Yahweh’s Solar Calendar

By Pastor Eli James

 

Introduction

Our present lunar-based calendar is fraudulently derived from the ideological ambiguities of the Jews. It is NOT Scriptural. As a matter of fact, the lunar-based calendar of the Jews originated in Babylon, with the pagan Babylonians, not with the Hebrews. The Jewish Masoretes, who were the successors of the abominable cult of Pharisees in Judea, operating in the first millennium after Christ, successfully tampered with the paleo-Hebrew Scriptures by utilizing corrupted translations, which make it appear that “new moons” are part of the Hebrew Calendar! The fact is that their deceptive, lunar theology and calendar dating were introduced into our Bible many centuries AFTER the Hebrew Scriptures were given, although it is obvious that there were competing lunar and solar calendars operating in Judea during the time of Christ. I will first proceed to explain how lunar reckoning was inserted into the Scriptures and then explain how the solar calendar works.

Without going into the subject of the Masoretic text in great detail, it should be noted that the Jewish Masoretic scribes had begun composing their own version of the Old Testament after having been expelled from Judea by the Roman Army. The early history of the Christian Church and the Jews was a very stormy one. The two sides hated each other, and understandably so, because the Christians were Israelites who inherited the Mosaic traditions, but the Jews were Edomites who had invented the new religion called Judaism. Contrary to popular belief, Judaism is a PERVERSION of the Scriptures, not the continuation of them. Since the crucifixion of Christ, there was literal warfare between these two groups, with the True Israelites following their Messiah and with the Edomite Jews rejecting Yahshua Messiah, because they were neither Israelites nor practitioners of the Mosaic Law. Many deceived Israelites joined the ranks of the enemy. Among these was St. Paul, who, having studied with a Pharisee, had participated in the Jewish war against Christianity, until he finally saw the light. With regard to their doctrinal disputes, the Jews ultimately found that the Christians were citing the Septuagint as their authoritative source of Old Testament wisdom; and they were unable to counter the Christian arguments against Judaism. As a result, they decided to create the Masoretic Text, which is a much abridged and edited version of the Old Testament. One of the main goals the Masoretes had in copying the Old Testament for themselves was to deliberately expunge as many prophetic references to Jesus Christ as possible. Having composed their own version of Scripture, they could then claim that theirs is the only true version.

Unfortunately, the King James Version, and most other versions we have today, are based on the Masoretic Text, not upon the Septuagint; so, whenever there is a controversial passage or a poor translation, it is always helpful to consult the Septuagint. In other words, the KJV has a built-in Jewish bias that the Septuagint does not. The Septuagint is a Greek translation from the Hebrew Old Testament. It was translated by Judahite (not Jewish) scribes of the House of Judah, and it was commissioned by Ptolemy Philadelphus, the Greek king of Egypt at that time, while Eleazer was High Priest of Judah, around 260 BC.

Since the Jews composed their Masoretic Text in direct competition against the Septuagint, we would be wise to look at any translation based on the Masoretic carefully and with suspicion. This is especially true when we encounter the expression, “new moon,” in the Bible. This will be discussed in detail later.

The reader may wonder why we should concern ourselves with God’s solar calendar. What is so important about this calendar? What does it matter whether we celebrate the New Year in January or March? What does it matter whether we hold the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday, as long as we maintain the Spirit of the Law? We in Christian Identity wish to make it known that Yahweh says, in His Holy Book, that we are to keep His Sabbaths and His Holy Feast Days:

Yahweh gives us this reason: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh. If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them...ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. -- Lev. 26: 2,3,7.

In addition to being clothed with the righteousness of the Son of God, the reference in the Book of Revelation to the “Woman clothed with the Sun” refers prophetically, in my opinion, to Anglo-Saxon (Caucasian) Israel restoring the Solar Calendar and its true Sabbaths, as well as the rest of His Law, the only exception being the sacrificial laws which were abolished at the Cross. She (we), the Bride of Christ, is presented in contrast to the Great Whore of Babylon. In these End Times, there are two “women” fighting for dominion. We know that the Jews practice a Babylonian calendar, not a Biblical calendar. Israel’s victory over Babylon will be complete when the Babylonian calendar is abolished and Yahweh’s calendar is assigned its rightful place.

If we ever wish to be free from our oppressors, we must keep Yahweh’s Sabbaths, as well as His other commandments. We cannot maintain the spirit of the Law if we do not understand what the Law is. Indeed, Yahweh’s Sabbaths are an integral part of the cycles of nature. Agriculture is what provides us our sustenance. If we deviate from God’s established cycles and commandments, then we deplete or destroy the land that sustains us. This is not just an intellectual matter. The environment of our planet is being destroyed by the Beast System that is economically based on a combination of ignorance and deliberate exploitation, both of which contribute to the destruction of our natural resources. We Adamites are His Stewards. “Be fruitful… and replenish the earth.” ( Gen. 1:28.)

Observing Yahweh’s calendar, land Sabbaths, Jubilees, and Feast Days keeps us conscious of the role that Yahweh has predestined for us in His creation. We ignore these laws at our own peril. The further we remove ourselves from the dust of the earth, the Sun, the moon (as an interstellar body), the sky, the seasons, (the elements of the Universe) the more arrogant we become as a species, and the more we exaggerate our own importance. City folk tend to take food for granted. They forget how dependent we are upon the cycles of life…and upon farmers. They forget that there are stars in the sky. They forget, even, God. Farmers never make this mistake. Every day they deal with the awesome forces of nature. We must never allow ourselves to be ungrateful for God’s sustenance, and that is what Yahweh’s calendar and Sabbath-keeping are all about.

Bear in mind that this is a subject on which there is literally tons of misinformation. Let it be understood that no doctrine, which lacks Biblical support, is acceptable to Yahweh. We are to do it His way, not the Jewish way, not the Babylonian way, nor the Egyptian way. As will be amply demonstrated herein, this means that there is to be NO recognition of the moon’s phases in Yahweh’s solar calendar. There are two lights in the sky which divide times and seasons. They are the Sun by day and the stars by night; and this is an eternal absolute, which is true every day and every night. We can navigate the oceans by these lights, but not by the moon. We can distinguish the seasons by the Sun’s angles and by the constellations. When the moon is in conjunction with the Sun (new moon), it does not reveal itself on these nights, because it is on the same side of the sky as the Sun, reflecting the Sun’s light away from the earth. The moon does not tell us seasons or times of day. Nor does the moon shine by its own light, so the moon is a non-factor. We may appreciate the time and effort that some of our well-meaning Israelites have made in order to incorporate the moon into Yahweh’s calendar, but, as I will show, it is a simple fact that any lunar calendar or lunar-solar calendar is not Scriptural and therefore unfit for true Israel.

New Moons Versus Months in the Hebrew

I hereby wish to acknowledge my fellow Christian Israelites, who have contributed much research into this subject: Pastor Kenneth Lent, Scott Vaught, Russ Walker, and Dan Raber. Raber, Vaught and Walker have developed a calendar, which is very similar to that of Pastor Kenneth Lent’s; but various details still need to be worked out. This document is an attempt to sift through the work done by all these dedicated men in order to arrive at the most logical and Scripture-based Solar Calendar.

