The Book of Revelation - Chapters 21-22 - The New Jerusalem/Eternal Kingdom

Welcome, and thank you for joining us tonight as we continue our journey discovering the cross to the crown. Tonight is the second part of our prerequisite section.

Last night we covered the first six prerequisites from the book we released on Tuesday. We learned first and foremost about being set apart — set apart to the Lord, with a set apart guide, set apart ways, through a set apart Spirit, for set apart believers. We discovered the importance of being set apart on God's timetable, on his calendar, on his Divine appointments, which include the Sabbath, the New Moon Festival, and the feast days of the Lord. So we learned how vital it is to be set apart according to God's ways rather than mankind's ways.

We also covered three foundational principles that I believe, if understood, give us a smooth, consistent, and cohesive reading of Genesis through Revelation.

The first is God's calendar. If we understand God's calendar as established in Genesis, we are immediately on his timetable for understanding the Divine appointments mentioned in Leviticus 23. These two passages align perfectly. The Hebrew word *moed*, meaning "Divine appointment," is used both for the word "season" in the creation account and for the word "feast" in Leviticus 23. The Lord is thereby connecting the Divine appointments that Yeshua — Jesus — will fulfill at his first coming and at his second coming.

The second foundational principle is the Divine appointments of God themselves.

The third is covenant theology — having our theology correct according to the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenants. This is God's plan of salvation for Jew and Gentile alike. Exodus 12:49 says there is one Torah, one way to worship, for the citizen (Jew) and the stranger (Gentile). And in Ephesians 2:11–13, Paul speaks to Gentiles, telling them that we were once aliens of the covenant — outside the Commonwealth of Israel — but once we accept the blood of the Lamb through Yeshua, we are grafted into that Commonwealth. We are no longer strangers; we are heirs according to the promise. Galatians 3:26 confirms this: if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise made to Abraham — the Abrahamic covenant.

We concluded the prerequisite section with the two feast days we will celebrate forever — in the millennial kingdom and in eternity: the Sabbath, the true seventh-day Sabbath given by God, and the New Moon Festival and the importance of recognizing, celebrating, and sanctifying the new moon as God ordained.

Tonight we cover the remaining six prerequisites. Tomorrow night is the Feast of Trumpets, and we have a full service planned — examining the Feast of Trumpets both personally and prophetically as it relates to Messiah's second coming. The scriptures align remarkably with the fall feast days — Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles — and their connection to his second coming. We hope you'll join us tomorrow night at eight o'clock. We'll also celebrate the New Moon Festival, and from there journey through the ten days of awe to Yom Kippur and on to the Feast of Tabernacles. Corporate prayer will be on Monday at 6 PM Eastern. We encourage repentance at this time. We are at the close of a seven-year cycle, stepping into a new one with Trumpets.

If you haven't yet downloaded the book, you can find it at faithfulperformance.com, or email [email protected] and I will send it to you. We will be producing videos on each chapter. We will cover the New Moon Festival each month, the feast days each month, and there is a devotional running for 27 weeks — going through a Hebrew letter approximately every two weeks. There are 22 letters, five of which have a final form, giving us 27 total.

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The next prerequisite, following the New Moon Festival, is Elohim's Aleph-Bet — think of it as the origin of what we call the alphabet, because that is precisely what it is. These are his letters, designed and orchestrated by God himself, as we see in Psalms 33:6: *"By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth."*

When we understand the Aleph-Bet, this verse opens into profound personal revelation. In Hebrew, the mouth is represented by the letter *Pey*, and the breath by the letter *Hey*. Within this single verse, God Almighty used his own letters to describe how he breathed creation into existence. Meditating on this — that the Lord spoke the heavens into being through his own pure letters — is extraordinary, especially when you consider the scale of the universe and what it implies about the magnitude of our God.

The Hebrew letters contain volumes of personal and prophetic revelation. They point to hidden truths about spiritual purification and refinement through multiple layers of meaning: the numerical value of each letter, its ordinal position in the Aleph-Bet, the shape of the letter, and its ancient pictograph.

A perfect example is the letter *Tzadi*, the 18th letter. Its shape depicts a person bent over in humility and prayer. That is its first form. But once you humble yourself before the Lord — just as James 4 instructs — he lifts you up, which is represented by the letter's final form. This is our journey from the cross to the crown: humbling ourselves, petitioning the Lord, repenting of what must be repented of, refining what must be refined. We do not want the Lord waiting on us. We want to be clean, cleansed, and refined — waiting on him at his perfect ordained time.

It has been written by some that Elohim's letters are the crossbeams and axis of the world, the very foundation of spiritual existence. Romans 12:2 speaks of being transformed by the renewal of our minds, and these letters are one powerful avenue for that renewal. This is, after all, his pure language, his pure speech. Zephaniah 3:9 promises that pure speech will be restored to all people. The Hebrew language through the Hebrew Aleph-Bet will be the universal tongue in the millennial kingdom — though you need not wait for that "free download." You can begin learning it now.

Each month in the devotional section of the book, we will go through one of the 27 forms of the 22 Hebrew letters, pairing it with the corresponding stanza from Psalms 119. Psalms 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, written by King David as an acrostic: 22 stanzas, each consisting of eight verses, every verse in a stanza beginning with the same letter of the Aleph-Bet, in order. Some hold that David wrote it partly for Solomon, to instill in him a reverence for the divine structure embedded in God's letters. Through it, we also see King David's profound respect for the Torah. So for each Hebrew letter we will receive both the purification of the letter itself and the anointing of what King David, inspired by the Holy Spirit, wrote about Torah and about that letter in Psalms 119.

All of the Hebrew letters are consonants — that is simply how the Hebrew language works. None of them are lowercase, and each letter carries its own sound, numerical value, ordinal value (its position in the alphabet), and pictograph, which is the form Moses would have written in his day. These are God's set-apart letters. Seeking to be set apart in the way God has designed — much like keeping His calendar and His appointed times — is not the only path to holiness, but it is a unique and beautiful one. I am not a Hebrew scholar; I can pronounce only a handful of words, Shalom among them. Yet I know how profoundly these letters have shaped my personal journey, which is why the Lord provoked me to include them in the book. Meditating on the shape and the number of each letter brings revelation and anointing on the things He has designed. It is a rich thing to go deep into what He has created rather than what mankind has substituted in its place.

We must understand that God's sacred, divine name is composed of Hebrew letters — His letters. That name appears in the Hebrew Bible more than seven thousand times. I have no objection to translating it into English, but His name is His name, and it is sacred and eternal. When you read the encounter between God and Moses in Exodus 3, it is remarkable. He declares plainly that this is His name forever. He is the Great I Am, the Ancient of Days, and He will be known by His name in the future just as He revealed it then.

In Exodus 3:1–15, God speaks to Moses at the burning bush. He says, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." When Moses asks His name, the Lord responds, "I AM WHO I AM," and instructs Moses to tell the children of Israel that I AM has sent him. He repeats: "I am the Lord, the God of your fathers — Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — and this is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations." Even as we translate that name into English or any other language, there are instances where He desires it to remain as it was originally revealed: the four Hebrew letters Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey. We will all recognize that name when He comes again, for He declared it to be His name forever — and forever means forever.

Each of those four letters carries profound meaning. The letter Yod represents the divine hand accomplishing a mighty deed. The letter Hey depicts a man lifting his arms toward heaven, signifying "to reveal," "behold," or "look." The Vav is an iron nail. The final Hey again shows a man with arms lifted heavenward — to reveal, behold, or look. We know who said, "If I am lifted up, I will draw all men to Myself." Yeshua Himself said that. He is Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey. He is the Everlasting, the Ancient of Days, the Great I Am — and so is the Father, Elohim, and the Holy Spirit, as the scriptures declare together.

Just as Messiah declared Himself the Alpha and the Omega in English, in Hebrew — the language He actually spoke — He would have said, "I am the Aleph and I am the Tav," which leads us right back into the name Yod-Hey-Vav-Hey. He is declaring Himself as the beginning and the end of all things. Psalm 8:1 says, "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens." As we continue meditating on these Hebrew letters in the devotionals, it will truly astonish you how God has orchestrated and ordained them — not only for prophetic understanding of how He established the heavens and the earth, but for the personal anointing and revelation available to each of us.

I want to clarify something about the book itself: I keep calling it a devotional, but it is really a purification book, a refinement book. That is what I am trying to accomplish — to purify what needs to be purified in my own life so that I can receive the righteous verdicts rendered in the courts of Heaven at God's appointed times. I do not want Him to be waiting on me to repent, purify, cleanse, or refine something I have neglected. That is the whole reason we want to grow intimate with Him through these things He has divinely designed.

