WHY THE JEWISH SHAVUOT IS
NOT THE CHRISTIAN PENTECOST
A NEW WINE RAPTURE
Or at the Feast of the First
Fruits of the New Wheat?
by Luis B. Vega
vegapost@hotmail.com
www.PostScripts.org
One was asked to respond to a statement that the Rapture Event
is presumably not going to occur, on what is understood to be
‘Pentecost’ that the Christian Church observes in June, but
the Rabbinical Jews observe as Shavuot. One’s whole Premise is
that the Rapture’s Timing could be on ‘Pentecost’, but not on
what is misunderstood to be the same as the Jewish Feast of
the First Fruit of the New Wheat i.e., Shavuot.
Rather, that it is the Feast of New Wine. Then there is the
Confusion as to when that Shavuot Feast is determined and if
it is really the Pentecost Event as recorded in Acts 2. One
does not believe that the Jewish Feast called Shavuot in June
is the same as the New Testament Pentecost Account of Acts 2.
Although the Description of how to count the Days are given in
Leviticus, the precise start of the Day Count is subject to
Interpretation. The main Issue is what is the ‘Sabbath’ that
determines the ‘Day After’.
One presently subscribes to the Interpretation of what is
called the ‘Counting of the Omer’, if one uses Nisan 15 as the
Start Date. Rabbinical Judaism asserts that the Day Count
commences the Day after Passover, Nisan 15. This is when the
Israelites left Egypt. This Formula puts Shavuot in early
June. Then there are those, mainly some Christians that are
convinced that the Day Count, being interpreted as ‘Complete
Sabbaths’ are to start after the Weekly Sabbath. In this case,
the Feast of Shavuot or what the Traditional Christian Church
calls Pentecost will fall in Mid-June. The Passover Sabbath is
a Special Annual Holy Day that can fall on any Day of the
Week. See Leviticus 23:4–7. But in the case of Counting from
the Omer, there are 2 considerations.
1. Day after Passover High Day Sabbath?
2. Day after Weekly
Sabbath?
What one has proposed, is how the Leviticus 25 Text insinuates
what one has called a ‘Double-Count’. It is comprised of the 7
Sabbaths or 49 Days, but then a subsequent Day Count of 50
Days. This would be a total of 99 Days, 100 Days
all-inclusive. But from what Day after the Sabbath? One is
more convinced it is from Nisan 15. This Notion is not widely
accepted. Neither is the introduction accepted of the New
Understanding of the New Wine Feast corresponding to the Acts
2 Pentecost. Even then, there is still some Discrepancy as to
what that New Wine Date corresponds to. It is because the
‘Complete Sabbaths’, that are interpreted is being used from
the Weekly Sabbath. Thus, it is 1 week ahead of a Nisan 15
‘Sabbath’ High Holy Day, etc.
Which Sabbath?
It is mainly a Debate of when the ‘Sabbath’ begins. One
actually started-out the Research into the New Wine Theory
using the 99-Day New Wine Count from the Weekly Sabbath, a
Sunday. What changed one’s Mind is when one correlated the
Timeline with the Exodus Journey to Sinai, from Nisan 15. A
‘Sabbath’ just denotes a Day of Rest. That can be the Weekly
Sabbath or a Holy Feast, wherein YHVH prescribes no Work,
i.e., Rest, etc. One had naturally interpreted the Weekly
Sabbath as being the ‘Correct’ Start Date. After all, a
Sabbath is the Weekly Sabbath, right? No.
One has come to be convinced that a Sabbath is just that, a
Day designated to be a Holy or Separated Day of Rest. In that
case, all and any Feast Days of Observance prescribe by YHVH
are Sabbaths. And that is precisely the case when factoring
the ‘High Day Sabbath’ of Passover. This is why one has come
to recalibrate the Sabbath to better reflect the Nisan 15
Exodus Timeline, as a Template. Then later, one used the
Timeline of the Exodus to cross-reference the Day Count from
Nisan 15 and it has a better match, in one’s Estimation and
Calculation. This puts the 99th Day in Mid-July.
