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The Miracle of Pentecost: On What Day Did God Tell Us to Keep the Feast of Weeks / Pentecost, and When Do We Begin to Count?, by Brett Gray.
After Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection, He rejoined His disciples. For forty days, He walked among them, opened the Scriptures to them, and readied them for their Divine mission. The Book of Acts begins with these words: The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:1-3.) At the end of those forty days, moments before Jesus left the earth and ascended to His Father, He assembled His disciples on the Mount of Olives outside Jerusalem and delivered some final instructions... To continue reading, just click on one of the links: |