Hello Douglas H and
Doves,
Thank you for your
letter. We are approaching the first of the fifth
month - the month of Av. You note in your title, July
7th or August 4th. There's the rub. Which
calendar/date is correct?
There are several here
on Doves who believe that the Feast of New Wine is the
"true" Pentecost (or Acts Pentecost). There have been
many, many letters about this over the last few years.
Luis Vega had several last week even - and he's written
about this for years. I appreciate all of these - and
I appreciate reading about what others think of this as this
is not 'the accepted' day of Acts Pentecost.
And thank you for
including the Temple Scroll information on the counting of
days to the New Wine. This 'drink offering' feast day was
very important. .
Dr. Barry Awe said in
one of his recent videos on this feast day that the High
Priest offered the new wine offering (poured it out on the
altar) at 9AM - "the third hour of the day" - the people
could not drink the new wine until it had been offered to
the Lord. Thus Paul saying - "these people are not
drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the
morning." Acts 2:15. The King James Bible
translates this as "For these are not drunken, as you
suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day."
The people could not drink the new wine until after it had
been presented to the Lord as a "drink offering". This
offering is fermented - I had wrongly believed it was
unfermented. The harvest of grapes in Israel occurs in
later than Feast of Weeks/Shavuot/Jewish
Pentecost.
And Jesus said that he
would not "drink again from the fruit of the vine until that
day when I drink it new in the kingdom of
God." Mark 14;25. He said 'new' - is that
referring to the New Wine Feast? If we are
raptured on that day - He would drink this in accordance
with this feast day.
There are several
translations, like God's Word, and Good News Translation,
that specifically translate this as "new wine".
"I tell you, I will never again drink this wine until the
day I drink the new
wine with you in my Father's Kingdom."
Matthew 26:29
Douglas H - thank
you for connecting this to Paul - II Timothy 4:6 - where he
said he was "poured out as a drink offering." Jesus
said, at the Last Supper, "This cup, which is poured out for
you, is the new covenant of My blood." Luke 22:20 (New
American Standard Bible) "Drink from it, all of
you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured
out for many for the forgiveness of sins." Matthew
26:27-28 This was along with His telling us He would
not drink the wine until 'He drank new wine with you in
Heaven'.
More references to the
'drink offering'. Jesus fulfilled the lamb offering,
the first fruits grain offering, the drinking offering....
AND thanks for
bringing up Paul cutting "of one of his missionary journeys
short so as to get back to Jerusalem by Pentecost
per Acts 20:16." I had forgot that James Brownlow had
a Doves letter last year where he looked at the distance
Paul had to travel to get to Jerusalem by
Pentecost...."proving that traditional Pentecost is NOT
possible" - looks like more proof for 50 days later on Feast
of New Wine. Good study by James! Makes sense.
I have also wondered IF
Paul was thinking Pentecost/Feast of New Wine would be the
day of the dead raised "incorruptible and we shall be
changed." He was very well educated in all things
Torah/Jewish. He understood all of the Jewish feast
days - AND he now had the knowledge given to him by the Holy
Spirit. Was he trying to connect the dots like we
are? Surely he too was looking for THE day - but it
was not for him to experience the Rapture.
I remember that Micah
told us "Woe is me!" He went out to gather the summer
fruit - at the gleaning of the vineyard -
and the clusters were gone! "The godly man has
perished/vanished/been snatched from the earth." Micah
7:2 So the Rapture is connected to after the
harvesting of the grapes in Micah 7. The New Wine
Festival, obviously, has already taken place. And the
good men are gone.
Thank you again for your
letter. We are getting closer to these high watch
dates.