God's Calendar, Signs, and Appointed Times

And in Genesis 1:14-16, this is what God told Moses: "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth." And it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. And He did make the stars also. Again, my friends, we go through this every month, and we really go through it a lot on the channel as well, because it begins and ends with God's calendar. Look at what He said. He created two great lights, the sun and the moon. What did He create them for? He created them for signs, signals, blood moons, solar eclipses on important biblical dates. That's why it's important to understand the calendar because blood moons and solar eclipses are very important, especially on an important day of the biblical calendar. So, that was what He made it for: was for signals, for signs. And then He also made the calendar for seasons. And that word is a mistranslation in the English. In the Hebrew language, that word is "moed," and that word means a divine appointment, a fixed time, an appointed time. So, God made Yah, the Father, made His calendar for divine appointments and for signs, for signals. That's what He made His calendar for. Well, He made His calendar for His Son, Yeshua, to come on these divine appointments. What are those divine appointments? Well, those divine appointments are in Leviticus 23. Remember what the word for seasons means is a divine appointment. "Moed" is the Hebrew word. Well, in Leviticus 23, the word for feast in there is "moed," the same word for seasons in Genesis 1:14. So, there's a correlation between the time and the seasons. And we're going to read what Paul said about this when we go further. So, the time is the calendar. Everything on this calendar, you will find on this right here. This right here is on this calendar. It's not on the Roman calendar. It's not on the Gregorian calendar. Why would it be? Why isn't it? Is because the Gregorian calendar is based upon the sun only. It's a solar calendar. Well, God, I just read where God said two lights, including the stars, is His calendar. So, there are prerequisites to follow the right calendar. And we can't just follow a Roman Gregorian calendar and think that we can understand what God is doing in the Bible. We cannot. We would be out of alignment. So, we have to realize that these are the prerequisites for His calendar in heaven: is the sun, the moon, and the stars. He created them for signs, signals, blood moons, solar eclipses. We talk about them all the time. And then He made them for seasons, or divine appointments, appointed times for His Son, Yeshua, to intersect with human history. It's totally amazing. What do I mean by that? Well, if you look at this, this is the moed. These are the feast days in Leviticus 23. They're really divine appointments of Jesus, is what they are. Passover is when Jesus was crucified. Go to any four gospel accounts. Every account will tell you Passover or Unleavened Bread, which is the same thing to a certain degree. So, you've got Passover, crucifixion; Unleavened Bread, He was laid in the tomb; He was risen on the Feast of First Fruits, resurrection. Paul calls Him the first fruit of mankind. For a reason. The Messianic Jew called Him that, Paul. And then the Pentecost, Shavuot, He poured out the Holy Spirit in Acts 2. So, a lot of Christians don't understand that these are prerequisites that Yeshua had to fulfill as the Jewish Messiah, everybody. That's how important this is. He had to fulfill these to be the Jewish Messiah. Not maybe, He had to, or He would be. So, that's how important that is, my friends. When you look at the calendar, the times and the seasons, He wants us to be educated to understand the time of our visitation. Remember when the Jewish people at the first coming events, Luke 19:41-44, Yeshua was weeping over Jerusalem on Nisan 10, four days before He was crucified on Passover. He was weeping over the city. The remnant always understands. They were singing, "Son of David, Hosanna in the highest! Save now! Save now!" They knew what time it was. The other Jewish people did not know what time it was. And what did He say? He says, "You're going to be embedded by all of your enemies, you and your children." Future tense. "Because you did not understand the time of your visitation." So, that's coming from Yeshua, the King, the King of Israel, the Holy One of Israel, Adonai Tzvaot, the Leader of the Commander of the Lord's armies. He said that. So, He wanted the Jewish people to understand His visitation, the first coming events. Don't you think He wants us, the Christians and the Jews, to understand the second coming events? I would say so, because we're going to read what Paul says about the times and the seasons. So, my friends, this is super important. If you never listen to anything that I say, please, the times and the seasons is what you have to understand to read the Holy Bible, or one would read it really out of context because they're not reading it on God's calendar. They're reading it from a Greco-Roman mindset of the Roman calendar. So, this is super important, my friends. And that's why He said there for signs and seasons, everybody. This is for Jesus, for Yeshua, to come and fulfill these things on the Father's appointed times. And then He says there for days and years. The days aren't just any day of the week. It's these days. It's the new moon. It's the Sabbath. It's the days, the mo'adim. We've got to understand what He's talking about. And then for years, He's talking about the Shmita year, the Jubilee year. If you're not familiar with that, that's okay. Go to Leviticus 25. The feast days are in Leviticus 23. And then Leviticus 25 