I can promise you this: if you keep the Sabbath, if you keep the New Moon Festival, if you keep the divine appointments and grow intimate with Him through these things, you will be blessed. Deuteronomy 29–31 says it plainly — choose life instead of death; this is not too hard to keep. He will open up revelation to you, release your spiritual gifts, and bring a whole new paradigm shift, including what He is doing through the courts of Heaven. This is an exciting time, particularly as we move through the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and the new seven-year cycle beginning in this Year of Jubilee. He is going to do a profound work in His remnant, and He wants us to be spotless, purified, and cleansed. I believe this is the season for all of us to do exactly that.

The next subject we want to examine is what I call "Elohim Stars." We know from Genesis 1:16 that when God appointed the sun and moon as governing lights, He added: "He made the stars also." So God made not only the sun and moon but all the stars as well, and they govern the night. We sometimes forget how important His stars truly are. Psalm 19:1 declares: "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world." He is speaking of the heavens, the firmament, the constellations — His stars, which He has ordained.

Unfortunately, mankind has polluted the heavenly stars and constellations through pagan astrology, horoscopes, tarot cards, and the like. But biblical astronomy is as perfect and beautiful as God's creation itself, because He designed all of it. As long as we keep our focus on Him rather than ourselves, we will not fall into error — and that is the governing principle for all of these things. Man-made traditions like a modern Christmas are largely about ourselves: gifts, parties, and possessions. We must keep the focus on God. When we look at the stars and constellations through the lens of biblical astronomy and worship the Creator rather than the creation, we will remain in alignment with the Almighty.

This is how the ancient peoples understood how to travel, how to read the times, and how to mark the seasons — by reading God's constellations. Consider the wise men who came at Yeshua's birth: they saw a star and followed it. I believe they came from the East, likely Babylon, and I believe the prophetic knowledge they carried was rooted in the ministry of Daniel. Daniel was appointed over all the wise men of Babylon, and I am convinced he spread the gospel — the mysteries of the constellations — throughout those circles of influence. That is why those wise men understood the times and seasons even better than the Jewish people did at that moment; they recognized the birth of the King because of their knowledge of the stars.

Messiah Himself is called a star in biblical prophecy. In Numbers 24:17, in Balaam's Messianic prophecy, he says: "I see Him, but not now; I behold Him, but not near. A star shall come forth from Jacob, a scepter shall rise from Israel." This is clearly speaking of Yeshua, the scepter of Judah. He Himself is described as a star in the Holy Bible.

The Lord knows each star by name — they are His stars, His constellations. We simply need to understand them in a biblically responsible way, not a pagan one. To give a practical example: the month we are currently in is the month of Elul, when it is said "the King is in the field." It is a month associated with the tribe of Gad, and its corresponding constellation is Virgo, the Virgin. What can we draw from this prophetically? Since we have seen that Messiah will return on the Feast of Trumpets — which falls at the very end of Elul — the Virgin is, in a sense, about to give birth. This is why the biblical prophets so consistently describe the coming of the Lord in the imagery of a woman in labor, birth pains, and delivery. He is drawing on the constellation of the month. Virgo — the Virgin — is going to produce her children. Isaiah 66 speaks directly to this in connection with the Lord's return on the Feast of Trumpets.

Additionally, the Hebrew acronym for Elul is *Ani l'dodi v'dodi li* — "I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine" — which brings us right back to the imagery of the Bride and the Bridegroom. Once we understand how the Holy Spirit connects the constellations, the Hebrew letters, and the tribes of each month through the scriptures, we receive an abundance of revelation, inspiration, and intimacy with God, because we are engaging with what He Himself designed. Of course we draw closer to Him when we begin to understand these beautiful mysteries — they align with the holy scriptures precisely and consistently. The constellations are, in a sense, the Word of God on circuit, telling His story in the heavens.

In the Book of Job — one of the oldest books in the Bible — we see plainly that the galaxies and constellations belong to Him. Job 9:7–9 says: "Who commands the sun not to shine and sets a seal upon the stars; who alone stretches out the heavens and tramples down the waves of the sea; who makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." And Job 38:31–33 continues: "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of..."

Job is given homage and credit to the Lord God Almighty — he is the one who controls all of these things, because he is the one who spoke them out of his mouth and anointed them with the breath of his mouth. It is truly phenomenal. He wants us to be a part of this. This is his creation — he created all of this for us to enjoy, and also to give worship to the Creator, not the creation.

When we look at the second coming scriptures — the prophet Joel, Messiah himself in Matthew 24 — what do we see? The moon will turn to blood, the sun will go dark before the great and coming day of the Lord. It is vitally important to understand how the stars, the sun, and the moon will be affected at the second coming. In the Book of Revelation you read of stars falling from heaven, the sun ceasing to give light, the moon turning to blood. God wants us to understand these signs before his second coming.

Matthew 24 states: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with great power and great glory." This is telling us that immediately after the seven-year tribulation, the moon will turn to blood, the sun will cease to give light, and the day of the Lord will come — as written by the prophets Joel and Zephaniah and confirmed throughout the Book of Revelation.

In Revelation 22:16 we see a direct correlation of Messiah himself as a star: "I, Yeshua, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright Morning Star." And then one of the most beautiful scriptures in all of the Holy Bible is Daniel 12:3: "Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever." What a beautiful prophetic picture of believers shining as bright as stars. That is why he tells us to let our light shine — you are the light of the world. We are to shine brighter than the firmament of heaven and turn many to righteousness, shining like the stars forevermore. This gives us great motivation to do our part in God's kingdom, whatever our occupation may be. We are all responsible for spreading the true gospel — Matthew 28 — in whatever realm we occupy. Control your sphere of influence with the gospel, and you are doing your part.

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The next prerequisite we will examine is the twelve tribes of Israel. This is a profound mystery to many people. The twelve tribes are not only personal and historic — they are also prophetic.

When we read Revelation 21:9–13 and 21, we gain great understanding about the twelve tribes and how each individual may enter the New Jerusalem through one of those twelve gates. Whether you are a Jew or a Gentile, the prophetic understanding is that all of us will be part of one tribe. There are only twelve gates into the city of the New Jerusalem, and no other entrance. That is worth meditating on.

There is a tribe ordained for every month. For instance, this month is Gad — meaning "good fortune" — because that is what Leah declared at his birth. The Lord has tied together for each month the proper scripture, the proper tribe, the proper Hebrew letter, and the proper constellation, each carrying a specific anointing. With the month of Elul, for example, the anointing of Gad — good fortune — aligns with the yod, the constellation Virgo, and the reality that a virgin bearing a baby is itself good fortune. That is how the Lord weaves these things together.

Galatians 3:26–29 tells us: "If you are in Christ, you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." The Abrahamic covenant — including the promised seed, which is Yeshua, to rule over the promised land within its boundary lines — is the inheritance. That is why the Lord told Daniel, "Go your way, and you will rise at the end of the age to receive your inheritance." As heirs according to the promise, we too will see where we line up in the millennial Kingdom by tribe. The Lord has designed these things perfectly, and he wants us to pray into them, meditate on them, receive the anointing, and keep ascending Jacob's ladder.

In Ezekiel 47 — remembering that Ezekiel 40 through 48 are the Millennial Kingdom chapters — the Lord allocates the land very specifically to each tribe. Every month we will go through the blessings of the tribes as given by Jacob in Genesis, and also Moses' blessings in Deuteronomy 33, spoken before his passing. And this is critically important: the blessings recorded in Deuteronomy 33 have not yet been fulfilled. Their fulfillment comes at Messiah's second coming and throughout his Millennial Kingdom.

Deuteronomy 33:1–3 reads: "The Lord came from Sinai, and dawned on them from Seir; he shone forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints; from his right hand came a fiery Torah for them. Yes, he loves the people; all his saints are in your hand; they sit down at your feet; everyone receives your words."

This is a prophecy about Yeshua at his return. Moses never literally came from Sinai — Moses led the people, and the Lord was in the cloud. Moses is writing this for Yeshua. The Lord will come from Mount Sinai, from the region of Seir and Mount Paran — the area of Saudi Arabia and ancient Edom, including Bozrah. He comes with ten thousands of saints — that has not yet happened. It happens when he returns, as Revelation 19 and Daniel both confirm: thousands of thousands, ten thousand times ten thousand. And he comes with the fiery Torah in his right hand. For any who believe the Torah is void and done away with — how do you reconcile this scripture? How do you reconcile Isaiah 2 or Micah 4, which declare that the word of God, the Torah, will go out from Jerusalem to the nations? He does not come with anything else — he comes with the Torah. This is a second coming prophecy, and that is precisely why Moses' blessings find their fulfillment in the Millennial Kingdom.

