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It's does not disregard the moon: it warns in using it to track the year accurately as it comes in ten days too soon: as a result a moon or agricultural calendar would throw off the timing of the seasons throughout the year: that is why the sun is the leader.
It does not set the feasts by the moon as YHWH states it should. All the feasts of the seventh month, for example, are determined by counting days from the "moon Ethanim" (1 Kings 8:2).
The problem with this is that Genesis 1:14-19 makes it clear that the sun, moon, and stars work together in showing the signs, seasons, days, and years. Jubilees makes it clear that the sun is the appointed leader for the Jubilees and the years with the moon and the stars following its lead: Jubilees and 1 Enoch are in agreement that men will err in having the moon lead as it falls behind the sun and stars by ten days. The year has never been nor ever will be determined by some name of the month which the Israelites picked up and adopted from Babylon and the nations around them: note that the Bible makes it very clear the days of the week and the months of the year were never named but, tracked numerically. The first mention of names is found with the abib reference which, as I said previously only backs up Genesis 1:9-13 which states that the calendar begins in the spring. It is not until the time of king Solomon that we see a subtle shift in that the months begin to have names attached to them: and how fitting as this fits the narrative perfectly since king Solomon's heart was turned away by the foregin women he married and, eventually sacrificed to their gods. This shift becomes more apparent during the post Babylonian exile period of Ezra-Nehemiah onwards. The effect of the lunar adoption solidifies itself when the Jews fall under Greco and, Roman rule. The lunar calendar in use today did not come into effect until after the second temple was destroyed. It follows that the abib and first crescent tradtions began to take a stronger foothold around this time. Pre second temple destruction the rabbi's had little to no power concerning the calendar practice in the temple: the DSS give us insight into this ancient calendar war which extended all the way back to the time of Enoch.
I totally agree. However, the solar-lunar calendar of Scripture does not use the moon alone as does the Islamic calendar does. All Biblical months are based on cycles of the moon, but the first moon is anchored to the vernal equinox. The addition of a 13 month balances out the calendar making up for the differences in days compared to the solar calendar. Yes, Spring is determined by the sun, but the feasts/moedim are determined by the moon (Psalm 104:19 - "seasons" = moedim = appointed times = feasts).
Pointless as a temporary fix will only be a temporary fix. YHWH's Solar Calendar of 360 Days + 4 Intercalary Days needs no adjusting after so many years like all lunar based calendars which find their origin in Babylon whose calendar also has an intercalry 13th Month/Adar II...which the Jews still use today. Come out of the Great harlot Babylon dear brother.
Of course it needs adjusting. A 364 day solar year does not jive with a 365 day 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds solar year which is what exists today.
And you reveal more of your ignorance and contradict yourself: we have proven by your own testimony that you follow the "Calendar of YHWH" which you falsely claimed as luni-solar; now you go on to state that His 364 Day Calendar must submit and adjust itself to a man made solar calendar of recent origin? Remember that the Gregorian calendar was instituted to replace the horrible Julian lunar calendar as it was behind the true year: yet after all of Gregories attempts he himself admitted that his calendar was off the true year by ten days. If 365.25 Days is not the true year according to its founder then what is the true year? YHWH's Solar calendar of 364 Days. And of course 364 can never go into 365.25 and vice versa: they are opposed to one another. Keep in mind that if the Gregorian Calendar is the true calendar which reflects the correct observances of the heavenly lights, then why does it need to be readjusted if it is supposedly perfect?
I said nothing about the Gregorian calendar being perfect or true, nor do I have it as my calendar except to facilitate life in this secular world. How do you get a difference of ten days between 364 and 365.25? The true year is a year in which YHWH's holy days are determined by the moon and kept in their seasons by the sun.
Is there no end to your incessant attacks on me as a person? The true mark of a false teacher is when the teacher cannot defend his teaching with Scripture, but must resort to personal attacks and extra-Biblical sources. Please have mercy on this ignorant, blaspheming slave of the great harlot of Babylon (as you perceive me) by addressing my views, not my person.
More of your ignorance as I made it clear that the founder said this not I. And if the moon is truly used to determine the appointed times then why does it need to be kept in check by the sun? That is because it is not meant to determine them: the sun is. Remember that the heavenly lights work together and not against each other (Genesis 1:14-19). Appointed times only mean appointed times...the heavenly lights all have their appointed times: the moon is special in that the feasts days never fall according to its appearance: as it never tracks the year accurately: only the sun and stars do.
Explain the following verse:
Oh please I have proven to you through Biblical and 'extra Biblical' sources. The evidence is on my blog for all to see. Anyways without the sun rising in the east and setting in the west we would not be able to find north or south during the day; and, without Polaris we would not be able to find east, south, or west during the night: therefore without God's Solar Calendar of 364 Days we would not be able to know if we were off from the seasons to begin with.
Read Genesis 1:14-19 where it explains that the heavenly lights work together: with the sun as the leader.
God is saying that He appointed the sun and moon for seasons: else how could the sun know its going down if it did not have an appointed time to rise and set? This has nothing to do with the moon being the leader for the holydays of YHWH. If you look at my calendar files on my blog you will see that a new moon (i.e. first crescent moon) nor full moon never overlap His holy days.
No, you didn't miss it you simply misunderstood that passage: notice how there is a colon after season and it states the sun setting: this is to say that when the moon rises from the east the sun sets in the west...nothing more nothing less.
