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The Secret Hidden in Plain Sight: It’S About Time
The Secret Hidden in Plain Sight: It’S About Time
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God and Christ desperately want us to know what Satan has been able to obscure and hide from mankind. Christ had one simple message he told everyone. We dont know what God and Christ desperately want us to know. The truth is in Scripture, and the keys to unlocking the secrets are available to this generation.

This book will open your eyes to unbelievable truths. The story is so fantastic that it eclipses fiction, and much of what we have discovered flies in the face of inherited beliefs. We must be prepared to consider Scripture confirmed by history, current events, and new scientific discoveries. Gods holy day memorial commands and observances detail what has happened and what will surely happen again.

The news is good for believers and those who are willing follow a simplified plan to understand what your Bible has to say about Gods purpose to save all mankind. Somehow, we have lost our way, and the secret is hidden in plain sight. It is in your Bible, but roadblocks have crept into our interpretations and our understanding that frustrate the efforts of what God and Christ have to say.

Once you begin to challenge yourself to dig deeper, you will see and understand more of what God would have you know. There are signs and wonders in Scripture, in memorial observances, and in the heavens that will open your eyes to fantastic events around us right now.

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PublisherWestBow Press
Release dateMay 23, 2014
ISBN9781490835594
The Secret Hidden in Plain Sight: It’S About Time
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Hoppy Bishop

The author was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1945, graduated from the University of Alabama in 1969. Founded Open Gate Media, publishing monthly lifestyle magazines until retirement in 2008. Married with two children and eight grandchildren. Active today as a playground and Splash Pad dealer in Alabama and Florida.

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    The Secret Hidden in Plain Sight - Hoppy Bishop

    CHAPTER 1

    Humanity’s need to answer big questions about its beginning, purpose and end turns many toward Biblical records. Many believe we have an inherent knowledge of God’s power that called all things into existence.

    When Jesus was asked about end time events 2000 years ago, he said, No one knows the day or the hour, but scripture, scientific evidence and accumulated history give us a new perspective. Scripture proves that God marked holy day observances, set aside seasons and orchestrated events to attract the righteous to his side. He calls us to observe feasts, festivals and Sabbaths. He sets signs and wonders in the heavens and uses natural events to reveal himself in fire, smoke, new moons, eclipses, trumpet blasts and other signs that call to our attention. He has done all this to prove himself to seekers on a carefully laid out schedule that erases any possibility that these events could be attributed to chance.

    The proofs, like the parables used by Christ, are not for everyone. The proofs are for those who want to be God’s people. Once we turn from ourselves to God, he begins to equip us to accomplish his mission and ensure our provision.

    Scripture binds us to God. It warms us and protects us. It wraps us safely for eternity. Evil forces would take it from us, hide its beauty and obscure what God would have us know. The mysterious truths are laid out in God’s festivals and holy seasons.

    The dates in scripture are given as keys to unlock new secrets that were left for future and end time events. We need to pay attention to what he would have us know. He is trying to reveal himself to us in observances that help us understand and remember him.

    In Exodus 23:13-17 God tells us to observe three special feasts.

    "Pay attention to all that I have said to you

    Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me

    You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread

    You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor

    You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering"

    We would know that obedience is rewarded, and disobedience brings punishment throughout every day of life on earth. We would know that God is loving, patient and intent on pursuing all who would embrace him and join his eternal family. God has always acted consistently, and that consistency is established in history and projects into the present and the future. God has shown signs on specific holy days to announce future holy day visits on earth. God warns us to marry others in this family. We would know that few answer God’s call to turn from their sin and be saved from the sure destruction that sin always causes. Those who pay attention and those who watch have a chance to be saved from coming judgment and wrath.

    WATCH! said God! The Night Watch Covenant

    Four hundred and thirty years before it occurred, God set the date aside to watch Jacob enter Egypt. On that very same date years later God brought Jacob’s descendents, a whole nation, out from Egypt. Was it a coincidence God made that night a night of watching, a night to be observed by all generations, even ours?

