In the Biblical calendar, the seventh month is the 30-day month of Tishri that falls September – October in the Gregorian calendar.
A. The seventh month is a seventh day of creation month. It is impossible to understand the significance of the seventh Biblical month without reference to what God did on the seventh day of creation. God did not create anything on the seventh day.
FIVE THINGS MAKE THE SEVENTH DAY OF CREATION VERY SPECIAL.
The first is that the account is separated from the accounts of the previous six days. The account of the first six days of creation is in Genesis 1. The account of the seventh day is in Genesis 2. The seventh is distinguished and special.
Secondly, God ended His work of creation on the seventh day. The seventh season is an end-point. It is stop-time. It is finishing time. It is a season of completion and conclusion. He did not create anything on the seventh day. He made it a no-more-work day. The seventh month Isa time to say, “It is done”. “It is Finished”.
Thirdly, God rested on the seventh day. He rested from work and refreshed. The seventh month is a season of resting and refreshing. The rest of the seventh is more about getting rest from troubles and afflictions than it is about sitting or lying down to sleep. Jesus healed many people on the Sabbath (seventh day).
Fourthly, God blessed the seventh day. That was the first and last day He blessed. The blessing of the seventh day is also on the seventh month.
Fifthly, God sanctified the seventh day. He made it holy. The seventh Hebrew month is a month of religious festivals (Leviticus 23: 23-44).
B. The seventh month is a Book of Judges month. Going through the seventh month of the year is like journeying through the seventh book of the Bible. The book of Judges is the seventh book of the Bible and is applicable to the seventh month of the year. In the seventh book of Judges, God often handed Israel over to her enemies because of sin. Alignment with God in the seventh season is the surest key to safety and peace in the season. In the seventh book of the Bible, God also raised Judges to deliver Israel from her enemies when they repent and cry out to Him.
The seventh month is a time to secure divine intervention through repentance and prayer. In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, God says, “When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, [14] if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land”.
C. The seventh month of the year is a seventh-seven-books-of-the-Bible month. Going through the seventh month is like going through the 7th seven books of the Bible in experiences. The 7th seven nooks of the Bible are John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians and Ephesians.
BIBLE PASSAGES THAT MENTION THE SEVENTH MONTH
The seventh month is mentioned 27 times in the Bible (NKJV). The passages indicate eight things about the seventh month:
- It is the month of settlement
- It is season of purification and peace
- It is a month of feasts and celebrations
- It is a season of watchfulness
- It is a season of completion
- It is a season judgment on the wicked
- It is a season of comfort
- It is a season of fasting for to break yokes.
- 1. THE MONTH OF SETTLEMENT
NOAH’S ARK
Genesis 8:4: Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
THE ARK OF GOD
1 Kings 8:1-4: Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the City of David, which is Zion. [2] Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month. [3] So all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark. [4] Then they brought up the ark of the LORD, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.
2 Chronicles 5:2-5: Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, in Jerusalem, that they might bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD up from the City of David, which is Zion. [3] Therefore all the men of Israel assembled with the king at the feast, which was in the seventh month. [4] So all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark. [5] Then they brought up the ark, the tabernacle of meeting, and all the holy furnishings that were in the tabernacle. The priests and the Levites brought them up.
Nehemiah 7:73: So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the Nethinim, and all Israel dwelt in their cities. When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
The Ark of Noah, the Ark of Covenant and the returnees of Nehemiah’s day found settlement in the 7th month.
- 2. THE MONTH OF PURIFICATION AND PEACE WITH GOD
Leviticus 16:29-34: “This shall be a statute forever for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether a native of your own country or a stranger who dwells among you. [30] For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. [31] It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. [32] And the priest, who is anointed and consecrated to minister as priest in his father’s place, shall make atonement, and put on the linen clothes, the holy garments; [33] then he shall make atonement for the Holy Sanctuary, and he shall make atonement for the tabernacle of meeting and for the altar, and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly. [34] This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel, for all their sins, once a year.” And he did as the LORD commanded Moses”.
- 3. A MONTH OF FEASTS AND CELEBRATIONS
FEAST OF TRUMPETS
Leviticus 23:23-25: “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, [24] “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. [25] You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”
FEAST OF TABERNACLES
Leviticus 23:33-34, 39, 41: “Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, [34] “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD. [39] ‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest. [41] You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month”.
2 Chronicles 7:9-11: And on the eighth day they held a sacred assembly, for they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. [10] On the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents, joyful and glad of heart for the good that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel. [11] Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD and the king’s house; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the LORD and in his own house”.
Ezra 3:1-4: “And when the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. [2] Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and his brethren, arose and built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. [3] Though fear had come upon them because of the people of those countries, they set the altar on its bases; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. [4] They also kept the Feast of Tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings in the number required by ordinance for each day”.
- 4. THE MONTH OF WATCHFULNESS. TIME TO WATCH AGAINST ATTACKS
2 Kings 25:22-26: “Then he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor over the people who remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left. [23] Now when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah-Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Careah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men. [24] And Gedaliah took an oath before them and their men, and said to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.” [25] But it happened in the seventh month that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck and killed Gedaliah, the Jews, as well as the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah. [26] And all the people, small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans”.
This month of Tishri, in 1973, Israel’s enemies attacked her. In 2023, Hamas attacked Israel about the same time of the month. This is a season to keep watch against enemies.
- 5. THE MONTH OF COMPLETION
2 Chronicles 31:7-8: “In the third month they began laying them in heaps, and they finished in the seventh month. [8] And when Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the LORD and His people Israel”.
- 6. MONTH OF THE JUDGMENT ON THE WICKED
Jeremiah 28:15-17: Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, “Hear now, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, but you make this people trust in a lie. [16] Therefore thus says the LORD: ‘Behold, I will cast you from the face of the earth. This year you shall die, because you have taught rebellion against the LORD.’” [17] So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
- 7. THE MONTH OF COMFORT
Haggai 2:1-9: “In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying: [2] “Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying: [3] ‘Who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing? [4] Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the LORD; ‘and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the LORD, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the LORD of hosts. [5] ‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’ [6] “For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; [7] and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory,’ says the LORD of hosts. [8] ‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts. [9] ‘The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,’ says the LORD of hosts. ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of hosts.”
- 8. A MONTH OF FASTING
Zechariah 8:18-19: “Then the word of the LORD of hosts came to me, saying, [19] “Thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘The fast of the fourth month, The fast of the fifth, The fast of the seventh, And the fast of the tenth, Shall be joy and gladness and cheerful feasts For the house of Judah. Therefore love truth and peace.”
