The Calendar by Matthew Nolan 1-14- 2017
The calendar debate has caused more pain and turmoil and is used
as a method to cast people out.
Rom 14:17
- not an exercise of the flesh - but righteousness peace and joy....
that is what the kingdom of Yah is about... let us therefore follow after the
things that make peace.
The calendar has brought more war among believers than any other topic over the years...
Become slaves to other men's interpretations... and find yourself disagreeing with those you used to walk
with.
Colossians 2:8 - see to it no one takes you
captive by the teachings of man.
Calendar people use it to hold people captive
for “the love of wisdom”... “ I am so smart”... here’s 250 power points and 500
pages - see you in six months... you are my slave... I am the one full of
wisdom.”
That is exactly what happens and it is
terrible.
Where is the love? Where is the edification...?
I am looking at a room of believers that used
to go to church on Sunday and used to run around looking for easter eggs and
now you are sitting down at the Pesach and you are keeping Shabbat and you
congregating at Sukkot . Praise
YHUH but do you forget where you came
from? Let’s glory in what he is taking
us instead of entering into arguments.
We are supposed to be keeping feasts in JOY... not
arguing over when and what etc...
My whole motivation is to set you free from
me and any man - to the word of Yah and be encouraged and empowered by the
Ruach... let us be free to serve Yah in his Holy mikra kodeshim as it is
supposed to be.
I hope this is inspiring because it hasn’t been
to me.. listening to people argue about... and I don’t want any part of it.
Beware of the empty and endless
mathematical timelines...
An object lesson in futility...
It always ends up in lunar and solar
philosophy ... futility. We should be loving Yahusha and one another...and how
do we do that - by showing up as a congregation...
Is the calendar important? Yes. But the most important thing is leaving the
pagan and into the Biblical... and that is coming out of Babylon my people...
No longer chasing eggs and erecting
tabernacles...
Do biblical things biblical ways.
The calendar tends to attract intolerant
people.
We shouldn’t be following the pope and the Gregorian...but we shouldn’t be following the karrites either.
But you also have to watch out for the wolves
in sheeps clothing that literally having you barking at the moon every month...
Today we are going to look at:
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• Pre Islamic origins
of sliver moon gazing.
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• The difference
between Chodesh/month and Yarachah/moon
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• King Hezekiah and the
slowing of the earth's orbit causing a longer solar year the shadow to go backwards.
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• Calculating the
turning of the year using the scriptural ‘Tekufah’ Exodus 34:22
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• The solar calendar
and the counting of days, ultimately freeing you up from philosophy so you can be joyful in
the Holy Spirit as you come together in your communities for the !יהוה Shabbat
and Feasts and Festivals.
Lunar Shabbat:
The seven day weekly
cycle was instituted before the creation of the Moon so how then can the Moon
govern the weekly cycle if it was not yet created or illuminated four days
after the week began?
Leviticus 23 in verse
4 follows the listing of Shabbat and then preempts the listing of the other
moedim which are to be "proclaimed".
Meaning - Shabbat is NOT a
moed that is "proclaimed" according to the Moon.
It’s a
fixed 7-day cycle .יהוה given as the ‘Ot’ ‘sign' - or ‘mark’ on all believers
throughout all generations by YHUH.
It is what sets us
apart.
The Moon and the
calendar: - this is what causes the dissension.
All biblical years
must have 360 days, the question arises is how to we deal with the extra 4-5
days since the days of King Hezekiah.
We can’t be adding
a 13th month like the rabbis or all calendars will be off and the Feasts will be
off every third year.
The 11 day difference
between the lunar and solar years must be reconciled yearly so the Feasts and
YHWH’s fixed times to always start in the first month and not 30 days late
every 3 years, or 7 times in 19 years like the rabbinical calendar.
The Feasts of יהוה
must be fixed by the 12 stations-windows of the sun and stars.
The moon has been
sick [not in sync] several times through the centuries, including the days of
Enoch. and we have to acknowledge that .
Because the moon has
been used in calendaration and because it is not in sync...that causes so much of
the contention and problems today!
The moon used to be
in sync with the sun prior to the days of King Hezekiah and calculations just
won’t work with required precision today.
Men try and monk with
it every three years, but still, יהוה hasn’t restored it to match the earth’s
solar year.
And this has been the
biggest stumbling block when it comes to the calendar debate.
the question you have
to ask is:
Why is the moon sick?