    Exodus 12:40-42 says, "The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations."

    That historic event, Passover, would mark the date as one of the most significant days in all history, but God was not finished. He would orchestrate the birth, death and resurrection of Christ on what we now know to be those very historic dates.

    God would set the sun, moon and stars in the heavens as signs to draw man’s attention to what he was about to do. He would warn men, in order for them to heed his words and turn from their self-destructive sins. We know this now because of history and scientific discoveries that reveal God’s timeline.

    Watch! says God. Turn from your sins and accept my atonement, God pleads. God acts today as he has always acted. He wants us to come into his gracious provision.

    Ezekiel 45:21-22 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering.

    That very day, God destroyed present evil and set new beginnings in motion that would change the world. We are still under God’s command, so: this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD, by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

    Stay Awake! said Christ.

    Mark 13:32-33 But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. Christ followed the warning of verses 32-33 with another warning: And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake. (Mark 13:37)

    And we do not watch as Christ repeatedly told everyone we must do! We do not follow God’s night watch covenant, and we do not stay awake as Christ warned. Why? Because we have been tempted into ignorance and do not follow the command to follow God’s calendar.

    Those that follow God’s holy calendar know the seasons. We know that Passover is a season of endings and new beginnings because that is grounded in fact, and often repeated throughout the holy season! We also have at least eleven previous holy day occasions, on which God has given people the opportunity to acknowledge their sins, turn from them, and gain forgiveness before their judgment day.

    Wandering Israel and Christ’s followers alike were watching on the very same date as they dealt with fearful threats. Both generations were experiencing the most powerful event in their history. God was doing what was necessary to save mankind from self-destruction. Since that first Passover, mankind has been under God’s command to watch. Every generation has been directed to pay attention on the 14th night of the first month. We will use the scriptural tendency to number the date rather than name months, in order to avoid confusion.

    There is an established scriptural record of the pattern of events that followed the night of watching. This pattern discloses God, revealing what he is purposing to accomplish and telling us what to expect. God has always acted in holy ways on holy days.

    The night after Passover, Christ’s followers held a sorrowful and fear-laden period of watching. The night Christ was arrested was the anniversary of God’s commanded night of watching. Three days later, they were in a state of shock and disbelief that their Messiah was dead. He lay in a guarded tomb, so no one could steal his body. Few even considered that he would rise again.

    They missed the signs!

    God’s chosen people missed the stars and they missed the blood-red moons. They denied the cause of earthquakes, even the darkened sun. Though they saw them, they denied their significance. Everyone will eventually recognize the ever-increasing call of the trumpets. As the call becomes louder and louder and the signs evermore intense, no one will be able to ignore God.

    What Happens after the Night of Watching?

    The Day of Watching

    Micah in the last chapter of the Old Testament writes about the day of your watchmen. Remember the fate of the unrighteous, the ones who did not watch, and the ones who would not believe.

    Micah 7:1-4 Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires. The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind; they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net. Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together. The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

    Micah sees a time when fruit has been harvested. The symbolic fruit he describes is the fruit God gives as an example in Genesis 1, telling man to be fruitful and multiply. God harvested fruitful men, and only those who bore no fruit remained in Micah’s vision of the future.

    Our watchmen were asleep and ignored God’s plea.

    Micah 7:5 The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.

    It is still not too late so heed…

    Hebrews 4:1-7 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened. For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’ although his works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all his works. And again in this passage he said, They shall not enter my rest. Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, Today, saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts."

    As long as it is still today, there is still hope.

