To the law and to the testimony - The Calendar of Scripture
- erica1869
- Nov 29, 2025
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Updated: Dec 15, 2025
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To the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, there is no light in them. (Isa 8:20)
Without an understanding of the ‘law and the testimony’ our vision is clouded.
The Gregorian calendar is a ‘construct of man’.
We have lost the calendar of scripture, and in so doing we have lost our way.
Christmas is not biblical; Easter is not biblical.
Christ could not have been born on ‘December 25th’. Scripture shows he was born on or around Adar 1, which is in February.
He rose on the 16th of Abib, not on ‘Easter Sunday’.
Christmas is A Lie
No one who ‘makes a lie’ will enter into New Jerusalem (Re 21:27).
We ‘worship in vain’:
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Mt 15:9)
We spend our money on ‘junk food’, eating that which is not bread:
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? (Isa 55:2)
As prophesied, we have inherited lies from our fathers.
O Lord … the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. (Jer 16:19)
The Gregorian calendar has obscured the true calendar of scripture, and in so doing it has obscured much truth
God’s clock is set in the heavens, where man cannot tamper with it.
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. (Gen 1:14)
By contrast, the world runs on the Gregorian calendar, a man-made construct, standardized across the globe by another man-made construct, the imaginary line called the ‘International Date Line’, ‘created’ in 1884.
In scripture, the days of the week are numbered, but not named. By contrast, the days of our week and the months of our year are named after pagan gods, despite the warning against this:
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. (Ex 23:13)
Man lives by every word that comes out of the mouth of God (De 8:3), therefore it is important to understand the true calendar. Without understanding, we have little hope of avoiding the deception of the perilous last days in which we live.
“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (De 8:3)
The Calendar of Scripture
The biblical clock and calendar is luni-solar, governed by the sun and the moon, with the stars marking the seasons and bearing witness to the change between day and night.
The moon governs the months, which run as follows:
Day 1: New Moon Day – a day of worship and renewal
Days 2–8: Six workdays, Sabbath on Day 8
Days 9–15: Six workdays, Sabbath on Day 15
Days 16–22: Six workdays, Sabbath on Day 22
Days 23–29: Six workdays, Sabbath on Day 29
The Sabbath days are always on Day 8, Day 15, Day 22 and Day 29.
Furthermore, because the lunar cycle averages 29.5 days, months are either 29 or 30 days in length. If a 30th day occurs, it serves as a transitional day before the next New Moon.
NMD = ‘New Moon Day’, Sabbaths = Days 8, 15, 22, 29
The evidence for this will be given below, but first a look at the ‘moedim’: the ‘set’ or ‘appointed’ times.
“Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctifies them. (Eze 20:12)
The Appointed Times (‘Moedim’)
Here is the standard (e.g. KJV) translation of Genesis 1:14:
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. (Gen 1:14)
The word generally translated ‘seasons’ is ‘mowed’ (Strongs H4150):
מוֹעֵד môwʻêd, mo-ade'
from H3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):—appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
masculine noun
It is better translated as ‘appointed time’ or ‘set time’.
We see the word used about the birth of Isaac, where it is translated as ‘set time’:
But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. (Ge 17:21)
Which set time is being referred to here?
We learn from the Book of Jubilees (16:13) that Isaac was born in the middle of the third month, on the Feast of FirstFruits.
The moon governs ‘appointed times’:
He appointed the moon for appointed times (‘moedim’); the sun knoweth his going down. (Psalm 104:19)
“My people have forgotten me days without number.” (Je 2:32)
When are the Appointed Times?
They are set out in Leviticus 23, and also in Numbers 28. Translating ‘mowed’ as ‘appointed times’, we read:
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the appointed times of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my appointed times. (Le 23:1-2)
The first appointed time (Lev 23:3) is ‘the sabbath’:
no work;
holy convocation (meeting).
The rest of the appointed times run as follows:
(i) Passover (14th of first month, at evening).
(ii) Unleavened bread (15th of first month for seven days):
the 15th is a holy convocation, no servile work to be done;
unleavened bread to be eaten for seven days;
the seventh day (21st) is a holy convocation, a ‘feast’ (‘chag’ – Ex 13.6), no servile work.
(iii) Sheaf of Firstfruits*:
to be kept when the children of Israel came into the land;
sheaf of the firstfruits of the harvest waved before the Lord, to be accepted for the people;
on the day after the sabbath;
eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until this self-same day that ye have brought an offering;
a never-ending statute for your generations in all your dwellings.
