PENTECOST - 1999

“Pentecost and the Sea of Glass #1”

Fred Coulter - April 17, 1999 

Now on my trip I had several people ask me about the Sea of Glass.  And there have been…other letters have been written about the Sea of Glass in relationship to Pentecost.  And Pentecost being the first resurrection…since those who have been in the Church of God for years and years, especially Worldwide Church of God, have thought that because of the teachings of the Church, that the resurrection would be on the Feast of Trumpets.  And, just give you a little background on that so you kind of know what happened in Worldwide and how they came to a Monday Pentecost.  And many people don’t know this. I came across this when I was up in Eugene, Oregon.

In 1952 in Eugene, Oregon when the Church was still very, very small, Eugene, Oregon being the mother Church and they had the College down in Pasadena just starting and so forth, they had a big difficulty over how to count Pentecost.  And I think at that time they had just less than a dozen members up in Eugene, and all but one of them went with a Sunday count of Pentecost.  So Herbert Armstrong sent Raymond Cole up there to solve the problem and to try and save the Church.  And then he had Herman Hoeh go ahead and do a study on it to find out from the scriptures.  Well, they concluded that it ought to be on a Monday.

So what happened was then, again this came up again and again during the years from there until 1974.  And in 1974 it came up again and there was really a big diffugulty about it and there was more knowledge concerning the Hebrew and concerning the Greek and so forth.  So again they had another study on it and there was a ministerial conference over it and I was there at the conference and I heard Herman Hoeh give his confession as to how he came up with a Monday Pentecost, which was this.  In Leviticus 23 he went ahead and said that the word Sabbath ha shabbath meant “weeks”.  Ha shabbath never means “weeks” but he concluded in his mind that since Herbert Armstrong was the apostle of God that the apostle of God could not be wrong with a Monday Pentecost, so he sought a way to justify it and that’s how he justified it.  So he had to admit at this conference that ha shabbath meant “Sabbath” and “Sabbath” only, and shabua meant “weeks”.  “Week or weeks”, the shabua is the week.

So that’s how we came to have a Monday Pentecost in the Worldwide Church of God.  And all of those years and all of those problems could have been solved going clear back to 1952 if it would have been handled rightly.  And since that time there are many, many people who have tried to justify a Monday Pentecost and we’ll see how they do it, one of them, because before we begin Pentecost we need to go through and review how to count it.  First of all I’m going to show you how to count it correctly, and I’m going to use the Schocken Bible, Volume 1, The Five Books of Moses.  Now when I was on my trip back east I mentioned the phone number for Christian Book Distributors.  And I gave you the wrong number so I’m going to give you the right number.

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And I called the number to verify that it was correct, and it is correct.  Now then, you cannot get it by asking for the Schocken Bible because it is under the First Five Books of Moses.  So here is the order number at CBD: Stock Number  -  40616

Now the Schocken Bible has the first five books of Moses and it is a translation, which is based upon the more literal reading of the Hebrew and it is really excellent.  And when I first got it I was shocked at how that he was able to get it published at Schocken Publishing Company, because that is the largest Jewish publication company in the world.  And I’ve since figured out how he was able to get the clarity of scripture but get it past the Rabbi’s, because the Rabbi’s are not interested in scripture they’re interested in commentary.  So he gave many of the traditional Rabbinical commentaries in the commentary section and so it got through and got published.  Because here he says…let’s go to Leviticus 23, but let me just tell you very clearly concerning another dispute that centers around Passover…that is when “between the two evenings” or ben ha arbayim is.  And he translates it correctly “between the setting times”, which I think is a good, very good translation.  But he makes this definition of it and he proves it in Exodus 16.  Now I’m not going to go back and do that, we’ve already done that.  But he says concerning “between the setting times” is between the time that the sun is below the horizon, no longer visible, and total darkness.  An idiomatic rendition would be “at twilight”.  There, from one of the foremost experts in the world on Hebrew.

