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   suris 8 years ago

   I BECOME A HADED ,CONFUSE WHICH INFORMATION IS TRUE JERUSALEM TIME 16MARCH OR 20MARCH ,EQUINOX WHAT A HEADED ,I BECOME STRESS / just convince me of jerusalem time pls

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     Eyd & YahnEl 8 years ago

     1. Hi Suris, the same question had being answered by Rob@inthatday.net :
     ” Answer:
     HI YES
     the equinox (mean mathematical calculation as printed on common calendars across the world is estimated for Jerusalem longitude at occurring on 20th March at 6.30 am (see: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons.html?n=110 ).
     Note that the mathematical estimate is not o be confused with the actual true sun observance which is confirmed by observation as it would occur on a sundial at the proper longitude.
     As the mathematical estimate is calculated for occurring in 2016 early in the morning (6.30 am) then we know that the actual real sun observation on a sundial would also be occurring on that day (march 20th). If the mathematical estimate for Jerusalem was estimated at 9.00pm in the evebing of the 20th for example then we would know that the day of the true sun observance of the euinox ocurring would necessarily be falling out on the next day.
     However this year it is quite simply for us to know – the actual true sun observation of the equinox this year will occur on 20th March…
     So the 20th March is day 1 of the biblical year. To then identify the weekly Sabbath (using Qumran Zadok formula), we need to then identify the 4th day from the day of the occurrence of the true sun observed equinox – that is Wednesday 23rd March.
     The biblical day begins at sunrise as opposed to the Rabbinic calendar theology of the day starting at the evening.
     That is my understanding form my research.
     regards
     Rob”

     2. Eyd & YahnEl says:
     March 3, 2015 at 11:27 PM (Edit)
     Someone asked me what is the difference of the calendar we observe here and sister Kimberly’s submitted Calendar…Answer is: we employ the same principle and do the exact same counting for the YEAR and for the Week…except she is using March 17/18 as Equinox but we use Jerusalem Spring Equinox March 21 evening as Day 1 of the year…hence..that 4 days difference make A BIG difference in observing the Shabbat day as well as the feast day!!
     The principal guide for both of our calendar and sister Kimberly’s calendar are: ” It is based on 364 days per year. The year is divided into four periods (to correspond to the four seasons of the year), of 13 weeks or 91 days in each period. There are 12 months in each year or a total of 52 weeks.By using this exact measure and beginning the year on the 4th day of the week just after the vernal equinox, the Set Apart days fall exactly on the same day, in the same month, every year. This calendar warrants extensive study, as there are now numerous proofs it was the calendar used by Abraham, King Solomon, King David, and High Priest Zadok in the First Qodesh Mikdash.A different calendar was used in the Second Commonwealth, but that Mikdash had no Presence, no Ark of the Covenant, and no means for its apostate priesthood to communicate directly with יהוה. In fact, it is recorded that 300 high priests during the second Mikdash period, died when they went into the Most Kodesh Place on Yom Kippur. Something, perhaps many things, were wrong with the Second Mikdash Cult. A team of scholars was appointed to study the scrolls in 1952. They became an elite and secretive clique. In 1991 this monopoly was effectively broken when the Huntington Library in California announced it would allow public access to its collection of Dead Sea Scrolls photographs.This was soon followed by the publication of a Facsimile Edition by the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington, D.C. Until this time scholars previously controlling access to the Scrolls had been publicly contending that there was nothing interesting in the remaining unpublished Scrolls and nothing throwing further light on Judaism and Christianity’s rise in Palestine. (The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered, Professor Robert Eisenman & Michael Wise).for clarity, please go to this page: http://man-child.com/?p=1794 :The Zadokite Essene calendar, the calendar attested in I Enoch and the Book of Jubilees, consisted of a solar calendar of 364 days divided into seven-day weeks, twelve months of thirty days each except for one extra day in the last month of each quarter (Jaubert 1965:27; Pfeiffer 1969:64-65; Vanderkam 1998:55; Finegan 1998:44).The Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Trumpets, Feast of Tabernacles, and Feast of the Great Day (often seen as the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles), always began on the 4th day of the week ( There is NO Wednesday yet in the 1st century), ”
     If you want to know more about the differences between using March 17 ( Spring Equilux) and March 20 (Spring Equinox) , this link below might give you some idea!
     We observe according to “All the data we receive says that Jerusalem equinox is around 20th or 21th of March of March. of that year”…regardless of where we are! Once we fix on that, there are only 24 hours differences throughout the whole world time zone…it means, we all start the year with the same day/date….accordingly!!
     Jerusalem equinox for 2015 is March 21st is the guide as all our scriptures are center on Jerusalem the place of YAH’s Choice However, quote: * interestingly, the equilux does not occur on the same same day for everyone, it depends on your latitude. The closer you are to the equator the earlier the date of your equilux. For example the equilux in most US cities occurred yesterday, 16 March, and in cities near the equator there is never a day with exactly twelve hours between sunrise and sunset!” The link for general understanding between the 2 dates: March 17 or March 21 is
     https://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/tag/equilux/
     In short, The March 17 Equilux is something quite different from March 21 Equinox and is not accurately measurable because it is dependent on the latitude position. They use this because of their interpretation of Enoch – but as I discussed in my article this is inaccurate because Enoch was a pre-flood calendar and the equator at the time of pre-flood was in proximity of the covenant land whereas to day it is moved because the earth has been moved some 23 degrees on its axis.You need to understand the physics of the difference between the equinox and the equilux. The website you refer to simply reads that in Enoch he said the equal day equal night was occurring at beginning of the year when the sun completed its circuit (the equinox). The astronomical reality is that the only place where the equinox and the equilux coincide is when one is at the equator – this is not the case for the covenant land today proving that the earth has been tilted on its axis because of the flood because at Jerusalem today the equilux occurs some 4 days earlier than the equinox. I have discussed this in my last article. However the people who simply interpret the Enoch calendar in that way will not acknowledge that the Enoch calendar is a preflood calendar where the earth was not in the same orbit (they argue that there is only 364 days (when in creation reality there is 365.25 days) in the year today – by theological arguing that the Day of Atonement is not a day to be included in the calendar – it is nonsensical – but they have to do something theological like that because the tilt of the earth was not in the same position pre-flood as it is today and the earth’s orbit around the sun takes 365.25 days today (as opposed to 364 days pre-flood). The link for general understanding between the 2 dates: March 17 or March 21 is
     https://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/tag/equilux/

2. 

   The Great Gate 8 years ago

   Does Torah & Enoch Provide For A Day More Than The Required 364?

