The second month in the Hebrew calendar is the 29-day month of Iyar which corresponds to April/May in the Gregorian calendar. Nations, states, organizations, families, and individuals are to count their second months from the day of their birth. All second months have common characteristics. Biblical patterns for understanding the second month are the second day of creation narrative, the book and chapters of the Bible and Bible passages mentioning the second month.
A. The second month is a second day of creation season. On the second of creation, the Creator made the firmament to divide and thwart the monopoly of the dominating waters. God created space on the second day. The dividing of the waters and the creation of space made rain possible. The second month is the time to begin to battle opposition, resistance, and barriers to life and progress.
B. The second month is a Book of Exodus season. Exodus is the second book of the Bible and is applicable to the second month. In the book of Exodus, Egypt oppressed the Israelite with cruel bondage. God raised a monopoly-breaker to battle oppression and deliver Israel from Egyptian bondage. The second month is the time break through barriers and move forward by the presence and power of God. The second chapters of the Bible are also applicable to the second month. The second chapters of the Bible tell stories of breakthrough and finding a way where there is no way. The second month is a time to believe God for breakthroughs and miracles.
C. The second month is a Deuteronomy 16 – First Samuel 15 season. Going through the second month of the year is the same as gong from the fourth day of the fifth week to the third day of the ninth week. It is like going from Deuteronomy 16 to to First Samuel 15. It is like a journey from second half of the fifth book of the Bible to the first half the ninth book of the Bible. The emphasis in this month, therefore, is on obedience. In the fifth book (Deuteronomy), obedience brings blessings. In the sixth book (Joshua), obedience brings success and prosperity. In the seventh book (Judges), obedience brings safety, peace, and rest. In the eighth book (Ruth), obedience brings favor. In the ninth book (First Samuel) obedience brings promotion and honor. This month is loaded with blessings through obedience. Activate the blessings by clicking the obedience-button daily. Never touch the disobedience-button. It is the gate way to curses.
D. Bible passages mentioning ‘the second month’. The ‘second month’ is mentioned 15 times in the Bible; and those passages reveal five things about the second month:
1. It is for outpouring from heaven
2. It is time to number the men of war. Time to prepare for war.
3. It is for second chance
4. It is for moving forward.
5. It is for commencing building.
1. THE SECOND MONTH IS FOR THE OUTPOURING AND DRAINING
Genesis 7:11: In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 8:14: And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.
GOD RAINED BREAD FROM HEAVEN IN THE SECOND MONTH
Exodus 16:1-4: And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. [2] Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. [3] And the children of Israel said to them, “Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” [4] Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.
2. THE SECOND MONTH IS FOR NUMBERING MEN FOR WARFARE
Numbers 1:1-3: Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying: [2] “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually, [3] from twenty years old and above-all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
3. THE SECOND MONTH IS FOR SECOND CHANCE
What you could not do in the first month can be done in the second month.
Numbers 9:9-11: Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, [10] “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD’s Passover. [11] On the fourteenth day of the second month, at twilight, they may keep it. They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
2 Chronicles 30:2-3: For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to keep the Passover in the second month. [3] For they could not keep it at the regular time, because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:13-20: Now many people, a very great assembly, gathered at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the second month. [14] They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook Kidron. [15] Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought the burnt offerings to the house of the LORD. [16] They stood in their place according to their custom, according to the Law of Moses the man of God; the priests sprinkled the blood received from the hand of the Levites. [17] For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites had charge of the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD. [18] For a multitude of the people, many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good LORD provide atonement for everyone [19] who prepares his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he is not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.” [20] And the LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.
4. THE SECOND MONTH IS FOR MOVING FORWARD
Numbers 10:11-13: Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony. [12] And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; then the cloud settled down in the Wilderness of Paran. [13] So they started out for the first time according to the command of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
5. THE SECOND MONTH IS THE TIME TO COMMENCE BUILDING.
The second month is action time.
1 Kings 6:1: And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 3:1-2: Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. [2] And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
Ezra 3:8: Now in the second month of the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem, began work and appointed the Levites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the house of the LORD.
PRAYER POINTS
1. O Lord, as you released Manna from heaven for Israel in the second month, let this second month be a season of visitation and release from heaven.
2. O Lord, dismantle every opposition, resistance, and barriers against my life. Make a way for me where there is no way. Let this month be a season of moving forward and making progress in my life, family, and nation.
3. O Lord, send me relationship-help for the tasks of this month.
4. O Lord, build up my life in this month of building and repairing your house. Enable me to be a fitting habitation for you in this month.
5. O Lord, deliver me from enemies and forces that are too strong for me. Do not allow the proud and arrogant to prevail against me.
6. O Lord, as the flood of Noah’s day began in the second month and dried up in the second month, let the waters that have risen up against me in this second month dry up.
7. O Lord, in this month of second chance, help me to catch up and recover from any losses in the previous season..
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