Jesus was crucified on the day of the Passover then 50 days later was the Day of Pentecost. Have you ever wondered how long the 120 was in the upper room waiting for the promise? I was a little curious so I decided to take a look at the number of days it took for them to received the promise.
Jesus was resurrected three days after he was buried. So that leaves us with 47 days. He was on the earth for forty days after his resurrection, leaving us with 7 days till the day of Pentecost.
“To these He also presented Himself alive, after his suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:3)”
After Jesus ascended into heaven the disciplines returned unto Jerusalem from Mount Olive, which is “a Sabbath day journey (Acts 1:12).” How long was the Sabbath day journey? The Sabbath day was normally the sixth day of the week. “In the end of the Sabbath, as if began to dawn toward the first day of the week... (Matthew 28:1).” So it took them about six days to be in Jerusalem. That would give them 1 day to wait for the promise. In the bible it states that,
“Then returned they unto Jerusalem from Mount Olive, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day’s journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with the brethren. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and the said, (the number of names together we about an hundred and twenty)…. (Acts 1:12-15).”
That means they went straight to the upper room when they got to Jerusalem. They didn’t go to hang out or visit any friends or anything. They obeyed the Lord and went to wait for the promise.
While they were in the upper room praying and waiting, maybe for hours, the promise came. The promise was the infilling of the Holy Spirit. This was also the Day of Pentecost and this was also the mark of the beginning of the church.
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place…And they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine… For these are not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day…(Acts 2:1-15).”
I am not too sure what time they got to the upper room but they were filled with the Holy Ghost the third hour of the day, which is 9am (our time, the new day started at about 6am).
This goes to show that sometimes when the Lord promise us things we might have a waiting period before we receive that promise. It might be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years but if He promised it, it will come to pass.
What I love about the 120 that was in the upper room is the fact that they believed that the Lord was going to hold true to His promise. They probably didn’t know what to really expect or what to look for but they were there with one accord believing that if Jesus said it He was going to do it. That is amazing. How many of us have faith like that? When Jesus tell us that He is going to do certain things into our lives we often times question it or doubt that it will really happen, especially if we have to wait a little while. Why do we doubt God? When we doubt Him we are calling Him a liar? Can God lie? I don’t know about you but my Bible tells me that, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised…. (Titus 1:2).” God is not like man, He can not lie. If He says it believe that it will come to pass.
Jesus was resurrected three days after he was buried. So that leaves us with 47 days. He was on the earth for forty days after his resurrection, leaving us with 7 days till the day of Pentecost.
“To these He also presented Himself alive, after his suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God. (Acts 1:3)”
After Jesus ascended into heaven the disciplines returned unto Jerusalem from Mount Olive, which is “a Sabbath day journey (Acts 1:12).” How long was the Sabbath day journey? The Sabbath day was normally the sixth day of the week. “In the end of the Sabbath, as if began to dawn toward the first day of the week... (Matthew 28:1).” So it took them about six days to be in Jerusalem. That would give them 1 day to wait for the promise. In the bible it states that,
“Then returned they unto Jerusalem from Mount Olive, which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath day’s journey. And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with the brethren. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and the said, (the number of names together we about an hundred and twenty)…. (Acts 1:12-15).”
That means they went straight to the upper room when they got to Jerusalem. They didn’t go to hang out or visit any friends or anything. They obeyed the Lord and went to wait for the promise.
While they were in the upper room praying and waiting, maybe for hours, the promise came. The promise was the infilling of the Holy Spirit. This was also the Day of Pentecost and this was also the mark of the beginning of the church.
“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place…And they were filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine… For these are not drunken as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day…(Acts 2:1-15).”
I am not too sure what time they got to the upper room but they were filled with the Holy Ghost the third hour of the day, which is 9am (our time, the new day started at about 6am).
This goes to show that sometimes when the Lord promise us things we might have a waiting period before we receive that promise. It might be minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years but if He promised it, it will come to pass.
What I love about the 120 that was in the upper room is the fact that they believed that the Lord was going to hold true to His promise. They probably didn’t know what to really expect or what to look for but they were there with one accord believing that if Jesus said it He was going to do it. That is amazing. How many of us have faith like that? When Jesus tell us that He is going to do certain things into our lives we often times question it or doubt that it will really happen, especially if we have to wait a little while. Why do we doubt God? When we doubt Him we are calling Him a liar? Can God lie? I don’t know about you but my Bible tells me that, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised…. (Titus 1:2).” God is not like man, He can not lie. If He says it believe that it will come to pass.
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