Jewish Calendar Controversies
Jewish Calendar Controversies
Around the year two thousand I came across the Dehioth/ Dehiyyot or The Postponements to the
Jewish Feast Calendar. I discovered the Jewish/ Rabbinical Calendar doesn't match the New Moon
cycle about 60% of the time.
The postponements, are rules set down by men, not Elohim, which can change when a Jewish/
Rabbinical new year begins (Rosh Hashanah in conflict with Exodus “This new moon is the beginning
of new moons for you, it is the first new moon of the year for you. Exodus 12:2 The Scriptures 98+)
on the Rabbinical calendar. By changing the beginning of their year to the fall, and by a day or two,
this causes a shift in the entire year, including the 'Holy Days', of one or two days.
"After centuries of controversies between conservatives relying on observation (of moon and seasons)
and innovators recommending calculation, and between religious authorities in Palestine and
Babylonia, the system was settled in the 10th century A.D. (in favor of calculation and Babylon;
emphasis mine)." - The Astronomical Companion - Guy Ottewell, 1994 ed., p. 30, under "Calendars (Jewish)"
These are the four dehioth (postponements):
a. When the molad (a Hebrew word meaning "birth" that also generically refers to the time at which the
New Moon is "born") Tishri occurs on a Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday, Rosh Hashanah [Seventh month/
Tishri 1] is postponed to the following day.
b. When the molad occurs at noon (18th hour) or later, Rosh Hashanah is postponed to the next day.
(Or, if this day is a Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, [it is postponed] to Monday, Thursday, or Saturday
because of dehioth 'a'.).
c. When the molad Tishri of a common year falls on Tuesday, 204-parts after 3 a.m., i.e., 3d 9h 2014p
or later, Rosh Hashanah is postponed to Wednesday, and, because of dehioth a., further postponed to
Thursday.
d. When, in a common year succeeding a leap year, the molad Tishri occurs on Monday morning, 589
parts after 9 a.m., i.e., 2d 15h 589p or later, Rosh Hashanah is postponed to the next day.
Note: In more than 60% of all years, Rosh Hashanah does not occur on the day of the molad, but is
postponed according to one of the dehioth. Therefore, the dehioth are actually not the exceptions to
the rule, but the rule.
What God set in the heavens cannot be touched or altered by man. The calendar, devised by men, is
easily within reach, and can be altered numerous times. Indeed, it has been!
Once the Jews had decided which New Moon would be New Year’s Day (the seventh new moon, Tishri
1, which is also the Feast of Trumpets/ Yom Teruah) for the upcoming year, they would then count
backward from that point in time a predetermined amount of time -- not six moons, which would be
the logical thing to do, but 177 days -- and they call that day Abib 1. Abib 1 on the calendar may or
may not be on a new moon day.
The first day of each month on the Hebrew calendar should be in accordance with the new moon. Yet,
such is not the case. If this was changed, what else was changed?
Science has discovered that our subconscious takes everything in as pieces of information. People are
unable tell the difference between the truth and something that's totally made up. This is a power
humans don't possess. Instead, people are irrational all the time; so what they think is truth, is
actually confirmation bias. Things can be true, coincidently, but as individuals, people most of the
time, do not generally have access to the base facts or the source documents. If they do, they still tend
to not bother researching an item to see if it is a valid fact. They are hearing it from somebody else;
putting it together from who is in their enviroment. So what they recognize as truth in their minds is
really confirmation bias. The challenge is to dig deeper. It is crucial to look at all the facts when
investigating a matter.
Should we not observe the correct days set out by the Creator, using His timepiece?
Point of view
A Day to Remember
זכור את־יום השבת לקדשו׃
“zâkar yom shabbat, qa^dash.”
Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart.
Exodus/Shemoth 20:8
At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses may a matter
be established.
Deuteronomy 19:15 WEB
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently
opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860
Published 2002
Revised 2015
Second Revision 2016
Contents
The Sabbath is a Day of Rest
As Israel Travelled
True Believers Become a Part of Israel
On the Way to the Garden
The Shabbat is the Creator's Day
This I Have Found
Throughout 'Acts' the Sabbath Continues
Always the Scriptures Reaffirm
The Cheirographon
The History of the Calendar
The Need for a Calendar: An Overview
The Seven Day Week
Did Weeks of Different Lengths Exist?
The Lunar Year
The Lunar-Solar Year
The Roman Calendar
The Julian Calendar
Year of Confusion
The Gregorian Calendar
Constantine
The Catholic Council makes Calendar changes
The Jewish Calendar
The Monthly and Weekly Pattern
The Concealment
Review
Items of Interest
Supporting Documents (jpg)
References to Judaism and the Jews, and who they are is not addressed here.
And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith יה הוהה. Isaiah 66:23
In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth,... on the seventh day
Elohim rested from all his work which Elohim created and made. Genesis 2:2-3 S98+
The Shabbat came to be, at Creation, and is a symbol of the heavenly rest to
come. Scripture related to this topic.
... but Messiah as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast
the boldness and the boasting of the expectation firm to the end. Therefore, as
the Set-apart Spirit says, “Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your
hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness, where your fathers
tried Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years. “Therefore I was grieved
with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, and they
have not known My ways.’ “As I swore in My wrath, ‘If they shall enter into My
rest...’ ” [Ps. 95:11]. Look out, brothers, lest there be in any of you a wicked heart
of unbelief in falling away from the living Elohim, but encourage one another
daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened by the
deceivableness of sin. For we have become partakers of Messiah if we hold fast
the beginning of our trust firm to the end, while it is said, “Today, if you hear His
voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.” For who, having heard,
rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Mitsrayim, led by Mosheh? And with
whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose
corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they would not
enter into His rest, but to those who did not obey? So we see that they were
unable to enter in because of unbelief. Hebrews 3:6-19 KJV
Therefore, since a promise remains of entering into His rest, let us fear lest any
of you seem to have come short of it. For indeed the Good News was brought to
us as well as to them, but the word which they heard did not profit them, not
having been mixed with belief in those who heard it. For we who have believed
do enter into that rest, as He has said, “As I swore in My wrath, if they shall
enter into My rest...” And yet His works have come into being from the
foundation of the world. For somewhere He has said thus about the seventh day,
“And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works,” [Genesis 1] and in
this again, “If they shall enter into My rest...”
Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly received
the Good News did not enter in because of disobedience, He again defines a
certain day, “Today,” saying through David so much later, as it has been said,
“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Yehoshua
[Joshua] had given them rest, He would not have spoken of another day after
that. So there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim.
For the one, having entered into His rest, has himself also rested from his works,
as Elohim rested from His own. Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that
rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedient. Hebrews 4:1-11. The
Scriptures 98+ emphasis added
The number '58' in the Hebrew numbering system means, 'nun' and 'chet', which
together spell 'nach', a form of the Hebrew verb 'to rest'. Also the name Noah nנַחח
nôach means '58 or nun-chet'; rest.
The Shabbat's sanctity is grounded in the rest that was taken by the living
Elohim . The Shabbat is first a day of rest, and a day to make Elohim our
primary focus.
What do the scriptures say about
the Creator's שבתתrest day?
As Israel travelled; prior to their arrival at Sinai (and receiving the Torah /law
on tablets of stone); we read in Exodus 16:23 KJV יה הוההhath said , tomorrow is
the rest of the holy Shabbat unto יה הוההIn verse 28 And יה הוההsaid unto Moses,
How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
Elohim's commandments had been violated and refused for many generations,
not just for a few days prior, or he would not have been able to make this
statement.
Elohim had called his (peculiar) people apart, (For thou art an set apart people
unto יההוההthy Elohim, and יההוההhath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto
himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth. Deut.14:2 KJV) and now
back to their land; and the first priority of all the commandments was the keeping
of the Shabbat.
Again in Exodus 16:29 KJV See, for יה הוההhath given you the Shabbat, therefore
he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his
place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day (yôm ) .
This happened before the Torah was given. Some may think that any day will
satisfy Elohim, but יה הוההleft no doubt about the day he wanted observed, he told
and showed Israel exactly which day was the Shabbat. The day He rested.
Nuweiba Beach where Israel camped before crossing the Red Sea
For 40 years (over 2000 weeks) a double portion of manna fell on the
sixth day, and no manna fell on the Shabbat. This ended when Israel entered
the promised land (Exodus 16:35, Joshua 5:12).
Exodus 20:8-11 S98+ Remember the Sabbath day (yôm ), to set it apart
(qâdash). Six days you labour, and shall do all your work, but the seventh day is
a Sabbath of יההוההyour Elohim. You do not do any work – you, nor your son,
nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your
cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days יהוהmade
the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the
seventh day. Therefore יה הוההblessed the Sabbath day (yôm ) and set it apart.
SEC H6942
קדש
qâdash
BDB Definition:
1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be set apart, be consecrated
1a2) to be hallowed
1a3) consecrated, tabooed
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to show oneself sacred or majestic
1b2) to be honoured, be treated as sacred
1b3) to be holy
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate
1c2) to observe as holy, keep sacred
1c3) to honour as sacred, hallow
1c4) to consecrate
1d) (Pual)
1d1) to be consecrated
1d2) consecrated, dedicated
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to set apart, devote, consecrate
1e2) to regard or treat as sacred or hallow
1e3) to consecrate
1f) (Hithpael)
1f1) to keep oneself apart or separate
1f2) to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)
1f3) to be observed as holy
1f4) to consecrate oneself
Part of Speech: verb
The first Moed is the Sabbath
And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and moed/ appointed
times, and for days and years, Genesis 1:14
Remember Yom Shabbat, to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8
Then Adonai spoke to Moses saying: Speak to Bnei-Yisrael, and tell them: These
are the appointed moadim of Adonai, which you are to proclaim to be holy
convocations—My moed. Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is
a Shabbat of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You are to do no work—it is a
Shabbat to Adonai in all your dwellings. Leviticus 23:1-3 TLV
He appointed the moon for moed/seasons: Psalm 104:19
The moon and stars to rule by night: Psalm 136:9
The question that needs to be answered, is why would the Messiah הושוע
n יהso
close to his death still be telling his disciples how important to him and his
FATHER, the commandments were, and that of keeping; them, if they were
being done away with in a few hours at his death , as dispensationalism
teaches? Messiah was the sacrificial Passover lamb that shed his blood once
and for all for sin. He only did away with the sacrificial process in the Torah,
which had been necessary up to that point in time.
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come
to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in the kingdom of
heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them , the same shall be called
great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5 : 17-19 KJV emphasis added
The SHABBAT is the Creator's Day
הושוע
n יה said it himself, The Son of man is Master even of the Shabbat.
Matthew 12:8, TS98+ Mark 2:28, Luke 6:5. That clearly makes the Shabbat
'יה הוההs day; as we first learned in Genesis.
I [John] was in the Spirit on ' יה הוההs day Revelation 1:10 KJV
There is no hint whatsoever here of this being the Gregorian Sunday.
