Welcome to the most unique week of the year. December 30/31 should be the beginning of the 53rd week but it is not a full week in the Old Year. What is supposed to be the 53rd week of the year has only one day of the ending year (in a clear year) or two days (in a leap year). This week ends the Old Year and begins the New Year. I can hear the Voice of the Lord saying, in this week, “I am the Beginning and the End”.
The 53rd season is for conclusive declarations and operations. It is a Psalm 53 week. In Psalm 53, both ‘the fool’ and God made conclusive statements: The fool says “There is no God”; while God says, “There is none who does good; No, not one”. The 53rd is the end-season for those who have declared war against God. This is the season when those who say there is no God are called fools. Psalm 53:4-6 says, “Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And do not call upon God? [5] There they are in great fear Where no fear was, For God has scattered the bones of him who encamps against you; You have put them to shame, Because God has despised them. [6] Oh, that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion! When God brings back the captivity of His people, Let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad”. In the 53rd season, God closes the chapter on the adversary; and opens a new page for Zion.
Week 53 is an Isaiah 53 week. Isaiah 53 was prophetic of what Jesus experienced on the cross. The Cross of Jesus Christ was both an end and a new beginning. The Old Man ended and the New Man began. In Isaiah 53, God gave His servant the treatment meant for transgressors. Isaiah 53 reveals how God deals with transgressors in the 53rd season. Jesus did not deserve what He suffered on the cross; but He suffered what sin, and the sinners He represented, deserved. Heaven is harsh with rebellion in the 53rd season. Isaiah 53 is the chastising and bruising of the Representative of Sinners.
The last week of the year is a Book of Second Thessalonians week. Second Thessalonians is the 53rd book of the Bible; and is about the judgment of the ungodly and the lawless one; “the son of perdition, [4] who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God…whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming” (2 Thessalonians 2: 3-4, 8). 1953 was the year that Joseph Stalin, the famous Russian Communist leader, died. It was also the year that Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated the 34th President of the United States; and Queen Elizabeth II coronated. May this week truly mark the end of the old and the beginning of the new in your life and story. Happy ‘end of the old’! Happy New Year!!!
