Understanding Biblical Signs and Seasons

So, we'll talk about the solar eclipse on August 12th, Av 29, as we go through the information, and we want to correlate the cool fascination of the Ottoman Empire and the American Empire. But first and foremost, if one's not familiar with how important the sun and the moon are to Yahweh, I want to go through that really quick just to be thorough for anyone who is not familiar with this. I know most of you guys are, and that's a beautiful thing. In Genesis 1:14, God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament for signs and seasons." So, we need to understand, from the very beginning of the Bible, Genesis 1, it says that God put the sun and the moon for His calendar, for signs and seasons. That's really important to understand as we read throughout the Holy Bible, even when you get to what Yeshua said as well about the sun and the moon. So, we know what Yeshua said, but it goes back to Genesis 1:14, the very beginning of the Torah, the very beginning of the Bible. And it said, "Let there be lights in the firmament for signs and seasons." My friends, "signs" is signals, warning signs to help us to understand what's going on in the world. And then the "seasons," as we've spoken about so many times, are the divine appointments in Leviticus 23. But tonight, we're going to focus on the signs that Genesis 1:14 says. He's speaking about the solar eclipses, the lunar eclipses, and all of these signs in the heavens, the constellations, so that we can understand what He's trying to tell us as He gives us these signals from the heavenly billboard. It's super important to realize that so that it's part of understanding the end of the age, just like Yeshua said, "the sun and the moon will grow dark," and all of these things. Joel the prophet Joel said the same thing. So, again, we have all throughout the Bible how important the sun and the moon are. And I'm not sure if we correlate it to the biblical calendar and understand that that's what He's speaking of: the sun and the moon, the calendar, and also when the sun goes to sackcloth, the moon goes to blood, to pay attention to what's going on.

And my friends, whenever these solar eclipses or these lunar eclipses fall on an important biblical date like the Feast days, Passover, Tabernacles, whatever other date as well, Nisan 1, Feast of Trumpets, whatever it may be, He's trying to get our attention. He's putting these signals, these warning signs, these faithful witnesses in the sky on the calendar. He's correlating the calendar to the solar eclipses and the lunar eclipses so that we can understand what time it is, what's going down, what's going on. But we have to go do our research to understand these things. So, Genesis 1:14 is super important. It is a foundational principle to read the Holy Bible, to understand God's calendar, how it fluctuates, how it rotates, you name it, how it understands throughout time is super important to realize that in Psalm 89:36-37, God told David, the Davidic covenant, He's correlating the moon and the sun to the Davidic covenant in Psalm 89. And He said the sun and the moon are His faithful witnesses in the sky. We read this every new moon or new month video that we do. We always read Psalm 89. So, most of you guys and ladies know this. But look at what it says. It says, "The sun and the moon." They are the faithful witnesses in the sky. He told David, "His promise, the Davidic covenant, will be established like the sun is before Him, before the throne, even like the moon, even like the faithful witness in the sky." So, the moon and the sun are God's faithful witnesses in the sky that do the Lord's bidding. They go out from their ordinance every time, and they're always on time. So, we need to understand this. This is super important to realize that these are the faithful witnesses in the sky. There are blood moons and solar eclipses all the time. Wonderful. But whenever they fall on an important biblical date, over and over and over again, He's trying to get our attention to understand what's going on with Israel and also with the nations. Because the blood moons, or the lunar eclipses, are for Israel, the Jewish people, to pay attention, warning signs. And then for the nations to pay attention with the solar eclipses. And why they say this is because the moon is smaller than the sun, kind of like Israel is smaller than the nations. The nations represent the sun, or the sun represents the nations, and the moon represents Israel, the Jewish people. So, whenever we see these things in the skies on these important dates, it's going to be very important for us to pay attention so that we're like the sons of Issachar. We know what the times and seasons are. We know what Israel should do, if you will. That's what Issachar knew. They, the sons of Issachar, they understood the times and the seasons, and of course, they understood how to read the heavenly billboard above. So, super important. Psalm, the faithful witnesses in the sky. Psalm 104:19: "He appointed the moon for seasons" or divine appointments. "The sun knows its going down." Luke 21:25: "There shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars." And who said that? Our Savior, our Messiah, Yeshua, on the Olivet Discourse, right before He was crucified in Luke 21. That's the Olivet Discourse. So, He is telling us before He was crucified that there are going to be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars. And then He tells them they're going to be blood and sackcloth. So, we have to understand these things, my friends. We know what Jesus said. We know what Yeshua said about these things. And so this shouldn't take any of us by surprise when we're seeing these blood moons, these solar eclipses on these important dates. And Av 29 is not an important biblical date, but when it happens over and over and over again, we need to pay attention to see what Yahweh is trying to tell us or is not trying to tell us. One of the two. All right, but we have to pay attention in case He is trying to tell us what is going down.

