ROSH CHODESH ADAR 5786

Staying on God’s calendar (the one He created on the 4th day of Creation) is an amazing way to live. This is the calendar that brings us to Rosh Chodesh Adar 5786.

With each new moon we enter a new month on God’s schedule. Many Christian believers are learning how to observe this ancient calendar instead of the latest schedules which men of the world created.

Whenever we chose to follow God’s calendar, we can actually feel the rhythms of God’s time moving through each day of our lives. This helps to put us in tune with His plans. I know that sounds very strange for most Christians, but it is true. You will never understand this until you give God’s sacred calendar a try. During this moment, that calendar is pointing us toward the month of Adar.

GATHERING AT THE NEW MOON

One part of this way of living is to gather each new moon to thank God for the blessings of the past month. It is also a perfect time to ask God to lead us through the new and upcoming month.

Most of us who observe the new moons have a habit of looking back over history to see what was happening with Israel on these dates of the past. Why? Because there are historical patterns which appear over and over. Knowing these patterns helps us to understand the rhythms of time for this current month.

When we begin to live out our time in such a way, we all notice these patterns. They are no longer surprises. We have come to understand that these patterns of time from the past can also move and matter to our present.

This isn’t fortune-telling or predicting the future. Not at all. It is simply a way of recognizing the patterns God intentionally built into our great gift of time. He designed these concepts of time before He gave the gift of living inside of time to us. The gift has come through generations now, straight from the very beginning of the world.

THE MONTH OF ADAR

For instance, the new moon for this new phase of the year begins at sunset on February 17, 2026. This cycle of the new moon begins the new month of Adar.

In the scriptures you will not hear the name “Adar” except as a translation. God names this month the sixth month of the civil calendar. He names the month of Adar the twelfth month on the sacred calendar.

Each historical month has a Babylonian name which originated during the days when a remnant of Israel was captive in Babylon. The Babylonians named all twelve months of the year with a Babylonian word. Those names stuck. People have used them as names of the months ever since. However, God doesn’t. The scriptures quoting God will name months by their numbers and not by a name.

So, when we say “Rosh Chodesh Adar” we are referring to the head of the new moon for the month of Adar. The Hebrew people kept time this way since time began. This blog is coming to you from a Christian perspective. However, though Christians claim to believe in YHVH and follow Messiah, most Christians today are totally lost when it comes to understanding this calendar God put into motion on the 4th day of Creation. On the same day He created the sun and the moon, God designed our great gift of time. Many have failed to see or notice this fact.

ALL TIME BELONGS TO GOD

God is still using this calendar. He designed it even before He designed us. Why would a God who thinks way above our level of intelligence not design a calendar that lasts forever? The whole earth operates in rhythm to this calendar design. Why would a wise all-knowing God ever change this calendar, especially when it is right in the middle of His original plan? I don’t think He has.

God was preparing this gift of time for us even before He created us. Think of people getting ready for their first child. You might fill a room with special gifts to give to that child whenever he/she arrives. You prepare and get ready to receive your new child.

As His grafted-in and/or adopted people, we would do well to be in step with God’s special gift of time instead of the systems of the world’s designs of time. It is God’s calendar that has our best interest in mind.

When we ponder such thoughts as these one question always comes forth. It is a question that asks why aren’t God’s people of today still living and functioning within His calendar? Why did we let it change? This is a good question to ponder.

GOD’S ENEMY HAS A CALENDAR TOO

There is a great possibility that Satan knows it is easier to control people through time and economics. If the whole earth operates in accordance with God’s calendar and he could persuade people to follow a different calendar, then he might be able to take their minds off of the worship of a true God and turn their thoughts to the worship of him. Think about it.

If we study history we will quickly begin to see that Satan was the one behind all of the humans he used to pervert God’s original calendar. This was so that he could use other calendars to control the nations. So, long ago I made the decision to sit up and pay attention to God’s calendar. It truly changed my life. I highly recommend that all Christians learn how to do this. It is a great tool for defeating the power of the enemies of God.

AN ENDING WITH A NEW BEGINNING

Getting back to the present new month of Adar, this part of the calendar for this particular year is about to begin. What do we need to know?

For starters we could consider how Adar has historically been a time of endings which turned into new beginnings. Endings with new beginnings are often known and described as reversals. What appeared to be headed one way is suddenly reversed and goes in a different direction. God turns evil for good.

THE MONTH FOR PURIM

The historical patterns as described above are many, but the one most prominent in Adar is hiding inside the meanings of the story of Purim. Adar is the month in which the celebration of Purim is held in memorial of the victory of the Jewish people over the hateful Haman in the story of Esther.

One day the remnant of the Jewish people was designated to be wiped off the map. The next day the King issued a new decree which reversed that decree. The nation which brought us Yeshua as Messiah was given the right to defend themselves. It was a great victory which has been celebrated every year since. We call this annual celebration Purim.

Notice the reversal? This Purim story is only a shadow and type to another much greater reversal. Messiah came from heaven to earth to bring salvation to those who believed in YHVH. Satan had decreed their demise from that long ago day in the Garden of Eden. The great battle began when he handed the apple to Eve. The life, death, and resurrection of Jesus reversed that decree of sin which Satan has always held against God’s people.

ONE MIRACLE LEADING TO ANOTHER GREATER MIRACLE

The great reversals of God have always changed everything. Now we are free to live and flourish and worship God as He desired to be worshipped.

