God's Calendar and Divine Appointments

Let me go to this slide right here. Excuse me. Well, if there we go. So, this is we looked at the calendar earlier, my friends, but we'll go through this in Genesis 1:14-18. This is super important. If one doesn't understand this, I know most of you do understand this, but if someone doesn't, then I want to be very thorough with this. So, Genesis 1:14 through 18 is that marker for that. There's a reason why God wrote this in verse 14 of chapter one of the Holy Bible for all of us to understand His time and His seasons. Not man, not the Gregorian calendar, not the Roman calendar, not anything that the Christians are doing right now with a different calendar. So, Genesis 1:14 through 18, it says this: "Then God said, '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. 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. He made the stars also. God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness.' Very interesting. And God saw that it was good. So, the evening and the morning were the fourth day." So, my friends, this is again, most of you guys understand this. We've gone through this a lot. Every new moon, we go through it for a reason, for people who don't know these things to be a part of these things. But my friends, in Genesis 1, the very first chapter of the entire Bible, in verse 14, day number four of creation, creative works, by the way, by the Most High, the number four, He created times and seasons for us to understand. And if we don't understand these times and seasons, Paul's going to really warn us about that, as we will read here momentarily. But in Genesis 1:14, He created the sun and the moon for His time and His seasons. How does that work? The sun goes up and down every single day to count the days. And then the moon goes through the cycle phases of the moon every single month. So, again, if one did not have technology or whatever may be, then one would understand what time it is because all you have to do is do what the ancients did. The ancients did not have this right here. Daniel did not have this. And Daniel knew how to read the signs. Moses, Enoch, they understood what time it was because they could read the heavens. Again, it's called biblical astronomy, not personal astrology. Pagan astrology is astronomy. So, there are awesome ways to understand biblical astronomy without getting into pagan astrology, right? As long as we focus on God with these things, then it's great. If we start reading tarot cards and horoscopes and crystal balls and all this stuff, then of course that's witchcraft. But in Genesis 1:14, God created the sun and the moon for times and seasons, everybody. That's what He says. Signs and seasons. What are signs? Well, they're the lunar eclipses, the solar eclipses. We went through those here Wednesday night. Very important to understand. Signals, blood moons, solar eclipses, what Yeshua said, what Joel the prophet said as well. For signs. And then for seasons, is what He says. Well, what seasons? That's really a terrible translation in the English language with "seasons" because we think of seasons as winter, spring, summer, and fall. But it's not talking about seasons. It's not talking about any of that. It's talking about the divine appointments of Yeshua. What are those? Well, the divine appointments of Yeshua are the feast days in Leviticus 23: Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles. We're going to get into Trumpets and Atonement tonight with Elul, the month of Elul. So, again, my friends, this is what He's speaking of. These are the only ways to worship in the Holy Bible. Don't forget the Sabbath as the first feast day in Leviticus 23, but these are the only days in the Holy Bible for Jews and Gentiles to worship. Why? Because that's what Yeshua is going to fulfill. These are the greatest prophecies in the Holy Bible for Yeshua. Revelation 19:10 says, "The spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Yeshua." Think about that. The testimony of Yeshua is the spirit of prophecy. There's no greater prophecies than these right here. Why is that? First coming events, spring. Second coming events, the fall. Crucified, Passover; tomb, Unleavened Bread; rose on Firstfruits; 50 days later, poured out His Holy Spirit on Acts 2. In the fall, He's going to return on the Feast of Trumpets, 10-day war, He's going to redeem Israel and all of us on the Feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, five days later, He's going to set up the millennial kingdom for a thousand years on the Feast of Tabernacles. If we don't understand those times and seasons, my Christian friends, Paul's going to tell you what's going to happen, as a thief in the night. Paul will tell you that himself, not me. He does. And we've got to understand these things. So, those are the seasons, my friends, in Genesis 1:14. That's it. The time and the seasons. That's it. That's what Paul would be speaking of. And we will be reading Paul here momentarily.

So, again, signs and seasons, blood moons, solar eclipses, the feast days in Leviticus 23 that Yeshua is going to fulfill for His divine appointments. Because you know what's so cool about this? In the Hebrew, the word for seasons is "Moed," and that means a divine appointment, everybody, for Yeshua. God has set up this calendar and the feast days for Jesus to fulfill. That's how important this is. So, again, we've got to understand these things from a Hebrew understanding, or God's standpoint, that He gave to the Hebrews, or gave to the Jewish people. So, again, signs, blood moon, solar eclipses, seasons, the feast days in Leviticus 23, the divine appointment. What's so cool about it is when you go to Leviticus 23, the word for feast is the same word as seasons in Genesis 1:14, which is divine appointment. So, Yahweh is connecting His feast days, divine appointments, to the calendar. And that's why you see these feast days on this calendar and not the Gregorian calendar. So, again, we've just got to understand this, my friends. We've been taught wrong about the times and the seasons. I was, you were, everyone is. That's just they don't have it in the theology. I'm not trying to be banging on the church, but it's just they don't have it in their theology. So, how could they? They don't believe in it. How could they? So, we've got to educate our friends to understand this. The Jewish people understand this because that's what they're brought up on, is the calendar. But the Gentiles or the Christians are not. And we've got to educate our brothers to understand they're out of alignment and they need to get in alignment, or it's not going to be good at the end of the age. They're going to be caught as a thief in the night, like Paul says, and it's not going to be good standing before the King of Israel, worshiping Him in a different way than what He has ordained. So, this is super important as we talk about all the time, biblical prophecy begins and ends with the biblical calendar. That's it. If we understand the calendar, we understand the feast days, then we're going to have a great understanding of what Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Moses, Yeshua, all of them are talking about. If we do not, then we're going to be out of alignment because we're going to think they're talking about the Gregorian calendar, which is just erroneous, to be nice about it. So, again, this is super important. These are divine appointments for the one that we love, Yeshua, Jesus. We love Him, and if we love Him, we're going to keep His commandments, just like He says in John 14:15. And then the reward is, we get to understand the prophetic understanding of these things because we're worshiping on the right understanding of the days. And then we get the prophetic understanding of these things. Just like I told you, He's going to return on the Feast of Trumpets. He's going to have a 10-day war. He's going to redeem the children of Israel, the remnant, and all of us on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. And then five days later, He's going to judge the nations on the Mount of Olives. And then this Feast of Tabernacles, He's going to set up the millennial kingdom for a thousand years. After that thousand years, we're going to inherit the New Jerusalem. So, if we don't know these things, my friends, we're not going to be in the expectation of these things. We've got a lot of great things ahead of us, a lot of great moments with Yeshua coming down in Revelation 19 for the final victory. When will that be? On the Feast of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. When we come down in Revelation 19. But if we don't know that, if we don't know the symbolism of being white, what that means on the Day of Atonement, then we're just not going to be educated enough to go through the end of the age. We're just not. And people are going to fall away. They're not going to understand what's going down. And then bad things are going to happen. So, we've got to really get into these things of the Torah to understand that God has given us all of these beautiful things to understand as Christian believers who love Yeshua. We've got to understand this. It's not just for the Jewish people. It's for all of God's people who love Yeshua as well. And that's very important.