Isaiah 19 tells us he comes on a cloud to Egypt first, and then descends to Sinai where he will reveal himself — just as Joseph revealed himself to his brothers once Judah repented. When the Jewish people repent at the end of the age during the tribulation, Yeshua their brother will reveal himself to them, and they will mourn for the one they pierced, as Zechariah declares.

Isaiah 63 confirms: "Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah?" The prophet, looking south from Jerusalem in vision, sees the Lord coming from the Sinai, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia region. This is because in the last three and a half years, according to Matthew 24, the people will flee to the mountains — specifically to Mount Sinai, where Moses once veiled his face. Yeshua will meet them there. He will undo the veil. Isaiah 19 shows him coming on a cloud to Egypt, then revealing himself to them at Sinai. From there they will march up — Isaiah 63 — from Sinai to Jerusalem, where he will place his feet on the Mount of Olives and send out the Torah from his right hand to the nations, as Deuteronomy 33, Isaiah 2, and Micah 4 all declare.

This is also where the New Covenant will be fully ordained. Jeremiah 31 tells us it is made with the house of Israel and the house of Judah — it will be written on their hearts and on their minds. That has not happened yet as a corporate national reality. The old covenant did not accomplish this; the New Covenant does. Yeshua fulfilled it with his blood at his first coming, and we are saved by the blood of the New Covenant and personally living in it. But the full corporate fulfillment — when the Jewish people accept him as their Savior as a nation — will take place during the Millennial Kingdom, as described in Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36.

Deuteronomy 33 is therefore a remarkable piece of prophetic scripture that has not yet come to fruition, because the Lord has not yet descended with ten thousands of saints. But he will — in Revelation 19 and confirmed in Daniel. These are the prophetic understandings we must hold on to.

In 2016, my prayer life took a massive upgrade, and I can freely admit that. There is nothing wrong with regular prayers — praying in the shower, praying while you're driving. Every prayer is heard. But whenever you are in a time of need, whenever you want an answer, there is a difference between praying and entering the courts of Heaven. These are two entirely different things. I pray all the time, but I do not enter the courts all the time, because I believe that is a very serious matter. We need to have our best game on. We need to be organized, we need to be in order, because He is a God of order — and it is a courtroom in heaven, just as it is on the earth.

When I speak about the courts of Heaven, I am speaking about praying the Word of God into your life and into your prayer. So often we pray a great deal, but do we quote the Word of God with each petition? If I have a problem with anger, with lust, with cursing, with alcohol, with drugs, with pornography — whatever the case may be — there are scriptures you can use to state your case in the court, spiritually speaking, because it says that by the mouth of two or three witnesses a matter will be established. I believe that sometimes we do not get the answer to our prayers because we have not established the matter in the courts of Heaven with two or three witnesses. Even the Holy Bible does this — God Himself confirms a matter through prophet after prophet, at least two or three witnesses.

The Book of Revelation is nothing new in this regard. I can find a scripture to correspond with every verse in the Book of Revelation, because there must be two or three witnesses to establish a matter. What John saw, Daniel saw. What the prophets saw, Moses saw in Leviticus 16. All of these can be pointed to as a second witness, and it is phenomenal how the Lord has orchestrated that.

We must understand that the power of the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword — that is where we win. That is the sword of the Spirit, as Paul calls it in Ephesians 6. So when I say praying in the courts of Heaven, I mean praying in the Spirit, in the courts of Heaven, using the Word of God. It is not — and I mean no disrespect by this — a five-minute prayer: "Please bless me, please answer my prayers, in Christ's name, amen." There is nothing wrong with that, and I am not dismissing it. But there is a difference between intercession, warfare, and praying in the courts versus a regular prayer of thanksgiving, which we also do in the courts of Heaven. Spiritual warfare and intercession are a whole different endeavor.

We have to take this seriously, especially when we are trying to purify ourselves. This is not something to play around with. The Lord is going to show you what you need to repent of. This is not about comfort — this is about saying, "Lord, I want to be purified, I want to be refined. I am petitioning You to show me what I need to repent of, so that I can receive the righteous rendered verdicts." So many people have been waiting for a long time on those verdicts. There are a couple of things the Lord could be waiting on: number one, repentance for a situation that was never brought before Him; and number two, the generational curses.

That is the one thing believers often forget — that we must break generational curses off of ourselves, the curses that run through our lineage. That offends some people, but go read the Holy Bible. Read Daniel 9, read Zephaniah 1. They had generational iniquities, they repented, they cleansed their fathers' lineage. And what does the Lord say? He visits the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. He is telling you that generational curses exist, and we must break those off. That is the one thing I have consistently seen overlooked over the years — we forget to cleanse our bloodline. No offense to our grandparents or great-grandparents, but we do not know what those people did, especially in the third and fourth generations we never even met. It is simply what must be done to purify ourselves and to ensure that Satan cannot use that against us in the courts of Heaven.

Make no mistake — there are courts in Heaven, just as there are on earth. We have a judge down here; of course there is a Supreme Judge who sits on high — Elohim, God Almighty. We have an adversary or prosecutor here on earth; of course there is one in Heaven as well. We have a mediator and an attorney here; and obviously we have Yeshua, Jesus, serving in that role in Heaven as well. Just as Moses saw the Heavenly Tabernacle and the earthly one was a replica of it, so the courts of Heaven are the pattern from which the earthly courts are designed.

We need to understand that we can enter those courts through the blood of the Lamb — spiritually, by the power of the Holy Spirit. We go in to worship, to praise, to give Him honor, and then we address our own needs last. We do not walk in and immediately start asking for favor. We go to worship and praise Him first, and we will see that reflected in the courts of Heaven prayer. This is a paradigm shift, and it will be one if you have never done anything like this before. This is not legalism — it is simply quoting the Word of God in an organized way that honors the Lord and moves through certain scriptures that place you spiritually in the courts of Heaven.

I do have what I call a prayer template, though I hesitate to use that word. It is simply the Word of God arranged in an orderly way, structured to give homage to the Lord and walk through those scriptures. That is all it is. Let the Holy Spirit lead you in this, because it is very important — entering the spiritual realm of the courts to cleanse ourselves, to praise and to worship, and to ask for righteous rendered verdicts.

I can only speak from my personal experience, but I guarantee you this: when you begin walking in this, your spiritual gifts come alive. For me, my dreams began happening, visions, interpretations — you name it. For you it might be tongues, or whatever your spiritual gift is. The courts of Heaven are a beautiful place to open those gifts even further, to refine them, and to walk deeper with God as the Holy Spirit reveals instructions, strategies, and areas of repentance to you. He will communicate with you, because that is precisely what we petition for.

I see in the Holy Bible clear examples of the courts of Heaven at work. When we look at the story of Job, we know the Lord allowed everything in Job's life to be taken away. That scene — where Satan appears before the throne, going to and fro — is a perfect example of a courts of Heaven scene. We also see an indication of this when Yeshua intercedes for Peter, saying, "Satan has asked for you, but I have prayed for you." Though He was God, He was also man, and in doing this He was showing us the example of intercession into the courts of Heaven.

This understanding becomes even richer when we look at the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Yom Kippur. Psalm 139 tells us that every one of us has a book — a book we are meant to fulfill. Every nation has a book as well. In Ezekiel 3, the prophet ate a scroll, and in Revelation, John likewise eats the book — representing the book of Israel in Ezekiel and, in Revelation, the book of the nations as he prophesies further. What the scriptures have confirmed to me over the past four or five years is this: the courts are opened and the books are opened on the Feast of Trumpets, on Rosh Hashanah. That is when the judgment takes place — you will see this confirmed in scripture. The books are open for ten days — the Ten Days of Awe — and then they are closed and sealed on the Feast of Yom Kippur for that year. This pattern repeats annually.

If you live, say, a hundred years on this earth, you have a hundred chapters in your book, and every year you are being weighed in the balance. That is precisely what the constellation Libra represents — it is the symbol of the month of Tishri, the month in which this weighing occurs. God is telling you through the very arrangement of the heavens that this is when individuals and nations are weighed before Him.

