Yah’s Time & Seasons - The New Biblical month (4th month - Tammuz)

Shalom, friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. Thank you for joining us tonight as we welcome the new month, the fourth month of the biblical calendar, to sanctify and go through the anointings of the month. If you're not familiar with the month of Tammuz, or the fourth month of the biblical calendar, I'll try to explain it as we go. It's a very important month for all of us to understand, coming right after the Feast of Shavuot.

As you can see on the biblical calendar, this is the fourth month from Nissan, just as Exodus 12 commands us to observe. In the first month, we had Passover, when Yeshua was crucified for all our sins. He was laid in the tomb on Unleavened Bread and rose three days later during Unleavened Bread on the Feast of Firstfruits. After the Feast of Firstfruits, or Resurrection Day for the Messiah, the journey doesn't stop. We have a 50-day count to the Feast of Shavuot, which is in the month of Sivan. The entire month of Iyar is a divine appointment for us to count with Elohim and Yeshua throughout the month on the 50-day journey to the Feast of Shavuot.

The month of Tammuz, as we will see in the scriptures and the anointings of the calendar, is the gateway to the summer months. It is a trajectory that Yah wants us on throughout the year, beginning in Nissan with the remembrance of Passover, Unleavened Bread, the resurrection, and then the 50-day purification journey we've talked about often on the channel. Then we find ourselves at the Feast of Shavuot.

What happened at the Feast of Shavuot? Most of us are familiar with this: the Torah was given, and the blessed Holy Spirit was poured out. This is super important when we look at the trajectory of the calendar and what Yah is trying to tell us. Unfortunately, many Christians think it's over after Passover or Shavuot, but on God's calendar, the journey continues with different anointings.

Once we get to Shavuot, remember Moses was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights right after Shavuot, receiving the tabernacle instructions. We can read this in Exodus 25 to Exodus 32. He was on Mount Sinai receiving the Torah and the instructions for the tabernacle. We all know what happened: they worshiped the golden calf. On the 40th day, Moses came down. That was on Tammuz 17th.

This month, this trajectory from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th, the first set of 40 days, is very important to evaluate. What we went through with Passover, Firstfruits, and the purification journey throughout that journey to Sivan and Shavuot, now is a time of testing. Now is the time to remember what Yah delivered us from, to be in obedience to Him on the Sabbath, the new moon festival, the feast days, and in morality. Tammuz, and also the month of Elul, the month of repentance, are really testing months to see what we have learned and about our obedience from the first three months. Every year it goes through this cycle.

When we look at the months of Tammuz and Elul, the three summer months before the Feast of Trumpets, these are very testing months. The month of Tammuz, the fourth month, is about our eyesight. Every anointing will be about our eyesight – "eyes to see," as Yeshua said. The next month is about our ears, about hearing – "eyes to see, ears to hear," going back to Yeshua. And then the sixth month, Elul, is the month of repentance.

We come through this festival season from Nissan to Shavuot, Passover to Shavuot, with purification, remembrance of the Messiah, His sacrifice on the cross, crucifixion, resurrection, and then the 50-day purification journey, the counting of the Omer, where we tune into Adonai to see what He has for us individually, what we can improve on, repentance, breakthroughs, etc. Then, 40 days from that begins Tammuz 17th, a very important day.

This is a transitional month from the spring and early summer months to the summer and fall months of Tammuz, Av, and Elul. By the time we get to Tishrei, everyone will have a better understanding of these first six months and how they lead into the seventh month.

Again, the month of Nissan is Passover, crucifixion, resurrection, Unleavened Bread. We start counting the Omer, purification, all the way through the month of Iyar, and then we get to Shavuot, which is early Sivan. Then we are tested with our eyesight and our ears, to see if we have eyes to see and ears to hear, as Yeshua said, personally, prophetically, biblically. That's the testing that comes with that. The purification journey continues through the fourth month, the sixth month, to the Feast of Trumpets, where the verdicts are given. God wants us to purify ourselves so we can get the righteous rendered verdict at the Feast of Trumpets when the books are open to all of mankind, including the nations.

