Biblical Calendar and Feast Day Trajectory

This is in the book of Exodus, Exodus 12. We'll begin this journey for you with the new month. When Moses looked up and Yahweh said, "This is your first month, Moses." And he was talking about Nisan 1, okay, the biblical calendar. Well, as you can see on the graph, it starts a trajectory that he wanted Israel to go through for purification, for refinement. Okay? So, we'll go through this really quick and then we'll tie it into Yeshua and then we'll go forward in tonight's with the feast of Yom Kippur. But again, it started in Nisan 1. That's Exodus 12. We all know as you continue to read Exodus 12 that it ran into Passover when they put the blood of the lamb on the doorposts. That was a foreshadow of Yeshua's blood for us at the feast of Passover when he was crucified. Okay. The next day is Unleavened Bread. That's when he was laid in the tomb. And that's when the children of Israel left Egypt on Nisan 15.

The feast of Unleavened Bread, which is still Passover. Okay. Then we have the Feast of First Fruits, which is three days from Passover. That is when he was resurrected. So again, this first month's trajectory, he wants us to identify with the Messiah, but also with the journey from Exodus as well, because he had to fulfill every jot and tittle of the Torah, right? So at his first coming events, when he was crucified on Passover, if you go read Exodus 12, it's going to show you the foreshadows, you know, the one-year-old lamb, the lamb without blemish, etc., etc., put the blood on the doorposts, all of these things. So it's really a foreshadow of what he had to fulfill. So, as we continue forward after the resurrection on the Feast of First Fruits, we have this 50-day journey. It's called the Counting of the Omer. It's a 50-day divine appointment. How do we know that? It's Leviticus 23.

The Father in heaven says, "Count 50 days and be with me every 50 days." Okay? All 50 days. Be with me and count with me seven weeks, seven times seven, to the 50th day. It's really amazing that the Almighty God wants me and you to go on a journey with him for 50 days, a 50-day divine appointment, because he tells us to count with him every single day. So that carries you from the middle of the month of Nisan through the month of Iyar, which is month number two, to Shavuot, which is in the beginning of the month of Sivan. So you have this whole trajectory of a divine appointment, appointment, pretty much from the middle of Nisan, Passover, all the way to Sivan, okay, with Shavuot. Okay, why is that important? Is because he wants us to understand what Yeshua was going to do at his first coming events through the book of Exodus, through the calendar in Genesis 1:14. And if you look at it, it's really phenomenal.

For my Jewish friends and Christian friends, this is totally amazing how Yahweh created his divine appointments for Yeshua to fulfill on these events. It's really amazing. So Passover, he was crucified. Every gospel account will tell you that. On Passover, he was crucified. Laid in the tomb on Unleavened Bread. Resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits. It's pretty amazing. And then 50 days, divine appointment, my friends, 50 days. He journeyed, he travailed. On the 40th day, he ascended into heaven on the 40th day of the Omer. And then 10 days later, he told the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit was poured out on Shavuot, or what we know as Pentecost. So, as the Jewish Messiah, prerequisites, he had to fulfill these events. If he did not fulfill these events, he would be eliminated from being the Jewish Messiah. That's how significant and important and vital it is for the Christian believer to understand this and the Jew to understand this as well.

He must do that. The Jewish Messiah had to fulfill these prophecies. They're called feast days in the Bible, but they're really divine appointments, divine appointments, right, from the Father that Yeshua had to fulfill. So if we can get that concept and that understanding, the theology in our mind, that there's prerequisites that he has to fulfill to be the Jewish Messiah. So all my Jewish friends, all my Christian friends, they're off on this because the Jewish people don't believe in Yeshua. The Christians don't worship the right way with these days, and both of them are missing the divine appointments of the Most High through Yeshua the Messiah. Think about that for a minute. So again, this is really important for all of us to really grasp and also to proclaim. This is a very powerful day historically, prophetically, and also personally as well. We'll get to the personal aspect of it here later on after we give him the credit of what he's going to do on this beautiful day.

But my friends, it is a trajectory. It's a spiritual purification journey. One of the reasons why I wrote the book "Cross to the Crown" is it takes you through the calendar and how important it is to purify through the scriptures on the calendar. That's why it's for, that's why we know the anointings of the calendar is because of the scriptures. Okay? So we have to go by the calendar, but also the scriptures will go with it. And it's very important to understand that concept. There's nothing that the scriptures talk about that you can't put on the calendar in the order that it is in. So if one wants to read Exodus 12 on forward to Exodus 34, it will take you from Passover to Yom Kippur. Okay, when he, when Moses came down with the two new tablets and said, "All is forgiven, and now let's go build the tabernacle on the Feast of Tabernacles, by the way." So it's pretty interesting how Yahweh has correlated all of this together for us to understand.

