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Biblical Calendar
- Thread starter CherubRam
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Months of March.
NM = New Moon.
NM 2015 / 19-20.
NM 2014 / 28th of Feb and 1st of March. And 30 / 31 of March.
NM 2013 / 11-12.
NM 2012 / 22-23.
NM 2011 / 4-5.
NM 2010 / 15-16.
NM 2009 / 26-27.
NM 2008 / 7-8.
NM 2007 / 18-19.
NM 2006 / 28-29.
NM 2005 / 9-10.
NM 2004 / 20-21.
NM 2003 / 2-3.
NM 2002 / 13-14.
NM 2001 / 24-25.
NM 2000 / 5-6.
NM 1999 / 17-18.
NM 1998 / 27-28.
NM 1997 / 8-9.
NM 1996 / 18-19.
NM 1995 / 30-31.
NM 1994 / 11-12.
NM 1993 / 22-23.
NM 1992 / 4-5.
NM 1991 / 15-61.
NM 1990 / 26-27.
NM 1989 / 7-8.
NM 1988 / 17-18.
NM 1987 / 29-30.
NM 1986 / 10-11.
NM 1985 / 20-21.
As you can see every 19 years the moon completes its cycle.
NM = New Moon.
NM 2015 / 19-20.
NM 2014 / 28th of Feb and 1st of March. And 30 / 31 of March.
NM 2013 / 11-12.
NM 2012 / 22-23.
NM 2011 / 4-5.
NM 2010 / 15-16.
NM 2009 / 26-27.
NM 2008 / 7-8.
NM 2007 / 18-19.
NM 2006 / 28-29.
NM 2005 / 9-10.
NM 2004 / 20-21.
NM 2003 / 2-3.
NM 2002 / 13-14.
NM 2001 / 24-25.
NM 2000 / 5-6.
NM 1999 / 17-18.
NM 1998 / 27-28.
NM 1997 / 8-9.
NM 1996 / 18-19.
NM 1995 / 30-31.
NM 1994 / 11-12.
NM 1993 / 22-23.
NM 1992 / 4-5.
NM 1991 / 15-61.
NM 1990 / 26-27.
NM 1989 / 7-8.
NM 1988 / 17-18.
NM 1987 / 29-30.
NM 1986 / 10-11.
NM 1985 / 20-21.
As you can see every 19 years the moon completes its cycle.
New Moon Cycle
(Book of Jubilees) 6:37 seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
Year after year there is a ten day difference. Example: The New Moon in 2004 of March is day 20th-21st. In 2005 of March it is 9th-10th.
Exodus.12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2: This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus.14:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 4: This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Abib's new moon must occur before the spring harvest begins.
Deut. 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. This instruction concerns the waive sheaf which is cut and waived before Yahwah at the Passover festival in the middle of Abib. Since the spring harvest in Israel begins in late March or early April, this means that the 1st of Abib would begin some 15 days before the waive sheaf was cut; which means that Abib's new moon would occur at about the time of the vernal equinox.
The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible article Year confirms this:
The year begins with the month of Abib or Nisan (Exodus 12:2, 23:15, Esther 3:7) with the new moon just before or next after the vernal equinox.
Notes
If Abib were to begin 15 days before the spring equinox (the earliest it can ever be if the "nearest before or after guideline" is being followed) then the spiritual Passover will coincide with the celestial pass over. In other words, the sun will be passing over the equator at the same time the sacred Passover service is being celebrated. This phenomenon of the celestial and spiritual Passovers coinciding happens very rarely.
Note also that by choosing the new moon nearest the equinox, the Passover Service which occurs 14 days later on the evening of the 14th of Abib will never fall before the spring equinox; that is before the 20th March. The Passover Service will rarely coincide with the equinox, when the sun will also be passing over the equator; but it should never fall before the equinox. This means that the very earliest date for the 1st of Abib will be the 7th of March. The Passover Service should not be celebrated before the equinox.
(Book of Jubilees) 6:37 seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
Year after year there is a ten day difference. Example: The New Moon in 2004 of March is day 20th-21st. In 2005 of March it is 9th-10th.
Exodus.12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2: This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Exodus.14:3 And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten. 4: This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Abib's new moon must occur before the spring harvest begins.
Deut. 16:9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. This instruction concerns the waive sheaf which is cut and waived before Yahwah at the Passover festival in the middle of Abib. Since the spring harvest in Israel begins in late March or early April, this means that the 1st of Abib would begin some 15 days before the waive sheaf was cut; which means that Abib's new moon would occur at about the time of the vernal equinox.
The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible article Year confirms this:
The year begins with the month of Abib or Nisan (Exodus 12:2, 23:15, Esther 3:7) with the new moon just before or next after the vernal equinox.
Notes
If Abib were to begin 15 days before the spring equinox (the earliest it can ever be if the "nearest before or after guideline" is being followed) then the spiritual Passover will coincide with the celestial pass over. In other words, the sun will be passing over the equator at the same time the sacred Passover service is being celebrated. This phenomenon of the celestial and spiritual Passovers coinciding happens very rarely.
