Tishri 1st and 2nd,
5777 is the Jewish New Year known as Rosh haShana which is the Divinely
Ordained holy day established by God.
This date translates on the Gregorian Calender (i.e. Western culture
calendar), into October 3rd & 4th 2016 which-for
some-just may be an ordinary day, but a huge day for God’s Chosen Jewish nation
whom He has not rejected (Romans 11.1).
Gentile Christians who desire to honor God’s calendar above the
Gregorian scheduled calendar will observe this day as God’s New Year as opposed
to the secular New Year of January 1st. In other words, January 1st will not mean
anything remotely sacred to God as Rosh haShana.
Chronos and Kairos time are Greek words that are used in the N.T. for time and
they have different interpretations and understandings. Chronos
time has everything to do with the chronology of days, seasons, and years that
were first established on the fourth day of creation (Gen. 1.14-19). Kairos
time correlates with God-Ordained times throughout history, right time, and
appointed season/time. When John
the Baptist preached, he saw Jesus
and John exclaimed, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at
hand. Repent, and believe in the
gospel” (Mark 1.15). John knew that
when he saw Jesus, prophetic history was being fulfilled; therefore identifying
God sending His Son at a Divinely Appointed time (kairos).
Satan knows his time of deception and
wrath is short (Rev.12.12), and Satan’s demons know as well. When the demon-possessed men that lived
in the cemetery of Gergesenes saw Jesus, they cried out to Jesus saying, “What
have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?”
(Matt.8.29) Even the demons knew
that their time possessing these men had been brought to a halt when Jesus
stepped foot onto the Gergesenes region.
During a time when Jesus was teaching,
Jesus’ rebuked the multitudes that gathered around Him because they could
discern and predict the weather based on the appearances of the sky and earth,
but they lacked such a connection with God that they could not “discern the
time.” (Luke 12.58)
During this time in the span of history,
God desires a nation of believers in Christ that understand where we are in
God’s kairos time that can declare
what His bride should be doing during this chronos
time. We must spend our days (chronos) in God’s (kairos) perpetuated time.
In other words, believers in Christ should know we are the bride of
Christ who is preparing for the glorious feast with the Bridegroom; and there
are specific concerns that Christ has that we should be our concern as well.
As
the body of Christ experiences these evil and ungodly days, a question God’s
holy prophets should be challenging the body with is: “What is the bride
doing?” What does Christ Jesus
teach His followers to do in the last days that we are experiencing? Jesus gives two points of direction: “watch and pray!” (Luke 21.36)
Jesus desires that we be alert, sober-minded so that we will have self-control,
and to be prayerful. Jesus taught
us that no one knows the day and the hour when He is returning for the bride,
but only the Father knows. Jesus
says,
“But know
this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the
thief
would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be
broken
into. Therefore, you also be
ready, for the Son of Man is coming
at an
hour you do not expect” (Matthew 25.43,44)
It will be during God’s appointed time
that He releases Messiah to return for His bride, and we do not know the day or
the hour of Messiah’s return. On
October 3rd, 2016, i.e. 1 Tishri 5777, a greater spiritual shift
about running after God will become more eminent in the hearts of God’s people
that are in tune with what God is doing in the heavens and on earth. This spiritual shift -for some- has
already happened weeks and months past.
You
do not have to wait to change your behavior, daily activities, and habits; you
can start now. Today is a Divine
Day! Today is the Day of the
Lord! For God says, ”At just the
right time, I heard you. On the
day of salvation, I helped you.
Indeed, the “right time” is now.
Today is the day of salvation.”
This is the day that the Lord has made! If you are alert, sober-minded, and watchful, you will see
God moving in the earth within the next few minutes and even hours. You will experience God moving in the
earth tomorrow. You will experience
favor that can only come from the Most High God, Jesus Christ! Dreams and visions will capture your
heart and you will realize that God is speaking to you through these dreams and
visions.
“Today,
if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in
the day of trial in the wilderness,” but partner and co-labor with God be
delivered from the old mindset.
Get into the new flow of God’s appointed time. His expectancy for us is
great! Get into the flow of the
Spirit of the Living God and experience what God has ordained for you in during
these kairos moments that are
awaiting you.
I
pray that you will be filled with the knowledge of His will for this season and
I pray that you will tap into the power of the Holy Spirit to wreak havoc
against the enemy’s camp for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you grow in greater knowledge of
the width, depth, height, and length of Christ’s immeasurable love. May God be with you!
