When Does the Biblical YEAR Begin?

[WalterandDebbie]

A New Look at God’s Sacred Year:
The below Questions must be answered from your Bible.

How can we determine the beginning of a year, according
to the Biblical reckoning? Can the year begin PRIOR to
the spring equinox? Must it begin AFTER the spring equinox?
Should we just go according to the Jewish “fixed” calendar,
created in 357-58 A.D., by rabbi Hillel II? What about the
“barley” crop? Why is the first month of the Jewish calendar
called “Abib”? How can we KNOW for certain WHEN God’s
Holy Days occur? Here is the plain TRUTH!

There are many things we must consider when looking at the calendar of God.
Many people today throw up their hands, and exclaim, “It’s too complicated!” Others
say, “I’ll just let my minister or church handle it,” and they simply decide to follow men
or a particular church which may have no knowledge or expertise in this matter
whatsoever!
What should we do? Shouldn’t we study this subject, and look into the Word of
God, and quit taking everything for granted, or assuming this or that person or church is
“right,” without any evidence or proof?

The Month “Abib”
God says in His Word, “This month shall mark for you the beginning of months;
it shall be the first month of the year for you” (Exo.12:1). In that first month Israel was
commanded to take a lamb, on the tenth day, and sacrifice it on the 14th day, as the
“Passover lamb” (verses 2-6).
In Deuteronomy, God adds, “Observe the month of ABIB by keeping the Passover
to the LORD your God, for in the month of ABIB the LORD your God brought you out of
Egypt by night” (Deut.16:1).
The month of Abib occurred in the spring. It was the first month of the
religious/festival calendar. But how was its precise beginning or first day determined?

The key is found in the name of the month itself. The term “Abib” in Hebrew, is
from an unused root meaning “to be tender, green, i.e. a young ear of grain; hence the
name of the month Abib or Nisan – Abib, ear, green ears of corn” (Strong’s Exhaustive
Concordance, #24). The Gesenius Hebrew-English Lexicon defines the term, “an ear of
corn, a green ear.”
This term is found first in the Bible in Exodus 9:31, “the barley was in the ear.”
Therefore the month of abib is defined by its very name as the month of the first “green
ears” or newly developed grain. The grain crop in Israel and the Middle East at the
spring of the year is the BARLEY CROP, as seen in Exodus 9:31.
Therefore, the first month of the year must conform to the

 

[Michael74]

So the moon orbits the earth about every 29 1/2 days, or 12 times in 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 38 seconds. The earth orbits the sun about every 365 1/4 days, with an axial tilt about 23 1/2 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic (seasons).

The calendar must be periodically resynchronized to these 2 orbits.

 

[WalterandDebbie]

So the moon orbits the earth about every 29 1/2 days, or 12 times in 354 days 8 hours 48 minutes and 38 seconds. The earth orbits the sun about every 365 1/4 days, with an axial tilt about 23 1/2 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic (seasons).

The calendar must be periodically resynchronized to these 2 orbits.

The above quote is somewhat correct to as the below link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar