The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)

Leviticus 23:15 ‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: 


seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 


Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. 

You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. 
They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. 
They are the firstfruits to the Lord.

It takes 50 days from Passover (springtime) to the celebration of Pentecost (which falls in summer time). 


On the fiftieth (50th) day, being the day of (Pentecost), Israel had to offer two loaves of Challah bread, one loaf representing the old testament (Jewish nation), and the other loaf representing the new testament (the body of Christ or church of Christ).

The census arranged by Rome (Caesar), which was enforced upon Israel during the birth Yeshua – Jesus took place during this counting of these fifty days. 


The aim of the census of Rome was supposed to serve as an instrument of distraction, distracting Israel from participating into their counting of 50 days.


Bethlehem – house of bread:

Yeshua whom the Christian call Jesus was born in Bethlehem; the word Hebrew word “Bethlehem” means; “the house of bread” or the place where bread that sustains human life is offered. 


These two loaves of bread were moulded by a virteous woman (a homemaker or Sabbath keeper of Israel).


Israel was commanded by God to make the two loaves of bread (challa bread) which became a wave offering on the 50th day Pentecost.


Later in time these two Challa bread became a Rabbinic law, where the women in the Jewish homes were commanded to make those two loaves of bread for the Sabbath day.


Article written by Apostle Ngabo Alex.