Happy 31st Birthday/Anniversary and welcome to the 32nd year! The 31st birthday/Anniversary is the end of the 31st year and the beginning of the 32nd year.
DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION:
The 32nd year is the 12-month season following the 31st Anniversary or Birthday. It is the fourth year in the fifth seven year season. It is called a fourth-season year.
BIBLICAL PATTERNS FOR THE SEASON
There are 4 Biblical patterns for understanding the 32nd year:
1. Year 32 is fourth day of creation season. On the fourth day of creation, God made the luminaries- the sun, the moon, and the stars. He made them to give light, to rule the day and the night, to divide the day from the night, and to be for signs and seasons. The fourth season is a fight-back season for darkness. So, for the child of God, it is a season to keep darkness away by light. In the 32nd season, the kingdom of darkness attacks men with mental darkness to cause them to stumble and fall. It is a season to garrison your mind with light and think clearly. Submission to God turns on the light for the season; but rebellion against God turns off the light and opens the way for darkness to take over.
2. Yesr 32 is a book-of-Jonah season. In Jonah, the 32nd book of the Bible, the prophet was sent to go and cry against Nineveh for her sins. He failed the obedience test and ran from the presence of God; but ran into disaster. He repented in the belly of fish and prayed to God. The fish that swallowed him vomited him and he went to Nineveh and preached as God had commanded him. The 32nd season is a season of submission to divine direction and guidance. It is not a time to do your own thing.
3. Year 32 is a Deuteronomy 16-20 season. The fourth five chapters of the fifth book of the Bible is applicable to the fourth week in the fifth 49 days of the year. In the fourth five chapters of Deuteronomy, God gave instructions and commandments concerning feasts, offerings, justice, respect to priesthood, kingship, care of Levites and priests, idol worship and spiritism, prophetic ministry, and cities of refuge. The 32nd season is a season instruction for light.
4. Year 32 is a 32nd-chapters-of-the-Bible season. In Genesis 32, Jacob prepares to meet with Esau and wrestles with God. He had run from Esau but now must face Esau. He tried to figure out and strategize how to meet Esau; but the best he did was to pray and spend time with God. The encounter changed him. He would meet Esau, not as Jacob but as israel. In Exodus 32, Aaron made the Golden Calf for Israel. He failed the test. They wanted to replace Moses and God and sinned; but ran into trouble. Moses had gone to Mountain to receive the Law and Light for the nation. The breaking of the tablets of the Law meant turning off the light of the nation. People were killed and God also visited the people with plague. In Numbers 32, the Reubenites and Gadites requested to remain on the side before Jordan. They did not want to cross the Jordan. Moses did not like it much; and warned them. They eventually reached an agreement; and still went where they did not want to go. In the 32nd season, people are tempted to choose their own way and give half-hearted loyalty to God. In Deuteronomy 32, Moses spoke to Israel in a song and reminded them of their stubbornness before God; and how that by running from God, they often ran into the anger of God. After speaking to Israel, God commanded Moses to go up to Mount Abarim and die there. The law and justice demand satisfaction in the 32nd season; because sin is remembered in that season. Moses spoke of God’s vengeance in this chapter. In Second Chronicles 32, Sennacherib came against Judah and boasted against God. He overstepped his boundaries. His army was destroyed and his children killed him. Hezekiah received prophecy of death but cried out to God and was healed. He became proud. He received Babylonian visitors that came to see him. He was tested but failed the test. Hezekiah died in this chapter. In Job 32, Elihu, a young man in the company of Job’s friends, who had restrained himself from speaking, because of his age, spoke out – confronting both the three friends of Job and Job himself. He even tually did what he did not want to do. He had five chapters of uninterrupted rebuke-speech. No one else spoke that long at once. In Psalm 32, the psalmist speaks, from experience, of the blessedness of being forgiven. Sin is costly. Stubbornness pushes us back into the gallery with God – and we become like a horse or mule which have no understanding but have to be harnessed with bit and bridle to be drawn. Many sorrows shall be to the wicked. Do not resist God in the 32nd season. Mercy is precious in the 32nd season because the season cries for justice and vengeance against sin and rebellion. Isaiah 32 is about a purging distress that would come upon God’s people. God’s people failed the test. Disaster comes on the complacent in the 32nd season. In Jeremiah 32, the prophet was shut up in prison because the king did not believe that what the prophet said would happen. It happened. Then a seeming contradiction occurs. God commands Jeremiah to buy a field from his uncle as faith-proof that the captives of Babylon would return to the land. Jeremiah passed the faith-test. Obedience to divine instruction is a blessing in the 32nd season. God assured Jeremiah that although the people will go into captivity and the land will become desolate, He would restore them to the land. Mercy is very loud in the 32nd season. Ezekiel 32 is the prophet’s lamentation for Egypt’s desolation. Egypt failed the humility-test.
PART 2 of this post will help you to understand what the 32nd year is about and how to live successfully through it.
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