Noah's Ark of Intimacy and the Calendar

Shalom, friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we discover the intimacy of God and also being shut in the ark of God, as found in the story of Noah. We're going to look at the story of Noah's template and also have personal and prophetic applications to it. We enter into the actual date that the flood started, which is tonight at sundown, wherever you may be. That's when Heshvan 17, or the eighth month, the 17th day of the month, or the second month, the 17th day, however you want to look at it, that's when the flood started in Noah's story. So, there's a great correlation on the biblical calendar when we look at the story of Noah and those 10 days that he was shut into the ark for, or excuse me, the 40 days and 40 nights that he was shut into the ark for, and then obviously the year after that, 10 days after the full year, he was released on Heshvan 27.

Thank you very much for joining us tonight, my friends. It does begin and end with the biblical calendar, as we always go through. If one's not familiar with that, I'll show you really quick before we begin tonight's lesson. This is where we are, in the month of Heshvan. As you can see, it's the eighth month on the biblical calendar. We're going to go into how important that is as we look to understand these personal applications, these personal intimate moments that we can all have with the Most High. But we have to understand it from the biblical calendar. We must understand the times and the seasons that He is on, so that we can experience these personal intimate moments that some might not be able to because they don't know the biblical calendar date or the story that correlates to the date. So, it's important to understand where we are. I've gone through this on other videos during the Feast of Trumpets and also the feast days, the feast season.

I won't be too redundant on this, but we've been through this trajectory, my friends, from month number one, which is called Nisan today, all the way to month number seven, which is where the feast days are: the Fall Feast Days, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles. And then we enter into the month of Heshvan. The month of Heshvan doesn't have any feast days. It doesn't have any fast days in it. So, it's a month that is really for growth. It's really a growth month. And this is where we find these beautiful 10 days that we can really get intimate with Yah: from Heshvan 17, which is when Noah entered the ark, to Heshvan 27. Now, of course, Noah stayed in the ark for one year and 10 days. But this personal understanding and application on the calendar, on the month of Heshvan, is very important. Like I said, there are no feast days, there are no fast days in it.

So, there's a very special anointing to it because it's a quiet month. This is where the roots start to grow in the ground, if you will, to prepare for the springtime. So, that's the same thing. And now we find this beautiful date of Heshvan 17, which is when Noah entered the ark, and he was shut in by God. So, God is the one who shut Noah in, and there's a great understanding through this, a personal application through this. We went through it last year as well, and there's a beautiful correlation to these 10 days of being intimate with Him during this intimate month of Heshvan that's very quiet, if you will. Again, no feast days, no fast days. It's a quiet month. It's reserved for the Messiah, is what they say. This will be the first month that the Messiah Yeshua will rule for the entire month on the ground when He returns for the second coming events, from the month of Tishrei. So, it's an important month, even though it's a quiet month, and we find this beautiful understanding with Noah in this.

But it does start, my friends, with understanding the calendar. Because most people would look at tomorrow as October 28th, okay? And that's it. They don't understand the biblical calendar or the biblical date or the application of why tomorrow, October 28th, is not just October 28th according to God. It's according to the day that He shut Noah in the ark: Heshvan 17. So, we'll go through the story really quick, the template, and we'll also look at the personal applications that we can all get from this, as it is an invitation for every one of us, every single year, to get into His ark for all of the things that we pray for: for opening up spiritual gifts, for revelation, intimacy, and all of these things that we pray for. So, we're going to talk about these 10 days, but it also kind of relates to the 10 days of awe as well, from the Feast of Trumpets to Yom Kippur. If one's not familiar with that, there are 10 days between the Feast of Trumpets, when Yeshua is going to return, to the Feast of Atonement, or Yom Kippur.

There are 10 days. So, when He returns, it'll be 6,000 years plus 10 days before He delivers Israel. Those 10 days of awe. Well, that's the same thing with Noah. Noah went one year and then an extra 10 days. So, those 10 extra days in the story of Noah, and also the story of the Son of Man, it does go back into what Yeshua was trying to say: "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man." And that means every single understanding of that, whether it parallels that or whether it's identical, we have to understand that. And these 10 days will not be identical to the 10 days of awe. The story of Noah has 10 extra days from the year calendar, and then Yeshua will have 10 extra days from the 6,000 years or the six days. So, with that being said, my friends, let's look at some of this information to see what kind of revelation that we can get and also the intimacy that we can get during these next 10 days on the biblical calendar.