Given this Nisan 15 Exodus Timeline, it would corroborate that
the Sabbath Count does not begin with what has come to be
believed in some Christian Minds, to start after the Weekly
Sabbath. Thus, as most are still not convinced of Pentecost
corresponding to the Feast of New Wine in Mid-July, it is, in
one’s Interpretation how those that will expect the Rapture to
occur on ‘Pentecost’, which is the Shavuot of the Jews will
not occur, and cannot occur, etc. This is why, if one’s Theory
about the New Wine Pentecost is when the Rapture is to occur,
it will catch off-guard 99.99% of those Professing Christians
that are looking and anticipating the Rapture on ‘Pentecost’,
i.e., Shavuot.
Or simply put, one is looking at the ‘Wrong Pentecost’. So,
will there be no Rapture on Pentecost? Based on the
Calculations that the Rapture’s Timing will not or cannot
occur on ‘Pentecost’ or what the Jews call Shavuot? One would
agree. Yes. One agrees for what one will say next. It is
because what the Jews call Shavuot in Early June, is not the
Acts 2 Account of what the Christians call Pentecost. One
surmises that the Acts 2 Pentecost Event was the 2nd ‘Shavuot,
which just means a Set of 7 Sabbaths. This is what one
calculates was when ‘Pentecost had fully come’.
It is where and when the End of the Church Age is to
Correspond, its End will be as it was at its Beginning, etc.
And it just so happens that it corresponds to the Feast of the
First-Fruit of the New Wine. One is more convinced that ‘When
Pentecost had fully come’ could refer to a Completion of a
Time Period or Segment. This is to insinuate a Calendar Date
where there is a Delineation made and was known to the 1st
Century Jews. And that is? The End and Beginning of the
Astrological New Year. And that was at the Sign of Leo,
precisely on a July 23. The Acts 2, 2nd Shavuot or Pentecost
was the 2nd of 3 First Fruit Feasts. See Chart for an
Illustration below.
3 PENTECOST FEASTS OF SUMMER
Shavuot is not Pentecost - Leviticus 23:16
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1iM-1pITiGT2TG2L9uAyeRYlRH8rSQt7B
A Pentecost Rapture?
Then one has come to research how in the Ancient Middle East,
this Astrological Leo New Year is when the Resurrection of the
Bodies of the Dead would rise and go to Heaven through the
Lion’s Gate, etc. So, one agrees that Early June is when the
Rapture ‘will not’ occur. But as noted, there is then a
Qualifier in one’s part. It is because one has the
preconceived Notion, disregarding Church Tradition, that the
First Fruit of the New Wine corresponds to the Pentecost that
occurred in Acts 2. As noted, most do not accept or are not
aware of the 3 Penta-Feasts, of which Shavuot was the 1st of
the 3, according to the Temple Scrolls.
1. New Wheat – Early
June
2. New Wine – Mid July
3. New Oil – Early September
If that was the case, there could not have been or would have
been that direct Inference to the Disciples being accused of
being ‘Drunk’ on the New Wine. And it is precisely on July 23
when that Demarcation of Harvest Types, pertinent to their
First Fruits of the New Wine is celebrated and observed, etc.
It echoes the Wedding at Cana and the Wedding of Boaz to Ruth
after the Wheat Summer Harvest. Now, does the Rapture Timing
have to be on a Feast Day? Well, does the Scriptures teach
that one will ‘See the Day Approaching’?…
‘But let us encourage one another, and all the more as you
see the Day approaching’. -Hebrews 10:25
SEE DAY APPROACHING
βλέπετε τὴν ἡμέραν ἐγγίζουσαν
The Bible teaches that those that Watch and See the Blessed
Hope, will see ‘The Day’ approaching. Thus, it cannot be a
Random Day, in one’s Interpretation. Or else one would not
know Where? and When? to Watch and See ‘that’ very Day
approaching. To ‘Watch’ is generic and prescribed, generally.
But what to watch? What Day? Then that becomes a Focus,
despite only being allowed to perceive it through a Dim Glass
(1 Corinthians 13:12 ) and if by some Revelation, see it in
part approaching. So, it will be on a Specific Day then.
Perhaps that is what the Verse is insinuating.
It is thus not about an Imminence but a calculated Approach.
That being said, allow one to interpret the opposite of
Imminency and suggest that when the Rapture occurs, it will be
precisely on a Feast Day. And one’s Assertion is that it will
be at the corresponding Acts 2 Pentecost that one is convinced
correlates to the Feast of New Wine. How so? It is not that
the Rapture has to necessarily have to occur on a Precise
Feast Day, but that the End of the Church Age does. What? The
Rapture is just the Concluding Act and Event that closes it.
