Yah's Times & Seasons - The Fast of the Fourth (Tammuz 17) & Moses' Warning to Israel

Shalom friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we explore the fourth month, the fast of the fourth month of the biblical calendar, which is Tammuz 17th, which is tonight. Wherever you may be at sundown, we've entered into this date on the Hebrew calendar. We'll be going through the historical understanding of Tammuz 17th, why it did become a fast day in history. Also, we'll look at it from what it means to you and me personally and also we'll look at it from a prophetic lens as well when we read the account of the golden calf and also the chapters further on that.

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But my friends, we say this all the time: it does begin and it does end on God's calendar. If we understand the biblical calendar and the trajectory of the calendar, then we're going to understand these important dates. And tonight, when we get into it at sundown, wherever you may be, Tammuz 17th, or the fast of the fourth month, is very important.

First and foremost, if one's not familiar with the biblical calendar, that's mentioned in Genesis 1:14-16. God created two great lights, the sun and the moon, and also the stars. And that's the prerequisite for His calendar. We go by the Gregorian calendar, and it's a great scientific calendar, but it's only based upon the sun only; it's a solar calendar. So God is not using that calendar when we're understanding the biblical scriptures. He's using His personal calendar, the one that He created by the sun, the moon, and the stars. So that's point number one that's very important because when we read "the fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth month" in Zechariah, he's not talking about April or May. He's talking about the biblical calendar; he's talking about the fourth month and the fifth month on His calendar. So that's super important to understand.

And then we have to understand the trajectory that He is on on His calendar. It goes into the feast days in Leviticus 23. We've gone through those many times before. If one's not familiar with that, you can check that out on my website or on YouTube, and it'll carry you right to your question on the website through the AI on there. So you can go to the website, type in your question about the calendar, you'll get my personal understanding of it.

It's very important because when we get to the trajectory of purification, when we understand the travels that Israel did when they left Egypt, that's really a personal story as well because we all have come out of Egypt, right? So we can glean a lot of understanding if we understand the trajectory of the biblical calendar. Most of you guys and ladies understand this that have been on the channel, and this is a very pivotal date, Tammuz 17th, or the fast of the fourth. And it's a fast day for a reason and for many reasons that we'll get into tonight, and we'll show you the scriptures on why it did become a fast day throughout history. But first and foremost, my friends, I'd like to try to explain this through the calendar first, and then we'll go to the biblical scriptures as well.

If you've been with us, you know what Nisan 1 means, or the first month of the biblical calendar. That is called Nisan 1. That's what they call it today, so I'll just refer to it as that, so it makes it easy as you can see it on the calendar. So Nisan 1 began the beginning of the biblical calendar. We all know Nisan 14 is also when Yeshua was crucified for our sins at Passover. So you see the trajectory that we're already on from Nisan 1, the beginning of the biblical new year (Exodus 12:2-2). And then you go to Passover, which is in the middle of the month (Nisan 14), then Unleavened Bread for seven days (Nisan 15 to Nisan 21). Messiah Yeshua, Jesus, was unleavened; He was without sin. That's when He was placed into the tomb, actually after Passover was on the first day of Unleavened Bread, Nisan 15. The resurrection is three days from Passover, called the Feast of Firstfruits. We all know that. That's Nisan, I would say 18, but someone would say Nisan 17 as well. That is when He was resurrected for all of our sins.

Here is another kind of a bird's-eye view of it as well, my friends. You see Rosh, the new moon, the new month, Nisan 1. Then you see Shabbat Hagadol, which is Nisan 10. Then you see Passover, Nisan 14, crucifixion. Nisan 15, Unleavened Bread in the tomb. Firstfruits was the resurrection. And then we go on this 50-day account in Leviticus 23, a commandment to go on a 50-day divine appointment with the Almighty God, the God of Israel, the Holy One of Israel, the King of Israel, for 50 days to Shavuot. Pentecost is what Christianity calls it. So it's a journey that we have to understand this because it goes into tonight. If we understand the trajectory that Yah had Israel on from Egypt, it's going to give us that personal understanding and also the prophetic understanding as well. But we have to understand the historical timeline to understand this.

So again, the new moon of Nisan through Passover, through Unleavened Bread, through Firstfruits, you count 50 days. It's a divine appointment for everybody on this earth who's ever willing to go on the 50-day divine appointment. Then you're at the festival of Shavuot. Well, we all know at the festival of Shavuot, they were given the Torah, and they were married. It was a big marriage at Sinai with the children of Israel with the mixed multitude. They said yes to Yahweh. They said, "We will obey." And then what happened? Exodus 19, Exodus 20. And then He talks about the commandments from Exodus 20 to Exodus 24. And then Exodus 24, what happened was He called Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Nadab, Abihu, and the 70 elders up to the mountain, but they could not get close until, if we read the account, when Moses sprinkled the blood on the blood of the on the book of the covenant and on the people. Don't forget that. Very important for our Jewish friends to realize what's going on there with Yeshua, the Messiah, prophetically speaking. But if you read Exodus 24, the account, they could not come near until Moses sprinkled the blood of the blood of the sacrifice on the book of the covenant, the Torah, and then the laws and the instructions. And then also He sprinkled it on the people as well, the blood of the lamb, if you will, over the people. And then they were all able to see the God of Israel. After that, in the account of Exodus 24, very powerful. Then what does it say after that? It says that Moses went up on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights. My friends, what that is is from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th. That's the 40 days that the scripture was talking about in Exodus 24. Because in Exodus 25 to Exodus 31, that's where Moses got all the instructions of the tabernacle. He was up on the mountain and for 40 days, 40 nights, getting all the instructions for them to build God a dwelling place. Pretty amazing, isn't it?

So, this is a very pivotal time on the biblical calendar. People forget how pivotal this is on the biblical calendar when we look at the trajectory that Yah is on here. He took us from Shavuot to now Tammuz's 17th, or the fourth month, the 17th day. During Tammuz, that's the 40 days and 40 nights that Moses was on the mountain getting the instructions of Yah. And we all know what happened. They made the golden calf on Tammuz 17th, and that is the reason why it became a fast day. And we're about to read what the prophet Zechariah said about this day. But that's the reason, the historical account, that they made the golden calf on this day, Tammuz 17th, which begins tonight to tomorrow night. That's the day that they built the calf, and then Moses came down from the mountain and did what he did that we all know.

So this is super important to realize even in our own personal standpoint, our personal purification. That was history, and that gives us a great understanding. But from a personal aspect, we just came through Shavuot as well. How many people renewed their vows on Shavuot, saying that we will obey what Yahweh has told all of us, Jew and Gentile, to observe, whoever loves Him? So we have just come through that same understanding as well. Every year, we will on the festival of Shavuot or Pentecost with the Torah, the blessed Holy Spirit. And then these 40 days from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th, you're seeing it right here on the calendar. These are the days of the testing. These are the ones that say, "Hey, do we truly love God, or are we going to go back to Egypt?" Unfortunately, the children of Israel back then, they built the golden calf. So they received the Torah 50 days after they left Egypt, and then 40 days from that, they already turned back to the idol. So we can get a great understanding of that as well, my friends, that are we going to turn back to our idol during those 40 days, or did we fail? Did we sin? Did we do whatever the Lord didn't want us to do?

So this is again, whoever is into purification, this is for all of us. If one's not into that, then okay. But on the biblical calendar, this is what it's about. These 40 days are a testing. It ends tomorrow, and then we begin a new three-week journey, and then I will talk about that here later on from this point forward. But my friends, this is a super important time to really understand the trajectory of the Lord because again, this month is about eyesight. This is all about the reasons why it rhymes with the biblical calendar: eyesight, the testing of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, all of these things after we have said yes to Him, after we remember the Passover, after we Firstfruits, the resurrection, after the 50-day divine atonement, after the Torah and the Holy Spirit remembrance on Shavuot. Now, hey, let's see the testing. So this is what some of these summer months are about. You know, Tammuz, if you will, is a month of judgment, good or bad, depending on our attitude and our behavior. So it doesn't have to be negative; it can be very positive. Judgment can be good as well. But it all depends on our behavior, our nation's behavior, and whoever else's behavior as well.

But I wanted to show you guys that from a calendar standpoint first because it's pretty phenomenal when you look at the trajectory of what we've been through and what they went through from Nisan 1 through Passover, Firstfruits, the counting of the Omer, or the 50-day divine atonement, Shavuot, the Torah, the Holy Spirit, and then it doesn't end there; it keeps going to Tammuz 17th, and then it keeps going to the Ninth Day of Av with the three weeks of sorrow, which we'll talk about later, and then the Day of Love, Tu B'Av, the day of love from God, and then the month of repentance. And then the books are open for the individuals and the nations on Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets.

So my friends, that is a very summarized understanding of it that I wanted to show you guys. And like I've said before, these first seven months of the calendar are all about purification. It's all about getting right, also being tested with our eyes, with our ears, with our mouths, whatever it may be. And I wanted to show you guys that from a biblical calendar standpoint before we turn to the prophet Zechariah.

So Tammuz 17th, the fourth month, 17th day of the month, or what they call Tammuz 17th, it became a fast day because of the golden calf when Israel made the golden calf and they were impatient with Yah, right after He gave them the Torah and told them to observe. So we're going to go to the prophet Zechariah now and then we'll kind of work our way backwards to the story of Moses for all of us, you know, for the Jewish people, for all of us as well, for everybody to realize what Yahweh is trying to tell all of us right now, especially at the end of the age. Because at the end of the age, these fast days are going to come into play. Tammuz 17th, something major will happen. The Ninth Day of Av, something always happens. Tishrei 3, something will happen. Tevet 10, something will happen. They're called fast days; that means to pay attention. And like I said before, we're going to have these turn into feast days, and we're about to read it in the millennial kingdom. This is a millennial kingdom chapter, by the way, Zechariah 8. This is talking about the second coming and the millennial kingdom, and this is where the fast of the fourth is in the millennial kingdom where it's turned into the feast day.

So if we're going to be in Jerusalem with the King of Israel celebrating Tammuz 17th, or whatever it's called, then the fourth month, 17th day, if we're going to be celebrating this feast day, then we should understand what the fast is, right? We should understand why it became a fast day in a personal aspect as well, and also prophetically for our Israeli friends and our Jewish friends as well, for what's going to happen in Israel. So this is a super important understanding. Sometimes people, I mean, most people don't even realize what the feast days are in Christianity, much less the fast days, and both are very important. Number one, the feast days are moed, divine appointments by Jesus, first coming, second coming. And then we have the fast days. And He wants us to understand this.

Now, again, fasting, pray to God about that, about how you should fast. This fast day is just for dawn until evening tomorrow. It's not a 24-hour fast; it's a partial fast, and then it builds up to the Ninth Day of Av, which is a total fast, a whole day. So these are very important for the reason to remember what happened in history, so we don't do it. Right now, as a nation, wherever whatever nation you live in, and also as an individual, to not do what they did with the golden calf, to serve Yahweh. So this is a reminder; this is a good thing; it's not a bad thing; it's a good reminder of why these days became fast days. It's kind of like what Yahweh told Israel to remember their bondage in Egypt. He wants them to remember that so they can understand what He did for them. Remember Babylon so He can understand what He did for them. Right? So this is the same understanding, and it's a personal understanding as well, not just for Israel; it's for the individual as well, because everybody's wanting to be in the millennial kingdom in Jerusalem, right? Well, this is a millennial kingdom chapter. And let's read that. We'll read this and we'll go forward. This is the prophet Zechariah, the fast of the fourth month, which is Tammuz 17th, and this is a millennial kingdom chapter and a second coming chapter, so just bear with me; there's a couple of pages here, but it's really awesome for the context of this.