goes through the seven-year cycle, or the Shmita cycle. And then it also goes through the Jubilee cycle, the 50-year cycle. These are super important, especially the seven-year cycle. The Shmita is very important to understand when it comes to biblical prophecy. Think about the last seven years of the age, the seven-year tribulation. That will be a Shmita cycle. And it's not just the last seven years. It will be on the cycle, so to speak. What does that mean for today? The cycle began. The new cycle began on the Feast of Trumpets 2022. That means the cycle will end, excuse me, on the Feast of Trumpets 2029. And then it will start again to 2036, and then 2043, then 2050, and forward. So, one of those seven-year cycles is when the tribulation will be. This is not the set dates. This is just to understand the times and the seasons and to keep aware of what's going on on God's calendar. So, this is super important, my friends. The calendar for times, for signs and seasons, for days and years. This is what Paul was speaking about in Thessalonians that we will also read as well.

So, we are in that fifth month, of Av, they call it today. And we'll get more information on the month as we go forward. In Psalm 81:3-4, this is what the psalmist said as well: "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day. This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." Okay, so this is a beautiful psalm to understand another confirmation. Remember, the first commandment of the new month, or the new moon, was Exodus 12:1-2. It was actually the first commandment that God gave Israel before they left Egypt. So, the first commandment that Israel received was the new month, the new moon, the calendar. So, we have to realize that's how important it is. So, Exodus 12:1-2, we'll go through that with you to prove that. And then here comes the Psalm as well: "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon." Amen. "At the full moon on our solemn feast day." Okay, so let's stop there. So, this is again why it's important to understand the biblical calendar. The middle of a biblical month is the full moon. So, whenever you see a full moon out at night, then it's the middle of a biblical month. When you see the new moon, it's the new month, right? And then we know how the cycles of the moon goes. So, this is what is interesting. So, the Tabernacles and Passover, the two feast days, Passover and Tabernacles, they are on the full moon in the middle of the biblical month. So, when it says "at the full moon on a feast day," it's talking about Passover, it's talking about Tabernacles, because those are mo'adim, those are feast days. So, again, if a person reads this and they do not understand the feast days or they don't understand the calendar, Psalm 81:3-4 will make no sense to them. It wouldn't make any sense to me either. So, we have to understand the trajectory of reading the scriptures from the calendar standpoint. First, the feast days, the covenants: Abrahamic, Davidic, New Covenant, and then prophecy speaking, the Table of Nations. And then one would read the Holy Bible the way that it was written. So, again, these are during the middle of the month, Passover and also the Feast of Tabernacles. And it says in verse 4, "This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." So, this is where our Christian friends do get confused because they're like, "Okay, it's just for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." Well, don't we love the God of Jacob as well? Aren't we a part of the kingdom or commonwealth of Israel? I hope people think that, because that's what they are, whether they believe it or not. You're part of the commonwealth or kingdom of Israel, is what the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians 2:12-13. In Galatians 3:26-29, Paul says, "If you are a seed of Christ, Yeshua, Jesus, then you are a seed of Abraham." Isn't that interesting? And you are heir according to the promise. What is the promise? The Abrahamic Covenant. What are you heir to? The land, the land peace, and also the seed of the land, which is Yeshua, the Abrahamic Covenant. So, my friends, if we don't understand these things on how to read Paul or understand the covenants or the feast days, we're going to just think everything's divided: Christians over here, Jews over here, and just do your thing. You know, we've got a God that wants everybody just to do their own thing and to be set apart by their own standard. That's not what He wants. He wants us to be one, united, one new body, one new man. And the only way to do that is for our brothers on each side to understand that. For each one, the Jewish people and also the Christians, you know, each one has to come to the middle. What does that mean? That means Jewish people, Yeshua; Gentiles, Christians, you need to come and follow the commandments. And that is a beautiful understanding of that Psalm 81:3-4. "This is a statute for Israel." Everybody is a part of Israel. All of Israel will be saved. That doesn't mean every Jewish person. It means all of the believing Jews and believing Gentiles will be saved, in Romans 11 is where Paul writes that. So, again, we're all part of the commonwealth of Israel, the kingdom of Israel. What did Yeshua say in Acts 1:6-7? Or excuse me, what did the disciples ask Him? "When will You, Yeshua, restore the kingdom back to Israel?" So, the kingdom will be restored back to Israel. And I hope we all want to be a part of that, because that's where it will be, is in Jerusalem, as He sits on David's everlasting throne over Gentiles, over the land, peace of the Abrahamic Covenant. It's really pretty amazing. And that is called the New Covenant.

