Coming into the prior Easter weekend recently, I
had a gut feeling that I was a month early in my
thinking in terms of high-watch dates during Nisan
this year. In other words, it wasn't Nisan
yet.
Each year of watching this can be a possibility
for the reason I am about to express. However,
this time around I was feeling more numb than usual
in terms of seeing watch days come and go and so I
was not really in the mood to accept the idea at
first. My thinking was, "Which high-watch-date
is the most accurate? The closest one!"
However, it was like God was personally "tapping
me' on my passivity. For example, I was
listening to a pastor read a section of scripture
where the point he was trying to make had nothing to
do with what I am sharing here, but it was as if the
Holy Spirit was pointing to a particular word in one
verse nonetheless. The verse was from Genesis
1:
14Then
God said , “Let there be
[s]lights in
the
[t]expanse of the
heavens to separate the day from
the night , and they shall
[u]serve as signs
and for seasons , and for days and years
;
The lights in the heavens were in part to be
used to determine "years". It was like I
was seeing the word "years" for the first time as
being in that verse. Prior, it was as if my
brain always focused on the Hebrew word/idea of the
"moed" translated into the English word "seasons",
then I would stop and simply reference the popular
Jewish calendar to note when a year began.
So, how do you keep track of a long count of
years over millennia? over two
millennia?
How about when the sun reaches the exact same
position amongst the stars/constellations as to when
it started? At that moment there is a
year-cycle completion.
This resonates with me because as New Creations
in Christ Jesus, we are blessed with every spiritual
blessing in heavenly/celestial places. In my
thinking, this implies that I am to especially place
weight on what is taking place amongst the sun, moon
and stars to discern what our God is about to
do. Also, we are seated with Christ Jesus in
heavenly places. That is our "view
point".
From that perspective I can "see" that the moon
is always a "full moon" just like my righteousness
before God is always complete because of what Jesus
pulled off for us. (I am even thinking that
perhaps instead of beginning a month because someone
on the other side of the planet says they see a new
moon sliver, that we instead reference the equinoxes
and solstices but I am not confident of that
idea). The nations in the future are to submit
themselves to God via Israel during the earth-based
kingdom reign of Jesus, but we as New Creations are
of a Reality that transcend that, being that we are
in union with Jesus Himself through the indwelling
Holy Spirit. Galatians 3 points to our
Reality:
23But before faith came, [ah]we were
kept in custody under the
Law, being confined for
the faith that was
destined to be
revealed. 24Therefore the
Law has
become our [ai]guardian to
lead us to
Christ, so that we
may be
justified by
faith. 25But
now that
faith has
come,
we are no longer under a [aj]guardian. 26For
you are all sons and
daughters of
God through faith in
Christ Jesus. 27For
all of
you who were
baptized into
Christ have
clothed yourselves
with Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek,
there is neither slave nor free,
there is [ak]neither male nor female;
for you are
all one in
Christ Jesus.
When Jesus died for us, the sun was definitely in
the Lamb of God constellation. Per the
Stellarium app on my phone, on this past Easter
weekend the sun was still NOT at that point yet, and
it would not be until closer to the end of April.
In other words, due to the precession of the
equinoxes over a couple thousand years or so, if I
am referencing the sun's position in the background
of constellations to mark the completion of a year
count (as Genesis 1:15 seems to indicate) then that
sun-position-count will be about one month "later"
than what some other calendars may indicate.
Is this one month difference between what I am
thinking, verses what the Jews of today proclaim in
their calendar, a problem for God? No.
And this is why I wonder if God took this into
account by having Second Passover be one month after
First Passover.
If valid, then our first month Passover dovetails
with the Jewish second month Passover (presuming to
start a month like the Jews do).
A difference between the two is that the Second
Passover does not have a Feast of First
Fruits. As New Creations in Christ Jesus,
Jesus is our First Fruits. There is not
another subgroup within the body to serve as a
Firstfruits, as if somehow, by watching for Jesus,
takes on a special status with God beyond the
complete righteousness I have, all because of and
only because of Jesus.
Watching, watching
God bless you.