COUNTDOWN TO JEWISH YEAR 5777!

As we entered into the last week of Jewish Jubilee year 5776, I just like to highlight some of the things impressed upon me. This Sunday sundown will be 2 Oct, Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew New Year. As we know, many things seem to happen around the time of Rosh Hashanah. Exciting things. Especially more so for this year when we are preparing to enter into Jewish year 5777. Another crossing over.

Previously I was never interested in the Hebrew calendar as I am not a Jew. But ever since a sister told me about Rosh Hashanah in 2010, I began to be interested. That was the first time I heard about it. She said things seemed to happen faster in the second half of the year because it is the Jewish New year in Sept. There is a lot of spiritual activity around the Jewish New Year.

Later on I began to be inducted to other Jewish months, thanks to another sister. She was the one who sent me Dutch Sheets' video last year on 'Full circle, higher level'. He said God always caused the blessing to come around the same time next year. So it behooved me to understand what the Jewish month means so that I could cooperate with God for each month, to be more in the flow. In the past I didn't like to know about what the future holds for me, what each month holds for me. But I realised that God wanted me to know so that I will be able to move with Him.

But learning the Jewish calendar was a bit confusing to me. There is this Jewish civil calendar and the spiritual or religious calendar. The Jewish new year starts from Rosh Hashanah and this calendar is used to count the years from the creation of mankind. Then there is the Jewish religious calendar which starts from Mar or Apr every year, and it is called the month of Nisan.

This is decreed by the Lord as the first month for the nation for they were delivered from Egypt. Hence in the religious calendar, the new year happens in Tishrei or the seventh month of the religious year. I only learnt about this now. If you want to count the years, you use the civil calendar but if you are talking about the months, Nisan will always be the first month of the religious calendar.

Now I just like to share a little about the prophetic messages on the Hebrew year 5777. On the whole, the prophets seemed to be so excited about this new year because it was prophesied to be the year of harvest, where the time of revival has come. Some of them were saying that this revival was long overdue, as the last one was supposed to happen in 2005 but it didn't. They observed that God's revival usually happens every 11 years but this time the gap was 22 years.

Come this Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, we move into the new Hebraic year 5777 (Ayin Zayin) and this will be a year that the Lord will bring us into a new "rest" in Him, even as the shaking is all around us. It is a year that we will see a "finishing" anointing come upon the Apostolic and Prophetic people of God. It is a year that we will see the "triune" sword of the Lord released against His enemies and continue through this new season!

5777 will be a breakout and breakthrough year that begins this October! Five is the number of grace and the number of government, and the fivefold expression of God. Seven (Zayin in Hebrew) is the number of rest; it can symbolise a sword, and it represents the finished work. I believe this year we will begin to exercise His authority and government in a way like we've never experienced before, as we enter into a rest in Him like we have never known.

We will see the triple sword of the Lord (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) go forth into all the earth, bringing down the enemy's plans just as Haman's plans came to naught and the tables were turned upon Him as the Queen received the favor of her king!

Many prophets are declaring that we are on the cusp of the greatest awakening in redemptive history, and that we are poised for a massive transfer of wealth and provision (as God did with the Israelites coming out of Egypt, Ezra in the rebuilding of the temple, and as Jesus with the gifts of the Magi), that we are on the eve of the outpouring of glory that will outshine any move of God in history. 

For those that have ears to hear and eyes to see, for those that move in the Issachar anointing (knowing the times and the seasons) there is an overwhelming sense that the days of victory and taking the land are now upon us! Tighten your seat belts – 5777 is just around the corner!