Now he also translated this from the Ben Asher-Ben Napthalai text, which is the Levitical Masoretic text.  Most people don’t realize that there is also a Rabbinic Masoretic text, which comes from the Ashkenazi manuscripts, which come out of Poland and East Germany.  And those are not the texts that Luther and Tyndale used to translate the Old Testament.  That’s another story I won’t get into it, but suffice to say we have here a proper Levitical Hebrew text underlying the Schocken translation.

Now let’s come to Leviticus 23 and let’s pick it up here in verse 10, and we will go through on how to count it and I’m going to show you five checkpoints that gives us absolute certainty that it is the 50^th day and it is on a Sunday.  Now, many people are familiar with double entry bookkeeping.  Double entry bookkeeping gives you two reference points so that you can balance the books.  Now if you want to balance the books without balancing the books you do like this little joke.  There’s a little cartoon came out, the auditor came in and was auditing this business and he said, “Well I see your books are in perfect shape they all balance, but I have just one question.”  And the bookkeeper looked up and said, “Well, what’s that?”  He said, “What is this ESP account?  That seems be a very account and I don’t know what it is?”  And she said, “Oh, that means “error some place”.  (Laughter)  Whenever there’s an error I just put it in the ESP account and the books balance.”

Well a lot of people do that with the Bible.  They don’t properly put it together, but double entry bookkeeping rightly handled gives you the correct perspective and it gives you a double check that all your figures are right.  Now then if you are on the ocean or on the land and you want to figure a precise place where you are you then you do a three point not a two point.  You do what is called a triangulation, and you can pick the exact spot as to where you are or the exact spot as to where you want to go.  So here with Pentecost we don’t have double entry bookkeeping, we don’t have triangulation, we have five points which prove and give us a definition on how to come to the 50 days.

Now, you can’t have any one of these five points wrong and you cannot have a Monday Pentecost or a 6^th of Sivan Pentecost, except in rare occasions where you have all five of these correct.  You must break some of them in order to do that.  So let’s read it here beginning here in verse 10, and this picks up right after the, what I gave on the Sabbath during Unleavened Bread.

“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,…”  Now you see all during the wilderness all they had was manna.  Manna, manna, manna, manna, manna, manna. (Laughter)  They could boil it, they could bake it, they could deep fry it, they could eat it raw, they could mix it in with other vegetables if they had it, but all they had was manna.  And they could not eat bread nor eat grain until they got in to make the first harvest of the land.  Now continuing, “…and you harvest this harvest, you are to bring the premier sheaf…” Now the King James says “the sheaf of the firstfruits”, ok.  The premiere sheaf because that means “the first of the first” in the Hebrew.  That’s why he translates it “premiere sheaf”, it is the first and most important, and that’s why this pictures the resurrection of Christ, the ascension of Christ, not his resurrection - I beg your pardon.  He was already resurrected at the end of the Sabbath, but His ascension.

And another thing that is important to remember is this:  the premiere sheaf had a special time of harvest.  And the special time of harvest was right after the regular Sabbath during the Feast of Unleavened Bread was ending.  Now during Temple times they would do this: they would send out the Priests and they would send out the watchers, and they had a special barley plot right on the Mount of Olives.  So they would come across the bridge Kidron, go over to this special ceremonial barley plot and they would then be ready to harvest the sheaf because they had put a scarlet thread around it to mark it off.  They marked it off before the Sabbath.  Then the men who were the watchers would be up on top of the hill, and they would be watching for sundown.  So they would go out there right at the end of the Sabbath, that was less then a Sabbath day’s journey because it was only from the Temple over to the Mount of Olives, which was just across the bridge Kidron.  And the watchers would look out west and those who were with the group would ask them three times, “Is the sun set?”  “No.”  “Is the sun set?”  “No.”  Finally the third time, “Is the sun set?”  “Yes.”  And they would harvest the sheaf.  Now that’s a type of when Christ was lifted from the earth, as it were, right at the end of the Sabbath.  Just as the first day of the week was beginning He already had spiritual life given back to Him.  So He was the first harvest, the premier sheaf.  This was the one then that was to be taken to the Priest.

