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קָּהָל אֶחָד בְּמָּשִׁיחַ
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עֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל
Shabbat Shalom שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם
Today is the Shabbat, God’s Time
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Let’s pray
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Today we use the Gregorian calendar from Pope Gregory; from the 1500’s.
Today is March 29, 2014
March -- Mars' month
Middle English March
Anglo-French March
Old English Martius
Latin Martius "of Mars"
Latin Marti(s) "Mars" + -us
(adj. suffix)
Latin Martius mensis "month of Mars"
Martius has always had 31 days.
March was the original beginning of the year and the time for the resumption of war.
Mars is the Roman god of war. He is identified with the Greek god Ares.
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Yehovah has His own calendar
We are now in the 13th month, which is the month called 2nd Adar, 27th day
Esth.3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
Adar = “glorious”-אדר - Corresponding to modern March / April
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Soon ha Aviv, Nisan
It seems I can never review these days early enough for you
Here are some approximate 2014 dates for the feasts and holy days; this is the best I can do at this time.
**Remember, all 2014 dates I give you start in the evening before
God’s New Year
First of Nisan is April 1 starts evening before (March 31), we believe.
Passover, evening of the 14th
First day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread – Aviv 15 April 15 starts the evening of April 14
Last Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread – Aviv 21 April 21, starts the evening of April 20
The Feast of Weeks - Sunday - June 8 starts the evening of June 7th
If they do not see the New Moon on March 31, then the first of Nisan would be April 2 and all the dates above except the Feast of weeks would increase by 1 day.
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April 1 is Tuesday
April -- Aphrodite's month
Old English April(is)
Latin Aprilis
Etruscan Apru
Greek Aphro, short for Aphrodite.
Aprilis had 30 days, until Numa when it had 29 days, until Julius when it became 30 days long.
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The New Moon is coming; we
believe it will be Monday evening
1st month Nisan – ha Aviv
Today’s Topic:
God’s New Year
Exod.12 [1]
And Yehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
[2]
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first
month of the year to you.
הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, רֹאשׁ חֳדָשִׁים: רִאשׁוֹן הוּא לָכֶם, לְחָדְשֵׁי הַשָּׁנָה
Exod.13 [4] This
day came ye out in the month (ha) Abib.
ha
Aviv
הַיּוֹם, אַתֶּם יֹצְאִים, בְּחֹדֶשׁ, הָאָבִיב
Abib = green, a young ear of grain (barley at this time)
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Esth.3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan,
Nisan, the first month of the calendar
Simple
isn’t it?
And then there is Judaism and some Messianics that add and diminish
from the Word of the God of Israel and complicate, pervert the matter.
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Now some made up New Years
Some
history from the net
When did January 1 become the first day of the New Year?
March was the original beginning of the year in
some previous calendars.
January
1 had become the first day of the New Year when Julius Caesar (100 B.C.E.-44
B.C.E.) reorganized the Roman calendar and made it solar rather than lunar in
the year 45 B.C.E. and moved the beginning of the year to January 1.
We
use the Gregorian calendar
When the
Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582, January 1 continued to be recognized
as the first day of the year in most places.
However, in
England and the American colonies, March 25, intended to represent the spring
equinox, was the beginning of their year. Under this system, March 24, 1700,
was followed by March 25, 1701.
In 1752, the
British government changed the beginning date of the year to January 1.
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Now some made up New Years in Judaism – don’t follow them
Judaism has four, five or six new years. Is this scriptural?
NO!
Let's examine all their made up
stories:
First,
I will explain their made up stories, then I will show Scripture to prove they
are wrong.
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Judaism:
no New Year here but this is what they say:
New
Year for years,
that is, Rosh HaShana.
The 1st of Tishrei (in the 7th
month)
(No
word Tishrei
in the Hebrew bible)
The New Year for tithing vegetables: Tishrei 1 marked the beginning of the "fiscal year" for figuring the tithe, a 10% tax payable in vegetables, on vegetables. Veggies harvested in one "fiscal year" were not to be used as tithe for those harvested in another. The owners didn't get to eat this tithe. It went to the government on behalf of the Temple; every 3rd year it was to be given to the poor.
New
Year for Sabbatical years: Every 7th year, according to the Torah they say
(Lev. 25), that land in Israel is not to be
cultivated. This was apparently observed, even under great duress during the
struggle of the Maccabees. (In the Catholic Apocrypha) Tishrei 1 (Rosh Hashanah) is the New Year for years (when we
increase the year number. Sabbatical and Jubilee years begin at this time). Very wrong!
Rosh Hashanah means the “head of the year” not the 7th month
Scripture
Lev.
25 [4]
But
in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto
the land, a sabbath for Yehovah: thou shalt
neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Scripture
Where is the
name Tishrei in
the Hebrew Bible? No place!
1Kgs.
8:2
says the 7th month is called ha Ethanim
and it is not New Year it is the 7th month.
Lev.
23[ 24] Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month , in the first day of
the month , shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, זִכְרוֹן
תְּרוּעָה an holy convocation.
1
Kgs.
8 [2]
And
all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in
the month ha Ethanim, which
is the seventh month. (approx. Sept. - Oct.)
No
mention of a New Year here in scripture
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Judaism: no new year here but this is what they say:
NewYear for Jubilee
years:
occurs every 50th year. During a Jubilee year, land was to be returned to
its original owner, and all Jewish slaves were to be freed. It was apparently
never observed.
(There is a tradition that states each year of the Babylonian exile was for an unobserved Jubilee year.)
Scripture
Lev.
25 [9]
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile
to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall
ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.[10] And ye shall
hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
[13] In
the year of this jubile ye shall return every man
unto his possession.
No
mention of a New Year here in scripture
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Judaism: no new year here but this is what they say:
New Year for planting trees: (Lev. 19:23), the fruit of a tree is not to be used until four years pass after its planting. Tishrei 1 was used in calculating the number of years passed since a tree's planting. This date is not associated with planting trees today; that association is now with Tu Bishvat.
Tu BiShevat, the 15th day of the
month of Shevat, Feb., and is a holiday also known as the New Year for Trees.
The
word "Tu"
is not really a word; it is the number 15 in Hebrew
Scripture
Zech.1
[1] In
the eighth month, in the second year of
Darius, came the word of Yehovah unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah,
the son of Iddo
the prophet, saying, [7] Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh
month, which is the month Shevat
Lev.
19 [23]
And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner
of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised:
three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.[24]
But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise Yehovah
withal.[ 25] And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit
thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Yehovah your
God.
No
mention of a New Year here in scripture
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Judaism: no New Year here but this is what they say:
Elul 1 (in August) is the New Year for the tithing of animals
Scripture
Lev.27
[ 32] And concerning the tithe
of the herd, or of the flock , even of whatsoever passeth
under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto Yehovah.
Deut.12
[ 17] Thou mayest not eat
within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil,
or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows
which thou vowest,
nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
Deut.14
[ 23]
And thou shalt eat before Yehovah thy God, in the place which he shall choose
to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of
thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou
mayest learn to fear Yehovah thy God always.
No
mention of a New Year here in scripture
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Don’t
follow or waste your time reading the Talmud
There are over 300 disagreements in the Talmud between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai.
Here is one
silly argument:
The
1st of Shevat is the New Year for trees, that is the new year
for calculating the tithe on fruit grown in Israel,
so says the School of Shammai
But
the School of Hillel disagrees
and says the 15th of Shevat.
The proper
date of the new year of the trees is thus yet another
of the famous disputes between the Schools of Hillel and Shammai,
and as usual the opinion of Hillel's followers eventually prevailed.
Fruit that
budded during one "fiscal year" was
not to be used as tithe on that which budded during another.''
This
above is an example of a made up argument
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Back to simplicity
One calendar, no fiscal calendar in
scripture
Fiscal: of or pertaining to the public treasury or revenues: example
- fiscal policies that may change. Also, of or pertaining to financial
matters in general.
God laws (policies) are the same all
year round, they don’t change
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One New Year
Deut.11 [12] A land which Yehovah thy God careth
for: the eyes of Yehovah thy God are always upon it,
from the
“beginning of the year” even unto the “end of the year”.
Saul
tell
the Corinthians:
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The Spring Feasts and Holy days of
Yehovah we do in memorial
In God’s Spring Calendar:
The God’s New Year
Passover
Feast of Unleavened Bread
First Fruits (barley)
Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) First Fruits (wheat) Sunday
We will be counting "weeks" not omers
**Remember God’s calendar is different than the Gregorian and Judaism calendars.
**Remember, God starts His days in the evening
Some words to know:
Lev. 23 [3] 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 Yehovah in all your dwellings
Dwellingמושׁב môshâv - seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, your situation, location, (at) time of dwelling
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Servile work מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה
עֲבֹדָה avodah - work of any kind: act, bondservant, labour, service, tillage, work
מְלֶאכֶת melakat - occupation, work, business public business
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The Sabbath is a "holy convocation"
Holy convocation מִקְרָא-קֹדֶשׁ
מקרא miqra: convocation, convoking, reading, a calling together, sacred assembly, something called out, that is, a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal
קדשׁ kodesh: a sacred place or thing; consecrated, dedicated, hallowed, holiness, saint, sanctuary, apartness, sacredness, separateness, apartness, sacredness, holiness
Feast חַג chag - feast
chagag חגג - properly to move in a circle, that is, (specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; - celebrate, (keep, hold) a (solemn) feast (holy day)
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Buying and selling is evil on the Sabbaths
Neh. 13 [16] There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner
of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
[17] Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day?
Learn the 7 extra Sabbath besides the weekly Sabbath in the Feast and Holy Days in the 1st month, 3rd month, and 7th month of God
3 harvests, feasts, not 7 feasts (He is, He was and He is to come)
Preparation should be considered to observe these days properly.
Start preparing!
Shabbat
Shalom