Months eight through twelve have a different kind of anointing. You don't have many major feast days, only some minor ones, but not major divine appointments. This is very interesting when you look at the biblical calendar. Why is it important? Because the scriptures align to the calendar. The anointings on the calendar are through the scriptures, through Israel's purification journey from Exodus to Sinai. It's through Israel's disobedience, why they were destroyed twice with the month of Tammuz and Av, to remember why the temples were destroyed due to disobedience, so that our temple is not destroyed. We can't just look at it for the Israelis; we can look at it from our own temples. We are the temple of Elohim, and for what purpose? So that we are not destroyed. There's a personal application to the calendar, as well as a prophetic understanding, and to pray for Israel and the Jewish people.

The trajectory of the biblical calendar will blow replacement theology out of your mind, and you will be in alignment with Yah, with your Savior Yeshua, and with the scriptures on the purification and cleansing we must have, because He is coming for a spotless bride. He wants all of us to be purified, to go on a purification journey. That's why I call the biblical calendar "The Cross to the Crown," a spiritual purification journey through God's divine appointments.

Many of you have been with us on this journey for a year, six months, or a couple of years, and you can testify what Yah has done in your lives by being obedient to Shabbat, the new month, and the divine appointments. Then comes the purification journey. It's a fascinating cycle. I've gone through it for 12 years now and continue to do so, because of the purification and anointings that come with it, and the discipline of being in the calendar.

These first six months are powerful and will change your life forever by being in alignment with Passover, Unleavened Bread, the Omer count, the pouring out of the Holy Spirit, and the Torah being given on the same day, and then that 40-day journey.

On Shavuot, Moses went up Mount Sinai for 40 days. You can read this in Deuteronomy 9. He was on the mountain for 40 days. Set number one, he came down on Tammuz 17th. From Shavuot to Tammuz 17th is 40 days. He came back down, Exodus 32, the golden calf. Then he went back up to repent for the people the day after and came back down on Elul 29, 40 days later. That was the second set of 40. He went up repenting for the Israelites. There was no reassurance. Then he came down. Then he went back up one more time on Elul 1st, the month of repentance, and came down on Yom Kippur, 40 days later. So there are three sets of 40. We are in that first set of 40, going from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th. Then from Tammuz 18th to 29th will be another 40 days. And then Elul 1st to Tishrei 10th, Yom Kippur. Moses said, "I'm going to go back up and see if I can make atonement for you," which leads to the Day of Atonement. That's the reason Moses did not receive any guarantees during the second set of 40, because it wasn't Yom Kippur yet. They had to go through the month of repentance, Elul, and the first 10 days of Tishrei. That's when Moses came down with the new tablets. They started building the tabernacle from what he received on the first set of 40. The first set of 40, he received the tabernacle instructions, but they didn't start building it until after Yom Kippur.

This is phenomenal when we look at the trajectory the Israelites were on. I believe we can have that same personal understanding. Please keep it in context so we can get the righteous rendered verdict on the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur. These are prophetic and historic, but also personal. Many people have received breakthroughs by going through the biblical calendar.

The trajectory of the first seven months is extremely important for a purification journey for someone who wants breakthroughs with prayers, deliverance, healing, etc. The first seven months are really important for someone's trajectory to head to Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets.

We are in the fourth month, a very transitional month to the summer months. The first three months are from spring to early summer. Here we go with the gateway to the dog days, the really hot summer months. These are very important to dive into and pray into. It's for the Jewish people, but also for believers in Yeshua to get the anointings from the scriptures through the calendar. The calendar is based upon the scriptures. It's important for that to be in someone's theology because of the breakthroughs and purification.