Now notice verse 11.  It says in the King James, “…he shall wave” it.  But in the Schocken it says,  “He is to elevate the sheaf…” Now, elevate means to “lift up” and that’s more like an ascension into heaven than it is just waving back and forth.  “He is to elevate the sheaf before the presence of [the LORD], for acceptance for you;…”  And that’s exactly what happened on the day that Jesus ascended into heaven to be accepted of the Father as a sacrifice on our behalf for us.  And the “us” means we’re the rest of the firstfruits.

Now let’s notice, “…on the morrow of the Sabbath…” That means “on the day after the Sabbath”.  Question: when does the day after the Sabbath begin?  At sunset.   It’s the whole day.  You count the whole day.  See, because as the day the Sabbath was ending they cut the sheaf, so they had it cut at the beginning of the day.  Then in the morning at 9 o’clock they would take it to the Priest and “…on the morrow of the Sabbath [shall] the priest…elevate it.”

Now let’s come down to verse 14, it gives all the things that they were to do on that day when they waved the wave sheaf offering there.  “Now bread or parched-grain or groats, you’re not to eat, until that same day…” Now that, you go to Joshua 5 and that tells you when that same day occurred when they entered into the land and harvested its harvest.  Now you go back up here to verse 10 and it says, “…and you harvest its harvest…”, see.  Some people made the argument that they had to wait until they planted their own grain and harvested their own harvest, which then would put it a year later.  But no, you harvest its harvest because when they came in and took over those areas that were already planted, whose grain did it become?  It became theirs.  So they couldn’t eat any “…bread or parched-grain or goats, you are not to eat, until [that] same day…” So if you think eating unleavened bread for seven days is difficult, try 40 years with no bread.  That would be, when you really get bread, then that would be kind of like a strange new food, especially all this manna, ok. Now, you’re not to eat 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.”

Now verse 15 is the key.  “Now you are to number…” That is to count.  Counting is different from adding and subtracting.  I use this example many times and I’ll use it again because we’re familiar with it, ok.  When you went to high school you went four years, didn’t you?  If you count the years, they’re 9, 10, 11, and 12, correct?  Inclusive counting.  Now if you take 9 and subtract it from 12, you don’t get 4 but you get 3.  And that’s where people make a lot of mistakes.  Another example: you work from Monday to Friday.  That includes Monday, does it not?  Now just to give you an example, if your boss would do subtracting instead of counting, you would come and get your paycheck and say you were to make $100 a day.  And you come in to get your paycheck and you expect the gross amount to be $500, and you look on it and it’s $400.  So you ask you boss, “Well, I’m short $100 here.”  Well he says, “No, you agreed to work from Monday to Friday, see, so since it’s from Monday I’m not counting Monday because it’s from Monday.”  Well how long would you work for him?  (Laughter)  You would tell him, “Look, you either pay it…” (Laughter)  And then what would you do?  If you belonged to a union you’d get a grievance right?  If you didn’t belong to the union you’d go to the Fair Employment Practices right?  And you would get your days pay of $100.  Well, this is what people have done concerning Pentecost.  They’re not doing it correctly, ok.

Now, verse 15, “Now you are to number for yourselves, from the morrow of the Sabbath…” Which means “including that day” because the Hebrew is m moh-’ghorahth, which means “including that day”.  Cause you’re counting from the Sabbath.  You are not counting from Sunday.  You are including Sunday.  Let’s put it this way.  The first day of the week, because that follows the seventh day of the week, correct?  Yes.  So you have to count from that Sabbath.  That’s #1, see.  You are including the morrow from the Sabbath.  You’re counting the first day of the week.

Now, to reemphasize it.  From the day that you bring the wave sheaf.  That’s all part of number 1, cause that’s included on that day.  Now there’s only one day to bring the wave sheaf.  Every one agrees on the wave sheaf with the exception of the Jews who say it’s on the holy day rather than Sabbath, and that’s a Pharisaical way of reckoning it, and that’s how they come up with the 6^th of Sivan.

