God has been speaking to me for weeks about the fact that this a promotion time. I struggled with this prophetic word because let’s face it when you look for an earthly perspective what we are facing as a nation and internationally is tough times. As many of you know I have been writing for years on the value of the prophetic truths hidden in the Hebrew calendar and how God speaks prophetically to us as a people of God in times and seasons through it. No matter what we may be facing in our lives the word of God, the Torah, and the Hebrew Calendar remain the same. They are long standing truth direct from God that cannot be shaken. We know the power of the word of God and the testimonies of the lives of those written within the Torah writings and the Bible who were changed when they obeyed the word of the Lord first and not their circumstances. When we look at our current world and the loss and pain we have experienced worldwide from the coronavirus we are in a place of lack and fear, but this is not God’s truth and not His perspective. We must stand on God’s truth that never changes especially in the worst of times.

As the month of Nisan on the Hebrew Calendar is fast approaching on Wednesday March 25 at sundown, the Lord has been showing me the power of His words to Moses in Exodus 12 as we read what God speaks to him about what is upon God’s people and how they should respond in light of the news that an angel of death is coming to overthrow the Egyptian gods and ultimately release God’s people from bondage and move the Israelites into the promised land in Canaan.

We as a people are called to live by faith and faith alone. We are called to stand firm in the faith and not be defeated. These are words we minister to ourselves daily as we speak God’s words of life and remember the life of Jesus our Messiah as He walked the earth.

As all of us have been feeling intense spiritual warfare manifesting biologically, psychologically, socially, and economically. Many have chosen to look at their surroundings instead of God Himself. We have been given an amazing picture of truth in our very last month of the year on the Hebrew calendar called Adar. In this very month we read of the plagues that were sent to release God’s people from bondage. In Exodus 11 we read of the final plague that was to come by the angel of death.  In Exodus 11:9 (NASB), “Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My wonders will be multiplied in the land of Egypt.’” So, we see that God has this great plan to release His people by doing signs and wonders that will cause them to know only God could’ve released them from this bondage.

Then when we continue on to Exodus 12 we read that God puts emphasis on the new month coming for His people and the new strategy they would need to implement to survive what was coming ahead as God delivers them from bondage, protects them and carries them to the promised land. In Exodus 12:2-3 (NASB) God says, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household.’”

God is sharing to Moses that in this month of Nisan deliverance will come to my people and I will set them free not only from death, but they will take silver and gold from the Egyptians, their very own enemy. He says in Exodus 12: 5 -7 (NASB), “Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.  Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.”

Then He says in Exodus 12:13-14 (NASB), “The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. ‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.’”

This memorial that happens every year at this time in the month of Nisan is Pesach or Passover. This is a month where we even as God’s elect remember that the angel of death passed over us.  We know Jesus as Messiah, His blood is our sacrifice for sin and sets us up to enter the promise to come of a hope, future and a destiny with Him now in the present and in heaven forever. Passover also happens in a month God calls a first month and the first thing is always very important to God. He is bringing them out into a new season at the very beginning of His year. He is doing the same for us.

Jesus Himself celebrated Passover as we read in Luke 22:7-8 (NASB), “Then came the first day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, ‘Go and prepare the Passover for us, so that we may eat it.’”  Then after Passover supper with his disciples Jesus became the sacrificial lamb of God who died for the sins of the world, just as John the Baptist prophesized in John 1:29.

The Hebrew calendar is powerful in that is a lunar calendar and starts on the first month God called it into being when He spoke to Moses and said, “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2) Our Gregorian calendar is solar and is based on man’s calendar set up through Julius Caesar and a later edict by Emperor Constantine at Council of Nicea in 325 AD.  When we look at our calendar right now and the trials we are facing internationally as humanity we can see that God is doing the same thing today as was done years before.

Every year before Nisan there is always a war for destiny. There is always a spiritual war in people’s lives and a time of great turmoil in the earth and the hearts of men, as God calls us to repent and remember He is God. God is sovereign over the earth and calendar and wants repentance from His people at this time. He always calls for us to take a look at our hearts this time of year before we celebrate Resurrection Sunday on April 12.