We can also look at this through the story of Joseph. Genesis 41 says, "At the end of two full years," Joseph was released from prison and made second in command in Egypt. That language is deliberate. Joseph was on the civil calendar — Moses had not yet come, the biblical calendar had not yet been established — but "at the end of two full years" places you precisely at the Feast of Trumpets. Joseph was released from prison on the Feast of Trumpets. And what followed? Not only was he released on the Feast of Trumpets, but he was released at the start of a new Shemitah cycle. After that came two Shemitah cycles — seven good years and seven bad years.

We are entering into the same kind of template. We are at the Feast of Trumpets, and we are beginning a new Shemitah cycle as well. It is a remarkable time to study the scriptures in this context, and that is why I did not write the book three or four years ago — because I was not yet fully convicted on these things.

Looking at Genesis 41, we see the books being opened with Joseph being elevated from prisoner to second in command of Egypt on the Feast of Trumpets, on the new shemitah year. That is remarkable.

Consider also Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4. He had built his kingdom and was walking through the palace, boasting: "Look at Babylon the great, that I built." The text says that while the words were still in his mouth, the decree was made — and that decree was made on the Feast of Trumpets, because he was exiled for seven years. And it was not just any seven years; it was a shemitah cycle. So even at the biblical level, Scripture is showing us that the books are opened and closed for individuals and nations on the Feast of Trumpets, and especially on that shemitah cycle.

Two more examples worth examining are Moses and Yeshua. Most people do not realize that Moses went up Mount Sinai three separate times, each period lasting forty days. The first forty days ended when the people built the golden calf and he came back down. He then went back up for the next forty days, still with no assurance that God had forgiven the people. So he went up a third time, beginning on the first of Elul, and came down on Tishri 10 — the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur — when God declared everything forgiven and gave him the new set of tablets, saying, "Now go build my Tabernacle." This is because the Day of Atonement is when judgments are sealed. Moses interceded for the children of Israel and they were forgiven, which gives us great inspiration for Yom Kippur, when verdicts are sealed.

Yeshua himself follows the same pattern. He was tempted for forty days and forty nights, beginning on the first of Elul and ending on Tishri 10 — Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement — when he began his ministry. Read Isaiah 61 alongside Luke 4, where he declares, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

This is how the heavenly court system works. Every year at the Feast of Trumpets, all the books are opened. Every person and every nation is weighed and found in the balance, whether they are aware of it or not, and the verdict is sealed on Yom Kippur.

I want to offer a clarification from my own life. There are things I prayed for in 2018 that did not come to fruition that first year. Some took two years, some three. In your case it might be one day, one week, or one month. You will have to listen to what God is showing you as you pray and petition him. When you become intimate with him, he will lead you, show you, and reveal things to you through your spiritual gifts.

I want to be clear that there is nothing wrong with any kind of prayer — God hears all prayers. But I do believe there is a difference between ordinary prayer and entering the courts of heaven, where you sanctify yourself, purify yourself, repent, worship, praise, and then petition him and ask him to reveal himself to you. There is a significant difference. The courts of heaven are a very powerful thing that we can all participate in, and I have seen it change lives completely.

Let me give you an illustration. A friend of mine was praying about a business deal that had been in process for roughly twenty-one years — three shemitah cycles. They closed on that deal on the last possible day before the Feast of Trumpets. That is what I am telling you: God will begin communicating with his people through his divine appointments, through his calendar, through the court system. He will move through the new moon, through the Sabbath, through everything he wants you to be a part of. I have seen things land on the Feast of Tabernacles, on the 9th of Av, on Passover, on Trumpets, on Shavuot. I was not even planning to write the book this year because I did not think I had time — and yet here we are. What I am trying to tell you is that God will align himself with your circumstances and move you on his calendar, on his divine appointments, on his minor festivals, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons. It will blow you away.

The more you align yourself with what he sets himself apart with — his holy days, his Sabbaths, his new moons — the more he will align with you on those days. The Orthodox will certainly confirm this: you are being weighed and found in the balance from the Feast of Trumpets through Yom Kippur. I hope you can connect with the reality of the courts of heaven. And ultimately, it is simply quoting the Word of God.

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**The Shemitah Cycle**

Now let us look at the shemitah year and the seven-year cycle, which relates directly to how the books are opened and closed.

In Genesis 1:14, God says that his calendar is for signs, seasons, days, and years. That word "years" is not referring to the Gregorian calendar years of 2020 or 1980. It is referring to the shemitah year, the Jubilee year — his ordained times. The shemitah cycle, the seven-year cycle, is found in Leviticus 25. Every seven years Israel was to let the land rest. They were not to prune, plant, or harvest. They were to take the entire year for fellowship with the Lord, because God made a covenant with both the people and the land.

God operates on a seven-day cycle, a seven-year cycle, and a seven-millennial cycle. The weekly Sabbath, the shemitah year every seventh year, and then when the Day of the Lord comes — the seventh millennium — it will be the fulfillment of all things. Daniel's seventieth week, the last seven years of the age, is not just any seven years. It is a shemitah block.

We are stepping into a new cycle. If the tribulation does not begin now — and I do not believe an agreement will be made with the Antichrist at this time, because the ten kings are not yet in place — then in my personal opinion it will not begin for another seven years. The seven-year block cannot be interrupted. So if it does not begin in 2022, the next window is 2029 to 2036. I am not setting dates. But I do believe we have entered into the beginning of the times of trouble that Messiah warned about in Matthew 24.

We are not yet in the final seven years, because we must first see an agreement made by the Antichrist, and he has not yet risen. Daniel 7 shows us ten kings arising, and then the little horn rises and conquers three of them. Until the ten kings rise, all speculation about which current world leader is the Antichrist is completely unfounded. This is a Middle Eastern conflict between Israel and its neighbors. The prophets tell us this figure will arise from the Middle East — from the Iraq, Syria, Turkey region, the Fertile Crescent, the area of ancient Babylon. He is called the Assyrian, the King of the North, and the Pharaoh of Egypt because he conquers Egypt.

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Returning to the shemitah: the seven-year cycle was meant to be a great blessing to Israel. Work six years, rest the seventh. Let the land rest. But when Israel broke the shemitah and refused to let the land rest, they were exiled. Second Chronicles 36 tells us that for the entire seventy years of their Babylonian exile, the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest. That is how seriously God takes the shemitah covenant.

From the point of the Babylonian exile in 586 BC — itself a shemitah cycle — the shemitah began to affect the nations. Jeremiah was a prophet not only to Israel but to the nations, and that dynamic began to play out on the world stage. Israel was destroyed on the shemitah; Babylon rose to power on the shemitah. Then seventy years later, on another shemitah cycle, we see Babylon fall and Medo-Persia rise — recorded in Daniel 5. Nations rose and fell according to the shemitah cycle.

Moving forward to the twentieth century, World War I and World War II both occurred on shemitah cycles. Just as Babylon and Persia rose and fell on the shemitah, the shemitah has continued to affect the Gentile nations, and especially America. The reason I focus on America is that I live here, I love this country, and our founding fathers dedicated this nation to the Lord. Though America does not have a divine covenant in the same way Israel does, once a nation dedicates itself to God, the principle applies: to whom much is given, much is required.

Before examining America specifically, credit must be given where it is due. Jonathan Cahn was the one who brought forth the mystery of the Shemitah. Many of these statistics originate with him, though additional research has been added here, including insights regarding Turkey and the Ottoman Empire. Tonight, however, the focus is on the nations affected during World War One and World War Two — both of which fell on Shemitah cycles — and then on America.

The Shemitah cycle affects the Gentile nations as well. When we look at the collapse of four major empires during World War One, occurring on the Shemitah years of 1916 and 1917, it is nothing short of phenomenal.

The first to collapse was the German Empire — the Second Reich — which fell on the Shemitah cycle during World War One. The second was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, founded in 1867 and one of the world's superpowers through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It too collapsed on the Shemitah cycle, and from its ruins Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were formed. The third was the Ottoman Empire, which began its collapse in 1916–17 on the Shemitah cycle and completed its fall in 1923–24. That great empire, which had ruled for four hundred years, came down in that season. It was also in 1917 that the British Empire — the empire on which the sun was said never to set — saw the sun begin to set. Founded in the late sixteenth century, it had at its pinnacle controlled one-fourth of all the world's land mass. World War One decimated its wealth and brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. And it was in 1917 that the Balfour Declaration was issued, ultimately culminating in the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948.