Now then it says what you’re to do here, “…seven Sabbaths-of-days…” (vs. 15), that’s #2, seven Sabbaths.  Now you’re going to miss out on the Sabbath, one Sabbath if you go a 6^th of Sivan, so that can’t be right.  And you’re going to miss out on a Sabbath if you’re counting to a Monday Pentecost.  We’ll see there’s another checkpoint.  So there have to be seven Sabbaths, ok.  That’s #2, seven Sabbaths of days.

#3,  “…whole (weeks) are they to be…” (vs. 15).  Now it says, in the King James, “complete weeks” doesn’t it?  Now what is a whole week?  A whole week is seven consecutive days.  That is a whole week.  That is a complete week.  What is a deficient week?  A deficient week is when you start, say like on Monday, and if you count from Monday to Monday you’re dealing with deficient weeks.  All seven weeks are deficient, are they not?  You don’t have whole weeks.  A whole week is day one through day seven including one and including seven.  That is a whole week.  If you go from day two to day two you have deficient weeks and they are not whole weeks, and they’re not complete weeks, see.  Whole weeks are they to be.

Ok, now #4, verse 16.  “Unto the morrow of the seventh Sabbath…” So you’re to go unto the morrow of the seventh Sabbath, so there again it’s not the day after the day after the Sabbath, see.  When you have a Monday Pentecost you’re coming to the day after the day after the Sabbath, correct?  “Unto the morrow of the seventh Sabbath you are to number-fifty days”, which then is #5.

Now in order to come to the right counting of it you must have all five of these conditions met.  Let’s go back and review it again so we get it clear here.  You are to number unto yourselves:

#1 - from the morrow of the Sabbath from the day you bring the wave sheaf

#2 - seven Sabbaths of days

#3 - whole weeks are they to be

#4 - until the morrow of the seventh Sabbath

#5 - you are to number fifty days

You can take any calendar and you can start out on any Sunday and you can count seven full weeks and come to the day after the seventh full week and you will be on a Sunday.  There is no way that can be missed.

Now then what they were to do, they were to bring the offering we find here, verse 17.  And what they did after that, they brought two loaves of two-tenths meal, flour they are to be, firstfruits unto the Lord.  Now these firstfruits are different than the others, ok.  Notice verse 17, “…leavened you are to bake them…” This is the only offering that God required to be leavened.  All other meal or bread offerings were to be unleavened.  The leavening of these then symbolizes the two covenants, or the two ages of when people would be brought into the Kingdom of God.  One being the Covenant with Israel, and of course that goes on back including the other patriarchs going back to that.  And two, would be the New Testament Church.  That’s why there are only two.  That’s why there are not three, there are not six, there are not ten, there are only two.  And the reason there is leaven in them is because we all have the law of sin and death in us and so therefore we are accepted with the law of sin and death in us if we have the Holy Spirit in us, that’s by the grace of God.  So that’s the symbolic meaning of this.  Then the other animal sacrifices they were to bring.

Now notice, let’s come down here to verse 21.  “And you are to make-proclamation on that same day…” Now I want you to really emphasize this, fifty days-that same day.  “…a proclamation of holiness shall there be for you, any-kind of servile work you are not to do—a law for the ages, throughout your settlements, into your generations.”  Ok.

Now we’re going to look at a very clever slight of hand which is done by some people where they use the word in verse 16 where it says “…fifty days, then you are to bring the grain [offering] of new-crops to [the Lord].”  Now in the King James it says, “and” instead of “then”, “and”.  But this then does not mean an afterward “then”, but it means inclusive.

Let’s come here to Leviticus 15, let’s show where they go to try and prove their point.  Because they use that as a device to say that we should go to the 51^st day by saying that after you have counted the 50 days then you are to go to the 51^st day by using the word “then” or “and” as it were.  Now let’s come here to Leviticus 15:13, this time I’ll read in the King James.  “And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue [that could be of any wound, sore, infection, anything that was draining or issuing, ok]; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.”

