Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, the time of the great harvest!
Shavuot is recognized by most calendars in 2026 as beginning at sunset on Thursday, May 21st, and ending at sunset on Saturday, May 23rd. Pentecost will be recognized by much of the Christian Church this year on Sunday, May 24th.
If you’re anything like me and many of you are then you care about the entire Bible and how these Feast days foreshadow the prophetic work of Messiah. When it comes to the Feasts and their prophetic meanings, we memorialize and pay attention to it all!
Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, is what we will be focusing on throughout this week. Today, we are going to begin our Shavuot series by reading Exodus chapters 19–20. It has become tradition during Shavuot to read the story of Mount Sinai, commemorating the Torah being given by God to Moses and the Israelites.
However, the story of Shavuot does not end at Mount Sinai. As believers in Messiah we also recognize the powerful connection from Sinai to Jerusalem from the giving of the Law to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. During this series, we will also spend time in Acts chapter 2, reading the story of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the disciples in Jerusalem during the Feast of Weeks.
The connections are truly incredible: fire on the mountain at Sinai, and tongues of fire in Jerusalem; the covenant given through Moses, and the Spirit poured out through Messiah. Shavuot ultimately points us toward both the holiness of God and the great harvest that is still to come.
I should also note that there are many prophecy watchers who believe that the Ressurection may take place during Shavuot, and we will see several connections to that idea as we read today’s story from Exodus and the events recorded in Acts.
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