According to Pastor Kenneth Lent of www.solarsabbath.org :

There is no such term as "new moon" in the Hebrew text.  It was always "new month"!  The term "new moon" became attached to Hebrew text mistranslations after the Babylonian captivity.  English Bibles such as the King James Version that read "new moon" are unequivocally in error.  No matter how ornate the presentation or how many lunar cycle lists are impressively calculated by the lunar Sabbath adherents, the end story is that their Sabbaths and Feast Days can never be yearly events as we see them in Scripture.  It is this unavoidable fact that lunar Sabbath holders will not deal with. Everyone can present their position in a pretty package and it may look authentic and scholarly.  But when all is said and done, just ask anyone using the lunar method if their Sabbaths and Feast days will be held on that same DATE next year!! The answer is "No". That's all one needs to do --- ask that question!  This is because there is actually no such thing as a 'lunar year".  What is actually meant is that compared to the only real year, the solar year, the moon orbits the Earth so many times.  A so-called "lunar year" is but a comparative term used for convenience, only if one acknowledges the true year in the first place!

Now, the actual Hebrew word for the English ‘moon’ is yerach. It has the dual meaning of “moon” and “month.” The Hebrew word that is often translated as “new moon” is chodesh, meaning “to renew.” What Pastor Lent is saying is that the definition of chodesh was deliberately changed by the Masoretic rabbis to mean more than, simply, “renew.” The expression, “new moon,” or “new month,” should correctly be translated from the Hebrew as chodesh yerach,” but this expression is not found in the Bible.

In addition, since the moon, as a body in space, does not meet the Hebrew definition of a ‘light’ in Genesis 1:16, the moon cannot be reckoned for the calendar, since it has nothing to do with determining times or seasons. In terms of the calendar, only months have any meaning. But the Biblical month is simply a period of 30 days, and this count is unrelated to any phases of the moon, since the cycle of lunar phases is only 29 & ½ days. There is no way that 29 & ½ days can be substituted for 30 days. Even our current reckoning of months has nothing to do with the phases of the moon. The phases of the moon are simply irrelevant, in the scheme of the Solar Calendar. Aside from these mistranslations, there is no other mention of “new moons.”

Why is the moon not considered as a light? Because the moon does not shine of its own accord. The Hebrew maowr, meaning “body of light,” or “luminosity,” only refers to those bodies that shine by their own light. It DOES NOT refer to dead bodies that only reflect light. Hence, the King James translation of Genesis 1:16 is terribly flawed. Let’s have a look.

As translated it says,

“And God made two great lights [which shine of their own accord]; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.”

Pastor Lent points out that there are two problems with the final clause of this verse. #1. The words he made ARE IN ITALICS, meaning that the KJV translators ADDED these words to the text. They are NOT in the original Hebrew verse. #2. In addition, the word also, is not in the original Hebrew either, even though it is not italicized. In other words, the King James translators have taken great license in translating the verse. Whether the King James translators imported these suggestions from the Jewish Masoretic Text or whether they invented these changes themselves is an interesting question, but that would require considerably more historical study. We need to look at how this verse reads without these added words.

Here is how it should read: “And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day [the Sun, obviously], and the lesser light to rule the night, the stars.” From this translation, the lesser light and the stars are one and the same. Grammatically, this would naturally take the form of an appositive, which is: “the lesser light, the stars.” But the original paleo-Hebrew text contained no punctuation, nor did it contain vowels, so the Masoretes added their own notation for what they determined the vowels should be. Additionally, the translators of the KJV had to determine how to punctuate the verses. And this punctuation can dramatically affect the meaning of this verse.

As another example, consider the comma insertion at Luke 23:43 and the great controversy that has created. Again, as translated, it states, “Verily I say unto you, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” With another comma, it could easily have been translated as, “Verily I say unto you, today, thou shalt be with me in paradise.” The first translation suggests that the “malefactor” would be with Him in paradise this very day. The latter translation, with a comma on both sides of the word ‘today,’ leaves open the question of exactly WHEN he would be with Jesus in paradise. It may not be a major point in this instance, but it illustrates well that there is an editorial process going on, whenever a translation is made. Punctuation can change the meaning of a verse dramatically!

Getting back to Gen. 1:16: By ADDING the semicolon after the word ‘night,’ and also the words “he made” and “also,” the appositive relationship between “lesser light” and “the stars” is destroyed, leaving the impression that SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE STARS is meant by the “lesser light,” namely, as everyone would naturally assume, the MOON. But this cannot be, because the moon is not a light by the Hebrew definition of a “luminary,” which shines of its own accord. Nor can the moon be used to divide times or seasons. The moon can shine by day or night, so it is NOT strictly a nighttime “light.” So, we have three solid reasons for rejecting the moon as the “lesser light.”

Scott Vaught, in an article entitled, “The Two Greater-Sign Luminaries,” states,

“First, in order to be a “Luminary,” the person or thing spoken of must be the source of light, not just the reflected light from the source! Applying the Urim (lights), we find there are two greater Sign-Luminaries. Applying the Thummim (to expand), we see these are the Vernal Equinox and the Autumnal Equinox. The two Greater Sign-Luminaries simultaneously rule over (regulate) the length of the day and regulate the length of the night (darkness).”

Pastor Lent puts it this way:

 Any debate as to whether the lights of the firmament (the sun and stars) were created for the purpose of "dividing the day from day" can ultimately be put to rest by reading the double witness of Genesis 1:14, namely, Genesis 1:18 which tells us that the purpose of these lights are to "divide the LIGHT FROM DARKNESS".   

Although Pastor Lent uses these verses to argue against the “noon to noon” day reckoning, I cite it as an affirmation that the moon DOES NOT “divide the light from the darkness,” since it can reflect light during the daytime or the nighttime. Ironically, the NEW MOON does not “shine” at all, so it is definitely not luminous when the Babylonian calendar takes it into consideration!!! The new moon is as dark as darkness itself!!! How can a completely dark object be regarded as a “lesser light”?

In the light of this new understanding of Gen. 1:16, let’s read Gen. 1:17-18 very carefully:

“And Elohim set them in the firmament [Hebrew raqiya, meaning EXPANSE!] of the heaven to GIVE [Hebrew nathan, “to give” or “to provide”] light upon the earth, and RULE OVER the day and OVER the night, and to DIVIDE THE LIGHT FROM DARKNESS: and Elohim saw that it was good.”

The moon does not “give” light as the luminaries do, because its source of light is reflected. Also, the moon has nothing to do with the DIVIDING of day from night, nor does it “rule over” either daytime or nightttime! The moon can “shine” any time of the day or night and, therefore, cannot be used for the purpose of dividing the day from the night. It is also possible to have a completely moonless night sky, so the moon does not regularly illuminate the night as the stars do. Thus, Gen. 1:16-18, taken together, prove that the moon is NOT the light that “shines” at night!!!

In an article on a pro-Jewish website, researcher Vendyl Jones (http://vjri. purpleguy. com /Researcher/ Articles/ The_Lunar_Calendar) claims to know when the transition from a Solar Calendar to a Lunar Calendar took place:

This Calendar was adopted during the Hasmonean period. It was introduced by the High Priest Hannan, or Annias. He changed the months from the simple Biblical numerical designations of the 1st month, the 2nd month, and so on, to the names of the Babylonian months. The names of the Babylonian months were the names of the pagan Babylonian gods. We have like designations for the pagan names of the months and days of the week in the Christian System.

