http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The Temple Calendar. Let the numbers do the talking: Biblical Holy Days 12 First Days of the Month + 52 Weekly Sabbaths + 6 High Days = 70 The 1st of every one of the 12 Biblical months, Plus the First Day of Unleavened Bread, Plus the Last Day of Unleavened Bread, Plus Pentecost/Feast of First Fruits, Plus the Day of Atonement, Plus the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Plus the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Plus weekly Sabbaths of 52 weeks of the year – EQUALS 70 ! The First Day of the Seventh Month is also The Day of Trumpets: logically they are counted as only one twenty four hour day. If any other days incorrectly overlap then less than Seventy, Sanctified, Set–Apart Holy Days is the unscriptural result. Why SEVENTY Holy Days ? ? ? ? 1 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar ISRAEL is the answer. The entire Biblical calendar revolves around the twelve tribes of Israel, and Yahweh’s plan for the embryonic nation of Israel that went down into Egypt: And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. (Exodus 1: 5) And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. (Genesis 46: 27) And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. 2 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. (Genesis 49: 33 – Genesis 50: 3) And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Yahweh, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off. (Exodus 24:1) BUT: Hear this word that Yahweh hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, 3 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar You only have I known of all the families of the earth: punish you for all your iniquities. therefore I will (Amos 3:1–2) Even their punishments were meted out in “seventies” So Yahweh sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba Seventy thousand men. (2 Samuel 24:15) And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years. (Jeremiah 25:11) And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the 4 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar kingdom of Persia: To fulfil the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years. (2 Chronicles 36: 20–21) For thus saith Yahweh, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. (Jeremiah 29:10) In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. (Daniel 9: 2) 5 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most ¡ Holy. (Daniel 9: 24) On the 13th Abib, as He sat at supper : ¡ “ the most Holy ” was anointed in Bethany. (Mark 14: 3 and Matthew 26: 6) Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Yahshua saith unto him, I say Not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven. (Matthew 18: 21–22) 6 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The number 70 is symbolic of Israel. Yahweh's calendar of 70 Holy Days is for Israel. Christ said: I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Matthew 15: 24) But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Matthew 10: 6) The Northern Kingdom “lost sheep of the house of Israel” were divorced when originally sent into punishing Assyrian exile: leaving only one tenth part remaining in Samaria and Galilee. (see Jeremiah 3: 1–11, Isaiah 6: 9–13, Isaiah 8:7–8 and 2 Chronicles 30: 6). Later widowed and most also in Assyrian exile, the Southern Kingdom House of Judah were never divorced ! Christ Himself went to the divorced tenth part of the House of Israel: After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come . . . And the 7 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. (Luke 10:1,17) The nine tenths of Israel in Assyrian exile, were later anointed (Isaiah 10: 24–27) and re-gathered to their own lands in the west. (Ezekiel 39: 23–29 and Isaiah 11:14) I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, (see Ezekiel 37: 11–19) and one shepherd. (John 10: 14–16) Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed 8 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? (John 7: 35) And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yahshua should die for that nation; And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad. (John 11: 51–52) These are the Christian sheep of Israel Hosea 6:1–3 is speaking to, the two-day/two-thousand-year Christians since the atoning death of Christ: Come, and let us return unto Yahweh: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days ( after 2000 years ) will he revive us: ( resurrect us ) in the third day ( starting 3000 years ) 9 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then ( only if we keep His Word ) shall we know, if we follow on to know Yahweh: his going forth is prepared as the morning; ( from out of Sinai in the east He will return to us in the west ) and he shall come unto us as the rain, ( the 3rd thousand year millennium reign ) as the latter and former rain unto the earth. (Hosea 6:1–3) How can we return to Yahweh, without correctly keeping His 70 Holy Day Appointments ? ? ? ? SEVENTY Biblical Holy Days 12 First Days of the Month + 52 Weekly Sabbaths + 6 High Days = 70 The Day of Trumpets is also The First Day of the Seventh Month. They are logically counted as one 24 hour day, and if all the other days are not maintained 10 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Sanctified, Holy and Set-Apart from each other and from any working day: THEN YOU HAVE THE WRONG CALENDAR ! The Dead Sea Scrolls calendar achieves this in the only way possible: by starting the solar calendar of Enoch on the fourth day of the week to remember the Light of the World given upon the Earth on the fourth day of creation in Genesis. (Gen. 1: 14–19) These SEVENTY Set-Apart Holy Days, authenticates for Christian Israel starting the Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch solar calendar on the fourth day of the week ! After the full “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” “sign of the prophet Jonas” (Matthew 12: 39–40) the Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch solar calendar validates the resurrection of Christ on the fourth day “first of the Sabbaths” in the heart of the Feast of Unleavened Bread as “Lord even of the Sabbath day” (Mark 16: 1–3 and Matthew 28: 1, 4) (see Strong’s #4521 “first of the Sabbaths” singular or plural !) Immediately after this resurrection day “first of the Sabbaths” Christ Himself was the Omer the first harvesting day starting the 7 x 7 day count to the last of the Sabbaths: 11 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar directly preceding Pentecost. ( “the fiftieth day” ) 7 x 7 = 49 Day ZERO is the Resurrection Day “First of the Sabbaths” (Mark 16: 1–3 and Matthew 28: 1, 4) Day ONE is the Omer of Christ Himself commencing the 7 x 7 day calculation: Week 1 x 7 days ends on the Second of the Sabbaths. Week 2 x 7 days ends on the Third of the Sabbaths. Week 3 x 7 days ends on the Fourth of the Sabbaths. Week 4 x 7 days ends on the Fifth of the Sabbaths. Week 5 x 7 days ends on the Sixth of the Sabbaths. Week 6 x 7 days ends on the Seventh of the Sabbaths. Week 7 x 7 days ends on the Eighth of the Sabbaths. The following day FIFTY is the 12 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Day of Pentecost / Feast of First Fruits. The Seventh Sabbath on the Seventh week within the 7 x 7 day count falls on the Seventh Day of Enoch’s third month, and including the initial “Ground Zero” Sabbath of the Resurrection Day “First of the Sabbaths” (Mark 16: 1–3 and Matthew 28: 1, 4) it equals a total of Eight Sabbaths: and Pentecost falls on the Eighth Day of Enoch’s third month ! The Feast of Tabernacles verifies Christ’s union with this number EIGHT. Christ was born of the anointed royal lineage of David (Isaiah 11: 1) David was the last EIGHTH son of Jesse (1 Samuel 16: 6–13) The Feast of Tabernacles totals eight days, and its eighth day is The Last Great Day: In the last day, that great day of the feast, 13 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Yahshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7: 37–38) Remarkably the number 70 is the Biblical watermark witnessed within this calendar against the LIGHT OF HIS WORD: The First Day of the Seventh Month is also The Day of Trumpets. It is logically counted as only one 24 hour day with all the other separate High Day Sabbaths, Weekly Sabbaths and First Day of each Month: THE TOTAL EQUALS 70 ! If they don't it is because more of them erroneously overlap, and consequently that whole calendar is incorrect ! Other solar calendars are also incorrect because they follow the lead of the false lunar calendar in starting the year on a ‘weekly sabbath’, so their calendars also fail to exhibit this Biblical number 70 watermark ! People are very dogmatic when it comes to the calendar that they follow, or have researched and promote. Getting them to even objectively read this document will be a battle in itself. Most will unfortunately delete it unread. Any ideas to effectively get it read will be appreciated. In fact “Israel’s 70 Holy Day Temple Calendar” is now in your court, please don't return it to me unless it’s proven wrong ! If others do read it and continue promoting a calendar that does not have this Biblical number 70 watermark, then they are either deceiving themselves or deliberately deceiving others. If the latter, then we have to question their motives. 14 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar SEVENTY Set-Apart Holy Days. Halleluyah ! Besides the weekly Sabbaths, this gives a generous 18 days a year. With the weekly Sabbaths, it gives a total of 70 days a year – every single year, of every solar year ! Besides falling on different days to the correct solar calendar, the lunar calendar’s ‘holy days’ are always far less than seventy in total ! Unfortunately most solar calendar advocates fall into the same lunar logic trap in starting the year on a weekly ‘sabbath’ ! They consequently also miss all Yahweh’s weekly and other High Day appointments ! More proof of this is that their total number of High Days, First Day of each Month, and the 52 Weekly Sabbaths of the year, also equals less than the Biblically symbolic number 70 ! i.e. some of their weekly ‘sabbaths’ overlap with their ‘high days’, like their 1st of Abib ! “A miss is as good as a million miles ! ” Understanding Genesis 1:14–19 in starting the year on the 4th day of the week, like the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar does, results in a total of exactly 70 ! Don't you find that very significant ! Isn’t Yahweh trying to tell us something ? ! However the Dead Sea Scrolls community, or the people responsible for transcribing the DSS’s solar calendar, were obviously not Christians before Christ, and all except one scroll predate Him. They therefore failed to see that they got the Omer date wrong ! On the other hand the Sadducees controlling the Temple did get the Omer date right as verified: • by the full three days and the full three nights in the tomb, • by the resurrection at the end of the third day – starting the weekly Sabbath, • by starting this weekly Sabbath as the 4th day centre of the 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread, • by Christ appearing throughout this central 4th day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and therefore • by confirming Christ as the “bread of life...the living bread” and “Lord even of the Sabbath day”. Do you find that significant ? 15 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Matthew 12: 38–40 Now Yahweh had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights. Jonah 1: 17 Yahshua answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him. John 11: 9–10 ( “Inclusive” counting isn’t a hard and fast ‘rule’ in the Old Testament. It is likewise also not a ‘rule’ in the Greek New Testament ! i.e. He rose at the end of the full third day: ) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening ( “Night”) and the morning ( “Day”) were the first day . . . And the evening ( “Night”) and the morning ( “Day”) were the second day . . . And the evening ( “Night”) and the morning ( “Day”) were the third day. Genesis 1: 3–13 Yahshua answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body. John 2: 19–21 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. Mark 8: 31 Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. Matthew 27: 63 16 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar starts at sunset ending the spring equinox day, and begins with the fourth day of the Genesis creation week. When the March equinox falls on a Wednesday, the Sabbaths will overlap Sundays for that year. With the solar calendar of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the count to Pentecost always parallels the Sabbatical rest for the land every seven years ( Leviticus 25: 8-10 ) After seven times seven years they proclaimed a Jubilee on the 50th year. This Jubilee year followed the seven times seven 49th year: the seventh Sabbatical rest year, making the 49th and 50th years two rest years in a row ! Pentecost follows the seven times seven 49th day: the seventh Sabbath rest day, making the 49th and 50th days two rest days in a row ! Although the dates are predetermined, for various reasons we count up to or down from many events in our lives and cultures. The count to Pentecost is done in a similar way, not necessarily because its new date has to be determined again each year. The problem is that among other things, with different solar and lunar calendars all starting at different times of the year, and with four different Sabbaths after which people start the count, the resultant permutations of different calendars are the major source of dissent causing new splinter movements: The Dead Sea Scroll’s community started the Pentecost count one week after the Sadducees. Like the other sects they disagreed with the Sadducees running of the Temple: Christ kicked the traders out the Temple but didn't differ with its calendar. Very conveniently, because no records of the Sadducees practice survives, there is no proof at all that the Sadducees practiced a solar calendar. Because they kept Pentecost on the first day of the Biblical week does not mean they didn’t keep the 364 day solar calendar. The Dead Sea Scrolls community also kept Pentecost on the first day of the week, but one week later and on a proven 364 day solar calendar ! If the Sadducees had a 364 day solar calendar that commenced on the fourth day of the week, and if the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar count up to Pentecost is corrected to the Sadducee calculation, then the two calendars would be almost identical. This solar Dead Sea Scrolls calendar, corrected to the Sadducee Pentecost count, exhibits some convincing and interesting features: 17 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SOLAR CALENDAR Corrected to the Sadducee Temple Pentecost DAYS OF THE WEEK / MONTH / YEAR Equinox: our day #365, or on leap years day #366. This March spring equinox sunset begins the year with a Sabbath “High Day” 7 × 7 day count from the Omer after the “first of Sabbaths” to the last 8th Sabbath Lev. 23: 15 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 7 Sabbath Feast of Weeks Pentecost Lev. 23: 16-21 5 12 19 26 The calendar is annually reset to start again on day 4 of the week Genesis 1: 14-19 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath Lamb selected 1st Passover and Unleavened Bread 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 1 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 3 ( SIVAN ) 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 Month 4 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 1 ABIB/NISAN First to last of all Eight Sabbaths Lev. 23: 5-14 Omer MONTHS Month 2 2nd Passover Num. 9:3,9-12 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 Month 5 3 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 6 ELUL Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath The religious festivals requiring cooking and non servile work don’t fall on weekly Sabbaths. The harvesting of the Omer also never inconveniently falls on the weekly Sabbath of rest. Unlike with the other calendars, it gives you three full days and also three full nights in the tomb, with the resurrection correctly on the weekly “first of the Sabbaths”. Another characteristic is in the 7 × 7 day count to the Sabbath before Pentecost: This last seventh Sabbath of the count, falls on the seventh of Sivan. The resurrection day “first of the Sabbaths” preceding the count, equals eight Sabbaths: and Pentecost falls on the eighth day of the third month. 18 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SOLAR CALENDAR MONTHS SEVEN TO TWELVE DAYS OF THE WEEK / MONTH / YEAR Day 1 Leviticus 23: 23-43 John 7: 37Last Great Day Genesis 1: 14-19 5 12 19 26 Day 2 Day 3 Day of Trumpets 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 MONTHS Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath 1 8 15 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 7 ETHANIM 2 9 16 23 30 8 BUL 22 29 Atonement Day Feast of Tabernacles 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 Month 9 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 10 ( TEBETH ) 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 Month 11 3 10 17 24 1 8 15 22 29 2 9 16 23 30 3 10 17 24 31 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 12 ADAR Day 362 Day 363 Day 364 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 The calendar is annually reset to start again on day 4 of the week Equinox on our day #365 or on our leap year day #366 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath 2 4 1 3 1 ABIB/NISAN First day starts at sunset after the equinox The significance of Christ and the number eight is the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles: “ the eighth day” ( Leviticus 23: 39 ) (not the first and ‘eighth’ day Sun-day of the Pagan Roman week) Seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles and its following eighth “Last Great Day” reflect the “1st (to 8th) of the Sabbaths” after Passover, and the seven Sabbath count up to Pentecost the following day ! 19 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com The feasts of the second half of the year almost mirror the feasts in the first half. And God said, Let there be lights ( “ luminary ” see Strong's #3974 from #215 = “ to be luminous . . . kindle . . . set on fire ” ) in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: Genesis 1: 14 “seasons” here is Strong's #4150: dewm mow`ed mo-ade' or dem mo`ed mo-ade' or (fem.) hdewm mow`adah mo-aw-daw', and means the “appointments / meetings” of the Sabbaths, new- months and the solemn feasts, see 2Ch 8:13 (not the new-moons, as proven from page 55 below). The luminary nuclear inferno’s of the sun and stars should therefore determine the days, Sabbaths, months and feasts. What the DSS’s calendar obviously does, is base the current elliptical 365¼ day year on Enoch’s perfectly circular orbital 364 day calendar ! At the time of Noah Enoch’s calendar shows that the earth’s orbit around the sun was a perfectly circular 364 days, easily and evenly divided between the year’s months and four quarters. This gives 91 days per quarter made up of 30, 30 and 31 days per month respectively per quarter, and 364 days in total. The DSS’s calendar adapted this same monthly pattern to our longer year. They kept the number of days in the months the same as in Enoch's calendar, adding on our extra 365th day and 366th leap year day to the end of the year. With our current elliptical orbit around the sun, all the “seasons / appointments / meetings” are still the same and determined from the sunset ending the March equinox: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2). The solstices and equinoxes are the “tekufah” of Strong's no. 08622: hpwqt t@quwphah tek-oo-faw' or hpqt t@quphah tek-oo-faw' , which signifies the years turning / coming about / coming around in the course of the earth’s annual revolutionary circuit around the sun: “And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end (tekufah).” (Exodus 34: 22). i.e. after the confirmation of the years autumn equinox, then observe the Feast of Tabernacles ! Equally, the confirmation of the spring equinox/“tekufah” confirms the years last day, and demarcates the start of another year in the spring ! The March “tekufah/equinox” was first visually confirmed, after which its sunset started the first day of the year. It was not determined solely by calculation in advance. Sundials which were used to determine the “tekufah” in real time were discovered at the Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran site: 20 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar When Yahweh gave instructions concerning His feasts, He started with the weekly Sabbath: Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of Yahweh in all your dwellings. ( Leviticus 23: 3 ) Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. ( Exodus 35:3 ) In other words no work may be done on the weekly Sabbath, servile or otherwise – no kindling a fire (cooking) for employers or ourselves – no working for ourselves or anyone else: in all our dwellings ! Many daily functions in the Temple required work and the kindling of fire. Only in the Temple of the “Lord of the Sabbath” was this rule in the Law of Moses not applicable, as it was not our dwelling ! Most “High Day” Sabbath festivals also required work and/or the kindling of fire in our dwellings – only servile work was prohibited on these days, thus allowing other work, and therefore they could not fall on the calendars weekly Sabbaths ! More specifically, except for the Day of Atonement when no work at all was allowed, on all other Feast days only servile work was forbidden, thus allowing other work and therefore, to repeat, they could not fall on the calendars weekly Sabbaths ! This includes the first and seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost or the Feast of First Fruits, the Day of Trumpets, the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Last Great Day ( the “eighth day” – the day after the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles ). Only on the Day of Atonement was no work allowed at all, but Yahweh also says that all these feasts and holy convocations, including the Day of Atonement, are apart from the normal weekly Sabbaths, they are: “ . . . Beside the sabbaths of Yahweh, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto Yahweh . . .” ( Leviticus 23: 38 ). i.e. a “High Day” cannot fall on a normal weekly Sabbath ! “High Days” are normal work days that have been made a Sabbath ! If these feasts and holy convocations could ever be on any weekly Sabbath in which no work may be done at all, Yahweh need not have said “no work” or, “no servile work” may be done on these days, neither would He have said that they were all always: “Beside(s) the (weekly) sabbaths of Yahweh”. ( This in fact disproves the lunar ‘sabbaths’ for all months ! ) So, except for the fire and offerings prepared and made in the Temple, if any of the following things fell on the calendars weekly Sabbaths, then that calendar was incorrect and therefore is still incorrect: Separating the Passover lamb from the flock. Preparing the home, Passover lamb and venue in both the first and second month Passover. Burning the Passover lamb. 1st & 7th day of Feast of Unleavened Bread – “no servile work”. Cutting/reaping the Omer/Wave Sheaf. Festival of First Fruits and therefore also Pentecost – “. . . unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days . . .” – there are only the weekly Sabbaths in the third month for Pentecost to follow after, so the Pentecost count and reaping of the Omer has to start after a weekly Sabbath in Abib: not counted from after a Festival Sabbath/High Day ! Day of Trumpets “no servile work”. Day of Atonement: “Beside(s) the (weekly) sabbaths”. First day of the Feast of Tabernacles – “no servile work” ( but allows cutting down branches etc. to make booths ), and the following “eighth day” – “Last Great Day” “no servile work”. Therefore if any of these things do fall on the weekly Sabbaths, then that calendar is incorrect ! 21 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Although they differed with placing the Omer/Wave Sheaf and therefore Pentecost, the Sadducees agreed with the Dead Sea Scroll’s weekly Sabbath days: March 2015 The northern spring equinox falls on the 19th, 20th or 21st of March. In 2015 it falls on Friday March the 20th According to the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar, sunset Friday 20th March to sunset Saturday 21st of March, is the first day of the Biblical year for 2015, and the 4th day of the week. Therefore until the next March spring equinox in 2016, the Sabbath will overlap Tuesdays. THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SABBETH DAYS The beginning of the Dead Sea Scroll’s Solar Calendar: starting at sunset ending the spring equinox, beginning the fourth day of creation week and determining the Sabbaths for the rest of the year. The annual spring equinox and Biblical week to the first Sabbath of Abib. Day 365 or 366 leap day. 1 2 3 4 Spring Equinox Date. Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 20/03/2012 Saturdays Thursday Friday Saturday 20/03/2013 Wednesday Sundays Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 20/03/2014 Mondays Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 20/03/2015 Tuesdays Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursdays 20/03/2016 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 20/03/2017 Fridays Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 20/03/2018 Saturdays Thursday Friday Saturday 20/03/2019 Wednesday Sundays Friday Saturday Sunday Monday 20/03/2020 Tuesdays Day 365 or 366 leap day 1 2 3 4 The Spring Equinox Date could be the 19th, 20th or 21st of March – check ! Biblical days run from sunset the day before, to sunset the current Roman day. March 2016 The northern spring equinox falls on the 19th, 20th or 21st of March. In 2016 it falls on Sunday March the 20th According to the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar, sunset Sunday 20th March to sunset Monday 21st of March, is the first day of the Biblical year for 2016, and the 4th day of the week. Therefore until the next March spring equinox in 2017, the Sabbath will overlap Thursdays. 22 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com These are the spring equinoxes of the northern hemisphere. The year consists of twelve months of four quarters. Each 91 day quarter of three months consists of 30 days, 30 days and 31 days respectively. Each 31st inter-calendar day originally demarcated the quarters. This gives the total of “364 days” these solar calendars are known as. The Northern Spring Equinox is now either the 365th day or 366th day in the leap year, after which the next year’s first day begins again at sunset – reset to the fourth day of the creation week. Thus, after the Northern Spring Equinox the year’s days are evenly divided up between these four quarters, and no Biblical obligations that involve work fall on the weekly Sabbaths: The weekly Sabbaths therefore, according to Leviticus 23: 37–38, correctly remain separate from the feasts and their holy convocations ! A Festival Sabbath is a normal weekly day which Yahweh has made a Sabbath, it is not also a normal 7th day Sabbath. The lunar calendar and others only ‘seem’ to work because they redefine a “High Day” as a normal weekly Sabbath day that is also a Festival Sabbath. As Leviticus 23: 37–38 shows, these calendars are unscriptural. Most of them also can’t give three full nights and also three full days in the tomb ( Matthew 12: 40 ) Christ kicked the traders out the Temple but didn't differ with its calendar. Very conveniently, because no records of the Sadducees practice survives, there is no proof at all that the Sadducees practiced a solar calendar. Because they kept Pentecost on the first day of the Biblical week does not mean they didn’t keep the 364 day solar calendar. The Dead Sea Scrolls community also kept Pentecost on the first day of the week, but one week later and on a proven 364 day solar calendar ! If the Sadducees had a 364 day solar calendar that commenced on the fourth day of the week, and if the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar count up to Pentecost is corrected to the Sadducee calculation, then the two calendars would be almost identical for all twelve months of the year. This solar Dead Sea Scrolls calendar, corrected to the Sadducee Pentecost count, successfully complies with all Biblical requirements. The enemies ‘solar’ Roman calendar, and his lunar Babylonian calendar cannot suppress the true Biblical calendar forever: And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change 23 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Daniel 7: 25–27 Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore? And Yahshua said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19: 27–28 24 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SOLAR CALENDAR Corrected to the Sadducee Temple Pentecost DAYS OF THE WEEK / MONTH / YEAR Equinox: our day #365, or on 2012 – 2020 leap years day #366. This March the Equinox spring equinox sunset begins the falls on the year with a Sabbath “High Day” 20th of March 7 × 7 day count from the Omer after the “first of Sabbaths” to the last 8th Sabbath Lev. 23: 15 6 Mar 26 13 Apr 2 20 Apr 9 27 Apr 16 7 Mar 27 14 Apr 3 21 Apr 10 28 Apr 17 1 Mar 21 8 Mar 28 15 Apr 4 22 Apr 11 29 Apr 18 2 Mar 22 9 Mar 29 16 Apr 5 23 Apr 12 30 Apr 19 3 Mar 23 10 Mar 30 17 Apr 6 24 Apr 13 4 Mar 24 11 Mar 31 18 25 7 Sabbath Feast of Weeks Pentecost Lev. 23: 16-21 5 Mar 25 12 Apr 1 19 Apr 8 26 Apr 15 The calendar is annually reset to start again on day 4 of the week Genesis 1: 14-19 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath 1 ABIB/NISAN Lamb selected 1st Passover and Unleavened Bread 3 Apr 22 10 Apr 29 17 May 6 24 May 13 4 Apr 23 11 Apr 30 18 May 7 25 May 14 5 Apr 24 12 May 1 19 May 8 26 May 15 6 Apr 25 13 May 2 20 May 9 27 May 16 7 Apr 26 14 May 3 21 May 10 28 May 17 1 Apr 20 8 Apr 27 15 May 4 22 May 11 29 May 18 1 May 20 2 May 21 9 May 28 16 Jun 4 23 Jun 11 30 Jun 18 3 May 22 10 May 29 17 Jun 5 24 Jun 12 31 Jun 19 4 May 23 11 May 30 18 Jun 6 25 Jun 13 5 May 24 12 May 31 19 Jun 7 26 Jun 14 6 May 25 13 Jun 1 20 Jun 8 27 Jun 15 14 Jun 2 21 Jun 9 28 Jun 16 2 Jun 21 9 Jun 28 16 Jul 5 23 Jul 12 30 Jul 19 3 Jun 22 10 Jun 29 17 Jul 6 24 Jul 13 4 Jun 23 11 Jun 30 18 Jul 7 25 Jul 14 Month 4 8 May 27 15 Jun 3 22 Jun 10 29 Jun 17 2 9 16 23 30 First to last of all Eight Sabbaths Lev. 23: 5-14 Omer MONTHS 7 Month 2 2nd Passover Num. 9:3,9-12 3 ( SIVAN ) 5 Jun 24 12 Jul 1 19 Jul 8 26 Jul 15 6 Jun 25 13 Jul 2 20 Jul 9 27 Jul 16 7 Jun 26 14 Jul 3 21 Jul 10 28 Jul 17 1 Jun 20 8 Jun 27 15 Jul 4 22 Jul 11 29 Jul 18 4 Jul 23 11 Jul 30 18 Aug 6 25 Aug 13 5 Jul 24 12 Jul 31 19 Aug 7 26 Aug 14 6 Jul 25 13 Aug 1 20 Aug 8 27 Aug 15 7 Jul 26 14 Aug 2 21 Aug 9 28 Aug 16 1 Jul 20 8 Jul 27 15 Aug 3 22 Aug 10 29 Aug 17 2 Jul 21 9 Jul 28 16 Aug 4 23 Aug 11 30 Aug 18 Month 5 3 Jul 22 10 Jul 29 17 Aug 5 24 Aug 12 1 Aug 19 8 Aug 26 15 Sep 2 22 Sep 9 29 Sep 16 2 Aug 20 9 Aug 27 16 Sep 3 23 Sep 10 30 Sep 17 3 Aug 21 10 Aug 28 17 Sep 4 24 Sep 11 31 Sep 18 4 Aug 22 11 Aug 29 18 Sep 5 25 Sep 12 5 Aug 23 12 Aug 30 19 Sep 6 26 Sep 13 6 Aug 24 13 Aug 31 20 Sep 7 27 Sep 14 7 Aug 25 14 Sep 1 21 Sep 8 28 Sep 15 6 ELUL Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath The religious festivals requiring cooking and non servile work don’t fall on weekly Sabbaths. The harvesting of the Omer also never inconveniently falls on the weekly Sabbath of rest. Unlike with the other calendars, it gives you three full days and also three full nights in the tomb, with the resurrection correctly on the weekly “first of the Sabbaths”. Another characteristic is in the 7 × 7 day count to the Sabbath before Pentecost: This last seventh Sabbath of the count, falls on the seventh of Sivan. The resurrection day “first of the Sabbaths” preceding the count, equals eight Sabbaths: and Pentecost falls on the eighth day of the third month. 25 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SOLAR CALENDAR MONTHS SEVEN TO TWELVE DAYS OF THE WEEK / MONTH / YEAR Day 1 Leviticus 23: 23-43 John 7: 37Last Great Day Day 2 Day 3 Day of Trumpets 5 Sep 23 12 Sep 30 19 Oct 7 26 Oct 14 6 Sep 24 13 Oct 1 20 Oct 8 27 Oct 15 7 Sep 25 14 Oct 2 21 Oct 9 28 Oct 16 MONTHS Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath 1 Sep 19 8 Sep 26 15 Oct 3 2 Sep 20 9 Sep 27 16 Oct 4 23 Oct 11 30 Oct 18 3 Sep 21 10 Sep 28 17 Oct 5 24 Oct 12 4 Sep 22 11 Sep 29 18 Oct 6 25 Oct 13 2 Oct 20 9 Oct 27 16 Nov 3 23 Nov 10 30 Nov 17 8 BUL 22 Oct 10 29 Oct 17 7 ETHANIM Day of Atonement Feast of Tabernacles 3 Oct 21 10 Oct 28 17 Nov 4 24 Nov 11 4 Oct 22 11 Oct 29 18 Nov 5 25 Nov 12 5 Oct 23 12 Oct 30 19 Nov 6 26 Nov 13 6 Oct 24 13 Oct 31 20 Nov 7 27 Nov 14 7 Oct 25 14 Nov 1 21 Nov 8 28 Nov 15 1 Oct 19 8 Oct 26 15 Nov 2 22 Nov 9 29 Nov 16 1 Nov 18 8 Nov 25 15 Dec 2 22 Dec 9 29 Dec 16 2 Nov 19 9 Nov 26 16 Dec 3 23 Dec 10 30 Dec 17 3 Nov 20 10 Nov 27 17 Dec 4 24 Dec 11 31 Dec 18 4 Nov 21 11 Nov 28 18 Dec 5 25 Dec 12 5 Nov 22 12 Nov 29 19 Dec 6 26 Dec 13 6 Nov 23 13 Nov 30 20 Dec 7 27 Dec 14 7 Nov 24 14 Dec 1 21 Dec 8 28 Dec 15 Month 9 2 Dec 20 9 Dec 27 16 Jan 3 23 Jan 10 30 Jan 17 3 Dec 21 10 Dec 28 17 Jan 4 24 Jan 11 4 Dec 22 11 Dec 29 18 Jan 5 25 Jan 12 10 ( TEBETH ) 5 Dec 23 12 Dec 30 19 Jan 6 26 Jan 13 6 Dec 24 13 Dec 31 20 Jan 7 27 Jan 14 7 Dec 25 14 Jan 1 21 Jan 8 28 Jan 15 1 Dec 19 8 Dec 26 15 Jan 2 22 Jan 9 29 Jan 16 4 Jan 21 11 Jan 28 18 Feb 4 25 Feb 11 5 Jan 22 12 Jan 29 19 Feb 5 26 Feb 12 6 Jan 23 13 Jan 30 20 Feb 6 27 Feb 13 7 Jan 24 14 Jan 31 21 Feb 7 28 Feb 14 1 Jan 18 8 Jan 25 15 Feb 1 22 Feb 8 29 Feb 15 2 Jan 19 9 Jan 26 16 Feb 2 23 Feb 9 30 Feb 16 Month 11 3 Jan 20 10 Jan 27 17 Feb 3 24 Feb 10 1 Feb 17 8 Feb 24 15 Mar 3 22 Mar 10 29 Mar 17 2 Feb 18 9 Feb 25 16 Mar 4 23 Mar 11 30 Mar 18 3 Feb 19 10 Feb 26 17 Mar 5 24 Mar 12 31 Mar 19 4 Feb 20 11 Feb 27 18 Mar 6 25 Mar 13 5 Feb 21 12 Feb 28 19 Mar 7 26 Mar 14 6 Feb 22 13 Mar 1 20 Mar 8 27 Mar 15 7 Feb 23 14 Mar 2 21 Mar 9 28 Mar 16 12 ADAR LEAP YEARS In leap years March 1st to March 21st falls one day later after February 29th Genesis 1: 14-19 Day 362 Day 363 Day 364 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 The calendar is annually reset to start again on day 4 of the week Equinox on our day #365 or on our leap year day #366 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Sabbath 2 4 1 3 1 ABIB/NISAN First day starts at sunset after the equinox The significance of Christ and the number eight is the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles: “ the eighth day” ( Leviticus 23: 39 ) (not the first and ‘eighth’ day Sun-day of the Pagan Roman week) Seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles and its following eighth “Last Great Day” reflect the “1st (to 8th) of the Sabbaths” after Passover, and the seven Sabbath count up to Pentecost the following day ! 26 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The insertion of the word “day ” and the way “week” and “Sabbath” are translated in these next verses, displays a deliberate attempt to permanently change the Sabbath Lords Day of Christ's resurrection as Lord of the Sabbath, to Rome’s Pagan Sunday: And when the sabbath was past, (“se’nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths” see Strong’s #4521i.e. After this interval between the Passover High Day Sabbath and the regular weekly Sabbath ) Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, ( see Strong’s #4521 “first of the Sabbaths” singular or plural ! i.e. the 1st Sabbath after which the 7 ×7 day weekly Sabbath count started for the 49 days to the last of the Sabbaths, before the next 50th day of Pentecost. ) they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre ?. Mark 16: 1–3 In the end of the sabbath, ( “se’nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths” see Strong’s #4521i.e. After this interval between the Passover High Day Sabbath and the regular weekly Sabbath ) as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, ( see Strong’s #4521 “first of the Sabbaths” singular or plural ! i.e. the 1st Sabbath after which the 7 ×7 day weekly Sabbath count started for the 49 days to the last of the Sabbaths, before the next 50th day of Pentecost. ) came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. . . And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. Matthew 28: 1, 4 After three 24 hour days, the 18th is the fourth day Resurrection Sabbath Centre of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 27 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Possibly in the year of Christ's crucifixion, but also regularly on other years, weekly Sabbaths overlapped with Roman Sundays: From midnight before sunrise on Sunday, until midnight after sunset is the Roman “first day of the week”. Sunset to sunset on the resurrection day is the Biblical “first of the Sabbaths”: the resurrection day 1st Sabbath, day zero, followed by the 7 Sabbaths and 49 days to Pentecost: day 50 and eighth day of month 3 (1 + 7 = EIGHT Sabbaths) “The first day of the week ( “first of the Sabbaths” ) cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Yahshua loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre, and we know not where they have laid him . . . Then the same day at evening, ( i.e. late in the day - 3pm to sunset, see Strong’s #3798. N.B. There was no day change at either sunrise or midday ! If it were after sunset it would be the next day:- ) being ( still ) the first day of the week, ( “first of the Sabbaths” ) when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Yahshua and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you . . . And after eight days ( If this count is “inclusive” of the first day, then it fell on the 25th of Abib on the “second of the Sabbaths” They most likely gathered at the end of all eight of the Sabbaths up to Pentecost. ) again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Yahshua, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.” John 20: 1, 2, 19, 26 28 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar HOW THEY CHANGED THE “CRUCIFIXION” “PASSOVER” AND “FIRST OF SABBATHS” TO “GOOD FRIDAY” AND “EASTER SUNDAY”. Mid-night to Mid-night Roman Week vs. Sunset to Sunset Biblical Week. Day 3 in tomb High Day Sabbath 15 Abib night day Day 5 of week Day 6 of week 16 Abib night day 17 Abib night day Sabbath sunrise found tomb empty Sabbath night resurrection Matthew 12:40 1st day 72 hours: Matthew 12: 38-40 Genesis 1: 3-13 See page 16 above Risen Lord of the Sabbath Day First of the Sabbaths 18 Abib night day 3 4 5 6 7 1 night day 14 Abib Day 3 Preparation day for the Passover Feast 1st day since these things were done 2nd day since these things were done Sabbath night resurrection Easter Sunday The final thing done: tomb checked, sealed and guard set Saturday Feast of Yahweh's Passover Lamb Good Friday Crucified body placed in tomb at sunset Thursday Arrested Wednesday Last Supper Tu 3rd day since these things were done night day night day night day night day Matthew 27: 62-66 On guard three days and three Luke nights until dawn at Mt. 28: 1-4 See pg.27 above 24:21 15 Abib 16 Abib 17 Abib 18 Abib Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 SABBATH Passover Feast starting 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread Day 2 in tomb Day 3 in tomb Mark 16: 1-14 Events of the resurrection day Temple Wave Sheaf Offering in the morning. Day 2 in tomb Early evening reaping of the Omer 3pm. death day Mark 8:31 Crucifixion 14 Abib night day Day 1 in tomb night 3rd day Last Supper Day 3 of week day 2nd day night 2nd day of Unleavened Bread 2nd night day 1st night night Body placed in tomb at sunset PASSOVER High Day Sabbath 1st day of Unleavened Bread Arrested Preparation day for the Passover Feast Saturday Sunday Monday night day night day night day Day 6 Day 1 SABBATH 17 Abib 18 Abib 19 Abib First of the 3rd day of Reaping of Sabbaths Unleavened before the the Omer Bread seven immediately Week/Sabbath after the Feast First Sabbath of Weeks night day night day night day 3rd night Wednesday Thursday Friday night day night day night day Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 14 Abib 15 Abib 16 Abib Tu Day 1 of week 19 Abib night day Monday 2 After Day Zero First of the Sabbaths: the 1st day of the 7×7 49 day Feast of Weeks to the Last of the Sabbaths night day 19 Abib Day 1 1st day to 50th day of Pentecost - after the Last of the Sabbaths 29 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Because of Genesis 1:14–19 the transcribers of the Dead Sea Scrolls started their calendar on the 4th day of the week, but they also did this for another very good reason. From carefully studying the scriptures and the rules of the Weekly Sabbaths, High Days and First Day of each Month, they had already worked out that aside from the Day of Trumpets which has to be on the First Day of the Seventh Month, the rest of these days cannot overlap each other. In this separate way these days add up to the total of the Biblically symbolic number 70 ! In fact the only way that these days can remain separate from each other, and still add up to 70 is if the 1st. day of Abib actually is the 4th. day of the week: thus confirming this implication in Genesis 1:14–19 ! You can also confirm this for yourself: Look at the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar shown on pages 18 and 19 above. First, what do you see ? What you see is the calendar starting on the 4th day of the week, and that aside from the Day of Trumpets which has to be on the First Day of the Seventh Month, all the other First Day of each Month, all the other High Days and all the weekly Sabbaths remain separate from each other: and add up to 70 ! We know also that Pentecost has to be separate from the weekly Sabbath because it has to fall immediately after a weekly Sabbath. We know too that the 10th. Abib cannot be a weekly Sabbath, because the Passover Lambs are separated from the flocks on this day, which requires the hard work of herding and sorting sheep, and therefore cannot be done on the weekly Sabbath ! (Anyone who thinks herding and sorting silly dumb sheep is easy, obviously hasn’t tried it ! It is almost but not quite as hard, as trying to get blind sheeple to see Yahweh’s calendar writing on the wall ! ) We also know that the 14th. Abib is the day that the Passover lamb is killed, skinned and roasted on a day when work, kindling a fire and cooking is permitted, which therefore excludes the weekly Sabbath. Starting from killing the lamb at three p.m. on the 14th, we know that it very often takes more than three hours to fully prepare a Passover lamb to eating stage. This means that the 15th. Abib Passover Feast, starting about three hours later at sunset, also cannot be a weekly Sabbath when cooking is forbidden, and also all these Passover leftovers must be burnt in the fire ! This is confirmed by the very first 15th. Abib Passover when the Israelites left Rameses on their three day journey to the Red Sea. The very first Passover in Egypt was not yet instituted as a High Day Sabbath, which is why they could start leaving Rameses on that day. However if it was also already a normal Genesis seventh day weekly Sabbath, Yahweh would not have required them to break it for Him before He later again revealed it to them. “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matthew 24: 20). This confirms that the 15th Abib could never have been a weekly Sabbath Day ! 30 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com They were also told to burn the remains of the Passover lamb before midnight, which means that they had a fire that night, whereas we are forbidden to kindle a fire on the weekly Sabbath ! Look again at the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar shown on pages 18 and 19 above. Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week to the 5th. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift one day forwards, with the result that: The 10th. Abib sorting of the Passover Lambs will occur incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The second Passover of the 15th. on the second month is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The First Day of the 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th. months are all incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The Day of Atonement on the 10th. day of the 7th. month is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. Some of the First Days of the months, the High Days and the weekly Sabbaths overlap each other and consequently don't add up to the symbolical Biblical number 70 ! Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week to the 6th. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift two days forwards, with the result that: Killing, preparing and cooking the second Passover on the 14th. of the second month (Num. 9:3,9–12) is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath when all work, kindling a fire, cooking and burning a Passover remains is forbidden. Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week to the 7th. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift three days forwards, with the result that: The First Day of the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th. months are all incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The first Passover of the 15th. on the first month is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. The 8th. “Last Great Day” of the Feast of Tabernacles is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. Some of the First Days of the months, the High Days and the weekly Sabbaths overlap each other and consequently don't add up to the symbolical Biblical number 70 ! Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week back to the 3rd. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift one day backwards, with the result that: The First Day of the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th. months are all incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath. Pentecost (correctly calculated from the 19th Abib), incorrectly falls on the weekly Sabbath. Some of the First Days of the months, the High Days and the weekly Sabbaths overlap each other and consequently don't add up to the symbolical Biblical number 70 ! 31 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week back to the 2nd. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift two days backwards, with the result that: The seventh Day of Unleavened Bread falls immediately after the weekly Sabbath in the feast, and therefore prevents the Omer commencing the Pentecost count with the reaping of the corn: because no servile work may be done on this seventh day of the feast. There is thus no weekly Sabbath in the Feast of Unleavened Bread after which to reap the Omer on a working day and start the count to Pentecost, because Pentecost has to immediately follow a weekly Sabbath ! Now: Shift the 1st. Abib from the 4th. day of the week back to the 1st. day of the week. Every day therefore has to shift three days backwards, with the result that: Killing, preparing and cooking the first Passover on the 14th. of the first month is incorrectly on the weekly Sabbath when all work, kindling a fire, cooking and burning food is forbidden. The seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread allowing cooking and non-servile work, falls on the weekly Sabbath when these are forbidden. A High Day and a weekly Sabbath overlap each other and consequently the First Days of the months, the High Days and the weekly Sabbaths don't add up to the symbolical Biblical number 70 ! So you can see that only by starting the year on the 4th day of the week, in accordance with Genesis 1:14–19, are all these problems avoided, allowing the calendar to work correctly ! The first three days of creation are actually implicit in starting the calendar on the 4th day of the week: because the 1st Abib is only the 4th day of the week – not the 1st day of the week ! The time of Christ was very much like our times today: Many Israelites in Palestine were expecting the imminent arrival of the Messiah in their own lifetimes, and this is evident from many New Testament verses. They were proven correct in their anticipation. What was it that correctly gave them such expectations ? I believe it was their scriptural and historical knowledge, with the accurate understanding and practice of Yahweh’s calendar ! This is also why that knowledge and understanding has since been so effectively erased from history by Esau, until the recent discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and their painful re-emergence today ! So what did they see in Yahweh’s Biblical calendar that showed them that they were living in the time of the Messiah ? We may not be permitted to know either the day or the hour, but what is it in His calendar that will show us today whether we can expect His 2nd advent in any year, month or week of our lifetimes ? 32 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE SABBATH IS PART OF THE WEEK. “Week” actually means period of sevens: Seven days Seven years or Seven periods of Sevens i.e. 7 x 7 days, 7 x 7 weeks, or 7 x 7 years etc. The daily week consists of six working days and one non-working Sabbath rest day. Each period of Seven days has this Sabbath day. This daily period of sevens does not necessarily have to be a calendar week/period. e.g. it can consist of three days or periods before the Sabbath period, followed by three days or periods after the Sabbath period, thus still giving a total of seven periods of time. Remember that important point ! Remember 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalms 90:4 indicating that: A thousand years is as one day to Yahweh ! The first week in the Bible was the Genesis creation week. Light was created on the first day (Genesis 1: 3–5) The first three days of creation week on Earth – were in total darkness. Light on Earth only appeared during the fourth day of that week (Genesis 1: 14–19). The fourth day on Earth – started in darkness and ended in light. Adamic Man was actually created in the sixth day of that previous week. On the seventh day of that week Yahweh rested from work. We are near the end of the sixth day of this next week. Adam therefore was created between seven and eight thousand years ago. Christ spent three full days and three full nights in the dark tomb. After the confirmation sign of Jonah and Resurrection, the Christian era started. Christ intends to rule and reign on Earth for a thousand years. After Christ's 1000 year reign there will be the second resurrection. After all is done and fulfilled there will be the “Last Great Day”. Remember: 6 High Days + 12 Monthly First Days + 52 Weekly Sabbaths = 70 ! The first day of the calendar, starts with the fourth day of the week: as with the first night and day cycle on the fourth day of creation. Correctly counted as only one 24 hour day, the First Day of the Seventh Month is also the Day of Trumpets High Day Sabbath. All together they add up to the total of 70 ! 