Daniel 12, Kislev 15, Yeshua & Hanukkah / Middle East Updates /Israel Trip

Friends, my name is Chadwick Harvey. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we study Daniel 12 and Kislev 15 — which is tonight, the full moon. We will correlate that with Yeshua and the festival of Hanukkah, and show how all of it connects together at the end of the age through Messiah's second coming events and into the millennial kingdom. We hope everyone has been doing well and enjoying this beautiful month of Kislev. Tonight is Kislev 15, a very important date in biblical history. We will walk through that and correlate it to everything mentioned, and we will also cover Middle East updates — we have not gone through those in some time, so we will return to them country by country and see how they tie into biblical prophecy.

Before we begin, I want to make two announcements. First, if you would like to join us for a Shabbat service, I will be hosting one with my dear friends at Elim Community Fellowship in the Cayman Islands via Zoom. If you are interested, please email me at [email protected] and I will send you the link. I prefer not to post the link publicly for obvious reasons. We will begin at 6 p.m. tomorrow night and run about an hour to an hour and a half. We did this a couple of weeks ago and it was truly remarkable — the revelation we received, the prayers, all of it. It will be myself and my dear friend Dale Gold with Elim Community Fellowship. They are in the Cayman Islands and I am in the States, so we will connect via Zoom. It will not be on the Faithful Performance channel, but it will be a very special time. Please send me an email if you would like to join us.

Second, I want to mention the upcoming Israel trip. We will be going to Israel from May 5th through May 15th, 2026 — in the spring, during the counting of the Omer. I believe we will arrive on approximately day 32 of the Omer count and return on day 40, leaving ten more days before the festival of Shavuot, wherever you may be. I will go into more detail about the itinerary day by day after the teaching tonight. This trip is called "The Day of the Lord" and is organized by TA Journeys with Marne Baker and Emanuel Tours.

On this channel we speak often about the Day of the Lord and what it entails — the three major battle points in Israel stretching down through the Jordan Valley to the Mount Seir area. On this trip you will get an up-close and personal view of that 180 to 200 mile distance mentioned in Revelation 14 as 1,600 furlongs. You will see it with your own eyes: from Megiddo through Jerusalem down to the southern Jordan Valley — the full stretch that Scripture describes as blood four feet high for that entire distance. We will also visit most of the major historical sites. The trip includes five nights in Jerusalem and four nights in the Galilee area — the first five nights in the great city of the great King, and then a shift to Galilee, where Yeshua's ministry began. I will cover all of this in greater detail at the end of the video after the teaching. For either the Shabbat service or the Israel trip, please reach me at [email protected]. We would love to have you along — it is a very well-organized trip, and I encourage you to pray and seek the Holy Spirit about whether He is leading you to go.

Now, before we discuss the Israel trip further, let us turn to Daniel 12. This is an awesome prophecy we have spoken about before, but I want to bring it to light in connection with today — Kislev 15. If you are not familiar with the biblical calendar, I want to emphasize how important it is, both for worship and for prophetic understanding. That is the reward we receive by following God's calendar, by observing the biblical months and moving through the trajectory He has set for us — personal revelation, cleansing, purification, refinement. This is what the calendar is about. I cannot say enough about how remarkable it is to be on Yah's calendar, to understand the anointings of each month, and to see how all of these things build into beautiful revelation for the end of the age. We need to understand knowledge and wisdom at the end of the age so that we are not deceived.

If you are not yet familiar with the Hebrew calendar — the one I believe God is using, as evidenced by the solar eclipses and blood moons all falling on it — we are currently in the month of Kislev, which is the ninth month. We are nearly at the last quarter of the year before we return to Nisan, or Aviv 1, the beginning of the biblical calendar. Right now on Kislev 15 at sundown, we are in the middle of the month at the full moon. This date is very important in biblical history, and understanding it will unlock revelation in Daniel 12. Without the calendar and without understanding history, I am not sure we can receive the full revelation that Daniel 12 contains. Knowing, observing, and understanding the calendar opens prophetic revelation that we simply will not have without it. That is why it matters — not only for personal worship, but also for understanding the trajectory of the end of the age and the events we need to be watching for.

This day, Kislev 15, is remarkable — troubling when you look at its history, but it will end in a good way. It reminds me of Zechariah 8, where we are told that the fast days will be turned into feast days. The 17th of Tammuz, the 9th of Av, the 3rd of Tishrei, and the 10th of Tevet — all fast days in Zechariah 8 — will be transformed into appointed feasts in the millennial kingdom. Kislev 15 will be one of those dates that is likewise overturned. The roar will be reversed. It will be redeemed.

So why is Kislev 15 important? It was the actual day that Antiochus Epiphanes IV, the Syrian Greek king and a prototype of the Antichrist, committed the abomination of desolation in the temple. On Kislev 15 in 167 BC, he entered the temple and set up an altar over the burnt offering place. Then ten days later, on Kislev 25, he sacrificed swine, erected a statue of Zeus, and performed all the acts that desecrated the temple. You can find this in 1 Maccabees — it is an extra-biblical source, but 1 Maccabees chapter 1 records both dates clearly: Kislev 15 for the setting up of the altar, and Kislev 25 for the sacrifices of swine and all the things that desecrated the temple. This is why Kislev 15 is really the beginning of the Hanukkah story, even though Hanukkah itself begins ten days later.

Hanukkah begins on Kislev 25 and ends on Tevet 2. This year on the Gregorian calendar, that falls December 15th through December 22nd — those dates fluctuate from year to year. But in history, the story begins right here on Kislev 15. God never forgets dates like this. He did not forget the 10th of Tevet when Nebuchadnezzar began his siege, nor the 17th of Tammuz when the walls were breached. These dates matter to Him, and He will cleanse and redeem them all when He returns. That is the great correlation with Zechariah 8 — the fast days will be turned into feast days — and Kislev 15 will be redeemed as well. We are going to see that laid out in Daniel 12.

Start understanding the biblical calendar from that perspective: first for worship — the Sabbaths, the new moons, the festivals — and then you will receive the prophetic understanding as well. You will begin reading the Bible through an entirely different lens.