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The Calendar Debate Simplified

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  The Biblical Calendar is a hotly debated topic with a plethora of different opinions.  How can we know which is the right one? Let's start with what the Bible actually requires.  Genesis 1:14 “ Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years .’” A Calendar must use the heavenly bodies. Furthermore, the feast of Passover must be in the spring. (this is discussed later.) That's it!   Those are the Biblical criteria for a calendar. Nothing less and nothing more. The purpose of a calendar is to keep people in synchrony with each other. This admission allows us to disregard any “calendar” that fails to do this. To find out which calendar to use we must whittle the pool down to what works, and what does not.  Let us explore the workings of a calendar that we will label as “ Calendar X ”   This calendar in following the Biblical guidelines for...

The New Moon Part 2

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The “New Moon” in the Bible is erroneously thought to mean the first visible crescent of the waxing moon, the original Hebrew text, however, offers another option.  The word that has been translated into English as “New Moon” is the Hebrew word חֹדֶש (chodesh) This word is used 276 times in the Bible and means “Month” an example of this is Exodus 12:2:  NKJV: “This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.”   Hebrew: הַחֹ֧דֶשׁ הַזֶּ֛ה לָכֶ֖ם רֹ֣אשׁ חֳדָשִׁ֑ים רִאשֹׁ֥ון הוּא֙ לָכֶ֔ם לְחָדְשֵׁ֖י הַשָּׁנָֽה                    Literal translation: “This chodesh to you head chodeshim first he to you for chodeshei the year” There is no reference to the moon here, nor in any of the other 224 verses in which this word is used.   Look it up and see for yourself! you will be just as surprised to find this as I was.  The word chodesh is # H2320 in the...