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S3 | EP5 THE COUNT TO PENTECOST
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In this inspiring episode of GraceTalk, join Apostle Isham S. Cordery as he delves deep into THE COUNT TO PENTECOST. Discover how biblical encouragement can illuminate your path and help you see God in every aspect of your life. Apostle Cordery shares insights and uplifting messages that resonate with your journey, whether you're facing challenges or seeking spiritual growth.
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Significance of Passover to Pentecost
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Passover and Pentecost are distinctive days, but the time period between Passover and Pentecost are still a time of remembering God's provision and God that God has provided and that God has kept us. And he's taking us from our deliverance to our establishment.
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So Israel was delivered, but they were not a people. they were They were not a nation. They were a people, a multitude, a mixed multitude at that. When they came to the mountain in Pentecost, then God gave them laws and statutes and judgments, and they became a nation or an established people.
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For us, the blood covering delivers us from our sin and our transgression, but yet we still need the Holy Spirit to establish a people. Without it, we cannot enter into that kingdom that God has defined for
Introduction to Grace Talk Podcast
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us.
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Welcome to Grace Talk, a podcast by Grace Temple Church Louisville. Experience biblical encouragement in every aspect of life as you see God through the truth of the scriptures.
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Our mission is to help save the lost and encourage the saved. Hosted by our senior pastor, Apostle Isham Cordery and the Grace Temple Church ministry, it's time for Grace Talk.
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Praise the Lord and welcome to Grace Talk. This is Apostle Isha Mass. Cordery. I'm the senior pastor of Grace Temple Church in Louisville, Kentucky.
Feasts and Timelines
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We're so honored and blessed and pleased to come to you again ah by this medium and we're grateful for God's providence and the blessings that he's bestowed upon his people. We are just coming through the feast of Passover unleavened bread. We have enjoyed the Lord. God has richly blessed us in the feast and we are thankful for his continued blessings. and
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we're not done. We are connecting in this connecting time, in this connecting season, we are being connected to the next feast, which is Shavalt or Pentecost.
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And so we are in what's been what is called the Count or the Omer Count. ah that we see. We see in in Leviticus chapter 23, verse 10, it tells us to bring a sheaf offering, and sheaf in the Hebrew there is omer.
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And so ah we are we are required to count in these days. So these days are not disconnected. These days from the day after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Abib 15, from the day after that day, ah we count 50 days and we end up on Savan 6.
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to celebrate the Pentecost. I know there's a lot of confusion around that ah day. There are some people believe that the Sabbath that Leviticus 23 is referring to is the seventh-day Sabbath, which kind of makes no sense ah in the time of Christ if that Sabbath that John 19, verse 31 is referring to. And in fact, this is what it says, "...the Jews therefore, because it was the preparation that the body should not remain on upon the cross on the Sabbath day.
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And then it says it this for that Sabbath day was an high day. So if it is the Sabbath within the feast, um then ah we are having difficulty getting three days and three nights in the grave, because then that would then mean he was crucified on a Friday.
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The Sabbath was coming on and that he rose at the, sometime after the Sabbath had concluded, according to Matthew chapter 28, verse 1.
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And so we know that's not what it was referring to. was referring to the Sabbath of the feast, which is the 15th day of Abib. and We see that in Leviticus chapter 28, 23, because this counting of the 50 days or this counting of the Omer is not just predicated upon the date, but it's predicated upon the activity that happens on that day.
Understanding Passover as a Harvest Festival
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So Israel come. ah Passover is a harvest festival. It is a wheat and barley harvest festival. Barley comes first. It is the early harvest in the in the grain harvest.
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And they were not... allow to partake of their harvest until they had first offered unto the Lord. I would suggest you that when God provides you increase, that before you partake of it, that you take of it and offer it to God, ah and thanksgiving for the blessing and for the increase and for what God has provided.
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And so ah ah we see in Leviticus chapter 23 verses 15 and 16, it gives us direction, it gives us instruction, it gives us command.
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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath. And again, we know that's not the seven-day Sabbath, or he would have died on Friday and rose sometime, maybe you think Sunday morning.
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But there's no way we get three days and three nights from that occasion. So it's obvious from John chapter 19 that this is referring to the Sabbath of the feast, which would have been the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We know that the first and last days of the feast were holy complications, where no man shall ah work, save that which he must eat or no servile work as where is the way it's described there.
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But then it defines a Sabbath, the Sabbath of the feasts, the pit Passover in fact, is a preparation for the Feast of Unleavened Bread or that 15th day.
