[quote=""Shalom Sister Cindy,
I want to know the truth, whatever it may be. If Pentecost means 50 and commemorates the giving of the Law and they did not get to the mount until around 60 days after wave sheaf, to receive the law, this alone kills the traditional third month Pentecost.
Exodus 19:1-2 teaches that the children of Israel did not even get to the mount until the 15th or 16th of the third month, which is beyond the 50 day count from the wave sheaf. I will prove this by Scripture and deductive reasoning but let us first read the verse.
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For/BECAUSE they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
“same day” is not referring to the first day of the month or the third day of the month but is referring to the same day that they went forth out of the land of Egypt. I believe it was on the morrow after the Passover/16th when they actually left Egypt according to number 33:3 And the Book of Jubilees Chapter 1:1 which says they came to the Mount on the 16th day of the third month but I will not get into that now because all I have to do is prove that they did not reach the mount on the first day of the month or the third day of the month.
Exodus the 16 Chapter teaches that they camped in the wilderness of SIN for at least seven days and the earliest they could have scripturally left that camp sight where they began receiving manna for six days would be on the 23rd of the SECOND month because the 22nd is the weekly Sabbath and assuming they only took a week's supply of water, which probably would have been at least twice that, not knowing when they would find more water. They would have filled their water barrels and laid skin's of water across the animal's back but even with if it was only a week's supply of water, it had run out. And after the water was gone and 2 more days had pasted, when they were panicking and saying they were dying of thirst. Even with this understanding they would be on the 2nd day of the third new month/moon and they still had to fight with Amelek AFTER that they prayed and YHWH gave them water.
At least two days passed AFTER that because Moses said tomorrow go out and fight Amelek and the battle lasted all day. Now assuming they left without any rest and went straight to the mount, it would be passed the third day of the third month. I believe there was wounded on both sides because the battle went back and forth as Moses hands were lifted and there had to be time for the wounded to heal as soon as the battle was over. Another day passed when Moses said go out TOMORROW and fight against Amalek. See Chapter 17 of Exodus for proof. Also the word Refdim which is plural for rests according to the Smith's Bible dictionary and it also has the root were for healing or healings. It appears from this word that they either had two weekly Sabbath rest or a Sabbath and new moon. Exodus 19:2 says, for they were departed from Refdim/plural rests. There is much more to this and I will try to find my notes later but my point is the Scripture teaches a later arrival at the mount which makes the third month giving of the Law impossible.
Brother Arnold
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