When Christians celebrate Purim we are celebrating this greater reversal as well as the reversal that happened historically to the the people of Judah.

The first reversal and miracle led us to the second reversal and miracle. This all happened and is still celebrated annually in the month of Adar.

In many ways the celebration of Purim is a preview and a warm-up of the celebration of Early Firstfruits and Resurrection Day which happens next month (Nissan) on God’s calendar.

SYNTHESIS OF OTHER FESTIVALS

While we see these shadows of the coming month and Passover in the Purim celebrations held during Adar, we have to notice that Purim is also the synthesis of all of God’s feasts and festivals combined. Maybe that is why it comes at the end of the religious year, similar to a summary or an annual review of all the concepts we celebrate in all of the feast and festivals each year. They all come together in the story of Purim.

PASSOVER

At Passover we see the redemption of God’s people from extermination. We witness the removal of God’s people from a lifetime of slavery.

DAY OF ATONEMENT

Purim also shows us a time of judgement which brings life or death to a people. This time of judgement that comes during Adar is the last day of the sacred year when God is examining all that happened with mankind during the past year. God is making His plans for what will happen to men during the next year.

We see this same concept at play when we celebrate The Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah. From this day until the Day of Atonement/Yom Kipper, God is making His judgements for the year. He is listening to His people (just as the King in the Purim story let the scepter down and was listening for Esther’s request.) God is ready to hear our pleas, and to grant forgiveness. He is listening, but we must ask. By the end of each annual Day of Atonement God is either going to blot out the hopeless names from the Book of Life, or record them there for life.

These concepts are all shadowed in the Purim story recorded within The Book of Esther. Before each Purim celebration, many observe the Esther fast. This time of fasting is a time of pleading with God for the salvation of one’s nation. It shadows the fast required during The Day of Atonement. This is what Esther did before the victory God granted at Purim. So we see that Purim has shadows and types from The Day of Atonement/Yom Kipper.

FEAST OF TABERNACLES

Finally, we come to a time of turning mourning to joy! The great reversal bringing salvation to a whole nation (Purim) shadows an event which brings salvation to the whole earth (The Resurrection of Christ and His millennial reign in The Kingdom of God.) Purim is a time of feasting, celebrating and sharing with one another, just as we also do annually when we celebrate The Feast of Tabernacles during Sukkot.

So this month’s celebration of Purim should bring a whole past year of God’s amazing patterns of times of celebration to mind. The last feast of the year culminates in a review of all of the concepts of all the feasts and festivals of the past eleven months preceding. Purim combines all of these concepts into one story. It is actually like an annual review of the concepts of Torah. All points of the whole story are covered and the meanings are reviewed again as one last review at the end of the year.

MANY SHADOWS OF PURIM

Purim also shadows the story of Joseph. In that story too, we see how God takes what men meant for evil and changes it to good.

There are many other biblical examples of this same concept, both in the Torah and The New Testament. All of the biblical stories seem to echo the theme of how God provides for and protects those who follow His ways.

HIDDEN AND UNSEEN ANSWERS

So, as we come to Adar and the end of the religious calendar for the year, let’s thank God for how He has nourished our seeds of prayers. All year long God has helped these answers to our prayers to grow, though most of the year their seeds have been hidden and unseen. Now he is about to give us glimpses of the first of the year’s harvest. The little prayer seeds we planted months ago are beginning to pop up from the earth. By living and trusting in His great love shown in the ways of Torah, we are about to enter a beautiful new season of life.

REMOVING THE MASKS

Just as happened with Esther, Adar is a month for today’s people of God to rise up and show their true identity as the people of God. It is time to put the world’s systems aside. When we do this we begin to live into God’s gift of time as He intended from the very foundation of the world.

In order to do this, we have to take off the masks that make us look worldly. We need to let our true identity and its meanings fill our time. This is what happens when we live in the way of Torah.

Like the tribe of Naphtali which is noted in Adar as one of the symbolic gems of the High Priest’s breastplate, we must be prepared to defend our people from the enemy who sneaks up behind us. We are to be the rear-guard for all of our brethren.

This means keeping a sharp sword (the Word of God) with us. The Hebraic letter KUF resembles such a sword and is used as the alphabetic symbol representing the month of Adar. By keeping and defending the truth of God and the faith of the true people of God, we contribute to that time of Adar which turns mourning to joy and sadness to laughter.

Experiencing the KUF, the opposite of good which shows only the imitations of the world, is like a monkey making motions in our faces. When experiencing the KUF of the world, we grasp and understand there are deceptions in place. This is a constant struggle between right and wrong. We must shine our truth out to others in order to bring balance and return people to truth. Again, this is what Esther did in revealing her true identity to the Kingdom.

EVIDENCE OF GOD’S PRESENCE

Adar sends us the message that Our Great God is with us now, as He has been all along. His patterns never change. They always confirm that He wishes only the best for us. In Adar the faithful can see and remember that YHVH will always be with us, even until the end of the world. Not just when the sea splits, or the stars speak of God’s glory, or even when the sun stands still in the sky. God isn’t only in the miracles. He is more consistent than that. YHVH is always there, hiding inside even the small, quiet things of our everyday lives. It is in these things that we gain the greatest victories of all.

PRAYER: Thank you Father for a brand new month. Help us to see the joy of Adar among the struggle of daily life. Teach us to be more like Esther. May all nations experience the lessons of Purim and turn to You for protection and relief from the enemy. Amen