2006-06-05 18:54:12 · 6 answers · asked by MissChatea 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess I was 14 when I went to a "revival" meeting in a tent in Live Oak, Florida. They were Pentecostals, as I recall.
Ya see, me and my family were traveling to Pensacola to go see my Aunt. We stopped to refill the gas tank, and next door was all these people getting "preached" too. My Mom is a Baptist & Dad is a Methodist, but they still thought it would be a good experience for me to go listen to the Sermon.
I actually had a good time. I was 14 & wanting to be "cool". Best dang potato salad & BBQ I ever HAD!
Thats what that word reminds me of: A hot summer , when I was 14, sitting under a tent and listening to a sermon.
It was very "Fire & Brimstone" , but , the people were very nice and they had great food! lol
2006-06-06 21:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Swamp Zombie 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It is the "Feast of Weeks". Scripture says that on the day following the Sabbath of Passover we are to start counting days, and we are to do this for 7 Sabbaths. And on the day after the 7th Sabbath, on that 50th day we are to have a convocation. "Penta" is Greek for 50. In Hebrew "Shavuah" means "week" and "Shavuot" means "weeks". Since this is the feast held at the end of these 7 weeks, it is called "Shavuot" - the Feast of Weeks.
It is the day the 10 Commandments were Spoken by God at Mount Sinai in Exodus 20. Moses had not yet gone up the Mountain to get the Tablets, he came down with those 40 days after this.
Read the article at the link below for details about how the people of Israel saw Tongues of Fire at Mount Sinai (much like Acts 2, eh?)
2006-06-05 23:45:23 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means 50 days (Penta as in pentagon, pentaprism, pentathalon etc.) In the Jewish faith, I do not know what significance it has (because it is a Jewish Feast day), but in Christianity it is 50 days after Jesus rose from the dead and it was the day of the FIRST coming of the Holy Spirit, when the disciples received him while they were hiding in an upper room in Jerusalem for fear of the Jewish Leaders.
2006-06-05 21:22:15 · answer #3 · answered by Palamino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was the Old Testament feast day in which the disciples of our Lord were first given the gift of the Holy Spirit.
2006-06-05 18:57:06 · answer #4 · answered by stpolycarp77 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3000 jewszzzz im tired i have to rest up for 666 and smacking people with bibles.
2006-06-05 18:56:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of a religion where the members work their way to heaven.
2006-06-05 18:57:21 · answer #6 · answered by keimalez19 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