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This year Aviv 1 for 2022/2023 is 23rd of March 2022

on Yom Revee, the 4th day of the week!

Since 2016 March 23rd Full Moon on Aviv 1, the 4th day of the week (March 23th) we started to observe the 6 year Priestly Order Cycle 1/6    ( in 2019 March 20 Priestly Order 4/6, a Full Moon did appear as we have been told by DSS that  in every 3 years, Full Moon will appear as the OTTO sign ), till 2021 we finally completed the 6 year Priestly Order Circle 6/6 this year @March 15th,  all priests on duty changed their shift on the Shabbat ( “Saturday” in Gregorian calendar) without breaking the 7 days weekly cycle for 6 years, each year364days with only 52 Shabbat  according to the DSS 6 years Priestly Order Records. ( Ref:  we have finally detailed of this continuous 6 years priestly order non stop rotation on a spread sheet from 588/587BC the 1st Temple’s record of the Priest on duty that week Month5 day 9  to the current year, and confirm that 2022 the Torah Year  Aviv 1 ” Gamul” 1/6 Priestly Order will be on duty.)
During the last 6 years ( 2016-2022 ), we do not need to skip a day after the Torah year 364days being completed on the 3rd day of the week and started the new Torah year Aviv 1 on the next day, the 4th day of the week.
However, this coming Spring 2022 on the 7th year (since 2016-2022) after we have completed the 6 years circle of the Priestly Order Schedule,  we will run the following 7 days off the clock and they will not be included in this coming new 364 days Torah year: March 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and then we begin our New Year on
Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The Full moon will be on March 18 as our witness that we have the correct year. Details of it ( Summary of Intercalation rules)  is at the bottom part of this article!    

DSS Priestly Order Year 6 of 6 ( 2021/2022)     Click here for PDF

DSS Priestly Order Year 4 of 6 (2019/2020)     Click here for PDF 

DSS Priestly Order Year 1 of 6 (2016/2017)      Click here for PDF

Explanations of the Above PDF/Chart

  https://issuu.com/thegodculture/docs/first_enoch_ebook_cf868cbfa53bca    Dear readers,  you are welcome to download and keep these latest version of the 1st Book of Enoch, Jubilee and 2Esdras     

A.  What will happen if we do not  skip any day  after the 364 day count this year 

and start Aviv 1 the next day immediately  (i.e. start the 16th March this year as Aviv 1 The New Torah Year)?

The blue color indicating starting Aviv1 every year after the count of 364days immediately the next day! by 10 years or more later, we are going to start Aviv 1 on the Winter/Autumn or even Summer, which has violated the instruction of YHWH to Moses in Exo 12 & 13 ” Exo 13:4  This day came ye out in the month Aviv! (The  Sign for Spring season is Spring Equinox; winter, autumn and  summer are not to be called as spring! (Yellow color indicating Spring Equinox as SIGN falls on any week day of the Creation week representing by Menorah inside the temple; as soon as the Spring Equinox Day been verified by the Priests ( it can be any day of the week, from day 1 to day 7, from left move to the right candle sticks vary in every year!! ) then that same week day 4 of the week ( indicating by GREEN color ) shall be the Aviv 1 of the year!)
As you can see clearly from the chart that year 2015 was having a 7 days uncounted  ( from 16th March to 23rd March 2016) , instead of 16th March 2016 to start Aviv 1 after its 364 days stopped at 15th March 2016. It started the new year Aviv 1 on the 23rd March 2016. on the same week the Spring Equinox appeared.  ( The same scenario happened again  this year, there are 7 days uncounted from March 16-23 March 2022)   For the last 6 years, from 2016-2021, there is “no need to skip a day from year to year after the 364days been counted! 
If we are looking at the future Spring Equinox dates quoted from the Jerusalem’s report, the next same scenario will be happened six years later, which is in the year of 2028! Very interesting !! The Calendar of YAH is speaking to us loud and clear:
Yes, Abba YAH, Teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90: 12) 

http://man-child.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Leap-year-theories-compared-The-role-of-the-menorah-in-the-temple-service-1.pdf 

 

B. The Times of Torah-Enoch & The Order of Malki-Tzedek

Updated 2020-2021 By Sholiach Apostle Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky men_have_been_studying_manmade_“calendars”_for_thousands_of_years__updated (6)

We have been studying & making progress in grasping all there is regarding Torah time & we share with you each piece as He, our loving Abba, reveals it to us. This is now our 36th year of study on this vital matter & so we bring you our latest & most up to date understanding, building & not negating past revelations of time restoration! The weekly Shabbat is on Saturdays this year and every other year as well, since the Torah based Year Aviv 1, CANNOT START ON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK OTHER THAN DAY 4-Yom Revee, WHICH WE HAVE PROVEN CORRESPONDS TO OUR MODERN WEDNESDAY! The first Shabbat yearly is always Aviv 4 and Resurrection Morning is always on Aviv 18 the Shabbat of Life!

From our studies so far we can assert the following few details as facts: 

-The Vernal Spring Equinox is The Sign that a New Torah Year can or is in its right season to begin. It can fall on any day within the same Spring Equinox Week, when the 364 day count ends!
-Both the Vernal & Fall Equinoxes are confirmed by the shadows throughout the day making a straight line. A second witness is that only on the Spring and Fall Equinoxes does the moon rise in the east, in the same exact window that the sun sets in the west. A 3rd witness is that the year begins in the constellation of Pisces for at least another 400 or so years.
-Every 3 years Aviv 1 starts with a full moon on years 1 and 4 of a 6 year priestly cycle! That is when the full moon occurs on the same day or 2 days before or after Aviv 1 which occurs, that same Wednesday, during Spring Equinox Week.

“Frag. 1 verse 1 In the first month: on the fourth of the month is a Sabbath …” 4Q326 A new Translation, The Dead Sea Scrolls. Page 405 Priestly Service: Sabbath, Month, and Festival – Year Four
-That the first 4th day of the week Yom Revee [the first Wednesday] after Day 364 [always on a Tuesday] is always Aviv 1 each and every year based on the Torah command of a 364 day year. The Wednesday CLOSEST TO THE SPRING EQUINOX DAY [either before or after] DURING the Spring Equinox Week, Sunday-Shabbat, is always Aviv 1. For example, if the Spring Equinox is on a Friday, Aviv 1 is the prior Wednesday, as going back 2 days is closer than forwarding 4 days to the following Wednesday. Not to mention, the following Wednesday is a new week, the week AFTER the Spring Equinox! Aviv 1 must be after 364 days are counted fully and within the Spring Equinox week, not the week before or after!
-That the Torah year always starts on a 4th Day-Yom Revee, Wednesday & always ends on a 3rd Day-Yom Shleshee, Tuesday & is exactly 364 days as required by Torah, The New Covenant & Enoch.
-That YHUH masterfully built in intercalation and there is absolutely no need FOR MAN to ever add days, months, weeks or years, as long as we wait each year until the first Wednesday after the 364th day on a Tuesday, during The Spring Tekufah-Equinox week Sunday-Shabbat. This method adjusts itself over the years! Within 7th year YHUH Himself adds a full 7 day week, so the seasons remain intact. He Himself intercalates but man cannot and must not mess with His built in system. An example will be Roman year 2022, when the Spring Equinox is on a Sunday and the old year ends on the previous Tuesday. We must wait until the following Wednesday during equinox week, thus YHUH allows us to wait a week, once the 364 day count has concluded. That is how He Himself does it automatically.
In Short, every 5-6 years, an intercalary week is added, run off the clock, in order to keep the calendar in sync with the seasons. This happens naturally when we keep the start of the year to the 4th day of the week that falls closest to the vernal equinox. This regularly occurs when the full moon is sighted near the time of the equinox. 

 

C.  Additional Readings  regarding this matter can be found below.

Not everyone understands how to use Ancient picto Aluphbyt but from all we know today Exo 12:2  This month (Spring Equinox as Sign: Tau) shall be unto you the beginning (Aleph)  of months: it shall be the first (Aleph) month of the year to you. 
Time is Measured with a Aleph and Tau cross ; 
Spring Equinox using a Cross (Tau) as marking the east west north south shadow markings . This is the word for time 
The Old Testament biblical concept of time is communicated in Hebrew primarily by the
word et( i.e. Alef Tau), which can mean linear time but more often is associated with specific events and is
translated kairos in Greek (Van Gemeren 1997, 3:564-6). Yom is also used in Hebrew to
communicate a unit of time, most often day or today (Van Gemeren 1997, 2:419-23).Time is/can be only measured by the sun :
Time started by   [to see/witness/identify=Ayin] equinox {tau=Sign/Marker }                                       
and counting to shabbat
Deu 16:1  GUARD/WATCH carefully  [Ayin=The Hebrew letter Ayin means eye and correspondingly, the Ayin has to do with vision and bringing forth lights that are hidden. ] the month of Aviv, and keep the Pecach unto Yahuah Elohayka: for in the month of Aviyv Yahuah Elohayka brought you forth out of Mitsrayim by night.

 

 

D. Some good explanation regarding the discussion on

“why this year Aviv1 needs  7 days intercalation” 

It is inside the PDF attached below from one of our social media chat group!  If any reader is interested in this and check whether You Can download it ” PDF Summary of Intercalation rules ” as well as another  link attached below! The link below is an offer from our sister Rojo Mathews: ” Thank you Yahn El for your work on the calendar which has helped me along the way! I put this together and hope it blesses those of you in this web site. I’ll see if I can figure a way to have it available for print for a decent price over there in there in the US, if there’s an interest. Please see the pdf in the link below (ignore the order form because it is exclusively for those local to me in Malaysia). Shalom!
1.https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xLpJORGonB-noIIzTtOsZRyHZSi5u4oj?usp=sharing
LIGHT version – Google Drive

