If you’ve been tracking with me for awhile, you probably know what time of year it is… We are approaching the Hebrew month of Elul, which begins a 40-day period when the Father has knitted into the fabric of time an extra measure of grace to break cycles and to redeem time. In this video teaching, I will explain this season in detail and will give you simple and practical tips to break unwanted cycles in your life and to redeem time!
This video teaching is from last year, so 2024’s dates are as follows:
Tuesday September 3, 2024 at sundown: Elul begins. During these 30 days, the King draws near to help us see what we need to see… both things to say YES to and things to say NO to during a new cycle.
Thursday, October 3, 2024 at sundown: Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets, where we “trumpet” or decree and declare our agreement with the King, saying YES and saying NO according to what He has shown us.
The 10 Days of Awe, where we repent (simply come into agreement), allowing God to heal, restore, renew our mind and redeem time. These 10 days lead up to Yom Kippur.
Saturday October 12, 2024 at sundown: Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement), where the Father seals our Yes’s and our No’s, providing greater momentum to our walk.
We should joyfully expect to see tangible fruit from this by Passover, in the spring.
Here’s a summary of the highlights:
ELUL
The 6th Hebrew month is named Elul. Elul is not mentioned in Scripture, because in Scripture, the months were only numbered. The names originated from Israel’s Babylonian captivity. Elul begins a Jewish tradition of 40 days of repentance in preparation for Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets) and, ultimately, Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). It is parallel to the 40 years in the wilderness of being transformed from slave to king, as well as the 40 days of spying out the land (Numbers 13). Elul, which literally means “search” is all about evaluating and allowing God to show you what your Promised Land is and what resistance (giants) you need to overcome to possess it.
Every year, God gives us these 40 days, which function as a transitional, “flex” time in the Spirit. During this time, He pours out abundant grace to help us break free from negative cycles and to redeem time. This year, Elul begins at sundown on Tuesday September 3rd.
RECURRING CYCLES ARE A MANIFESTATION OF THE LAW OF RESONANT FREQUENCY: WE DON’T GET WHAT WE WANT; WE GET WHAT WE RESONATE. WHERE THERE IS FRUIT, THERE IS A ROOT!
God knows that we will sin (miss the mark), so everything about His interaction with us is redemptive, as we see from Revelation 13:8, which calls Jesus “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” God has also built a redemptive rhythm into His created world, and into His seasons and feasts.
THE KING IS IN THE FIELD
In Hebrew, the letters of Elul (alef, lamed, vav, lamed) are an acronym for the phrase “Ani ledodi vedodi li” which is “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine” (Song of Solomon 6:3). In Hebrew tradition, Elul is the time when “the King is in the field rather than in the palace,” a time when He is easily accessible to all. Of course, we know that the veil has been torn, and, because of Christ, we can approach His throne boldly. But the point is that during this season, God is especially near, speaking to us about what needs to be redeemed from past cycles and seasons.
In the Spirit, this time can feel like everything is loose, uncertain. But that is intentional on God’s part, because, before each new cycle, He gives us the opportunity to properly align.
During this month, I usually set aside specific time to listen and to pray through things I am struggling with, as well as past dreams, revelation, and prophetic words. After doing this for the first time, I looked back two years later and was amazed to see that Holy Spirit had uprooted almost all of the things He had highlighted to me! It is also a great time to fast as led by Holy Spirit.
YOM TERUAH (FEAST OF TRUMPETS)
The first day of the following month, the month of Tishrei, is Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets. This year, it begins at sundown on Thursday, October 3rd. It can be viewed as a prophetic wake-up call, as well as the traditional trumpet call blown to announce the King. In other words, on this day, we are choosing to make Him King over our lives, especially the areas He has highlighted to us during Elul.
After the searching time of Elul, on Yom Teruah, you have the opportunity to trumpet your YES to Him, like Caleb did:
“Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it!”
