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Wow,
where has the TIME gone since the Dallas Calendar Conference? During
these years, I have done enough study and research (and still do!)
to write an amazing book on the subject of the calendar – with all
the doors of understanding that are linked to it and that have now
been opened up.
My initial
gut-feeling at the very beginning of this journey has been proven
correct: the calendar issue is a very big and tangled web - with cans
of worms trapped througout. Assumptions, opinions, theories,
traditions and bad translations have all conspired to turn a very
simple way of telling time into what it has become today - a
confusing calendar crisis.
With
this final end-of-the-matter article (and due to time and size
limits), I am not going to write a long article, but will try to boil
it all down and tell it exactly as it is - how the ball
bounces, the cookie crumbles, and where (and WHEN!) the rubber meets
the road...
I
pondered and searched out many different calendars;
Of reading many books and articles,
Of reading many books and articles,
And watching videos there was/is no
end;
And much calendar study wearies the body.
Now all has been heard;
And much calendar study wearies the body.
Now all has been heard;
Here is the conclusion of the matter:
DAY/NIGHT
When
the LIGHT of the Sun rules (includes morning and evening), it is DAY
(from dawn to dark). When the LIGHTS of the Moon and stars rule, it
is NIGHT. These entities were forever separated - and “what God has
separated, let no man join together,” because “woe to those...who
put darkness for light and light for darkness” and call both light
and dark a “day" (Isa 5:20). One of the keys to finding the
exact day/light of the appointed times is to be like David: “Teach
us to number our days correctly” (Psa 90:12).
NEW
MOON
The
EVENT of the New Moon is when there is a “full” Moon (cresent lit
by sunshine; rest lit by earthshine – as described by Philo!)
ruling with the stars at NIGHT. Sometimes this will be the 2nd
crescent that is seen after sunset (Rev 12:1 proves this). So the New
Moon is high in the western sky and proclaimed by umpteen thousands
of witnesses of LIGHT.
The
DAY of the New Moon starts at the following dawn – which is an
appointed festival(chag),
but not an appointed time(moed)
of resting/assembly. As a result, this special worship day is
not part of the 7-day WEEK count. Herbert Armstrong was not allowed
to see the truth of this matter, because this is an individual
obedience issue – not a group government one.
SABBATH
With
the preceding KNOWLEDGE, we can now successfully count towards the
weekly 7th DAY/LIGHT of rest. Just as the 7-year Sabbath
Year COUNT IS RESET with each 50th-year Jubilee, so the 7-day Sabbath
day count is reset with each 1st-day New Moon - making the
Sabbath day fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd
and 29th day of the month – just like ALL the numbered
Sabbaths in scripture prove.
YAHOVAH's
Sabbath is based on the events of the Earth's renewal and the
continuous cycle of the God-created/placed Moon – not on the events
in the 7th Century and a continuous count of 7 boxes on a
man-created/decreed calendar. The correct order/timing of the events
in Genesis 1 will finally be established once the oldest manuscripts
that have been found are finally revealed to the world.
YAHOVAH's
Sabbath can be proved from numerous verses of scripture and thousands
of LIGHTS in the heavens. The “Jewish Sabbath” (on Saturn's day,
which starts at the ending of Venus' day), however, cannot be proved
by anything other than Jewish tradition and a Roman calendar.
Is
the Sabbath a “Lunar” Sabbath? Not exactly. It is a “Heavenly”
Sabbath, because the count is based on the LIGHTS of the Moon AND
stars.
PASSOVER
The
original Passover lamb was slain “between the evenings” - that
brief DARK period of time between when the Sun's light of the 14th
day has disappeared in the west and the full Moon's light starts
shining in the east. This unique period can only happen when the
correct New Moon is established. This requirement explains why
Yahshua had to die while it was DARK! Remember Joshua's miraculous
long-day? Well the latter-day Joshua had a miraculous short day:
that 14th day was about 3 hours shorter than it should've
been. This divine miracle also affected the count towards His
resurrection/accension on the 16th.
UNLEAVENED
BREAD
The
Feast of Unleavened Bread is from the 15th (weekly/”high”
Sabbath) to the 21st day of 1st month. Also,
just like the Feast of Tabernacles, the last day of the feast is
followed by the weekly Sabbath (22nd).
FIRST
FRUITS OF THE BARLEY HARVEST
The
wave sheaf of barley does NOT determine when the year begins (lights
of the Moon and stars do), but does determine when the count to the
wheat harvest begins. Historically, the wave sheaf was normally
offered on the 16th day of the 1st month , but
could also have been done on the day after previous/later Sabbaths.
Why? Because some years crops can be earlier or later than normal.
And THAT IS WHY there is NOT a specified Sabbath/date designated –
just “the day after the weekly Sabbath.”
3
22ND REVELATIONS IN A ROW!
During
this journey of correctly counting, 3 "revealings" come to
light - each one on the 22nd day of the first 3 months, and each a
Sabbath ... an impossibility on the Roman/papal 7-day pagan/planetary
week:
01/22
= Freedom was revealed on the Sabbath
02/22 = Sabbath was revealed on the Sabbath!
03/22 = Covenant was revealed on the Sabbath!
02/22 = Sabbath was revealed on the Sabbath!
