show some things in the New Testament relating to how to count Pentecost, and what that means in relationship to the day of keeping Pentecost.

So let’s begin by going, as we always should, to Leviticus 23.  And we’re going to connect every one of these as we are going along.  First of all it talks about the Sabbath, that the Sabbath is a holy convocation, or appointed time of holiness, or a proclamation of holiness, every seventh day.  Then it says these are the feasts which you shall proclaim, or proclamations of holiness, in their seasons.  Then it talks about Passover and the 14^th day of the first month.  And then it talks about the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and then the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  And both of those are holy convocations, or proclamations of holiness.

Then during the Feast of Unleavened Bread there is the special wave sheaf offering ceremony, which is called the Wave Sheaf Offering Day.  And this becomes a very important day for us to understand.  And we know that as we went through it during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, that this day pictures the acceptance of Jesus Christ by God the Father in heaven above, after He was resurrected at the end of the Sabbath.  So He ascended on the first day of the week.

Now let’s come to Leviticus 23 and let’s begin in verse 10, and I’m going to read from the Schocken Bible.  This will help us to understand even more concerning Pentecost on how to count.  Now isn’t it interesting that on all of the days, which are critical for salvation, Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost, there are controversies over it.  And there is very little controversy at all with the other feast days, Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles.  However, these have to do with those of us who are the firstfruits today, who are going to be in the first resurrection, who are the first called of Christ at this time.  Therefore Satan the devil loves to disturb and cause problems with the Passover, with the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and with Pentecost.  As we saw there were five days of Passover this year.  Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.  And they can’t all be right.  So that means that there were five days of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and then five days of the last day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  Now you don’t find that in the Bible anywhere, and that’s because you have people who have set themselves up to be calendar experts and they really don’t have a clue as to what they are doing.  And they don’t really understand what they are saying.  And yet they think that they are very righteous with this little cause that they have.  So as I mentioned before, I’m very soon going to go ahead and do a complete in-depth, and I’m going to do it on video because we’ll have to have things to also see in the way of visual aids on the calendar.

Let’s come now to Leviticus 23:10, and I’m going to read from the Schocken Bible.  “Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, and you harvest its harvest…” So this was to take place when they entered the land.  We’re going to see there was the Pentecost that they kept when the law was given, and I’m sure that they kept Pentecost every year while they were in the wilderness but not with the wave sheaf offering because this did not take place until they went into the land.  So they had to wait until the 40 years.  “…You are to bring the premier sheaf of your harvest to the priest.”  Now this premier sheaf means that it was the primary special principal sheaf, which was specially grown on a special plot of land, across east from the temple, over above the valley of Kiddron on the Mount of Olives.  And this was the ceremonial sheaf of the firstfruits.

Verse 11, “He [that is the priest] is to elevate the sheaf…” He wasn’t to just wave it like this, he was to elevate it and wave it.  So this is more likened unto a resurrection, as Jesus ascended the Ascension Day.  And that’s what this first day pictures and we will see.   This is the first day of counting toward Pentecost.  “He is to elevate the sheaf before the presence of [the LORD] YHWH, for acceptance for you; on the morrow of the Sabbath…”, or on the day after the Sabbath, which is and can only be the regular weekly Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  It is “the” Sabbath.  Very important to understand.  It is not “a” Sabbath, because some believe that you should begin counting Pentecost always beginning with the day after the holy day.  And that is not correct, as we will see.  This is “the” Sabbath, and in the Hebrew it is ha shabbat, which means “the Sabbath”, not just shabbat, which means “a Sabbath.”

“…On the morrow of the Sabbath [or the morrow after the Sabbath] the priest is to elevate it.  You are to perform-a-sacrifice on the day of your elevating the sheaf: a sheep, wholly-sound, in its (first) year, as an offering-up to [the LORD] YHWH, and its grain-gift: two tenth-measures of flour mixed with oil, a fire-offering to [the LORD] YHWH, of soothing savor; and it’s poured-offering of wine: a fourth of a hin.” (vs. 11-13).  Now the hin was a special little measurement.

