Solomon’s Temple (the 1st Temple) was finished on the 17th day of this 8th month – the same day as the Flood. (1st Kings 6:38). So a baby – the future Temple of the Holy Spirit is circumcised on the 8th day. The re-dedication of the Temple during Hanukkah, (the festival of lights) was also after 8 days. It was rededicated and regenerated for new service after Antiochus polluted it.
Now we go to the 8th month called Cheshvan. So what happens in Israel in Cheshvan? There are no feasts or fasts this month? Does this month hold promise and is there a meaning for God’s s people?
This month is it is also called the month of Bul. It is seen as MaBul (meaning flood) because Noah’s flood began on the 17th of this 8th month and Noah left the Ark on the 27th of the 8th month. (2nd month on a pre- Exodus Hebrew Calendar) Interestingly the numerical value of the word Tov (Means = good) is 17. Tov is not the first word that you think about when you think about the “Flood” but it was the baptism of the earth that washed away all the evil of that generation.
When the whole earth was covered with the flood, it was Noah “the eighth person” (2 Peter 2:5) who stepped out onto new earth to commence a new order of things. “Eight souls” passed through it with him to the new or regenerated world, a type of baptism. (1 Peter 3:20) God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. Eight colors in the new Covenant symbol of the rainbow.
God required circumcision to be performed on the eighth day (Genesis 17:12) because it was a foreshadowing of the true circumcision of the heart, (Regeneration) that which was to be “made without hands,” even “the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ” (Colossians 2:11).
This signifies a new creation, a newly washed and regenerated person by the Spirit of God, according to a new covenant thematically woven together with the number eight (8).
Priesthood – The consecration of Aaron and His sons was on the eighth day, after abiding “at the door of the Tabernacle of the Congregation Day and night seven days” (Lev 8:35, 9:1) They were to head up the new worship in a Tabernacle of Israel patterned after the heavenly Temple. It was on the 8th day the presence of God descended Leviticus 9:22-24: “Aaron raised his hands toward the people, blessed them, and came down from offering the sin offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings. Moshe and Aaron entered the tent of meeting, came out, and blessed the people. Then the glory of Adonai appeared to all the people! Fire came forth from the presence of Adonai, consuming the burnt offering and the fat on the altar. When all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.”
On the eighth day of the consecration, God’s presence came to them tangibly.
Jesus was born on or about the Feast of Tabernacles – Six months later than John the Baptist, as the Word became Flesh and Tabernacled among us. On the 8th Day – Shemini Atzeret – He would have been circumcised. During the month of Cheshvan (the next and 8th month) Mary’s 30 days of purification, after the birth of Yeshua, are complete. Lev 12:2-4. Like any Torah-keeping Jewess, she took Yeshua to the temple. (Yeshua is now a month old).
Luke 2:22-24 Simeon sees the salvation of God, and he prophesied regarding Yeshua. Luke 2:25-35 – Anna gives thanks and speaks about Yeshua. Together they see God’s Salvation which they had waited for all those years. Luke 2:36-38. I have seen the salvation of the Lord.
Those that understood the times knew what that baby meant, and the time He was to arrive. How did they know, when all of Jerusalem missed that child? Wise men came from the East to see the child no one locally knew about.
King Solomon built the First Temple and finished it during the month of Cheshvan, but was guided by Divine inspiration to postpone its dedication until the following 7th Month. (Tishri) 1Ki 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it. (Seven years = completeness) Then for 11 months, it sat there waiting for the celebrations of Trumpets and Tabernacles of the following year.
