The Short Season
The 1844 Stamp and the Loosing of the Enemy
When the Appointed Time Came and Yahuah Released the Chain
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What if the devil was loosed on a specific day — and what if that day landed inside a single year that the fingerprints of heaven and hell both mark?
Introduction
Revelation 20 tells us that HaSatan is bound for a “thousand years” and then loosed for a “little season” to deceive the nations one final time before the end. Most modern Christians read this as a future event — a literal thousand-year kingdom still to come, after which the devil gets a short release. This study takes a different position, one that fits the whole witness of Scripture better and fits the world we actually live in even more clearly.
The binding of HaSatan already happened. It happened at the cross and the resurrection of Yahushua (Jesus). The “thousand years” is a Hebrew figure for fullness, the same way Yahuah (God) owns the cattle upon a thousand hills. And the short season of loosing — the final stretch of lifted restraint before Messiah (Christ) returns — is not something we are waiting for. It started on Yahuah’s calendar, at an appointed moment, and the evidence points to a single year. That year is 1844.
This study does not reprove the binding itself. That case is made in the Revelation study. What this study does is set 1844 on the table, show the fingerprints heaven and hell both left on it, and walk forward from there through a saturation campaign that has only intensified for the last one hundred and eighty years.
Part I — The Short Season
Start with the text itself. The Revelation of Yahushua to John does not give us many places where the devil’s movements are described in plain terms. Chapter twenty is one of them. It is worth reading slowly.
Revelation 20:2–3
“And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”
Revelation 20:7–8
“And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth.”
Notice what the text says about the thousand years. During that long season, HaSatan is restrained from one specific activity: deceiving the nations. He is not dead, not destroyed, not absent. He is restrained from the mass, civilization-wide deception that marked the world before Messiah came. After that season, he is loosed for one final short push to do exactly that again.
The Thousand Years Is Fullness, Not a Stopwatch
Scripture uses the number one thousand as a figure of fullness. Yahuah owns the cattle upon a thousand hills (Psalm 50:10). He keeps covenant to a thousand generations (Deuteronomy 7:9). One day with Him is as a thousand years (2 Peter 3:8). These are not calendar counts. They are Hebrew ways of saying many, complete, full. Revelation is a book saturated with symbol — Messiah is a Lamb and a Lion, a sword comes out of His mouth, a woman stands on the moon, seven lamps are seven spirits. To force one number inside that book to be wooden-literal while every other number is figurative is not careful reading; it is inconsistent reading. The thousand years is the long fullness between the resurrection and the return, the age we are in now.
The Binding Happened at the Cross
Yahushua said plainly that before the strong man’s house could be plundered, the strong man had to be bound first (Matthew 12:29). The plundering — the gospel going into every nation — began at Shavuot and has continued for two thousand years. So the binding had to come first. The New Testament says so explicitly: the prince of this world was cast out at the cross (John 12:31), principalities and powers were disarmed and made a public spectacle (Colossians 2:15), and the devil who had the power of death was destroyed through Messiah’s own death (Hebrews 2:14). The binding is not future. It happened.
Part II — What the Loosing Looks Like
Before we look at history, we need to know what to look for. The loosing is not simply “more sin.” Sin has been present in every generation since Eden. The short season is specifically the lifting of restraint on deception at a scale the world has not seen since before Messiah came. The apostles told us exactly what to watch for.
2 Thessalonians 2:6–7
“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.”
The old word letteth means restrains. Something is holding back the full revelation of the lawless one. When that restraint is taken out of the way, the mystery of iniquity that has been working quietly comes into the open. That is loosing language. That is Revelation 20 in Paul’s vocabulary.
Matthew 24:4–5, 11–12
“Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Messiah; and shall deceive many… And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
The markers Yahushua gave are mass deception, false messiahs and false prophets multiplying, lawlessness (Torah-lessness) abounding, and love for Yahuah and for one another growing cold. Hold that description against the last one hundred and eighty years of history and watch what surfaces.
