Genesis, Calendar, and God's Prophetic Timeline

Okay, my friends, now we'll go to Yom Teruah right after this. But I wanted to show you this right here first, as we go through the calendar and the understanding of it. This is in the very beginning of the Holy Scriptures, in Genesis 1. I didn't know this either until about 12 years ago. Because again, Christianity cannot teach us these things. And that's why it's very important to step into these things. Because it's super important, as you will see, my friends. There are foundational principles to read the Holy Bible. As we all know, it's kind of like a table of contents, right? If I give you a book, you're probably not going to go to the back of the book, are you? You're going to go to the front of the book to read it. So, I challenge everybody to start with the front of the book. Don't go to Matthew 1 or "Welcome to Replacement Theology." We've got to go to Genesis 1 to get the calendar. We've got to get the feast days. We've got to understand the covenants. And then we're going to read the Bible very fluid. It's going to be very fluid if we understand how to read it, right? So, we've got to know the times and the seasons. That's going to be throughout the Bible. And we've got to also understand the everlasting covenants. If one's not familiar with that, that is the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. They all work together as one at the second coming event. So, we've got to understand the Abrahamic, Davidic, and New Covenant. And that's why Matthew 1 says, "Seed of David, seed of Abraham." Goodness, why does he say that? That's the first line of the New Testament. Because He's testing our knowledge. He's testing our education. He's want to tell everybody that Yeshua is the seed of David, the Davidic covenant. That He's going to sit on David's everlasting throne. The Abrahamic covenant. He is the seed of Abraham, just like we are as well, like Paul says. Why? Because He's going to rule the promised land. He's going to conquer the promised land for the people. He's the seed of Abraham.

The first sentence of the New Testament is quite significant. Matthew is presenting the genealogy of Jesus, tracing his lineage back to David and Abraham. It's crucial to understand Matthew's intent to avoid falling into replacement theology. The covenants—Abrahamic, Davidic, and the New Covenant—are God's plan of salvation. As Paul states in Galatians 3:26-29, if you are a seed of Christ, you are also a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the Abrahamic covenant, inheriting your portion in the millennial kingdom. The prophet Daniel, at the end of his book, is told to go his way and that he will rise to his allotment at the end of the age.

The biblical calendar is established in Genesis 1:14-18: "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.' And it was so. Then God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good." The sun, moon, and stars were created for timekeeping. Without these celestial bodies, it would be difficult to know the time. The sun marks the days, the moon dictates the months through its cycles and phases, and the stars also contribute to this celestial calendar.

Christianity often follows the Gregorian calendar, which is solely based on the sun and does not meet the prerequisites of Genesis 1:14-18. This is a man-made calendar. We must use the sun, moon, and stars to understand God's calendar. The Hebrew Jewish calendar is the only one that incorporates the sun and the moon, as mandated in Genesis 1:14-18.

The verse also states, "for signs and seasons and for days and years." The Hebrew word for "signs" is "oth," which can refer to celestial events like lunar and solar eclipses. When we see "signs in the sky," such as blood moons, it refers to these eclipses. The Hebrew word for "seasons" is "moed," meaning "divine appointment." These are the feast days, the divine appointments God has set. The translation of "seasons" can be misleading; it's not referring to the seasons of fall, winter, spring, or summer, but to God's appointed times. Leviticus 23 uses the same Hebrew word, "moed," for feasts, emphasizing that these are divine appointments. Both "seasons" in Genesis 1:14 and "feasts" in Leviticus 23 mean "moed," a divine appointment. God correlates His events with His calendar, and these divine appointments are for His Son to fulfill, both at His first and second comings.

The phrase "days and years" also refers to the feast days and the seven-year cycle, or "Schmita cycle," mentioned in Leviticus 25. This is important for understanding the resurrection and the tribulation, as it aligns with the seven-year cycle. We are currently in the fifth year of a seven-year cycle. This understanding implies no pre-tribulation rapture, as we are still here. If one were to believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, the next opportunity would be the Feast of Trumpets in the fall of 2029, when a new cycle begins.