Every year God says I am going to promote you and bring you into a new promise for the year. A new time of positional increase and promotion. God’s voice does not change even though we are faced with a crisis such as the coronavirus. We need to still see the truth in God’s word and His calendar at this time. There is a war in many areas of our lives, the breakdown of our biology, psychology, sociology and economy is only one aspect. If this worldwide turmoil of the coronavirus was not going on, still everyone would be in a spiritual war right now for one reason or another, personally, professionally, it does not matter, it would have come because promotion cannot come without it. It is true on the calendar every year as we enter our promise land in Christ by faith always at Passover and the celebration of Resurrection Sunday, there will be enemy warfare before the promise comes. The resurrection is our promise for today and for eternity. This was true for Jesus when He was taken away to the cross and suffered at the hands of men was crucified, died, buried and then on the 3^rd day resurrected. There was a war with Satan that Jesus paid the price to bring us into freedom from captivity. How do we think it will be different for us?

We must get our heads in the right place and maintain our position in Christ seated with Him in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). Regardless of the fear and turmoil we must press ahead as the Hebrew calendar says we will be celebrating our promotion time in the spirit realm. This is a gift from God Himself that we died with Christ, buried with Him and resurrected in Him (Romans 6) Therefore begin to wash in that truth as you face your trial. I realize people are losing jobs, loved ones are sick, we are fighting for our lives, but the Israelites were doing this too during the time of Exodus. They did not know whether or not they would survive what God was asking them to which was to trust Him in the plagues and leave Egypt and then be faced with the Red Sea ahead and a miraculous crossing over. Yet, they did it. God covered them, protected them and took them through it and it was all to promote them and reveal the goodness of God.

No matter the pain in your life right now be it a lost loved one, lost job, lost income, overwhelming fear, anxiety, worry, depression or sickness, or any other calamity. Remember Jesus is our Messiah and He came that we might be resurrected in Him and live with freedom in our hearts and minds. Give Him honor and glory as you go through the warfare for your promotion. You are ultimately fighting the enemy to get you to the other side. Anytime there is a promotion there must be a war. You must pass through something so you get to where God has called you.  This will be over soon as I believe that Passover is a crossing over point and we will see the transfer of wealth and the promise come to pass.

In Ephesians 5: 15-17 (NIV) the word says, “Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish but understand what the Lord’s will is.” The word opportunity in this passage is the Greek word kairos. This is our kairos moment our season and appointed time to stand in faith and see the deliverance of the Lord for our destiny. In the Ephesians 5:16 (KJV) the word says, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” This word time is the same word kairos.  Jesus is redeeming our time lost or the opportunities that have been canceled or shut down due to this coronavirus, as He paid the ransom for our kairos moment, we must stand and remember Him and we will see the deliverance of the Lord.

So how do we handle things if we are fighting an invisible enemy that slows us down in progress and movement?

One thing we can do while we wait is to sow. In Genesis 26:12, we read of Isaac who sowed in the famine and in the same year received a 100-fold blessing. The word in Genesis 26:18, also says he dug the wells of deep from Abraham that were blocked up by the enemy and reopened them.  Let us do the same. Let us begin to sow and dig deep wells of faith and relationship with God through repentance and seeking Him in reflection as we approach Resurrection Sunday and watch Him be who He is on His calendar which is the God of healing, Jehovah Rophe, and God our provider, Jehovah Jireh. God is giving fresh creative ideas from heaven, grab a hold of them and run with them during this slow time. Get yourself strong in faith for the new that is coming so you will be ready to run the race once this global slow-down is over.

Hebrews 10:19-23 (NIV) says, “Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,  by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,  and since we have a great priest over the house of God,  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”

By faith, respond with an action to sow and dig during this season and watch God by faith redeem us as this is Hiskairos moment and our kairos moment in Him, the appointed season on the calendar to expect warfare before the promotion. The righteous ones live by faith and they do not shrink back (Hebrews 10:38). We the people of His kingdom will not shrink back but press forward until the promises of God come to pass.

Demonic warfare is something we are all faced with as the enemy is seeking entrance through doubts in our minds over difficult situations in our lives. However, if we can learn to be single-minded in our devotion to the Lord we can decrease the amount of entry the enemy gets in our minds through doubt and fear and instead combat his tactics through faith. 

In 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (NIV), the Apostle Paul tells us that, “the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.’ 