Part III — Yahuah’s Appointed Times
Before we land on 1844 itself, we need to understand why Yahuah would use a date at all. Yahuah does not improvise. He works by moedim — appointed times. He set the sun and moon in the heavens for signs and for seasons and for days and years (Genesis 1:14). The word translated seasons there is moadim, the same word used for the feasts. The calendar is not decoration. It is the schedule heaven operates on.
Every major redemptive act of Messiah landed on an appointed day. He died on Passover. He was buried during Unleavened Bread. He rose on Firstfruits. He poured out the Spirit on Shavuot. Even His personal ministry followed the clock — when His mother asked Him to act at the wedding in Cana, He told her plainly, “Mine hour is not yet come” (John 2:4). The timing was not arbitrary. It was scheduled. If the comings of Messiah hit appointed times, the prophecies of what Yahuah will do also land on appointed times. In Yahuah’s mind, prophecy is a calendar.
Daniel’s Numbers
The book of Daniel is the place where prophecy and the calendar come closest together. The prophet is given three specific numbers near the end of the book, and all three point forward to the last days.
Daniel 12:7
“It shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.”
Daniel 12:11–12
“From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.”
Three numbers — 1,260, 1,290, and 1,335 — not days in the ordinary sense but prophetic time markers. Daniel is told that these numbers will carry the story to “the end of time” (Daniel 12:9). And the third number — the 1,335 — has something attached to it that the other two do not: a blessing. “Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.” Whatever that number lands on, it is a moment that Yahuah marks with favor.
Students of prophecy working in the historicist tradition traced the 1,260 to 1798, when the long reign of a particular ecclesiastical power was broken. Then they added the extra 75 years of the 1,335 and landed on 1843 or 1844. The specifics of that calculation belong to a different study, and there are believers who would start the count elsewhere and land on different years. What matters here is the pattern: Daniel’s numbers press toward a specific endpoint near the end of time, and 1844 sits squarely inside the window every major tradition points to. When we look at what actually happened in that year, the case becomes hard to explain any other way.
The thesis of this study is simple. If Yahuah does everything by the calendar, and if Revelation 20 describes a short season when the restraint on the enemy is lifted, then that loosing happened on an appointed day. The evidence inside the single year 1844 says that day has come and gone.
Part IV — The 1844 Stamp
Inside the single calendar year 1844, a cluster of events took place that would shape every counterfeit religion, every anti-Yahuah ideology, every occult revival, and every unbiblical doctrine that dominates the modern world. No other year in the last two centuries carries the same density. Walk through them.
May 1844 — The Telegraph and the Báb
May 23, 1844 — In the city of Shiraz in Persia, a young merchant named Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad — known to history as the Báb, meaning “the Gate” — declared that he was the bearer of a divine revelation destined to transform the spiritual life of humanity. This declaration is the founding moment of what would grow into the Bahá’í faith, a religion built on the claim that new prophets supersede Messiah and that all religions are branches of one light. It is the modern template for interfaith one-world spirituality.
May 24, 1844 — One day later, in Washington, D.C., Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first message in human history over an experimental telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore. The words had been chosen by the daughter of a friend and were taken straight from the Torah: “What hath God wrought,” from Numbers 23:23. Read that verse in context and the chill deepens — it is Balaam’s forced prophecy declaring that no enchantment and no divination can prevail against Yahuah’s people. On the same calendar days, instant world communication was dedicated to Yahuah’s work using a verse about the failure of all divination, and a new prophet declared himself in Persia whose movement would eventually claim authority over all world religion. The technology that would carry both the gospel and mass deception across the earth for the next one hundred and eighty years was switched on in that exact forty-eight-hour window.
June and October 1844 — Mormonism and the Millerites
June 27, 1844 — In Carthage, Illinois, Joseph Smith — the founder of Mormonism — was killed in a jail cell by an armed mob. His death sealed his movement in blood and gave it a martyr story it has used ever since. Mormonism teaches a false elohim who was once a man and became a god, a false christ who is the spirit-brother of Lucifer, and a false gospel of works-based exaltation by which men may become gods themselves. Every piece of it is a counterfeit of what the Scriptures actually teach, and 1844 is the year it locked in.
