Hello Petr, John and Doves,
Thank you for your study on
the Feast of Weeks. You wrote that "the Lord Jesus
will personally fulfill all the feasts." And you
noted, "with great probability", that His Ascension would
have been on the next feast in line - Feast of Weeks - so
Jesus could fulfill it.
We've had previous letters
about this: Feast of Weeks and Ascension Day being the
same day. Your letter adds even more support to
this topic. Thank you. As you have pointed out,
this certainly is not main
stream teaching.
Petr wrote that Feast of
Weeks is listed as June 2 or 3 but is really "about 7 to 14
days earlier". (We don't know when Jesus started
appearing to His apostles for the count of 'being seen of
them forty days." Act 1:3.) Seems the Feast of
Weeks would provide the accurate count - for the Feast day
and His Ascension.
I have thought for some
years now that Jesus' Ascension was on the Feast of Weeks,
in part, because Luke notes that the people who witnessed
His ascension were a "Sabbath's day journey from
Jerusalem". No where else does he note this. This is
written ONE time.
"Then they returned to
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, which is near the city,
a Sabbath day's journey away." Act 1:12 In the
books written by Luke (The Gospel of Luke and the book of
Acts) he often writes about the weekly Sabbaths - how this
happened or that happened...but not this time. If this
ascension happened on a weekly Sabbath, Luke would have
written that down - he was very meticulous about noting the
weekly Sabbaths.
Luke makes a special note
about this day, a clue?, that this was a special Holy day
- and it was a 'Sabbath's day journey away.'
Luke doesn't write about a Sabbath day's journey any where
else...just on this particular day. This tells me,
this day, was NOT a weekly Sabbath.
The law of a "Sabbath days
journey applies to the Sabbath and all the Feasts of the
Lord where regular work is not allowed - traveling was
considered 'work' after a certain distance. It's the allowed
distance to travel on the Sabbath or a Feast day without
violating the commandment to rest. Since Luke doesn't
refer to this day as a 'sabbath day' - it must be on a Feast
of the Lord - the feast following Passover, Unleavened
Bread, Firstfruits is Feast of Weeks.
Just my thoughts....
In this letter, Petr wrote
that the Feast of Pentecost is "biblically connected with
the rapture"
Feast
of Pentecost
Some of us see that as the
Feast of New Wine. Luis Vega is all over that. Don't
know if you've been following Luis' many letters on this
topic. I've written a few and taken a stab at a date
or two. And Dr. Barry Awe on Youtube has lots of
videos on this topic
Here's one of Luis'
letters:
Ted Porter would call the
accepted date of Ascension Day as a 'sacred cow'. Some
of us have put that cow out to pasture.
Looking forward to your
future studies on the Feast of Pentecost. And any
dates your calculations come up with...
Thanks again.
Maranatha!
Chance