We are called to take every thought captive to obedience to Christ which encourages us to remain in Him as single-minded and devoted to the Lord. 

2 Corinthians 11:3 (NIV) says, “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.’ 

This pure and simple devotion is to have a single-minded focus on the Lord at all times. This means living in the reality of faith daily which ultimately pleases God. The enemy is prowling around looking to devour us (1 Peter 5:8) and we must keep our eyes on Christ to close the door on his lies and deception. If we walk with double-mindedness by lacking faith we open the door to fear and can be easily overrun by Satan’s scheming. 

James 1:5-8 (NASB) says, “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” 

Let us learn to be stable in our ways by walking in faith, living by faith and standing in faith. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1.KJV) Faith is a reality and we can touch it in the spiritual and natural realms. Anywhere we are weak in our faith we are a target. So, let us attempt to strengthen our faith walk and close the door, for health, healing and blessings to flow. 

The Lord gave me a prophetic dream for Hebrew New Year 5780 concerning the decade of “Pey” which is the Hebrew letter for the number 80, a symbol that has the appearance of a “mouth”. Many prophets have been sharing that this will be the decade we must speak to move destiny and create change in the earth. In this dream, I was at the podium speaking and there was only a few people in the sanctuary and they were working in the back. These were people who care for the church and they were talking and taking out garbage. They represent the servants no one notices as they serve God humbly. I threw the mic in their direction and I remember thinking, “Am I losing my mind this mic is thousands of dollars and now it will be broken.” But when it hit the ground it bounced and then started bouncing off all the seats in the sanctuary that were even empty. Then as it bounced the mic got bigger until it was so huge it was like a boulder, and it turned the color red. It was a mic with the rock and fire of the Lord. Then the Holy Spirit said to me loudly in the dream, “My word will not return void but accomplish the purposes for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11) I woke up and began to pray and realized it was God saying that when His voice goes out it will continue to grow with fire until it accomplishes why He sent it. This word will be carried even by my humble servants who go unnoticed by others but God notices them. God had spoken to me a few weeks before that this would be the year He would establish covenant promises with His people in 5780. God establishes these promises with us because we are His children bought with the covenant blood of Jesus. When God’s word is spoken and released by us with faith it will come to pass.

At the beginning of the Hebrew Calendar there are 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the highest holy day of the year to the Jewish people, these are called the Days of Awe. This is a time where God is calling us to step into covenant promises by faith through repentance, restructuring our lives, and also restarting old things, so we can partner with him for establishment of our covenant destiny.

When we talk about God establishing His promises with us, what does this mean? Well, a covenant promise is one that God makes to us and makes to our heart.  If God says, “I’m establishing covenant promises this year,” it means that He is going to be setting things in your life in motion to establish covenant and these are the promises that will be tested. These tests are coming against the Word He spoke to you and you will need to rise in faith.

See once the Word of God goes out, the enemy comes to steal the word (Matthew 13:19). So when you enter into 5780, you have to enter in with the faith that this will be the year that God will establish His covenant promises with you, and that you will begin to start seeing changes for your future that will benefit the kingdom of God.

I want to share with you the story of one who knew and understood that, and that is King David. David was set apart and consecrated at a young age to be the king, but it was many years before he ever actually sat on the throne. Now he had to go through all those years believing that he was anointed with oil and set apart, and that a promise was made to Him by God. God chose David for his heart and set him apart, but he was moved into a place where he had to remain quiet until the day that he was called to step forward. You know what day that was? That day was when he faced Goliath. So the day David was promoted was they day He had to enter a battle and operate in faith to kill the giant.

Now when God says He’s going to establish covenant with you, you will face Goliath.  In 1 Samuel 17:34- 37 (NIV), David says to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”

If God says he is going to establish you this year in the covenant promise that He made with you He’s going to rise you up and as you’re going forth, when you face the enemy before you, you will know who you are and you’ll be able to say, “But you enemy, you Goliath, you liar, you devil, you uncircumcised, non-covenantal god, you cannot take the covenant that I’ve entered into with God, because I know who I am. I know I’m circumcised and you are going down, because God is establishing His covenant with me.” The word “establish” in the Hebrew is the word “qum” which means to rise. You will rise in your faith and position in confidence to go forth because you know who you are in Him.