33 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar THE DEAD SEA SCROLL’S SOLAR CALENDAR Corrected to the Sadducee Temple Pentecost Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. (Isaiah 48:16) ... I am the light of the world . . . Creation week - equivalent to 7 thousand years, 7 of 8 day Feast of Tabernacles, 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the 7 x 7 Feast of Weeks. (John 8:12) 1st Abib to Pentecost (showing Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles) 1 High Day 2 3 4 Sabbath 5 6 7 8 9 10th Day of Atonement 11 Sabbath 12 13 14 15th 1st day/1st 1000yrs 16th 2nd day/2nd 1000yrs 17th 3rd day/3rd 1000yrs 18th 4th day/4th 1000yrs 19th 5th day/5th 1000yrs 20th 6th day/6th 1000yrs 21st 7th day/7th 1000yrs 22nd 8th Last Great Day (showing Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Weeks) High Day the Light of the World. The weekly Sabbaths demarcate the end of each thousand years: Therefore each 1000 yrs, starts on the 19th Abib Omer ! The High Days are probably also significant periods or events in this Feast of Weeks Timeline. FEAST OF WEEKS TIMELINE 1st 1000 yrs 2nd 1000 yrs 3rd 1000 yrs The seven weeks of the Feast of Weeks, are the one thousand years each after Genesis 2:1–3, starting this millennial week. The first 3000 yrs. were before Christ – 1 2 3 4 Sabbath 5 6 7 8 9 10th Passover Lamb selected - on a donkey 11th Sabbath Cast out moneychangers 12th 11th - 13th Christ taught in the Temple 13th “most Holy” anointed in Bethany 14th Last Supper, Trial & Dan 9:26 cut off 15th Passover High Day 3 full nights & 16th 3 full days: “sign of Jonas” th 17 in the dark tomb th 18 Sabbath Day Resurrection 19th 1st week Omer of Christ 20th 1st week 21st 1st week High Day 22 1st week 23 1st week 24 1st week 25 1st week 2nd Sabbath 26 2nd week 27 2nd week 28 2nd week 29 2nd week 30 2nd week 1 2nd week High Day 2 2nd week 3rd Sabbath 3 3rd week 4 3rd week 5 3rd week 6 3rd week 7 3rd week 8 3rd week 9 3rd week 4th Sabbath Starting after Genesis 2:1-3 1st day 2nd day 3rd day 4th day 5th day 6th day 7th day 1st to 22nd of 7th month 34 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar 4th 1000 yrs 3rd day of Hosea 6: 1–3 FEAST OF WEEKS TIMELINE 5th 1000 yrs 6th 1000 yrs 7th 1000 yrs 2nd day of Hosea 6: 1–3 7 x 7 + 1 = 50 Equivalent to the “Last Great Day” of the Feast of Tabernacles: 1st day of Hosea 6: 1–3 4 week 4th week 4th week 4th week 4th week 4th week 4th week 5th Sabbath 5th week 5th week 5th week 5th week 5th week 5th week 5th week 6th Sabbath 6th week 6th week 6th week 6th week 6th week 6th week 6th week 7th Sabbath 7th week High Day 7th week 7th week 7th week 7th week 7th week 7th week 8th Sabbath Ending on Christ's resurrection day 10 11 12 13 14 15 “Lord even of the Sabbath day” 16 17 Starting not from Christ's birth, 18 but from the Omer the day after 19 20 Christ's Sabbath resurrection: 21 The Omer of Christ starts the 22 1st 1000 yrs of the Christian era. 23 nd The 2 1000 yrs of the Christian era. 24 25 We are therefore still in the 20th 26 century that ends with: 27 “the great and dreadful day of 28 Yahweh” 29 and Christ’s 2nd advent ! 30 1 Counting from Christ's resurrection as 2 “day zero”, the day after His 2nd advent 3 starts the 21st century 4 5 millennial reign 6 of Christ on Earth. 7 Christ appeared at the end of the 4th week/4000 yrs: “Light of the World”. The date of His birth and crucifixion can be known: after three nights and three days He rose from the dead glorified as th 8th day of the third month Pentecost Feast of First Fruits The 8th Day ! Culminating in the 8th “Last Great Day” and Pentecost 8th day of the 3rd month. John 7: 37–38 and Revelation 22: 1–5 Now, and only now, will every day be a Sabbath ! The 4th day of creation and the 4th day of The Feast of Tabernacles and the 4th day of The Feast of Unleavened Bread centralises Light upon the Earth / Light of the World: 35 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Light was given upon the Earth completing the 4th day of creation. Christ / Light was born near the end of the 4th thousand years after Genesis 2:1-3. The count of the Feast of Weeks, starts during the Feast of Unleavened Bread: with the Omer after the 4th day Sabbath resurrection in the midst of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: Christ is the Unleavened Bread of Life ! Christ is also “Lord even of the Sabbath Day” (Matthew 12:8) “Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.” (Mark 2:28) Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me. (Isaiah 48:16) 36 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar “. . . I am the light of the world . . .” (John 8:12) And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14–19) The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; ( occupied by the Pagan Romans ! ) The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. From that time Yahshua began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. (Matthew 4: 15–17) 37 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The count from the Omer on the 19th Abib to Pentecost, or the Feast of First Fruits, displays Yahweh’s timeline enough to show that we are currently in the last day of the 6th week/1000 years since Genesis 2:1–3. We are not permitted to know the day or the hour: “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” (Matthew 24: 36) “Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.” (Matthew 24: 42) However this timeline does allow us to establish the 2nd Advent to the year, month and possibly even to the week when used with the calendars 12 month/12 thousand year timeline ! Can we historically pinpoint both the birth and crucifixion of Christ ? If so many astronomical computer programs will affirm the Abib equinox sunset starting the Biblical year of Christ’s death. His burial was three full nights and three full days before His resurrection starting the weekly Sabbath ! The very next day is the Omer, starting the Feast Of Weeks count which, with the 12 month/12000 year timeline, we can determine our current year and even day in His plan/timeline for man/Adam ! The Feast of Weeks Timeline. The first three weeks of the Feast of Weeks: Represent the first three thousand years from after Genesis 2:1–3. Corresponds to the first three days of creation without “light upon the Earth”. Corresponds to the first three days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Tabernacles, each day of which represent a thousand years each of this timeline from after Genesis 2:1–3. The fourth week of the Feast of Weeks: The fourth day of creation started with darkness upon Earth, and ended with “give light upon the earth”. 38 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Corresponds to the fourth day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Tabernacles, each day of which represent a thousand years each of this timeline from after Genesis 2:1–3. The fourth thousand years from after Genesis 2:1–3, continued from before Christ and light/Christ was only born on Earth near the very end of this 4th week/thousand years. The Sabbath day resurrection was the last day of this thousand years, indicating the demarcation day of each thousand year period - working backwards and forewords from this point. i.e. each thousand years starts with the 19th Abib Omer and ends with the 18 Abib weekly Sabbath of the resurrection ! The fifth week of the Feast of Weeks: Corresponds to the fifth day of creation. Corresponds to the fifth day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Tabernacles, each day of which represent a thousand years each of this timeline from after Genesis 2:1–3. Starts with the first 1000 years of the Christian era, immediately after His Sabbath day resurrection - on the Omer day with the Omer of Christ Himself ! The sixth week of the Feast of Weeks: Corresponds to the sixth day of creation. Corresponds to the sixth day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Tabernacles, each day of which represent a thousand years each of this timeline from after Genesis 2:1–3. Starts with the second 1000 years of the Christian era, continuing up to the time we find ourselves in today. This “sixth week / thousand years” ends on the weekly Sabbath of the 18th Abib - 2000 years after the resurrection of Christ on the same 18th Abib weekly Sabbath ! Based on the information around this timeline, we can expect the 2nd Advent of Christ any hour in the last seven days of this 2nd thousand year period ! Combined with the 12 month/12000 year timeline, this last week can therefore be precisely pinpointed based on the birth, crucifixion, resurrection and Omer of Christ ! The last seventh week of the Feast of Weeks: Corresponds to the seventh day of creation. Corresponds to the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of Tabernacles, each day of which represent a thousand years each of this timeline from after Genesis 2:1–3. Corresponds to the 1000 year reign of Christ on earth ! The days, weeks, Sabbaths, months, Passover and Feast of Tabernacles etc. will still be kept in this period according to this calendar ! 39 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The Feast of First Fruits/Pentecost, after the 7 x 7 day count of the Feast of Weeks, is the next and 50th day: After the last seventh Sabbath of the count that falls on the seventh of Sivan. Including the resurrection day “first of the Sabbaths” immediately preceding the Feast of Weeks count, it then equals eight Sabbaths in total. Pentecost corresponds to the eighth “Last Great Day” of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is the day after the eighth weekly Sabbath from the crucifixion, and falls on the eighth day of the third month ! i.e. If “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years” (2 Peter 3: 8; Psalms 90:4) and if: In the seven day Creation week, one day is symbolic of 1000 years. In the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread, one day is symbolic of 1000 years. In the eight day Feast of Tabernacles, one day is symbolic of 1000 years. Weeks in the Feast of Weeks, are symbolic of 1000 years. 1000 divided by 7 = 142.857 years. Each of the 12 months are symbolic of 1000 years. 1000 divided by 30 days = 33.33 years. Then the Christian era actually only started the day after the Sabbath day resurrection of Christ, on the day of the Omer: with the Omer of Christ Himself ! We are consequently only now near the end of the sixth thousand years after Genesis 2:1–3 – and only now approaching the very end of the 2nd thousand years of the Christian era ! This is why so many Christians were so disappointed after the failure of the second advent around the year 2000, because on our false Roman calendar we start the Christian era about 33 years too early: with the approximate birth of Christ not the - exact Omer of Christ ! ( the day after His Sabbath day resurrection that ended the fourth thousand year/day since Genesis 2:1–3 ! ) Christ was about 30 years old when He started His ministry. (Luke 3:23) He attended two Passovers after this and died on the third Passover as our Passover Lamb. Christ was born near the end of the 4th millennium since after Genesis 2:1–3. Light “upon the earth” ended the 4th day of creation in Genesis. (Genesis 1: 14–19) This lifespan of Christ, Light of the World, ended the 4th millennium month after Genesis 2:1–3. The 4th month has 30 days and the 4th millennium divided by 30 days = 33.33 years. 33.33 years = 33 years and 4 months. If Christ died at 32 years and 7 months, His birthday was about the 14th of the 6th month (±1st Sept.) A ±270 day term means Mary conceived (Luke 1:26–56) about the 14th of the 9th month (±1st Dec.) i.e. From Christ's conception to His death was ±33.33 years = ±33 years and 4 months ! 40 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar On the other hand: If Christ was actually conceived on Christmas Day, which according to the Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch Solar Calendar, is the 7th day of Enoch’s 10th month, then Christ could quite conceivably have been born after precisely 9 months 10 days after The Day of Trumpets proclaiming the arrival of our King: th on the 10 day of the 7th month, thus confirming Christ as our atoning sacrificial Lamb: placed in a small manger used to feed sheep, on the very Day of Atonement ! Counting exclusively on this Dead Sea Scrolls Solar Calendar Christ would have been circumcised on the 8th day (Luke 1:59-60, 2:21) which is the 7th day Sabbath (John 7:21-23) on the 4th day of The Feast of Tabernacles ! Is this why there was no room at the Inn ? Didn’t Christ come to Tabernacle amongst us ? ♫♪ ♪♫ Twelve Days of Christmas With this birth of Christ on The Day of Atonement, and counting exclusively again: 12 days after Christ’s birth is The Last Great Day of the 8 day Feast of Tabernacles ! 12 disciples + Christ = 13 41 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Calculating again but this time inclusively: 12 days from this birth of Christ on The Day of Atonement, is the 7th day of The Feast of Tabernacles, and the next 13th day is The Last Great Day of the 8 day Feast of Tabernacles ! The Feast of Tabernacles verifies Christ’s union with this number EIGHT. Christ was born of the anointed royal lineage of David (Isaiah 11: 1) David was the last EIGHTH son of Jesse (1 Samuel 16: 6–13) The Feast of Tabernacles totals eight days, and its eighth day is The Last Great Day: In the last day, that great day of the feast, Yahshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, 42 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water (John 7: 37–38) Remember that this Atoning Sacrificial Lamb in a manger: 32 years and 6 months later, on the 10th day of the 1st month, rode down into Jerusalem on a donkey: the very same day that the Passover lambs were being separated ! Four days later He was crucified / “ cut off ” as our Atoning Sacrificial Passover Lamb on the afternoon of the 14th day of the 1st month ! On this Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch Solar Calendar: through a Christmas Day conception and Day of Atonement birth, to the Passover death, Christ’s life, from His conception in the womb to His death in the tomb, equals 33 years and 3 months. Christ came to set us free from bondage and death as our Passover Lamb. Was the year of either His conception, His birth, His baptism or His death: a Jubilee year ? TEN is the Biblical sum of completion. In the 1st month The Passion of Christ revolves around The Passover Festival. 43 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Mirrored in the 7th month of the duplicate second half of the year, why wouldn’t The Nativity of Christ orbit around the other Biblical Festival: The Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles ? I.e. On The Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch Solar Calendar, with a 20th of March Vernal Equinox: the 7th day of the 10th month falls on a 25th December incarnation ! With a birth exactly 9 months later, we get to The Day of Atonement on the 10th day of the 7th month ! Moving forwards another 32 years and 6 months, we get to th the 10 day of the 1st month when the Passover lambs were selected as Christ rode down the Mount of Olives on a donkey ! i.e. 32 years and 6 months plus the 9 month gestation, equals 33 years 3 months: 3 3 3 TEN is the Biblical sum of completion: 10 plagues, 10 major bodies in our solar system etc. The average woman’s pregnancy is 9 months = 270 days & 2+7+0= 9 A birth the following day completes the baby in 271 days & 2+7+1= 10 starting month number 10 44 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Come, and let us return unto Yahweh: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days ( after 2000 years ) will he revive us: ( resurrect us ) in the third day ( starting 3000 years ) he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then ( only if we keep His Word ) shall we know, if we follow on to know Yahweh: his going forth is prepared as the morning; ( from out of Sinai in the east He will return to us in the west ) and he shall come unto us as the rain, ( the 3rd thousand year millennium reign ) as the latter and former rain unto the earth. (Hosea 6:1–3) The timeline in the Feast of Weeks, starts in the Feast of Unleavened Bread with the Omer of Christ Himself - the day after the resurrection Sabbath. Each week of the 7 x 7 day count also represents 1000 years since Genesis 2:1–3 ! The resurrection of Christ ended the fourth week/1000 years of the Feast of Weeks. Christ's Omer started the Christian era beginning the fifth week/1000 years of the Feast of Weeks. The sixth week/1000 years of the Feast of Weeks started the second 1000 years of the Christian era. We are now still at the very end of the last day of this sixth week/1000 years of the Feast of Weeks ! The seventh week / 1000 years of the Feast of Weeks, is the millennial reign of Christ on Earth ! 45 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Unfortunately for many it is preceded by the “great and dreadful day of Yahweh” ! After the millennial reign of Christ on Earth the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles – the “Last Great Day” corresponding to the 50th day of the 7 x 7 day count Feast of Weeks: Pentecost or the Feast of First Fruits ! THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. We can eat but we cannot cook/work on the weekly Sabbath. Why is the Day of Atonement a High Day Sabbath but is also without any cooking like the weekly Sabbath ? It is because we have to fast on this day and so afflict our souls (Leviticus 23:23–32). Why ? The second half of the year almost mirrors the first half of the year. It is interesting to note that the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month before the Feast of Tabernacles, corresponds to the same day that the Passover lamb is separated on the tenth day of the first month before the Feast of Unleavened Bread ! This is why we must afflict our souls by fasting on the Day of Atonement ! It is now actually in recognition of the atoning sacrifice that Christ determined to give us when “six days before the Passover” He arrived in Bethany on the 9th Abib (John 12: 1–15). There “where Lazarus was” Christ had supper after sunset starting the 10th. On a lowly donkey the next day, still the 10th Abib, thousands with palm fronds hailed Christ as “Hosanna” of Israel ( Greek hoshia-na, of Hebrew nâ‛ yâsha‛, naw yaw-shah′ = Oh save ( savior ) ) : “Yahshua” finally entered Jerusalem, walked into the Temple and looked all around, before leaving at sunset (“eventide/even” between two successive days). i.e. Acclaimed by thousands at Jerusalem, the Passover Sacrificial Lamb had willingly separated and presented Himself in the Temple: on the 10th day of Abib ! (Mark 11: 1–11, Exodus 12:3–11) It is also interesting to note that the 50 year Jubilee is announced on the Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month before the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 25: 9), corresponding to the same day that the Passover lamb is separated on the tenth day of the first month before the Feast of Unleavened Bread ! 46 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Christ’s body was hurriedly laid in the tomb at eventide/even/sunset - four days later ! Abstaining from work and food on the Day of Atonement is the least we can do in appreciation of Christ's atoning sacrifice for us ! In fact if we don't show this appreciation for Christ's sacrifice, His Father says: “For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.” (Leviticus 23:29–30) This connection between the Day of Atonement and the Passover was recognised at the time of Christ. They had a “custom” of releasing a prisoner at the Passover, in parallel with the instructions of the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16: to choose two goats for an atoning sin offering. One was sacrificed and the other was chased into the wilderness: Pilate saith unto him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again unto the Jews, and saith unto them, I find in him no fault at all. ( Pilate spoke the truth ! ) But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? John 18: 37–39 Only by taking all the relevant Biblical quotes, into one compatible rationalisation, can we get to the truth ! 47 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Yahweh started implementing His calendar before there was a physical stone and mortar Temple in Jerusalem ! He started implementing His calendar before there was a woven Tabernacle in the wilderness ! Yahweh actually started implementing His calendar even before the Israelites had left Egypt, when He gave them the instructions for the very first Passover in Rameses ! So Yahweh’s calendar was not a “Temple Calendar” as such, although I have chosen to call it that and title this description of it as that. However the dimensions of the Tabernacle and the Temple were modelled upon a heavenly Temple ! In accordance with prophesy, the Second Jerusalem Temple was totally destroyed. There was also no Jerusalem Temple when Ezra returned from Babylon. The Babylonians had completely destroyed the First Temple that Solomon had built ! Ezra 3: 4–6 shows that Ezra proposed rebuilding the Temple, yet before its foundations were even excavated Ezra reinstated Yahweh's calendar: The “foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid” yet they kept all the High Days “as the duty of every day required”. Unlike with the weekly Sabbath, they kindled a fire on these days without a Temple, for sacrifices and “all of the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated”. This was possible because even without a Temple with Yahweh’s name in it, Yahweh had still already placed His name in Jerusalem as well as in the Temple (see 2 Kings 21: 7; 1 Kings 11: 36; 2 Chronicles 33: 7). i.e. Yahweh’s name was still in Jerusalem even without the Temple, as borne out by Ezra’s actions ! (Miraculously, although without a Temple, there would remain always a descendant of David in Jerusalem – yet without a throne which other descendants of David elsewhere would inherit. Even today, Yahweh knows who David’s descendants in Jerusalem are ! ) Yet after the crucifixion and by the time of the second Jerusalem Temples destruction, Yahweh had already started placing HIS NAME in the Temple of our bodies, in our foreheads: This is the new “place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, the mount Zion” N.B. See Revelation 22:4–5 ! WE are the “new Jerusalem” under continual construction ever since ! We are replacing the second Temple prophetically destroyed after the Pharisee zealots polluted it with mass murder and their Babylonian lunar calendar in 68AD. So it is incorrect to say that there is no Temple and Temple calendar, because the Passover can now still be kept by every Christian Israelite everywhere, according to this calendar as Yahweh instructed - and in every place: where He puts His name ! 48 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Some argue very well that every day is a Sabbath ! Actually I also agree with that argument, but that will only be in over a thousand years time - after Christ's 1000 year millennial reign in accordance with Yahweh’s “70 Holy Day Temple Calendar” here on Earth ! “Every day a Sabbath” is prophetically eventually only in the “Last Great Day” of The Feast of Tabernacles: equivalent to Pentecost/Feast of First Fruits in the Feast of Weeks Timeline: it is only after the 1000 years of Christ's reign on Earth – only then will every day be a Sabbath ! Until then we are expected to keep Yahweh’s calendar as laid out in the Bible and explained here in “Israel’s 70 Holy Day Temple Calendar” ! The calendar used to also make my head spin, but that is only because of all the lies, misinformation, red herrings etc. causing all the confusion. We shouldn’t have to first debunk all this extraneous misleading information to finally get to the truth. Esau has done a ‘good job’ over the centuries, but Yahweh works in mysterious ways ! This Biblical solar calendar is actually really quite simple in summary: 1. The year is made up of only twelve months. 2. Each quarter is made up of three months of 30 days, 30 days and 31 days respectively. 3. The first day of the year, the 1st Abib, starts at sunset ending the March spring equinox. 4. This first day of the year is on the fourth day of the week, since the first discernable night and day cycle and the heavenly lights, the basis of any calendar, were created on the fourth day (Gen. 1:1419). (The first three days of creation are implicit in starting the calendar on the 4th day of the week, because the 1st Abib is only the 4th day of the week – not the 1st day of the week ! ) 5. Except for the Day of Trumpets which is also The First Day of the Seventh Month, the High Day Sabbaths, Weekly Sabbaths and First Days of the Month, have different rules (Leviticus 23: 3 and Leviticus 23: 38), separating them to add up to 70. 6. These days can only effectively remain separate like this and add up to seventy if the first day of the year is in fact on the fourth day of the week. 7. After 3 full days and 3 full nights in the tomb, Christ rose from the dead at sunset starting the weekly Sabbath. The tomb was only revealed empty when opened in the morning at sunrise. The Omer starting the Feast of Weeks count to Pentecost/Feasts of First Fruits, took place the next day after this weekly Sabbath: with the Omer of Christ Himself ! This is the correct pattern to start the count to Pentecost ! 