ELUL 2024, Day of Re-establishing Covenant
Today begins the sixth Biblical Month of ELUL. Elul means, “I am My Beloved, and My Beloved is Mine.”
Elul is the time in the Spiritual Calendar to Teshuvah. What is Teshuvah? It is a 40-day period to Repent and Return to YWHW.
Forty days from today the first of Elul is Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles. For 40 days we are to blow the Shofar. The number 40 has a twofold meaning in Hebrew. It means Transition and Covenant.
Being a time of Transition has to do with preparation for the Feast of Tabernacles and the New Jewish Civil Year, 5785. The year 5785 begins at Rosh Hashanah, this October 3, 2024. Between Yom Teruah (day of shouting/trumpets) and Yom Kippur is ten days. These ten days are when YWHW determines: 1. What blessings you walk in the new year. How you have Loved God this past year and How have you treated your fellowman, 2. Rather you will live or die in the New Year, and 3. Is your name written in the book of Life. Revelation 20:12-13.
Elul 1 begins the season of awakening, revival, and return to God. Jesus was baptized on Elul 1 and then led into the wilderness for forty days, where He fasted and was tempted. On the 40th day, which was Yom Kippur, Jesus read from the Scroll in the Temple Isaiah 61 according to Luke 4:16-19. Here in Isiah 61 the phrase, “the acceptable year of the Lord”, means in Hebraic understanding, the day of Covering or Day of Atonement. This passage was always read on Yom Kippur.
Don’t miss this! Jesus baptized, tempted for 40 days, and then reading Isaiah’s 61 prophecy of Yeshua HaMashiach is Yeshua fulfillment. Jesus fulfills Teshuvah, Repent and Return because of Yeshua’s example, life, death, burial, and resurrection.
In began to rain on Elul 1 in Genesis after YHWH closed the Ark and it rained for 40 days re-establishing covenant.
On Elul 1 there was a Solar Eclipse in 753 BCE and God gave a judgement to Ninevah if they did not repent in 40 days, He would destroy their city. Jonah came and evangelized and all the Ninevites where saved. Re-establishing His covenant.
The Jewish practice is during this season of “Teshuvah” recite Psalm 27 daily, and to blow the shofar each morning (except on Shabbats). It is a time of personal reflection, to right the wrongs in our lives, and heal broken relationships. It is the time to prepare for the coming High Holy Days — Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot..
This forty-day period is a time for each one to re-establish our covenant with Father God.
Finally, during Teshuvah, is when the prodigal came to his senses and the father received him and restored him.
Shalom, Shalom!