The Day of Pentecost is an important element of Pentecostalism and the Charismatic movement. It is important because it was the day that the Holy Spirit was sent to dwell in the disciples of Jesus Christ (Acts 2). But, Pentecostals and Charismatics inappropriately emphasize the signs and wonders that occurred that day (i.e., speaking in other tongues) rather than focusing on the symbolic meaning of the Day of Pentecost. Instead of emphasizing the spiritual truth of salvation and sanctification involving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, they emphasize the fleshly signs and wonders, which have ceased upon completion of the New Testament. The 5 key symbolic truths that can be seen in the Day of Pentecost include:
- A Holy Convocation (holy calling of all God’s people)
- Harvest of First-Fruits (Salvation of all God’s people)
- Food offering (Service of all God’s people)
- 50th Day after 7 Sabbaths (Day of Salvation for all God’s people)
- Unity of all God’s People (All are one in Jesus Christ)
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Old Testament – Day of Pentecost
New Testament – Day of Pentecost
A Holy Convocation (holy calling of all God’s people)
Harvest of First-Fruits (Salvation of all God’s people)
Food offering (Service of all God’s people)
50th Day after 7 Sabbaths (Day of Salvation for all God’s people)
Unity of all God’s People (All are one in Jesus Christ)
Old Testament – Day of Pentecost
- Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest. (Jer 5:24)
- Reserves – literally, to keep
- Appointed – literally, statutues / ordinances
- Weeks – shabua (H7620), literally – sevened
- Harvest – katsiyr (H7105)
- Tied to the former and latter rain (salvation) – feast of weeks and ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles) – see latter rain study
- 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: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. (Lev 23:15-22)
- Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. (Deu 16:9-12)
- Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you. Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings. (Num 28:26-31)
- 3 Feasts where all males would come to Jerusalem
- Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. (2Ch 8:12-14)
- And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. (Exo 34:22-26)
- Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD. (Exo 23:14-17)
New Testament – Day of Pentecost
Feast of Pentecost:
- Greek: pentekoste (G4005, literally, the fiftieth) – 3 occurrences (Acts 2:1, Acts 20:16, 1 Cor 16:8)
- But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost. (1Co 16:8)
- For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. (Act 20:16)
- And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Act 2:1-4)
- 7 sevens (49 days) of waiting for the promise of the Father (Holy Spirit)
- And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. (Luk 24:49)
- And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. (Act 1:4)
- But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Act 1:8)
Symbolism of Pentecost
A Holy Convocation (holy calling of all God’s people)
- Convocation (H4744, miqra – literally, a ‘calling’) – ‘holy calling’ points to salvation 2 Tim 1:9, Rom 8:28, Rom 8:30, Rom 9:24; 1Th 4:7; 2Th 2:13-14; Heb 3:1; 1Pe 1:15-16, 1Pe 2:9; 1Pe 2:20-21
- One of the 3 feasts, where all the males need to go to Jerusalem – Exo 23:17
- Symbol of unity in the church
- One accord in one place (Acts 2:1) – unity (see Old Testament 3 feasts where all makes were to report)
- Unity:
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- Unity of marriage – Eph 5:31, Gen 2:24, Mat 19:5, Mar 10:7-8, 1Co 6:16
- One Spirit – 1 Cor 6:17, 1 Cor 12:13, Eph 2:18, Eph 4:4, Phil 1:27
- One body – Rom 12:4, Rom 12:5, 1Co 6:16, 1Co 10:17, 1Co 12:12, 1Co 12:13, 1Co 12:20, Eph 2:16, Eph 4:4, Col 3:15.
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- One mind – Job 23:13, Rom 15:6, 2Co 13:11, Php 1:27, Php 2:2, 1Pe 3:8, Rev 17:13.
