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Apostolic Writings Discussions Pentecost/Shavuot

Acts 4:1-31 — Boldness in the name of God’s salvation, Yeshua the Messiah

On the day after Shavuot (Pentecost), the priesthood in God’s temple are on trial, even as they put Peter and John on trial, as to whether they will cling to their presuppositions about God — that He created then vacated — or submit to the massive displays of God’s power in His house of prayer testifying to the reality that Yeshua is God’s Messiah.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions Pentecost/Shavuot Unleavened Bread

From Self-Sufficiency to Spiritual Transformation: Lessons from Matthew 16

Yeast is commonly seen as a symbol for pride, something bad. Why does God command us to not eat leavened bread for seven days after Passover then at Shavuot (Pentecost) command that He be offered two loaves of leavened bread? How is the answer to this paradox found in Yeshua’s cryptic instruction to His disciples to beware of the “yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees”?