God was prophesying already then about what he
was going to do on that day of Pentecost, that
specific day. All the other ones were a rehearsal
for what he was going to do on that day when
he was going to pour out of his spirit on all
flesh. God promises in Joel 2 .28 to pour out
of his spirit on all humanity. Welcome to Global
Outpouring. Will we contend for that promised
outpouring? We equip for that outpouring so that
we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip
Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast
today. We're so delighted that you are with us.
We're getting ready for our convention 2026.
And we didn't even know when we planned it for
Memorial Day weekend that it was going to be
Shavuot. It was going to be Pentecost. And opening
night is the opening of Shavuot. And the very
last day is Pentecost Sunday and they don't always
come together. So we've really been moved by
God to prepare for Pentecost because you and
I, we have an appointment with God. Thanks so
much for joining us today. We're so happy, happy,
happy that we can do this together with you and
with God and let His Spirit pour out on you because
we're preparing for Pentecost. But before we
get started, we want to encourage you, if you
haven't already done so, that you go to our website,
globaloutpouring .net, and click on that subscribe
button and subscribe to our email lists, any
of them that you want, and you can hear from
us and we can let you know other things. that
are happening besides this podcast. We've got
lots of things that are happening. If you're
enjoying this podcast, there's so much more material
that's available on our website and on our YouTube
channel. We've got lots and lots of content there
that's waiting to help equip you for God's hand
on you for the outpouring that's already begun.
And just like we learned from Pastor Tony in
episode 306, he was teaching us about the capacity
code. And if you haven't heard that, I really
encourage you to go and listen to that because
we took it to heart. And God has changed a whole
lot of things in our lives and in the ministry.
He's just opened some amazing doors and opened
some amazing provision. And we're just excited.
at what God is doing because God is meeting us.
And that's what this episode is all about, is
meeting with God. You have an appointment with
God. So where does this appointment idea come
from? There's a scripture right in Genesis chapter
1 that gives us a clue. You know, you look for
the very first place where a word appears. There's
a thing called the law of first mention. And
when you get into that, you can see there's a
special attachment to the meaning when you see
where it is used first. So Genesis 1, 14 to 19.
Philip, would you like to read that from the
ESV? And God said, Let there be lights in the
expanse of the heavens to separate the day from
the night. And let them be for signs and for
seasons and for days and years. And let them
be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give
light upon the earth. And it was so. And God
made the two great lights, the greater light
to rule the day and the lesser light to rule
the night and the stars. And God set them in
the expanse of the heavens to give light on the
earth. to rule over the day and over the night,
and to separate the light from the darkness.
And God saw that it was good. And there was evening
and there was morning the fourth day. So this
isn't going to be a study in Genesis, but the
first place where this word that we're looking
for shows up is in verse 14. It says, let them
be for signs and for seasons. And that word seasons,
obviously it means seasons because we set Our
months, and we set our years by the moon and
the sun work together in expressing our months.
The Hebrew calendar is based mostly on the lunar
calendar because they begin their month at the
new moon, but they have a way of adding an extra
month so that it stays lined up with the sun
calendar, which the year begins with spring.
So with spring, you can see the seasons. The
seasons begin with spring and summer and fall
and winter. And so this word for seasons is moed,
or in this case, moedim. That's the plural of
moed in Hebrew. And moed means... It does mean
seasons, but it also means an appointed place
or an appointed time. It's a meeting place or
just a meeting. So wherever it talks about the
tent of meeting, it's the tent of Moed. And so
all of these things that God tells the Israelites
to do, especially the appointed feasts that they're
all supposed to come to Jerusalem for, those
are Moedim. They're appointments. It's like you
set an appointment with your dentist, right?
So at 2 .30 on Tuesday, you need to be there.
And if you're late, you might completely miss
your appointment, right? Yeah. And these days,
they'll send you a text or give you a call and
say, here's a reminder. You've got a reminder.
You have an appointment. So are you going to
cancel or are you going to come? And, you know,
it gives you an opportunity to respond. You know,
push this button or click that or whatever. And
so you can set yourself up to say yes. I'm going
to be there. Well, we have this convention coming
up, and it's an appointment. It's an appointment
with God. And we've used that expression, our
founder, Sister Gwen, in probably, I want to
say, the second or third convention that we ever
had back in the 70s. She had this little song,
You Have an Appointment with God. He's here to
meet you, my friend. And we have had appointment
after appointment after appointment with God
in these conventions. But this year, it's going
to be on Pentecost. Oh, that's just amazingly
awesome. We're so blown away because, you know,
it's all about the outpouring, right? In our
hearts now, it's all about the outpouring. So
this idea of a set... season, a set feast, an
appointed time, an appointed place, a meeting.