The fourth empire to fall in that period was the Russian Empire — one of the largest empires in world history and among the most dominant powers of the nineteenth century — which also collapsed on the Shemitah year.

As a side note worth tracking: ever since the 2001 Shemitah cycle, Turkish President Erdogan has been systematically transforming the Republic of Turkey into a revived Ottoman Empire. Over the past three Shemitah cycles, Turkey has invaded Syria, sent troops into Iraq and Libya, created tensions over the Greek Isles, and clashed with Armenia — steadily extending its reach. Turkey is the main player in the Ezekiel 38–39 war. Every nation named in that passage — the land of Magog, Togarmah, Gomer — corresponds to territory within modern Turkey. Iran and Turkey will contend for supremacy over the Middle East, but Turkey will ultimately prevail, as Daniel 2, 7, 8, and 11, Revelation 13 and 17, and Ezekiel 38–39 all indicate. This will culminate in the rise of the Ten Kings.

Moving to World War Two: it occurred during the Shemitah year of 1944–45. Nazi Germany — the Third Reich — fell, thank God Almighty, after the Holocaust that murdered over six million Jewish people. The Japanese Empire likewise fell during the Shemitah year of 1945. And what happened to America? America had not even been on the world scene during World War One — it was provoked into entering, and it entered for the right reasons. That was when America first emerged as a world superpower. Then in 1945, after the defeat of Nazi Germany and imperial Japan, America sealed its greatness. No historian would dispute that 1945 marked the moment America became the greatest nation on earth. The Shemitah had been a blessing to America in both world wars.

But with time and greatness come temptation, lawlessness, and falling away from God — just as it happened with the children of Israel. And that is exactly what happened to America.

The turn began on June 25, 1962, when the U.S. Supreme Court removed prayer and the Word of God from public schools. Look at what has happened to the American education system since that day — it is an absolute disgrace, and it all began the moment God was shown the door. Then came what I believe was the greatest mistake America ever made: on January 22, 1973, Roe v. Wade legalized the killing of the unborn. That decision sealed the fate of America on the Shemitah cycle. Since 1973, every seven years without exception, America has experienced a financial collapse. These are not theories — they are verifiable facts.

Here is the record: In 1966, a Shemitah cycle year, the stock market collapsed. In 1973, the year of Roe v. Wade, the stock market collapsed by 45 percent, GDP shrank by 70 percent, and a long-term global recession followed. In 1980, seven years later, an economic recession produced a stock market collapse of 27 percent. In 1987, Black Monday struck — the stock market lost 33 percent of its value in a single day, still the worst one-day percentage collapse in American history. In 1994, the Great Bond Massacre — the greatest bond market collapse up to that date. In 2001, the attacks of September 11 breached the American homeland for the first time in history. The symbol of America's economic power, the Twin Towers, was destroyed. The stock market collapsed 37 percent and a recession followed. Seven years later, in 2008, the Global Financial Collapse and Great Recession wiped out 50 percent of the stock market's value. Seven years after that, in 2015, world markets collapsed together — the British markets fell 16 percent, French markets 18 percent, German markets lost a quarter of their value, Indian markets dropped 4,000 points, Brazilian markets dropped 12,000 points, the Shanghai exchange fell 43 percent, U.S. markets lost 2 trillion dollars, and total global financial losses reached 11 trillion dollars.

It is also worth noting that 2015 was the Shemitah year in which same-sex marriage was written into American law — another declaration that we know better than God.

This is not to say that America must literally observe the land-rest commandment of the Shemitah. That covenant was made specifically with Israel for the Promised Land. America has no such covenant. But the prophetic significance applies: a nation that once dedicated itself to God, that has been the largest exporter of the Gospel to all nations, and that has sheltered the Jewish people more safely than any other country in human history — such a nation receives great blessing. Those two things in particular, I believe, are the primary reasons America has not faced even greater judgment. But blessings do not make a nation immune to the consequences of its own sin.

And so thank God Almighty, this past summer — a Shemitah year — the highest court in the land overturned Roe v. Wade. I believe that was the greatest day for this nation since July 4, 1776. Nearly fifty years of legalized abortion had the blood of tens of millions crying out from the ground. Israel sacrificed children to Molech in the thousands; America has done so in the tens of millions — sixty million in total. Judgment was coming one way or another. God was going to have his Jubilee. And he did.

The Shemitah cycle opens and closes on the Feast of Trumpets — the new moon, the beginning of the new cycle. That timing is critical to understand. We are entering a new seven-year cycle, and what unfolds in it deserves our full attention.

We are in a very pivotal and transitional time. Over these next 21 days — through the Feast of Trumpets, the new moon, and the Day of Atonement — we enter a season that could not be more paramount. The Day of Atonement begins the Year of Jubilee, and it is a time we are called to examine ourselves: to be weighed in the balance, to repent, to cleanse, to purify, and to set ourselves apart so that we may receive righteous rendered verdicts from the Almighty.

The Courts of Heaven, my friends, is a two-part understanding. First, we spiritually ascend to God according to Hebrews 4:14–16. Then, He serves as our mediator, and we align with Him through the blood of the Lamb by the power of the Holy Spirit. We worship, we praise, we cleanse, and we present our petitions — hoping to receive those righteous rendered verdicts, and asking Him to reveal what we still need to repent of as we go forward.

The Courts of Heaven prayer I use is simply biblical scripture organized together. A friend and I put it together back in 2016, and it is what has worked for us. I am not saying it is the only way — there are many approaches. I am simply sharing what I have personally seen bear fruit, for myself, my friends, and my family, and the results have been phenomenal.

If you have been praying for months or even years and feel like you are not receiving the instructions or strategies you should be, I encourage you to try this. I promise you it will move your prayer life in a way that produces results — especially when you add fasting. You will receive revelation, instructions, and strategies. Your spiritual gifts will become more refined. Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you, and He will show you amazing things. I have seen it too many times to doubt it.

I should be honest: this is not always comfortable, because you are asking God to tell you what you need to repent of — and He will tell you. Spiritual freedom is never easy. Satan wants to devour you like a roaring lion; he wants you in bondage, not walking free. But ask the Holy Spirit to lead you, and He will. I have already heard from people I sent this prayer to who say it has opened up a new portal in their prayer life — and that is exactly what it does.

We will be doing a corporate Courts of Heaven prayer on Monday afternoon at 6 PM Eastern, before Tishri-1 ends at sundown, because I believe the timing is that important. When you read through the prayer, here is the structure: we begin by worshiping the Lord with His own scriptures — particularly the Psalms. Psalm 100, Psalms 113–118 (the Hallel Psalms), Psalm 47, Psalm 103 — so many of the Psalms speak directly to the courts of God, and they are beautiful. Let God lead you to the ones He wants you to pray.

From there, we quote scripture in praise and worship, we cleanse ourselves according to what the Word says, we present our petitions, and then we close — just as a proper court case would conclude.

When we get to the petitions portion during Monday's prayer, I will pause for about fifteen to twenty minutes and let each of you bring your own cases before God. My recommendation is to approach it as a good attorney would: state your case clearly. If you are dealing with anger, cursing, addiction, or any other bondage, find two or three scriptures that speak to that issue. Write them down. When you petition, repent and establish the matter with what is written.

Remember what Jesus said when Satan tempted Him: "It is written." That was all He said — He quoted the Word of God. If God Himself used His own Word to rebuke the adversary, how much more should we use it in our prayer lives? The Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword, and it will cut through everything. When I say "praying the Courts of Heaven," I really mean praying the Word of God in an organized way according to your personal situation, establishing the matter by two or three witnesses — which is exactly what the Word instructs us to do.

Since I began quoting the Word of God in my petitions rather than simply saying a general prayer, it has accelerated my prayer life in ways I cannot fully describe. When we intercede, when we engage in real spiritual warfare and bring our petitions in a time of need, it is critical to enter with the right frame of mind and the right scriptures to confirm what we are asking.

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That brings us to the close of the prerequisites section. There are twelve prerequisites in the book in total, and we have now completed all of them. I know it has been a great deal of information, and I apologize for the time it has taken, but I hope you will spend time with those prerequisites — they lay a vital foundation for everything that follows.

Tomorrow night, we move forward into the Feast of Trumpets, the new moon festival, the beginning of the new Shemitah cycle, and the seven-year cycle that begins with it. I hope you can join us.

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Regarding some of the questions coming in: the Hebrew year we are stepping into is 5783, which begins tomorrow. That will be the first year of the new seven-year Shemitah cycle. The ten days between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur — the Days of Awe — are prophetically the period during which we are weighed in the balance. Prophetically speaking, this corresponds to Isaiah 63, where Yeshua comes alone for those ten days of warfare, and then Revelation 19:11–16, where He returns with us for the final victory.