"Again, the word of the LORD of hosts came, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "I am zealous for Zion with great zeal; With great fervor I am zealous for her. Thus says the LORD: 'I will return to Zion, And dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the City of Truth, The Mountain of the LORD of hosts, The Holy Mountain." Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Old men and old women shall again sit In the streets of Jerusalem, Each one with his staff in his hand Because of great age. The streets of the city shall be full Of boys and girls Playing in its streets." Thus says the LORD of hosts: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people In these days, Will it also be marvelous in My eyes?" Says the LORD of hosts. "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will save My people From the land of the east And also from the land of the west. I will bring them back, And they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. They shall be My people, And I will be their God In truth and righteousness." Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Let your hands be strong, You who have been hearing in these days These words by the mouth of the prophets, Who spoke in the day the foundation Was laid for the house of the LORD of hosts, That the temple might be built. For before these days, There were no wages for man, Nor any hire for beasts; There was no peace from the enemy For whoever went out or came in. For I set all men, Everyone against his neighbor. But now I will not treat the remnant of this people As in the former days," says the LORD of hosts. "For the seed shall be prosperous, The vine shall give its fruit, The ground shall give her increase, The heavens shall give their dew. I will cause the remnant of this people To possess all of these. And it shall come to pass, As you were cursed among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So I will save you, And you shall be a blessing. Do not fear! Let your hands be strong." For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Just as I determined to punish you When your fathers provoked Me to wrath," says the LORD of hosts, "And I would not relent, So again in these days, I am determined to do good To Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. Amen. Do not fear. These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and shalom. Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor, And do not love a false oath; For all these are things that I hate," says the LORD.' "Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "The fast of the fourth, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace." Thus says the LORD of hosts: "People shall yet come, Inhabitants of many cities, The inhabitants of one city Shall go to another, Saying, 'Let us continue to go And pray before the LORD, And seek the LORD of hosts. I myself will go also.' Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, And to pray before the LORD. Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'In those days, Ten men from every language of the nations Shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, Saying, "Let us go with you, For we have heard that God is with you."'" In the name and blood of Yeshua, Amen and Amen and Amen.

So my friends, it's pretty obvious that this is a second coming event and millennial kingdom chapter that has not been done yet. The mountain of the Lord, the kingdom of the Lord, all the nations coming, all the Jewish believers there with the Gentile believers as well. None of that has occurred yet. So ultimately, we're seeing foreshadows of that, obviously, with the land producing fruit and all these beautiful things, and we've seen the 4 million Jewish people return since 1948, 4 million plus. But there's a huge aliyah coming here soon, as we've discussed before. But this is a millennial kingdom chapter. And look at what He says: "The fast of the fourth month." If we don't understand the biblical calendar, then we're not going to understand what the prophet is truly trying to say about the fast of the fourth. He's saying, "Remember the fast of the fourth, the golden calf. Remember the fast of the fifth month, the night of when both temples were destroyed because of the 10 spies brought back the bad report. Remember the seventh, the fast of the seventh when the high priest was murdered. Remember the fast of the tenth when Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls." He's trying to get everybody to remember why they were destroyed during this time.

This is a very serious time. Tammuz 17th to the Ninth Day of Av, we'll talk about it in a few minutes, the three weeks of sorrow, the dire straits. That's not saying you have to be sorrowful or in a bad mood, but it's just to understand and to reflect in meditation and prayer and intercession, kind of like Moses did, what we'll read tonight. This is a huge opportunity for the believers to understand why this became a fast day because of the calf, because of idolatry, because of disobedience. And again, this is not to criticize anybody; this is for all of us to understand, each individual and each nation, what the Most High expects of all of us, especially the promised land, Israel, especially if in America, if we believe we're a Christian nation, we've got to understand these things of why they were cursed, why they were destroyed. You see what I'm saying? So again, when I say cursed, they were destroyed, not that they're cursed; they were destroyed twice because of disobedience.

But my friends, it goes back into the golden calf and understanding. After deliverance, after He delivered them of the greatest victory with Egypt, 50 days they went on a journey with Him and got the revelation of Sinai. They were married to Him at Sinai, 50 days after bondage. They said yes, and He said yes as well. They were His people; He was their God, the one new body and the one new man. And what happened? 40 days later, they rebelled. They went into idolatry with the golden calf. Not all of them, you know, but some of them. And again, this is where 3,000 people died. That's a big, huge misunderstanding with people. 3,000 people did not die on Shavuot. They all said yes to Him; it was a marriage; it was a beautiful thing. So again, people are wrong. 3,000 people died on Tammuz 17th when Moses came down and he told the Levites to come with him, and they killed them. So it wasn't during Shavuot where Moses took the sword; it was on Tammuz 17th when he came down on the mountain and they were worshiping the golden calf, sexual parties, all this nonsense. He broke the tablets and he killed 3,000 people, or he, the Levites, killed 3,000 people when he said, "Who's for the Lord?" Only the Levites came. One of the reasons why He chose them for the priesthood.

So my friends, this is super important, you know, from a national standpoint, but also from an individual perspective as well, on how quick mankind, all of us, could turn away. It's very crazy how that works, but we've all done that, turned away from the Lord one time or another or several times. And that's where His beautiful grace does come in. But friends, if we can understand this from a national standpoint, from a personal standpoint, of why the golden calf, or why the fast of the fourth is, why the fast of the fifth is, which is next month, these three weeks of sorrow, to understand why did God destroy His city, Jerusalem? Why did He exile His people? Go read what happened. Very bad stuff happened in the past. So we've got to understand those things will happen again. I'm not trying to be negative, but they will happen again from what the biblical prophets say. So what we're trying to do is just trying to do our part, get everybody to wake up who wants to listen to understand these things, that judgment will come once the grace and the mercy and the loving-kindness ends. It will come. It has come before, and we're about to see it again if we're not careful with what's going down, you know, really in the entire world, you know, including Israel, you know, just look around and see what's going down with all of these things, and it's really not a pretty picture.

So, from a biblical perspective, why the prophet wrote it the way he wrote it, this is really beautiful. This whole Zechariah 8, I mean, it's such a hopeful picture of what He's going to do. We'll read some of it here; we're not going to read all of it again, but look at what the prophet has declared what Yeshua, Jesus, is going to do. Look at what He says: "I am zealous for Zion with great zeal, with great fervor. I am zealous for her." That has not happened before; it's going to happen at the second coming events. Look at what He says: "I will return to Zion." He's going to come back; He's going to return again to Zion. The prophet was speaking about the second coming events, not the first coming, the second coming. "I will return to Zion and dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, the mountain of the LORD of hosts." It's not called that now. The holy mountain. Look at what it says: "Old men, old women." This is millennial kingdom stuff. They're going to be great of old age. Kids playing in the streets, boys and girls playing in the streets. This is beautiful. And then look at what He says: "If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant, only the remnant, everybody, not everybody, only a remnant will come through this, Jew and Gentile, of the people of these days," what the prophet said. "Will it also be marvelous in His eyes?" And then He's going to save His people from the east, save them from the west. He's going to bring them back.

My friends, this is not the final return. For all my Jewish friends, all my Israeli friends, this is not the final return. This is one of the aliyot. And then there's going to be one more exile, and then there'll be the final aliyah. So we all know what Yeshua says; we all know what the prophet Daniel says: there's going to be a time of trouble unlike anything in world history (Matthew 24, Daniel 12). One great more exile, and then He will bring them back one more time. So we've got to get really understanding with eschatology that this is not the final return of the Jewish people to Israel. It's one of the returns, but there's one more after the time of Jacob's trouble.

And then look at what He says here: "But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as in the former days." He's talking about the future as well. "The seed shall be prosperous. The ground shall give her increase. The heavens shall give their due. Cause the remnant of the people to possess all of these." I mean, what a great blessing. This is the millennial kingdom. "Just as you were cursed among the nations, O house of Judah and O house of Israel, I will save you, and you shall be a blessing." That is Jeremiah 31:31-36, the New Covenant. The house of Israel, the house of Judah. Then He puts them together. If you continue to read the New Covenant in Jeremiah 31, Zechariah is going off of the same thing, the one new body, the one new man coming together only during the millennial kingdom because He says, "I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear! Let your hands be strong."

Then look what He says: "Just as I determined to punish you when your fathers provoked Me to wrath," okay, "and I would not relent, so again in these days," the future, "I am determined to do good in the millennial kingdom to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah." And then look what He requires: "These are the things you shall do. Speak each man the truth to his neighbor. Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace." Amen to that. And then here's where He gets down to it. And again, this is a millennial kingdom chapter, everybody. And look at what He kind of ends on: "The fast of the fourth." He says to remember this. "The fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth." Look at what He says: "Millennial kingdom shall be joy and gladness and cheerful moedim." Everybody, that's the word for feast in the Hebrew is moedim. So just like Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Shavuot, Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles are moedim, the seven feasts and the Shabbat of course are moedim in Leviticus 23. Then these are going to be moedim as well because He says, "shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts, moedim, for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace."

So my friends, this is a beautiful passage that we have with Zechariah 8. And it's really important for us to really understand this, you know, because again, it's about going through the understanding of the fast. I say this all the time; I mean, so many people, they just want to enjoy the feast only. They don't want to enjoy the fast that turns into the feast, to understand the hard position of circumcision, to understand why our brothers were judged back then and why they were exiled, and how we could be our temple could be destroyed as well on an individual basis if we don't understand the golden calf story and truly understand the trajectory. Because that's idolatry, and it does not enter the kingdom of heaven, just like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 6.

So friends, this is important on a personal aspect as well. It's just not all about the nation of Israel itself; it's about the personal understanding for our temples as well, because we are the temple, right? The kingdom is inside of us as well. So again, there will be a literal temple in the millennial kingdom as well, but He's talking about our inner temples as well, so that we can be purified and cleansed as well.

So as we go forward, we just mentioned this: how did Tammuz 17th become a fast day? On Shavuot, at the mountain of God, Israel received Torah, or the instructions of God. However, once Moses journeyed up Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights and received the tabernacle instructions, the people grew impatient for his return and built and worshiped a golden calf. The date was Tammuz 17th. From that day forward, Tammuz 17th became a cursed day or a day of judgment.

So now, let's go through Exodus 32, Exodus 33, and 34. We'll just read it through one time; I won't spend a lot of detail on it, but just show you the trajectory that we are in, and this happened on this day. Exodus 32, Tammuz 17th, is when this scripture was, and then we'll go forward in the calendar and show you how this ends on the Feast of Yom Kippur. My friends, this is again a super understanding of the first seven months of the biblical calendar. The story of Exodus will carry you through that. And that's why I'm saying these summer months are very important because Moses was up on Mount Sinai three sets of 40 days, from Shavuot to Yom Kippur, interceding for his brothers because of the golden calf.

So the golden calf happened on the first 40. Then he went back up for the second 40; there was no reassurance. And then he came back down, or he then went up on another 40 from Elul 1 to Tishrei 10, Yom Kippur, and he came down on Yom Kippur with the new commandments. So if we understand the biblical calendar, and I'll go through that again because I know I said it quickly, but I'll go through it again once we read the scriptures, but there's a trajectory from Exodus 32 to Exodus 34, from Shavuot to Yom Kippur. But we can't understand that if we don't understand the biblical calendar. We can't understand the understanding and the wisdom we get from it, the purification, if we don't understand God's times and seasons. We have to understand His times and seasons so that we can get the pure revelation and the deep revelation of these important days so that we can be purified.

Okay, we can talk about Israel all we want of the golden calf back in history, but what about us? What about the current day of Israel, the Jewish people, the Israelis, the Christians, you name it? What about all of us today? Because it's all cyclical to understand these things, friends. And that's why it's important, and I talk about it all the time, to be in alignment with Him. We will see these things; we will understand these things, and that's what the scriptures are based upon. The book of Exodus is based upon His calendar, and that's what it's based upon from the new moon of Exodus 12 onward. Exodus 12 to Exodus 34 will carry you from the new moon of Nisan to Yom Kippur. Isn't that pretty amazing?

So, I don't know if people have thought about that. I don't know if I've even thought about it that if you look at the book of Exodus, Exodus 12:2, "This is your first month." Moses, Nisan 1 is what they call it today. This is your first month. That's Exodus 12. We'll go through the story. In Exodus 32 is Shavuot, or I'm sorry, Tammuz 17th. Let me back up. Exodus 20 is Shavuot. Exodus 32 is the golden calf, Tammuz 17th. And then Exodus 34 is Yom Kippur. It's really amazing when we look at the trajectory like that, how we can get the story of Exodus on the biblical calendar, and that's just not for the historical; it's not just prophetic; it's personal as well, and what He requires of all of us, kind of like the counting of the Omer and all of these beautiful things.

The fast of the fourth, my friends, Tammuz 17th, we have to understand it's about idolatry. How many of us can say we've had idolatry in our life? I know I have in my past; I'm trying not to now, but in my past, of course, I've broken all of them. But this is what it's for: to remember not to go back to the idol Chadwick, or whoever else is out there. It's to remember that because sure enough, I mean, I can fall away quickly if I'm not in alignment. And I think we all can fall out of alignment as well.

