Alpha and Omega Ministries with Sherry Lush

The Very Special Month of Nisan - 2025

by Sherry Lush

Even during the great events of the Passover, the Lord stopped everything to proclaim His calendar. And His calendar was to begin with the month of Nisan. *Exodus 12:1-2 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, this month is the beginning of months for you, it shall be the first month of your year.

Though Nisan is the first month, it is not the month of the New Year (Rosh HaShanah), which is in Tishrei, the 7th month. We are used to January our first month, being the month of the New Year, but not so on God's calendar. So the question arises... Why is Nisan the first month? What does it represent?

Tishrei has the letters of reish or beginning. It represents the laws of nature, and how they were put into action and would continue through time - day and night, summer, winter spring and fall, gravity, inotropy and so forth. But as the Jewish people wait for deliverance, God has interrupted the 'laws of nature,' turning dust into lice and water into blood,
boils on bodies and darkness in the daytime, so thick that it could be felt. Nature was interrupted in Nisan. God created miracles outside of the natural order, defying and defeating all the gods that were worshipped in Egypt. Egypt would never recover after these incredible events that interrupted nature.

In Nisan we cross over into a new reality - the reality of Redemption! It took miracles to get the attention of mankind to pay attention to these miracles which would lead us into the reality of the LORD as the Redeemer, Deliverer, Rescuer, the God of Salvation. This occurred as the LORD proclaimed the month of Nisan, saying, *Exodus 12:3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household... and John the Baptizer would echo this salvation through the Lamb when he saw Yeshua approaching him and he said, *John 1:29 The next day John saw Yeshua coming toward him and said, 'Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Are we seeing prophecy unfold as the Lamb of God is revealed, and the entire concept began in Nisan.

*Exodus 6:6-7 I am the LORD; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the LORD your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
In Nisan, we would see the Lord through all these lenses. He is higher than our sins that want to enslave us. His deliverance and redemption are greater and above the sins that want to hold us back and keep us from a relationship and fellowship with Him. We will now know Him as the God who miraculously delivered us and has the miraculous power to continue to save and allow us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.

In Nisan we would have a visual of our enemies being destroyed that will remain in our individual and collective memories, as we remember the mighty Egyptian army which had one goal - to destroy the people of the LORD. We watched as the God of miracles destroyed our enemies as only He can. Now we are to picture all of our enemies in that light. God is above our enemies - He is our deliverer. He will subdue our enemies.

In Nisan we would have the very painful visual and reality of the Lamb being killed and the death angel skipping over only those houses with the blood of the Lamb on their door posts. The blood of the Lamb had the power to save.

What miracles we beheld in the month of Nisan. These are the miracles that continue to sustain us and propel us and protect us as we miraculously walk with the Lord and have relationship with Him.