“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”
(Ho 6:2)
(iv) Feast of Weeks / Firstfruits *
seven complete ‘weeks’ after the ‘Sheaf of Firstfruits’ is waved;
holy convocation, no servile work;
two wave loaves of fine flour baked with leaven;
freewill offering.
(v) Trumpets (1st of seventh month)
holy convocation, no servile work.
called a ‘shabbathon’**.
(vi) Day of Atonement (10th of seventh month)
holy convocation, no work, destroyed from people if work;
afflict souls from evening on the 9th, any soul not afflicted shall be cut-off.
called a ‘shabbathon’**.
(vii) Feast of Tabernacles (15th of seventh month for seven days, plus ‘eighth day’)
15th is a holy convocation, no servile work;
after the corn and wine is gathered (De 16:13);
freewill offering;
feast for 7 days;
eighth day (22nd) is a holy convocation, a solemn assembly, no servile work.
(viii) Feast of Ingathering (15th of seventh month for seven days, plus ‘eighth day’)
15th called a ‘shabbathon’**;
eighth day (22nd) is called a ‘shabbathon’**.
rejoicing before the Lord for seven days with boughs and branches of trees;
dwell in booths seven days.
Note that the Feast of Ingathering takes place on the same dates as the Feast of Tabernacles, so there is in some sense a ‘dual fulfilment’ of this period.
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. (Mat 5:18)
Notes:
* The terms ‘Firstfruits’ and ‘Feast of Weeks’ are used interchangeably. The KJV version of Nu 28:26 runs as follows, and implies that the day of the firstfruits is the same as the Feast of Weeks:
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the Lord, after your weeks, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work. (Nu 28:26)
We also know from the Book of Jubilees that Isaac was born at Firstfruits, in the middle of the third month. There is a discussion of counting of seven complete weeks later.
** The ‘Shabatthon’ (usually translated as ‘a sabbath of rest’, and referenced by Strongs H7677 as opposed to H7676, the primary reference for ‘the sabbath’) makes an appearance in many of the fall (autumn) Appointed Times, with the exception of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is also used in respect of the weekly sabbath and the sabbath of the land.
“And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." (Da 7:25)
The Feast of Dedication
There is one feast which is not mentioned here which is referenced in the Book of John, the Feast of Dedication.
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. (John 10:22)
Today it is called ‘Hannukah’ and the ‘Festival of Lights’. It starts on the 25th day of the ninth month. The 25th is the third day of the week. It is referenced in 1 Maccabees and commemorates the re-dedication of the second temple after the profanation by the gentiles under Antiochus Epiphanes. Here is an excerpt from 1 Maccabees chapter 4:
Early in the morning on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month of Chislev, in the one hundred and forty-eighth year, they rose and offered sacrifice, as the law directs, on the new altar of burnt offering which they had built. At the very season and on the very day that the gentiles had profaned it, it was dedicated with songs and harps and lutes and cymbals. All the people fell on their faces and worshiped and blessed heaven, who had prospered them. So they celebrated the dedication of the altar for eight days, and offered burnt offerings with gladness; they offered a sacrifice of deliverance and praise. They decorated the front of the temple with golden crowns and small shields; they restored the gates and the chambers for the priests, and furnished them with doors. There was very great gladness among the people, and the reproach of the gentiles was removed. (1 Mac 4:52-58)
Note that the temple had been profaned on the same day exactly three years before.
“On the anniversary of the day on which the temple had been profaned by the foreigners, that is, the 25th of the same month Kislev, the purification of the temple took place.” (2 Mac 10:5)
A further reference is given in 2 Mac 10:1-8, where it is shown that the days should be kept every year.
Given the ‘sin of Jeroboam’ (proclaiming a feast on a ‘day out of his own heart’ (1 Ki 12:32-33), it is questionable whether this is biblical, particularly as previous sanctifications of the altar ended with a celebration on the sabbath, and not on the ‘third day’. It appears to mix the ‘holy’ and the ‘profane’.
The first century historian Josephus wrote:
And so Judah and his fellow citizens celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the Temple for eight days, and omitted no sort of pleasure, but everyone feasted upon very rich and splendid sacrifices; and they honoured God, and delighted themselves with psalms of praise and the playing of harps. Indeed, they were so very glad at the revival of their customs and, after so long a time, having unexpectedly regained their right to worship, that they made it a law for their posterity that they should keep a festival celebrating the restoration of their Temple worship for eight days. And from that time to this we celebrate this, which we call the Festival of Lights, because, I imagine, beyond our hopes this right was brought to light, and so this name was placed on the festival.
