2829.-Pentecost by N. C. N.

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

2829.—Pentecost.

By N. C. N.

A minister tells me that Pentecost was on the first day of the week. Lev. 23:15. Of course he is trying to prove that Christ changed the Sabbath at His resurrection. N. C. N.

Sometimes Pentecost came on the first day of the week. It was like any other annual day which came sometimes on one day of the week, and sometimes on another; just as our Fourth of July comes on different days of the week according to the year. It was reckoned so many days after the Passover. Sometimes the Passover came on one day of the week, sometimes on another. Pentecost in Acts 2:1 may have fallen on the first day of the week. There are some authorities which think it did. There are others which think it fell on the seventh day. Absolutely it had nothing to do with the Sabbath in any way, shape, or manner. It was not typical of either Sabbath or Sunday, even tho it had always come on the first day of the week. God would have told us, "When the day of Pentecost was fully come on the first day of the week," if it were in His mind to honor the first day, but He did nothing of the kind. After the Ascension, forty days from the Passover, there remained ten days till Pentecost. One first day was passed over in entire silence; no mention is made of it, nor of the second either; but when the Day of Pentecost came, it is explicitly called the Day of Pentecost.