The months of both the Hebrew
Sacred Calendar and the Hebrew Civil Calendar are exactly
the same months. They all have the same names and they
all begin on a New Moon with ONE BIG
difference: The month of Nisan is the 1st month of the
Sacred Calendar as well as the 7th month of the Civil
Calendar. The month of Tishri is the 1st month of the Civil
Year Calendar as well as the 7th month of the Sacred
Year Calendar. They are six months apart.
"Now the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, "This month shall be
your beginning of months; it shall be the first
month of the year to you.....On the tenth day
of this month every man shall take for himself a
lamb.....you shall keep it until the fourteenth day
of the same month....the congregation of Israel shall kill
it at twilight.....It is the Lord's Passover."
There is no doubt that the
month of Nisan is the "beginning of months", or
in other words, the 1st month of the Sacred Year. On
God's Calendar the month of Nisan is the first
month of the Sacred Year as ordained by God. Himself
in Exodus 12:2
Remember how the ancient Jews
determined what day Rosh Hashana/Feast of Trumpets
came? They had two witnesses confirm that they both
saw the sliver of the New Moon appear which
determines the 1st day of Tishri which is the
7th month of the Sacred Year, which is
Rosh Hashanah.
Where does it say in Scripture
that: "the Lord and Israel do not now open day 1 of each
month precisely at the New Moon now" ?
Is this Scriptural or do we just
make things up as we go along now? Did the New Trestament
cancel the ordinances of God in the Old Testament ? Do the
practices and traditions of the modern Jews
now supercede the Word of God as
written in the Old Testament? I think not!
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Jim
Bramlett <jbramlett@earthlink.net> wrote:
Bruce, this is from my anonymous
friend...
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Jim...the
New Moons are Eternal...of course there are events under
the Law which do occur on the New Moon for sure, but
because the Lord and Israel do not now open Day 1 of each
month precisely at the New Moon now, does not diminish
Biblically-mentioned events taking place on the New
Moon. I would not be surprised to find out that
in the new heavens and the new earth - the great "8th"
day of Eternity - when the Lord has set all Creation
back again into 'perfect order' - that He might arrange
the calendar anew to begin the first day of each month
at the New Moon.
At
the time those verses below were written- it can be
proved from history that the nation of Israel was
observing the very same Fall Civil calendar which they
are on today. Back then, during the regime of the
Temples, Israel observed those laws of the New Moon on
their Civil calendar of today, at least since 432 B.C.,
for sure with the national acceptance of the institution
of the 19 year Metonic cycle. That was God's way
for now of reconciling 'perfect order' between the lunar
and solar calendar.