Pentecost and the Pomegranate.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge… Hosea 4:6

Sunday, May 19, 2024, will be Pentecost. Pente is 50. Pentecost occurs 50 days after The Feast of First Fruits, the last Feast in the season of Passover that Jesus fulfilled when He resurrected. Pentecost comes at the end of The Feast of Weeks. Moses received the law on Pentecost. Pentecost was fulfilled when Holy Spirit was given in Acts 2.

“FULFILLED” means to give the “CORRECT INTERPRETATION”.

If you are watching mainstream and social media, then you have probably heard myriad attempts at separating Zionism from Judaism. The idea is that Zionism is a political force divorced from true Judaism. The overarching theme is that Zionists are not true Jews. Yet, Zion is mentioned 163 times in the Old and New Testament, beginning with

Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David. 2 Sam 5:7

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ houses of the people of Israel, in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. 2 Chron 5:2

A Zionist is a person who supports Israel’s spiritual heritage and right to the land. PERIOD! That said, the Bible promises a blessing or a curse, according to one’s stance on this issue. Num 24:9  Recent attempts to divorce Zionism from Judaism are just more of the same marginalization of Jews as has been done in the past with things like  Kazarian conspiracy theories and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion published in 1903 by “Author Unknown”. These inspired Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the philosophical. justification for the Jewish Holocaust, 1933-45. Attempts have also been made to associate the star of David on the Israeli flag with the above conspiracy theories and others to include those associating contemporary Israel with Freemasonry and even Moloch worship.

I’m writing about this now because Pomegranates are traditionally eaten during the Feast of Pentecost.  Pomegranates are first mentioned in Exodus 28 regarding the construction of the priestly robe.

On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the Lord, and when he comes out, so that he does not die. Exodus 28:33-35

Pomegranates are one of the seven blessings of the land resulting from obedience. Deut 8:6-10

The Star of David represents the top of Pomegranate.

“Pomegranates, unlike the Menorah, were visible to the non-priestly Israelites and were therefore associated with the glory of God’s Temple far more than the Menorah, which they were never able to look at. Nowadays, that imagery is stylistically represented in the Star of David, the Magen David, the symbol of Israel, by a people fervently hoping for the Messiah to return – it is also a symbol of faith that one day the pomegranate would again be seen by all Israelites, once more adorning a Temple upon Mt Moriah, on the Temple Mount.” The Ancient Bridge

The Pomegranate as represented on the Israeli flag symbolizes the hope of Zion which is the Nation of Israel.

Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,  and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb, and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless. Rev 14:1-5

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. Rev 12:10

Once again, accuse katēgoréō the Greek word from which the English word category is derived. The enemy would like to recategorize a Zionist as an evil political entity that is separate from Judaism.

Don’t Be Duped by the Enemy’s Narrative.

So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather, through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.  Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean! Rom 11:11-12

We will continue to bless Israel this Pentecost as we await Jesus’s future fulfillment of The Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles the day and hour of which no one knows.

MARANATHA!