It is lawful to do well on the Shabbat. Matthew12:12 KJV
Why not accept what Elohim has made for man Mark2:27; instead of substituting the
counterfeit pagan days ;(which scripture doesn’t even once sanction) and making the
word of Elohim of none effect through your traditions. Mark7:13 KJV
In Matthew 28: 1-6 we find that “in the end of the SABBATH before the dawn of the
first day” (“yet
dark” John
20:1 ) an earth
quake had
occurred ; the
stone had been
rolled away ;
and Jesus had
risen.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those
days, saith Yehovah; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in
their hearts: and I will be to them a Elohim, and they shall be to me a
people: ...And if ye be Messiah's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise. Galatians 3:29
הושוע
n יה, said in Mathew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait [closely defined] gate : for
wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many [Not
every one that saith unto me, Master, Master, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.... Many will say to me in
that day, Master, Master, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have
cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess
unto them , I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.] there be which
go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto
life, and few there be that find it.
In Acts 2:38 then Peter said unto them, ‘ Repent and be baptized every one of you in
the name of הושוע
n יהMessiah for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of
the Ruach ha Qodesh. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that
are afar off, even as many as Yehovah our Elohim shall call’.
Master הושוע
n יהsaid, 'Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, till
heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law,
till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called the least in
the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them , the same
shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.' Matthew 5 : 17-19 KJV emphasis
added
The term 'Gentile believer' is an oxymoron (a figure of speech that juxtaposes
elements that appear to be contradictory eg. jumbo shrimp) and does not exist in a
Hebraic world view.
הושוע
n even reinforced this perspective in Matthew 18:15-17 And if your
brother sins against you, go and reprove him, between you and him alone. If
he hears you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not hear, take with
you one or two more, that ‘by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word
might be established.’ And if he refuses to hear them, say it to the assembly.
And if he refuses even to hear the assembly, let him be to you like a gentile and
a tax collector. emphasis added
Elohim said, If thou turn away thy feet from the Shabbat, from doing thy pleasure on my
Holy day [ 'יה הוההS DAY]; and call the Shabbat a delight, Set apart of יההוהה, honourable;
and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thy own pleasure, nor
speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in Yehovah; and I will
cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth ... Isaiah 58:13 KJV emphasis added
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be
abomination. Proverbs 28:9 KJV
Fear Elohim and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 KJV
The Shabbat will be kept in the future and will be a day of worship.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith יה הוהה, ... it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to
another, and from one SABBATH, to another [actual Hebrew word is Sabbath]
shall ALL flesh come to worship before me, saith יה הוההIsaiah 66:22-23 KJV
The Shabbat was made by Elohim to be kept for all time. For I am יההוהה, I
change not. Malachi 3: 6 KJV
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is
the gift of lohim : not of works lest any man should boast. For we are his
workmanship, created in Messiah Yehoshua unto good works, which Elohim
hath before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians2:8-10 KJV emphasis
added
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Messiah
הושוע
n יה: Whom Elohim hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his
blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through
the forbearance of Elohim; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that
he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in הושוע
n יה. Where is
boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of
faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds
of the law. Is he the Elohim of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes,
of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one Elohim, which shall justify the circumcision
by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law
through faith? Elohim forbid: yea, we establish the law. Romans 3:24-31 KJV
But Elohim commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners,
Messiah died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall
be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to Elohim by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life. Romans 5:8-10 KJV
הושוע
n יהwalked perfectly in the Torah; the living Word.
The Cheirographon
The Greek word cheirographon is used in Ephesians and Colossians
(epistles written by Paul).
(There is some repetition of previous information in the following discussion, in order to cover this topic completely.)
Paul writes in Romans of our need: For all have sinned, and come short of the
glory of Elohim; Romans 3:23 KJV
Solid Greek scholarship has determined that this text does not state that the
living “Word” הדבה רdâbâr who represented (when He, the Word, became flesh) the
Words הדבה רdâbâr spoke by the Father at Mt. Sinai, when nailed to the cross,
brought an end of הדבה רdâbâr (He arose from the grave), but rather that the
handwritten record of the sinner’s violations (the cheirographon) of the law
was nailed to the Messiah’s cross, causing those violations to be forgiven by
virtue of the Messiah’s sacrifice (His shed blood Matthew 26:28 For this is my
blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.).
Many in the 'Christian' religion today have misused this one verse, Colossians
2:14, to justify the notion that the Torah/ the law no longer needs to be obeyed,
contradicting numerous other verses and even the Saviours own words.
Paul himself disagrees with this false notion: 'Do we then make void the law
through faith? Elohim forbid: yea, we establish the law.' Romans 3:31 KJV
emphasis added
Israel failed to obey the: (Jeremiah 6:16 Thus said יהוה, Stand in the ways and
see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find
rest for yourselves. But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’).
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine
eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed,
judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason
together, saith יה הוהה: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing
and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. Isaiah 1:16-19
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son,
but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;
for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For
my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:27-30
Messiah [ יהושעthe Son's name, meaning יהוהsaves ] said in Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to
destroy, but to fulfil.
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments [
הדבה רdâbâr], and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the
same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:19
emphasis added
יהושעMessiah is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hebrews 13:8
By this we know that we love the children of Elohim, when we love Elohim and
keep [guard] His commands. For this is the love for Elohim [the Almighty],
that we keep His commands הדבה רdâbâr, and His commands הדבה רdâbâr are not
heavy [burdensome, grievous], 1John 5:2-3
'Christians' today are prepared to obey the hundreds of thousands laws of man
and teach that they must be obeyed; rather than obey even the TEN of the
Father's, whose burden is light.
Remember, true believers are grafted (Romans 11:17 And if some of the
branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in
among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
Boast not against the branches.) into Israel (the “church” did not replace Israel),
and need to remember who they really are, Israelites.
Revelation 17:5 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her
hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her
forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE
MOTHER [Roman Catholic Church] OF HARLOTS [ Protestant Denominations;
Sunday observers, who disobey the 4th commandment, as the Catholic Church
claims (the protestants are still her offspring);Traditions of men: Christmas,
Easter, pagan ways] AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Today we have both, Judaism who disobeyed the הדבה רdâbâr and rejected the
Messiah יהושעand Christianity teaching that the הדבה רdâbâr was done away;
rejecting the fact that the Hebrew “Word” יהושעMessiah (not the Greek/ Latin-
Jesus- substituted a name with no meaning) was the הדבה רdâbâr who became
flesh lived and taught the הדבה רdâbâr.
The fixed 7-day week was not widely used until it was introduced into the Julian
Calendar (which in prior times had an eight day week) in the 4th Century CE by
the Emperor Constantine. Through accidents of history, the Gregorian Calendar
has come to be used worldwide as the standard civil calendar for government
and business affairs. No improvement has been made in this calendar since it
was decreed by Pope Gregory in 1582.
In human society at present the fixed seven day cycle runs on continuously but
it has no harmonious relation with the other units of time, the month and the
year. The 7-day week exists solely because of social habit and religious
tradition, with otherwise no justification. The synodic month (a.k.a. the mean
lunar month) is the mean (that is, average) interval in days between exact
conjunctions of the Moon and the Sun (as observed from the Earth). The current
value of the synodic month (rounded to six decimal places) is 29.530588 days.
Did Weeks of Different Lengths Exist?
If you define a "week" as a 7-day period, obviously the
answer is no. But if you define a "week" as a named
interval that is greater than a day and smaller than a
month, the answer is [Link] ancient Egyptians used
a 10-day "week", as did the French Revolutionary
calendar.
The Maya calendar uses a 13 and a 20-day "week".
The Soviet Union used both a 5-day and a 6-day
week. In 1929-30 the USSR gradually introduced a 5-
day week. Every worker had one day off every week,
but there was no fixed day of rest. On September 1
1931 this was replaced by a 6-day week Egyptian Calendar with a fixed day
of rest, falling on the 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th, and 30th day of each month (1
March was used instead of the 30th day of February, and the last day of months
with 31 days was considered an extra working day outside the normal 6-day
week cycle). A return to the normal 7-day week was decreed on 26 June 1940.
Lithuanians used a week of nine days before adopting Christianity, and the
Gregorian Calendar.
The Babylonians, at a very early period, divided their months into seven-day cycles . . .
Ancient History, Hutton Webster, p. 20.
The Lunar Year
Most calendars are based on the solar year. Solar years have the disadvantage
of not being easily observable. Many years of observations are required to fix
them with any significant degree of accuracy. On the other hand, the phases of
the Moon -- and the first visibility after the new moon in particular -- are very
easy and quick to [Link], the first calendars defined a lunar year,
usually consisting of 12 synodic months. A synodic month is the interval from
one new moon to the next and lasts 29.530588 days. This is equivalent to 29
days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.9 seconds. Since for practical reasons a
month should contain an integer number of days, most calendars alternated
between months of 29 and 30 days, respectively. A year made out of six months
of each type has 354 days and is thus too short by 0.3672 months as compared
with a true lunar year. Therefore lunar calendars have to insert one leap month
about every third year to keep in step with the moon phases. A pure lunar
calendar is not synchronous with the seasons and after 16 years will put the
winter in the summer and vice versa. Over a period of 32 years it will cycle
through a complete year.
The first Roman calendar was called, the calendar of the Republic, a dating
system that according to legend was introduced by
Romulus, the founder of Rome, circa 738 BCE, though
there is information suggesting it was introduced by the
Etruscan Tarquintus Priscus {5th king, 616-579 BCE}).
The year began in March and consisted of 10 months, 6
months of 30 days, 4 months of 31 days with a winter
gap. Numa Pompilius added 2 more months (January,
February), but the year was still short. There was a shift
to a solar only Calendar about the fifth century BCE from
a lunar/ solar pattern. The Romans separated their
months from the lunar cycle by going to fixed days each
month. The Roman Calendars had numerous
adjustments for political reasons, plus adjustments for
past miscalculations (eg. Annus Confusionus, Year of Confusion; 46 BCE,
Sosigenes calendar reform - the longest year on record at 445 days, to adjust
for seasons).
In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Caesar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian
astronomer, to advise him about the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided
that the only practical step was to abandon the lunar calendar altogether. Months
must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year
was used, as in the Egyptian calendar.
In the Republican calendar, the cycle was further reset to G on Kal. Int. If the
intercalation was 22 days the sequence jumped from D to G; this had the effect of
moving the nundinal letter for the market day forwards by two letters after Kal. Int; if
it was 23 days the sequence jumped from E to G; the nundinal letter for the market
day moved forwards by one. For this reason, each Republican year is associated in the
tables with one nundinal letter in a regular year and two in an intercalary year. The
letter(s) effectively represent the phase shift between the nundinal cycle and the
market cycle caused by the annual reset of the nundinal cycle. It is unclear how the
bissextile day introduced by the Julian reform was reflected in the nundinal cycle,
since surviving early imperial fasti do not include the bissextile day.