   Since the solar year is no longer 364 days as prescribed by Scripture and seen in the writings of Enoch and Jubilees we have a big dilemma-or do we? The recent discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls
   has brought us an insight to the Zadokite Priestly Temple Schedule as per 1 Chronicles Ch.24,
   which was at a time after the solar year changed to 365.25 solar days. How did they handle this dilemma? The answer is found in the Book of Enoch.
   The Great Gate
   השער הגדול
   Enoch describes the renewal of the seasons at a place called the “Principle Gates” or rather 3 Principle Gates, Summer, Autumn and Winter. But what of Spring? This is where we find the
   reckoning-start of the year, where we observe the Great Renewal Enoch aptly calls the “GREAT GATE”.
   At this Gate is where the last day[s] of the year are held until the announcement of the Spring Equinox by the great marker the Aviv Ot in the heavens, the Sun. If this Great Gate did not have a
   special purpose, why would Enoch distinguish it from the other gates? If it didn’t have a distinctive purpose, wouldn’t he have just called it a Principle Gate which ushers in the Spring
   season?
   Let’s take a moment and look at the meaning of this word “Great-Gadol”-
   British Dictionary definitions for GREAT/ɡreɪt/
   Adjective:
   1. Relatively large in size or extent; big
   2. Relatively large in number; having many parts or members: a great assembly
   3. Of relatively long duration: a great wait
   Enoch 75:6 After these proceed the south winds through three principal gates; through their first gate, which inclines eastwards, proceeds a hot wind. [SUMMER]
   Enoch 75:7 But from the middle gate proceed grateful odor, dew, rain, health, and life. [AUTUNM]
   Enoch 75:8 From the third gate, which is westwards, proceed dew, rain, blight, and destruction.
   [WINTER]
   Enoch 71:8 The sun sets in heaven, and, returning by the north, to proceed towards the east, is conducted so as to enter by that gate, and illuminate the face of heaven.
   Enoch 71:9 In the same manner it goes forth in the first month by the GREAT GATE. [SPRING AVIV 1]
   Rebuilding is exactly what we are doing in the Great Gate HaShar-HaGadol as we wait for the return of the New Year marked by the Sun. The GREAT GATE is great in that it is designed to
   CONNECT TWO DIFFERENT YEARS. Day 364 enters the Great Gate and manifests as Aviv 1. Solar Day 365.25 as it is waiting in the Great Gate, never to manifest to man. The Spring Equinox marks
   the fourth day of the first week, for that is when the luminaries in the heavens were assigned their duties. The Shabbat is then counted from the 4th day and falls 3 days later on Aviv 4 every year, from year to year le-olam-va-ed forever! From there we merely count every seven days, until the Great Gate and the rebuilding and turn of the new year on Aviv 1. Enoch 75:1 -The leaders of the CHIEFS of the thousands, which are appointed over the whole creation and upon all the stars, are counted together with the four leaders of the easons; they do not leave from the fixed stations according to the reckoning of the year; and they render service on the four days which are not counted in the reckoning of the year， Who are these leaders of the chiefs of the thousands? They are none other than the leaders of the
   constellation or the Houses of the Sun, which mark the Chodesh months-that is the Mazzaroth.
   Enoch tells us that they are counted with the leaders of the four seasons and render service to these seasonal leaders. They are Pisces-Spring, Gemini-Summer, Virgo-Fall and SagittariusWinter.Just
   like the seasonal markers, these four chiefs are YHWH’s set-a-side markers of time.
   YHWH’S time is circular and as instructed by Enoch, we learn that the year is bound to the month which is bound to the Shabbat.
   Now regarding he uncounted day in the Great Gate. Twice in the book of Jubilees, four times in the book of Enoch, we are commanded to make the year 364 days ONLY. This leaves an uncounted day, the 365.25th day. Though it’s not counted in the days of the year it does serve other purposes.
   1. The ancient Hebrews were forbidden to name their days and months, they counted them.
   Before the calendars of man and his religions named the days and made them perpetual, the year ended on the count of the 364th day. The 365.25th day acted as a partition to separate the old
   and New Year, and stopped the count of days.
   2. The calendar of our Father is self sustaining and self correcting, needing no involvement by man.
   The 365.25th day acts as a buffer, to allow the self correcting nature of the calendar to work properly. The gentiles and rabbinical Jews are perplexed by it and try to fix and intercalate it
   creating a mess with all holy days way off Torah time. Israel and people of faith on the other hand, realize that it needs NO FIXING WHATSOEVER and that the 365th day serves as a day to get prepared
   for the SIGN OF THE AVIV and the first Shabbat just 3 days after that. This Master design is designed。
   so that even without internet or human interaction, any man or woman deserted alone with just food and a stick, can SEE THE VISIBLE SIGN OF AVIV after counting 365 sunrises, find Aviv 1 and the first Shabbat just 3 days later. From that point he counts every 7 days for the other weekly Shabbats.
   Time is to be taken from where our Father places His Name and where the priests of old declared the Spring Equinox, at the first Temple, beginning the New Year. So with a universal time and a universal place the only other determining factor is dependent on sunrise in Jerusalem, which began a new day. If the equinox was declared before sunrise that would be the day of the Spring Equinox; if in the dark of the night, the next sunrise would be the day of the Spring Equinox. So,with a universal place and time, the 365.25th day acted as a buffer to allow the whole earth to finish their count of 364 days and the whole earth would begin the New Year together, on the same day, with the same count of days. The VISIBLE SIGN OF THE SHABBAT WOULD BE VISIBLE EVERY YEAR, AS IT RESETS, just in case folks forgot when it was and didn’t want to consult the pagans！ Refence：https://yahushuacalendar.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/the_great_gate.pdf

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   Enoch Calendar 8 years ago

   The Calendar of Enoch Explained By Wayne Thibodeaux

   72:2 This is the first commandment of the luminaries: The sun is a
   luminary whose egress is an opening of heaven, which is located in
   the direction of the east, and whose ingress is another opening of
   heaven, located in the west.
   The first command of the luminaries is to the sun.
   72:3 I saw six openings through which the sun rises and six openings
   through which it sets. The moon also rises and sets through the same
   openings, and they are guided by the stars; together with those
   whom they lead, they are six in the east and six; in the west heaven.
   All of them, are arranged one after another in a constant order.
   There are many windows both to the left and the right of these
   openings.
   There are six gates by which the sun rises from the extreme south, the
   winter solstice, and six gates by which the sun descends from the
   extreme north, the summer solstice. These are the twelve months of the
   year.
   72:6 In this manner it rises in the first month through the major
   gate; it proceeds through this gate which is the fourth among those
   six openings which are located in the direction of the east.
   The first month begins as the sun enters the fourth gate, called a major
   gate. This gate is a major gate because it is the only gate where two
   great events take place, the spring and fall equinox. From these two
   events the appointed times of the spring and fall festivals are counted to.
   The spring equinox is the only event that the Sabbaths are counted from.
   So the new year begins with the spring equinox.
   72:7 By this fourth gate through which the sun rises during the first
   month there are twelve open windows from which a flame flows,
   when they are opened at the appropriate time.
   72:8 When the sun rises in the east in the sky, it goes out through
   this fourth gate for thirty mornings and descends faithfully through
   the fourth gate in the western sky.
   72:9 During those thirty days the day daily becomes longer and the
   night nightly shorter, for thirty days.
   This is the beginning of the twelve months of the year, each containing
   30 days. As the sun enters and progresses through this fourth gate, the
   spring equinox, days grow longer, the nights grow shorter. Notice;
   Enoch does not begin the new year with equal day/night.
   72:10 On that day, the day is longer than the night by one ninth; so
   the day turns out to be exactly ten parts and the night to be eight
   parts. 72:11 The sun rises from that fourth eastern gate and sets in
   the fourth western one, and then it turns and comes into the fifth
   gate of the east for thirty days, through which it rises, and sets in the
   fifth gate.
   72:12 At that time the day further becomes longer and becomes
   eleven parts and the night shortens and becomes seven parts on
   account of the sun.
   72:13 It then returns to the east and comes into the sixth gate, rising
   and setting through that sixth gate for thirty one days, according to
   the principle of the gate.
   72:14 On that day the day becomes longer than the night still
   further; so the day becomes twelve parts and the night shortens and
   becomes six parts.
   72:15 Then the sun is raised in such a way that its duration shortens
   and night occurs; the sun returns to the east and enters the sixth
   gate, rising and setting through it for thirty days.
   72:16 When thirty days are completed, the day decreases exactly by
   one part, and becomes eleven parts, and the night seven.
   The sun progresses through the fourth, fifth and sixth gates, each thirty
   days in length and the day becomes longer than the night. At the summer
   solstice, the thirty first day, which divides the sixth gate into two months
   of thirty days each, the sun begins it’s descent to the south with the days
   becoming shorter and the nights longer. Each month is thirty days.
   72:19 Then the sun, departing from that fifth gate and setting in the
   fifth gate, in the west, rises in the fourth gate for thirty one days
   according to the principle of the gate, and sets in the west.
   The thirty first day of this fourth gate is the fall equinox which is the
   principle of the fourth gate.

   72:20 On that day the day is aligned with the night, so that they
   become equal; so the night becomes nine parts and the day nine
   parts.
   Just past the fall equinox as the sun descends below the equator there is
   equal day/night. Notice; this is the first time Enoch mentions equal
   day/night. The equinox is not EXACTLY equal day/night.