It's a fixed time. It's a certain time. And you
don't want to miss your appointment. You just
don't want to miss it, right? And it's also for
an assembly. So you're going to assemble together,
to convene together. That's why we call it a
convention, because we convene. Everybody else
is calling their thing a conference. And we thought
of that for a while. You know, lots of people
call it a conference, but we call it a convention
because we convene together. We're getting together.
We're assembling together because God is going
to do something. He's going to do something in
us and through us. And so it's just an appointment.
It's an appointed time. So where do we see this
word next in Genesis? Yeah, Genesis 17, 21. And
my covenant. I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah
doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the
next year. Okay, so God has already given an
appointment. He knows when that baby is going
to be born and it hasn't even been conceived
yet. And when it comes, it comes. When it comes,
it comes. When it's time for the baby to come,
the baby comes. So that's an appointment. And
I think it's very significant that God uses that
word in that scenario. He's trying to explain
that this is an appointment. You have an appointment,
Sarah. You have an appointment to have a baby.
All these years you've been waiting, and you've
been wondering, and, you know, Abraham's going
to be 100 by the time that baby's born, and you're
90. Come on. But there's an appointment. There's
an appointed time. It's not a miracle if you
have a baby at the age of 28. You know, that's
no miracle. It happens. It's normal. That's a
normal thing. But for a woman who has been decades
and decades without ovulating, this is a miracle.
Yeah. Okay. This is a miracle. So God does miracles
at appointed times, right? Yeah. So then there's
the appointed feast. So what are the appointed
feasts, Philip? Well, you have the Feast of Unleavened
Bread. Well, actually in Deuteronomy 16, verses
16 to 17, three times a year, all your males
shall appear before the Lord your God at the
place where he will choose, at the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast
of Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord
empty -handed. Every man shall give as he is
able, according to the blessing of the Lord your
God that he has given you. Okay, so there are
three times, the Feast of Passover or Unleavened
Bread. and Feast of Weeks. Now, the word for
week is Shavuot. And so Shavuot is the plural
of Shavuot. So seven weeks is Shavuot. Okay,
it's just the plural of weeks. And then the Feast
of Booths, of course, is the Feast of Tabernacles.
So what is the Feast of Weeks? What does the
scripture say about the Feast of Weeks? Deuteronomy
16, verses 8 to 12. For six days you shall eat
unleavened bread. And on the seventh day there
shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God.
You shall do no work on it. You shall count seven
weeks. Begin to count the seven weeks from the
time the sickle is first put to the standing
grain. Then you shall keep the feast of weeks
to the Lord your God with the tribute of a freewill
offering from your hand, which you shall give
as the Lord your God blesses you. And you shall
rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your
sons and your daughter, your male servant and
your female servant, the Levite who is within
your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and
the widow who are among you at the place that
the Lord your God will choose to make his name
dwell there. You shall remember that you were
a slave in Egypt, and you shall be careful to
observe these statutes. Now, that's very interesting.
We'll pick that up again when we get to Acts.
And then what does Exodus 34 .22 say about the
Feast of Weeks? It says, You shall observe the
Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest.
There you go. The firstfruits of the wheat harvest.
So at Passover, you have the firstfruits of the
barley harvest. So the priest goes out on the
first day after the Sabbath, after Passover.
So if Passover happened on Thursday, probably
was Thursday. rather than Friday, because Jesus
was in the tomb for three days. So Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, there's your Shabbat. And then
the first day after the Shabbat is when the priest
goes out and he... he puts his sickle to find
the one here and one there and another one over
there and another one over there and another
one over there, that he's going to find these
ripe heads that are bowing down. That's how you
know that they're ripe, because they're bowing.
There's something about maturity that has to
do with bowing, right? You're submitting to the
Lord. That's a sign of maturity. Then they wave
that before the Lord. That's the wave offering.
So they begin counting the wheat. weeks from
that day. Okay. And then as the harvest ripens,
then they go out and they gather in the harvest
of the barley, all of the barley. And so you
have the first fruits and you have the general
harvest. So Jesus was raised on the feast of
first fruits. And it's very key that we understand
that this is like a sign of things to come. Paul
talks about he's the first fruits of the resurrection.
So Jesus was raised first, so we can expect that
we're also going to be raised. Amen? Amen. So
then when you get to the end of the barley harvest,
that's when the first fruits, the first few heads
of the wheat harvest are showing their bowing
heads. And so the priest goes out and he gathers
the first fruits of the wheat harvest for Shavuot.