When God says, “I’m going to establish a covenant,” God’s saying, “I’m going to go before you. My name will go before you.” The circumcision to the Israelites was their identity (Genesis 17:10). That’s what set them apart from every other tribe on the planet. As believers in Jesus, we are set apart as circumcised members of the kingdom, which means we have a power that every other god and enemy on the planet does not have. We will be challenged just as David was challenged in his identity as the anointed and appointed one of God to be the King. David knew who he was. He had the oil poured over his head. He had exercised in his environment the fighting of the lion and the bear. So, all along he was equipping himself. We should be equipping ourselves as we are fighting lions and bears with the word of God, and with worship, prayer, fasting, and the spiritual disciplines.

One day your challenge for identity and the covenant promise God made with you will come, and when it’s your time as the anointed and appointed one to step into the position where God can establish His covenant, God will be there. When you pull out those five small stones, you’re going to knock that devil in the head without any trouble at all because the supernatural will come and do it for you because it’s all by faith and God said, “I’ve already established my covenant with you.” That thing is going down. It’s uncircumcised. It has NOT been set apart by a covenant with God Himself. You who are the circumcised ones in your hearts, have all the power, now step into place right now. Ezekiel 36 : 26-28 (NKJV) says ,” I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.”

You have to realize if God is saying, “I’m going to establish covenant with you,” He’s also saying, “Are you prepared to fight Goliath with the word of God and all of the preparation that you’ve done behind the scenes where nobody saw?” All your closet prayers, all your tears, all the trials you faced in the early years with God by your side. All that preparation is now about to become fulfillment.

You are filled with the power of God so now pick up your five small stones and sling them, and ding-dong they’re going to hit the devil in the head and he’s going to be laid out. Why? He’s uncircumcised, you’re not. You’re part of the circumcised family of God. That’s your identity. This should be your mindset. When God says, “I’m going to establish covenant with you in 5780,” He’s saying, “I’m expecting you to stand up and be who I’ve called you to be. I’m expecting you to know your identity as a circumcised citizen of the kingdom, and stop bowing down to the Goliath who’s coming to steal the covenant that I’ve established with you. I’m expecting you to stand up and to fight for the kingdom, and to go forward and do what it is I’m calling you to do. I’m expecting you to repent. I’m expecting you to leave that sin. I’m expecting you to get yourself up every single time the devil knocks you down and keep on going. I’m expecting this of you.”

Why? Because you’re circumcised in your heart. So, the only way the giant’s going down is if you live by faith in knowing that it is God Himself who establishes the covenant. If God says He wants something done, it’s going to get done. If God says that He wants a victory in this area, there’s going to be a victory. God says, it’s His covenant. God will bring it to pass when you are faithful to live by faith. He is always faithful and He is not a man that He should lie. Everything to him is yes and amen, and it’s go forward, and it’s abundancy and it’s increasing, and its multiplication. You serve a good, good Father. You serve one that knows your pain, He knows your brokenness and He will not break a broken reed. He will not stab you when you’re down. He’ll lift a hand to you and He’ll lift you up, and He’ll look you in the eyes and He’ll say, “It’s okay son. It’s okay daughter, put it on. You just forgot who you are. The circumcision in me took care of it. Get yourself dressed and let’s go establish the covenant promise in 5780.”

I’m telling you this is going to be a dynamite year of establishing covenant promises, all because God said He wants to do it. We just got to get on board with him and stand up and fight the uncircumcised Philistines in our life, because we have his power, his strength, and his promise.

The Lord began to speak to me about the fact that in this month of July, He was bringing His
people into a time of divine alignments. As the Hebrew New Year or Head of the Year 5780 is
coming on September 29, 2019 at sundown, when Rosh Hashanah begins, we will be entering a
time of double portion! This is amazing news, but this also means that God will be expanding
and strengthening our current foundations so we can handle a heavier load on the foundation of
our lives.

Now, when would God begin to do this?
He would begin about 3 months before the new year would start so that He could tear down,
uproot, and rebuild. In Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV), “There is a time for everything, and a season for
every activity under the heavens.” If you are going to be putting new levels on a home the
foundation must be strengthened. We just entered the Hebrew calendar month of Tammuz which
is the 4 th month on the religious or ecclesiastical calendar year, and the 10 th month on the civil
calendar. This is the right time for strengthening the foundations.