   72:21 Then the sun, departing from that gate and setting in the west,
   returns to the east and comes out through the third gate for thirty
   days, and sets in the third gate in the west.
   72:22 On that day the night becomes longer than the day; it becomes
   longer than the previous night and the day becomes shorter than the
   previous day, for thirty days; so the night turns out to be exactly ten
   parts and the day to be eight parts.
   72:23 Then the sun, departing from that third gate in the west and
   returning to the east, comes out through the second gate in the east
   for thirty days, and in the same manner it sets through the second
   gate in the western sky.
   72:24 On that day the night becomes eleven parts and the day seven
   parts.
   72:25 Then the sun, departing on that day from that second gate
   and setting in the west in the second gate, returns to the east and
   rises in the first gate for thirty one days, and sets on that day in the
   western sky.
   The sun continues it’s southern descent through the third, second and
   first gates for thirty days each. The thirty first day is the winter solstice,
   which divides the first gate into two months of thirty days each. After the
   winter solstice the sun begins it’s northward ascent.
   72:26 On that day the night lengthens and becomes twelve parts,
   whereas the day shortens and becomes six parts.
   72:27 Thus the sun completes its appearances, and goes through
   those same cycles of appearances a second time, coming out through
   all the openings for thirty days and setting also in the west opposite
   to it.
   72:28 On that night the length of the night decreases by one ninth;
   so the night becomes eleven parts and the day seven parts.
   72:29 Then the sun, returning and entering the second gate which is
   in the east, resumes its appearances for thirty mornings, rising and
   setting as usual.
   72:30 On that day the night becomes shorter, so the night becomes
   ten parts and the day eight parts.
   72:31 On that day the sun, departing from this second gate and
   setting in the west, returns to the east and rises through the third
   gate for thirty one days, and sets in the western sky.

   72:32 On that day the night shortens and becomes nine parts and
   the day nine parts. Then the night becomes equal with the day, and
   the days of the year add up to exactly three hundred sixty four days.
   The sun begins it’s northern rise after the winter solstice from the first
   gate, to the second gate and into the third gate. After thirty days in the
   third gate the end of the year has equal day/night completing it’s cycle
   with 364 days.

   Jubilees 6:32 And command you the children of Yisrael that they
   observe the years according to this reckoning- three hundred and
   sixty-four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they
   will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for
   everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and
   they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.

   Jubilees 6: 38 For this reason I command and testify to you that you
   may testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb
   them, so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixtyfour
   days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new
   months and seasons and Shabbats and festivals, and they will eat all
   kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

   Twice in the book of Jubilees we are commanded to make the year 364
   days only. The use of the word only can be taken to suggest there is
   more day/days.
   The 365th day is a buffer between the old and new year. As a divider it
   serves two purposes. The first purpose is to prevent any days from being
   carried over to the new year. As commanded, the year is finished with 52
   equal length weeks of days. The second purpose of this day is to allow
   the whole earth to complete it’s count of days and begin anew together
   at a fixed time where our Father places his name, in Jerusalem.

   At this point the whole earth awaits the spring equinox to begin the
   count of days again. http://man-child.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Explanation-of-Enoch_s-calendar.pdf also http://man-child.com/?p=2254

6. 

   Never about the Moon 8 years ago

   In the Millennial Kingdom both the solar and lunar year will have 364 or 365:
   In eternity Revelation chapter 21 and chapter 22 when the sun and moon are not needed; because when Messiah our Malki-Tzedik stands up to lead us at the fixed times, we’ll stand and follow Him and his light.
   For now, never give credit to moon concept of Babylon! Why Babylon? Because the pre Islamic Babylonian moon-deity Sin was worshipped there, whose symbol is the crescent moon.
   The scriptural record of the crescent moon and those associated with it are negative!
   (Genesis 35:4) “Before Yaakov went to Bethel to present himself before Yahuwah he made all his people to hand over to him their “strange elohim” and ear-rings. (i.e.,
   Crescent-shaped amulets), and he hid them under the oak which was in Schechem.”
   It was worn by women (Isaiah 3:18), and by kings (Judges 8:21/26), and tied to the necks of camels (Judges 8:21) to protect them from the Evil Eye.

   Moshe, the Sphinx, the Pyramids, the Equinox and the dawn day start marker!
   Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
   The Sphinx is an equinoctial marker. The Sphinx faces East at the exact location where the Sun rises on the day of the vernal equinox (21 March). As the sun rises it illuminates its face.
   The Great Pyramid is a giant sundial, with it’s shadow to the north and its reflected sunlight to the south. This accurately marks both the solstices and equinoxes. Two of its faces are orientated due east and west – the exact points of the rising and setting sun only on the spring and autumnominal equinox.
   Equinox or Equilux:
   equinox is not equal day and night, that’s equilux. The equinox is a time when the center of sun can be observed directly above the earths equator. It’s the equinox that is the scriptural sign for the beginning of the year.
   Equinox in scripture is Tekufah. Tekufah is an exact yearly event. The equilux is not exact because it can last for longer periods of time on either side of the equinox.
   The Tekufah:
   The Tekufah is found in Exodus 34.22 (the turn of the year), 1 Samuel 1:20 (Hannah/Elkenah>Samuel prophecy) Elkenah was attending the Feast of Passover, Psalm 19:6 (the mazzoreth and the constellations), 2 Chronicles 24:23 (the year end).
   Deuteronomy 16:1The great Et-Ot, or sign of the year.
   This great sign is for the entire year and all weekly and annual shabbats and it’s called the ‘turn of the year’ or the ‘Tekufah Ha Shanna’, Rosh Ha Shanna.
   Deuteronomy 16:1 Shomer the month of Aviv-Ot (the great sign/Tekufah turn of the year)
   in order to perform the Peach to YHWH your Elohim, for in the month (not moon) of the great Aviv-Ot, sign, your Elohim brought you out of Egypt-Mitzrayim by night.
   Two seasons – biblically: summer and winter:
   Genesis 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
   Beware of the Exodus 9:31 Eisegesis –
   Exodus 9:31 Now the flax and the barley were struck (by hail – the 7th plague), for the barley was in the head (Aviv) and the flax was in the bud.
   Tekufah – turn of the year – draw out – an Exegesis of the text!
   2 Samuel 11:1 teshuwbah תשובה (tav-sheen-vav-bet-heh) a completion of a year.
   1 Kings 20:22 The King of Syria would invade at the ‘turn of the year’ and steal the harvest.
   1 Chronicle 20:1 In the time of King David, Joab would take out a raiding party after the ‘equinox’, ‘turn of the year’ and plunder the harvest!
   Identifying the Equinox:
   The ecliptic represents the suns apparent yearly path in from of the constellations of the Mazzaroth.
   The celestial equator is a circle drawn around the sky above the earth’s equator.
   The eliptic and celestial equator intersect at the spring equinox and autumnal equinox points.
   Equinox identified with Jerusalem time zone is the first day of the year; Day 4 of the week and month one of the new year.
   The day begins at dawn/ twilight – not sunrise, light breaking forth is the beginning of time event, not the cresting of the sun over the horizon.

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   Eyd & YahnEl 8 years ago

   Important Note-The Spring Feasts-Moadem are all in the Spring AFTER the Spring Tekufah turn of the year. There are no issues there. But what about the Fall Feasts, a term not recorded in Torah at all?

   Tekufah or the turn of the year in the Scriptures is only mentioned in conjunction with the 7 days Feast of Tabernacles SUKKOT not ever with Teruah-Trumpets. Therefore technically according to Torah only Sukkot must fall on or after the Equinox in Sept. 22nd, making Trumpets a late SUMMER feast.

   It just so happens that Yom Kippur Atonement Day occurs after the Fall Marker-Equinox, making both Atonement and Tabernacles “Fall Feasts”, while Trumpets always falls before the equinox, perhaps as some sort of an announcement. The Torah is clear on this and only requires the 7 days Tabernacles to fall on or around the fall Tekufah, even when the seasons may change the number of their days. Let’s have a look at Exodus Ch. 34:22:

   כב וְחַג שָׁבֻעֹת תַּעֲשֶׂה לְךָ, בִּכּוּרֵי קְצִיר חִטִּים; וְחַג, הָאָסִיף–תְּקוּפַת, הַשָּׁנָה. 22 And thou shall observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the Turn of the Year.

   The Hebrew word Chag, refers to Tabernacles, as Trumpets is not a Chag. There are only 3 chageem; Unleavened Bread-Chag Matzoth, Feast of Weeks-Chag Shavuot and Feast of Tabernacles-Chag Sukkoth.

   Deuteronomy 16:16 -Three times in a year shall all your males appear before YHWH your Elohim in the place which He shall choose; at Chag Matzoth, and at Chag Shavuot, and at Chag Sukkot: and they shall not appear before YHWH empty-handed:
   The other Leviticus Ch. 23 feasts are never called Chags or Chageem! A chag is a required foot-ascension festival, where a Jerusalem appearance is required.

8. 