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- One faith – Eph 4:5
- Oneness of God’s people – no more middle wall, all one in Christ – Eph 2:11-22
- One lawgiver – James 4:12
- Union with Christ ‑ John 14:20, 15:4, Eph 1:4, 1 Cor 1:30, Ro 8:1, Gal 5:6, 1 John 3:24
- Love is bond of unity ‑ Col 3:14
- Jesus prayed for so world would know us ‑ John 17:21
- Jesus prayed that we may be perfected in unity ‑ John 17:11, 21-23
- Same mind ‑ Phil 2:2, Ro 15:5
- One mind, one spirit striving for the Gospel ‑ Phil 1:27
- How good for bothers to dwell in ‑ Ps 133:1
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- Feasts – (Heb: moed – literally, appointed times) – Lev 23:1-2,44
- 7th day Sabbath (Lev 23:3)
- Passover / Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:4-8)
- Feast of First-fruits (Lev 23:9-14)
- Feast of Weeks (first-fruits / Pentecost) (Lev 23:15-22)
- Feast of Trumpets (Lev 23:23-25)
- Day of Atonement (Lev 23:26-32)
- Feast of Tabernacles (Lev 23:33-43)
- What is a Holy Convocation
- … Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. (Lev 23:1-2)
- And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein … (Lev 23:21)
- Also in the day of the firstfruits … after your weeks be out, you shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work (Num 28:26)
- Holy – to be set apart for purity
- Convocation – Hebrew: miqra – literally, something called out
- No servile work – points to rest of salvation
- Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began (2Ti 1:9)
- And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Rom 8:28-29)
- Pentecostals wrongly teach that the Day of Pentecost is the baptism in the Spirit for a subset of all Christians
- Divisive teaching of a special ‘infilling of the Spirit
Harvest of First-Fruits (Salvation of all God’s people)
- Harvest / First-fruits – Exo 23:14-17 (see especially, 2 Chr 8:12-14) – points to salvation
- Pentecost fully come (Acts 2:1) – fulfillment of the feast of the Old Testament
- 3 Harvest Feasts:
- Feast of First-fruits (Lev 23:9-14)
- Morning after the Sabbath – First of the First-fruits
- Symbol of Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Feast of Weeks (first-fruits / Pentecost) (Lev 23:15-22)
- k.a., Feast of Harvest / First-Fruits (Exo 23:15-16, 2 Chr 8:12-14)
- k.a., Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1)
- Symbol of God’s people spirit
- Feast of Tabernacles (Lev 23:33-43)
- k.a., Feast of Ingathering (Exo 23:16)
- Symbol of the Joyous Eternity with God
- Last Day Salvation of the Soul / Spiritual Body
- 2 feasts involve ‘first-fruits’:
- Feast of First-fruits (symbol of Jesus Christ, as the first-fruits)
- … When you … reap the harvest … then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest … And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD … on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. (Lev 23:10-11)
- Feast of First-fruits points to the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- … Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept … by man came also the resurrection of the dead … every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (1Co 15:20-23)
- Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. (Jas 1:18)
- And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. (Rom 8:23)
- Context of Romans 8:
- But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness … he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. (Rom 8:9-11)
- Feast of Weeks (first-fruits, Pentecost)
- And you 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: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. (Lev 23:15-16)
- … the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of your labor … (Exo 23:16)
- And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which you have sown in the field … (Exo 23:16)
- Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (Joh 4:35)
- Salvation of the spirit – in the body (Eph 2:1-9, John 3:3-6, etc.)
- Salvation of the soul – Last Day (Heb 10:39, 1 Th 5:9, etc.)