October 22, 1844 — In upstate New York, tens of thousands of followers of William Miller gathered in expectation that Yahushua would return that day. When He did not, the movement fractured in what is remembered as the Great Disappointment. For those with eyes to see, the date was correct but the event was misread. Something did happen in 1844 — not the second coming the Millerites expected, but the beginning of the short season of Revelation 20. Yahuah’s calendar was keeping time. The followers simply misidentified what the timer was counting down to.
The Same Year — The Seeds of Atheism and Revolution
1844 — In Paris, a young Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began their collaboration and co-authored their first major work, The Holy Family. In it they wrote that the revolutionary movement born in 1789 had given rise to “the communist idea… the idea of the new world order.” Those words were published in 1844. Four years later the same two men would publish the Communist Manifesto; within a century their ideology would hold power over one-third of the earth’s people and would murder more than one hundred million souls while officially declaring war on Yahuah. It started as a collaboration in 1844.
October 15, 1844 — Friedrich Nietzsche was born in Saxony. He would grow up to become the philosopher who more than any other single voice declared the death of God in Western thought. His work would become the intellectual scaffolding for twentieth-century atheism, nihilism, and the “will to power” ideologies that would reshape politics, academia, and art. He was born in 1844.
The Same Year — The Scientific Assault on Creation
1844 — Charles Darwin, after five years of private speculation, expanded his notes into a written sketch of the conclusions that would eventually become On the Origin of Species. Darwin himself dated this moment: “In 1844 [I] enlarged [my notes] into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable.” The theory that would eventually shove Genesis out of every classroom in the Western world was put into its first drafted form in 1844.
1844 — In the same year, a book called Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was published anonymously in London. It was, in the words of its modern publishers, “the first attempt to connect the natural sciences to a history of creation.” Vestiges popularized evolutionary thinking fifteen years before Darwin’s Origin and prepared the educated public to accept a replacement account of human origins. It was the cultural ground that Darwin would later plant in.
1844 — Also in 1844, two researchers — Gruby in France and Donne also in France — independently identified the first microorganisms to be associated with human disease: Trichophyton causing ringworm, and Trichomonas causing vaginitis. These are the opening observations of what would become germ theory. Germ theory itself is not ungodly; the Torah understood the transmission of disease through touch and contact millennia earlier. But the modern framework that grew out of this moment would eventually be used to push an entire medical industry that treats sickness as a purely physical problem with no spiritual dimension — setting aside Yahuah’s command to approach the body as a temple and sickness as a matter that involves the whole person. The seeds of that divorce were planted in 1844.
The Same Year — Spiritualism and Feminism
March 6, 1844 — On the evening of March 6, a young man named Andrew Jackson Davis in Poughkeepsie, New York, was “suddenly overcome by some power” and fell into a trance state. He would go on to become the most influential American spiritualist of the nineteenth century, dictating books of “revelation” from spirit guides and laying the intellectual foundation for what would become the spiritualist movement. His first trance occurred in 1844, four years before the Fox sisters went public.
1844 — Also in 1844, rapping sounds were first heard by a family in the Hydesville, New York house that would later become famous when the Fox sisters moved in and went public with their “communications with the dead” in 1848. The location where modern spiritualism would erupt was already active in 1844. Talking to the dead — expressly forbidden by Yahuah in Deuteronomy 18 — was about to become a parlor phenomenon that would sweep America and Britain for the next seventy years.
1843–1845 — Margaret Fuller, a Boston transcendentalist, wrote a piece called “The Great Lawsuit” that was published in The Dial in 1843, then expanded into the book Woman in the Nineteenth Century in 1845. It is widely recognized as the first major work of modern American feminism. Whatever one makes of later feminist movements, the piece arose out of the same 1843–1845 window that produced everything else on this list — another redefinition of a creation order Yahuah had established from the beginning.