When we look at the days and the years, it said, "Let them be for signs and seasons, and days and years." What days is He talking about? Well, we just talked about them. These are the days. That's it. And Sabbath and the new moon. But His days in the Bible, Purim, Hanukkah, these days, especially the feast days, is what He's speaking of. But don't forget these other ones, and Sabbath and all of these things. That's what He's talking about. He's not talking about any day on the Gregorian calendar that the Christians think of, Sunday, Christmas, Easter, none of that. I mean, that's all paganism. So, why would He put that in the Holy Bible? Our God is holy. He's righteous. He's divine. He's sovereign. Why would He put paganism in the Bible? He did not. So, let's not put that in there either. And then when we get to the years, this is for signs and seasons, days and years. The years are very important because it's not talking about any year that we think of. It's talking about the Shmita year and the Jubilee year, Leviticus 25. We've got to get biblical. It's talking about those days and those years in Leviticus 25. So, what is the Shmita year? The Shmita year is the seventh year of the seven-year cycle of the Shmita. The Shmita is a seven-year cycle in Leviticus 25. Very important to understand. We'll be doing more videos on the Shmita cycle because I think it's that important. But again, go back last year for the Feast of Trumpets. And if you remember, there was I mean, a ton... excuse me, excuse me, everybody. Excuse me, everybody. Sorry about that. I guess I breathed it went down the wrong windpipe, as they say. So, sorry about that, everybody. Happy New Moon. Right. But anyhow, friends, we've got to understand the Shmita cycle. If you remember last year, when there were believers who were calling for the rapture to occur, the pre-trip rapture people calling for the rapture to occur, if they would have understood the Shmita cycle, they would not have been calling for the rapture last year, right? What do I mean by that? Well, the Shmita cycle, or the seven-year biblical cycle, is from, it's a seven-year cycle, and it's basically from 2022 to 2029, right now, and then it'll be from 2029 to 2036, then 2036 to 2043, then the 50 or whatever. So, again, if they would have understood the rhythm of the Shmita cycle, the seven-year cycle, they would have understood that we were in the third year last year. Now we're going to the fourth year. So, we've got to really understand that. I'm sorry, the fifth year. Last year was the fourth year. This is the fifth year. So, if they would have understood that, they wouldn't have been calling for the pre-trip rapture last year because they would have understood that it wouldn't have occurred because we're in the middle of the Shmita cycle, basically last year at that time. So, that's what I'm talking about. If we don't have the education, my friends, to decipher what some people are saying out there, then we're going to be caught up in it as well. If we understand the calendar, you will not be caught up in all of these things because you'll know the signs, blood moon, solar eclipses. You'll understand the seasons, which is again, the fall feast, the feast days in Leviticus 23. And then you will understand the days, which is the feast days, and then the years. You'll understand the Shmita year. If you understand Leviticus 23, Leviticus 25 is what I'm talking about. If you understand that, then you're not going to be falling for all these things that other people are. I mean, man, people were giving away their money, giving away their retirement, giving away their homes, giving away their cars. I mean, I wish I would have known that. I would have had a few cars. I'd had some more money. I'm just kidding. But anyhow, it's just we've got, we will look, we will all look foolish if we don't understand. I will look foolish, you will, they will, whoever will, if we're not educated on Genesis 1:14. This is the most pivotal, foundational principle in the Holy Bible. That's why it's number one. This one, calendar, feast days, covenants, Abrahamic, Davidic, New Covenant, table of nations for the prophecies. If we understand those four major foundational principles to read the Holy Bible, in worship and also in prophecy with the table of nations and the calendar of the feast days and the covenants, then you're going to understand these things, my friends. I mean, He has given us these prerequisites to read the Holy Bible. And if we don't, then we're going to be off. I was off for a long time. And I'm not saying I'm totally right now. I'm just saying if we don't, we'll have a better understanding of these things if we understand the calendar, the feast days, the covenants, and also the table of nations if one's interested in biblical prophecy because that's very important as we talk about.

So, friends, we go through this a lot, but I think it's that important to go through because everything that we speak about on the channel always goes back to the calendar. It ends and begins biblical prophecy. Please, please understand that. So, again, Genesis 1:14-18, there are four major points in it, or really more than that. But He created the sun and the moon for signs, lunar eclipses, solar eclipses on the feast days and all of these important days for seasons, which is Leviticus 23, the feast days of the Lord, which is divine appointments. And then He created them for days and years, the Shmita year is very important to understand in the Shmita cycle as well.