So, with that being said, we're going to go through again. It's totally amazing. I'll repeat it one more time: from Nisan 1 to Tishrei 10, Yom Kippur, Nisan 1 to Tishrei 10, Yom Kippur on the calendar is this book of Exodus. Exodus 12, the new moon of Nisan 1 is what they call it now, to Exodus 34, which is when the new commandments were given on Yom Kippur. Moses said he was going to make atonement for them. So, with that being in mind, let's read this story really quick. I'm not going to spend a lot of detail on it, just to show you the trajectory, the heart position of Moses, and what is expected for all of us.

So, this is Exodus 32, the golden calf. This is on Tammuz 17th, which wherever you are at sundown, we have entered that on the Hebrew calendar. "Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered to Aaron and said to him, 'Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'" So again, my friends, some people believe that they replaced Yahweh with this, but they were really replacing Moses, their leader, just like the scripture says that, "Come, make us gods that shall go out before us. For as for this Moses, not God, Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." So they were trying to make a calf to replace Moses.

"And Aaron said to them, 'Break off the gold earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.' So all the people broke off their gold earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool and made a molten calf. Then they said, 'This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" Because remember, they thought Moses brought them out, right? So, "O Israel, this is what brought you out of the land of Egypt," the golden calf.

"So when Aaron saw it, we're in the month of seeing, by the way, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, 'Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD.'" Now, think about that, my friends. Aaron declared that Tammuz 17th was a feast to the Lord. Okay, so this was Tammuz 16th, and then Tammuz 17th was going to be a feast to the Lord. Think about that. There's only one person who can declare feast days, not Aaron; it was God through Moses. Not through anybody else; only through Moses got the ways of worship. So when Aaron did that, he was trying to create a feast day to himself. Now, think about Christianity, everybody. Feast days to themselves; they're not in the Bible. So again, this is a great correlation to that. And our Christian friends need to understand that Aaron said, "Let's make a different feast to the Lord to Tammuz 17th." That's why it became a fast day and a cursed day because of what the high priest did. Okay, so we've got to understand this. It's very serious stuff, and something that our Christian friends need to really understand that you can't just make different feasts to the Lord. Christmas, Easter, and all that are different feasts to the Lord. It surely is, and this is what Tammuz 17th is about for the Christians, just as well for our Jewish friends as well.

"So when Aaron saw it, the golden calf, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation as the high priest, 'Tomorrow is a feast of moed to the LORD, Tammuz 17th.' Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose to play. And the LORD said to Moses, 'Go, get down, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. After 40 days, they have made themselves a molten calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, "This is your God, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt."'"

"And the LORD said to Moses, 'I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people. Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them, and I may consume them; and I will make of you Moses a great nation.'" Now look at Moses' heart position here. This is very important for us during this time period right now. Look, he could have easily said, "For sure, yes, Lord, make me a great nation." That's a lot of people would have said that, right? Let's look at the heart position of Moses during this time after all that he's been through. He was 80 years old when this happened, 80 years old, going up and down Mount Sinai, dealing with the people through the 40, 50-day divine appointment, counting of the Omer, dealing with the complaining, the griping, and all these things. And now he got them to receive the Torah, or they received the Torah at Mount Sinai, and then he's up on the mountain getting the tabernacle instructions in Exodus 25 through Exodus 31. And then at the end of the 40th day, we have the people making the golden calf. So here we are, you know, with these things, and he was fuming. Moses was fuming. Of course, Yahweh was fuming; He wanted to destroy them. And look at Moses' heart position for God and also for the people. The two greatest commandments, you're seeing them right here with Moses.

"Verse 11: Then Moses pleaded with Adonai his God, and said: 'Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, "He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth"? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. Remember,' look at what he says, 'remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, "I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever."'" So the Lord relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.

Now, isn't that amazing? A couple of points here. First of all, Moses had not gone down the mountain yet to see what the people were doing, and we're about to get into that, and then you're going to see his his anger, his righteous anger come out. So Yahweh was very upset with him. And look at the heart position of Moses. That's why He chose him because he was humble and he loved the two greatest commandments. He was more concerned about God's character among the nations than his own personal glory of being a great nation and all these things. He reminded Yahweh of the covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, of the promised land, and of the seed, of the lineage, the pure royal lineage. You just can't wipe them all out, Lord, right? So Moses reminded the Lord of that. Of course, Yahweh knew He was going to do that, of course. But I find it amazing of Moses' heart position for Yahweh and also for the people. Even though the people were out of alignment, just think about it. They were in Egypt for hundreds of years, however you want to call it, and they were just out of Egypt for 90 days only, 50 days to Shavuot and 40 days. 90 days. Not to be whatever, but they were still, if you will, babes, if you will, or milk, if you will. And Moses understood that; Yah understood that. And Moses interceded. And that's a great understanding for us as well for grace, for mercy, for loving-kindness, for intercession. You know, God doesn't want to see anyone perish, you know, is what He says. He doesn't like that. And He wants us to have the heart for people to inherit eternal life, not to just destroy people because of a different religion or different color, different this, different that. He wants us to do the Great Commission. So Moses was doing the Great Commission, if you can keep me in context here, by loving God and loving his neighbor. I mean, he was fulfilling the Torah right there, is what Yeshua would say: love God, love neighbor. And I find it just remarkable that again, he did, he had that heart position for God and also for the people.

"Verse 15: Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain, and the two tablets of the testimony were in his hand; the tablets were written on both sides; on the one side and on the other they were written. Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets. And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, 'There is a noise of war in the camp.' But he said, 'It is not the noise of the shout of victory, nor the noise of the cry of defeat, but the sound of singing I hear.'" So it was as soon as he came near the camp that he saw the calf and the dancing. So Moses' anger became hot, and he cast the tablets out of his hand and broke them at the foot of the mountain. Then he took the calf which they made he that he made them drink. Excuse me. Then he took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and he scattered it on the water and made the children of Israel drink it. Goodness. And Moses, Moses said to Aaron, 'Why did this people, what did these people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?'"

My friends, I mean, this is what it's about. You see the intercession, but you also see the righteous anger that Moses had once he saw it with his eyes. Remember, he was on the mountain interceding with the Most High not to destroy the people before he saw what was going down. Then when he went down on the mountain, he broke the tablets of God with His finger on it. That's how much anger He had. And then you read what he did; he ground it to powder, put it in the water, and made them drink it. Pretty heavy stuff, isn't it?

So again, my friends, this is a very important day to remember idolatry. God hates idolatry, and that's what the golden calf is. Anything that consumes our time more than Elohim, one could be considered idolatry. Vanity, all of these things. Solomon said, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity" for a reason. And again, this goes back. This is hardcore stuff. But my friends, the Apostle Paul himself, to my Christian friends, says idolatry does not enter the kingdom of heaven. And if we're out of alignment, myself included, we've got a golden calf, whatever that looks like today, then we're out of alignment. And I think it's very important. And one of the major things is that Aaron, the high priest, said, "We're going to make a feast to the Lord from their own good." Think about that. And look what happened. Look what happened to them. Bad stuff.

So, all my Christian friends really need to understand this from a prophetic understanding. You can't just start making days to worship God. He's the Lawgiver; He's the only one that can make these commandments and these days for us to celebrate on, not anybody else. Not even Aaron the high priest could do that; you saw what happened. And Aaron, if Moses didn't pray for Aaron, God would have broken out on Aaron as well. So, we've got to really realize this, my friends. It's super important. People are in "la la land" thinking that all these different days to worship Jesus is okay and everything's good. No, it's not. It wasn't good back then, and it's not good now. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever; does not change; no shadow of turning with Him. Okay, we all know that. And since that's the case, we can't be coming up with feast days on our own in Christianity. That will get the gavel. And that's where it is. So, we've got to realize the trajectory of what is going on in this story from a prophetic understanding for all of us as well, and personal as well.

"Verse 22: So Aaron said, 'Do not let the anger of my lord become hot. You know the people that they are set on evil. For they said to me, "Make us gods that shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." And I said to them, "Whoever has any gold, let them break it off." So they gave it to me, and I cast it into the fire, and the calf came out.'"

"Now when Moses saw that the people were unrestrained, for Aaron had not restrained them to their shame among their enemies, then Moses stood in the entrance of the camp and said, 'Whoever is on the Lord's side, come to me!' And all of the sons of Levi gathered themselves together to him. And he said to them, 'Thus says the LORD God of Israel, "Let every man put his sword on his side, and go in and out from entrance to entrance throughout the camp, and let every man kill his brother, every man his companion, and every man his neighbor."'" So the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And about 3,000 men of the people died that day. Then Moses said, "Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, for every man has opposed his son and his brother."

My friends, it doesn't get more hardcore than that, to take your sword against your brother, does it? But that was the commandment of the Lord God of Israel, everybody. And everybody needs to understand that is who He is when it comes to idolatry. Enough of all this grace and all this stuff. No, the fear of Adonai is what He wants, because if not, that's what's coming. And this is why the prophet Zechariah wrote it: "The fast of the fourth will turn into a feast day." Look at what it says. "They turn into a fast day." And then it says, "Consecrate yourselves today to Tammuz 17th. Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, that He may bestow on you a blessing this day, Tammuz 17th, for brother." Goodness gracious.

So my friends, you tell me, is Adonai, is this day very important to God? Absolutely. This day is very important to God for all of us to consecrate ourselves. That's why it's a fast day, to consecrate, to remember this, remember Exodus 32, why Israel fell into idolatry, and the warning that He gave them. And then look what happened: kill your own brother, kill your son. I mean, that's tough stuff, but that was the commandment of the Most High. Just like when Nadab and Abihu brought in strange fire, you know, they were drunk and all these things, He broke out on them. He broke out on them. So the Lord will break out on His people, all of us, if we're not careful. And this proves it. I mean, this is hardcore, but this is who He is once the limits are broken, the boundary lines have been overtaken. What are the boundary lines? The Torah, what they received at Mount Sinai. And they were out of alignment by idolatry and all of these things, sexual parties, and all that when you look into it.

So friends, this is super important. I plead with you to read this for your own account and to understand how important God looks at these things. There's too much false understanding out there that God's just okay with everybody just doing their thing. You know, create a feast day, create this day, create that day. Everybody's got their day. Well, that's great. They had their day. Are they going to worry about God's days? That's the question. Because from this story, the high priest Aaron came up with a different feast day on Tammuz 17th, and God turned it into a cursed day, a fast day, and says to remember this day and not fall into idolatry, and to understand that you will be a part of the feast day in the millennial kingdom on this day once we get to that picture and once we get to that point.

So friends, very hardcore stuff, but it's very important for us to read it in the proper context to understand the fear of Adonai needs to get back into the Christians' hearts and also the Jewish people. The fear of Adonai. We've got grace; everybody understands grace. Fear of Adonai is the seven spirits of the Lord. Go read Isaiah 11. The fear of Adonai is one of the seven spirits: the Holy Spirit, the spirit of wisdom, spirit of knowledge, spirit of understanding, spirit of counsel, spirit of might, and the fear of Adonai. It says in the Bible, "Fear Adonai." Fear Adonai. Even in the New Testament, "Fear God" in a holy way, in a reverence way, in an awesome way, in an awe-inspiring way. Not "all mean God." No, in an awesome way. Revere Him and trust Him, and fear that He will lower the gavel on every one of us if we're not careful. And that would not be a good thing as a nation or as an individual.

"Verse 30: And now it came to pass on the next day that Moses said to the people, 'You have committed a great sin. So now I will go up to Adonai. Perhaps I can make atonement.'" Very important atonement for your sin. He's talking about the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, ultimately. So He's telling you right there, He's trying to make atonement for the people because of the golden calf. "Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, 'Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold. Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You have written.'" And the Lord said to Moses, "Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book. Now therefore, go, lead the people to the place of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit, for punishment I will visit punishment upon them for their sin." So the Lord plagued the people because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

My friends, again, look at the heart position of Moses. We saw how angry he was when he came down on the mountain. He broke the tablets of the Most High with the finger of God writing on them. And then he made the people drink the calf out of the water, and then 3,000 people died. So he was in that righteous anger, that is for sure. But he still loved God and loved the people enough to intercede for the people to not blot them out. I mean, that is a heck of a balance to have, a hard position to have with righteous anger and also compassion. And that's what God expects us to have: righteous anger, but also compassion as well, because He's the only one that can judge people. So again, very important story for all of us to comprehend.