2. Leap year theories compared &The role of the menorah in the temple service

Leap year theories compared &The role of the menorah in the temple service   (PDF) Taken from Ken Johnson’s book – Ancient Dead Sea Scrolls Calendar. Do purchase and read it, for those of you big fans of this calendar study!  Shalom, Rojo Mathews   
3. Summary of Intercalation rules : 
http://man-child.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Summary-of-Intercalation-rules.pdf   By John and Donna Mitten :
Essentially what we are doing every year is starting each New Year on the closest 4th day (Wednesday) to the Spring Equinox (or the First Day of Spring). The Full Moon is simply our witness which helps us determine which years have the closest 4th Days to the Spring Equinox.  
Since Yah’s Calendar only utilizes 364 days every year, we drift backwards on our calendars by 1 day (for 365-day years) or 2 days (for 366-day Leap Years). If we don’t adjust our 364-day calendar by intercalation this coming Spring, then in only a few more years, we are going to be way off with our timing with Mother Nature and we will be disturbing the 4 Seasons (the 4 Intercalary Days) for their correct timing. The Moon calendars will have the 4 seasons off of their proper timing by up to a month sometimes before they get adjusted by them adding in another (13th) month. Enoch and Moses are clear that every year has 12 months. Read Jubilees Chapter 6, where it shows moon calendars will have each New Year coming in 10 days too soon. (Solar 364 days vs Lunar 354 days)
Enoch tells us the Full Moon is our witness that brings in all the years…but we are not to start our years either too far forwards or too far backwards of the Spring Equinox.  Since we want to start every year on the closest 4th day (Wednesday) to the actual First Day of Spring, Abba gave us the Full Moon at the time of the Spring Equinox as our sign or witness for intercalating on the correct years. In other words, we might go astray a year or so if we don’t wait for the witness of the Full Moon for when we are to intercalate. If there will not be a Full Moon somewhere in the 7 days that we are to run (non-counted) off the clock, then we know we have the wrong year to intercalate. The Full Moon witness is very precise (faithful) and she will show up every 3 or 5 years without fail at the time of the Spring Equinox and so we can actually predict for thousands of years when we are to intercalate if we know her cycle. Unlike predicting the moon calendars New Months, we don’t have to look for any slivers or conjunctions and then if it happens to be cloudy on certain days, we would simply start a New Year by default on the following day (a Lunar Day 30). Abba does not need our help deciding when the New Year is to begin. There will either be a Full Moon or there won’t at the time of the Spring Equinox and that is our witness. We can calculate our calendar for many years in advance and know exactly when the Full Moons are going to happen. Moon Calendars are fickle at best and celebrating Abba’s Feasts on the correct days all depend on if the New Moon was seen in Israel or not. That is very unreliable. I know that when we were following Michael Rood’s Moon Calendar while living in Oklahoma, we would see the sliver of the New Moon very clearly on the days that it was not seen in Israel. Also know that Abba’s Calendar in Heaven is written on stone tablets. Does He rely on slivers and conjunctions or does He keep His Calendar EXACTLY THE SAME, EVERY SINGLE YEAR FROM CREATION TO THE NEW CREATION? That would be a YES! He doesn’t have to make New Stone Tablets each year. Like He does, we also use the same calendar year after year. We change the pagan dates…Abba changes nothing!
So, at the beginning of every new intercalation year (which is every 5, 6, or rarely 8 years), the Full Moon will be located somewhere in those 7 days that we are to run off the clock.
 For example, this coming Spring 2022 we will run the following 7 days off the clock and they will not be
included in the 364 days: March 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and then we begin our New Year on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The Full moon will be on March 18 as our witness that we have the correct year.
At the BEGINNING of each new intercalation cycle, we will start our New Year about 3 days AFTER the Spring Equinox (March 20) has already occurred, like it will be on March 23, 2022 of this coming year, after we adjust. (The pagan Gregorian is not an accurate calendar and the New Year does not start on January 1.) Then, when this upcoming 5 or 6-year cycle is toward its END, we will once again be starting the new year about 3 days BEFORE the Spring Equinox occurs and it will again be time for another intercalation. (For example, this current 364-day year, we started the New Year on March 17, 2021, which was 3 days BEFORE Spring (March 20). It was the closest (4th Day) Wednesday to Spring, but after we intercalate on
March 23, 2022, we will be starting our New Year 3 days AFTER Spring. It will also be the closest 4th Day to the Spring Equinox. Notice in our calendar pdf that if we don’t intercalate this coming Spring, we would be starting our New Year on March 16th. That would be 4 days away, and BEFORE the actual Spring Equinox, which will occur on March 20th. So, when we intercalate this next Spring, we will still be starting our New Year on the closest 4th Day Wednesday to the Spring Equinox, but it will be AFTER the Equinox has already occurred, and it will only be 3 days away from the Equinox of March 20. In other words, (the 3 days away) on Wednesday, March 23 (after intercalation of 7 days) will be one day CLOSER to the Vernal Equinox of March 20 (First Day of Spring) than the (4 days away) on Wednesday, March 16. The Full Moon on March 18 will simply be our witness to show us that we have the correct year to jump from one Wednesday over the
Spring Equinox to the next Wednesday, for the start of the New Year. We can also employ sundials as a great confirmation tool for using as another witness that will show the exact day of the Equinox.
So, to repeat for clarity, by intercalating this coming Spring, we will still be starting on the closest 4th Day Wednesday to the Spring Equinox (only 3 days away). Enoch tells us not to go too far forwards or too far backwards and we have the Full Moon as our witness to give us complete confidence that we have the correct year to intercalate.
Notice in our calendar pdf charts that each of the next few years from now, going forward, we will be getting closer to the Equinox year by year for the start of each New Year (3,2,1) and then for 1 year (0), we will actually start that year on the Equinox (First Day of Spring). Then the next couple of years after that we will drift away in the opposite direction again until Miss Moon shows up and tells us to jump back over to the other side of the Equinox again. So, we truly are always starting every New Year on the Closest 4th Day Wednesday to the First Day of Spring. We are never more than 4 days away and that only occurs about one time per century when we need an 8-year correction cycle.
Enoch gives us very precise numbers of days between Full Moon events of 1092 days (3 years), 1820 days (5 years) and 2912 days (8 years). We never intercalate after only 3 years, but we believe the 3-year intervals do mark the 366-day Leap Years, which on Abba’s Calendar appear to be every 3 or 5 years. Leap Years do not affect our intercalation process of waiting for Miss Moon as our witness. They simply show us when we accrue 2 days on certain years. We will be discussing 48-hour days shortly and I will be requesting help from some of you, to record the exact days on which they occur. This is when the sun will take a double orbit in the
same pathway. I will take pictures of the simple process I am using and I want others to help in case I have cloudy days when it’s critical or vise-versa and many witnesses will put the matter to rest. 48-hour days are either real or they aren’t. There is scripture to back it up and also Enoch says the sun has exactly 364 pathways and that is all. So, the Full Moon (at Spring (Vernal) Equinox) is simply our witness who tells us when we have the correct year to go from when we are starting our years before the Equinox… to jumping
back over the Equinox and starting our new cycle again after the Equinox has occurred. Then each year we will drift backwards again by either 1 or 2 days every year until Miss Moon gives us her witness again in an eternal cycle until the End of Days. Hopefully I didn’t repeat myself too many times, but without a visual presentation, I wanted to help everyone grasp the concept of how and why we intercalate. Perhaps I will be able to do videos again if I don’t need to return to work. The best way to remember intercalation is:
1. Start every New Year on the closest Wednesday to the First Day of Spring.
2. Have Miss Moon as your faithful witness to tell you when to “leap frog” over the Equinox
from one Wednesday to the next Wednesday and don’t count those 7 days on your 364-day calendar. Keep the Sabbath like normal.
The beauty of Abba’s Calendar is it’s a perfect 52-week cycle that allows us to keep our Feasts and Sabbaths on the exact same days of the month and days of the week each year. We can memorize the calendar because it will never change. The 4 Intercalary days are always on 3rd Day Tuesdays. The First Day of every new season is always on a 4th Day Wednesday. You can memorize every feast date and Sabbath date. We haven’t changed our basic calendar structure since the beginning in 2016, but we simply change the pagan, Gregorian dates each year so we can do business until Messiah returns. I don’t think Yahushua will be using the Gregorian Calendar during His Millennial Reign, and we will likely be able to carry around the same copy of Abba’s Calendar year after year. Of course, Abba’s Calendar is written on Heavenly Stone Tablets but that might be a little cumbersome to carry copies of that around in our pockets. Abba does not ever need to change His Calendar that was written into stone… It is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.

For readers who are interested to study this information in depth, the following chart explains how the Full Moon is used to determine both Leap Years and Intercalation years by using the scriptures that were given to us by Enoch. Details that describe how this chart works are listed after the charts : PDF attached here:  [ Yah 22 ] Yah Calendar explained ( Read from Page 51) E. Professor  Rachel Elior’s View on this subject: 

MORE Foods for thoughts:

A mid-March dawn breaking in Island Hill, Strangford Lough

F. Equinox vs. Equilux – what’s the difference?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-47660337?fbclid=IwAR11I4HAmUoglAh2YbeRh29Y1s2p0DZ64y1PR4Ia5DgxCax8sXupfK6NAS4
By Angie Phillips
BBC News NI Weather Presenter
Basically, from the day AFTER equilux, until the 23rd, there is a seven day cycle, with the VEQ/great sign on the earth in the middle. It is similar to the original creation seven day cycle.
17 – Light/Darkness separated badal beyn equal
18
19
20 – VEQ Great Sign Day 4
21
22
23 – Seventh Day”  
The Equilux is NOT the beginning of the year. It is the day of equal day\equal night. The Equilux happens on Jerusalem will always fall on the March 16th in today Pagan Calendar but NOT on the other regions of the world on that same day! ( It shifts over a week time to complete its covering). However, The whole world experiencing Equinox ( it happens) on the same day ( within 24 hours just quote it as the Same equal Day & Night from sun rise to sun set!) from Jerusalem throughout the world!
The Equilux is NOT the same as the Vernal Equinox which produces a “great sign upon the earth; a sundial can be used to confirm the straight line of the shadow on the day of EQUINOX as the SIGN.

 

G. Interesting New version of Book of Enoch’s Translation provided by Brother Daniel de Caussin: 

(He has been translating Enoch from the original Ge’ez manuscripts), and there is a day of lingering:
There is a day of lingering after the 360days within the 12 months, plus the 4 markers of the seasons =364days/Yearly. The year ended after the 364days. The new year will only be started by the SIGN OTTO of Spring Equinox appear normally on the 4th days of the Spring Equinox week. However, the Spring Equinox Day will be shifted to different day of the week year by year due to the 365.25/366 days gregorian calendar’s dating! Hence,  Aviv 1 will only be identified by [ the closest 4th day of the week relating to the OTTO : The Spring Equinox.
The sun marks the heads and tails of days as they are to be reckoned from earth.

The stars set the boundaries/fixed positions as the “changer of the seasons”.H.  Order of the stars indicating the twelve months of the year


See the web site https://stellarium-web.org/ when using this chart. Use search, and the modern star names, finding where these stars and the sunrise are at the horizon by sliding the time bar to emulate the sunrise location and the star-rise location as they appear at the horizon. These rising locations should be the same point

 

Path taken by the point of the March equinox along the ecliptic over the past 6,000 years; DSS 4Q318, the calendar New year Aviv 1st shall fall on Tropical Zodiac “Pisces” ; for example year 2021, some believers want to start YHWH New Year on the 24th March Wednesday, as they decided to skip a week after the sight of March Equinox which will not match the DSS 4Q318 description. By doing that, they are not only disrupting the continuous weekly Priestly duty schedule, they shall missed the sign of the every 3 years full moon falls on Aviv 1 to start the new year which especially obvious on Jerusalem having the witness of the Tropical Zodiac Spices appear in the sky with the rises of the moon!!

The biblical year Aviv 1 starts on the 4th day during spring equinox week. Why day 4 that is when the lights were assigned Gen 1:14-16. Also the year must begin in the constellation of Pisces and as you can see the sun is in Pisces this year March 23rd 20202. In messiahs time the year began in The Ram.

 

The sun beginning to climb over Strangford Lough last week

I. What does it mean 364days count yearly recorded in the book of Enoch?  

A summary  Updated 2020-2021 By Sholiach Apostle Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky men_have_been_studying_manmade_“calendars”_for_thousands_of_years__updated (6)
Enoch 75:2: the exactness of the year is – accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations. Meaning, you must stop at day 364 for exactness,even if it is a few days before the Spring Equinox and it’s visible straight line sign or even if the Roman calendar says it’s on A Friday, Sunday or any other day! Again be careful to obey HIM and not mix biblical and Roman data! YHUH is watching and testing you, with the restoration of Torah time! Even if science and religion are against the 364 day 52 week per year COMMAND!
Enoch 82:6: And the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four yamim-days. Nothing confusing about exactness right! Obey and get it right! Disobey!  And Stay Confused!                          Enoch 71:32: On that yom-day the lyla-night decreases and amounts to nine parts and the yom to nine parts and the lyla 33 is equal to the yom-day and the year is exactly as to its yamim-days three hundred and sixty-four days! 
Revelation 12:3 And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days [1,260 days = 42 months of 30 days], clothed in sackcloth. 
Revelation 12:6 And the woman [Israel] fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by YHUH, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred sixty days [1,260 days = 42 months of 30 days]. 
If The Book of Revelation allowed for years with more than 364 days, 12 months and 52 weeks, then the 42 months would not be perfect months of 30 days each. We cannot make the perfect solar times like the lunar errors of the rabbinics, which would make us just as guilty as they are! YHUH has not given us permission to change or adjust HIS REVEALED MATHEMATICAL PERFECTION, designed specifically to work for you His follower the exact same way it works for angels! His set times are designed NOT TO WORK for the worldly, fearful and unbelieving!
Since 364 is divisible by 7, we get a perfect 52 weeks of 7 days each, with 4 seasons of exactly 13 weeks + 4 season marker days 360 + 4 = 364! 
That means, using biblical DATA, the Vernal Equinox will always be during the last week of the year and New Year’s Day Aviv 1 on The Wednesday of that same Vernal Equinox Week, either before or after the Spring Equinox and the Wednesday closest  to it, as “364 math” doesn’t lie, because YAH cannot lie. He does not need to guess!  The Vernal Equinox can and does shift to differing weekdays during week # 52, nevertheless, the divine mathematical formula used by YAH still must be followed! The counting ends on day 364 ALWAYS ON A TUESDAY of the last week of the old year during the Spring Equinox Week! The Spring Equinox will always fall somewhere in those 7 days where the old year transits to the new one, always during the LAST WEEK OF THE OLD YEAR!