- Then said he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. (Mat 9:37-38)
- Reap – Harvest (same Greek root word)
- Points to the harvest – Mat 13:30-39, Mk 4:29, John 4:35, Mat 9:37-38, Lk 10:2, Ruth 2:21-23, Hos 6:11, Jer 51:33, Joel 3:13
- Harvest (H7105) – Joel 3:13, Jer 51:33
- Points to the harvest – Mat 13:30-39, Mk 4:29, John 4:35, Mat 9:37-38, Lk 10:2, Ruth 2:21-23, Hos 6:11, Jer 51:33, Joel 3:13
- Reaping the harvest – see notes on Rev 14:14
- Reap (G2325 – therido) – 21 occurrences
- Fowls neither sow not reap – Mat 6:26, Lk 12:24
- Parable of talents, hard man reaping where you do not sow – Mat 25:24-26
- God as an austere man reaping where he did not sow – Lk 19:21-22
- He who reaps gathers fruit for life eternal, sower and reaper both rejoice – John 4:36-38
- Sown spiritual things, reap carnal things – 1 Cor 9:11
- He who sows sparingly, reaps sparingly – 2 Cor 9:6
- What a man sows, that he will reap – Gal 6:7-9 (he who sows to spirit reaps life everlasting in due time)
- Laborers that reaped fields defrauded – James 5:4
- The last day reaping of the harvest – Rev 14:15-16
- Harvest (G2326 – therismos) – 13 occurrences
- Harvest is plenteous, but laborers are few – Mat 9:37-38, Lk 10:2
- Parable of the Wheat and Tares – Mat 13:30, Mat 13:39
- Parable of the harvest of the ripe fruit – Mk 4:29
- Fields are white already to harvest – John 4:35
- Harvest at the end day – Rev 14:15
- Reapers (G2327 – theristes) – 2occurrences
- Parable of the wheat and the Tares – Mat 13:30, Mat 13:39
- Old Testament Harvest:
- Judgment – Joel 3:13, Job 24:24, Jer 51:53, Hos 6;11, Hos 8:7, Hos 10;13, Micah 4:12
Food offering (Service of all God’s people)
- Pentecost – offer a new offering
- Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. (Lev 23:16)
- Meat offering – literally, a bloodless food offering
- Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation … (Num 28:26)
- Meat (food) offering – a bloodless offering (e.g., fine flour, barley is the early harvest)
- This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. (Lev 6:20)
- At Salvation, Christians are new
- Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2Co 5:17)
- For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. (Gal 6:15)
- And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: (Col 3:10)
- Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (Joh 3:3)
- Christians are Offerings
- Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. (Php 2:17)
- For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. (2Ti 4:6)
- By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. (Heb 13:15)
- Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. (1Pe 2:5)
50th Day after 7 Sabbaths (Day of Salvation for all God’s people)
- And you shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and you shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. (Lev 23:15-16)
- Seven weeks shall you number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as you begin to put the sickle to the corn. And you shall keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God … And you shall remember that you were a bondman in Egypt … (Deu 16:9-10,12)
- Remember you were a bondservant – need for salvation from bondage
- Seven sevens
- Seven – Hebrew: sheba
- Sabbath – Hebrew: shabbath, literally – to rest / cease
- Weeks – Hebrew: shebua, literally – ‘sevened’
- These 3 Hebrew words are cognates of ‘shaba’, to swear an oath
- 7 – symbolic meaning – ‘perfection of purpose’
- 49 Days – symbolic meaning – the waiting for the promise
- Waiting for the early harvest – Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)
- 7 weeks of years – awaiting the Jubilee (Lev 25:8-55)
- Awaiting redemption of slaves
- Awaiting redemption of the land
- Jubilee after waiting for 49 years
- … you shall number seven sabbaths of years … seven times seven years … 49 years … and you shall hallow the 50th year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants … it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. (Lev 25:8,10)
- Hirelings and slaves set free (salvation) & return to the promised land (Lev 25:8-34)
- Hirelings (the poor of Israel) and slaves (not of Israel)
- People in Israel may sell their inheritance (land)
