The Outpouring of the Spirit - Establishing the Kingdom

Pentecost brought the Christ event to its completion, even as the corresponding Feast of Weeks closed out the festal season that began with Passover. And it did so as initiating mankind's actual experience of the reconciliation that Jesus secured by His atoning death. Put differently, Pentecost answered the question of the relation between Jesus' status as Man of the Spirit and His status as Last Adam; He was raised and glorified as True Man unto the end that He should become the firstborn among many brethren - the fountainhead of a new human race that shares His relationship with the Spirit, and so with the Father.