Shalom Friends,
Join us as we discuss an imperative topic in biblical prophecy with Israel's coming covenant with death (Isa.. 28) that will turn into the "Time of Jacob's Trouble," that we find in the book of Jeremiah (chapter 30). The good news is the covenant with death will be annulled at the end of the age when Yeshua annuls it and saves them out of the wirst time in history, which is the time of Jacob's trouble or the seven year tribulation period (Isa. 28/Jer. 30). We will discover a lot of scriptures that will confirm this dire yet coming prophecy.
Many Blessings,
Chadwick
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Welcome to this special episode. This isn't exactly a teaching — it's really about going through a book I'm going to release in the next couple of weeks called *The Cross to the Crown: A Spiritual Purification Journey on God's Divine Appointments*. I've mentioned this before during the new moon festival videos and Shabbat fellowships, but I wanted a live episode to walk through the origin of the book and its contents, in the hopes that you'll join us on this journey.
The book begins at the Feast of Trumpets. It is a devotional book, and we're going to walk through some of its outline tonight. I hope you've had a great weekend and a great Shabbat. We're about to step into the new moon of Elul in about six days, and we'll be doing a live video on that new moon as well — I believe Saturday night — so please join us for that.
Also, we have music coming out fairly often. This fall, on the Feast of Trumpets, my friend Taylor Strickland and I will be releasing the culmination of a five-song project. We've put four of those songs on YouTube and have just finished the last one. We're releasing the full album, called *The Ark of God*, at the Feast of Trumpets, alongside the book.
The book is a devotional designed to carry you through an entire year — a year-long journey — and I'll be doing videos all year long to accompany it, a kind of live audio book as we go through the journey together. I began writing it at Shavuot (Pentecost) and believe it will be finished in about two weeks. Once it's in e-book format, I'll share the link. It will be a free book.
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Now let me give you the backdrop — the genesis of why God provoked me to write this. I've written two other books, both on prophecy: one on the prophecies of Daniel, and one on the prophecies of Jeremiah, specifically Jeremiah 16. This book is entirely different. It has been an eight-year process. Looking back, I can see how God personally walked me through every layer of this journey, and I felt provoked to put it in written form to share with anyone seeking a deep spiritual purification journey through God's divine appointments — the things He has ordained, and the revelation, purification, and intimacy that come from meeting Him on His set-apart times.
I know what this journey has done for my life, my family, and the friends who have walked it with me — particularly over the last three years, though the process truly spans eight years, going all the way back to when I was born again. I've never shared my personal testimony publicly before, but I need to include it here to show how God unfolded these things. It's not about me — it's about Him.
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It all started on November 2nd, 2014. That was the day I was born again. I grew up in church. My parents did a wonderful job of taking us every Sunday and teaching us about the Lord, and I'm grateful for that. But I wasn't truly born again until that day. I remember it clearly, as I'm sure you remember your own. I was alone in my hometown in Georgia, and I gave my life fully to the Lord. I knew my life had been a lie, and I knew I needed to cry out to Him to change it.
The first thing the Holy Spirit impressed upon me was the need to correct my theology. If you've been watching these live videos, you know where that led — being set apart on the things God has ordained, and worshipping Him on His set-apart times: the Shabbats, the new moons, the divine appointments. The first year or two after being born again was really about getting on His calendar, understanding His divine appointments, and seeing that Yeshua (Jesus) is present in those set-apart times. He is not in man-made traditions. He is on His divine appointments, and we need to be meeting Him there. The dietary laws were also part of that early journey, though they are not the focus of this book.
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About three and a half to four years into the journey, I made a terrible decision. I paid the consequences for it, of course. But it revealed something important: even though I was born again, there were things I still needed to purify — things I was still bound to, strongholds and hard temptations that do not automatically fall away when you're born again.
Let me be clear about what I mean. When you're born again, you are saved, you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and many burdens and strongholds do fall away in that new beginning. But some strongholds — things we remain in bondage to — require a journey with the Lord to identify and be cleansed of. Before I was born again, I was thoroughly worldly: building my own kingdom, chasing money and social status, alcohol, drugs, wrong relationships. And then I was born again. But some of those things take time on the journey with God to break off and be cleansed.
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After God corrected my theology — the calendar, the divine appointments, the Shabbats — He began to show me how the courts of heaven operate and how we can petition from the heavenlies to receive verdicts down on the earth. Whether you call it the courts of heaven or simply praying the Word of God, it is really the same thing: the power of quoting the Word of God in our prayers, bringing two or three witnesses to each petition, so that we position ourselves to receive righteous, rendered verdicts that break the bondage and strongholds we struggle with.
Throughout this seven or eight year process, He kept adding layers of understanding. At the time, I thought it was just for me personally, but He was writing the book from the very beginning. Layer by layer it came: the theology, the manner of worship, the prayer life, and learning how to get more intimate with Him so that you carry what I call a breaker anointing — the ability to break things off and receive answered prayers. This is not the only way, and I won't claim that it is. It is simply what I've seen work in my own life and in the lives of friends and family who have walked this journey.
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Then He began to open up what I'll call hidden revelations — not mysteries exactly, just things that aren't widely taught. These are the anointings of each month: the anointing connected to one of the twelve tribes of Israel for each month, connected to a constellation for each month, and connected to a Hebrew letter for each month. The power of the Hebrew letters — when you meditate on them and pray into them — is extraordinary. They are God's own letters, and the revelation that comes through them is phenomenal. If you've looked into the Hebrew letters and the constellations, I think you'd agree.
This is really the heart of what I see as the problem with so much of the Body of Christ remaining bound and chained. There are many deliverance ministries doing good work, but broadly we see believers who are still in bondage in so many ways. I believe the answer is the Word of God — praying it with two or three witnesses, petitioning through the courts of heaven, and allowing those righteous rendered verdicts to manifest from heaven and break off the hard things we struggle with.
That process — the theology, the prayer life, the courts of heaven, and then the hidden anointings of the months — was the journey He walked me through. And then when I made my mistake, it showed me that there were still things He was bringing to light that needed to be purified, cleansed, and refined.