Hannan also changed Rosh HaShanah (New Year) from the first month that begins at Aviv, the Spring month, to the seventh month at the Autumn Equinox. The word, 'equinox' means equidistant, halfway or middle. The 7th month, Tishri, is the beginning month half way through the year from the 1st month of Aviv in the Spring. Therefore, the New Year in the Jubilee Calendar is 6 months after the New Year in the Lunar Calendar.

The MMS document found at Qumran brings 24 charges against the Upper Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. Several of these charges relate to the use of the Lunar rather than the Solar Jubilee Calendar which was used in biblical times… Among those charges is the allegation that the Torah is very specific that the first day and the first month of the year is the Spring Equinox, or the month of Aviv (Spring) is the beginning of the year to the Nation of Israel. Exodus 12:2;

"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months.
The first month of the year [Rosh HaShanah] shall it be unto you."

One can easily see the point of dissension that the writer of the MMS Document made against the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem. The Lunar system requires the addition of 7 extra months in each 19 year cycle to keep it at least close to the Solar system.

All of the research I have done on the Essenes of Qumran, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, suggests that the Essenes were True Judahites who practiced the Laws of Yahweh, including the dietary Laws. They considered the Pharisees and Sadducees to be reprobates. If the Essenes practiced a Solar Calendar, then this is great evidence for this proposed Calendar.

Evidence From the Apocrypha

In searching the Apocrypha for more information on the Calendar, I was hoping to find some statements about moon-reckoning. My expectations were satisfied beyond my wildest dreams, when I discovered this passage, from the Book of Jubilees:

“Thus it is engraved and ordained in the tablets of heaven, and there is no transgression from one year to another. And in this number, three hundred sixty-four days, and the year shall be complete, and the fixed date of their days and their festivals shall not be corrupted, for everything transpires in them according to their testimony, and they (Israel) shall not miss a day or corrupt a festival. But if they do transgress and do not observe them according to his commandment, then will be corrupted all their fixed dates, and the years will waver in consequence, and also their times and their years, and they will transgress their ordinances.” (Book of Jubilees, 6:29-31.) {Translated by E.J. Goodrich, 1888}

The Book of Jubilees was purportedly composed by Moses, so I will refer to Moses as the author. The purpose of the Book of Jubilees is to categorize the events of Scripture into the Jubilee periods in which they occurred. Thus, the Book of Jubilees forces us to think in periods of 49 years, from Adam to the Judgment Day! (Interestingly, the Catholic Encyclopedia refers to this as a “fanciful arrangement”! Like, they know better than Moses!!!) In the verses quoted above, we are assured by Moses that Yahweh’s Solar Calendar is to be FIXED, that is, the same pattern is to be repeated year after year, without deviation.

Now, observe:

“For I know, and from now on I shall make it known to thee, and not from my heart, but thus is written in a book before me and is ordained in the tablets of heaven, the division of days, that they forget not the festivals of my covenant and walk according to the festivals of the Gentiles [nations, which would include Babylon! – Eli], after their errors and after their ignorance. And there will be those who will make observations of the moon, for this one (the moon) corrupts the stated times and comes out earlier each year by ten days. And in this way they will corrupt the years and will observe a wrong day as the day of testimony and a corrupted festival day, and everyone will mix holy days with unclean ones and unclean with holy; for they will err as to months and Sabbaths and festivals and jubilees.” (Verses 33-35.)

The Book of Jubilees is not without its translational errors, which are essentially the same as those of the Bible, noted above. Moses would not have use the word, ‘Gentiles,’ for example, which is a Latin word. The Hebrew is goyim, meaning simply, “nations.” Which nations must always be derived from the context of the passage.

By any definition, THE MOON SIMPLY DOES NOT QUALIFY as a “luminary”! And from the Book of Jubilees, we have Apocryphal prophetic evidence that moon-reckoning would corrupt Yahweh’s Calendar!!!

Those of you who are wondering why I left out Verse 32 need an explanation. First, here is the Verse:

“And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the paths of the years, and will forget the new moon and the Sabbaths and the festivals, and in all the order of the years they will err.”

I underscored “new moon” because it should read either “new month” or “month” or, simply, “renewal,” as the Hebrew word, chodesh, means “month,” not “new moon,” as discussed above. If this were not true, then verse 32 would be in DIRECT CONTRADICTION OF VERSE 34, which says, “And there will be those who will make observations of the moon, for this one (the moon) CORRUPTS THE STATED TIMES…” It is obvious to me that Moses is instructing us to take no notice of the moon with regard to the Calendar. Either Moses contradicts himself when he speaks of observing “new moons” in verse 32, or the translation is corrupt for the same reason that it is corrupt in the Bible.

There is also the additional problem with the Book of Jubilees in that we have only the Ethiopic version, which was translated from a Greek version. As far as I know, there is no extant Hebrew copy of Jubilees. The Goodrich translation is an English translation of an Ethiopic version from a Greek text translated from the original Hebrew, so we are three times removed from the original Hebrew; and I am sure that Goodrich was operating under the same Masoretic assumptions as the KJV translators. Thus, we have the false translation of chodesh, rendered as “new moon” in almost every instance. Please keep this in mind when reading the Book of Jubilees and any other Israelite text.

I agree 100% with Kenneth Lent that the expression, “new moon,” is a false translation by the rabbis of Viperism (Judaism). Just as their interpolations (false translations) have infected the King James and other translations of the Bible, they have also infected the translations of the Apocrypha.

Hallowing the Sabbath

Exodus 12:2 defines the first month of the year:

“This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”

Exodus 13:4 further clarifies:

“This day came ye out in the month of Abib.”

From these two verses, we know that the first month of the year is called Abib.

The question remains, which is the first Sabbath Day of the year?

Speaking of the priests whose job it is to cleanse the Temple, II Chron. 29:17 declares:

“Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh: so they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days.”

So, the annual ritual cleansing of the Temple occurred from the first day through the eighth day of the first month of each year.

In Exodus 20:11, we are told of the hallowing of the Sabbath Day. The words ‘hallow” and ‘sanctify” are simply different English renditions of the same Hebrew word, qadash (Strong’s #6942). So, we are told of the hallowing or sanctification of days 1 and 8.

Now, to Numbers 28: 16-17. The language is a little confusing, but once we understand what is being said, we know that the 15th day of the First Month is also a Sabbath.

“And in the fourteenth day of the first month [the day BEFORE the Sabbath] is the Passover of Yahweh. And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. In the first day [of the Feast, meaning the 15th day of the month, which is the same as the first day of the Feast] shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work.”

So, here we have proof positive that the 1st, 8th and 15th days of Abib are Sabbaths. Now, all we have to do is to continue our count of every seventh day for the next Sabbath

 

Earth’s Orbit Around the Sun, 24-Hour Days and the Calendar

Regarding the first day of the year, I cannot find a direct biblical reference to either the Spring Equinox or the first day of Spring, although Scott Vaught has argued that the paleo-Hebrew has the word abibix, which means, specifically, the Spring Equinox. This will be discussed in greater detail later. For the moment, I will simply say that the Spring Equinox is the basic reference point of the Spring Season; and it would only be logical to pick that day as the reference point, or marker day, for the New Year. Vaught, Raber and Russell argue that this day should be the first day of the first month. Pastor Lent and I argue that abibix is, in fact, an intercalary day, day #365, which is not counted in the 364-day year, as defined in the book of Jubilees.

Since the year is defined as consisting of 364 days, there has to be a day which is not counted, and that would be abibix, the very day on which the Spring Equinox occurs. Later, I will provide another reason why this must be so.

