This document discusses the significance of the first day of the first month in the Jewish calendar and biblical scriptures. It references several passages that mention this date, including Genesis chapters 8 and 6, Exodus 12 and 40, Ezekiel 45, and Ezra chapters 7 and 10. The overall message is that the first day of the first month marks a new beginning, whether it is Noah leaving the ark after the floodwaters receded, the command to establish the tabernacle, or Ezra preparing his heart to follow God's law. This day symbolizes fresh starts and recommitment to God.

1. A New Beginning
FIRST DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH
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2. When is New Year’s Day in the Jewish
Calendar?
• Tishri
Historical
Rosh Hashanah, literally the head of the year
• Nisan
Social and religious

3. Gen 8:13 – “And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the
first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off
the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked
and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”

4. Gen 6:8.
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
LORD.

5. Passover in Egypt
Exodus 12: 2 –
“this month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it
shall be the first month of the year to you.”

6. 2 Corinthians 5:17
“Therefore if any man be in Christ he is a
new creature.”

7. Personal Command
• Personal: And YOU, be ye fruitful.
• Plenteous: The word ABUNANDANTLY is added.
• Persistence: A higher urgency to be fruitful and to multiply.

8. Gen 8:9.
"And dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him
into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he
put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark."

9. Lamentations 3:22.
[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are
not consumed, because his compassions
fail not.

10. Ex 40: 2
“On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the
tent of the congregation.”

11. Pitches tent with them in the wilderness
Exodus 25:8.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell
among them.

12. Isaiah 43:16-19.
Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the
mighty waters, who brings forth chariot and horse, army and
warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are
extinguished, quenched like a wick: "Remember not the former
things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new
thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a
way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

13. 2 Chron 29:17
“Now they began on the first day of the first month to
sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the
porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in
eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they
made an end.”

14. 2 Chron 29: 3
“when Hezekiah became king, in
the very first year of his reign in the first
month he opened the doors of the house
of the LORD.”

15. 2Chron 31: 21
“Every work that he began in the service of the house of
God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek
his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.”

16. Ezk 45: 18
“Thus saith the Lord God; In the
first month, in the first day of the
month, thou shalt take a young
bullock without blemish, and
CLEANSE the sanctuary.”

17. Ezra 7: 9-10
“For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from
Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to
Jerusalem, according to the good and of his God upon him. For
Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do
it, and to teach in Israel statues and judgments.”

18. Ezra 7: 10.
“For Ezra had prepared his heart to
seek the law of the LORD, and to do it,
and to teach in Israel statutes and
judgments.”

19. Are our hearts prepared?
• Is it plowed enough for the fruits to grow?
• Is it tender enough to be swayed to God’s prodding?
• Is it thirsty enough to soak in the dew of God’s Word?
Do we seek the law, search out the scriptures earnestly, to
prepare ourselves for LIFE'S journey?

20. Gen 18: 19
This passage relates to when visits
Abraham and wants to tell him
about the destruction of Sodom.
God is telling this about
Abraham, even before he has had
any children.

21. Ezra 10:17.
“And they made an end with all the men that had taken
strange wives by the first day of the first month”.

22. Conclusion
2 Samuel 11:2
“And it came to pass, after the year was expired
(remember this part…after the year was expired), at the
time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent
Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel (remember
this part too … and all Israel); and they destroyed the
children of Amon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried
still at Jerusalem.”

23. Hebrews 3: 14-19.
"For if we are faithful to the end, trusting God just as firmly as when we first
believed, we will share in all that belongs to Christ.
But never forget the warning: "Today you must listen to his voice. Don't harden your
hearts against him as Israel did when they rebelled." And who were those people who
rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice?
Weren't they the ones Moses led out of Egypt? And who made God angry for forty
years? Wasn't it the people who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to
whom was God speaking when he vowed that they would never enter his place of
rest? He was speaking to those who disobeyed him.
So we see that they were not allowed to enter his rest because of their unbelief.