New Moon Commandment and Knowing the Times

When you say "season" in the English, it doesn't mean season. It means a divine appointment, a set appointed time for Jesus. A time for every purpose under heaven. Okay. [clears throat] Okay. Now, let's go to Psalm 81 really quick. This is the commandment. The first commandment, if one's not familiar with it, with the new month, or with the new moon, if you want to call it that, is Exodus 12. That's when Moses, God said, "Moses, this is your first month." You know, because He changed the order of the calendar through Moses. It was created in Adam. The Feast of Trumpets was the first of the year, with Adam. That's Tishrei 1, or the seventh month. The first day was when Adam was created. That was again, roughly about 6,000 years ago. Well, they were on a civil calendar then. The whole world was on one calendar when Adam was created. Even when Joseph was in Egypt, one calendar. Then when Moses came on the scene in Egypt, Exodus 12, He told Moses to follow a different order of the calendar.

The months are the same, but just a different order. Tishrei was the first month for Adam. Nisan's the first month for Moses. So, He just rearranged the understanding of it for the religious or the biblical calendar. Was Nisan 1 not Tishrei 1 for those who might not understand that? So, this was Exodus 12 when He did that with Moses, and this is the psalmist following up on the commandment in Psalm 81:3-4. "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, or the new month, at the full moon on our solemn feast day. This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." We've gone through this before. It says, "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day." Well, we just came out of that one right there, Tabernacles, right? So, when it says "blow the shofar on the solemn feast day at the full moon," talking about those two specifically. And then it says, "This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." My Christian friends, you are a part of Israel.

How do we know that? Well, first of all, if you believe in Yeshua, the Messiah, He's the Jewish Messiah, number one. So, He's going to reign over the kingdom of Israel. He's the King of Israel. So, that puts you in there right there. But just to go further in this, this is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob. Well, some Christians will say, "Well, that doesn't talk about me. That's talking about the children of Israel." Well, if you go to Paul and Galatians 3:26-29, Paul says, "If you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham, and you are heirs according to the promise." So, there's no way around this, Christian friends. He says, "If you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham, just like the Jewish people." Isn't that amazing? And if you are a seed of Abraham, you are a seed of Isaac. If you're a seed of Isaac, you're a seed of Jacob. Israel. So, Christian friends, there's no way around the commandments.

You are grafted into this or not. I mean, you're either in or you're out. So, please get in, because you're grafted into these things. And if this has a statute for Israel, that includes me and my Jewish brother as well. That includes all of us. We're all Israel, the kingdom of Israel, the commonwealth of Israel. Ephesians 2 goes through that very clearly. Romans 11 very clearly. Paul goes through all this very clearly that you are part of Israel. We better hope we are, because He's coming to restore the kingdom to Israel. Acts 1:6-7. So, we want to be a part of the kingdom of Israel in which a believing Jew and a believing Gentile is. An unbelieving Jew is not, and an unbelieving Gentile is not. So, again, the kingdom of Israel will consist of believing Jews in Yeshua and believing Gentiles in Yeshua that follow the commandments. So, we've got to really understand that. But that is the other commandment in Psalm 81:3-4.

In Psalm 104:19-21, "He appointed the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down." So, again, this is something for a lot of my friends. Again, if you're on the Gregorian calendar, the Gregorian calendar is only by the sun only. So, what do you do with this scripture right here? If you're on the Gregorian calendar, Psalm 104 says, "He appointed the moon, not the sun, the moon for seasons." "The sun knows it's going down." What's the word for seasons again? Moadim, appointments. So, He appointed the moon for divine appointments. The sun knows it's going down. Amen to that. So, my friends, again, the only calendar that goes by the moon setting the stage on these divine appointments is the Hebrew Jewish calendar. That's the only biblical calendar that goes by it as well. Much less the Gregorian calendar doesn't go by it either. So, the new moon always on the Hebrew Jewish calendar begins the month, just like Psalm 104:19-21 commands us to.