“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” (Ez 22:26)
Purim
Another feast which is not ‘an appointed time’ in Leviticus, but is mentioned in the Book of Esther, is the feast of Purim which is celebrated on the 14th and 15th day of the twelfth month:
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. (Es 9:20-22)
“O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.” (Ps 96:9)
Evidence for the Scriptural Calendar
Here is some of the evidence from scripture ‘to prove’ the calendar structure set out above. In order to do this, it is helpful first to ‘disprove’ the notion of a continuous uninterrupted weekly sabbath.
Evidence Part (1)
A Continuous Weekly Sabbath is not supported by Scripture
Many people observe a continuous weekly sabbath, but it is not scriptural. This can be seen by considering the first two months in which Joshua took the children of Israel into the promised land.
In both months, it will be shown that the sabbaths fell on Days 8, 15, 22 and 29.
With a ‘continuous sabbath’, this could only have happened if the first month had 28 days. But since the lunar cycle has at least 29 days, and on average approximately 29.5 days, there is no month in scripture with 28 days.
Hence a continuous sabbath is not possible.
Month 1
In Joshua Chapter 5, the children of Israel have already crossed the Jordan and ‘come into the land’. We know from Joshua 3.15 that it is the time of the harvest:
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest, (Jos 3:15)
The people crossed over on the 10th of the first month:
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. (Jos 4:19)
Now we are told:
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
(Jos 5:10-12)
We have:
14th - Passover.
15th – Unleavened: ate old corn, unleavened cakes, and parched corn. Manna is not eaten.
16th - Manna ceased, but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
There are two indications that the 15th was a sabbath.
Firstly, on the 15th the children of Israel didn’t eat manna but the manna did not cease, it ceased on the 16th. Why did it not cease on the 15th? Because manna was never given the sabbath, so it could not cease on a sabbath, it had to ‘cease’ on the next day.
The second indication that the 15th was a sabbath, is that the children of Israel first ate of that year’s fruit of the land on the 16th. But we know from Leviticus 23:10-11 that when they first ate of that year’s fruit of the land, it must be on the morrow after the sabbath, and the priest should first wave a sheaf before the Lord.
Christ fulfilled this, being the ‘firstfruit’, ascending to his Father on the 16th, after the first day of Unleavened Bread.
Thus the 15th (the first day of Unleavened Bread) was a sabbath.
The 8th, 22nd and 29th must therefore also have been sabbaths.
“For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.” (Isa 28:10-12)
Month 2
After this, on the first day of the second month of this same year, Joshua smites Jericho.
For the date, we need to go to the Book of Jasher.
And it was in the second month, on the first day of the month, that the Lord said to 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. (Jash 88:14)
On the seventh day, they compassed the city seven times, the walls came down, and they utterly destroyed the city and killed everyone except Rahab and her family.
How did all the marching and destruction not break the sabbath instruction to rest? The only possible answer is that none of the seven days on which the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho was a sabbath.
They started on the first of the month (New Moon), and then marched on the first six days of the first week. The sabbath must have fallen after this – on Day 8 of the month. New moon and the first six days of the first week make seven days. Thus Day 8 of the second month was a sabbath, and by deduction, Days 15, 22 and 29 were sabbaths.
We now have two months in a row in which sabbaths fell on Days 8, 15, 22 and 29. As stated above, this alone proves that the ‘continuous weekly sabbath’ cannot be biblical.
As an aside, whilst the Book of Jasher is not considered ‘canonical’ in the West, it does have two witnesses within the ‘canonical’ scriptures (Joshua 10:3, 2 Samuel 1:18). And we know that on the testimony of two witnesses shall all things be established.
Two Witnesses
In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. (2 Co 13:1)
Note that the historian Josephus gives an account of the sheaf of firstfruits:
On the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth (day of Nisan), of the fruits they have reaped they take a part; for they do not touch them before, accounting it just to honour God first, from whom they receive the plenty of these things; and bring the firstfruits of the barley after this manner, having dried the handful of ears, and bruised them, and cleansed them from the bran, they bring to the altar a tenth part to God, and casting one handful of it on the altar, they leave the rest for the use of the priests; and from thence forward it is lawful to reap publicly and privately.
Josephus implies that the sheaf of firstfruits was always waved on the 16th of the first month, and thus the 15th of the first month was always a sabbath.
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” (Ps 119:105)
Fulfilment in Christ - The Gospel
We have seen in Joshua 5 the physical fulfilment of Lev 23:10-11. The spiritual fulfilment in Christ is demonstrated clearly in the Gospel of John, and in Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians in the following scriptures.
Christ was crucified on the day of the Passover at the time of preparation (Abib 14th):
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King! (John 19:14)
Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Yeshua, and led him away. (John 19:16)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us. (1 Cor 5:7)
He rose on the third day (Abib 16th):
Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: (1 Cor 15:1-4)
But when he met Mary he had not yet ascended to his Father. In other words he had not yet been presented as the firstfruit sheaf.
