I’m
certainly no expert.I’m not even
Jewish.But everything that I’ve
found concerning Passover (Pesach) states that it is always observed on
Nisan 15, regardless of the day of the week.
(And
I read it on the internet – so it must be true!!lol
;-))
I
think you are right in saying that:“The
Hebrew calendar is lunar which means it cannot be directly tied to the
"dates" or even months of our Gregorian calendar.”
This
is why I agree:Tishrei 1 is on Thursday,
September 16th this year.Does Tishrei
1 always fall on September 16th?No.
In fact, it falls on Tuesday, October 4th next year.Each
month on the Hebrew calendar begins when the first sliver of moon becomes
visible after the dark of the new moon (essentially the day after the new
moon).So what you said is true –
“The Hebrew
calendar is lunar which means it cannot be directly tied to the "dates"
or even months of our Gregorian calendar.”
If,
however, you are implying that you can not assign a Gregorian date
to a lunar event in the past, I disagree.
How
do we know that Tishrei 1 is going to be on October 4th next year?Because
the moon’s cycles are predictable.2000
years ago, people relied upon the actual observation of the 1st sliver
of light to accurately mark the beginning of the new month.Today,
there are computer programs that can tell you the exact minute that the
1st sliver of light will be visible, and can even add the caveat of your
latitude. (or longitude – if forget which.)
For
example:http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/
These
very same computer programs can tell us precisely the day the moon was
new in June LAST YEAR.Or the year
before.Or the year before that.
In
fact, that is one of the reasons that many scholars agree on April
3rd, 33 A.D.
I,
however, am not a scholar.I had
to take an Excel spreadsheet, and list days of the week, in order, about
a million times.Monday always followed
Sunday.Sunday always followed Saturday.
Etc.(You can only have 65000 entries
per sheet, so I made one sheet for each 100 years.)
I
then assigned a date.If Monday was
June 28th, then Sunday must have been June 27th.Saturday
must have been June 26th.Etc.
I
carefully checked for leap years, and leap centuries, and adjusted the
calendar for October 1582.
To
plot the Hebrew months and days, I used the program listed at:
http://www.aish.com/literacy/reference/AishLuach_(Luach_means_-Calendar-_in_Hebrew).asp
It
has applied the corrected dates for October 1582.Most
don’t.
I
looked specifically for a Nisan 15 that falls on a Saturday, between 25
A.D. and 35 A.D.
Having
decided upon 4/3/33,
I then counted forward 720000 days (2000 prophetic years (360 day years)).
Seeing
that the 2000 year anniversary of (when I think Jesus’ crucifixion was)
is less that 3 weeks away,I thought
I’d share it with the doves.
kc
PS:
Found this on the internet:
Two
Romanian astronomers say their research shows Christ died at 3pm
on a Friday, and rose again at 4am
on a Sunday.
Liviu
Mircea and Tiberiu Oproiu claim to have pinpointed the exact time and date
of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection.
The
pair, from the Astronomic Observatory Institute in Cluj, Romania,
say Jesus died at 3pm
on Friday,
April 3, 33 AD,
and rose again at 4am
on Sunday, April 5.
They
used a computer programme to check biblical references against historical
astronomical data.
They
said the New Testament stated that Jesus died the day after the first night
with a full moon, after the vernal equinox.
Using
data gathered on the stars between 26 and 35 AD they established that in
those nine years, the first full moon after the vernal equinox was registered
twice - on Friday,
April 7, 30 AD,
and on Friday,
April 3, 33 AD.
They
were convinced the date of the crucifixion was 33 AD, and not 30 AD, because
records showed a solar eclipse, as depicted in the Bible at the time of
Jesus' crucifixion, occurred in Jerusalem
that year.
Are
they right?I don’t know.(
I just find that I like information that supports my own work. lol ;-))