The Count
Stand back and count what happened inside a single year. In 1844 alone, the Bahá’í faith was founded, Mormonism was sealed, Darwinian evolution was first drafted, Vestiges popularized evolutionary thinking to the public, germ theory took its first step, modern American spiritualism began, modern American feminism emerged, Marx and Engels launched the communist collaboration, Nietzsche was born, the Millerite clock ran out, and the telegraph — the first technology to compress world communication — was switched on. Twelve world-shaping events, every one of them either a counterfeit religion, a counterfeit revelation, an anti-biblical ideology, an occult revival, or a tool that would be used to spread all of the above. Eleven months. One calendar year.
This is not coincidence. This is a stamp. And the stamp belongs to the enemy who was released that year, inside the short season the prophets foretold, exactly when Yahuah’s calendar said the restraint would lift.
Part V — The Fallout After the Stamp
Once the chain was loosed, the movements that had been seeded in 1844 multiplied, consolidated, and reached out into every institution of the Western world. Over the next half-century, every pillar of a Scripture-shaped civilization was attacked from a different angle and broken.
1848 — The Fox sisters in Hydesville went public with their “rapping spirits,” launching modern spiritualism as a popular movement. Within a decade séances were being held in the White House during the Civil War, and mediums were national celebrities.
1848 — Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto in London, and revolutions erupted across Europe in France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Hungary. The old Christian monarchical order cracked. The modern secular state was forged in the aftermath.
1859 — Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Within a generation, Genesis had been shoved out of Western schools and universities. The creation account that rooted humanity in the image of Yahuah was replaced with a random-accident account that rooted humanity in a pond.
1860s — Higher criticism exploded out of the German universities. The Scriptures were treated as a stitched-together human document. Moses did not write the Torah, they said. Isaiah was three authors. Daniel was a late forgery. The supernatural was explained away. Seminaries across Europe and America absorbed the poison, and the mainline Protestant denominations that had stood on Scripture for three centuries began denying its authority from their own pulpits.
1863 — Seventh-day Adventism was formally organized. Although this study will not address the larger Adventist system, the movement carried forward one particular mistake the Millerites had made — rather than accepting that 1844 marked the loosing of the enemy, they invented a heavenly “investigative judgment” to explain what had happened. Ellen G. White’s visions became an additional source of authority alongside Scripture. Another counterfeit revelation stream, pulled out of the same 1844 pressure point.
1866 — Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science, denying the physical body, denying sin as real, and denying the literal Messiah.
1870 — The First Vatican Council formally declared papal infallibility as Catholic dogma. A single man in Rome could now speak with the voice of Yahuah on matters of faith and morals — a claim the apostles would have rejected outright.
1875 — Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society in New York. Eastern mysticism, reincarnation, karma, and ascended masters were mainlined into Western culture. Nearly every later occult and New Age movement draws from the well she dug.
1879 — Charles Taze Russell published the first issue of Zion’s Watch Tower, the seedbed of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — a movement that denies the divinity of Messiah and the bodily resurrection.
1881 — Two Anglican scholars, Westcott and Hort, published a Greek New Testament built on the Alexandrian manuscripts (Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus), displacing the Received Text that had undergirded the Reformation and nearly every translation for fifteen hundred years. Almost every modern Bible translation published since — the NIV, the NASB, the ESV, the NLT — traces its text to the corrupted foundation Westcott and Hort laid. The Scriptures themselves were now being delivered to the people through a compromised pipeline.
1888 — The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded in London, fusing ceremonial magic, kabbalistic symbolism, and tarot into a modern occult system that would birth Aleister Crowley and nearly every occult movement that followed.
Inside the half-century between 1844 and 1900, the Bahá’í faith, Mormonism, spiritualism, communism, Darwinism, higher criticism, Adventism, Christian Science, papal infallibility, Theosophy, the Watchtower, the corrupted Westcott-Hort manuscript tradition, and the modern Western occult all took institutional form. Every one of them was either seeded in 1844 or grew directly out of the pressure 1844 released. Before 1844 the world did not contain these things. By 1900 it contained all of them.