Three possibilities seem reasonable:
• a.d. bis VI Kal. Mart. took the same letter as a.d. VI Kal. Mart. In this case, the nundinal
letter of market days after the bissextile would move backwards by one letter, and the
calendar dates would also move backwards by one day for the remainder of the year.
• a.d. bis VI Kal. Mart. and a.d. VI Kal. Mart. had consecutive letters. In this case, the
nundinal letter of market days after the bissextile would be unchanged, but the calendar
dates would still move backwards by one day for the remainder of the year.
• a.d. bis VI Kal. Mart. had no letter and was omitted from the nundinal cycle. In effect, the
market cycle was interrupted for one day. In this case both the nundinal letter and the
calendar dates of market days after the bissextile would be unchanged.
The third possibility can be excluded between the Julian and Augustan reforms, since
if it were true the intercalation described by Dio Cassius 48.33.4 would not have had
the desired effect. However it is very likely that ambiguity introduced by the bissextile
day was addressed this way as part of the Augustan reform.
After A.U.C 600 = 154, the civil year was the same as the consular year. From A.U.C.
532 = 222 to A.U.C. 600 = 154, the consular year began on Id. Mart. Before then it
most likely began on Kal. Mai. in the period covered here. Surviving annals are
organised by the consular year. As noted above, it is not known for sure whether the
civil year tracked the consular year or whether it already started on Kal. Ian.,
although the latter seems far more likely. Hence it is not clear exactly how the
nundinal cycle operated at this time, e.g. whether it was reset to A on Id. Mart. instead
of Kal. Ian. However, the consular reform did not change the phase relationship
between the nundinal cycle and the calendar, so for chronological purposes we may
assume a (possibly proleptic) reset of the nundinal letters on Kal. Ian. throughout the
Republican period. © Chris Bennet, 2001-2012 -- All rights reserved
The Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar (fasti) was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The
Julian calendar, like the calendar of the Republic before it, originally had an
eight-day cycle (A through H). Every eighth day was a nundinæ, or market day.
The calendars were not constructed in grids as are modern calendars, but the
dates were listed in columns. The early eight day week Julian calendars were
still in existence up to CE 37.
A drawing of the reconstruction of a Fasti Antiates (Roman Julian Calendar) from fragments
The Julian Calendar was in common use until the 1500s, when countries started
changing to the Gregorian Calendar. However, some countries (for example,
Greece and Russia) used it into this century, and the Orthodox church in Russia
still uses it, as do some other Orthodox churches.
This does not mean that years were counted the way we do now. They were
counted from the start of the reign of the Emperor or Caesar and reset to one
when the next Emperor took over. Historians sometimes counted years ab urbe
condita, that is since the founding of Rome.
Fragmented Julian Calendar
Romans separated their months from the lunar cycle in the fifth century B.C.E.. Month
lengths then became fixed. At that time, Ides was assigned as the 15th day in all months
given 31 days in length – March, May, July and October. It was designated as the 13th day in
all other months. As a result, from then on the Kalends section had from 16 to 19 days, the
Nones section had either four or six days and the Ides section, as before, always had eight
days. - [Link]/calendars/[Link]#anchor-months
A later seven-day week Julian calendar, as seen in this sketch of a clay calendar
found at the Baths of Titus (constructed 79 – 81 CE), provides further proof that the
Biblical Sabbath can never be found using the Julian calendar or the Gregorian
calendar that followed. The centre circle contains the 12 signs of the zodiac,
corresponding
to the 12
months of the
year. The
Roman
numerals to the
left and right
indicate the
days of the
month. Across
the top of the
calendar appear
the seven
planetary pagan
gods of the
Romans.
Year of Confusion
The old Roman calendar was very complicated and required a group of men,
known as the pontiffs, to decide when days should be added or removed to keep
the calendar in track with the seasons. This made planning ahead difficult and
the pontiffs were open to bribery in order to prolong the term of elected officials
or hasten elections. In order to avoid these problems Julius Caesar abolished
the use of the lunar year and the intercalary month, and regulated the civil year
entirely by the sun. With the advice and assistance of Sosigenes, he fixed the
mean length of the year at 365 1/4 days, and decreed that every fourth year
should have 366 days, the other years having each 365. In order to restore the
vernal equinox to the 25th of March, the place it occupied in the time of Numa,
he ordered two extraordinary months to be inserted between November and
December in the current year, the first to consist of thirty three, and the second
of thirty-four days. The intercalary month of twenty-three days fell into the year
of course, so that the ancient year of 355 days received an augmentation of
ninety days; and the year on that occasion contained in all 445 days. This was
called the last year of confusion. The first Julian year commenced with the 1st
of January of the 46th before the birth of Messiah, and the 708th from the
foundation of the city.
In the distribution of the days through the several months, Caesar adopted a
simpler arrangement than that which we have now. He had ordered that the first,
third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh months, that is January, March, May, July,
September and November, should each have thirty-one days, and the other months
thirty, except February, which in common years should have only twenty-nine day,
but every fourth year thirty days. This order was interrupted in 8 BCE to gratify the
vanity of Augustus, by giving the month bearing his name as many days as July,
which had been re-named after the first Caesar during 44BC. A day was
accordingly taken from February and given to August; and in order that three
months of thirty-one days might not come together, September and November
were reduced to thirty days, and thirty-one given to October and December.
The additional day which occurred every fourth year was given to February, being
the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the 24th and 25th
day. February having then twenty-nine days, the 25th was the 6th of the calends of
March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day,
was called bis-sexto calendas,--hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to
distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of leap year would
have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect,
and contained only 364 days. In the modern calendar the intercalary day is still
added to February, not, however, between the 24th and 25th, but as the 29th.
In the Julian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 1/4 days =
365.25 days. This gives an error of 1 day in approximately 128 years.
The approximation 365 1/4 is achieved by having 1 leap year every 4 years (as
explained above) and the rule for calculation is that every year divisible by 4 is a
leap year. However, this rule was not followed in the first years after the
introduction of the Julian calendar in 45 BC. Due to a counting error, every 3rd
year was a leap year in the first years of this calendar's existence.
The leap years were:
45 BC, 42 BC, 39 BC, 36 BC, 33 BC, 30 BC,
27 BC, 24 BC, 21 BC, 18 BC, 15 BC, 12 BC, 9 BC,
AD 8, AD 12, and every 4th year from then on.
There were no leap years between 9 BC and AD 8. This period without leap
years was decreed by emperor Augustus as part of his reform.
It is a curious fact that although the method of reckoning years after the (official)
birth year of Messiah was not introduced until the 6th century, by some "stroke
of luck" the Julian leap years coincide with years of "our Lord" that are divisible
by 4. Obviously to further reinforce the validity of the new calendar.
The seven day week was introduced
by the Emperor Constantine I in the
4th century CE. The year zero was
associated with 'Messiah's birth',
though proven wrong by many
historians since.
Problems with the Julian
Calendar
The Julian calendar introduces an
error of 1 day every 128 years. So
every 128 years the tropical year
shifts one day backwards with
respect to the calendar. Furthermore,
the method for calculating the dates
for Easter were inaccurate and
needed to be refined.
Early Roman twelve month Calendar
This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is
certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom
— without paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the luni-solar month) . . . so
that the New Moon no longer coincided with the first day of the month.
“The introduction . . . of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective
of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the
ancient view of the Sabbath. . . Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1903 p. 4179/ 5290
The Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the one commonly used today. It was proposed by
Aloysius Lilius, a physician from Naples, and adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in
accordance with instructions from the Council of Trent (1545-1563) to correct
for errors in the older Julian Calendar. It was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in a
papal bull in February 1582.
In the Gregorian calendar, the tropical year is approximated as 365 97/400 days
= 365.2425 days. Thus it takes approximately 3300 years for the tropical year to
shift one day with respect to the Gregorian calendar.
The approximation 365 97/400 is achieved by having 97 leap years every 400
years.
These are calculated as follows : Every year divisible by 4 is a leap year.
However, every year divisible by 100 is not a leap year. However, every year
divisible by 400 is a leap year after all.
So, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, and 2200 are not leap years. But 1600, 2000, and
2400 are leap years.
(Destruction of a myth: There are no double leap years, i.e. no years with 367
days. See, however, the note on Sweden lower down this page.)
The 4000-year rule.
It has been suggested (by the astronomer John Herschel (1792-1871) among
others) that a better approximation to the length of the tropical year would be
365 969/4000 days = 365.24225 days. This would dictate 969 leap years every
4000 years, rather than the 970 leap years mandated by the Gregorian
calendar. This could be achieved by dropping one leap year from the Gregorian
calendar every 4000 years, which would make years divisible by 4000 non-leap
years.
This rule has, however, not been officially adopted.
When the Gregorian Calendar was created and the days were shuffled around
from the Julian Calendar, that didn't insure that the Hebrew Sabbath was on the
right day now that it landed on Saturday. No evidence exists that the Hebrew
Sabbath was a consideration during all the changes in the Julian and Gregorian
Calendars. It appears Rome made every effort possible to exclude the true
Sabbath-day pattern from daily life and future Calendars, when the move was
made to the current Gregotian seven day week.
“We shall be taken for Persians, perhaps . . . The reason for this, I suppose, is that it is
known that we pray towards the east . . . Likewise, if we devote the day of the Sun to
festivity (from a far different reason from Sun worship), we are in a second place from
those who devote the day of Saturn, themselves also deviating by way of a Jewish
custom of which they are ignorant.” - Tertullian, Apologia, chap. 16, in J. P. Migne, Patrologiæ
Latinæ
The Sabbath depending, in Israel’s nomadic period, upon the observation of the
phases of the moon, it could not, accordingly be a fixed day [planetary day of the
modern Roman cycling week]. The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the
History. Edited by Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler. Volume 10, p. 590.
Constantine
321 CE: “On the venerable day of the Sun let the Magistrates and the people
residing in the cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country
however persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue
their pursuits because it often happens that another day is not suitable for
grain-sowing or vine planting; lest by neglecting
the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven
should be lost.”- Codex Justinian 3.12.2; translated by Philip Schaff, History
of the Christian Church, Vol. 3 (1902), p. 380, note . emphasis added
English: “Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on the Sabbath, but shall work on
that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall,
if possible, do no work on that day. If however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be
accursed from Christ.” - Canon 29 Council of Laodicea
The Greek Church had no such facilities of examining the authentic records . . . till the
Julian Calendar had been adopted; still the true date of the crucifixion was less
disguised by the Greeks than that of the nativity, but he [Constantine] wished, almost
the necessity, of so keeping Easter as to make the day of crucifixion Friday, and of the
resurrection Sunday, caused differences of opinion that led to persecution and
bloodshed. Mazzaroth, The Constellations, Frances Rolleston, p. 133. Rivingtons, London,
1862.
Even after Constantine’s edict about Sunday, it took another generation or two for
the seven-day week to catch on throughout the empire. The 24-hour system took
longer, having to wait until the invention of the mechanical clock in the Middle Ages
by monks anxious to observe with precision their canonical hours. Before this, people
marked the passage of time during the night by using the stars and during the day
either by eyeballing the sun or by listening to public announcements of the time.