    CHAPTER 2

    The Ancient Hebrew Calendar

    Ancient Hebrews dated their calendar from the seventh month, basing their calendar system on their calculated date of creation. The calendar stood unchanged for thousands of years before God told them, in Exodus 12:2, to establish the beginning of the year in the spring. The Seventh month was declared the First month; the beginning of the calendar year. This coincided with the harvest season, described as the season of firstfruits. Why, you might ask, did God do that? At first glance, it seems obvious that an unusual number of epochal events that are recorded in scripture took place during that First month.

    Perhaps Hebrew scholars miscalculated the time of the beginning. Creation may have been completed in the spring. This makes sense according to the cycle of life—plants and animals tend to reproduce at that time. We speculate only because scripture gives us no date. Though we will tend toward using confirmable dates recorded in the Bible, scripture seems to invite our speculation about many undated events on purpose, to make us dig deeply for answers.

    The First month, in which the Exodus event took place, was the beginning of a new era for the Hebrew nation. God carefully noted the dates and 21 holy days of the Passover season. He designated the first day of the First month as a holy day, and told every generation to mark it on their calendars. What does this mean for you and me? Well, if you are a believer, if you pursue righteousness and if you seek the LORD; you have a claim either by blood or the legal institution of adoption to eternal life in God!

    We emphasize this point because it is foundational for all mankind and gives everyone a rightful claim through adoption from God!

    Isaiah 51:1-4: Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him. For the Lord comforts Zion; he comforts all her waste places and makes her wilderness like Eden, her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the voice of song. "Give attention to me, my people, and give ear to me, my nation; for a law will go out from me, and I will set my justice for a light to the peoples.

    The law is the right of adoption granted by God to descendents of non-Hebrew nations to choose according to their own will to be adopted into God’s chosen people.

    Isaiah 51:5-16: My righteousness draws near, my salvation has gone out, and my arms will judge the peoples; the coastlands hope for me, and for my arm they wait. Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth beneath; for the heavens vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and they who dwell in it will die in like manner; but my salvation will be forever, and my righteousness will never be dismayed.

    Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear not the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their reviling. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.

    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

    And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. "I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor? He who is bowed down shall speedily be released; he shall not die and go down to the pit, neither shall his bread be lacking.

    I am the Lord your God, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the Lord of hosts is his name. And I have put my words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, ‘You are my people.

    As an adopted member of God’s chosen people, you have a legal claim to Israel. Your inheritance rights are equal to those of full-blooded Hebrews. In Genesis 48, the very prosperous Hebrew patriarch adopted his own (even wealthier) grandsons. His motive was not to provide a material inheritance. Why would a grandfather adopt his own grandsons? He already had the legal authority to leave his wealth and all his possessions to them. Jacob’s grandsons were already heirs to wealth, power and prosperity as the twin heirs of the second most wealthy and powerful man in Egypt, their father, Joseph!

    Abraham credited to God the power and wealth that was at his disposal and he put his grandsons in a pre-eminent place before his own sons. In the ceremony, Jacob acknowledged the event as holy and the instruction of God. He adopted half Hebrew, half Egyptian twin grandsons, from an Egyptian mother. He put them before full-blooded heirs. At that moment God established an adoptive right, a legal precedent for non-Hebrews to become heirs as God’s chosen people through all generations, forever!

    That claim has been handed down as a means for anyone, regardless of birth, to join God’s chosen race. The legacy is tied to those who pursue obedience, and those who seek the LORD.

    Those who meet these two conditions become legal heirs to material possessions of health, wealth and power. The promises are recorded and expanded throughout the generations in history and apply during the lives of all who claim God as their sovereign. Material rights, however, pale in comparison to the spiritual rights understood by believers.

    God caused Pharaoh to release the Hebrews from captivity on the very date that their ancestors entered Egypt. Casual readers would pass over the obscure scriptural record tying the two events together without giving it a second thought. A number of significant events on that date begin to appear. It was on that very same day that Christ died on the cross. The unfolding events accumulate in history building a growing wealth of knowledge building a case for God’s ever present hand in the affairs of all mankind. What’s the point?