Part VI — The Twentieth Century
The new century did not pull back. It doubled down, and this time the corruption reached deeper into the Church itself while the world outside the Church collapsed into a degree of violence no previous generation had imagined possible.
1906 — On Azusa Street in Los Angeles, a revival broke out that would launch modern Pentecostalism — tongues, falling under the power, holy laughter, and a heavy emphasis on experiential phenomena. Some of what happened at Azusa was genuine. Much of it was indistinguishable from what pagan ecstatic religions have always produced. Out of this stream flowed the Word of Faith movement and the prosperity gospel later in the century.
1909 — Cyrus Scofield published the Scofield Reference Bible, printing dispensationalism and the newly invented pre-tribulation rapture directly into the margins of Scripture. Before this book, eighteen centuries of Christians had never heard of a pre-tribulation rapture; it was a nineteenth-century innovation. Scofield put it on the page next to the Bible itself, and an entire generation of American Christians began reading his notes as though they were part of the inspired text. The modern evangelical rejection of the Torah, the two-people theology that cuts the covenant in half, and the escape-hatch rapture — all of it was codified here.
1914–1918 — The First World War. Seventeen million dead. The optimism of the nineteenth century that human progress would usher in the kingdom was shredded in the trenches.
1917 — The Bolsheviks seized Russia. Within a decade, churches were closed by the tens of thousands, priests and pastors were executed by the hundreds, and atheism became official state policy over one-sixth of the earth. The ideology that Marx and Engels had launched in 1844 was now in power.
1921 — Margaret Sanger founded the organization that would become Planned Parenthood, built on open eugenics. The industrial killing of unborn children was organizing itself.
1925 — The Scopes “Monkey Trial” turned American public opinion decisively in favor of evolution as settled science and against Genesis as real history. Darwin’s 1844 sketch had traveled eighty-one years and become the law of the classroom.
1933 — The Humanist Manifesto was published, formally declaring that humanity itself was the highest being and that traditional religion was obsolete.
1939–1945 — The Second World War. Between fifty-five and eighty million dead. The Holocaust industrialized genocide. In 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and humanity now held the physical power to end itself.
1954 — The Johnson Amendment in the United States leveraged tax-exempt status to effectively muzzle pastors on political and moral issues from the pulpit. The public witness of the Church was quietly regulated into silence.
Two world wars, the Holocaust, Communism over half the globe, evolution installed in every classroom, dispensationalism installed in every Bible, and pastors silenced by the state. The first half of the twentieth century was not a pause in the loosing. It was an escalation.
Part VII — The Modern Saturation
If 1844 was the stamp and the hundred years after were the deployment, the last sixty-plus years have been saturation. Every institution, every medium, every age group is now touched.
1962–1963 — Two Supreme Court decisions removed prayer and Scripture reading from American public schools. An entire generation would now be raised with no institutional exposure to Yahuah at all.
1965 — The Hart-Celler Immigration Act opened the United States to mass immigration from Eastern religious cultures. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and every flavor of Eastern mysticism established permanent institutional footholds in the West.
1960s — The sexual revolution dismantled the biblical family structure in a single decade through contraception, no-fault divorce, and the pill. The counterculture of the same years brought LSD, Eastern meditation, yoga, and gurus like Maharishi Mahesh Yogi into the mainstream. The Beatles went to India, and millions followed.
1973 — Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand. Tens of millions of unborn children would be killed in the decades that followed — child sacrifice returning to the West under a medical banner, the same ancient sin that Yahuah judged the Canaanites for.
1970s–1980s — The New Age movement went fully mainstream. Crystals, channeling, chakras, astrology, “the universe” as a personal force — Blavatsky’s Theosophy of 1875 had become a horoscope in the daily newspaper.