Now listen carefully.  “Now bread or parched-grain or groats, you are not to eat, until that [self] same day…”  Now that was the day that they would get into the land.  So they could not perform this until they got into the land.  And we will see when they did this in Joshua 5 when we get to it.  “…until you have brought the near-offering of your God—(it is) a law for the ages, into your generations, throughout all your settlements” (vs. 14).

Verse 15, now here’s a key, key verse.  Let’s understand that the Schocken Bible is more literally translated from the Hebrew than any other English translation.  And it really conveys to us the proper understanding on how to count Pentecost.  Verse 15, “Now you are to number for yourselves, from the morrow of the Sabbath [or after the Sabbath] from the day that you bring the elevated sheaf, seven Sabbaths-of-days…”  Now there were to be seven Sabbaths altogether.  “…whole (weeks) are they to be…”  Now that clarifies it, because as we will see on the chart when we get to it, if you count from the morrow after the first holy day during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then you are going to end up with part weeks, partial weeks, deficient weeks.  These are whole weeks, they are to be. There can be no question.  It has to be a week of seven days.

Now let’s notice here, “…until the morrow of the seventh Sabbath [not week, Sabbath] you are to number—fifty days…” (vs. 16).  Now this is what you would call double entry bookkeeping, as it were if you are familiar with accounting.  You have two ways of counting.  You have 50 days, and then the second way is seven weeks, complete weeks until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath.  So we have double check to make sure that it’s right.  Then it tells what they were to do and all the things that they were to bring.

And let’s come down here to verse 21.  “And you are to make-proclamation on that same day, a proclamation of holiness shall there be for you, any-kind of servile work you re not to do – a law for the ages, throughout your settlements, into your generations.”  Now you are to harvest the harvest of your land, and so forth.  And it says you are to leave the gleanings, and that ties in with the book of Ruth.

Now then let’s understand this from the book of Deuteronomy.  Deuteronomy 16 tells us just a little bit different way of understanding it and it is incomplete.  Anyone who goes to Deuteronomy 16 to prove on how to count to Pentecost is deficient, because it is not complete.  You must have the full detail scripture as we read in Leviticus 23 on how to count it, otherwise you’re going to come up short.

Now Deuteronomy 16:9 from the King James says, “Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.  And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks…”  Now first of all there is no specific day on which to start.  There is no specific day referring to the wave sheaf offering.  There is no numbered day of the month from which to begin.  And it furthermore doesn’t tell us whole weeks as it does in Leviticus 23.  So this is where they get off in counting Pentecost incorrectly.

Now let’s go to Exodus 16, and after we come to Exodus 16 then we’re going to look at a chart and show the events, how they came all the way up to when we come to Mount Sinai.  Exodus 16, and here’s how we get a key date so we know exactly.  This is why we can be sure that the events laid out on the chart, showing the calendar chart from the first month, the second month, and the beginning of the third month in the year of the Exodus when the children of Israel came out of Egypt with the first Passover, the first day of Unleavened Bread, the last day of Unleavened Bread, the seven weeks and coming to Mt. Sinai and all of those things.  We’ll see it all laid out.

Now Exodus 16:1, “and they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.”  Now how do we know that this day is the Sabbath?  Well when you read the rest of Exodus 16 you find that there’s a Sabbath message that God brought, and that was that He was going to send them flesh to eat and bread in the morning because of their murmurings and their gripings and their complainings.