   Joy Collecutt 8 years ago

   I wrote the following to “Worlds Last Chance” to prove their Solar Luna Calendar is wrong. I was unable to send it to them, as I could not copy their code correctly and also they said my reply is to short. So if anyone can post this to them it would be appreciated, as their Lunar Solar Calendar is a deception.
   To Worlds Last Chance,
   You say that the 15th is a Sabbath. That Christ was crucified on the 14th, the Passover and then resurrected on the first day of the week which is the 16th. So Christ has spent 2 nights and maybe 2 days in the grave. Yet the scriptures tell us that, Matthew 12:39, Yahushua tells the Pharisees I will give you only the sign of Jonah. The sign of Jonah, is Jonah 1:17 Jonah was inside the fish for three days and three nights.
   From the gospel accounts and from Leviticus 23 we can verify what the weekly Sabbaths and Moedim are. The 14th of Abib is the Passover in the evening and this is a Moedim, then the 15th is the first day of Unleavened bread and this is a Moedim (not a weekly Sabbath).
   You have to understand what is happening in the time of Yahushua and what calendar Yahushua kept and what calendar the Pharisees and Sadducee’s kept. It is only because of the Dead Sea Scrolls that we now know what Calendars they kept.
   Yahushua kept a Solar only Calendar which begins on the Vernal (Israel) Equinox each year and the weekly Sabbath for the first month falls on the 4th, the 11th, the 18th and the 25th. These dates can be verified by the Sabbath Sacrifice Songs and the events at Passover. Also we know from the Talmud that the destruction of the Temple in 70AD took place on the 9th of AV, the fifth month. A day that the Jews respect each year. But this day was on a weekly Sabbath as it is recorded in the Talmud. On the Solar calendar which is the Zadokite Solar calendar written in the Dead Sea Scrolls the 9th of AV, the fifth month is a weekly Sabbath. So if you work backwards from the 9th of AV (as the calendar works) you will come to the Vernal Equinox as being day one.
   In the time of Yahushua, all groups of peoples kept the weekly Sabbath subject to the Zadokite Solar calendar. The Zealots even kept this calendar on the top of Masada. As the discovery of the ancient ruins has shown.
   But the Temple Pharisees and Sadducee’s kept a lunar moon calendar for their Moedim, as was introduced or forced on them by Anticocus Epiphanies around 180BC.
   These dates happened in the year Yahushua was crucified and it also happened in our year 2015. There was a one day difference between the calendars. Yahushua has His Passover meal with His disciples and then the next day He is getting crucified on the Pharisees Passover, their 14th, but Yahushua’s 15th His day of Unleavened bread. Yahushua then spends three nights and three days in the tomb rising on the weekly Sabbath the 18th. Then the women go to the tomb the next morning the first day of the week. This 18th the weekly Sabbath is also the 17th but it is the same day, because I want to bring out the High Weekly Sabbath which the Pharisees still have today and that is the Weekly Sabbath four days before the 14th, when they would go and get their lamb. On the Pharisees calendar this fell on the weekly Sabbath, but on Yahushua’s calendar this day fell on the 6th day of the week, which was the 10th day of the month. This fact is also written in the Talmud, proving that the weekly sabbaths for the first month of the year always fall on the 4th, the 11th, the 18th and the 25th.
   When you quote the 15th for the Feast of Unleavened Bread and then again for the Feast of Tabernacles, these days are not weekly sabbaths they are Moedim days.
   Also I want to bring out the Day of Atonement, the Holiest time of the year. A date that has been lost for two thousand years. In the Talmud it is written that the Day of Atonement was always before a weekly sabbath. And using the Zadokite Solar calendar this is true. the Day of Atonement starting in the evening of the 9th of the seventh month and ending at sunset on the 10th day. The next day the 11th of the seventh month is a Weekly Sabbath.
   We are in a time of restoration of the Truth and it is because of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls that we can now start to understand the dynamics of the life of Yahushua and the Scriptures. And there are also many other documents which have come to light. Like the life of James the Zadok (just), who was murdered on the Temple steps and he was allowed to go into the Holy place on the day of Atonement, only because he kept a different calendar from the Pharisees.
   Please take your time to get your head around these facts, as many people are following your calendar which is false. In the Dead sea Scrolls they use the language of Sons of Light and sons of Darkness. This language referred to the sons of Light keeping a Solar only Calendar and the sons of Darkness the Pharisees who kept a Lunar only calendar. No one kept a solar lunar calendar, in the days of Yahushua. I have a web site which can give you more information yahushuacalendar.com

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   Joy Collecutt 8 years ago

   Written in “World” 30/may/2016, ‘The Dead Sea Scrolls are an exciting testament of paramount importance that bear witness to the existence of Israel in the land of Israel 2,000 years ago and they were found close to the return to Zion and the establishment of the State of Israel. The scrolls created over a period of several hundred years, were discovered in 11 wilderness caves between 1946 and 1956. They include not only ancient biblical texts but much other material which sheds light on the development of Judaism and early Christianity”.

   The Dead Sea Scrolls where used as evidence for the State of Israel to be founded in 1948. “Is the appointed time” in verse 13 only referring to the State of Israel being founded or is it also referring to YAHUAH’s appointed times, His Moedim? In the last 2,000 years YAHUAH’s appointed times were lost due to murder and assimilation of His people, into Rabbinical Judaism, Islam and Christendom.

   The following is taken from Rachel Eliors Book “The Three Temples” pg 108, telling about the importance of the Moedim being YAHUAH’s Appointed Times and how the Pharisees, who are now Rabbinical Judaism call the set times by human methods making them their set times.
   ‘The Zadok Solar Calendar is an unchangeable Calendar of heavenly origin, based on a fixed mathematical calculation of the eternal cyclic pattern of the cyclic motions of the sun relying on consecration by angels and priests. The Solar Calendar, representing an immutable relationship between Sabbaths and festivals in heaven and on earth was agriculturally based, marking such events as the first produce of barley, wheat, wine and olive oil, the harvesting and ingathering of crops, it bound together nature and ritual, being founded on the postulate that time and its divisions were divine, that the abstract Sabbath had been imprinted upon visible nature, since the seven days of creation.
   The keepers of the Solar calendar argued that the festivals fell on days prearranged by divine degree keeping with the biblical verse, Leviticus 23:4,’These are the set times of YAHUAH, the sacred occasions in which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time’, ‘appointed time’, they argued, implied an eternally fixed date, dependent on the cyclic movements of the sun and observed in heaven and on earth.
   By contrast the believers in sanctity of the Greek lunar Calendar stressed the second person plural,’you shall celebrate’, implying human determination of the times of the festivals, as expressed by consecration of the new moon on the basis of the human sightings of the crescent moon, which was not subject to any priestly angelic pattern of cyclic recurrence. It was a human court that heard the human witnesses and on that basis, by consecration of the new moon, established the dates of the festivals. The disagreement is clearly reflected in the following passages of the Mishnah, which specially concerns the Day of Atonement.
   ‘These are the appointed times of YAHUAH, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim— whether at their proper time or not at their proper time, I have no appointed times save these’.
   According to some authorities the author of this statement, Rabbi Akiva, made the inference from the defective spelling of the Hebrew word otam, ‘them’, referring to ‘set/appointed times’. which could also be read as atem, ‘you’. This is the gist of a baraita (tannaitic teaching) cited in the talmudic exposition of the above Mishnah passage. The text says,’you’,’you’,’you’, three times (i.e. the word otam (them) in Lev.22:31, 23:2 and 23:4 is read as if vocalized atem (you) for homiletical purposes), to indicate that ‘you’ (may set the appointed times) even if you err inadvertently, ‘you’, even if you err deliberately, ‘you’, even if you are misled.
   A similar exposition, is offered in the halakhic midrash Sifra; ‘If you proclaim them, they are my set times; if not, they are not my set times’. In other words: there are no appointed times (mo’adim) other than those announced and celebrated by the Pharisees of the court, regardless of whether they have been set for the ‘proper’ time.
   The cardinal religious importance that the Pharisees attached to the consecration of the appointed times by the court–a human agency– emerges from many traditions and is in direct contrast to the Zadokite priestly position. The Pharisees in the Land of Israel fought for many centuries to maintain this exclusive right. Vestiges of the controversy echo in the well-known polemic between the Pharisees and the Zadokites as to the meaning of the expression ‘the day after the Sabbath’, which determines when the counting of the omer begins and hence when Shavuot is to be celebrated. The Zadokites count from the first Sabbath after the week of Unleavened bread (from the 26th of the first month), and hence Shavuot is celebrated on the 15th of the third month.. It is also reflected in the Qumranic Commentary on Habakkuk in relation to persecution of the Zadokite priesthood and calendrical controversy.
   All these manifestations of controversy may be summarized as follows. On the one hand was a deterministic perception of time, heavenly origin, bound up with the cyclic laws of nature as reflected in a fixed Solar Calendar whose festivals fell not only on fixed dates of the month but also on fixed days of the week, a calendar maintained unchanged by angels and priests who attested to its divine origin, recording its heavenly character in their written documents and citing the full text of the verse Leviticus 23:4, These are the set times of YAHUAH, the sacred occasions in which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time’, thus declaring as it were, “It is in the heavens’ (contrary to Deuteronomy 30:12).
   On the other ( Pharisees) was a perception of time dependent on variable, human decisions, governed by observations made by ordinary mortals, as reflected in a changeable, Greek lunar calendar, maintained by leaders who derived their authority from the people as a whole, by a court which heard testimony from any witness, took terrestrial interests and the good of the Community into consideration and invoked, as a crucial principal, ‘It is not in the heavens’.”