1980s–1990s — The prosperity gospel exploded across televangelism. A counterfeit gospel of health and wealth displaced the gospel of repentance and obedience for tens of millions of believers.
1990s — The internet became public. Pornography, previously contained by physical distribution, flooded every home and eventually every pocket. The single greatest mass-corruption of male moral life in human history was quietly under way and still is.
2000s — Social media emerged. Attention spans collapsed. Public discourse fragmented. Every lie began to travel faster than any truth, and the simple ability to tell one from the other began to erode.
2015 — Obergefell v. Hodges redefined marriage in the United States. The creation order of male and female was formally overturned in law.
2020s — Transgender ideology reached children. The image of Yahuah in humanity, stamped at the body itself, is now being attacked on minors with state and institutional backing. Surgical mutilation of healthy bodies, chemical sterilization of adolescents, and the redefinition of reality at the level of biology have become institutional policy.
2020s — Artificial intelligence reached general capability. The question of what is real — whose voice, whose image, whose words a person is seeing — is collapsing for ordinary people. The conditions for the ultimate deception Messiah warned about in Matthew 24:24, where even the elect could be deceived if it were possible, are maturing rapidly.
Part VIII — Why This Matters
Recognizing the loosing is not an academic exercise. Three things follow from it.
The Finish Line Is Close
Revelation 20 calls this the little season. Whatever its exact length, it is short by definition. If we are more than one hundred and eighty years into it already, we are not at the beginning. Messiah’s return is not a vague possibility somewhere off in the distant future — it is imminent. Live like it.
The Deception Is By Design
This is not culture randomly drifting. It is a coordinated, intelligent, hostile campaign to deceive the nations one final time. When you see a doctrine being celebrated in Christian circles today, ask first where it actually came from. When did it enter Church history? If the honest answer is “sometime since 1844,” be cautious. The faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3) did not originate in 1844 or 1909 or 1975. It originated with the Torah, the Prophets, and the apostles. Anything that demands you abandon those foundations — the Law of Yahuah, the covenant name, the feasts, the Sabbath, the commandments — came in with the loosing.
The Answer Has Not Changed
For all the new weapons deployed since the stamp, the defense is exactly what it has been since Sinai and what it was declared to be at the end of Revelation itself.
Ecclesiastes 12:13
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear Yahuah, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
Revelation 14:12
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Yahuah, and the faith of Yahushua.”
Salvation through the blood of Messiah first. Then obedience to the Torah of the Father. That is the posture no counterfeit religion, no anti-Yahuah ideology, no occult revival, and no modern Christian distortion can imitate. It is the one thing the enemy cannot produce in his followers, because it is the one thing he hates.
Conclusion
The devil was bound at the cross of Yahushua. For roughly eighteen hundred years the nations heard the gospel and were not deceived wholesale the way they were before Messiah came. Then, at an appointed moment that Daniel foresaw and the Revelation described, the chain was loosed. The year was 1844. Inside twelve months, the Bahá’í faith was founded, Mormonism was sealed in blood, Darwinian evolution was first drafted, modern spiritualism opened its first door, communism was launched as a collaboration, Nietzsche was born, the Millerite clock ran out, and the telegraph was switched on with a verse from the Torah. That density does not happen by accident. It happens by appointment.
What has come after 1844 is what the prophets said would come — deception multiplied, false messiahs and false prophets proliferating, lawlessness abounding, love growing cold. Every pillar of the modern anti-Yahuah order traces back to that year. Every doctrine that pulls Christians away from the Torah of their Father traces back to that window. Every occult revival, every counterfeit revelation, every counterfeit religion traces back to 1844 or to the half-century of fallout that followed.
We are living inside the short season. The restrainer has been pulled back. The mystery of iniquity is in the open. The nations in the four quarters of the earth are being deceived exactly as the text said they would be. The only question left is what you will do with the time you have.
Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”
Salvation first, through the blood of Messiah. Torah second, because that is what Messiah loved and kept and commanded. Watch. Keep your garments. The short season is shorter than it was yesterday.