    Each generation has more proof of God than the previous one. This unfolding knowledge is ever growing, intriguing, faith-building proof for anyone seeking God. The proof is a foundation for the hard times we all face in difficult situations. This knowledge gives us courage in the face of storms.

    1 Peter 2:9 communicates that Israel is a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God’s own possession. Peter, a New Testament disciple of Christ, understood the chosen state of Israel as one that carried the mission of proclaiming God’s right to adopt anyone into the family of God. This brings us back in time to the Passover season of the Exodus, and the blood sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.

    The first day of the First month became a day to examine and set aside an unblemished lamb to be sacrificed on Passover, which came 14 days later. The blood of the lamb was to be displayed on Hebrew doorposts as a protective sign so the angel of death would pass over the houses of believers. The angel of death claimed the firstborn sons of Egypt but spared the sons of all who displayed the blood.

    Why blood? Men often ask. We don’t know for sure, but it seems to be a reminder of the terrible ugliness of sin in the eyes of God. The first blood sacrifice took place in the Garden of Eden, when a lamb was killed to provide clothing for Adam and Eve. Because of their sin, they became aware of their nakedness and the first recorded death in history was a direct result of their disobedience.

    Genesis 3 tells us that Adam and Eve were created in the perfect image of God and walked with God in a perfect world until they rebelled against him. When they sinned, they separated themselves from God. In an unsuccessful effort to hide their nakedness from God, they tried to sew fig leaves together for clothing. Imagine the shame and discomfort they felt, as well as the futility of their efforts to find the necessary resources to clothe themselves in Eden. They had never experienced sin or death until that moment, but the first blood sacrifice provided the resources to cover their shame through the death of an animal. It must have been a lamb, the most docile animal in all creation.

    Ancient Hebrew traditions indicate that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were born and died during the same First month. We know that Jacob entered Egypt and his Hebrew descendents left Egypt on the very same day 430 years later (Exodus 12:40-41). Noah’s flood began and ended exactly 1 year later in the Seventh month before God made the Seventh month the First month of the year (Exodus 12:2). Scripture records that Christ was tried, crucified, dead, buried and resurrected in the very same month God proclaimed the beginning of months. He designated that month to be a holy season, observed throughout all generations. Are you asking yourself what all of this means? Can it be coincidence? What do you suppose God is trying to accomplish, and what does he want us to see in this carefully dated and documented series of events?

    While we are required to stick to the facts recorded in scripture, there is also circumstantial evidence that begs our attention. Some of our logical conclusions and discoveries come outside of scripture. Historical fact confirms that scripture and current events deserve to be measured in light of biblical texts. We must carefully weigh unfolding events against prophecy and recorded Biblical texts.

    In the book of Esther, it is on the fourteenth day of the First month that the Jews were saved from Moredecai’s plot to destroy the Hebrew people. History records four past events during Nisan when the Hebrew nation was almost annihilated. In each event the nation’s salvation began on the fourteenth day of the First month, and it took a miraculous act of God to save the nation. Each event absolutely shows God’s saving hand in the affairs of men to save his people from the destruction that is the result of evil attacks.

    Though events are recorded in scripture, calendar differences obscure the truth and promote confusion. It seems God’s desire is for people to dig deeply into his word. He has planted the seeds of unbelievable truth in his word and a desire to understand more of himself in the hearts of his people. It is up to us to discover the truth in history and his word. He wants you to be forever ready for forever.

    God said very clearly you shall observe. Christ said I say to you what I say to everyone: Watch!

    If we use modern technology and computer search tools in response to God’s commands: you shall observe or you shall remember, we will be more obedient. We will then gain a sense of the importance of history upon our present. We have a natural desire and need to understand God’s provision in our lives.