And then they grind that wheat and they make
it into two loaves and they wave the loaves before
the Lord. I think maybe that's in the next thing
here. Let's go ahead and read Leviticus 23, 15
to 21. You shall count seven full weeks from
the day after the Sabbath, from the day that
you brought the sheaf of the wave offering. You
shall count 50 days to the day after the seventh
Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering
of new grain to the Lord. You shall bring from
your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be
weighed, made of two tenths of an ephah. They
shall be a fine flour, and they shall be baked
with leaven as firstfruits to the Lord. And you
shall present with the bread seven lambs a year
old without blanch, and one bull from the herd,
and two rams. They shall be a burnt offering
to the Lord. with their grain offering and their
drink offerings, a food offering with a pleasing
aroma to the Lord. Everybody loves fresh -baked
bread, right? Yeah, it just smells so good. Takes
me back to Germany. Mmm, oh yeah. And you shall
offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two
male lambs a year old as a sacrifice of peace
offerings. And the priest shall wave them with
the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering
before the Lord with the two lambs. They shall
be holy to the Lord for the priest. And you shall
make a proclamation on the same day. You shall
hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any
ordinary work. It is a statute forever in all
your dwelling places throughout your generations.
It means forever and ever and ever. And ever.
Yeah. So we see that Jesus was resurrected on
the Feast of Firstfruits at the barley harvest.
Then he spent 40 days. with his disciples. And
then he gives them their final instructions before
he goes to heaven. So what's that in Luke 24,
verses 45 to 53? Then he opened their minds to
understand the scriptures and said to them, thus
is it written, that the Christ shall suffer and
on the third day rise from the dead. Amen. And
that repentance for the forgiveness of sin should
be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning
from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father
upon you. But stay in the city until you are
clothed with power from on high. And he led them
out as far as Bethany and lifted up his hands.
He blessed them. While he blessed them, he parted
from them and was carried up into heaven. And
they worshipped him and returned to Jerusalem
with great joy. And we're continually in the
temple blessing God. See, they were scared to
go into the temple back then, but now they are
fired up. They're fired up. And just as a note,
remember it says that his feet shall stand on
the Mount of Olives. Bethany is on the Mount
of Olives. So that's a part of the Mount that,
you know, that gives credibility to this because
in, well, let's read what it says in Acts. Let's
read the story from the book of Acts. And while
staying with them, he ordered them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of
the Father, which he said, You heard from me.
For John baptized with water, but you will be
baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from
now. So when they had come together, they asked
him, Lord, will you at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel? He said to them, It is not
for you to know times or seasons that the Father
has fixed by his own authority. But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem
and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of
the earth. And when he had said these things,
as they were looking up, he was lifted up and
a cloud took him out of their sight. You know,
I like to add in the book of Zechariah, it says
in that days, his feet shall stand on the Mount
of Olives. Exactly. So he will come back. as
he said he would. Yes. And I didn't include the
next verse in our notes here, but I'll just read
it from my Bible because I have it right here,
that the next thing that was said was, while
they looked toward heaven as he went up, behold,
two men stood by them in white apparel. Which
also said, you men of Galilee, why are you standing
gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, which
is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come
in like manner as you have seen him go into heaven.
So this same Jesus is coming back on the Mount
of Olives. Hallelujah. So Jesus is telling them,
stay in Jerusalem. until you receive the power
from God, I'm going to send the promise of the
Father. So stick around. The thing is this, Passover,
they were supposed to be there. And we know that
they went off to Galilee after Passover, after
Jesus was resurrected. They went fishing and
met Jesus there fishing, and he cooked breakfast
for them. But then he led them back to Jerusalem.
In order for him to go up from the Mount of Olives,
that's just outside Jerusalem, with a view of
Jerusalem. And he'd been hanging out with them
for 40 days, probably coming and going. Coming
and going, yeah. You know, because he could.
But he told them to stay there. Well, you're
not going to go anywhere if you're supposed to
be in Jerusalem in 10 days. So it made sense
that they should just stay in Jerusalem. until
they were endued with power from on high. And
it goes on to say that they went to the upper
room and they were praying together and doing
business, replacing Judas with one of the other
disciples and so on. But then in Acts chapter
2, we have the big day, right? The big bang.
The big bang. So let's roll back to... what Pentecost
was to them before the coming of the Holy Spirit,
because God had these appointed times. And remember,
back in the Torah, you have the Exodus, and that
was, you know, the first Passover was that night
of the Passover when they had to put up the blood
before the destroyer came and took away the firstborn.
So, you know, you're celebrating that every year.
And they were released from bondage. Exactly.
So that's what the Passover lamb will do for
you and release you from bondage. Absolutely.