-Numbers 13:30
On the other hand, we can be like the other 10 spies who gave a negative (what some would call “realistic”) report:
“If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us into this land to fall by the sword that our wives and children should become victims?”
-Numbers 14:2-3
YOM KIPPUR (THE DAY OF ATONEMENT)
Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) begins at sundown on Saturday October 12th, 2024, and the 10 days between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur are called the Days of Awe. There is much to say about this day, but in the context of this teaching, I just want to mention that, at Yom Kippur, we will be sealed for another cycle and we will eat from the fruit of what we have said “yes” to and what we have said “no” to. I believe that many times, this fruit manifests in the earthly, tangible realm by Passover, in the spring.
Now we know that there is no time in God, and that Jesus is the fulfillment of all the feasts. In Christ, we are not limited by time and space, and through Him, we have legal access to God the Father and to dimensions beyond time. Yet in the earth realm, God has put a rhythm in the very fabric of His creation, like the way that there is a certain time to plant and harvest crops. We can rise above the laws of earth, but we must understand and honor them first. If we break these laws due to ignorance or lawlessness, we will pay the consequences and may miss some wonderful things the Lord has given us. But if we align ourselves with His established rhythm, we will have an added grace propelling us into His plans and purposes.
SUPERNATURAL REDEEMING OF TIME
Ecclesiastes 3:1 says that there is a “time for every purpose under heaven.” So, there is an “appointed time” for everything in the earth realm, but as a spirit being seated with Christ in heavenly places (above time), I have been given dominion over time. I am not subject to its limitations.
God redeemed time with Abraham and Sarah: “At the appointed time (Moed),I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” (Genesis 18:14). And we know that God kept His promise, returning a season of fruitfulness to one who was long past the age of childbearing.
In Joshua 10:12-14, the sun and moon stood still for a whole day, enabling Israel to annihilate their enemies – not at God’s initiative, but at Joshua’s command!
In Judges 5, Deborah sang that the stars themselves were fighting on Israel’s behalf.
From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.
–Judges 5:20
And remember… Caleb was a strong at 85 years old as he was at 40 (Joshua 14:7-14). That is a supernatural redemption of 45 years!
From a place of submission to God and authority over creation, we bring the seasons into alignment with the will of the Father and things that were done or not done in past seasons can be supernaturally redeemed and brought back into alignment. And, with the beginning of a new season, those things are sealed and solidified to bring forth fruit. It is a redemptive cycle created by God for our good, but, like any other natural or spiritual law, works for good or for evil. If cycles are not broken, they will become more deeply entrenched.
The Fibonacci Spiral or “The Golden Spiral”
It is created by drawing circular arcs connecting opposite corners of squares. The Fibonacci sequence can be found in every level of creation… from spiral galaxies to seashells, and from Saturn to living cells. This mathematical equation is one where each new number is the sum of the two previous ones. In this sense, the new is continuously created from the old. Nothing is disconnected. Nothing is wasted. Nothing is ever lost. So, the things that I am co-creating with God now is the sum of everything I have done, everything I have failed to do, everything I have repented for, everything that He has redeemed and even the time which has passed. Each new day is nothing but an opportunity to create what exists only in the spiritual realm out of what has, up to this point, existed in the natural realm… even in the form of missed opportunities. The spiral only gets larger. In this way, every time an opportunity is missed, when it cycles back around, it is larger. There is no such thing as total loss except in the form of quitting (“if we faint not”).
Again, we know that Jesus is the embodiment of Jubilee and of all the feasts, so we can access His redeeming power at any time, but I would like to encourage you to utilize the abundant grace of these 40 days to break free of negative cycles and to redeem all that has been lost in past seasons. Set aside some extra time to spend with the King as He walks in the field…
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are the people who know the joyful sound [who understand and appreciate the spiritual blessings symbolized by the feasts]; they walk, O Lord, in the light and favor of Your countenance!”
–Psalm 89:15
Enjoy!
Virginia