Calendar, David Ewing Duncan, p. 47, New York, Avon Books, 1998 emkphasis added
Clavius states:
“The Catholic Church has never used that [Jewish] rite of celebrating the Passover, but
always in its celebration has observed the motion of the moon and sun, and it was
thus sanctified by the most ancient and most holy Pontiffs of Rome, but also confirmed
by the first Council of Nicæa.”
– Christopher Clavius, Romani Calendarii A Gregorio XIII P.M. Restituti Explicato, p. 54
“At every step in the course of the apostasy, at every step taken in adopting the forms
of sun worship, and against the adoption and the observance of Sunday itself, there
had been constant protest by all real Christians. Those who remained faithful to
Christ and to the truth of the pure word of God observed the Sabbath of the Lord
according to the commandment, and according to the word of God which sets forth
the Sabbath as the sign by which the Lord, the Creator of the heavens and the earth, is
distinguished from all other gods. These accordingly protested against every phase
and form of sun worship. Others compromised, especially in the East, by observing
both Sabbath and Sunday. But in the west under Roman influences and under the
leadership of the church and the bishopric of Rome, Sunday alone was adopted and
observed.”
“In order, therefore, to the accomplishment of her original purpose, it now became
necessary for the church to secure legislation extinguishing all exemption, and
prohibiting the observance of the Sabbath so as to quench that powerful protest
[against worship on Sunday]. And now . . . the “truly divine command” of Constantine
and the council of Nicæa that “nothing” should be held “in common with the Jews,”
was made the basis and the authority for legislation, utterly to crush out the
observance of the Sabbath of the Lord, and to establish the observance of
Sunday only in its stead.”
– A. T. Jones, The Two Republics, A. B. Publishing, Inc., 1891, p. 320-321, emphasis added
All the evidence confirms that there was no effort ever made to synchronize the
Roman Calendars to the original Sabbath pattern and that the Gregorian Calendar
does not have the Sabbath on the correct day even though it would appear to fall on
the seventh day, Saturday. Turns out, Saturday, the day of Saturn, is not the Shabbat.
The Gregorian Calendar names all the days after pagan deities.
Sunday - Sun
Monday - Moon
Tuesday - Tiu; Norse god of war
Wednesday - Woden; Celtic god of wisdom
Thursday - Thor; Celtic god of thunder
Friday - Freya; Celtic goddess of fertility
Saturday - Saturn; Roman god of agriculture
“Sunday is our mark of authority... the Church is above the Bible, and this transference
of the Sabbath observance is proof of this fact” - Catholic Record
“Sunday is the 'Lord's Day', the first day of the week, and the day that Christ rose from
the dead.” - Section 2175 of the Catholic Catechism.
“… believers in Allah are particularly close to us” - (Crossing the Threshold of Hope, by Karol
Wojtyla (Pope John-Paul II), 1996.)
“It was the Catholic Church which made the law obliging us to keep Sunday holy. The
church made this law long after the Bible was written. Hence said “law” is not in the
Bible. The Cath. [sic.] Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish
festivals.” - Letter by T. Enright, Bishop of St. Alphonsus Church
“It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians,
that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday
is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day
observe a commandment of the Catholic Church.” - Priest Brady, in an address reported in The
News, Elizabeth, New Jersey, March 18, 1903
“The [Roman Catholic] Church changed the observance of the Sabbath to Sunday by
right of the divine, infallible authority given to her by her founder, Jesus Christ. The
Protestant claiming the Bible to be the only guide of faith, has no warrant for
observing Sunday.” - The Catholic Universe Bulletin, August 14, 1942, p. 4.
The change-over from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
The papal bull of February 1582 decreed that 10 days should be dropped from
October 1582 so that 15 October should follow immediately after 4 October, and
from then on the reformed calendar should be used.
This was observed in Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Other Catholic
countries followed shortly after, but Protestant countries were reluctant to
change, and the Greek orthodox countries didn't change until the start of this
century.
The following list contains the dates for changes in a number of countries.
Albania: December 1912
Austria: Different regions on different dates
5 Oct 1583 was followed by 16 Oct 1583 14 Dec 1583 was followed by 25 Dec
1583
Belgium: Different authorities say 14 Dec 1582 was followed by 25 Dec 1582
21 Dec 1582 was followed by 1 Jan 1583
Bulgaria: Different authorities say sometime in 1912 or sometime in 1915; 18
Mar 1916 was followed by 1 Apr 1916
Canada: see Great Britain
China: Different authorities say 18 Dec 1911 was followed by 1 Jan 1912
18 Dec 1928 was followed by 1 Jan 1929
Czechoslovakia (i.e. Bohemia and Moravia): 6 Jan 1584 was followed by 17 Jan
1584
Denmark (including Norway): 18 Feb 1700 was followed by 1 Mar 1700
Egypt: 1875
Estonia: January 1918
Finland: Then part of Sweden. (Note, however, that Finland later became part of
Russia, which then still used the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar remained official
in Finland, but some use of the Julian calendar was made.)
France: 9 Dec 1582 was followed by 20 Dec 1582
Germany: Different states on different dates:
Catholic states on various dates in 1583-1585
Protestant states: 18 Feb 1700 was followed by 1 Mar 1700
Great Britain and Dominions (including what is now the USA) still followed the
old Julian Calendar (year ending 24th March) until 1751. Lord Chesterfield's Act
of 1751/2 stated that the year 1752 would begin on 1st January and end on the
following 31 December. Sep 2 1752 was followed by Sep 14 1752. This is the
most recent break in the continous seven day count. The shuffle was made to
appear that nothing changed.
Greece: 9 Mar 1924 was followed by 23 Mar 1924
Hungary: 21 Oct 1587 was followed by 1 Nov 1587
Italy: 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582
Japan: Different authorities say:
19 Dec 1872 was followed by 1 Jan 1873
18 Dec 1918 was followed by 1 Jan 1919
Latvia: During German occupation 1915 to 1918
Lithuania: 1915
Luxembourg: 14 Dec 1582 was followed by 25 Dec
1582
Netherlands: Brabant, Flanders, Holland, Artois,
Hennegau: 14 Dec 1582 was followed by 25 Dec
1582; Geldern, Friesland, Zeuthen, Groningen,
Overysel: 30 Nov 1700 was followed by 12 Dec
1700
Poland: 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582
Portugal: 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct 1582
Prussia : 22 Aug 1610 was followed by 2 Sept 1610
Romania: 31 Mar 1919 was followed by 14 Apr
1919
Russia: 31 Jan 1918 was followed by 14 Feb 1918
1853 Compendium
Spain and her colonies (including Florida): 4 Oct 1582 was followed by 15 Oct
1582
Sweden (including Finland): 17 Feb 1753 was followed by 1 Mar 1753 (see note
below)
Switzerland: both calendars from 1583 until fully adopting the Gregorian
calendar in 1812.
Zurich, Bern, Basel, Schafhausen, Neuchatel, Geneva: 31 Dec 1700 was
followed by 12 Jan 1701
St Gallen: 1724
Transylvania : 14 Dec 1590 was followed by 25 Dec 1590
Turkey: 18 Dec 1926 was followed by 1 Jan 1927
Tyrol : 5 Oct 1583 was followed by 16 Oct 1583
USA: See Great Britain, of which it was then a colony. Alaska upon purchase in
1867
Yugoslavia: 14 January 1919 was followed by 28 January 1919;
but parts of the country had changed over earlier.
Sweden has a curious history. Sweden decided to make a gradual change from
the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. By dropping every leap year from 1700
through 1740 the eleven superfluous days would be omitted and from 1 Mar
1740 they would be in sync with the Gregorian calendar. (But in the meantime
they would be in sync with nobody!)
So 1700 (which should have been a leap year in the Julian calendar) was not a
leap year in Sweden. However, by mistake 1704 and 1708 became leap years.
This left Sweden out of synchronisation with both the Julian and the Gregorian
world, so they decided to go ‘back’ to the Julian calendar. In order to do this,
they inserted an extra day in 1712, making that year a double leap year! So in
1712, February had 30 days in Sweden. Later, in 1753, Sweden changed to the
Gregorian calendar by dropping 11 days like everyone else.
“It should be noted that the Gregorian Calendar is useless for astronomy because it
has a ten-day hiatus in it . For the purpose of calculating positions backward in
time, astronomers use the Julian Date Calendar.” -- source:Calendopaedia
A19-year cycle is used since 19 solar years is almost exactly 235 lunar months.
A cycle consists of 12 common years (12 months) and 7 leap years (13 months)
Leap years occur at 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 19th year in cycle
“…the Gregorian calendar is solar, the Jewish one is lunar. The latter evolved over a
period of many centuries, going through a number of formulations, much
experimentation, and a great deal of controversy….Despite the fact that the Jewish
calendar finally became fixed in 358 C.E., there was no end to the criticisms and
disputes leveled at its inaccuracies for centuries thereafter.” (Nathan Ausubel, The Book
of Jewish Knowledge, An Encyclopedia of Judiasm and the Jewish People, pp.70-71, 1964.)
Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart. Six days you labour, and shall do
all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of יה הוההyour Elohim. You do
not do any work – you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male
servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates. Exodus 20:8-10 The Scriptures 98+ emphasis added
Remember (Hebrew רn זהכzâkar) : a verb used with an object - to recall to the
mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again. Remember implies that a
thing exists in the memory, though not actually present in the thoughts at the
moment.
That would mean the Shabbat already existed prior to this reminder at Sinai.
For in six days יההוההmade the heavens and יההוההthe earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore blessed the Sabbath day
and set it apart. Exodus 20:10 The Scriptures 98+
Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign
between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am
the LORD, who makes you holy. Exodus 31:13 KJV
MOST IMPORTANT
The first mo‛ed, in this passage, is the Shabbat, which is a sign of loyalty to
יההוהה. The Scriptures then continue on (Leviticus 23:4-44) describing the seven
other feasts (mo‛ed), spread throughout the year. The Moon is used for the
Jewish timing of the other mo‛ed, but for whatever reason יה הוההis not obeyed
when it comes to the Shabbat, even when it is in context. Why is the Shabbat
treated differently. Where is the difference. There are no other Scriptures
contradicting this instruction.
Now in Deuteronomy:
for you are a set-apart people to יההוההyour Elohim, and יההוההhas chosen you to be
a people for Himself, a treasured possession above all the peoples who are on the face
of the earth. Deuteronomy 14:2 The Scriptures 98+
If you do turn back your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on My set-
apart day, and shall call the Sabbath ‘a delight,’ the set-apart day of יה הוהה
‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own
pleasure, nor speaking your own words, then you shall delight yourself in יה הוהה. And
I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance
of Yaʽaqoḇ your father. For the mouth of יההוההhas spoken!”