8. The Feasts of the second half of the year almost mirror the Feasts of the first half of the year. This completes Enoch’s 364 day year. On our longer elliptical orbit we have the spring equinox on the extra 365th day or 366th day in a leap year, intercalated at the end of the year. 49 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Most of this Sabbath day information can be confirmed and gleaned from this website: “Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered. The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents Withheld for Over 35 Years. by Robert Eisenman and Michael Wise 1992: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sc...d.htm#Contents ” and in particular it’s interesting “Chapter 4 - Calendrical Texts and Priestly Courses http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sc...iestly_Courses ” Personally I don't believe that the transcribers of the Dead Sea Scrolls were Christian as such because of the way that they placed the Omer, and all except one scroll predate Christ. From the Christian perspective, according to this undisputed yet downplayed/suppressed Dead Sea Scrolls calendar, after three full nights and three full days in the tomb, Christ’s resurrection could only have taken place at the start of the weekly Sabbath within the Feast of Unleavened Bread. This is the only way that the resurrection can occur on the “first of the Sabbaths” (see page 27 and 28 above) after the Passover – immediately preceding the 7 x 7 day count to the last of the Sabbaths, which immediately precedes the Feast of First Fruits/Pentecost: This last 7th weekly Sabbath in the count, falls on the 7th of the third month, and the following day of Pentecost falls on the 8th day of the third month, after a total of Eight Sabbaths when counting the Sabbath day resurrection on day zero immediately preceding the Omer of Christ Himself ! This is the divine stamp of approval on this method of the Feast of Weeks count ! 50 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar “ Whoever controls the calendar, controls the people.” This is true only while the true Biblical calendar remains concealed. The calendar has been an ongoing contentious issue, especially in recent times. This debate will be resolved, and the correct calendar finally restored: Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Daniel 7: 23–27 Determining Wave Sheaf Day and Weekly Sabbaths in Abib by the Process of Elimination: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 If separating the Passover lamb on the 10th Abib cannot be done on the weekly Sabbath, then the 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th Abib on any calendar also cannot be a weekly Sabbath. (Cross them off above) If the Passover preparation day on the 14th Abib cannot be on a weekly Sabbath, then the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th Abib on any calendar also cannot be a weekly Sabbath. (Cross them off as you go . . .) If roasting a lamb into the evening of the Passover feast on the 15th Abib and burning its remains, cannot be a weekly Sabbath, then the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th Abib on any calendar also cannot be a weekly Sabbath. ( This rules out the lunar based calendar ! ) On the first and also seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread “ . . . no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every 51 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com man must eat, that only may be done of you . . . ” ( Exodus 12:16 ), thus allowing the continued roasting of the Passover lamb after sunset. If reaping the Omer ( Wave Sheaf Day ) has to occur after the weekly Sabbath within the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread, this leaves only four days in the Feast to place it, and one is its Sabbath: There are only the weekly Sabbaths in the third month for Pentecost to follow after, so the Pentecost count and reaping of the Omer has to start after a weekly Sabbath as well ! The 15th, 17th and 21st Abib within the Feast of Unleavened Bread are already eliminated as weekly Sabbaths. Therefore the 16th and 18th within the Feast of Unleavened Bread cannot be “the day after the Sabbath” to reap the Omer. That only leaves the 17th, 19th or 20th to reap the Omer within the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The 21st Abib is also the last and seventh day of unleavened bread when only “no servile work” may be done. This applies to the Omer start of the grain harvest. This means that the 20th cannot be the weekly Sabbath and therefore the 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th Abib on any calendar also cannot be a weekly Sabbath. This means that either the 16th, 18th or 19th is the weekly Sabbath. If the 16th is the weekly Sabbath immediately after the High Day Sabbath of the Passover, then the “se’nnight, i.e. the interval between two Sabbaths” (see Strong’s #4521), is zero. Therefore the 16th cannot be a weekly Sabbath and is actually a part of this “sabbath”/“se’nnight” / interval referred to in Mark 16:1 and Matthew 28:1 (see page 27 above). If the 19th is the weekly Sabbath, then the “se’nnight”/interval between the 15th and 19th is three full days. With the 15th High Day this equals four full days and therefore exceeds the “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”/ “sign of Jonah” by a full 24 hours. Therefore the 19th is not the weekly Sabbath. If the 18th is the weekly Sabbath, then the “se’nnight”/interval between the 15th and 18th is two full days. With the 15th Passover High Day this equals the “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”/ “sign of Jonah” exactly. Therefore the 18th Abib is the weekly Sabbath following which the Omer is reaped on the 19th ! “After” the third day, this 18th is the 4th day resurrection centre of The Feast of Unleavened Bread: For the whole year every 7th day before and after is a Sabbath ! Logically, if the 14th Abib is a working “preparation day” throughout which the Passover lamb is killed and prepared with everything else required, then the 1st of Abib can never ever be the first day of the Biblical week: because the 14th Abib would then be a resting weekly Sabbath in which one couldn’t prepare for the Passover ! So if the 18th is a weekly Sabbath, then the 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th are the weekly Sabbaths in Abib and agrees with the DSS’s starting the first day of the year, on the fourth day of the week ! With the first building of the Tabernacle and the building of the Temple both commencing on the first day of the year, the 1st of Abib affirms all monthly first days as Monthly High Day Sabbaths. The 1st of Abib was never and is not now a weekly Sabbath: After their exodus from Egypt through the Red Sea and into their wanderings in the wilderness under Moses, the Israelites travelled or rested according to the cloud and fire over the tabernacle: 52 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com “Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys: But if the cloud were not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of Yahweh was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.” (Exodus 40: 34–38) On the weekly seventh day Sabbath none of them were permitted to wander off from the camp: “See, for that Yahweh hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” (Exodus 16:29) In other words for however long the cloud was over the tabernacle they did not journey on, and while still in the wilderness they did not even leave the camp on the weekly Sabbath day. “And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony. And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.” (Numbers 10:11–12) This means that this “twentieth day of the second month” was not a weekly Sabbath. It follows then that throughout the year every seventh day before and after it is also not a weekly Sabbath ! So on any calendar if any of these days are a weekly Sabbath, that calendar is incorrect ! If Abib has thirty days then this is confirmation that Abib 1 and Abib 15 are High Days but not weekly Sabbath days ! (see Leviticus 23: 37–38 and pages 21, 47 and 48 above). Ezra had a three month examination and enquiry into every man that had taken strange wives: “And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.” (Ezra 10:16–17) This business ended before the first day of the year, but started “in the first day of the tenth month” which could not have been a weekly Sabbath. It follows then that throughout the year every seventh day before and after it is also not a weekly Sabbath ! ( This again disproves all the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th day lunar ‘sabbaths’ of all twelve months of the year ! ) So on any calendar if any of all these days are a weekly Sabbath, that calendar is incorrect ! Any solar calendar with the same number of days in the months as Enoch’s calendar has to also agree with this. On the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar both these days, and every seventh day before and after them throughout the year, are not a weekly Sabbath and are all in fact the fourth day of the week: therefore the 1st, 15th and 22nd of the seventh month are High days, but are not weekly Sabbath days ! (see Leviticus 23: 37–38 and pages 21, 47 and 48 above). 53 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com When both a solar and a lunar calendar starts Abib with a weekly Sabbath, the “se’nnight”/interval between the 15th High Day Sabbath and the following weekly Sabbath is six days, and so the 15th to the resurrection greatly exceeds the “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth”/ “sign of Jonah” ! (see page 27 above). Also as Leviticus 23: 37–38 shows, kindling a fire and cooking into a 15th Abib Passover feast on a weekly Sabbath is forbidden. Passover is “beside” the weekly Sabbath ! Cutting the Omer is the first reaping beginning the grain harvest and “ on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” ( Leviticus 23: 11 ) If however, reaping the Omer falls after the weekly Sabbath following the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then applying the same logic again leaves four days in this week unaccounted for: They are the 23rd, 25th, 26th, and 27th. One of these days has to be a Sabbath, and the Omer has to be waved the following day. The Omer also can only be waved on the 24th, 26th, or 27th, because the 24th is a non-Sabbath work day and the 25th therefore cannot be the wave sheaf day. There is no way of pinpointing whether it is waved on the 24th, 26th, or 27th, unless we agree with the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar starting the year on the fourth day of the week, as indicated by Genesis 1:14–19. In this case the weekly Sabbaths of Abib are still the 4th, 11th, 18th and 25th, and therefore this Omer is waved on the 26th, the day after the last Sabbath. The Dead Sea Scrolls calendar held to this “Quasi-Aristocratic” view of holding the Omer: the Sabbath referred to is the weekly Sabbath and their Omer wave offering occurs on the first day of the week following the weekly Sabbath after the seven days of unleavened bread, i.e. the 26th Abib. The uncorrected solar calendar of the Dead Sea Scrolls shows it this way, but it is not the way the Temple Sadducees practiced it. They followed the older “Aristocratic” view of holding the Omer: the Sabbath referred to is the weekly Sabbath and the Omer wave offering occurs on the first day of the week after the 15th Abib and falling within the seven days of unleavened bread. As shown above the Temple Sadducees started the Pentecost count with the Omer/Wave Sheaf on the 19th Abib, i.e. after the 18th Abib weekly Sabbath within The Feast of Unleavened Bread. The “Hasidic” view held that the Sabbath referred to is the High Day Passover of the 15th Abib and their Omer wave sheaf therefore always falls on the 16th Abib no matter what day of the week it is. They use Joshua 5:10–11 to justify this: “And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept ( i.e. killed ) the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho ( and they ate the roasted Passover after sunset beginning the 15th ). And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover ( i.e. the 16th ), unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day ( the 16th ).” Yet it is clear that they ate of the stored old corn and did not harvest the new grain on the 16th Abib: i.e. the 16th is actually not the Omer day ! The fourth “Quasi-Hasidic” view, held that the Sabbath referred to is the High Day festival, occurring on the last of the seven days of unleavened bread on Abib 21. In this view the Omer wave sheaf therefore always falls on the 22nd Abib. Christ Himself however, did not contest the Sadducees “Aristocratic” calendar practices for all of the weekly Sabbaths, Omer wave sheaf, and Festivals – and He attended them according to the Temple calendar of the Sadducees themselves ! Early Christian assemblies also followed this “Aristocratic” system. The Pharisees could not force the conservative Temple Sadducees to submit to their “Hasidic” view unless they first obtained control of the Temple. In 67AD the extremist Pharisee Hasidic Zealots took control of Jerusalem in their revolt against Rome. Soon afterwards an insurrection against them was organized by the Sadducee Temple priesthood. With the arrival of 20000 proselyte Edomites of Judaea rushing to assist the Zealots, the senior high priest, many of the Aristocratic families and hundreds of Jerusalem’s inhabitants were massacred. Having already made the Temple their fortress 54 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar and now seizing control of the priesthood, the Zealots appointed their own high priest. After Passover in 68AD they had their first victorious Pharisee-style Omer in the Temple on the 16th Abib. Their high priest was the last to serve in the Temple before its Roman destruction in 70AD. With the destruction of the Temple the Sadducee re-claim to power was totally destroyed leaving the proselyte Edomite Pharisees free to continue enforcing their own “Hasidic” view through the Synagogues. N.B. see page 2 and 3 of “My Curse” The Trumpet is sounded on the First Day of every Month, and therefore The Day of Trumpets is actually on The First Day of the Seventh Month ! This is the only ‘overlap’ as such, and is logically counted as only one 24 hour day. It is not two different days ! For those using the solar Maccabean/Enoch/Dead Sea Scrolls calendar months, but erroneously starting their year on the weekly Sabbath, some of their other High Days, ‘weekly sabbaths’, and Monthly First Days: are the same day instead of separate from each other, and consequently they don't all add up to the Biblical number - 70 “divine stamp of approval”: the 1st of Abib overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’, the Passover on the 15th Abib overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’, the 1st of the fourth month overlaps with the ‘weekly sabbath’, the 1st of the seventh month, the Day of Trumpets, overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’ the 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’ the 8th and Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’, the 1st of the tenth month overlaps with their ‘weekly sabbath’. This breaks all the Biblical rules keeping these days separate and brings the total separate Holy Days down from 70 to only 63, throwing the whole calendar out of sync ! In other words: none of their ‘weekly sabbaths’ are real, none of their ‘feasts’ are real, none of their ‘monthly first days’ are real. They are not keeping any of Yahweh’s appointments ! If they will only start the year on the fourth day of the week as the Dead Sea Scrolls do, all these days will fall separately into place without breaking any Biblical rules, and will all add up to the Biblical number - 70 “divine stamp of approval” ! Does not “Holy” mean “to be set apart, be consecrated” ! ! ! ? If they understand this, anyone who still deliberately leads you away from starting the year on the fourth day of the week is up to no good, don't trust him - he has another agenda ! 55 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar If Israel’s 70 Holy Day Temple Calendar doesn’t start on the fourth day of the week, it won’t work at all and we will not be able to keep any of Yahweh’s appointments with us ! This is how Yahweh has designed it: it is either exactly His way, or no way at all ! As explained why above, this 4th day of the week in Yahweh’s calendar is actually the correct doorway to His appointments with us – don’t let any Crypto Edomite deceive you: Remember the “light upon the earth” on the 4th day ! Starting His calendar on any other day of the week totally destroys Yahweh’s 70 meeting days with us – not just some of them, but all of them ! A miss is as good as a million miles ! Esau knows this, because it was Esau who changed the calendar in the first place, and he will go to great lengths to ensure that we never get it right again ! His survival actually depends on it ! We already know that the Edomites are the leading wolves in sheep's clothing. We already know that the Edomites are the leading tares amongst the wheat. We already know that the Roman calendar and the Babylonian Lunar calendar are wrong. We already know that the solar Maccabean/Enoch/Dead Sea Scrolls calendar is right. We just need to affirm the acceptable day of the week to correctly start Yahweh’s calendar ! Yahweh made sure that the anti-Christian Pharisees were unable to completely hide Enoch’s calendar. He also made sure that in these end times, Israel would be able to re-implement His calendar perfectly by starting Enoch’s calendar on the correct day of the week. He has done this through the preservation and discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar, which shows clearly that Yahweh’s year starts on the 4th day of Yahweh’s week ! Esau tried his best to keep these scrolls suppressed, but failed in the end. Through “damage control” Esau now tries to manage their influence. This 4th day starting Yahweh’s calendar has nothing to do with any pagan named day. It is simply the 4th of a seven day week/period, and it starts at sunset ending the day of the Northern Spring Equinox ! Referring to this 4th day as “Wednesday” is a misnomer ! Esau knows this and exploits it to discredit the Dead Sea Scrolls starting the year on this day. Esau knows that applying any day of Yahweh’s week/period-of-sevens, to a pagan weekly day would be a misnomer ! Esau and his collaborators make full use of this to discredit Yahweh’s 4th day of His week to start His year ! Esau is a master of smoke and mirror mind games, don't let him deceive you: By associating a so called ‘Jew’ pointing to pagan “Wednesday”, he uses “anti-Edomism” with his 56 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar false ‘Biblical’ logic, to re-direct your search for the first day of Yahweh’s solar calendar, to their lunar calendar first day of the year ! Talk about evil “chutzpah” ! So, according to the Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch Calendar we can only keep all 70 Holy Days by starting Yahweh's calendar at sunset ending the northern spring equinox and beginning the fourth day of the week ! Also, aside from The Day of Trumpets being as well The First Day of the Seventh Month, starting the calendar on any other day will not locate the rest correctly separate from each other and separate from any working day ! If any of these days incorrectly overlap, then less than Seventy, Sanctified, Set–Apart Holy Days is the unscriptural result. Critics of starting Yahweh’s solar calendar on the fourth day go totally out of sync with His calendar, by beginning their solar calendar on the same day as the lunar 7th day ‘sabbath’. Yet if they say the fourth day is “Wednesday” by their own logic their 7th day ‘sabbath’ is “Saturn’s day/Saturday” 57 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Lunar calendar people cannot honour that particular day enough: starting the lunar year with it, they in fact re-start every lunar month with it, and every ‘lunar sabbath day’ with it ! Doesn’t that tell you something ? Will YOU apply “Saturn’s day/Saturday” to destroy all Yahweh's 70 separate/Holy appointments with us ! Light was created the 1st day (Genesis 1:3–5) but Light “upon the Earth” was on the 4th day of creation (Genesis 1:14–19) With just the naked eye, there is no way the ancients could have known that planet Earth is the 4th body in our solar system. Among other things, the scriptures correctly make both implications that the sun is the first body and Earth is the fourth body in our solar system: Ten is the Biblical number of completion. Our solar system is comprised of 10 major celestial bodies: 1 Sun 2 Mercury 3 Venus 4 Earth 5 Mars 6 7 Jupiter Saturn 8 Uranus 9 Neptune 10 Pluto Only the last three planets were unknown to the ancient world. Earth is the 4th body in our solar system: Saturn actually is the seventh body in the solar system, but the first day of Israel’s calendar is undoubtedly day 4 of the week ! By shrewdly deceiving us into making Saturn/Saturday the first day of the calendar, Edomite Pharisees turn Yahweh’s whole calendar upside-down: Thus their father Satan makes himself “LORD OF THE SABBATH” by ensuring that nobody will ever be able to keep any of Yahweh’s 70 Holy Days on their correct days: There is a cosmic battle still playing itself out on planet Earth ! 58 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar If Yahweh was at rest before Genesis creation, that would not be a seventh day Sabbath because every Sabbath day is comprised of both night and day: There was in fact no day-light before the first day of creation. There was also no “light upon the earth” until the 4th day. Yahweh also actually WORKED - created light - on the 1st day. Therefore the calendars first day cannot be a weekly Sabbath ! This would just be semantics if we hadn't already both seen and proved that the Biblical calendar cannot actually work – unless it starts the year on the fourth day of the week: as the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar indeed does ! The lunar calendar starts every month as a weekly ‘sabbath’, which we have seen is unscriptural. Most solar calendar advocates follow their lead in starting the year on this so called ‘weekly sabbath’: They erroneously believe that the duplicate starting day of the second half of the year - The First Day of the Seventh Month/Day of Trumpets - is a weekly Sabbath day, and therefore the first day of the first month they erroneously believe must also be a weekly Sabbath. Yet we have seen that all the weekly Sabbaths and the first day of the month High Days are separate from each other, and also separate from the Feast Days. In fact the only High Day that does overlap is The Day of Trumpets because it actually is the First Day of the Seventh Month, but we have seen that it too is not a weekly Sabbath day ! This is the only way to keep all the Biblical rules regarding these days, and this can also only be achieved by starting the year on the fourth day of the week resulting in the total of: Seventy Sanctified / Holy / Set-Apart Meeting Days with Yahweh ! There are three or more Biblical references, for each and every one of the “first” to “twelfth” months of the Biblical year, but there is not one reference anywhere in the entire Bible, to any so called lunar-solar “thirteenth month” ! Why ? When convincingly faced with this fact, alarm bells should also ring for other people like me, who have been falsely converted to a Biblical lunar-solar calendar. With all the other ‘convincing’ proof, this “thirteenth month” is somehow so readily accepted as right. Fortunately people on the internet have opened my eyes. This intermittent “thirteenth month” is part of much new “oral law” that is needed to force the Babylonian “lunar-solar” calendar into a resemblance of Biblical authenticity. To the Enemy it does not matter which false calendar we follow, so long as it does not perfectly synchronise with the true Biblical calendar. That way you will rarely even keep the Sabbath ! So when we turn back to the Bible the Enemy already has a game plan set in place long ago. The Enemy never tells us that there is no Biblical reference to this “thirteenth month”. He also ignores the Dead Sea Scrolls/Maccabean/Enoch solar calendars. Why ? It is because he will be divided against himself. He is far brighter than that ! Wouldn’t you prefer to make a totally informed decision, based also on information being withheld from you ? What are all the facts ? 