Heshvan: New Beginnings and Being Set Apart

And now we shift into the fall, to the winter season. Okay, now that we've gone through the festival season through month number one through month number seven. Okay, we just got out of month number seven here, wherever you may be, at sundown. So, now we get into month number eight, which is new beginnings. That's what it means. It's a really phenomenal month, and it's really one of those months that are hidden in the calendar. You know, you really don't think of the month of Heshvan, or the eighth month, when you think of the biblical calendar. You think about Nisan, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, which we should, right? And then we think about month number seven, which is the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Tabernacles. But we really don't think about month number eight. And that is a very important month that we're going to get into that really goes into Yeshua, the return of the Messiah, because there are no feast days or fast days associated with this month, okay?

The eighth month. We're going to get into all of these things. But just think about it: right after we get through the festival season, the high holy days, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, Tabernacles, the righteous rendered verdicts, all of these things that we pray into. Now, we have the month of new beginnings, okay? Where the rains come, you know, we're starting getting into the rain season. This is really a phenomenal month that people sometimes we get hidden, if you will, but this is a phenomenal month to really get intimate with Yah. Again, there are no festivals, there are no feasts, there are no minor festivals or major festivals. It's just the month of the rains, okay? Where the rain season comes, the blessings come after the festival season and after one has travailed through month number one through month number seven. That feast season, if you will, Nisan to Tishrei. Now, we get into Heshvan, which is a very important month.

And my friends, we're going to get into all of the anointings of the month of Heshvan, but it's a very powerful month, as we're going to see. But it all begins with being set apart. We talk about this concept all the time on the channel about being set apart. And I think if we think about it like that, being set apart, because we deal with a set apart God and a set apart Spirit. So, He wants us to be set apart with Him on what He has designed for His set apart people to be with Him on, right? So, we've got to understand that. We've got to understand He wants us to be set apart in Him and what He wants us to be set apart. And my friends, when we do that, and you guys know this, when we get on His page, if you will, when we get on His channel, if you will, we get on His calendar, we start observing these things, the Sabbath, the new months, the Passover, all these beautiful feast days. You start to understand the Bible better.

You start to understand where things correlate better, with the calendar, with the feast days, with the covenants, with the table of nations, with the prophecies. And then you read the book of Revelation, and it's just beautiful. Okay? So, we've got to understand, all of us do, me included, how to read the Holy Bible. He's given us the table of contents to read it the way that He wants us to read it. And when we do, my friends, as you all know, it really just blows you away with all the revelation and the intimacy and the understanding and the knowledge that we get from being on the biblical calendar, understanding the feast days, understanding the relevance of the Abrahamic, the Davidic, the New Covenant, the everlasting covenants, especially when we look at Israel today, we look at the Middle East today. We've got to understand these things. The table of nations. When we get into the prophecies, we're going to get into that on videos here coming up with the prophecies of the Day of the Lord.

If we don't understand the table of nations and what God has created with the nations that the prophets were going to prophesy through, then it's going to be pick who you want to pick in the prophecies. Pick whoever you want, put them in there, because we don't have the education and the understanding of what He's saying about the people that's going to come against His people at the very end of the age. And the prophets, we've only understood that. So, what am I trying to say? I'm saying we have to have the knowledge of how to read the Holy Bible so that we are not out of context with theology or eschatology, because it goes together. And if we have the proper theology, then we're going to read the eschatology, and it's just going to roll with it, because we have the proper theology. So, it does go together, my friends, as we all know. And it does begin and end with God's calendar. We talk about it really all the time that it's in Genesis 1:14, as we'll read tonight.

But it ends and begins, all of it does, with God's calendar, to be on His times, to be on His seasons. We're going to do a video on that that I think is very important that goes into, with the Torah portion of last week, this past Torah portion, Genesis 1 through Genesis, basically Genesis 5, which is the beginning of the Torah cycle. Very important, a lot of great revelations. So, we're going to do a couple of videos, I believe, this week on last week's Torah portion with some of these things that just gives us that greater understanding of what we need to understand, friends. So, most of you guys do understand this, but this month of Heshvan really begins the process of the remaining of the year on the Tishrei calendar, on the civil calendar. Okay. So, it really gets into the late fall into the winter season, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, on into Nisan 1, which is the beginning of the biblical calendar.

Okay. So, again, friends, this month is going to be very important, but it does begin with being set apart, being set apart into these things. You know how many people don't understand these things that would love to know these things? And God has opened up your eyes. He's opened up my eyes to these things, and it's our responsibility to help other people open up their eyes to the biblical calendar, to be on God's time, His seasons, and to understand what He wants us to be a part of, because it's pretty phenomenal when we look at it. We find this concept of being set apart, friends, in the book of Exodus. We first find it there at Mount Sinai, right before the Ten Commandments were given, in Exodus 19:6. And this is what it says: "And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." So, friends, we go through this on every new month, on every new moon, we go through this that this was first said at Mount Sinai.

