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From:
A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases
By:
Alfred Taylor Schofield
• 1 min. read • grade level: 12
The second of the three great feasts of the Lord, which every Jew had to appear before the Lord solemnly to keep (
Deut. 16:16
16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty: (Deuteronomy 16:16)
); kept, as its name indicates, on the fiftieth day (seven full weeks) after the commencement of the harvest, as marked by the feast of the Firstfruits.
This
feast was fulfilled in the resurrection of our Lord, the “firstfruits of them that slept,” and on the fiftieth day after this, “the day of Pentecost being fully come,” this feast was also fulfilled in the foundation of the church by the baptism of all believers into one body by the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven on that day. Of the three feasts, therefore, Passover was fulfilled in the death of Christ, Pentecost in the forming of the church, while the feast of Tabernacles will not be fulfilled till the millennium. See FEASTS, &c.
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