PENTEKOSTOS
American transliteration:
Day of Pentecost [a Hebrew Feast]
Jewish: Shavuot
According
to Vine’s *, “PENTEKOSTOS, an adjective denoting fiftieth, is used as a
noun, with “day” understood, that is the fiftieth day after the Passover, counting
from the second day of the Feast.” The Day
of Pentekostos was thelemai [decreed
by Theos] to be a Feast day.
Almost Greek: (Words in italics are translator’s additions.)
Acts
2: Now in the fulfilling of the Day of Pentekostos,
they were all unanimous at the same place.
Unexpectedly (emergent from the ouranos [sky]) was an echos [noise],
just as borne of a violent wind and filled up the whole dwelling where they
were sitting. Themselves [They] stared wide-eyed at thoroughly
partitioned tongues as of fire. It also sat upon each one of them and they were
all filled of the Hagios Pneuma and began to utter words in different glossai, just as the Hagios Pneuma gave to them to enunciate.
Now,
there were Jews residing in
Jerusalem, pious [devout] men from every ethnos of those under the
ouranos. Now, this phone being generated, the
populace assembled and were confused because each one heard them speaking his
own dialektos. Now, all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Lo!
aren’t all these speaking Galileans? And how hear we each our own dialektos, in
which we were born: Parthians, Medes, Elamites and those inhabiting
Mesopotamia; both Judea and Capadocia, Pontus and Asia; both Phrygia and
Pamphylia; Egypt and the regions of Libya over against Cyrene and
alien-resident Romans; both Jews and proselutoi [non-Jewish converts to
Judaism]; Cretans and Arabians. We hear them in our own glossai, articulating the
magnificence of Theos.” And they were all astounded and were thoroughly
disconcerted, one to another posing the
question, “What do you suppose this to be?” But others scornfully posited, “It’s because they are drunk with new
wine.”
But Rock (standing with the eleven) raised up his phone and plainly enunciated [declared] to them, “Men! Jews! and all those inhabiting Jerusalem, let this be known to you and take into your ear [listen to] my rhemai. For these men aren’t intoxicated (as you assume) for it is merely the third hour of the day [9 AM]. But this is the event being spoken via the prophetes Joel: ‘And it shall be in the final days,’ says Theos, ‘I will pour forth (from My Hagios Pneuma) upon all flesh and your sons and daughters will propheteuo [before tell, speak under inspiration] and your youths will stare wide-eyed at visions and your elders will dream dreams. And in those days (upon My male slaves and upon My female slaves), I will pour forth from My Hagios Pneuma and they will also propheteuo.
Joel 2.28: “…It will be afterward I will pour forth My Godesh Ruache [Hagios Pneuma] on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will naba [before tell, speak under inspiration]. Your old will dream dreams. Your youths will see visions. And in those days, on both My male slaves and My female slaves, I will pour forth MY Godesh Ruache. I will give mopheth [wonders, signs, omens] in the sky and on the earth; blood and fire and timarah [pillars, columns] of smoke. The sun will be turned over to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and awesome Day of YHWH. For it will be that all who qara [call out to, appeal to, invoke] the name [authority] of YHWH will malat [be smooth, slippery, escape] for in Mount Tsijon [Zion] and in Jerusalem there shall be deliverance,” as YHWH has said, “and deliverance among the survivors to whom YHWH shall call out.”
Acts 4.31: And they having deomai [begged, pled], the place in which they were convened was rocked [shaken] and they were all filled with the Hagios Pneuma and spoke the logos of Theos amidst all-outspokenness [boldness].
Today (among Christians) the phenomenon described above is generally called “speaking in tongues”. A large segment of evangelical Christians practice this as a gracious gift from Theos. They consider this to be their personal prayer language, and that the intonations are articulated by the Holy Spirit, within them, using their vocal cords. They use this form of prayer when they feel unable to adequately express themselves or in intercession for another person. Some of them believe that their “tongue” or language is an unknown language Others, of them, believe that the language is used somewhere in the world but unknown to the one blessed with it. Some of them believe that the “tongue” is proof that the speaker has received the “baptism in the Holy Spirit”.
glassolalia = greek glassa [language]+ greek lalia [talking]
* Vine’s Amplified Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words by W. E. Vine, published by World Bible Publishers, Inc.; copyright 1991 by World Bible Publishers Inc.
End of Thirty-ninth Lesson
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