What Was Pentecost?
The Church as the “mystery” revelation makes no distinction between Jew and Gentile which existed in previous ages. In the Body of Christ, Jews and Gentiles are equal (Gal. 3.28; Eph. 2.12-22). Nothing was spoken at Pentecost about the “Body of Christ” or the equality of Jews and Gentiles. No mention was made of the “stewardship or dispensation of the grace of God” (Eph. 3.2) or of the “the gospel of the grace of God” Acts 20.24). Peter of the Twelve offered no salvation through faith in the shed blood of Christ nor did they mention that the gospel of salvation had been sent to the Gentiles. These elements define the Church as the “Body of Christ” yet there was no mention of them. If the Church began at Pentecost, as tradition and the majority contend, then it was a strange beginning. The baptism of the Holy Spirit occurred but nothing that defines the Church as the Body of Christ was mentioned. But if the Church did not began at Pentecost, what was the significant of that event? Pente
