Spring Biblical Holidays: Passover, and Shavuot (which later became Pentecost)

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Early - Mid Spring.

1st Biblical month. "Pesach," this is the first of the three pilgrimage festivals in the Old Testament. It lasts for Passover night plus 7 days. It commemorated the Israelites' exodus from Egypt after a long bondage. They were to put the lamb's blood on the door. This was one of the symbols meant to lead them to the Savior. He became the Passover Lamb! The sacrament was instituted by Christ the day before his death, at Passover.

Jews set an extra chair out for the Prophet Elijah, at their Passover Seder. Elijah did return to the Mormon Kirtland Ohio temple at the Passover season, on Easter Sunday, April 3, 1836, which was the 2nd day of Passover and the 1st day counting the 50 days until the next festival, Shavuot. Jesus/Yeshua, Moses and Elias also came to the temple on that date.

One day there will be another great Exodus, see Jeremiah 16: 14-15. Also there is Passover imagery in the Word of Wisdom,

D&C 89: 18-21.

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Shavuot - Pentecost. Mid to late Spring.

3rd Biblical month. Another pilgrimage festival, The Feast of Weeks, i.e. Shavuot commemorates the giving of the Mosaic Covenant at Mount Sinai. They were originally given the Enoch Covenant, but that didn't work out, so it was changed and became the Mosaic Covenant or Law of Moses. Shavuot also has ties to the Abrahamic covenant and other ancient events. This holiday occurs 50 days after Passover. The "Counting of the Omer" lasts 50 days until Shavuot.

Jesus/Yeshua after his resurrection, spent 40 days with the disciples and then ascended into heaven. On that day, he told them to wait at Jerusalem for 10 more days. 40+ 10 = 50 days. Why? See Acts 2&3. The outpouring of the Spirit in many languages was the beginning of the post-resurrection Church. "Pentecost."

Sometime after Jesus' resurrection he went to visit the Nephites and Lamanites in the Americas.

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