Why is the moon sick and not the sun if YHWH
moved the sun, causing the shadow to move in King Hezekiah's day [Isaiah Ch. 38
1-9 - verse 7]
The sun has 6 portals of 30 days each, which
the sun then passes through twice a year.
Rising in 6 in the east and setting in the
same 6 in the west. Each portal-month is a PERFECT 30 days + we add the 4
season days as the year draws to a close before the Vernal Equinox.
and this begins our calendaration
because
The sun gives us 12 perfect months or
Chodashim-a transit through 12 [6 + 6] portals, the sun is healthy. (not saying
worship the sun!! - we’ve all come out of that!)
In Hezikiah’s day - YHUH didn’t actually move
the sun...or else the milky way would have been destroyed and the planets would
have been destroyed....
YHWH slowed the earth's orbit to cause a
longer solar year, as well as to cause the shadow to go backwards.
The earth was moved back and then it slowed
down in its orbit causing the same cause and effect and the
shadow that moved backwards... this would cause problems with the moon making
it go from 12 perfect months - to some months with 29 days and some 30 days...
Moon out of sync by 11 days a year; or 33
days every 3 years.
All that being said; the earth actually
assists the moon in its sickbed, because without the earth's gravitational
rescue; the moons actual lunation is 27 days, or 27 day months; that is not
very reliable.
People bring up this Psalm - so let’s look at
it...
Psalm 89:37:
His zera shall endure le-olam-va-ed, and his
kesay as the sun before Me. 37 It shall be established
le-olam-va-ed as the moon, is a faithful witness in the shamayim. Selah.
Is it
really talking about the moon being the witness to the
calendaration?
Let’s look at the context... because a text
out of context begats error and error begats error!.....
The
moon is a faithful witness but to what?
-
to
the handiwork of the Creator, (look at the context!!) - giving-witness He’s the Grand Designer;
that doesn't change; but that doesn’t mean the moon is a reliable time witness
for establishing times and seasons.
-
29:31
in teaching
2 Ki. 20:9 And Yeshayahu said, This ot shall
you have of YHWH, that YHWH will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the
shadow go forth-forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees? 10 And Hizqiyahu
answered, It would be easy for the shadow to go down- forward ten degrees: no,
but let the shadow return backward ten degrees. 11 And Yeshayahu the navi cried
to YHWH: and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone
down in the dial of Achaz.
Isaiah 38:7 And this shall be an ot to you
from vuvh, that vuvh will do this thing that He has spoken; 8 See, I will again
bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down on the sundial of Achaz, ten
degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees on the dial, by the same
degrees that it had gone down.
2 Chronicles 32:24 In those days Hizqiyahu was
sick, near to death, and made tefillah to YHUH and He spoke to him, and He gave
him again an ot. (the shadow moving backwards)
The Biblical calendar only allows for 12
months of 30 days each or 360 days. Nowhere in Scripture is an allowance made
for an added 13th month.
New Months are to be celebrated on New Month
Day, as the sun passes 30 degrees or 30 days in the heavens from point A to
point B.
Not a new moon day because the moon has been sick
and it has been unreliable ever since the days of King Hizqiyahu. It’s lunation
no longer equals that of the sun. This
is the game changer.
Many people think that “moon” and “month” is
the same word - but it is not.
Chodesh/Yarayach:
In the Tanach almost all references to month
use the Hebrew word ‘Chodesh’,
chodesh = a set of 30 days of time,
NOT the word ‘Yarayach,’ or literally “The
Moon.”
‘Yarayach’ is only used 26 times, all
referring to the actual moon itself.
So we have to make the clear distinction:
Chodesh = - 30 days of time
Yarayach = literally the moon
do not confuse the 2 words!
The Hebrew word ‘Chodesh’ is used over 256
times in the Tanach and always refers to a
MONTH, solar month, not a moon of any type.
Moon is only used 26 times, not to refer to a
time period, but the definite article.
The Hebrew word for New Moon = Yarayach, and
the Hebrew word for Crescent Moon =
saharon Yare’akh (Saharon Yare'akh) are NOT
the same!
