The Model of Pentecost
"In order to comprehend what will transpire during the judgment of the living it is necessary to take a look for a few moments at what occurred on the Day of Pentecost. 
*For ten days before Pentecost the little remnant that remained after the bitter disappointment gathered together in the Upper Room.
*They emptied themselves of their personal agendas.
*They prayed for an understanding of Bible prophecy and by a study of the Old Testament Scriptures they came to fully understand the work that Jesus had accomplished in the camp and in the court.
Ten Days of Preparation before Pentecost
*They were emptied of self.
*They cast aside their disagreements and the desire for supremacy and were all of one accord.
*They put all of their possessions at the disposal of the church.
*They came to understand by the study of the prophecies what Jesus had accomplished by His perfect life and atoning death and what He was about to do on the Day of Pentecost.
*They had a passion to tell others about what Jesus had done (in the camp and court) and what He was doing at that very moment in the holy place.
The Established Church of the Day
*The established church refused to follow Jesus to the camp and the court and therefore they were clueless about the work that Jesus was about to begin in the holy place.
*The door of probation closed for the Jewish leaders who had rejected Jesus but not for those who had not clearly understood why Jesus had lived and died.
When the disciples were ready, the Holy Spirit was poured out upon them to in order to enable them to preach the gospel with power to two groups:
The Jews who had not openly rejected Jesus.
The Gentiles who had not yet heard about Him.
--Both of these groups needed to understand what Jesus had accomplished in the encampment and the court of the sanctuary.
They needed to be informed about the work that Jesus was performing in the holy place of the heavenly sanctuary (My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: I John 2:1; Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Romans 8:34; Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. Hebrews 7:25).
As we shall see, this was the very message that Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost. “The rending of the veil of the temple showed that the Jewish sacrifices and ordinances would no longer be received. The great Sacrifice had been offered and had been accepted, and the Holy Spirit which descended on the day of Pentecost carried the
minds of the disciples from the earthly sanctuary to the heavenly, where Jesus had entered by His own blood, to shed upon His disciples the benefits of His atonement. But the Jews were left in total darkness. They lost all the light which they might have had upon the plan of salvation, and still trusted in their useless sacrifices and offerings. The heavenly sanctuary had taken the place of the earthly, yet they had no knowledge of the change. Therefore they could not be benefited by the mediation of Christ in the holy place." E.G.W.
Peter’s Central Message at Pentecost: Remission of Sins,
not the Blotting out of Sins
Acts 2:38:“Then Peter said to them, "Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”1 John 1:7, 9: “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin . . . If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
Stephen Bohr
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