He told Mary to tell his brethren that he was ascending to his Father, which must therefore have happened on the same day (the 16th), which was the first day of the week.
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)
Yeshua saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and my God, and your God. (John 20:17)
So, as in Joshua 5, we have the pattern:
14th – Passover.
15th – Unleavened Bread (Sabbath).
16th – Wave Offering (First day of the week).
Paul confirms that Christ is the firstfruits in his first letter to the Corinthians:
But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. (1 Co 15:20)
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. (1 Co 15:23)
“But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." (Ac 3:18-19)
Evidence Part (2)
The New Moon is Day 1 of the month
Each new month starts with a new moon, and from this all ‘appointed times’ or ‘set times’ follow:
He appointed the moon for ‘moedim’ (appointed times): the sun knoweth his going down. (Psalm 104:19)
The Hebrew word for ‘month’, Strong’s H2320, bears witness to this:
חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh, kho'-desh
the new moon; by implication, a month:—month(-ly), new moon.
masculine noun
It comes from the root (H2318):
חָדַשׁ châdash, khaw-dash'
a primitive root; to be new; causatively, to rebuild:—renew, repair.
verb
These two verses show that the New Moon signals the start of the new month:
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings … (Nu 10:10)
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. (Ps 81:3-4)
The children of Israel were clearly commanded not to buy and sell on this day (Amos 8:5) day, but the new moon in the seventh month was the only feast day listed in Leviticus 23.
Isaiah 66 implies that these new moon days will be re-instated, along with the sabbath:
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 the Lord. (Isa 66:23)
“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and will bind us up.” (Ho 6:1)
As we have seen, the word ‘new moon’ has at its root ‘repair and renewal’. The month started following the evening sighting of the new moon.
The new moon is ‘a sign’ – a visible indication to herald an event before it starts, in this case the new month.
We have two witnesses to this from scripture:
In 1 Samuel 20:5 David says to Jonathan
‘Behold [Look!], to-morrow is the new moon’. (1 Sa 20:5)
David must have been pointing to a sign to back up what he was saying to Jonathan. There must have been something to ‘behold’.
And in Deuteronomy 16:1 we have:
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. (De 16:1)
Knowing now that the word for month is really ‘new moon’, we see that the children of Israel were told to ‘Observe the new moon called Abib’.
The Hebrew word for ‘Observe’ is Strong’s H8104:
שָׁמַר shâmar, shaw-mar'
a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.:—beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
verb
All of the appointed times (sabbaths, feasts) follow correctly from a correct observation of the new moon.
He appointed the moon for appointed times (‘moedim’); the sun knoweth his going down. (Psalm 104:19)
“Thus saith the Lord my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.” (Zec 11:4-5)
Evidence Part (3)
The weekly sabbaths fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of the month
In disproving the ‘continuous uninterrupted seven day sabbaths’, we saw that when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan, the sabbaths for the first two months fell on Days 8, 15, 22 and 29.
In fact scripture gives us many witnesses to the fact that the sabbaths fall on these days.
That said, we need only to know that the sabbath days are ‘appointed times’ to know that they must reference the new moon (as per Psalm 104:19). And the only way they can do this is if they fall a fixed number of days from the new moon.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my appointed times.
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. (Lev 23:2-3)
Here are some more ‘sabbath’ examples:
Example (1)
The 22nd of the second month when the Israelites came out of Egypt was a sabbath, and so therefore the 8th, 15th and 29th were also sabbaths.
The Israelites arrived in the wilderness of Sin on the 15th day of the second month, and they complained about the lack of food:
And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:
And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger. (Ex 16:1-3)
Manna was to be given from the next morning (the 16th) for six days (Days 16-21 inclusive):
Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily. (Ex 16:4-5)
On the 21st (the sixth day of manna) they gathered twice as much as promised by Moses:
And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
And he said unto them, This is that which the LOrd hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein. (Ex 16:22-24)
The 22nd of the second month was the sabbath:
And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord today ye shall not find it in the field.
Thus the sabbaths on the second month fell on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of the month.
“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.” (Mt 23:13)
Example (2)
When the walls of Jericho came down, we saw a pattern of seven days of activity and then an eighth day holy convocation or rest at the start of the month. There is a similar pattern demonstrated in the consecration of Aaron:
The raising of the tabernacle in the wilderness and the consecration of Aaron both began on the first day of the first month of the second year:
On the first day of the first month you shall raise up the tent of the Tent of Meeting. (Ex 40:2)
It happened in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tent was raised up. (Ex 40:17)
You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the tent of meeting, and shall wash them with water.