Jesus stated that He would be with the Church, until the ‘End
of the Age’, etc. What Age? The Church Age.
The Church Age
It had a specific Beginning and it will have its specific End.
This supposition is based on the Discussion with Brethren of
how the 7 Feasts of YHVH are being literally fulfilled by
Jesus, in that the 2nd Coming will be as His 1st Coming. Then
Realize that as one overlays the 7 Feasts with the 7 Branches
of the Menorah, the Spring and Fall Feasts pivot on the Center
Stem. This Typology is of the Vine, the Fig Tree. And having
this Chiastic Fold, the Church Age corresponds to Pentecost
that began in Acts 2. And?
It has not been completed fully. It is ‘In-Progress’. It will
not be consummated until the Rapture Event concludes the Age
the Royal Commission, etc. If this is the Prophetic Pattern
presently, then the Spring Feasts correspond in that way to
the Fall Feasts, that are yet to occur after the Church Age
concludes. And the subsequent Feast of YHVH to be literally
fulfilled by Jesus Yom Teruah or the Feasts of Trumpets.
Consider that when Jesus returns with the Bride and Armies of
Heavenly Angels, He 1st will rescue the Jewish Believing
Remnant at Petra/Bozrah. Then Jesus confronts and combats the
Armies at Armageddon, etc. These Series of Initial Events
correspond, in one’s Mind to the Feast of Trumpets, which is
about War, the Cry of War and Victory. Then it is at Yom
Kippur that the Kings are Anointed and the Jubilee is
Proclaimed. It is wherein Jesus, as the Prophet, Priest and
now King will literally fulfill the 3 remaining Fall Feasts,
in that Order.
In one’s Interpretation, Jesus enters the Holy of Holies and
cleanses it and is crowned, and proclaimed King of the Jews
and the World. Then at Sukkot, Jesus gathers the Nations for
the Goat and Sheep Judgment as the Transition is acquired to
implement the Kingdom Millennial Reign Protocols. This is
one’s Understanding and Interpretation. In stating all that,
one’s Point is that if Jesus returned on Yom Kippur, what
happened to the Prophetic Fulfillment of Yom Teruah, the Feast
of Trumpets?
Thus, the Fall Feast of Yom Teruah cannot be ‘Skipped’.
Realize that it is Jesus ultimately that is the Living Vine,
and the Fig Tree, etc. One’s Point is that the Present Age of
Grace that is the Church Age, typified by the 7-Fold Churches
of Asia is wherein Non-Jews are being given the Grace to be
grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel’s Promises, etc. This
Age of Grace thus only has a set Number of Years, Months and
Days then to its ‘Prophetic Shelf Life. One strongly suggests
that Prophecy is Pattern, and the Beginning is as the End and
the End will be as the Beginning.
YHVH has always moved and had His Prophetic Mile-Markers
precisely occur on Feast Days and Anniversaries. So, one is
saying that as the Church Age clearly began in that Acts 2
Pentecost, associated with the New Wine, it would be logical
to presume that it could very well ‘End’ as it began, on a
similar Acts 2 Timing of when Pentecost ‘Fully Comes’. This is
one’s Working Theory, anyway. And that the Acts 2 Pentecost
was on the 2nd Shavuot, or the Feast of the First Fruits of
the New Wine. This occurs around a July 23 Delineation of the
Astrological Leo Year. Coincidence? Plausible? Perhaps. But
nonetheless, the ‘Day Approaching’ insinuates a specific Day,
and one that is perhaps known or to be known as it does
approach.
Definition of Insanity?
This is why one does not subscribe to the Theory of the
Rapture’s Imminency. Sure, YHVH is Sovereign and the Rapture
Day can occur at any Time, on any Random Year, Month and Day.
But when in the Bible has YHVH done or Jesus did anything
‘random’ and imminent? Here is another Observation, just
pointing it out. But as mentioned when asked to do so,
without even reading the Posts to get an Idea of what has been
said, it is just that most 99.9% of Professing Christians
consider the Jewish Feast of Shavuot to be the Christian
‘Pentecost’ of Acts 2. So, just be aware, that as you all know
very well know of one’s Theory of the New Wine, it is what one
believes is instead corresponding to the Acts 2 Pentecost
Account.
This alone would be a cause to doubt any possible Rapture
Timing to include the Traditional June Date each Year. As for
one’s July 23 (723) Rapture High Watch Date? One just wishes
to reiterate that one does recognize that one is
‘Missile-Locked’ until further notice. One cannot change that.
