In order to enter more deeply into our God-given promise, it is necessary that we are aware of two specific things. In the first place, we should be aligned with the right saints and not live in independence.

 

Secondly, we should have the proper spiritual vision, just as Caleb and Joshua had when they were sent out by Moses with the other 10 spies to the Promised Land (cf. Numbers 13:1-3.6-8.16).

 

Numbers 13:1-3.6-8.16:
1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Send some men to explore the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each ancestral tribe send one of its leaders.”
3 So at the Lord’s command Moses sent them out from the Desert of Paran. All of them were leaders of the Israelites. …
… 6 from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh; 7 from the tribe of Issachar, Igal son of Joseph; 8 from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea son of Nun; …
16 These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.)

 

Caleb of the tribe of Judah and Joshua of the tribe of Ephraim obscurely point to the importance of understanding God’s two cycles of time, which are the cycle of redemption and the cycle of blessing.

 

 

Each biblical month is assigned to one of the twelve tribes of Israel according to the monthly system of the holy year (Note: cycle of redemption). The assignment of the twelve tribes to the months are related to the camp order of the people of Israel from Numbers 2, because we too, as God’s people, are on the path of the Kingdom (cf. Hebrews 13:14).

 

Hebrews 13:14:
14 For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

 

Thus, the division of the tribes of Israel into the biblical months is as follows:

 

1^’st unit:
Judah – Abib/Nissan
Issachar – Iyar/Siv
Zebulun – Sivan

 

2^’nd unit:
Reuben – Tammuz
Simeon – Av
Gad – Elul

 

3^’rd unit:
Ephraim – Tishrei/Ethanim
Manasseh – Bul/Marcheshvan
Benjamin – Kislev

4^’th unit:
Dan – Tevet
Asher – Shevat
Naphtali – Adar

 

Since this order of the tribes of Israel is the same three times in the Word of God and Ecclesiastes 4:12 and Matthew 18:16.20 speak of the importance of the threefold, we can see God’s revelatory direction in this arrangement of the tribes of Israel (cf. Numbers 2; Numbers 7:10-83; Numbers 10:11-28).

 

Furthermore, the scripture from 1 Chronicles 27:1-15 reveals to us that David’s army was divided into 12 divisions, each consisting of 24,000 men. Each division was assigned by David to a specific month of the year in which it had to perform active duty.

 

From 1 Kings 4:7-19 we can see that king Solomon, the son of David also divided his servants or governors according to the months of the year.

 

 

There are two annual cycles mentioned in the Word of God.
The first annual cycle is the so-called civil year, which begins in autumn and is also titled the blessing cycle, because God blessed Adam at the creation of the earth.

The blessing cycle is opened by the biblical month of ‘Tishrei/Ethanim’, which is assigned to the tribe of Ephraim. This biblical month is associated with Sukkot, also called The Feast of Tabernacles, which celebrates the harvest and glory of God.

 

The second annual cycle is the so-called holy (Note: biblical) year, which begins in spring and is also called the cycle of redemption because the people of Israel were saved from death by the blood of the Passover lamb and went out of Egypt to freedom.

 

The cycle of redemption is opened by the biblical month of ‘Nissan/Abib’, which is assigned to the tribe of Judah.

 

Nowadays, the people of Israel orient themselves according to the so-called civil year (Note: cycle of blessing), which means that they celebrate the New Year, also called Rosh ha-Shanah, in autumn.

 

Both beginnings of the year honor God, if we have previously prepared a place for Him in faith.

This recognition of God is revealed by filling the place with His hidden or mysterious presence and glory, as God did at the completion of the tabernacle in the first biblical month of ‘Nissan/Abib’ and at the completion of the temple by Solomon in the seventh biblical month of ‘Tishrei/Ethanim’ (cf. Exodus 40:1-2.16-17.34-35 i.c.w. 1 Kings 8:2.8-12).

 

Exodus 40:1-2.16-17.34-35:
1 Then the Lord said to Moses: 2 “Set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, on the first day of the first month. …
16 Moses did everything just as the Lord commanded him.
17 So the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the first month in the second year. …
34 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

 

1 Kings 8:2.8-12:
2 All the Israelites came together to King Solomon at the time of the festival in the month of Ethanim, the seventh month. …
8 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are still there today.
9 There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
10 When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the Lord.
11 And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple.
12 Then Solomon said, “The Lord has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; …

 

This means that God always fills the opening of His annual cycles established on earth with His presence and glory. For this, however, it is necessary that we, as His people, are ready to receive Him honorably, so that His glory intensifies on earth.

 

 

It was Caleb and Joshua who joined together as a team, having a special gift of faith and the right spiritual eye and so were able to carry the large cluster of grapes from the land of ‘Canaan – lowlands’ on a pole together and alongside bring back pomegranates as well as figs to Moses (cf. Numbers 13:23-26).

 

Numbers 13:23-26:
23 When they reached the Valley of Eshkol (means ‘cluster of grapes’), they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.
24 That place was called the Valley of Eshkol because of the cluster of grapes the Israelites cut off there.
25 At the end of forty days they returned from exploring the land.
26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land.

