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This has to be the best analysis that I have ever heard on this subject! Alan has pinpointed the aspect of true believers - the firstfruits, and the burdens they sometimes have to bear. Clearly, Moses, David, Jonah, and Jeremiah all experienced the same.

Above Anonymous said, he was “surrounded by anti-Christs”, so was Elijah, who as Alan’s post also related, that when Elijah was in a depresive mood and thought he was the only one who knew the truth, God said He had 7000 souls who did not worship Baal.

We go through moods and also have to listen to that “still small voice”, indeed we feel sometimes that we would rather die and be closer to God. But, we must continue to pray as Jesus did, when He could have chosen an easier death – “Your will be done – not Mine” in that sense, and realise that through His Father and God, we must “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am humble and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light" (Matthew 11:29-30).

Pause awhile, but keep on, and meditate and pray, as it is a continuing process, as God is not up in Heaven that we may fetch Him down, but through His Spirit is near to anyone who will call upon His Name (Romans 10: 6-8).

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Pentecost Day

Pentecost Day on June 4, 2006, was when my first blog was posted and falls always on a Sunday in Christian beliefs. Traditional Judaism from which this day originated remembers this day on Sivan 6, which does not always fall on the same day of the week. Nevertheless, it commemorates when God reiterated and wrote the Ten Commandments on two stone tablets, while Moses for forty days and nights was on Mt Sinai. Christians also remember the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles on this day ten days after the Ascension.

The original Biblical instructions were to count seven weeks (Lev. 23:15), which equals forty-nine days, and then the fiftieth day, would be Pentecost (v. 16).

The firstfruit wave-sheaf was presented to the Lord in the Old Testament the day after the Sabbath, which fell in the Days of Unleavened Bread, and was symbolic of Jesus being the Firstfruit Elevated-Sheaf, in presenting Himself to the Father on the Sunday morning after the Sabbath, in which the women had come to the tomb. It was fifty days after that particular Sabbath in the Passover week, on which the Day of Pentecost [Gr. fiftieth] fell.

Furthermore, the seventh miracle of the catch of fishes, in the first year of Jesus’ ministry (Luke 5:11), has analogical parallelism with the seventh miracle of the second catch of fishes, after the resurrection, by which it is also the last miracle before the Ascension. Both were symbolic, relating also to the aspect of catching individuals, in respect to preaching the gospel. Additionally, this last miracle was a prelude to Jesus appointing Peter as a leader with the overall responsibility in feeding this catch of individuals - the sheep.

The seventh appearance to the seven apostles, with the catch of fishes, which was symbolic of catching people (Mat. 4:19; Mark 1:17), is actually the fiftieth miracle, typifies belief and the acceptance of the Holy Spirit and was also the last miracle, before the Ascension which concluded Jesus’ earthly ministry!

Pete :-)

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