In Blog 35, I talked about why an exodus from exile is necessary for life. Blog 36 focused on YHWH’s promise to Abram as the basis for Israel’s deliverance. The Torah closely tracks the patriarchs ‘ ages from the time and date of this paramount interaction between YHWH and Abram to Israel’s exodus out of Egypt and their entrance into the Land. Why? So we define YHWH by His accomplishing the reality of His promise on the same day and exact time generations later, confirming His covenant. Blog 36’s chart from Behold, I AM‘s page 567 will be a helpful visual to track these events on the lunar CHC.

When Abram entered Canaan, it was occupied by foreign nations who served other gods. YHWH told Abram to walk through the land without taking possession, waiting for YHWH to orchestrate inheriting it. First, the people groups occupying the land would mistreat Abram’s descendants, and then, in exile, they would become slaves to the king of oppression. YHWH planned all this to make a name for Himself before Israel and the nations to instill the awe and fear of Him needed for humanity’s return to the garden mountain of His Presence.

Genesis 14’s bread and wine with Melchizedek, followed by Genesis 15’s covenant, suggests the pattern of Passover linked to Israel’s night exodus the day after the Passover (Num. 33:3, Deu. 16:1). Four hundred thirty years later, Exodus 12:17 calls Abib 15’s night of the exodus the self-same day as YHWH’s oath when He passed through Abram’s cuttings. Thirty years after making the covenant, Ishmael’s mistreatment of Isaac at his weaning feast began the clock ticking to the four hundred years of oppression in Canaan and Egypt (Gen. 15:13, 21:8-10). From Israel’s entering Egypt during the famine, Moses was the fourth generation and the seventh generation from Abraham (Gen. 15:16). We are to mark in our minds that all this happened as YHWH had foretold exactly, proclaiming His sovereignty over history, even a history extending to the end of the ages.

YHWH’s covenant with Abram stated He would bring Abram’s descendants out of bondage and back to the land of Canaan. The year of YHWH’s night of oath had a Wednesday Passover (Day 4 of the week) followed a year later by a Monday Passover in a leap year (Adar II). The year Israel entered Canaan in 1446 BC, the Passover fell on a Wednesday, and a year later, Passover was on a Monday of a leap year (Adar II). The Calculated Hebrew Calendar (CHC) pattern bookends YHWH’s making the covenant with Abram with His precise bringing Israel into Canaan.

1916 BC, Wednesday Passover, Genesis 14-15, Night of Oath
1915 BC, Monday Passover after Adar II
1446 BC, Wednesday Passover, Israel enters Canaan, Jos. 5:10
1445 BC, Monday Passover after Adar II

The Passover of Israel’s exodus out of Egypt was also on a Wednesday, but it was followed a year later by another Wednesday Passover of a leap year (Adar II). The bookend to this pattern appears in another exodus (Luk. 9:31). Yeshua’s last Passover was on a Wednesday, followed a year later by Wednesday Passover of a leap year (Adar II). Israel’s first Passover of deliverance under the lamb’s blood has its reality in the Messiah’s last Passover, delivering by shedding the blood of the Lamb of God. I will be discussing the exodus of Yeshua in an upcoming blog post.

1487 BC, Wednesday Passover, Israel’s first Passover, Exo. 12:28
1486 BC, Wednesday Passover after Adar II (at Sinai), Num. 7:1-5
AD 30, Wednesday Passover, Jesus’s fourth and last Passover of ministry, Jhn. 13
AD 31, Wednesday Passover after Adar II

The four self-same days can be separated into two groups.

1. The night of YHWH’s oath confirming the covenant to Abram (Gen. 15:18, the initial “same” day) after Melchizedek’s bread and wine
2. Israel ate unleavened bread the self-same day after the first Passover in the land (Jos. 5:11)

The second group:

3. The night after the first Passover (Abib 14 Passover), Israel leaves Egypt (Abib 15, Exo. 12:41) on the self-same day, the beginning of the first day of Unleavened Bread.
4. After Yeshua’s last Passover (Abib 14), Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea laid Him in the grave at the beginning of night, Abib 15, the first Sabbath of Unleavened Bread (Mar. 15:42-43, Jhn. 19:31).

The arrangement of a Wednesday Passover (day four of the week) with a Thursday Feast of Unleavened Bread (fifth day of the week) is necessary for YHWH’s self-same day. As we saw in the Passover series, Yeshua’s sacrifice paved the way for YHWH’s Feasts to begin so that those who sit in exile may begin the journey home on the fifth day of the week. The moment Yeshua was laid in the grave, the first day of Unleavened Bread began.

Takeaway:
The Torah’s listing of the patriarchs’ ages clues the reader to pay attention to the passing of time in connection to covenant realization. Genesis 14:18-24 with Genesis 15 prefigure the Passover followed by Israel’s exodus from Egypt the next night. When looking at the Calculated Hebrew Calendar of the dates of the events, patterns emerge of a span from beginning to end. The four self-same days happened under the watchful eye and hand of YHWH, the Maker of heaven and earth, the Controller of time.

Fun Factors:
From the date of YHWH’s covenant with Abram in Genesis 15 to Israel entering Canaan to possess it (1916 BC to 1446 BC), it is 470 years. Where does 470 appear in Scripture by which we can frame this span of time? Elohim’s first oath, “Let there be light and there is light” has a numerical value of 470, 47 × 10. Number 47 shows up in Job 27:11 as “by the hand of El,” and number 10 indicates the generations’ total or complete time (See Blog 10: Ten Generations). The Hebrew word for time, עֵת,`eyth, has a value of 470. When looking at the light wavelengths, 470 nm is the spectrum wavelength for the Feast of Trumpets, which begins the seventh month, the day announcing Yeshua’s rule of restoration and the time calculations for next year’s calendar.

The 15^th prime number is 47, and the 47^th Pythagorean prime is 541, the value of “The Unleavened Bread” and “Israel.” “These are My feasts” (Lev. 23:2) equals 211, the 47^th prime (see Blog 3: Festivals of Light), and “children of the day” (1Th 5:5) is 211 × 4 (see Blog 12: Children of Light). If we add 47 to its reverse, 74, it equals 121 or 11², the number associated with the menorah construction. And if we subtract 47 from its reverse, 74, we get 27 or 3³, the cube number of the Holy of Holies, YHWH dwelling in unapproachable light.

The self-same-day verse of Exodus 12:51, “And it came to pass, on that self-same day, that YHWH brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies” has a letter sum of 2797, the 407^th prime, 200^th Pythagorean prime, and sum of two squares 51² + 14². The number 407 is the sum of two cubes and can be written as 4³ + 0³ + 7³, representing the reality of YHWH’s work (47 characterizes the power of His hand).

(Note: the span of time between Israel’s first exodus and Yeshua’s exodus is a topic of another blog.)