59 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter. (Proverbs 25:2) The second half of the year mirrors the first half of the year. The Hebrew word for “year” comes from: shanah shaw-naw' meaning to fold, i.e. duplicate. . . double. . . repeat. . . do the second time (see Strong’s #8141 and #8138). Before Joshua 10:13 and 2 Kings 20: 9–11, the 364 day year could fold at the end of the sixth month: into two duplicate halves. The First Day of the Seventh Month / Day of Trumpets, restarts the duplicate second half of the year. This actually proves the lunar calendar wrong yet again, because in its frequent year of thirteen months: that lunar calendar year is impossible to divide/fold into two duplicate halves ! We now have an extra 365th and 366th leap year day ending our solar year. Keys to the Calendar: The creation of light separate from darkness: day-light apart from dark-night: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening ( “Night”) and the morning ( “Day”) were the first day. Genesis 1: 3–5 He made visible on earth the day-time and night-time burning stars: to be used for the calendarthe moon does not combust producing light and is excluded here for use in the calendar. The night-time precedes the day-time of every twenty four hour day: And God said, Let there be lights ( “ luminary ” see Strong's #3974 from #215 = “ to be luminous . . . kindle . . . set on fire ” ) in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars. ( The words “he made” and “also” straddling “the stars” are not in the original text ! i.e. “he made the stars also” deceitfully implies the “lesser light” to mean the moon, thus promoting a false lunar based calendar ! If the moon was a burning light like the sun and stars, 60 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar then He would have said three great lights, not two ! ) And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: ( but the moon is found in both ! ) and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.. Genesis 1: 14–18 So our calendar time therefore also only starts from this fourth day, which is why the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar starts on the fourth day of the week. He never gave the moon for the calendar – a ‘new moon’ gives no light at all, and for many other nights the moon is absent – but He did give it sometimes with the stars at night, to reflect sunlight: Thus saith Yahweh, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night . . . Jeremiah 31: 35 The burning sun and its mirror, the moon, promote germination and growth: And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon . . . Deuteronomy 33: 14 Day and night have their perpetually fixed seasons of day-time and night-time: Thus saith Yahweh; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season . . . Jeremiah 33: 20 The sun is personified as masculine – “his”, and the moon is usually feminine. Yes, Yahweh appointed the moon for seasons/meetings, but what meetings are referred to ? The moon was appointed to meet separately with the sun during the daytime, and also meet with the stars at night after the sun has obediently set. These are the meetings He is referring to – not our meetings with Yahweh: 61 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar He appointed the moon, for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. Psalms 104: 19 The sun always dominates the day-time, with or without the moon. The moon dominates the night-time by reflecting the suns light. When without the moon, the stars dominate the night-time: To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever. Psalms 136: 7–9 The only New Testament reference to “new moon” is found in Colossians 2:16. It comes from the Greek word “noumenia” from Strong’s Concordance #3561 and composed of #3501 and #3376: #3501 is the Greek word meaning “new”, i.e. (of persons) youthful, or (of things) fresh; fig. regenerate:- new, young. #3376 is the Greek word meaning a month:- month. But the Greek word for “moon” is from #4582 meaning - the moon:- moon, and which comes from a word meaning “brilliancy…through the idea of attractiveness” Why did the translators thus change “new month” to “new moon” ??????????? In the Greek of Colossians 2:16 they deceitfully classified the meaning of “month” as equivalent to “moon” when measuring “time” ! if this were actually the case then “new moon” should rather be a combination of “new” #3501 and #4582 “moon” neh'-os sel-ay'-nay ! ! ! A similar redefining of the Hebrew “chodesh” had already taken place in carefully selected verses of the Old Testament: 62 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar to promote a lunar calendar. They changed it under the influence of lunar calendar advocates, who shaped the Masoretic Text from the ‘lost’ originals. Until the discovery, and eventual disclosure of the Dead Sea Scroll’s almost forty years later, the standardized Masoretic Text was a firewall to all original text material afterwards so conveniently ‘lost’. No wonder most of the Dead Sea Scrolls were suppressed for thirty eight years ! Over the next two years someone started ‘illegally’ leaking portions to the world: so after nearly two thousand years, these parts were finally available after another forty years of censorship. Yet even so, much is still unavailable and there are claims of “missing scrolls” ! There is probably more controversy around the calendar than anything else in the Bible. After reading many opposing websites about the Biblical calendar, and some more on the Dead Sea Scrolls ( DSS’s ), I have eventually come to the following conclusion: The Dead Sea Scrolls show that they carefully monitored the lunar cycles. This is no indication that they actually followed a so-called “lunar-solar” calendar. They may have followed the lunar cycle to monitor opposing calendar practices. In addition to this, it is possible that they were aware of amazing relationships between the number seven, the Jubilee, the lunar cycle and the solar year. Regardless of all this, they still had far more scrolls detailing that they were in fact practicing a purely solar based calendar. This solar calendar was similar to the Enoch solar calendar, and also similar to the Maccabean solar calendar in the Book of Jubilees. It seems that the experts agree that at times a solar calendar was practiced in the Temple. Some say that the Greeks enforced a lunar calendar, which the Maccabeans later discarded in revolt. There were also periods when more than one calendar was practiced by different groups in Jerusalem at the same time. The Pharisees had no say over the Temple priestly practices. The Temple was managed by the Sadducees: The indications are that a similar calendar to that of the Maccabees, the Maccabean solar calendar in the Book of Jubilees, was practiced by these priests of their successors at the time of Christ – the Sadducees. They presided over the Aaronic rites of the Temple according to their approved calendar. 63 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Although amongst many other irregularities they allowed traders in the temple, Christ didn't criticize the Sadducees for an illicit Temple calendar. Up until 67 AD Pentecost was determined according to the Sadducee method: i.e. on the fiftieth day counted from “the morrow after the (weekly) sabbath” after the Passover, and falling on the first day of the week – “the morrow after the seventh sabbath”. The Pharisees later started their count from the next day immediately after the Passover, contrary to the Boethusian/Sadducee assertion that the reaping of the Omer was not to take place at the conclusion of the first day of the festival, i.e. not on the 16th Abib ! ( A lunar calendar cannot give you the three full days in the tomb and also the three full nights ! ) It was only long after the crucifixion of Christ, when the Temple was destroyed, that all Sadducee authority was swept away. Synagogue Pharisees then boldly stepped in, asserting their influence over all calendar practices once governed by the Temple establishment. Over the following hundreds of years they continued to compound their oral authority, over the Old Testament scriptures, up until today. Their lunar calendar supporters now try and steal Christ’s credit to the Sadducees, who sat in Aaron’s seat practicing a solar calendar, and give it to the Pharisees using this quote: “Then spake Yahshua to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do. . . ” Matthew 23: 1–3 They don’t mention that the Sadducees controlled the Temple calendar, and they also never finish the quote: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.” Matthew 23: 2–3 This warning about them still applies today when they teach from the scriptures pertaining to their calendar requirements: 64 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Pharisees still say as usual what the scriptures state we must do, but their interpretation allows them to actually do, work and implement an upside down calendar: “Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men: Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from Yahweh, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?” Isaiah 29: 13–16 “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.” Matthew 15: 7–9 “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.” Matthew 23: 13 The whole of Matthew 23 is an indictment against these Pharisees ! Do you still trust them with the Biblical calendar ?! Can we trust their Masoretic Text ?! I think not: 65 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar If “new” of Strong's Concordance is #2319 chadash khaw-dawsh' meaning: new:- fresh, new, thing, which comes from #2318 chadash khaw-dash′ meaning: a prim. root; to be new; caus. to rebuild:- renew, repair, and “moon” is #3391 yerach yeh'- rakh, then why isn’t “new moon” #2319 “chadash” and “yerach” #3391 combined: “chadash yerach” ????????? However “Month” or “Chodesh” #2320 chodesh kho'- desh, is also from #2318 chadash khaw-dash′ (meaning a prim. root; to be new; caus. to rebuild:- renew, repair), even so they have re-defined “chodesh” #2320: to indicate “new moon” !!!!!!!! This only makes sense to lunar calendar advocates. “Chodesh” cannot be traced back in any way to “Moon” To solar calendar advocates “chodesh” is the renewal of the month, not the moon ! There is no Biblical instruction concerning a literal “new moon/chadash yerach” or some associated sacrifice. Moon or “yerach” and the Sabbaths are never referenced in any combination whatsoever. Even though there were other irregularities in the Temple causing the division of the Dead Sea Scroll’s community, I believe that at the time of Yahshua, those Sadducees controlling the Temple practiced a similar calendar to the Maccabean, Book of Jubilees, and the Dead Sea Scroll’s Solar Calendars ! 66 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com These calendars were all variants of Enoch’s 364 day year, with an inter calendar 365 day or 366 day leap year equinox. Of the six “days” (days/epochs/eras/periods/ages/times or eons) of creation in Genesis 1:1–31, we know that in one of them about 400 million years ago, the earth’s year was 410 days long. This is borne out by the minute daily growth deposits exhibited in certain fossilized corals. The number of days in the year may have changed many times. Also the gene SLC24A5 apparently causes pale skin in many Europeans. The data suggests this first occurred only 5300 to 6000 years ago. The recorded spread of farming began again after the flood ±6000 years ago. (Adam was actually created between 7 & 8 thousand years ago.) Since Genesis 2:1–3 the number of days in the year has again changed: In Joshua 10:13 the sun and moon stood still for “about” a day. Presumably if the earth suddenly stopped its 24 hour daily rotation, mankind would probably be wiped out by mountainous tidal waves and volcanic eruptions. However, if the earth’s orbit in the vacuum of space rather stretched out from a circular to an elliptical orbit at just the right angle, it could still have maintained its 24 hour daily rotation, while the sun and moon appeared to stand still in the sky during the change. Another shorter orbital change in 2 Kings 20: 9–11 at a different angle, extended the day by making the sun appear to go backwards on the sundial for “10 degree”, or for forty minutes. Both these incidents have changed the earth’s orbit from a perfectly circular to a slightly longer elliptical orbit. ( Its more sudden return back to normal in the near future, will have cataclysmic consequences ! ) Earth’s perfect 364 day circular orbit of the sun in Enoch’s calendar is divisible by seven. This gives exactly fifty two weeks in the year. Its weekly Sabbath cycle would follow on undisturbed from one year to the next, automatically resetting to whenever it started at the beginning of the year without falling on a High Day, the lamb separation day or the preparation day for the Passover ! At Joshua 10:13 the Israelites obviously kept Enoch’s calendar, but started the year in the spring of Abib as previously instructed by Yahweh: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2). This also implies that the duration of the months were known and fixed according to a recognized calendar – Enoch’s calendar. Our longer 365¼ day elliptical year is not divisible by seven. As shown on page 21 above all the High Days and some other days cannot fall on the weekly Sabbath. If the year starts at sunset after the northern spring equinox is visually confirmed, and this first day is reset to the fourth day of the week, then all the weekly Sabbaths follow on unchanged to the year’s end – without falling on a High Day, the lamb separation day or the preparation day for the Passover. No weekly Sabbath can continue to do this on a 365¼ day calendar after the first year ! The calendar has to be reset again at the end of every year to achieve this, as the Dead Sea Scrolls calendar is and does ! Logically therefore our Sabbath cycle is annually also automatically reset when starting the first day of our year as the fourth day of the week, the same as with the DSS’s calendar ! The DSS’s community established our elliptical orbits spring “tekufah” after which they correctly started the month of Abib at sunset: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2). The spring feasts fall after the March equinox and even with our longer elliptical orbit, the autumn feasts still fall after our September equinox as required by Exodus 34: 22. The DSS’s community therefore saw no need to alter the number of days in the twelve Enoch months, which await the restoration of all things. Our extra 365th day and 366th leap year day were added in as inter calendar days, leaving the rest of Enoch’s months unchanged. At the time of Christ many of the “Jews” were still pure Israelites of Judah descent, and were not of mixed Edomite ancestry from John Hyrcanus’ recent forced conversions in 125 BC. Many of the Sadducees and Pharisees were still of Israelite stock. This is why the Gospels say that many of His Jewish sheep heard His voice and followed Him, whilst many other proselyte Edomite ‘Jewish’ “wolves”/ “tares”, like Herod, continually conspired to arrest and kill Him. 67 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Zacharias, John the Baptist’s father, served in the Temple priestly courses (Luke 1: 5–23). The priests were changed on the weekly Sabbaths and these fixed days on the calendar are all recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Christ endorsed the Sadducee Temple calendar as practiced at that time. Yahshua as well as both Joseph of Arimathaea, an official councillor, and Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, all three worked in accordance with the Temple Calendar of the time. Nicodemus himself was a “ruler” amongst the chief priests and Pharisees when he defended Christ after they failed to arrest Him at first: “Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?” (John 7: 51) For two consecutive years Christ kept the Passover in Jerusalem according to the Temple calendar. He is also recorded to have kept its Feast of Tabernacles, making a declaration in the Temple on its “Last Great Day”: “Now about the midst of the feast Yahshua went up into the temple, and taught . . . Then said some of them of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? . . . Then cried Yahshua in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me. Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come . . . In the last day, that great day of the feast, Yahshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” (John 7: 14–38) “There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:” (John 3:1) “Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him? The officers answered, Never man spake like this man. Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed. Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,) Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth? They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet. (Yet Christ was of pure Jehudite descent and born in Bethlehem of Judah/Judea) And every man went unto his own house.” (John 7: 45–53) “Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Yahshua answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?” (John 3: 9–10) “Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Yahshua.” (Mark 15:43) “And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath (15th Passover High Day), Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Yahshua.” (Mark 15: 42–43) “And, behold, there was a man named Joseph, a counsellor; and he was a good man, and a just: (The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God. This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Yahshua. 68 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath (15th Passover High Day) drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day (15th Passover High Day) according to the commandment.” (Luke 23: 50–56) As “a disciple of Yahshua” and official councillor the context of the text appears to indicate that Joseph of Arimathaea, and also the Pharisee Nicodemus, did these things in total agreement with the Sadducee Temple calendar, “according to the commandment” in the Law of Moses: “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 . . . And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Yahshua: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Yahshua. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Yahshua by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Yahshua, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury. Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Yahshua therefore because of the Jews’ preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.” (John 19: 31–42). i.e. Joseph and Nicodemus were of the TRUE “Jewish” community, not Edomite proselytes. All this happened on the 14th Abib Passover Preparation Day and up to sunset starting the 15th Abib Passover Feast. This was the Jerusalem festival period of the Feast of Unleavened Bread: “Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Yahshua, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?” (Matthew 26:17). Regardless of when the day changes this verse is not referring to the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because that day occurs only on the 15th, after the Passover Lamb is already killed on the 14th ! Although on the first day of this feast/festival period, i.e. on the “Preparation Day”, they were not forbidden to eat unleavened bread, because the “Feast of Unleavened Bread” only started at the next sunset, they may still have considered it a day of unleavened bread because they spent a portion of the day ensuring that there was no longer any trace of leaven or leavened bread to be found in their households by the end of that day – yet this was the “preparation” day when the Passover was killed ! Again this explains the seemingly contradictory statement of Luke 22:7 “Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.” This might be more broadly interpreted as indicating that “Then came the period/time/festival of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed”, always remembering that the Passover Lamb is killed first, and then the Passover Feast takes place the following evening on the first day of the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread ! So although technically not one of the seven days Feast of Unleavened Bread, the “Preparation Day” was part of this festival period and could have been considered a day of unleavened bread by virtue of the fact that after sunrise they sought out and removed all leaven and leavened bread, in preparation for the Feast after sunset. Nevertheless from its earlier start at the previous sunset, there is nothing about the Preparation Day that prohibits it from accommodating Christ's “Last Supper” in the upper 69 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com room, booked as the venue for the rest of the Preparation Day and the following evening High Day Passover Feast ! i.e. The upper room was booked from the Preparation Day starting at sunset for Christ’s “Last Supper”, throughout this 14th Preparation Day crucifixion/lamb killing, to the end of the 15th Abib Passover Feast. Wishing to make ready for the Passover their lamb would have been chosen already and kept separate. They secured the venue, where they had this “Last Supper” prior to killing the Passover that same day: the following afternoon when Christ was actually crucified ! This “Last Supper” was still the beginning of the Preparation Day in the venue where the Passover would be eaten about 24 hours later, on the High Day 15th Abib. Also everyone sat down to eat this “Last Supper”, yet the Passover is eaten standing up ! Also at this “Last Supper” they ate leavened bread: “And as they were eating, Yahshua took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.” (Matthew 26:26) “bread” here is Strong's no. 740 “artov artos ar'-tos From 142; bread (as raised) or a loaf:- (shew-) bread, loaf.” This confirms that it was not the Passover when they only eat unleavened/un–raised bread, and is verified by the “sop” of bread: “Yahshua answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.” (John 13: 26) A “sop” of bread is able to “sop up” and become “sopping wet”, yet the Passover is roasted dry, without water in any way, and is eaten with unleavened bread with which it is difficult to make a “sop”. “And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly. Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor. He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.” (John 13:27–30) Yet only on the 14th “Preparation Day” can one buy and sell, not on the 15th Passover High Day Sabbath ! Also how could Judas buy the needs for a ‘Last Supper Passover’ if it was already almost over ? Later that same day after the crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathaea also bought linen in which to wrap Christ's body on this “Preparation Day”, still prior to the High Day Sabbath Passover Feast: “And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the Sabbath (i.e. the Passover High Day), Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus. And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead. And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph. And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, 70 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.” (Mark 15:42–46) Also Christ himself actually refrained from partaking of this “Last Supper”, yet Yahweh forbids all Israelites from refraining to eat the Passover on penalty of being cut off from Israel ! Christ obeyed all Yahweh’s laws, confirming that this “Last Supper” was not the Passover ! Also memorial Passover is eaten nearby and they march home after midnight ! So before the Feast of the Passover, yet after the Preparation Day “Last Supper”, Christ washed the disciple’s feet: Now before the feast of the passover, when Yahshua knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended . . . began to wash the disciples’ feet . . . John 13:1–5 i.e. “The Last Supper” was not the “Feast of the Passover” ! When eating the Passover standing up, they were not permitted outside “until the morning”- after midnight. Also, Yahshua would not have broken an everlasting “ordinance” by refraining from partaking in Yahweh’s Passover Feast ! They were obviously still preparing the needs for the Passover, and as John noticeably stated, this supper was in fact the evening meal “ before the feast of the passover ” the evening starting the twenty four hour “ preparation ” day, in which the. Passover lamb was to be killed: . 