Now let’s read this out of the Schocken Bible so we can understand that we do really get a setting, a key setting of the date and of the Sabbath and of the week, so there becomes absolutely no question what so ever that the fifteenth day of the second month was a regular weekly Sabbath. Now let’s come to Exodus 16 here and I will being reading right here in verse 3. “The Children of Israel said to them: Would that we had died by the hand of [The LORD] YHWH in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, when we ate bread till (we were) satisfied!  For you have brought us into this wilderness to bring death to this whole assembly by starvation!  [The LORD] YHWH said to [Moses] Moshe: Here, I will make rain down upon you bread from the heavens, the people shall go out and glean, each day’s amount in its day, in order that I may test them, whether they will walk according to my Instruction or not.  But it shall be on the sixth day...” The sixth day from what?  From when the manna would come, as we will see.  “…When they prepare what they have brought in, it shall be a double-portion compared to what they glean day after day” (Ex. 16:3-5, Schocken).

“[Moses] Moshe and [Aaron] Aharon said to all the Children of Israel: At sunset…” And the Hebrew there is ba erev, which means the end of the day.  The end of the Sabbath, as we will see.  “…You will know that it is [The LORD] YHWH who brought you out of the land of Egypt; at daybreak you shall see the Glory of [The LORD] YHWH: when he hearkens to your grumblings against {The LORD] YHWH: what are we, that you grumble against us?  [Moses] Moshe said: Since [The LORD] YHWH gives you flesh to eat at sunset [He’s going to send it at sunset], and at daybreak [that is after that sunset], bread to satisfy (yourselves); since [The LORD] YHWH harkens to your grumblings which you grumble against him—what are we: not against us are your grumblings, but against [The LORD] YHWH!” (vs. 6-8).

“[Moses] Moshe said to [Aaron] Aharon: Say to the entire community of the Children of Israel: Come-near, in the presence of YHWH, for he has hearkened to your grumblings!  Now it was, when [Aaron] Aharon spoke to the entire community of the Children of Israel, they faced the wilderness, and here: the Glory of [The LORD] YHWH could be seen in the cloud.  [The LORD] YHWH spoke to [Moses] Moshe, saying I have hearkened to the grumblings of the Children of Israel—speak to them, and say: Between the setting-times [ben ha arbayim – between sunset and dark]…” Remember they would receive the flesh at sunset, and you can’t eat something that hasn’t arrived.  And it could not come in the afternoon if it comes at sunset.  We’ll see.  “…Between the setting-times you shall eat flesh, and at daybreak you shall be satisfied with bread, and you shall know that I am [The LORD] YHWH your God” (vs. 9-12).

“Now it was at sunset…” Now what does sunset do?  What are the commands concerning sunset in relationship to the Sabbath?  The commands are: Leviticus 23:32, from sunset to sunset you shall observe your Sabbath.  All Sabbath days begin when the sun sets and they end when the sun sets.  Now, since this was a Sabbath day, do you think that God would work on His Sabbath day to desecrate it?  Do you think that God would work by sending the quail in the middle of the afternoon on the Sabbath?  Do you think that God would have them gather the quail and cook them and eat them on the Sabbath?  Well no because the very next Sabbath, as we shall see, what happened?  Some went out to find manna and it wasn’t there.  And God, “How long refuse you to keep My commandments?”  So we’re dealing with something that is really quite important for us to understand.  So “between the setting-times you shall eat flesh, between sunset and dark.  At daybreak you shall be satisfied with bread and you shall know that I am [the LORD] YHWH your God” (vs. 12, paraphrased).  “Now it was at sunset a horde-of-quail came up and covered the camp.”  Covered the camp.  The quail were not sent outside the camp.  They literally just fell right on the camp.  And they were very docile.  All they had to do was get them, wring their neck, skin them, clean them, and with the fire going you could actually be eating in about a half hour all together.  Now we have a man, Skip Emerson, in our congregation in San Jose, who used to raise quail and pheasant for his profession.  And he said that you could cook quail, when you cut them in half after skinning them, in about 15 minutes they would be ready to eat.

