In the Hebrew calendar, the third month is the 30-day month of Sivan that corresponds to May/June. Nations, states, organizations, families, and individuals are to count their third months from the day of their birth. All third months have common characteristics. Biblical patterns for understanding the third month are the third day of creation narrative, the book and chapters of the Bible corresponding to the month, and Bible passages mentioning the third month.
A. The third month is a third day of creation season. On the third day of creation, the Creator commanded the water under heaven to be gathered together in one place. He then called the dry ground to appear (manifest and bring forth vegetation. The third month is the month of the Call from heaven. It is a month of overthrow, manifestation, establishment, and productivity.
B. The third month is a Book of Leviticus season. Leviticus is the third book of the Bible and is applicable to the third month. The book of Leviticus is about peace with God through offerings, sacrifices, and feasts in holiness and sanctification. This book draws a clear line between the clean and unclean; the pure and the profane. The book is about consecrated people, places, things, and times. The third chapters of the Bible are also applicable to the third month. The consecrated high priest bore all Israel on his shoulders. Leadership is very critical in this season. The third chapters of the Bible tell stories of change, manifestation, overthrow, and establishment. They also tell stories of the call of God and unshakable commitment to God. The third month is a turning point, game-changing, season.
C. The third month is a First Samuel 16 – First Chronicles 25 season. Going through the third month of the year is the same as taking a prophetic journey from the 9th week to the 12th week. It is like going from the ninth book of the Bible to the end of the 12th book of the Bible. It is like a journey from first Samuel to Second Kings. The emphasis in this month, therefore, is consecration to God. This is the month of the anointed ones. Eli was God’s priest. Samuel was God’s prophet and king maker. Saul, David, and Solomon were anointed kings of Israel. It is a season to take the matter of leadership seriously.
BIBLE PASSAGES WHERE ‘THIRD MONTH’ IS MENTIONED
1. It is the month of arrival. It is for arriving where God is waiting for you.
2. It is is for gathering the people
3. It is for gathering offerings
4. It is for reversing evil decrees.
5. It is for dethroning evil and proud powers.
1. THE THIRD MONTH IS THE MONTH OF ARRIVAL
Exodus 19:1-2: In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. [2] For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
2. THE THIRD MONTH IS THE MONTH OF ATTRACTION AND THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE PEOPLE
2 Chronicles 15:9-10: Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who dwelt with them from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. [10] So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
3. THE THIRD MONTH IS THE MONTH OF GATHERING THE OFFERINGS
2 Chronicles 31:6-8: And the children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen and sheep; also the tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the LORD their God they laid in heaps. [7] In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month. [8] And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:9-11: Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. [10] And Azariah the chief priest, from the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat and have plenty left, for the LORD has blessed His people; and what is left is this great abundance.” [11] Now Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the LORD, and they prepared them.
4. THE THIRD MONTH IS FOR REVERSING THE EVIL DECREE
Esther 8:8-12: You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews, as you please, in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s signet ring no one can revoke.” [9] So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. [10] And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback, riding on royal horses bred from swift steeds. [11] By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives-to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions, [12] on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
5. THE THIRD MONTH IS FOR DETHRONING THE EVIL AND PROUD POWERS
Ezekiel 31:1-2, 18: Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, [2] “Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness? [18] ‘To which of the trees in Eden will you then be likened in glory and greatness? Yet you shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the depths of the earth; you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”
PRAYERS FOR THE THIRD MONTH
1. O Lord, deliver me from agents of death that manifest in the third season; as in Genesis 3, First Kings 3, Second Kings 3, Esther 3, and Daniel 3. This month will never cooperate with the spirit of death against me.
2. O Lord, let this third month be a positive game-changing season in the year for all your people.
3. O Lord, let the proud and arrogant oppressirs be brought down in this season.
4. O Lord, let this be a month of manifesting hidden purpose, people and places.