   Psalm 102,verse 12 to 15, ” But You YAHUAH, endurest for ever (sit enthroned for ever) , and Your memorial to generation and generation. 13 You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for it is time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come, the appointed time has come. 14 For Your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust. 15 So the nations shall fear Your Name, O YAHUAH, and all kings Your glory.

   Because of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls we now know that Yahusha kept a different calendar from the Pharisees and Sadducee’s. And Yahusha’s day began at sunrise. The Pharisees and Sadducee’s were keeping a Greek lunar calendar for their Moedim that had been forced on them by Antiochus Epiphanies. Yahusha’s Calendar is a Solar Calendar, it is the Calendar that was first shown to Enoch then passed to Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, King David, Solomon, Nehemiah etc. They all kept the Zadokite Solar Calendar. It is also an agricultural calendar and takes in the harvest of barley, wheat, wine, oil and the ingathering of the harvest in Autumn and also the lambing time in Spring. The Greek lunar calendar does not respect the agricultural harvests of the land of Israel and the lambing time in Spring.

   Psalm 102 verses 18 to 22-” Let this be written for the last generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise YAHUAH. 19 For He has looked out from the height of His sanctuary; YAHUAH looked upon the earth from heaven; 20 to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain; 21 to proclaim the name of YAHUAH in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem; 22 when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve YAHUAH.

   The Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed the right for the State of Israel to be established and the Dead Sea Scrolls have given us YAHUAH’s appointed times, His Moedims. We can now come and praise YAHUAH on His correct Appointed Times. These are the times of the Restoration of Zion. Taken from https://yahushuacalendar.com/

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    Efren 8 years ago

    The amounts of day and night according to Enoch 72:
    At the 30th day of Month #1 (Abiv): 10 partss Day – 8 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #2 : 11 parts Day – 7 parts Night
    At the 31st day of Month #3: 12 parts Day – 6 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #4: 11 parts Day – 7 pars Night
    At the 30th day of Month #5 : 10 parts Day – 8 parts Night
    At the 31st day of Month #6: 9 parts Day – 9 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #7: 8 parts Day – 10 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #8 : 7 parts Day – 11 parts Night
    At the 31st day of Month #9: 6 parts Day – 12 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #10: 7 parts Day – 11 parts Night
    At the 30th day of Month #11 : 8 parts Day – 10 parts Night
    At the 31st day of Month #12: 9 parts Day – 9 parts Night

    each part consists of 80 minutes, simple math, that would equal 1440 minutes at 80 minutes x 18 parts, the same as 24 hours at 60 minutes equals 1440.

    on Enoch 72: 31-32 the author is speaking on the 364th day (=the 31 day of the 12th month) as the equinox however we always understood that the 1/1 is the equinox, however he is consistent and in this chapter he is speaking on the spring equinox and the autumn equinox and the summer and the winter solstice on the 31 day of the third , six , nine and twelve month

    More proof on this:
    Enoch 75.1 And the leaders of the tens of thousands, who are in charge of the whole of creation, and in charge of all the stars, and also the four days which are added, and are not separated from their position, according to the whole reckoning of the year. And these serve on the four days that are not counted in the reckoning of the year.

    75.2 And because of them men go wrong in them. For these lights really serve in the stations of the world, one in the first Gate, and one in the third Gate, and one in the fourth Gate, and one in the sixth Gate. And the exact harmony of the world is completed in the separate 364 stations of the world.
    75.3 For the signs, and the times, and the years, and the days, were showed to me by the Angel Uriel whom the Lord of Eternal Glory has placed in charge of all the Lights of Heaven. In Heaven and in the world, so that they might rule on the Face of Heaven, and appear over the earth, and be leaders of day and night; the Sun, the Moon, the stars, and all the serving creatures who revolve in all the Chariots of Heaven.
    75.4 Likewise, Uriel showed to me twelve Gate-openings in the disc of the chariot of the Sun, in the sky, from which the rays of the Sun come out. And from them heat comes out over the Earth when they are opened at the times that are appointed for them.
    Is the start seen in the above scripture?
    Enoch 82:6-7
    82.6 For they belong in the reckoning of the year, and are truly recorded forever, one in the first Gate, and one in the third, and one in the fourth and one in the sixth. And the year is completed in 364 days.
    82.7 And the account of it is true, and the recorded reckoning of it is exact, for the lights, and the months, and the feasts, and the years, and the days. Uriel showed me, and inspired me; he to whom the MASTER of the whole created world gave commands about the Host of Heaven for me.

    The leader or marker is still in gate 3 as you see..meaning next sunrise in gate 4 is aviv 1
    Yes we do see the start of the year…leader in 3rd gate =spring equinox.
    when we obey the command of 364 the spring reset always keep things in season…we either obey or disobey the command…these verses are clear that the LEADERS=MARKERS that occur the last day in their respective gates not the first…so that Aviv 1 is the DAY AFTER Equinox

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    Moshe 8 years ago

    Shalom Friends,
    As we have continued to dig and search deeply for the true division of the times of YHWH, properly divided by Torah, Enoch, Angels and the Dead Sea Scrolls, we have come to a shocking discovery. We are still investigating, praying and meditating on what it all may mean and how it all fits. Suffice it to say for now, that we have found this underlying truth. The heavens manifested on a sundial-armillary do not lie. Online data provided by computer, math, calculations of men, with various agendas, from secular to traditions of men or the religious, do NOT MATCH THE SIGN OF THE YEAR’S TURN, AVIV 1 OR THE SIGN OF THE SHABBAT. We have reviewed this going back about 3 years, comparing what the heavens declare to what online data says.

    We are now in the process of recovering from this shock. Maybe we shouldn’t be shocked by all the deceptions out there but we still are numb. Most of us were led to believe in online data or calculated dates, not personally verified with trained and knowledgeable EYE WITNESSES, who know how to track the sun and read an armillary. We ALL have been lazy [myself included] forsaking our collective responsibilities as restored Yisrael, to do the HARD WORK of tracking Torah time ourselves; instead we farmed out and outsourced our responsibilities to be like Daniel, Abraham and others, who had to do the hard work. Therefore we have reaped the results of a people not in tune with their own responsibilities and have had little choice but to rely on others, hoping that they might be right.

    Jeremiah 6:16 speaks of returning to the ancient paths, where we will find or recover the good-mature ways of our Messiah, the patriarchs, prophets and Zadokite priests. Since that is true, we know they were experts at tracking the circuits of the sun, in order to determine and establish all the appointed times and weekly 7th day Shabbats, with a clear declaration of The Spring Equinox, Aviv 1 the FOLLOWING day and the 52 weekly Shabbats on days of the month THAT NEVER CHANGE.

    16 This says YHWH: Stand in the derech, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the tov derech, and have your walk in it, and you shall find rest for your beings. But they said, We will not walk in it.
    17 Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not listen. Stand in the derech, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the tov derech, and have your walk in it, and you shall find rest [SHABBAT] for your beings. But they said, We will not walk in it.
    17 Also I set watchmen [trained in tracking time] over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not listen. RSTNE

    As we have been tracking the eye witness accounts caught on video of past years and in person, the dates provided by the US Naval Observatory and NASA [meaning to deceive], date and time websites, all declare March 20th for the next 50 years or so as The Spring Equinox. Yet visual evidence states otherwise! That shockingly, The Spring Equinox [& Aviv 1 the day following The Spring Equinox], takes place on Roman dates, that DO NOT ALWAYS LINE UP WITH MARCH 20TH for the next 50 years or so, as they claim and prognosticate.
    Perhaps more shockingly, we have found that the Roman dates do change but that using a 364 day year as commanded in Torah and Enoch, will ALWAYS RESULT IN THE SPRING EQUINOX, & THE FOLLOWING DAY AVIV 1 and the weekly 7th day Shabbat, ALWAYS FALLING ON THE SAME DAY OF THE ROMAN AND TORAH DAY OF THE WEEK! Impossible right? That’s what we thought also!