We cannot worry about the Roman dates that change due to the Gregorian calendar. We suggest counting the 364 days out from Aviv 1 each year [the Wednesday on the same week when the Spring Equinox appears i.e. during the Spring Equinox WEEK] to be exact, marking each New Month. The command to count only 364 days a year is not a suggestion but a command from YHUH our Abba, regardless of what other intellectuals do, say or think! EVEN IF THERE IS AN ALLEGED OR REAL 365th or 366th SUNRISE IN A YEAR, IT MUST BE IGNORED OR NOT COUNTED, as we wait for the Aviv 1 day to arrive.

Torah, Enoch & Jubilees all say that every year will have 364 days and 52 Shabbats forever from year to year, ordained by heaven for man!! Heaven has gifted us the times of heaven written on the heavenly Torah- ablets allowing us mere mortals to partake with angels! Let us not squander that high calling! Man and astronomy-science say that the year is now 365.25. Who is right? Only The House of Zadok’s Everlasting Priesthood & Corresponding Anointing-Charge, resolves the Torah required 364 day [360 +4 season markers] 12 month, 52 week Solar Year. Praise be to YHUH-Yahushua for the unfolding revelation He is and will yet provide. Enjoy the journey with us!
The Solar times of YAH do not ever use the moon for times and seasons as this is forbidden in Scripture, in such places as Torah & Jubilees Chapter 6! The 6 year priestly cycle First Chronicles Ch. 24:1-19, uses the moon phases of full and dark moons to establish when the Zadokite priestly order starts their assigned weeks in the Temple. These 2 checkpoints occur monthly, to make sure the priestly orders are ready, prepared and correct in their turn/watch! These 2 monthly checkpoints were not used for time determination, as these were the Zadokite priests, who would never use lunar calendars, which is the primary reason they abandoned the Second Temple in JerusalemTo the true priesthood therefore, neither the full nor dark moons are new months & moreover are not to be observed like the fallen watchers used to. They were mathematically calculated and recorded to and for the kohaneem-priests, who would then be on time in their commanded order of Temple service, NOT OBSERVED WITH HUMAN EYES, AS THE FALLEN WATCHERS DID AND TAUGHT MEN TO DO!
 
HOWEVER, There IS IN FACT A UNIQUE PURPOSE FOR THE MOON, PREVIOUSLY NOT SEEN NOR UNDERSTOOD BY MANY AMONG US!
 
The moon incredibly enough as it appears in the Zadokite priestly order actually establishes the eternality of the perpetual 7 day weekly cycle! The calculated dark and full moon phases are included by those solar time advocates, only to verify and display that the 7 day week has never changed and that these phases occur on the same corresponding weekdays of the modern week, as they did in Torah times & as they did in Messiah Yahushua’s time, as long as we make super sure to use the correct year in each recorded six year priestly cycle! These phases confirm that not only the 7 day week has never changed but that most importantly, neither has the Shabbat on the day THEY, the Pagans call Saturday!  https://man-child.com/2021-2022-calendar-based-on-dds-priestly-order-6-years-calendar-excel-spreadsheet/
An easy way to see which year of the priestly cycle we are in is to see which priestly order starts it. [First Chronicles 24:1-19] Have a look for yourself! 

The Full Moon will be seen on Aviv 1 Wednesday only in years 1 and 4 of a 6 year priestly cycle. The next Aviv 1 with a Full Moon will be year 1 in March of 2022. March 2021 starts year # 6 in the 6 year priestly cycle! You can use the Full Moon of Aviv 1 to determine which year of the cycle it is. If you see it on Aviv 1 you know it’s either year 1 or year 4 of a 6 year priestly Zadokite cycle. REMEMBER JUBILEES 6 & OTHER PLACES FORBID ANY USE OF THE MOON TO DETERMINE TIME. WE FOLLOW ONLY SOLAR TIMES! WE ARE MERELY SHOWING HOW THE PHASES APPEARED ON THE SAME DAY OF THE WEEK 2,000 YEARS AGO, AS THEY DO TODAY [DSS], SHOWING US THAT THE SHABBAT OF THAT DAY, REMAINS THE SAME TODAY, WITH THE HEATHEN NAME OF SATURDAY.

 

J. https://man-child.com/is-saturday-the-seventh-day-shabbat

Is Saturday the Seventh Day Shabbat?

J.  Proof  That Day 4-Our Modern Wednesday Was Lit Continually In The Temple

K. The lamps of the menorah

The candle sticks were lit daily from fresh, consecrated olive oil and burned from evening until morning, according to Exodus 27:21. 
The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also; [13] however, according to one opinion in the Talmud (Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others. Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light continued burning oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled
first. This showed Israel where to start the new year and where all 4 seasons start. On Yom Revee a Wednesday.  DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-MIDDLE LIGHT OF THE MENORAH LIT FIRST AND BURNED ALL DAY AND NIGHT AS THE SIGN OF THE MESSIAH [WHO CAME ON DAY 4 OR 4,000 YEARS AFTER ADAM AND EVE]. Day 7 represented by candle 7, is symbolic of the weekly and millennial Shabbat , when Messiah physically returns at the dawn of the millennial Shabbat. This miracle according to the Talmud (Tractate Menahot 86b) was taken as a sign that The Shekan-Esteem and Honors rested over Israel forever into the kingdom. [14] It was called the Ner Hama’aravi (Western lamp) because of the direction of its wick. This middle lamp was also referred to as the Ner Elohim-Ner Tamid (Eternal Lamp of El). YAHUSHUA The Alef Taf The Middle 4th Light Called “The Light of the World” Burns Eternally Also mentioned in I Samuel 3:3. The miracle of the Ner Tamid-Eternal Flame ended about 40 years before the destruction of the Second Temple (30 CE) according to the Talmud (Tractate Yoma 39a), “Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of The Second Temple (that is to say from around 30 CE the very year Yahushua died) the lot [‘For YHUH’] did not come up in the right hand of the priest [on Yom Kippur-Day of Atonements]; nor did the crimson-colored strap [in the Temple] become white; nor did the westernmost light shine” or that middle light of Messiah that man killed on Day 4 went out. What day did the Light die? Yes, day 4 of the week or
Wednesday Yom Revee Aviv 15! 
THIS PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT AT THE TIME OF YAHUSHUA, THEY KNEW THAT TIME AND THE TORAH WEEK CENTERED AROUND DAY 4 of Week One-Modern Wednesday, Not day1 of Week One, as many falsely claim. Shema Yisrael!!!!   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)
4Q394 1-2 (Cave 4) – Note, yet another SIGN- Where was the Torah Shabbat confirmed in the Dead Sea Scrolls? Cave 4 of course, corresponding to day 4 of week 1. Another YAH-Incidence! 

L.  From Professor Rachel Elior a rabbinical Jew-

“The present Jewish calendar is not matching the old Jewish priestly times. This ancient priestly time was replaced by the Greek lunar calendar, in the time of Antiochus Epiphanies by force” and later on by the sages, who chose the lunar calendar based on the people’s observation and not by precalculated calculations.

http://man-child.com/shavuot-by-rachel-elior/

 

M. IF interested,   

1. the Course of the heavenly STARS according to book of Enoch   Click PDF link here!

2022-Course-of-the-heavenly-STARS

2.  DSS Priestly Order Year 6 of 6 (2021/2022)    Click here for PDF

   3.  DSS Priestly Order Year  4 of 6 (2019/2020)    Click here for PDF 

   4.  DSS Priestly Order Year 1 of 6  (2016/2017)     Click here for PDF

                    

          

 Highly recommend this Youtube video relating to this subject: 

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March 2019-March 2020 Zadokite Priestly Calendar As Found in the Dead Sea Scrolls   

By Sholiach Moshe Yoseph Koniuchowsky

Jerusalem Spring Equinox reading confirmed Spring Astronomical Equinox was on March 20th 2019

We have been studying & making progress in grasping all there is regarding Torah time & we share with you each piece as He, our loving Abba, reveals it to us. This is now our 34th year of study on this vital matter & so we bring you our latest & most up to date understanding, building & not negating past revelations of time restoration! The weekly Shabbat starting the new Torah year Aviv 4 in 2019, will fall on Saturdays, as Day 364 will be on Tuesday March 19th 2019 and Aviv 1 WEDNESDAY March 20th 2019, making Shabbat on Saturdays this year and every other year as well, since the Torah based Year CANNOT START ON ANY DAY OF THE WEEK OTHER THAN DAY 4, WHICH WE HAVE PROVEN CORRESPONDS TO OUR MODERN WEDNESDAY!

                        From our studies so far we can assert the following few details as facts:

-The Vernal Equinox is the sign that a New Torah Year can or is in its right season to begin. It can fall on any day within the same Equinox Week, a 7 day period that transits from the old to the New Year on Aviv 1.
-Both The Vernal & Fall Equinoxes are confirmed by the shadows throughout the day making a straight line. A second witness is that only on the Spring and Fall Equinoxes does the moon rise in the east, in the same exact window that the sun sets in the west. A 3rd witness is that the year begins in the constellation of Pisces for at least another 400 or so years.
​-Every 3 years Aviv 1 starts with a full moon! That is when the full moon occurs on the same day as Aviv 1 which occurs, that same Wednesday, not the following Wednesday. This will occur in 2019.
-That the first 4th day of the week [the first Wednesday] after Day 364 [always on a Tuesday] is always Aviv 1 each and every year based on the Torah command of a 364 day year. The Wednesday of the Spring Equinox week.
-That the Torah year always starts on a 4th Day-Wednesday & always ends on a 3rd Day-Tuesday & is exactly 364 days as required by Torah, The New Covenant & Enoch.
-That the Spring Equinox occurs on a day during the last week of the 364 day year. EVERY YEAR, with Aviv 1 always being the Wednesday [Day 4] after a 364 day year ends on a Tuesday, EVERY YEAR, as required by Torah, The New Covenant & Enoch.
-That YHUH masterfully built in intercalation and there is absolutely no need to ever add days, months, weeks or years, as long as we wait each year until the first Wednesday after the 364th day on a Tuesday, during The Spring Tekufah-Equinox week. This method adjusts itself!

More Understanding! NOW PLEASE DO NOT GET ANGRY!!!! Most of you will never get the 364 day 52 week solar calendar right or YAH’s times right, because you insist on matching Gregorian dates with the calculated times of YAH! You cannot mix Gregorian data with biblical data-dates! Unless you want false calendars and violations of YAH’s Torah! Let me explain!

First let us look at the Scriptures that require a calculated 364 day 52 week year! After all, seeking the correct times must be based on Scripture alone!

