FEAST OF FULLNESS AND COMPLETION
(1) Counting 7X7+1 – Year of Jubilee – Day of Yahweh – the completion of all things.
(2) Acts 2:1 When the day of “pentekostes” had “fully” come. Only feast described in this way.
(3) Barley VS Wheat – Wheat being the “fuller” and “more refined” grain.
(4) Matzos VS Bread – thin and flat VS full and round.
(5) first Pesach VS first Shavuot – Exodus not an end in itself but liberation towards maturity.
(6) Naomi VS Ruth: Naomi (Ruth 1:21) – I went out (to Moab) filled, and Yahweh has brought me back empty; Ruth (Ruth 1:16) – Your people is my people, and your Elohim is my Elohim.
(7) Harvest Feast – hardening in part has come over Yisrael, until the completeness of the nations has come in (Rom 11).
FEAST OF THE TORAH
(1) The Feast in the middle – the one that binds all the others together.
(2) Ex 19:1 In the third new moon after the children of Yisrael had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, on this day they came to the Wilderness of Sinai – “this day”: new moon or Exodus?
(3) Bayom hazeh (“this day”) instead of Bayom hahu (“that day”) – the timelessness of Torah – Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts (Ps 95:7-8; Heb 4:7).
(4) “Torah” comes from “yarah” – to flow as water, to teach – The cleansing effect of every word that comes from Yahweh’s mouth.
(5) “Let my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, as raindrops on the tender herb, and as showers on the grass” (Deuteronomy 32). Notice the concern for the “tender”.
(6) “His delight is in the Torah (law) of Yahweh, and on His Torah he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season” (Psalm 1). Notice the commitment to the Torah.
(7) “…that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word” (Ephesians 5) – Is it a coincidence that 3000 were baptized on the Acts 2 Day of Shavuot?
FEAST OF WHEAT
(1) Wheat takes longer to mature than barley. In order to come to the fulness of belief, we need to allow Yahweh to teach us and take us through his perfect process of growth.
(2) Barley represents basic salvation and deliverance; Wheat represents patience, growth, maturity and being filled with the Spirit of Yahweh.
(3) The role of Y’shua in this process: “He will thoroughly clean His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire” (Matthew 3:12).
(4) The role of Satan in this process: “Satan has asked for you (Kefa/Peter), that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31).
(5) The role of obedience in the process: “If only they would listen to Him, He would feed them with the finest of wheat” (Ps 81:16).
(6) A process beginning by emptying oneself: Joh 12:24 “Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit” – Fullness is only arrived at, via the path of emptiness.
(7) A process completed by resurrection: 1 Cor 15:37-38 “The wheat we sow is no more than grain, but Elohim gives it a body as He wishes, and to each seed a body of its own.” The meeting of Acts 2 revolved around the resurrection of Y’shua of Nazareth. In the same way, Shavuot, for us, revolves around the reality of resurrection and the understanding that what happened to Him, will also happen to us!
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