71 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives. Matthew 26: 30 ( Probably long before midnight, however, after Passover they proceed home after midnight, simulating the Exodus out of the land of bondage ! ) Justification for how the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Exodus 12:18 is interpreted is probably decisive in determining whether the “Last Supper” was a Passover or not ! The Feast of Unleavened Bread is for seven days. So if the “Last Supper” was a Passover according to Exodus 12:18, then they would have eaten unleavened bread that day, and up until the twenty first Abib, making it an actual Feast of eight days Unleavened Bread, and not seven days Unleavened Bread ! Clearly Exodus 12:18 is correctly interpreted in the same way as explained in the Biblical interpretation of the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 23: 27–32. Here verse 32 ensures that the 10th referred to in verse 27 starts at the sunset end of the 9th, so that there is no mistake ! If it started at the beginning of the 9th then obviously it wouldn’t be “the 10th day” : “Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before Yahweh your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.” (Leviticus 23: 27–32) i.e. this “even” is sunset at the end of the 9th, because if it started at the beginning of the 9th: then it wouldn’t be the 10th ! ! ! ( See Strong's # 6153 and #6150 ) It appears therefore that the “Last Supper” was not the Passover meal, and that Christ kept the Feasts and Sabbaths in full accordance with the Sadducees and the Temple Calendar which they controlled. Only much later when the Sadducees were disempowered by the Pharasees seizing control of the Temple in 67AD – just before the Temple was destroyed in 70AD, did the Pharisees opportunistically change the Omer date from the Sadducee’s date, to their ‘Omer’ on the 16th Abib, indicating that this was the first crucial step to re-introducing the false Babylonian lunar calendar, well after the crucifixion: The false lunar calendar has to have the Omer on the 16th Abib ! The Passover is always killed on the fourteenth and eaten on the fifteenth. If it is both killed and also eaten on the fourteenth with unleavened bread, then the Feast of Unleavened Bread will consist of eight days unleavened bread, instead of seven days unleavened bread from the 15th to the 21st Abib. John 20:1–19 proves that there is no day change either at sunrise or at mid-day ! The day changes after the “second going down of the sun”, i.e. at sunset ! The morning on the other hand, does not start at sunrise: 72 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com “Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover. And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.” (Exodus 12:21–22). When along with the rest of grieving Egypt Pharaoh discovered that even his firstborn son was dead, Moses and Aaron were summoned and both went out the door of their houses to see Pharaoh: soon after mid–night in the morning (Exodus 12: 29–33). The Israelites had already burnt the leftovers of the Passover before midnight, leaving none of it until the morning (Exodus 12:10). When Moses and Aaron returned with permission from Pharaoh, the Israelites were fully prepared and began mobilising to leave Rameses – while it was still night. (Exodus 12: 31, 41–42; Deuteronomy 16:1). Moses and Aaron went out in the morning after mid–night to see Pharaoh, and the whole of Israel began leaving Rameses before sunrise while it was still dark. They all left the doors of their houses after mid–night in the morning, while it was still dark ! They had killed the Passover on the fourteenth. The next day after eating the Passover on the night of the fifteenth, they started leaving Rameses in the morning of the fifteenth before sunrise, and continued leaving Rameses on the fifteenth until well after sunrise: “And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out (“ from Rameses”) with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.” (Numbers 33:3) i.e. After killing the Passover on the fourteenth, and after sunset and the twilight starting the fifteenth, they began the Feast of the Passover. In the dark after midnight of the same fifteenth day, they began leaving Rameses into the next daylight, as in 1 Samuel 30:17 – “And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.” i.e. the morning starts at mid–night ! ! ! To repeat, the “seasons” of Genesis 1: 14 are the “appointments / meetings” of the Sabbaths, new– months and solemn feasts. Even in the perfectly circular orbit of Enoch’s 364 day year, the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread, as well as the Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles, always correctly fall well after the equinoxes. Even Enoch’s first day of the year and Day of Trumpets fall the day after his calendars spring and autumn equinoxes. The focus is on meeting with Yahweh, not with the sun or with spring, summer, winter and autumn ! The day is separate from the night. The light is separate from the dark. Dark-night and day-light make up one day. The first going down of the sun at mid-day, and the second going down of the sun at sunset, is part of the “evening”. “Between the evenings/going down of the sun” is at 3pm when the Passover Lamb is killed. Both before and after sunrise, from mid-night to noon: is the morning. After-noon is the “evening” up until mid-night. 73 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com i.e. the full evening is from mid-day to mid-night and conversely the full morning is from mid-night to mid–day. “Even-tide/even” is the phase between two consecutive days at sunset. Only this way can you correctly kill the Passover on the afternoon of the fourteenth and still eat it with unleavened bread on the fifteenth, thus giving a maximum of seven days unleavened bread up to and including the twenty first of Abib ! Also Exodus 16: 1–31 is interpreted in different ways to support different calendars. Lunar calendar advocates use the 15th day in verse 1 to support their monthly weekly ‘sabbaths’ as falling on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of every month. Whatever the correct interpretation, the fact remains that cooking and non-servile work can take place on all High Day Sabbaths except the Day of Atonement, and also that all High Days are separate from the weekly Sabbaths, as proven on page 21 above. Therefore how can the 15th day of the second month be a weekly Sabbath when some people are annually required to kill the second Passover on the 14th, prepare and cook it possibly into the 15th and burn the leftovers on the 15th, which to them is a High Day Sabbath ? ! (see Numbers 9: 3, 9–12) This is proof positive again that the lunar calendar is false ! “And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out (“ from Rameses”) with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.” (Numbers 33: 3) i.e. After the Passover was killed on the afternoon of the 14th, and after it was eaten as the first Passover Feast after sunset on the 15th; on that same 15th day morning after eating the Passover, the Israelites started marching out of Rameses. This was the first Passover in Egypt, and as already pointed out previously, this very first Passover in Egypt was not yet instituted as a High Day Sabbath, which is why they could start leaving Rameses on that day. However if it was also already a normal Genesis seventh day weekly Sabbath, Yahweh would not have required them to break it for Him before He later again revealed it to them. “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matthew 24: 20). They also burnt the Passover remains in a fire. This confirms that the 15th Abib could never have been a weekly Sabbath Day ! Yet in Deuteronomy 5:14–15, because the weekly Sabbath is referred to in the ten commandments in association with the Exodus out of EGYPT, lunar calendar advocates claim the 15th Abib and all 15th days of every month as weekly Sabbaths: “But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yahweh thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that Yahweh thy God brought thee out thence through a MIGHTY HAND AND BY A STRETCHED OUT ARM: therefore Yahweh thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.” (Deuteronomy 5:14–15) Therefore Yahweh expects us to keep the weekly Sabbath work free for ourselves, our households, guests, servants etc, and even for our domesticated animals ! 74 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Yet we were not freed from RAMESES on the lunar calendars ‘weekly sabbath': Rameses is in the heart of Egypt ! When leaving Rameses “with an high hand” on the 15th Abib: we travelled for three full days WITHIN EGYPT. However we were actually freed on Yahweh’s weekly Sabbath – FROM THE WHOLE LAND OF EGYPT ! i.e. Brought out the WHOLE “LAND of Egypt . . . OUT THENCE through a MIGHTY HAND AND BY A STRETCHED OUT ARM” Think again ! Where and what date was THAT: Exodus 14:13 “Fear ye not, stand still, and see THE SALVATION OF YAHWEH, which he will shew to you TO DAY: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.” Exodus 14:30 “Thus Yahweh saved Israel THAT DAY out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead¡ upon the sea shore¡” The eastern coastline of the Red Sea Gulf of Suez was the boundary of Egypt ! What about Acts 20: 5–7 ? “These going before tarried for us at Troas. And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.” (Acts 20:5–7) These verses are very specific about the first day of a particular week, and is powerful evidence for its calendar, but what calendar is alluded to ? After the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Paul and his party sailed away from Philippi and arrived at Troas on the fifth day. They include the fifth day of their arrival with the seven days at Troas. Their last seventh night at Troas started the first day of the week. That evening Paul preached until midnight, they abode that night there, and they departed in the morning that same first day of the week. With 30 days in Abib, on the lunar calendar they claim that this “first day of the week” works out as the second day of their second new-moon-month, which is always their first day of the week. This obviously means that the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of this second lunar month are again all ‘sabbath’ days. This is used by lunar calendar advocates to again ‘prove’ their case. However, All Biblical High Day Sabbaths cannot fall on normal seventh day weekly Sabbaths, as proven above. Therefore they cannot fall on any of Yahweh’s weekly Sabbaths. This second month also has the second Passover on the 15th day as already explained, showing again that the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of this second lunar month are also not normal seventh day weekly Sabbaths as they like to claim. The very first Passover in Egypt was not yet instituted as a High Day Sabbath, which is why they could start leaving Rameses on that day. However if it was also already a normal Genesis seventh day weekly Sabbath, Yahweh would not have required them to break it for Him before He later again revealed it to them. “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, 75 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com neither on the sabbath day” (Matthew 24: 20). They also burnt the Passover remains in a fire. This confirms that the 15th Abib could never have been a weekly Sabbath Day ! Finally, they confirm that Paul travelled after the Feast of Unleavened Bread and arrived in Troas on the fifth day. They state that this fifth day was the 26th day of the month. This means that they actually did start their journey immediately after the seventh day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and that they therefore started their journey on the 22nd Abib, which is supposed to be a lunar seventh day weekly ‘sabbath’ ! I am not sure how sailors already on the high seas avoid defiling the weekly Sabbath, but would Paul have packed his bags, made his way to the harbour, boarded a vessel and set sail on a sea voyage on the true weekly Sabbath day ? If not then that 22nd day of Abib was not a Biblical weekly Sabbath day ! There is in fact no “new moon” month in the New Testament, as shown on pages 56–58 above. See also pages 58 and 61 above proving that there are no “new moons” in the Old Testament. So if Paul didn't follow a lunar calendar, as just proven above, what calendar did he follow ? If you look at the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar shown on page 18 above, you can see that Paul started his voyage on the 22nd Abib, which was the 4th day of the week. He arrived in Troas after 5 day’s travel on the 26th. They abode there in Troas for the first night and for another six nights. On this last evening, which ended the weekly Sabbath and started the first day of the week, the disciples gathered together at supper. Paul then preached to them until midnight. They abode there for the rest of this seventh night in Troas and departed the following morning, the third day of the second month and the first day of the week according to the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar ! The true Biblical calendar is the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar, corrected to the Sadducee Temple Omer and Pentecost ( the Feast of First Fruits ) ! The ‘lunar–solar Biblical calendar’ is a very clever Pharisee fabrication. It uses scribal smoke and mirrors to distort ones view and perception of the Word, and rend the Scriptures into a false man made doctrine ! To justify themselves, lunar calendar advocates have to repeatedly try and show that the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of all months are weekly Sabbaths. As you have seen with some of their examples debunked above, they grasp at every opportunity in Scripture to try and create a weekly ‘sabbath’ for any of these days of the lunar month. When they claim a weekly ‘sabbath’ for one of these days, it follows that the others are also weekly ‘sabbaths’, as they are seven days apart in the lunar month. Conversely, one only has to debunk one of these days as a weekly Sabbath, to disprove them all as weekly Sabbaths for every lunar month ! Clearly this has already been done in this discourse – not just once, or twice as two witnesses required by Scripture, but numerous times ! Therefore, because the lunar calendar is false, the more ‘proof’ its advocates provide, the more they will be proven wrong ! Its just a matter of time and effort. Sheep that howl at the moon are barking mad ! What does a shepherd think when he sees that ? Leave the Edomite wolves to carry on with their false ‘lunar-solar’ calendar ! So what day does the solar weekly Sabbath fall on: bearing in mind the rules of the weekly Sabbath and the separate slightly different rules for the High Days (Leviticus 23: 3 and Leviticus 23: 38), and bearing also in mind that the first discernable night and day cycle of the first year started the calendar on the fourth day of Yahweh’s week (Genesis 1: 14–19), 76 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com and remembering that Yahweh corrected the calendar that the Israelites were familiar with in Egypt, to annually start afresh with the sunset ending the March spring equinox/“tekufah” (Exodus 12:2), then all the weekly Sabbaths of the year are annually predetermined for the whole solar year every solar year ! The annual start of the year and the weekly Sabbaths were correctly kept by the Dead Sea Scrolls community in this way. FIRST DAY OF THE MONTHS. The sunset ending the March equinox starts the first day of the first month of Yahweh’s calendar. The DSS’s community established our elliptical orbits spring “tekufah” after which they correctly started the month of Abib: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12:2). The March “tekufah/equinox” was first visually confirmed, after which its sunset started the first day of the year. It was not determined solely by calculation in advance. Many sundials which were used to determine the “tekufah” in real time were discovered at the Dead Sea Scrolls Qumran site. The DSS’s year is divided into twelve months, and there are three or more Biblical references to each of the 1st to 12th months of the solar year. ( There is not one Biblical reference to the lunar 13th month at all ! ) Each Enoch month was made up of 30 days with an extra 31st inter-calendar day every third month. The Dead Sea Scrolls March equinox falls on our extra 365th or 366th leap year day at the end of the 12th month. As shown above there is in fact no “new moon” month in the Old Testament ! As shown above there is in fact no “new moon” month in the New Testament ! Every “new moon” should be read as “new month”, and for clarity will be shown as such. The first day of every month is a High Day with different rules to the weekly Sabbath: “For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of Yahweh, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” (Ezra 7: 9–10) “They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required; And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new months, and of all the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto Yahweh. From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto Yahweh. But the foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid.” (Ezra 3: 4–6) Ezra started a long five month journey on the first day of Abib. The “foundation of the temple of Yahweh was not yet laid” yet they kept all the High Days “as the duty of every day required”. Unlike with the weekly Sabbath, they kindled a fire on these days without a Temple, for sacrifices and “all of the set feasts of Yahweh that were consecrated”. 77 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com The first day of each month is also separated for special announcements or events, especially the first day of the first month and the first day of the seventh month: Yahweh instructed the Israelites to set up the Tabernacle on the 1st Abib. “On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.” (Exodus 40:2) “And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.” (Exodus 40:17) “And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.” (Nehemiah 8:2) “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; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.” (2 Chronicles 29:17) “Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:” (Ezekiel 45:18) “And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.” (Ezra 10:16–17) “And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.” (Numbers 33: 38) “And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Yahweh had given him in commandment unto them;” (Deuteronomy 1: 3) “And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,” (Ezekiel 26:1) “And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,” (Ezekiel 29:17) “And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,” (Ezekiel 31:1) “And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came unto me, saying,” (Ezekiel 32:1) “In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Yahweh by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,” (Haggai 1:1) The false lunar calendar starts every month and every week with a lunar weekly ‘sabbath’, but in the true Biblical solar calendar the first day of every month is never ever a weekly Sabbath ! Some people also incorrectly start their solar calendar on a weekly ‘sabbath’ just like the lunar calendar, with the result that all the weekly ‘sabbaths’ for the whole year will immediately be incorrect ! People may religiously follow such a calendar, but none of the weekly Sabbaths, High Days and First of the Months will correspond with Yahweh’s schedule for us. The count to Pentecost will start on the wrong day and all the weekly Sabbaths, Months and Feasts will be out ! 78 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Why do they also start the year like this ? This is exactly how the lunar calendar advocates start their first month of the year ! These solar calendar advocates repeat the same Edomite/Pharisee ‘logic’ in starting their solar calendars – with disastrous results ! Like the Pharisee Edomites, they claim that the 15th Abib Passover is a weekly Sabbath day, and that because Exodus 20:11 “hallowed”/sanctified the weekly Sabbath, that II Chron. 29:17 also sanctifies/hallows both the first and eighth day of the first month - as weekly Sabbath days: “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; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.” (II Chron. 29:17) Don't believe their false lunar ‘logic’, this claim is just more Edomite smoke and mirrors ! Read what that verse says in its context. It is clear that the days were not sanctified at all, but that the priests themselves, the complete house of Yahweh and all its artefacts were sanctified: “And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. And the priests went into the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron. 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; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of Yahweh, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof. Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh.” (II Chron. 29:15–19) “How are the things of Esau searched out ! how are his hidden things sought up ! ” (Obadiah 1: 6) The time has come for the scales to be removed from our eyes ! Beware those who try and put them back ! The “new moon” is actually the new month, and Ezekiel 46:1–6 is confirmation that unlike in the false lunar months, in Yahweh’s solar calendar the weekly Sabbaths and the first day of the months are always set apart – from each other: “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 month it shall be opened. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before Yahweh in the sabbaths and in the new month. And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto Yahweh in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. And the meat 79 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. And in the day of the new month it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.” (Ezekiel 46:1–6) Can you see that Ezekiel 46:1–6 actually refutes the lunar-monthly-first-day-sabbaths !? This is again proof that the lunar calendar is false because every lunar new-month starts with a false lunar ‘weekly sabbath’ ! By deceitfully changing/re-defining “new month” to read “new moon” they try to fool you, but on close examination you can see through their smoke and mirrors: They are not lunar months, nor do they start with a weekly Sabbath ! The 50 year jubilee was declared on the annual Day of Atonement with the sounding of the trumpet: “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.” (Leviticus 25: 9) The trumpet also sounded on the first day of the seventh month: “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh.” (Leviticus 23: 24–25) The trumpet was actually sounded every new month, in appointed times and on the feasts: “Blow up the trumpet in the new month, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” (Psalms 81: 3) “Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.” (Numbers 10:10) There are 12 months in the year. The First Day of every month is a Holy Day, announced with the sounding of a trumpet. Travel and non–servile work is allowed on these Monthly First Days, but on the First Day of the Seventh month, The Day of Trumpets, a Holy Convocation was also held, and an offering made. So the First Day of the Seventh Month is actually also The Day of Trumpets: One High Day. It is both the Fourth High Day and the Seventh Monthly First Day AT THE SAME TIME, and logically counted as only ONE 24 hour day, NOT two separate 24 hour days. Combined like this and logically counted as ONE 24 hour day, it actually gives the more significant SEVEN HIGH DAYS in total - without the First Day of each Month. In spite of this unusual nature of The Day of Trumpets, all the High Days and First Day of each Month, together with the SEPERATE 52 Weekly Sabbaths, still adds up to: 80 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar EXACTLY 70 ! THIS is the “70 x 7” allegory of Christ's words in Matthew 18: 21–22: Jacob/Israel had 12 sons, and with all their wives and children numbered 70 souls. 70 is the number of souls that went down into Egypt. (Joseph’s two sons were born in Egypt.) 70 is symbolic of the 12 tribes of Israel and Yahweh’s calendar for them: 12 Biblical months in the year. 12 hours in the day (John 11: 9). (Night = 4 x 3 hour watches – Psalms 90:4, Matthew 14: 25.) 7 days of creation in Genesis. 7 days in the week. Including The Day of Trumpets there are actually 7 High Day Sabbaths ! What is extra special about The Day of Trumpets ? “And the Yahweh said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.” (Joshua 6: 2–5) 1st day starting each 12 Months are High Days. 26 Weekly Sabbaths + 26 Weekly Sabbaths = 52 Weekly Sabbaths a year. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Months. Day of Trumpets is the 1st Day of the Seventh Month, and also at the same time: Day of Trumpets is the 4th High Day Sabbath uniting all 70 Holy Days. 26 Weekly Sabbaths before The Day of Trumpets. 26 Weekly Sabbaths after The Day of Trumpets. Day of Trumpets is the 4th Day of the Week ! Day of Trumpets is the 4th High Day Sabbath. 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 High Day Sabbaths. 4 5 6 7 Days of Creation. 3 days darkness then Light is given upon the Earth on the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14-19) After three days I will rise again. (Matthew 27: 63) 81 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar and after three days rise again. (Mark 8: 31) 1st Advent concluding the 4th millennium since Genesis 2:1–3 (Matthew 4: 15–17) But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (2 Peter 3: 8; Psalms 90:4) 1 2 3 4 Ά&Ω 5†††† 6††††† 7†7†7 millennium/days: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. (Revelation 22:13) The Christian Era = the day after Christ’s resurrection, to His 2nd advent: the Omer of Christ begins the 5th millennium since Genesis 2:1–3, with Christ’s 2nd advent concluding the 6th millennium: with the “great and dreadful day of Yahweh” 2nd Advent. The following 7th millennium is Christ's 1000 year reign on Earth ! Only after that will every day be a Sabbath. Read again The Millennium Feast of Weeks Timeline from page 33–41 above. I think that it’s safe to totally write off the lunar calendar ! The first day of each month cannot also be a weekly Sabbath day ! This means that the 1st Abib cannot be a weekly Sabbath ! After murdering first Christ, and later massacring thousands of the Jerusalem populace with the Sadducee Temple leadership in 67AD, the Pharisees finally gained full bloody control of the Temple. To implement their false lunar calendar they immediately changed the Omer to the 16th Abib. The lunar calendar has to have the Omer on the 16th Abib to successfully change the Passover High Day Sabbath, into a Passover High Day lunar weekly ‘sabbath’: Remember, the Omer has to follow a weekly Sabbath for the Feast of First Fruits or Pentecost to correctly fall immediately after a weekly Sabbath as well ! ! ! Can you see that THIS is why that change was necessary ? ?? Can you also see these days how potent this change has been in herding any escaping sheeple back into Esau’s many different lunar camps ? These poor sheep are unaware of the Boethusian/Sadducee assertion that the reaping of the Omer was not to take place at the conclusion of the first day of the festival: i.e. not on the 16th Abib ! The 18th Abib is the weekly Sabbath immediately before the Omer of the Sadducees Temple Calendar, which Christ endorsed ! (See pages 47 and 48 above) 82 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Messianic Edomites seem to have a very strong aversion to this date for the resurrection: Because it confirms the three full days and three full nights in the tomb. It points to the correct starting of the calendar on the 4th day of the week. It disproves their false lunar calendar ! Working back from an 18th Abib Sabbath First Resurrection Day: we get to the 1st Abib on the 4th day of the week – as transcribed in the DSS’s solar calendar ! What more proof do you want ? ! Well, as shown previously, with 30 days in Abib as most people agree, Paul shows in Acts 20: 5–7, that the third day of the second month was the first day of the week ! Again, working back from there: we get to the 1st Abib on the 4th day of the week as transcribed in the DSS’s solar calendar ! It is very important to note that John 20: 1–19 proves that there is no day change either at sunrise or at mid–day ! According to the Dead Sea Scrolls solar calendar the 14th to 19th Abib includes two Sabbaths: the Passover High Day Sabbath and the next weekly Sabbath. This is confirmed by a careful scrutiny of the crucifixion/resurrection events: 14th Abib. Christ’s “Last Supper” was a working day 14 Abib preparation–day evening meal: 14th Abib. Judas Iscariot left the “Last Supper” meal early; the other apostles assumed he had left to purchase things required for the Passover (John 13: 29–30), proof that the 14th was not a Sabbath of any kind whatsoever, and therefore the “Last Supper” was not the Passover meal ! 