Your People Shall Be My People

Shavuot/Pentecost celebrates when the Torah was given to the Israelites at Mt. Sinai with noise and fire, 50 days after their freedom from bondage in Egypt through the Red Sea; and the gift of the Holy Spirit coming on the Disciples, with noise and fire, 50 days after Yeshua/Jesus' resurrection, freeing those who believe from the bondage of sin. This correlation is significant and needs to be understood by both the Jews and the Church. The book of Ruth is read not only because of its message of redemption but also because she was a Gentile. married Boaz, a Jew, and became the grandmother of King David.