The Crescent is NOT the New Moon, and the evidence of
Crescent-Moon "worship" in the scriptures has a very disturbing
history, It’s pre Islamic, its infiltrated the Hebrew Roots from the mystery
religions of Babylon just like Hanukah and Purim have!
babylonian and preislamic worship
and people will ask... about Psalm 104:19
Psalm 104:19
There are different kinds of appointed times
and only the context can determine which time it appoints.
When Psalm 104:19 is read in context with
verses 21 and 22 it speaks of the Moed of the night or darkness, as beasts in
the forest look for prey in the Moadim, Seasons of night-darkness.
Ps. 104:19 He created the moon for moadim: 1
the sun knows its going down.
20 You make darkness, and it is night: in it
all the beasts of the forest do creep.
21 The young lions roar after their prey, and
seek their food from El. 22 The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and
lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until
the evening. 24 O vuvh, how manifold are Your works! In chochmah have You made
them all: the earth is full of Your riches.
Psalm 104:21, is a continuation of that theme
and then it shifts to verse 22 where the moadeem-appointed times of light are
regulated by the sun. This isn’t a reference to the moon itself
regulating annual weekly Shabbats or annual feasts.
This
was a major error.... people were taking things out of context and then angry
when I’d bring up the rest of the texts.... because they had just devoted 5 years
of their lives to studying the “calendar” and I would mess it up with
Scripture... IN CONTEXT.
The
moon is not reliable and because it is out of sync - we must rely on the sun!
History of the lunar and solar year:
Enoch to Noach 364 day solar year and
probably 364 day lunar year as well.
Noach to King Hezekiah; 360 days (Genesis
7:11-8:4).
360 day synchronized solar and lunar
calendars are a sign of judgment, as they will return in the Great Tribulation.
King Hezekiah to the Great Tribulation; solar
year 365 days, lunar year 354 days, = the moon is sick and won’t align the
Feast and Festivals of יהוה in this age.
The Great Tribulation, the last 3 1/2 years
of this age; The moon will be healed by being synchronized with the sun, both
declaring 360 day years (judgment),
- so both or either can be used for years
(THEN), days, weekly Shabbats, and annual feasts. (Revelation 11:1-2,
Revelation .)12:6
In the Millennial Kingdom both the solar and
lunar year will have 364 or 365:
In eternity Revelation chapter 21 and chapter
22 when the sun and moon are not needed; because when Messiah our Malki-Tzedik
stands up to lead us at the fixed times, we’ll stand and follow Him and His
light and His light alone!
Only during Babylonian captivity that the
first visible sighting of the crescent moon...
which of course were the for-runners to the Sanhedrian... but there is no evidence that this is how the
Jews observed the New Moon before the
exhile... the only ‘proof’ was the history recorded by the pharasees...and we
know the pharasees are today’s orthodox jewish rabbis... why follow them? man’s dogma....
Why Babylon?
Because the pre Islamic Babylonian moon-deity
Sin was worshipped there, whose symbol is the crescent moon. Now that same
diety comes with the more modern name of allah . but it is the preislamic moon diety “SIN”.
The scriptural record of the crescent moon
and those associated with it are negative!
(Genesis 35:4) "Before Yaakov went to
Bethel to present himself before Yahweh he made all his people to hand over to
him their "strange elohim" and ear-rings. (i.e., Crescent-shaped amulets), and he hid them
under the oak which was in Schechem.”
It was worn by women (Isaiah 3:18), and by
kings (Judges 8:21/26), and tied to the necks of camels (Judges 8:21) to
protect them from the Evil Eye. This is
the worship of allah in the pre-islamic god “sin” the moon god. Jericho = “Moon
city”....
people don’t realize that mohommad went
around and picked out one of the daily dieties and he picked SIN.....and we
will make this the supreme diety and named it allah... and then he told the
Jews and they wouldn’t have any of it so off with their heads...
He just picked out one of the daily
dieties...in Mecca - we will take montheism...the one that was wondering around
in Jericho..and the one that Scripture warns about from B’re’shiyt all the way
forward. The one that is in the war between
the seed - serpent seed and seed of YHUH... between the one true alohiym and
the created gods of this world... and of course they want you to bark at the
moon! and these people are practicing Islam in its earliest forms and they
could even be at risk at taking the mark of the beast or the mark of the beast
as they get caught up in the preislamic origins of Islam...
Moshe, the Sphinx, the Pyramids, the Equinox
and the dawn day start marker!
Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
The Sphinx is an equinoctial marker. The
Sphinx faces East at the exact location where the Sun rises on the day of the
vernal equinox (21 March). As the sun rises it illuminates its face.
The Great Pyramid is a giant sundial, with
it’s shadow to the north and its reflected sunlight to the south. This
accurately marks both the solstices and equinoxes. Two of its faces are
orientated due east and west - the exact points of the rising and setting sun
only on the spring and autumnominal equinox.
So the Mohamadins shot at it and tore up its
face because it disrupts their moon gazing... and it is a marker of the
Tekufah - the turning of the
year...Sphinx gaze set due east - targeting that exact position of sunrise at
the beginning of the day...
The great pyramid of Geeza - shadows
north...two faces are due east and west only on the spring and autumn
equinox.... the faces are actually
concave which give it 8 faces instead of four... and only from the air can you
see this....so when the limestone veneer casing was still on it - it would
literally flash - warning of the coming and turning of the year and it would
flash if you missed it! Built into
it... wow! When the actual point of the
Tekufah came - the flashing would have ceased... flashing would have been
visible from miles away. Some
astronomers believe it could be seen from the moon - if you could even get
there through the Van Allen Radiation Belts ... but that is another topic
itself. :)
When the sun reaches 60 Degrees altitude from the great pyramaid- the tropical year
begins and ends when reaches 60 degrees in the fall... and this is where we get
the minute.... and people don’t realize
the accuracy of these two things the sphinix and the great pyramid.. . are more
accurate than the observatory in Greenwich observatory... especially if you
take into account the concave bases and limestone veneer that would have
flashed!
There was no doubt that Moshe knew when Abib
1 was - the head of the year... no doubt... all laid out for
him....Scripturally solid, historically and architecturally laid out for you
and I haven’t given you a time line from creation forward... just look in your
scripture and look at history and the architecture and draw your own
conclusions and see if that sets you free from mans’ computations. Literally vernal equinox last day of year..
next day - day one of year... 12 - 30 day months finish out the last 4-5
days of the year and wait for the sign
flashed all over Egypt and then is the vernal equinox and the next day is the
new year... you are free - you are not a slave to me... its simple...
The Equinox is the beginning of the year...
the flashing announced it... Moshe was learned in this and
he knew when the head of the year would be.. Moshe knew all of the knowledge of
the Egyptians.
We MUST understand the difference between
equinox and equilux....
Equinox or Equilux:
equinox
is not equal day and night, that’s equilux.
The equinox is a time when the center of sun
can be observed directly above the earths equator.
It’s the equinox that is the scriptural
sign for the beginning of the year.
Equinox in scripture is Tekufah. Tekufah is
an exact yearly event. The equilux is not exact because it can last for longer
periods of time on either side of the equinox.
The Tekufah:
The Tekufah is found in Ex 34.22 (the turn of
the year), 1 Sam. 1:20 (Hannah/Elkenah>Samuel prophecy) Elkenah was
attending the Feast of Passover, Ps. 19:6 (the mazzoreth and the constellations),
2 Chr. 24:23 (the year end).
So I am looking at the calendar - based upon
the testimony of acts that Moshe knew everything /wisdom of egyptioans , the
history, the architecture in Cairo, Egypt that testifies at the time of the equinox and then I am looking at the Hebrew in scripture and I am seeing that
this Hebrew word Tekufah connects us with the turning of the year... and all of
this is leading me to making an educated scriptural decision based upon this
information because I know that the moon is sick and I know that there can’t be
a 13th month added and I know that things changed in the days of Hezakiah and I
look at the testimony of Noach and i can see that there were 30 day months...
and I can see that there were 12 months, my 6+6 my 12 portals 30 days per month
for 360 days... and my residual days are on the end of that 4-5 days ...and
I wait for the equinox and the next day
is the beginning of the new year...
My Shabbats ...they are from creation - not
connected to the turning of the year b/c that is the sign from creation before
we got into the moon or any of that.
Deut 16:1The great Et-Ot, or sign of the
year. (not barley sniffing!.. not abib green crops as the karites persist
today!)
This great sign is for the entire year and
all weekly and annual shabbats and it’s called the ‘turn of the year’ or the ‘Tekufah Ha Shanna’,
Rosh Ha Shanna.