    Why do we forever need to be ready? God told disobedient Egypt, "I will execute judgments," (Exodus 12:12). And he did exactly that on the very day in the First month as he prophesied. It was not God’s first destructive act on that day and it would not be the last. God established holy seasons for those holy day events. He established holy days as signs, instruction and as proofs for the salvation of his chosen people. Those who would oppose God’s chosen people should remember that God destroys those who attack his people.

    Naturally, mankind looks into the heavens and wonders about our origins. We have developed many calendars, timelines and theories about our beginnings. They do not always agree. We search archeological treasures and the annals of forgotten cultures in search of evidence from the past. We have a need to make sense of the past and present in an effort to prepare for an uncertain future. We should consider dependable historical records, recent discoveries and current events to compare with obscure scripture references to understand what God wants made known. The stories in scripture are often stranger than fiction. The mysteries are so obscure they seem implausible. The revelations are unbelievable! You will be tempted to cast them aside, but take the time to consider them using the tools provided by this generation to confirm or discount the things you do not yet believe.

    Those who study scripture and who depend upon it for guidance and instruction look to the Bible as our how-to book of life. We search it for truth and find our basis for reality as others try to discover it in science and theory. In truth, scientific efforts to prove arguments often fall short in light of ever-changing daily discoveries. Theories about our beginnings are not provable; they are a matter of faith.

    Scripture says the most significant events in the affairs of man have always taken place on holy days in one of the holy seasons prescribed by God.

    It is about time!

    The very first words of scripture are about time. Our story starts with these words: in the beginning, and if we are to understand anything about God and our relationship with him, we need to follow his timeline.

    Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

    Genesis 1 seems pretty simple, right? Day is light and night is darkness. Our Gregorian calendar (also known as the Roman-Christian calendar) is synchronized with the first sentence of God’s calendar.

    Our calendar comes into conflict with God’s in the very next sentence. Do you see it? The first day began in the evening. Our calendars begin in the morning. Is that a big deal? It is a big deal if we are interested in following God’s commands. We are commanded to observe the holy feasts and festivals set aside for all generations, forever. For this reason, some of the days we observe may show up as one calendar day off from some of God’s special days. Observers will sometimes need to note the time of day past events took place in order to accurately observe God’s command.

    Genesis 1:14 And God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.

    It is the holy season that God wants us to observe. He wants us to know the important events that he orchestrates on holy days in holy seasons. They weave a recognizable pattern to teach believers what God has done, is doing now and what he will do on future holy days.

    We are to watch and learn, as God and Christ pointed out time and again. We are no longer solely dependent on prophecy. We have a wealth of records that confirm history. We can clear up much confusion from obscure prophecy by observing the past. We have God’s commanded observances, Christ’s admonitions to watch current events and the signs. And we have the instruction of the Holy Spirit to help us understand what God and Christ would have us know.

    The Lord would have us know precisely the month, date and season when historical events transpired. He commanded holy observances. He prescribed, marked, set them aside and told us to observe them throughout all the generations. We do not do that. Instead of following God’s 355 day calendar we follow the Gregorian 365 day calendar. The ten day calendar difference further compounds the lunar, evening to evening and morning to morning calendar differences.

    Scripture proves that God takes a dim view of those who only partially follow his commands. Loose adherence to God’s commands is cause for trouble. If we followed God’s calendar, we would have a much greater awareness of the fulfillment of prophesy. We would have a much greater sense of God’s guiding hand in the affairs of believers and the disobedient.

    In Exodus 12:1-2 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

    God gave this command in the spring of the year, in a season known for celebrating a new start putting behind the past and providing hope and inspiration for a better tomorrow. Past regrets, the joy of new growth, blue skies and spring rains are to be celebrated as God’s provision for mankind.

    It makes sense that life began on earth at a time when conditions were right for the nourishment and sustenance of new life. It was in the spring when God said:

    Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. - Genesis 1:11-13

    It is evident at this point that following God’s command is almost impossible because we have been tempted to pollute his calendar. Satan’s second greatest accomplishment, after turning Adam and Eve astray, has perhaps been the pollution of God’s holy day observances.

