There are seven feasts of the Lord. Passover is the first. Unleavened Bread is the second. Firstfruits is the third. Pentecost is the fourth. Each of the seven portrays an aspect of our salvation.

Pentecost! Pentecost! Pentecost! Dynamite from Heaven!

The feast of Pentecost marked the end of the wheat harvest. Two leavened loaves of flour were waved before the Lord. The twoloaves testify of the double portion of the Spirit of God that will be poured on the Church just before the Lord returns.

It is interesting that there was leaven in the Pentecostal loaves. Some scholars represent the leaven as sin that still remains in those who have been baptized in the Spirit. Others see the leaven as the new leaven of the Kingdom of God that soon will infiltrate the whole personality of the believer who presses forward in Christ each day.

We think both are true. We speak in tongues but there still is sin in us. Yet the Kingdom of God is working in us and changing us into a new humanity.

At the turn of the present century a great wind blew on the evangelical churches. Pentecost was renewed. At the middle of the century the renewal began to pass to the historic churches, both Catholic and Protestant.

Speaking in tongues, once the possession of the illiterate on the wrong side of the tracks, the "holy rollers," now resounds in the embellished tabernacles of the upper middle class.

Today tongues, prophecy, the laying on of hands, are all practiced among the respectable. Other gifts of the Spirit abound and still are on the increase. The knowledge of the Body of the Christ has been restored. Jesus is drawing near His people. Those who are praying are hearing from the Lord. Pentecost is here to stay—in fact, the Divine power is building to an unprecedented climax!

Another great wind is blowing today, and as before it is in the possession of a small remnant of believers. Soon it will engulf all the Christian churches. More about this when we discuss the last three feasts.

Pentecost is feast number four of seven. You can go back if you wish to the good ol' camp meeting days and sing the happy choruses of the newly saved.

But there is a voice in the land crying out, "This is the way. Walk ye in it." The call is to the Holy of Holies, to places in the Lord that only a few of history have walked, to the knowledge of the Consuming Fire of Israel.

The choice is yours. The pressures do not permit stagnation. It is on to the fullness of God or back to wait until a warlike remnant, being clothed with Christ, forces the adversary's shoulders to the mat.

It is time to take the Kingdom. Are you up for it?