Satan's Fall vs Yeshua's Return - The Greatest Deception at the End of the Age

My name is Chadwick Harvey of Reach Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight as we explore Satan's fall versus Yeshua's return — what I believe will be the greatest deception at the end of the age. We hope everyone has enjoyed the beautiful feast days we just concluded. As we end the month of Tishri, the seventh month, and enter this eighth month, we hope to see you Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Tonight we will work through a very important and serious topic as we examine the scriptures together. It all begins with the biblical calendar. Most of us are familiar with it, but we need to truly understand that prophecy begins and ends with the biblical calendar. If we understand the times and the seasons — as we have discovered so many times before — those things found in Daniel, Revelation, the words of Yeshua, and Paul's warning about being caught as a thief in the night will not catch us off guard. We will go through the biblical calendar, the feast days, and the scriptures that make the case for what we believe will be the greatest deception for both the Jewish people and Christians as we approach the end of the age. There is a great deal of information to cover, so let us go right to the scriptures.

Genesis 1:14–18 says: "Elohim said, 'Let there be lights in the dome of the sky, in the firmament, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons and days and years, and let them be for lights in the dome of the sky to give light on the earth,' and it was so." This is where biblical prophecy begins and ends. The confusion we see today exists largely because people are not familiar with the biblical calendar — not familiar with its days, not familiar with the Schmita or the Jubilee cycle.

Consider the Feast of Trumpets: many Christians were looking for the rapture on that day, which is actually a beautiful and encouraging thing. But what they did not understand was the Schmita cycle — the seven-year cycle we will be discussing throughout this teaching. Had they understood it, they would not have proclaimed that the rapture would occur in the fourth year of the cycle on the Feast of Trumpets. This is a clear example of why we must understand the biblical calendar, the seasons, the times, the Schmita, and all that goes with them, so that we are not misled and are not proclaiming false dates for the resurrection or any other event. We simply let it unfold according to the biblical calendar, according to the Schmita cycle, according to the midpoint of the cycle, and so forth.

Returning to Genesis 1:14–18: "Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night. Let them be for signs" — these are the solar eclipses and blood moons, the lunar eclipses we are seeing right now. These are the signs, the signals, the warning signs that Yah is speaking of. "And also for seasons" — these are the moedim, the feast days found in Leviticus 23, the divine appointments on the biblical calendar. "Let them be for days and years" — not just any days, but the feast days, the holy days, the divine appointments. The word translated "seasons" in Genesis 1:14 is moed in Hebrew, which means a divine appointment. "Seasons" is a mistranslation; the proper rendering is "divine appointments." Likewise, the word translated "feast" in Leviticus 23 also means divine appointments. Yahweh is correlating his calendar with the feast days as the divine appointments for Yeshua to fulfill. It is worth noting that Satan understands this as well — he has tremendous knowledge of what Yeshua accomplished at his first coming and what he will do at his second coming.

To restate: the lights in the firmament divide day from night and serve as signs — solar eclipses and lunar eclipses, the ones we are seeing right now — and also as seasons, the moedim of Leviticus 23, from Passover through the Feast of Tabernacles. "Days and years" refers to those same feast days and to the Schmita years and Jubilee years of Leviticus 25.

Tonight we will focus especially on the Schmita cycle — the seven-year cycle. It is vital to grasp what Yahweh is saying in Genesis 1:14–18 about seasons and years. The Schmita year runs from Feast of Trumpets to Feast of Trumpets. When Adam was created on the sixth day — Tishri 1 — this began the civil calendar. The biblical calendar we commonly follow was established by Moses, but that was approximately 2,500 years after Adam. When we speak of the Schmita cycle and the years from Adam to Yeshua — the 6,000 years, the six days, or the 2,000 years from the first coming to the second coming — we must begin counting from Tishri, from the Feast of Trumpets. The months are the same; they were simply ordered differently in Adam's day, and in Joseph's day in Egypt, before later calendar systems came into use. So when prophecy teachers speak of the 6,000 years from Adam to Yeshua's second coming, they are beginning on Tishri 1, the Feast of Trumpets — just as the Jubilee year does not begin on Nisan 10 but on Tishri 10, on Yom Kippur. Both calendars work together; they do not negate one another but confirm each other.

The Schmita cycle is therefore a Feast of Trumpets to Feast of Trumpets seven-year period. Yeshua is returning on the Feast of Trumpets. If we count back seven years from that point, it works out perfectly: the tribulation begins on the Feast of Trumpets, runs seven years, and ends on the Feast of Trumpets at his return. We will demonstrate all of this as we continue. We will not focus on the Jubilee year in depth tonight; we will focus on the Schmita cycle as it relates to the deception that will occur at the time of the tribulation.

I come to you in love — love for Yahweh, for his commandments, and for you. If you are already familiar with these things, hallelujah. If not, please do your research and go to your prayer closet. Seek conviction on two fronts: first, to worship on the commanded calendar days; and second, the reward of that faithfulness is understanding what is coming prophetically, so that we will not be caught as a thief in the night.

Leviticus 23:1–2 says: "Adonai said to Moses, 'Tell the people of Israel'" — which, as Paul explains in Romans 11, Ephesians 2, and Galatians 3, includes both Jew and Gentile — "'the divine appointments of Adonai, which you are to proclaim as dress rehearsals. These are my divine appointments.'" They are not anyone else's divine appointments. They belong to Yahweh, Yeshua, and the blessed Holy Spirit. They were given to the Jewish people to pass on to all of us. Your Bible will likely say "feast" where the text reads "divine appointments" — that is a mistranslation. The word means divine appointments, and they are to be rehearsed every year.

We need to move past thinking of the Torah as exclusively a Jewish thing, because people will be caught as a thief in the night by treating everything in the Torah as merely Jewish tradition. The Torah — the first five books of the Bible — is the Father's voice. It is not a national document; it is his voice. Yeshua came to fulfill the first-coming events and will return to fulfill the second-coming events, all according to these divine appointments. Understanding this is critical, because Paul warns all of us to understand the times and the seasons.