First Fruits | embassyofzion

the 8th month, cheshvan

Revelation 22:1-2 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, flowing with water clear as crystal, continuously pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb. The river was flowing in the middle of the street of the city, and on either side of the river was the Tree of Life, with its twelve kinds of ripe fruit according to each month of the year. The leaves of the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations.

This video is Embassy of Zion's most recent "FIRST!" gathering.

This is a Key Monthly Connection of folks aligned in EOZ, friends, and guests. This is important context for advancing all month.

prophetic art by Sharon Penquite

prophetic art by Heidi Contreras

Why we love this

What a difference it makes to live a lifestyle of being in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing!

What if you spent the first of your time this month joining with others in throwing the Lord a praise party, giving the first and best of your whole-hearted devotion and love, finding creative ways to give the first and best of the bounty in your life? And what if He would love it?!

Why? So that you would live aware of important differences from one month to the other, which could help order your time, energy, prayers, worship, and supply. And that would keep you moving forward instead of getting stuck in old cycles, feeling that one month just runs into the next.

And what if the whole thing was really His idea, ultimately to bless you right back? That’s the GREAT GOD HE IS! He sets this up to get us in His timing, help us live in the cycle of His blessing, as in Proverb 3. (For more on the scriptural basis, click for a related article from our Insight Keys webpage.)

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and add your faith agreement with the drecrees and prayers. With this, we can readily "watch over" the revelation all month. We believe this Rosh Chodesh First Fruits Gathering informs (and blesses) the rest of our spiritual endeavors all month.

The words Rosh Chodesh mean head (beginning) of the month. It's a celebration cycle that God initiated. He gives us a new month; we celebrate his goodness in advance, at the beginning of it. Sometimes it’s called the "New Moon Festival" in the Bible. Together God’s people would watch for the sign of the new moon, hear from God through the prophets, and offer their first back to Him. When we give him our first pinch, he blesses the whole lump!

There are no rules about celebrating Rosh Chodesh "First Fruits", really. Free in Christ! We seek His Kingdom FIRST, together. Contact us if you would like to celebrate Rosh Chodesh First Fruits with us via Zoom.

"We together are Your people! You alone are OUR GOD!

WHAT MONTH are we in? (prophetic season)

Although we follow the calendar of our culture (the Gregorian calendar is less than 500 years old), we also follow the Biblical calendar, which is based on the moon and sun that God set to mark times and seasons, according to Genesis 1:14.

Each month can be considered a new prophetic season in our lives, and we look to Scripture to see what the Lord has marked with a specific timing-tag.

Below are the chalkboard videos from prophetic teacher Christine Vales with more specifics on the prophetic season of this Month and Year in which we are living.

Seeking first the Kingdom...