Pentecost and "Not Many Days From Now"

I will try in the next several or many posts to be very brief and succinct.

Acts 2 is about the special coming or baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said in Acts 1:5 His disciples would be baptized with the HS "not many days from now."

We can calculate about how many days this was.

Jesus died during Passover. Pentecost is the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23), and is 50 days (7 weeks and one day) after Passover.

Jesus was in the tomb for 3 days, and after His resurrection was seen by His disciples and followers for 40 days. (Acts 1:3). That's 43 days. Pentecost is 50 days after Passover, so when Jesus says they will be baptized with the Holy Spirit "not many days from now," He means about 7 days.

Pay attention to the "time frame" references God gives, they are usually important and significant.

DR