Now, when we move to Exodus 33, we're still in that mindset. And then we'll end with Exodus 34, which will be Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

"Exodus 33: Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Depart and go up from here, you and the people whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "To your descendants I will give it," and I will send My Angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites. Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up into your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.'" And when the people heard this bad news, they mourned, and no one put on his ornaments. For the Lord had said to Moses, "Say to the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. I could come up into your midst in one moment and consume you. Now therefore, take off your ornaments, that I may know what to do to you.'" So the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments on or by Mount Hor or Mount Sinai.

So this is an awesome time with Moses and the Lord right here. One of my favorite stories. Let's look at this encounter and receive what it says to us. "Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and called it the Tabernacle of Meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tabernacle of Meeting which was outside the camp. So it was whenever Moses went out to the Tabernacle that all of the people rose and each man stood at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the Tabernacle. And it came to pass when Moses entered the Tabernacle that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle. And the Lord talked with Moses. All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend, and he would return to the camp; but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the Tabernacle."

A couple of points real quick. It's interesting that a tent outside of the camp, right? They understood what time it was because 3,000 people just died. So again, the sword will get people's attention. I know that that's not going on right now, but it will go on because people come to the Lord when the sword is wielded. So, my friends, this is super important to realize this, but also it amazes me that Joshua did not depart from the Tabernacle. We all know that that is a foreshadow of Yeshua, even the name itself. So I find that very interesting that he did not depart from the Tabernacle because he was just filled with the presence of the Most High, of course.

"So now the promise of God's presence. Then Moses said to the Lord, 'See, You say to me, "Bring up this people," but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, "I know you by name," and you have also found grace in My sight.' Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people." And He said, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Then he said to Him, "If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except that You go with us? So we shall be separate—Your people and I—from all the people who are on the face of the earth." So the Lord said to Moses, "I will also do this thing that you have spoken, for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name."

My friends, why do you think Moses found grace in His sight? Have we ever thought about that? Because of the heart position, you know, that he had for God and for his neighbor. Again, he was fulfilling the two greatest commandments throughout this process over and over, even through the righteous anger that he had. Right? So, this is totally amazing. Again, this really shows people why God chose Moses. Again, all the story of Exodus and all the story of Moses, but really this section right here shows you the humbleness and the love of God and the love of neighbor that he didn't want anybody to be destroyed. And that's the mindset that we have to have today. There's too many Jews and Christians right now that want people killed and murdered. There's too many that are bloodthirsty. We've got to get back to Moses and understand the mixed multitude that he was speaking about, the house of Judah, the house of Israel, and even our enemy. We've got to really understand the heart position of Moses.

"And in verse 18, he said, 'Please show me Your glory.' Then Yahweh said, 'I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But He said, "You cannot see My face, for no man shall see Me and live."'"

So let me stop there. So in Exodus 24, this is a paradigm shift for people. Exodus 24, they said that the 70 elders, Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Joshua saw the God of Israel. They saw Him. They ate with Him; they drank with Him, is what Exodus 24 said, once the blood was sprinkled on the book of the covenant and on the people, they saw Him and ate and drank with Him. Well, you just read right here in Exodus 33 that no one could see God's face. So who were they meeting with in Exodus 24? It was Yeshua, the Messiah. Just like when Yeshua met Moses and Elijah in the transfiguration. Well, it was the reverse. Every time God wanted a divine appointment on this earth, He sent Yeshua down here over and over again. Mount Sinai, first coming events, second coming events, of course, and all throughout the scriptures where you see the Angel of Adonai. My friends, if He, if everybody Christianity, if they believe that He was the fire by night and the cloud by day from the beginning of the Exodus to Mount Sinai, then do you think He just left them? Of course not. He was the presence. He was the one on Mount Sinai. He is the "I AM" in Exodus 3:14. That's what He said in John 8, verse 48 or something, that He told the Jewish people, "Before Abraham was, I AM." Well, that's Exodus 3:14. "I AM" is what He told Moses, right? So, we've got to put this together that if He told the disciples that if they have seen Him, they have seen Yah. So, they are together. The Word was in the beginning. He is the Word of God. So, we've got to really understand that and put Yeshua in the beginning with Him, because all of this makes sense when we read the scriptures.

All right. So, let me see where I left off. "But He said, 'You cannot see My face, for no man shall see Me and live.'" Going back to the point I was making with Exodus 24. "And the Lord said, 'Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. So it shall be while My glory passes by that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with My hand while I pass by. Then I will take My hand away, and then you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.'"

So this is an amazing dialogue between Moses and also Yah during this time period with the cleft of the rock. "Will You go in front of Me?" He's saying, "I don't want to go unless You go in front of Me." My friends, right now, who wants Adonai to go before them? We all want Adonai to go before us as well, right? His presence. So again, this is a personal application as well during this time period of Tammuz 17th, Tammuz 18th, and on forward, excuse me, on the second set of 40, because we've just entered into, or not now, but tomorrow night we'll enter into the second set of 40 days during the summer months. And I'll go back through that here once we get through with the scriptures.

So, as you can see, we went through Shavuot, we went through Tammuz 17th, and now Exodus 34 is going to be Yom Kippur. And I'll try to explain that before we get on here with the three sets of 40. Remember, there are 120 days, Shavuot to Yom Kippur, three sets of 40. From Shavuot, the festival of Shavuot, month number three, to Yom Kippur, month number seven, 120 days. Moses was on Mount Sinai for three sets of 40. I think Deuteronomy 9 goes through that with the three sets of 40 if you want to read it for yourself.

So, we just went through the first 40 days, right? Where Moses was up getting the tabernacle instructions. That is Exodus 25 through Exodus 31, Exodus 32, golden calf, and then Exodus 33. And then the second set of 40 is Tammuz 18 to 29, or the fifth month, or I'm sorry, the sixth month. And then, or I'm sorry, the fifth month, excuse me. And then the last set of 40 is Elul 1 to Yom Kippur. Okay, three sets of 40. Shavuot to Tammuz 17th, Tammuz 18th to Elul 29 or 30, I'm sorry. And then Elul 1 to Tishrei 10. That will be the last set of 40. That's why it's called the month of repentance, the month of Elul. So that's why I try to tell people these three summer months, from Sivan, Tammuz, and Elul, are very transformational, very pivotal according to the feast days in the fall, because it goes with the story of Exodus, just like we're telling everybody.

So again, He came down on Tishrei, Yom Kippur, everything's cool, all's forgiven, here's the new commandments, and now let's go build the tabernacle, which I got during the first 40 days. So now let's read that in that context. Exodus 34: "And the Lord said to Moses, 'Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. So be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself to Me there on top of the mountain. And no man shall come up with you, and let no man be seen throughout all the mountains. Let neither flocks nor herds feed before that mountain.'"

So He cut two tablets of stone like the first ones. Then Moses rose early in the morning and went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him. And He took in His hand the two tablets of stone. Now the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; but by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and fourth generation." That's in Exodus 20 as well.

So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. Then he said, "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance." My friends, you remember what David said in Psalm 110? "The Lord said to my Lord." Look at what Moses said here, verse number eight. Let's read it again. "So Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. Then he said, 'If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people.'" My friends, he's saying what? He's saying, "The Lord said to my Lord." The Lord sent Yeshua in front of us. If Yeshua is the fire by night and the cloud by day, then Moses is talking about Him as well. Again, we've got to look at it as a continuing understanding of Yeshua was going to lead them there. Think about it. From Exodus to right now, He was the fire by day, or excuse me, fire by night, cloud by day. Moses is asking Him to go before Him now, His presence. And again, who's with Joshua conquering the promised land? Joshua chapter 5, Joshua saw Adonai, the Commander of the Lord's armies. Yeshua. Revelation 19:11, Yeshua, the Commander of the Lord's armies. So my friends, Yeshua's always been there, is what I'm saying. And again, this is what David said in Psalm 110: "The Lord said to my Lord." Yah said to Yeshua, the Father said to the Son, however you want to call it. Same way here: "If now I have found grace in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, even though we are a stiff-necked people." Okay, so again, Yeshua was going to go in front of them. Yeshua was in front of Joshua. Yeshua is coming back as the leader and the Commander of the Lord's armies as well. And it's a really beautiful thing to tie it in from the beginning to the end. And He was in the beginning with Adonai, like the Gospel of John chapter 1 says. Very important.

"The covenant renewed. Now this is on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And He said, 'Behold, I will make a covenant before all Your people. I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving out before you the Amorites.'" Okay. "Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst," which obviously is a snare right now in their midst. "But you shall destroy their altars, break their pillars, cut down their wooden images." Christmas trees included. "For you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God." He's going back to the great commandments, the first 10 words, is what He's going back to. He's reminding them again, from Shavuot to Yom Kippur. Now He's reminding them again: no golden calves, everybody; no idolatry; playing the harlot with the nation's gods. That's what Jeremiah said all the time to the people. He said, "Don't act like the nations. Don't worship like the nations."

All my American friends, we are the nations. We are not Israel; America, and then the nations. It's Israel and the nations. God says, "Don't act like the nations." Unfortunately, we are. We've got to act our spirituality, if you want to call it that. The Word of God comes out of Jerusalem, out of Zion, is where it comes from in Isaiah 2, Micah 4. That's where we live; it's from that point, not the nations to Jerusalem and bring all the idolatry. No, Israel to the nations. Just like Moses and the prophets have said. And if we don't understand that, we've got to understand that because Israel dictates it, or the God of Israel from Moses dictates the covenant to the nations, the Torah. That's why during the millennial kingdom, Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 says that the Torah is going to go out from Zion. That's in the millennial kingdom. Everybody's going to get a heavy dose of the Father's commandments on this earth before it's done with. I know the Christians might not like that, or the atheists, or all these other people, but everybody's going to get a heavy dose of the Torah when Yeshua comes on this earth. Please understand that. And if one doesn't think that, then one doesn't believe He's the Jewish Messiah. Because the Jewish Messiah is going to take the Torah to the nations and get people to understand it, or the gavel. That's one of His major prerequisites that we have to understand. Not none of this "do your own thing," create another feast day like Aaron did. None of that. It's going to be the sword, the plague, no rain. Welcome to the millennial kingdom for the nations, not for all of us. It's going to be like the Garden of Eden in Israel, but for the nations, it's going to be "strike the nations with the sword and rule them with a rod of iron," just like Revelation 19:1-16 says. So, we've got to get out of all this stuff about Jesus being just coming in peace and all this stuff. No, it's the opposite. He's coming for peace for you and me, but for those who don't keep the commandments and worship Him the right way, He's going to strike the nations and rule them with a rod of iron, not a democracy. It's going to be a dictatorship, a righteous, eternal dictatorship. People hate when I say that, but you've got to get your heart position in the right way. He's coming with a rod of iron, everybody. That is not pleasant for the nations. I mean, goodness gracious, a rod of iron by the Savior and the sword out of His mouth. Good luck with that for all the nations who want to be in disobedience.

But God is trying to tell us through this beautiful understanding of Exodus 32 through Exodus 34, we need to get it together because idolatry is vast amongst the nations, including all three religions that people think they love God: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. All three Abrahamic faiths are out of alignment. And I think He's showing that right now, and He's going to show it in the future when they get put into the beast kingdom over in the Middle East because of all this nonsense with these religions and everybody's all this war stuff, violence. So, we've got to realize what He's about. And Exodus 32 through Exodus 34 gives us a clear, clear picture of not creating another feast day, Christianity worshiping the way He told you, or the gavel. Look what happened. On Tammuz 17th, 3,000 people died. So, we've got to get this now. He's very serious about His ways to worship. We talk about it all the time on here because of this right here. This story right here should shake everybody's boots a little bit and get their theology corrected. Go back and study a little bit; go be a Berean. Let's get wisdom; let's get knowledge. If we don't have it, we're going to perish. "My people perish for lack of what?" Faith? No. Works? No. My people perish for lack of knowledge, knowledge, knowledge, instruction. And if we don't get back to that, Christianity and Judaism, of course, Islam, but if we don't get back to God's people, the Jews and the Christians, we're the ones who are out of alignment right now. Everybody's talking about Islam. God, He'll deal with Islam. He's worried about His people right now, the Jews and the Christians. I think that's pretty obvious. Judgment comes to the house of God first, not to the Islamists, not to all these other evil people. It comes to us first to get us purified. That's why it's called the time of Jacob's trouble. That's why it's called the seven-year tribulation or purification journey, however one wants to look at it, because He's coming for us. He wants us to get right, us to be spotless, and then He will deal with Islam, and all these other evil people. He will do that. Right now, He's allowing us to get our attitudes and our heart positions like Moses. And until we do that, it's just going to be what you're seeing right now, all over the world, because God's people are not acting like Moses, including myself. We've got to get back to the circumcision of heart that He had: love God, love neighbor, love the covenant, understand the covenant, and love people, man, and do the Great Commission. I mean, He could have easily said, "Go destroy these people, God. I'm the righteous one. Build me a great nation out of me." He could have easily said that. And goodness, I'm sure all the some people would say that right now, the leaders of Christianity and the leaders of Judaism would say that, "Yeah, I'm the one who's holy, not the people." No, we're all bad. And we need the grace of the blood of the Lamb, which He sprinkled upon the people in Exodus 24, and to be good and to be righteous, not to create different holidays for Jesus and all this crazy paganism. No way, Jose. That is not biblical whatsoever. And He tells you that He wants us to understand this. So, please understand it from Moses. Go read what he has, what the story is. And it's not all peaches and cream when people are in idolatry with their golden calf, or my golden calf, or whoever's golden calf. It's really that important.