The book is available as a free download at faithfulperformance.com, or you can email me directly at [email protected] and I will send it to you. If you have concerns about breaking off specific spiritual strongholds — whether a Jezebel spirit, a Leviathan spirit, or any unclean spirit — you can bring those things before the Courts of Heaven. Feel free to reach out and I will share what understanding I have of how to approach that.

For those asking about the Courts of Heaven video, I do have one on the channel — it is the one with the throne and fire in the background, from about two summers ago. It walks through both the explanation and the prayer itself, and may be helpful for your edification.

As for the Feast of Trumpets itself — "Yom Teruah" in Hebrew means "the day of shouting" or "the day of blowing." It is a day to shout, to blow the shofar, to lift your hands, to praise and worship. I will do my best with the shofar tomorrow, though I am no expert. More importantly, join your voice to it.

As D. French has shared, when you align with God on His Divine appointments — the holy days He has ordained — you will experience blessings and answered prayers that will blow you away. He can move at any time, on any day. But on those Divine appointments, those new moons and Sabbaths, He especially loves to reveal Himself. Those are His appointments, not ours, and when we honor them, His presence is unmistakable.

I hope to see you all tomorrow night as we enter into these very important and imperative times.

Dana asked about the Ten Days of Awe. Those are the days when we are in the balance, so to speak, between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur. A lot of people do fast and pray during this time. If you have a medical condition, please consult a doctor before fasting. I am definitely not a doctor. The Yom Kippur fast involves no food and no water, so we have to be very responsible about this, especially if you have any kind of medical issues.

This cycle is going to be amazing when you look at the seven-year shemitah prophetically. You are going to see some remarkable things occur. As I mentioned when we discussed the prerequisites, if we believe we are living at the End of the Age — and I certainly believe that — then you are going to see the nations of the Holy Bible come into alignment accordingly. The Ten Kings will start to come together. The nation of Turkey will begin its reign over the Middle East. Iran is already asserting itself in the Middle East and will ultimately fall under Turkey's sphere of influence, as described in Ezekiel 38. We are going to see a lot of movement. Over the last seven years we have already seen Iran and Turkey step up, partly because so much attention was focused on organizations like ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Those are terrorist organizations and they are evil, but they are the junior varsity team. They are not the main varsity players the Bible speaks of, which are Persia (Iran) and Yavan — or Turkey. Your Bible may say "Greece," but that is a mistranslation; the Hebrew is Yavan, which corresponds to Turkey. All of those ancient territories are within the nation of Turkey today. They are the varsity team we need to watch as we continue our journey toward the Messiah's second coming and His Millennial Kingdom.

One of the viewers mentioned a major breakthrough that occurred on the third day of the third month, Sivan 3. Biblically, Sivan 3 is when Moses commanded the people, "In three days you will receive the Torah" at Mount Sinai. It was a very important time, so it is not surprising that a significant spiritual breakthrough came on that date.

Regarding the Jubilee: it is a fifty-year cycle found in Leviticus 25. There is the shemitah cycle of seven years, and seven times seven gives you forty-nine. The fiftieth year — the Jubilee — follows. Importantly, the Jubilee year is also the first year of the next shemitah cycle, so it is not seven years, then a Jubilee year, then another seven. The fiftieth year serves double duty as the beginning of the next cycle. In practical terms, it meant two consecutive years of rest — the seventh year of the shemitah and then the Jubilee year — with no working, only resting. That is a beautiful concept, and honestly only mankind could find a way to ruin it.

Regarding the Courts of Heaven prayer template: the template is in the book, in the chapter right before we get into the Feast of Trumpets, because it leads into the repentance process of receiving righteous, rendered verdicts sealed on Yom Kippur. If you cannot find it, please email me at [email protected] and I will send it to you. If you have not tried the Courts of Heaven approach and you are seeking answers you have not received through your regular prayer life, I would encourage you to give it a sincere, clean shot and see what happens.

Sylvia made the point that if we had been taught these things at an early age they would seem simple, and I agree completely. If we had our theology correct from the beginning — observing God's calendar, His divine appointments — the relationship between Jew and Gentile would look very different. We would be more purified and cleansed, and I believe there would be far less bondage among believers if we were doing some of these things and setting ourselves apart more intentionally. As the Prophet Daniel said, knowledge will increase at the end of the age. That applies to worship, prophecy, the understanding of kingdoms, and biblical prophecy in general. Every generation receives more light than the one before it. Our generation more than our parents', and our children more than us.

Rabbi Jonathan Cahn does a wonderful job. If you have not read his books, I would highly recommend them. He is anointed and has done great work, and he is the one who really brought the mystery of the shemitah to the attention of most of us. I have taken what he has given and added research on the Ottoman Empire, and the correlations are fascinating. The Ottoman Empire fell one hundred years ago on a shemitah cycle. If they fell on the shemitah and are prophesied to rise again, I would assume they will rise on the shemitah as well. That is how God works with the nations — rising and falling on His timetable.

The Euphrates River — the one mentioned in the Bible that is prophesied to dry up — is nearly dried up now. It is having extreme difficulties because of dams built by man. Once again, mankind steps in the way of God and creates disaster. But you are seeing it. You are seeing the Euphrates. You are seeing Turkey and Iran, Israel and Islam. You are seeing the Nile and Egypt experiencing difficulties. All of the major players in biblical prophecy are experiencing the very problems the Bible describes, and you are only going to see those problems increase going forward. That is what the Bible says. It is an amazing time to be alive to witness this — a privilege, an honor, and a blessing. I promise you that many of the biblical prophets themselves would want to be alive at this time to see their writings beginning to come to fulfillment.

This is the season when governments fall and collapse. I am not predicting that any specific parliament will collapse, but this is a time of transition. This is the period when you see World War One, World War Two, the Vietnam War, 9/11 — events of a magnitude you do not normally see outside this transitional period of the shemitah cycle. And there is also the Aftershock. After the shemitah year passes, a wave follows. When you look at the markets right now — the stock market, inflation, gas prices, real estate — you can see that Aftershock building. Interest rates are rising at a rapid pace, and while that is the tool used to slow inflation, it is also a proven way to slow down an economy. Our leaders are between a rock and a hard place. All we did in 2008 was put a large, beautiful Band-Aid on the underlying problem, and eventually math is math and statistics are statistics. If we do not get this under control, we are going to be in serious trouble — not only in America but globally, because all the world's markets are interconnected. You are already seeing China's markets collapse, France, Germany — the world markets are falling — and historically that pressure always moves westward toward America. I am not trying to scare anyone. I am simply saying: pay attention.

God's timing and seasons are real. Kelly mentioned that she was born in a shemitah year, and I think that is genuinely wonderful. Being born on a shemitah year, a Jubilee year, a feast day, or a Sabbath — those are God's divine appointments, and the more we learn to understand how God looks at time, His calendar, His holy days, the more He will communicate to us through them.

Regarding the two-state solution for Israel: this is not a partisan issue — both Republican and Democrat administrations have pursued it, and both are wrong to do so. God is very serious about His land. Bill Koenig, a believer who served in the Bush Administration, documented this in his book *Eye to Eye*. He tracked every president from George Herbert Walker Bush through subsequent administrations and found that every time a sitting president even mentioned the two-state solution or took action against Israel's territorial integrity, a major catastrophe struck American soil within forty-eight hours. The research is phenomenal.

One of the clearest examples: in August 2005, President George W. Bush effectively pressured Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to evacuate Jewish residents from Gaza — land belonging to the tribe of Judah, the Messiah's land. Within forty-eight hours, America was evacuating New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina. It is an eye-for-an-eye principle: what you do to Israel will be done to you. We have to be very careful. It is not the Jewish people's land, ultimately — it is God's land, given to the Jewish people as their inheritance. You do not want to be on the wrong side of that. Hopefully the religious leaders surrounding our presidents will come to understand that you do not mess with God's land.

Another example, and again this is not to be political — both parties are guilty of similar errors. When the Abraham Accord was signed, it was presented as a peace agreement between Israel and surrounding Gulf nations: Oman, Bahrain, and others. But God told Israel not to make covenants with the surrounding nations. Just as those Gulf State leaders were arriving to formalize that agreement...