Isaiah 58:13 The Scriptures 98+
Another repeat: יה הושועsaid: Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the
prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you,
until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen
stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are
accomplished. Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least
commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom
of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the
Kingdom of Heaven Matthew 5:17-19 KJV
Paul wrote to the Romans: For I speak to you, the gentiles, ... if some of the
branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, have been grafted
in among them, and came to share the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not
boast against the branches. And if you boast, remember: you do not bear the
root, but the root bears you! Romans 11:13,17,18 The Scriptures 98+
As was said earlier, Paul is saying, in these verses, that new believers become
part of Israel. Israel has not ceased to exist, so all the Scriptures are still
applicable.
Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the
time of Jesus…was practicing a fixed seven-day week which was the same as the
modern fixed [cycling planetary designations] seven-day week. This is extremely
doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power
and influence of Rome. As long as the Nazarenes held power in Jerusalem, all Roman
practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, were held at bay.
Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance
And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises
upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the
west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night
through till the sun rises over against her and the moon is seen over against the sun.
On the side whence the light of the moon comes forth, there again she wanes till all
the light vanishes and all the days of the month are at an end, and her
circumference is empty, void of light. - Book of Enoch LXXVIII. Vs 12-15 The Sun and Moon:
the Waxing and Waning of the Moon. empasis added
“And in periods of seven days the moon undergoes its changes. In the first week she
becomes half moon; in the second, full moon; and in the third, in her wane, again half
moon; and in the fourth she disappears.” St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies,
Chapter 16
“In the time of the earliest prophets, the New Moon stood in the same line with
another lunar observance, the Sabbath. Ezekiel, who curiously enough frequently
dates his prophecies on the New Moon … describes the gate of the inner court of the
(new) temple looking eastward as kept shut for the six working days, but opened on
the Sabbath and the New Moon.” Scribner's Dictionary of the Bible (1898 edit.), p. 521
“the beautiful, harmonic, mathematical calculation underlying the solar year, which
according to (Zadok) priestly tradition derived from divine origin , are enunciated in
detail in 1 Enoch 72:32 ( On that day the night decreases and amounts to nine parts,
and the day to nine parts, and the night 33 is equal to the day and the year is exactly
as to its days three hundred and sixty−four.),74: 10-12 ; 75:2, 82: 6; 2 Enoch 13-17,
41-8; Jubilees 6:23-28; (in the Dead Sea Scrolls documents) 4QMMT A II-III; Psalms
Scroll 11 QPs XXVII, 2-11, mention of these principles may also be found in the Temple
Scroll, The Damascus Document, The Scroll of Priestly Courses, and The Songs of the
Sabbath Sacrifice” Prof Elior, P 45 “The Three Temples”
“Moses puts down the beginning of the vernal equinox as the first month of the year,
attributing the chief honour, not as some persons do, to the periodical revolutions of the
year in regard to time, but to the graces and beauties of nature which it has caused to
shine upon men; for it is through the bounty of nature that the seeds which are sown to
produce the necessary food of mankind are brought to perfection. And the fruit trees in
their prime, which is second in importance only to the necessary crops, is engendered by
the same power; for we always find in nature that those things which are not very
necessary are second to those which are indispensable” - Philo on Moses. 2:222 emphasis added
“For it is said in the Scripture: On the tenth day of this month let each of them take a
sheep according to his house; in order that from the tenth, there may be consecrated
to the tenth, that is to Elohim, the sacrifices which have been preserved in the soul,
which is illuminated in two portions out of the three, until it is entirely changed in
every part, and becomes a heavenly brilliancy like a full moon, at the height of its
increase at the end of the second week”. - Philo on Mating with the Preliminary Studies, XIX (102);
emphasis added
“The four quarters of the moon supply an obvious division of the month...it is most
significant that in the older parts of the Hebrew scriptures the new moon and the
Sabbath are almost invariably mentioned together. The [Creator\s] month is beyond
question an old sacred division of time common to all the Semites; even the Arabs,
who received the week at quite a late period from the Syrians, greeted the New Moon
with religious acclamations. … We cannot tell [exactly] when the Sabbath became
disassociated from the month.” Encyclopedia Biblica (1899 edit.), pp. 4178 and 4179
For there shall arise false messiahs, and false prophets [religious imposters;
spurious prophet, that is, pretended foreteller], and shall shew great signs and
wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Matthew 24:24 KJV
“…let all the festivals and sabbaths and new Moons….be days of exemption...
1 Maccabes, Chapter 10:34
"Declaring the new month by observation of the new moon, and the new year by the
arrival of spring, can only be done by the Sanhedrin. In the time of Hillell II [4th
century C.E.], the last President of the Sanhedrin, the Romans prohibited this practice.
Hillel II was therefore forced to institute his fixed calendar, thus in effect giving the
Sanhedrin's advance approval to the calendars of all future years." The Jewish Calendar and
Holidays: The Jewish Calendar; Changing the Calendar
“Several customs which prevailed during the age between the Exodus of the Israelites
and the resurrection of Christ had so completely changed by the seventeenth Christian
century that the translators of the “Authorized Version” of the English Bible were not
able to perceive some important truths taught in the Greek version of the Old
Testament and the Greek New Testament. Unseen truth would not be clearly
translated into the English Bible. The student who of necessity was limited in his
studies to the English version would not be able to see more truth than was expressed
in the English version.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, The Sabbath-The Lord’s Day, by Rev.
Samuel W. Gamble, D.D. Page 82. Published for the New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page
and Company, New York, 1916.
“Then late on the day of the ninth, close to nightfall, they set the Temple on fire, and
it continued to burn the entire next day, on the tenth. When the Temple was
destroyed for the first time at the hands of Nebuzaradan [the captain of the guard],
that day was the ninth of Av, and it was the day following Shabbat, and it was the
year following the Sabbatical Year.... And similarly when the Temple was destroyed
a second time at the hands of Titus, the destruction occurred on the very same day,
on the ninth of Av.” - Page 205, 206 Talmud the Steinsaltz Edition”, Volume XIV Tractate Ta’anit Part II
(1995 by Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and Milta Books); emphasis added
Israel was chosen by יההוההto be "a light to the nations". However, Rabbinical
Judaism has shown that they, through their legal rulings have authority to bind
their declarations over religious practice throughout the earth and with these
changes, supposedly, bind not just Moses, but יההוההalso.
The Roman Pontiff, in much the same way, claims infallible authority,
throughout the earth, over both the interpretation of Scripture and the practice
of Christian doctrine, including Protestantism, closely resembles Catholicism.
“Since the Jews for more than sixteen centuries have been observing a Saturday
Sabbath, and since Christians have been for more than eighteen centuries having a
fixed Sunday Sabbath, it is only reasonable to expect most Sabbath writers to try and
interpret all Bible Sabbath teachings on the theory of fixed septenary cycles. But the
noted Rabbi Hirsch believes and teaches that “The old (Jewish) Sabbath had no
connection with a fixed [cycling] week.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, The Sabbath-The Lord’s
Day, by Rev. Samuel W. Gamble, D.D. Page 82. Published for the New York Sabbath Committee,
Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1916.
Early historical records clearly confirm that very early Gentile Christians also kept the
same [lunar] Sabbath Calendar as the…Nazarenes. This practice was first changed by
Sixtus in 126 A.D. and later officially changed by a royal Roman decree from the emperor
Constantine. Observance of the Sabbath day was made illegal and observance of a
“Sunday” of a fixed week was made mandatory for all except farmers. Previous to this
time the Roman Saturday was the FIRST DAY OF THE ROMAN WEEK. The veneration of
the Sun in the second century A.D. began to pressure Roman culture to change the first
day of their week FROM SATURNDAY TO SUNDAY. (Had the Jews been observing this
same Roman calendar at this early date, as some maintain, then their seventh day
Sabbath would have been on FRIDAY which was the traditional seventh day of this
Roman calendar during the first century A.D.).
In A.D. 130, Hadrian visited the ruins of Jerusalem left after the First Roman-Jewish War
of 6673. He promised to rebuild the city, but planning it as a pagan metropolis to be
called Aelia Capitolina. A new pagan temple on the ruins of the Second Temple was to be
dedicated to Jupiter.[11] In addition, Hadrian abolished circumcision (brit milah), which
he, as an avid Hellenist, viewed as mutilation.[12] A Roman coin inscribed Aelia
Capitolina was issued in 132. Hadrian’s policies triggered the massive Jewish uprising
(132135), led by Bar Kokhba and Akiba ben Joseph. Following the outbreak of the revolt,
Hadrian called his general Sextus Julius Severus from Britain, and troops were brought
from as far as the Danube. Roman losses were very heavy, and it is believed that an entire
legion, the XXII Deiotariana was destroyed. [13] Roman losses were so heavy that
Hadrian’s report to the Roman Senate omitted the customary salutation “I and the
legions are well” [14]. Hadrian’s army eventually defeated the revolt however. According
to Cassius Dio, during the war 580,000 Jews were killed, 50 fortified towns and 985
villages razed. After the end of the war, Hadrian continued the religious persecution of
Jews, according to the Babylonian Talmud [15]. He attempted to root out Judaism, which
he saw as the cause of continuous rebellions, prohibited the Torah law, the Hebrew
calendar and executed Judaic scholars. The sacred scroll was ceremoniously burned on
the Temple Mount. At the former Temple sanctuary, he installed two statues, one of
Jupiter, another of himself. In an attempt to erase any memory of Judea, he removed the
name from the map and replaced it with Syria Palaestina, after the Philistines, the
ancient enemies of the Jews. He re-established Jerusalem as the Roman pagan polis of
Aelia Capitolina, and Jews were forbidden from entering it. - Hadrian - Wikipedia the
free Encyclopedia
During the century preceding the destruction of Jerusalem, the Sodhaїbour or “Secret
Council for Intercalation” appointed by the Sanhedrin, fixed each year of the Jewish
calendar by means of astronomical calculations based on certain regulations kept
secret for a long time, which in the end transpired [via Hillel II] to the outer world.
The direct observation of the new moon on the evening of the 29th day of the month,
and the statements of witnesses – observers to be received with the customary
formalities by a tribunal designated by said Council – were used merely to confirm the
astronomical calculations, and, above all, in order to surround with mystery, the
deliberations of the Council behind closed doors. - Sidersky, op. cit., p. 625.
"...the Gregorian calendar is solar, the Jewish one is lunar. The latter evolved over a
period of many centuries, going through a number of formulations, much
experimentation, and a great deal of controversy....Despite the fact that the Jewish
calendar finally became fixed in 358 C.E., there was no end to the criticisms and
disputes leveled at its inaccuracies for centuries thereafter." - Nathan Ausubel, The Book of
Jewish Knowledge, An Encyclopedia of Judiasm and the Jewish People, pp.70-71, 1964, emphasis
added
Many who say the Shabbat is on
Saturday, point out that “the Jews keep
Saturday”. However is this following the
scriptural Hebrew Shabbat, or a
corruption of the original Shabbat, for
Hillel II’s Shabbat paired with Rome's
Sunday. Saturn (Hebrew: Chiun) the
planet, and Saturday are both named
after the Roman god Saturn. As was
noted earlier, the Roman week at one
point was eight days, so during that
period the Hebrew calendar would have
floated though the Roman weeks.
