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I believe Holy Spirit is again speaking to believers through the Hebrew Calendar. Beginning at sundown July 17th …it will be Tisha B’ Av, or the 9th of Av…Av being the fifth month on the Hebrew calendar.

Many of you may have never heard of Tisha B’ Av or the 9th of Av before today. But it is a significant date in both ancient and modern Israel. This is a date on the Hebrew calendar that offers Spiritual insight to you and me in this present day…There is revelation in Tisha B’ Av.

Both Christian and Jewish sources observe that a series of horrific events have occurred on the 9th of Av. These events are so severe and blatantly obvious that they should not be considered as coincidental.

For this podcast, I am relying on source material found in the book “A Time to Advance” by Chuck Pierce with Dr. Robert Heidler and Dr. Heidler’s wife Linda. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in understanding the times and seasons and the significance of the Hebrew calendar to modern believers.

On pages 282 and 283 of “A Time to Advance”, we find the following chronology of 9th of Av events:

On Av 9 587 BC – The Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.

On Av 9 70 AD – The Romans destroyed the second temple.

Av 9 135 AD – Represents the final defeat of the Jews by Rome.

On Av 9 1095 – The first Crusade was launched. Thousands of Jews were killed.

On Av 9 1290 – The Jews were expelled from England.

On Av 9 1492 – The Jews were expelled from Spain.

On Av 9 1942 – The Jews were deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the death camps.

On Av 9 2005 – The expulsion of the Jews from Gaza began.

I will not delve into the details of these specific events on this podcast. But, you may want to at least Google these dates.

However, there is one more 9th of Av event that I believe Holy Spirit would have us focus on today. Sources tell us this event occurred over 3,000 years ago and it is described in Numbers, Chapters 13 & 14. These chapters tell the story of the 12 spies that Moses sent from Kadesh Barnea to spy out Canaan, their Promised Land. Both Jewish and Christian sources agree that these spies offered the report of their findings on the 9th of Av.

If you are familiar with this story, you will remember that it was upon the fear filled report of 10 of those spies that Israel as a nation rebelled against God, their inheritance and their destiny. It was their 9th of Av rebellion that sent Israel on a 40-year journey of wandering in the wilderness.

First of all, the people of Israel were a people with a promise from God. They were promised the land of Canaan, a land that flows with milk and honey…a prosperous place to live.

However, in their exploration of the promised land, they discovered walled cities and giants. When they saw the giants, ten of the twelve spies could only think about how small they were compared to these giants…as grasshoppers in their own eyes.

As they focused on the giants, they forgot about the God of the Passover. They forgot about the God who parted the Red Sea. They forgot the God who provided manna and quail for their food. The forgot the God who fought with them against the Amalekites in Exodus Chapter 17. They did not remember the God who appeared on Mt. Sinai. The God who led them as a cloud and as a pillar of fire.

Again and again, Israel complained because of the obstacles they faced in pursuit of their inheritance and destiny.

I don’t know of a promised land without a few giants in it. You see, we have an adversary…

1 Peter 5:8 in the New King James Version says it this way:

Be [a]sober, be [b]vigilant; [c]because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Don’t get paranoid or anything like that, but there really is a devil and he really is out to get you…