Deut 16:1 Shomer the month of Aviv-Ot (the
great sign/Tekufah turn of the year) in order to perform the Peach to YHWH your Elohim,
for in the month (not moon) of the great Aviv-Ot, sign, your Elohim brought you
out of Egypt-Mitzrayim by night.
Two seasons - biblically: summer and winter:
Gen 8:22 While the earth remains, seedtime
and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Beware of the Exodus 9:31 Eisegesis -
Exodus 9:31 Now the flax and the barley were
struck (by hail - the 7th plague), for the barley was in the head (Aviv) and the flax was in
the bud.
-
this
does NOT say that when the flax and barely are in head is the beginning of the
year!!
Tekufah - turn of the year - draw out - an
Exegesis of the text! otherwise we are in trouble... Tekufah (understanding
this) is drawing out - the exegesis of the text!
2 Sam 11:1 teshuwbah תשובה (tav-sheen-vav-bet-heh)
a completion of a year.
Why did the kings always go to war in the
spring?... so the invading army had all the food to feed the army!
1 Kings 20:22 The King of Syria would invade at
the ‘turn of the year’ and steal the harvest.
1 Chronicles 20:1 In the time of King David, Joab
would take out a raiding party after the ‘equinox’,
‘turn of the year’ and plunder the harvest!
Identifying the Equinox:
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• The ecliptic
represents the suns apparent yearly path in from of the constellations of the
Mazzaroth.
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• The celestial equator
is a circle drawn around the sky above the earth’s equator.
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• The elliptic and
celestial equator intersect at the spring equinox and autumnal equinox points.
•Calendar Guidelines:
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• YHWH’s calendar is
verifiable in the Flood narrative, and recorded by Moshe in 2550 years later
still with 30 days months and 12 months in a year.
•
• When the yearly
circuit increased, you simply add the extra days to the end of the 12 months
until the Tekufah resets the year again! No longer are we beholden to men’s
calendaration! It’s that simple and
that’s why people will hate this teaching! Because they want to enslave you to
their power points!
•
12
months
•
residual
days
•
vernal
equinox is the last day of the year.
•
next
day is first day of the year
You
are not going to win anyone to Mashiach by fighting about this...
The Feasts of יהוה
all the way through into the 7th month remain unhampered with by men’s calculations and
hands. No inter-calculated days, no nonsense.
•
• Just as Noach had 5
months all with 30 days, so YHWH’s calendar will have 30 days in a month.
•
• The equinox is the
last day of the year - next dawning of the day is day one, month one of the new
year.
•Main adjustments:
•
• No 31 days months -
the added 5 1/4 days since King Hezekiah are counted at the end of the year
before the equinox arrives, never interfering with YHWH’s Feasts and
festivals.
•
• We don’t begin our
Sabbath in alignment with Jerusalem; so I'm not up for beginning my year in
alignment with Jerusalem anymore - local time from now on! When the equinox is
at your local time - that is it.
•
• The day begins at
dawn - not sunrise, light breaking forth is the beginning of time event, not
the cresting of the sun over the horizon.
Ultimately
when I look at Scripture , history, archaeology and I see Moshe was learned in
the wisdom of the Egyptians and we can now move forward with the Tekufah... the
equinox and then start the new year.
This
has taken me 15 years to get unshackled of the endless conversations and
discussions... and always someone body has a better calendar... you can lay out 20 calendars and they all
have scriptural substance... but the motives behind them are not pure... that
is the key - you’ve got to have discernment - this message is not to enslave
you to my dogma - I don’t claim to have it all right.. it is just we are doing
what we understand... I follow Mashiach and
until he comes again we are doing this simple thing...get out of pagan and
follow YHUH... the kingdom of Alohiym is not an exercise of the flesh - but
righteousness peace and Joy...
amein.
Questions and
discussion....after teaching
We don’t know the
year we are living in.
We are not keeping
the sabbatical year - we don’t know when it is. We are in the exile... it doesn’t say do this in the exile...that is a
land mitzvot....
Make a sundial with
your kids.
The equinox is the
last day of the year and then 12 months with 30
days.
Then the residual
days (thanks to Hezekiah) and then in 4-5 days
there is a vernal equinox and then the first day... and feasts and festivals
aren’t messed up.
What are the dates
this year? Click here for a printable listing.
The day starts at the
dawn of the day... look at creation..
light came and a day was... read
B’re’shiyt again... (not at sunrise)...
it is about LIGHT... the creation sign.