Now then it says, “At daybreak there was a layer of dew around the camp; and when the layer of dew went up, here, upon the surface of the wilderness, something fine, scaly, fine as hoar-frost upon the land.  When the Children of Israel saw it they said each-man to his brother: Mahn hu/ what is it?  For they did not know what it was.  [Moses] Moshe said to them: It is the bread that [The LORD] YHWH has given you for eating, This is the word that [The LORD] YHWH has commanded: Glean from it, each-man according to what he can eat, an omer per [head] capita, according to the number of persons, each-man, for those in his tent, you are to take.  The Children of Israel did thus, they gleaned, the-one-more and the-one-less, but when they measured by the omer, no surplus [was left over]…” (vs. 13-18).  There was…for any of those.

Now verse 19, “[Moses] Moshe said to them: No man shall leave any of it until morning.”  But they didn’t listen to Moses.  Now isn’t it interesting, are we not doing the same thing today?  How many people are running on down the road doing their own thing?  A lot of people.  They don’t want to listen to God.  They don’t want to listen to His word.  Just like the children of Israel, they didn’t listen.  So they kept it over. “…And  (several) men left some of it until morning; and it became wormy with maggots and reeked [that is it stunk].  And [Moses] Moshe became furious with them.  They gleaned it in the morning, (every) morning, each-man in accordance with what he could eat, but when the sun heated up, it melted” (vs.19-21).

Now it was on the sixth day…” So you have the sunset the quail came.  That had to be the ending of the Sabbath, and they ate the quail that night, then in the morning down came the manna, which was on the first day of the week.  “Now on the sixth day…two omers for (each) one.  All the exalted-leaders of the community came and told it to [Moses] Moshe.  He said to them: it is what [The LORD] YHWH spoke about: tomorrow is a Sabbath/Ceasing, a Sabbath of Holiness for [The LORD] YHWH.  Whatever you wish to bake –bake, and whatever you wish to boil—boil; and all the surplus, put aside for yourselves in safekeeping until morning.  They put it aside until morning, as [Moses] Moshe had commanded, and it did not [stink] reek, neither were there any maggots in it.  [Moses] Moshe said: eat it today, for today is a Sabbath for [the LORD] YHWH, today you will not find it in the field.  For six days you are to glean, but on the seventh day is Sabbath, there will not be (any) on it” (Vs. 22-26).

“But it was on the seventh day that some of the people went out to glean, and they did not find.  [The LORD] YHWH said to [Moses] Moshe: Until when [or how long] will you refuse to keep my commandments and my instructions?  (You) see that [The LORD] YHWH has given you the Sabbath, therefore on the sixth day, he gives you bread for two days.  Stay each-man, in his spot [or in his place]; no man shall go out from his place on the seventh day!  So the people ceased on the seventh day” (vs. 27-30).  Now there you have it right there.  Absolutely proves that the 15^th day of the second month was a weekly Sabbath.  Now with that then we can properly construct the chronology going back to the time of the Passover of the Children of Israel in the land on Egypt.  Now what we are going to do is combine all of this together now.

Let’s go to Exodus 19, before we do we need to cover one other thing so we can get all the information that we need concerning coming up to the giving of the Ten Commandments.  Exodus 19:1, “On the third New-Moon after the going-out of the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, on that (very) day they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.”  Now on that very day, what is the very day?  What very day, or selfsame day or the same day is it talking about?  Well we will see that when we get to the chart.  We’ll get there in just a minute.

Now then, God made them the proposition, and they said, “All that the LORD has said we will do.”  Now verse 9, “[The LORD] YHWH said to [Moses] Moshe: Here, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, so that the people may hear when I speak with you, and also that they may have trust in you for ever.  And [Moses] Moshe told the words of the people to [The LORD] YHWH. [The LORD] YHWH said to [Moses] Moshe: Go to the people, make them holy, today and tomorrow, let them scrub their clothes, that they may be ready for the third day, for on the third day [The LORD] YHWH will come down before the eyes of all the people, upon Mount Sinai” (Exodus 19:9-11).  Now the borders, then he set it aside so they wouldn’t go up on it.  So they were to be ready the third day.

