Neville, Thank you for this invitation. I have my work cut out for me. Carl Dr. Neville Jones wrote: >Carl, > >I am most impressed by your knowledge of the Scriptural calendar and by your >ability to convey that knowledge. I am therefore publically asking if you >would consider writing one or two (or three ...) articles on this subject that >Steven and I can put up on our website. > >The function of the Moon (30 day months, etc.) is extremely pertinent to >geocentrism, in my opinion, and provides another striking example of how the >Earth has gotten everything so corrupted. > >Regards, > >Neville. > >www.midclyth.supanet.com > > >Carl Felland <cfelland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Cheryl, >"Easter had a pre-Christian origin, namely a festival in honour of >Eostre, the Teutonic dawn-goddess, also known as Eos, the Greek >dawn-goddess, and as Usha or Ushas, the Hindu dawn-goddess" (Koster, >C.J. 1996. Come Out of Her, My People, Institute For Scripture >Research, South Africa). To celebrate Easter seems rather sacrilegious >or occultist to me. > >I said in an earlier post that this month is an intercalary month in the >Jewish calendar, a thirteenth month. The reason is that the equinox >occurs after this past new moon. Jewish observation of Passover this >year is in the month beginning after the equinox. > >However, the Karaites www.karaite-korner.org/ and other Jewish groups >are considering this the first month based on the development of the >barley crop. Moses told the Israelites to begin the year with the month >of Abib. Deu 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover >unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought >thee forth out of Egypt by night. Barley in the stage of Abib at the >new moon indicates that it will be ready for the first fruits offering >on the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread. Lev 23:11 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. > >Thus the debate on the importance of equinox rages. Scripture doesn't >mention equinox. Others may want to comment on how Easter is fixed, but >I will share my understanding of the Greek pascha of the New Testament. > >Messiah observed the Torah or Old Testament law. In the month of Abib >he celebrated Passover on the 14th. This was the day that he was >crucified. He rested in the grave on the first day of Unleavened Bread >that was a high sabbath and also a normal weekly sabbath. Joh 19:31 >The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies >should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath >day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, >and [that] they might be taken away. He rose from the grave on the day >following the Sabbath, the day of the Wave-sheath offering. > >No one in the group has responded to my assertion that the weeks are >determined by the moon. The calendar that most of the world observes >today originated as the Julian and has come to us in the form of the >Gregorian Calendar. Check any history to see that Julius Caesar ordered >a calendar that disregarded the moon. He in effect was trying to >supplant the calendar put into the heavens by the Creator. His calendar >even had an eight day week. Constantine instituted the seven day >planetary week (this also seems rather sacrilegious or occultist to >me.) I've been concerned that Christians worship on SUNday; while in >fact, Saturday sounds suspiciously like SATYRday or Satan's Day! > >Today is a Biblical sabbath day. Last night as the sun set the first >quarter moon was directly overhead! Next Sabbath the moon will be >full. The key to understanding YHWH's calendar is that the new moons >are a third class of days. Eze 46:1 Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate >of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six >working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of >the new moon it shall be opened. We have three categories of days here >that are mutually exclusive. The gate can't be open and shut at the >same time. In a twenty nine day month we have a new moon day >(conjunction) followed by four seven day weeks. In a thirty day month >there is a double new moon day. > >Carl >Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > > >. > > >