The Biblical Calendar and Fast Days' Significance

Shalom friends, My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we explore the fast of the seventh month on the biblical calendar and why this became a fast day, which is Tishri 3 on the biblical calendar, that will turn into a feast day during Messiah's millennial kingdom. Everything that we speak of, it always goes back to the calendar with prophecies. Like I said, it begins and it ends with the biblical calendar to understand the times and also the seasons. The seasons are the feast days in Leviticus 23. If one's not familiar with that, those are the divine appointments, the feast days that the Lord is speaking of with the mo'edim. But we also have to understand the fast days as well for the understanding of what happened and why they became fast days, so that we don't repeat the same mistakes as the ancestors did, so that we can understand this and then we will enjoy the feast day at Messiah's Millennial Kingdom.

We are in the month of what they call Tishri. It is the seventh month in the scriptures. And as you can see, we're in the 10 Days of Awe. If folks don't understand the 10 Days of Awe, I'll try to explain that. That's the 10 days between the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. There are 10 days in Leviticus 23 from the Feast of Trumpets to the Day of Atonement, and it is really important to understand that. Why is that? That is when Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, will pour out his wrath for the 10 Days of Awe. It's very important to understand that in eschatology. Christianity needs to understand that as well because they don't understand the trajectory of the Messiah. They don't understand the hidden day. They don't understand these things. And again, no condemnation. We just have to get knowledge because my people perish for lack of knowledge. So, we have to understand the trajectory of the feast days to understand this.

And this is why this 10 days that we are in right now, we just entered Tishri 3. Tonight, wherever you may be, the third day of the 10 Days of Awe. So it's very important to understand that we're going to be back with you for the rest of the 10 days, pretty much every night, to go through some very important scriptures through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Zechariah, that shows you about these 10 Days of Awe and what Yeshua is going to do on this earth, especially in the Middle East, to the Islamists and people who do not believe in him and practice the lie. So, it's super important for the eschatology and also the theology, of course, to understand these things. But friends, we are in the 10 Days of Awe, just like I showed you on the other graph. Very important time to be with the Most High. Pray for righteous rendered verdicts. If God leads you to fast, please fast and pray because that's where the big things get moved, according to Mark 9:29.

This is an important time to understand these understandings. And tonight, we're going to go through the fast of the seventh month, which is called the fast of Gedaliah, or some people call it Gallayia here in America because of these things. So, this is super important, my friends, because again, eschatology does matter because it does go into the resurrection. It goes into the understanding of the Antichrist or a Nebuchadnezzar military figure. So, it's super important to understand this, to spread this word, whatever God leads you to, with the calendar and the feast days, to understand these through Jesus, through Yeshua. It's very important. But, we're going to open it up with Zechariah 8. This is where this prophecy begins in Zechariah 8:18-20. And let's see what the great prophet Zechariah said to us. Zechariah 8:18-20 says, "Then the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying, Thus says the Lord of hosts, The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace."

This is an awesome understanding, but we have to understand the biblical calendar. Unfortunately, when someone looks at this scripture, they believe that it is on the Gregorian calendar. And that would be a false understanding. It's all about God's calendar, the biblical calendar that He is associating with, because guess what? Zechariah, that's the only calendar that he would have known about. So, we've got to understand how Zechariah would have looked at it. Of course, he would have been on the biblical calendar. The Gregorian calendar wasn't even invented then. So for all of our Christian friends out there, we've got to get to the biblical calendar to understand the months that Zechariah is speaking of. So that's a very important point because if not, then this scripture will not make any sense if we're putting it on the wrong calendar, of course. So Zechariah says the fast of the fourth month.

So we'll go through all of the fast days really quick and then we'll go through the fast of the seventh. The fast of the fourth is what he said. So what is the fast of the fourth month? That goes into what they call today Tammuz, which is the fourth month, and that is the 17th day of the month. Why is that important? Because that's when Israel made the golden calf after Sinai. After Mount Sinai, they received the Torah on Shavuot. 40 days later, they got impatient. They weren't waiting on Moses. They didn't know what happened to Moses, and they built the golden calf. And that is when 3,000 people died. 3,000 people did not die on Shavuot. That's a false understanding. 3,000 people died when they made the golden calf, and Moses came down and told the Levites to grab a sword, and then 3,000 people died. On Tammuz 17th. So Tammuz 17th became a fast day from that point forward, and that's why Zechariah wrote it in Zechariah 8, the fast of the fourth month.

Because he wants all of us to remember what Israel did so we don't fall back into our idolatry. So this is not condemnation on the ancestors. It's about what we need to understand with the fast day, with personal accountability, national accountability, wherever one may be. We've got to understand what God loves and what God hates, and He hates idolatry. So that's when they came or he came with the Tammuz 17th, the fast of the fourth month. So that was when the golden calf, and that's why Zechariah said that it's the fast of the fourth, so that we can remember, you know, not to fall back into our idolatry once we cross over to Yeshua and the commandments. So super important. So the next one, and that does begin the three weeks of sorrow as they call it, or the dire straits, from Tammuz 17th to the Ninth Day of Av. Why is the Ninth Day of Av important? That's the fast of the fifth month.