Now let’s put all of this together and let’s look at the chart, and I provided one that you can have in our lap or on the table that you can follow along with and go ahead with, so let’s look at it now.  The chart “Count Pentecost”, and all of you have a chart that you can see that’s exactly like this.  Now let’s come down and see how we construct this chart from the second day, or the 15^th day of the second month.  Let’s come all the way down here because this gives us a very firm date.  All right, 15^th day of the second month is a weekly Sabbath.  Now let’s come back up to the time of the Passover and beginning of the exodus, and as you will see up here, here is the 14^th day of the first month.  This is sunset.  And right after sunset ben ha arbayim, between the two evenings was when they killed the Passover lamb.  Here is midnight when the firstborn were killed.  This is daybreak when they left their homes.  This is the beginning of the 15^th at sunset when they began leaving Egypt, and we’ll get back to that and see how that ties in very clearly now, because this day is going to be important again.  Now notice this is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a holy day.

Now let’s look at the whole Feast of Unleavened Bread.  The 14^th is the Passover.  The 15^th, the first day.  And then day two, the 16^th.  Day three the 17^th.  Day four the 18^th. Day five, day six, day seven.  And they were to eat unleavend bread until sunset of the 21^st.  So from sunset of the 14^th beginning the 15^th, to sunset of the 21^st beginning the 22^nd they were to eat unleavened bread.

Now then, when we come, and we just read in Exodus 19 that they came into the wilderness of Sinai right at the base of the mountain on the same day.  That has to do with the same day that they left the land of Egypt.  So let’s come down, straight down right here on this day all the way down in the third month, the third month Sivan, and you have the fourth of Sivan that they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Now then, let’s come back up here again and let’s begin seeing how we count for the wave sheaf offering on which day.  Now let’s count it correctly first all the way through so that we will know.  Remember there are seven weeks and there are 50 days.  There are to be whole weeks.  Now let’s begin with the regular Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  That’s our starting point.  This day however is not counted.  You count beginning with the next day.  So let’s go on over here to the 18^th.  This is the first day of the count toward Pentecost.  Notice then we have, in with this we have coming all the way across seven days for a complete week.

Now what I’ve done is this.  I’ve numbered each day.  This is day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, day seven.  So that’s one way of counting.  Now then I have numbered the week as whole week one.  Remember the command was, “You shall have seven Sabbaths of days.  Now let’s count the Sabbaths all the way down.  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven Sabbaths, shall you number to yourself until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath.  So let’s come down and see where the day of Pentecost fits right here.  So that is the day of Pentecost.

Now as we go through let’s come clear back up here again to the end of the first week.  So let’s count the days.  Seven, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 50.  Now you understand the double way of counting.  One is by weeks: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven whole weeks, unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath.  Now that’s important.  Seventh Sabbath, because I’m going to show you a problem right now in counting incorrectly.  Ok.  The morrow after, which is a day after, which then has to be here.  So we find that Pentecost is always on the first day of the week.  Now let’s come straight up here, right up here, and we will see that the beginning day of counting is also on the first day of the week, or the morrow after the Sabbath, ha shabbat, the Sabbath.  Not a Sabbath.

Now let’s come back up over here and let’s look at the holy day.  Fifteenth day of the first month is a holy day.  Now if, according to the Pharisaical reckoning or calculation, they used the day after the holy day as a day to begin their count on.  And let’s see what happens.  Let’s see, all right?  This becomes day one, day two.  But notice you have a partial week, do you not?  And each week is a partial week.  Let’s count seven days.  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.  Now then, we’re going to see that you cannot have seven Sabbaths in the morrow after the seven Sabbaths.  Because what they have is this: you have one Sabbath, two-you see where you get off.  Notice, their second Sabbath is actually the first one.  Three, four, five, six, and then you come down here, which then ends the seventh week and you don’t have a holy day.  Or actually down here, you don’t have a holy day.  There’s no holy day.  Friday here is not a holy day.  Thursday here is not a Sabbath.  However you go straight up the line to the 15^th day of the first month, that is a holy day, but you come straight down the line and the 4^th of Sivan is not a holy day.

