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All You Need To Know About Pentecost
What Is Pentecost? The word 'Pentecost' comes from the Greek; it simply means 'fiftieth'. Pentecost Sunday ends the season of Easter; it’s the Sabbath day after a week's worth of weeks (7 x 7 = 49 + 1 = 50). Pentecost grew from what was originally a festival marking the first grain harvest of the Middle Eastern year, marked by a sacrifice to the gods from the first part of that first harvest. In very ancient Palestine, this first-fruit sacrifice was associated with the pagan gods of power and fertility. But as the Jews grew to understand themselves as followers of the one and only true God, they created ways to be thankful to the Lord for the first harvest – without any pagan trappings.
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