One of the key scriptures to finding the day that we observe for Pentecost (or feast of weeks) has been misinterpreted by most religious groups and it is found in Lev. 23:16 where it says, “even unto the tomorrow, after the seventh Sabbath shall you number fifty days.” It does not say it is the fiftieth day.
Because of tradition of men, they begin to number the fifty days from the first Sabbath instead of the morrow after the seventh Sabbath. You do number seven Sabbaths complete (Lev. 23:16) and you begin to number the weeks from the time you put the cycle to the corn. (Deut. 16:9) Therefore, there were two counts to find Pentecost. One is from the morrow after the Sabbath that the priest waves the sheaf, and then you number seven Sabbaths complete. (Lev. 23:16) Then you are to number fifty days after the seventh Sabbath. You count the weeks, and then you count your days, and then and only then will all the other scriptures harmonize with it.
This is why it is called both the Feast of Weeks (forty-nine days) and the Feast of Pentecost (Pentecost means fifty), and weeks means sevens. The Feast of Weeks would be only forty-nine days and not fifty, so the Feast of Weeks is not fifty days. It is forty-nine days. Pentecost means fifty. This proves there are two counts even if you interrupt the second count as one day after the seventh Sabbath (forty-nine) instead of numbering fifty days after seventh Sabbath both counts whether one day or fifty begin after the seventh Sabbath.
Just remember one does not mean Pentecost, but fifty means Pentecost. You have seven weeks (six workdays plus a Sabbath which = forty-nine days and you have fifty days from the morrow after the seventh Sabbath — a total of ninety-nine. That total plus three New moon days, worship days that are not counted as one of the six ordinary workdays or weekly Sabbaths totals 102 days. Now, the hail was on the tenth day of the first moon in Egypt, and it did not hurt the wheat because it had not come up.
It was probably planted a few days before the 10th, which would give a correct time for the wheat to mature, and a first fruit could be offered. It takes wheat from 110 to 120 days to mature according to the Department of Agriculture. Now, remember there are two kinds of wheat and that is Winter Wheat and Summer Wheat (or Spelt rye). The point of all this is that there is no way for wheat to mature in fifty days for first fruit if planted in first month as the word not grown up (or in dark) suggests. (Ex. 9:32) This cattle-killing hail killed every herb and grass of the field. Ex. 9:22 and 25. (Look up herb in concordance)
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Now, if we interpret Lev. 23:16 as to start our count of fifty days after the seventh Sabbath instead of the first Sabbath, we will have time for a wheat crop to mature. Remember the new meat offering was to be wheat, and from their labor that they sowed in the field. (Ex. 23:16) If they sowed summer wheat in the 1st month when they came into the land, then they could have a 1st fruit of wheat from their labor they sowed in the field in time for Pentecost, but not in 50 days.
There is no scripture for a Pilgrimage Feast in the third moon, but there is a scripture for a Pilgrimage Feast in the forth moon. Ex. 32:5 and Aaron proclaimed it for it was his job to proclaim the Feasts of YHWH. Lev. 23:21. Guess what! It was exactly fifty days after the seventh Sabbath that Aaron said it was a Feast to YHWH and it was the exact same day the Law was actually given to Moses. Ex. 31:18 and Deut. 9:11, proving the count for fifty days start after the seventh Sabbath complete.
The word Feast that Aaron used here in the fourth moon is the word used for Feast of Weeks. It is used for any one of the three Pilgrim Feasts (see concordance), and they were to go up to Jerusalem. This word is used for Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacle; and we know Aaron was not talking about the Pilgrim Feast of Passover, because it is in the first moon or the Feast of Tabernacle because it is in the seventh moon.
It had to be Pentecost, which is in the fourth moon and it was exactly fifty days after the seventh Sabbath, not first Sabbath. We know Aaron was not talking about a Solar Sabbath that included the New moon days as ordinary days. One through seven, one through seven, etc., through the New moon days because if you count that way, and count the New moon day you will not hit the same day Aaron said was the Pilgrim Feast. Try it with your count. Do not get crazy if your count does not work and call Aaron a liar or YHWH’s Word a lie.
Now, was it a Feast in the fourth moon or not? Is all scripture inspired of YHWH or not? Judge for yourself. If Aaron had already kept the Pilgrim Feast in the third moon He could not have fooled anybody that there was another Feast in the fourth moon. Remember too, that they were getting manna every six days and none on the Sabbath; and it began in the second moon on the sixteenth day of the moon, and so they got manna for forty years, which would include the time that Moses was on the Mount.
They knew when the weekly feast days were, and Aaron was present when Moses was told about the Pilgrim Feast of weeks. Ex. 23:15, 16, and Ex. 24:1-9. Now, if there was not a feast of YHWH in the fourth moon it would have been exposed, as when Jeroboam kept a Feast in the eighth moon on the fifteenth day. The Word declares that the eighth moon was wrong (not the fifteenth day) for the Feast of YHWH. It was the moon, which He devised of His own heart. I Kings12:32, 33. Now, the Scriptures lets us know that there is no feast in the eighth moon, and would have let us know if there was no Feast in the fourth moon, the same word for Feast is used in both accounts.
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