​Jubilees-Yovleem Chapter 6:

30 And all the yamim of the commandment will be fifty two weeks of yamim-days  and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraved and ordained on the heavenly tablets.
31 And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year from year to year [no year can have 13 months or more than 52 weeks, even by one day]. IF YOU FOLLOW MEN THAT INSIST YOU HAVE TO ADD A WEEK EVERY SO OFTEN, IT IS NOT OF THE FATHER!!
32 And command the children of Yisrael that they observe [all] the years according to this reckoning – three hundred and sixty-four yamim-days and (these) will constitute a complete year and they will not disturb its time from its yamim-days and from its feasts; for everything will take place in them according to their testimony and they will not leave out any yom-day nor disturb any feasts. IF YOU OBEY HIS COMMANDS, HE WILL SEE TO IT THAT YOU ARE GIFTED WITH THE CORRECT TIMES!! IF YOU DISOBEY AND FOLLOW GUESSWORK AND NOT HIS MATH FOUND IN HIS COMMANDS, HE WILL SEE TO IT THAT YOUR TIMES ARE DISTURBED AND NATURALLY YOU WILL BE DISTURBED ABOUT THAT!
33 But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and [all] the years will be dislodged from this (order), [and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances.
34 And all the children of Yisrael will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new months and seasons and the Shabbats and they will go wrong as to all the entire order of the years. YOU WON’T JUST BE WRONG ABOUT THE CALENDAR BUT ALL THE YEARS YOU ATTEMPT TO KEEP THE FEASTS WILL BE OUT OF HIS ORDER OR BROKEN!!!
35 For I know and from now on will I declare it unto you, and it is not of my own devising; for the book is written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of Yamim-days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant-brit and walk according to the feasts of the goyim after their error and after their ignorance. [If we become like little school children YHUH will teach us His math [designed for men to work only in the heavenly & the earthly realm] and His ways-times so ignorance over the true times comes to an end!]
36 For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon[Strictly forbidden!]- how it disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten yamim-days too soon.
37 For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order) and make an abominable (yom) the yom of testimony and an unclean yom a feast yom and they will confound all the yamim-days, the kadosh with the unclean and the unclean yom with the kadosh; for they will go wrong as to the months [once you add weeks or days, at any time, in any year, you mess up the perfect order of the kadosh-set apart 364 day 52 week year] and Shabbats and feasts and Jubilees.
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 sixty-four Yamim-days [THIS PROPHECY HAS ALREADY COME TO PASS ON A DAILY BASIS!] ONLY and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new months [and weeks by implication] and seasons and Shabbats and feasts and they will [eventually] eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of [unkosher] flesh [the end of their rebellion, if they don’t stop adding days or weeks based on mere guesswork or human math!].

Enoch 75: 2 the exactness of the year is – accomplished through its separate three hundred and sixty-four stations​. Meaning, you must stop at day 364 for exactnesseven if it is a few days before the Spring Equinox and it’s visible straight line sign or even if the Roman calendar says it’s on A Friday, Sunday or any other day! Again be careful to obey HIM and not mix biblical and Roman data!!!! YHUH is watching and testing you, with the restoration of Torah time! Even if science and religion are against the 364 day 52 week per year COMMAND!

Enoch 82:6 And the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four yamim-days.  Nothing confusing about exactness right! Obey and get it right! Disobey!  And Stay Confused!

Enoch 71:32 On that yom-day the lyla-night decreases and amounts to nine parts and the yom to nine parts and the lyla 33 is equal to the yom-day and the year is exactly as to its yamim-days three hundred and sixty-four days!

Revelation 12:3 And I will give power to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesyone thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. 

Revelation 12:6 And the woman [Israel] fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by YHUH, that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred sixty days [1,260 days = 42 months of 30 days. If The Book of Revelation allowed for years with more than 364 days and 52 weeks, then the 42 months would not be perfect months of 30 days each. We cannot make the perfect solar calendar like the lunar errors of the rabbinics, which would make us just as guilty as they are! YHUH has not given us permission to change or adjust HIS REVEALED MATHEMATICAL PERFECTION, designed specifically to work for you His follower! His calendar is designed NOT TO WORK for the worldly, fearful and unbelieving!

   Questions You May Have As You Learn To Stop ​Mixing Biblical With Gregorian Data!

What happens if the alleged Spring Equinox is on a weekday, other than Tuesday on a Messianic, Jewish or Papist calendar?

Answer: You are to ignore any and all Roman, Jewish or Messianic data. If you mix Roman data with biblical commands, your entire reckoning of time will be fully out of order, or broken!  All you have to do to stay confused, is to adopt the guesswork of men, who believe that some years have 365.25 or 366.25 and some misled bible believers-teachers, that believe a year can have 370 or 371 days. You also must be willing to reject and delete the lies from your delicate minds that your secular teachers taught you as a child, in secular anti- Messiah classrooms, about the 365.25 day year and leap year lies! 

If anyone intercalates even a single day, a few days, a month or a full week, in any given year, that breaks YHUH’s command to only count to 364 days, 52 weeks exactly, from now until eternity! By disobeying YHUH, mankind falls into the trap of violating His Word! Since 364 is divisible by 7, we get a perfect 52 weeks of 7 days each, with 4 seasons of exactly 13 weeks + 4 season marker days 360 + 4 = 364!  That means, using biblical DATA, the Vernal Equinox will always be during the last week of the year and New Year’s Day Aviv 1 on The Wednesday of that same Vernal Equinox Weekas “364 math” doesn’t lie, because YAH cannot lie. He does not need to guess!  The Vernal Equinox can shift to differing weekdays, nevertheless, the divine mathematical formula used by YAH still must be followed! The counting ends on day 364 ALWAYS A TUESDAY of the last week of the old year during the Spring Equinox Week! The Spring Equinox will always fall somewhere in those 7 days where the old year transits to the new one, always during the LAST WEEK OF THE OLD YEAR!

March 2019-March 2020 Zadokite Priestly Calendar As Found in the Dead Sea Scrolls March 2019-March 2020

​If we adopt Scripture and not guesswork taught as the official calendar, the mathematics of heaven and its tablets will be stable, unchanging and easy to understand. If you count from any Wednesday Aviv 1 and OBEY YHUH by stopping at day 364 you will always end on a Tuesday. Now you may ask what if we don’t see the straight line of shadows, The Aviv-Ot Aviv-Sign, until say Thursday, Friday or Saturday and not Tuesday of that last week of the year? Answer. It does not matter! The 364 day count will have ended on the prior Tuesday, always reckoned as day 364. 

If you grab this and stick to it despite pressure and appeals to your more common sense, time will never change and all YHUH’s appointed times will be like clockwork, keeping man’s guesswork out of heaven’s revealed math! Even though the straight line is in fact The Sign of The Tekufah-The Turn of The Year in every year and even if that Day 364 arrives before The Straight Line Aviv Sign, 

you MUST declare the next day after Day 364, always a Wednesday, as New Years Day, Aviv 1. This is a test from YHUH for you, to see if you will obey Him or man. To see if you walk by faith or by sight! To see just how hungry you are for sacred time, sacred ritual and sacred place! To see if like s.a.tan, you try to usurp YAH’ssovereignty and authority over time by inserting guesswork, days and human data! This is also a test, to see if you believe that YAH is restoring ancient manuscripts, used and preserved by the ancient Zadokite priests as His Word, as He Promised in Acts 3:21! Or will you rest your head on Catholic, Protestant and yes, even Messianic guesswork – I mean, so called “Cannon Scripture”! As for me and my house, we will serve The Commander of the 364 day, 52 week per year Command! ​Joshua 24:10

                 RECAP AGAIN- WE CANNOT VIOLATE A COMMAND ​AND GET THE TRUE SHABBATS!

Torah commands that the Torah year can only have 364 [360 +4 season markers] days divisible by 7! Regardless of what man or religion or secularists think. We are called to follow Scriptures and obey whether we have or don’t have all the answers. Here are key verses that warn us about following man or a 365.25 day year; we see that YHUH declares that our weekly Shabbats and all other appointed times will be off if we do. He promises that to us, unless we obey Him and stick to the 364 day [360 +4 season markers] year despite what is going on around us and despite Roman data that seems to make so much sense! That’s if we truly desire His Shabbats and His ways!
 
Here are the clear commands AGAIN! Jubilees 6:30-38, Enoch 72:1-2, 72:32-33, Enoch 75:2-4, Enoch 82:6-7. Two key points are in order. The word EXACT OR EXACTLY OR EXACTLY IN ORDER from year to year until eternity starts, appear in every one of the 364 day per year referencesThat can only mean that YHUH sees our understanding and obedience to 364 days and 52 weeks in a year only, as our recognition that He, not science so called, is the Adon-Master over the believer’s life. It is a requirement to keep things in exact order and any departure by even one day that allegedly floats or allegedly needs to be added, between now and eternity, will cause a disaster in man’s reckoning time.  Adding a day or a week or a month to 364 days and 52 weeks per year, will cause us to miss the wonderful set times. Let us be sincere but sincerely right, as we can be given the blessings of His Word and mind!
 
We cannot worry about the Roman dates that change due to the Gregorian calendar. We suggest counting the 364 days out from Aviv 1 each year [the very first Wednesday during the Spring Equinox WEEK] to be exact, marking each New Month. The command to count only 364 days a year is not a suggestion but a command from YHUH our Abba, regardless of what other intellectuals do, say or think! [EVEN IF THERE IS AN ALLEGED OR REAL 365th or 366th SUNRISE IN A YEAR, IT MUST BE IGNORED OR NOT COUNTED, as we wait for the 364th day to arrive. Torah, Enoch & Jubilees all say that every year will have 364 days and 52 weeks forever from year to year, ordained by heaven for man!! Heaven has gifted us the times of heaven written on the heavenly Torah-tablets allowing us mere mortals to partake with angels! Let us not squander that high calling! Man and astronomy-science say that the year is now 365.25. Who is right? Only The House of Zadok’s Everlasting Priesthood & Corresponding Anointing-Charge, resolves the Torah required 364 day [360 +4 season markers] 52 week Solar Year. Praise be to YHUH-Yahusha for the unfolding revelation He is and will yet provide. Enjoy the journey with us! 

The Eternal Times Of YHUH  Based on Torah & Enoch As Given by YHUH For  Tuesday March 19th 2019, the 364th Day of this year. Wednesday March 20th starts Year # 1 in the New 6 Year Zadokite Priestly Cycle.

**The Solar times of YAH do not ever use the moon for times and seasons as this is forbidden in Scripture, in such places as Torah & Jubilees Chapter 6! The 6 year priestly cycle First Chronicles Ch. 24:1-19, uses the moon phases of full and dark moons to establish when the Zadokite priestly order starts their assigned weeks in the Temple. These 2 checkpoints occur monthly, to make sure the priestly orders are ready, prepared and correct in their turn/watch! These 2 monthly checkpoints were not used for time determination, as these were the Zadokite priests, who would never use lunar calendars, which is the primary reason they abandoned the Second Temple in JerusalemTo the true priesthood therefore, neither the full nor dark moons are new months & moreover are not to be observed like the fallen watchers. They were mathematically calculated and recorded to and for the kohaneem-priests, who would then be on time in their commanded order, NOT OBSERVED AS THE FALLEN WATCHERS DID AND TAUGHT MEN TO DO! However……there IS IN FACT A UNIQUE PURPOSE FOR THE MOON, PREVIOUSLY NOT SEEN NOR UNDERSTOOD BY MANY AMONG US!

***The moon incredibly enough as it appears in the Zadokite priestly order actually establishes the eternality of the perpetual 7 day weekly cycle! The calculated dark and full moon phases are included by those solar calendar advocate priests, only to verify and display that the 7 day week has never changed and that these phases occur on the same corresponding weekdays of the modern week, as in Torah times & as in Messiah Yahusha’s time, as long as we make super sure to use the correct year in each recorded six year priestly cycle! These phases confirm that not only the 7 day week has never changed but that most importantly, neither has the Shabbat on the day THEY, the Pagans call Saturday!

