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Pentecost: Sunday, Monday, or Sivan 6?
by Laura Lee
(Copyright 2008) by Bryan T. Huie (Dennard, Arkansas) Pentecost, also called the Feast of Weeks (Heb. Chag Shavuot), the Feast of Harvest (Heb. Chag haQatzir), and the Day of Firstfruits (Heb. Yom haBikurim) in the Old Testament, is the only Holy Day which wasn’t designated to fall on a particular day of the month. Pentecost, which means “count fifty” in Greek, was to be determined by counting fifty days from the time the wave sheaf was offered during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That sounds simple enough, but the difficulty that arises is when to start and end the count. Almost […]