After Shavuot, there are three months without any of the biblical feasts listed in Leviticus 23. These are the months of Tammuz, Av and Elul (roughly June or July to September). This long hot dry summer period is seen by some Christians to represent the interval between the First and Second Comings of the Messiah, and also corresponds with the gap in Daniel’s prophecy between the end of the 69th week and start of the 70th. The months are only broken up by the non-biblical remembrance on Tisha B’Av (usually in August), which is a very sad day, marking the destruction of the First and Second Temples on the same date in 586 BC and 70 AD respectively. Then, the calendar moves on to the month of Tishri, with its three autumn festivals. Like many others, I believe that these will be fulfilled by the Lord Jesus in His Second Coming on the actual day of the Jewish calendar...
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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®.