Playlist: Sabbath within Days of Unleavened Bread (topic)
The Very Same Day
Sermon by David C. GrabbeThe instructions in Leviticus 23:15-16 regarding the counting to Pentecost do not directly specify that the Sabbath within the Days of Unleavened Bread is the anchor for determining Wavesheaf day. However, neither do they explicitly state that the morrow after the Sabbath must fall within Unleavened Bread. This ambiguity …
By Every Word of God
Sermonette by John W. RitenbaughThe weekly Sabbath is God's marker, and the Sabbath that fixes wave sheaf day is always the weekly Sabbath falling within the Days of Unleavened Bread, between the two festival Sabbaths. Leviticus 23:15 sets the counting rule: wave sheaf day is the day following that weekly Sabbath, and the count to Pentecost begins from it. …
Wavesheaf Requirements and Joshua 5
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe count to Pentecost is anchored on the weekly Sabbath that falls within the Days of Unleavened Bread. Leviticus 23:11 commands that the Wave Sheaf be waved "on the morrow after the Sabbath," and the Hebrew definite article points to the weekly Sabbath. Passover is not a Sabbath, so it cannot be the anchor. That leaves three …
How to Count to Pentecost
Sermon by David C. GrabbeIn 1974, a quiet and ill-advised change was made to how Pentecost is counted, inadvertently aligning the toil of harvesting with a high holy day Sabbath.
Pentecost, Consistency, and Honesty
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughBecause Pentecost does not have a specific date, God commands us to count from the day after the weekly Sabbath falling within the Days of Unleavened Bread.
When Pentecost Was Fully Come
Sermonette by John W. RitenbaughThis sermonette on the 1974 doctrinal change on counting Pentecost explains the confusion of our previous understanding.
Pentecost - The Beginning - All in All
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mark SchindlerWe must look beyond our own calling, realizing that the sacrifice of Christ was for all men, with the hope that they will be added to the family of God.
Counting to Pentecost: A Simple Approach
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughAccording to the Scripture, the count to Pentecost must begin on the day after the Sabbath in the Days of Unleavened Bread, even in 'anomalous' years.
Christ's Death, Resurrection, and Ascension
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughJesus perfectly fulfilled the Old Testament types, slain as the Passover Lamb, resurrected with the cutting of the wavesheaf, and ascended to His Father at the time of the waving of the sheaf.
The Appointed Weeks of Pentecost
Sermon by David C. GrabbeEach day in the count is a reminder to consider what we are sowing and what we are cultivating because it will assuredly come to fruition and then evaluation.