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Pentecost 1996 —“Count to Pentecost”— May 26, 1996

“Now it says, ‘Now bread or parched-grain or groats, you are not to eat, until that same day [that is you go into the land and wave the wave sheaf offering], until you have brought the near-offering of your God…’ (Lev. 23:14, Schocken).  Now let’s understand something.  The wave sheaf offering was cut before the wave sheaf offering day.  The wave sheaves that different people would bring in were cut before the wave sheaf offering day.  And then they would bring it.  And so someone asked, ‘Well, how can they cut it on the holy day?’  Well, they don’t.  They wave it and then they use the grain, and they may have harvested some other things too, some more than just for the firstfruit, but then after the waving of the firstfruit they are able to eat the new grain. 

“And the question that came up was concerning Joshua 5, now how are they able on the holy day, to go out and harvest the grain.  Well they didn’t.  They harvested it before time.  It didn’t say not to harvest it before time but you’re to bring the premier sheaf of your harvest.  Now it would have to be harvested before time, without a doubt.  So the main thing is here, that you are not to eat parched grain or groats or new or old, when they went in to the land of crossing over the river Jordan, until the same day that they entered the land” (Coulter, “Count to Pentecost,” p. 1).

Part 1: “Count to Pentecost”—May 26, 1996

Part 2: “Count to Pentecost”—May 26, 1996

Barley Facts from the Department of Horticulture, Purdue University.

Transcriptions of Pentecost Sermons by Fred R. Coulter

Pentecost 1995:  “Day 49 to Pentecost”— June 3, 1995

Pentecost 1996:  “Count to Pentecost”— May 25, 1996

Pentecost 1998:  “Pentecost Never on Monday -- Always on Sunday”— May 16, 1998

Pentecost 1999:  “Pentecost and the Sea of Glass #1”— April 17, 1999

Pentecost 2000:  “Day 49”— June 10, 2000

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