Note also that by choosing the new moon nearest the equinox, the Passover Service which occurs 14 days later on the evening of the 14th of Abib will never fall before the spring equinox; that is before the 20th March. The Passover Service will rarely coincide with the equinox, when the sun will also be passing over the equator; but it should never fall before the equinox. This means that the very earliest date for the 1st of Abib will be the 7th of March. The Passover Service should not be celebrated before the equinox.
In regards to the weekly seventh day Sabbath. According to the Biblical Calendar, Passover is always on Saturday, the seventh day of the week.
Because the Biblical Calendar is 364 days a year, Sunday is always the start of that calendar, that always being the first day of the week.
Any calendar that has more than 364 days in a year, or less than 364 days in a year, and you will end up having the festivals on the wrong day of the week. There was no need to keep track of the missing days, because with that system of things that calendar would self correct in time.
Leviticus 23
King James Version (KJV)
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is The Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus 23
King James Version (KJV)
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Does two Sabbaths next to each other make a plural? Is bringing the wheat harvest in for the priest, work? If so, then Monday is the 16th for the sheaf waving.
There were two Calendars in use during the days of Christ and his disciples. The Biblical Calendar, and the Hellenistic Lunar Calendar. Which one do you think Yahshua and his disciples used?
Because the Biblical Calendar is 364 days a year, Sunday is always the start of that calendar, that always being the first day of the week.
Any calendar that has more than 364 days in a year, or less than 364 days in a year, and you will end up having the festivals on the wrong day of the week. There was no need to keep track of the missing days, because with that system of things that calendar would self correct in time.
Leviticus 23
King James Version (KJV)
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is The Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus 23
King James Version (KJV)
11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Does two Sabbaths next to each other make a plural? Is bringing the wheat harvest in for the priest, work? If so, then Monday is the 16th for the sheaf waving.
There were two Calendars in use during the days of Christ and his disciples. The Biblical Calendar, and the Hellenistic Lunar Calendar. Which one do you think Yahshua and his disciples used?
The Biblical calendar was set by the priests, according to the cycle of the Moon and the number of days lost.
Book of Jubilees, Chapter 6
1 And on the new moon of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain.
2 And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, sparing those that were in the ark with Noah.
3 And he placed the fat thereof on the altar, and he took an ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a turtle-dove, and the young of a dove, and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a goodly savour to arise, acceptable before the Lord.
4 And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease forever.
5 And you, increase yourselves and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it.
6 The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea. And behold I have given unto you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat.
7 But flesh, with the life thereof, with the blood, ye shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required.
8 And at the hand of every man, and at the hand of every (beast) will I require the blood of man.
9 Who ever sheds man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man.
10 And you, increase yourselves, and multiply on the earth.'
11 And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the Lord God forever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.
12 On this account He spoke to you, that you should make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that you should sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant, which the Lord made with them forever. And this testimony is written concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land.
13 And you are to command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before the Lord our God continually.
14 And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is forever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue supplicating on your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before the Lord, that they may keep it and not be rooted out.
15 And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.
16 He set His bow in the clouds for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.
17 For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.
18 And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah, twenty six Jubilees and five weeks of years, and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah's death, and from the day of Noah's death his sons did away with (it) until the days of Abraham, and they ate blood.
19 But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it up to your days, and in thy days the children of Israel forgot it until you celebrated it anew on this mountain.
20 And do you command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all their generations for a commandment unto them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival.
21 For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits according to what is written and engraven concerning it, celebrate it.
22 For I have written in the book of the first law, in that which I have written for you, that you should celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and I explained to you its sacrifices that the children of Israel should remember and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.
23 And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony forever.
24 And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations forever, so that they have become thereby a memorial unto him.
25 And on the new moon of the first month he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that (day) the earth became dry and he opened (the ark) and saw the earth.
26 And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abyss beneath were closed.
27 And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them.
28 And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad. And on this account he ordained them for himself as feasts for a memorial for ever, and thus are they ordained.
29 And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
30 And all the days of the commandment will be fifty two weeks of days, and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets.
31 And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.
32 And you are to command the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning, three hundred and sixty four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.
33 But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order.) And they will disturb the seasons, and the years will be dislodged, and they will neglect their ordinances.
34 And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and Sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years.
35 For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (sets) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.
36 For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon, how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
37 For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abomination the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and Sabbaths and feasts and Jubilees.
38 For this reason I command and testify to you that you must testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and Sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.
The Holy Hebrew Solar Calendar was replaced by the Hellenist in 167 BC with the Lunar Calendar. The Hellenist took over the temple from the priesthood in charge at that time. The Hellenist were a secret society that consisted of mainly the wealthy. This event is what lead to the Civil Hebrew Calendar.