And you have this other part where they were
in such a hurry to get away that they didn't
have time to let their bread rise. So as a part
of... this celebration, they're going to eat
unleavened bread to remind them of what happened
in the first time while they were exiting Egypt,
right? But the idea is that leaven is a picture
of sin. So it was right that Jesus' sacrifice
would come in this time when everyone is supposed
to put away all of their leaven. They're all
supposed to go through their houses and get rid
of all the leaven, all of the yeast that causes
things to swell. We keep saying this over and
over that part of our maturing in God has to
do with learning to bow and learning to let go
and learning to surrender. So all of these things
that we do to surrender is pushing the leaven
out of our lives. And so Jesus shows up. Remember,
he said, I am the bread of life. Right. He was
born in Bethlehem, which means house of bread.
He said, I'm the bread of life. He said, you
know, take it. This is my body, which is given
for you. Right. It was unleavened bread. So if
leaven is a sign of sin, if leaven is a sign
of pride and swelling. Jesus. bread given for
us, Jesus' body given for us is sinless, right?
So that's why we use unleavened bread. Now, it's
okay if you're having Holy Communion to use regular
bread. I'm not trying to say that you need to
only use matzah, okay? But we find out matzah
lasts longer. Yeah, matzah does last a long time.
But the point is that Jesus was so detailed about
everything. Every little sign was something that
he prepared, that he gave to us as a picture.
You can see it. Just keep looking for the pictures.
Just keep following the breadcrumbs. He's there.
He's there in all of it. So it's really exciting
to see this. So then as they went out of Egypt
and they go out into the wilderness, It says
in Exodus 19 .1 that the Israelites reached the
wilderness of Sinai in the third month. Okay,
so the first month is Passover. It's Aviv, which
means spring. So I don't remember what the second
month is called. But anyway, moving on, the third
month is Sivan. So you have just about the same
amount of time as these seven weeks that you're
counting from the day of the first fruits. Okay,
so God is mixing all of the pictures together
because it's partly about harvest and it's partly
about the giving of the law. So here they are
at Sinai. If you'll remember, in Exodus 19, it
says, okay, Exodus 19, 1, in the third month,
when the children of Israel were gone out of
the land of Egypt, the same day they came to
the wilderness of Sinai, and God says to them,
if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant,
then you will be a peculiar treasure unto me,
a special treasure above all people, for all
the earth is mine. And you shall be unto me a
kingdom of priests. Okay. A holy nation. These
are the words which you shall speak unto the
children of Israel. So Moses called to the elders
and he tells them all of these things. So then
he tells them, get ready for the third day. Okay.
On the third day. sanctify yourselves to be ready
for the third day. So prepare for Pentecost.
Prepare for this special visitation of God. Now,
already they had seen in the wilderness, they
had seen before they even crossed the Red Sea
that God could show up as a fire tornado, a pillar
of fire. In the daytime, he was a pillar of cloud.
So that's how he manifested himself to the children
of Israel. Yeah, and you know when there's forest
fires and there's extreme heat. I mean, you can
see this on YouTube and sometimes usually Weather
Channel will post something, a firenado. And
it's just a circular motion and it's just like
a column of fire just going up. And I think that's
a good picture of what was cloud by day but fire
by night. Yeah. This fiery pillar, that's just,
we'll get to see it on the replays. I think that's
a little taste of it, though, in a forest fire,
this extreme heat creating a vortex. It's true,
it's true. And you also see that in, I'm not
sure if it's the first or second chapter of Ezekiel,
where it talks about a fire catching itself.
Well, obviously it's got to be going in a circle
in order for it to be catching itself. So it's
the same. fire tornado, as far as I can see.
So it goes on to talk about Moses went up the
mountain and the Lord descended on it in a fire
and smoke ascended as the smoke of a furnace
and the whole mountain quaked. It quaked. Okay.
And then there was a voice of a trumpet, a shofar.
That sounded long and waxed louder and louder.
And Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice.
And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on top
of the mount. And the Lord called to Moses out
to the top of the mount. And Moses went up, and
he said to them, you know, go tell the people
that don't let them touch the mountain. So he
said, go get down with Aaron and you. Don't let
the priests and the people break through. And
then God spoke. So he spoke these words and he
gave them the Ten Commandments. I'm not going
to take time to read them. You should if you
haven't ever read them. Really, the first thing
he says is, I am Yehovah, your God. And I brought
you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house
of bondage. Have no other gods before me. He
speaks that to the children of Israel. directly.
They could hear his voice. And when he was done
speaking to them, verse 18 says, all the people
saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the
noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking.
And when the people saw it, they removed and
stood far off. And they said unto Moses, I like
to do it this way. You talk to him now. We don't
want to hear this anymore. We're scared. You
know, we're afraid we're going to die if we hear
God speak to us directly, which is really sad
because God really wanted them to be an entire
nation of priests. A whole kingdom of priests.