But he wants us to go through this refinement as well, this trajectory as well, in my personal opinion, every year. Because every year it's going to be a little bit different depending on, you know, our growth, depending on what we're dealing with, spiritual warfare, whatever it may be in life. We're going to all look different every single year as we grow and we mature to the believers that he wants us to be. But my friends, I can't overstate it enough that this calendar, again, Yahweh will change your life forever. Yeshua, Holy Spirit will change your life forever. But this is where they are. This is what, how they want you to purify is through the calendar. Okay? So many times, you know, we have, even myself when I was younger, I was trying to do it myself. I'd read the scriptures and just try to apply it on a kind of a personal level, which is good, and please don't take me out of context.

But the way you really purify is you get with him on his days, on his calendar: Sabbath, New Moon, Passover, Tabernacles, Yom Kippur, and go through that purification that he leads you on. Okay? So, it's a very kind of a paradigm shift the way that sometimes we look at the scriptures kind of in a personal aspect instead of putting the focus back on him and letting the Holy Spirit lead us through the scriptures to purification, if you know what I'm saying. So, it's just really tweaking our mindset that it's just we can't look at it like a self-gospel, if you will. Look at it through the journey that he's going to put us on through what he created, the calendar, the feast days. And my friends, he'll change your life forever. He really will, which most of you know this. So again, when we look at the calendar, it's a trajectory, especially these first seven months. It's a trajectory of purification and refinement, okay?

Because of what we've discussed throughout these seven months if you've been with us. If you haven't been with us, that's what it's about is going through these feast days: Nisan 1, the New Moon, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits. Why, why are they important in the Exodus account? Why are they important in the gospel account? What can we apply of it in our own minds and hearts? Right? And then we go on the 50-day journey, okay? The purification journey to Shavuot, okay? Revelation. That's what the month of Sivan is. And after that, it does not end after Shavuot. Okay? It continues on forward forever. It never ends. Okay? It's the circle of life, basically. So after you get through Shavuot, you've got 40 days. And then there's Tammuz 17th. Why is that important? Is because Israel, after 40 days from Shavuot, they built the golden calf. So think about that. After the revelation that they received, the Torah, they said, "We'll do everything that you tell us to do." 40 days after that, they turned away from Yahweh and they built the golden calf.

And then 3,000 people died on that day. They didn't die on Shavuot, by the way. They died on Tammuz 17th. There's a misconception of that. Shavuot, they said yes to everything Yahweh said. Tammuz 17th, 40 days later, they built the golden calf. Okay? And then we know what happened. Moses came down, and 3,000 people did die then. Okay? So he's checking all of us after we get the purification of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits. We go on this beautiful purification journey, which is what they had to do as well to receive the Torah. Well, we're no better than they are. We need refinement and purification as well, and to remind us not to go back to our golden calf. Okay? Okay. So, it's not just about Israel. It's about us, me and you, on why they did get judged for the golden calf as well. We've got to make sure we don't have the golden calf in our life. So that brings us to the ninth day of Av.

That's the next month on the journey. So, Tammuz 17th, a fast day. Zechariah 8, the fast of the fourth month because of the golden calf. Three weeks later is the fast of the fifth month. Why did the fifth, the ninth day of Av, become a fast day? Is because the two spies, or excuse me, the 10 spies brought back the bad report, and only Joshua and Caleb brought back the good report when they were about to enter into the land in Numbers 13 in chapter 14. So you can read that for yourself. That was in the second year of the Exodus. Okay? So they brought back the bad report, and only Joshua and Caleb brought back the good report, which is the reason why the rest of them had to die off in the desert for 40 years because of disobedience and lack of faith. And then Joshua and Caleb entered into the promised land with their families. So my friends, that became a fast day. It's called the Three Weeks of Sorrow or Dire Straits, from Tammuz 17th, the fourth month, to the ninth day of Av, the fifth month.

Three weeks of dire straits where you remember, and we all remember, why the Temples were destroyed, both of them, on the ninth day of Av, is because of disobedience, lack of faith, not believing in Yeshua. So it really goes to us as well. Okay? This is the purification that we've got to be faithful. We've got to put our trust in Yah, in Yeshua, and not have any doubts in him, because that's what the fast day is for. So that leads us up to the sixth month, which is Elul, which is the month of repentance. Isn't that amazing? So we go through all of these months to get to the month of repentance before the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur. Why is that? Is because that's where the verdicts are given. Okay? That's where the decrees are made. We went through that on the Feast of Trumpets. Okay? I can show you that in the book of Genesis. Genesis 41, Joseph. He was released from prison on the Feast of Trumpets after two full years.