On the day of the Spring Equinox (abibix), there are equally twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of nighttime (in both the southern and northern hemispheres). Also, the shadow of a sundial would point directly west at sunrise and directly east at sunset; and there would be no sideways shadow at noon. For this reason, the Equinoxes are natural starting points for any system of counting days. So, regarding abibix as an Intercalary Day, the very next day will be the first day of the month of Abib (also called Nisan), the first day of the 364-day count.

Scott Vaught has argued that the Hebrews did not have names for the months; and I confess that I have to concur with this opinion. Other scholars (in encyclopedias and elsewhere) have also pointed out that the Hebrews borrowed these names from the Babylonians and other heathen nations. Vaught has stated in correspondence with me that the word Abib, especially when preceded by the article the in the Hebrew text, means “the Spring Equinox,” not “the month of Abib.” However, for simplicity’s sake, I will use the names of the months as they appear in the KJV and other sources. But there is no reason why we cannot have a totally numeric system of designation. Hence, Abib 1 would be 1.1. Ziv 2 would be 2.2, etc. It seems to me that having names for the months allows us to keep them separated more easily, as designations such as “Month 1” and “Month 2” could be subject to typographical errors. If someone typed the wrong number for the Month, gross errors would occur.

The Jewish calendar, which is Babylonian in origin, incorporated the new moon into its calendar by waiting for the FIRST NEW MOON after the Spring Equinox to start/continue their Sabbath count. But even this is problematic, because the rabbis are trying to force this new moon reckoning into a continuous 7-Day Cycle of Sunday through Saturday; and the New Moon may not occur exactly on the 7th Day (every Saturday), so there is some fudging going on here. This fudging actually requires that the Jews have to have an occasional THIRTEENTH MONTH, four times in every 19-year cycle. But the Bible does not record -- nor does the Book of Jubilees -- that the Israelites ever had a thirteenth month. They had twelve months of 30 days each, plus intercalary days that were added to make up for the fact that a solar year (365&1/4 days) cannot be divided evenly by the number 7. The Book of Jubilees very clearly states that we are to observe a calendar that consists of “364 days.” (Jubilees, 6:29-30.) The function of the intercalary days in the Solar Calendar will be explained later.

Every calendar system has to deal with the fact that an actual year is 365 & ¼ days long. But 52 weeks of 7 days give us only 364 days. This is why the Julian Calendar had to be rectified by the Gregorian Calendar, as the Julian calendar’s first day of Spring would fall earlier and earlier each year, according to their calendar, since that calendar did not account for the extra 1& ¼ days it took for the earth to orbit around the Sun. In other words, Spring arrived according to the Spring Equinox every year, but the Julian calendar started each new year 1 & ¼ days too soon. Farmers eventually realized that planting season and harvest season no longer lined up with their calendar.

In our era, we deal with this problem by adding an extra day every fourth year (February 29). A year that has this extra day is called a Leap Year. Leap years correct for the fact that earth’s orbit is 365 & ¼ days, not an even number of 24-hour days. The ¼ day must be factored into the calendar, or the calendar will no longer accurately reflect the Equinoxes or Solstices.

The Roman Catholic Church, for whatever reason, chose to incorporate moon reckoning for its seasons by choosing the FULL MOON AFTER THE SPRING EQUINOX. This is why the Roman Catholic Easter jumps around the calendar so much. Don’t ask me where this idea came from. I don’t know and I don’t care!!! It’s an absurd idea! More moon worship, no doubt!

Once you understand the rules of calculation of Yahweh’s Solar Calendar, you will be pleasantly surprised to discover that it resolves the extra 1& ¼ day per year problem. The problem for modern society, however, is that the Solar Calendar does not incorporate a perpetual 7-Day Cycle. The fact is that neither the Hebrews of old, nor the Judahites of Christ’s time had named days of the week. They just counted the days to get to the next Sabbath. After 364 days, they just added an extra day while waiting for the Spring Equinox to return. The 365th day was usually the day of “ the Abibix,” the Spring Equinox, except for leap years, when an additional waiting day had to be observed. There was no such thing as a perpetual Sunday through Saturday reckoning.

In other words, the 7-day count of the Hebrew Calendar accommodated the actual space-time factors of orbital circulation around the Sun, plus Earth’s axis rotation. They simply added an extra day and didn’t worry about what its name or number was. In today’s world, we try to force nature, and ourselves, to accommodate our perpetual Sunday through Saturday work-week cycle.

The long and the short of these introductory comments is to show that the TRUE SABBATH IS NEITHER SATURDAY NOR SUNDAY. Named days of the week were/are not relevant to the actual Hebrew Sabbath reckoning, although there is no reason why we cannot keep these names for the 364-day Solar Calendar. The Hebrew Israelites had their own, unique calendar, which was given to them/us by Yahweh. Had they maintained that Calendar, they would have remained in harmony with Yahweh’s scientifically designed seasons. When we deviate from His seasons and time reckoning, we tend to fall away from Him. That’s why He stressed the Sabbath in the Fourth Commandment. The Sabbath Day is not just about resting every 7th day; it is also about synchronizing with the Earth’s orbit and rotation. This is called Universal Harmony.

 

The 91 Days of the Book of Enoch

Chapter 81

¹Now, my son Mathusala, all these things I speak unto you, and write for you. To you I have revealed all, and have given you books of everything.

²Preserve, my son Mathusala, the books written by your father; that you may reveal them to future generations.

³Wisdom have I given you, to your children, and your posterity, that they may reveal to their children, for generations for ever, this wisdom in their thoughts; and that those who comprehend it may not slumber, but hear with their ears; that they may learn this wisdom, and be deemed worthy of eating this wholesome food.

⁴Blessed are all the righteous; blessed are all who walk in righteousness; in whom no crime is found, as in sinners, when all their days are numbered.

⁵With respect to the progress of the sun in heaven, it enters and goes out of each gate for thirty days, with the leaders of the thousand classes of the stars; with four which are added, and appertain to the four quarters of the year, which conduct them, and accompany them at four periods.

Here, Enoch is defining a month as consisting of exactly 30 days, just as the Bible does. But there are four days added to the year, one at the end of each season (quarter). At Verse 7, Enoch tells us:

⁷So that the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four days.

Here, Enoch and Moses agree that the year is supposed to be 364 days.

¹¹Four conductors of them first enter, who separate the four quarters of the year. After these, twelve conductors of their classes, who separate the months and the year into three hundred and sixty-four days, with the leaders of a thousand, who distinguish between the days, as well as between the four additional ones; which, as conductors, divide the four.

Here, Enoch has reiterated that we have four seasons, plus four intercalary days. But where and when do we count these four days? Speaking of the angels that are in charge of each season, Enoch says, in Verses 17 and 20:

¹⁷All the days of his influence, during which he rules, are ninety-one days.

²⁰All the days of his light are ninety-one days.

So, the Book of Enoch explains the seasons and stipulates that each season has 91 days. The point here is that, although each month has thirty days, each season has 91 days. Each year, therefore, has four “91st days.” These are simply intercalary days that complete the seasons. From the Book of Enoch, there is nothing otherwise exceptional about these days, but they are placed in the calendar so as to coincide with a weekly Sabbath. The main thing we learn from Enoch is where to insert the intercalary days so that we get a year of 364 days with the seasons divided equally among them. Additionally, we have the annual pattern of 52 weeks of 7 days each, which fits very neatly into this system.

