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Pentecostal Fire
Pentecost (Background)
Pentecost was the Greek name for the Jewish Festival of Shavuot.
It was a celebration of the beginning of the wheat harvest.
This feast commemorated the giving of the Law of Moses at Mt. Sinai.
The Ten Commandments were given as a betrothal covenant between God and the people of Israel.
The betrothal agreement is known as the ketubah.
It is the law of the marriage covenant.
God presented Himself as Israel’s heavenly Groom in a garment of fire!
Pentecost is a fiery experience!
God gave His Fiery Law!
“Targum Neofiti, an ancient Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible, describes the giving of the Ten Commandments by the mouth of God, ‘like torches of fire, a torch of fire to the right and a torch of flame to the left.
It flew and winged swiftly in the air of the heavens and turned around and became visible in all the camps of Israel and...became engraved on the two tablets of the covenant.’
[From Moshe Weinfeld, Normative and Sectarian Judaism in the Second Temple Period (London: T & T Clark, 2005), p. 274 as quoted in Kathie Lee Griffith, The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi (Nashville, TN; W. Publishing, 2018), p. 151]
In the Midrash (a Jewish commentary) Rabbi Moshe Weissman says, "In occasion of the giving of the Torah, the children of Israel not only heard the Lord's voice, but actually saw the sound waves as they emerged from the Lord's mouth.
They visualized then as a fiery substance.
Each commandment that left the Lord's mouth traveled around the entire camp and then to each Jew individually, asking him, 'Do you accept upon yourself this Commandment with all of the (Jewish law) pertaining to it?"
Every Jew answered 'Yes' after each commandment.
Finally, the fiery substance which they saw engraved itself on the tablets."
Under the New Covenant, God writes His Law (Ketubah) on stones but on our hearts.
God is a Consuming Fire!
Knowing this, we are to serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
God is the source of holy fire.
Holy Fire comes down from God.
Profane fire is conjured up from unholy sources.
Not “Fired Up!” but “Fire Fall!”
Christ Comes as a Refiner’s Fire!
God Makes His Ministers a Flame of Fire!
God requires His people to be on fire for Him!
Tongues of Fire
Divided tongues of fire appeared to them.
Tongues of fire rested upon each of them.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Response to the Word
Have you met the Bridegroom, Jesus Christ?
Are you cold or lukewarm?
Do you have the fiery ketubah of God’s covenant written in your heart?
Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit who fills you with fire from above?
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