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The Biblical Calendar

Gods Calendar in the Bible

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Of the many of us who read the Bible, how many of us are aware that God has His own calendar? The Biblical Calendar revealed in the pages of the Bible records a different system of time, days, months, seasons, and years than what we have inherited from our modern culture.

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Time

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Past & Future


The ancient Hebrew's perception of time is opposite of how we perceive time. We would say that the past is behind us and our future is ahead of us because we were trained to think in linear abstract terms.
The ancient Hebrews would say the opposite, claiming the past to be in front of them because it was something known, and the future behind them, as the future is unknown to them.

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Clocks
We have mechanical and digital clock to keep track of time in hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds even.
The ancient people of the Bible did not use the clock system that we have. At best, they tracked the daylight portions of a day with sundials.

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Hours
For an illustration of "hours" in the Bible, we will use the details from the references on Yeshua's (Jesus') crucifixion for our example.

Third hour - Nine in the morning Sixth hour - Midday noon Ninth hour - Around three in the afternoon
That is as close as we can get to the usage of "hours" in the Bible.

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Days
As mentioned in my previous post, All About Shabbat, a biblical day has two portions to each day. A day in the Bible starts in the evening, a portion of time with no light, from sunset to dawn. From dawn to sunset will be the daylight portion of the day. Sunset of every evening will start a fresh new day.

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Weeks
For every religious and cultural calendar you can find in this world, every calendar has a week of seven days. Nobody has six or eight days, all have seven days.

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In the Bible, the six days where we can work don't have proper names, they are just numbered according to their order after Shabbat, the Sabbath Day.
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This is what we will find in the Bible:


The First Day of the Week, Second Day of the Week, Third Day of the Week, Fourth Day of the Week, Fifth Day of the Week, Sixth

Day of the Week, Shabbat.

That is the order of the seven days in a biblical week where Shabbat, the seventh day is the only day with a proper name.

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Months
Here is a chart to compare the names of months as we know it, to the names of months in the Bible, and the names of months in the Babylonian calendar system adopted by Judaism while the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. AngeeSee.com

Chart & Full Article on my blog @ http://www.angeesee.com/biblicalcalendar.html


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Seasons
We know seasons as Spring, Summer, Autumn/Fall and Winter.

In the Bible, we find the purpose of the sun, moon and stars; "and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" (Genesis 1:14)
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As mentioned in my article "The Feasts of Yahweh", the Hebrew word for "seasons" in this verse is "mo'adim" the plural for "mo'ed" which refers to the Feasts of Yahweh.

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Signals in the sun, moon and stars call our attention to signs of the times (signs), events related to the Feasts of Yahweh (seasons/mo'adim), the routine of a literal day, and the effective cycle of a biblical year. AngeeSee.com

Years
We consider a year to have 365 days. A biblical year has about 360 days. In the study of bible prophecy, we will need to remember that.

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Next, to learn more about what God considers a year in His calendar, we will examine four calendars.
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Comparing Four Calendars

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Many cultures and religions have their own calendar systems. In recent years, you may have heard about the Mayan Calendar that ends on December 2012, where people thought the world would end.

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For comparison sake, we will compare the key points of four popular calendars that are kept by the majority of the living population today, to the Biblical Calendar to see the difference.

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The Gregorian Calendar


That's the internationally used calendar for most people today. January to December. The Gregorian Calendar is based solely on the solar cycle. A leap day (February 29th) is added every four years. AngeeSee.com

Since we all know this calendar very well, I will not say much, except to emphasize that is it based solely on the rotation of the earth around the sun.
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The Islamic Calendar


The calendar of the Muslims is based solely on the moon, and thus we see their holidays rotating through the months of a year.

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The Jewish Calendar


The Jewish Calendar is based on both the sun and moon cycles and did start out as God's Calendar in ancient times. However, as we can see from the historical accounts in the Bible and historical records, they have allowed pagan sources to corrupt their calendar with names of pagan deities, shifting of the New Year from Passover (as God commanded) to the Feast of Trumpets, which they call Rosh Hashanah and claim to be the start of the Civil Calendar for the Jews.

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With the Dispersion of the Jews across the globe came the need for a standardized calendar based on mathematical calculations of moon conjunctions as they could no longer sight the new moon from Jerusalem. AngeeSee.com

The Jewish calendar adds an entire month seven times in every period of 19 years to keep the calendar in sync with both the sun and the moon.
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The Jewish Calendar as it is, without consideration for all the Jewish traditions it contains, with additional non-biblical holidays and unbiblical new months without the sighting of the new moon. AngeeSee.com

At best, the Calendar that Judaism uses is only half-right. That means means they are off-track in some points, even though it is a calendar that is based on both the sun and moon cycles. To be sure we are on the right track, let's consider what God has revelaed to us through His word. AngeeSee.com

The Biblical Calendar


God's Calendar uses both the sun and moon cycles. He made them for His own calendar. The months of the biblical calendar are based on the moon, while the length of a year is based on the sun. So the lunar cycle defines the months, while the solar cycle defines a year.

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The concept of seasons refers to both The Feasts of Yahweh which are tied to the seasons of rainfall in Israel. God's Calendar is in perfect harmony with the four seasons (Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall) and we can be confident of this because for His Feasts, the offerings He requires are from the harvests of that season.

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Barley harvest in the Spring with the Feast of Passover, wheat harvest in the Summer for Pentecost, and the harvest of fruits in the autumn for Tabernacles.
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Two Calendars
In keeping to the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar for our work and life, we need to pay attention to the Biblical Calendar as well.
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Besides having the seasons in Israel synchronized to His Appointed Feasts, Yahweh has also predetermined these Divine Appointments on His Calendar as days when important events will happen in relation to His appearing, while using signs in the sun, moon and stars as signals for His arrival.

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In learning a bit more about God's Calendar in the Bible, we can start to recognize events recorded in the Bible when they coincide with Feasts Days. And we can find a lot of events that happened on Feasts Days throughout the Bible, especially in the Gospels.

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There are links in the Description Box under this video for more articles in this series

The Feasts of Yahweh

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