Summary: The Christian festival of Pentecost is celebrated ... that it says in the Bible that a flame rested on each of their heads filling them with the Holy Spirit. This was God giving them ...

The flames grew dramatically. The palms were blessed. What they're saying "Fire is a symbol of the Holy Spirit that God comes. He came down in the tongues of fire above the apostles on Pentecost.

The Holy Ghost appeared at times under the form of a dove, and again under the form of tongues of fire; for, being a pure spirit without ... is called Whitsunday, or Pentecost.

And in the New Testament as well, the Pentecostal feast is fulfilled and made new by the coming of the "new law," the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ. When the day of Pentecost ...