Regarding the Abraham Accords, hurricane Sally formed out of nowhere in Southern Florida — and that name essentially means Sarah. So you had the Abraham Accords, you had Sarah, you had the Abrahamic Covenant where God promised the land to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants, and now you had Gulf leaders coming over to America to sign the document. Hurricane Sarah came up through the Gulf States, and in my mind it was a warning to the Trump Administration to stay away from the two-state solution he wanted to finalize with Benjamin Netanyahu.

I believe that was one of the major reasons he did not get reelected — because you cannot do those kinds of things. Look at George Bush and Ariel Sharon. Ariel Sharon suffered a very violent end, spending years in the ICU, because he did not stand on God's laws. You can look it up yourself. God is very serious about this. We have to be careful with the two-state solution, and I don't care whether it's Biden, Obama, Trump, or Bush — we are getting nowhere. We must be very careful when it comes to Israel and the dividing of the land.

The book to read on this is *Eye to Eye* by Bill Koenig — K-O-E-N-I-G. It is a fabulous read. I hope he has updated it to include the Obama and Trump years. Check his website for the latest, because it is a fascinating study. It all goes back to covenant theology. This is God's land — the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, the New Covenant. Once we understand that, everything works out much more clearly.

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Regarding prayer for our nation: many prophecy teachers believe America will be destroyed as Mystery Babylon, and yes, we do have a Babylonian spirit operating here. We have a Molech spirit with abortion — people wanting to kill babies, calling evil good and good evil. You do not kill sixty or seventy million children and expect God to simply overlook it. Our land is polluted. It must be cleansed, purified, refined. The Supreme Court did their job, and now it is up to the states. I am not speaking of extreme medical cases — I am speaking of the spirit of Molech that is overtaking our nation and every nation with abortion on its land.

Yet we do pray for grace, and here is what comes to mind: God told Abraham that if he could find ten righteous people in Sodom and Gomorrah, He would not destroy it. Certainly we have ten righteous people on this call. Remember all the good America does — we are the greatest exporter of the Gospel in the history of mankind, and we have harbored the Jewish people, who are the apple of His eye. We have not come against them. "Bless those who bless you, curse those who curse you" — that says it all. America has had great grace, and we must not take it for granted.

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On the current economic situation: the stock market is down, credit markets are seizing, inflation is rising, gas prices are climbing, and wages have not kept pace with everything else. That is a perfect formula for a bad situation. We need to pray for the Lord's will, for wisdom, for instructions, for strategies regarding what may be coming.

Many people — including Orthodox, Messianic, and mainstream Christians — believe that the last fourteen years of the age will mirror Pharaoh's dream: seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. I believe we will have seven good years, then the final seven years of the age. Keep that in mind and pray for knowledge and preparation, because only God knows what is coming down the road.

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Regarding the Courts of Heaven: Linda Castro shared that it has worked for her ministry, Gatekeepers International, in many ways. Again, the template I use is not the point — it is the Word of God, simply organized in a way that has proven effective. Of course the Word of God is going to cut through major things.

As J10 makes clear, God has three judgments described in Jeremiah: pestilence, famine, and the sword. We have already received the pestilence through COVID. I believe the nations are going to be shaken, just as Zechariah 1 says — shaken for the Jewish people to return to the land, and to judge the nations as well.

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Dana referenced Isaiah 63 and Revelation 19, and those are magnificent chapters to read together. Isaiah 63 will occur on the Feast of Trumpets, when Messiah Himself comes. He declares it His day of vengeance — the Day of the Lord — which begins right after the Antichrist's three-and-a-half-year reign ends. It will end on the Feast of Trumpets, and He will come in the twinkling of an eye, just as Paul says.

This is why we must understand the Civil Calendar, because the Civil Calendar counts time from Adam. From Adam to Yeshua was four thousand years — four completed days. From Yeshua to now is nearly two thousand years — two completed days. That equals nearly six thousand years, or six completed days. He will come on the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year, on the Feast of Trumpets, and will reign for one thousand years through to the eight-thousandth year — the Eighth Day — when we inherit eternity.

The seven-day creation account is itself prophetic. That is the only reason Peter and Moses would have written, "A day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day" (2 Peter 3:8; Psalm 90). It was placed in Scripture to give us a prophetic understanding of God's timetable. These are not date-setting exercises — they are exactly what God placed in His Holy Bible through His prophets to enlighten us, to cause us to watch, just as He commanded us in the Gospels.

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Regarding intercession through the Courts of Heaven: yes, you can absolutely intercede for the salvation of family members and friends. Consider Moses, who interceded for the children of Israel multiple times — especially at the giving of the Ten Commandments, and then again on Yom Kippur when forgiveness was sealed with the new tablets. You can take his example and run with it. You can open the books of other people — family members, friends, even your nation if you feel led. When praying petitions for multiple people, you do not repeat the entire prayer for each person. Go through it once, and when you reach the petitions, you can open as many books as you wish. We always pray for the Lord to correct us if we are in any error, so that we can repent and learn.

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This year-long journey through the Courts of Heaven teaching is going to be a beautiful one. I have been through it four years now, and this will be my fifth. We are either ascending or descending Jacob's Ladder — there is no stagnation. We all want to ascend, and we are doing our best to facilitate that spiritual purification.

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The prophetic events unfolding in the Middle East are staggering. From the dethroning of Saddam Hussein in 2003, to the Arab Spring and the revolutions in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, to the civil war in Sudan, to Arabia at war with Yemen, to the situations in Iran and Turkey — what you are witnessing is the final explosion of the Middle East. It takes time for these things to come to fulfillment, but you are seeing the prophecies come to fruition.

We must understand the correct players in Bible prophecy rather than relying on traditions that place the focus on Europe. This is a family war — a Middle Eastern family affair between Isaac and Ishmael, between Jacob and Esau, between Goliath and David, between Yeshua and the Herodian dynasty. It is what the Scriptures call the fishermen and the hunters. It is a family affair over the deed to the land — the real estate of Israel, the Promised Land. That is what the war is about. That is what Satan is about: preventing the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant, the Davidic Covenant, and ultimately the New Covenant — because their fulfillment proves that God is a promise-keeper and not a promise-breaker. These covenants are His sworn, unilateral, unconditional, irrevocable, and everlasting oaths.

The nations people often point to — Russia, China, a European Antichrist, Rome — have no stake in the Temple Mount. None of them have a house of worship on that most contested piece of real estate on earth. But Islam does. Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran — they all care deeply about the Temple Mount, because they have placed a mosque, an abomination, on that sacred ground. This is, at its core, a war between Judeo-Christianity and Islam. All nations will eventually be involved, but as secondary players. The primary players identified by the biblical prophets are found in the Table of Nations in Genesis 9 and 10. Russia is not there. China is not there. America is not there. This is a family affair — Islam against Judaism and Christianity. When you keep those players in their proper place, the Bible reads consistently and coherently.

Greece, for instance, is a peaceful country with no inclination toward war. But Islam is a jihadist movement, and those are literally the people Messiah will be facing when you read the biblical prophets. He comes to fight Egypt, Edom, Bozrah, Lydia — which is Turkey — Lebanon. Every nation he confronts in the prophetic texts is located in the Middle East, and every one of them is a radical Islamic nation today. Rome is mentioned sixteen times in scripture, and not once in the context of destruction at the return of Messiah. But when he returns, he is coming from Bozrah, from Edom, from Arabia — nowhere else. Isaiah 10 through 23, Ezekiel 26 through 32, Jeremiah 46 through 52 — these are all end-of-age prophecies, and every nation named is directly surrounding modern Israel.

For a good resource on this, I recommend Bill Koenig — K-O-E-N-I-G — and his book *Eye for Eye*. Check for an updated edition and his website for more information.

On the question of Israel and the church — and specifically covenant theology — the second chapter of my book, *Cross to the Crown*, covers this in the prerequisites section. The foundation is this: God looks at Israel as his tree. Romans 11 tells us that Gentiles are grafted into that tree. Ephesians 2:11–13 says that Gentiles, who were once strangers to the covenants, are now, through the blood of Christ, brought into the Commonwealth of Israel — not the Commonwealth of the church, but the Commonwealth of Israel. Both Jew and Gentile are grafted into Israel's tree, because Israel belongs to God.

Think of it like the calendar. The calendar was given to the Jewish people by God, but they did not create the sun and moon — God did. He gave the calendar to the Jewish people so they could pass it on to all of us. The feast days work the same way. People call them the Jewish feasts, and yes, the Jewish people have stewarded them, but in Leviticus 23 God says twice that these are his festivals — not theirs. He gave them to the Jewish people to give to all of us.

