What I am going to try to explain
centers on how I apply God's instruction to count
Pentecost's "7 Sabbaths plus 50 days" in light of the
fact that the Jews of today have given us a bit of a
conundrum. They use a calendar where the weeks are
per the Gregorian calendar. God is going to use
this along with His Biblical instructions. On the
surface it sounds invalid but I ask that you bear with
me.
In Leviticus 23:15 God describes the 7
Sabbaths as "complete". The Hebrew word is
Strong's 8549, Tamim. It means complete, whole,
perfect, blameless, without blemish. Interesting word to describe a
Sabbath week on the calendar.
Prior,
I assumed only that this meant 7 full Sabbath
weeks. Simple. Makes for 49 days straight
on the calendar. Add the additional 50 and you
end up with a count of 99 days.
I have come to see that I
was overlooking one detail in God's instruction and so
the combination of 7 Sabbaths with the 50 days ends up
being different than a simple count of 99 days.
Otherwise, why not just say, "count 99 days beginning on
the first day of the week after Passover."
Insight from the Spirit:
Perfect Sabbath weeks are not to include New Moon days!
New Moon days are different
"animals" and are distinct from Sabbaths (see Colossians
1:16) They have their own set of sacrifices (see Ezekiel
46:6+7), are to be a time of rest (see Amos 8:5), and
are to also be announced with a trumpet (see Numbers
10:10). New Moon days and Sabbaths are distinct
from one another throughout the Scriptures.
So, I am to count the "perfect" Sabbath
weeks in a way that are not including New Moon
days. This is why the word Tamim is very
significant and I never saw this prior.
During the time of Moses, this
distinction is not that big of a deal in terms of
altering where Pentecost lands. Each month I
believe had 30 days. You see a clue for this in
the account of the flood were 150 days are counted
between the 17th day of Noah's 2nd month and ends as the
ark rests on Mt Arafat on Noah's 17th day of his 7th
month. Five months equals 150 days. So,
during Moses' time each month had 4 complete Sabbaths
after a New moon day. After the 4 complete
Sabbaths was a dark day leading up to the next New Moon
day. So, back then you have about 103 or so actual
days verses just the 99.
However, we have a challenge living in
2025. We are on the other side of 701 B.C., which
according to Chuck Missler was when calendars around the
world changed from following a 360 day year to a 365.25
day year, with 29.5 days for a lunar month verses 30
days. I think we can thank our buddy King Hezekiah
for the "shadow going back 10 steps" sign he requested
of God via Isaiah. (It was likely caused by a
high-gravitational, space object "catalyst" passing
through out solar system that ultimately brought about
the change. The ultimate miracle was the timing of
it. If you have ever had to pass a ball to a
moving teammate in sports, you can appreciate a little
what God accomplished back then.)
All of us who have been wrestling with
trying to understand and account for God's calendar
during these last days appreciate the difficult
challenge presented by that 701 B.C. event.
Now, it is my understanding that those
Jews today who follow the popular Jewish calendar
acknowledge it is not accurate, but they will not alter
it until Messiah comes (or perhaps Elijah).
I get it, yet I have not been satisfied to be
passive in that regard. Like many of you, the Holy
Spirit has pressed me to wrestle with calendar mystery.
Years ago in my trying to figure out
what calendar God wanted me to reckon prophetic days by,
in my real frustration, God affirmed to me that it is
not a problem for Him, and that even if on a particular
date the Jews are wrong, He will dovetail the
meaning/significance of that date on their version of
the calendar with His correct calendar, fulfilling two
dates/meanings/aspects at the same time (our God does
not break a sweat.)
So, that is what I think I am to do
with determining Pentecost today per allowing for New
Moon days. I have to keep two calendars before me
as I watch for Jesus. One is a Biblically correct
calendar, and the other is what the Jews of today
use. God will dovetail both. And He is
dove-tailing Pentecost with . . . the 9th/10th of Av on
the Jewish popular calendar. He is able to do this
with Pentecost because Pentecost is not specified as
falling on a specific date of the year. He is mind
blowing in His details.
Let me show you this.
But first I have to explain one more
thing. Part of understanding how God dovetails
dates is that I am NOT to automatically negate what the
Jews of today are presenting on their calendar just
because I sincerely think they are wrong.
Leviticus 23:1 clearly expresses that God gave Israel
the responsibility for declaring His Feasts and thus the
calendar as well. God does not take kindly to
someone trying to usurp the responsibility given to
another. Case in point? Korah's rebellion
when the earth opened and swallowed that group alive,
closing back over them. As a positive example,
think in terms of David choosing not to kill Saul in the
cave even though David was God's anointed one to replace
Saul and also because Saul was absolutely failing in his
role before God. Saul was trying to kill God's
anointed one. You can't get worse than that.
So, in my trying to learn of God's true
calendar, I am to keep Israel's calendar in view because
God gave them the responsibility, even though they are
in error. He is going to use it in some way
anyhow. It is His Glory to do so.
I believe that over the centuries God
has clued us into this approach by all of the times
Israel experienced differing judgments on the 9th/10th
of Av per their calendar. He is still "using"
their calendar determination in some ways. God
actually communicates with Israel through this. It
matters.
So, how do I take the above into
account in determining the timing of Pentecost this year
assuming that I do not include "weeks" that have a New
Moon day(s)?
I have to include the fact that the
Jews of today use Gregorian calendar weeks though their
days start and end at sunset. Now, how do I do so?
