Elul: Month of Repentance and Preparation

Shalom friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we welcome in the new month and proclaim the new month of the biblical calendar, which is the month of Elul. It is the sixth month of the biblical calendar. And what's so amazing about this month is that it culminates into the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah. So, this is a very important month as we culminate into the Feast of Trumpets, 30 days from now. And why that's important is because that's when the books are opened in the courts of heaven on the Feast of Trumpets for 10 days, and then they are sealed on Yom Kippur. We've gone through that on the videos before with Nebuchadnezzar, with Joseph, with Jonah, and how important that is with Messiah as well. And we're going to show you tonight how important this time period is, these next 30 days in this month, but then the extra 10 days as well from the Feast of Trumpets to Yom Kippur. So, this is a very important time for the believers. This is a month of good fortune as we set ourselves up for the righteous rendered verdicts on the Feast of Trumpets and on Yom Kippur, here 30 days and 40 days from now. So, thank you very much for being with us. We have a lot of great information for you that will prove the point of what I just said.

But my friends, if one is not familiar with the biblical calendar, I would like to go through that really quick on the trajectory that the Lord has on month number one through month number seven. These are very important months of a spiritual purification journey, if you will, and I'll try to explain that. So, when we look at the biblical calendar and you look at month number one, this is the beginning of the biblical calendar that God told Moses in Exodus 12 that this is your first month, and he spoke about Nisan 1. So, that date in Exodus 12:2 is Nisan 1 when he told Moses, "Look up, this is your first month," and it is the month of Nisan. Well, then we get into the Feast of Passover on Nisan 14, which is when the children of Israel left Egypt, but also the fulfillment of when Yeshua was crucified for all of our sins. Jesus was crucified for all of our sins on Passover. So, this is a very important thing as we go on the journey in month number one with the new moon, and then also the Feast of Passover, which is the crucifixion, and also they left Egypt. Unleavened Bread is when Yeshua was laid in the tomb. And then the Feast of Firstfruits, my friends, is when He was resurrected. And then we went on this Omer count. We go on it every year. It's called the counting of the Omer. I call it a 50-day divine appointment with the Most High because it's commanded in Leviticus 23 to count 50 days from the resurrection, the Feast of Firstfruits, to Shavuot, which you see on the calendar in month number three. This is a divine appointment every single day with our Father and with the King of Kings, Yeshua, and the blessed Holy Spirit. So, this is a trajectory that He wants us on every single year with the new moon, celebrate Passover, Yeshua, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, also we get into the counting of the Omer that goes into the Feast of Shavuot. So, the month of Iyar, month number two, is a divine appointment every single day. And that month is a very holy month because it has a divine appointment every single day commanded in Leviticus 23. And then after the Feast of Shavuot, which is when the Holy Spirit was given and also when the Torah was given, both happened on the same exact day because it had to. The Torah was given first, at Mount Sinai on Shavuot, in Exodus 20. And then we have in Acts 2, the Holy Spirit, the fulfillment on the Feast of Shavuot as well. So, that tells you how important this is for the believers in Jesus Yeshua to be on this calendar and to follow what He did for all of us at His first coming events and to worship Him on those ways.

So, after the Feast of Shavuot, we get into the month of Tammuz. The month of Tammuz is a judgment month, good or bad. In history, according to the scriptures, this was a bad month for the children of Israel with Nebuchadnezzar and the judgment because of the golden calf. On Tammuz 17th, they worshiped the golden calf at Mount Sinai, and then that became a fast day by Zechariah 8. So, Zechariah 8 will prove that that became a fast day because of the golden calf on Tammuz 17th. And then there's a three-week process from Tammuz 17th to the ninth day of Av, Tisha B'Av, what they call it in Hebrew. And that is called the Three Weeks of Dire Straits, three weeks of sorrow in the remembrance of why Yah judged the people with Tammuz 17th, the golden calf. And then also the ninth day of Av is when the spies brought back the bad report in Numbers 13 and 14. So, you see the trajectory here. We get cleansed, we get purified through Nisan, Iyar. And then on Tammuz, we get tested. Are we going to go back to our golden calf during the month of Tammuz and the month of Av? Are we going to bring back the good report or the bad report from the Lord? So, that's an introspection that we have at that time when we look deep inside ourselves to see why our temple could or could not be destroyed by our behavior, as we remember why the temples were destroyed on the same day, on the ninth day of Av. So, after the ninth day of Av, we have Tu B'Av, which is a day of love. You can think about it as Valentine's Day, but a holy day with the Lord, a beautiful love day that the Lord has instituted on the 15th. And then after the 15th, we get to the month of Elul, which is where we are tonight, at sundown, wherever you may be. So, the month of Elul is the month of repentance. So, this is really an interesting trajectory that the Lord has us on from the month of Nisan with the feast days, the holiness, the cleansing, the sanctification, believers in Yeshua, onto Shavuot in the remembrance of the Torah being given and also the blessed Holy Spirit being poured out in Acts 2. Then we get tested, if you will, because they built the golden calf 40 days after Shavuot. So, it didn't take long for them to go back to Egypt. And He's wanting to test all of us to see if we're going to go back to our Egypt as well, after we've been cleansed, after we've gone through the holy days, etc. The Tammuz and Av are very testing months, if you will. And then the month of Elul is the month of repentance, which is pretty interesting because, as you can see, we get into Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, in the first of Tishrei. So, this is really amazing how Yah put His calendar in order based on these things that we just spoke about. Because Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets, is the beginning of the civil calendar that Adam was on. So, Adam was born on the Feast of Trumpets. Very important to understand that. That's why again, Yeshua is returning on the Feast of Trumpets because Adam was born on the Feast of Trumpets, and you've got those calculations of 6,000 years from Adam to Yeshua's second coming events. So, that's prophetically speaking, that's how important this month is. If we look at the month of Elul, that will be the last month before Yeshua returns for second coming events. So, that's why it's called the month of repentance. It's pretty amazing, isn't it?

