Happy Purim Everyone :)

[Guide To The Bible]

Today and tomorrow is Purim, that means if you're Jewish you can get drunk

 

[mishkan]

Where on earth do people get such ideas? Purim is March 12th this year, Adar 14.

Jewish Calendar 2017 Germantown | Hebcal Jewish Calendar

 

[Guide To The Bible]

Where on earth do people get such ideas? Purim is March 12th this year, Adar 14.

Jewish Calendar 2017 Germantown | Hebcal Jewish Calendar

Yes your're right but originally they would have not know this till the end of Adar when the Barley was was checked for it's ripeness and because this year looks set to be a 13 month year (on God's Calendar) then in all likely-hood there are two Adar's this year and therefore two Purims. You're probably not familiar with all of this and so it doesn't make any sense to you.

 

[danny ski]

Where on earth do people get such ideas? Purim is March 12th this year, Adar 14.

Jewish Calendar 2017 Germantown | Hebcal Jewish Calendar

Lol! Don't correct lest you invalidate their "observations".

 

[Guide To The Bible]

Lol! Don't correct lest you invalidate their "observations".

The pagan Roman Julian/Gregorian calendar that we now use was only created in 45 BC, before this time it did not exist. Therefore, the current 7 day rolling week we currently use only began at that time. Before this date the Romans (Just in the Provence of Rome) were using a calendar with an 8 day week, which can be seen below:

The Greek Mathematician Sosigenes who Julius Caesar employed to create the new calendar simply removed one of these days (Market day), so the chances of the current 7 day week matching the Jewish week was only a 1 in 7 chance.

The calendar Jesus and the Israelites had been using in Israel for over 1500 years prior to this time was completely different to our Julian calendar. Their months began with the sighting of the new crescent moon on which they rested and had a new moon feast, then there were 6 days of work followed by the first Sabbath. Lunar months are 29.53 days long and therefore Sabbaths fall on day’s 8, 15, 22 and 29 each lunar month. Then the process begins over again with the sighting of the next new moon.

The calendar the Jews used was written about by Moses in the Bible, it is God’s Calendar and you can read more about how it is explained here: Start Reading The Book

However, God’s Calendar is not the same calendar the Jews of today use. The Jews currently use a revised version of God’s Calendar which uses the Gregorian rolling week system instead of God’s lunar weeks, this was due partly to the Roman Emperor Hadrian after he had put down the Jewish Simon Bar-Kokhba revolt in 135 AD and made an anti-religious decree forbidding Sabbath new moon observances from Jerusalem and also the Roman Emperor Constantine who began to force the Jews in 325 AD to worship on the pagan day called Saturday (named after the Roman god of agriculture; Saturnus).

The Jewish calendar used today was created in 359 AD by Sanhedrin Rabbi Hillel II, this was in response to the Romans banishing the Jews from living in Jerusalem, as the Jews could no longer sight the new moon from there and so Hillel’s calendar uses a repeating 19 year lunar mathematical calculation that approximates the timing of each new moon sighting from Jerusalem. This allowed all the Jews to celebrate their feasts on the same day as they were now scattered all over the Earth

The fourth commandment; ‘Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy,’ has virtually been forgotten, a command more important than murder for example, which is the sixth commandment. Although we are saved by grace we should still use the ten commandments as our guide as to how to live. We are not dependant on the law but it will prosper us if we adhere to it, equally if we break these laws then we will face the consequences.

I hope this helps you to understand that the Sabbath is not on Saturdays or Sundays but instead can fall on any day of the pagan Julian/Gregorian week. You can view a comparison calendar on this site too, to know when the next Sabbaths will be: Sabbaths From Now Till 2029

Further studies on God’s Lunar Solar Calendar by other Bible scholars:

John D Keyser – founder of Hope of Israel ministries: From Sabbath to Saturday: The Story of the Jewish Rest Day

International Date Line Change: The Sabbath Unchanged?

Robert-Aaron Richmond explains from scripture how God’s Calendar works:

 

[mishkan]

Yes your're right but originally they would have not know this till the end of Adar when the Barley was was checked for it's ripeness and because this year looks set to be a 13 month year (on God's Calendar) then in all likely-hood there are two Adar's this year and therefore two Purims.

Indeed... when there is a Sanhedrin to make the determination.

You're probably not familiar with all of this and so it doesn't make any sense to you.

Let's try this again: I'm very familiar with all the calendar mishegas that has arisen since the mid 1990's, and regard it as narishkeit arising outside the Jewish community.

BTW, I just did some reading on John Keyser, and I can state without fear of contradiction that he is clearly in the anti-Semitic camp, and should be given no regard on this matter. He even has articles on John D. Keyser | The Saxon Messenger, where they run audio readings from "Mein Kampf"!