So, the rest of the chapter in Exodus 34, He reminds them of these commandments that He told them at Mount Sinai. You know, I'm not going to read all of them, but talking about the Sabbath, talking about the Feast of Weeks, the 50-day counting of the Omer, etc. Three times a year, your people, the Jewish men, need to be in Jerusalem on Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, and Tabernacles. He gives you the Firstfruits, all of these things. And then look at what He ends with, verse 27: "Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.' So he was with the Lord 40 days and 40 nights; he neither ate nor drank. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments." My friends, that ended on the Feast of Yom Kippur, which is totally amazing, the Day of Atonement, which is when Yeshua Himself will deliver the nation of Israel as well. Amen and amen and amen.

So again, Moses, Yom Kippur, Yeshua will redeem the nation of Israel on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement as well. Totally phenomenal how that works. One quick reminder, or two things really quick. Again, the book of Exodus, my friends, if you've never read the book of Exodus according to the calendar, you're missing some very cool understandings. I say that in love to everybody, but you're missing some great gems by not following the calendar with the story of Exodus because, guess what? Exodus 12, verse 1-2, "Moses, this is your first month." They call it Nisan 1. Aviv 1, Nisan 1, however you want to call it, is Nisan 1. So that's Exodus 12. Well, again, you keep on reading through the story, the counting of the Omer, the 50-day journey that goes to Shavuot. So, right in alignment, Exodus 19, Exodus 20, Shavuot. And then He goes up upon the mountain and gets the instructions. And then He comes back in the golden calf, Exodus 32, which is Tammuz 17th. So He's taking you on this beautiful journey according to the calendar. And then to Tammuz 17th, you have another set of 40 days after the first 40, there was no reassurance, and then He came down, went back up again for the last set of 40 on Elul 1, the sixth month, 40 days to Tishrei 10, boom, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. All's forgiven, and then they started building the tabernacle from that day forward, and then six months later, they set it up on Nisan 1.

So my friends, if we can understand that trajectory, it's really going to help us personally with our purification. Number one, God's full of grace. I think that's obvious, right? If you read the story of Exodus 32 and Exodus 34, He could have wiped them all out, just like He said, in one moment. He could wipe them all out, and He did not, because of the covenant, all right? The promise of the Abrahamic covenant and because of His grace. And then He gave the people a chance. But also look at Moses' intercession. Look at the heart position. He was interceding for a rebellious people, a stiff-necked people, is what they called it in the Bible. And remember what Aaron did, which was out of alignment, the high priest creating a feast day. "Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord." That was Tammuz 17th, is what he was talking about. And that became a cursed day instead, a fast day. And then Yeshua is going to turn it into a feast day. Isn't that pretty cool? The high priest Yeshua. So there's a lot of correlations there, my friends, with these things. And Tammuz 17th, which is tonight, wherever you may be, and all day tomorrow till sundown, is a very pivotal day to understand what we've gone through tonight, but also the trajectory in the future, because something will happen on Tammuz 17th, just like it always does.

So now, with that being said, let's look at some of the examples or some of the things that occurred on this day, Tammuz 17th, and then we'll tie in the three weeks of sorrow before we end. So, five catastrophes that occurred on Tammuz 17th, the fast of the fourth month, and Zechariah 8.

1. Moses broke the two tablets of the Torah. When Moses descended from Mount Sinai and saw Israel worshiping the golden calf, he shattered the tablets in grief and in anger. This occurred on Tammuz 17th.

2. The walls of Jerusalem were breached by Nebuchadnezzar on Tammuz 9th. Okay, so he breached the walls on Tammuz 9th, and then on Tammuz 17th, the Babylonian army broke through the walls of Jerusalem, leading to the destruction of the First Temple on the Ninth Day of Av and the exile of Judah to Babylon.

3. The daily sacrifice was abolished during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem. The daily temple sacrifice ceased because there were no more lambs available, marking the beginning of the end of the First Temple. Nebuchadnezzar surrounded them and cut off the food supply. That's why there were no lambs in the temple in the city.

4. A Roman officer named Apostamus publicly burned a Torah scroll, an act of deep desecration against the Jewish people and the Word of Elohim.

5. An idol was placed in the temple, either by King Manasseh, who was an evil king, or by the Romans. An idol was erected in the Holy Temple on Tammuz 17th. Idolatry, a direct violation of the commandments of Yah.

6. Additionally, the Romans breached the walls of Jerusalem on Tammuz 17th during the siege that led to the destruction of the Second Temple.

So again, my friends, you see all these calamities that happened on this cursed day of Tammuz 17th, and it will happen again in the future, some way, somehow. Although Tammuz 17th became a cursed day in Jewish history, Israel's history, and is a fast day according to the prophet Zechariah, it will become a joyful and glad and cheerful feast day during Messiah's millennial kingdom. Amen. Amen and amen.

Okay, a couple more points before we close tonight. Number one, the three weeks of sorrow. If one's not familiar with that, it goes on the two days that we're talking about tonight, Tammuz 17th, for three weeks to the Ninth Day of Av, the next month, the fifth month, the Ninth Day. That is when both temples were destroyed was on the Ninth Day of Av. It is the most cursed Jewish day in history. The Ninth Day of Av, a lot of calamities, a lot of exiles of the Jewish people in England and Spain and you name it, Spanish Inquisition. So we'll go through that in three weeks. But again, these are very important markers. The fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth, Tammuz 17th, the Ninth Day of Av. Fast of the fourth to Tammuz 17th, fast of the fifth, Ninth Day of Av, a very important season that we're in. That doesn't mean that you have to be depressed for all three weeks. Of course not. Please enjoy life, especially if you're living accordingly. Enjoy life. You know, just understand and reflect in prayer, meditation, you know, what this day truly means to in history with Israel, personally for ourselves, but also prophetically when we look at our Jewish friends and also our Christian friends, you know, with what this day truly means. No idolatry is what this day truly means, and something to remember what this day means.

So again, this begins what they call the three weeks of sorrow, or the dire straits, wherever we do remember why the temples were destroyed because of disobedience. Also, the book of Jeremiah, the book of Lamentations is read as well, and that's why we're going to be going through those. I think it's a very important time to do that. You know, I think most people do it anyhow. So, we'll be doing it online. The book of Jeremiah, we'll go through the entire book. We're going to go by the order of the kings by their reign because you'll read it in a more proper order than just reading the book the way it's written, laid out. It's not in order. So, we'll just read it according to the kings, and you'll be in mostly proper order. But I think Jeremiah and Moses are two great prophets that we need to read during this time because look at what they said to Israel and to all people who love God: we've got to get this right. We've got to get this right because bad things are going to come if not. You know, we all know bad things are going to come; that's prophesied. But our job is the Great Commission. Our job is to love people. Our job is to do our part, just like Moses did his part for the people and for God, the two greatest commandments.

So during these three weeks, for me, it's about the Great Commission, and it's about getting people to understand why all these bad things happened to the temples, to Jerusalem, to the people, and why they were exiled because of disobedience. And it goes back into idolatry. It goes back into all breaking God's commandments, especially in the promised land. And unfortunately, today we're seeing the same things today in the promised land. And it just grieves all of us, I'm sure. But we've got to get it right because God is very serious about His land. Again, this is His land, and that land has commandments and statutes and ordinances that it has to follow. If not, the land will vomit the people out of the land, just like it did before, twice. And we've got one more bad time coming.

My friends, right now is the time to intercede for Christians, for Jewish people, for Israelis, for atheists, for Buddhists, for whoever, because idolatry is all over the place, as we all know. And that's truly what this day truly is about. Tammuz 17th, the three weeks of sorrow, it only gets stronger. And then boom, the Ninth Day of Av is the culmination of the remembrance of these things. And then after that, we get a Day of Love on the 15th. But before that Day of Love, I think it's obviously important to recognize what we've talked about tonight and what the scriptures have talked about tonight in the heart posture that we have to have on all of these points that we've read tonight.

So, the three weeks of sorrow, or the dire straits, also commence on Tammuz 17th and end on the Ninth Day of Av, Tishab. These three weeks commemorate the sin of the golden calf on Tammuz 17th after the Exodus from Egypt and culminate on the Ninth Day of Av, which is when the 10 spies brought back the bad report during the second year of the Exodus as they were about to enter the promised land. So again, my friends, these are two great sins that our ancestors did. And I'm sure a lot of other people would do the same thing back in those days. So again, it's just to understand it, no condemnation. I mean, that's history; we just have to understand it. So these three weeks are very important because two bad things happened three weeks apart: Tammuz 17th, the golden calf, and then the Ninth Day of Av was the second year. So the golden calf happened the first year of the Exodus. Then they went through; they built the tabernacle; they set it up on Nisan 1. Then on the fifth month, they created the sin of the 10 spies brought back the bad report. They were actually sent out on Tammuz 1. They were actually sent out on the fourth month, on Tammuz 1. 40 days later, on the Ninth Day of Av, they brought back the bad report, 10 of them. That's why the Ninth Day of Av became a cursed day is because they did not have faith in Yah to deliver them in the promised land. They went against Him.

So, we all know what happened. They spent 40 years in the desert; everyone died but Joshua and Caleb and their families and the new generation that were under 20 years old, I believe. So again, God is very serious about these things, my friends, especially to our Israeli friends in the promised land. Very serious on what's going down right now with some of these things that we've seen with the homosexuality stuff, the pride in Tel Aviv, and many other things as well. We've got to be the light and we've got to do the Great Commission. No condemnation, no judgment. I love all people, but goodness gracious alive, let's look around, see what's going down, and let's quote the scriptures. And if they have a problem with Moses, then whoever that may be, Jews or Christians, then okay, that's on them. If they have a problem with Jeremiah, okay, that's on them. Because, as I say before, everybody says they love these people; they love the prophets; they love Moses. Everybody does. But when they read them, they're calling them out on what they do. So, I'm not sure how they're reading them, but they're calling people out. They're calling Christians out of creating different feast days than the Lord. He's calling you out in Exodus 32 through 34. He's calling you out, Christian friends, Israeli friends as well, who are in idolatry. So, to me, that's the story: to read what they say. And that's why they were persecuted; that's why some of them were killed; that's why they wanted to stone Moses. And guess what? When the Two Witnesses come on earth again, whoever you have on those, Enoch, Elijah, Moses, whoever, the Jews and the Christians will hate them again. And of course, Islam will as well because they will tell everybody to get it together and follow God's commandments. That's why they're sent for us to warn. Not about Antichrist. Forget Antichrist; who cares about Antichrist? I would be worried about the Day of Adonai, Yeshua, the Messiah, the sword out of His mouth, the righteous Judge. Who cares about Antichrist? Who cares about all this stuff? If I can say this in love, what I see personally is we've got to be careful of the spirit of fear. In Israel, in America, everybody is so concerned about everybody else on this earth but themselves and their nation. God says if we worry about ourselves and if we obey, we don't have to worry about our enemies. That's what God says. I don't know who believes that, but that's what God says. If we obey, we don't have to worry about our enemies. But if we don't obey, then He's going to bring the enemies against us, just like He says in His Torah. And everybody knows that. So, I'm not sure why we're so focused on Iran and nuclear weapons and the terrorists and all these people. Worry about us; worry about what we do, and God will take care of the nuclear weapons. He'll take care of Persia; He'll take care of Turkey and whoever else. But what I see is a spirit of fear everywhere. Everybody's worried about the wrong thing instead of worried about themselves and our nations that we are in, wherever that may be. Worry about that, and God will take care of the enemies. And if we don't, then yeah, I guess have the spirit of fear, everybody, because you need to be worried about nuclear weapons if you're out of alignment with God. Can't you see there's a huge difference in mindset here, in heart position? Everybody's so focused on the enemy or the terrorist or whoever you want to call these people. They need to be focused on themselves, and ourselves, and myself. And then God will take care of them, which He will, when they do that. When they repent, the Jewish people repent, He's going to take care of all these people, period. That's it. I mean, the gavel will be given, but until that time, until they repent, it's going to be this because they, and the Christian Zionists, and Christians are worried about the wrong thing. They've got the spirit of fear. Everybody's worried about nuclear weapons and North Korea and China, everybody else. Worry about ourselves, our nation, and obedience. If we do that, who cares what people do? Who cares what nuclear weapons? And none of that stuff really, who cares? But people need to really start to worry about Adonai and not about Antichrist. Who cares about Antichrist? Worry about Yeshua coming with the sword to all who practice falsehood. That's what I would be concerned with if I was out of alignment, worshiping a different way and acting, not even believing in Yeshua, whatever it may be. That's what I would worry about, not a human antichrist as indwelled by Satan. Who cares? We have more power than that. Please, the Holy Spirit does.

