There are seven prophetic weeks in a year and a remainder of three weeks (22 days in a clear year and 23 days in a leap year). A prophetic week is a seven-week season. The ’70 weeks’ mentioned in the Book of Daniel was a prophetic coding for 490 years.
Seven-week seasons, like seven-year seasons are strategic gates of time. The fourth seven weeks of the year begins May 28 and ends July 15 in a clear year. The next season is the fifth seven weeks beginning July 16 and ending September 2. The fifth seven weeks of the year includes half of the month of July (16 days), the entire month of August, and the first two days in September. It also begins with the three weeks of the ‘Dire Straits’ that ends with’ the 9th of Av’ to commemorate the season of the destruction of the first and second temples of the Jews.
BIBLICAL PATTERNS FOR THE SEASON:
The Biblical patterns for the fifth 7 weeks are:
1. The fifth day of creation narrative (Genesis 1:20-23)
2. The fifth book of the Bible (Deuteronomy)
3. The fifth chapters of the Bible, and
4. The fifth seven books of the Bible (Joel – Habakkuk)
The fifth 7 weeks of the year is a fifth day of creation season.
God took three days of creation to complete His work with the waters. He divided the space-blocking waters horizontally to make space on the second day of creation. On the third day of creation, He set boundaries for the waters to make room for the earth and vegetation. On the fifth day of creation, He furnished the waters with living creatures. He made the birds on that day also. The things God did or said on the fifth day of creation give us a pattern for His intentions in a fifth season. The opposite of what God did is what the evil one seeks to do in the fifth season.
As God God turned to the waters on the fifth day of creation, the evil one seeks to visit humanity with drought or fire disasters in this season. As God spoke of abundance in this season, the evil one attacks with scarcity. He caused the waters to abound with abundance of living (moving) creatures because an unmanned fifth season is a season of scarcity and stagnation. As God made living creatures in this season, the evil one wants to visit God’s Creation with death. God made free moving creatures while the evil one plans imprisonment, bondage and stagnation in this season. God made the creation for specific locations. The evil one sponsors rebellion and lawlesness in this season. God blessed His creation for the first time on the fifth day but the evil one wants people to experience curses in this season. He spoke fruitfulness and multiplication over His creation on the fifth day but the evil one wants to release barrenness and decimation in this season. An unmanned fifth season will be a season of curses bringing barrenness and decimation.
God made creatures of balance on the fifth day because He intends justice and righteousness to prevail in this season but the evil one wants wickedness and injustice. God blessed the creatures with ability for voice sounds because this is a season of prayer, songs and declarations. Birds talk and sing. They have voices. The fifth season is a season of raising and listening to voices. In this season, the evil one wants to make it impossible to pray, sing to God, praise Him or declare His Word. Don’t give in to that. God blessed the creatures of the fifth day with sensory perception but evil one dulls sensitivity in this season. The birds (representing spirit) were made to fly above and the sea creatures (representing flesh) were made to live under the water. In this season, the evil one wants the flesh to be above and the spirit under. We must choose what stays up in this season – flesh or spirit.
PRAYER: Pray that the intentions of God for this season (as revealed in the narrative of the fifth day of creation) will be established this season. Pray that God will frustrate attempts of the evil one to limit full expression of life in the nations . Decree an end to the violent protests of the fourth seven weeks in the nations.
The fifth 7 weeks is a book of Deuteronomy season.
Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Bible and is applicable to the fifth seven weeks of the year. This season is a Book of Deuteronomy season in the year. A book of Deuteronomy season is a season to either be blessed by giving attention to the voice of God and be blessed; or to disregard the voice of God and be cursed. The book of Deuteronomy reveals that forgetting God or disregarding His word in the fifth season is courting disaster. The fifth book of the Bible shows that the key to prosperity in this season is to obey God’s voice. In Deuteronomy 28, God showed Israel the path to blessings and curses. In the 30th chapter, He laid again before Israel the paths to life and death. The book of Deuteronomy reveals that the fifth season is a time to choose to be up and above like the birds; or to be down and below like the sea creatures. It is all a matter of what you do with the word and voice of God. As God prepared Israel in the fifth book of the Bible before they entered Canaan in the book of Joshua, the fifth seven weeks of the year is preparatory for the sixth seven weeks of the year.
PRAYER: Pray against the visitation of curses across the nations this season. Bless the nations and God’s people in them as Moses blessed Israel in the fifth book of the Bible. Proclaim blessings to cancel curses as light dispels darkness. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Israel) and bless her.
The fifth seven weeks of the year is a fifth chapters of the Bible season.
The fifth chapters of the Bible reveal three things that are applicable to the fifth seven weeks of the year:
1. This is a season to arrest disease and death. The fifth chapters of the are the longevity and healing chapters of the Bible. In Genesis 5, men lived hundreds of years before death. Enoch walked with God and God (not death) took him away. In Mark 5, Jesus delivered a demon possessed man from bondage. In the same chapter, He raised a girl from the dead and healed the woman with the issue of blood. In Second Kings 5, Elisha healed Naaman of leprosy. In John 5, Jesus healed the man at the pool of Bethesda. In Acts 5, Peter’s shadow healed the sick. People can be healed anytime but this a gate of time for healing and physical restoration.
