Dear John and all Doves,
      Earlier this year we were researching The Second Passover. This was a second chance, for individuals who had become defiled, to be ritually cleansed in a mikvah in Jerusalem and still have a Passover/Unleavened Bread. This was the feast or additional sabbaths which started the spiritual year at Nisan 1. Would the second chance apply to each of the other sabbaths, especially the three pilgrimage feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles? According to the Torah, each man of Israel over the age of 20 was required to go to Jerusalem and participate in each of these. They are like spiritual anchors for the beginning, middle, and ending of the cycle of feasts or additional sabbaths to the weekly ones. They are also representative of the harvests of the 7 species of crops of the land of Israel. The first would be barley, then wheat, then the others. This would include pomeganates, figs, grapes, and olives. By Tabernacles almost all the harvests are complete. Olives were the last to completely mature. Olive oil filled the lamps.
      A serious reason for being defiled was touching a corpse. We are approaching the darkening, eerie, deathly time of the year. The midnight hour and the midnight watch are approaching  It would be consistent for Abba Father to give that second chance. If Tabernacles is ending now we would add a month of 28 days from when it started. This is all contingent as to when our Master declared the new moon at Tishri 1 with the Feast of Trumpets. If we are delayed a month, who would be watching for a Second Tabernacles and the arrival of the Groom? It would be closer to the times of Noah just before the rains started at Chesvan. These days of halloween, all saints, and all souls are before us. Which will we choose for if we longer stay? Do we want the season of the lord of death or the season of the Second Tabernacles? It would all end, depending on timelines used, before 11-3-2007. That would be the anniversary of 11-8-2006 with the Scriptural year of 360 days rather than the Roman solar calender year of the 365 days. Subtract the five days difference and we are at the 41st anniversary or 41st stripe since the sign of the fig tree of 6-7-1967. In the Scriptures we can go to the verge of the 41. It does not go over that.
      It is my hope that no one will falter or despair if we need to watch for several more weeks. Abba Father is consistent in His tender mercies. He has been rich with mercy with the many Second Passovers. He may well be consistent and rich with tender mercies with the many Second Tabernacles. He could send His ever living Christ/Messiah at a time, day, watch, and hour when many are asleep in their slumber. May each of us be the bride willing to awaken, trim her wick, refill her lamp with newly harvested olive oil, transform, and depart in the spirit of eternal love and hope with the joy supreme. Bless each Dove in the days and perhaps weeks ahead.

With Love and Shalom,
Jean Stepnoski