God's Calendar and Being Set Apart

But my friends, tonight, Rosh Chodesh to everybody. It all begins and it all ends, my friends, with whatever subject you want to talk about, the Holy Bible, with God's calendar. We talk about it all the time because it's really that important, as all of you do know. But if one does not know that, I'll try to explain it to the best of my ability that God in Genesis 1:14 created His calendar. Can you believe that? In the very first chapter of Genesis. And so that's how important it is, my friends, to understand the times and the seasons. We talk about it all the time. If we understand the times and the seasons, then we understand we're going to have the knowledge of the end of the age with the prophecies, with the covenants, with the Table of Nations, etc. If we do not have the times and the seasons, then it's going to throw everything in the Holy Scriptures really off, you know, so to speak. So, we've got to have the times and the seasons. Most of us understand that on the channel. But my friends, we are in the fifth month, as you can see on the calendar, which is the month of Av. Okay, that's what they call it. So, it is a very important month. We are in that three weeks of dire straits. I'll mention that more as we get to that point of the video. But just to show you where we are, we're in this fifth month. And this month has to do with hearing, okay? It's about our ears to be able to hear. Just like the last month was about eyesight with Reuben. And now we have this month, it's about our hearing. Okay? So, right before we enter into the month of Elul, which is the sixth month on the biblical calendar, as you can see, then He wants to test our eyesight. He wants to test our ears. Remember, we just came out of our purification journey on the Omer to Shavuot. Then the 40-day testing from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th. And then Tammuz 17th to the ninth day of Av, we have the three weeks of dire straits. So, this is a time for purification. This is a time of reflection. This doesn't mean our life has to be depressed or don't enjoy your life. Of course not. But at the same time, to recognize the anointings of the calendar, to recognize the anointings of the scriptures through the calendar. It's super important to identify because the calendar is based upon the scriptures. The scriptures dictate the anointing of the calendar. Just like we talked about so many times. So, super important.

If you look at the trajectory of the biblical calendar and what we've experienced so far, and everybody can admit that it is a purification journey right from Passover to First Fruits, the resurrection, the Counting of the Omer to Shavuot, the Torah. The Holy Spirit was poured out on that day. And then He tests everybody 40 days, just like the Israelites were tested, and they made the golden calf on Tammuz 17th. So, then from that day to the ninth of Av, is the three weeks of dire straits or sorrows. But we remember why the Temple was destroyed, both of them, on the ninth day of Av. And that day is when the 10 spies brought back the bad report. So, that's why it became a fast day and a curse day as well, because two of Israel's major sins were on Tammuz 17th: the golden calf, and also the ninth of Av with the 10 spies bringing back the bad report of the promised land. Only Joshua and Caleb brought back the good report, and they were the only ones that were able to enter into the promised land, them and their families. So, my friends, again, this is a purification journey that He wants you to be on, He wants me to be on. Because once we go through Av and our ears get checked, just like our eyes got checked this past month, then now it's time for repentance, right? For whatever we need to repent with. The month of Elul is the month of repentance before the Feast of Trumpets, when the books are opened for the individuals and also for the nations, no matter if they know about it or not. The books are still open, and everybody is weighed in the balance. That's why the constellation is Libra in Tishrei, the seventh month, is because balance, the scales. Everybody's weighed in scales. I can show you that with the story of Joseph, also with the story of Nebuchadnezzar as well. Individual and empire that shows you the individuals and the nations are being judged, weighed in the balance for the year on the Feast of Trumpets, and sealed on the Feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.

So, my friends, the month of Elul is what I'm trying to get to is very important. Think about before Yeshua returns on the Feast of Trumpets, the month of Elul, the sixth month. Right before He returns. So, right before He returns, this month is going to come into play. That Elul is going to come into play. But before we get to the month of repentance, we have eyesight and hearing with the fourth and fifth months. And that's why both of those months have fast days in them: the fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, because He wants us to remember our eyesight on Tammuz 17th, because Aaron saw the golden calf. So, again, He wants us to check our eyesight. He wants to check our understanding as well. Are we going to be faithful to Him, or are we going to bring back the bad report? Which one are we going to be? The good report or the bad report? Are we going to speak out the gospel to the Jewish people and also to the nations, or not? You know, what is it going to be? So, again, this is a purification journey, and our eyesight and our ears are very important. Isaiah mentions it. Moses mentions it. Yeshua quotes Isaiah when He mentions it as well. And it's very important to identify with what the anointing of the biblical calendar truly is.

So, I wanted to show that from a trajectory standpoint. It's really amazing when you look at these first seven months of the biblical calendar. It's really totally amazing. It's really phenomenal at the purification that we can get if we understand. So, why do we understand the times? So that we can understand the seasons. This is really that simple. We have to understand the times, the calendar. We have to understand the seasons. We're going to read what Paul said about that or warned about that as we go forward. But my friends, on this channel, everybody knows it's very important to be set apart. You know, myself, you guys, we all try to be set apart as much as possible. No one's perfect, of course not. But that's where the grace comes in after repentance. So, this is really important to be set apart. And what does that truly mean? You know, I can say that I'm set apart all I want, but if I'm not set apart through Him and through Yeshua, through the Word of God, through the commandments, then I'm not really set apart. You know, of course, the Holy Spirit's going to lead you into that. So, again, we've got to realize what does set apart truly mean. And it truly means to be set apart from the world, to be set apart into Him, to pick up our cross and follow Yeshua only. You know, sometimes I think we feel like we're set apart, but we're really not set apart because we're not following the Sabbath. We're not celebrating the new moon or the new month. We're not celebrating Passover when He was crucified for our sins. We're not celebrating First Fruits when He was resurrected. So, sometimes I feel like people believe they're set apart, but according to the Holy Bible, we're not set apart unless we keep the commandments of God. That is truly a revival within itself is keeping the commandments. A lot of times you see revival, revival, revival, and then they die because there's no commandments. There's no obedience after that. There's no discipleship after that. It's just, you know, baptism, and then they go on their way into the world, and okay, it's a lost cause to a certain degree. So, we've got to do a better job, myself included, of discipleship and discipling people to the truth of these things. That, yes, it's baptism, yes, it's faith, but at the same time, it's obedience as well. "Baptize them and teach them all things that I taught you to observe," is what the Great Commission says. So, my friends, being set apart is not just believing in Jesus only. It's believing in Jesus and keeping His commandments. Just like Matthew 28 says, just like John 14 says, Mark 7, Matthew 13, Matthew 5, Matthew 23. I mean, all throughout the Gospel accounts, He's pleading with His people to pick up their cross and follow Him and follow His Father's commandments because He is the living Torah. He is the Word of God, as far as John 1 is concerned. So, my friends, being set apart is not easy. I'm not saying it's easy. It is the hardest thing that we will ever do is being truly set apart in Him. It is very hard because of the temptations of the world, the fall of the world, and the fall of man. I mean, we're all sinful men. So, being set apart is something we do work on, if you will, work with Him hand in hand. Go with Him on the calendar, go with Him on the days, the Sabbaths, and He will purify you Himself. And we're going to read that here tonight that He's the one who consecrates us. He's the one who sets us apart into what He wants us to be set apart in, not what I want to be set apart in. I can be set apart into all these worldly things, and no, I'm set apart. No, I'm not set apart unless I'm set apart in Him and into the Word of Elohim.