Our God made appointed times that are
called feast days that we are to celebrate.
However our calendar has been changed several times, making it hard to
determine when the feast days actually are. The feast day schedule on this site is based
on the solar calendar since there is no proof in the bible that the Hebrew
calendar was lunar. Currently the US
uses a lunisolar calendar which is based on using the sun and the moon to
identify appointed times.
A lot of people want to use the moon to identify
appointed times based on Genesis 1:16, however, the moon is not mentioned but
they think it is implied. The moon only
reflects light and is visible during the day at times. So the moon cannot determine the night if it
is visible during the day at times. The
real implication is that the stars rule the night. The stars show their light only at night and
are never visible during the day. In Genesis 1:14 the Hebrew word used for
seasons is moed, which means appointed time, place, or meeting. Here are four
translations of Genesis 1:14-18:
Young’s Literal Translation:
14 And
God saith, `Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to make a
separation between the day and the night, then they have been for signs, and
for seasons, and for days and years, 15 and they have been for luminaries in
the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth:'and it is so. 16 And
God maketh the two great luminaries, the
great luminary for the rule of the day, and the small luminary-- and the
stars-- for the rule of the night; 17 and God giveth them in the expanse of
the heavens to give light upon the earth, 18 and to rule over day and over
night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God
seeth that [it is] good;
World English Version:
14 God
said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of sky to divide the day from
the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;
15 and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the
earth," and it was so. 16 God made
the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse
of sky to give light to the earth, 18 and to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good. 19
There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
English Standard Version:
14 And
God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate
the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days
and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give
light upon the earth." And it was so. 16 And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and
the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars. 17 And God set them in
the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, 18 to rule over the day
and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw
that it was good.
King James Version. In this version ‘he made’ is
in italics so that means they inserted these words. So read this version and omit the words ‘he
made’.:
14 And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and
years:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth:and it was so. 16 And
God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night: he made
the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to
divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Here are the reasons I agree with the solar
calendar:
·
Nowhere in the bible
does it reflect that the Hebrews went outside to sight the new crescent moon.
·
Nowhere in the bible
does it mention a 13th month which is required for a lunar calendar.
·
The
Hebrews and Israelites were farmers and it would be hard to determine the
planting and harvesting times based on a lunar calendar.
·
The
laws for keeping the feast days do not mention there must be a crescent or full
moon before they occur.
·
The Hebrew word
2320 Chodesh was translated as moon in Ezekiel 46:1, Amos 8:5, and 2 Kings 4:23
– Chodesh is used 283 times in the Old Testament and only 26 times was it used
for the word ‘moon’ – the other 257 times chodesh meant ‘month’. So the word chodesh really means month and it
was translated as moon in error. The same for Col 2:6 the Greek work used is
normally month and not moon. So using
these verses as proof of a lunar calendar is really not proof. You can use http://biblehub.com/ to determine the Greek or Hebrew word used in a
translation. Just search for the verse
you want to translate and then click on Lexicon.
·
The Book of Enoch
describes the use of a solar calendar.
·
The Jews based
their Passover on a lunar calendar. The
New Testaments reflects that Jesus, a Judahite, and his Israelite Apostles held
their Passover dinner on a different day than the Jews.
Daniel prophesied the calendar would change and it did. The 4th Beast, which was Rome,
changed our calendar.
Daniel 7:25 He
shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they
shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
See :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
See :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
For more information about the solar calendar, see
these pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_calendar
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2001/enoch_cal.html
http://www.anglo-saxonisrael.com/content/yahweh%E2%80%99s-solar-calendar-part-2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_calendar
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2001/enoch_cal.html
http://proveallthingsradio.com/the-scriptural-calendar-from-a-solar-only-perspective/
http://ezra98.yolasite.com/resources/SolarCalNotes.pdf
http://ezra98.yolasite.com/resources/YHVHcal20142015printB.pdf
The Day
Our God, Yahweh, intended the day to start at sunset. Notice
that evening is mentioned first in these scriptures:
Genesis 1:5 And God called the
light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the
firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:13 And the evening and
the morning were the third day.
In this verse, they are closing the gates at sundown in
preparation for the Sabbath day since the Sabbath started in the evening.
Neh 13:19 And it cometh to pass, when the gates of Jerusalem have been dark
before the sabbath, that I speak, and the doors are shut, and I say, that
they do not open them till after the sabbath; and of my servants I have
stationed at the gates; there doth not come in a burden on the sabbath- day.
So the feast days start in the evening and end the next
sunset.
New Year
Based on Exodus 12:1, we know that the new year started in Abib, the same month as Passover.
Exodus 12:1 The
Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the
first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that
on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their
fathers 'houses, a lamb for a household. [scripture goes on to give instruction
for the Passover feast]
It is thought that the word ‘Abib’ actually means
Equinox. See this page for more
information: http://www.anglo-saxonisrael.com/content/yahweh%E2%80%99s-solar-calendar
Therefore, it is
thought that the new year starts on the spring equinox that is on March 20th
in 2014.
It is interesting to note that the signs of the Zodiac start
with Aries on March 21st. The
Zodiac signs go way back in time and are based on the observation of the
stars. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac
(The signs of the Stars or Zodiac were never intended to tell our
fortune.) Here is what Wikipedia
reflects:
Knowledge of the Babylonian
zodiac is also reflected in the Hebrew Bible. E. W. Bullinger
interpreted the creatures appearing in the books of Ezekiel and Revelation as the middle signs of the four quarters of the
Zodiac,[14][15] with
the Lion as Leo, the
Bull is Taurus, the Man representing Aquarius and the Eagle
representing Scorpio.[16] Some
authors have linked the twelve tribes of Israel with the twelve
signs. Martin and others have argued that the arrangement of the
tribes around the Tabernacle
(reported in the Book
of Numbers) corresponded to the order of the Zodiac, with Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and Dan representing
the middle signs of Leo, Aquarius, Taurus, and Scorpio, respectively.[17][18] Such
connections were taken up by Thomas Mann, who in
his novel Joseph and His Brothers attributes
characteristics of a sign of the zodiac to each tribe in his rendition of the Blessing of Jacob.
Here is an
interesting youtube video based on the Zodiac that reflects Jesus’ birth on
Sept 11th in 3 BC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNVlYCiCCv8
The Sabbath
We all know that we must observe the Sabbath. The laws for keeping the Sabbath come from
the same books of the bible where Moses, a Levite, documented the rules for
keeping the Feast Days. Here are the
laws for keeping the Sabbath:
Exodus 20
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do
all thy work:10 But the seventh day is
the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:11 For in six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Lev 23:3
"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation [Hebrew
4744 also shown as assembly, from Hebrew 7121 to call, to call together]. You
shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
The law states
that it is a day of rest and that we should assemble. It does not state we should go to
church. Church is a mistranslation for
the words: assemble, congregation and
call together. Therefore, we should assemble together and review Yahweh's word on the Sabbath. We could assemble as a family or group of neighbors.
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