When the switch was made to a seven
day week, if the Roman calendar was to
sync with the Hebrew calendar, it could only have happened in certain months to
have the Hebrew Shabbat land on Saturday. There is no proof of this (that Rome tried
to sync to the Hebrew week), rather it was to the contrary, by making a new fixed
week of seven days. Rome setup the Gregorian so that the first day of the week
landed on their Sunday. Plus the 10 day adjustment in 1582 would mean that
Sabbath really isn't on Saturday.
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you
observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. KJV
emphasis added
But their lives are not good examples for you to follow. They tell you to do things,
but they don't do those things themselves. Matthew 23:3 ERV.
Judaism says to observe the Shabbat, however they observe it on
Saturnsday. But is that the correct day?
The Roman’s saw that the Hebrews did not fight on the Sabbath unless attacked. So, the
Romans simply moved their engines and battering rams up to the walls on the Sabbath day
[8th of Av[, which otherwise they could not do, and on the next day [9th of Av], they battered
the city. - Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews Book 14, Chapter 4, section 3; pages 369-370
“in periods of seven days the moon undergoes its changes. In the first week she
becomes half moon; in the second [week], full moon; and in the third [week], in her
wane, again half moon; and in the fourth [week] she disappears.” - Clement of Alexandria
vol. 6, chapter 16, The Stromata (circa 150-215 A.D.)
1Kings 4:7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals
for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision.
emphasis added
Revelation 22:2 In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree
of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. And the
leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. emphasis added
This planetary week was paganism’s counterfeit of the true, Biblical week instituted by the
Creator in the beginning of Earth’s history. . . . Just as the true Sabbath is inseparably linked
with the Biblical week, so the false Sabbath of pagan origin needed a weekly cycle. Thus we
have found that the two counterfeit institutions were linked together . . . The enforcement
[at the Council of Nicæa, A.D. 321-325] of the weekly observance of Sunday gave official
recognition to the week of seven days and resulted in the introduction of it into the official
civil calendar of Rome. The Romans passed that calendar down to us, and in it we have still
the ancient planetary titles of the days of the week. - Robert L. Odom, Sunday in Roman Paganism
“The Jewish and astrological weeks evolved quite independently of one another. However,
given the coincidence of their identical length, it was only a matter of time before some
permanent correspondence between particular Jewish days and particular planetary days
would be made. A permanent correspondence between the Sabbath and “the day of
Saturn” was thus established...[some time] later than the first century of the present era,
Jews even came to name the planet Saturn Shabtai, after the original Hebrew name of the
Sabbath, Shabbath.” Eviator Zerubavel, The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the
Week, New York: The Free Press, 1985. P. 17
“Under the reign of Constantius (337-362) the persecutions of the Jews reached such a
height that . . . the computation of the calendar [was] forbidden under pain of severe
punishment.” Calendar, The Jewish Encyclopedia,
“mean motions of the sun and moon, the true [calendar] having been set aside.”
Maimonides, Kiddusch Ha-hodesch, Tr. Mahler, Wein, 1889.
“In the time of the earliest prophets, the New Moon stood in the same line with
another lunar observance, the Sabbath. Ezekiel, who curiously enough frequently
dates his prophecies on the New Moon … describes the gate of the inner court of the
(new) temple looking eastward as kept shut for the six working days, but opened on
the Sabbath and the New Moon.” Scribner's Dictionary of the Bible (1898 edit.), p. 521
“… the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the
relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the
ancient view of the Sabbath...” Encyclopedia Biblica, (1899 edit.), p. 4179
“…the Hebrew Sabbathon … was celebrated at intervals of seven days, corresponding
with changes in the moon’s phases...” Encyclopedia Biblica, 1899. p. 4180
“The Hebrew month is a lunar month and the quarter of this period—one phase of the
moon—appears to have determined the week of seven days.” Encyclopedia Biblica, p. 4780
“[Peter] inferred thus: "Neither worship as [some] Jews…[for] if the moon be not
visible, they do not hold the Sabbath, which is called the first; nor do they hold the
new moon, nor the feast of unleavened bread, nor the feast, nor the great day."
Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies, Chapter 5
'This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain
that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom -- without
paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the lunar month) ... so that the New Moon no
longer coincided with the first day [of the month ].” Encyclopedia Biblica, (1899 edit.), p. 5290
“With the development of the importance of the Sabbath as a day of consecration and the
emphasis laid upon the significant number seven, the week became more and more divorced
from its lunar connection . . .The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Isaak Landman (ed.), Vol. X, “Week,”
(1943 ed.), p. 482
...the week of seven days was connected with the lunar month, of which it is,
approximately, a fourth. The quadripartite division of the month was evidently in use
among the Hebrews and other ancient peoples; but it is not clear whether it originated
among the former. It is unnecessary to assume, however, that it was derived from the
Babylonians, for it is equally possible that observations of the four phases of the moon
led the Hebrew nomads spontaneously and independently to devise the system of
dividing the interval between the successive new moons into four groups of seven days
each. There is ground, on the other hand, for the assumption that both among the
Babylonians and among the Hebrews the first day of the first week of the month was
always reckoned as coincident with the first day of the month. The emphasis laid on the
requirement (Lev. xxiii. 15) that the weeks of Pentecost should be "complete" ("temimot")
suggests that weeks might be reckoned in such a way as to violate this injunction. This
was the case as long as the first day of the first week of the month was made to coincide
with the new moon. At the end of four weeks an interval of one or two days might
intervene before the new week could begin.
At an early date, however, this intimate connection between the week and the moon must
have been dissolved, the chief cause of the fixed week of seven days being, in all
probability, the predominance of the seventh day as the Sabbath (but see Meinhold,
"Sabbat und Woche im O. T." Göttingen, 1905, according to whom Sabbath, originally
only the full-moon day and the week areindependent of each other). The week thus
became a useful standard in the measurement of intervals of time (one week, Gen. xxix.
27 et seq.; two weeks, Lev. xii. 5; three weeks, Dan. x. 2; seven weeks, Deut. xvi. 9; Lev. xxiii.
15). The Jewish Encyclopedia pg 48
“ It is not to be doubted that the diffusion of the Iranian [Persian] mysteries has had a
considerable part in the general adoption, by the pagans, of the week with Sunday as
the holy day. The names which we employ, unawares, for the other six days, came into
use at the same time that Mithraism won its followers in the provinces in the West,
and one is not rash in establishing a relation of coincidence betwen its triumph and
that concomitant phenomenon. Robert L. Odom, Sunday in Roman Paganism, page 157
“This change from the luni-solar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during
the repressive measures which were enacted against all Jewish customs . . . during the
reign of Emperor Hadrian. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters…at Jerusalem,
this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new
calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped
the concept of the week and its seventh day.” Iranaeus 2nd Century CE
“The present Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century [CE].” Jewish Theological
Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. L. E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939. Regarding the
present Jewish calendar
The pre-emince assigned to the dies Solis [day of the Sun] also certainly contributed to
the general recognition of Sunday as a holiday. This is connected with a more
important fact, namely, the adoption of the week by all the European nations. Franz
Cumont, Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans, page 163
"The astrological influence is obviously even more pronounced around the fringes of
the Roman Empire, where Christianity arrived only much later. English, Dutch,
Breton, Welsh, and Cornish, which are the only Euopean languages to have preserved
to this day the original planetary names of the week, are all spoken in areas that were
free of any Christian influence during the first centuries of our era, when the
astrological week was spreading throughout the Empire Eviatar Zerubavel," The Seven
Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the week, New York: The Free Press, 1985. page24
"The pagan names of the Planetary week have been perpetuated in the calendar in
use among the so-called Christian nations. Every time we look at the calendar we
have before us a constant reminder of the amalgamation of paganism and
Christianity that took place as a result of the great religious apostasy – that "falling
away" foretold by the apostle Paul, which occurred in the early centuries of the
Christian church and made the modern Babel of conflicting sects and creeds which
profess the name of Christ." Robert L. Odom, Sunday in Roman Paganism, page 202
"Counterfeit worship requires a counterfeit calendar and the Council of Nicea
provided it. Biblical calendation was supplanted by pagan solar calendation, and the
planetary week replaced the Biblical week which depended upon the moon". Elaine
Vornholt/ L.L. Vornholt-Jones, Calendar Fraud, page 53
The crescent moon originated in Babylon and became an integral part of Islam.
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn
feast day. Psalm 81:3
תקעtaqa‛ שרפרshôphar חדשchôdesh כסאkeseh חגchag יוםyôm
( כopen) hand/ cover סprop ( הcomes from)
Hebrew Month: Starts at the new moon conjunction/ concealment, i.e.,
when moon comes closest to being aligned between earth and sun (molad).
The Mean time between molads is 29 days 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 1/3
seconds.
The conjunction/ concealment happens at the same moment
in time no matter where a person is on the earth.
This timing is determined by the Creator not by man. The new month begins
at a precise moment in the heavens. Everyone on the planet is on the same
page using this method. Modern man has found a way to predetermine
these points in time, but the Creator could make a change when He wishes;
as הושוע
n יהsays only His Father knows the day or the hour.
According to Josephus, Seth’s sons were the first astronomers and had
developed a knowledge of the precise cycles of the sun, moon and stars; what
today, we call astronomy. We can likewise determine the various cycles of the
moon with precision.
Another clue.
Significance of number 8
Noach; the eighth from Adam; eight souls saved from the flood.
SAC H5146: נַחחnoach no'-akh; the same as SAC H5118; rest; Noach,
SAC H5118: נוחnuach נוחnoach noo'-akh, no'-akh; from SAC H5117; quiet: -
rest (-ed, -ing place)
SAC H5117: nנוחnuach noo'-akh A primitive root; to rest, that is, settle down;
used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, intransitively,
transitively and causatively (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give
comfort, etc.): - cease, be confederate, lay, let down, (be) quiet, remain, (cause
to, be at, give, have, make to) rest, set down.
Diptych sundial in the form of a lute, c. 1612. The gnomons-
style is a string stretched between a horizontal and vertical
face. This sundial also has a small nodus (a bead on the
string) that tells time on the hyperbolic pelikinon, just above
the date on the vertical face. - Wikipedia
New moon 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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. Numbers 33:3 KJV
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land
of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were
departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had
pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. Exodus
19:1,2 KJV
This would make it three months in a row that the Shabbat was on the 15 th,
which could not happen on the Gregorian Calendar!
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
And the children of Israel kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening, to the west ward of Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain. And they
ate of the grain of the earth unleavened and new corn. In this day the manna failed ,
after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of Is rael no longer had manna;
and they took the fruits of the land of the Phoenicians in that year. Joshua 5:10-12, Septuagint
Shabbat followed.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
When ye shall enter into the land which I give you, and reap the harvest of it, then ye shall
bring a sheaf, the first-fruits of your harvest, to the priest; and he shall lift up the sheaf
before the LORD, to be accepted for you. On the morrow of the first day [of Unleavened
Bread] the priest shall lift it up....And ye shall not eat bread, or THE NEW PARCHED CORN,
un til this same day, until ye offer the sacrifices to your God: it is a perpetual statute
through out your generations in all your dwellings Leviticus 23:10-11, 14, Septuagint
Josephus and Philo in their writtings confirm that First fruits is on the sixteenth of
the month; following the Shabbat. This doesn't happen on the Gregorian calendar.