Why were Israel destroyed twice on the same day? The ninth day of Av, the temples were destroyed. These are important questions, not just if you love the Jewish people, but for ourselves, because we have the temple of God within us. He wants our temple to be clean and holy and to follow Him in the righteous ways He has ordained.

The whole goal is to get people to follow Yah on His times and seasons. It will change your life forever. It will change your marriage, your family, your church, your synagogue with Yeshua. It starts with being set apart. Being set apart is a key concept for all of us to understand. We have to be set apart from the world. Sometimes, if we evaluate ourselves, are we really set apart? We can all get caught up in the world. We have to be careful what we do, where we attend, who our friends are, what church or synagogue we go to. We have to have that in our mindset, in our heart posture, that we are set apart believers, following Yah, believing in Yeshua, observing all the feast days, new moons, and Sabbaths. We cannot be tainted with the world.

This is where it was first mentioned, ironically, at Mount Sinai on Shavuot. This is the first time you see the terminology of being set apart, or being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. You don't see that before Exodus 19. Exodus 20, they are at the base of Mount Sinai, about to receive the instructions of Adonai. He wanted them to be set apart. Exodus 19 is a pivotal chapter to understand what Yah said.

Exodus 19:6 says, "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." And verse 9 says, "Moses, I will make the set apart believers believe you, the Torah, forever." Forever means forever. As believers, as Christians, we need to understand we've got to get back to Torah, back to the feast days, back to Sabbath, back to the new month.

Yeshua said in John 5, "If you don't believe in Moses, then you won't believe someone who rose from the dead." He was talking about himself. If you're not going to believe Moses, you're not going to believe Yeshua. This is extremely important to understand. To be set apart is following Yah's commandments, the testimony of Yeshua and the word of God. Revelation says, "Those who love me and keep my commandments."

Unfortunately, today, Jewish people need to cross over to Yeshua, and Christians need to cross over to the commandments. Both parties need to come to the middle. Yeshua makes it clear in John 14:15, Matthew 23, Matthew 5, Mark 7, Revelation 22:14-16, everywhere in the Holy Bible, "Those who love me and keep my commandments."

1 Peter 2:7-10 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 wonderful, marvelous light." Peter is just going off of the revelation of Moses. The New Testament writers are not going to be rogue; they are going to follow what Yeshua told them and to follow Moses.

What sets us apart and makes us holy? God makes us holy. We try to make ourselves holy by our interpretation of the scriptures instead of reading what the prophets, Moses, Yeshua, and all the writers have told us. Psalm 43 says, "Know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself." Leviticus 27-8 says, "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep my statutes and do them, for I am the Lord who sanctifies you." The Lord will sanctify us. He will take us through this purification journey.

Part of that journey is the biblical calendar, to be purified, refined, and to understand how this flows into the scriptures of being set apart. It's not just about morality; it's about worship. Our Christian friends don't understand that it's about worship. His ways of worship are about Him. We have no right to tell Yeshua how we're going to worship Him with all these other pagan things. We have to get on His way. We have to get back to the foundations of the faith, following the commandments of His Father.

The first three months are from spring to early summer. Then we have the gateway to the dog days, the really hot summer months. These are very important to dive into and pray into. It's for the Jewish people, but also for believers in Yeshua to get the anointings from the scriptures through the calendar. The calendar is based upon the scriptures. It's important for that to be in someone's theology because of the breakthroughs and purification.

Why were Israel destroyed twice on the same day? The ninth day of Av, the temples were destroyed. These are important questions, not just if you love the Jewish people, but for ourselves, because we have the temple of God within us. He wants our temple to be clean and holy and to follow Him in the righteous ways He has ordained.

The trajectory of the first seven months is extremely important for a purification journey for someone who wants breakthroughs with prayers, deliverance, healing, etc. The first seven months are really important for someone's trajectory to head to Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets.

