Pentecost--The Full Blessing of the Spirit 01

Acts 2:1  And as the day of Pentecost was being fulfilled,
they were all together in the same place. (4) And they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit...
Leviticus 23:10 ...you shall bring the sheaf of the firstfruits
of your harvest to the priest; (15) And you shall count for
yourselves...from the day that you brought the sheaf... (16)
You shall count fifty days until the day after the seventh
Sabbath; then you shall present a new meal offering to
Jehovah [the feast of Harvest].
 
The word "Pentecost" means fiftieth. It was the fiftieth day
from the Lord's resurrection, seven weeks in between,
counting from the second day after the Passover on which the
Lord was crucified. It was the fulfillment of the feast of
Weeks (Deut. 16:10), which was also called the feast of
Harvest, counting from the day of offering a sheaf of the
firstfruits of the harvest unto the morrow after the seventh
Sabbath. The offering of a sheaf of the firstfruits was a
type of the resurrected Christ offered to God on the day of
His resurrection [1 Cor. 15:20].

The offering of Christ as the firstfruit in resurrection
involves His secret ascension to the Father. When Mary
wanted to touch Him, He said to her, "Do not touch Me, for I
have not yet ascended to the Father..." (John 20:17). On the
day of His resurrection the Lord ascended to the Father.
This was a secret ascension, forty days prior to His public
ascension in the sight of His disciples. On the day of
resurrection, early in the morning, He ascended to satisfy
the Father. The freshness of His resurrection was first for
the Father's enjoyment, as the firstfruit of the harvest was
brought first to God in type. On the day of His resurrection
the Lord went to the heavens to offer Himself as the
firstfruit of God's harvest for the satisfaction of God the
Father. That was a secret ascension. The day of Pentecost
was fifty days later.