You shall put on Aaron the holy garments; and you shall anoint him, and sanctify him, that he may minister to me in the priest's office.
You shall bring his sons, and put coats on them. (Ex 40:12-14)
In Leviticus 8, we see that Aaron and his sons stayed in the Tent of Meeting for seven days:
You shall not go out from the door of the Tent of Meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration are fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days. (Le 8:33)
Further, we see in Leviticus 9 that on the eighth day they held a holy convocation:
It happened on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel; (Lev 9:1) They brought what Moses commanded before the Tent of Meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord. (Le 9:5)
Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of Meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. (Lev 9:23)
The Lord met with His people (‘an appointed time’) on Day 8.
Thus we have seven days of consecration (Days 1 – 7) and an eighth day convocation:
“Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies.” (Isa 28:17)
Example (3)
Interestingly, even Jeroboam who ordained a feast in the eighth month ‘from his own heart’, still chose the 15th day of the month (the sabbath) for it. The month was devised of his own heart, but the day was a sabbath, a holy convocation:
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth-el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense. (1 Ki 12:33)
“The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?” (Jer 5:1)
When do we see Day 29 in Scripture?
Never!
There is ‘no light’ on Day 29 in scripture; it is never mentioned. It is hidden and is not seen directly, but we can infer it.
In fact one of the delights of the Word is that the amount of ‘light’ (i.e. occurrences) shone on each of the sabbaths in scripture is in line with the amount of light given by the moon. There is most ‘light’ on the 15th Day which is heralded by a full moon, and least light on the 29th when the moon has waned almost to nothing.
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” (Pr 3:6)
Day and Night
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (Ge 1:3-5)
Day is any time period that has ‘Light’.
And Night is Darkness, being the ‘absence of Light’.
Day includes the period after sundown whilst there is still light. We know this from the hanging of the king of Ai.
From Deuteronomy 21:22 we know that the body must be buried that day. And we know from Joshua 8:29 that the body of the king of Ai was taken down after the sun was down, which must therefore have been counted as ‘day’:
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. (De 21:22-23)
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. (Jos 8:29)
“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord unto the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds that feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?” (Ez 34:2)
A new biblical ‘Day’ starts at dawn
A ‘24-hour’ day runs from dawn to dawn
Our modern ’24 hour day’ runs from midnight to midnight.
By contrast, the modern ‘Jewish day’ runs from sunset until sunset. But is this supported by scripture?
Actually, no, it is not.
There are many scriptures that prove that the biblical day runs from dawn to dawn.
Example (1)
Possibly the most compelling is Genesis 19.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. (Ge 19:34)
The Hebrew word for ‘morrow’ is Strong’s H4283:
מׇחֳרָת mochŏrâth, mokh-or-awth'
the morrow or (adverbially) tomorrow:—morrow, next day.
It means tomorrow or next day.
From this it is clear that ‘yesternight’ was a different day from when the firstborn spoke.
The Hebrew word for ‘yesternight’ is Strong’s H570:
אֶמֶשׁ ʼemesh, eh'-mesh
time past, i.e. yesterday or last night:—former time, yesterday(-night)
It means ‘yesterday night’, as it has been translated.
Had the day begun at sundown, the firstborn would still be speaking on the same ‘day’ and would have had to say something along the lines of ‘Behold, I lay this day with my father; you lie with him tomorrow night’ which her sister would then interpret as ‘after dark today’.
It is clear from this scripture alone that the day does not begin at sundown.
“I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds." (Jer 5:5)
Here are some other scriptures which talk about the ‘dawning’ of the next day. The next day could not ‘dawn’ if it had already started the previous day:
Example (2)
But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. (Jon 4:7)
To be consistent with a day running from ‘sundown to sundown’, this verse would have to leave out the words ‘the next day’.
Example (3)
We know from Leviticus 23 that the Passover happens on Abib 14, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread happens on Abib 15.
There are two parts to the Passover:
The slaying, which happens ‘between the evenings’ at the going down of the sun.
The eating, which must happen at night.
The ‘morrow’ of the Passover is Abib 15:
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. (Nu 33:3)
It is a new day, after Passover. Passover is not spoken of in two separate parts, it is spoken of as one complete holy day, sacrifice and feast, having occurred yesterday on Abib 14. The sacrifice occurs prior to sundown (which, as we know from the hanging of the King of Ai is in the daytime) and the feast occurs at night - both are on Abib 14.
