The Biblical Calendar and Exodus Journey

With that being said, I wanted to set that up for everybody and wanted to go through one more understanding before we get to the Sabbath, and we'll celebrate that, and we'll celebrate Yom Teruah, and then we'll go through the scriptures, and then we'll go through the scriptures on the anointings of this month, the beautiful month of the seventh month, which they call Tishrei today. But my friends, if you're not familiar with the calendar, I'm going to try to explain it to you. This is the story of Exodus. When you turn it, when you go to the book of Exodus, from Exodus 12, which is the New Month, the new moon festival, all the way forward to Yom Kippur, it gives you a trajectory all through the book of Exodus. It's a spiritual purification journey. And what I mean by that, I'm going to try to explain it to you. When we look at this calendar, let's look at the first month. And again, this is what the Jewish people call the months. Now, the first month of the biblical calendar is Nisan, as they call it today. That's when Exodus 12 happened. Moses, this is your first month in Exodus 12:1-2. And then what was the next event? Exodus 12, Passover. So, this was the Passover that Jesus had to fulfill as the prophetic understanding of it. He had to do that. So, we go through Passover. We celebrate His crucifixion. Unleavened Bread begins during this time as well, which is a seven-day feast that does include the resurrection on the Feast of Firstfruits. And then we count 50 days from the Feast of Firstfruits to Shavuot, which is the next divine appointment. From another angle, this is what you can look at: Passover, Exodus 12. That's when the children of Israel put the blood on the doorposts and all that, and the angel of death came through and it did not affect them. Then they left on Unleavened Bread. The next day they left Egypt and then went to the Red Sea and all these things. But if you read the foreshadows of Exodus 12, that is what Yeshua was going to fulfill as well. He has to fulfill every jot and tittle of the Torah, including the foreshadows in Exodus 12. So, it gives you a trajectory, my friends. Passover, crucifixion; Unleavened Bread, He was laid in the tomb; Firstfruits, resurrection; He poured out His Holy Spirit on Shavuot. It's really pretty amazing to look at this stuff.

Back to this calendar. So, we're at Shavuot now, which is when the Torah was given, the commandments of God, and also when the Blessed Holy Spirit was poured out. Just like I said, totally amazing. This is a spiritual purification, the 50-day divine appointment from the Firstfruits to Shavuot. He wants you to count with Him every single day for 50 days for purification. Think about what Israel had to do leaving Egypt. They had to be purified because they were in Egypt, just like we're in Egypt right now across the world. Everywhere is Egypt and Babylon and Sodom and Gomorrah right now. So, He wants all the set-apart believers to be set apart and to be purified during this time. And this is a great template of understanding to do that. I mean, I've gone through it for 12 years now. It's totally amazing to go through these things on different levels, different levels each and every year, depending on the relationship you and Yahweh and Yeshua, of course. So, once we get to Shavuot, it doesn't end then. You know, it has a 40-day journey to Tammuz 17. So, Tammuz 17 is when they built the golden calf. And this is a great understanding that once we get purified, once we go through Passover, once we go through the first feast days and we get the revelation at Shavuot and the Blessed Holy Spirit, that He's going to test us. Are we going to go back to our golden calf? Just like Israel went to their golden calf, right after they left Egypt, 50 days, and then 40 days, they built the calf. 90 days from Egypt, they turned back. This is not condemnation; this is understanding for us not to turn back and understand what happened to them. And as we all know, 3,000 people died. And let me make it clear, there's a misunderstanding of that. 3,000 people did not die at Shavuot. 3,000 people died on Tammuz 17th, when they made the golden calf and Moses told the Levites to grab a sword and go do the business. So again, we've got to understand proper understanding, because the 3,000 people did not die when God was giving the instructions to them, because they all said, "Hey, we're going to do everything that You say." So, why would He kill 3,000 people? So again, that's Tammuz 17th, which is the fourth month. And then that begins the three weeks of sorrow. What does that mean? Well, I just said that they built the golden calf on Tammuz 17th. That became a fast day in Zechariah 8 because of what happened, and kind of a cursed day throughout history. But that began an understanding to the ninth day of Av. What's the ninth day of Av? That is the most cursed day in biblical history or Jewish history. If you look at the both temples were destroyed on that one day. And what happened? Well, the second year of the Exodus, they brought back the bad report. Ten spies brought back the bad report, but Joshua and Caleb brought back the good report. Two of them. And they were the ones with their families that went into the promised land, as we all know. And the rest of the people had to go, or they went to the desert for 40 years with the people, but they were the ones who crossed over. All the other people had to die off because of the judgment, because of the lack of faith and belief that God would deliver them with all of the giants in the land. So the ninth day of Av became a cursed day from that point forward, and surely it has been that. But that would conclude the three weeks of sorrow or the dire straits. And what does that mean? That means that we reflect on why He destroyed the temples. Why did He judge the people? Because of idolatry on the golden calf and because of lack of faith with the spies. So we have to understand that's for us as well. This is not something to condemn, but something to reflect on inside so that we don't have our temples destroyed, right? Because we have the temple of God, right? So we have to realize that as well, an overall understanding, but also a personal accountability understanding as well, when we go through the purification of the first month to the seventh month.

