How many baths make a Pentecostal?

When Solomon dedicated his temple to the Lord there was much fan fair and celebration.  The Holy Spirit came into the place in such an awesome way that the priest could not stand to minister.  This is the kind of event many of us long to experience and there have been many books written on how to achieve it.  More fasting and praying some say, while others say repentance is the answer.  I would like to suggest there is a bit more to it than either of those noble efforts.

During this temple event there happened to be 120 priests blowing trumpets.  These priests had washed in a bronze sea that held 3,000 baths (2 Chr. 4:2-6, 5:11-14).  This sea rested on the backs of 12 oxen each facing outward to the four corners of the globe.  Fast forward hundreds of years to the day of Pentecost (or Feast of Weeks, and what the Jews call Shavuot) when the followers of Christ were waiting for the promised coming of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem, there were 120 people from at least sixteen different nations gathered.  When the Holy Spirit fell upon these believers they received a message preached by Peter (one of the 12 Apostles) and 3,000 people were converted and baptized.

Comparing the numbers here suggests that it was not merely a result of a great prayer meeting of repentant saints but a divinely ordained time in God's plan for man.