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and and the And it says that ah we should Let me back up here and do that again. and Ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath. So this is the day after the 15th day. Now we're talking about the 16th day from the day that you brought up the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths. So on the 16th day of Abib,
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We bring the offering to the Lord and we offer to that. And then Israel is allowed to partake of that harvest in the land. In the institution, yeah they ate the parched corn, the old corn, the manna.
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And then when they offered unto the Lord in the ah in the new um city, the new kingdom that God had provided for them, the manna ceased. And so they were able to eat up or take from the land.
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Verse 16 says, even unto the morrow, after the seventh Sabbath, shall ye count 50 days. And so we began our count on Nisan 16, which would have been for us Monday, April the 14th.
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And that will take us through until June first ah That night and then June 2nd, that day, will constitute the Pentecost on Saban 6. It's very simple.
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Amen. The Bible is very clear in what it does. The point I'm trying to make, though, is that we shouldn't detach it The Passover and Pentecost are distinctive days, but the time period between Passover and Pentecost are still a time of remembering God's provision and God that God has provided and that God has kept us. And he's taking us from our deliverance to our establishment.
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So Israel was delivered, but they were not a people. They were they were not a nation. They were a people. a multitude, a mixed multitude at that. that When they came to the mountain in Pentecost, ah then God gave them laws and statutes and judgments and they became a nation or an established people.
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For us, the blood covering delivers us from our sin and our transgression, but yet we still need the Holy Spirit to establish us a people.
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but Without it, we cannot enter into that kingdom that God has defined for us.
Scriptural Insights on Passover
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One other scripture I just want to share with you ah in Joshua chapter the five, verse 10, just to kind of bring all of this together.
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And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the 14th day of the month at Ebeneid. um We're not going to dispute about that, but it clearly tells us they kept it on the 14th day. They kept the Passover.
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ah And while we're talking about that, the Passover was a nighttime event, not a daytime event. He said at midnight, I'm coming through Egypt. And when I see the blood, ah will pass over you. So this ah keeping of the Passover was at the going down of the sun, entering into the 14th day and at the even of the 14th day.
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At the nighttime of the 14th day, they kept the Passover event. In the plains of Jericho, verse 11, and they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn in the south same day.
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Verse 12 says, and the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land. Neither had the children of Israel manna anymore, but they did eat of the fruit of the land.
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of the land of Canaan that year. And as we say Leviticus chapter 23, verse 10 says, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, when you be coming to the land, which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof, then he shall bring a sheaf, an omer of the first fruits of your harvest unto the priest. And he shall wave the sheep before the Lord to be accepted for you on the morrow of After the Sabbath and the the Hebrew word for morrow, there is mochareth, which means not the next morning, but the very next day.
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And we know they start to sundown. So it could have been talking about the day part after the Passover event. It was talking about the very next day, which would have been the 15th day. of unleavened bread. And the day after, excuse me, the day after the 15th day, not the part of the 15th day, but the day after the 15th day, they waved the sheath and they began the count to Pentecost.
Conclusion and Invitation
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So we understand God's festivals are remembered memorials of events. Passover is on the fixed day. The Feast of Unleavened Bread is on the fixed day because On Passover, you saw the blood. On the 15th day, they came out by night. We know they couldn't have been the same night because when they sacrificed the lamb on the 14th day, he said, don't come out until the morning, until the bokeh. Don't come out until the morning of that same day. Don't come out.
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ah Stay in your houses because I'm coming through the land and I'm going to kill all the firstborn that doesn't have the blood on the door. But when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
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Amen. And so we're grateful to the Lord today. We're keeping ah the remembrance of the Omer. ah We're in about at the recording of this podcast. We're in about the 15th day and we're excited about the count. We're grateful for the team at Grace Temple that gave us a memorial book, something that we could use to keep our focus and point us to Pentecost. so We're excited about the feast that's coming.
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We're excited about God meeting us and we're celebrating the establishment of God's people in the Holy Feast of Pentecost. So we're thankful for the Lord. I hope this has touched you. I'm giving you some understanding.
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Go back and rehearse those scriptures. Joshua chapter the five, verse 10 through 12 and Leviticus chapter 23, verse 10 through 15. And remember, it's not just the Sabbath.
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That's how you end up with Easter. It's not just a Sabbath. It is the day that they wave the sheep. God bless you. We're so thankful and grateful for you. Amen. Remember, until we have another opportunity to come together, we pray God's grace and peace of upon you.
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Thank you for listening to Grace Talk. It is our prayer that you were encouraged through the Word of God. Listen in next time as we continue to help save the lost and encourage the saved.
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Thank you again. Grace and peace.