Jeremiah 16 - The Release of Satan's Hunters into Europe & America & the Jewish Aliyah to Israel

Happy Rosh Chodesh of the month of Elul, everybody. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you've reached Faithful Performance. We are here to celebrate the new moon festival as it is commanded in the Bible, to bring in a new month — an extraordinary month on God's calendar and on His biblical timeline that we have been a part of. Whether you joined us from last year to this year, from the new biblical calendar date of Nisan 1 on April 1st, or anywhere along the way, we welcome you. It is such an honor and privilege to be on God's calendar, to be on His set appointed times.

The new moon festival, as we will see, is one of those times — twelve months a year — that He wants us to celebrate with Him, to get intimate with Him, and to recognize the beautiful things He has created: first and foremost the moon, and also the sun, and how the calendar is coordinated off of those two great witnesses in the sky. It is a remarkable journey to be on with God, week in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out, as He gives great revelation through the anointings of the month — through the Hebrew letters, through the tribes, and through the constellations He has ordained in the sky, according to Psalms 19:1. It is a marvelous time to be alive.

We are in a very important month right now called the month of Elul. It is the twelfth month of the civil calendar, the month that culminates into the fall feast days — the divine appointments of the Lord — which are just twenty-nine days away. They are coming on us soon, and it all begins with the month of Elul. We are going to discover the full significance of this month through biblical scripture, through the template of Moses, and through the template of Yeshua (Jesus). We will see what each of them did during the month of Elul leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. This month is heavily anointed with favor for believers who are in Yeshua. They call it "the king is in the field," and that is the spirit of what we are entering into.

It all comes back to being set apart. He has created these holy days — these sanctified, appointed times — that He has ordained in the scriptures for both Jew and Gentile, for all of His believers to participate in. We will be observing the new moon festival in the millennial kingdom, forever and ever, so why not begin to understand and celebrate these things now? Drawing near to God through His set apart times, in the set apart Spirit, with the set apart ways — His divine appointments — that is how we get sanctified. That is how we are set apart by the set apart God, not according to the ways of mankind.

We have entered into a beautiful season of God's favor with the month of Elul. If you have been with us on the biblical calendar through the last couple of months — the month of Tammuz and the month of Av — you know those months were anointed, but in a calamity or judgment sense. Tammuz and Av are very judgmental months throughout the scriptures. That is why two of the fast days that fall in those months are eventually turned into feast days by the Messiah. Tammuz 17th commemorates when Israel worshipped the golden calf; the Ninth of Av commemorates when the spies brought back the evil report. Both of those days have been cursed and became fast days, but Zechariah 8 says they will become feast days when Yeshua returns at His second coming and establishes the millennial kingdom.

The month of Elul, however, switches everything over. It transitions into a month of heavily anointed favor. In fact, the whole name "Elul" means good fortune. We will see this confirmed when we go through the anointings of the month — the Hebrew letter, the constellation, the tribe — and how God has aligned all of these things perfectly with the anointing of good fortune. We have entered into a wonderful time on His biblical calendar. No matter whether you are counting from the spring or fall calendar, the civil or the biblical reckoning, one calendar does not negate the other. The months are the months. We have entered into the twelfth month on the side that flows into the fall feast days, which are extraordinarily important.

This month carries personal significance for believers, but also prophetic significance when you consider the Day of the Lord and the Messiah's second coming events. That is why they call it "the king is in the field." The Day of the Lord is coming on Tishrei 1 — the Feast of Trumpets — as we have discussed many times. There is a tremendous amount of information to cover, and I am excited. I hope you are as well. Let us celebrate together on this new moon festival as we enter into the month of repentance, this special time to get alone with the Lord, cut off the distractions, and really get in tune with Him — with repentance and with the expectation that righteous verdicts will be rendered in your favor when the books are opened on the Feast of Trumpets and then closed on Yom Kippur. It is a very important time.

I will also be releasing a book called *The Cross to the Crown: A Spiritual Purification Journey on God's Divine Appointments*. God willing, we have been working hard to complete it. It is shaping up to be roughly 120,000 words. I began writing it on the Feast of Shavuot — Pentecost — because God really provoked me to do it. I had not been sure whether I was going to write it this year, but He provoked me and has been layering the content on ever since. The book takes the reader on a year-long journey on God's calendar through His divine appointments. It is a purification series more than a devotional — a journey of getting right with the Lord, getting open with Him, praying intimately with Him, letting Him reveal what needs to be repented of, and doing that repentance so we are not the ones causing the delay. He is not waiting on us; we want those righteous verdicts to be decreed and declared during the ten days between Trumpets and Yom Kippur.

We are about halfway through the writing at this point, having completed roughly half of the letters, with the other half remaining. We will self-publish it, and I am hoping to have it available around September 15th or 16th. That would give anyone who wants to join this journey time to read the prerequisite material before entering the devotional series. The book is free — a free download. I will also be releasing videos on every chapter, including all of the devotionals throughout the year, covering all the divine appointments and the minor feasts as well. I hope you will join us.

I also share a little of what this journey has done in my own life over the past three or four years of being dedicated to the calendar and its anointings. I can tell you that my intimacy with the Lord has grown significantly every single year. When you are on His divine appointments — the Sabbaths, the new moons, the feasts, the minor appointed times — of course your intimacy with Him deepens. Every bit of it points back to Yeshua, who was one hundred percent Jewish, the Son of Abraham, the Son of David, from the tribe of Judah. To truly understand who the Messiah is, we must understand Him according to the Holy Bible, not according to human tradition.

Timing also makes this year particularly significant: we are now at the end of a Shemitah, a seven-year cycle. In twenty-nine days, this cycle concludes and a new seven-year cycle begins. That is precisely why I wrote the book this year rather than next year. I believe it is vitally important that we understand where we are on God's timeline. These seven-year increments matter deeply. We are stepping into a season of new beginnings where the old is washed away — that is how the Lord looks at it. This month is therefore critically important for getting intimate with the Lord, entering into repentance, and then moving forward into this beautiful journey that culminates in the Feast of Trumpets — the appointed time that corresponds to Messiah's return for His second coming events — followed by Yom Kippur, and then the Feast of Tabernacles, which represents the celebration and the honeymoon of the wedding of the Messiah. It all fits together, and we will go through all of it.

We come back, then, to the new moon festival of Elul — Rosh Chodesh, which means "the head of the month" or "the new moon festival." It is about being set apart. We will go over this shortly, along with the full understanding of what it means to be set apart in this season.