This is all about God. It is all about Elohim, the Great I Am, the Ancient of Days, the God of Israel — for Jew and Gentile alike. Both parties who believe in Yeshua are blessed to inherit these covenants and all the beautiful promises that come with them.

I also recommend Joel Richardson's book *When a Jew Rules the World*. He walks through the covenants in his own way and does a remarkable job explaining the relationship between the church and Israel. This is also where replacement theology becomes so dangerous. Replacement theology is the belief that the Gentile church has replaced Israel in the covenants. I will say plainly: it is satanic and demonic. The reason I say that is because it calls God a liar — it claims he will not fulfill his promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David in their descendants. That is a serious charge against the character of God.

Replacement theology also affects worship. In the Millennial Kingdom, Gentiles will not be celebrating Easter and Christmas while Jewish believers keep the feast days — that is a two-state solution within the body, and it is not going to happen. We will all worship in spirit and in truth. The man-made traditions the Gentile church inherited are not in the Bible. The dates are not in the Bible. They come from Constantine, not from Scripture. What is in the Bible are God's appointed times — his festivals in Leviticus 23, ordained for all of us, Jew and Gentile, as one new body and one new man. One day we will all stand before the King, and we will give an account for the manner in which we worshiped. I want to stand on the biblically ordained festivals, not on the traditions of mankind.

There is no question that Islam is the defining threat we face at the End of the Age. Muhammad essentially took the biblical seven-year cycle — the period leading up to the Antichrist — and twisted it. The Islamic world will look at their Mahdi as their savior. We recognize him as the Antichrist. Muhammad has deceived the Muslim people by distorting the scriptures. Islam is the greatest single blasphemy against the Holy Scriptures. Everything we call holy, they call unholy — the crucifixion, the Virgin Mary, the Virgin birth, the Holy Trinity — all of it they call blasphemy. They are the direct, defiant threat we face today, and they are the nations Messiah himself will be fighting at the Second Coming.

I was born again on November 2nd, 2014. Everything in that book represents eight years of what the Lord was doing in my life — things I did not fully understand at the time, but which gradually came together into a coherent picture. If even one person gets a paradigm shift from reading it, then it was worth writing. I don't claim to know everything, and I never will. I am simply doing my best to understand how to worship correctly, to purify myself, to break off any bondage or weakness, and to live the purest life I possibly can in service to God's kingdom.

It has not been easy. My family and friends can tell you it has been a very hard road. But I would not trade it for anything — if you had known me eight years ago, you would understand why.

This channel is meant to be a fellowship — an open platform where everyone can share what the Lord is putting on their heart. Not one person has all revelation. All glory belongs to Yeshua alone. Please share freely, offer wisdom, edify one another. I have learned a great deal from people in the chat, and I am grateful for every contribution.

I have known Joe and Fai from Frontier Alliance International, along with Dalton Thomas, for about seven years now. I went with them on a prophecy and military tour of Israel, and it was a wonderful experience. Joel Richardson's books are timely and prophetically sharp — I especially recommend *The Islamic Antichrist*, which was one of the early works that helped move people away from the Roman Empire Antichrist model and toward recognizing the Middle Eastern Antichrist clearly presented in Scripture.

Replacement theology is particularly dangerous in Europe and America. It must be confronted and corrected, because at its roots it is anti-Semitic. The simplest way to put it is this: it calls God a liar. It says he will not fulfill the covenants he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And that is where it must be opposed — clearly, directly, and on the basis of the covenants themselves.

One viewer posted "MIGA — Make Iran Great Again," and I just had to laugh at that one.

Shalom, Donna — you are absolutely correct. This is a conflict between two brothers: Ishmael and Isaac, Jacob and Esau. Islam views both Ishmael and Esau as the firstborn sons, so yes, this is fundamentally a Middle Eastern affair.

The Ten Kings will be located in the Middle East and North Africa. We know this because Daniel 11:43 names Egypt, Sudan, and Libya as nations the Antichrist will conquer — called out by name. Then when Turkey rises to its supreme position, it will break into four horns, and horns represent kings, giving us four kings coming out of the Turkey-Iraq-Syria region. Add the three in North Africa and you have seven of the ten. We can be confident the remaining three will also be in the Middle East and North Africa.

Just as Donna said, this is a family affair — brothers against brothers. The Ten Kings will not be scattered across continents. There is no Biblical scripture that supports that. Go to Daniel 8, Daniel 7, Daniel 2, and Revelation 13 — these all align. The Ten Kings will be drawn from the table of nations in the Middle East and North Africa. Secondary nations — America, Russia, China, Japan, Europe, Australia — will all be involved, but the primary players will be Islamic. That flows directly into Psalms 83 and Ezekiel 38–39. If you go to the table of nations and can show me America, Britain, or Europe named in those prophetic scriptures in context, please feel free to email me at [email protected].

Europe is not mentioned in prophetic destruction whatsoever. What is mentioned is Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq — the Middle Eastern and North African nations. Messiah himself will be fighting them at his Second Coming and throughout the Millennial Kingdom.

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Wanda, that is a perfect way to describe it — perhaps you should write the introduction. She described the title *From the Cross to the Crown* this way: she senses a revelation of one dying to the flesh and to man-made traditions, and as we cross over we experience what Jesus did — resurrection out of the natural man. I could not have written anything more beautiful than that. That is exactly right. We have to die to ourselves. It is like the Hebrew letter tzadi — a humble man bent over in prayer, being purified and refined — and then in due time the Lord lifts him up to the upright tzadi, the final form of the letter. The cross, then humility, then the crown. We are lifted up to receive crowns we do not deserve, but through his grace we do. Thank you, Wanda. That is deeply inspiring.

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Right now, today, is Elul 29 — the last day of the month of Elul, the day before the Feast of Trumpets. God's day begins at sundown, so we have entered Elul 29.

Let me ask you something as we close out this service: where do you want to be one year from now? Whether you are at the highest point you have ever been with the Lord, somewhere in the middle, or at the very bottom going through trials and tribulations — I believe that if you commit to spending one year with the Lord on his calendar, you will be a completely different person by the time we reach Elul 29 next year.

You do not have to do it with me. Do it for yourself, between you and him. Follow his divine appointments — the new moons, the Sabbaths, the feast days. The Holy Spirit will communicate with you in supernatural ways that are phenomenal. If we do our part — if we humble ourselves, purify ourselves, repent, and follow his ways and commandments — the Holy Bible promises you will be the head and not the tail, blessed going in and blessed going out, with victory over your enemies.

I am not trying to sell you anything. The book is free. What I want to do is provoke you and encourage you to go on this journey with the Lord. It is in your private time — in meditation, in prayer, receiving the revelations and anointings of each month, the constellation anointing, the Hebrew letters, the tribes — that you will grow the most. Set yourself apart according to what he loves.

So my question to you, in love, is simply this: where do you want to be a year from now? That is not a long time. What a difference a year makes. I guarantee you it will be a year none of us ever forget — not because of anything we do, but because of God. If we align ourselves with him and begin worshiping him on his set-apart times, who would not want to be part of the divine performance of the Lord?

Go on the journey. Through the book, or not — it does not matter. Go on the journey with the Lord, and I guarantee he is going to knock your socks off. Your blessings, your gifts, your anointings will overtake you, just as Deuteronomy promises.

Yes, we are saved by grace through faith — of course we are. But he still wants obedience. "If you love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). And Revelation 22:14: "Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter through the gates into the city." From Genesis to Revelation, he calls us to obedience. Because we are saved by grace, we should be good children — not keeping his commandments because we have to, but because we love to, because he loved us enough to die on the cross for us.

When Yeshua said "keep my commandments," the New Testament had not yet been written. He was pointing his disciples to the Hebrew scriptures — to Torah, to the Prophets, to the Psalms. That is where he taught from. That is where the disciples taught from. That is where Paul taught from. The New Testament, written afterward, beautifully confirms everything in Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms. Take it all in context together.

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Thank you for joining us tonight. I know this has been a three-hour episode — I could go on for another couple of hours, but it is getting late on Eastern time.

Tomorrow night we step into the Feast of Trumpets. Please join us tomorrow at 8:00 PM Eastern for the Feast of Trumpets, the new moon of Tishri, and the beginning of a new seven-year cycle. I hope to see you all there.

Rest easy tonight. May God bless you with sweet dreams and whatever spiritual gifts he has set apart for you. Shalom, friends. We love you very much. Many blessings.