Okay. In Ecclesiastes 3:1, it says, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven." What did we just understand? The word for season is "Moed," which means a divine appointment. So, to everything there's a divine appointment and a time for every purpose under heaven. And this is where we get the new moon understanding as well. Exodus 12:1-2: "Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 'This month shall be your beginning of months. Nisan, it shall be the first month to you. Speak to all of the what? The children of Israel? No, speak to the congregation of Israel.' That's a very important word there that people tend to gloss over. It just didn't say to the children of Israel, which it says a lot in the book of Exodus. It said to the congregation of Israel. Why is that? Well, Moses' mother, Pharaoh's daughter, the Egyptians who fled with Israel, it was for them as well, the congregation. They weren't children of Jacob. But He wanted them to be, if you will, grafted in, or the one new body, one new man at that time. The congregation of Israel is what He told Moses for us to understand this. Jews and Gentiles to understand it. Congregation of Israel, not just the children of Israel.

Psalm 81. Let me go to a different slide here. Psalm 81, verse 3-4. This is a confirmation of what Yahweh told Moses in Exodus 12:2. Remember, you have to have two or three witnesses to establish a matter. Not that Moses needs any kind of confirmation, but we'll give Psalm 81:3-4 and look at what the Psalmist says: "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, we go through this on every new moon. This is very powerful. Blow the trumpet at the new moon and at the full moon on a solemn feast day. What does that mean? On a solemn feast day, the full moon would be on Passover because it's on a full moon, and Tabernacles because it's on a full moon as well. So, again, if we're not on the biblical calendar, then if someone's on a calendar that the full moon does not align with on Passover or Tabernacles, then we're off because Psalm 81:3-4 says, "Blow the... excuse me, blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon on our solemn feast day." So, what is a feast day? A divine appointment that we just went through. So, on Passover and Tabernacles, you have full moons. The only two feast days you have full moons are Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles. So, again, if one's biblical calendar does not align with that, because there are several biblical calendars out there, then those folks are off because again, Psalm 81 says, "Blow the trumpet at the full moon on a solemn feast day," which means one of these days is what the Psalmist is saying. You've got to blow the shofar on a feast day at the full moon. And that would be on Passover and Tabernacles, which begins the process and ends the process, which is pretty interesting that they both begin and end on a full moon. Remember, Israel left Egypt on a full moon on Exodus, excuse me, Nisan 15. So, again, this is very powerful to understand it from that standpoint. But my friends, the Psalmist says it very clear: "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon on our solemn feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob."

So, then here comes my Christian friend saying, "Okay, Chadwick, it's for just Israel. It's for the law of the God of Jacob, just for the Jewish people." Well, aren't you a part of Israel? Is my question. I hope so. I hope people are part of Israel. Romans 11. What does Paul say in Galatians 3:26-29? "If you are a seed of Christ, Messiah, then you are a seed of Abraham and you are heirs according to the promise of the Abrahamic covenant." What does that mean? That means that you are part of the Abrahamic covenant and you are a seed of Abraham. And if you're a seed of Abraham, you are a seed of Isaac, His son, and you are a seed of Jacob, His grandson. So, there's no way out of this. Christians, we've got to follow Yah, in the laws of God. And there's no way, "Oh, it's just for the Jewish people." No, it's not. If you love Jesus, if you love Yeshua, this is for you to observe, or no, it's commanded for you to observe this. So, let's get this straight. This is a statute for anyone who's a part of Israel, the one new body and the one new man. Romans 11, Galatians 3:26-29. Seed of Christ, seed of Abraham, and a seed of Isaac, and a seed of Jacob, and on down the line. We've got to understand these things. A law of the God of Jacob. So, again, who's going to say we don't want to follow the laws of God? Well, go ahead and not follow the new moon celebration then, because that's what they're saying. We've got to get it really right on this stuff, my friends, because times are getting nigh.

In Psalm 104:19-21, "He appointed the moon for what? Divine appointments." That's the word for seasons is "Moed," which means a divine appointment. "The sun knows it's going down." Amen to that. So, again, my friends, the Psalmist says He appointed the moon for divine appointments. The sun knows it's going down. So, if the moon doesn't begin the divine appointments or sets the month apart, then we're off because the Psalmist would say the moon, not the sun, the moon is the one who sets the seasons, has sets the divine appointments in Leviticus 23 and other things as well with the new moon.