Chance (11 May 2026)
"When Is Feast of Weeks This Year?   Pentecost or Ascension Day?  Two Different Views."


 
Hello John and Doves,
 
In this letter I looked at Aaron's info and Dr. Awe's info on counting to Feast of Weeks.  Aaron believes Feast of Weeks is also Pentecost.  Dr. Awe believes Pentecost is 50 days later. (I agree with this.)  And I included Petr's link with his video/count to Pentecost.  But I'll look more at Pentecost as we get closer.
 
Also, I included a snip from a letter I wrote back in June 2022 - with my thoughts on what day Ascension Day fell - a Shabbat or a Feast of the Lord/High Holy Day.
 
So for now, I'm looking at the approaching Feast of Weeks, which I believe is Ascension Day.  Looks like that date is 'around May 24'.  
 
Aaron/God A Minute:
 
This is Brother Aaron's Pentecost/Feast of Weeks video on his "God A Minute" Channel.   He counted out 7 Sabbaths.  And determined that Pentecost/Feast of Weeks is May 24, 2026.  He also talked about Enoch being born and taken on Sivan 6.  May 24 is Sivan 6 this year.
 
He has a hand written card where he shows some of his Pentecost dates:   May 24, 30 AD was Pentecost.  And May 24, 33 AD was also Pentecost.  According to oral tradition, King David was born and died on Sivan 6.  And according to oral tradition, Enoch was born and taken on Sivan 6.  He is using the Torah calendar.  He notes that no one really knows the year Jesus was crucified/resurrected.  
 
Aaron said he can't find another May 24 that lines up at Pentecost...at least for a long time...next ten years ...on Torah Calendar.
 
Enoch Was Taken 5.24 Will The Rapture Be The Same? - YouTube
run time 10:41

Others believe that Pentecost is 50 days following Feast of Weeks - like Dr. Barry Awe, me and a few others on Doves.
 
Dr. Awe:
 
People usually start with Nisan 16 for their count of 7 weeks plus one day for Feast of Weeks/Pentecost and get to Sivan 6/7.
 
Shavuot is Pentecost.  For his 40 days Shavuot - he starts counting 10 days after Resurrection Day - if I understand this correctly.  He goes through the scripture.  He starts the 40 day count when Jesus is seen the third time by them in John 21:14.  This takes us to Shavuot/Feast of Weeks.  Nisan 16 plus 50 days = Shavuot.  Sivan 6 or 7 - this year it's May 24.  Jesus ascended on Feast of Weeks/Shavuot to fulfill Feast of Weeks.  He's the first of the Firstfruits of the wheat. On Resurrection Day He was the first of the Firstfruits of the barley.
 
I didn't see Dr. Awe with a Pentecost date in this video.  He's probably counted it out and I missed it.

Proof positive the count to PENTECOST is not what you thought! - YouTube
run time 37:00
 
So, in both of these 'counts' May 24 is Sivan 6 - Feast of Weeks/Shavuot.  But for Aaron it is Pentecost.  And for Dr. Awe (and me) it's Jesus' Ascension Day.  On the Chabad calendar, the date is May 21/22/23 (6 Sivan and 7 Sivan).
 
Petr/Pentecost Count:
 
Petr linked this video from his Doves letter last week.  Thank you, Petr.  The count to Pentecost is shown as:  July 19
The calculation of the day Feast of Pentecost for the year 2026 - YouTube
 
I believe Ascension Day is a big possibility for the Rapture.  Will the day He ascended, also be our ascension?
 
If Ascension Day passes, I'll be looking at Pentecost as a high watch time...and relooking at dates, other's calculations/thoughts, etc. 
 
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
 
Maranatha!
 
Chance
 
These are my thoughts on Ascension Day being Feast of Weeks/Shavuot from June 4, 2024:
 
I know that Jesus' followers were told to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Holy Spirit. So I looked for the location of His ascension. In Luke 24:50-51  "When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them.  While he blessed them, He left them and was carried up into heaven." 
Then I looked up Bethany - it's a village near Jerusalem and located on the Mount of Olives.  In Acts 1:12 "Then they returned to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives."
 
I also know that on a Sabbath or holy convocation one is to do no work - the Pharisees made the rule of a "Sabbath Day's Journey" - anything further than 2,000 cubits was considered work and no work was allowed on the weekly Sabbaths or on the holy convocations.  So, if Ascension Day took place on a Sabbath or on a High Holy Day they had to be no further than 2,000 cubits.
 
What really caught my eye was the next part of this verse..."which is near the city (Jerusalem), a Sabbath's day's journey away."  This was the what I was looking for to tell us if Ascension Day was on a Sabbath or  High Holy Day  - and Luke, the author of Acts, is letting the readers know that they were following the rules of Sabbath. 
 
"A "Sabbath's day's journey" was a unit of distance, equal to about 2000 cubits or 1000 yards.  The Jewish leaders limited people to this distance on the Sabbath, deeming journeying any further to be "work". 
And Jesus followers on Ascension Day were not tending to their "ordinary work"or what they would normally attend to during a normal weekday.  They were 'free' to be with Him.  And Jesus told them to return to Jerusalem - all knowing they were safely within the "Sabbath's Day Journey".
 
So this BIG clue of being a "Sabbath's day's journey away"...tells us this day was either a weekly Sabbath or a High Holy Day.  I strongly doubt Ascension Day was on a Sabbath as Luke would have written that it was a Sabbath as through out the book of Acts, Luke makes mention of the Sabbath many times (such as in Acts 13:44,  Acts 16:13, Acts 17:2, Acts 18:4, Acts 20:7)  Yet nowhere in Acts does Luke mention a "Sabbath's Day Journey", except i n Acts 1, on Ascension Day and he does not write that Ascension Day was on a weekly Sabbath. 
 
This strongly suggests that Ascension Day was not on a weekly Sabbath, but it was on a High Holy Day - a holy convocation - they shall do no work, thus Luke telling his readers that the people had not broken the law of "thou shalt do no work". 
 
The next High Holy Day to be fulfilled by Jesus was....Feast of Harvest/Weeks/Shavuot!