Here is how it looks:

Abibix……………..91st Day……….91st Day……..91st Day………91st Day

Marker Day………..Summer………Autumn……...Winter………..Calendar

Spring Equinox……Solstice……….Equinox………Solstice………..Ends

The following day is the next Spring Equinox, the Marker Day that is ignored (not counted among the 364 days) as far as the count is concerned, but which sets up the Seasons. 364 + 1 = 365 days. And this cycle repeats until the Leap Year, when the Spring Equinox comes a day later, so there is a 92nd day (intercalary) in the last quarter of each leap year. This system of fixed dates keeps the Calendar adjusted to the annual growing season.

 

WHEN DOES THE DAY BEGIN?

Here, we have three choices: evening to evening (sunset to sunset), noon to noon, and sunrise to sunrise.

The traditional reckoning is sunset to sunset, derived from the interpretation of “at even” to mean the “evening of the day,” i.e., sunset. There is much dispute over this. My personal opinion is that the Hebrew and Israelite day-keepers did not use the word ‘day’ as we use it today. From reading the Scriptures, it appears that they meant by ‘day’ what we mean by “daytime,” the twelve hour period of daylight.

The relevant Scriptural verse is Gen. 1:5:

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”

By itself, this sounds contradictory, because only the light is first called “Day,” then the “evening and the morning” are called “day.” The Hebrew word is yowm, meaning “to be hot,” thus signifying the daytime only, from sunrise to sunset. But yowm has several other meanings, such as “age” or “era,” “season,” and, by inference…a “24-hour day.” The Hebrew word for “dawn” is shachar; and this word is distinguished from yowm, which does not mean “dawn.”

Vaught, Raber and Russell argue for a sunrise to sunrise day reckoning, as this seems both logical (a “new day” usually begins with the rising of the Sun), and they cite Matt. 28:1 as evidence for their view. Here is what it says:

“In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.”

The Greek word for “dawn” is epiphosko. The expression, “toward the first day of the week,” appears to be saying “toward the sunrise…” But much depends upon the sentence structure and the intent of the author. The Greek word for ‘toward’ is eis, which is a very general preposition, which can mean, “to, against, among, concerning, by,” etc., so this verse, by itself, is inconclusive. Nevertheless, Messers Vaught, Raber and Russell may have stumbled onto something here. There may be merit to the sunrise-to-sunrise reckoning. It is worthy of further study.

The noon-to-noon doctrine is based on the concept that the word ‘evening’ actually refers to High Noon, when the Sun divides the day into two EVEN halves. This is an interesting concept, but the Hebrew word ereb does not offer this as an alternative definition to the one given, namely, “dusk.” The root word is arab, meaning to grow dusky, as the Arabs have darker skin than we do. So, evidently, the “evening of the day” is, indeed, the sunset, not High Noon. Not all of our traditions are false!!!!

Here is what Pastor Lent has to say about Gen. 1:18, with respect to the noon-to-noon reckoning:

“By simply remembering this verse alone, we are made aware that Yahweh's Word overcomes any attempt on the part of the noon Sabbath holders to change the meaning of basic words such as "evening", "day", "morning", "night" or any other word they would twist to support this ill conceived doctrine.  The noon to noon Sabbath was part of the Baal (Lord) priest's Sun worship thousands of years ago.”

Given the difficulties presented by the noon-to-noon and sunrise-to-sunrise measures, I will use the evening-to-evening reckoning, as is traditional. Although it is counter-intuitive, the darkness does come before the light in the Holy Bible, even though we understand that “all is light,” and darkness is, in reality, the absence of light. But the Bible is the Book of Adam. It is told to, for, by, and about Adam and His SEED. (Gen. 5:1.)

From Adam’s perspective, he awakened from a non-conscious state, “darkness,” into the light of consciousness. Also, we gestate in the darkness of the womb until we emerge into the light, so the symbolism of sunset-to-sunset reckoning, to me, is apt.

“And the earth was without form, and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” (Gen. 1:2-3.)

So, the Bible itself puts the darkness ahead of the light. This is true from our perspective. The Bible can be seen as a book which speaks of the Adamites’ emergence from darkness into light.

Given these considerations, I will proceed with the evening-to-evening reckoning. The noon-to-noon measure seems to have no obvious merit, being dependent, in my opinion, upon strained interpretations of Scripture. The sunrise-to-sunrise measure may have considerable merit, but it requires deeper research, which I am unable to do at the present time.

 

THE RULES OF CALCULATION

The first rule is that a day begins “at even.” That means, from the Hebrew word ereb, that the 24-hour day is reckoned from sunset to sunset, not from midnight to midnight, as we do today. This rule is apparently in recognition of the order of creation. Before there was light, there was a void or darkness.

The second rule is that the first day of the year begins at the first evening after the Spring Equinox. From the Book of Enoch, we know that each season consists of 91 days, leaving an extra day. This is only way to cradle the four Seasons between the 5 intercalary days (as shown in the chart above). From year to year, this alternates between March 20 and March 21. Astronomers and astrologers know this point precisely as it is marked by two events: 1.) The precise division of the day into equal periods of daylight and nighttime, 12 hours each, and 2.) The entry of the sun into the sign of Aries. This latter point can be seen at night and is referred to either as 0’ Aries or as the first point of Aries. With either of these two points of verification, we can start Yahweh’s calendar at evening with Day 1: Abib 1.

The twelve months are exactly 30 days each. How do we know this? First of all, there is the very ancient (pre-historic) tradition that, at one time, the earth’s orbit was exactly 360 days long. In other words, the earth’s orbital circulation and axial rotation were synchronized. It is quite possible that some sort of celestial encounter occurred which knocked the earth out of its 360-day orbit and bumped it up to a 365-day orbit. Immanuel Velikovsky believed that the planet Venus is actually a newcomer to our solar system, and that, when it took its position between Mercury and Earth, the mechanics of the Solar System forced the Earth further away from the Sun.

Be that as it may, the biblical passages which verify the 30-day month occur in the Book of Genesis.

Gen. 7:11 states, In the six hundreth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Gen. 8: 3 tells us, And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.

Here we have Genesis telling us that the Flood of Noah, which was NOT global, lasted exactly one hundred fifty days. Gen. 8:4 puts it this way: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

So, from the 17th day of the second month to the 17th day of the seventh month we have exactly 150 days, which means that each intervening month had exactly 30 days. 5 * 30 = 150. A biblical month is defined as lasting 30 days.

[NOTE: The twelve months are exactly 30 days each. This gives us a total of 360 days. Knowing that, at the end of months 3 and 6, we have seasonal Marker Days, we may conclude that the Flood lasted exactly 152 days. This would not necessarily be a contradiction, as these days are counted as days of the months. Anyone familiar with this Solar Calendar (which has also been called the Enoch Calendar) would know that this period of 150 monthly days would equal 152 Calendar days. We have to understand that none of these time measures is exact. Years, months, weeks, and days are all approximate time measures. Every year, we have to reconcile two non-synchronous cycles: earth’s axial spin and earth’s orbit around the Sun. There is no way to divide the one evenly into the other, so we must make adjustments. The beauty of the Solar Calendar is that all of these approximations are reset every year to the Spring Equinox.]