And then the Lord, he gave them all these other
rules and it goes on and on. But at one point,
and I love the way that Cecil B. DeMille did
it in his Ten Commandments movie. If you haven't
ever seen Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments,
it's a magnificent, magnificent portrayal. You
know, it's quite a long story, but I love the
part where he's up in Mount Sinai and the fire
tornado is up there. Just swinging around and
swinging around and swinging around. And it says,
I don't remember exactly where it says, but it
says that God wrote in the stone with his fiery
finger. And the way that they portrayed it in
this movie is that the fire tornado slings off
a flame and the flame writes in the stone. And
the voice speaks the words, thou shalt have no
other gods before me. And then the next one comes
and he writes in the stone. And then at the end
of it, you know, at the end of all 10 of them,
the finger comes around and carves it out. And
here he's got the two tablets of the law. Yeah.
Right. So this is what. To this day, this is
a major part of the celebration of Shavuot, that
they are remembering the giving of the law, because
that was the next thing that happened after they
came out of Egypt, after they had Passover. So
now they're going to celebrate the giving of
the law on this day, keeping that in mind to
this day, to today. Jewish people, Orthodox Jewish
people who are going to celebrate this feast,
they will stay up all night long and they will
read together, read the scriptures together.
They're going to read the book of Ruth, which
is all about harvest, and they're going to read
and pray together all night long. So now let's
go to the book of Acts because we have this foundation
laid of what Shavuot or Pentecost was up until
that time. And if I didn't say it, Pentecost
comes from the Greek where pente means 50, meaning
50 days. So it's the 50th day that they're celebrating,
right? Yeah. So now let's look at the book of
Acts chapter 2. Philip, would you read that?
When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly
there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing
mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where
they were sitting. The whole house, I love it.
We'll explain that later. Yeah, yeah. Then there
appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and
sat upon each of them. And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with
other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout
men from every nation under heaven. And when
this sound occurred, the multitude came together
and were confused, because everyone heard them
speak in his own language. Then they were all
amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Look,
are not all of these who speak Galileans? And
how is it we hear each in our own language in
which we were born? Parthenians and Medes and
Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea,
Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia. Phrygia and Pamphylia,
Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene,
visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Cretans and Arabs. We hear them speaking in our
own tongues the wonderful works of God. So they
were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one
another, Whatever could this mean? Others mocking
said, These are full of new wine. But Peter,
standing up with the eleven, raised his voice
and said to them, Men of Judea and all who dwell
in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and heed
my words. For these are not drunk, as you suppose,
since this is only the third hour of the day,
but this is that which was spoken by the prophet
Joel. And it shall come to pass in the last days,
says God, that I will pour out of my spirit on
all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy. Your young men shall see visions. Your
old men shall dream dreams. And on my menservants
and on my maidservants I will pour out my Spirit
in those days, and they shall prophesy. I will
show wonders in heaven above and signs in the
earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness and the
moon into blood before the coming of the great
and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come
to pass that whoever calls on the name of the
Lord Amen. Amen. So what happened on the Temple
Mount? Okay. So today in Jerusalem, if you're
there for Shavuot, the people are going to be
in their synagogues all night long praying and
reading the Word. And before dawn comes, they're
going to go to the Western Wall, which is the
closest thing that they have to the Temple. So
the Western Wall is really, it's not a wall of
the temple. It's a retaining wall that was built
by Herod when he beautified the temple that was
built by Zerubbabel when they came back from
Babylon. So he massively increased the size of
the Temple Mount so that they could have more
pilgrims come and it wouldn't be so crowded and
there'd just be more room for people. Today,
they go to that Western Wall, which is the closest
they typically get, although these days they
are going up on the Temple Mount. Maybe we'll
talk about that. Anyway, so the thing that they
would have done in that day, if they did things
then as they do now, they would have been in
the upper room praying together all night long.
And then before dawn, they would have gone to
the house. of the Lord, which is the temple.
So they might have been sitting on the steps,
the southern steps as you go up the ascent up,
or they could have been in Solomon's porch, which
is just inside. We don't know exactly where they
were, but everybody's thinking about what it
was like on Mount Sinai with this pillar of fire
up there, right? A tornado, right? What's a tornado
sound like, Philip? There's many, it sounds like
a freight train or many freight trains are like
a jet engine. So say it's like a jet engine going
over your head. Right. You know, and I've been
fortunate not to experience that. You know, I
wanted to see a tornado from a distance, not
up close. You did have an experience when you
were a kid. Yeah. What was that? Was that kind
of a rushing mighty wind? Yeah, and it was raining
so hard, and the car was rocking back and forth.
Yeah. We had no idea that there was a tornado
went right over the top of us. Wow. And when
it was done, you know, every store along there
had the windows knocked out, and I look at the
water tower, it was all twisted, and, you know,
cars flipped upside down, these big trees ripped,
and apartment buildings, I mean, these inner
-city apartment buildings built in the 1920s
probably, you know, like whole sides were just...