So, again, if our Christian friends would have this theology in their theology about the calendar, then they would understand the times and the seasons of the Most High, which Paul really warns us about to have. We've got to know the times and the seasons, or we would be caught as a thief in the night. So, when we look at the calendar, I hope it makes sense of the trajectory, but we're in the month of Elul now, the month of repentance, as we get to when the books are opened for the individuals, also the nations. And it's a very beautiful time, my friends, from this point to through the feast days, as you guys know. But my friends, it all again starts out, let me get to the next slide, I'm sorry. But it all starts out as we all know about being set apart. You know, we've got to be set apart in these things. If we don't understand the times, if we don't understand the seasons, we're going to read what Paul says and we could be caught as a thief in the night. But for not knowing the times and the seasons of the Most High when Yeshua will return. But my friends, it does start out by being set apart. We have to be set apart in the Most High. You know, it's amazing when you start to really meditate on being set apart. What does that truly mean to be set apart? Well, it means, I guess, what it says, to be set apart from the world into Yeshua, into the scriptures, into God's commandments. Because it's loving Yeshua and following the commandments, as it says throughout the Holy Bible. So, this is an amazing thing for the believer to understand the concept of being set apart. Because I can say I'm set apart, but if I'm not set apart in God's word and the calendar and the feast days and all of these things, am I really set apart? So, again, we've got to be set apart. And we've got to really travail through that to understand the meaning of being set apart. Because again, I can say I'm set apart to what I want to be set apart about, but am I truly set apart according to the Holy Bible? According to what Yah has commanded, not what I want to do, not what the church wants to do, not what the synagogue wants to do. Do we want to be set apart in Him, or do we want to be set apart in the world, in the church, and the synagogues, and all these things? We don't. We want to be set apart in the word of Elohim and follow Him in spirit and in truth. And unfortunately today, there's not one religion that does that. Judaism doesn't do that. Christianity doesn't do that. Of course, Islam doesn't do that. Whatever else doesn't do that. So, again, even Judaism and Christianity, I can make the case that again, they have a lot of things that they're not set apart in because they're not following the word of God from Genesis to Revelation. You know, there's not one religion that does that. Isn't that amazing? There's not one religion that follows Genesis to Revelation. Judaism doesn't believe in the New Testament or Yeshua. Christianity doesn't believe in the commandments in the Torah, or doesn't follow them one. Either one is not good. So, again, my friends, it's just honestly speaking, we've got to be set apart in what He wants us to be set apart from. And it does mean what it means is to be set apart from the world. And if a church or synagogue is not following Genesis to Revelation, then we've got to be set apart from them as well. Because they would be a little leaven, leaven the entire lump. As the Apostle Paul says to the Christians, "A little leaven will leaven the entire lump." So, we have to be set apart in Him and exactly follow Him. Like Yeshua says, "Pick up our cross and follow Him." Well, what did Yeshua do? Well, He celebrated the Sabbath. He celebrated the new moon. He celebrated Hanukkah. He celebrated the feast days. So, we've got to pick up our cross and follow our Master, and not get caught up in all of this division that unfortunately Judaism and Christianity wants to do to both parties. So, we've got to follow Him, and that's it. And my friends, it all starts with being set apart.