Tammuz 17th: A Cursed Day and Exodus Story

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.