Taken off, you can look into it like looking
into a dollhouse. Yeah. You know, it was just...
But that was a rushing mighty wind, wasn't it?
That was a rushing mighty wind, yeah. Think tornado.
Think firenado, okay? So here's the sound of
a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house
where they were sitting. Now, to a Jew, you talk
about the house, and they're talking about the
temple. Temple, yeah. So this whole temple area
was filled with this fire because everybody's
thinking fire. Everybody's remembering the giving
of the law, the fire, and the voice of God and
the fire tornado up there. Yeah, and for all
the people to see. Right. Which makes more sense
than a group of people running out of an upper
room with fire on their head. Yeah, but when
everybody sees it come down. Right. I mean, if
you're in the upper room, it comes down. You
run out and you got fire in your head. But when
you see it come down from the sky, the fire come
down like it's a portal opening up. Right. The
fire coming down and 3 ,000 people get converted.
Exactly. I mean, that's huge. And that's a picture
of what it was really like. I think so. I think
so. It makes so much sense. And if you think
about. The fiery finger of God coming off of
that fire needle, right? And writing in the stone.
Yeah. What did Jesus say when he gave them the
Holy Communion just, you know, 50 -something
days before? He said, this cup is the new covenant
in my blood. The new covenant, as promised in
Jeremiah 31, talks about... He said, I will write
my word in your hearts and in your minds. So
here comes this flame on their heads. Do you
think it's going to be writing in their minds?
You can imagine so. And in their hearts. To see
it and experience that, something like that.
I mean, that'll change you forever. Absolutely.
You're totally wrecked. Absolutely. Absolutely.
And the cool thing is there's a connection here
to the Tower of Babel where languages were mixed
up. So now you have on the Temple Mount, at the
Temple of God, in his presence, his fiery presence.
All of a sudden, these people that had been following
Jesus are receiving this promise of the Father
that I will write my word in your hearts and
in your minds. And as it's coming into them,
their mouths begin speaking another language.
And all of these people that have been dispersed,
okay, they call it the diaspora of the Jews,
where they've been dispersed all over the world.
As many times as I've read this, until you read
it just now, Philip, I hadn't really noticed
that it says, from every nation under heaven.
Yeah, every nation. Yeah, that kind of lit up
to me as I was reading that, but every nation
under heaven. Every nation under heaven. Every
continent. What God had done. In this dispersion
of the Jews, taken away to Assyria, taken away
to Babylon, and they just kept going into all
the nations. So all the world. Yes. And they
had this commandment that they're to come back
to Jerusalem for this feast. And I think God
was stirring some of that. I've got to get back
there for this feast. Remember? Remember about
Paul. He said, I must needs keep this feast in
Jerusalem. And I don't remember which feast it
was that he felt he needed to get back for. It
was probably tabernacles, I think. But there's
something in a person where the Spirit of God
works within you and you just know you've got
to be there. You've got to be there. I remember
as I was getting ready to graduate from language
school. And I was 19 years old. And I wasn't
sure what I was going to do after that. I thought
I was going to come to Angletal at first. And
then I was told, no, I don't know that we're
going to have any room for you. All I knew was
that I had to be at the Second World Convention.
I had to be there. I'd been at the first, but
I had to be there. I didn't know what was going
to happen after that, but I had to be there.
I had an appointment with God. And this is what
happened to these Jewish people, these Jewish
men in particular. Probably there were women
too, but it was the men that were commanded to
be there. And so God didn't command the women
to be there because sometimes they were going
to be having babies and that wouldn't be easy
for them to travel. So they weren't commanded
to be there, but often they came. when Elkanah
and Hannah and Peninnah came for one of the feasts.
So they came as families most of the time when
they could. So anyway, here's these people that
have been dispersed into all... the nations.
God is so particular about the details. He's
going to fulfill every detail. So he made sure
that there was somebody in China. He made sure
there was somebody in India. He made sure that
there was somebody coming from Africa, from this
place, from that place, from this place, from
that place, from all the nations, it says, all
the nations. And that's the reason why when Peter
stood up and said, this is that that was spoken
of by the prophet Joel. Because all of these
believers in Jesus, these followers of Jesus,
are now speaking in the languages of all these
people. And they're going, what's that? What's
it? Yeah. What is going on here? But they're
understanding the wonderful works of God that
these people are speaking about. Peter stands
up and he says, this is that that was spoken
of by the prophet Joel. And if you remember.