 

The location of the finding of the grapes took place at the time of the first grapes (cf. Numbers 13:20c), which is a reference to Jesus the first and begotten Son of God who laid down His life for us on the cross in order to bring us into covenant with the Father.

 

Numbers 13:20c:
… 20c (It was the season for the first ripe grapes.)

 

 

Jesus was the grape (Note: the Father’s love) that hung lifted up on the pole of the two spies (cf. John 3:16-17) to call us by His blood as kings and priests. The pomegranate wears a crown on its ‘head’ (cf. Exodus 39:22-26 i.c.w. Revelation 1:5-6).

 

John 3:16-17:
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

Exodus 39:22-26:
22 They made the robe of the ephod entirely of blue cloth – the work of a weaver – 23 with an opening in the center of the robe like the opening of a collar, and a band around this opening, so that it would not tear.
24 They made pomegranates of blue, purple and scarlet yarn and finely twisted linen around the hem of the robe.
25 And they made bells of pure gold and attached them around the hem between the pomegranates.
26 The bells and pomegranates alternated around the hem of the robe to be worn for ministering, as the Lord commanded Moses.

 

Revelation 1:5-6:
… 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father – to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.

 

As called ones we are entrusted with bringing healing (Note: figs, cf. 1 Samuel 30:11-12; 2 Kings 20:7) to the people and the nations (cf. Revelation 22:2).

 

1 Samuel 30:11-12:
11 They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat – 12 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

 

2 Kings 20:7:
7 Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he (Note: Hezekiah) recovered.

 

Revelation 22:2:
… 2 down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

 

 

The Hebrew word for pomegranate is ‘rimmôn’, which also means ‘marrowy’, because the color of the pomegranate resembles the color of the marrow of the bones, which is responsible for the production of blood, wherein is life (cf. Genesis 9:4). The Hebrew root word is ‘rāmam’ and means ‘to be exalted/honored’.

 

Based on this explanation, it is clear that Joshua and Caleb brought the ‘complete victory of Jesus Christ on the cross’ back to the camp of Israel and therefore had a very different view than the intimidated other ten tribal leaders because they were assessing the situation from an ‘elevated perspective’.

 

It was the spies Joshua and Caleb who recognized in the spirit realm that over the giants in their future land of promise the ‘protective shadow’ had departed, because they carried in their hearts the absolute confidence of the future victory ‘through Jesus Christ’ by revelation (cf. Numbers 13:30; Numbers 14:6-9).

 

Numbers 13:30:
30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

 

Numbers 14:6-9:
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good.
8 If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
9 Only do not rebel against the Lord. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection (Note: shadow) is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”

 

This clearly shows that if you are a saint in Christ Jesus and you do the right thing at the right time with the right people, strategy is in place that guarantees success and secures the generations.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm

The biblical month of ‘Elul’ is the sixth month in the biblical calendar. It is the month that is also called the ‘full stop or point month’, which directs to understand the beginning, in order to start to reach an end (Note: to successfully complete the yearly cycle of God's blessing that is coming to an end in order to lead to the new yearly cycle of God's blessing).

 

Elul means ‘futile, good for nothing, grape or month of the grape’ and it is the month that is aligned with Gad who was the 7'th son of Jacob and the first son of Leah’s maid Zilpah (Note: means ‘bowl, large bowl, shell’).

 

The name of Gad means ‘fortune or plight’ (cf. Genesis 30:9-11).

 

Genesis 30:9-11:
9 When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10 And Zilpah Leah’ maid bare Jacob a son.
11 And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

 

 

Jacob blessed his son Gad to be a warrior and to walk and live in triumph (cf. Genesis 49:19).

 

Genesis 49:19:
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

 

Gad is where the capacity to wage warfare is trained. In this realm, there is harmony, disharmony and dissonance. This time includes a phase in which we learn harmony from disharmony and resonance from dissonance.

 

Gad reflects the dimension where God puts His arsenal. In the sphere of Gad we experience the arsenal and meet angels of warfare (cf. Jeremiah 50:25).

 

Jeremiah 50:25:
25 The Lord has opened his arsenal and brought out the weapons of his wrath, …

 

And Moses blessed the tribe of Gad to be a triumphant warrior to establish the righteousness of the Lord for all those who would recognize his potential (cf. Deuteronomy 33:20-21).

 

Deuteronomy 33:20-21:
20 About Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad’s domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.
21 He chose the best land for himself; the leader’s portion was kept for him. When the heads of the people assembled, he carried out the Lord’s righteous will, and his judgments concerning Israel.”

 

Gad’s domain implies to war from rest in order to impart God’s righteous will. The function of rest is a renewal of strength. The weakness of rest is laziness.

 

The strength of warriorship is the capacity to get supply anywhere and to strike fear in the hearts of people. The weakness of warriors is fear and anxious restraint.