03/22 = Covenant was revealed on the Sabbath!
Revelations
on 3 22s? “He who has an ear, let him hear what the spirit says!”
(Rev 3:22)
FIRST
FRUITS OF THE WHEAT HARVEST
This
feast day has ramifications like no other day - doors of
understanding of past, present and future events have now been
opened. Usually referred to as either Shavuot or
Pentecost, the correct understanding of when
this day is found is by adding both names together:
SHAVUOT (7 weeks)
+ PENTECOST (50 days)
FIRST FRUITS OF HARVEST! (50th day)
Yes,
the correct method is counting 7 FULL/COMPLETE weeks and then 50 days
from the day after the 7th
Sabbath - which is the length of time it takes wheat to grow from
planting (in spring) to being harvested (in mid-summer). The truth is
right there in Lev 23: 15,16 - but we could not see it. Why? The
combination of tradition and translations has double-blinded us. Of
all the translations I have read, only one (ONE!) has almost
translated verse 16 correctly: "Then
AFTER the 7th Sabbath, you shall count 50 days."
(Ferrar Fenton)
Since
the week counting starts on the 17th
(“FROM the day after”), this week is not full/complete – so the
count starts on the 23rd,
making the Sabbath/29th
the first of 7 weeks. This makes the 15th
day of the 3rd
month the 7th
week/shavuot. Then FROM the day after this (17th
again – like Noah's flood count!), 50 days are counted – making
either the 6th,
7th
or 8th of
the 5th
month when the
fullness of the 50th/Pentecost
day had come, the Feast of the First Fruits of the Wheat Harvest.
In
the latest Dead Sea scroll to be deciphered (only one more left!),
there is revealed a different calendar than the rabbinic one used in
Jerusalem. In this calendar was the festival of New Wine – which
was 50 days after Shavuot!! And what were the disciples accused
of drinking on that fateful day?! They could not have been accused of
drinking new wine in the spring or early summer – it's impossible!
TRUMPETS
On
the NIGHT before the DAY/LIGHT of Trumpets (1st day of the
7th month), a New Moon will be seen at/under (depends on
year cycle) the feet of the constellation (not sign!) of the virgin
and ruling with the stars. When a crown of 12 stars finally becomes
visible to those on Earth (not yet sure of exact month), then Yashua
will return with His Bride and Saints on the next Trumpets.
ATONEMENT
The
day/light of Atonment is the 10th day/light of the 7th
month – with the fasting starting on the previous evening, which is
the ending of the 9th day/light. The atonement of sins
part of this day was fulfilled when Paul sprinkled Yahshua's blood
before and on the Ark of the Covenant – which consecrated the New
Covenant! He went into Arabia: first to Mount Sinai, then
continued on to Ethiopia where the Ark was being protected. The facts
of this amazing journey are the genesis (the kernel of truth) of the
legend/myth of the Holy Grail quest.
TABERNACLES
This
feast starts on the Sabbath of the 15th day of the 7th
month and continues until the 21st day and pictures the
1,000-year Millenium, which is to prepare the Earth for the …
LAST
GREAT DAY
This
day is on the Sabbath of the 22nd day of the 7th
month and pictures the 1,000-year White Throne Judgement.
CORRECT
CALENDAR CNOWLEDGE
The
KNOWLEDGE of the correct calendar ...
* Knowledge that His people are lacking and currently being destroyed for (Hos 4:6):
* Knowledge they don't have, because they're lukewarm, wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked (Rev 3:16,17);
* Knowledge they don't have, because they're clinging to deceit and do not know the requirements of YAHOVAH, because the false pen of the scribes have handled the law falsely and turned it into a lie that has produced a falsehood (Jer 8:5-8);
* Knowledge they don't have and are stumbling, because the priests/rabbis/ministers have not followed YAHOVAH's ways and have shown partiality in matters of the law and have not preserved KNOWLEDGE (Mal 2:9)
... is displayed night after night in the heavens that declare YEHOVAH'S glory. These heavenly lights declare the knowledge of when the appointed times (moedim) are to be observed – which ipso facto makes the calendar luni-stellar, not luni-solar (like the Babylonians used)!
* Knowledge that His people are lacking and currently being destroyed for (Hos 4:6):
* Knowledge they don't have, because they're lukewarm, wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked (Rev 3:16,17);
* Knowledge they don't have, because they're clinging to deceit and do not know the requirements of YAHOVAH, because the false pen of the scribes have handled the law falsely and turned it into a lie that has produced a falsehood (Jer 8:5-8);
* Knowledge they don't have and are stumbling, because the priests/rabbis/ministers have not followed YAHOVAH's ways and have shown partiality in matters of the law and have not preserved KNOWLEDGE (Mal 2:9)
... is displayed night after night in the heavens that declare YEHOVAH'S glory. These heavenly lights declare the knowledge of when the appointed times (moedim) are to be observed – which ipso facto makes the calendar luni-stellar, not luni-solar (like the Babylonians used)!
The
calendar was the first thing revealed in Genesis (in the original
order, as proven when the oldest version of Genesis 1 is finally revealed) and the first revealed command to the Israelites before leaving Egypt. Now,
the calendar circle has been completed: the
first
to be revealed shall
be the last
to be restored.
