There are seven 7 weeks in the year and a remainder of 22 or 23 days. The seventh 49 days (seven weeks) of the year (weeks 43-49) is ‘the Sabbath’ of the year. This is not a call to keep the Sabbath as was done under the Old Covenant. It is a call to enter into the rest that the Sabbath means. The seventh season is distinct from the first six seasons. God always separates the seventh from the rest. If you have a seventh child in your family, have lived in a seventh residence, worked a seventh job, you can bear witness to this.
THE SEVENTH DAY OF CREATION
The events of six days of creation is recorded in the first chapter of Genesis; but what God did on the seventh day is recorded in the seventh chapter. Israel marched around Jericho once each day for six days but on the seventh day, they marched around Jericho seven times. The seventh seven books of the Bible (John, Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians) are application books. In the book Revelation, there is an interlude between the sixth and seventh seals and between the sixth and seventh trumpets. Under the Law of Moses, God gave Israel special rules about the seventh day, seventh month, seventh year, and seventh week of years. What is so special about the seventh?
1. God sanctified the seventh day. The sanctify a thing is to keep separate and set apart for a definite holy use. God made the seventh day holy – set apart for God. Although every day is holy, the seventh is a uniquely holy by divine ordination. The seventh seven years of the must not be treated casually.
2. God ended the work of creation on the seventh day and rested. The seventh seven weeks is a season of rest in the year. It is a season to bring people into rest by breaking their yokes and removing their burdens. We enter into rest by trusting God and ceasing from our sweaty efforts. The Lord ushers people into rest by taking their problems and burdens away. You cannot rest with burdens and yokes. The seventh 49 days of the year are for ending yokes.
3. God blessed the seventh day. No other day of the week is so blessed. God blessed His creation on the fifth and sixth days of creation. On the seventh day, He blessed the day; BECAUSE He rested in it. The seventh is blessed. Entering a seventh season is entering a blessed season. The seventh seven weeks of the year are blessed weeks.
Knowing and understanding the mind of God for the seventh season guides you to line up with God.
(a). Make it priority to please God in this season. It is a season of God’s pleasure. Focus on what God wants instead of what you want. Repent of wrong things in your life and give them up.
(b). If the enemy has thrown anything at you, cry out to God for rest; that your yokes be destroyed and your burdens lifted. Cry out against oppression.
(c). Walk in the blessing of the season by following God. Do not attract curses to yourself or turn your life into a battle ground by living in rebellion against God; as it happened to Israel in the seventh book of the Bible.
THE SEVENTH BOOK OF THE BIBLE
The book of Judges is the seventh book of the Bible. It is one of the two books that end at the 21st chapter. The other book is the Gospel according to John. Judges is the last of the first seven books of the Bible. John is the first of the seventh seven books of the Bible. The 21st signifies ‘realization’. The 21st season is when dreams become reality. The book of Judges shows that the seventh season is a season of realization. That is when prayers are answered. That is when dreams are realized. Israel did not realize her dreams in the seventh book of the Bible; but she did receive great help. There were 12 recognized deliverers in the book of Judges – Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, and Samson.
Each week of the seventh seven weeks will be an expression of three chapters of the seventh book of the Bible. The first three chapters for the 43rd week; the second three chapters is for the 44th week; and so on.
SEVENTH 7 BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
The seventh seven books of the Bible are John, Acts, Romans, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Ephesians. They are all books of the finished work. Jesus is revealed in these books. They are the application of what Jesus taught and did. In John, Jesus (the Son of God) is the all things of God for all needs of man. In this book, the Jesus of the gospel is revealed. He is the Multifaceted Answer from heaven. In Acts, the Holy Spirit is revealed as the director of the operations of God. The 43rd week is a Book of John week. The 44th week is a Book of Acts week. The 45th week is a Book of Romans week. The 46th week is a Book of First Corinthians week. The 47th week is a Book of Second Corinthians week. The 48th week is a Book of Galatians week. The 49th week is a book of Ephesians week.
SEVENTH CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE
The seventh chapters of the Bible reveal that God comes in the seventh season to shut the mouths of mockers and doubters. It is God’s action season. The flood came in Genesis 7. The plagues started in Exodus 7. Achan was fished out and stoned in Joshua 7. Gideon fought and defeated a great army with only 300 soldiers in Judges 7. Thunder and lightning scattered the Philistines as Samuel offered sacrifice and prayed in First Samuel 7. Elisha helped Samaria by a prophetic word that changed things within 24 hours in Second Kings 7. In Luke 7, Jesus healed the Centurion’s servant and raised the only son of a widow from the dead.
PRAYERS FOR THE SEVENTH SEVEN WEEKS
- Against Backsliding: O Lord, keep from turning from you, to seek help where there is no help, because of pressures or pleasures.
2. Against Oppression: O Lord, deliver me from the oppression that is too strong for me.
3. Against Confusion: Deliver me from confusion in my body, in my family, in my compound, in my job or business, in the church, and in the nation.
4. For Forgiveness: O Lord have mercy on me and forgive me from errors that would count against me.
5. For Realization of Dreams: O Lord, as it happened at Jericho, for Naaman, and for people that Jesus healed on the seventh day, let this seventh seven weeks of the year be a season of expectations come true.
6. For JUDGES and DELIVERERS: God’s provision for the 7th season is a judge; who would judge the people and their enemies. O Lord, send me Judges, as you did in the seventh book of the Bible, to help me against the adversaries of this season.
May God send you help, and also use you to help others, in a way that will silence doubters and mockers in this season. Happy seventh 49 days.