****An easy way to see which year of the priestly cycle we are in is to see which priestly order starts it. [First Chronicles 24:1-19] Have a look for yourself!

Year 1 Gamul-New Cycle Aviv March 2019 (Or Year 4)
​Year 2 Yedayah-New Cycle Aviv March 2020 (Or Year 5)

P.S. Editor’s note for this section below:  { Based on the evidence from the Dead Sea Scroll, Man-Child Ministry is convinced that 2019 calendar corresponds to the year 4 /6 priestly cycle; and it is also a Sabbatical year which falls on the 4th of the 7 Sabbatical years. The charts that show this fact is attached. HalleluYAH  }:

1. Meaning of each priestly order names:

2. 2019 Dea Sea Scroll Calendar 4Q319

3. 2019 Qumran Calendar

 No.4. 6 years priestly order cycle…

take note of the 4/6 year for 2019 calendar

No.5 2019 Aviv 1… First month priestly order:

No.6 dds YHWH Calendar year 4 section that 2019 is a Sabbatical year

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The Spring Equinox falls during the last week of the old year annually, so it is not ever necessary to wait for the following Wednesday, or go back to a prior Wednesday, as that would throw everything off, including the weekday moon phases recorded by the true Zadokite priests! The Sign of the Spring Equinox, the straight line of shadows from sunrise to sunset, will occur somewhere within the 7 days OF THE EQUINOX WEEK that transits the old year [day 364] to the new one on Aviv 1!

The lunar phases confirm the year of the cycle we are in. Aviv 1 has a full moon in years 1 & 4 and again on year one of the new priestly cycle. The priestly order was based on calculation of lunar phases, not the 2nd or 3rd day of a 2-3 day full moon and NEVER BY OBSERVATION OF THE MOON.

REMEMBER JUBILEES 6 & OTHER PLACES FORBID ANY USE OF THE MOON TO DETERMINE TIME. WE FOLLOW A SOLAR ONLY CALENDAR! WE ARE MERELY SHOWING HOW THE PHASES APPEARED ON THE SAME DAY OF THE WEEK  2,000 YEARS AGO, AS THEY DO TODAY, SHOWING US THAT THE SHABBAT OF THAT DAY REMAINS THE SAME TODAY WITH THE HEATHEN NAME OF SATURDAY.

****Gregorian dates change year to year regardless of Torah patterns. Roman data-dates need to be ignored and shunned every year!

​****The Torah priestly cycles NEVER CHANGE & are as follows: Years 1-4 same, Years 2-5 same, Years 3-6 same.

​****If we start every year on Day 4 – Modern Wednesday every year will end on a 3rd Day-Tuesday and will be exactly 364 days as required by Torah & Enoch!

                                              Torah Witnesses For The Eternal Solar Calendar!
                                                 Beresheth-Genesis Chapter 1 Verses 14-19

The First Torah Witness

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 [visible], and for moadim, and for [all] 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 [assigned] two great lights; the greater light to rule the yom, and the lesser light to rule the night: therefore namely the cochavim.

17 And Elohim set them in the firmament of the shamayim to give light upon the earth,

18 And to rule over the yom and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it was tov.

19 And the evening and the morning were Yom Reeve-DAY FOUR.

​This is why all years begin on Day 4 of the first week, Wednesday, the day The Father assigned [Hebrew-Assah] the lights!

יד וַיֹּאמֶר אֱלֹהִים, יְהִי מְאֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הַיּוֹם וּבֵין הַלָּיְלָה; וְהָיוּ לְאֹתֹת וּלְמוֹעֲדִים,וּלְיָמִים וְשָׁנִים.

טו  וְהָיוּ לִמְאוֹרֹת בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמַיִם, לְהָאִיר עַל-הָאָרֶץ; וַיְהִי-כֵן.

טז  וַיַּעַשׂ אֱלֹהִים, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַמְּאֹרֹת הַגְּדֹלִים:  אֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַגָּדֹל, לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַיּוֹם, וְאֶת-הַמָּאוֹר הַקָּטֹן לְמֶמְשֶׁלֶת הַלַּיְלָה, אֵת הַכּוֹכָבִים.

יז  וַיִּתֵּן אֹתָם אֱלֹהִים, בִּרְקִיעַ הַשָּׁמָיִם, לְהָאִיר, עַל-הָאָרֶץ.

יח  וְלִמְשֹׁל, בַּיּוֹם וּבַלַּיְלָה, וּלְהַבְדִּיל, בֵּין הָאוֹר וּבֵין הַחֹשֶׁךְ; וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים, כִּי-טוֹב.

יט  וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר, יוֹם רְבִיעִי.

Deuteronomy-Devarim Chapter 16 Verse 1-The Second Torah Witness

שָׁמוֹר, את-חֹדֶשׁ הָאָבִיב, וְעָשִׂיתָ פֶּסַח, לַיהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ:  כִּי בְּחֹדֶשׁ הָאָבִיב, הוֹצִיאֲךָ
​יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ מִמִּצְרַיִם-לָיְלָה

Guard The SIGN of the month of the Aviv; and perform Passover, to YHUH your Elohim; Because in the month of THE AVIV [season], YHUH your Elohim took you out of Egypt at night. The Sign being The Straight Line at the Vernal Equinox!

Exodus-Shemot 12:1-2-The Third Torah Witness

וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה וְאֶל-אַהֲרֹן, בְּאֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם לֵאמֹר.
הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, רֹאשׁ חֳדָשִׁים: רִאשׁוֹן הוּא לָכֶם, לְחָדְשֵׁי הַשָּׁנָה

And YHUH said to Moshe and to Aharon, in the land of Egypt saying; this month is for you the head of all the months; it is the first for you, of the months of the year.​

Exodus-Shemot 34:22-The Fourth Torah Witness

וְחַג שָׁבֻעֹת תַּעֲשֶׂה לְךָ, בִּכּוּרֵי קְצִיר חִטִּים; וְחַג, הָאָסִיף-תְּקוּפַת הַשָּׁנָה

​And the Chag of Weeks [Shavuot] you shall do for yourself; the firstfruits of the wheat harvest; and the Chag of the Ingathering at [around] the [fall] tekufah-turn ​of the year.

-Genesis-Beresheth-8:22- The Fifth Torah Witness-The 4 Seasons

  עֹד, כָּל-יְמֵי הָאָרֶץ:  זֶרַע וְקָצִיר וְקֹר וָחֹם וְקַיִץ וָחֹרֶף,וְיוֹם וָלַיְלָה-לֹא יִשְׁבֹּתוּ

While the earth remains [before and after the flood] seedtime [Spring] and harvest [Fall]; cold and heat; summer and winter; day and night will not cease. [The seasons have never changed and the day ALWAYS goes before evening and night!].
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​                    ​               What About These MOON Verses. Do You Just  Ignore Them? 

​Psalm 89:37- IT shall be established le-olam-va-ed as the yarayach, and as a faithful witness in the shamayim. Selah.

In verse 36 it is David’s seed that is made into a faithful witness preserved IN THE HEAVENS or the throne; just like the moon is in the heavens FOREVER; so the heavens is the place of the preserving of the faithful witness or YHUH’s throne-promises-Word FOREVER. This verse does not claim that the moon is forever faithful for telling time, as it remains sick and dysfunctional giving unbibical 29 day months and 13 month years, which if blindly followed, will cause everyone to miss the appointed times of YHUH. The actual lunation astronomically speaking is 28 days! Not the required 30 days of Scripture!

Psalm 136:9 – The yarayach-moon and cochavim to rule by night: for His rachamim endures le-olam-va-ed.

​This verse DOES NOT CLAIM the moon as THE ruler of the night by its own light. Read it again! The stars rule the night and the moon joins that ruler as a lesser co-regent, as it reflects the sun’s light, along with the night ruler in TANDEM. The night ruler is established in Torah Gen 1:14-16 [as THE LESSER LIGHT-NAMELY THE STARS] not in Psalms. Remember the biblical rule of first mention.

Psalm 104:19 – He created the yarayach-moon for moadim: the shemesh knows its going down.
20 You make darkness, and it is night: in it all the beasts of the forest do creep.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from El.

The moon IS a SIGN for NIGHT HUNTING BY THE NIGHT CREATURES before the sunrise. These verses have ZERO to do with the appointed times of Leviticus 23 which are SOLELY SOLAR BASED. This misunderstanding has been a major erroneous assumption that somehow they refer to the feasts of YHUH.

 PSALM 81:4 AND THE RABBINIC AGENDA! 

ד תִּקְעוּ בַחֹדֶשׁ שׁוֹפָר; בַּכֵּסֶה, לְיוֹם חַגֵּנוּ

meaning blow IN-AT the MONTH the shofar, in-at the FULLNESS of the day of our feast…that means that on the Feast of Unleavened Bread in its fullness, we are to blow the shofar at our chag…in Torah a chag is only Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks or Tabernacles. [3 not 8 moadem]…see how slick the enemy is? The word moon appears nowhere here and neither does the term “full moon.” Of course the rabbis translate it as full moon, to make you a disciple of the Antiochus Epiphanies lunar calendar, FORCED ON JUDAISM after the Macabbean victory. It can also mean blow the shofar at the fullness of the feast of Unleavened Bread, based on verses 5-6 which refers to the Exodus. Nothing to do with anybody’s moon!​

                                                  This says YHUH To His Eved Sholiach Moshe:

“The greatest find at Qumran was not the community rules and regulations or any such thing but the restoration of my Shabbats [monthly solar dates]. Have you not noticed and have you not heard, that scholars did not declare that truth says YHUH? Rather they declared finding some solar calendar that was noticeably different and some man-made rules. But I declare to you the purpose of my allowing them to find, the scrolls, is to declare my appointed times regarding the sincere restoration of the Shabbat day when the dates were recorded and hidden in the earth for such a time as this; the discovering of the priestly Enochian ancient Shabbats and the dates [of the solar month] that my priests ministered on Shabbat, were not of interest to man;  the scholars and the religious did not proclaim what I wanted declared for the joy and rejoicing of my people and their preparation says YHUH. But you and your fellows, you shall and must proclaim it says ​​YHUH Tzevaoth!

Your Employer CANNOT Stop You From Keeping The Creation Week Shabbat!

​Did you know a lot of USA believers who want to keep the Shabbat the day YHUH actually rested, CANNOT BE DENIED by federal law? You cannot be fired or denied time off for Shabbat, or any day, as per the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. So let’s stop the excuses and get busy with Abba’s business!!  ​http://www.workplacefairness.org/religious-discrimination

The only way they can legally deny you off, is if the employer can PROVE to a court, that by you taking Torah Shabbat off, that it will cause them undue loss like bankruptcy, which in most cases is a case they cannot prove!

ALSO……………………..Jeremiah 6:16-18 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 day 364 on a Tuesday and Aviv 1 the very next Wednesday during The Equinox Week, when the old year transits into the new year after EXACTLY 364 DAYS HAVE BEEN DECLARED!

16 This says YHUH: Stand in The Derech-Way, 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 [Hebrew-Netsarim] over you, saying, Listen to the sound of the shofar. But they said, We will not listen!  RSTNE 6th Edition With Chanok

****Here are a few more Scriptures teaching us not to use heathen data but our own Zadokite priests and calculations in the camp of the redeemed; this high calling remains our responsibility collectively as a people!

