The LORD's Time Clock

THE LORD’s APPOINTED TIMES

Does GOD work on HIS own Timeframe?

Does “HE” communicate this to us?

Is Holiness a key element to HIS time?

The Concept of Mo’ed

#4150 mo’ed             an appointment or a fixed time

From the Root

#3259 ya`ad              to fix, appoint, assemble

Genesis 1

14 And God said: 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let *them be for signs [owth], and for seasons [moed], and for days and years;

*Them              BOTH LUNAR and SOLAR

                        Jewish Calendar is on a solar [years] and lunar [months] cycle

                        Gregorian and Julian calendars are SOLELY solar

The Jewish Day begins at SUNDOWN

The Jewish week begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday        

Leviticus 23

• Is the single chapter of the entire Tanakh that sums up everything –
• God’s Eternal Plan is revealed through the NATURE and TIMING of the Seven Annual Feasts of the LORD. 
• Sacrifice is a major feature of the FEASTS

Leviticus 23

1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: The appointed times of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations [4744], even these are My appointed times.

#4744  miqra’ a calling out as in an assembly OR a rehearsal

NOTE:             Whose “appointed times” are these to be?                     YHVH

These Appointed Times help us to separate ourselves from the "world" and its deceptive traditions.

GOD wants US to MODEL our ACTIVITIES after HIS PURPOSES

Satan wants you to believe that your GOD is trying to catch you off guard – that is a lie!

The Adversary often portrays your FATHER as a uncaring and distant – that is a lie!

Your FATHER wants nothing more than for you to KNOW HIS WAYS!

Here is another interesting phenomena within Hebraic history ...  it is known as Tisha B'av.

Please note, although there are Biblical references to this "phenomena",  this is not one of The LORD's Appointed Times as mentioned in Leviticus 23.

My goal is merely to point out that GOD has worked and continues to work through out history in "knowable" manner.

The material presented here was taken from Judaism 101 website. 

TISHA B'AV

Significance: Remembers major communal tragedies
Observances: Fasting; reading the book of Lamentations
Length: 25 hours
Customs: Torah cabinet is draped in black

It is a very ominous time


¹ The Alhambra Decree, issued March 31, 1492, ordered all Jews to leave Spain by the end of July 1492. July 31, 1492 was Tisha B'Av. Note that if you use a Jewish calendar converter to check this, it may show August 11 as the 9th of Av in that year. If so, the converter has failed to take into account the Gregorian Reformation, which skipped 11 days on the calendar. If you delete an additional 11 days from August 11 for the 11 skipped days that never happened, you get the result of July 31.

~ As always, THE LORD BLESS YOU and KEEP YOU . . .

Five misfortunes befell our fathers ... on the ninth of Av. ...On the ninth of Av it was decreed that our fathers should not enter the [Promised] Land, the Temple was destroyed the first and second time, Bethar was captured and the city [Jerusalem] was ploughed up. -Mishnah Ta'anit 4:6

How then are these dates to be reconciled? On the seventh the heathens entered the Temple and ate therein and desecrated it throughout the seventh and eighth and towards dusk of the ninth they set fire to it and it continued to burn the whole of that day. ... How will the Rabbis then [explain the choice of the 9th as the date]? The beginning of any misfortune [when the fire was set] is of greater moment. -Talmud Ta'anit 29a

Tisha B'Av, the Fast of the Ninth of Av, is a day of mourning to commemorate the many tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, many of which coincidentally have occurred on the ninth of Av.
Tisha B'Av means "the ninth (day) of Av." It usually occurs during August.
Tisha B'Av primarily commemorates the destruction of the first and second Temples, both of which were destroyed on the ninth of Av (the first by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E.; the second by the Romans in 70 C.E.).

Although this holiday is primarily meant to commemorate the destruction of the Temple, it is appropriate to consider on this day the many other tragedies of the Jewish people, many of which occurred on this day, most notably the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.¹