PRAYER: Pray that this will be a season of healing and reversing attacks on the body. Pray for a release of the healing anointing in the nations this season.
2. It is a season to confront rebellious and fleshly living. In Exodus 5, Pharaoh said to Moses, “Who is the Lord that I should obey Him; I do not know the Lord; neither will I let Israel go”. In First Samuel 5, the Philistines put the ark of God, as a captive, in the house of Dagon, their god. In Second Kings 5, while Elisha refused the free-will offerings of Naaman, Gehazi ran after Naaman, in dishonesty, to receive money and materials. He became leprous at the end. In Daniel 5, Belshazzar, king of Babylon, mocked the God of Israel in a sumptuous feast and lost his life and kingdom the same day – after reading the strange hand-writing on the wall. In Matthew 5, Jesus taught His disciple to scorn superficiality and become spiritual instead of just being religious. In Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira died for giving offerings to the church in dishonesty. They gave in to the flesh. In First Corinthians 5, Paul rebuked the church for condoning a man who was sleeping with his father’s wife. Second Corinthians 5 calls us to focus on the spirit rather on the flesh. The 16th verse says, “therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh….”. Galatians 5 talks about the works of the flesh and the fruit of the spirit; challenging us to walk in the spirit so as not to fulfill the desires of the flesh. In the fifth book of the Bible, God called Israel to obey His voice instead of following their natural or fleshly inclinations. That also seems to be the reason God commanded Joshua to circumcise (cut off the flesh” of) the men of Israel in Joshua 5. In fifth seasons, people have a tendency to live and walk in the flesh, rather than by the word and the spirit. In the fifth season, men are tempted to disregard, and even mock, the spiritual. The fifth book and chapters of the Bible show that the fifth season divides between the carnal and the spiritual. God made both sea creatures (representing flesh) and birds of the air (representing spirit) on the fifth day of creation. Romans 8:5 tells us that “To be fleshly minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life”.
PRAYER: Pray for grace walk in the spirit most of this season. Pray that the spirit will have ascendancy this season. Pray for a strong pull of the spirit this season.
3. It is a season of war against scarcity through generosity and self-denial. In Luke 5, Peter caught fish, in abundance, by the word of the Master; after giving his boat for a gospel crusade. He also walked away from the fish and fishing industry to follow the Prophet from Nazareth. In Joshua 5, Manna ceased; and Israel ate the fruit of the land after the men had been circumcised. In Nehemiah 5, Nehemiah said he gave up the material entitlements of ‘governor’ to not be a burden on the people. In Second Kings 5, Elisha refused offerings from Naaman.
PRAYER: Pray against incidents that could throw people into scarcity at this time. Pray also that God’s people in the nations will engage the mystery of self-denial to bind the spirit of poverty and scarcity this season.
The fifth 7 weeks of the year is a fifth-seven-books-of-the-Bible season. The fifth seven books of the Bible are Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum and Habakkuk. The books are mostly concerned about awakening the people to righteousness and justice. They confront the people to turn to God. They are also books announcing God’s judgment against the rebellious. Each week of the fifth 49 days will express one of the fifth seven books of the Bible. The fifth seven books of the Bible reveal that the fifth seven weeks is a season to walk in unalloyed obedience. It is a season to pursue justice and righteousness. As there are threats of disasters in the fifth seven books of the Bible, the world is often visited with disasters – some kind of ‘dire straits’ – in the fifth seven weeks of the year. May the Lord keep His people far from disasters in the fifth seven weeks of this year.
PRAYER: Pray that this season is not given to wasteful locusts, caterpillars, palmerworms and cankerworms as in the book of Joel. Instead pray for an outpouring of the Spirit on the nations. Pray that this is a season of deliverance and possessing possessions as in Obadiah. Pray that the rebellious spirit that seized Jonah will find no room in your heart. Pray that a door of repentance be opened to modern Ninevehs this season as in the book of Jonah. Pray that spiritual awakening and repentance will shut the door against such fire disasters spoken of in the book of Amos (1:3-15; 2:1-5).
BIBLE READING SUGGESTIONS FOR THE SEASON
Since the fifth seven weeks of the year is a book of Deuteronomy season and a Joel – Habakkuk season, we can receive light from God’s word for each week of the season as follows:
Week 29 – Deuteronomy 1-5; Joel 1-3
Week 30 – Deuteronomy 6-10; Amos 1-9
Week 31 – Deuteronomy 11-15; Obadiah 1:1-21
Week 32 – Deuteronomy 16-20; Jonah 1-4
Week 33 – Deuteronomy 21-25; Micah 1-7
Week 34 – Deuteronomy 26-30; Nahum 1-3
Week 35 – Deuteronomy 31-34; Habakkuk 1-3
The theme of the fifth seven weeks season is “Obey My Voice”. Examine your life and make amends in any area wher. Stay in the path of obedience!
PRAYER: Pray that the call to obey God will ring through the nations this season and that it will yield much fruit.
Happy fifth seven weeks!