With regard to the weekdays, there are no names for the seven weekdays. The Hebrews simply used numbers. Only the 7th day had a name, the Sabbath. But since a month consisted of 30 days and weeks consisted of seven days, there was no inherent relationship between the days of the month and the days of the week, except for the intercalary adjustment at the end of each half year. The important thing for the Hebrews was to maintain the 7-day count without fail during a given full year, because all of the Feast Days depend upon this count. To do that, all you need is to determine the first day of the year. That, as I explained above, begins at the first sunset after the Spring Equinox. Everything follows simply from that.

Recognizing the fact that the Hebrews did not originally have names for the months, I will use, for convenience’ sake, the Chaldean names for those months whose names are not given in the Bible. It is apparent to me that the Hebrews gradually adopted these names. The fact that they appear in the Bible is ample proof of that. These months do not line up with the months we use today. For example, Abib 1 usually falls on March 20 or 21, so these two calendars (modern and Hebrew) are typically offset by three weeks each month. Ultimately, as we get more familiar with the Hebrew Solar Calendar, the names of the months can be dropped, or we can continue to use these names for convenience.

The twelve months of the Chaldean system are:

Abib

Ziv

Sivan

Tammuz

Ab

Elul

Ethanim

Bul

Chislev

Tebeth

Shebat

Adar

What is unexpected by most people is that Abib 1 is a Sabbath, even though it is a first day, not a seventh day. As explained above, under the “Hallowing the Sabbath” heading, days 1, 8, and 15 were “sanctified” and no work was performed on those days.

According to Scott Vaught, the Paleo-Hebrew word, abibix, is falsely assumed or translated as abib. Abibix is a direct reference to the Spring Equinox. It is not referring to a month by that name. Thus, the true meaning of the text is that abibix is simply a reference to the Spring Equinox, as an astronomical event. This is, as I have been arguing, the Marker Day, the day that is not counted among the 364, which are divided into 4 Seasons of 91 days each. The Bible tells us that this first day, Abib 1, is a Sabbath, so that every year begins with a Sabbath. The year always begins with a day of rest, not a workday. From that point on, every seventh day is a Sabbath until the end of the year, when the next Marker Day, abibix, occurs. Since there are only 52 weeks in a year, adding up to 364 days, we have to add this intercalary day before beginning the next cycle. That completes the 365-day year. We add another intercalary day at the end of the year when there is a leap year. In this way, the Solar Calendar begins every year on the first full day of Spring.

It is obvious that this system is much simpler than the Jewish, Catholic, or any other Calendar. It is perfectly attuned to the growing season, which depends upon the Equinoxes and Solstices, not upon the phases of the moon.

Although Yahweh’s calendar is very simple in construction, it is easier to demonstrate in terms of an actual calendar layout rather than to try to explain it in words. The best explanation here is a picture. In the chart below, the seven days of the week are laid out from Saturday through Friday, although, depending on the year, any of the named days could be the first day of the week. The Spring Equinox can occur on any day of the week. Whatever day that is, the following full day becomes the first day, and the first Sabbath of God’s Solar Calendar year. This particular chart depicts a year in which Abib 1 falls on a Saturday, so that every regular Sabbath is always on a Saturday during that particular year. (There are also many Special Sabbaths, as defined by the Feasts.)

To avoid a clutter of numbers going across the page, only significant days and regular Sabbaths are shown. The reader can fill in the blanks. Also shown are all the days of those weeks during which a transition occurs from one month to the next month. Since twelve months, each composed of 30 days each, gives us only 360 days, intercalary days are added at the end of each Season to line up with the months and the weekly Sabbath count (as is shown in the Calendar below).

THE HEBREW/ISRAELITE/ANGLO-SAXON/BIBLE CALENDAR

(Incorporating Enoch’s 91st Day of Seasonal Intercalation)

 

(Spring Equinox, Beginning of the Sacred Half Year)

(These named days are just for reference, since we are so used to named days. This chart is, therefore, for a year which begins on a Saturday.)

Saturday Sunday..Monday..Tuesday.Wednesday..Thursday..Friday

(First Month)

Day 1….Day 2….Day 3…...Day 4…..Day 5…...Day 6…..Day 7

Abib 1…Abib 2…..Abib 3…..Abib4…..Abib5……Abib6….Abib7

 

Day 8

Abib 8………………………………………………………..Abib14

(Passover)

Day 15

Abib15 (Abib 15 begins the 7-day Feast of Unleavened Bread which ends on Abib 21.)

Abib16 Abib17 Abib18 Abib19 Abib20 Abib21

(Wave Sheaf, countdown to Pentecost) (Special Sabbath)

 

Day 22

Abib22 Abib23

(7 days after Wave Sheaf)

Day 29

Abib29 Abib30 Ziv1 Ziv2 Ziv3 Ziv4 Ziv5

(14 days after W.S.)

(Ziv 1 is the first day of the second month.)

Day 36

Ziv6 Ziv 7 Ziv 12

(21 days after W.S.)

Day 43

Ziv13 Ziv14 Ziv 19

(28 days after W.S.)

Day 50

Ziv 20 Ziv21 Ziv26

(35 days after W.S.)

Day 57

Ziv27 Ziv28 Ziv29 Ziv 30 Sivan1 Sivan2 Sivan3

(42 days after W.S.) (First day of third month)

Day 64

Sivan 4 Sivan5 Sivan6 Sivan 10

(49 days end on Sivan 4, making Sivan 5 day #50, Pentecost, counted from the Sabbath day before the Wave Sheaf (Abib 15). {Lev. 23:15.} Sivan 4 and 5 are a 48-hour Sabbath, so the first workday is day 2 of the next week, Sivan 6. The regular Sabbaths are still 7 days apart, but, due to the Special Sabbath of Pentecost, this week has only 5 legal workdays.)

Day 71

Sivan11

 

Day 78

Sivan18

Day 85

Sivan25 Sivan26 Sivan27 Sivan28 Sivan29 Sivan30 Day 91

(91st Day of Spring, ending the Spring Season)

(13 weeks of seven days = 91 days.)

(Summer Solstice)

 

Day 92

Tammuz1 Tam 2 Tam 3 Tam 4 Tam 5 Tam 6 Tam 7

(First day of 4th month.)

Day 99

Tammuz8

Day 106

Tammuz15

 

Day 113

Tammuz22

Day 120

Tammuz 29 Tam 30 Ab1 Ab2 Ab3 Ab4 Ab5

(First day of the 5th month)

Day 127

Ab6

 

Day 134

Ab13

Day 141

Ab20

Day 148

Ab27 Ab28 Ab29 Ab30 Elul1 Elul2 Elul3

(Sixth month)

 

Day 155

Elul4

Day 162

Elul11

Day 169

Elul18

Day 176 Day 182

Elul25 Elul26 Elul27 Elul28 Elul29 Elul30 (Day 91)

(Last day of the Summer Season, Intercalary Day)

 

(2 intercalary days are added {91st day of Spring and the 91st day of Summer} to the first half-year so that Ethanim, the 7th month, can begin on a Sabbath. This also fulfills the principle of the doubling of the year into two equal halves. [See explanatory note at the end of this section.] The seven-day Sabbath count remains continuous, and the first half-year thus equals exactly 182 days (26 * 7 = 182).

Approximate Autumnal Equinox, Sabbath, Beginning of “Civil Year”

Day 183

Ethanim1 (First day of Seventh Month, First Day of the Second Half-Year)

(Feast of Trumpets, Fall Equinox, approximately, begins the Civil Year)

Day 190

Ethanim8 Ethanim9 Ethanim10

(Ethanim 10 is a special Sabbath, the Day of Atonement.)