Now verse 14, “And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtledoves…” and he shall go and that will be his offering.  That will be an atonement, see.  So what they say is this: that the seven days in counting here is likened unto numbering the 50 days in Leviticus 23.  So when you get done numbering the 50 days then you must go to the 51^st day.  But you see it doesn’t say number eight days here.  It says count and number to himself seven days.  Then on the eighth day he is to go do his offering.  It doesn’t say count the eighth day.  You count seven days and then that eighth day you go do it.  Whereas back here it says, number to yourself 50 days and on that same 50^th day you are to bring the offering.  It does not say, and on the 51^st day then you are to bring your offerings.

So what is missing is this, here in Leviticus 15:14, it specifically mentions the eighth day, correct?  Yes.  In Leviticus 23 it does not mention specifically a 51^st day.  So if there was to be a parallel in thought then it would have to say, then on the 51^st day you are to bring a near grain offering or meal offering.  So this is the cleverest slight of hand that I have heard.  Because people get tripped up over reading this and there are some people who fervently, adamantly believe in a 51^st day Pentecost, a Monday Pentecost based upon what I just said.

See, what would happen if you did that, you would go on to the morrow after the morrow, see.  So what happens in this, you violate the very last point, see.  Or the fourth point rather, under the morrow of the seventh Sabbath.  And if you have a Monday Pentecost you are not on the morrow after the seventh Sabbath.  You’re on the morrow after the morrow of the seventh Sabbath and then you can’t avoid the situation down here in verse 21.  “And you are to make-proclamation on that same day…” (Lev. 23:21, Schocken).  Now if this were referring to the 51^st day that’s where it would say it.  “That same day.”

Now let’s go to the New Testament here for just a minute.  And that’s all of Schocken for this situation here, and I’m glad I have the phone number correct for you.  Ok, let’s go to John 20 and we will see that there is a sequence of days, a sequence of counting that lead up to the 50 days.  And on “The first day of the week [or the first of the weeks]…” Now the Hebrew there is plural ton sabbaton, which means “on the first of the weeks”.  Now which day is the first day of the weeks?  The morrow after the Sabbath, correct?  And this is counting toward Pentecost.  “…Cometh Mary Magdalene…” and so forth.  That is the day that Jesus ascended.

Let’s come here to verse 16, we’ll just summarize this.  “Jesus said to her, ‘Mary’. She turned herself, and saith unto Him, ‘Rabboni’; which is to say, ‘Master’.  Jesus saith unto her, ‘Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father: but go to My brethren, and say unto them, ‘I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My God, and your God’.”  So she came and told them.  “…and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things unto her.  Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week…” Apparently just right as the…just before the sun was setting, still on that day, the first day of the week.  “…When the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, ‘Peace be unto you’.” (vs. 16-19).  And then you know the rest of the story.

Let’s come over here, verse 26.  “And after eight days…” So now we’ve got eight days.  We have day one.  We have day eight.  “…Again His disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus…”,  appeared to them.  All right, now let’s come over here to Acts 1.  So we have a numbering of the days.  Now let’s come over here to Acts 1.  Let’s pick it up right here in verse 1.  “The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the Holy [Spirit] had given commandments unto the apostles whom He had chosen: to whom also He shewed Himself alive after His passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to [concerning] the Kingdom of God:” (Acts 1:1-3).  Now there were a great many brethren that saw Him.  Hold your place here and go to 1 Corinthians 15.  God did not want this to be some little thing done in a corner.  The whole ministry of Christ was a public, absolutely if we could put it this way, of great notariety.  And of course to the Scribes and Pharisees - notorious.  But they were the notorious ones.

Now let’s pick it up here in 1 Corinthians 15, and let’s begin in verse 3.  “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that He was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present…” (1 Cor. 15:3-6).  So He was seen by many, many, many.  Many infallible proofs.  I don’t know all the infallible proofs that it says there.  It would be interesting to know what they were, but it doesn’t tell us.  So when we’re resurrected and we meet the apostles and those who saw it, we can ask them what they were.  We’ll find out at that time.

