The Knosee
The tenth day of the first month of the Biblical Calendar. That is what today is and its symbolism and reverence is not lost on me. On our current calendars October is also the tenth month, and the number 10 holds much symbolism as well including representing signs of completion and God's signs and wonders.
After months of turmoil and tests we have now reached fall, harvest season. The time of the separating of the wheat from the chaff. It's the time for the non-producing, the distracting, the energy-sucking, to be separated from the properly sowed, and burned to ash while the well sown, positive yield, is brought into the barn.
This is illustrative of the rocky path God has had me, and many others, on the past year and especially the past three, but victory is here. The harvest is here.
Several catalytic events happened on this day throughout the Bible:
In Exodus 12, God ordered Moses to sacrafice an unblemished male lamb whose blood was placed on the doorposts; a process that lasted until Nisan 14 for Passover.
"On this day, Jesus fulfilled this pattern of the "sacrificed lamb." He entered Jerusalem on this day to acclamations of "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!" (Matt 21:9)."
Ezekiel was given a vision: "In the twenty-fifth year of our captivity, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was captured, on the very same day the hand of the LORD was upon me; and He took me there. In the visions of God He took me into the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain; on it toward the south was something like the structure of a city." (Ezekiel 40:1-2)
A more sobering example is the Great Tribulation said to start on Nisan 10 with the 7th Trumpet making its final blast on Tishri 10, at Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days (or sometimes “the Days of Awe”)
And last, but certainly not least, is on this day, Israel crossed the Jordan and encamped in Gilgal, on the eastern border of Jericho, a pre-cursor to the Fall of Jericho at the hands of God, people's faith and obedience, and praise and proclamation through the haunting sounds of the Shofar. (Joshua 4:19 / 5:13-6:27)
Sometimes we find ourselves in seemingly impossible situations, facing giants and demons far outside our control or understanding; wandering in the wilderness praying for rain, for change, for the seasons to finally shift.
And then they do, slowly at times and then all at once. As God does.
Any farmer has to be comfortable with patience, with letting seeds be sown and waiting and watching the outcome. Our walks of faith are no different. In the dry wandering seasons we must dig down in expectant and patient waiting of the changing seasons, of fresh renewal sure to come, and the Promised Land we're being led.
It took time to cross the Red Sea. It took even longer for all the elements to line up the way they needed to reach that exact moment in time where God's wonders and might was on display because, only God.
So let us not grow weary and embrace this new year, new season, this prophetic day as a trumpet of victory to being able to go without the know and rest in peace in the process.
