You don’t need a church building and a bunch of marketing pens to get started in a ministry, but you do absolutely need a solid handle on how to pray, study and discern biblical truth. One biblical truth is that one of the top three God-appointed festivals is the one we are currently in, Shavuot.

While Christians prefer to call this time Pentecost, the holy day is actually the same - or should be. Shavout, or Pentecost, is a time during which Adonai’s two major covenants were to be celebrated. The old covenant form is found in the God-appointed day of Shavout.

Shavuot is the day on which Adonai actually delivered the ten commandments to Moshe on Mount Sinai. It was declared by Adonai to be a time of celebrating the deliverance of the Torah to his chosen people.

Interestingly enough, following the ascension of Yeshua to the Father after his resurrection, the talmidim of Yeshua waited in Jerusalem until the day on which the Ruach haKodesh (Holy Spirit) fell on them in power and the full truth of Adonai - both the law of Moshe and the gospel of Yeshua - was delivered to all present in their own languages. This marked the new covenant of Adonai with his people, Israel.

(Yes, eventually the gentiles were included within that new covenant; but on that day it was offered to the people of Israel first.)

So, whether you call it Shavuot or Pentecost, the celebration is the same: it is celebrating the covenants of Adonai to those who follow him.