He also fulfilled that role when He ascended into heaven on the Sunday (the wave sheaf offering was on a Sunday) after He was resurrected (John 20:1,17). But neither He nor His true followers observed what is now called Easter. But Christians will follow Him in the first resurrection....
Pentecost thus represents the one day in salvation history that inaugurates the Church as God’s new Messianic people, and defines the unique quality of the Christian faith as life in the Spirit. It is the most important day in Christian history. Without it the death and resurrection of Jesus...
An old document that was probably altered in the 4th century, titledThe Life of Polycarp, specifically mentions thePassover, theDays of Unleavened Bread, andPentecost. And it records that the Apostle Paul said that they should be kept: In the days of unleavened bread Paul, coming down from ...
And – one day you’ll experience a glorious physical resurrection from the dead. This is simply the progression of our lives here. Devastation from sin is in and all around us. We know pain and despair, sickness and hardship – it drives us to our Lord, because we have nothing else....