 

 

Furthermore the emblem of the tribe of Gad is a war tent. This points to the place of the relationship with God as a supernatural warrior and to understand His weapons as well His war which isn't fleshly (cf. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5).

 

2 Corinthians 10:3-5:
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; …

 

 

The name “ELUL” is an Acronym of the scripture of Song of Songs 6:3a, which is:

 

 

In Hebrew, the first letter of each word in that phrase spells out the name of this month abbreviated: ELUL.

 

This phrase directs to the knowing that we are Jesus’ treasured possession and He is ours through a real love relationship by the spirit. It as well points to the coming of Jesus as king into the city of Jerusalem which is in the spirit realm the structure of the bride of Christ (see Revelation 21:2.9b-10).

 

Revelation 21:2.9b-10:
2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. …
… 9b “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

 

 

Elul is the month where the King is in the field. It means that the Lord makes Himself accessible to us and surprises us with His kingly presence. It is the presence of the ‘riding of the Lord Jesus Christ’ (cf. Matthew 21:5-9; John 12:13 i.c.w. Revelation 19:11-16).

 

Matthew 21:5-9:
5 “Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
6 The disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.
7 They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them for Jesus to sit on.
8 A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
9 The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”

 

John 12:13:
13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Blessed is the king of Israel!”

 

Revelation 19:11-16:
11 I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.
12 His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself.
13 He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God.
14 The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.
15 Coming out of his mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron scepter.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty.
16 On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

 

Elul is the picture of the earthly ministry of Jesus as He became flesh to dwell among us (cf. John 1:14).

 

John 1:14:
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

Let us approach Jesus as the King of Kings and allow Him to shine with His countenance on us.

 

 

Elul as the ‘full stop or point month’, which directs to understand the beginning, so that you can start to reach an end, gives us the opportunity to successfully complete the yearly cycle of God’s blessing coming to an end in order to lead to the new yearly cycle of God’s blessing.

 

Elul is the month, in which the sound of the Shofar is blown every day until the day before Rosch ha-Schana. It is the time to get awakened by the prophets to position ourselves rightly to receive the blessings of God in the new cycle of blessing (cf. Amos 3:6-8).

 

Amos 3:6-8:
6 When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?
7 Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.
8 The lion has roared – who will not fear? The Sovereign Lord has spoken – who can but prophesy?

 

The sound of the Shofar carries the potential to unlock a new spiritual dimension similar as the apostle John experienced it (cf. Revelation 4:1).

 

Revelation 4:1:
1 After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

 

 

It is the season of self-denial, which means, that we have to understand, we are chosen by God’s grace to run God’s race because Elul is the month of preparation for the ‘high holy days’ in the coming month of Tishrei. (cf. Matthew 16:24; Galatians 2:20 i.c.w. Ephesians 2:8-10).

 

Matthew 16:24:
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

 

Galatians 2:20:
20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

 

Ephesians 2:8-10:
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

 

 

The symbol of the tribe of Gad is a war tent or warrior, who has the power to push the raiders-troops of the enemy away (cf. Genesis 49:19; Deuteronomy 33:20-21 i.c.w. 2 Kings 13:20-21; 1 Chronicles 12:8).

 

Genesis 49:19:
19 “Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.

 

Deuteronomy 33:20-21:
20 About Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges Gad’s domain! Gad lives there like a lion, tearing at arm or head.
21 He chose the best land for himself; the leader’s portion was kept for him. When the heads of the people assembled, he carried out the Lord’s righteous will, and his judgments concerning Israel.”

 

2 Kings 13:20-21:
20 Elisha died and was buried. Now Moabite raiders used to enter the country every spring.
21 Once while some Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders; so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the man came to life and stood up on his feet.

 

1 Chronicles 12:8:
8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains; …

 

The time frame of Gad implies a phase to get trained to transmute our spiritual body in order to reflect the four faces of God in the way like God desires it. This is about the connection between the apparition and the motion during a warfare season in order to reveal God's being.

 

The dimension of Gad is a mixture of warfare (Note: face of the lion) and music (Note: feet of the gazelle; cf. 1 Chronicles 12:8).

David is an example of this kind of mixture. He created many instruments of music and warfare. The reason of this mixture is because rest results in warriorship.

One must operate from a seat of rest in order to be a great warrior and not a destructive one.

A warrior needs to be creative. This implies, that which comes to destroy will be destroyed, so that which is productive will remain. That is what a good warrior does.

True warfare is taking the nonproductive things that are not supposed to be there and leaving the productive.

 

It is similar to the calling of the prophet Jeremiah, who was able to destroy and raise things up through the power of the Word of God (cf. Jeremiah 1:9-10).

 

Jeremiah 1:9-10:
9 Then the Lord reached out his hand and touched my mouth and said to me, “I have put my words in your mouth.
10 See, today I appoint you over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and to plant.”

 

In this revelation, it is possible for us to strategically remove all that the Holy Spirit has already identified as not fruitful and dishonorable in our lives during this biblical month and move forward in deeper relationship with Him.

 

Amen and Amen.

 

In His Wisdom,

 

Daniel Glimm