The Spring Festivals
The Feast of Weeks, Celebration of the Wheat Harvest
Festivals · 2 verses
Fifty days after Firstfruits, Israel celebrated the wheat harvest with two leavened loaves—representing Jew and Gentile united in the church. The Holy Spirit's descent on this feast (Acts 2) marked the church's birth and the ingathering of the first believers.
Scripture References
“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:”
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.”