As you can see on the calendar, that is the fifth month on the biblical calendar, the month of Av, and it is the ninth day of the month of Av. So the Ninth Day of Av is the most cursed day in biblical history or Jewish history. Both temples were destroyed on that one day. Think about the odds of that, with how many days are in the year. One day, both temples were destroyed on the Ninth Day of Av to prove a point to the Jewish people and to all of us that we cannot bring back a bad report. We've got to have faith in Him. What do I mean by that? Well, the Ninth Day of Av became a cursed day or a fast day because remember, the second year of the Exodus, 10 of the 12 spies brought back the bad report, and only Joshua and Caleb brought back the good report. So that day became a fast day since that time, and that's why you've seen, if you do your research, both temples were destroyed. A lot of exiles occurred in Europe for the Jewish people throughout the 1200s and the 1300s.

The Spanish Inquisition, 1492, when Columbus sailed over to America, that was on the Ninth Day of Av as well, because of the persecution of the Jewish people by Spain. And all of these bad events happened on that day. Many more. You'll just have to do your research on that. And we go through that on other videos. So, what is He trying to tell us on the fast of the fifth month? That we cannot have a bad report. We've got to trust Him and have faith in Him that He's going to deliver not only the Jewish people eventually at the end of the age, the remnant, but also us as well. We cannot bring a bad report. So, we've got to be very careful with our tongue, with our mouth, what we speak out, you know, falsehood or whatever it may be, or doubt or fear or whatever it may be. We've got to be the Calebs. We've got to be the Joshuas. And what happened after that? The rest of the people had to die off that were 20 and younger in the desert.

And only Joshua and Caleb and their families did not have to do that. So, then they entered the promised land with the new generation. So Yah is very serious about trusting Him, you know, having faith in Him. And that's what 10 of the 12 spies did not have, unfortunately. So that day became a fast day as well. So you have the fast of the fourth, idolatry. Fast of the fifth, lack of belief, lack of faith in Yah. And now we get to the fast of the seventh month, which is tonight. And we're going to skip that really quick because that's the lesson for tonight. And I'm going to move to the last feast day that Zechariah talks about, and then we'll come back to the seventh fast. So he says, "The fast of the fourth month, Tammuz 17th, the fast of the fifth month, the Ninth Day of Av, which we just went through, the fast of the seventh month, we're going to go through right now, and then the fast of the tenth month," shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah.

So the fast of the tenth month, which one is that? Well, that is to remember when Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls on Tevet 10. You know, this is recorded in the Holy Bible on Tevet 10. You can look this up. I forget where that is. I think it's in Ezekiel 28 or somewhere like that. I could be wrong on this now, but it's in the scriptures. Tevet 10, the 10th day of the 10th month. Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls of Jerusalem. So what do we need to get out of that? Is whenever we get breached, if Israel gets breached, or if we get breached personally as well, or warfare, whatever it may be, then we need to understand we're out of alignment. And just like Nebuchadnezzar was raised up by God, His servant, to judge the Middle East and Judah, it lets them know that they were out of alignment. So God does say that He would keep the enemies away from Israel if they do obey. So if they don't obey, then He'll breach them to warn them, you know, because He loves them.

He wants them to repent. And that's where they are right now. He wants them to repent and turn to the King of Israel, Yeshua, the Holy One of Israel. And that's why you've seen the breaching of Hamas, the breaching of Hezbollah, the breaching of the Houthis, the breaching of Iran now. And you'll continue to see that breaching until it reaches its climax with the time of Jacob's trouble. So, we have to realize that He tries to get our attention, just like He did with Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls to get their attention. But unfortunately, the kings were evil at that time, and they did not listen to the prophet Jeremiah and all the other prophets, and it was another breach. And then finally, He destroyed them. Nebuchadnezzar did, about the third time. There were about three breaches, and they were destroyed. So He was warning them, warning them, warning them, and then here we go with the total destruction, which goes into tonight as well, with the fast of the seventh month.

So this is super important to understand it from history, but also to put it right now, because these will not turn into feast days until the millennial kingdom, when Yeshua Jesus will turn them into feast days, just like it says in the prophet Zechariah. So again, in summary, if you've just joined us, the fast of the fourth month is Tammuz 17th because of idolatry of the golden calf, for us to remember not to fall into our idolatry either. It's not just about the ancestors, it's about us right now, and also the Jewish people. And also the Ninth Day of Av, the bad report, lack of faith, no belief in Yah to overcome the enemies, and they were exiled, or they were in the desert for 40 years. 20 and younger survived, but the older ones had to die off. Joshua and Caleb and their families entered the promised land with the new generation. And then tonight, we're going to go through the fast of the seventh here momentarily.

And then Tevet 10, the 10th day of the 10th month, reported in the scriptures, it says Nebuchadnezzar breached the walls. Why does He breach the walls? Because of rebellion, disobedience. And here we go. After the grace is done, and after the prophets speak it out, here comes the judgment. With the breaching. So it's very important to relate that to us today to be in obedience. People forget this, especially our Christian friends. We've got to be in obedience, everybody, or He will breach America. He will breach Europe, which He has. He will breach Israel, which He has. He'll breach the world. And that's where we are right now. Everybody's being breached right now, from what my two eyes see. So, He's trying to get the entire world to wake up, to understand, to come to Yeshua, Jesus, as the Savior, or He will continue to go the distance and turn up the pressure and test the entire world, which we are about to enter into, according to the scriptures and the prophetic timeline.