So, my friends, I come to you in love. I really do. But these are very, these summer months are tough. They're tough months. And I'm not saying not to enjoy your life. Please enjoy your life, but in a godly way, and get out of the idolatry of whoever may be in it. Because again, you read it tonight, Aaron the high priest, "Let's make a feast to the Lord on our own selves." And God cursed it. God made it a laughing day. Not really laughing; it was deadly. 3,000 people died. That's how serious it is, my friends. But the three weeks of sorrow, again, that doesn't mean you have to be depressed for three weeks. But just have some time of reflection as a brother to you, reflection on ourselves, on our nation, wherever we live. Look at America. Look at wherever you live. Look at Israel. Look at all nations are out of alignment right now. And that's why we're getting dealt the business right now, and we'll continue to be dealt the business. Everybody wants to pick all these sides. No. The gavel. Israel's out of alignment. America's out of alignment. Iran's out of alignment. Turkey's out of alignment. Everybody's out of alignment. And that's why God's just turned everybody over to violence. Let violence take over the world. Then He's going to get the gavel with the beast kingdom. And then here you go; we'll find out where everybody stands.

But my friends, this is where it's going. If one has not understood what's going down in the Middle East, I mean, go look at the Middle East. Go look around. Not too many believers are in the Middle East, by the way. Look at 500 million Muslims, 7 million Jewish people. Most of them are not believers. Well, Muslims are not. So, you've got a lot of unbelievers right now that need the Great Commission over there, not death. They need the Great Commission, or they will receive eternal death. That's Jew or Muslim. And that's what people need to look at. Jews and Muslims are unbelievers right now. And we've got to do our part to enlighten them, to cross over to the other side, because time is getting nigh. There's people getting killed all over the place over there. And if they don't believe in Yeshua, from what the Bible says, they're going to hell. So again, God can save anybody who He wants. But it says in the scriptures that no one comes to the Father except through the Son, Yeshua, the Messiah. So if a Jewish person dies right now without Yeshua, they're going to hell. Muslim hell. Christian, well, it depends. Ways to worship and all these things.

So friends, it's time to get really serious with all three Abrahamic faiths because all three of them are not following Genesis to Revelation. None. Well, Islam, of course not. But Judaism does not. They don't believe in Yeshua; they don't believe in the Brit Chadashah, the New Testament. Christians, they don't believe in the Torah; they just ain't life grant. So, we've got to realize this and come to the truth of these things so that we're in alignment, because the pressure is only going to get harder. You ain't seen nothing yet. As we say in the South, you ain't seen nothing yet. It's going to keep being turned up, turn up the pressure because God's people has got to come to Him. And He says to "buy fine gold for Me, lukewarm church. Buy fine gold for Me, and go through the fire." What is that? The purification. The seven-year purification. The time of Jacob's trouble. But it's the time for purification. And that's why I call it the purification, the seven-year purification, not the tribulation, because the Jews and the Christians are going to go through it to be cleansed, to be purified, to be solid, to be white, to be cleansed before our Savior comes with the sword and the rod of iron. Amen. And amen and amen.

My friends, I want to close out with this one scripture. It's one of my favorite scriptures in the Bible to give everybody, including myself, the inspiration to travail during this time, in a time in the future. Always put this in your heart because this is what the prophet Daniel said. And what a great understanding this is. "At that time Michael shall stand up, that great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation, even to that time." Matthew 24 confirms that. "And at that time your people shall be delivered, the remnant, everyone who is found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt. Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness shall shine like the stars forever and ever. Amen. But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase." Amen. "And he said, 'Go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.'"

And this is for all of you as well, believers in Yeshua. This is your allotment as well. If you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham. And for the covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the land peace, the allotment. Go your way till the end, Daniel, for you shall rest, and rise to your inheritance at the end of the days, which is the Abrahamic covenant. Daniel will receive his inheritance just like you will, just like the disciples will, and just like all the believers, the one new body and the one new man in Jerusalem in the millennial kingdom as the seed of David and the seed of Abraham fulfills the land peace of the Abrahamic covenant and sits on David's everlasting throne. That's why it's called the seed of David and the seed of Abraham, Yeshua the Messiah, in the name and blood of Yeshua. Amen and amen and amen.

Friends, please take that as beautiful things. Those with knowledge will shine like the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness, all of you will shine like the stars forever and ever. Amen. And amen and amen. Thank you very much, everybody, for being with us tonight. I hope you guys spend some time these three weeks with Adonai, with this heart posture towards Tammuz 17th, or the fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and how important it is for us to understand it, to understand the fast day. Why did it become a fast day? Historical, personal, prophetic, and what does that mean for Jews and Christians? What does that mean for mankind? What does that mean for idolatry? What does that mean for all of these things that we've discussed?

So, thank you so much for being with us tonight, and I hope you guys have an easy fast, those who fast. Remember, this fast is from dawn to sundown tomorrow. Again, pray into that, especially if you have medical issues, problems, whatever health issues, please pray into that instead of just going on a fast. Pray to Adonai. Fasting is just not about food; it's not just about water either. Some people need to fast from social media, right? So fasting could be a lot of different things. So just pray to Adonai. But the most important thing, my friends, is to fast with your heart posture towards His commandments. Fast with the understanding of what He told Moses about this day. Fast according to that and get the revelation that God is wanting to give to you tonight.

Please remember to visit us on our website. We are daily adding new gadgets and gadgets and all these fun stuff, and also just books; more books will be coming on the way as well, and music will be coming, etc., etc. I think you can watch the videos on YouTube on the website as well. Also, there is an AI on there that, again, if one has a question that you want my personal opinion, you can type in the question or whatever, and it'll take you, give you a little summary of what my opinion is, but also to the video and the exact marker on the video that I talk about it. Pretty cool stuff, isn't it? I didn't do that; I'm not that's not my skill set, but my father did it, so I thank him for it. God bless him. But it's a cool little gadget. And again, if you just want my personal opinion or an understanding of the biblical calendar or whatever it may be, all you do is just type in the question to ask Chadwick, or whatever it's called, and then it'll take you to the right video and also to the marker. It's pretty amazing technology. So, we hope you guys visit us there. Please sign up on the email so we can stay in touch with you through newsletters and events and upcoming things, and we look forward to seeing everybody there.

And also again, we will be going to Israel as well. So if the Lord leads you, pray about it. Of course, we do respect your time; we do respect your money. We'll be going through all the great historical places, but we'll also be going the prophetic as well with the Day of Adonai on the three major battle points of the second coming events, which is Mount Megiddo, the Valley of Jezreel, the northern part, Jerusalem, the middle part, and then also the southern Jordan Valley, the third part. That distance equals what the Apostle John told us in the book of Revelation, that there'll be blood four feet high for 180 miles, or 1,600 feet long, that will carry you from the Armageddon Valley of Jezreel all the way to the Dead Sea area to around Mount Sinai, where He will meet the people again face to face, just like Moses met with Yah face to face. He put on the veil. Yeshua will meet them face to face, and He'll take off the veil, and they will be His people, and He will be their God, in the name and blood of Yeshua. Amen. Amen. And amen.

So friends, we'll go to the comments section now and see what happens. But thank you again for being with us tonight. If you don't stay with us, we hope you have an easy fast, and also we hope you have a great Fourth of July this week, as we remember our independence, and that goes into the spiritual understanding of what we talked about tonight as well, about obedience as well. Amen. Shalom to you, Michael. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you again. We hope you're having a great week, and we hope you have an easy fast. Miss Denise, Shalom to you. Always great to see you. We hope all is well in the Northeast, and we hope you enjoy the fast. Have an easy fast as well, Tammuz 17th, for the three weeks of sorrow as well. Miss Sandra, always great to see you as well. We hope all is well with you, and we hope you have an easy fast as well, and a great Fourth of July, and also to you as well, Denise, as well. Have a great Fourth of July. Miss Calcow, always great to see you. Happy Fourth of July, and hope you have a happy Fourth of July and enjoy the three weeks of sorrow as well with the revelation. And Mr. Michael, "My birthday is this month." Well, happy birthday to you. It's a great month, the fourth month, or yeah, the fourth month of Tammuz. It is a great month. It's really the fourth month. The number four is creative works. So this is a beautiful, beautiful month. And it can be good judgment. It doesn't always have to be bad judgment, right? But this is a month of judgment, and it can be good or bad. And unfortunately, in the scriptures, it's bad for the nation, but individually, of course, it can be very good. So, happy birthday to you. We hope you have a blessed year ahead and a great day. Mr. Michael, "I want interactive Bible courses, Genesis to Revelation." Okay, we'll try our best. We're doing all we can to get these things up, so we'll try our best to make that happen for you. Okay. I don't like the summer. It is pretty hot, isn't it? Especially in the South, with the humidity. So, there's a lot of people who have that sentiment. But at the same time, these summer months of the biblical calendar are very important to understand through the scriptures and through history and personal revelation as we prepare ourselves for the month of repentance in the month of Elul, the sixth month, and ultimately for Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, when the books are open for the individuals and the nations for 10 days, and then they're sealed on Yom Kippur for the year. And we'll go through that more as we get close to it. But we can show you that in the scriptures through the story of Joseph. Joseph was released on the Feast of Trumpets. We can show you that in Genesis 41. Nebuchadnezzar went into exile on the Feast of Trumpets as well. We can show you that as well. And so there's two individuals and also nations as well that can be judged. We can show that in the scripture. So, it's very important to understand the times and the seasons of the Most High. Why is that? Because the Apostle Paul says that we'll be caught as a thief in the night if we don't understand the times and the seasons in 1 Thessalonians 5. So, when Paul says that to all my Christian friends out here, he's meaning the calendar and the feast days in Leviticus 23. That's what Paul, the Jewish rabbi, would have understood. He would have been talking about that. A Messianic Jewish rabbi would have said, "The times and the seasons are God's calendar and the moed, the feast days of Adonai." Amen.

Okay, my good friend here, Mr. Roland, "Zechariah 8:19 caused me to scratch my head several times. Thank you for teaching on the subject. It's hard to find answers to questions about the verse." Yeah, and that's just my personal opinion. And while we're talking about, let's go look at it really quick to go back through it to see to see this really quick. Let me see if I can get here to it. Okay, so yeah, here we go. Let me supersize this for all of us. Zechariah 8:19. This is what it says: "Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.'" So again, this is my personal opinion, and again, I'll explain it to people who might not understand the different days. Tammuz 17th was the golden calf, which we went through tonight. The Ninth Day of Av was when the 10 spies brought back the bad report because they were supposed to enter the promised land then, and they had to wait 40 years to do that because of disobedience. Tishrei 3 is when they killed the high priest. They murdered the high priest Gedaliah, I believe his name. And then Tevet 10 is when Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls to that 10 on that day as well. So Yahweh is trying to get us to understand the causes of disobedience and causing these fast days. I mean, you look at idolatry, you look at lack of faith in God, idolatry to Tammuz 17th, lack of faith in Yah, Av 9, the bad report, Tishrei 3, murder, and then Tevet 10, the judgment. Nebuchadnezzar came to town. So again, we've got to really understand this, my friends. He will bring a Nebuchadnezzar upon us if we're not careful. And again, that will happen. They call him the Antichrist, but I would really look at it as Nebuchadnezzar because he's going to do exactly what Nebuchadnezzar did. He's going to rock and roll the Middle East. So, we've got to really look into it truthfully about, yes, Antichrist against Christ, of course, but really a Nebuchadnezzar anointing of destruction across the Middle East with war and bad, bad stuff ahead. So, my friend, that's just my personal opinion, Mr. Roland, that I have, and I hope that gives something to pray into.

