Yah's Calendar & The New Biblical Month (12th Month - Adar)/Purim Blood Moon

Shalom, friends. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you've reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we celebrate and proclaim the new biblical month — the 12th month, known today as the month of Adar. It is the last month before we enter a new biblical season, a new biblical year, beginning with the first month, the month of Nissan. So thank you for joining us. If you've been with us throughout the year, you've been tracking where we are on the calendar from Nissan 1 all the way through to Adar 12.

These first seven months are very important when we look at the spiritual purification journey that Yah wants us on. Once we enter the first month, the month of Nissan, we'll be on that trajectory with the purification journey. If you've never been on the journey before, you'll see it unfold from month number one through month number seven, the month of Tishri — a tremendous spiritual purification journey found in the scriptures. It begins the feast season in the first month with Passover and Unleavened Bread, and it culminates in the seventh month with the three festivals: the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles in the fall. If you're just beginning to understand the calendar, that's perfectly fine. The more you go through it, the more understanding you'll gain. If you commit to following the calendar through an entire year, your life will be changed. It serves as an accountability partner, keeping us in alignment with Yah on the special times he has appointed for all of us.

This is about him — about Yeshua. This is Yeshua's calendar, which he will fulfill at his second coming. The times and seasons, the calendar and the feast days of Leviticus 23, are Yeshua's divine appointments, covering both his first and second coming events. This is why we observe them: first, because it is commanded, and second, because we want to be in alignment, to be set apart, and to be tracking with the Most High and what he is doing through Yeshua the Messiah — through the calendar, through the scriptures, through both the historical and prophetic understanding of the scriptures, and through the personal renewal they bring.

When you look at the new moon, it is remarkable — it always renews itself. It is a prophetic symbol of how Yah wants us to renew our lives every month, much like the Shabbat, through which he wants to renew our lives every week. He has given us these beautiful renewal times. This 12th month, the month of Adar, is another such renewal time, the last month before a new biblical year begins with the Exodus, the Passover, and all of these beautiful things.

We need a basic understanding of what Yah is doing on his calendar so we are not caught off guard by the second coming events. We can see the trajectory of his prophecies through the blood moons and solar eclipses, and we can understand what is happening in the Middle East. The signs in the skies align with what is unfolding prophetically. In about 14 days, we will have the final blood moon of the eight — occurring on Purim, during this very month. It is an amazing thing to understand how to read these signs, and it all begins with understanding the calendar. More importantly, it is about being set apart.

As we have discussed many times before, we must be set apart in Yah to understand these things. There is no middle ground — we are either set apart or we are not. There is no lukewarm position, according to the holy scriptures.

We first find this concept of being set apart in Exodus, at Mount Sinai, when Israel was about to receive the Ten Commandments and the Torah on Shavuot — the Festival of Pentecost. This is where the concept first comes into play: at the foot of Mount Sinai, just before they received the Torah, the instructions of Yah, the ways to live, the requirements of being set apart. It is not mentioned in Genesis, nor in the earlier chapters of Exodus. It appears first at Exodus 19:6, where Yah says, "And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." This has everything to do with keeping the commandments, keeping the instructions of Yah — understanding how he wants us to live, how he wants the Jewish people to live, how he wants the one new body and the one new man to live. This was first instituted at Mount Sinai, and we cannot be set apart without following the instructions of Yah.

In Exodus 19:9, Yah tells Moses that he is going to make the people believe Moses forever. So the set-apart believers throughout all of history will believe Moses — Yah himself telling us that if we want to be set apart, we must follow Moses. Yeshua said the same thing. Remember what Yeshua said: if you will not believe Moses, you will not believe someone who rises from the dead. He was speaking about Moses and the keeping of the commandments in the New Testament. All throughout the Bible, it traces back to Exodus 19:6 — to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

Then in Deuteronomy 14:2, Moses, before he passed away — having written the book of Deuteronomy in 37 days — tells the children of Israel one more time: "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 who are on the face of the earth." He is calling for a set-apart people, beginning with the Red Sea crossing and the covenant at Mount Sinai. He wants the believers in Yeshua today to be set apart by following the ways of Yah, as stated in Deuteronomy 14:2. It is worth noting that the book of Deuteronomy ends on Adar 7 — six days from now — and Adar 7 is when Moses was both born and when he passed on to the other side. That is significant when you consider his lifespan broken into three periods of forty years each.

Now let us go to the New Testament to see whether it confirms what Moses wrote. In 1 Peter 2:9, Peter says: "But you are a chosen generation, 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." Even Peter takes us back to the Torah, back to Mount Sinai at Exodus 19:6 — now calling the Gentiles who have been grafted in to come and be set apart, to follow the ways of Yah and not the ways of man. Peter confirms what Moses wrote in both Exodus 19 and Deuteronomy 14:2.

Now, in the last book of the Holy Bible, Revelation 1:6, Yeshua's angel tells the Apostle John: "To him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood has made us kings and priests to his God and Father — to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen." And then Revelation 5:10 concludes this section: "And he has made us kings and priests to our God, and we shall reign on the earth." This is profoundly important. Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 tell us that the Torah will go forth from Jerusalem in the millennial kingdom. If the Torah is going to be sent out, then Yah is going to send his kingdom of priests and holy nation out as well, to help people understand the Torah. We cannot be sent out as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation if we are not keeping the ways of Yah, because that is the standard — that is the requirement, and it is part of the new covenant, part of what it means to believe in Yeshua: keeping his Father's commandments. It is remarkable when we consider that if he is going to send the Torah out in the millennial reign, as Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 declare, he will send his priests out to help the people understand it as well.

Now, returning to the calendar — most of you are familiar with Genesis 1:14. Thank you for your patience as we go through this each month for those who may be joining for the first time. Don't be overwhelmed by all of the details surrounding the calendar. Simply focus on the month we are in, and the broader prophetic understanding will develop once you grasp the basics. As you can see, we are now in month number 12 — the month of Adar, at the top of the clock, so to speak. If you have been with us, you have journeyed through the entire biblical year from Nissan 1 to this closing month, counting from the Exodus. This is truly amazing. For those who have not yet followed the full calendar cycle, if you remain with it through next year at this time, you will be far more informed, educated, and filled with wisdom. The same is true for those of us who have been doing this for multiple years — there is always new revelation that comes with every year and every month.