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Passover to Pentecost – Class in Session

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Passover to Pentecost – Class in Session       Week 4 Day 1

He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God.  Acts 1:3

We have looked at several of the recorded meetings Jesus had with the Eleven and the other disciples.  We are not finished with them yet, but I want to think about this forty-day seminar on the Kingdom.  To do this we will look at what the disciples taught, put into action, and how some of the churches lived out these teachings.  Jesus had actually promised this training time while they were in the Passover meal in John 16: 25 – Though I have been speaking figuratively, I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father (NIV).  I talk about His use of parables and other teaching styles in Jesus the Master Teacher.  A good parable would affect the crowd at many different levels and give them a lot to think on.  That can be good and bad for the understanding of because two people next to each other can take away two completely different ideas.  That is why the disciples would ask for clarification to lessons for the information they did not want to miss; Jesus would help them understand (Parable of the Sower).   This mini-session, however, would be different, no parables just straight talk and answers.  A great thing, there was no notes!  They would soon receive the Holy Spirit and He would help them remember the lessons.

In my current thinking mode, it is very easy for my mind to drift to Moses and two forty day sessions on Mount Sinai, and then the months of construction so the Ark and the Tabernacle would be finished for the second Passover.  All of these things and activities reflect the Teacher who is giving His last lessons here on earth.  Imagine the teaching that took place in Jesus’ last forty days.  Jesus and the disciples are in Galilee after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, so with travel time that is about thirty days before they needed to be on the Mount of Olives.  They are sitting on Mount Tabor able to see “forever” in the clear blue sky and Jesus is ending His teaching just before the meal.  500 people are listening and he gives them the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28:16 and Luke 24: 46, there is a version in Mark but that really reflects the doing of what was said).  He had trained and sent the Twelve, then seventy-two, and now he has commissioned a small army.  When Jesus actually gave the lesson from Acts 1:4 – Wait for the Holy Spirit; I have no idea.  I will, however, put it after the “second month Passover” which would have been three weeks from Thomas’ restoration.

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Passover to Pentecost – Other Contacts

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Passover to Pentecost – Other Contacts         Week 3 Day 7

The 500

Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: 6 is the only writer to mention this meeting.  Matthew may refer to it in his Gospel, but there were probably many unrecorded meetings.  Who could these five hundred have been?  How many had been part of the seventy-two missionaries Jesus had sent out?  Had they been part of the 9000 men who had been fed on those two special days by the Sea of Galilee?  Had they followed Him through Nain when He raised the dead son?  This list could go on for a while but several Gospels make the point that people still doubted when they saw Jesus during these forty days of the Resurrection.  Even in this doubt Jesus met with them, fed them, and taught on His Kingdom.

How many of these people joined the Apostles in the Upper Room for prayer and so were counted in the 120 on the day of Pentecost no one records that.  Were the other 380 in the crowd when Peter preached the first post-Jesus sermon?  We do know that people professed to having been there because Paul says most of them were still alive when he wrote to the Corinthians.  So His presence must have healed the doubt and strengthened their lives.  I cannot prove this but I like to think that this meeting took place on Mount Tabor and that it would have been after the second month Passover but before the Ascension. (A post on this will be available on May 10th, the next full moon.)

James

This should be Jesus’ half-brother James, the author of the epistle and the head of the Jerusalem Church.  Jesus knew he had a job to do, but the only mention of Jesus’ brothers was of them mocking Him about Passover or being with Mary trying to retrieve her “crazy” son.  Imagine having Jesus as an older brother!  What must the family thought when He turned water into wine and started having crowds of people following after Him to be healed.  This private conversation did the work because in those ten days from the Ascension to Pentecost Mary His mother and His brothers are listed as those present in the upper room constantly praying.  So for those living in the shadows of family members Jesus wants to meet you in the Resurrection and give you your job.

Most of this was posted in my blog called  Restorations With The Resurrection

Passover to Pentecost – Thomas

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Passover to Pentecost – Thomas         Week 3 Day 6

We have seen the Lord. John 20:25 (NIV)

Thomas the future apostle to India was not at Jesus’ first visitation at the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  His story is set at the end of the Feast and would be the eighth day (the number of new beginnings).  In the first Passover the Israelites were out of Egypt on the other side of the Red Sea partying.   He, in true form of the other disciples refused to believe words that sounded like nonsense.  I hope he was with his family for the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread but the fact is that he had left the group during a time when you might have expected everyone to be together.  So Jesus shows Himself again (during the meal closing the Feast that celebrates His sinless life) proclaims “Peace” and sets about to restore a prodigal son and chosen leader.  His doubts and those of the other disciples could be linked with all of the complaining and testing the Israelites did in the first fifty days.   It must be noted here that they still have not left for Galilee.

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Passover to Pentecost – Easter Morning Meetings

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Passover to Pentecost – Easter Morning Meetings         Week 3 Day 5

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning. Luke 24:1 (NIV)

Four different Gospel writings, four different writers giving their perspectives should give you four slightly different stories.  That is one reason the Easter story is believable.  These are the meetings that people had that are included in the “whole” story.

Women – The Women of the Resurrection add the human element to the story of Easter Sunday morning.  Having watched Joseph bury Jesus they realized that more could/should have been done.  They had appointments with the angels, possibly more than once.  The angel’s physical appearance should have left little doubt or added to the reality of their message that Jesus was alive, they had to tell the others, and they all needed to go to Galilee.  The meeting they had with Jesus makes perfect sense because I am sure the women were in shock from the angels, and Jesus wanted them clear in their resolve when they met with the “others.” I can imagine the meeting with the Eleven and the other people with them did not go well and they were labeled as hysterical.

Peter – This reference is one line from the disciples who ran back from Emmaus.  It is Luke 24: 34.  Apparently, after Peter and John ran to the empty tomb and left with a lot of questions, they separated and Peter was by himself.  Jesus must have shown Himself to Peter and talked with him.  This was not Peter’s re-installment as an Apostle.  My guess was it was a show of positive ministry, why?  Peter did not go out and hang himself like Judas did.  It would seem from the verse in Luke that he was not taken seriously either.

Guards – Their two appointments are important to the total story and are found in Matthew 28.  I did actually read a form of verse 15 several years ago in a Jewish publication (the body was stolen). (I do not have a reference for that last statement, I will add it if I find it again.)  Their first appointment started with a rolling stone because of an earthquake.  They took their meeting with the angel as deathly serious.  That leads to the second meeting they had that day and it was with the chief priest and elders, who were probably not too happy about having their Passover celebration interrupted.  It is interesting that they believed the eyewitnesses and acted accordingly.  It is a shame that their hard hearts would not allow them to change.

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Passover to Pentecost – At the Start of Counting the Omer

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Passover to Pentecost – At the Start of Counting the Omer         Week 3 Day 2

He will bind up our wounds.2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. Hosea 6: 1+2 (NIV)

‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’ Luke 13:32 (NIV)

This “second day” in these passages would be Saturday in Passion Week.  This day is

Pumpkin seed and Wheat

tough to get excited about because Jesus was “dead” (See Easter 2015- Saturday) so people really are not sure what to do with it.  Jesus was busy, just not in a realm that we can see.

There still are important dates in these fifty days that I will highlight.  So we will spend the rest of the time thinking about Jesus’ actions and teachings that lead up to Pentecost, the birthday of the Church.

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