Understanding the Hebrew months

Understanding the Hebrew months. This month of Elul is associated with the time that the King is in the field. This is the time that Kings would come out of the palace and dwell among the people. To understand the month of Elul, you need an understanding of the Hebrew concept of time. To the Hebrew there is regular time "chol" and holy time "kodesh". The holy times are those set aside for festivals, shabbat, and holidays. These kodesh times are when we leave behind our daily routine and we enter into the presence of the Lord. The regular time is when we do our work, our daily routine, we are in our field so to speak. Remember in Bible times the field was where the farmer planted the seed, grew the produce and harvested the grain. To the Hebrews the month of Elul is considered a combination of times the kodesh and the chol. A time when we don't stop our activities to enter into His Presence, The King comes to us and enters into our field.
Jesus our Messiah is a living portrait of the month of Elul. Jesus came to us, He tabernacled among us. He dwelt among us. He brought the Presence of God into the daily lives of men.
When the King is in the palace there are many protocols to go through to visit with Him. There are many rules and regulations to enter the Holy of Holies if you will. But think of the difference when Jesus came and dwelt among us, among sinners and saints alike. Everyone had access to Him. The Pharisees, the Sadducees and the little children who Jesus said not to forbid to come to Him.
My favorite month of the year is the month of Elul. This year it begins at sundown on August 30, 2011. Enjoy you time with the Lord during this month and remember that He has come to meet you in your daily routine, your activities and your work.
This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life and meeting the Lord in my field.

The Land - A Hebraically Christian View

The Land and Posterity

Scripture Reference:

Genesis 12:7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him. NIV

The promise of land is not just for you but it is for your posterity as well. It is for your children and your children's children. Remember as you carve out your spiritual land you are making a place for your children and your grandchildren.

When God brings you your land-build an altar of consecration there. Honor the Lord who gives you the promises. God will reveal Himself to you when He is setting you in place. He will show Himself to you to affirm you in the promise. The promise of destiny for your family.

The Land Walking out the Promise

Scripture Reference

Genesis 13: 14-17

The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him. "Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you."

When God makes a promise, He gives it and makes it forever. All His promises are yea and amen. There is no expiration date. When God gives it, He means it.

But there is the principle of walking out the promise. God instructed Abram to walk out the length and breadth of the land. From top to bottom God said put your foot down and stake your claim on your promise. Don't stop short. Walk it out. The land was given after Lot parted from Abram. God knew that Lot was on Abram's land. God told Abram that even the land that Lot was on belonged to him. When Lot separated himself from Abram he separated himself from the promise.

Get Me to the Promise (Land)

Scripture Reference

Genesis 50:24 Then Joseph said to his brothers, " I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob." And Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath and said, "God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place."

Land of promise-God's promised land versus the land of death. Joseph died in Egypt and he knew that Egypt was not the promised land. He knew for him Egypt was just a place. You can be somewhere and occupying space in a place. But the call to the land of promise was so strong that Joseph asked the children of Israel to take his bones to the promised land. Don't leave me in someone else's place. Take me to where the promise lives.

The Land is Permanent and Belongs to the Lord

Scripture Reference

Leviticus 25:23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you are but aliens and my tenants.

The Bible in Psalm 24:1 says: The earth is the LORD'S and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for He founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

God has given us our promise for the land and has instructed us that it belongs to Him now and will forever always belong to Him. If you think about the land as a symbol of your ministry then you can think of where God has placed you as His irrevocable calling.

Psalm 24 is a Psalm that celebrates King David's returning the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. The Ark was a physical representation of God's glory and His Promises and His Presence.