What he says, it included, your sons and your
daughters shall prophesy, your young men shall
see visions, your old men shall dream dreams,
and on my men servants and my maid servants,
I will pour out my spirit in those days. Now,
remember what it said here back in Deuteronomy
16. I'd never seen this before. It says in verse
11, you shall rejoice before the Lord your God,
you and your son and your daughter. Your male
servant and your female servant. God was prophesying
already then about what he was going to do on
that day of Pentecost. That specific day. All
the other ones were a rehearsal for what he was
going to do on that day when he was going to
pour out of his spirit on all flesh. But it wasn't
all flesh. It was here one, there one, here one,
there one. It's a feast of first fruits. Remember?
So this is the first fruits of the wheat harvest.
And God drew the one from here and the one from
there and the one from there and the one from
over there and the one from over there and the
one from over there. And he brought them all
together to be on the Temple Mount to observe
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in fire. Yeah.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And that's what I'm expecting.
At convention. At convention. Yes. But also remember.
that it's about harvest, okay? It's at the end
of the barley harvest and the beginning of the
wheat harvest. So it's harvest and harvest. You're
showing up in between harvests. Now, we've been
seeing harvest already in the nations. You know,
the gospel is nearly everywhere already. It hasn't
reached all the unreached people groups, but
there's people working hard to make it happen.
Yes. And so we are in the days of harvest. And
I believe something is going to happen at this
convention that is going to strike a match to
a lot of dead wood. There's a whole lot of really
dry churches. And they'll burn real good when
they get fire. And he's going to pour out the
oil. Oil is flammable. And he's going to pour
out the oil in an amazing way. I believe it's
going to happen worldwide. I don't know that
it's going to be instantaneous worldwide, but
I know where I'm supposed to be on that day of
Pentecost and on that Feast of Shavuot because
we start the convention as we start the opening
night. When the sun goes down is the beginning
of Pentecost. And so when the day of Pentecost
was fully come refers to when the sun came up.
OK, remember, all of this is happening. And Peter
says, these men are not drunk, as you suppose,
seeing it's only nine o 'clock in the morning.
OK, they'd been there for a while. We don't know
how long this fire thing went on, but we know
it was a sign. And we know that people were wondering.
And we know that they were representing, they
were there as first fruits of the harvest that's
about to come upon us. Because God is going to
pour out his spirit on all flesh. And that's
what he's been talking to us about that gave
us the name Global Outpouring, because he wants
to pour out his spirit on all flesh. And your
sons and your daughters will prophesy. Even the
people that are under you, your employees and
everybody. It's coming for everybody. All flesh
means all flesh. And so the cool thing that I
see is that for the disciples. The apostles,
that whole group of people that was following
Jesus and the how many thousand that came to
faith in that one day. Was it 3 ,000 or 5 ,000?
3 ,000. What? I said 3 ,000. 3 ,000. Okay. Some
of those numbers don't always stick. Anyway,
all of a sudden, you have a whole new church.
And there's a place further on in Acts that says
many of the priests were believers. Yeah. And
the common people had heard Jesus gladly. So
you've got this entire movement that's going
on. And yet it wasn't the fullness of what is
about to come now. We're about to see something
amazing. And the thing about it being on all
flesh, I've been studying Romans 7 and 8 over
and over again. I've just been kind of... ruminating
on it, just like chewing it all over again, listening
to it in different translations and reading it.
Yeah, just don't get stuck in Romans 7. Well,
I want to make the transition from Romans 7 to
Romans 8, because Romans 7 is all about living
in the flesh. And Romans 8 is all about the victory
of Jesus in our lives to set us free from the
law of sin and death. Living in the Spirit. And
living in the Spirit. So the the picture of the
Spirit coming on all flesh. Galatians 5 lists
all of the works of the flesh, probably not all
of them, but plenty of them. And after that,
it lists, it's the works of the flesh and the
fruit of the Spirit. So as we receive the Holy
Spirit, as we receive him, as we open up our
capacity, as Pastor Tony was teaching us, as
we prepare ourselves for Pentecost, preparing
ourselves for an appointment with God, an appointment.
You've got to be prepared for your appointment.
Think about having an appointment to have your
bar exam. or some kind of a test that determines
whether you get to go on and get licensed to
do the thing that you've been studying for for
decades or years at least. You have an appointment
to sit for that exam. You have an appointment.
You have to be there. You have to be prepared.
And that's what this message from Pastor Tony,
I believe, has been helping us to prepare. And
really, it's all about surrender. It's all about
putting down the flesh and letting the Holy Spirit
rise up so that his light and his life and his
love are the things that we're exuding as fruit,
okay? The works of the flesh are the stuff, you
know, where it's all about self, self, self,
self, self, self, and, you know, self and sin.
And sin is the world, the flesh, and the devil,
okay? That's what all of that is about. But God
says, I'm going to pour my spirit on all flesh.
