Sunday, March 15, 2015

ON to the FIFTIETH

 It is on this day that the count of 50 days to
 the Feast of Pentecost begins.

The number 30 plus 20 equals 50,
which points directly to the Feast of Pentecost.

God promised Abraham that if he found only 50 righteous people
in Sodom and Gomorrah
he would not destroy both cities




 
 





There was a penalty in ancient Israel 
if an unmarried man had sex with a
 virgin who was not engaged to be married. 
His penalty was to pay the woman's father 50 shekels of silver 
AND he had to marry her
King David paid 50 shekels of silver to purchase
 the threshing floor where a death angel


Fifty also symbolizes deliverance or freedom from a burden.