Shemot-Exodus Ch. 20:
8 [Daled] Remember the Yom Ha-Shabbats [LXX] [52 weekly – not 53 as some teachand annual 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 YHUH 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 6th Edition With Chanok

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 [visible sign] between Me and the children of Yisrael le-olam-va-ed-forever: for in six days YHUH made the shamayim and the earth, and on the seventh yom He rested, and was refreshed. RSTNE 6th Edition With Chanok

Devarim-Deuteronomy Ch. 5:
12 Shomer [guard-view] Ha-Shabbat to set it apart, as YHUH your Elohim has commanded you.
13 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:
14 But the seventh yom-day is the Shabbat of YHUH 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 YHUH your Elohim brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by an outstretched Arm: therefore YHUH your Elohim commanded you to shomer [guard-view] Yom Ha-Shabbat. RSTNE 6th Edition With Chanok

JUBILEES-YOVLEEM CH. 29:
15 And he sent to his abba Yitschaq of all his substance, clothing and food, and meat and drink and milk and butter and cheese and some dates of the valley.
16 And to his eema Rivkah also four times a year, between the times of the monthsbetween ploughing and reaping and between autumn and the rain (season) and between winter and spring, to the tower of Avraham. YATI Restored Version Of Jubilees With True Names

    Some Interesting Tidbits!

More Proof That Day 4-Our Modern Wednesday Was Lit Continually In The Temple-

The lamps of the menorah were lit daily from fresh, consecrated olive oil and burned from evening until morning, according to Exodus 27:21.

PROOF THAT THEY TOLD TIME BY THE 7 BRANCH MENORAH NOT THE RABBINICAL CALENDAR!!!! 

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also; [13] however, according to one opinion in the Talmud (Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others. Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light continued burning oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.

DAY 4 OF THE WEEK-MIDDLE LIGHT OF THE MENORAH LIT FIRST AND BURNED ALL DAY AND NIGHT AS THE SIGN OF THE MESSIAH [WHO CAME ON DAY 4 OR 4,000 YEARS AFTER ADAM AND EVE], THE SHABBAT AND AVIV 1!

This miracle according to the Talmud (Tractate Menahot 86b) was taken as a sign that The Shechinah-Glory rested over Israel.[14] It was called the Ner Hama’aravi (Western lamp) because of the direction of its wick. This lamp was also referred to as the Ner Elohim (Lamp of El).

YAHUSHA THE ALEF TAF DAY 4 CALLED THE LIGHT OF ELOHIM BURNS CONTINUALLY!

Also mentioned in I Samuel 3:3. The miracle of the Ner Hama’aravi ended about 40 years before the destruction of the Temple (30 CE) according to the Talmud (Tractate Yoma 39a), “Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of The Second Temple (that is to say from around 30 CE the very year Yahusha died) the lot [‘For YHUH’] did not come up in the right hand of the priest; nor did the crimson-colored strap become white; nor did the westernmost light shine” or that middle light of Messiah!

BECAUSE THEY PUT THE LIGHT OUT, DAY 4, ALEF TAF, STOPPED STAYING ON 24/7….THIS PROVES BEYOND A SHADOW OF A DOUBT THAT AT THE TIME OF YAHUSHA, THEY KNEW THAT TIME AND THE TORAH WEEK CENTERED AROUND DAY 4 of Week One-Modern Wednesday, NOT DAY 1 of Week One!!! SHEMA YISRAEL!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorah_(Temple)

4Q394 1-2 (Cave 4)-Note yet another SIGN– Where was the Torah Shabbat confirmed in the DSS? Cave 4 corresponding to day 4 of week 1. Another YAH-Incidence!

From Professor Rachel Elior a rabbinical Jew-“The present Jewish calendar is not matching the old Jewish priestly calendar. This ancient priestly calendar was replaced by the Greek lunar calendar, in the time of Antiochus Epiphanies by force” and later on by the sages, who chose the lunar calendar based on the people’s observation and not by pre-calculated calculations.”

Passion Week Proves the Zadokite Priestly Times!

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Clear Cut Proof Why Barley is Not the Parameter for the start of the Year

By Don Esposito

 

click link here for PDF reading Clear Cut Proof Why Barley is Not the Parameter for the start of the Year (1)

I have lived in Israel for the last almost 15 years or so, and have studied the Biblical calendar for

almost 20 years. I would like to show quite conclusively that Barley in Israel was never the

biblical mandate to start the New Year.

First of all there is nothing in the bible about starting the year based on the barley harvest. This

was too arbitrary and how would Noah have known when barley was seen in Israel on the ark or

any biblical person for that matter before Israel entered the Promised Land in 1443 B.C.? Also,

barley grows quite different from place to place and even in Egypt where Israel came out from

the barley harvest there is in late January or early February depending on the year and weather.

Clearly the sun, moon and stars were given to calculate the biblical calendar.

Gen 1:14

And Elohim said, Let light sources be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide

between the day and the night.

 And let them be for signs and for (Holy day) seasons, and

for days and years.

Also, clearly, the Holy Days of Yahweh had to be kept in their season and not at any time of the

year as each Holy Day depended on the harvest of its particular season associated with it.

Exo 13:10

And you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time (in its season), from year to year.

Exo 12:2

This month (Aviv) shall be the head of months for you. It shall be the first of the

months of the year for you.

So, the question is not whether to add a 13th month but when to add the 13th month. Since

Exodus 12:2 clearly states that Aviv 1 and not simply Passover is the dividing line between the

old year and the New Year, it would not be correct to start the New Year 10 or 11 days into Aviv,

to simply have the Passover fall in the New Year, but have the other 10 days in the old year.

Also, according to the biblical reckoning you cannot have Sukkot start before the autumn equinox.

Exo 34:22

And you shall observe a Feast of Weeks for yourself, the first-fruits of the harvest of  wheat; also the Feast of Ingathering

 after the turn of the year.

The Hebrew word for turning of the year is “Tekufah” and is the word used for equinox for a

revolution of the sun. If you start your year before the spring equinox you will not have your Holy

Days fall after the autumn equinox. Also, every Holy Day needs the harvest fruits for whichever

feast celebration is being done. In the spring you need the new grain for the wave sheaf offering

on the feast of firstfruits, and in the fall you need the 7 harvest fruits for the Sukkot celebration. If

you start your year too early in the winter while the old year is still going on many years you will

not have ripe harvest grain or fruits in the spring or fall. In the year 2013 the Jewish feast of

Sukkot started September 19th, but the turning of the year (tekufah, equinox) is not until September 22nd; clearly proving the Jewish calendar in 2013 was incorrect. Even look at the

following quote from the Rabbis own writings in the Talmud stating that if Sukkot fell before the

autumn equinox than a 13 month must be added to avoid this.

Should the Tekufah of Tammuz extend till after the Succoth Festival, or the Tekufah of Tebeth

till the sixteenth of Nisan, the year would be intercalated,

so that the festivals might fall in

their due seasons, viz., Passover in Spring, Succoth in Autumn (after the equinox

.

(Sanh 11b)

The reason to wait until after the tekufah (equinox) or turning of the year for Sukkot is quite

simple; not only does the fall harvest have to be ripe before Sukkot, but it has to be harvested

as this is the main reason of the feast. That reason being to take the harvest fruits of the dates,

and the pomegranates, and the figs, and the wine and the olives. That is why it is called the

feast of “

ingathering”. It is inconceivable that Israelites would have went to Jerusalem for Sukkot

empty handed, as it would be about a month trip turnaround from the time leaving until

returning, while their harvest fruits would have ripened and fell and rotted while they were away.

If one biblically waits until after the tekufah (equinox) to start the year, then they will always have

Sukkot after the autumn tekufah and the fruits will be ripened and harvested.

Calculating Aviv only by Barley is not scriptural and has actually turned out to be a major scam

by some elements hoodwinking brethren for control and money. I have checked for barley

almost every year here from Israel and except for it taking a day of my time and gasoline, there

are no other costs involved. However, some of these so-called barley hooligans have websites

up with paypal links collecting much money for this so-called barley hunt.

The problem with only using barley to try to calculate the month of Aviv is that it makes the

calendar dependent on man’s assessment, which is at times flawed and at times outright

deceitful. As I mentioned, the barley in Israel does not ripen at the same time throughout the

country and is actually a two month harvest starting around the beginning of April until late May

or early June.

The people who come here to try to pervert the New Year according to their own agenda will

either ignore barley in some years as 2014 if they don’t want to call Aviv yet, or they will try to

create a perception of over ripe barley that isn’t there.

I have said before that if barley and the firstfruit omer on the feast of firstfruits is a direct

reflection of Yahshua as the firstfruit born of the dead to Yahweh, then it stands to reason that

there would have to be representation of barley throughout Israel and the harvest would have to

be more than 50 to 60% harvestable by the feast of firstfruits.

Last year there was minimal (probably only about 10%) barley available by the Jewish incorrect

feast of firstfruits, and yet the barley hunters claimed it was Aviv. This year is like last year and

there is a small early harvest and small minimal Aviv barley just like last year and probably even

a little more, and yet the barley hunters did NOT claim it was Aviv.

So what was the difference from last year to this year? The difference is that if they called the

New Moon that just happened the month of Aviv, not only would they have their year start in

winter of the old year before the equinox, but they would also have their Passover commence

before the equinox and have 2 Passovers in the same year, clearly against scripture.

So they simply claim there is no barley to avoid this problem. This clearly shows why Yahweh

would never leave His sacred Holy Day calendar to be dependent on a few rogue barley hunters

in Israel that have no authority from him or His ordained elderhood.

By living here for the last some-odd 15 years I can attest that the barley hunters on several

occasions have not been honest about the barley harvest. It doesn’t matter that they send a few

pictures as I mentioned the harvest happens over 2 months throughout the land, so if they want

to call Aviv, they will sent pictures in the area that there may be barley, and if they don’t want to

call Aviv yet, they will simply go to areas that haven’t turned Aviv yet.

Yahweh would never have such a confusing way to start His sacred Biblical calendar. He clearly

stated in Gen 1:14- that

the moon, and sun and stars are for calculating days, and months

and years.

It says nothing about barley.

Barley as well as other harvest fruits are simply an earthly sign to the heavenly calendar, but

they do not signify the start of the year, the biblical tekufah, or in English, the equinox, does

according to scripture. For full information on the start of the biblical year and timing please read

our book called “The Biblical calendar” on-line at www.coyhwh.com .

 

Passover and the Calendar

By  Brick Parrish

 

