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Resolving Calendar Issues
Simple explanation on the Calendar
There are four feasts which celebrate the first fruits. If you use the current date given for Passover it will not make any sense.
10 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: 11 And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
These feasts take place after you reap the harvest thereof! If you follow the Hebrew calendar of the Jewish leaders the feasts are all before you harvest. Why are we following them? Peter says false prophets are those that deny the Lord that bought them. These Jewish leaders are false prophets.
It is crystal clear that the Calendar is off.
1. The feast where you are to bring a tithe from your Barley crop was around April 15th this year. Meanwhile the Barley harvest in Israel is from early April into May. At the time of Moses it would take some of these farmers a full ten days to go to Jerusalem for Passover and Firstfruits and that would be in the middle of the harvest. If you move the date over one month the feast would be after the harvest is over which is what Leviticus says.
2. Then Shavuot, the feast to bring a tithe of your Wheat harvest is 7 complete sabbaths later. That is June 1st according to the Jewish leaders. However, the Wheat harvest begins in May and goes through June. So again, you are taking a week off in the middle of the harvest. Again, if the celebration of Passover is one month later then this feast would also be a month later and again the best time for a farmer to head to Jerusalem to celebrate.
3. The Feast of New wine is fifty days after Shavuot. That would be July 1. Grapes are harvested in Israel starting in July and going all the way through October. After they are harvested it takes a bare minimum of a week to make new wine. So how is a farmer going to harvest his grapes in July, then make wine which would take another week, and then get to Jerusalem all by the 1st of July?
4. But then the feast of new oil is fifty days after this. Olives are harvested for oil in October through December. But the Jewish leaders are celebrating this on September 14th! This is before anyone could even harvest olives, much less make oil.
These feasts are always on the first day of the week and we are told the next feast is the day after seven complete sabbaths. If I am in Jerusalem on the first day of the week, by the time I get back to my farm I am well into the week. That first sabbath day is not “a complete sabbath”. So a simple way to calculate this is simply count 8 weeks from the feast. Here is the new calculation if we start the Barley feast one month after the current Passover and unleavened bread feasts.
1. Barley -- May 15th – This is right after the Barley harvest
2. Wheat -- July 10th – This is after the wheat harvest.
3. Wine -- September 4th – This is two months after the grape harvest begins so you have plenty of time to make new wine. Also, you are not required to go to Jerusalem for this feast, so it will not take away a week from your harvest, only a day.
4. Oil -- November 30th. This also is six weeks to two months after the harvest of olives starts so you have plenty of time to have the new oil. Again, you are not required to go to Jerusalem for this feast. So it is simply a one day feast in the middle of your harvest season.
The dead sea scrolls tell us of the feasts of new wine and the feast of new oil.
The entire basis for looking at these feast days is that we say they are a shadow of things to come.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Well, that means at least one of these feast days is a shadow of the Jews walking out of the graves and into the land of Israel again.
Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
There are only two days on the calendar where this could be the case, 17th of Nisan or 15th of Av. Since this happened on May 14th it could not possibly be the 15th of Av so the best explanation is that it was the 17th of Nisan. A secondary possibility is that it was Nisan 1. You can argue it was the first day of the year for Israel or you can argue it was resurrection day for Israel. Hindsight is 20/20. The day that Israel returned to the land is likened to them walking out of the graves, it is resurrection day (or the first day of the year).
This makes May 14th, 1948 resurrection day. That is a month later than what we currently view as Resurrection day. So how did this happen? Well, who is telling us when Passover and Resurrection day is? The Jewish leaders who are false prophets according to Peter and they are divorced from God according to the Old Testament. So why are you listening to them? Also the Catholic church. Why are we listening to these people tell us when these dates are when they are clearly contradictory to the Bible.
Genesis 8:22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
The Bible tells us clearly that seedtime and harvest are the two constants that we can depend on. Not the stars, they are moving on a 30,000 year cycle and not the moon. This also corresponds with Daniel where it says Satan will attempt to distort the calendar
Daniel 7:25a He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws.
It is foolish to use the calendar of the Jews. We are told up front that Satan will try to change the set times and we are told very clearly that the Jewish leaders are false prophets.
2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them
In the books of Moses we are told that the month of Passover is the month of aviv, that literally means it is "ear of grain".
Deuteronomy 16:1 Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.
Think of corn, once the corn is harvested you have a whole bunch of ears of corn. It doesn't mean about to be harvested, or ready to harvest, it means I have a bushel of ears of corn already harvested. Everyone knows what the month of harvested corn as ears of grain in the farmers market is. Think about this, why would Israel leave Egypt to go live in the wilderness for forty years before harvesting the barley crop? Now here is the interesting thing, Barley is harvested a month earlier in Egypt than it is in Israel. So without a doubt the current calendar might make sense for Egypt which depicts the world, but not for Israel.
The rapture is during the Barley harvest
Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned from Moab accompanied by Ruth the Moabite, her daughter-in-law, arriving in Bethlehem as the barley harvest was beginning.
The left behind arrive in Bethlehem, the house of God, at the time of the rapture.
Also there are two types of the church being raptured as the bride of Christ, you have Esther and you have Ruth. I would argue that Ruth depicts the tribulation saints gleaning in Boaz's field after leaving Moab while Esther depicts those raptured before the tribulation during the season of Purim which would end on Nisan 1. We know the calendar is corrupted and we know that a feast of first fruits takes place after you harvest, just like you tithe from what you are paid, not from what you hope to collect in the future.
Leviticus 27:30 “‘A tithe of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.
I get that at the time of Moses when the Barley was harvested could have also been seen in the stars with the sheaf of wheat. However, the stars are on a 30,000 year cycle so that would only have been a temporary way to measure. I also imagine the Jews initially used the moon to mark the months, but that is a different calendar from the Gentiles and the church is primarily composed of Gentiles. I see nothing in our new covenant which would tell us to mark the days by the moon. Instead we are told by Paul not to let anyone judge us with regards to a new moon.