14th Abib. Christ was tried and crucified later on that same 14 Abib afternoon – if it was a Sabbath of any kind they would have been resting, not working ! They also previously confirmed that it would not be done on the High Day Sabbath or possibly on any of the 7 days Feast of Unleavened Bread (Mark 14: 1–2). 14th Abib. Joseph of Arimathaea also purchased fine linen that same afternoon (Mark 15: 46), proof again that the 14th was not a Sabbath of any kind whatsoever, and therefore the “Last Supper” was not the Passover meal ! 14th Abib. Christ’s body was wrapped and hurriedly laid in the tomb just before sunset as the High Day Sabbath approached (Luke 23: 53–54), proof that the day changes at sunset ! 15th Abib. The High Day Sabbath of the evening Passover Feast, and first day of the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread. 15th, 16th, 17th Abib. Christ spent three full nights and three full days in the tomb (Matthew 12: 40 and Mark 8: 31), and rose at the sunset end of the third day (Luke 9:22) starting the next day 18th Abib weekly “first of the Sabbaths” between Passover and Pentecost. 18th Abib. About 12 hours later just before dawn on this same weekly “first of the Sabbaths” (Mark 16: 1–3 and Matthew 28: 1, 4), the tomb was opened to reveal that Christ had already risen ! ( See pages 27–29 above.) 83 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar 19th Abib. The first working day immediately after the weekly Sabbath, when the Sadducees reaped and waved the Omer starting the 7 x 7 forty nine day Feast of Weeks count, up to the “last of the Sabbaths” after Passover, which falls immediately before “Pentecost” Why is the 1st Abib the 4th day of the week ? The beginning of the year is annually reset to start with the fourth day of the week. This is because during the six days of creation in Genesis, the Earth itself was only given light on the fourth day: making the fourth day Earth’s first discernable daily cycle of night and day. However we wish to see it, or however it actually was, the fact remains that the “lights” to “divide the day from the night” to be “for signs (signals), and for seasons (appointed meeting times), and for days, and years” (i.e. for calendar use), was only spoken into function by Yahweh on this fourth day of creation: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: the stars. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14–19) “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” (Exodus 12: 2). When Yahweh told the Israelites this (Exodus 12: 2), He was resetting the calendar they were familiar with, to re-start on the 1st Abib after the March equinox sunset. Was this day in Exodus 12: 2 the fourth day of the week ? Yes it was, because as proven in page 21 above with the corrected logic of pages 47 and 48 above, the 18th Abib is the weekly Sabbath immediately before the Omer of the Sadducees Temple Calendar, which Christ endorsed ! 84 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar As already shown, working back from the 18th Abib Sabbath First Resurrection Day: we get to the 1st Abib on the 4th day of the week – as transcribed in the DSS’s solar calendar ! As also shown previously, with 30 days in Abib as most people agree, Paul shows in Acts 20: 5–7, that the third day of the second month was the first day of the week ! And we saw that working back from there: we get to the 1st Abib on the 4th day of the week as transcribed in the DSS’s solar calendar ! And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. (Daniel 7: 25) Enquiring Christians quickly find that the solar Roman calendar we all follow today, is not scriptural. As they inquire further the bait has already been set long ago for the so called “lunar-solar” calendar. As shown above, any “lunar solar” calendar is also not Biblical. The moon is almost constantly out of sync with the sun. This so called ‘lunar-solar’ calendar continuously requires the occasionally inserted thirteenth month. This keeps the Biblical first month of Abib close to the northern hemisphere spring equinox. Without this extra inserted month everyone will know it is not Biblical, because the first day of the year will constantly drift through the calendar, just the same as with the Muslim lunar calendar ! The true Biblical calendar practiced in the Temple at the time of Christ was similar to the solar calendar of the Maccabees in the Book of Jubilees, the Enoch solar calendar and the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar. The focus is always away from this truth ! A solar calendar is the one we have to practice to keep all Yahweh’s appointed times: It starts at sunset ending the spring equinox day # 365 or leap year day # 366. These solar calendars, whenever they start, will regularly overlap the weekly Sabbaths with Sundays for a whole year. Despite controversy over the authenticity of some early Christian letters, it is clear that a swop was made at some very early point when the Sabbath and Sunday calendars almost synchronized. This was done in the Passover/Crucifixion/Easter spring, when it was easy for the Roman and Greek Christians, to accept a syncretized Biblical-Pagan religious calendar , thus dissolving differences and effecting a union. The Canaanite Edomites and their father deceive and destroy us through our own confusion ! 85 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar So we have to get back to Yahweh’s calendar to keep His appointments and meetings with us: But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. (Daniel 7: 26–27) The key to finding the weekly 7th Sabbath day is knowing the elusive 1st day. The DSS’s solved this problem by finding the Biblical first day of the year ! They show in their Enoch solar calendar that the first day of the Biblical year is the 4th day of the week - in line with the first discernable night and day cycle of Genesis: 1:14–19. When the Enoch solar calendar is started on this 4th day of the week, amazing things are displayed in the rest of the calendar as shown so far, and some more amazing things below ! By piecing together the suppressed Dead Sea Scroll’s calendar with the correct Sadducee Omer date, we can see the amazing patterns in the numbers all pointing to Christ in John 7: 37–38 ! The Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is all about Christ ! The Centre of the Seven day week is the 4th day. The Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar starts on the 4th day of the week and affirms the Sabbath Day Resurrection of Christ on the 4th day Weekly Sabbath – “after” three full nights and days in the tomb: Light was given upon the earth on the 4th day of creation (Genesis 1:14-19). Christ is born near the end of the 4th millennium since Genesis 2:1–3 (John 8:12; 9:5 Matthew 4: 15–17). The Day of Trumpets falls on the 4th day of the week. The 15th Abib Passover High Day is the 4th day of the week. Christ’s body was laid in the tomb starting the 4th day of the week 15th Abib Passover Feast. On the weekly Sabbath “after three days”, the 4th day Christ rose from the dead. “Light” is born on the earth in the 4th millennium since Genesis 2:1–3, which ended in Christ’s resurrection. The first Christian millennium is the 5th millennium, starting with the Omer of Christ Himself. The second Christian millennium is the 6th millennium, ending in the “dreadful day of Yahweh”. After three millennium days of light is the 7th millennium reign of Christ on earth, 86 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar and is the third millennium day “after two” Christian millennium days since the resurrection (see Hosea 6:1–3). The First Day of the seventh month is the central 4th day of the week, and also the centre of the 52 Weekly Sabbaths, and also The Day of Trumpets, which is the central 4th day of Seven High Day Sabbaths. The First Day of The Feast of Tabernacles is also the central 4th day of the week. The quarter 1st days of the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th months are all the 4th day of the week, and 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 = 22 2 + 2 = 4 and the 22nd of the 7th month is also the 4th day of the week. The 22nd of the 7th month is also the “last great day” of the Feast of Tabernacles (N.B. SEE John 7: 37). In the 7th millennium reign of Christ on earth, the 52 Weekly Sabbaths and Feast of Tabernacles etc. will be kept according to Isaiah 66: 19-23 and Zechariah 14:16–21. However in the 8th Last Great Day ( see John 7: 37 ) Every day will be a Sabbath ! Light given upon the earth on the 4th day of creation (Genesis 1:14–19) The Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar starts on the 4th day of the week. The First Day of The Feast of Tabernacles is also the 4th day of the week and since The Feast of Tabernacles is an eight day festival: the LAST GREAT DAY of The Feast of Tabernacles is also the 4th day of the week. Each quarter of the year also starts on the 4th day of the week: 87 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar i.e. the 1st day of the 1st month of the year the 1st day of the 4th month of the year the 1st day of the 7th month of the year the 1st day of the 10th month of the year. Also 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 equals 22 In The Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar the 22nd day of the seventh month is the fourth day of the week and also the LAST GREAT DAY of The Feast of Tabernacles. This is confirmation again that the Enoch Solar Calendar of the Dead Sea Scroll’s is correct in starting the Biblical calendar on the 4th day of the week: in line with the first discernable night and day cycle “upon the earth” (Genesis 1:14–19) Man / Adam was created the 6th day of Genesis. Adamic Man has had dominion over the earth for 7½ millennium and we are near the end of the 6th millennium since Genesis 2:1–3. Enoch’s 12 month calendar is made up of two six month halves and four three month quarters: 88 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH QUARTER QUARTER QUARTER QUARTER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4+5+6 7+8+9 10 + 11 + 12 1+2+3 = 15 & 1+5 = 24 & 2+4 = 33 & 3+3 =6 =6 =6 =6 Six is the number of man. 6 + 6 + 6 + 6 = 24 & 2 + 4 =6 The first 6 months depict the six thousand years from after Genesis 2:1–3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 In this 1 quarter after Genesis 2:1–3, three thousand years passed without the light of Christ upon the earth. st 4 5 6 In the 2 quarter nd Christ the Light was born, died and after three days rose from the dead on the fourth day ending the 4th millennial month, on the “first of the (weekly) Sabbaths” after the Passover High Day Sabbath: on the 4th day of The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Matthew 28: 1 and Mark 16: 1–3) The first Christian millennium is the 5th millennial month, starting with the Omer of Christ Himself. The second Christian millennium is the 6th millennial month, soon to end in the “dreadful day of Yahweh” 89 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar After these 3 millennium of light is the 4th millennium of light, which is the 7th millennial month reign of Christ on earth. i.e. in the 7 day millennial timeline of the 7 Day Millennial Week, after the resurrection of Christ finishing the central and 4th millennial day: after the 1st Christian Millennial Day, and after the 2 nd Christian Millennial Day: after these two Christian Millennial Days, “in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” (Hosea 6: 1–3) This “third day” “after” is the 7th Millennial Day of the Millennial Week. 90 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar In the first 7 days of creation the central 4th day is that day Light was given upon the earth. (Genesis 1:14–19) We’ve seen the 4th day in the 7 day millennial timeline of the Week. We’ve seen the 4th day resurrection of Christ after three days in the 7 day millennial timeline of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. We’ve seen the 4th day in the 7 day millennial timeline of the Feast of Weeks: culminating after the 7 Sabbath on the 7th day of the 3rd month in the th Feast of First Fruits / Day of Pentecost, starting the next 8th week on the 8th of the 3rd month, following 8 Sabbaths after the Passover ! The Bibles 12 month solar year has two halves and four quarters. Each quarter starts with the 4th day of the week. We’ve seen the 4th day in the millennial timeline of the Feast of Tabernacles: 91 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar ending in the 8th Last Great Day on the 4th day of the week on the 22nd day of the 7th month: the quarters start with months 1, 4, 7 and 10, the sum of which equals 22 2+2=4 The second half of the year mirrors the first half of the year. We see 26 Weekly Sabbaths in the first half of the year, 2+6=8 and we see 26 Weekly Sabbaths in the second half of the year. The 1st day of the 7th month is the central 4th day of all the 52 Sabbaths / Weeks 5+2=7 This CENTRAL day in the millennial 12 month calendar, which is the First Day of the Seventh Month, is also the central 4th High Day Sabbath Day of Trumpets, announcing the 92 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar 7th millennial reign on Earth of Christ our King! In this 7 millennium reign of Christ on earth, the 52 Weekly Sabbaths and Feast of Tabernacles etc. th will be kept according to Isaiah 66: 19-23 and Zechariah 14:16–21. However after this in the 8th Last Great Day / 8th Millennium Month every day will be a Sabbath ! How can we understand these 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th millennium month dimensions ? ? ? ? Some things are incomprehensible to us in this age: In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14: 2) Each quarter of the Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar, opening with the 4th day of the week, equals 91 days. 93 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The first 91 days of the three month first quarter, spans the Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks and Feast of First Fruits/Pentecost. There are actually two days in Yahweh’s calendar set for the Passover. If you were unable to keep the Passover on the first date, then provision is made for you in Num. 9: 3, 9–12 to keep it on the second date. This does not disrupt the total 70 Holy Day count, for the reason that you either keep one or the other date for the Passover, not both ! Christ didn't criticize the Sadducees for an illicit Temple calendar. Up until 67 AD Pentecost was determined according to the Sadducee method i.e. on the fiftieth day counted from “the morrow after the (weekly) sabbath” after the Passover: confirmed by the Boethusian/Sadducee assertion that the reaping of the Omer was not to take place at the conclusion of the first day of the festival: i.e. not on the 16th Abib ! The Sadducees followed the older “Aristocratic” view of holding the Omer: the Sabbath is the weekly Sabbath and the Omer wave offering occurs on the first day of the week after the 15th Abib and falling 94 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar within the seven day Feast of Unleavened Bread. With the calendar correctly opening with the 4th day of the week, the Temple Sadducees began the Pentecost count by the Wave Sheaf on the 19th Abib. i.e. after the 18th Abib weekly Sabbath within The Feast of Unleavened Bread. Christ confirmed this correct by: His crucifixion on the 14th Abib Passover preparation day, His resurrection “after” three full nights and days in the tomb (15th, 16th and 17th), His 4th day resurrection on the 18th Abib weekly Sabbath as “Lord even of the Sabbath day” His appearance numerous times during this weekly Sabbath day, the 18th Abib, central 4th day, of the 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread, all supporting the 19th Abib Sadducee Omer wave offering in the Temple the very next day ! In the Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar: The First Day of the year starts on the week’s central 4th day. The 15th Abib evening Passover Feast is on the central 4th day of the week. The 7 week Feast of Weeks actually spans all 3 months of the first 91 day quarter. The middle month of each quarter has an extra fifth Sabbath; all the other months have only four. These extra central Sabbaths of each quarter middle month ends the week of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th weekly Sabbath. 95 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The provision in Num. 9: 3, 9–12 for a second Passover, falls in the central 4th week of the Feast of Weeks. This central 4th week of the 7 week Feast of Weeks is also this same week of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th weekly Sabbath of the second month, and confirms the number of each day of its week: i.e. 14th is 1 + 4 = day 5. 15th is 1 + 5 = day 6. 16th is 1 + 6 = day 7 etc. This 16th of the second month is also the central 7th weekly Sabbath of the 13 Sabbath 91 day first quarter of the year, and also this 13th is the central 4th day of this central 4th week of the 7 week Feast of Weeks, 1+3=4 and this weeks dates also total the number of days in the quarter: 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 = 91 ! and also 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 = 91 ! These quarter 7th Sabbath 16th’s are also the 7th, 20th, 33rd and 46th Sabbaths of the year: 7 + 20 + 33 + 46 = 106 & 1 + 0 + 6 = 7 ! and these 7 digits total: 7 + 2 + 0 + 3 + 3 + 4 + 6 = 25 & 2 + 5 = 7 ! TEN symbolises Biblical completion. 13 Sabbaths complete each quarter: The sum of the quarter 13 weekly Sabbaths total 4 + 11 + 18 + 25 + 2 + 9 + 16 + 23 + 30 + 7 + 14 + 21 + 28 = 208 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sabbaths & 2 + 0 + 8 = 10 ! th This final 13 Sabbath is also the 28th & 2 + 8 = 10 ! The central 7th Sabbath is also the 16th & 1 + 6 = 7 ! 91 days complete each four quarters & 9 + 1 = 10 ! 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 & 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 40 ! (Ex 34:28; De 8:2; 1Ki 2:11; Jon 3:4; Mt 4:2; Ac 1:3) All these different patterns are repeated in each quarter of the year ! 96 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar This is all confirmation that the Enoch solar calendar must start on the 4th day of the week, as the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar indeed does ! This is also proof that on the Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar: the 19th Abib Sadducee Omer wave sheaf, and therefore the dates of the Sadducee Feast of Weeks, and therefore the date for the Sadducee Feast of First Fruits/Pentecost are one hundred percent correct ! 7 days of the week, 12 months in the year, 3 months in a quarter, 91 days in a quarter, 12 disciples and “13” including Christ Himself ! Christ said that in the Kingdom the disciples would be seated on 12 thrones 97 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar judging the 12 Tribes of Israel. (Matthew 19: 28) Christ’s is the central 13th throne. In Enoch’s Solar Calendar, during the Earth’s perfectly rounded 364 day orbit every weeks Sabbath is a central “13th day” i.e. each 13 days are centred by a weekly Sabbath: with six work days on either side ! Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning "3", kai meaning "and", deka meaning "10" and phobos meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is fear of the number 13 and avoiding it’s use. Edom abhors and fears Christ more than anyone else. The annual 12 months are made up of 4 x 3 month quarters, each one comprising 91 days. In the Dead Sea Scroll’s Enoch Solar Calendar, every 3 month 91 days is made up of 13 Sabbaths. 98 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Each central 7th Sabbath week of all four 13 Sabbath quarters, are also the central weeks of the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, the sum of which also is 91. In these 13 Sabbath quarters, the central 13th day of these central 7th Sabbath Weeks, are also the central 4th day of the week: Light was given upon the earth on the 4th day of the 7 days of creation (Genesis 1:14–19) Can you see what all this is building up to ? 99 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar N.B. see 1 John 4:1. Carefully review pages 18 and 19 above and validate everything you've read so far. Confirm in each quarter the number of days and weekly Sabbaths. Find the central weekly 7th Sabbath of each quarter: Total the dates of these weeks and identify their centres. Yahweh sent Israel into punishing exile for their jealousy provoking unfaithfulness, that culminated in idolatrous solar worship within the Temple itself: And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me. Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber. And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy. And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain. Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. 100 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall. Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up. Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, Yahweh seeth us not; Yahweh hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do. Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? 101 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these. And he brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of Yahweh, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Yahweh, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east. Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them. (Ezekiel 8:1-18) Singled out of all these abominations, solar worship was the greatest. Only “the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet”, which I suspect will prove to be lunar worship related, ranks up there with this solar worship “abomination”. “Sunrise Christian Services” are dangerously close to this “abomination” ! 102 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar In Biblical allegory, the sun which rises out the east and shines to the west, is used simply as the ultimate symbol: So shall they fear ( i.e. revere ) the name of - Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of Yahweh shall lift up a standard against him. (Isaiah 59: 19) But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. (Malachi 4: 2) 103 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when Yahweh of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. (Isaiah 24: 23) And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Revelation 21: 22–23) Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for 104 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Yahweh shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. (Isaiah 60: 20) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of- their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew 13: 43) In preparation for the astonishing information to follow Please, first see: “Great Wonder in Heaven” 70 weeks (70 x 7 years, see Genesis 29: 25–28) are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, 105 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most ¡ Holy. (Daniel 9: 24) One day before Christ’s crucifixion, while assembled at supper on the 13th day of Abib: ¡ “ the most Holy ” was anointed in Bethany. (Mark 14: 3 and Matthew 26: 6) Again, the next day, the day before the Passover Feast (see John 13: 1–2), at the sunset beginning of the 14th Abib: Christ with His 12 disciples sat at the table of the “Last Supper” 106 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Now before the feast of the passover, when Yahshua knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, ( not Passover ! - Christ’s “ last supper ” ) the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; John 13: 1–2 The “First Beast of Revelations” is the Pope under his Triple Crown claiming to be “Sol Dios / Christ on Earth” in the Vatican: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. (2 Thessalonians 2:3-4) 107 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar The Occult “Second Beast of Revelations” is the Illuminati, that mysterious “False Prophet” for Lucifer who is the “Shining Light Bearer”: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isaiah 14:12-14) Both are liars, but what is the truth ? Who is in fact - the true Light: Before Judas later departed early, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” portrays the reaction to Christ saying that one of His disciples would betray Him. Christ is the focal “sun of righteousness” centerpiece. His upper body and extended arms form Enoch’s Pyramid. 