Here are the relevant passages:
Killed in the evening at the going down of the sun (De 16:6):
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Ex 12:6)
(Note that ‘in the evening’ is a poor translation of ‘beyn ereb’ meaning ‘between the evenings’, which can be shown from other scriptures to mean ‘afternoon’). Here is Deuteronomy 16:6:
But at the place which the Lord your God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. (De 16:6)
Eaten at Night
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs. (Ex 12:8)
Spoken of as One Day:
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. (Ex 12:14)
In Ex 12.6, the instructions given require that the animal be sacrificed in the day time on Abib 14; specifically, between the evenings.
The day of Passover is first identified as the fourteenth. The Passover lamb was to be sacrificed on the fourteenth at the going down of the sun. But the feast was to be conducted after sundown, at night (Ex 12.8). If a day begins at sundown (and it does not), then the sacrifice occurs on the fourteenth and the feast occurs on the fifteenth, thereby spanning two days.
Example (4)
In the end of the sabbath [the 15th], as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;” (2 Tim 4:3)
Rising on the Third Day
We are told very clearly in 1 Cor 15:4 (see above section: 'Fulfilment in Christ - The Gospel) that Christ rose on the third day.
How exactly was this fulfilled?
During the crucifixion, there was darkness over the land from the sixth hour to the ninth hour (Mark 15:33). Christ died at the ninth hour. We know that darkness is called Night:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. (Ge 1:5)
After Christ died, it is implicit from the darkness running until the ninth hour, that the light returned, and thus it was a new day, Day 1:
Day 1
He was buried before night, as the law required.
There was a night in the tomb.
Day 2
The next morning was a new day, the 15th, the first day of Unleavened Bread, Day 2.
We are then told in Mark that he rose on the next day, being the first of the week, Day 3.
Day 3
Now when Yeshua was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils. (Mr 16:9)
Hence he rose on the third day.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life." (John 6:47)
"I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
Seven ‘Complete’ Weeks
In order to count from the day the Sheaf of Firstfruits is waved, until the Day of Firstfruits, there need to be seven complete weeks.
Here is the KJV translation of the relevant verses:
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord. (Le 23:15-18)
Verse 15 says that ‘seven sabbaths shall be complete’. In the Septuagint the same verse reads as follows:
And ye shall number to yourself from the day after the sabbath, from the day on which ye shall offer the sheaf of the heave offering, seven full weeks: until the morrow after the last week ye shall number 50 days, and shall bring a new meat offering to the Lord. (Le 23:15-16, Septuagint)
The word for ‘complete’ or ‘full’ is Strongs H8549, as follows:
תָּמִים tâmîym, taw-meem'
from H8552; entire (literally, figuratively or morally); also (as noun) integrity, truth:—without blemish, complete, full, perfect, sincerely (-ity), sound, without spot, undefiled, upright(-ly), whole.
adjective
So we are looking for ‘weeks without blemish’.
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.” (Mt 5:3)
What are weeks without 'blemish'?
What does that mean? It is not immediately clear, but, because we know that Isaac was born at Firstfruits, in the middle of the third month, at the very least, we can ‘reverse engineer’ the fact that the week commencing 16th Abib must be excluded.
This week is the week of 'unleavened bread' when leaven (being symbolic of 'sin') is removed. The harvest is only ripe when sin is removed. Therefore this week is not counted as a 'perfect week'.
Jubilees gives several witnesses to the time of Firstfruits:
And she [Sarah] bare a son in the third month, and in the middle of the month, at the time of which the Lord had spoken to Abraham, on the festival of the first fruits of the harvest, Isaac was born. (Jub 16:13)
Chapter 14 of Jubilees also shows that the Lord covenanted with Abraham at the time of Firstfruits:
After these things, in the fourth year of this week, on the new moon of the third month, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a dream, saying: ‘Fear not, Abram; I am thy defender, and thy reward will be exceeding great. (Jub 14:1)
And He said unto him: ‘Take Me an heifer of three years, and a goat of three years, and a sheep of three years, and a turtle-dove, and a pigeon.’ … And he took all these in the middle of the month and he dwelt at the oak of Mamre, which is near Hebron. And he built there an altar, and sacrificed all these; and he poured their blood upon the altar, and divided them in the midst, and laid them over against each other; but the birds divided he not. (Jub 14:9-11)
…
And the day passed, and Abram offered the pieces, and the birds, and their fruit offerings, and their drink offerings, and the fire devoured them. And on that day we made a covenant with Abram, according as we had covenanted with Noah in this month; and Abram renewed the festival and ordinance for himself for ever. (Jub 14:19-20)
Which festival or appointed time is being spoken of? Jubilees 15 tells us:
And in the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, in the third month, in the middle of the month, Abram celebrated the appointed time of the first-fruits of the wheat harvest. (Jub 15:1)
Moses ascended the mount to receive the commandments of the Lord at the same time:
And it came to pass in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the third month, on the sixteenth day of the month, that the Lord spake to Moses, saying: ‘Come up to Me on the Mount, and I will give thee two tables of stone of the law and of the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayst teach them.’ (Jub 1:1)
So it was the third month, on the 16th day of the month.
