Shalom Friends,
Join us as we proclaim and celebrate the new month (moon) on the biblical calendar. We will discuss in depth the importance of this month, as we discover three major anointings of it; The Hebrew letter, constellation, and tribe.
Many Blessings This Month,
Chadwick
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Lord, thank you. Bow down your ear, Lord, from your everlasting throne. Hear my prayer, Lord, today. Decree your verdict my way. I am in a time of need. Tend to my voice graciously. I pray to you all day long, singing and praising with your songs.
I have lifted my soul for your review. Examine me, Lord, through and through. Lord, I stay my case to you. My petitions are faithful and true. My enemies seek my life, filled with anger and strife. You are gracious in mercy — save your servant who trusts in you.
Rise. You are my God. You are my forever. I will praise your name. Lord, I am calling on you. Cast them under your foot. Your eyes are on all the earth, filling all the righteous. You are the sovereign judge. Your verdict always stood. Show me a sign for good. Lord, show me a sign.
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Shalom, everybody. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we discover Yah's times and seasons. Tonight we are going to discover the new moon on the biblical calendar, and that month is the fourth month — the month of Tammuz.
Thank you for joining us, everybody. We hope everyone is having a great week and is starting this new month well. As we enter the summer months — the dog days, as some people call it down here in the South — we enter into some critical months. Starting with Tammuz, then Av, then the month of Elul, these three months — these ninety days before we reach the Feast of Trumpets, where the shofar is blown and the new year begins on the civil calendar — represent an extremely important time on the biblical calendar.
When we look at the biblical calendar, beginning at the top with month number one, we see the month of Nissan. That is the beginning of the biblical calendar established in Exodus — Moses's calendar, if you want to call it that. The new year begins on Nissan 1, which falls somewhere around March to April depending on the year. Nissan is where the Feast of Passover falls, corresponding to the crucifixion and the resurrection. The ascension then falls on the fortieth day of the Omer count, which lands in the second month, the month of Iyar. We can therefore trace Yeshua's first coming events through the biblical calendar: Passover, the laying in the tomb during Unleavened Bread, the First Fruits resurrection, and then the ascension into the heavens on the fortieth day in Iyar. In the third month, Sivan, we have the Feast of Shavuot, which marks the end of the fifty-day Omer count from the resurrection.
Understanding the biblical calendar is essential for making sense of the scriptures. We have to be on God's timing to understand the events we see even in the gospel accounts and the New Testament. Once we grasp the biblical calendar, it gives us great knowledge and wisdom, and we will be in alignment with God throughout the year — on the feast days, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons. From that alignment, revelation, prophecy, and understanding of the end-of-the-age events open up. Prophecy begins and ends with the biblical calendar, the feast days of the Lord, and the everlasting covenants. These three foundational principles will transform how the Bible reads.
The New Testament picks this up directly through Yeshua's first coming events. He was crucified on Passover, laid in the tomb during Unleavened Bread, and resurrected on First Fruits. Fifty days later, he poured out his Spirit on Pentecost — the Feast of Shavuot. We could not understand those connections without the calendar. Leviticus 23 lays out the feast days, and the pattern is clear: the spring feasts correspond to the first coming, and the fall feasts correspond to the second coming. We cannot understand either without the biblical calendar.
God does not want us to be caught as a thief in the night. He wants us to understand the times and the seasons — just as Paul exhorts us in 1 Thessalonians 5.
Tonight we close out the first quarter of the biblical calendar. We have moved through Nissan, with its first coming events of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits; through Iyar, the second month; and through Sivan, the third month, where Shavuot falls — this year on Sivan 12. But the journey does not end there. We now enter the second quarter: the summer months of Tammuz, Av, and Elul.
Tammuz is a very important month. Its biblical anointing is one of judgment. Each month carries a character derived from its scriptural associations — either a positive tone or a tone of judgment. Tammuz is a month that can go either way. Judgment does not have to mean bad judgment. If one is following the Lord's commandments, the judgment can be favorable. If not, there will be chastisement, just as Israel was chastised in the scriptures — and that is precisely where we derive the anointing of this month.
Tammuz carries significant historical weight in scripture. The golden calf incident occurred on Tammuz 17, which became a fast day from that time forward, and judgment has followed on that day throughout history. Additionally, Tammuz 9 is when Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls of Jerusalem, as recorded in scripture. So this month can be good or bad depending on the behavior of the people — for Israel in scripture, and personally for each of us today.
Tammuz therefore functions as a warning month: do not forget what was learned in the first three months. Do not forget the purification, the refinement, the lessons of the Omer journey — knocking off bondage and strongholds during the counting from Passover to Shavuot. This month is a reminder not to abandon the convictions gained through that process. Press further. Go deeper in the Lord through these next months as we approach the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets is a critical moment because that is when the books are opened for individuals and nations. This is visible in scripture with Nebuchadnezzar — he was exiled for seven years beginning on the Feast of Trumpets, on a Shemitah cycle, as recorded in Daniel 4. In Genesis 41, the righteous Joseph was released from prison at a point that corresponds to the Feast of Trumpets. Genesis 41 says "at the end of two full years." Joseph was on the civil calendar, not Moses's calendar, and on that calendar his release would have fallen on the Feast of Trumpets.
There are two calendars that must be understood together. The civil calendar begins in the fall with Tishri 1 — the Feast of Trumpets. This is the calendar on which Adam was born. The biblical calendar — Moses's calendar — begins in the spring with Nissan 1. The months themselves are the same on both calendars; the only difference is which month is numbered first. On the civil calendar, Tishri is month one; on the biblical calendar, Nissan is month one. As a result, the feast days appear in different positions on each calendar.
The civil, or creation, calendar is essential because it counts time from Adam. There will be six days — six thousand years — from Adam to Yeshua's second coming. If you count only from Moses's calendar, you lose approximately 2,500 years, and the prophetic calculation breaks down. We need the civil calendar, beginning in the fall, to count time from Adam and to track the Jubilee year. Yahweh commanded us to count the months from Nissan 1 on the biblical calendar, but we must also understand the civil calendar to properly interpret the prophecies of the second coming — and to count time from Adam, who lived 2,500 years before Moses.