One of the foundations that God is working on this month is relationships. He is going to begin
to shift your relationships to accommodate the weight of double portion that is coming around
Rosh Hashanah time. This means you will begin to meet new people that God fashioned into the
plan of your life before the foundation of the world that would be divine connections for this
time and season. He is also going to be removing some people that you no longer need for this
new season that would’ve required a lot of management on your part. Whenever double comes
you have to be ready! Now not all of the relationships will be totally set aside, it may just be that
you will not spend as much waking time with some people that you have in the past. Instead of
coffee everyday with them, it might be coffee once a month. That is okay. Do not be nervous
about these changes, God needs you to follow His lead and begin to change some of these things
as new alignments are needed at this time for kingdom advancement.

These new alignments or divine connections are God’s realignment patterns for His purposes.
God is always advancing His kingdom. Psalm 121:2-4 (NIV) says, “My help comes from
the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip—He who watches over
you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.” Since
He never sleeps He is always changing things to move His kingdom forward.
So, how will God make these divine alignments for kingdom advancement?

The Lord has been sharing with me that He will go before us as in Isaiah 45:2 (NASB), “I will
go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut
through their iron bars.” The NIV translation says, “I will go before you and will level the
mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.” This month God
wants to go before you into the new places He is calling you to advance in the year 5780. He
wants to be, “the one who goes before you.” That word “before” in the Hebrew is the word
paniym which means, “face, countenance, favor.” So, if He says He will go before you this

month, then He is preparing the way to be your very own face, favor and countenance. Now that
means He is going to go before you in these divine alignments. He will be putting your name on
certain people’s hearts and mouth’s so that they will contact you. He will be putting a picture of
your face in their minds so they will think of you and reach out to you. And the same for you, as
you begin to see faces of people or hear names in dreams, visions, and prayer, you need to call
them out and reach out to them because they may be part of the divine alignments God is making
for you. In Revelation 3:8 (KJV), we read about what the Spirit of the Lord said to the angel of
the church at Philadelphia, “I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.” God
has set these doors before you for His purposes and no man can shut them. God will go before
you through each of these doors of divine alignments and connections.

Now, what is another reason He would do that this month?
Well since this is the Hebrew month of Tammuz, historically this is when the Israelites waited at
the base of Mt. Sinai for Moses to come down with the law only to find that the people begin to
pull together all of their gold and silver to make a golden calf. In Exodus 32:1 (NIV), “When the
people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around
Aaron and said, ‘Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who
brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’”

That same Hebrew word, before, is paniym. They were actually thinking of letting an idol or
false god be the one that goes before them. That means they were thinking the golden calf would
be their face, favor and countenance. They had forgotten they were children of God, as they were
substituting the God of the universe to go before them for their own false gods. They had
forgotten their identity and were looking for something to pave the way ahead and be a god that
they could follow. If one goes before you, then you must follow.

The danger this month, is that we could choose to allow our false idols to go before us. We could
misinterpret the past relationships that were designed by God for just one season, or if those past
alignments met our basic needs, then we would want to hold on to them for fear of the unknown.
Responding this way means we may miss the new divine alignments God has designated for
favor this season. When humans build idols, we build them out of lack. No one builds an idol
when they feel they are abundant and without need. If you know who you are and whose you are,
you will be less likely to put your life into things that are not purposeful and kingdom focused.
The Israelites revealed this, only in their lack did they build a golden calf. Only in their
insecurity of who they were as a nation and where God was in all this identity confusion did they
make an idol and actually think it would be one that had the power to go before them. They were
about to elevate a false image and it would go before them as their very own face or identity.
In Exodus 20:1 (KJV) the word reads, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” This
commandment means only God is to be the one we worship. We must be aware we have a bent
as humans to put other gods before Him or He would not have told us that. So we must be
mindful. In the waiting period or the period of divine alignments we must have God go before
us in all of the relationships we make this month. We must trust in Him to connect us to the right
people for His kingdom advancement and for His building purposes as we approach the new year. We must not hang on to co-dependent relationships or addictive relationships or even good relationships that take up too much time and distract us from the bigger picture of kingdom advancement.