108 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar ▲ Christ’s head forms the corner capstone, ( Matthew 21:42; 1 Peter 2:6; Psalms 118:22-23 ) ▲ and His turned face puts His right Leonardo da Vinci’s eye in the center of the pyramids apex. “Last Supper” seating arrangements, show all the twelve-month-year’s four seasons - four groups of three disciples: 3 plus 3 then Christ then 3 plus 3. Six days either side - 7th Sabbath’s are thirteenth days: six disciples both sides of Christ the 7th and central thirteenth in Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. ▼ Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper” painting, comprises two groups of artistic lines of perspective both in the original and the better preserved contemporary copies: some join up behind Christ's head in an invisible halo/setting-solar-disc/crown, or on Christ's right eye Despite Lucifer and the Pope, Leonardo painted the “I am” he believed is the true “Light of the World” 109 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Leonardo either had a good insight into the solar Biblical calendar, or access to a ‘lost Book of Enoch’ long before its re-discovery a few centuries later. Christ + counting 6 disciples from the left side = 7 = counting too from the right 6 disciples. 6+1+6 = 13 = 6 + 7 = 13 = 7 + 6 &1+3= 4: Light: “upon the earth” was given on the 4th day of the creation week (Genesis 1:14-19). I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (John 8:12) 110 (John 8:12) life. he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of the light of the world: I am The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com 111 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar 31 1st EXODUS 12: 1–3 ZECHARIAH 9: 9 JOHN 12: 12 SABBATH STARTING WEEK OF DANIEL 9: 27 THE "CUT OFF”OF DANIEL 9: 26 PASSOVER HIGH DAY EVENING FEAST Resurrection Day : First of the Sabbaths Six days before Passover - JOHN 12: 1 4 quarters, of 91 days = one year of 364 days. Each quarter has 13 weekly Sabbaths. 12 First days of the month + 52 Weekly Sabbaths + You are There:▼ Proverbs 25:2 6 High Days = † ¡ 70 HOLY DAYS Acts 1:3 & 2:1 Day 50 = PENTECOST EQUINOX SUNSET RESETS 1ST TO WEEKDAY #4 GENESIS 1: 14–19 IS THE CALENDARS 1ST DAY 1ST SABBATH I S THE 4TH DAY OF THE YEAR ENOCH’S CALENDAR, CHRIST, ENOCH’S PYRAMID AND YAHWEH’S HOLY DAY TIMELINE. Day 1 of month 7 also = The Day of Trumpets. The quarter 1st days on the 1st, 4th, 7th & 10th months are all also the 4th day of the week: 1 + 4 + 7 + 10 = 22 = THE 8th LAST GREAT DAY 2 + 2 = 4 7 x 7 weeks = 49 day Feast of Weeks to the 7th on the 7th Sabbath plus the “GROUND ZERO” Sabbath Day RESURRECTION making these SABBATHS a total of 8. ! ST ND 1 Week 2 Week 3RD Week 4TH Week 5†H Week 6†H Week 7TH Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 day 8 – 14 day 15 – 21 day 22 – 28† day 29 – 35 day 40 = 28TH day 43 – 49 4 9 10 11 14 15 18 19 21 25 ▐2 16 9 23 28 30 ▌ 7 8 DEAD SEA SCROLL’S: The DSS’s calendar adds on our extra day #365, and on leap years day #366, to the end of Enoch’s solar year: without upsetting any Biblical Holy Days and Festivals ! This calendar is annually reset at sunset on the March spring equinox to start the next year again on the 4th day of the week, as in Genesis 1:14-19, but the Sadducee 19th Abib is the correct Omer date ! 14 21 31 28 1 1 = 30 Days Month 2 = 30 Days Month 3 = 31 Days Ex. 15:22 The 18 Sabbath Day Resurrection is the central FEAST OF WEEKS starting from the 19th Abib Omer: th 7 x 7 weeks = 49 days & 4+9 = 13. After the 49th day 4 day of the 7 day FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: 15+16+17+18+19+20+21 = 126 7th Sabbath on the 7th: day 50 = Pentecost on the 8th th plus 8 Pentecost = 134 & 1+3+4 = 8 + the 18th “Ground Zero” Resurrection Sabbath is 661 206 12 75 25 6 LIGHT was given “upon the earth” on the 4th day of creation: Genesis 1:14-19 John 8:12 Luke 20:17-18 Psalms 118:19-29 N.B. See: Jeremiah 32:20 12 39 13 4 91 21 13 91 39 12 2 11 7† 4 10 = 30 Days Month 18 1 31 Four 31st inter-calendar days 3+1 = 4 31 + 31 + 31 + 31 = 124 & 1+2+4 = 7 & these 8 digits total 16 & 1+6 = 7 H 7† Christ’s Christmas Day conception ! Luke 1:24-55 25 Month 28 21 9 = 31 Days 14 Month 7 ▐30 23 206 661 6 25 75 12 25 75 12 206 661 2+5=7 2+0+6=8 6+6+1=13 3 13 39 12 364: 3+6+4=13 & 1+3=4 S A T A N = 5 13 19 91 4x6=24 & 2+4=6 = MAN & 661+5 = 666 39 91 † CHRISTIAN or Mammon Beast † 9 16 23 12 The Day of Trumpets, 30 IS ALSO the 1st day of month 7 : it is day #183 and the weekly 4th day centre of 52 Sabbath days: in-between 26 Sabbaths in each half of the year. 2+6 = 8. & 5+2 = 7 Also day #183 is 1+8+3 = 12 & 1+2 = 3 Atonement Day Lamb † Born On The 10th before the 8 day FEAST OF TABERNACLES: 15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22 = 148 & 1+4+8 = 13 & 1+3 = 4 Also 1+6 = 7 & these 16 digits ALSO total 49 ! & 4+9 = 13 ! 7 ZECHARIAH 14:16 ► ΆΩ 7†h MILLENNIUM. 9 14 21 28 Month 7 = 30 Days Luke 2:1-21 2 ▌ 25 22 18 15 1110 4 8 = 30 Days Revelation 20:11-15 16 2 †Month 6 = 31 Days Every 6 days + 7 Sabbath + 6 days = 13 Each quarter ALSO has the same 13 Sabbath dates: 4+11+18+25+2+9+16+23+30+7+14+21+28 = 208 2+0+8=10 & 208×4 quarters = 832 & 8+3+2 = 13 These 22 digits total 73 10 = c o m p l e t i o n & 7+3=10 & 73×4 quarters = 292 & 2+9+2 = 13 & 22×4 quarters = 88 & 8+8 = 16 & 1+6 = 7 th 13 6 22x2 + 25x2 =94 & 9+4=13 661 206 12 = 31 Days Month 11 = 30 Days Month 9 19+3 = 22 & 1+9+3=13 12 39 91 Anointing¡ of Messiah 13 21 91 was on Abib the 13th & Passover Feast 4 13 39 12 is always on the 4th night of the week. 18 25 †Month 5 = 30 Days 16 12 75 25 6 6 disciples + CHRIST + 6 disciples 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13 equals the 91 day 13 Sabbath quarters. Daniel 9:24 & Mark 14:19 11 33.33΄ ► 23 8. Sabbaths in total: 18+25+2+9+16+23+30+7 = 130 1+3+0 = 4 These 8. Sabbaths are ALSO 13 digits: 1+8+2+5+2+9+1+6+2+3+3+0+7 = 49 ! & 4+9 = 13 ! 3rd Month 8th Pentecost alludes to John 7: 37-38 The 8th “Last Great Day” & the 8th MILLENNIUM 4 = 30 Sabbath 7th days = 52 & 5+2 = 7 Total Holy Days = 70 & 7+0 = 7 4 x 91 day Quarters: 9+1=10 & 4 x 10=40 Quarter 7th Sabbaths are all the 16th & 1+6 = 7 & 10+11+12+13+14+15+16=91 12 GENESIS DAY # 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7.=28 91 39 The 7th + 20th + 33rd + 46th Sabbath 16th’s 91 19 13 = 106 & 1+0+6 = 7 & these 7 digits: 7+2+0+3+3+4+6 = 25 & 2+5 = 7 12 39 13 3 Ex. 15:23-27 1000÷30 7 4 14 These 15 digits also total 53 & 5+3 = 8 Dan. 9:27’s WEEK: 11+12+13+14†¡+15+16+17 = 98 & 9+8 = 17 & 1+7 = 8 & 14 digits = 35 & 3+5 = 8 91 x 4 = 364 & 28 x 13 = 364 & 12 x 12 000 = 144 000 Month 21 th 21+4 = 25 & 2+1+4=7 ABIB Month 28 112 ▼ 1 31 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com “Joshua” was a “type of Christ” foreshadowing his namesake: “Yahshua” our Messiah. Yahweh commanded Joshua’s army to march around Jericho as instructed: Once a day for 6 days, with the ark and 7 priests continually blowing 7 trumpets. On the 7th day with the ark, we marched around Jericho 7 times, with the 7 priests continually blowing the 7 trumpets. The last 7th time the 7 priests with the ark blew a loooong blaaast of the 7 trumpets. We all shouted and the walls of Jericho collapsed, allowing us to storm the “accursed city”. Except for Rahab and her household as Yahweh had instructed us, we utterly destroyed the city (Joshua 6:1-27). This means that we actually marched around “the accursed city” 13 times in total ! One day is with Yahweh as a thousand years (2 Peter 3: 8; Psalms 90:4). Week 1: 1. Light was created the 1st day of Genesis. 2. (The 2nd consecutive day) 3. (The 3rd consecutive day) 4. “Light upon the earth” was given the 4th day of Genesis (Gen. 1: 14–19). 5. (The 5th consecutive day) 6. Adam was created the 6th day of Genesis. 7. Yahweh rested from creation this 7th day of Genesis. Adam multiplied and replenished the earth for about 900 years. Noah and Enoch were born in this period. 113 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Week 2: 1. Yahweh began His creation work again with Noah, the flood and a new earth. (The 8th consecutive day) 2. (The 9th consecutive day) 3. (The 10th consecutive day) 4. CHRIST / LIGHT in His 1st Advent, was born near the end of the 4th millennium after Yahweh’s first day of rest. (Remember that “Light upon the earth” was given the 4th day of Genesis) (The 11th consecutive day) 5. 1st Christian millennium starts with the Omer of Christ after His resurrection: ± 31 AD. (The 12th consecutive day) 6. 2nd Christian millennium – th (the 13 consecutive day ! ) Babylon and Esau’s strong city is stormed and utterly destroyed at the end of this 13th consecutive day: with Christ’s 2nd Advent at approximately 2031 AD – depending on the correct crucifixion date of Christ ! 7th millennium since the first day of rest. The Kingdom of the Gospel 7. The is finally established. This is the Millennium Reign of Christ on Earth: The THIRD DAY/MILLENNIUM since the death of Christ. (N.B. see Hosea 6:1–3) (The 14th consecutive day – i.e. the second seventh day of rest from creation) “And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.” (Isaiah 11:10) 114 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com What about the Exodus weekly Sabbaths ? The Exodus First Month Untouched by the vowel pointed Masoretic text, the Dead Sea Scroll’s indicate all Enoch’s solar calendar weekly Sabbaths. The 18th Abib is the weekly Sabbath day and the 4th day centre of the 7 day Feast of Unleavened Bread ! The Boethusian/Sadducee’s also asserted that the reaping of the Omer was not to take place at the conclusion of the first day of the festival, i.e. not on the following 16th day of Abib ! Yet they did wave the Omer sheaf after the weekly Sabbath within the Feast of Unleavened Bread ! i.e. We therefore have two separate witnesses, both before, during and soon after the time of Christ, saying that the evening of the Passover on Abib the 15th was not a weekly Sabbath day ! The 15th Abib Passover evening Feast, was never ever a weekly Sabbath day ! Roasting the Passover lamb and burning its remains before midnight proves this, because cooking and kindling a fire is forbidden on every weekly Sabbath day ! Work on every weekly Sabbath is forbidden, and that evening “the destroyer” of Yahweh was very hard at work, entering every unmarked home and smiting all the firstborn of Egypt – he definitely was not resting ! Work by moving camp is forbidden on the weekly Sabbath, yet Israel was commanded to fully pack up and be ready to start trekking after midnight, and to continue trekking throughout the rest of this 15th Abib day ! Maybe all this is permitted on the false lunar calendars ‘weekly sabbaths’, but definitely not on Yahweh’s solar calendars true weekly Sabbath days ! Beware the Edomite smoke, mirrors and lies - even the moon itself is just a pretty mirror, not a burning star ! Don't let EDOMITES ‘read it’ FOR us – Just like the Edomites are doing to Christian Israel today, Pharaoh had killed many of Israel's children, and burdened Israel under severe economic bondage. Moses had repeatedly asked Pharaoh to let the Israelites journey three days into the wilderness: to sacrifice to Yahweh (Exodus 3:18; 5:3; 8:27). The intention, request and understanding was that they would actually return to Pharaoh when they were finished, which is why Pharaoh was going to allow only the men to go at one stage (Exodus 10:8-11). After more plagues Pharaoh was going to allow them all to go, but the herds and flocks were to remain behind, as they were all going to return (Exodus 10:24-26). Moses demanded all the flocks and herds to go as well, because he didn't know exactly what sacrifice Yahweh required, yet they were never meant to permanently leave Pharaoh (Exodus 8:28). 115 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart and only after the 10th plague on the night of the Passover, did he finally give his consent. Only now Pharaoh relented to all demands, after his own firstborn son was dead, as Yahweh and Moses had originally warned him ! (Exodus 12:30-33). Pharaoh now actually ordered them to: “go, serve Yahweh, as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.” i.e. all travel three days into the wilderness with flocks and herds to sacrifice to Yahweh “as ye have said”, bless Pharaoh as well and return again afterwards ! In the early hours of this morning, after starting the three day trek into the Egyptian wilderness at night before sunrise, the Israelites passed by at dawn in sight of all Egypt burying their firstborn. The Egyptians had already gladly lent the Israelites their prized jewelry and possessions to appease their God, but stubborn Pharaoh had brought on this final tenth plague, killing all their firstborn ! The whole of Egypt was party to and profited from Pharaoh’s crimes ! This was no “day of gladness” – just yet ! This was a somber procession ! “And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand (“ from Rameses”) in the sight of all the Egyptians.” (Numbers 33:3) For THREE DAYS they travelled into the wilderness, well within reach of Pharaoh’s army: The 15th Abib therefore was not then and is not now a weekly Sabbath day. The 15th Abib 1st day they all travelled and camped at Succoth (Exodus 12:37). The 16th Abib 2nd day they travelled again until the afternoon and camped at Etham (Exodus 13:20). The 17th Abib 3rd day Yahweh instructed them to turn away from exiting Egypt eastwards above the top end of the Red Sea (Gulf of Suez), and to travel further down the west side within Egypt and camp at Pihahiroth (Exodus 14:2). Only now Pharaoh thought that they were going to actually try and escape Egypt, but had somehow made a wrong turn (Exodus 14:3-9). Leaving Egypt was never on Pharaoh’s agenda ! Enclosed here between the desert mountains and the sea, Pharaoh’s spies told him the Israelites were trapped and he personally lead his army in to guarantee their return to bondage. That 18th Abib NIGHT Yahweh parted the Red Sea and the Israelites passed through safely: “And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them:” (Exodus 14:19). This “angel of God” was Christ Himself: “Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:1-4). 116 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar He is our Shepherd - the Stone of Israel - see Genesis 49:24 ! “And Moses STRECHED FORTH HIS HAND OVER THE SEA, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. THUS Yahweh saved Israel THAT DAY out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead¡ upon the sea shore¡ And Israel saw that great work which Yahweh did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared Yahweh, and believed Yahweh, and his servant Moses” (Exodus 14:27-31). “Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto Yahweh… And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to Yahweh, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15:1-21). “And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer . . . And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.” (Psalms 78:35,51-53) This 18th was a great “day of gladness”, salvation, celebration and thanksgiving ! This 18th according to the Dead Sea Scroll’s solar calendar, was the weekly Sabbath day ! This 18th Sabbath day, Christ our Shepherd/Stone/Rock herded the whole flock of Israel out of the Egyptian pit ! (N.B. see Matthew 12:8-13). This 18th was the weekly Sabbath day and so they would not have travelled any further that day, because they were already out of the pit and it was fitting to celebrate and praise Yahweh, as they did for the rest of that day on the opposite shore of the Red Sea ! After three days journey across Egypt to the Red Sea this 18th Abib Sabbath day salvation of Israel is also that 18th Abib Sabbath Day Resurrection of Christ – Lord of the Sabbath Day – after three full nights and three full days in the dark tomb: “He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for Yahweh hath spoken it.” (Isaiah 25:8) So Moses and Yahweh didn’t lie - they did travel THREE DAYS into the Egyptian wilderness to sacrifice, and by the end of the third days travel they encamped at the Red Sea: That 18th NIGHT starting the 4th day, Pharaoh, his chariots, horses and army were all sacrificed¡ in the ¡Red Sea¡ Death for Israel ¡was literally swallowed up¡ 117 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar Pharaoh had no idea that he himself¡ and his oppressive army¡ were to be Yahweh’s sacrifice (sacrificial¡ Red Sea slaughter/feast¡ in divine judgment¡) The Red Sea Gulf of Suez ¡tongue of the Egyptian sea ¡ literally swallowed them up ! Now there was no Pharaoh to return to and Israel was free to go. The 19th they traveled into the wilderness of Shur one day, without finding any water. The 20th they traveled into the wilderness of Shur a second day, without finding any water. The 21st they traveled into the wilderness of Shur a third day, without finding any water at all ! (Exodus 15:22) The 22nd they again traveled a 4th day, but this time they did find water when they arrived at Marah, but the water was bitter ! (Exodus 15:23). This was definitely not a weekly Sabbath day ! This 22nd, was now actually the 4th day of the week, confirmed also by the Dead Sea Scroll’s: 2 + 2 = 4 – corresponding to the 4th millennium since after Genesis 2:1–3. This is what Yahweh is showing us ! This is also just like the first three days of creation in Genesis: when light was only given “upon the earth” on the 4th day of the week (Genesis 1:14-18). This water at Marah was only found at the end of the 4th day and was bitter, but Yahweh showed Moses a tree that he threw into the bitter water making it sweet (Exodus 15:25): Christ “great light” was born near the very end of the 4th thousand years/millennium since Genesis 2:1–3. At Marah, meaning “bitter” Moses threw the branch Yahweh showed him into the bitter water making it sweet: that 22nd day is possibly the same day approximately 1480 years later ( 1 + 4 + 8 + 0 = 13 & 1 + 3 = 4 & 2 + 2 = 4 ) when John the Baptist was baptizing in the Jordan. Christ “the BRANCH” HIMSELF entered the water, taking out the bitterness and making it sweet with: The Kingdom Gospel of sweet “living water” ( Matthew 3:11-17; Zechariah 3:8-10 & 6:12-13; Jeremiah 23:5-8 & 33:15-16 ) He didn’t remove the water, He took out the bitterness, making it pleasant to drink ! (Matthew 5:18-19) This 22nd day of the first month is mirrored in the duplicate second half of the year by that 22nd day of the seventh month 118 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar which is the last eighth great day of the Feast of Tabernacles: In the last day, that great day of the feast, Yahshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7: 37–38) The 23rd Yahweh “proved them” there at Marah: “And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of Yahweh thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am Yahweh that healeth thee.” (Exodus 15:25-26). This 23rd, although vague in the Masoretic text, I believe is the next 5th day of this week: 2 + 3 = 5 – corresponding to the 5th millennium since after Genesis 2:1–3. i.e. the first thousand years of the Christian era following the resurrection of Christ: “proving” the Christian era – and oh¡ how they ¡proved¡ themselves¡ The 24th is also unclear in the Masoretic text, but I believe that it is the next day – ending when they arrived at Elim: “where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.” (Exodus 15:27). This 24th, although vague in the Masoretic text, I believe is the next 6th day of this week: 2 + 4 = 6 – corresponding to the 6th millennium since after Genesis 2:1–3. i.e. the second thousand years of the Christian era following the resurrection of Christ: Depending on the correct resurrection date and following day Omer of Christ Himself, we are only now in the last years of the second Christian millennium before 119 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com Christ’s 2nd Advent. WE ARE NOW: where Yahweh starts restoring His solar calendar to Israel – His twelve months and threescore and ten holy days – just before Christ’s 2nd Advent: WE ARE NOW SETTING UP CAMP AT ELIM ! The 25th thus found them already encamped at Elim the late afternoon before by 12 wells of water and 70 palm trees ! This 25th Abib at Elim is the next 7th day weekly Sabbath: 2 + 5 = 7 – corresponding to the 7th millennium since after Genesis 2:1–3. i.e. the 7th millennium reign of Christ on Earth ! The Exodus Second Month The 15th day of the second month after leaving Egypt, the Israelites “came unto the wilderness of Sin” (Exodus 16:1). This 15th day they actually “came unto/entered” (see Strong’s) the wilderness of Sin after traveling the whole day, thus disproving again the lunar ‘sabbaths’: On this 15th day of the second month they traveled into the wilderness of Sin ! This 15th day was therefore not a weekly Sabbath day ! Read it VERY carefully ! THINK about it ! Don't let Edomites confuse and hoodwink you ! Then, whichever way you carefully look at it, after entering the wilderness of Sin and setting up camp at the end of this 15th day: The 16th/next 24 hours the Israelites went hungry, because their food had run out ! This 16th day of the second month was actually: The Weekly Sabbath Day, confirmed in the Dead Sea Scroll’s ! 120 The Temple Calendar http://www.declarethedecree.com The Israelites first “murmured/complained/grumbled”, then fasted for this whole weekly Sabbath day while receiving instructions from Yahweh for all future weekly Sabbaths (Exodus 16: 2–12). Yahweh informed them that He would provide daily food for five days of the week and double on the sixth day, because none would be provided on the seventh day weekly Sabbath of rest, as they were already experiencing as He spoke ! No doubt their stomachs also “grumbled” and this was a very important lesson on an empty stomach ! The 16th day sunset ended this fasting 7th day weekly Sabbath of instruction, and started the 17th day of the second month: The 17th / first day of the week began with quail roosting at dusk, and the Israelites had roast quail for supper ! Daybreak began with the morning dew leaving behind “manna”, and the Israelites had “bread” to eat ! The 18th / second day of the week they had quail and manna. The 19th / third day of the week they had quail and manna. The 20th / fourth day of the week they had quail and manna. (A workday: see Numbers 10:11–12) The 21st / fifth day of the week they had quail and manna. The 22nd / sixth day of the week they had quail and double the manna for the next day weekly Sabbath. The 23rd / seventh day of the week, is again the weekly Sabbath day, confirmed also in the Dead Sea Scroll’s: and there were no quail and no manna that day ! (See Exodus 16:13–31). You cannot kindle a fire and cook on the weekly Sabbath day, so if you don't “gather/prepare” double on the 6th day: be prepared to go hungry on the 7th day weekly Sabbath ! i.e. rather fast for one day, than defile the weekly Sabbath, but if you will gather/prepare for the Sabbath, Yahweh will provide for you to do that, and if you won’t gather/prepare for the Sabbath: don’t expect any miracles ! 121 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar These weekly Sabbaths are the same as the Dead Sea Scroll’s. This is how they understood it before the Masoretic Text obscured things: with their editing and vowel pointing away from Christ ! The Exodus Third Month ( Weekly Sabbaths in the Exodus third month coming soon ) In the Dead Sea Scrolls Enoch solar calendar, there are 30 days in the 4th month: and the 4th millennium divided by 30 days equals 33.33´ years. This last ‘day’ / lifespan of Christ ended the 4th millennium, and is the highest honorary degree in Freemasonry – now usurped by the anti-Christian Edomite Illuminati Luciferians (N.B. see Isaiah 14:12-14). Although the new vowel pointed Masoretic text is vague enough to allow lunar calendar advocates to try claim the 15th and 22nd Abib as lunar weekly ‘sabbaths’, the evidence is still very strongly against them ! Being non-Christian anti-Christians, the Edomite Masoretes deliberately translated, arranged and vowel-pointed the Masoretic Text: – away from Christ wherever they thought they could, and actually did, get away with it ! Likewise many new to qualify for ©opyright ‘Bibles’ all deliberately change over 10% of the Biblical text: ©opyright financial gain $$$ Many of these new ‘Bibles’ also subtly and deceitfully point away from: the virgin birth and deity of Christ – wherever they think they can get away with it ! 1 23 456 7 8 9 10 ( “70 Holy Days” is still a work in progress. Previously published parts are corrected or modified as more information is being added. It is advisable to download the latest fuller version.) 122 http://www.declarethedecree.com The Temple Calendar See also Appendix G: My Curse and Appendix E: The Passover Lamb of God Click Back arrow ( top left of Internet Explorer – current window ) to return to your place. Or click here for Marriage of the Lamb Contents 123