September 12, 2012 Meredith Kline relates Pentecost events of the Old and New Testaments:
Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy. You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy. You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it. Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the tent of meeting and shall wash them with water and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest. You shall bring his sons also and put coats on them, and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations. Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and fire was in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys. -- Exodus 40:9-15; 34-38
"In the Old Testament Pentecost event of Exodus 40, Moses symbolically mediated the Spirit to the tabernacle and to the Aaronic priesthood by such anointing, so anticipating in symbolic ritual the descent of the Glory-cloud itself to fill the tabernacle with glory. In the light of the symbolic significance of the tabernacle and Aaron's vestments as images of the Glory-Spirit, the work of Moses--his supervisory role in the entire process of the construction and erection of the tabernacle and in the making and putting on of the priests' vestments, and his culminating act of anointing--becomes a notable adumbration [foreshadowing] of Christ's mediatorial re-creation of his temple-priest-people in the image of God. ...the prophetic image is a special form of the imago Dei [image of God] and investment with the imago Dei is one with the filling of the Spirit. This merging of biblical concepts arises from the identity of the Spirit-Glory as the one who was the paradigm [model; pattern] for the imago Dei and who creatively replicated the image. Pentecost is then a New Testament creation of man in God's Spirit-likeness, a redemptive recapitulation of Genesis 1:2 and 1:27. In this New Testament event the Lord Christ endows his church with the Spirit and in so doing produces a likeness of the Spirit, an image of the Glory. In the Old Testament version of Pentecost, as we have found in tracing the Old Testament prophetic model of the image, Moses performed a prototypical messianic role as mediator of the Spirit and thereby of the (prophetic) imago Dei." -- Images of the Spirit, pp. 69-70 [brackets are mine]
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. -- Acts 2:1-4
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