Let us remember this month, the same weakness that befell the Israelites could be our weakness
if we are not ready to move with God by submitting to Him to be our face which is His very own
favor and countenance which will go before us. We can see amazing things happen if we ask
God in prayer to take His rightful place in our hearts and go before us so we can follow him
strong to New Year 5780.

Today on the Hebrew calendar the Passover begins, and Jesus is our Passover Lamb. On the
Christian calendar, we call it Good Friday. I had a dream this morning that He was giving new
assignments from heaven to people. I actually saw these mantles falling from heaven. Today is a
day to hold out your hand and receive the new mantle assignment God has for you. Why is this
significant? Because today is Passover and it is the day He took the third cup, which is the cup of
redemption that comes through suffering. Today is the day His destiny was fulfilled.

The word cup in the greek is poterion which means figuratively a lot or fate, and fate means
purpose and destiny. Today Jesus’ destiny was fulfilled and today He is giving out mantles from
heaven.

The night before Jesus’ death, He shared the Passover meal with his disciples. In Matthew 26:26-
29 (NIV), the word says, “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given
thanks, He broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.’ Then He
took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, ‘Drink from it, all of
you.  This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of
sins. I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink
it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.’”

He said this because He was the drink offering. He was the blood of the new covenant that was
in the cup. The cup He took with His disciples that night was the third cup in
the traditional Passover Seder meal that Jews will participate in. This cup is also called the cup of
blessing. The Apostle Paul in referring to Communion, also discusses this cup in 1 Corinthians
10:16 (KJV) when he says, “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the
blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For
we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.” And in 1
Corinthians 10:21 (KJV), when he says, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of
devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.”

In Exodus 6:6-8, God gives 4 Promises of the Passover which are shared at traditional Passover
Seder meals, and one is revealed in the scripture which says, “I will redeem you with a stretched
out arm, and with great judgments.” So, who is the stretched out arm? Jesus stretching His arms
out and redeeming us as He took the judgment of sin upon Him so we would be set free and
death would pass-over us.

In the story of Jesus suffering in the Garden of Gethsemane. The same word cup is mentioned
here, in relation to the cup of redemption that comes from the suffering that He will endure on
the night of Passover. In Matthew 26:36-45 (NIV), the word reads, “Then Jesus went with his
disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He said to them, ‘Sit here while I go over there and
pray.’ He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and He began to be sorrowful
and troubled. Then He said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.
Stay here and keep watch with me.’ Going a little farther, He fell with his face to the ground and
prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you

will.’ Then He returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. ‘Couldn’t you men keep watch
with me for one hour?’ He asked Peter.  ‘Watch and pray so that you will not fall into
temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.’ He went away a second time and
prayed, ‘My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your
will be done.’ When He came back, He again found them sleeping, because their eyes were
heavy.  So, He left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same
thing. Then He returned to the disciples and said to them, ‘Are you still sleeping and resting?
Look, the hour has come, and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.  Rise! Let us
go! Here comes my betrayer!’”

Jesus asked three times, notice it was three times, that this cup of blessing, or redemption would
be removed from Him, if it was God’s will to do so. Jesus asks God for the cup or His destiny to
be stopped because of the suffering. However, the more He fought through the temptation by the
power of the Spirit, the more He was empowered to fulfill His destiny or will of God which was
to actually be “the blood of the new covenant” shed for us.
Jesus is saying at Passover, I will drink the cup of suffering and redemption and that is the
completion of my destiny. That is fulfillment of my destiny. Why is this important in relation to
mantles?

Because if today on Passover, Jesus is saying, “I am sending mantles from heaven for my
people”, He is saying the work is finished on the cross and redemption has been made therefore,
my destiny has been fulfilled and now you citizens of heaven and kingdom expanders will step
into your new assignments today. So, lift up your hands as your borders have been expanded, the
Kingdom of Heaven has come to earth, and new mantles are being released for you to walk in.
Ask Him about these mantles and find out which one He has given you for this new season. Ask
Him to teach you to walk in this mantle as new opportunities will open and you will be required
to exercise these mantles by faith!

Here is a great spiritual growth resources on Mantles of God and Assignments and how to walk in them…