    It is for these reasons that we are suspending all declarations and proclamations of time [web links included], until we can VISUALLY verify for ourselves, year by year, starting this year, the actual dates of The Spring Equinox, The New Year Aviv 1 and the 7th day Shabbats, which will never change, using a 364 day only calendar as commanded, using the Zadokite framework and principles.

    We will use our eyes, the eyes of others around the globe, trained in tracking the visible sign of the Shabbat and others in our community, who will be invited and taught to obey Torah’s call, to physically and personally observe, without trusting in man, leaders or another man’s data. True watchmen, ready to call Israel to the appointed times of YHWH. For years it was beyond any of us to ever begin to question alleged noble agencies, that supposedly posted empirical online data; we simply assumed that with modern technology that they could not be wrong. Now we have discovered that they have lied, have no interest in what Torah or Enoch say and cannot be more wrong in their dates, which are not based on visual personal observation by the hungry & righteous, willing to become watchmen. VISUAL OBSERVATION & TRACKING confirmed by multiple ISRAELITE witnesses is the only true way to recover and restore time. We Israelites know how to track a PACKAGE but don’t know where to start to track the circuits of the sun and the year, which give us HIS rightly divided times. We are too modern, too lazy and too broke, as by and large we don’t tithe and can’t even afford an advanced sundial [but yet it seems like we can all magically afford an internet service provider and cell phone ): } We must return to this lost art and track these heavenly signs from year to year to year to year TAKING NOTHING FOR GRANTED AND ASSUMING NOTHING, before we declare our findings annually!

    We will reveal our findings WHEN WE AND OTHERS SO ASSIGNED VISUALLY SPOT THE YEAR’S TURN ON THEIR RESPECTIVE SUNDIALS. The following day after The Spring Equinox will be Aviv 1 and 3 days later the eternal unchanging 7th Day Shabbat from year to year, as long as we stick to the commanded 364 day per year calendar. We will keep you all posted. We are determined from now on, only to proclaim and declare what the heavens declare to all Israel with eyesight, regardless of where that truth leads us. The true solar month of Aviv and 7th Day Sabbath, must be visibly available to all Israel, whether or not the U.S. Naval Observatory, Date & Time.com or NASA exist. Of that we are sure!

    A biblical valid sign must be available to be seen to all Israel; all who believe and are WILLING, not merely for those with advanced data collection services, that often are opposed to anything of Torah and Messiah Yahushua! We will release our findings and declare them in our newsletter and on our website & on Facebook, when the year has actually turned somewhere around the 21st of March. We have to do this by visual observation year by year not by calendars. Patience is in order as a fruit of the Ruach. Sorry!

    Here are a few Scriptures teaching us not to use heathen data but our own eye witnesses in the camp of the redeemed; this high calling remains our responsibility collectively as a people!

    Beresheet-Genesis Ch. 1:
    14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the shamayim to divide the yom from the night; and let them be for signs-witnesses, and for moadim, and for days, and years:
    15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the shamayim to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
    16 And Elohim made-asah two great lights; the greater light to rule the yom, and the lesser light to rule the night: therefore namely the cochavim. RSTNE

    Shemot-Exodus Ch. 20:
    8 [Daled] Remember the Yom Ha-Shabbats, to shomer [guard-view] them as kadosh.
    9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work:
    10 But the seventh yom is the Shabbat of YHWH your Elohim: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male eved, nor your female eved, nor your cattle, nor your ger, nor a convert that is within your gates: RSTNE
    Shemot-Exodus Ch. 31:
    16 Therefore the children of Yisrael shall shomer [guard-view] the Shabbat, to observe [guard-view] the Shabbat throughout their generations, for an everlasting brit.
    17 It is an ot [visile sign] between Me and the children of Yisrael le-olam-va-ed: for in six days YHWH made the shamayim and the earth, and on the seventh yom He rested, and was refreshed. RSTNE

    Devarim-Deuteronomy Ch. 5:
    12 Shomer [guard-view] ha Shabbat to set it apart, as YHWH your Elohim has commanded you.
    13 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:
    14 But the seventh yom is the Shabbat of YHWH your Elohim: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male eved, nor your female eved, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor the ger that is within your gates; that your male eved and your female eved may rest as well as you.
    15 And remember that you were an eved in the land of Mitzrayim, and that YHWH your Elohim brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by an outstretched Arm: therefore YHWH your Elohim commanded you to shomer [guard-view] Yom ha Shabbat. RSTNE

    Devarim-Deuteronomy Ch. 16:
    1 Shomer [guard-view] the month of the Aviv-OT [Aviv sign], and shomer [guard-view] the Pesach to YHWH your Elohim: for in the month of Aviv-OT [Aviv sign] YHWH your Elohim brought you forth out of Mitzrayim by night. RSTNE

    We promise to keep you posted, once we can visually VERIFY THE SPRING EQUINOX, THE 1ST OF AVIV & SUBSEQUENTLY THE 7TH DAY SHABBATS FOR THE COMING YEAR! If Aviv 1 is the wrong day not based on visual personal eyewitnesses, all days and Shababts will be off again; and we are all tired of that!
    Until the year turns we will gather together on Thursdays @ 12 PM EST by social media & Saturdays @ 11 AM EST in person in the community. Shalom Uv-Rachot Le-Koolam

    Observers of The Creation Week Shabbat

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    Aron 8 years ago

    Enoch – Zadokite Restoration by Aron Ryan

    Let’s have a conversation about time- What is it? How do we observe it?

    Elohim’s timekeeping has been lost and He is restoring it to His elect. Ha’satan is very sneaky, he does not want you to know that it is the first order of business in learning when to observe Elohim’s Holy periods. His reason is simple, if you do not know how to tell “Jah” time then you will miss the “appointed times” to meet with our CREATOR. And that Brother’s and Sister’s is the true Abomination that causes Desolation!

    Throughout biblical times the various nations had different reckonings for Time. Although the Babylonians, with whose astronomy the Greeks became to some extent acquainted, divided day and night into twelve periods (called double hours) the Greeks made little use of the measurement for any but purely scientific calculations until Hellenist times. Ordinarily, in classical times they did not speak of hour but of ‘cock-crow’, ‘time of full market’ (mid-morning), ‘noon’, ‘lamp lighting’, ‘time of first sleep’ and the like.

    When hours were used, they were not of fixed length, but each 1/24 of the day and night, CONSEQUENTLY VARIED WITH THE SEASON.

    Our hour is the.. hora aequinoctialis, 1/12 of the day or night at the equinox. In other words- what we would call an hour is reckoned at the equinox when TIME- Light is equal. Besides the natural reckoning of the day from dawn, it was common in Greece to reckon it officially, for calendar purposes, from sunset to sunset; the Romans reckoned from midnight.” –The Oxford Classic Dictionary. Oxford., England: Clarendon Press. 1949. page 909

    Basically what the Oxford dictionary is telling us is that the “Hour” varied in length depending on the season and length of light. From sunrise to sunset was always 12 parts (called hours) regardless of the length of daylight.

    John 11:9 Ha’Mashiach answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day (hēmera- the time space between dawn and dark, or also the whole 24 hours) he does not stumble because he sees the light of the world.

    John 11:10 But if anyone walks in the night (nux- A primary word; “night” (literally or figuratively): – (mid-) night.), he stumbles because there is no light in him.

    There are only two times in the year in which there are twelve hours of day or equal PARTS OF LIGHT- first at the vernal equinox in the spring- this is where Elohim wants us to begin our year count as ha’Mashiach confirms this is where Pesach resides- this feast is the time of the Bride selection in the Constellation of Dagim/Pisces (the Fishes)

    The other 12 hours of day are at the autumn equinox in the Constellation of Bethulah/Virgo (the Mother of All), where Sukkoth resides- the feast where the Bridegroom returns for the wedding ceremony. These are two important pilgrim feasts in which we are required to travel to where Elohim commands, the place where He has placed His name.

