Popular Post USU78 Posted June 8, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2019 (edited) I have a friend who was raised Jewish in upstate New York. He encountered the church at the University of Buffalo, married a Mormon girl, in the temple, and of course, it goes without saying, converted. Years later, after having been released from the stake High council, he asked me one day if I could answer a question for him about the Brass Plates. "Could they have been a Torah?" he asked. I answered that, of course they were and they contained an unknown number of prophetic writings as well. He got excited and told me about stories he was raised on of heroic efforts, sometimes quite adventuresome, to find lost Torah scrolls or protect Torah scrolls from destruction. The Lehite boys' trips back to Jerusalem to retrieve an important Torah fits right into this tradition. I bring this up around Shavuot because it's the Jewish holiday celebrating delivery of the Ten Commandments, the central teaching of the Torah, from Heaven to Earth. I'm convinced that we could use some holy envy of this fierce commitment to scripture. Edited June 8, 2019 by USU78 7 Link to comment
Robert F. Smith Posted June 9, 2019 Share Posted June 9, 2019 Shavuot in Hebrew means "Weeks," the Feast of Weeks, but it is also called Pentecost, because it is 50 days after Passover. And, of course, for Christians Pentecost is the day when the Holy Spirit fell upon the Christians gathered in Jerusalem (Acts 2). It is one of the three Jewish pilgrimage festivals in Jerusalem. As it happens, Jewish Pentecost-Shavuot begins tonight at dusk, and is over on Monday at dusk (June 8 - 10, 2019). 3 Link to comment
theplains Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 On 6/8/2019 at 9:29 PM, Robert F. Smith said: And, of course, for Christians Pentecost is the day when the Holy Spirit fell upon the Christians gathered in Jerusalem (Acts 2). Upon how many? Only the apostles or also the 120 disciples mentioned in Acts 1:15? Thanks, Jim Link to comment
Robert F. Smith Posted June 21, 2019 Share Posted June 21, 2019 2 hours ago, theplains said: Upon how many? Only the apostles or also the 120 disciples mentioned in Acts 1:15?........... The immediate number is not specified, but does seem limited. However, then Peter quotes Joel: “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.18 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.19 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.20 The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.21 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 2 Link to comment
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