Yah's Times and Seasons - The New Biblical Month & Year

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 and also the new biblical year. It is a double anointing tonight — we are entering both a new month and a new year, which falls on the month of Nissan. This is the first month of the biblical calendar and also the first month of the biblical new year.

If you haven't been with us before or are unfamiliar with this, we follow a calendar in which we are currently at Nissan one. Some call this first month Nissan; others call it Aviv or Abib. We are now in the first month of a new biblical cycle, and that opens up a great deal of revelation and anointing.

We just finished the month of Adar at sunset. Now we are entering month number one of the biblical calendar, according to Exodus 12:1-2. This is a new biblical cycle — new beginnings, a new wineskin, a new life — and a season to engage more deeply with everything you have been praying for. This is a beautiful time to look for righteous rendered verdicts to be delivered. We have entered a very strong season of deliverance for believers, beginning with the month of Adar and the Festival of Purim, and continuing into the Exodus from Egypt, Passover, and the month of Nissan. These give us a deep understanding of the anointings of deliverance during these two months, and moving forward into the third month, which is the month of Sivan.

This is a very powerful time. Certain months carry more power than others for deliverance, for blessing, and for judgment — good or bad, depending on the behavior of individuals or nations. As we consider the trajectory we have been on through the biblical cycle of Exodus 12:1-2, it is also important to understand that the Feast of Trumpets begins the civil calendar.

Looking at the calendar: month number one is Nissan, from Exodus 12:1-2, where God told Moses, "This is your first month." However, before Moses, going back to Adam, the first month was Tishri. That is where the Shmita cycle, the Jubilee year, and many other things are rooted — all beginning from Tishri. But God told Moses in Exodus 12:2 that Nissan is the first month for the covenant people. That is why we follow the biblical cycle beginning with the first month, from which we count the months and the feast days. God told us to count the months and the days from the month of Nissan, not from Tishri, for the religious and biblical calendar.

I always explain this because there are two calendars, and we need to understand both for different reasons. The civil calendar was established when Adam was created, and the whole world operated on it. It began in the month of Tishri — Tishri one was when Adam was created, corresponding to the Feast of Trumpets. This is very important because when dealing with biblical prophecy, you must work from Tishri one, since that is how the years are counted. You cannot count from the Exodus calendar when interpreting biblical prophecy, because doing so would cut off approximately 2,000 years — the period from Adam to Moses. We must go back to the original calendar, the civil calendar, the Tishri calendar, Adam's calendar, in order to understand the six days and the 6,000 years, and the two days and the 2,000 years from the first coming to the second coming. That reckoning must begin from Adam, not from Moses.

At the same time, God told Moses in Exodus that for the covenant believers, Nissan is the first month — the month from which we count the feast days and align ourselves with the rhythm he has appointed. The two calendars do not negate one another; they work together. Most who have been with us on this channel understand this, because we regularly work with biblical prophecy and must return to Adam when examining the numbers, the years, and the timetable leading to Yeshua's second coming events and the 6,000 years.

So tonight we are focusing on the biblical calendar of Moses. This is Rosh Chodesh — the new month — and also L'Shanah Tovah — happy new year to everyone. It is going to be an exciting year. We can see a great deal of prophecy being fulfilled, and this year will be no different. It is going to be a fascinating year. We can see what is happening in the Middle East and across the world. Now is the time to truly dive in and be set apart unto what God is calling us to. We must be in alignment with him. If we are in alignment, we will understand what is unfolding. If we understand the calendar, the feast days, the covenants, the table of nations, and the prophecies, we will know exactly what is going on — just as we have discussed with the solar eclipses, the blood moons, the Iran-Israel conflict, and more. He will show us exactly where we are in biblical prophecy.

It all begins with being set apart. We discuss this every new moon: the set-apart believers, the remnant, will always understand what is going on because they are set apart. They understand the calendar, the feast days, and the trajectory that God has laid out in Scripture — not only for their personal lives month by month and year by year, but also prophetically. Being set apart is the appetizer; the dessert is when he shows us these things prophetically. When we worship in the right ways, being set apart, we will also understand Yeshua's second coming events. It is a double anointing — being set apart in the ways of worship, and also being set apart with a proper eschatology of the end of the age.

Eschatology means understanding how the prophecies will unfold at specific times. We must have the right eschatology and the right theology, because that is where we get out of alignment — with Israel, with nations, with the Most High — when we are not tracking with him and not understanding the calendar, the feast days, the covenants, and the table of nations. It all works together to produce proper theology and proper eschatology, especially in the times we are living in today.

The concept of being set apart is first spoken of in the book of Exodus. Exodus 19:6 says, "And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation." This is remarkable — the first time this declaration was made was at Mount Sinai. Exodus 19 takes place at the base of Mount Sinai after the people left Egypt. On day 47 of their journey, they were at the base of the mountain, and Moses told them to set themselves apart for the third day, which was the 50th day of Shavuot, so that they could receive the commandments of Yahweh. They had to be holy and set apart in order to receive what was being given. In Exodus 19:9, God continues, declaring that Moses would be believed forever.

Exodus 19 is one of the most pivotal chapters in the Holy Bible for the set-apart believers, for the one new body, the one new man — for both Jew and Christian alike. God is telling all of us in Exodus 19:6 that whoever loves Yahweh and Yeshua and wants to be in the kingdom of Israel must be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. He spoke this at the base of Mount Sinai, and in Exodus 20, the very next chapter, he gave the Ten Commandments. There is a direct correlation between being set apart and Torah — the Ten Words, the Ten Commandments, and indeed the entire Torah. We cannot be set apart if we are not following the ways of Yahweh, because the ways of Yahweh are what was declared at Mount Sinai, the voice of Yahweh going out to the people, and that has never changed. He is calling all of us to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation by following the ways of the Father, as laid out throughout Exodus 20 and the entire Torah.

Deuteronomy 14:2 follows up on this beautifully. Moses, before he passed away, summarized the Torah and wrote the book of Deuteronomy in 37 days — from Shabbat one to Adar 7 — and it is said he translated it into 70 languages. Deuteronomy 14:2 says: "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." In the summary of the Torah, Moses followed up on the initial declaration of Exodus 19:6 to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, and he then sets forth the blessings and the curses in Deuteronomy 28 through 30.

Now, going to the New Testament, we can see whether anything changed, or whether the same ordinance and commandment to be set apart as a kingdom of priests and a holy nation continues. Revelation 1:5-6 records the Apostle John saying: "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..."