We read in the book of Acts about the coming of the Holy Spirit,

but Aaron Davis reminds us he was active long before that.

The Holy Spirit is not a New Testament idea.

We see him at work all over the Old Testament beginning at creation.

And God promised the magnificent gift of the Holy Spirit long ago, even pointing to the timing of Pentecost through the Feast of Weeks.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamoo, co-author of You Can Trust God to Write Your Story.

For February 23, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

When we read the Bible as a whole, we can connect the dots to see how everything points to Jesus. Aaron Davis is going to help us see

the Old and New Testament like pieces that are part of the same puzzle. She's teaching through a series

called Seven Feasts. Here's Nancy to start off today's message about the Feast of Weeks.

What do you do to capture special memories? Maybe you take photos.

I've got thousands of them on my phone, or you have videos and you go back and look at them again.

Maybe it's special meals, birthday meals, special Christmas dinners that you plan. Well, in ancient

Israel, they didn't have photos, they didn't have videos,

but they did have special meals. And we're looking at some of those special meals in the book

of Leviticus this week with my friend Aaron Davis. Aaron is the content manager at Reviver Hearts.

She loves God's Word. She loves the Old Testament, something that a lot of

people skip over. And she gets how it connects to the gospel and how it points us to Christ. So she's been

walking us through seven special meals, seven feasts that were featured in the Old Testament.

They were part of the rhythm of the people of God.

They would celebrate these on a regular basis. Many of them were annual feasts. And they're in

Leviticus 23. We find seven of these feasts. And when you get to this chapter, you might be

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