The Feast of Yom Kippur (2025) - The Day of Atonement & Courts of Heaven Prayer

my name is Chadwick Harvey and you've reached Faithful Performance. Thank you for joining us tonight on this Memorial Day evening. Happy Memorial Day to everyone out there, and thank you for joining us as we bring in the new moon celebration of the third month. As we know in the scriptures, God's days begin in the evening at sundown and continue to the next sundown. We appreciate everybody joining us tonight — both those watching live and those watching on the replay — as we bring in this third month on God's calendar.

If you've been with us over the last couple of months, you know what I'm talking about. We've walked through the month of Nisan, then the month of Iyar, and now we're entering into the month of Sivan, which is so important. As we go through what God has ordained in his months, we'll be covering the Hebrew letters, the constellation of the month, and the tribe of the month. I want to thank God bless America, and thank you to all the soldiers, men and women, who have sacrificed their lives so that we have the freedoms we have today.

My friends, we've entered into such an important time as we go through this new year. It began two months ago with the month of Nisan and Passover — with Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection — then last month we continued through Iyar, the connecting month from Nisan to Sivan. We also went through the understanding of the Omer in that last video, and we'll get into that again this month, because we are still in the counting of the Omer. If you're not familiar with that, we will walk you through it to help you understand where we are on God's calendar, his divine appointments, and all of these beautiful things.

Again, we appreciate you joining us. I want to begin as we always begin, and if you've been with us some of this may be repetition, but I think it's so important for all of us to go through it every month. It all begins, my friends, with being set apart. We've mentioned this so many times in our videos: the set-apart God and the set-apart Spirit wants his set-apart believers to be on his set-apart times. That includes his calendar, his holidays, the festivals, the divine appointments of the Lord, and the Sabbaths. He wants us to be on all of these — and that includes the new moon celebration we are celebrating tonight.

This matters not only now, but also when we look at the millennial kingdom and into eternity. How important the new moon celebration is to him. He wants us to be set apart, to be a light to unbelievers and even to believers who do not celebrate these beautiful divine appointments. God wants to be intimate with all of us and to give us the revelation he has ordained — not ordained by mankind, but ordained by him.

We find this first and foremost at Mount Sinai, which we are about to celebrate with Shavuot, or Pentecost, coming up in about six days. I will be doing a video on Shavuot — please join us, it will be live, and I'd love to celebrate that feast of the Lord with you. We are about to celebrate both the giving of the Torah and the outpouring of the blessed Holy Spirit, which happened on the same day. It is totally amazing how God has ordained all of these things together.

We first read about being set apart in Exodus 19:6. This is what the Lord declared to the children of Israel and the mixed multitude — both Jew and Gentile — at Mount Sinai. He said, "You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." In Deuteronomy 14:2, we see the same language: "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth." This also applies to Gentiles who believe in the God of Israel, as we find in 1 Peter 2:7–10.

Peter says: "Therefore, to you who believe, he is precious, but to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they were also appointed." It's important to understand this was written after Jesus's resurrection. God still wants us to be obedient to the word. Yes, we are saved by grace through faith — but because we are saved by grace through faith, he wants us to be good children and be obedient to his commands. As he says in John 14 and 15, "If you love me, keep my commandments." He is the one who defines whether we love him, and the measure is whether we do his commandments.

Peter continues: "But you are a chosen generation" — just as God declared at Mount Sinai, just as Moses confirmed in Deuteronomy — "a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." That is Messiah Yeshua, Jesus. "Who were once not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy through the blood of the Lamb." And that mercy does not withdraw the call to keep the commandments — we still keep them, even though we are saved by grace through faith.

In Revelation 1:6 it says: "To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and has made us kings and priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen."

My friends, I always start with this because he wants us to be set apart. When we look at the body of Christ today, unfortunately, we are not set apart. The church looks like the world — filled with man-made traditions and the oral traditions of men. Just as Messiah confronted the Jewish leadership, the Pharisees and Sadducees, in Matthew 23, I believe he would confront Gentile leaders today in the same way, because we too have traditions of man that are not according to the holy Bible. He wants us to be separated — set apart by the set-apart Spirit, the set-apart God, the set-apart holy days, the Sabbath, the new moon, and the divine appointments. He wants us to be set apart for him so that we can be a light to others.

Now that we know he wants us to be set apart, who makes us holy? Do we make ourselves holy, or does God make us holy? Of course, we all agree that God is the one who makes us holy. We read this in Psalm 4:3: "But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself" — again, that set-apart language. In Leviticus 20:7–8: "Consecrate yourselves therefore and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep my statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you." And in Leviticus 20:26: "You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine."

My friends, it is so important to understand that God is the one who has ordained what is set apart, what is holy, and what is unholy. We cannot call what is holy unholy, nor can we call what is unholy holy. He has ordained that, and we must be on his set-apart days. The new moon celebration tonight is one of those times where he wants to be intimate with us and have us recognize the creation he has ordained for all of us to be a part of. It is such a beautiful thing.

If you've been on the new moon celebration and understand the revelation and anointing of each month, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't — welcome. Get onto these beautiful times of the Lord and he will bless you, lift you up, and you will receive great revelation. Being on his calendar, his times, his seasons, is so unbelievable. We've been doing this in our videos for around two or three years now, and I'm going to write a book on the times and seasons of the Lord and the revelation that comes — the prayers that are answered according to his seasons. Yes, he can answer prayers at any moment on the calendar, but there are specific anointings to each month, and it is so amazing to go on that journey with the Lord. The revelation he gives through dreams, visions, or however that looks for each believer — it is truly amazing.

It all starts with God's calendar. If we understand God's calendar, we are going to understand so many beautiful things in the holy Bible. Unfortunately, the body of Christ today is largely not on God's calendar. We follow the Roman calendar, which is a great scientific calendar, but it is based upon the sun alone. God's calendar is based upon two great witnesses — the sun and the moon. Those are the prerequisites. That calendar today is the Hebrew, or Jewish, calendar.

We read this in Genesis 1:14–16: "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 — the sun — and the lesser light to rule the night — the moon — and he made the stars also." Right out of the gates of creation, God established his calendar, and the prerequisites are the sun and the moon. Many people call it the Jewish calendar or the Hebrew calendar, which it certainly is, but this is God's calendar. He is the one who created the sun and the moon, not mankind.

What is so interesting about the word "seasons" in that passage is that the Hebrew word is *moed*, which means a divine appointment — a fixed time, an appointed time. What God is telling us is that Messiah Yeshua, Jesus, is going to have appointed times based upon his calendar. And what is also remarkable is that in Leviticus 23, which contains the feast days of the Lord, that word for "feast" is the same word — *moed* — a divine appointment. So what God is telling us is this: his sun-and-moon calendar and Jesus's divine appointments — his first and second coming events — are bound together. We have to understand the calendar, we have to understand the feast days — the divine appointments of the Lord — and then the Gospels, the New Testament writings, the prophets, everything will make perfect sense.

This comes from understanding three foundational truths of the scriptures: the calendar, the feast days, and the covenants that God has made. It is so beautiful. He is telling us to get on his calendar, to understand these beautiful things he has ordained. And it is such an intimate way — I cannot overstate it — such an intimate way to receive revelation from the Lord in your prayer life and to walk with him on the seasons and times that he has set, not the times that mankind has invented.