    Without artificial light, humans of this time period regarded sunlit and dark periods as two opposing realms rather than as part of the same day. Without the aid of sundials, dividing the dark interval between sunset and sunrise was more complex than dividing the sunlit period. During the era when sundials were first used, however, Egyptian astronomers also first observed a set of 36 stars that divided the circle of the heavens into equal parts. (The Mazzaroth)

    The passage of night could be marked by the appearance of 18 of these stars, three of which were assigned to each of the two twilight periods when the stars were difficult to view. The period of total darkness was marked by the remaining 12 stars, again resulting in 12 divisions of night.

    During the New Kingdom (1550 to 1070 B.C.), this measuring system was simplified to use a set of 24 stars, 12 of which marked the passage of the night. The clepsydra, or water clock, was also used to record time during the night, and was perhaps the most accurate timekeeping device of the ancient world. The timepiece–a specimen of which, found at the Temple of Ammon in Karnak, dated back to 1400 B.C.–was a vessel with slanted interior surfaces to allow for decreasing water pressure, inscribed with scales that marked the division of the night into 12 parts DURING VARIOUS MONTHS.- so again the 12 parts had to be in varying lengths depending on the season.

    Once both the light and dark hours were divided into 12 parts, the concept of a 24-hour day was in place. The concept of fixed-length hours, however, did not originate until the Hellenistic period, when Greek astronomers began using such a system for their theoretical calculations.

    Hipparchus, whose work primarily took place between 147 and 127 B.C., proposed dividing the day into 24 equinoctial hours, based on the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness observed on equinox days. Despite this suggestion, laypeople continued to use seasonally varying hours for many centuries. (Hours of fixed length became commonplace only after mechanical clocks first appeared in Europe during the 14th century.)

    We need to stop looking at the day in Babylonian terms and an hour being 60 minutes…. Enoch tells us that there are 18 PARTS to the day and at the equinoxes there are 9 PARTS of daylight and 9 PARTS of darkness. Scripture tells us that the day starts at sunrise, so from sunrise to sunrise is 18 PARTS. I think taking the word “HOUR” out of our vocabulary would help us to wrap our brains around this division of TIME.

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    Karis 8 years ago

    ” Minutes and seconds, were not used for everyday timekeeping until many centuries after the Almagest. Clock displays divided the hour into halves, thirds, quarters and sometimes even 12 parts, but never by 60. In fact, the hour was not commonly understood to be the duration of 60 minutes. It was not practical for the general public to consider minutes until the first mechanical clocks that displayed minutes appeared near the end of the 16th century. Even today, many clocks and wristwatches have a resolution of only one minute and do not display seconds.” by Aron. This is great! I have just been trying to explain to some people about how time is divided or allocated.
    A day has 1440 minutes. Currently we divide this into 24 hours of 60 minutes each (although according to the world a day isnt exactly 24 hours!).
    So 60 x 24 = 1440.
    According to the division of day and night in Enoch. A complete day from sunrise to sunrise is 18 parts. That would mean each “hour” would be 80mins.
    80 x 18 = 1440.
    I actually tested this the other day. It was in the 11th month when I tested it so it should have been 8 parts day and 10 parts night, but because I’m in the Southern Hemisphere (so have the opposite season to the Northern where Enoch was recorded from) this would be 10 parts day 8 parts night. I counted from sunrise to sunset in blocks of 80 mins then from sunset to the following sunrise in blocks of 80 mins and guess what? There was 10 parts day and 8 parts night, exactly what Enoch said!

    Karis Wolfgramm

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    Rod 8 years ago

    How To Precisely Observe the Astronomical Equinox.
    Using a piece of paper, a stick and plotting the shadow of the sun each hour.
    Click this link:
    http://www.inthatday.net/2013/01/how-to-precisely-observe-the-astronomical-equinox/#more-82

    HOW TO PRECISELY OBSERVE THE ASTRONOMICAL EQUINOX
    BYINTHATDAY// COMMENTS ARE OFF// BIBLICAL CALENDAR
    Introduction.
    Just what constitutes the Equinox And What Is The Equilux?
    How To Practically Identify The Very Day Of The Equinox:
    Ancient Archeological Evidence Fools Contemporary Religious Wisdom – A Portable Equinox Sunplot Dial From Ancient Egypt / Greece.
    The Conclusion Of The Matter.
    Introduction
    This paper reveals the simple ancient methodology by which the astronomical equinoxes and the solstices can be both directly and practically observed by the naked eye, to precisely the very day on which they occur, no matter where one is residing on the globe(i.e. at whatever one’s latitude north or south of the equator), excluding the direct North and South poles.

    According to Rabbinic’s and Karaites, the equinox is defined as the time of equal day and equal night hours and that cannot be objectively “observed”. Furthermore they argue that the ancient Israelites had no ability or technical knowledge to be able to accurately identify the day of the equinox. In addition they argue the equinox has only been identifiable through modern astronomy science. Consequently they argue that the equinox therefore cannot be used as the accurate anchors of the biblical calendar.

    An example of the arguments by the Karaites and Rabbinates regarding the physical impossibilities of observationally identifying the equinox, by which they use to then disqualify the equinox as the identifying anchor of the biblical calendar, can be read in the article “#497: Equinox Shmequinox” at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/karaite_korner_news/message/523

    The commentary is worth a read to understand how Judah has mystified the significance of the equinox as a significant pinpoint measure of the biblical calendar of Moses.

    Interestingly, some Messianic sites, in their wisdom, similarly proclaim that the equinox was simply too complex for the ancients to be able to precisely identify and observe the day of the equinox and that understanding the word “tekufa” as referring to the equinox and the astronomical sun is an anachronism – see http://www.sightedmoon.com/?page_id=125 .

    So just what constitutes the Equinox And What Is The Equilux?
    Firstly we need to understand that the astronomical equinox does not necessarily equate to the common use of the definition of the equinox being the equality of daylight and night hours. We need to understand that there is a difference between what is defined as the equinox as an accurate astronomical position of the sun, as opposed to the “equilux”.

    When the term equinox is used to indicate the period of equal day and night hours it is by broad association of the definition, but unless one is living on the equator, it is not the astronomical point of the equinox as determined by the precise position of the sun as it marks a change of the seasons.

    The Equinox Defined

    The difficulty with the “equilux” is that it is a virtual impossibility to identify a day of the equilux occurring across the globe since its measurement is highly influenced by one’s latitude position in relation to the equator on the globe, and the refraction of light by the earth’s sphere and atmospheric conditions.

    The website http://darkskydiary.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/equinox-equilux-and-twilight-times/ : describes the difference between the equinox and the equilux in understandable layman’s terms:
    “Over the course of the year the Sun, as seen from Earth, appears to make one complete circuit around the ecliptic, as the Earth in fact orbits the Sun. And so on two days each year the Sun’s path crosses the equator. This means a number of things:

    1. that an observer at the equator will see the Sun directly overhead at mid-day on the equinoxes
    2. that the Sun will rise due east and set due west on the equinoxes (on all other days the Sun will rise either north or south of east, and set north or south of west)
    3. the length of day and night are nearly equal

    On this last point, they are not exactly equal, for two reasons:

    1. the Sun appears as a disk in the sky with a radius of around 16 arcminutes, and so the top of the Sun appears to rise while the centre of the disk is still below the horizon, and the instant of the equinox is measured with respect to the Sun’s centre, and
    2. the Sun’s light is bent, or refracted, in the Earth’s atmosphere, so that rays from the Sun can light you up even before the Sun rises, and keep you lit after it sets, with the degree of refraction being around 34 arcminutes

    These two factors combine to mean that the Sun will appear to have “risen” when the centre of the disk is still 50 arcminutes (16 + 34) below the horizon, making the amount of daylight longer than the expected 12 hours. How much longer depends on where on Earth you are, but in the UK the length of the day is approx. 12 hours 10 minutes, rather than exactly 12 hours.

    The Equilux Defined
    Because of this effect, the days on which the length of day and night are exactly equal, called the equilux, occur a few days before the spring equinox and a few days after the autumn equinox. This date will vary depending on where on Earth you are, and indeed equiluxes do not occur at all close to the equator, whereas the equinox is a fixed instant in time.

    Thus when Judah’s mystics define the equinox in their broad terms of the equal day / night hours – which by scientific quality is properly termed the “equilux” – which is relative according to one’s latitude across the globe, then they are indeed correct in saying this point is not readily measurable and identifiable as one specific day or point in time across the globe. This is because the measurement of the equilux is highly dependant on one’s position (latitude) on the globe.

