Thoughts on #1abib #moedim #determiningthefeastdates: TL:DR - Do the calendar with fellow believers in your area. I.E. If they are running on Hillel II, do Hillel II.
When the question came up to do this subject, I had typed out a long response but thought it best to use it as a post once it was the topic. From what I have seen and studied out, a lot of people are passionate about their calendar choice. I can't tell you how many times I have run into people, with widely different viewpoints on the calendar, and they see their calendar as 100% correct. The one that has been in use since time began.
There is only one major problem with this: the timepeice that we are all to keep time with (Sun, Moon, and stars) have been broken by YHWH and the clock is off. So, no one today is keeping the same calendar as Adam or Moses or even Yeshua.
In Joshua 10, Joshua asks YHWH to make the Sun stand still, and both the Sun and the Moon stay in their place. No mention of the stars stopping, so we could assume this took the Sun and the Moon out of sync with the stars. If we don't want to assume, we still have further evidence:
In 2 Kings 20:1-11 / Isaiah 38:1-8 , Hezekiah is talking with YHWH and asks for the shadow of the Sun to step back 10 steps. Taking the Sun out of sync with the Moon and the stars.
Some say the sun dials had 360 steps, which makes sense as I'll show in a minute. Best guess is that moving 10 steps back would be about 40 minutes.
Now imagine you had a old gear clock and you did the same to it. Took one of the arms and forced it back 40 minutes. What do you think would happen to the time displayed over time? A week later? A year later? 2,000 years later?
What may have been a minor time sync problem, could turn into a major time sync problem. And as no one would live long enough to see the shifts "in real time" as they are happening, we just assume it has always been this way.
However, there is recorded history of a time when major shifts, around the time of Hezekiah, did happen and the world didn't know what to do. I like to refer to https://360dayyear.com, but there are other sites as well. This and other sites show that the ancient world, up until around 700 B.C. (During the reign of Hezekiah) were keeping a 360 day calendar.
There are even some accounts of when the Romans found extra days over the 360 in the year, they didn't count them and wouldn't pay their soldiers as "those weren't real days".
We see in Noah's account and also in Revelation, for their math to work on how many days passed in their timeframes given, a 12-month, 30-day month, 360-day year calendar would be what they are basing their times on.
As during John's time, there wouldn't have been a 360-day consistent year, to me, this shows that YHWH in the End Times will once again adjust His clock and bring the Sun, Moon, and Stars back into sync and we will again have a perfect 360-day year. Some believe this is the great Earthquake in Isaiah.
So, ALL that to say, no one today is going to have a perfect calendar, because the clock is off. Some read the clock as 1:45, others as 9:05, others read it in a way that makes you wonder if they are even looking at the clock (I won't say who). Regardless, find a group, and keep the Feast Days with them. I'll tell you from experience, that keeping the Days with people is a lot better than keeping them alone. I know there are a lot of folks around the world that are looking for that fellowship. Don't let calendar issues be what keeps you from it.
The calendar I currently follow has flaws, but as I've explained in this post, I expect that. I used to keep Hillel II until I started digging into calendars. Then I joined a group that kept a different calendar. This is what caused me to do a ton of research. I almost changed to an all together different calendar than Hillel and what we are currently using. In the end, I realized that everyone has great points. Everyone has Biblically sound reasons for the calendars they keep. Just like many other issues in Torah and the Bible that we all go back and forth on, we will all be on the same calendar when He sets His Kingdom up on Earth.
Leviticus 23:23—24, “The LORD also said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.” What makes this feast different is that is happens on a day when no one knew exactly what day it will be. The first day of the new month during the time of Moses needed to be verified by at least two witnesses who observed the new moon. They needed to be carefully watching the waning moon to be able to identify the first sliver of the new moon.
Lily Portion for Today: Friday January 26
Always remember as a parent, worry does not release tomorrow from its sorrow, it only robs today of its power. (Prayer: Adonai, help me as mother of this house to cope with my present sorrow to the best of my ability and to look forward to all the blessings You will share with me, amein)
Healing Power???
Reading Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch Me, because I was aware that power had gone out of Me.”
And in Luke 9:1 Now Jesus called together the twelve [disciples] and gave them power and authority over all the demons and to heal diseases.
The Greek word for "power" in these verses is "dunamis". So healing someone brought on a sensation that power has moved. This might not have happened at all times as Yeshua did heal people without actually going to them, but we are never told whether He still experienced the power leaving him.
This raised a few questions:
1. Was that same power transfered with the laying on of hands by Yeshua?
2. Was it only His disciples that received the power to heal?
3. Why don't we still see that power moving today?
Thought for Today: Friday January 26
The world was made for the body, the body was made for the soul, and the soul was made for Adonai Elohiym and therefore, the greatest dream of all is to know Him and to know what He has intended for your life.
Grant Marshall Marshall raised a good question on his article: Struggling with the Days & Wrestling with the Torah. - https://social.ttn.place/read-blog/251
He asks: What is your purpose in observing the feast dates, the moon cycles and the sabbaths?
What are your thoughts on this?
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