We are in the fourth month, a very transitional month to the summer months. The first three months are from spring to early summer. Here we go with the gateway to the dog days, the really hot summer months. These are very important to dive into and pray into. It's for the Jewish people, but also for believers in Yeshua to get the anointings from the scriptures through the calendar. The calendar is based upon the scriptures. It's important for that to be in someone's theology because of the breakthroughs and purification.

Genesis 1:14-16 says, "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." The calendar is for signs – blood moons, solar eclipses. The seasons are the divine appointments, the feast days. The days are the Sabbath, new moon, feast days. The years are the Shmita year or Jubilee year. If you understand the signs and seasons and the days and years of the biblical calendar, you're going to flow. You won't be caught as a thief in the night because you'll know what time it is.

The new moon commandment is first mentioned in Exodus 12:2, "This is your first month." That's when the biblical calendar was ordained. The first commandment the Israelites received was about the new moon. Psalm 81:3-4 says, "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob."

This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob. If we're in the commonwealth of Israel, we need to worship like Israel. One Torah for the citizen and the stranger. Ephesians 2 says that we are in the commonwealth of Israel. Galatians 3:26-29 says, "If you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham."

Yeshua said over and over again in the Gospels, "Follow the commandments." Christians don't follow the commandments. Who has the authority to tell the Father in heaven that His commandments are no longer valid? That is blasphemy.

Psalm 104:19-21 says, "He appointed the moon for divine appointments." The seasons are the feast days. The moon dictates the months. The sun dictates the days.

1 Samuel 20:5 shows King David's prominence on the new moon festival. It was a big celebration. The Davidic covenant promises David that a seed will rule on his throne forever. Matthew 1 says, "Seed of David, seed of Abraham," trying to get the Jewish people to understand that He is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants.

Ezekiel 46:1 says, "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be open, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened as well." The new moon festival is that important.

Isaiah 66:22-24 says, "For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me, says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come to pass from one new moon to another, from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, says Adonai."

The month of Tammuz is a month about sight. Let us guard our eyes, spiritual and physical, so we are not deceived. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

The prophet Ezekiel testifies about an idol called Tammuz. Elohim allows this month to be called Tammuz so Israel remembers its Babylonian exile and captivity. The word of Elohim was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Nehemiah, Ezra, Zechariah, and Esther all used these Babylonian names.

Two events occurred in the month of Tammuz when people's eyes were off of Elohim:

1. Exodus 32:5: The golden calf. Israel set their eyes on the calf instead of God.

2. Numbers 13-14: The 12 spies were sent out. 10 brought back a bad report because their eyes deceived them with fear.

The tribe of Reuben's name means "sight," which parallels the anointing of the month. Reuben's sight failed him when he committed adultery with Bilhah, his stepmother. However, he returned to Yah, initiating repentance.

The anointing of the month of Tammuz is judgment, good or bad respectively. It is good for believers obeying Elohim's commandments and bad for those who are not. Tammuz became a month of judgment because Israel rejected Elohim's ways and went after the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

The Hebrew letter of the month is "Het," which means "gate." This month opens up the summer months. Tammuz is the gateway to the rest of the summer months leading to the Feast of Trumpets.

The constellation of the month is Cancer, the crab, which substantiates the anointing of sight. The crab has big eyes for navigating through murky water, symbolizing the need for us to use our spiritual eyes to understand Elohim's will and purpose.

The three weeks of sorrow commence on Tammuz 17th and end on the ninth day of Av. These three weeks commemorate the sin of the golden calf and culminate on the ninth day of Av, when both temples were destroyed.

The anointing of the month of Tammuz is judgment. It is good for believers obeying Elohim's commandments and possibly bad for those who are not. As we will discover, Tammuz became a month of judgment because Israel rejected Elohim's ways and went after the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.

May Elohim grant us favor with our spiritual eyes while guarding and protecting them from evil. May His anointing of sight open our eyes to worship in spirit and in truth, walking in His ways and on His path as He leads us into our spiritual purification journey. Amen and Hallelujah.