Day 197

Ethanim15 (Ethanim 15 is the first day of the 7-day Feast of Tabernacles)

Day 204

Ethanim22 (Ethanim 22 is the Sabbath that ends the Feast of Tabernacles. It is referred to as the Last Great Day.)

Day 211

Ethanim29 Ethanim30 Bul1 Bul2 Bul3 Bul4 Bul5

(Eighth month)

Day 218

Bul6

Day 225

Bul13

Day 232

Bul20

Day 239

Bul27 Bul28 Bul29 Bul30 Chislev1 Chislev2 Chislev3

(Ninth month)

Day 246

Chislev4

Day 253

Chislev11

Day 260

Chislev18

Day 267

Chislev25 Chislev26 Chislev27 Chislev28 Chislev29 Chislev30 Day 91

(End of Autumn Season, Intercalary Day)

(Winter Solstice)

(The Book of I Maccabees states that the Maccabees had declared that Kislev 25 was to begin an 8-day Feast in commemoration of the rebuilding of the altar on the same day as it was destroyed by Antiochus Epiphanes. – I Mac. 1:45; 4:52-59.)

Day 274

Tebeth1

(First Day of Tenth Month)

Day 281

Tebeth8

Day 288

Tebeth15

Day 295

Tebeth22

Day 302

Tebeth29 Tebeth30 Shebat1 Shebat2 Shebat3 Shebat4 Shebat5

(Eleventh month)

Day 309

Shebat6

Day 316

Shebat13

Day 323

Shebat20

Day 330

Shebat27 Shebat28 Shebat29 Shebat30 Adar1 Adar2 Adar3

(Twelfth month)

Day 337

Adar4

Day 344

Adar11

Day 351

Adar18

Day 358 Day364

Adar25 Adar26 Adar27 Adar28 Adar29 Adar 30 Day 91

(Intercalary Day)

The next day is the next Spring Equinox! Beautiful System, isn’t it? The seemingly impossible has happened. By using abibix as the Marker Day, fifty-two weeks are made to fit perfectly into a 365-day year!!! Since the calendar year is defined as 364 days, the 365th day, although part of the real-time solar year, it is not counted on the calendar.

Thus, very 365-day year has four intercalary days (the four 91st days) plus Abibix, the day between the calendar years. In case of a leap year, another intercalary day is added at the end of the calendar to get 366 days. When that occurs, we all take an extra day off!!! I’m all for that!!! -- Eli.)

After the Spring Equinox occurs, the next day is Abib 1, a Sabbath starting a new year. After a leap year of 366 days, the next day is still Abib 1, the first full day after the Spring Equinox, after which, the 7-day Sabbath count resumes. One question that has frequently come is, “Why is Abib 1 the day after the Spring Equinox, instead of the Equinox Day itself?” There are two reasons: 1.) Abibix, the Day of the Spring Equinox, is a day during which the Old Year is ending and the New Year is beginning, so this Day is in limbo, as it were, being partially in both calendar years. 2.) Since the Seasons are divided into 4 91-Day quarters, it just makes sense to have all of these days fit fully into a given year, thus leaving the Marker Day as the day which shares the few remaining hours of the Old Year, plus the corresponding hours of the New Year. Thus, Abibix is the 365th Day, since it is neither counted among the 364 full days, nor does it belong completely to either year.

{Explanatory Note: With regard to the principle of “doubling” at the end of month # 6, Pastor Lent explains, ‘…the Hebrew word for YEAR comes from the word Shaw-naw (Strong’s #8138) and it means “the doubling.” Keeping this in mind, we see that the first day of the second half of the year [“doubling” -- Eli] (Feast of Trumpets) is mandated to be a regular Sabbath forbidding servile work. (Num 29:1; also Lev. 23:24-25.)” So, adding the two intercalary days (the 91st days after each Season) gives us a half-year of exactly 26 weeks, or 182 days. Six months of 30 days equals 180 days, so these two intercalary days are interjected to mark the Seasons and to keep the continuous 7-day count going, and so that the second half-year can begin on a regular Sabbath, on Ethanim 1 (day # 183, which begins the “doubling” process). This realigns the Sabbaths, months and weeks for the start of the second half-year, which is an exact duplicate (shawnaw, doubling), in terms of the regular Sabbath count, of the first half-year.}

(Much of this research for Yahweh’s Solar Calendar is taken from the work of Pastor Kenneth W. Lent, who has issued a combination taped and written study course entitled Yahweh Demands His Solar Sabbaths. It is available through Christian Bible Ministries, PO Box 96, Pearisburg, VA 24134. All those interested in the Bible Calendar should avail themselves of this study course, although it differs slightly from what I have presented here.)

 

YAHWEH’S CALENDAR, CHAPTER & VERSE, PART 1

 

The Months

 

Abib, also called Nisan, is the name of the first month. Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to Yahweh God. – Deut. 16:1. (As explained above, I have chosen to keep the names of the months for convenience, to minimize the quantity of numbers we have to deal with. Scott Vaught has argued that this verse is best translated as, “Observe the month of the Spring Equinox, and keep the Passover to Yahweh God.”)

Ziv, also called Iyar, is the second month. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt…in the month of Ziv, which is the second month. – I Kings 6:1.

Sivan is the third month. The king’s secretaries were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan. – Esther 8:9.

Tammuz is the fourth month. Although there is no verse in the Bible, which names the fourth month, the Jewish calendar retains the name Tammuz. The Syrians also used this name for the same month. The Jews, contrary to the teaching of the Bible, begin their year at the Autumnal Equinox, instead of at the Vernal Equinox. Their name for this month is Tishri. In their calendar, Tammuz is the tenth month. This name corresponds to the Biblical fourth month, dating from the Spring Equinox, so we shall call it Tammuz.

Ab is the fifth month after the Spring Equinox. We have the same situation as we did for Tammuz. The Bible does not name Ab as the fifth month, so we have chosen the corresponding Jewish/Syriac name for their eleventh month. (It is quite possible that the Hebrew tradition records different names. If so, it is also possible that the Hebrew names for these months might be found in the Apocrypha or in other Hebrew/Israelite literature. This is a subject worthy of additional research.)

Elul is the sixth month. So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul. -- Neh. 6:15. The Bible does not list the number of this month, so again we will utilize the Jewish/Syriac tradition, which we transposed to the solar method in the cases of Tammuz, Ab and Elul.

Ethanim (Jewish Tishri) is the seventh month. And all the men of Israel assembled to King Solomon at the feast in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month... -- I Kings 8:2.

Bul is the eighth month. And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. – I Kings 6:37.

Chislev is the ninth month. In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, which is Chislev. -- Zech. 7:1.

