04/22/2026 – “The Two Three Thousands” / “Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God… who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.” (2 Corinthians 3: 4-6)
“He took me back to the Chamber of Scrolls, and to the scroll in the ark, which he removed and read out loud: “You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. “This”, said the teacher, “is the ordinance of the Feast of Shavuot, which takes place seven weeks, or fifty days, after the Passover. When the rabbis realized that this was the same time that Moses ascended Mount Sinai to receive the Law, Shavuot became the day that commemorated the giving of the Law. Over in Jerusalem and the Spirit of God came upon them. It was the day that the new covenant was empowered by God’s Spirit. It all happened on the Hebrew feast of Shavuot. When the rabbis of the Greek world had to give a Greek name to the holy day, they called it The Feast of the Fiftieth Day or in Greek, “Pentecoste.”
“Pentecost!” I said, “So Pentecost is the Hebrew Feast of Shavuot.”
“And do you know what this means? it means that the Spirit of God was given to the believers on the same day that the Law of God was given to Israel. The old covenant and the new covenant are joined together. They were both inaugerated on the same day. And do you know what happened when the Law was given? There was judgment. People perished. And the number of those who perished, the ancient Hebrew records, was ‘about three thousand.’ And do you know what happened on that second Shavuot and Pentecost, when the Spirit was given?”
“No.”
“There was salvation, eternal life. And the number of those who came to new life, the Ancient Greek records, was ‘about three thousand.’ Two different languages, ages apart, yet the same exact expression.”
“So three thousand died and, centuries later, three thousand came to life on the same exact holy day.”
“And so the apostle Paul writes, ‘The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.’ The Spirit was given on the same day as the Law. Why? Because the Law can tell us the will of God, but only the Spirit can give us the power to live it. Therefore, live by the Spirit of God and you fulfill the will of God for your life just as precisely as the coming of the Spirit, Pentecost, the Day of the Law.”
The Mission: Instead of struggling to accomplish the will of God, live, move, and be. moved by the Spirit of God – and you will fulfill His will.
Exodus 32:30; Leviticus 23: 15-21; Acts 2:41; 2 Corinthians 3: 4-6.
Tablets of the Spirit”
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Soli Deo Gloria!