Perspectives on Pentecost (4)

What were the followers of Jesus doing on the morning of Pentecost in Acts Chapter 2? Could it be that while continuing to devote themselves to prayer (Acts 1:14) that they were also preparing to go to the Temple? After all, it was the great Day of Pentecost.

We know that after Pentecost they frequented the Temple (Acts 2:46), and that at least even up until Paul’s arrest in Acts Chapter 21 that the Jerusalem Christians had some measure of interaction with the Temple. So is it not reasonable to think that the disciples were preparing to visit the Temple on the Day of Pentecost, one of the three great Jewish feasts of the year?

Also consider that while the Feast of Pentecost celebrated the firstfruits of the harvest, that it also commemorated the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai - the Jews extrapolated this from the timeframe of Exodus Chapter 19.

Considering the events of Acts Chapter 2 it doesn’t appear as if the disciples made it to the Temple - at least not the physical temple.

Instead of going to the Temple they became the Temple as the Holy Spirit came to live within them (John 14:17; Ephesians 2:19 - 22).

Instead of going to the earthly Temple to commemorate the giving of the Law at Sinai, God gave them collectively and individually the Law within their hearts and minds (Hebrews 10:14 - 17).

In Acts Chapter Two, on the Day of Pentecost, the disciples, in Christ, became the incarnation of the Feast of Pentecost; they were the firstfruits of Christ, they became the Temple of the Living God, and they received the Law and Word of God within themselves. That which was outward became inward, and that which became inward flowed outward.