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Thursday Bible Study at 10:30 AM


  Dear Folks:
The time frame between Christ's Resurrection and the feast of Pentecost was 50 days in the biblical times as it is now. 

Pentecost was celebrated by Jewish custom as the feast of Shavuot. One of the Three Pilgrimage Festivals. The feast celebrates the revelation of the Five Books of the Torah (or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible) by God to Moses and to the Israelites at Mount Sinai, 49 days (7 weeks) after the Exodus from Egypt. It also commemorates the harvesting of wheat  in the Land of Israel.

As God acted in days of old by giving the law to the Israelites on the 50th day following setting them free from the Egyptians, so God was filling them anew with the Holy Spirit 50 days after they were set free through the resurrection of Christ Jesus.

Our reading this week will cover the gathering of the Jews to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost. There they experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Peter and the other disciples.
Read Acts 2:1-24

Questions  
1. What was the reaction of the others in the room? How might you have reacted? 
2. How do we respond today?
3. Upon whom did Joel predict the Spirit would be poured out upon? vs 17
4. What invitation does the Holy Spirit offer to all people in every generation (vs21)? What might we do with that invitation?


Since I post this study on Face Book as well as the St Jerome's website, I invite comments and questions from any of you who are not able to be physically with us, but find this study meaningful and would like to be a part of it. Please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
 
Bless you all,
Fr Colin Kelly




Fr. Colin Kelly
St. Jerome's Episcopal Church 
331 N. Pine, State Road 29
Chama, NM 87520

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