The 40 Days of Repentance and Testing

As we discussed, the anointing of the month of Elul is repentance. Elul one commences a special time and season with Elohim, which continues 10 extra days into the month of Tishrei, to Yom Kippur. In other words, Elul has 29 days to Tishrei one, the Feast of Trumpets, and then it journeys 10 more days: the 10 days of awe to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Make no mistake, this is an extremely, again, extremely important time according to the Holy Scriptures.

As we know, the number 40 symbolizes a time of testing. We find two supreme examples in the Word of Elohim. So again, my friends, as you can see here, let me put the graph back up. This is a super important time. It's kind of like the counting of the Omer in the spring feast days, but we're just moving to the fall anointing of it. And you've got the month of Elul, Elul one, and then you go to Tishrei 10. These 40 days are very important scripturally speaking, and also for all of us right now as we go into the Feast of Trumpets to Yom Kippur.

Let's look at these examples that Yah gives us on how important this season is that we have entered into at sundown, wherever you may be. Elul one to Tishrei 10 is the exact time that Moses ascended Mount Sinai for the last set of 40 days to receive the new set of tablets. He descended Mount Sinai on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. So again, you can go to Deuteronomy 9 through 10, and it'll go through the three sets of 40 days that Moses went through. I'll kind of show you that right now.

So again, we're all familiar with Shavuot, Pentecost, where the Torah was given. And what happens in the scriptures is he goes up the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights from Shavuot to Tammuz 17. Tammuz 17 is when they created the golden calf. 40 days after they got the revelation of the Torah, and then he came down, he judged the people, made them drink the calf through the water, killed 3,000 people. So, just understand, 3,000 people were killed on Tammuz 17th, not Shavuot. People out there will be teaching that 3,000 people died on Shavuot. 3,000 people were saved on Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was given. That's false. 3,000 people died on Tammuz 17th, the golden calf, not Shavuot, 40 days before Tammuz 17th. And then, yes, Acts 2, 3,000 people were saved when the blessed Holy Spirit poured out. So again, Tammuz 17th was the day. So again, the 40 days from Shavuot to Tammuz 17th, the first 40, he came down, judged the people. He went back up on Tammuz 18 for 40 days, no reassurance, came back down on Av 30. And then he went back up on Elul one for the last set of 40. Please remember, Moses was 80 years old when he did all this: up, down, up, down. I have a hard time going up 10 steps, much less Mount Sinai. So, just realize that he was 80 years old doing this. The last set of 40 was Elul one to Tishrei 10. He came down with new tablets, and they started building the tabernacle, and then they set it up on Nisan 1.

So, we just have to understand biblical scriptures because the anointing of the calendar is through the Exodus account for them, and now for us, as a purification. So, Elul one to Tishrei 10 is super important. It's called the month of repentance, the month of Elul, and then you get into the feast days of 10 Days of Awe, when we're all weighed in the balance. That's very important. Why? Because the constellation of Tishrei, month number seven, is scales, because we're all weighed in the balance the first 10 days, and then we try to get the righteous rendered verdict on Yom Kippur. So, Moses gives us a great example of that from Elul one to Tishrei 10. What was he doing during that time? He was interceding for the people. I mean, Moses was the most humbled man on the face of the earth, from what the scripture says. So, we need to understand that his heart position was for intercession during this time, these really these three sets of 40. He was really petitioning for the children of Israel. Please go read that. It's really an amazing heart posture that he had, a humble heart posture that he had for the people, even though they were, you know, stiff-necked and all these things. Go read what the petitions were with Moses. "Don't ruin your people. Don't destroy your people." Because people will look at your character. God was what he was worried about. He was worried about God's character. And also the people as well. So, Moses was worried about the two greatest commandments. How many of us would have done that? He was worried about God's reputation, His character among the nations. And then he was worried about the people being destroyed because he didn't want the people to be destroyed either. He had family, he had friends, he had all these people. So again, we have to have the heart position for this. That tells you and me that there's a great anointing during the month of repentance with intercession for people. So, my friends, if you're interceding for people, this is a great time to do that for your nation, for America, for Israel, for France, for whoever, for Britain, whoever, wherever you're from. It's a great time to pray into that. Australia, we've got friends there, Canada, all you guys. So again, this is a great time to pray for your family and for your friends, for the nation, and do our part in God's kingdom, just like Moses did. I mean, Moses could have set on Mount Sinai and said, "Oh, great, man. Let's just hang out. Give me, build me a great nation." Just like God told him He wanted to build Moses a great nation. "Let me destroy them." Moses said, "No, God, what about Your reputation? Bringing Your people out to destroy them?" No. So again, we've got that. How many of us would have been that like that in this world of selfishness? Most people, not you guys, but most people would be like, "Yeah, build me a great nation. Y'all, destroy these people." That's how most people would be, right? So, we've got to be like Moses. We've got to have the anointing of what he did. And what he did was intercede for his God and for his people, the two greatest commandments. Pretty amazing to think about it like that.

So you tell me, this month is very anointed with deliverance, with repentance, with all these righteous rendered verdicts coming in the Feast of Trumpets, but it all begins throughout the year, but it really begins on Elul, the month of repentance, for the year. So, this is a super important time, as you guys know, and I wanted to share that with you, that this is super important in the scriptures of the anointing of the biblical calendar. That's why the calendar is important because the scriptures will anoint the calendar with the events of the Bible for us as well, to be purified, if that makes sense.