Now let’s come back to the book of Acts, chapter 1.  “And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which saith He, ye have heard of Me.  For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy [Spirit] not many days hence” (Acts 1:4-5).  How many days was it from that?  Well, we had 40 days.  On the 40^th day He ascended.  The disciples really didn’t quite understand it.

Verse 6, “When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, ‘Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel’?”  You see because they were promised to sit on thrones weren’t they, so they wanted to know, “Lord is the throne coming?” (Laughter)  See.  “And He said unto them, ‘It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power [authority].”  That’s what it should read, not power - authority, cause the Greek here is exousiaz not dunamis.  “But ye shall receive power [that is dunamis], after the Holy [Spirit] is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (vs. 6-8), then which is a continuing ongoing prophecy of the gospel going out to the world.  “And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.”  Now that would be an experience, wouldn’t it?  Today we have television or movies and we can see things simulated like that, but to actually see the real thing…and of course this was a one time thing for them.

“And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven…” I wonder what they were thinking when He was going up.  I wonder what they were thinking in their minds.  “Look, He’s going higher and higher, higher and higher.  Wow, I can’t see Him.  There He goes right into a cloud.  Look at that.”  So then an angel, while they were looking up, two men stood by them - those were angels, in white apparel, which said to them, “…Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?”  Once the event is finished God wants you to get on with the business, you see.  “…This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven” (vs. 10-11), So they returned.  Now then, that was the 40^th day.

Now let’s come to Acts 2.  And I’m not going to go through this in great detail, but you can…we have three booklets in Care Package #2.  Many, many people have received Care Package #1, but you haven’t received Care Package #2.  And there are a lot of things in Care Package #2 that you need, three of which are: how to count Pentecost, when is Pentecost, and all the peculiar details of it that I’ve just covered here.  So you need to write in for Care Package #2 if you don’t have it.  And in it I have the booklet where I go into quite technical detail concerning verse 1, Acts 2.  Now let’s read it here in the King James.

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”  Now those who believe in a Monday Pentecost and will not refuse to let go of it say that this means “when the Day of Pentecost had ended”.  But unfortunately that is not what it means.  “When the Day of Pentecost was fully come” that doesn’t mean the day after, it doesn’t mean the day before.  Now in the Greek it means this: “and when the day, namely the 50^th day was being fulfilled”.  That’s what it means in the Greek.  Now if you want to prove that then you have to write in for Care Package #2 and get the Pentecost articles because the “being fulfilled” is a peculiar thing to Greek which is not in any other language, maybe in some other languages, but at least it is not in English.  It is in Greek and that is what is called an articular infinitive.  That means this: that you put the definite article “the” in front of an “ing” verb.  “The coming”, “the going”, “the keeping”, “the fulfilling”.  And that’s what it means - during the fulfilling of the day, namely the 50^th day.  So it wasn’t the day before and it wasn’t the day after.

Now let’s look at some of the same language here that we find in Leviticus 23.  You know what happened there on the Day of Pentecost, I’ll cover it for Pentecost.  Now let’s look at the same…you know what happened, I’ll cover this when the day of Pentecost comes but this, look at the fulfilling of not only the wave sheaf offering on the Wave Sheaf Offering Day, the first day, but also the fulfilling of the bringing the loaves of leaven for the 50^th day.

Now let’s read it right here, verse 37, “Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, ‘Men and brethren, what shall we do?’  Then Peter said unto them, ‘Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy [Spirit].  For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.’  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, ‘Save yourselves from this untoward generation’.  Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day [notice the same wording as back in Leviticus 23, “the same day”] were added unto them about three thousand souls” (Acts 2:37-41).  So there is a fulfilling of the wave offering loaves on the 50^th day.

So you have the same exact thing as we find in Leviticus 23 and that’s what those loaves were picturing because this was a great and a momentous event, wasn’t it?  Yes, great momentous event.  It just occurred to me that these loaves could also signify more than just what I said, Old Testament, New Testament.  It could also signify Jew and Gentile as relating to receiving the Holy Spirit after baptism, because the Gentiles were given the Holy Spirit in the same way that the Jews were, and in the same manner by the way, Acts 10.