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When the sun sets tonight, Shavuot begins, and we at Ariel Ministries will celebrate a very special event: the birth of the Church.

In Acts 2, God’s Holy Spirit fell upon the Jewish believers in Jerusalem. At that very moment, they were welded together into one new organism: the kehila, the ekklesia, the living body of the Messiah. In the links below, you will find an article by Dr. Fruchtenbaum, published a few years ago, that we invite you to read. It details the connection between Shavuot and Pentecost.

Happy birthday, Church!

Happy Shavuot!

📜 Celebrating the giving of the Torah.
🌾 Celebrating the first harvest of wheat for the season.
🕊️ For believers in Yeshua, it also celebrates pentecost.

“You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain. Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as the Lord your God blesses you." - Deuteronomy 16:9-10