    However, in contrast to the “equilux”, the actual physical earth day of the astronomical equinox can indeed be readily identified, regardless of the latitude one is positioned at across the globe. The fact that it is so readily identifiable identify reveals that the contemporary argument that it was an impossiblity for the ancient Israelites to have had the knowledge or technology to be able to make this identification, (and thus they argue it is to be regarded as an anachronism in regard to the theology of the biblical calendar), rather indicates the complete arrogance and ignorance of modern scholars of religion, rather than the historical ignorance of the ancients. This is just another indication of the complete opblivion of the ancient memory in regard to the “ancuient paths” of biblical truth!

    Indeed, the Hebrew word “Tekufa” – referring to the “circuit of the sun” is accurately pointing to a definition of a precise astronomical point in time where the sun in its solar circuit is positioned in relation to crossing the earths’ equator, or in real physics it marks the point at which the earth in its orbit around the sun changes from one agricualrutal season of winter to spring and summer to autumn, rather than the definitions the religious would have many believe as meaning a time of equal day and night hours. (Which by the way is the precise meaning of the Roman term “equinox”). So it is interesting that the religious employ a traditionally Roman definition of the term rather than a biblical or physical truth definition for the astronomical point of the sun crossing the equator, marking the physical changes in the seasons.

    Furthermore, as mentioned previously, messiniac Karaites argue that the word “Tekufa” (meaning the “circuit of the sun”” in supposedly rather refering to equal day and equal night as an anachronism, completely ignorance of ancient archeological instrumanets that can be held in the hand and which the ancients readily identified the equinoxes so that they would be abel to plant and reap on time. Arguing that the ancients never had any such abilities to understand the precise astronomical “circuit” of the sun, also demontsrates just how ignornat modern religion has become of the study of astronomy today. Below it is practically demonstrated below just how simple a feat it is to accurately identify the precise day of the equinox (as opposed to the equilux) regardless of whatever latitude one is located at across the globe.

    How To Practically Identify The Very Day Of The Equinox:
    For full detailed instructions on how to construct and use this methodolgy, please visit the following website page for making a horizontal sundial http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ypop/Classroom/Lessons/Sundials/dialprint.html where you will see how a simple horizontal shadow plot of the sun can be made and how it identifies when the exact day of the equinox occurs. Essentially it requires a piece of paper, arranged to face due north (true north, not magnetic north), and a stick or a plank painted white with a small rod, and a plot made on the hour of the shadow of the sun:

    Shadowplot
    Another example of a Shadow Plot , this time the straight chalk line demonstrates the progress of the autumnal equinox shadow plot around 21st September can be seen at this website: http://www.naturalnavigator.com/equinox-shadows/#ixzz29UinNPec

    For example, the following shadow plot shows the difference in the related shadow plot lines between the equinox and the solstice plots by Dr.Vyacheslav Khavrus, situated for the latitude in Dresden Germany. The plot lines show the same pattern (see graph b) of a straight (blue) line for the equinox (see 20th March) and curves for the solstices (measured on the 19th Dec and the 19th June, year unknown), where point A is the 90 degree vertical stick position. Source : https://sites.google.com/site/khavrus/public-activities/SolarEng/solengshadd

    ShadowPlotDresden

    Thus to observationally identify the precise day of the equinox, one simply needs to plot the shadow curve of the sun on the hour over a few days around the expected equinox event, and when a straight line appears the very day is identified. When the horizontal sundial is positioned correctly (pointing geographical north and not magnetic north) the shadow plot of the day of the equinox presents itself as a straight line as opposed to a curve, regardless of one’s latitude on the globe.

    When a straight line is identified on a day around the 19th to 21st March, then creation is heralding to us that the beginning of the new biblical year has arrived. When the straight line appears on a day around the 21st to 22nd September, creation is heralding to us that Month 7 of the biblical calendar has arrived. Even should a polar shift occur, the identification of the straight lines will herald the beginning of the 1st and 7th months. From there the counting of days as per Leviticus 23 identifies the specific appointed times.

    In the animated graphic below you can watch from the vantage of a range of latitude positions across the globe , how the shadow plot causes a straight line on the equinox (the straight pink line) as opposed to the winter solstice plot (the curve in blue) and the summer solstice plot (the curve in red). On the graphic the dark red spot marks the position of the vertical sundial stick and the curves are presented from various latitudes (see “lat” ) from the north pole through to the south pole.
    Source: Wikimedia Commons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow.gif

    Sundial_solstice_declination_lines_for_different_latitudes_-_slow

    Below are two short videos by the Dept Of Astronomy, Washington University, presenting a nice example of a shadow plot sundial designed on a vertical wall with the stick pointer jutting out from the wall (which clearly influences the shape of the curves and lines appear compared to the bell curves of the horizontal method). The first video shows the shadow plot curve for the summer solstice on the 21st June 2011 in Washington, Seattle USA: (play video below or go to the webpage link below) The second video shows the shadow lot for the autumnal equinox. Allow the videos to play right through to the end as the shadow effects become clearly visible towards the second half of the videos:

    Summer Solstice Shadow Plot: 21st June 2011, Seattle: http://sunny.astro.washington.edu/timelapses.php

    Autumnal Equinox Shadow Plot: 20th September 2011, Washington Univ, Seattle: http://sunny.astro.washington.edu/timelapses.php#Sept_20

    Ancient Archeological Evidence Fools Contemporary Religious Wisdom – A Portable Equinox Sunplot Dial From Ancient Egypt / Greece
    Now understanding just how simple it is to be able to identify the exact day of the equinox no matter where one is positioned across the globe, we can now understand how all the ancients peoples would even have had small portable sundials that they could carry, which accurately and precisely identified the equinox. If the Egyptians had this understanding, how is it that religion would have us believe that the ancient Israelites would have been too ignorant or incapable to be able to precisely observe and identify this phenomenal astronomical event? We need to remember also that awareness of the equinox was also matter of a nations’ very survival and economic well being since it gave precise indications of the agricultural calendar and the changes in the seasons and the times for preparing for sowing and reaping.

    In this archeology article one can see historical fragments of a portable miniature ivory sundial with an equinox indicator from ancient Ptolemaic Tanis, ancient Egypt: http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/jcevans/Tanis%20Sundial.pdf

    The article shows how a line marking the exact latitude of the city of Tanis also exists on the portable “equinox meter”. How confusing it must be to the conemptoary religious scholars that the ancients could hold small equinox “meters” in the palms of their hands, as well as knowing the actual global latitudes. Perhjaps it is because western man went through a long dark age under the nicolaitanism of man-made religious traditions and doctirnes so dark that they forced the world to believe that the world was flat in the 1200’s CE!

    Such is the nature of the prison houses of men’s religion as opoosed to biblical truth!

    The Conclusion Of The Matter
    In prophetic time, the “wilderness place” now approaches us. What if one has no access to computers, and one is faced with the wilderness place with no communication with others, and one needs to identify and keep the biblical calendar’s appointed times – how will one be able to identify the beginning of the year from the new moon, when which new moon defines the beginning of the biblical year or whether there is an intercalated 13th month? No – creation gives us its own independent and reliable testimony of when the 1st day of the biblical year can be known. It also testifies when the 1st day of the 7th month can also be known.

    Using a very simple methodology one can practially observe and precisely identify the exact day of the Vernal and Autumnal equinoxes with one’s own eyes!

    Religious theologians argue that using the equinox is not acceptable and must be ignored, because 1) the ancient peoples simply didn’t have the ability or technology to do this and 2) because they claim that the days of the equinoxes are not practically observable for reasons that they confusingly define the equinox as the equilux… however creation around us – the heavens and the earth – the plants, the birds and the weather – testify quite a different message for those who have some wisdom and understanding to be able to watch and observe!

    YHVH states the heavens declare the glory of YHVH and the whole of creation on the earth below knows this, demonstrates this and responds to the perfect points of the “circuit of the sun” (the “tekufa”) in its equinoxes which mark the precise turning of the seasons. As these points precisely indicate the exact beginning of the 1st month and the beginning of the 7th month of the astronomical year on the earth, what then is creation perpetually witnessing to us concerning the wisdom and the exegetical religious gymnastics of men? Creation seems to be telling us that when men are motivated to re-define the biblical calendar which is intimately linked to creation, however sincerely they may describe their attempt, the result is but to impose a dark age.

    John 12:35 Then Yahushua said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

    Take care
    Rob