So after that, after the three weeks of sorrow or the dire straits, we get to the 15th, which on the calendar it says Tu B'Av, which is the day of love. Isn't that beautiful? So, we go through this purification all the way through that, especially the three weeks of dire straits, when we remember not to go back to our idolatry, not to have lack of faith in Yahweh. And then He gives us a love day. He gives us a love day. You can think of it as Valentine's Day without all the paganism in it. This is God's day, Tu B'Av. And then after the middle of the month of Av, which is the 15th, which is a full moon, by the way, He gives you a day of love, which is pretty amazing. We get into the month of repentance, which is the month of Elul. Again, think about the second coming. Right at the beginning of the second coming, Yom Teruah, we have the month of repentance before that. And I guarantee you, there'll be a month of repentance before Yeshua returns at that time. The last month of the seven-year tribulation, I guarantee you, people are going to be repenting. Most will not, but the remnant will be repenting because of what's happened for seven years before He returns on Yom Teruah. You see how beautiful this is? The month of repentance before He returns on Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, to pour out His wrath for 10 days, everybody. And we're going to show you that during this feast season tonight, and Yom Kippur, and then He will have Revelation 19:11-16 on Yom Kippur. We all come in white with Him, all of us. And we'll go through this on Yom Kippur. And He pours out His final judgment on the world, the antichrist, the beast, and all that. And then five days later, He sets up His millennial kingdom on Sukkot, on the Feast of Tabernacles. And to me, it's pretty mind-boggling and amazing what our Father has created for all of us to understand the times and the seasons, which is very important for all of us to understand. So, my friends, that is the trajectory of a spiritual purification journey. And if you read the book of Exodus, it will carry you from Nisan 1, the first month, Exodus 12, all the way to Exodus 34, which is when He brought back the two tablets on Yom Kippur. What did He say? "I'm going to make atonement for you." The Day of Atonement. So, if one's not familiar with Moses, Moses was up on the mountain. The last 40 days he was up on the mountain was Elul 1 to Tishrei 10. Please, and it's very important, he was interceding for the children of Israel to forgive them for the golden calf, and he did. And then he brought back the two commandments, or the two tablets, and they started building the Tabernacle of God and they set it up on Nisan 1, the next year. My friends, we have to understand the trajectory because the trajectory never ends. Yah is the same yesterday, today, and forever. These are very important months to purify. Some of them are very hard months, to be honest with you. Tammuz and Av are very tough months biblically speaking. I'm not saying that you have to have a tough month, but biblically speaking, the anointing is for us to remind ourselves not to go back into idolatry and paganism and things like that.