http://www.emetyahshua.com/uploads/Passover_and_the_Calendar.pdf

One of the most divisive issues facing most Messianic and Hebrew Roots
believers is the controversy over the calendar. Which calendar do you use to
observe the biblical Feasts of YHWH? When does the New Year begin and when
is the New moon?
I have spent considerable time studying these issues and often find myself in
disagreement with many of my close brethren and most Messianic believers as to
the timing of Passover, beginning of the month and the New Year.
Most Messianic believers look to unbelievers for guidance in regards to the
calendar. They look to the Karaites, who do not believe in Yahshua, to find a
handful of barley around Jerusalem to signal the start of the New Year. Then they
look for the closest New Moon, regardless of whether if falls before or after the
Vernal Equinox. Beginning the year before the vernal equinox can lead to the
Feasts being out of their seasons. About 3 years ago I received some pictures
from Jerusalem showing unripe fruit on many fruit trees during the time most
Jews and Messianic believers were celebrating Sukkot. Sukkot is a harvest festival
in which the harvest is supposed to be reaped so that you can then enjoy the
fruits of your labor during the Feast. The green fruit still remaining on the trees
proved that they had begun the New Year a month too early.
On another occasion, before I began to look into the calendar issue, I found that
we had observed 2 Passovers in the same year. Even the Jews make sure that
doesn’t happen.
So where do we start? Let’s begin with scripture to tell us what determines the
days, years and seasons.
Gen 1:14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years:
If you go by the barley and the sighted sliver of the moon to determine the New
Year, what roll does the sun play in it? Where is barley mentioned above? I
maintain that the barley has nothing to do with when the New Year begins.
The New Year only begins in the month in which the barley ripens, that’s all. The
word “Abiv” means “ripening, completing development” according to the
Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew. The first crop to be harvested was
flax in March and April, then barley and wheat in April and May (The Lion Ency.
of the Bible p.221). This shows various stages of Abiv (grain crops ripening)
lasting over a period of 2-3 months.
1Also, when the commandment was given, that this time was the beginning of
months and the first month of the year to Israel, they were in Egypt which has a
ripening season of up to two months earlier than in Israel. Was Israel to use the
presence of ripe barley in Egypt to begin the New Year? Obviously not! YHWH
knew He would lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land where the
harvest was later than in Egypt. He was just stating a principle to them that the
New Year would begin during the time of the year when grain ripened. But it does
not specifically say barley. Only because Barley ripened first, was it used for the
wave sheaf offering of the first fruits of their harvest.
We are also told that Israel observed at least one Passover one year after they had
left Egypt (Num 9:5). Did Moses carry around a little cart of barley in order to
know when it was Abiv and when to start the New Year? No, Moses was educated
in the house of Pharaoh and would have been well acquainted with how to
determine the equinoxes and the solstices. The equinoxes occur when the sun
passes over the equatorial plane. The two solstices occur when the sun reaches its
position farthest from the equator. Each solstice lies halfway between the two
equinoxes. Some will argue that the word for equinox or solstice does not exist in
the bible, but there is a word that is used which means a turning or a revolution.
That word is Tekufah and its root (naqaf) means a circle or cycle. This word is
found 4 times in scripture and pertains to the calendar all of those times. The
tekufot (pl) mark the seasons of the year.
The Hebrew word for year comes from the idea of change or repeated action.
Thus the year expresses the concept of “a complete cycle of change” (Nelson’s
Illustrated Bible Dictionary p. 200)
Herb Solinsky in his article “The Hail Plague and the First Biblical Month
states” The moon determines the months, but not which month is the first. Only
the sun remains to be considered. The only repeatable time points involving the
sun are the two equinoxes and the two solstices. Considering that the barley and
wheat in Yisrael are harvested in the spring, the vernal equinox is the only
logical candidate to consider that involves the lights in the heavens on the direct
basis on Gen 1:14.”
The four intermediate cycles (equinoxes and solstices) determine the seasons of
the year.
Exo 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest,
and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Here the word ‘end’ is the word tekufah. The phrase “At years end” are the words
“tekufat Ha shanah,” which indicates a revolution in time. This can only refer to
the “equinox”. This ‘turning cycle’ would be autumnal equinox which marks the
end of the summer and the beginning of fall.
Frank Nelte expresses it this way:
2Jewish encyclopaedias, the Talmud and many other Jewish reference works will freely
acknowledge that this word “tekufah” has exactly TWO meanings. Firstly, it refers to
the only FOUR “TURNING DAYS” in the solar year that can be predicted in advance,
the two equinoxes and the two solstices. Secondly, it refers to THE FOUR SEASONS
which start on those four “turning days”. It has no other meanings, and certainly not
the meaning “end”.
He goes on to say:
It is well-known that in Exodus 34:22 the expression “tekufat ha-shanah” is a specific
reference to the autumn equinox (on September 23), and therefore this Scripture makes
quite clear that the Feast of Tabernacles can NEVER start before the autumn
equinox.(F. Nelte)
The Feast of tabernacles is a fall Feast and must never start in the summer just as
the New Year must never start in the winter of the old year before the vernal or
spring equinox.
The other 3 scriptures that use the word “tekufah” are:
1Sa 1:20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had
conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have
asked him of YHWH.
The words translated ‘was come” is tekufah. This could also be translated
“Wherefore it came to pass when the day had come around, after Hannah had
conceived…”
Young translated it this way:
And it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the days, that Hannah conceiveth, and
beareth a son, and calleth his name Samuel, `for, from Jehovah I have asked him.’
Here again we are presented with the idea of a revolution (cycle) of days or
seasons. The next verse that contains the word “tekufah” is:
2Ch 24:23 And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up
against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes
of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of
Damascus.
Kings would go out to wage war in the spring of the year according to 2 Sam 11:1,
so this is likely after the vernal equinox or the beginning of spring.
The last reference to tekufah is found in Psalms 19:6.
Psa 19:6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends
of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
The word tekufah here is translated as “circuit” and the language implies that it is
talking about the sun by referring to nothing being hidden from its heat. This
would be the suns passage through the equinoxes and solstices to make a yearly
circuit.
I think I have presented sufficient evidence that the word “tekufah” means the 4
turning points of the year, the equinoxes and solstices. Most Messianic believers
would agree with this, but the real problem is that they have no problem
beginning the New Year while still in the old one. Most follow the Karaites barley
3hunt and when found, use the closest New Moon to the vernal equinox to begin
the New Year. Many times they select the New Moon before the equinox which
causes them to begin the year in the old one. Common logic dictates that this is
wrong.
Another problem with the Karaite barley hunt is that it is only for barley around
the Jordan valley. There is up to a month’s difference between the barley harvest
in the highlands and the lowlands of Israel. Scripture is clear that each man is to
bring in the first fruits of his harvest to the priest at the temple to be waved
before YHWH.
Lev. 23:10 Speak to the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them, When you come in
to the land which I am giving to you, and have reaped its harvest, and have
brought in the sheaf, of the beginning of your harvest, to the priest,
Lev. 23:11 and (then) he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah for your acceptance;
on the morrow of the sabbath the priest shall wave it (Greens literal translation).
Notice, when you have reaped the harvest, THEN you bring a sheaf of the first
fruits. You don’t scour the country side looking for a handful of ripe barley. Each
of the sons of Israel had to bring in a sheaf (omer) of his harvest. The barley has
to be ripe all over the land, not just around Jerusalem. The reply given by the
Karaites to this problem is that they are offering the omer of first fruits of the
harvest for all of Israel. This shows a lack of understanding the scriptures from a
Messianic perspective. Don Esposito explains it this way:
Each person had to cut his own sheaf, as each one of us need to have the wave sheaf (a
type of Messiah’s sacrifice for our sins) accepted by Yahweh, and the people could not
bring the offering themselves, only the priest (type of Yahshua) could bring the
sacrifice on behalf of the people and then wave the sheaf up to heaven. The wave sheaf
could not be issued on behalf of one or two fields, or even one area, of only one tribe,
because Yahshua is the wave-sheaf of “all 12 tribes of Israel”.
Also, since the wave sheaf represented Yahshua as the first-fruit of those born from the
dead, then, it would have to be completely mature, as Yahshua was not an immature or
imperfect sacrifice (Esposito).
Another problem with the finding of a handful of Jerusalem barley is that if the
year is started based upon barley being ripe in the Jordan valley, the time when
the wave sheaf offering is to be presented might be before the harvest in the
highlands. The highlanders would be forbidden, according to scripture, to eat of
their harvest.
The solution to this problem is to do away with the barley hunt altogether; there
is nothing in scripture that instructs us to start the New Year in this way. If the
New Year is always started on the first New Moon AFTER the equinox, the barley
will always be ripe when needed in all areas. Those harvesting first would store
their omer of first fruits and continue to eat their old grain until the offering
could be made. No one is going to starve because they can’t eat the new grain
until it is harvested all over. They simply continue to eat the stored grain of the
previous year as they were doing up until this time.
4Conjunction vs Sighted Sliver of the Moon.
Here is another area of controversy. When the Jews were in Babylon, they
adopted many of the practices of the Babylonians including the lunar-solar
calendar, naming their months after pagan gods, and their method of sighting the
first sliver of the moon to determine the New Moon.
Chart used by permission of http://www.moonconnection.com/
The above chart should help one to visualize what occurs during a New Moon. It
is YHWH’s reset button for the New Month. It occurs in a moment of time when
the sun, moon and earth are in a straight line, with the moon being between the
earth and sun. The New Moon will be invisible to the inhabitants of the earth at
this time. No where in scripture are we told to “sight” the New Moon.
You can readily see that the New Moon is the direct opposite of a Full Moon.
There are two Full Moon Feasts, the first day of Unleavened Bread and the first
day of Sukkot. If the New Moon is determined by the first sighted sliver of the
5waxing moon, these two full moon Feasts will never occur on a Full Moon, but
will always be slightly off.
The Hebrew word for “moon” (yerach) is used only 4 times in the Law or Torah of
Moses. The first occurrence is in Gen. 37:9 where Joseph had a dream in which
the sun represented his father, the moon represented his mother and the stars
were his brothers.
The next two times we find this word in the Torah of Moses is where we’re told
not to worship it.
Deu 4:19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun,
and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to
worship them, and serve them, which YHWH thy Elohim hath divided unto all
nations under the whole heaven.
Deu 17:3 And hath gone and served other elohim, and worshipped them, either the sun,
or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
The last occurrence is in Deut. 33:14, which is dealing with a blessing of Joseph
by Moses. The only reference to the moon in the Torah is the warning against
worshiping it.
The word that was translated “month/monthly” 221 times in scripture is the
word חדש “Chodesh” Strong’s # 2320. Another 20 times it was translated “New
Moon”. Strong’s concordance gives the meaning of this word as “new moon,
month, monthly.” However, he also gives the exact word another number #2318”
and gives the meaning as “to be new, renew or repair”. Clearly, this is Mr.
Strong’s personally biased interpretation as the two Hebrew words are identical.
This is why most people think the meaning of Chodesh is “New”. A look at the
“Etymological Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew” by Clark gives the primary
definition of the word “chodesh/Chadash” as to “renew”. You don’t have a brand
new moon each month, but a renewal of the old one. This renewal begins at the
time when the moon is dark to our view. When the crescent is sighted, the
renewed, or we’ll continue to use the terminology most are familiar with, the New
moon is already from 16 to 42 hours old. This doesn’t seem to be the precision
with which YHWH operates. Common sense in the absence of any scripture to
the contrary will tell you that a 16 to 42 hour old crescent moon is not the New
Moon. And as I mentioned above, all the Feast dates will be off by at least a day.
Rav Samuel Thompson in his article “When is Rosh Chodesh” demonstrates that
there is a perfectly good Hebrew word that does mean “crescent” that was not
used anywhere to refer to determining the New Moon. That word is “saharon”.
This word is used to describe crescent shaped ornaments in Isa. 3:18; and Jdg
8:21, 26. The Hebrew word “yarech saharon” was not used at all to describe the
New Moon.
Is there evidence in scripture that Israel did not use a sighted crescent after the
conjunction to determine the New moon? Yes, there is. How did David know that
the following day was to be a New Moon?
61Sa 20:5 And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I
should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in
the field unto the third day at even.
And
1Sa 20:18 Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt
be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
How did David and Jonathan know that the next day was to be the New Moon?
They simply could have observed the last sliver of the waning moon and knew the
following day there would be no visible moon at all and hence, the New moon.
There is evidence that ancient Israel did not use a lunar-solar calendar at all, but
we will leave that for another time. It is certain that there were two calendars in
use at the time of Yahshua. A calculated lunar-solar calendar was used primarily
by rabbinic Judaism and a solar calendar was commonly used by others. The
discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls gives us the information that the Essenes
Community at Qumran used a solar calendar as did the Sadducees, the priestly
authority of the day, and the Jews at Masada.
The Encyclopedia of Religion And Ethics records that even into the 9th Century
C.E. remaining Zaddikim observed Solar months of 30 days, similar to this
Egyptian Solar Calendar. The Zaddikim (called the Sadducees in the English