Book of Jubilees, Chapter 6
1 And on the new moon of the third month he went forth from the ark, and built an altar on that mountain.
2 And he made atonement for the earth, and took a kid and made atonement by its blood for all the guilt of the earth; for everything that had been on it had been destroyed, sparing those that were in the ark with Noah.
3 And he placed the fat thereof on the altar, and he took an ox, and a goat, and a sheep and kids, and salt, and a turtle-dove, and the young of a dove, and placed a burnt sacrifice on the altar, and poured thereon an offering mingled with oil, and sprinkled wine and strewed frankincense over everything, and caused a goodly savour to arise, acceptable before the Lord.
4 And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease forever.
5 And you, increase yourselves and multiply upon the earth, and become many upon it, and be a blessing upon it.
6 The fear of you and the dread of you I will inspire in everything that is on earth and in the sea. And behold I have given unto you all beasts, and all winged things, and everything that moves on the earth, and the fish in the waters, and all things for food; as the green herbs, I have given you all things to eat.
7 But flesh, with the life thereof, with the blood, ye shall not eat; for the life of all flesh is in the blood, lest your blood of your lives be required.
8 And at the hand of every man, and at the hand of every (beast) will I require the blood of man.
9 Who ever sheds man's blood by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God He made man.
10 And you, increase yourselves, and multiply on the earth.'
11 And Noah and his sons swore that they would not eat any blood that was in any flesh, and he made a covenant before the Lord God forever throughout all the generations of the earth in this month.
12 On this account He spoke to you, that you should make a covenant with the children of Israel in this month upon the mountain with an oath, and that you should sprinkle blood upon them because of all the words of the covenant, which the Lord made with them forever. And this testimony is written concerning you that you should observe it continually, so that you should not eat on any day any blood of beasts or birds or cattle during all the days of the earth, and the man who eats the blood of beast or of cattle or of birds during all the days of the earth, he and his seed shall be rooted out of the land.
13 And you are to command the children of Israel to eat no blood, so that their names and their seed may be before the Lord our God continually.
14 And for this law there is no limit of days, for it is forever. They shall observe it throughout their generations, so that they may continue supplicating on your behalf with blood before the altar; every day and at the time of morning and evening they shall seek forgiveness on your behalf perpetually before the Lord, that they may keep it and not be rooted out.
15 And He gave to Noah and his sons a sign that there should not again be a flood on the earth.
16 He set His bow in the clouds for a sign of the eternal covenant that there should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth.
17 For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year.
18 And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah, twenty six Jubilees and five weeks of years, and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah's death, and from the day of Noah's death his sons did away with (it) until the days of Abraham, and they ate blood.
19 But Abraham observed it, and Isaac and Jacob and his children observed it up to your days, and in thy days the children of Israel forgot it until you celebrated it anew on this mountain.
20 And do you command the children of Israel to observe this festival in all their generations for a commandment unto them: one day in the year in this month they shall celebrate the festival.
21 For it is the feast of weeks and the feast of first fruits according to what is written and engraven concerning it, celebrate it.
22 For I have written in the book of the first law, in that which I have written for you, that you should celebrate it in its season, one day in the year, and I explained to you its sacrifices that the children of Israel should remember and should celebrate it throughout their generations in this month, one day in every year.
23 And on the new moon of the first month, and on the new moon of the fourth month, and on the new moon of the seventh month, and on the new moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony forever.
24 And Noah ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations forever, so that they have become thereby a memorial unto him.
25 And on the new moon of the first month he was bidden to make for himself an ark, and on that (day) the earth became dry and he opened (the ark) and saw the earth.
26 And on the new moon of the fourth month the mouths of the depths of the abyss beneath were closed.
27 And on the new moon of the seventh month all the mouths of the abysses of the earth were opened, and the waters began to descend into them.
28 And on the new moon of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen, and Noah was glad. And on this account he ordained them for himself as feasts for a memorial for ever, and thus are they ordained.
29 And they placed them on the heavenly tablets, each had thirteen weeks; from one to another (passed) their memorial, from the first to the second, and from the second to the third, and from the third to the fourth.
30 And all the days of the commandment will be fifty two weeks of days, and (these will make) the entire year complete. Thus it is engraven and ordained on the heavenly tablets.
31 And there is no neglecting (this commandment) for a single year or from year to year.
32 And you are to command the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning, three hundred and sixty four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts.
33 But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order.) And they will disturb the seasons, and the years will be dislodged, and they will neglect their ordinances.
34 And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and Sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years.
35 For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (sets) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance.
36 For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon, how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon.
37 For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abomination the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and Sabbaths and feasts and Jubilees.
38 For this reason I command and testify to you that you must testify to them; for after your death your children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and Sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.
The Holy Hebrew Solar Calendar was replaced by the Hellenist in 167 BC with the Lunar Calendar. The Hellenist took over the temple from the priesthood in charge at that time. The Hellenist were a secret society that consisted of mainly the wealthy. This event is what lead to the Civil Hebrew Calendar.