So all flesh has this opportunity. to receive
the promise of the Father, to receive the promise
where that fire can come on them, come on us,
and write His Word in our hearts and our minds
and transform us so that we are working with
the Holy Spirit, that we're flowing with the
Holy Spirit, that we're co -laboring, and that
He's the Lord. And we're the ones that are obeying,
okay? He's the potter, we're the clay. Yeah.
The clay's job is to yield under pressure. Yep.
And to get into cooperation with him, to get
into just, Lord, what is it you want me to do?
Okay, I'll do that. How do you yield? You're
on the wheel, it's getting squeezed. Oh, yes.
It's when it squeezes. Yep. That's what starts
the forming of it. Yes. You got to squeeze it.
Yes. And so the things that we're going through,
they're not really from the devil. I hate to
break it to you. God is at work in our lives
and he's pushing us into a corner. He's pushing
to cause us to be formed into a vessel that he
can use because he wants to use you. He wants
to use me. And he's been putting his pressure
on. And I've been, I'll say it this way. He's
been giving me the grace to obey. He's been giving
me the grace to let go. He's been giving me the
grace to just sink down and let him do it. It's
not my job. It's not my job to make it happen.
This is what he wants to do. This is what I believe
he is in the process of doing. And as we come
together for Pentecost, I really urge you, if
you possibly can make it to the convention, come
and have an appointment with God. Prepare your
heart for it. Come and have an appointment. If
you can't get there, if you absolutely cannot
make it. You can watch it live on YouTube or
you can watch it afterwards, like if you're on
the other side of the world. But there's people
coming from the other side of the world. Maybe
you can come too. So ask the Lord to help you.
Ask the Lord to show you, Father, what's your
will? Because we've seen him do miracle after
miracle after miracle to get people there. And
one of our ladies from Japan, when she can't
get there, she will check into a hotel. She'll
put herself on Do Not Disturb. She'll get into
our time zone and watch the convention with us.
I hope she can make it this year. But if she
can't, I'm pretty sure she'll set herself aside
because she knows the value of having an appointment
with God. Even if you can't get there, do what
you can to set yourself aside and let the Holy
Spirit do His work in you because we're at a
point of the promise of the Father. this outpouring
on all flesh. And it's an outpouring more like
Niagara Falls. So it's not just a drip here and
a shower there. It's like the roar of the rushing
mighty wind, the roar of the outpouring, the
roar of the fiery tornado that is ready to consume
our offerings. And we bring ourselves as an offering.
He's looking for us to be a living sacrifice
to him, that he can inhabit, that his presence
inhabits us and draws us into his character.
That's what we were born for. That's what's written
in our books that he wrote for us before we were
born. He wrote all that we are capable of doing
if we'll just cooperate with him. Oh, I want
to do that. Will you join us? Hallelujah. Philip,
would you pray for our listeners and viewers?
Well, Father, we thank you, Lord. Even in this
podcast, Lord, your word revealed. You revealed
your word by fire, Lord. Lord, through Jesus
Christ, the Holy Spirit, Lord, that fire in our
hearts, so God. So we thank you, Father, that,
Lord, even the fire you give us on the inside
will be manifest on the outside. So, Father,
we thank you, Father, because it's a life changer.
I'm sure everyone on that Temple Mount saw that
fire come down, that, Father, they were changed
because they never forgot that. So, Father, we
just pray, even, Lord, as this convention coming
up. starting on Pentecost, Lord, that you will
pour out your fire like we have never seen before,
O God. As John the Baptist said, there's one
coming that's going to baptize you with the Holy
Spirit and fire. And Lord, we've seen the fire
on the Temple Mount. And Lord, if the book of
Acts is like the first fruits of what you're
going to do in these last days of pouring out
of your spirit, Lord, we're expecting tremendous
things to happen, Father. So we thank you, Lord,
that, Father, that, Lord, those listening to
this said, Lord, that they can just hear the
Holy Spirit on coming to this convention, Lord.
Lord, even someone that we heard, they texted
us and says, I'm having a graduation in my Bible
school, but... It's not the diploma. I want to
be there for the convention because it's at the
same time. And that's because she has the fire
burning in her bones and wants to have that impartation,
which is going to happen at this convention.
So we thank you, Father. We give you all the
glory for what you're going to do in bringing
people in, even in the last minute. In your name,
Lord Jesus. Amen. Please subscribe, rate, and
review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever
you listen to podcasts. Your review helps the
podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other
listeners who are also looking for a great move
of the Holy Spirit. Check out our website at
globaloutpouring .org to find out more information,
read our blogs, connect with us, and donate.
You can also browse our web store for life -changing
anointed books. Until next time, this is Sharon
Buss. And I'm Philip Buss. God bless you with
his overwhelming loving presence.