There are several scriptural types of the outpouring that will take place during the days of transition from the Church Age to the Kingdom Age.

One of the major types is the feast of Pentecost. The feast of Pentecost, which celebrated the end of the wheat harvest, is associated spiritually with the power of God given to us so we may bear an effective witness of the atoning death, triumphant resurrection, and soon return of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 1:8).

The principal ceremony of the feast of Pentecost was the waving of two loaves of leavened bread, accompanied by animal sacrifices.

God's witnesses are a firstfruits to the Lord.

The two wave loaves of the feast of Pentecost portray the double portion of the Holy Spirit (Pentecostal power) that will rest on the witnessing saints of the last days (during the first half of Daniel's seventieth week—Daniel 9:27).

Another type of the latter-rain downpour is the two sets of fifty rings located directly over the veil that separated the Most Holy Place from the Holy Place.

And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle. (Exodus 26:6)

And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one. (Exodus 26:11)

There were fifty gold clasps and fifty bronze clasps placed directly over the veil. The veil symbolically marks the place of transition from the Church Age (the Holy Place) to the Kingdom Age (the Most Holy Place, the manifest Presence of the Lord).

The number two (two sets of rings) symbolizes the two wave loaves of the feast of Pentecost; the double portion of Elisha who is the strongest of all the types of the two witnesses; and the fact that a testimony is legal only if it is given by two or more witnesses. Two also is a symbol of the power of God.

God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. (Psalms 62:11)

The number fifty portrays the fact that the feast of Pentecost came fifty days after the feast of Unleavened Bread. The name Pentecost means fifty.

Gold typifies Divinity. Bronze (brass—Authorized Version) represents Divine judgment. We understand that before the Church Age passes into the Kingdom Age there will be a double Pentecost characterized by the Divine Presence (the gold clasps) and Divine judgment (the bronze clasps).

Another scriptural type of the latter-rain revival is that of Obadiah hiding the one hundred prophets in the cave, in two groups of fifty each.

For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.) (I Kings 18:4)

The type of Obadiah and the hundred prophets suggests that after the latter-rain witness has been given, the Lord's prophets will be nurtured in the wilderness during the second half of Daniel's seventieth week.

To be continued.