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The Scroll of Jasher describes a 29/30 day month; day 1 of the New Month
being the New Moon day (Rosh Chodesh).
Jasher 88:14 And it was in the second moon, on the first day of the moon, that
Y'hovah said to Y'hoshua [Joshua], Rise up, behold I have given Jericho into thy hand
with all the people thereof; and all your fighting men shall go round the city, once
each day, thus shall you do for six days. 17 And on the seventh day they went round
the city seven times, and the priests blew upon trumpets.
As Jasher 88:14 states, the march around Jericho began on the New Moon (day 1)
then day 7 of the march would have been on the 7th day of the month, the day
before the Shabbat. Shabbat would fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd,29th.
There is only one Calendar that can be used to place Joshua’s seven day
march and the 7th day battle, without breaking the Sabbath.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
And Shelomoh at that time observed the Festival seven days, and all Yisra’ĕl with
him, a very great assembly from the entrance of Ḥamath to the wadi of
Mitsrayim. And on the eighth day they held an assembly, for they
performed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the festival seven days.
And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away
to their tents, rejoicing and glad of heart for the goodness that יהוהhad done for
Dawiḏ, and for Shelomoh, and for His people Yisra’ĕl. 2Chronicles 7:8-10 TS 98+
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
And it came to be, at the turn of the year, that Ben-Haḏaḏ mustered the
Arameans and went up to Aphĕq to fight against Yisra’ĕl. And the children of
Yisra’ĕl were mustered and were fed, and they went against them. And the
children of Yisra’ĕl encamped before them like two little flocks of goats, while the
Arameans filled the land. And there came near a man of Elohim and spoke to the
sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, and said, “Thus said יהוה, ‘Because the Arameans have said,
“ יהוהis Elohim of the hills, but He is not Elohim of the valleys, ” therefore I shall
give all this great company into your hand, and you shall know that I am יהוה.’ ”
And they encamped opposite each other for seven days. And it came to be that
on the seventh day the battle was joined. And the children of Yisra’ĕl smote one
hundred thousand foot soldiers of the Arameans in one day. 1Kings 20:26-29 TS 98+
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day ,
the time came for the king’s com mand and his decree to be executed....Thus the
Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter
and destruction, and did what they pleased with those who hated them....And
the Jews who were in Shushan gathered to gether again on the fourteenth day
of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but they did
not lay a hand on the plunder....But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled
together on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth day; and on the
fifteenth day of the month they RESTED , and made it a day of feasting
and gladness. Esther 9: 1, 5, 15,18 KJV
When a study of Scripture is made; every place in the Scripture where Shabbats
and New Moons are indicated, the 2nd day of the moon or month is always the
1st work day, and the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month are Shabbats
without exception!
It will be so in the new Heaven and the new Earth as the prophet Isaiah states :
–“For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before
Me,” says יה הוהה, “so shall your descendants and your name remain. And it shall come
to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all
flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says יההוהה. Isaiah 66:22-23 KJV
Is the Creator going to go by the man made Gregorian calendar for eternity or
His timepiece in the heavens?
An example from the Brit ChaDashah of the early Sabbath week (which included
more than one Sabbath interval) can perhaps be read from the Book of Luke as
follows: "And it came to pass, on the second Sabbath after the first,
Deuteroprotos Sabbaton ['Second-First Sabbath'], as he is going through
the corn fields, that his disciples were plucking the ears, and were eating,
rubbing with the hands, And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do
ye that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbaton [Sabbath]?" Luke 6:1-2 KJV
showing original Greek words
The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar
cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 4
The evidence would suggest that Saturday is not the true Shabbat and the first
day of the week is not Sunday. Rome reset the Calendar and it has no
resemblance to the Creation week or the monthly pattern at the time of the
Exodus or the pattern of the week when Messiah was crucified.
In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week,
came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. Matthew 28:1 (KJV)
emphasis added
And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James,
and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very
early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the
rising of the sun. Mark 16:1,2 (KJV) emphasis added
And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on. And the women also,
which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how
his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested
the sabbath day according to the commandment. Luke 23:54-56 (KJV)emphasis added
Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the
sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. Luke 24:1,2 (KJV)emphasis
added
The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto
the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. John 20:1
(KJV)emphasis added
All these verses do not agree with the today's pagan based Gregorian/Rabbinic
Calendar which shows Sabbath/ Saturday as the end of the week and Sunday
as the first day of that week. The Passover that year would have been on
Tuesday. The Julian Calendar of the time had Saturday as the first day of the
week; Sunday the second day.
“Forty years before the destruction [70 CE] of the Temple, the western light (of the
Lamp-stand,the Menorah) went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the
lot for the LORD always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of
the temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open”.
- The Yerushalmi, p.156-157
Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple
the lot [‘for the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-
colored strap become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of
the Hekl [Temple] would open by themselves”. - Yoma 39a
“According to the Roman calendar a new moon may occur at any time during the
[Gregorian] month. Most people today probably don’t even know when a new moon
appears.” - Herman Hoeh, The Crucifixion Was Not On Friday, p.34
The Calendar for year 31 CE (many researchers agree that this was the most
probable year for Messiah's death; Messiah was about 30 years old when he
began his ministry which was the fall of 27 CE, start of Jubilee year); notice
Pesach is not on Friday. The conclusion is that Saturday is not the true Shabbat;
but a substitute. Other research points to April as the time of Pesach, as a Lunar
Eclipse occured on April 25th, 31 CE.
CE 28 – Tuesday; CE 29 – Sunday; CE 30 – Thursday; CE 31 – Tuesday; CE 32 – Tuesday,
Year 33, which Rome marks as the year of the Crucifixion, lands on Friday, perpetuating the
myth of Good Friday. However Messiah was not born in the year zero; schollars agree. So
year 33 is in error.
When the weeks on the calendar are extrapolated back, using a Jewish Calendar program
(Kaluach3 program plus [Link] both calculate past and future dates, NASA, and
other moon calculators), to the most probable year of Messiah's death at Pesach (at evening
on the 14th), it is apparent that the days don't line up with the Shabbat or the Gospel
accounts, meaning today's Saturday is not the Shabbat.
Judaism when subjected to pressure from Rome changed the calendar. Today's
Sunday also doesn't represent the First Day of the Hebrew Week when Messiah
arose.
Who do we trust the Gospel writers or today's Jewish Calendar? If Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John are right, then the Jewish Calendar and Gregorian Calendar are
misrepresenting when the Shabbat is. The Messiah rose on the day after the
Shabbat/Sabbath; on the 16th not on Sunday but in exact sync with the First Day of
Unleavened Bread. Under pressure from Rome, the Jewish Calendar was adjusted
some time after to align with Rome. What Calendar aligns with the correct days for the
Pesach (14th), Shabbat (15th), and First Day (16th) of the week?
Creator's Calendar
SHABBAT MESSIAH MEMORIAL PESACH SHABBAT FIRST
ENTERS LAST Messiah DAY
JERUSALEM SUPPER (Lamb)
(lamb chosen) was slain
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Gregorian Calendar (Created in 1582) Days of the Week
Wed Thurs Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs
Moon Phase
Messiah did not enter Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
If the Gregorian Calendar had existed in 33 CE, Messiah would have entered Jerusalem on
Monday, the tenth of the Hebrew month, the day the Passover lamb was chosen (Exodus
12:3). The Gregorian Calendar was setup to make Sunday the first day of the week.
However 33 CE is the wrong year.
“Forty years before the destruction [70 CE] of the Temple, the western light (of the
Lamp-stand,the Menorah) went out, the crimson thread remained crimson, and the lot
for the LORD always came up in the left hand. They would close the gates of the
temple by night and get up in the morning and find them wide open”.
- The Yerushalmi, p.156-157
Our rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple the
lot [‘for the Lord’] did not come up in the right hand; nor did the crimson-colored strap
become white; nor did the western most light shine; and the doors of the Hekl
[Temple] would open by themselves”. - Yoma 39a
Av (5th month)
3 4 5 6 7 8 9th
Shabbat Jerusalem
Rome falls to
prepared to Roman
attack army
Jews rested
Jews leave Spain on the 9th of AV
FIFTH MONTH (AV)
Shabbat
5 6 7 8 9th 10 11
“The changes in the calendric position of the weekly religious rest day have been few
from pre-historic times to the present day. The Sabbath which came down to the Jews
from pre-historic [prior to Moses] times was the seventh day of the lunar week. The lunar
week and the lunar month gave the simplest form of time division to early man . . . Moon
and month meant the same thing. The division of the month into four weeks of seven
days left the so-called epagomenal days which had to be neglected, and the weekly
division begun again at the time of the next new moon.
The change from the lunar week to the seven-day week running continuously through
the year, while a momentous change, was unrecorded. The use of two styles of weeks
seems to have existed together, and the more modern seven-day week slowly, but finally,
supplanted its ancient but inexact competitor. The lunar week was simple and
serviceable . . . We no longer say three barley corns round and dry make one inch, but
that was a measure which served our ancestors very acceptably for all practical
purposes. When the continuous seven-day week was generally accepted, then it was
linked with the past, as we now date events before Christ by a scale unknown to the
people and historians of those times. . .
The lunar Sabbath was succeeded by the seven-day weekly Sabbath without
confusion, and the mention of the Sabbath in Exodus 31:13 and elsewhere, may be taken
to refer to the lunar day.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, “The Sabbath, the Day Which Divine Love Established and Human
Love Must Preserve,” Theodore Gilman, p. 479. Published for the New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, 1916.
emphasis added
A Scriptural month has a New Moon Day, work days and weekly Sabbath day. The
evidence reveals that Saturday (Saturnalia {Roman}/ Kronos {Greek}– pagan name)
is not the true Sabbath. Saturday followed by Sunday was chosen by the Catholic
church. Observing Saturday is no different than observing Sunday. The feasts fall on
Shabbat except for Yom Kippur, being more efficient and less confusing than the
Jewish Calendar. Plus in several instances the Jewish calendar moves feasts to fall on
other days with no Scriptural basis. When and where did the Creator give directions to
make those changes.
Tertullian observes: We shall be taken for Persians [Mithraists], perhaps ... The
reason for this, I suppose, is that it is know that we pray towards the east... Likewise, if
we devote the day of the Sun to festivity (from a far different reason from Sun
worship), we are in a second place from those who devote the day of Saturn,
themselves also deviating by way of a Jewish custom of which they are ignorant. -
Tertullian, Apologia, emphasis added
Philo (20 BCE- 50 CE) testifies of the reckoning of the new moon stating that it
occurs "after the conjunction....at this time there is nothing in the whole of heaven
destitute of light...because at that period the more powerful and important body gives
a portion of necessary assistance to the less important and weaker body; for, at the
time of the new moon, the sun begins to illuminate the moon with a light which is
visible to the outward senses.”