- Promised Land – place of salvation
- 49 symbolizes the time of patient waiting for salvation
- 50 Symbolic of Salvation:
- 5 is the number salvation / judgment
- 10 virgins – 5 wise, 5 foolish – Mat 25:1-12
- Goliath slain by David – 5 smooth stones – 1 Sam 17:40
- 5000 men fed with 5 loaves of bread – Mat 16:9
- Sheep on right hand, goats on left – Mat 25:33
- 50, 500 – tied to forgiveness (salvation)
- There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, you have rightly judged. (Luk 7:41-43)
- 7 sabbaths / 50th day
- 7 – perfection of purpose
- 50 – points to salvation
- Jubilee – 50th year
- Pentecost – 50th day (after resurrection of Jesus Christ) – Acts 2:1-41
- 3000 saved – Acts 2:41
- Parable of the 2 debtors – And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. (Luk 7:40-44)
- See symbolic meaning of 5
- 5 / 50 / 500 / 5000 Judgment and Salvation:
- Judgment of God – Mat 25:2-12, Lk 16:28, Rev 9:5, Ro 9:10, 1 Sam 17:40
- Salvation of God – Mat 25:2, Num 18:16, Mat 16:9, Mk 2:3
- Right hand / left hand
- Right hand of blessing – Gen 48:13-14
- Oil sprinkled with right hand – Lev 143:16, Lev 14:27
- 5 lavers and candlesticks on right and on left – 2 Chr 4:6-7
- Left hand –work, hides on the right hand – Job 23:9
- Right hand – length of days, left hand riches and honor – Pr 3:16
- Wise man’s heart at his right hand, fool’s heart on the left – Ecc 10:2
- Samaria at left hand, Sodom at right hand – Eze 16:46
- Bow in left hand, arrows in right hand – Eze 39:3
- Held up right hand and left heaven to heaven and swore – 3 ½ times remain – Dan 12:7
- Ninevites cannot discern between right hand and left hand – Jon 4:11
- Sheep on the right hand, goats on the left – Mat 25:33
- Two thieves crucified – one at right hand, one on left – Mat 27:38, Mk 15:27, Lk 23:33, Lk 23:23-49
- Right foot on sea, left foot on earth – Rev 10:2
- 5 Months – a time of Elizabeth hiding with her reproach until Christ is conceived – Lk 1:24-25
- 5 months (150 days) – time that water prevailed upon the earth (Gen 7:24, Gen 8:3) until Ark rested on Mt. Ararat, see also Gen 7:11-12, Gen 8:4
- Flood – universal judgment on world – Lk 17:26-27, Heb 11:7, 1 Pet 3:20, 2 Pet 2:5, Is 54:9
- 50, 500 – tied to forgiveness (salvation)
- There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, you have rightly judged. (Luk 7:41-43)
Unity of all God’s People (All are one in Jesus Christ)
- Together on the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)
- Three times you shall keep a feast unto me in the year … the feast of unleavened bread … and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors … and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year … Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD (Exo 23:14-17)
- … offering … on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. (2Ch 8:13)
- Points to the Unity of God’s people
- Pentecostals make the Day of Pentecost a point of Division in Christians (follow signs and wonders)
- One Accord on Pentecost
- And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until you be endued with power from on high. (Luk 24:49)
- … they went up into an upper room … these all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication … (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty) … (Act 1:13-15)
- And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. (Act 2:1)
- Points to the Unity of God’s people
- Pentecostals make the Day of Pentecost a point of Division in Christians (follow signs and wonders)
- 120 – Symbol of Unity of God’s people
- 120 Symbolically points to the complete fullness of God’s people
- 10 – complete fullness
- 10 virgins (Mat 25), 10 horns (Rev 12,13,17), etc.
- 12 – Government of God’s church as a pillar for sending forth truth
- See symbolic meaning of numbers
- Points to the Unity of God’s people
- Pentecostals make the Day of Pentecost a point of Division in Christians (follow signs and wonders)
- Unity of God’s people
- That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us … (Joh 17:21)
- At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. (Joh 14:20)
- Only let your conversation be as it becomes the gospel of Christ … that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel (Php 1:27)