Daniel Matson (21 March 2007)
"The Day Had Fully Come"


 
Here is something maybe worth thinking about:
 
At the Feast of Pentecost,  according to Acts 2,  the "day had fully come".  The time was the third hour of the day or 9 am in Jerusalem. This Peter makes clear since those assembled were certainly not drunk.
 
What is peculiar about 9 am in Jerusalem is that world daytime would have stretched across Australia, Asia, Africa, and Europe in its entirety.  The rest of the world would have been dark (sorry Americas), but still a part of day 50 since the 24 hour day begins at evening. So the whole world was fully at Pentecost by having the Spirit come at 9 am Jerusalem Standard Time.
 
Beware of the confusion of Daylight's Saving's Time!
 
So this year it will be 10 am Jerusalem Daylight Saving's Time to equal 9 am Standard Time.
 
Will this Pentecost be the day the Church's fullness comes? The fullness of the Gentiles? The full lump of dough (Rom 11:16)?
 
At the fullness of the day?
 
Just more to consider.
 
 
in Christ,
 
Daniel Matson