Holy Week -Nisan 10 (Triumphal Entry) - Nisan 14 (Passover - Crucifixion) - Nisan 17 (Resurrection)

Shabbat shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us today as we explore a very important day — today, the tenth day of the first month, which is called Shabbat HaGadol, or the Great Sabbath in English.

This is a very important day as we will show from the biblical calendar, from Leviticus 23 and the feast days. This day begins Holy Week. What most people know as Holy Week does not start tomorrow — it starts today, on the Sabbath, just as the feast days declare, the calendar declares, and the scriptures declare. When we look at the calendar, the feast days, and the gospel accounts together, they show us how important Nisan 10 is — the tenth day of the first month, four days before Passover. We are going to go through all of the connections: from Abraham in Genesis 18 through Genesis 22, to King David in Psalm 118, to Leviticus 23, Exodus 12, and the gospel accounts. We will also include the Apostle Paul for confirmation.

Friends, we are entering into a holy time — a righteous, divine, sovereignly orchestrated time on God's prophetic timeline. We have to understand these things or we will not be in alignment with him. This is where, every year, both my Jewish friends and my Christian friends must pursue proper theology and eschatology. When we come to these events — Passover, the fall feast days, or some of the erroneous celebrations of Christianity — the scriptures call us into account. We have to be in alignment with him to maintain the full intimacy and heart posture we need as we go forward in celebrating him the way we should.

This is especially important for my Christian friends, because our Savior died for us on one day only — the Feast of Passover. It is our command and our duty to honor him on that specific day. And Nisan 10 begins that process, as we are going to find from the book of Exodus and from the gospel accounts as well. Whenever we read the gospel accounts, we must understand their frame of reference: they are speaking of the feast days, the divine appointments that Yeshua came to fulfill. I have done many videos on the calendar and the feast days, especially the new months, so you can check those out for further detail. But most of us already understand the importance of the times and the seasons — the divine appointments of Yah.

Let me walk through this quickly. We are in the first month of the biblical calendar, called Nisan today — specifically Nisan 10, the tenth day of the first month. This is highly prophetic according to the timeline. The biblical calendar itself is grounded in Genesis 1:14–16, where Yah ordained that the sun, the moon, and the stars would govern the calendar. He said they are for signs and seasons, days and years. The word for "seasons" in Genesis 1:14 is moed, which means a divine appointment. He created the calendar for divine appointments — for his Son Yeshua to fulfill on his first coming and his second coming.

When we go to Leviticus 23, we find the feast days. I love this chart, though it omits the Sabbath as the first feast day before Passover — and I will show that in the scriptures as we go forward. These are Yeshua's days — his days only. The Sabbath, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. If we understand these, we will understand the divine appointments of our Savior, what he came to do at his first coming, and what he will do at his second coming. It is truly beautiful.

But again, we must follow the calendar and the seasons. The Apostle Paul told us that if we do not understand the times and seasons, we will be caught as a thief in the night — and he is talking about the calendar, the times, and the feast days. The word for "feast" in Leviticus 23 is also moed — divine appointment. So what is that telling us? He is correlating the calendar with his feast days. That is why we see all the feast days on the calendar: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur — all of them aligned with his divine appointments. His calendar is for divine appointments; Yeshua is the fulfillment of those divine appointments. That is what happened at his first coming. But if we do not understand this, we will read the gospel accounts and not understand what is happening.

The gospel accounts tell us he died on Passover. Some scripture says Unleavened Bread — which is related, as it forms a bookend with Passover. But even the gospel accounts will correct our Christian friends, because they do not say Good Friday or Easter Sunday. They say Pesach — Passover — then Unleavened Bread, and then you count three days and three nights to the Feast of First Fruits, when he was resurrected. Then from there you count fifty days to Shavuot. In Catholicism, for example, they observe forty days of Lent before the resurrection — but the scripture says after the resurrection, count fifty days, not forty. Christianity is out of alignment. Catholicism is out of alignment. And Judaism is out of alignment when it comes to Yeshua the Messiah. Passover exposes those misalignments. It highlights the errors in understanding, showcases the wrong eschatology and wrong theology. We have to get back to proper theology and eschatology — for both our Jewish friends and our Christian friends.

At the end of the age, with everything happening in the Middle East and with questions about how Jews and Christians can worship together as one new man and one new body, we must put the pieces together. Christians believe in Yeshua. The Jewish people follow the feast days. When you put Yeshua on the feast days, everything becomes smooth. The whole Bible becomes smooth. That is what we are trying to show today. The feast days are really divine appointments of Yeshua the Messiah, showcasing that he is the Jewish Messiah. And the way to provoke our Jewish friends to jealousy, as Paul says, is to explain these divine appointments to them for whoever is willing to listen.

So today is a very important day. It begins Holy Week — not tomorrow, but today. It is Nisan 10 on the biblical calendar, the tenth day of the first month. In Hebrew it is called Shabbat HaGadol, the Great Sabbath. We are going to look at what that Great Sabbath means and how Yeshua fulfilled it perfectly. As we lay the foundation, we are going to walk with Yeshua the Messiah through his divine atonement — through Holy Week, through Passover, through Unleavened Bread, through First Fruits, through the Omer. If you walk with him through these approximately fifty-seven days, your life will change forever. This is where intimacy with the Father, the Son, and the blessed Holy Spirit is found.

This day — the Great Sabbath — was prophesied thousands of years ago, roughly 3,500 years ago. And then, 1,500 years after that prophecy, Yeshua came and fulfilled Shabbat HaGadol, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and then poured out his Spirit on Shavuot. But do not overlook Shabbat HaGadol, where the process of redemption began on Nisan 10. This is the beginning of the redemption process for all of mankind — when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. That act began the redemption process, and that is why it is called the Great Sabbath, Shabbat HaGadol — because of the everlasting life that Yeshua was going to give all of us once this week was completed.

Now let us read Leviticus 23:1–3: "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations — these are my feasts.'" A couple of important points here. When he says "speak to the children of Israel," that means to Christians as well. Why? Because of what the Apostle Paul says to the Gentiles in Galatians 3:26–29: if you are a seed of Christ, then you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise. What is the promise? The Abrahamic covenant. If you are of Abraham, then you are of Isaac. If you are of Isaac, you are of Jacob. We cannot have it both ways — trying to escape God's instructions by misreading Paul. If you are a believer in Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise, just like the Jewish people. Heir of Abraham, heir of Isaac, heir of Jacob.