“Yeshua answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.” (John 11:9-10)
Back to the ‘reverse engineering:’
Seven ‘perfect’ or ‘complete’ weeks must fall as follows:
The Book of Daniel provides another witness to this, as will be seen in the section entitled ‘The Time of the End’.
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.” (Ro 11:25)
The Harvests
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.
For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all. (1 Cor 15:23-28)
Scripture uses the physical (agricultural) world to teach spiritual truths. In particular, the sowing and harvesting of crops represent the ‘harvesting of souls’.
As in Matthew 13:30, the wheat will be gathered into the barn, whilst the tares will be thrown into the fire.
The main harvests are represented by firstfruits and the ingathering, as per Exodus 34:22:
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. (Ex 34:22)
From Exodus 34:22 and Jubilees 15:1, we know that the firstfruits of the wheat harvest was celebrated at Firstfruits, in the middle of the third month.
And in the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, in the third month, in the middle of the month, Abram celebrated the appointed time of the firstfruits of the wheat harvest. (Jub 15:1)
“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” (2 Pe 3:13)
The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares
From the parable of the ‘wheat and the tares’ in Matthew 13, it is clear that the wheat harvest of souls comes ‘at the end of the world’:
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?
But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. (Mt 13:24-30)
Here is the explanation of the parable:
He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Mt 13:37-43)
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.” (2 Pe 3:10)
The firstfruits of the wheat harvest is ripe for harvest in the third month:
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. (John 4:35-38)
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 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.” (Mt 5:17-18)
The Days of Noah
The calendar of scripture has been hidden. The Lord took His holy things away from the children of Israel because they profaned them (Hos 2:11). In the reign of Hezekiah we see Him bringing the shadow of the sun ten degrees backward:
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz. (2 Ki 20:11)
We know that the end will be ‘as in the days of Noah’:
But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. (Mt 24:37-42)
Interestingly, in the days of Noah, the months were 30 days long; they did not vary between 29 and 30 days. We know this because the period between Noah entering the ark and the ark resting on Ararat was 150 days, running from the 17th day of the second month to the 17th day of the seventh month:
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. (Ge 7:11)
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; (Ge 7:13)
And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days. (Ge 7:24)
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat. (Ge 8:1-4)
It appears from the books of Revelation and Daniel, that ‘at the time of the end’, a 360 day calendar with 12 months of 30 days may be restored. And so the calendar may also be ‘as in the days of Noah’.
“And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness. The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.” (Isa 29:19)
The ‘Time of the End’
Many people think that the ‘time of the end’ is fast approaching. It is a time of great trouble, but also a time when knowledge of the scriptures increases, as indeed is happening now via the internet.
Daniel 12 references the ‘time of the end’ and is worth reading in full. The book is ‘sealed’ until the end (unlike the book of Revelation):
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. (Da 12:1-4)
Note that the Septuagint version of Da 12:4 has the words ‘until many are taught, and knowledge is increased.’
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” (2 Pe 3:11-12)
We have the following time periods for the ‘time of the end’ given in Daniel 12 and Revelation:
A time, times and a half
… How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. (Da 12:6-7)
Note the Septuagint version of the end of Da 12:7:
… it should be for a time of times and half a time: when the dispersion is ended they shall know all these things. (Da 12:7, Septuagint)
There is an expectation that the children of Israel who are scattered to the ends of the earth will be gathered at this time.
Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;
But, the Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?
Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is the Lord. (Jer 16:14-21)
“For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.” (Isa 29:20-21)
1260 days
This time period also appears in Revelation 12, where it is shown to equate to 1260 days, which is three and a half years with a 360 day calendar year.
The fact that it appears twice may indicate a ‘dual fulfilment’ – once when the temple was destroyed in AD 70, and once ‘at the end’. A dual fulfilment gives a total time of 7 years.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.
And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Yeshua Ha’ Maschiach. (Rev 12:1-17)
“He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him” (Da 2:23)
Back to Daniel 12:
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. (Da 12:8-10)
1290 days
We now have another time period, of 1290 days, which, with a 360 day calendar, is three and a half years plus one month (3 years, 7 months):
And from the time that the daily shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. (Da 12:11)
1335 days
And a final period of 1335 days, which is 45 days (a month and a half) beyond the 1290 day period (3 years and 8 ½ months).
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. (Da 12:12)
All of these time periods are very difficult to comprehend using the 365 day ‘Gregorian’ calendar, but, they do fit on a 360 day calendar, the ‘as in the days of Noah’ calendar.
With a 360 day year:
1260 days is exactly three and a half years.
Note that half a year is the time between the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (15th first month) and the fist day of the Feast of Tabernacles / Ingathering.
8 ½ months is the time between the Feast of Trumpets (1st of Seventh Month) and the Feast of Weeks.
It is also the time from the 1st day of the eleventh month and the beginning of the Feast of Ingathering.
Interestingly the first day of the eleventh month was the day in which Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them:
And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the Lord had given him in commandment unto them. (De 1:3)
“Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding.” (Da 2:21-22)
Christmas is a lie
Christmas is one of the great deceptions of the mainstream Church.
How do Christians dare to involve themselves?
As we now see, December 25th is a date on a calendar which is a ‘construct of man’. There is no way that Christ was born on this day, since it is not even on a scriptural calendar with the beginning of its months determined by the moon.
Further, scripture indicates that Yeshua was born on or around the first day of the twelfth Hebrew month, Adar (in our 'February').
This can be seen from the fact that he is the ‘Lamb of God’, as prophesied by Abraham and witnessed by John the Baptist:
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together. (Ge 22:8)
The next day John seeth Yeshua coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (Joh 1:29)
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Pe 3:9)
What is meant by the ‘Lamb of God’?
The identification of Yeshua as the 'Lamb of God' references the fact that Yeshua is the lamb that God has chosen for His House, in accordance with Exodus 12:
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. (Ex 12:3-6)
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5)
What is God’s house?
It is represented by his temple. In the days when Christ was sacrificed, it was the temple in Jerusalem, a house of prayer:
And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Mr 11:17)
God’s house is Yeshua’s house. We know this because Yeshua ‘fulfilled’ this decree by Darius:
Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
And the God that hath caused his name to dwell there destroy all kings and people, that shall put to their hand to alter and to destroy this house of God which is at Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be done with speed. (Ezr 6:11-12)
When asked for a sign, Yeshua, said
Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. (John 2:18-19)
We also read in Mark:
We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands. (Mr 14:58)
Yeshua must have been hanged on timber (doorposts) from the temple itself. It is yet another verification is that he is the 'only doorway' to reconcilation with God.
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10:9)
The Lamb of God is God’s chosen lamb, for His household
As such he must be ‘taken’ by his household as their lamb on the tenth day of the month, when he is a lamb ‘of the first year’.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. (Ex 12:3-7)
When was the ‘lamb selection’ as a ‘lamb of the first year’ fulfilled?
It can only have been when Yeshua was brought into the temple by his parents according to Levitical law (Leviticus 12), and witnessed to be the ‘consolation of Israel’, by two witnesses, Simeon and Anna.
This happened forty days after his birth:
And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses [forty days] were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord,
A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Spirit, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Yeshua, to do for him after the custom of the law, Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against. (Lu 2:22-34)
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.
And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth. (Luke 2:36-39)
“This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkess, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Yeshua his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:5-7)
So, forty days after birth, two witnesses proclaim that Yeshua is the consolation of Israel and identify him to all those looking for redemption.
He is the salvation prepared before the face of all the people, a lamb of the first year, a male child, without blemish.
This must have happened on the 10th day of the first month, and by deduction, he must have been born on, or at least around, the first day of the twelfth month, Adar.
Christmas is a lie
December 25th is not the date of Christ’s birth. Repent if you participate in it! No-one who loves and makes a lie will enter into New Jerusalem. (Re 21:7, Re 22:15)
“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." (Rev 22:14-15)
With stammering lips and another language he will speak to this people ('the wildereness generation'):
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? …
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (Isa 28:9-12)
In the day that I visit, I will visit the sin of the Golden Calf upon them ...
Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. (Ex 32:34)
O that they were wise, and they understood this, that they would consder their latter end!
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? (De 32:29-30)
Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your heart
Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness. (Ps 95:7-8)
“Wherefore, dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.” (1 Co 10:14)
This is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord.
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant. (Isa 30: 8-13)
“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.” (Ps 19:7)
The Day Cometh that Shall Burn as an Oven
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Remember Ye the Law of Moses my Servant
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. (Mal 4:1-6)
Put on the whole armour of God
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Eph 6:10-12)
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.” (Pr 9:10)
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