God's Calendar: Signs and Divine Appointments

Okay. This is the calendar. We've gone through this before. We'll go through it really quick. Most of us do understand this, but just for folks who might not know this information, we'll go through it really quick. This is found in Genesis 1:14-16. "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." So, my friends, we go through this a lot because it's in the very first chapter of the Holy Bible, in verse number 14, the fourth day of creation. He created His calendar. He created His calendar by the sun, the moon, and the stars, as it says there. And He said that they were going to be for signs and seasons, and for days and years.

So, we'll break those down. When it says for signs, that means for blood moons, solar eclipses, signs in the skies, if you will, with the sun and the moon. When it says for seasons, it's not talking about winter, spring, summer, or fall. It's talking about the moed. It's talking about the divine appointments. "Seasons" is really a mistranslation in the English Bible here. It's really a very important mistranslation because if our Christian friends would understand that it's not talking about seasons, it's talking about divine appointments for Jesus, then they would understand the calendar better. But now that we've got "seasons" in there, people are just going to glance over it, and people aren't going to really recognize what it's really talking about. It's talking about God's Son coming to fulfill His divine appointments on His calendar. Pretty amazing, isn't it? So, we've got to really help educate our Christian friends about this and our Jewish friends that Yeshua was going to be the one who does this.

They follow the calendar, but they don't believe Yeshua is the one who fulfills these things. Right? So, both parties have to understand the true understanding of the calendar and how it works. The Father created the calendar for His Son. Divine appointments on this earth, first coming events and second coming events. It's one of the most, in my personal opinion, the most extraordinary things in the Bible. In my personal opinion, that God created a calendar and feast days for His Son to fulfill at His first coming and second coming events. Man, if the Christians would understand just that, would understand just that one thing, we would be better off as a group of Christian believers, that God created a calendar for His Son to fulfill at His first coming and His second coming events and for us to worship on. Isn't that amazing? It's really that simple. If we can really get that to our Christian friends, that He created this beautiful calendar for us not to be ignorant, for us not to be caught as a thief in the night, for us to know what's going on in this world, He created it for us, and all it's up to us to obviously be a part of that.

So, my friends, He created the calendar for signs, blood moons, solar eclipses, seasons. That means the divine appointments. What are the divine appointments? Give me one second, and please forgive me. I should have had this up there. I should always have this up here because I talk about them so much. There's your divine appointments, plus the Sabbath. Don't forget about the Sabbath, everybody. That's the first piece is the Sabbath. Then Passover, then Unleavened Bread, and on forward. That is what He's talking about with seasons here. He's talking about Leviticus 23. Why is that important? Is because Leviticus 23, the word for feast in Leviticus 23 is the same word for seasons in Genesis 1:14, which is moed, which means a divine appointment. So, my friends, in the Hebrew, both words are the same. Moed for seasons. Moed for the feast days, for feast in Leviticus 23. What is He trying to say?

He's trying to correlate to all of us how important it is to be on His calendar, to understand Yeshua is going to fulfill these divine appointments on His calendar, and plus we have to understand the new months, the new moons, and all these things. So, this is truly phenomenal. This is a paradigm shift for anyone out there who doesn't understand this. This is a paradigm shift that will take you deeper with the Lord. Knock off all that Gregorian calendar stuff. It doesn't even matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it's just irrelevant because He's not on the calendar. Why is He not on the Gregorian calendar? Is because the prerequisites for His calendar is the sun, the moon, and the stars. That's the prerequisites of God's calendar. The Gregorian calendar only goes by the sun only. You got to get rid of it. So, that means everything on the Gregorian calendar has got to get rid of it as well.

I mean, I say this all the time. Biblically speaking, when you worship God, you got to worship on the biblical calendar. We should all understand that. Work-wise, school, kids, all this stuff, events, you got to be on the Gregorian calendar because the world is not on the biblical calendar. They're on the Gregorian calendar. But spiritually speaking, when we worship our Creator and our Savior, you got to get rid of that Gregorian calendar and everything on it, which is Christmas, Easter, and everything else that's on it, and worship Him in spirit and in truth. So, this is again, this is a paradigm shift for people who don't understand this. It's still one for me as well. So, don't feel bad. I mean, this is totally amazing that He created the sun and the moon and the stars for His calendar for signs, blood moons, solar eclipses, seasons, Leviticus 23, moed, moadim, divine appointments. And then they're for days and years.

Well, the days are these days, the feast days, the Sabbath, the new months, the new moon days. That's what it's talking about there. Well, the years is talking about the Shmita years, the Jubilee years. You see what I'm saying? So, we've got to get out of our Greco-American mindset and quit thinking about days as what we call days, what years we call years. "1988, the Lord's going to return," and all this stuff. No. 2000, Y2K, 2012, the Mayan calendar. They look like idiots, right? Because again, we've got to be on God's calendar. If we're on God's calendar, there is no Y2K. There is no Mayan calendar. There is no 1988 the Lord's going to return. None of that stuff. Because we're on the times and the seasons, and we're not predicting, and we're not trying to set dates. We're following the times and the seasons. People don't understand the difference in following the times and the seasons and predicting dates.

Predicting dates, get rid of that. Following the times and the seasons is following the calendar, following the months, following the Shmita cycle, the seven-year cycle. So you know the times and the seasons that Yah is on. The Jubilees and all these things. So that's what the calendar is for, my friends, is this. If one understands this, this is the most foundational principle that you can have right now in the Holy Bible, because this is about Jesus. This calendar is about Him only. Yeshua, Jesus, only. That's it. It's about Him. It's not about the Jewish people. It's not about the Christians. It's not about no one. It's about God and Yeshua. Yah and Yeshua. And if our Christian friends could understand that, then they would not be caught as a thief in the night, which they will be because they don't understand the times and the seasons, which Paul commands them to understand in 1 Thessalonians 5.

So, in a quick review, He created the sun, the moon, and the stars in Genesis 1:14-16, the fourth day of creation, for signs, blood moons, solar eclipses, seasons (not fall, winter, or fall, none of that). It's about the divine appointments of God, about the feast days of God, which is called the Moadim. And again, the same word for feast is the same word for seasons here. So, He's correlating His feast days with His calendar seasons. Moed, feast days, moed. So, He's correlating everything together for us to understand that He's wanting us to understand the divine appointments of Yeshua the Messiah. Pretty amazing. Revelation 4:11 says, "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created." In Ecclesiastes 3:1, it says, "To everything there is a season," or a divine appointment. It's what we learned earlier, right?