Now also let’s look at it too.  Here’s something interesting.  Actually the 50^th day should be right here the way the Pharisees count it, which means that not only is it not the day after the seventh Sabbath, but you’re also dealing with a problem.  It’s not the 6^th of Sivan.  It is the 5^th.  So the Pharisaic way of counting can’t be right.  Now then the Pharisees would say…let’s come over here, over to this point here.  Do you see this little number 1?  The reason I have this little number 1 here is because someone will surely say that the second month only has 29 days.  So therefore with 29 days then we can make that day the 6^th of Sivan by going one, two, three, four, five, six.  But then you have a problem.  How can they arrive in Sinai on the same day of the month, being a Thursday that they left Egypt, and you have this day as Pentecost because you have to have three days preparation before?  So there is no way that Pentecost could have been in that year on the 6^th of Sivan.  Now there are some years when it is counted correctly that it does fall on the 6^th of Sivan.  Now you understand that all the way through?

Let’s just review.  Let’s just come back up here and count the weeks again.  One, two, three, four, five, six, seven complete weeks unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, there is the 50^th day.  And this would be on the 7^th of Sivan.  And if we had 29 days it would be on the 8^th of Sivan.

Now let’s come back up here for just a minute and let’s see.  This is the week that we’re talking about in Exodus 16.  They would get manna on the first day, on the second day, on the third day, fourth day, the fifth day, and the sixth day they would have double manna.  No manna on the Sabbath.

Now I want you to take your chart and go over it very carefully again and review all these things.  Now then let’s come down here to the last week again and let’s come over here to this day.  This is the day that they came into the wilderness of Sinai.  And they had three days to get ready.  One, two, three.  Or you could count it this way: one, two, three.  That’s the way I have it, because Moses went up in the mountain and got the instruction, came back down and told the people.  They said, “We will do it”.  He went back up on the mountain and God said have them be ready the third day.  So he came down and said, “Be ready the third day.”  Now on the preparation day is when they washed their clothes and got ready.  None of the men were to come to their wives during any of this three-day period.  So then they rested the Sabbath day (day 2), and then the third day in the morning is when God came down on Mt. Sinai, which is the day of Pentecost.  The Ten Commandments were given on the day of Pentecost.  Now you see how all of this fits together and you can tie it together very clearly if you follow all the word of God and key in on the known days that we have.

Fifteenth day of the second month, come back up here.  We know the 14^th day is Passover.  We know the 15^th day is the leaving from Egypt, the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  And let’s come back up here to the 10^th day, right up here, that’s when the lamb was selected, which was at the beginning of the Sabbath.  Now we also know, and we can draw the parallel, that’s the same day that Jesus was selected as we find in John 12.  So all of it fits together.  Now I’m glad that we can go ahead and do this and lay it out in chart form so you can see it.  Now I hope you can take your chart and go over it and understand all that we have to do with the chart.

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 “God’s Command for the Wave Sheaf Offering.”  And here in Joshua 5 is when the first wave sheaf offering was waved.  And it was done on the 15^th 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 15^th 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 15^th day of the month.

Now let’s read it, Exodus 12:40, “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.  And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.  It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt…” (Ex. 12:40-42).  So we have the beginning of the exodus on the 15^th day of the first month.  The going into the land and waving the wave sheaf offering, the beginning of eating of the new corn, or the old corn, it really doesn’t make any difference because they were not to eat any until they got into the land.  See they had manna coming everyday for 40 years up to that time.  When they went into the land and ate of the grain then the manna ceased on the next day.  Now, this shows how important that all of these days are and how they tie in and go down through time and history with God’s plan.

Now what we are going to do is look into the New Testament concerning Pentecost, right after we get done going through the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai.