God's Calendar explained from scripture

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In the Bible we often read about a calendar that the Hebrews had been using from when Moses left Egypt and even going back further to the flood over two thousands years before Jesus was born, for example we read in Exodus:

Exodus 12:1-2

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

And in Genesis:

Genesis 7:11-12

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

This calendar given by God is completely different to the Julian (and Gregorian) calendar and its pagan planetary week. Read this if you don't know about this: https://www.christianforums.com/thr...irst-day-of-the-week-not-the-seventh.8080841/

God's Calendar in the Bible is very different, firstly none of the days of the week had names but were simply numbered, even the months were originally only numbered by God, although later some of them were given Hebrew names and later still Babylonian names were also added. Below are the names of the Months that are found with in scripture:

Month Hebrew name Babylonian name

1 Aviv - Nisan
2 Ziv - Lyyar
3 – - Sivan
4 – - Tammuz
5 – - Av
6 – - Elul
7 Ethanim - Tishri
8 Bul - Heshwan
9 – - Kislev
10 – - Tevet
11 – - Shevat
12 – - Adar

The months on God’s calendar actually begin with the sighting of the new crescent moon from Jerusalem which was a rest day when there was a new moon feast as shown in 1 Samuel:

1 Samuel 20:18 + 24-27

18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat. 25 He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan, and Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty. 26 Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean, surely he is unclean.” 27 But the next day, the second day of the month, [Day 2] David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

After New Moon Day there were 6 days of work followed by the first Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:3

There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day ofSABBATH rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a SABBATH to the LORD.

As a lunar month is on average 29.53059 days long the sliver of the new moon is seen again on either day 30 or 31, at which point the monthly cycle begins again and that day then becomes day 1 – New Moon Day.

Months therefore alternate between 29 and 30 days in length and Sabbaths therefore fall on day’s 8, 15, 22 and 29 each lunar month. Throughout the Bible the are many places where Sabbaths are shown to fall on one of these 4 days and never on any other day of the month (with the exception of the Day of Trumpets which is the seventh new moon of the year and the Day of Atonement which is day 10 of month seven).

Therefore Sabbaths are not on a continuous ‘rolling’ seven day cycle like it is on the Julian/Gregorian calendar. Below are some examples from scripture when Sabbaths fall on one of the 4 days of the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

Jesus died on the 14th Aviv (Preparation day) Just before the 15th.

Luke 23:54-56

54 It was Preparation Day, and the SABBATH was about to begin. 55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the SABBATH in obedience to the commandment.

Jesus rose on the 16th Aviv (the Day of First Fruits) the day after the 15th which was a Sabbath.

Matthew 28:1

After the SABBATH, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

God instructed Moses that the 15th and 22nd of the 7th month would be Sabbaths:

Leviticus 23:39

“‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of SABBATH rest [Day 15], and the eighth day [Day 22] also is a day of SABBATH rest.

God told Moses the 15th of the 1st month after leaving Egypt would be a Sabbath followed by the Day of First Fruits when the wave offering was made:

Leviticus 23:4-16

4 “ ‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5 The Lord’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day [Day 15] hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the Lord. And on the seventh day [Day 21] hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ ”9 The Lord said to Moses, 10“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the SABBATH.12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, 13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil—a food offering presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma—and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 15 “ ‘From the day after the SABBATH,

Also, in Exodus chapter 16 it can be determined that a Sabbath in the second month after leaving Egypt fell on day 22 of that month and therefore shows that God’s Calendar and his Sabbaths are most certainly linked to the phases of the moon on days 8, 15, 22 & 29:

Exodus 16:1-26

1 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim, and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim, and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’S hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from Heaven for you. The people are to go out each day, and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day [Day 21] they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening [Day 16] you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, 7 and in the morning [Also day 16] you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” 8 Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening, and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.” 9 Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’ ” 10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud. 11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘In the evening[Beginning of day 16] you will eat meat, and in the morning [Also day 16] you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’ ” 13 That evening [Day 16] quail came, and covered the camp, and in the morning [Also day 16] there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.’” 17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed. 19 Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.” 20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. 21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day[Day 21], they gathered twice as much, two omers for each person, and the leaders of the community came, and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day ofSABBATH rest, [Day 22] a holy SABBATH to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left, and keep it until morning.’ ” 24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25 “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a SABBATH to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the SABBATH, there will not be any.”

I hope you can see how God's luni-solar calendar works. If not here are a few teachings that may help explain it better:



 
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Hello GTTB, welcome here.

I think what you are not considering here is that the the weeks are made up of 7 days and are continous so cannot be lost. The JEWS have been keeping God's 4th Commandment Sabbath for 1000's of years already. The purpose of the New moons are for seasons and time and as you have correctly pointed out are for the new months according to God's Word.

The new moons were especially important under the OLD COVENANT for determining the timing of the annual festivals given by God to his people to follow and keep under the OLD COVENANT at Mt Sinai.

There were 7 main annual festivals given to ISRAEL on Mount Sinai that God gave to Moses along with the dates based on the NEW MOONS.

These included;

SPRING FESTIVALS

1. FEAST OF PASSOVER [Pesach - Nissan 14-15]
2. FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD [Chag Hamotzi - Nissan 15-22]
3. FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS [Yom habikkurim - NISSAN 16-17]
4. PENTECOST [Shav'ot on Sivan 6-7]

...........

FALL FESTIVALS

5. FEAST OF TRUMPETS [Yom Teru'ah - Tishri 1]
6. DAY OF ATONEMENT [Yom Kippur - Tishri 10]
7. FEAST OF TABERNACLES [Sukkot - Tishri 15-22]


The main purpose of the new moons was to help identify the season as well as the timings of the Jewish annual festivals that God gave as a covenant to his people to keep from Mount Sinai.

In your view it seems that Jesus and all the Apostles did not keep the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH and all the JEWS have been getting it wrong since they received it for over 4000 years?

God's WORD teaches that Jesus is our example and we should follow him. Not the teachings of men that break the commandments of God (Matthew 15:3-9).

Do you know why you whorship God on Sunday? It is a teaching and tradition of men that has been handed down to Protestantism by the Roman Catholic Chuch in fulfillment of the scriptures in DANIEL 7:25 [25], 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.

...............

WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT THEIR CHANGE OF THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH TO THE FIRST?


................

SIN is the breaking of God's Commandments (James 2:9-11; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4) Those who CONTINUE in UNREPENTANT SIN will NOT enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.

................

God's 4th commandment is one of the ten (Exodus 20:8-11) If we knowingly break it when God asks us not to we stand guilty before God of committing sin (James 2:8-12). If we do not seek him in repentance and forgiveness we are in danger of the Judgement (Hebrews 10:26-27)

Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of man that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus says that if we follow the traditions of man that break the commandments of God we are not following God (Matthew 15:3-9)

There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that God's 4th Commandment is now ABOLISHED and we are now commanded to KEEP Sunday as a Holy day.

Who should we follow the teachings and traditions of men or the Word of God? Who should we believe the Words of men or the Word of God?

In times of ignorance God winks at but now ,<when a KNOWLEDGE of the truth has come> calls all men everywhere to REPENT (FOLLOW) (Acts 17:30-31).
 
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Hello GTTB, welcome here.

I think what you are not considering here is that the the weeks are made up of 7 days and are continous so cannot be lost. The JEWS have been keeping God's 4th Commandment Sabbath for 1000's of years already. The purpose of the New moons are for seasons and time and as you have correctly pointed out are for the new months according to God's Word.

The new moons were especially important under the OLD COVENANT for determining the timing of the annual festivals given by God to his people to follow and keep under the OLD COVENANT at Mt Sinai.

There were 7 main annual festivals given to ISRAEL on Mount Sinai that God gave to Moses along with the dates based on the NEW MOONS.

These included;

SPRING FESTIVALS

1. FEAST OF PASSOVER [Pesach - Nissan 14-15]
2. FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD [Chag Hamotzi - Nissan 15-22]
3. FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS [Yom habikkurim - NISSAN 16-17]
4. PENTECOST [Shav'ot on Sivan 6-7]

...........

FALL FESTIVALS

5. FEAST OF TRUMPETS [Yom Teru'ah - Tishri 1]
6. DAY OF ATONEMENT [Yom Kippur - Tishri 10]
7. FEAST OF TABERNACLES [Sukkot - Tishri 15-22]


The main purpose of the new moons was to help identify the season as well as the timings of the Jewish annual festivals that God gave as a covenant to his people to keep from Mount Sinai.

In your view it seems that Jesus and all the Apostles did not keep the SEVENTH DAY SABBATH and all the JEWS have been getting it wrong since they received it for over 4000 years?

God's WORD teaches that Jesus is our example and we should follow him. Not the teachings of men that break the commandments of God (Matthew 15:3-9).

Do you know why you whorship God on Sunday? It is a teaching and tradition of men that has been handed down to Protestantism by the Roman Catholic Chuch in fulfillment of the scriptures in DANIEL 7:25 [25], 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.

...............

WHAT DO THEY SAY ABOUT THEIR CHANGE OF THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH TO THE FIRST?


................

SIN is the breaking of God's Commandments (James 2:9-11; Romans 7:7; 1 John 3:4) Those who CONTINUE in UNREPENTANT SIN will NOT enter into the KINGDOM of HEAVEN.

................

God's 4th commandment is one of the ten (Exodus 20:8-11) If we knowingly break it when God asks us not to we stand guilty before God of committing sin (James 2:8-12). If we do not seek him in repentance and forgiveness we are in danger of the Judgement (Hebrews 10:26-27)

Sunday worship is a tradition and teaching of man that has led many to break the commandments of God. Jesus says that if we follow the traditions of man that break the commandments of God we are not following God (Matthew 15:3-9)

There is not one scripture in all of God's Word that says that God's 4th Commandment is now ABOLISHED and we are now commanded to KEEP Sunday as a Holy day.

Who should we follow the teachings and traditions of men or the Word of God? Who should we believe the Words of men or the Word of God?

In times of ignorance God winks at but now ,<when a KNOWLEDGE of the truth has come> calls all men everywhere to REPENT (FOLLOW) (Acts 17:30-31).
Hi LGW
You have not understood my post.
 
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Hi LGW
You have not understood my post.

Why do you say that? I have shown that the 7 day weeks are continuous and the months do not effect them. We have also looked at the scriptures that show that the purpose of the full moons was to show the months which are a sign for seasons and also the annual festivals of the OLD COVENANT.

This will not agree with your OP however but it is the Word of God.
 
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