The Holy Spirit has to move in one’s Mind to think or believe
otherwise, as shown only by Him. But having said that, in any
given Year, one is only focused on July 23, that it will be
‘It’. If it is a ‘Nothing Burger’, then one will have to
abandon the Theory, as best one has understood it.
So, one realizes that although one supports other Brethren’s
High Watch Days, one has more than a Speculation or
Calculation about July 23. It crosses over into being a
Conviction. After all, is it not the Definition of Insanity,
‘Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting
Different Results? One would be ‘Insane’ if one continues to
do so with each Passing Year. For the past Decade or so, one
has narrowed-down only on this Theory and Feast Day as being
the Highest Rapture Watch, in any given Year.
And since 2021, that it somehow corresponds to this particular
Date, ‘723’. One had interpreted that Numerical Factor as
being July 23. Why? It was based on what was either an ‘Open
Vision’ or Dream of seeing the Number ‘723’ being painted by
Hand as it appeared across a blank, Gray-Colored Canvas board,
etc. All that, in part, is why one is ‘Missile-Locked’ on the
July 23 (723) Date. Then on subsequent and further Research,
this Date has been reinforced.
It has been based on the Lion’s Gate Correlation and the
Ancient Astrological Calendar wherein, the Sign of Leo Starts
and Ends on July 23, (723). Perhaps they have all been Clues
and Pieces of the Rapture Puzzle. But one is placing them
together to surmise the precise Rapture Day and Time, as best
as one can and as others have also. So, of course one is open
and expectant to see if any other Rapture High Watch Dates
will have the Rapture occur: Passover, Resurrection Day,
Jewish Shavuot, Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpet, Yom Kippur
or even Sukkot or Tabernacles?
So, when then in July 23? One must consider that the Eve of
July 23 in the Western Hemisphere is actually June 22 in
Israel. One is assuming it would correspond to the
1st Watch of the Day, being from 6am to 9am, Jerusalem
‘Zero Time’. Meaning that July 23 is the 22nd in the
Western Hemisphere. Imagine that? Presuming to know, exactly
the Year, Month, Week, Day, and Hour.
So, just to reiterate, when the Israelites reached the Foot of
Mount Sinai, exactly 2 Months or 60 Days from Nisan 15, the 3
Days was how YHVH then made that Proposal to the Nation of
Israel, singularly. This is the Covenant and what one asserts
is what will be ‘Confirmed with the Many’, i.e., the L’Rabbim
or the Elders of Zion for the Tribulation Period, etc. The
Elders of Zion or the Sanhedrin rejected the Son of the
Father.
But then one must realize that based on the subsequent Day
Count, one calculates that the Hard Copy of that Covenant in
the Form of the 2 Tablets of Stone were not procured by Moses
until the 99th Day. And this is when it pertains to the Golden
Calf incident, which one then correlates to that Timeframe
being the Acts 2 Pentecost and corresponds to the Feast of the
New Wine. And thus, the Revelry in the Camp with the Golden
Idol and how 3000 Died that Day.
This is the Key Clue of how at the Acts 2 Pentecost Account,
there was that direct inference to the New Wine and 3000
Israelites got saved. It was the Reverse of the Curse, and the
start of the Church Age. This is why one then postulates that
the Church Age will end, as it began and that this is where
one can see the 3rd Theme of one’s Salvation in Jesus. It is
the Glorification that is to occur next. Perhaps at this
precise Timing, at the Feast of the New Wine. Thus, why one
calculates a July Pentecost and that being on the Feast of the
New Wine. Will it be this Year? Time will always tell the
Truth.
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Books
NEW WINE RAPTURE
The purpose of this Book, the 4th in a Tetralogy is about
expounding on the Notion and Theory that the Pentecost of Acts
2 was and is on the Feasts of the First-Fruits of the New
Wine.
LEO NEW YEAR
People often say the following when asked about, ‘When is the
Rapture to occur?’ They say, ‘No One Knows the Day or the
Hour’? Does that Verse in the Bible really pertain to
the Rapture Timing?
PENTECOST WINE
The purpose of this Book is to provide a Compilation of
Articles over several Years of ‘Discovery into the Journey of
Identifying that the Feast of New Wine, precisely at a 99th
Day Count is what Acts 2 was and is about.