Let's Go to God's House

“Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts,…” – Acts 2:46 If you know me, you know I’m a historian at heart — and that means I love to teach. Today, I’d like to share a comforting analogy with you. Pentecost or Shavuot as it is known in the Hebrew language, was a temple celebration in Jesus’ day. Pentecost is Greek for fifty, and the reason that holiday was called Pentecost to the Greek Jews is because Shavuot is the feast of weeks or fifty days after Passover. This is traditionally the date on which the first ripe grain of the wheat harvest is celebrated, and it also celebrates the giving of the Torah, the first five books of the Bible.  Imagine hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Jews coming from all