First Thessalonians 5:1-5: If one's not familiar with the Apostle Paul and what he talked about with the times and the seasons, look at this scripture here: "But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, you are not in darkness, so that this day, the day of the Lord, should overtake you as a thief." My friends, again, we read that on the new moon. So, I'm just trying to show people the understanding throughout the Holy Bible from Genesis to the Apostle Paul, it's all about the times and the seasons. And what is that? The "time" is the calendar, and the "seasons" is Leviticus 23, the Feast days, the divine appointments. Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Feast of Trumpets, all of these beautiful days, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, and also the Feast of Tabernacles. If one's not familiar with that, I'm trying to pull that up for you. I thought I had the slide, but I didn't. It's right here. That's the "time" that you're looking at, my friends. And this is the "seasons." Don't forget the Sabbath in front of Passover, Sabbath, and then the other seven. But that's what the Apostle Paul is talking about. My Christian friends need to really understand that. Because Christianity, when they read 1 Thessalonians 5, they don't have the theology to understand that Paul is talking about the times and the seasons of the calendar and the Feast days. I'm not being condemning or anything like that. I'm just saying they just don't have the theology. Christianity doesn't believe or doesn't worship upon the biblical calendar or the Feast days. So, how could they, right? So, if they did, they would understand what Paul is saying here: "the times and the seasons, the calendar and the Feast days. Brethren, you have no need that I should speak to you, for you..." The day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night. To whom? To the ones who do not know the times and the seasons, not to the ones that do know the times and the seasons. For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. Every biblical prophet talks about the labor pains, the tribulation. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, who understand the times and the seasons, you are not in darkness, so that the day of the Lord should not overtake you as a thief. Now, that is what Paul is speaking of: the calendar and the Feast days. He's not talking about anything that unfortunately Christianity would know about because they don't know about the calendar and the days. So, we have to understand that the Apostle Paul is a Jewish rabbi, a Messianic rabbi. We've got to understand that. He was Jewish. He was a rabbi, and he's Messianic. He worshiped Yeshua. So, he's speaking through the Torah and the Gospels. He's speaking through the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms and the Gospels. And he's going to correlate exactly with that. He's going to show you exactly what the Torah, the Prophets, Psalms, and the Gospels are saying to the one new body and the one new man. So, it's super important to realize what the Apostle is speaking of. And he's speaking about the calendar in Genesis 1:14, the times and the seasons in Leviticus 23 as the seasons that we should know, or we will be caught as a thief in the night.

This establishes the biblical foundation without claiming that every eclipse predicts an event. So, I want to be very clear here. We're not trying to prophesy or set dates or any of those things. We're trying to understand the trajectory that the Lord has us on with the biblical prophets, the book of Daniel, the prophets, and also the solar eclipses, the lunar eclipses, and whatever else He's going to show us. So, we're just trying to understand the trajectory of what He's showing us and not really get into the date setting that people love to do. But this does establish, my friends, what we just went through. All of these scriptures here are the foundational principle to understand these things without claiming that every solar eclipse or lunar eclipse predicts an event. Please note that lunar eclipses are warning signs to Israel, and solar eclipses are warning signs to the nation or nations that the eclipse is hovering over. Isaiah 13 will give you a good understanding of that. Joel 2 and also Amos 8 would give you a good understanding of those things. The Holy Scriptures never tell us to worship the signs. They tell us to pay attention to the signs to what they point toward. Very, very important. It's kind of like the constellations. We go through that on the new moon video as well. The constellations, as long as we keep the focus on God, then we're good. But if we start looking at the constellations for ourselves, horoscopes, tarot cards, crystal balls, you name it, whatever, then we are obviously in witchcraft. So, this is the same thing. As long as we understand it from the biblical perspective, then we're good. But when we start going out of alignment, then of course we're not good.