Thus said the Master יה הוהה, “The gate of the inner courtyard facing east is shut the
six days of work, but on the Sabbath it is opened, and on the day of the New Moon it
is opened. Ezekiel 46:1 The Scriptures 98+
Using the Gregorian calendar this pattern would not work, since the New Moon would not
allow the six day work pattern to happen leading up to a Sabbath day..
And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh
shall come to worship before Me, declares יה הוהה . Isaiah 66:23 The Scriptures 98+
“Several customs which prevailed during the age between the Exodus of the Israelites
and the resurrection of Christ had so completely changed by the seventeenth Christian
century that the translators of the “Authorized Version” of the English Bible were not
able to perceive some important truths taught in the Greek version of the Old
Testament and the Greek New Testament. Unseen truth would not be clearly
translated into the English Bible. The student who of necessity was limited in his
studies to the English version would not be able to see more truth than was expressed
in the English version.
Second – Since the Jews for more than sixteen centuries have been observing a
Saturday Sabbath, and since Christians have been for more than eighteen
centuries having a fixed Sunday Sabbath, it is only reasonable to expect most
Sabbath writers to try and interpret all Bible Sabbath teachings on the theory of fixed
septenary cycles. But the noted Rabbi Hirsch believes and teaches that “The old
(Jewish) Sabbath had no connection with a fixed [cycling] week.”
Third – The passing out of sight of the old Bible lunar calendar and the now almost
universal effort to interpret the Bible upon the basis of solar calendars. . .
Sixth-The losing sight of the use of uncounted days in the Bible calendar. . . Because of
the failure to note the above mentioned difficulties it has become quite difficult so to
write or teach as to be clearly understood about the Scriptural Sabbaths.” Sunday the
World’s Rest Day, The Sabbath-The Lord’s Day, by Rev. Samuel W. Gamble, D.D. p. 81-82.
Published for the New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1916
emphasis added
“The changes in the calendric position of the weekly religious rest day have been few
from pre-historic times to the present day. The Sabbath which came down to the Jews
from pre-historic [prior to Moses] times was the seventh day of the lunar week. The lunar
week and the lunar month gave the simplest form of time division to early man . . . Moon
and month meant the same thing.
The division of the month into four weeks of seven days left the so-called epagomenal
days which had to be neglected, and the weekly division begun again at the time of the
next new moon. The change from the lunar week to the seven-day week running
continuously through the year, while a momentous change, was unrecorded. The use of
two styles of weeks seems to have existed together, and the more modern seven-day week
slowly, but finally, supplanted its ancient but inexact competitor. The lunar week was
simple and serviceable . . .
We no longer say three barley corns round and dry make one inch, but that was a
measure which served our ancestors very acceptably for all practical purposes. When the
continuous seven-day week was generally accepted, then it was linked with the past, as
we now date events before Christ by a scale unknown to the people and historians of
those times. . . The lunar Sabbath was succeeded by the seven-day weekly Sabbath
without confusion, and the mention of the Sabbath in Exodus 31:13 and elsewhere, may
be taken to refer to the lunar day.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, “The Sabbath, the Day Which
Divine Love Established and Human Love Must Preserve,” Theodore Gilman, p. 479. Published for the
New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1916.
What's important?
In every place where I cause My Name to be remembered I shall come to you and
bless you. Exodus 20:24 KJV
Then they that feared יהוהspake often one to another : and יהוהhearkened,
and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them
that feared יהוה, and that thought upon [{SEC# H2803 חׁשש בבchashab} valued,
esteemed, had a high regard of ] his name. And they shall be mine, saith
יהוהof hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as
a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Malachi 3:16,17 KJV emphasis added
... one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good shall I do to have
everlasting life?” And He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is
good except One – Elohim. But if you wish to enter into life, guard the
commands [keep the commandments].” Matthew 19:16,17 KJV
... a certain one learned in the Torah stood up, trying Him, and saying, “Teacher,
what shall I do to inherit everlasting life?” And He said to him, “What has been
written in the Torah? How do you read it?” And he answering, said, “ ‘You shall
love יהוהyour Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and
with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ [Deuteronomy 6:5 “And
you shall love יהוהyour Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and
with all your might.] and ‘your neighbour as yourself.[Leviticus 19:18 - ‘...
you shall love your neighbour as yourself. ]’ ” And He [Y'shua] said to him, “You
have answered rightly. Do this and you shall live.” Luke 10:25-28 KJV
emphasis added
If we want to be the Father's "( בbeyt") [abide in him, set apart from the world]
we then need to ( גgimel") [move] go back to His Word(s) and do what He said
to do, out of our own preference; with “teshuva” (repentance) and love. We can
return to His “Torah”; because we want to, and because we can. Not just
because there was a commandment, or the opposite, of not subjecting
ourselves to the “law” because we think it was “done away” with (”If ye keep my
commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's
commandments, and abide in his love.” John 15:10 “Think not that I am come to
destroy the law [Torah], or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil
[fully preach, Word made flesh] . For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law[Torah], till
all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least
commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the
kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be
called great in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:17-19) KJV emphasis added;
but we will be greatly blessed by obeying His Torah, because he promised we
would, when we do what He says we should do. As we have been grafted into
Israel, we need to do what he told Israel to do.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert
graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive
tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the
root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed
in”. Romans 11:17-19 KJV emphasis added
“Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it
abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. I am the vine, ye are
the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth
much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” John 15:4-5 KJV
At Creation: Genesis 1:14 S98+ And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the
expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for
signs and appointed times, and for days (yom ) and years,
Genesis 2:2,3 S98+ And on the seventh day (yom ) Elohim completed His work
which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day (yom ) from all His work
which He had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day (yom ) and set it
apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had
made.
Long before the books were compiled to form the Brit ChaDashah, Revelation 22:14
was quoted, as it is given here, by Tertullian (CE 208), and by Cyprian (CE 251)
Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto
the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city.
Revelation 14:12 - Here is the patience [endurance] of the saints [remnant, set-
apart ones], here are those guarding [keeping] the commands of Elohim and
the faith of יהושע.
It is always good to be able to determine the time of the year, month, and day.
The day may soon come, when there is no way of communicating with others.
How to determine the conjunction if you only have the heavens to watch.
1. Toward the end of the last week, of the lunar month, before the conjunction/
concealment, shortly before sunrise, sight the waning moon above and towards
the eastern sky.
2. With your hand measure the angle between the waning moon and the
horizon, just as the sun rises; watching for a time that most closely fits
measuring degrees with your hands.
3. Mark down the date, the degree of the angle (eg. 25°) and the time (eg.4:30
a.m.)
Using the example of 4:30 A.M. when the sun first appears. The angle in this
example is 25° between the moon and the horizon where the sun is just
appearing; and this is about 2 days before what you believe will be the day of
the concealment.
Formula: The moon travels around the earth once a month in about 29.53 days,
on average. Calculation: 29.53 days X 24 hours a day = 708.72 hours (average)
in one 360° revolution of the moon in one lunar month. Then divide 360° by
708.72 hours to determine that the moon moves precisely .508° or about .51° in
one hour. The moon moves relative to the sun by an amount .51°; multiplying by
24 hours, makes the movement of the moon about 12.2° every day.
The formula is the angle of the sun to the moon at sunrise divided by the rate of
change per hour, which equals the time of concealment, in hours, from the time
you took your measurements. That's all you need to know. The moon will travel
360° from new moon to new moon in 29.53 days, on average. Take the 25°
measurement for the angle between the sun and the moon at sunrise and divide
it by the .51° rate of change per hour. This gives us the amount of time it will
take for the sun and moon to reach the point of alignment or conjunction.
Therefore 25° divided by .51° per hour gives us 49.2 hours. It will take 49.2
hours from 4:30 A.M., when we determined our angle between the sun and the
moon, for the moon to travel the 25° still needed to reach concealment. So, how
many days away is 49.2 hours from the time we determined our angle between
the sun and the moon? How many days away is the concealment? Divide 49.2
hours by 24 hours (don't use fractions of a day for the remainder; we want whole
days with the remainder in hours) and we come up with 2 days, with 1.2 hours or
72 minutes remaining. Add this 2 days to the date marked down, and we arrive
at 4:30 A.M. (2 days later). Add the remaining 1 hour and 12 minutes to 4:30
A.M., and that brings us to 5:42 A.M. as our “rough” calculation for the time of
the concealment. The new month then begins after sunset the following evening
in this example.
One way of finding an Angle
Astronomers measure angular separation of objects in degrees. There are 360
degrees in a circle. And the angular separation of any point on the horizon and
the point directly overhead (the zenith) is 90 degrees. Halfway from the zenith to
the horizon is 45 degrees.
When you hold your hand at arm’s length, you can estimate angles like this:
- Stretch your thumb and little finger as far from each other as you can. The
span from tip to tip is about 25 degrees
- Do the same with your index finger and little finger. The span is 15 degrees
- Clench your fist at arms length, and hold it with the back of your hand facing
you. The width is 10 degrees
- Hold your three middle fingers together; they span about 5 degrees
- The width of your little finger at arms length is 1 degree.
Summary
The 'Jewish' leadership have rejected the Messiah.
The 'Jewish' leadership have changed the beginning of the New Year to the fall,
The 'Jewish' leadership have changed the names of the months to pagan names.
The 'Jewish' leadership have changed the timing of the Feasts the majority of the time.
The 'Jewish' leadership have changed the timing of the Sabbath.
Saturday is not the Sabbath. Sunday not the first day of the week.
There is no proof that when the man made calendars were changed over time, that the
seventh day ended up being the Gregorian Saturday or that Sunday should be the first
day of the week, all the evidence proves otherwise.
There is Feast timing proof of an original Lunar based calendar.
We should be able to observe New Moon Days, Sabbaths, and Appointed Times by
following the lights in the heavens. That's what the Creator made them for. His
instructions for Shabbat incorporate the moon.
Passover did not happen on Friday.
Many of the above quoted sources are 'Jewish'.
There is Scriptural proof of an original Lunar based calendar.
There is Historical proof of an original Lunar based calendar.
The Gregorian Calendar isn't used for astronomy because it has a ten-day hiatus in it
These are many witnesses that the calendar has been changed.
When we keep our Heavenly Father’s Sabbath days, we are saying that
יה הוההis our Creator. He is who we honour with our obedience.
"When a man who is honestly mistaken, hears the truth, he will either quit being
mistaken, or cease being honest." Richard Humpal
“Trust, but verify” Ronald Reagan
“The human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion, collects any instances
that confirm it, and though the contrary instances may be more numerous and more
weighty, it either does not notice them or else rejects them in order that this opinion
will remain unshaken.” - Francis
Picture examples of two supporting documents
Items of interest to do with time
Large time piece in the Middle East, possibly similar to what Hezekiah had with steps