Tebeth is the tenth month. And when Esther was taken to King Ahaseurus into his royal palace in the tenth month, which is Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. -- Esther 2:16. (This tendency of foreign kings to adore and marry Israelite women is still alive today, although it is a certainty that Artaxerxes (Ahaseurus) was an Aryan/Adamite/Shemite, although not a Hebrew, as the Hebrews came three generations after Shem. The Hebrews and Persians were cousins before they became enemies. The Kingdom of Persia was founded by the Shemites of Elam {Gen. 10:22}. Although Esther’s marriage to Artaxerxes was permitted by Race, since they were both Adamites, he was still a heathen who did not follow the laws of Yahweh, so Esther regarded her marriage to him as a violation of her tribal marriage law. {Es. 4:16}. The horrible translation of the KJV calls Esther a Jewess. She was not a Jewess. She was a Benjamite. {Es. 2:5-7.} Every instance of the word ‘Jew’ in the KJV is a false translation of the word ‘Judah,’ from the Hebrew. Just because the Jews have appropriated our history for themselves does not make Esther a Jewess. Also, Judaism ALLOWS interracial marriage. Had Esther been a Jewess, she would have had no concern about marrying a foreigner. Her rabbi would have approved!!! If the Bible says one thing and the Jews say another, it is obvious which source is the Truth! Grace Kelly is just one modern example of Adamite/Israelite women who have carried on this “tradition” of being selected by foreign kings. King Hussein of Jordan also married an American Israelite.)

Shebat is the eleventh month. On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month which is the month of Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh came to Zechariah, son of Iddo the prophet. -- Zech. 1:7.

Adar is the twelfth and final month. In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahaseurus, they cast Pur, that is the lot, before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. – Esther 3:7.

Unlike the lunar-solar Jewish Babylonian calendar, no intercalary months are required in God’s solar calendar. Only intercalary days are required to fill the Seasonal gaps.

YAHWEH’S CALENDAR, CHAPTER & VERSE, PART II

God’s Appointments with Israel: Memorials and Feasts

These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to Yahweh offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, each on its proper day; besides the sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your votive offerings, and besides your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh. -- Lev. 23:37,38.

{A quick note here: There is no doubt in my mind that Yahweh established these Feasts as a memorial for Israel for perpetuity. But, since Yahshua Messiah offered Himself as the Last Sacrifice, it is no longer mandatory to shed the blood of sacrificial animals for the remission of sins. Otherwise, we are still required to observe the Feasts as a memorial, to study the Law and humble ourselves before Yahweh.}

Abib 1, first day of the year. (The first full day after the Spring Equinox.) In remembrance of the Passsover, Yahweh said to Moses: This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you. -- Ex. 12:2.

Passover. (Abib 14.) In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, is Yahweh’s passover. -- Lev. 23:5.

Feast of Unleavened Bread. (Abib 15.) “ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. -- Lev. 23:6,7Abib 15 is already a regular Sabbath. It is also a Special Sabbath because it is part of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The same is true for Abib 22.

Wave Sheaf Day. (Abib 16) Abib 16 is the “morrow after the Sabbath,” the day of the Wave Sheaf (Lev. 23:9) offering. The day before, a Sabbath, is the day from which the countdown to Pentecost begins.

Pentecost (Feast of First Fruits). Fifty days from Abib 15 is Sivan 5. Sivan 5 is a consecutive Sabbath from Sivan 4. And you shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven full weeks shall they be, counting fifty days, to the morrow after the seventh sabbath. -- Lev. 23:15,16.

So that we are sure to understand this starting point, this verse is its own double witness, telling us to count 49 days from the Day of the Wave Sheaf offering (Abib 16) and/or 50 days from the Sabbath Day just before the Wave Sheaf Day (Abib 15).

Feast of Trumpets. Ethanim 1. The trumpet signals the end of the spring/summer agricultural season. It also signals the crowning of a new king. Prophetically, the Feast of Trumpets anticipates the First and Second Advents of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Yahweh said unto Moses, Say to the people of Israel, in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with a blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. -- Lev. 23:23.

Commanded Sabbath. Ethanim 9. This is a special Sabbath, as well as the next day, Ethanim 10. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath. -- Lev. 23:32.

Day of Atonement. Ethanim 10. The Day of Atonement is not a regular Sabbath. It is a special Sabbath and day of fasting. And Yahweh said unto Moses, On the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present an offering by fire to Yahweh. -- Lev. 23:28.

(Given the fact that this particular week starts with two Special Sabbaths, there are only four work days available until the next regular Sabbath.)

Feast of Tabernacles. Ethanim 15. Ethanim 15 begins the week-long Feast of Tabernacles. Israel is to gather in tents or booths. On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to Yahweh. -- Lev. 23:34. You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your God. -- Lev. 23:41-43.

Feast of Purim. Adar 14 & 15. And Mordecai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Judahites who were in the provinces of King Ahaseurus, both near and far, enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, as the days on which the Judahites [of the House of Judah] got relief from their enemies…[the Amelekites and other Canaanites] -- Esther 9:20-22.

(NOTE: This feast was not appointed by Yahweh, but was peculiar to the House of Judah, as one of their own memorials. Since Benjamin and Levi were part of the House of Judah at that time, these tribes might also celebrate Purim. However, the tribes of the House of Israel were not involved in this event, so it is not a national holiday for all Israel. …the Judahites ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written at the time appointed every year… -- Est. 9:27,28.)

Final note: It is a condition of the Restoration of Israel that the nations of Anglo-Saxon Israel return to their God by resuming the practice of the Sabbaths, Memorials, and Feast Days of Yahweh’s calendar. All Christian Identity churches and related churches are encouraged to make a study of Yahweh’s calendar and to begin observing God’s commandments once again. In the final days before the Judgment, we are instructed to “come out of Babylon.” It is by opting out of the Beast’s economic system and returning to nature, to Yah’s Laws, and to Yah’s Sacred Calendar that we accomplish this separation.

With so much confusion about the true Biblical calendar, I believe that Yahweh, in His infinite Mercy, knows our Hearts and judges us accordingly. Even if we cannot keep the Letter of His Law, He does not punish us if we keep the Spirit of His Law. It is not possible for people, who work 9-5 jobs, to abruptly quit and follow the Sabbath system, which is unrelated to the existing workweek; and I am not suggesting that you drop everything and do so. It is a goal that we must set and pray for. Once He knows you are trying to understand His Word, He will guide you and move mountains for you, if necessary, so do not be dismayed if you are presently unable to follow the Sabbath system outlined herein. But, you must keep the Spirit of the Law by keeping one day a week separate for rest and worship. At present, I personally keep Sunday Sabbaths, because I cannot arrange my employment schedule to keep a weekday Sabbath. Until the Restoration of all things, most of us have no choice but to keep the Spirit of the Law until we can keep the Letter. So, keep a regular Sabbath that you can observe without fail. This day is for Him, your Creator. That is not too much to ask. If this concept were not important to Yahweh, He would not have said so much about it in Scripture; and He would not have made it one of the Ten Commandments. The day will come when all Israelites are once again able to keep the Solar Sabbath as a nation.

Having participated in numerous Feast Day celebrations, I know that many Christian Identity congregations, nationwide, keep the particular Feasts of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles on the weekend closest to the actual Solar Sabbath. Since most of our congregants are law-abiding, hard-working citizens who do the 5-days-a-week, 8-hours-a-day routine, they can hardly expect to tell their bosses to sympathize with their newly-discovered, “oddball” religious practices! “Sorry, Boss, I’m not coming to work this week because of the Feast of Tabernacles.” That’s asking to get fired. Yahweh knows your heart. Keep praying for this deliverance and He will move mountains for you. In the meantime, you have to demonstrate to Him an awareness of His Law, so that you can, ultimately, keep both the Spirit and the Letter of the Law.

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then said I, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them…I am Yahweh, your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Yahweh your God. -- Ezekiel 20:13, 19, 20.