Jun 5, 2026 · 40 min · 9 segments
For years people have asked me why I do not speak about the Hebrew calendar year, why I do not teach the numerology behind its letters and numbers, and why I have ceased making prophetic declarations…
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Mark ChironnaHost
It's the account of a man who has been present where these practices have flourished, and yet I've never taken them up.
As best I can recall, I first encountered the Hebrew year reading in the late 1980s in one of the many charismatic conferences that I moved through in that season of my life.
I was unwilling to revert to the Hebrew calendar as a key to the future in light of the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and that hesitation has remained.
Over the two and a half decades that followed, as my formation deepened, I came to understand what my hesitation had sensed from the beginning.
The deeper I explored the sacred text and the tradition with a capital T all the way back to the beginning, the less ground I could find under the practice and the more I found that the ground there in the ancient text and in the ancient tradition was moving me away from that kind of a practice.
So before I tell you what I came to see, let me tell you what I'm not saying because it matters and the disclaimers are not merely me clearing my throat.
The years of study did not flatten my fervor as some of my detractors would want to convince you of or trade it for a tidy academic caution.
The insecurity of preachers who have never gone back to school who need to castigate those that have is a problem of maturity, not a problem of theology.
All that I did drove me further into a passion for the glory of Christ that I had ever had long before I went back to school and made me more persuaded today of the present voice of the Spirit and the abiding gifts of the Spirit than I had even when I began.
I'm a continuationist and have been since I came to Jesus in 1973, and I'll die one.
I honor the feasts that God appointed, Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and the Sabbath as the weekly renewal of the greater feasts, and I read them as the church has always read them.
The Passover, the Pascha, is the cross, the burial, the resurrection, the ascension, and Pentecost.
It's the account of a man who has been present where these practices have flourished, and yet I've never taken them up.
As best I can recall, I first encountered the Hebrew year reading in the late 1980s in one of the many charismatic conferences that I moved through in that season of my life.
I was unwilling to revert to the Hebrew calendar as a key to the future in light of the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and that hesitation has remained.
Over the two and a half decades that followed, as my formation deepened, I came to understand what my hesitation had sensed from the beginning.
The deeper I explored the sacred text and the tradition with a capital T all the way back to the beginning, the less ground I could find under the practice and the more I found that the ground there in the ancient text and in the ancient tradition was moving me away from that kind of a practice.
So before I tell you what I came to see, let me tell you what I'm not saying because it matters and the disclaimers are not merely me clearing my throat.
The years of study did not flatten my fervor as some of my detractors would want to convince you of or trade it for a tidy academic caution.
The insecurity of preachers who have never gone back to school who need to castigate those that have is a problem of maturity, not a problem of theology.
All that I did drove me further into a passion for the glory of Christ that I had ever had long before I went back to school and made me more persuaded today of the present voice of the Spirit and the abiding gifts of the Spirit than I had even when I began.
I'm a continuationist and have been since I came to Jesus in 1973, and I'll die one.
I honor the feasts that God appointed, Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and the Sabbath as the weekly renewal of the greater feasts, and I read them as the church has always read them.
The Passover, the Pascha, is the cross, the burial, the resurrection, the ascension, and Pentecost.
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