So, there's a very important understanding there that He first said it at Mount Sinai. Why is that? Is because He was about to give them the commandments, okay? The instructions to follow to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. How can we be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation if we don't know how to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation? Right? We can't just be, "Oh, I'm a kingdom of priests and a holy nation because I believe in Jesus." Okay? No, you've got to understand what goes into that. What goes into being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation? What the Father has said in the Torah about the instructions to be that. Okay? So, that was first said at Mount Sinai. Exodus 19:6. Exodus 20, the Ten Commandments were given. And there's a great correlation with being a kingdom of priests and a holy nation with the commandments. That's just really awesome to understand that in Exodus 19:9, remember Yahweh told Moses that He was going to make the people believe Him forever.

He says, "Moses, I'm going to make them believe you forever." Talking about the commandments, okay? The instructions of God. So, Exodus 19 is a very pivotal chapter in theology. It really is just a pivotal chapter in theology that goes forward with the one new body and the one new man. But if we don't understand this, if we're not under, if we're not reading Exodus 19, if we're not reading Exodus 20, if we're not reading the instructions of God, then we're not going to understand what it is to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Because how could we? Because we don't have the education or the knowledge to understand that. So, my friends, it's first said at Mount Sinai, Exodus 20, right before that, Exodus 19, "You shall be to Me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." Why? Because I'm about to give you the instructions of the Father to you in Exodus 20, and you will believe Moses forever, as it says in Exodus 19:9.

In Deuteronomy 14:2, He follows up with a summary of the Torah right before He passes to the other side. Moses, he says, "For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth." And let's go to the New Testament with 1 Peter 2:7-10, and let's see what Peter has to say about a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. "Therefore, to you who believe, Yeshua is precious. But to those who are disobedient, the stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone, and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. They stumble, being disobedient to the word of God, the Torah, to which they were also appointed. But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Amen. So, my friends, nothing really changed at all, as you can see, from the Old Testament to the New Testament, from Deuteronomy, from Exodus, the Torah to the New Testament, the B'resheet. First Peter 2:7-10, he's just basically plagiarizing Moses. That's all he's doing is plagiarizing Moses and also Psalm 118, the builder, the stone that the builders rejected. So, all Peter's doing is just quoting Moses and David, is all he's doing here. And he wants everybody to understand to be set apart and be a kingdom, a priest, and a holy nation, just like he says. All he's doing is just going back to Exodus, going back to Deuteronomy, going back to the Torah to let people understand about the Father's instructions. Okay, so let's go a step further. Excuse me, one moment. Let me get the banner off here.

Let's go one step further. Let's go to the book of Revelation. Let's see what John says about this concept of being a set apart people, a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. In Revelation 1:6, it says, "To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. And amen." And so again, all the way from Exodus to the book of Revelation, you find the same concept of being set apart, being a kingdom of priests, being a holy nation, which all goes back into the concept of Exodus 19:6. That's where you first see it. You don't see it in Genesis. You don't see it with Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob. You see it at Mount Sinai with Moses in Exodus 19, verse 6, which correlates it together with the instructions of God to be a Yeshua, Holy Spirit, and follow the instructions of God. That's the kingdom of priests and the holy nation that will be in the millennial kingdom.

Okay? So, again, we've got to understand the requirements, the prerequisites of these things, the standard, the values of these things. And Exodus 19 is that standard that carries you all the way through the Holy Scriptures to the book of Revelation with the kingdom of priests and also being a holy nation. Okay. So, who sets us apart and makes us holy? Does God set us apart, or do we set ourselves apart? In Psalm 4:3, "But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself; the set apart ones for Himself." Leviticus 20:7-8: "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep My statutes and do them, and I am the Lord who sanctifies you." In Leviticus 20:26: "You shall be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you, or set you apart, from the peoples that you should be Mine." So, again, my friends, right here through Psalm, David, Psalm 4:3, Leviticus 20, He consecrates us for Himself.

He's the one who, He's the lawgiver. We are not the lawgiver. He's the one who separates us for Himself. Separates us from the world by His commandments. "Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. Keep them. Keep My statutes and do them. I am the Lord who sanctifies you." So, He's the one who sanctifies all of us and sets all of us apart. "And know that the Lord has set apart the godly for Himself." Well, how are we godly? By following the word of God, right? Godly, the word of God. Leviticus 20:26, "You shall be holy to Me, for I am the Lord am holy and have set you apart from the peoples that you should be Mine." So, my friends, if we're not set apart, if we're just being a part of the world, you know, doing what the world does, doing what religion is doing, all this, we're not set apart. We're just not. We're only set apart if we do what He wants us to do.

If we're following His instructions, if we are consecrating ourselves, if we are following His commandments, then we're going to be set apart. And if we are not, then we are not going to be set apart. I'm not really saying that I'm talking about salvation proof. That's up to God. I'm really talking about being set apart. It's up to Him about salvation. But being set apart is very biblical and very clear to understand to be set apart. So, again, that's up to God about salvation. To be set apart, you got to follow the ways of God, and you got to believe in Yeshua and follow the Holy Spirit. That is being set apart. Not, "I just believe in Jesus only and no commandments." That is not being set apart. I follow the commandments and I don't believe in Jesus. That's not being set apart. You got to be Yeshua, Holy Spirit, and as best as we can, follow the commandments of God. And that way, we will be set apart for Him and with Him because He is set apart as well.