Season of Sorrow Season of Joy

Friends, we are about to enter the most important period of time in all of human history. I entitled this piece Season of Sorrow Season of Joy because that is the only way I can describe the next series of very important events on God's prophetic calendar. I am talking about Daniel's 70th week, or what many in the Christian Church have termed the "Seven Year Tribulation Period". (Although I do not hold to a 7 year Great Tribulation period the way those who hold to the pre-tribulation rapture do). I may get a lot of flack from my churched friends for saying this, but: according to the scriptures themselves, Yeshua our Messiah (Jesus Christ) is going to be returning in seven years from this next Feast of YHVH.


What is the next Feast of YHVH? And when does it occur?


The next Feast, beginning the fall feasts and setting off the final seven years begins this Friday sunset to Sabbath (Sat) sunset. On our pagan calendars it just so happens to fall on Sept 11th. This is the Feast of Trumpets, called Yom Teruah (see Leviticus 23). I used to think that Yeshua did not want us to know when He was coming. I took a Christian teaching for granted based upon "No man knows the day or the hour, not even the angels in Heaven nor the Son of Man..." (Matthew 24:36) to mean that He did not want us to calculate or know when He would return. I have since come to learn, since studying the Hebraic root of my faith in Yeshua, that in its context, He was referring to the feast of Trumpets. This feast falls on the first day of the seventh month. However, to calculate when that Day and Hour is, one must watch the lunar phases. There is about a 1-3 day variation of when the New Moon (or renewed moon) is sighted and thus beginning this feast. It begins when the sliver of moon is sighted after the moon is in its dark phase anywhere from 1-3 days. Due to this moon phase variation, indeed, no man knows the day or the hour!- of that feast! But it is this very important moed (feast) which kicks off the subsequent fall feasts which are so significant to prophetically indicating His return. It is also the Feast which will be fulfilled when the Lord returns with the shout of the archangel, with the TRUMPET (shofar) call of God....when those who have fallen asleep in messiah before us will rise, then we will be changed in an instant to meet the Lord in the air AT THE LAST TRUMP.

The Season of Joy refers to the Festival of Sukkot or the Feast of Tabernacles. It is often called the Festival of Joy. When Yeshua returns to start His millenial reign beginning with the Feast of Tabernacles when He will again TABERNACLE (or dwell with us), it will indeed be a season of great JOY! But we have much to endure until then....

This year, we are in the 62nd Shavuim (feast of Shavuot) of Israel since the decree went forth to rebuild Jerusalem in Nov 1947. That means in just seven years from now (for we know the Lord will descend and gather together His elect at the Last Trump- a clear referrence to Yom Teruah) the entire prophecy and this earth age will be complete, according to Daniel chapter 9.

Does Yeshua really want us to know when He will return? Well, it makes no sense to me that our Master and Creator chastized the pharisees for not knowing the times or seasons, and as He commanded His followers to WATCH for His coming (parable of the fig tree), and yet, as the traditional end-times teaching would have it, He does NOT want us to know when His return is? That makes Yeshua sound schizophrenic.

There is a huge clue in Genesis 1:14 regarding knowing His seasons according to His feasts:

And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: (emphasis mine).

The word for seasons is moedim. It means appointments, or feasts.

YHVH wants us to be watching His appointed feasts for His coming. He created the heavenly bodies for our benefit, so that it would be made clear to us what His agenda would be. The wrong teachings of man have twisted the truth and obscurred these wonderful truths from our vision.

The reason I never knew this sitting in a church pew is because most Christians-as well as the entire secular world, follow the pagan calendar, rather than obey YHVH and walk in His statutes due to error in teaching. They (and I did as well) follow a calendar based upon the solar cycles, rather than the lunar cycles that Elohim told us to go by in the First Covenant.

In this hour, these truths, the truths of His Torah, are being restored in our midst. He has written His Torah (Law) on our hearts (Jer 31) and has given us his Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) to lead and guide us in them.

How about you? Will you be willing to be obedient, changing your trajectory to that of the Creator's Calendar, rather than the anti-messiah, who seeks to change times and seasons? Will you keep your appointments with your Creator? He is waiting for you. He longs to meet with you. He has set the agenda. He has named the time and place (...'all your dwellings....' Leviticus 23). Will you be there?

Beloved, I would be remiss not to mention this at this most important juncture in time. We are entering the second to the MOST important set of fall feasts (the first important are obviously those which will be fulfilled by Yeshua's soon return, which will happen in seven years).

So timeline goes like this:

Fall Feasts 2010-begin Daniel's prophetic "week" (7 yrs)
Anti-messiah causes the sacrifice and oblation to cease
and sets up the abomination which makes desolate-spring
-2013
3 1/2 yrs of GREAT TRIBULATION such as world has never seen
Yeshua gathers His elect at Yom Teruah (day or hour no
man knows- because of the lunar phase variable) 2017
Day of Atonement 10 days later- all Israel is saved
Festival of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) 5 days later
beginning the 120th Jubilee Year and the thousand year
Sabbath reign of our Messiah from Jerusalem.

To see a comprehensive and very visually accute teaching on this topic, please go to the following web address and watch the full-length video on Daniel's Timeline. It is very detailed and very awe-inspiring. And seek YHVH and to walk in all of His commands as never before:

http://www.waytozion.org/video/stream/timeline/timeline.html

All you have to do to follow the Creator's Calendar is to read His Word. It's all there. You may have to shed some false teachings along the way in order to fully understand and walk in it, but there is nothing more rewarding than doing His will and meditating on His Laws day and night. King David, the man after God's own heart did this. You can too. Read Psalm 119 to see how King David felt about the Law of YHVH. And read the entire instructions our YHVH meant for YOU!


May YHVH bless you as we prepare for a very bumpy (yet rewarding-in-the-end) ride!~ as the Bride of Messiah washes her garments and makes herself ready for her soon-coming bridegroom!

SHALOM

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