    We celebrate our own holidays in tragic replacement for prescribed holy days and we have lost sight of the reason for God’s observance of those days.

    The Israelites complied only partially, setting up God’s holy calendar but continuing to celebrate their civil calendar beginning in winter rather than spring. The result has been to cloud and confuse our ability to recognize God’s guiding hand. God’s actions in the affairs of men on exact holy days in the holy seasons he commanded go unnoticed as we watch holidays that are far removed from God’s holy day schedule. The lessons the Lord wants us to observe and remember have been compromised.

    Instead of marking and observing God’s holy days, we celebrate holidays. Christians celebrate Easter instead of Passover, Thanksgiving instead of Atonement and Christmas instead of Christ. It is true that holidays point in an obscure partial way to God’s holy days. Holidays resemble holy days and are often close to God’s timeline, but holiday celebrations obscure what God would have us watch. They detract from what he would have us know. We turn our attention from God’s great purpose to something that teaches Santa Clause rather than Christ. There is room for holiday celebrations but the holyday seasons are commanded for all generations to observe forever. We lose Christ in Easter eggs and rabbits. We have been tempted, like Adam and Eve, into twisting truth into disobedience. What we teach our children obscures what the LORD would have us know!

    It is the celebration of Halloween that turns our attention from the autumn observance of Ingathering. Trumpets, atonement, sacrifices and forgiveness teach us about God’s tabernacle and his care. We lose what scripture describes as God’s Great Day in Thanksgiving. God wants us to know that Columbus set foot on America as part of one of God’s holy days. God orchestrates events to occur time and again precisely on the very same holy days. The LORD would have us know the truth and be able to connect God to world changing fulfillments. As it stands, we don’t know. We ignorantly use a calendar based on the sun, not the moon, as commanded by the Lord.

    We Can Clear Away Some of the Confusion

    First, use God’s examples:

    • Count months rather than name them

    • Think in terms of the seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter

    • Remember the three high holy seasons are harvest seasons

    • Holy seasons are made up of many holy day observances

    • Scripture discounts years as almost inconsequential

    • Each year is a new beginning

    In Order to Comply with God’s Calendar…

    We must be aware of God’s 12-month, thirty-day lunar year. It is made up of 355 days, beginning in the evening instead of the morning. Fortunately, believers may lean on Christ and on grace as their way into God’s provision.

    We are not only missing the signs and observances of these holy days, we are missing God. In order to understand God’s law and employ Christ’s grace, we need to understand the holy day observances. The holy seasons are best remembered as harvest seasons. The fruit of each harvest can act as grocery-store reminders of each season. Once we become aware of the seasons, we can remember that spring is the beginning of God’s year and instead of trying to remember foreign names for months we can remember God numbers months in scripture. The First month is in the spring and includes God’s first holy season. The second holy season begins in the summer, 50 days after Passover. The autumn harvest and holy season are in God’s Seventh month.

    We will mark dated events found in scripture and translate them to our calendar. We will clear away obstructions that hide God’s truth. Throw away conflicting language names imposed by biblical interpretations. We can equip our children and ourselves to pay attention to God’s holy day observances.

    God’s Calendar Begins with the New Moon in the Spring Harvest Season

    The First month in the spring begins in the evening, with the first appearance of the new moon and the New Year.

    Exodus 12:3-7 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

    Christ eventually fulfilled each holy season event on each holy date. On the day that God proclaimed as the beginning of months Christ was proceeding to the tragic events of his blood sacrifice. He knew his demise would be degrading, painful and ugly beyond imagination. He stepped forward bravely to shed his life and blood as the Lamb of God.

    God orchestrated the many acts of sacrifice that took place between the animal sacrifices that provided clothing for Adam and Eve and Christ’s eventual fulfillment. God performed them on precise dates to teach believers. Men who watch the wrong calendar hide the dated proof in plain sight. We cooperate in the same sin because we were born in it.

