Pentecost is the second of the three great festivals that poured out of the ministry of the Temple in Israel’s midst. It marks, encloses, and consecrates the harvest and joins it unbreakably to the redemption of Israel.
To know God's love, to show God's love
To know God's love, to show God's love
The Temple
In the study of the Temple the feasts are where the effects of the sacrifices and ministries of the priests burst into the outside world, and when it does so, it brings celebration.
The study of the Temple is easily taken up with thinking about the architecture and the rituals, to the extent that we forget the element common to every sacrifice, and without which nothing could be accomplished … the priest. We also overlook the strange coincidence of the institution of a formal priesthood with the building of…