Psalm 104:19-21: "He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down." So, again, my friends, the moon is the one that dictates the seasons, the mo'ed. Remember, seasons means a divine appointment. Mo'ed is what it means. He appointed the moon to set the divine appointments. The sun knows its going down. How can we understand that? The sun goes up and down every day. So, if you didn't have any technology or something, you could understand every day going up, going down, the sun, and then the cycles of the moon during the month, and that way you would have the understanding of how God orchestrated this beautiful thing. So, Psalm 104:19-21 does say, "He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down." Amen. King David, in 1 Samuel 20:5, put the importance on the new moon festival as well. I think we can get a lot of understanding from King David and a lot of great wisdom from King David as well when we go back and read what this holy man wrote. And David said to Jonathan, "Indeed, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king to eat. But let me go, that I may hide in the field until the third day at evening."

And this is one of my favorite psalms, Psalm 89, that talks about the sun and the moon, the two faithful witnesses in the sky. If one doesn't realize how important the sun and the moon are, then Psalm 89 should say that from God. But Psalm 89, He reiterates that as well. "I have made a covenant with My chosen; I have sworn to My servant David: 'Your seed I will establish forever, and build up your throne to all generations.'" Say, "Hallelujah." Then You spoke in a vision to Your holy one and said: "I have given help to one who is mighty; I have exalted one chosen from the people. I have found My servant David; With My holy oil I have anointed him, With whom My hand shall be established; Also My arm shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not outwit him, Nor the son of wickedness afflict him. I will beat down His foes before His face, And plague those who hate Him. My covenant I will not break," the Davidic Covenant, "Nor alter the word that has gone out of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David, the Davidic Covenant. His seed shall endure forever, And his throne as the sun before Me; It shall be established forever like the moon, Even like the faithful witness in the sky." So, my friends, God's faithful witnesses in the sky are His sun and His moon. I mean, they do His bidding. They're ordinances that go out every single day, throughout the month, to set the times and the seasons. And we must understand that. So, every time we look at the moon, think about David, think about the Davidic Covenant, and think about the promises of God that He's not going to break the promises. Unfortunately, today, certain parts of Christianity, not all of it, certain parts of Christianity thinks He's done with the Jewish people. You know, He's done away with them. Well, goodness gracious. I mean, if anything is more proven proof that the God of Israel exists, is the Jewish people, man. I mean, by any worldly circumstance, they should not be on this earth, but the God of Israel has protected them. The King of Israel has protected them throughout history, of all these evil empires that have wanted to eliminate them. So, we have to understand, in my opinion, that they're the most physical proof on this earth that the God of Israel and the King of Israel is alive and well. And that's Yahweh and Yeshua. And also the sun and the moon and the stars and all the beautiful creation. But don't forget about His brethren, the Jewish people. And again, He's going to deal with all of us, including the Jewish people as well. And so, we've got some difficult times ahead, but just know that He's going to, again, His seed shall endure forever. And that is the Jewish people. And just always remember that.