Thank you Douglas Henney and Jennie for noting discrepancies in the Spiritual Year Calendars for Israel during 2016. Following the Talmud, some believe there is a need in 2016 for an additional month 13 called Adar II, meaning Purim would be in March then Passover in April. According to www.torahcalendar.com, Purim was in February and the following will be dates for Nisan in April: Nisan 1 will be 3-10 to 11, Nisan 10 (Anniversary of Messiah riding into Jerusalem on a donkey) will be 3-19 to 20, and Passover at Nisan 14 will be 3-23 to 24.

 

   Todd D. Bennett of www.shemayisrael.net, the author of The Walk in the Light Books, follows the Torah Calendar. Some believe there will be the need for Adar II in 2017, not in 2016. So there are two interpretations. Choices. Will The Blessed Hope be "at a time you think not" at Passover thought to be Purim? Will the two witnesses "in the spirit of Moses and Elijah" soon appear in Jerusalem, like the evening of 3-23 of the reckoning of Nisan 14 Passover, The Night and Midnight Hour of Deliverance?

 

   "A time you think not" can mean that most Jewish Calendars state that the days of Purim are in March in 2016, when they are actually meant to be days of Nisan leading to Passover then the days of Unleavened Bread. If an incorrect Spiritual Year Calendar for Israel is followed, then all the Feasts of the Lord, other than Shabbats, will be incorrectly observed in 2016.

 

   Purim and Passover stories are about Freedom, Liberation, and Preservation. Who are Mediators and Leaders? There are Mordechai and Moses. Choices. Will 3-23 to 24 be about the Fast of Esther with Erev Purim and Purim or about Passover? Fast or Seder? Will some be indulging in "the cares of life" of drunkenness and dissipation and caught in the trap / the snare? Might it be The Night of Deliverance for The Bride / Body of The Messiah / Christ the Lord?

 

 

With Love and Shalom,

Jean