A Couple Thoughts about Pentecost

Dear Doves,,,I have jotted these notes down very hurriedly, so please forgive,,,and I would appreciate your adding to, or correcting my notes here….

  I just read Exodus 19, the first Pentecost.  And Acts 2, the second Pentecost, and Hebrews 12, which sounds like Paul is speaking about another YET FUTURE Pentecost……. God told Moses to have the people ready and gave them three days "be ready against the third day",,,and that He would come down to them "in a thick cloud" (Acts 1 Jesus ascended in a cloud).  Then it says in Exodus 19 He came down "in the morning",,,,,just like the Acts 2 Pentecost was in the morning. 

THEN,,,I read Hebrews 12, where Paul says, that when we are called to Mount Zion with a trumpet and a voice (he says this like it is actually happening....)

Hebrews 12:18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Exod 19:13
 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake

then he says that we are come to Mount Zion (the heavenly church assembly)...and is still speaking like the event is then taking place…….that we “are” come to the heavenly Jerusalem……that’s, like, in heaven……

Hebrews 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things that that of Abel.
 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven

then Paul says that we should not "refuse" Him who calls from heaven, like they did at Sinai,,,,,,where the earth shook, but that God has said that (in the future), he will shake the earth AND THE HEAVENS, AGAIN,,, another time (future Pentecost - rapture?)
(remember, our Lord said in Luke 21 that there would be signs in the heavens and on the earth, men dying of heart attacks for what is coming on the earth…..remember how God so frightened the Israelites in Sinai, that even Moses feared greatly……..so this (future) event is going to be very frightening to those who aren’t expecting the mighty presence of God coming to earth.  Paul goes on to say that we should not refuse Him that speaks from heaven…….hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm…..

Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
 26Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

In the beginning of this chapter in Hebrews, Paul also says that we are "compassed by a great cloud of witnesses, (the resurrected saints?),,,,and angels....and at the beginning of the chapter, verse 1, starts to explain to us, about how we, who are His sons, will be chastened, and corrected, but that we should expect that from our Father, and continue to run the race set before us. 

Putting Acts 2, Exodus 19, and Hebrews 12, together,,,kind of sounds like God will "again" shake the heavens and earth like He did then (In Exodus 19, He shook the earth only) .....and in Acts 2, the heavens and earth were not shaken......

So, there remains another time, when God will shake the heavens and the earth,,,as it did not happen at the early-church Pentecost….
As at Sinai, God spoke with a “voice” and it was like a loud “trumpet”, and the mountain shook etc.,   we are also told by Paul that we will hear our Lord’s “voice”, and God’s “trumpet”…this is also set forth in Revelation, where John hears a voice and trumpet calling him up to heaven…..

Maybe, just maybe?  Maybe the Spirit will be removed on the same day He was given to us….BOTH prior Pentecosts happened “in the morning”,,,and Acts 2 gives us the exact hour (the third hour of the day) (that would be 9:00 a.m.)……IF these two prior events were a pattern for us to look to, and Paul seems to bring up the voice calling us from heaven in a parallel sense to that of the Sinai Pentecost…..then we would have a “day” (Pentecost) and an “hour),,,Jerusalem time 9:00 a.m.   Paul is referring to in Hebrews 12, the first Pentecost,,,,,,and the way he tells it, is like a preview-movie, for us, like it is actually happening.  And Paul says that God has said “a SECOND TIME, will He do this, only the next time it will involve the heavens as well as the earth…..

I pray daily for His very soon return, and I pray that He show us more, and open up more of His Word to us as that day approaches.
I’ve been quite busy with house guests,,,,but I do not miss a day of your letters, a huge comfort to me, Doves….
blessings,,,,,,your sister in Christ,,,,,,,,Arlene