The Plumbline

1-4  When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks, and they started speaking in a number of different languages as the Spirit prompted them. (Acts 2:1-4) As we begin to explore the happenings on that first New Testament Pentecost day, we will see that the disciples were gathered together in one place.  There is something that happens when God's people gather together.  By the very experience of being together in on accord - no emphasis on differences, no focus on the inadequacies of each other, but simply being content to gather in his name, united in their worship - there is a door opened to heaven like no other time.   Without warning, an event began to transpire that would result in the transformation of his disciples like no other - the inf...

1-4  When the Feast of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Without warning there was a sound like a strong wind, gale force—no one could tell where it came from. It filled the whole building. Then, like a wildfire, the Holy Spirit spread through their ranks, and they started speaking in a number of different languages as the Spirit prompted them. (Acts 2:1-4) Unless we were raised Jewish, we likely don't have much understanding of the meaning of the Feast of Pentecost.  This was a feast, rich in meaning, that the Israelites were first commanded to keep and was also known as the Summer Festival.  It was celebrated in honor of bringing in the first fruits of all their work in the fields and the celebration of a season rich in harvest and ingathering.  It was part of a week-long feast as we see in Exodus 34: 22  "Keep the Feast of Weeks with the first cutting of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. From the Fe...