Welcome to the 32nd week of the year! The 32nd week is the fourth week in the fifth 49 days. Week 32 is a fourth season week. It is the bridge-week in the fifth 49 days of the year. The Bible patterns for understanding the 32nd season are the fourth day of creation narrative, the 32nd book of the Bible, the 32nd chapters of the Bible, the fourth five chapters of Deuteronomy (the fifth book of the Bible).
Week 32 is fourth day of creation week. 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.
Week 32 is a book-of-Jonah week. 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.
Week 32 is a Deuteronomy 16-20 week. 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.
Week 32 is a 32nd-chapters-of-the-Bible week. 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 eventually 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.
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In the 32nd season, men are tempted to do things that drive them back into stuff they are running from. The 32nd season is a season of tests often leading to questionable actions. Rebellion against God is stupid. Aaron and Jonah did not act wisely in turning against God in Exodus 32 and in the 32nd book of the Bible respectively. The boasting of Sennacherib in Second Chronicles 32 was stupid and costly. He lost his army, his throne, and his life. Adolf Hitler declared the Second World War in the season of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. He lost both the war and his life. He and his allies were ill-advised. In the 34th week of 2019, multi-millionaire, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in a New York Prison cell.
The 32nd season is a season of mercy, divine intervention, and second chance. Moses interceded for Israel in Exodus 32 after Aaron made the golden calf. God gave Hezekiah second chance in Second Chronicles 32 by extending his life. God gave Jonah a second chance in the 32nd book of the Bible. Nineveh also received mercy and second chance. The 32nd season is the intercessors season. It is a time to plead for mercy as Moses did in Exodus 32.
The Rwanda genocide happened within the 32nd seven years of the United States; when Bill Clinton was President. Regrettably, Clinton and the United States could not save Rwanda from the genocide but today, Bill Clinton and Americans are having a second chance to rebuild lives in Rwanda. Bill Clinton also faced impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal but was given a second chance. The House of Representatives favored impeachment but the Senate did not have the majority to ratify it. Clinton was acquitted. Second chance!
The 32nd season is for making timely submission to God. Jonah’s delayed and forced compliance was costly. As soon as he got out the belly of the fish that swallowed him, he went right away into Nineveh and preached. He had learned his lessons. Nineveh’s timely submission to God turned the hand of judgment.
The 32nd season is a high-sensitivity season. Aaron’s step to make a golden calf for Israel was hasty and the result of insensitivity. It was all because of Moses’ delay. The people pressurized him to error. The 32nd season is a time to be heaven-led; not circumstance-led, people-led, or emotion-led. Delay must not drive you to haste in the 32nd week. Moses broke the two tables of the law out of anger in Exodus 32. Beware of hasty actions in the 32nd season. In 1992, the 32nd year of Nigeria’s independence, there were riots, strikes, arrests, detentions, and deaths surrounding transition to civilian rule, ethnic/religious clashes, and economic issues, under President Ibrahim Babangida. In that year, there was anger in the air; and Nigeria and Nigerians were badly hurt by lack of sensitivity.
The 32nd season is a new beginning. It is the beginning of a new beginning. God changed Jacob to Israel in Genesis 32. Elihu began his speech in Job 32. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Nineveh had a new beginning. The tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh received their inheritance in this chapter. It was a new beginning for them. The 32nd President of the United States was a new beginning in many ways. It is a season economic boom.
The 32nd week is a season to triumph through prayer. Fearful things may happen in this season but faith in God always triumphs. In Genesis 32, Jacob prayed to be delivered from Esau and for a change of story. In Genesis 32:11, he said “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children”. In Genesis 32:26 he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me”. God changed His name from Jacob to Israel. Identity gives access. Moses prayed in Exodus 32. He told God, “If you will not forgive them, blot me out of your book which you have written”. Hezekiah prayed to be delivered from Sennacherib and from death in Second Chronicles 32. God answered Him. Jonah prayed from the belly of a fish in the 32nd book of the Bible. God commanded the fish to vomit him. This week, pray; God will hear you!!!
The 32nd season is a season to be in the presence of God. Although we should always be in the presence of God, some seasons make it mandatory. In Genesis 32, Jacob was alone with God when his name was changed to Israel. Moses was on the mountain with with God in Exodus 32. In Second Chronicles 32, Hezekiah was in the presence of God crying against Sennacherib; and for deliverance from death. In Jeremiah 32, the prophet was in the presence of God praying to understand why God would ask him to buy property in a city the Babylonians would overrun. There, the Lord told him He would give Judah and Benjamin a second chance. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Jonah had problems because he ran from where he should have been in the presence of God.
This week, live your life in the presence of the Lord – to receive instructions, mercy, favor, answers for needs, renewal and fresh start. Happy 32nd week.