    We must refocus our attention upon holy day observances and the calendar mandated by God in Exodus 12:2. In addition to ancient prophecies, we have proof in holy day history. Hidden truth in scripture is available to those willing to seek it out.

    The truth is so fantastic as to be unbelievable. You should prove it to yourself. In the process you will find more of God, and gain a deepened understanding of his great purpose.

    Efforts to establish timelines and religious chronologies fall short because Biblical and historic records are based on different dynastic calendars. The Hebrew Torah designates months as Month One, Month Two etc. As names crept into scripture, language differences added to date confusion and original dates became more and more clouded.

    God’s First month may be called Abib in one passage and Nisan in another. The Fourth month may be called Tammuz, the unholy name of a Babylonian god of fertility adopted during the Babylonian exile. It is almost impossible to fix a common year when different civilizations dated years according to the term of ruling dynasties. God commands us to observe the days, months and seasons but scriptural references often do not date an exact year, so we estimate our own timelines.

    God’s Three Holy Seasons

    Scripture shows that most significant, history-changing events occur in one of three harvest seasons that exclude winter months. Spring is the most active season, followed by autumn, then summer. The duration of the spring and autumn holy seasons are 21 days each. The summer holy season lasts a few days.

    God designated that spring, autumn and summer harvest seasons would conclude three holy observances. He orchestrated significant events, set aside specific dates and then proclaimed fasts, feasts and observances for each. We are commanded to observe them throughout all generations forever. Recurring similar events transpired, duplicating God’s original theme for the events designed to teach and guide mankind throughout history.

    Prophets point toward future events that are likely to occur on dates, in season in future end time events. Each has an appointed time and is destined to occur on specific holy day dates in a prescribed series of occurrences that have already been patterned in history. The events will occur in the same way and on the same date in the same holy season, according to God’s prescribed theme. He has since, on many occasions, orchestrated teaching events at the appointed time to show us what and when we can expect him to act again. We have a record of what to expect according to our condition regarding obedience.

    The three harvests are predicted to culminate in end time events. During the three harvests, all prophecies will be fulfilled on specific days in the prescribed seasons. History proves God’s hand in the past fulfillments and his ability to gather mankind as the fruit of each harvest. Biblical prophecies have always proven themselves to be true. There is sufficient evidence to expect future fulfillments to occur in season with certainty.

    God’s instruction can transform individuals into cooperative sons to be gathered in the harvest of the firstfruits. Those who cooperate will plant human crops to produce additional fruit for God to ingather during the remaining harvests. Those who cooperate facilitate and further God’s great purpose.

    Christ is also described as the great shepherd who protects and provides for the human flock of mankind who would fall into ruin without guidance. Righteous men cooperate with God to shepherd all mankind into eternity.

    The good fruit will prosper and sheep will find eternal joy under the provision of the Messiah. The Messiah will gather a "firstfruit harvest’ in spring and summer. During the autumn holy season in a similar manner a third and final harvest will take place at the appropriate time. The events are preceded and accompanied by signs and markers to help those who have worked to bring in the season’s harvest.

    The autumn season feast of Firstfruits foreshadows a final culmination of cataclysmic events when God will separate chaff from wheat. We have accumulated enough evidence to recognize the seasons and understand the signs God laid out so carefully for our instruction. He commands us to watch and observe, and faithful servants have begun to understand something of the seasons. The faithful know the seasons and the prescribed dates within them because they are dated in every harvest season. All that is left unknown is the year of the final events!

    God’s instructions give us guidelines to structure our lives and govern ourselves cooperatively to bring in the harvest and present it before God. Recorded history proves that similar events occur over and over during each holy season. Harvest seasons point toward future judgments and appointed times. Spring, summer and autumn holy day events have been so repetitive and so exact in past fulfillments as to foreshadow end time events. God wants

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