And again, that's why it's important to understand the calendar, because if we do, then we're going to understand how important these 10 days are that we're about to go through with Noah. So, the Ark of Intimacy. This is what I call it. This is just my personal understanding from Heshvan 17 to Heshvan 27, those 10 days. Noah was in the ark for one year and 10 days. But on the calendar, it's just 10 days that we're looking at between when he entered and then when he exited. So, these 10 days of intimacy, the Ark of Intimacy, this is 10 days of drawing near to Yahweh, remembering Noah, preparing our hearts, and also entering His presence. The primary scriptures you see listed there as a reference point for whoever wants to go back and read those in your private time. But just as we discovered, God's calendar is really where it all starts: the biblical calendar of understanding His days. We have to understand these to get true understanding of this.

Because in Genesis 1:14, "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years.'" We've gone through this many times before, my friends. We're not going to be too redundant for everyone who does know these things. But if one does not, it's very important to go to Genesis 1:14 to understand that God does have a calendar marked by the sun, the moon, and the stars, just like He says here, to divide the day from the night. And He said to let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years. So, He created His calendar in Genesis 1:14 for signs and seasons and for days and years. What are signs? Signs are blood moons, lunar eclipses, solar eclipses, all of these things that we see in the galaxy. And then the word for "seasons" is really not talking about fall, summer, winter, or spring.

It's talking about divine appointment. So, the word for "seasons" is translated as "mo'edim." It's called "mo'ed," "mo'edim," the appointed times of the Father for Yeshua, Jesus, to fulfill. So, this is amazing to understand that. So, this establishes an important foundation that God created the heavenly lights to mark time, and scripture repeatedly associates days and seasons with significant events, including Yeshua, Jesus' first coming and second coming events. So, my friend, the time is this calendar, and the seasons are the feast days in Leviticus 23. That's what He is correlating with Genesis 1:14 and also with Leviticus 23: the times and the seasons of the Most High God. And it's very important for us to understand that when we look at these things. So, Leviticus 23, those are the appointed seasons and times that I pointed to before. Again, I'm not trying to be too redundant tonight.

Most of you guys know these things, and that is the time that He is speaking of. And then when He talks about days and years, well, He's talking about His feast days. He's talking about the Sabbath, Passover, Yom Kippur, First Fruits. Those are the days that He's speaking of. And then the years that He's speaking of is the Shmita year, this seven-year cycle in Leviticus 25, also the Jubilee year in Leviticus 25. It's all biblical, my friends, that we have to go to God's, to the Torah, to the first five books of the Bible, to understand what He's speaking through, so that we can understand that God does have a calendar. He does have times and seasons, or special days, celebrations, feast days that He wants us to be a part of. And then we can understand the arrival of the first coming and the second coming events through Yeshua the Messiah. It's really an amazing thing when we look at it.

So, it's important to understand how God works on His calendar and His days, which we go through. And again, if one's new to this, I've done videos in more depth than what I'm talking about on the Feast of Trumpets video this past year, about a month ago. So, you can check that out for a deeper understanding of it. But we have to realize how the calendar, the time, and the seasons work, because Paul did warn us that we would be caught as a thief in the night if we did not understand those in 1 Thessalonians 5:1-5. So, it's very important to understand how the calendar works. This is not an appointed time. Noah's Heshvan 17 is not a divine appointment. I'm just proving to you how important the calendar is with times and seasons and with the rhythm and with the flow of what God is doing. He does flow through His calendar. So, I'm just showing you that this is not an appointed time. This is not a feast day.

I'm just showing you how important the calendar and the feast days are. And then once we understand this, we can understand these seasons of Noah, or the counting of the Omer, or Hanukkah, or all of these unique festivals that most of us were not brought up on, but God does honor them still today, and He expects us to honor them as well. So, super important to understand it from that trajectory. God is not disconnected from time. He created it. He established its rhythms and revealed important events within it. However, it is important to distinguish between days God explicitly commands His people to observe and the historical date scripture records for remembrance and reflection. So, these are the days that He commands us to observe. Don't forget the Sabbath, right here. So, these are the days that He commands us to observe. But He does not command us to observe Heshvan 17, the day that the flood started.