Mr. Roland, "The meaning of Zion is a dry place, a signpost, a traditional fortress." I didn't know that. Thank you very much for sharing those definitions. "Dry place," which we know that Israel is dry desert; "a signpost," of course; and "traditional fortress." Amen. Thank you so much for sharing that with us, Mr. Michael. "Jesus' kingdom for eternity." Or friend, you will be there. Your heart position is where it needs to be with God and neighbor and enemy, so you're following the commandments, right? The worship ways and things like that, Sabbath, feast days, so man, you're good.

Miss Denise, "But I will encampment at my temple to guard it against marauding forces. Never again will an oppressor overrun my people, for now I am keeping watch." And that is Zechariah 9:8. The prophet Zechariah is amazing. It's hardcore stuff, some of it, but there is always redemption and restoration. Excuse me. Okay, Mr. Roland, from the noun, "dry place," or "signpost," from the verb "sah" to be dry or to command, from an Arabic verb that means to defend, cleansing our temple from our religious traditions. Amen to that. Amen. Amen to that. Excuse me. That is encampment. Yes. Okay. And Miss Denise says, "Zechariah 14, very hardcore stuff." Not sure what I was talking about, but Zechariah 14 is very hardcore. That's one of those passages that people don't really like to read because of what it says. And so there will be one more exile with our Jewish friends, our Israeli friends over in Israel. Messiah says to flee to the mountains. We all know that. Matthew 24, Zechariah 14, half of the city will go into captivity. Bad things happen to women. All of these things that are not pleasant to talk about. We do need to talk about them because again, they're going to happen. One of the things that I personally see, I've got friends over in Israel, and I remember being over in Israel probably when was it, 2020, I believe, right before COVID, and I was visiting one of my Israeli friends over there who's a believer, and he was showing me all these scriptures that, you know, "this is the final return," and this is, and so I say this in love to him and to other Israelis and Jewish people, this is not the final return. There's one more bad time coming. It's called the time of Jacob's trouble. It's going to be bad. We all know what the scriptures say in Zechariah 8, Zechariah 9, Zechariah 14. We all know these things. What Jeremiah says, what Ezekiel, Isaiah, Moses, Yeshua, you name it, John the Revelator, we all know there's going to be one more bad time. So, that is what I see in some Israeli friends of mine, and really the people of Israel over in the land. They believe there's not going to be a bad time. They believe the Jewish Messiah is going to show up, and it's going to be awesome. And they just don't have the timeline right. There's going to be a time of trouble coming. Daniel 12, Matthew 24. The covenant with death, Isaiah 28. But it will be annulled. The time of Jacob's trouble, but he will be saved out of it. Not he's saved out of it, then the time of Jacob's trouble. No. The time of Jacob's trouble, the seven years, then be saved out of it. Isaiah 28 again, the covenant with death, which they will sign, and it will be annulled at the end. Thank God. That's the communication that we need to have to our Israeli friends, not "the Jewish Messiah is going to show up and ain't life grand." No, there's judgment because of what's going on in the promised land right now and what's going down. The time of Jacob's trouble. So, that's the message to the Jewish people is Jeremiah 16: "The hunters are coming." They're already here. Can't we see this? Anti-Semitism is higher than it's ever been since the Holocaust. The people in Israel are in the worst position they've been in since AD 70, the ones who are in the land right now. No, this is not a good thing at all right now with what's going on, because there's a time of trouble coming, not deliverance right now. Trouble, then deliverance, once we get corrected. So again, some of these passages people don't like to read them, but we need to read them because it circumcises our heart and it puts the fear of Adonai in a good way in our heart to stay in obedience instead of disobedience. So again, Zechariah 14 is hardcore, and I'm sure we'll be going through the book of Zechariah more as we go forward, but these hardcore scriptures we need to understand because from what I think we can all see is we're not getting the victories like we should be getting if we're in obedience. We're not, as America, as Israel, we're just not getting the victories. 25 years, and there's something going down, and it's called disobedience in both countries. In both countries, we have to wake up and understand Christians and Jews. We've got to understand this to get into obedience with Yeshua, Holy Spirit, and the instructions of Yahweh with the ways to worship. Most Christians are trying to be good people. Awesome. We've got to get to the ways to worship the right way, my Christian friends, not just being good people. We've got to worship Him in spirit and in truth. Not my spirit, not your spirit, not your truth, not my truth, the Holy Spirit through His truth, through our spirit to Him. We've got to get this right because things are not going to go well. Things aren't going well. I mean, it's not the golden age, everybody. It's the end of the age. I think that's pretty understandable now when you look at the Middle East and look at just the chaos it is. And no one has a clue what's going on over there other than God. He's the one who's allowed all of these people just to turn them over to violence because that's what they want. The spirit of hate and the spirit of fear is in the Middle East. And they haven't seen anything yet. They really haven't. And our prayers need to be for all of them over there, the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims, the Alawites, everybody over there. They are in the surprise of their life is what's coming, and it's not going to be good at all. So the prayers need to be for the people to wake up, and for all of us to do the Great Commission. And if people get offended by that, then let them be offended. That's what the gospel does. That's what the Torah does. The gospel is the Torah, and the Torah is the gospel. I've said that before. If people don't understand that, I'll try to explain it to you.

Let me pull up one more slide so that it might make better sense if I can show you through the slides here. Okay, but the gospel is the Torah, and the Torah is the gospel. How do we know that? Well, number one is this right here. Let me see if I can get to it. I'm on a mouse these days, and sometimes this mouse doesn't like to work. Okay, so we know the gospel account is about Yeshua, right? It's about Yeshua's crucifixion and resurrection, right? That is the gospel, right? The Savior of the world. John 3:16. Well, guess what? That's Leviticus 23, what I'm showing you right now. Passover is when He was crucified. Firstfruits is when He was resurrected. That's the gospel, everybody, in Leviticus 23. So, you tell me, the Torah is the gospel; the gospel is the Torah. When He poured out His Holy Spirit on Pentecost, again, the gospel. Fall feast days, He's returning for second coming events. How beautiful is that? That's what we've got to get our Christian friends to understand. That's what I was saying earlier: the time, the calendar. This is what Paul says: "Now, people will be caught as a thief in the night if they don't understand this." Paul says that in 1 Thessalonians 5: "Know the time and know the seasons." The seasons is Moed, the moed, the divine appointments, the feast days. That's it. That's what the rabbi was talking about, Paul. He is a Messianic rabbi, and that's what he would have understood as the times and the seasons, not the Gregorian calendar and all of the days on it. He would have been eliminated from being a true prophet if he said that. He would have understood the Torah and wrote from that understanding of the Torah, the time and the seasons, the calendar and the feast days is what it is.

And my friend Michael, you're exactly correct. It's time to grow up. It's time to grow up. It's time to get off this nonsense and grow up and understand it's the time of our visitation. Yeshua told the Jewish people in Luke on Nisan 10 when He rode in on a donkey to Jerusalem. The believers, the remnant, the remnant always understands, everybody. The remnant were seeing the "Hosanna in the highest, Son of David, save now! Save now!" is what they were saying. The unbelievers, or the people, had no clue about what was going on. This is what Yeshua told them in Luke 19:41-44, that "the days are going to come upon you when you are going to be embanked by all of your enemies, you and your children," future tense, "because of why you did not understand the time of your visitation," is what He told them. Think about that. They were killing the Passover lamb for 1,500 years on Passover, Nisan 14. The Lamb of God, they should have known that was coming into town, Nisan 14. They didn't get it. And what happened? They were destroyed by Rome in AD 70. The time of the visitation, everybody. So, if He wanted them to understand the time of their visitation, do you think He wants the Christians to understand the time of visitation for the second coming events with the Jewish people as well? Of course.

So again, we've got to use not only biblical sense but common sense as well to understand it's not just all for the Jewish people only, and they get all the commandments and they get whatever. No, it's for the Christians as well. It's not partial. He's not partial at all. Now, do the Jewish people have certain things that are important for the Christians to understand? Of course, so they are the elect of all the things that they were given to give to us, to be a light to us. So of course, the pure royal lineage had to be through the Jewish people, the seed of David, seed of Abraham, all of that. So of course, but at the same time, the ways to worship our Elohim, the way to worship our Father in heaven, one God, not two or three different ways or 50 different ways. That is polytheistic. He is monotheistic. Unfortunately, Jerusalem is polytheistic now. America's polytheistic. Everybody is polytheistic instead of monotheistic. And that's what the prophets railed the people about. Moses did as well: you can't be polytheistic. A lot of different religions in the one. Everybody worships the same God. No, we don't. We don't at all.

Mr. Roland, "We have all sinned and fall short of the glory or face of God. Help me become like you, O God, just like Jesus." Amen. Amen. We all have. These are great reminders. Tammuz 17th, the Ninth Day of Av, Tevet 10, Tishrei 3, the fast days, the feast days. All these things are great reminders of what our friend just said here. We all fall short. But by the grace of Yeshua, the Messiah, and of our Father, He forgives us through the blood if our heart position is for it. If we're just disobedient just to be disobedient, the grace doesn't come in. If our heart position is for Him, for the commandments, we try our best. Okay, try our best. And then when we fall short, and we will, that's when the grace comes in. And this is a beautiful thing, man, when the grace comes in. When you're trying your best, you know what would be disappointing? If we were all trying our best and we still fall short, and there's no grace. That would be disappointing. And I'm not saying go be disobedient; I'm saying when we do, when we make an error, so to speak, wouldn't it be disappointing if we didn't have the grace and when we're all trying our best to follow the ways of Yahweh? And again, Deuteronomy 28 through 30 says it's not too far from you. You can do this. You can follow all of the commandments. It's not in heaven that you should go get it or beneath the sea that you have to go get it. It's right here in your heart, you know, if you're positioned the right way to do it, you know, that's what Moses said. You know, that's what He says. So, I want to trust Him. And just like Yeshua says, if you don't believe in Moses, then you're not going to believe in someone who rose from the dead, talking about Himself. Very powerful.

What does Exodus 19:9 say? He told the people who love Him that we're going to believe Moses how long? The first coming? No. Second coming? No. Forever. We're going to believe Moses forever. Why? Because of the commandments of Yah out of His mouth. His commandments are holy because He is holy. And that's why it's so amazing, in a bad way, that Christianity doesn't want anything to do with His holy ways. Think about that. They don't want anything to do with His holy ways to worship at all. Think about that. How egregious that is. A slap in His face. You know, it's really that important. I love everybody. I love Christians. I grew up in Christianity, but I've left Christianity because I wanted to follow the Jewish Messiah, is what I did. And His name is Jesus. So I left Christianity to follow Jesus, everybody. So people can figure that out for themselves because Christianity just, there's no way of worship that follows at all. They make, they're just like Aaron did, create a feast on their own good, and what God judged the people for on the golden calf. Very powerful to understand that.

Miss Denise, "I work out our salvation with fear and trembling." That's what the Apostle Paul says: "Work out our salvation with fear," a healthy fear of Adonai, and also trembling, because just like Romans 11 says, He could cut us off as well, just like He cut the Jewish people off who weren't believers. Man, that's the Apostle Paul, Romans 11. Miss Bridget, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you. We hope all has been well. We hope you have a great week, and hope you enjoy the revelation of Tammuz 17th and the Ninth Day of Av. And we hope you have a great Fourth of July. Thank you so much for joining us, and amen. And Miss Linda, thank you so much for joining us. Shalom to you. Thank you so much for your heart. I really do appreciate you. And we hope you have a great Fourth of July as well, and enjoy the revelation of the three weeks of dire straits as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you as always.

