Yes, Pentecost is on June 15 this year. The reason your Jewish calendar is on June 9th and some say it on June 11 is that they start counting for the wave sheaf offering the day after the First day of Unleavened Bread (the first High Day Sabbath) [ULB] instead of the weekly Sabbath.

Just to make it very simple to understand, take the time when Christ was crucified for He is the First Fruits offering of the first resurrection (I Cor. 15:20-23) or the wave sheaf offering. Christ was crucified on Wednsday and placed in the tomb that evening before sunset. Thursday was the first High Day Sabbath (John 20:31). Friday, the ladies went out and bought the sweet spices (Mark 16:1), went and prepared them before the weekly Sabbath and then rested the weekly Sabbath (Luke 23:56).

How could the wave sheaf offering be offered (Christ) the first day after the first day of U.L.B. because the wave sheaf (Christ) was still dead in the grave for 3 days and 3 nights and had not been resurrected yet? Christ was then resurrected in the end of the weekly Sabbath, but didn't ascend to the Father as the Wave Sheaf offering, the First Fruits offering until the first day after the weekly Sabbath (John 20:1-17). A fulfillment of the wave sheaf offering of Leviticus 23:9-11; I Cor. 15:20-23). If the wave sheaf was offered the first day after the High Day Sabbath, then there was NO FULFULLMENT OF THE WAVE SHEAF OFFERING with Christ!!!

This year [2008] the first day of U.L.B came on Monday 4/21/08 and the weekly Sabbath that came during the days of U.L.B. was on 4/26/08, so the first day after the weekly Sabbath for the wave sheaf offering was 4/27/08. Now counting 7 Sabbaths (weeks) it would come to June 15 for Pentecost or 50 days from the wave sheaf offering.

If you have any questions, let me know.

David Klopfenstein