Now, back in 2001, I know that was a long time ago, but since we are old we were around then, I gave a Pentecost sermon titled "Why Count Fifty Days?" I had noticed in my study and just thinking about things during my conversion up to that point, that God told us to count to Pentecost in Leviticus 23. And in Psalm 90:12 Moses tells us there, talking to God, praying to God, "So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." And so we have here in Leviticus 23, God telling us to count to Pentecost and Moses here telling us to number our days. Numbering and counting are very much the same thing. And then I began to think, okay, God tells us in Leviticus 23 to count 50 days and Moses here in Psalm 90 said that our average age is about 70 or 80. And I was thinking, well, we become accountable, according to the Bible, at about age 20. Or at least we can go off to war if Israel decides to do that. But 20 was that dividing line, generally, between youth and adulthood. And so, if we, you know, croak at 70, do the math, 70 minus 20, you have about 50 years of adulthood, and hey, that is the same number we are supposed to count to Pentecost.
So I put these two ideas together. That since the count is 50 days and the average length of a person's converted life is about 50 years, I concluded that the 50 days of the Pentecost count can represent the years of our spiritual lives until the harvest. God wants us focused and active in our growth, producing fruit all the days of our lives.
