Hebraic Heritage Radio Podcasts

And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Acts 2:5 Who WERE the people who gathered in Jerusalem on the Feast of Shavuot, also known as Day of Pentecost? We tend to think they were “Christians” from all over the Middle East. Did you know that, besides the Jews of the Southern kingdom, that there were also many members of the tribes from the Northern kingdom who came to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Shavuot? And when all the members of all 12 tribes were gathered together in ONE ACCORD and in ONE PLACE….then the Holy Spirit was poured out in rushing wind and Holy fire! (Acts 2: 2-3) And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia…Acts 2:7,9 Here Peter speaks to the Southern Kingdom: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea