From Fifty Days to Eternity
Fifty days of counting. Fifty years of counting. Same pattern, different scales. The difference between them is the difference between time and eternity — and Pentecost is where they connect.
Fifty days of counting. Fifty years of counting. Same pattern, different scales. The difference between them is the difference between time and eternity — and Pentecost is where they connect.
A book lets you skip to the last page and read how it ends. A scroll won’t. In Revelation, the seven seals are sealed shut in a way that’s doing far more than we tend to notice.
This follows from Where Does the Week Come From? — that post shows where the week comes from; this one follows the same cycle outward. Start with something we handle without a second thought: a calendar. Here’s a simple one, laid out so the first day of the month falls on day one and the Sabbath on…
Does God have a plan? Most of the world assumes not. Scripture says yes — and that the plan has a center: everything in heaven and on earth gathered under Christ. The feasts were the shadow of it, sketched in advance. The body casting the shadow was always him.