"He appointed the moon, it's going down." Amen. And this is what I was speaking with with 1 Thessalonians 5 with the Apostle Paul. This is for all of our Christian friends to really understand this. This is very important to understand these things. "But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you." But we'll just stop right there. So, whenever we get to a point like this where if we don't have the education, there's really no point reading the rest of the scripture, really, because we're not going to understand it anyhow if we don't have the education. "But concerning the times and the seasons, my Christian friends, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you." Well, my Christian friends, if you do not know the times and the seasons, then this is very important for you to because look at what he says. "For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Again, they will not escape. But you, brethren, you are not in darkness, so that this day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do. Let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. But let those who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as the helmet, the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore, comfort each other with these words." I went through that very quickly because, friends, if we don't understand what it's saying here, there's really no point reading the rest of it, because they'll be caught as a thief in the night.

Let's go through it really quick. "But concerning what? The times and the seasons, my friends. If we don't understand that, close Paul up and let's go get educated, and then let's go back and read Paul again, and then we'll have a better understanding of the Apostle Paul." Because if we don't understand the times and the seasons, I remember I used to read the Thessalonians before I crossed over into the true ways. I had no idea what he was talking about. I had no clue what Paul was talking about. "Times and seasons. Great, Paul. Wonderful." No, He said that for a reason. He said concerning the times and the seasons. And if we don't understand that, friends, then the rest of it is going to be for us. Thief in the night, we will not escape, and all these bad things that Paul is saying here. So, again, He's telling the Thessalonians that they do understand the times and the seasons, that He shouldn't have to talk to them because they do understand the times and the seasons.

But what is He correlating to? The Day of the Lord. He's correlating to knowing the times and the seasons to the Day of the Lord, or being caught as a thief in the night. This is serious stuff. But people aren't reading the Apostle Paul like this because how can people read that? I don't mean to be ugly, I don't mean to be any kind of way, but Christianity, when they read this, how can they read it any other way? They don't have the education to read it another way. And I don't mean that ugly, I mean that let's get educated, because if we don't get educated, "my people perish for lack of knowledge." So, if we don't understand where the Apostle is coming from here, He's coming from the feast days and the calendar. The time, He's talking about the time, the calendar, and the seasons is what He's talking about. He's not talking about any other thing that Christianity could even think of. "But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord comes what? As a thief in the night." He's not talking about the tribulation. He's talking about the Day of the Lord. "For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Again, they will not escape. But you, brethren, you are not in darkness, that this day, what day? The Day of the Lord, should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do. But let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep get sleep at night, those who get drunk get drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as the helmet, the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

Whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore, comfort each other and edify one another, just as you are also doing." Friends, again, if we understand that this is talking about the time and the seasons, then the rest of the scripture makes perfect sense. When we do not, then we're going to think He's talking about, "Oh, we're going to escape from the Antichrist." We're not. It's not even talking about the tribulation, number one. It's talking about the Day of the Lord, the Day of Yeshua. That's it. It's talking about the Day of Yeshua. It's not talking about Antichrist at all. So, He's talking about the 10 days of awe being left here for Yeshua's wrath. And that's what He's talking about. And that's what our Christian friends don't understand is He's not talking about the tribulation. He's talking about this. He's talking about when He returns on trumpets, that 10-day war, trumpets to the atonement, that 10-day, 10 days of awe, if you call it that.

That's what the Apostle is speaking of. He's not talking about escaping the seven-year tribulation. You don't even see the tribulation in this passage. You see the Day of the Lord. The Day of the Lord is not the Great Tribulation. This is not the Day of the Lord is the Day of the Lord. The Great Tribulation is the Antichrist reign. So, we've got to understand that. Very important scripture here for our friends to really understand. Let's look at what King David, Muhammad, he put on the new moon festival in 1 Samuel 20:5. "And David said to Jonathan, 'Indeed, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with King Saul to eat, but let me go that I may hide in the field until the third day at Eden.'" So, of course, the new moon festival back in David's day was a big event. I believe it was like a three-day event, and he was going to sit with the king as he always did, but King Saul wanted to kill him, so he was fleeing from him.