Pentecost is June 1st, 2025

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The LORD’s Day of Pentecost for 2025 is here, and it begins May 31st at sunset to June 1st at sunset. Unlike other God ordained Holy Days, some version of the Day of Pentecost is observed by many worldly churches, both by the Roman Catholics and her daughter Protestants. Of course, since Pentecost is a God ordained Holy Day, it is observed by our Lord Jesus Christ’s Church. Pentecost is the very day that God’s Spirit descended upon the disciples in the shape of fire ── Acts 2:3-4.

The majority of worldly churches that profess Jesus Christ consider that Pentecost marked the “official” beginning of the New Testament Church.

The very term Pentecost is a Greek term, which means FIFTY. And this term is derived from the following Hebrew description of calculating the date ──

15 וספרו לכם ממחר יום המנוחה מיום הבאתם את העומר להנפה שבעה שבועות; הם יהיו שלמים.

16 תספור עד ליום שאחרי השבוע השביעי, יום החמישים, [אשר בו] תביא מנחה חדשה לה'.

15And you shall count for yourselves, from the morrow of the rest day from the day you bring the omer as a wave offering seven weeks; they shall be complete.

16You shall count until the day after the seventh week, [namely,] the fiftieth day, [on which] you shall bring a new meal offering to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:15-16, Torah (The Pentateuch)

“’ And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. 16) Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.” – Leviticus 23:15-16, NKJV. 

True Christians of the first century A.D. knew that they were supposed to keep and observe the Day of Pentecost. And they knew this from the apostles and God’s living word ── as well as the apostles were keeping and observing the Day of Pentecost. 

As an example, our beloved Apostle Paul was continuing to keep and celebrate the Day of Pentecost decades after the Day of Pentecost was spoken of in the 2nd chapter of the Book of Acts. Notice this from about the year 55 A.D. ── 

“For I do not wish to see you now on the way; but I hope to stay a while with you, if the Lord permits. But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost.” – 1 Corinthians 16:7-8.

This certainly shows us that the Christians there in Corinth knew when Pentecost was, as well as the Christians in Ephesus. Thus, it was being kept and observed by the Apostle Paul and the converted Gentiles in Ephesus and in Corinth. 

Also, notice that in a following year, the Apostle Paul also wished to be in Jerusalem for the Day of Pentecost ── it was around the year 6o A.D. ──   

“For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.” – Acts 20:16.

So, true Christians who were in Jerusalem were keeping and observing the Day of Pentecost. Otherwise, there would have been no logical reason why he desired to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost.

A very old document (that was likely altered in the 4th century) titled The Life of Polycarp specifically mentions the Passover, the Days of Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost. And it records that the Apostle Paul said that they were to be kept ──

In the days of unleavened bread, Paul, coming down from Galatia, arrived in Asia, considering the repose among the faithful in Smyrna to be a great refreshment in Christ Jesus after his severe toil, and intending afterwards to depart to Jerusalem. So in Smyrna he went to visit Strataeas, who had been his hearer in Pamphylia, being a son of Eunice, the daughter of Lois. These are they of whom he makes mention when writing to Timothy, saying; Of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and in thy mother Eunice; whence we find that Strataeas was a brother of Timothy. Paul then, entering his house and gathering together the faithful there, speaks to them concerning the Passover and the Pentecost, reminding them of the New Covenant of the offering of bread and the cup; how that they ought most assuredly to celebrate it during the days of unleavened bread, but to hold fast the new mystery of the Passion and Resurrection. For here the Apostle plainly teaches that we ought neither to keep it outside the season of unleavened bread, as the heretics do, especially the Phrygians, nor yet on the other hand of necessity on the fourteenth day: for he said nothing about the fourteenth day, but named the days of unleavened bread, the Passover, and the Pentecost, thus ratifying the Gospel.

22) And on the sabbath, when prayer had been made long time on bended knee, he, as was his custom, got up to read; and every eye was fixed upon him. Now the lesson was the Epistles of Paul to Timothy and to Titus, in which he says what manner of man a bishop ought to be. And he was so well fitted for the office that the hearers said one to another that he lacked none of those qualities which Paul requires in one who has the care of a church. When then, after the reading and the instruction of the bishops and the discourses of the presbyters, the deacons were sent to the laity to enquire whom they would have, they said with one accord, 'Let Polycarp be our pastor and teacher.' 1

Notice that the Apostle Paul is shown teaching the Gentiles to keep and celebrate God’s ordained Holy Days, which includes the Day of Pentecost. Brother Polycarp, was a true and faithful servant who was (apparently) ordained by the Apostle John. 

Here is a sermon intended for the Day of Pentecost:

 

Since the Apostle Paul and other faithful Christians kept Pentecost, shouldn’t you?