This year Passover per the Jewish
calendar landed on a Sabbath day, April 11/12. So,
the Feast of First Fruits was the very next day, the 1st
day of a week. I then count as follows:
Week 1 April 13-19
Week 2 April 20-26
(New Moon in this week, April 27-May 3)
Week 3 May 4-10
Week 4 May 11-17
Week 5 May 18-24
(New Moon in this week, May 25-31)
Week 6 June 1-7
Week 7 June 8-14
I then add 50 days and I come to . . .
August 3rd, the 9th/10th of Av.
I am thinking God is dove-tailing
Pentecost this way with the day Jews already lost two
temples, and so they will have a third temple (us)
removed from them on the same date. Along with
this third temple (us) removed, the Jews will not longer
have the Holy Spirit fulfilling the role of Restrainer
on the earth.
Noah released the raven and the dove on
the 10th/11th day of his 11th month, which is the VERY
NEXT DAY after the 9th/10th of Av on the Jewish
calendar. I believe the raven represents the
releasing of the first seal's evil-spirit-being that
will bring about the kingdom of antichrist (Revelation
6:1,2). Some teach that the rider on the white
horse is Jesus. I do not think that is
valid. Jesus is breaking seals. And no angle
of God is going to command the King of Kings and the
Lord of Lords to "Come" with a voice of thunder.
Now, will we have to wait until August
3rd? I am thinking Jesus still has not fulfilled
the 40 (+3?) days sign of Jonah to Ninevah, the only (in
your face) sign a wicked and adulterous generation will
be given. So, thinking out of the box here, if I
back up 43 days from August 3rd, I land on June
21st. On June 20/21, the sun is right above the
raised club of Orion. Perhaps Orion is a picture
(type/shadow) of Gideon raising his torch after breaking
the vessels of clay (us getting new bodies?), raising a
lit torch to heaven (our new bodies now manifesting the
fullness of the Holy Spirit who came upon Jesus' 120
followers as "fire") and blasting a trumpet with 300
(how long did Enoch walk with God before God took him?).
So, I am thinking there will be a 40
day window (perhaps with another 3 days of darkness
connected? since Jonah's sign could include this?) where
all of us might be taken home at the beginning of the 40
(like Jesus when He ascended the first time right after
His resurrection?), and then some will come right back
with Jesus (like Jesus did after His first ascension?)
for His Jonah-sign-warning of the judgment ultimately
coming on August 3rd. This will match what Jesus
did after His resurrection in terms of the 40 days after
3 days of darkness that His disciples and followers
initially experienced after He was crucified.
I believe Moses came down from Mt Sinai
after his first set of 40 days on Pentecost. In
his time I had figured prior that it was about the 1st
day of the 5th month. That is when he smashed two stone
tablets because the people had rejected the offered
covenant. Might August 3rd be when "He who is
without sin" cast the first (of more than one?) stone on
those of the earth (likely asteroids?), who have
rejected the covenant He had offered in His sacrificial
death, the adulterous generation?
If you read Deuteronomy 9 through 10:4
you see that Moses spent three sets of 40 days on the
Mountain, not two. What did he do during that
second set of 40 days right after Pentecost, 40 days
after he cast the stones? He interceded for Israel
that God would have mercy on His chosen people.
Now look at Joel 2:15-17. Might that be us in
heavenly places? after we go home on Pentecost?
Those 40 days leading up to Pentecost
might also be when many people who are of Jesus' chosen
sheep, whom He will not lose (John 6:39), who had not
yet, up to that time, embraced the gospel, yet have
loved the world instead, with its lusts of the flesh,
lusts of the eyes, and the boastful pride of life (like
Eve in Genesis 3:6), that they will then repent during
the 40 day warning window. Perhaps they will
witness folks getting raptured and like what Elisha
experienced when he witnessed Elijah gettting raptured,
be given the Spirit similar to Paul's experience "on the
road to Damascus" where he initially had to endure three
days of darkness before the prophet, named Ananias,
whose name means "Grace", came and restored Paul's
sight. Might some of us get to come back down with
Jesus during that 40 days and embody grace to those
blind in their sins yet had experienced a type of
exposure to Jesus that let them know to what extreme
they were wrong in how they had been living?
Just like Eve had to wait an additional
40 days after Adam went into the presence of God in the
Garden (like the non-canonical Book of the Jubilees
chapter 3:8,9 indicates), so also this second group will
have to wait 40 days before also going to heaven to be
with us. In other words, there is an Adam group
within the Body of Christ and there is an Eve group as
well. In the same way the first Adam was split
into a masculine Adam and a feminine Eve, so to Jesus'
will have an Adam and an Eve that come out of Him, the
Second Man and the Last Adam, though His side was opened
almost 2000 years ago.
Finally, like the strong man (Samson),
filled with the Spirit of God (though in his last day),
brought down the pillars to bring judgment on the 3000
unbelievers in God, might another strong man, Jesus,
remove the pillars of His body of Believers on a future
Pentecost, with the timing of the event matching the
3000 saved in Acts 2? The word "pillar" in the
Hebrew gematria has a value of 120. How many times
in the scriptures has the number 120 marked the end of a
time? Think here of how many years God granted
before the judgment of flood waters began, of how many
years old was Moses when God brought his earthlifetime
to a close, of how many talents the Queen of Sheba gave
Solomon after being with him face to face, of how many
animals God's heart thought in terms of when it seemed
judgment was about to descend on the people of Ninevah
during the time of Jonah, of how many followers of Jesus
were waiting before the Holy Spirit finally came upon
them. With all of the 120's, does this not
point to an ending of a time with a "last day" (see John
6) and this time as in Pentecost? along with a 9th/10th
of Av? A "last day" when a time is brought to a
close is also back to back with a "first day", when we
will all be face to face with Jesus.
Take the above to God.
God bless you.