Bible) were a sect formed of Priests, merchants, and aristocrats. Their name
derives from Zadok, the high priest in the days of King David.
The Qumran community began the month when the new moon was invisible
(conjunction).
According to The Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol 5 C-DH: “The present Jewish
calendar (Hillel II – 358-59 AD) is lunarsolar, the months being reckoned
according to the moon and the years according to the sun. A month is the period
of time between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and the next
conjunction. The conjunction of the moon with the sun is the point in time at
which the moon is directly between the earth and the sun (but not on the same
plane) and is thus invisible.
In the Book of Jubilees, we find a prophecy and warning that addresses the
observing of the moon.
Jub. 6:34 And there will be those who will make observations of the moon, for
this one (the moon) corrupts the stated times and comes out earlier each year
by ten days.
Jub 6:35 And in this way they will corrupt the years and will observe a wrong
day as the day of testimony and a corrupted festival day, and everyone will mix
holy days with unclean ones and unclean with holy; for they will err as to
months and Sabbaths and festivals and jubilees.
New Testament evidence shows us that Yahshua observed Passover a full day
before the Pharisees did. He was operating on the solar calendar that was also
used at Qumran. It is also a fact that Hillel the Elder re-instituted the conjunction
to start the month in 10 B.C. right before Yahshua’s birth.
7 Don Esposito points out that in 30 A.D., the conjunction occurred on the vernal
equinox. And Passover occurred on a Wednesday 14 days later. Yahshua was
crucified on a Wednesday afternoon and rose from the dead at the end of the
Sabbath, exactly 3 days and 3 nights later. The closest you could get to a
Wednesday crucifixion by sighting a “crescent” was in 34 A.D., but that is only
provided you could see it 10 hours after the conjunction, which is almost
impossible.
Some try to prove that Yahshua did not eat a Passover meal with his disciples by
trying to resolve the discrepancies in the New Testament. Let’s examine those:
Mat 26:17 Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to
Yahushua , saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the
passover?
Mat 26:18 And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Rabbi
saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.
Mat 26:19 And the disciples did as Yahushua had appointed them; and they
made ready the passover.
This is a mistranslation as we see in the Aramaic. The Aramaic has “Now the first
day of unleavened bread drew near.” The word “protos”, that is translated in almost
every translation as “first” can also be translated more correctly here as “prior or before”.
It would correctly read “Now prior to the Feast of Unleavened Bread…” The word “day” is
not in the Greek text.
This next verse in Mark’s gospel is also in error.
Mar 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his
disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest
eat the passover?
The Passover lamb is never killed on the first day of Unleavened Bread. Again,
this should read “And prior to the Feast of Unleavened Bread….”
Mar 14:14 And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The
Rabbi saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my
disciples?
Mar 14:18 And as they sat and did eat, Yahushua said, Verily I say unto you, One
of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
Clearly, Yahshua did observe the Passover. Some try to use the following
scripture to indicate that Yahshua didn’t really eat the Passover, but just said he
desired to.
Luk 22:13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made
ready the passover.
Luk 22:14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with
him.
Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover
with you before I suffer:
Luk 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in
the kingdom of YHWH.
Luk 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it
among yourselves:
8Luk 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the
kingdom of YHWH shall come.
Luk 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them,
saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament
in my blood, which is shed for you.
Only someone with an agenda to prove that the Rabbinic Passover is on the
correct day would try to read into this something that is not there. They even say
this wasn’t really a Passover that Yahshua observed, but a graduation ceremony
for his disciples. I wouldn’t have personally been able to come up with a more
stupid answer.
The reality is that Yahshua did observe Passover with his disciples on the correct
day or he would be in violation of Torah. He plainly said it was a Passover he was
eating with his disciples as per the portions I have underlined and bolded in the
scriptures above. If he didn’t eat the Passover as he said, then he lied about it.
Others, ignoring the accounts in the other 3 gospels, argue that the account in
John shows that Yahshua did not have a Passover with his disciples, but a plain
reading of the text in John 13 shows this to be in error for the following reasons.
Passover is not called a “Feast”. John is referring to the Feast of Unleavened
Bread which the Jews had been calling Passover since the Babylonian captivity.
Yahshua was crucified the following day. The Jews had not yet observed their
Passover on the first day of Unleavened Bread. Yahshua was taken down from
the cross before sundown which began the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a high
Sabbath. Passover is the 14th
of Abiv and the Feast of Unleavened Bread is the
15th. Yahshua kept Passover on the correct date; the Jews did not.
When is the Correct Day for Passover?
The Pharisees and Sadducees had a dispute as to the time when the
slaughtering of the lamb should take place. The FORMER held it should be in
the last 3 hours before sunset (and therefore at the end of the 14
th day), the
LATTER, between sunset and nightfall (and therefore AT THE BEGINNING of
the 14
th day!) – Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.
Apparently, Yahshua agreed with the Sadducees and the solar calendar. He
observed Passover on Abiv 14 whereas the Jews observed theirs in the month of
Nissan during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Yahshua did have a dispute with
the Pharisees over their oral traditions. He said they had made the law of none
effect with their oral traditions. He told us to beware of the Leaven of the
Pharisees which was their false doctrine. Yet, today many blindly follow
unbelieving Jews in their observance of Passover.
To determine the correct date for Passover, let’s go to the original Passover
account. The lamb was taken from the flock on the 10th
of Abiv and kept 4 days
while each family inspected their lamb to make sure it was free of blemishes.
9Exo 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
The Hebrew word translated “evening” is Ha Arbayim, which means “between the
evenings”. This is what is disputed by the Rabbinic (Pharisee) Jews and the
Sadducees as described in the paragraph from the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia
above. It is obvious that Yahshua agreed with the Sadducees and also the
Samaritans as he conducted his Passover at the beginning of the 14th
of Abiv
whereas as the Jews did theirs at the end of it.
The Book of Jubilees also seems to agree when it says “ And it is not permissible
to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the
evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening, until the third part of the
night, and whatever is left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night
and onwards, let them burn it with fire.” (Jubilees 49:12)
The Targum of Onkelos also rendered “between the evenings” in Exo. 12:6 as
“between the two suns” and explained this was the time between sunset and the
coming out of the stars.
Let’s continue with the original account.
Exo 12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the
upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
Exo 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head
with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
Exo 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that
which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
We see that the blood was put on the door posts of the houses that night. They
were to eat the Passover lamb that night and any that remained until morning
shall be burned with fire. Also see Exo 34:25.
Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the elohim of
Egypt I will execute judgment: I am YHWH.
Exo 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
We are told that the death angel would pass through the land and kill the first
born of every household that did not have the blood on the door posts. Now
notice what the next verse said’ “When I see the blood, I WILL PASS OVER you.
Do you suppose that this act is where the term “Passover” comes from? Clearly, it
was on the 14
th of Abiv that this took place and the only night time portion of the
14th
was at the beginning of it. Passover is on the 14
th of Abiv, not the 15th. (Lev
23:5; Num 9:5; 28:16).
Israel was also cautioned to stay indoors all night and only go out in the morning
to burn the remainder of the Passover lamb.
Exo 12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the
bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the
1bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the
morning.
So if they couldn’t even go out of their houses until morning, how could they
leave that same night? The truth is they didn’t. We are told when they left in the
following scripture:
Num 33:3 And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of
the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went
out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
The Hebrew word translated “morrow” is the word “mochorath” which means
“the next day or the day after”. They left on the 15th of Abiv, the day after Passover
which was on the 14th
.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is clearly the day AFTER Passover.
Exo 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame
day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe
this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
Exo 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat
unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
The word translated “evening” here is B’ereb which is correctly translated. It is
not “between the evenings” as we saw earlier. This simply means to observe the
Feast of Unleavened Bread beginning at sundown on the 14
th of Abiv, which is the
beginning of the 15th. Remember, the Hebrew day begins at sundown and ends at
sundown of the following day. You begin eating Unleavened Bread on the 15th and
eat it until the evening of the 21
st
, a period of 7 days.
This “selfsame” day is the 15th of Abiv, not the Passover on the 14th
.
Another thing to consider too is the logistics of moving such a large number of
people. Obviously, Moses rehearsed the plan with them before hand. There were
about 3 to 4 million of them scattered out all over Goshen. It would have been
sometime after midnight on the 14th
that Pharaoh became aware of the deaths of
the first born of Egypt, including his own firstborn. He had to send a chariot for
Moses about 10 miles away, bring him to Pharaoh and then take him back again.
It would likely have been around dawn when Moses was returned. They most
likely blew the shofar with a pre-arranged signal to move out. They then had to
round up their herds and flocks, take down their tents, pack up their belongings,
borrow from the Egyptians, who would have given them anything to get rid of
them, and then they had to walk to the meeting place at Rameses. There is no way
that the Passover could have occurred on the night of the 15th
as the Jews allege.
This flatly contradicts scripture. Besides, scripture tells us the came out at noon.
Exo 12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this “b’eZTeM
haYom haZeH” (selfsame day) have I brought your armies out of the land of
Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever.
“Selfsame day” literally translates as “bone or essence of the day” which would be
the middle of the day or at noon. However, Deut 16:1 says it was at night that
YHWH brought them out of Egypt. I think with such a large number of people,
1they began leaving Egypt at night (15th) and continuing on into the following
daytime portion of the 15th.
There has been a lot of tampering with scripture which makes it hard to unravel
all these traditions. It was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) in 1947
that allowed us to see where some of the changes to scripture were made by the
Masoretic scribes. Many of the changes were made in an attempt to obliterate any
possible reference that would point to Yahshua as the promised Messiah.
Thankfully, we have two witnesses that show us some of the alterations in the
Masoretic text, the DSS and the Septuagint.
There are other scriptures that I believe have been forged, but will not address
these at this time even though they do have a bearing on the timing of the
Passover, which contradicts other scripture. Analyze carefully Deut 16:1-7. These
verses are actually referring to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, not Passover.
Remember, the Jews while in Babylon began calling the combined 8 day
observance of Passover and Unleavened bread, by the term Passover. You see that
reflected in the confusion over Passover in the Brit Chadashah.
The correct determination of the date for Passover is to start the Abiv 1 count on
the first new moon after the vernal equinox and then count 14 days from that
point. Passover will be at the beginning of the 14th
of Abiv rather than at its end as
observed by the Pharisees, the Karaites and most Messianic believers. The barley
will be ripe when needed for the wave sheaf offering as per historical evidence.
The first day of Unleavened Bread will be on a full moon as will the first day of
Sukkot. Otherwise, they will not.
Herd Mentality Thinking
It is hard for us to break out of the common mold in our thinking if we hear
something often enough. We had been taught all our lives that Sunday was the
Sabbath and never questioned it. We celebrated Easter and Xmas without ever
questioning that either. And when these sacred cows were challenged, we bowed
up and got stubborn. It was only when solid evidence was shown to us that these
were false that we began to break out of the common mold. This is the same
problem we’re having today. Just because the majority believes something does
not make it true.
This is the same problem we have with the calendar and the timing of Passover.
The herd mentality is in full operation in this calendar controversy. Most simply
observe Passover when the Karaites tell them to. And on some occasions, they are
a month off. The ancient Israelites did not use the sighted sliver of the moon
prior to going into the Babylonian captivity. They may have used the ancient
Egyptian solar calendar of 30 days each month with 5 supplementary days added
at the end of the year. Or the months may have corresponded to the Mazzaroth
(Zodiac). There are 12 signs of the Zodiac and there are 360 degrees in a circle.
Each 30 degrees roughly corresponds to each of the 12 signs of the Zodiac. If the
1month began each time the earth entered a new sign of the Mazzaroth, you would
have months of varying lengths of 29 to 31 days each. The ancients would know
what month they were in by simply looking up at the stars at night. Why use a
lunar-solar calendar each month and then correct it by adding a 13
th month to get
it to agree with the solar calendar? Why not just use the solar calendar instead?
I have decided to use a bit of logic along with the scriptures in determining these
calendar issues. If things don’t make sense, it is usually because they are wrong.
One thing is sure, the Passover did not occur on Abiv 15th, the first day of the
Feast of Unleavened Bread….. Else what was Passover on the 14th
for?
Brick Parrish