Okay, Miss Linda, "Is it now Tammuz 17th since sundown has occurred?" Yes, ma'am. So, wherever one may be at sundown today, yes, that is Tammuz 17th starts now. The fast itself, unless somebody can correct me from my knowledge, the fast is from dawn tomorrow to sunset. You know, it's not a full fast like the Ninth Day of Av is. The Ninth Day of Av is a full fast. So again, it's a buildup. Tammuz 17th, idolatry, the golden calf, all the way to the Ninth Day of Av, which will be a full fast for those who are led to do that, to truly remember why both temples were destroyed on that one day. Can you imagine the odds of that? Just the odds of that happening on one day, both temples being destroyed about 600 and something years apart. Truly amazing in a bad way. Okay. Mr. Skro, the Hebrew, great to see you again, my friend. We hope all has been going well. We hope you've been enjoying the beautiful summer and these beautiful days that we're in. We hope you have a great Fourth of July, and thank you again for joining us, my friend. And let me just read that. Excuse me. "Baruch Hashem Yom Yom." Blessed be Hashem day by day. Amen. And amen. Thank you very much for sharing that. "I need to rewind. Sorry for being late." That's okay, my friend. Thank you so much for joining us. I know we're all busy these days. Time slides by all of us, for sure. So, we just really appreciate everybody for being with us whenever you can, for a couple minutes, 10 minutes, an hour, replay, whatever it may be, we really do appreciate it. And thank you very much. And yes, if this has blessed you, if you could like it, that would be great. And also, if you haven't subscribed, please do. And again, we'd love to see you on the website. You can go on there for more information and more understanding as well with everything. So, we look forward to seeing everybody on there as well.

And Mr. Michael, "I cannot fast, and that is okay." You know, God understands that as well, and a lot of people cannot fast for whatever that reason may be, and that is okay. The main thing again is fasting with our heart posture, and what Moses was doing, his heart posture. People don't realize Moses didn't eat a lot of food and drink a lot of water for about 120 days. 40 days and 40 nights he was up on the mountain receiving the tabernacle instructions. No food, no water. When he came down, it doesn't say he ate; he brought the sword when he came down. But I guess he might have ate a little bit; we'll give him a little bit of credit there. And then he went back up for 40 days and 40 nights. No food, no water. Came back down. Maybe ate something. Who knows? Went back up. No food, no water. So people don't realize that 120 days. And he could have only done that in the presence of Elohim, of Adonai. But people don't really put that together. Remember, he was 80 years old when he did all this. Please understand that is supernatural strength to hike up Mount Sinai that many times with no food, no water. Only the strength, or what did Yeshua say? "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that Moses was getting from Adonai." Live by every word of the mouth of Elohim. Amen. So again, that is a mystery within itself to look at that. It's pretty amazing.

Okay, Monster Ball, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you again. We hope all has been going well. We hope you have a great week, and we hope you have a great Fourth of July weekend, and also the three weeks of sorrow as well. And just because it's a half-day fast doesn't mean you have to only fast half fast. Let me read that again. Trying to get my tongue tied, right? So, not too hard to do, of course. "Just because it's a half-day fast doesn't mean you have to only fast half fast." That's right. That's right. And thank you very much. I think I'm getting what you were putting down. So, thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it. Very good. Thank you so much. And we hope you enjoy this beautiful season that we're in as well, my friends. We are in a beautiful season. As you can see on the calendar, we're in these summer months, which are awesome months to, you know, spend time with your family and friends and things like that. But it's also to understand purification as well, you know, because that's what it truly is about when it's all said and done. And again, you can have both. You can have a great time, but you can also go through purification as well. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Okay? So, when I talk about these things, when I say stuff like "ain't life grand" and all that, please enjoy your life. I'm just being sarcastic or whatever, facetious sometimes with it, because sometimes that's what it seems like in other religions, but we're not about religions here, right? So, we're about observing the Word of God as Yeshua is our King, and the Holy Spirit is our Guide and our Leader and our Comforter and our Healer. You know, that's what we're about here. So, again, my friends, we really appreciate everybody for being with us tonight. We'll be going through again this journey, this journey that Moses warned us about, and also what the prophet Jeremiah. So, in the next three weeks, during this three-week journey, we'll be going through Moses' warning in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 through 30, which is hardcore, very hardcore, when we read it literally and what He said to the people who live in the land. And then also, we'll go through the book of Jeremiah. We'll have three videos, three kings in the book of Jeremiah that we'll go through, and three videos to understand God's wonderful attributes when He loves the people, but they're in disobedience, right? And what happens when we don't listen, when we don't listen to the prophets, when we don't listen to what the book has said, the Bible, and we act in disobedience, what occurs? You know, and again, my friends, one of the reasons why I want to do the book of Jeremiah is because it's going to bleed into the end of the age. People just look at Jeremiah's historical, and that's the problem that we're having: is they're looking at it historical, and then they're taking the Day of the Lord scriptures for right now, and both are in error. The historical, the historical portion of Nebuchadnezzar, I will show you when we read it, it bleeds into the second coming events. Leviticus 25 is a perfect example of that. It talks about Nebuchadnezzar destroying the Middle East, basically, but then at the end of the chapter, just talking about the second coming. It's talking about the Day of the Lord. So, what does that mean? Nebuchadnezzar is going to come again. Because again, the Antichrist is going to do pretty much what Nebuchadnezzar did with the Middle East. When you look at what he does, conquering Egypt, conquering Libya, conquering Sudan, he rocks them. And the Antichrist will rock him as well. That's Isaiah 19, tells you that. Turns him over to a cruel master, the Antichrist, Nebuchadnezzar, whoever. So, we've got to really understand the book of Jeremiah. He bleeds into the end of the age with it. And I think the things that we're seeing our brothers over there get involved with in the promised land that are not kosher, that are in disobedience, that's the same thing that Jeremiah would come against. And Moses would come against as well. So if we love the Israelis, if we love the Jewish people, which I know everybody does, then we need to help whoever wants to listen to understand this, because again, things are not going to be good for the land of Israel or the world. Really, the Middle East, the world, everybody. And that's the point of Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a priest and a prophet. Goodness, what an anointing this man had on him. A priestly anointing and a prophet, a prophetic anointing. And what he told the people was not very popular. But he did get the New Covenant. He got the New Covenant. Jeremiah 31, Jeremiah 30, the time of Jacob's trouble. I said that backwards. Time of Jacob's trouble. Jeremiah 30. He will be saved out of it into the New Covenant in Jeremiah 31. But we have to understand, and our Jewish friends need to understand, our Israeli friends need to understand that this is not deliverance time. This is judgment time for all of our Jewish friends to come to Yeshua or not. It's time for our Christian friends to come to the truth of worship or not. And that's why the time of Jacob's trouble is coming, not deliverance right now. Time of Jacob's trouble, then he will be saved out of it. The covenant with death, then it will be annulled. Once repentance occurs with the remnant. So my friends, that is the message. It's a hardcore message, but that's what the prophets have said. And again, everybody wants to be the prophet. So let's prophesy through the prophets. Let's prophesy through them in context, in love, to the best of our ability. It's tough sometimes because of the zeal, and when we see some of these things going down with the abominations, the detestable idols, what Jeremiah warned about, the fishermen and the hunters. This man got a lot of great revelation. That is for today, everybody, not just for history. It's for today. The fishermen and the hunters today. Please look around at anti-Semitism. Please look around at all the Jewish people being murdered in Europe, in Australia, etc., in America. Please realize that's where we are, the hunters. And the fishermen. Please understand the time of Jacob's trouble that he prophesied about as well. The fishermen and the hunters, Jeremiah 16. Jeremiah 30, the time of Jacob's trouble. Jeremiah 31, the millennial kingdom, the New Covenant. So again, he got a lot of great revelation. And then what does he get? He's a prophet to Israel and to the nations. When I say that, that's to the table of nations. That's to the biblical nations in Genesis 10. If you read them, he explains that when he talks about each nation drinking their cup. So everybody's going to drink their cup over there because God's going to make them drink it. Is what Jeremiah says. So that's Jeremiah 25. Israel will fill up their cup. The Islamic nations will fill up their cup and they will drink it. That's what the prophet says. So we've got to declare that. We've got to proclaim that so the remnant will wake up and understand this. In Israel, in the Islamic nations, there's a remnant. I mean, goodness, there's three or four million Iranians who've come to Yeshua in the last 5 to 10 years. Isn't that amazing? For the nation of Persia or Iran. Saudi Arabia seeing an underground church. All these Islamic hardcore nations, who's going to be the beast kingdom, they're going to have believers in the remnant come as well. All tribes, tongues, and nations will have a remnant. And we cannot forget that. It's not to go murder everybody and kill everybody. No, it's not. It's to do the Great Commission. Let the governments be the governments, man. Let the governments do what they want to do. Well, got to deal with them. But we've got to be the Great Commission. We've got to do that for all people, our enemies, our friends, and whoever else. And that's the commandment of Yeshua, by the way, is to love our enemies and to go to the Great Commission to all nations, including these hardcore Islamic nations who definitely need the love of Yeshua, just as well as our Israeli friends as well. So friends, a very important time we're living in right now, a very, very perilous time, as we know, but it is an awesome time. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I really wouldn't. If there's any other time I, there's no other time that I would rather be living in. Maybe the first coming events, but I think the second coming events is where people, I just love it. I want to be a part of it. I want to do my part in God's kingdom during this time because this is what it's all about. My friends, if you love God, if you love Jesus, if you love the Holy Spirit, if you love believers, if you love people, this is what it's about. You could have been born at any other time in history, and God chose to birth you right now to live in this world right now for a reason. Because the times are getting nigh. He's pouring out His Spirit on the remnant, and the remnant needs to shine like the prophet Daniel has commanded us to. And we'll read that before we get off here tonight. And I really appreciate everybody for being with us. But this is what one of the greatest revelations and the greatest love postures that we have is this right here. And let's read it from what the prophet recorded: "Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness, all of you during this time, you will shine like the stars forever and ever. Because many will be purified, made white, and refined, but the wicked shall do understand." And my friends, I'd like to leave you with that tonight, my friends. What a great revelation. Shine like the firmament. Shine like the stars in heaven. And my friends, it doesn't get any better than that. This world is passing away, but the Word of God will live forever and ever. Yeshua the Messiah. And since He is living forever and ever, and Yahweh is living forever and ever, that means anyone and everyone who puts their faith and trust and love and obedience to Him, they will live forever and ever as well. In the name and blood of Yeshua, Bashim Yeshua HaMashiach. Amen. Amen. And amen.

Couple more comments. "Don't read that fast." That's exactly right. Thank you very much for that. Tongue-tied. And Leviticus 19:18. And again, let me make sure I'm going to read that correctly. And we will let me see here. Um, Leviticus 19:18. And I'll read this for everybody: "You shall not take vengeance, revenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord." So my friends, that's what it's about: again, the heart posture, and also to love people. We've got to get back to love, we've got to get back to love instead of all this spirit of hate, spirit of fear that we see all over the place. We've got to get back to the spirit of love, right? And the spirit of life, the spirit of light. There's so many people say that they are pro-life. And I don't think that's correct. Everybody says they're pro-life until all these people get murdered all across the world, in Ukraine, and Russia, and the Middle East, and all this stuff, and no one's pro-life anymore. Everybody's got their religion on their back saying we can do all this stuff. No. It's called violence. The governments, let the governments do what they do. But the people of God, the peacemakers need to understand this, that we are to love people, to love our enemy, and to all obviously do the Great Commission and to spread the gospel and to teach them all things that He taught us, not to go be a part of some of these things that our brothers are a part of, Jews and Christians, both parties, and also the Muslims as well, the three Abrahamic faiths. Again, it goes back to the three Abrahamic faiths need to really get this together because what's coming to the Middle East is the beast kingdom in the future. So, my friends, we hope everybody has a beautiful Fourth of July. Remember our independence while we have it. You know, we all realize that on the channel, but please enjoy the Fourth of July weekend. It is a marker of this country. We know our country is in bad shape right now, but let's take a day to celebrate the country, but also to do our part in our country to realize that our independence will be taken away from us if we continue down the journey that we're doing right now. So, our independence will no longer be independence; we will be slaves if we do not understand that to get back to the Word of Elohim, and also to our Israeli friends as well, to get back to the obedience of the Torah, and everything will be okay, and He will put the enemies to the side if we get back to obedience. And if not, then He will bring the enemies against us, just like Leviticus 26 says, and Deuteronomy 28 through 30 says. He says He will bring them against us if we're in disobedience, but if we obey, obey, we don't have to worry about our enemies. So, let's all try to obey. Right. Amen.

Thank you very much, everybody, for being with us. Again, I am going to get off tonight. Right now, for sure. Thank you very much for being with us tonight on this important fast day, and let us understand it that way and go through these three weeks of sorrow. We'll be back with you here next week, sometime early next week. And until that time, may God bless you. May He keep you. May His face shine upon you and give you His grace. May He lift up His countenance upon you and your family and give you His everlasting shalom. Good night, everybody. Happy Fourth of July. And we'll see you again real soon. Shalom.