For those Articles that are about the Biblical Hebrew Calendar start to read the following in this order. (1) The Mark of the Beast Which explains how to Identify the Mark from Scriptures. A very controversial and disturbing read. Make sure you read to the end, especially if you think you are already keeping the Holy Days. (2) The Return of Yahshua This article explains why you will not know when He is to return based on the Feast of Trumpets and how to determine it. (3) The Sign of Jonah which will show you how to count to three. (4) Pentecost Hidden Meaning shows the meaning of the two wave sheaf offerings and the necessity to have Barley at the beginning of the year. (5) Conjunction or Sighted Which? is an insightful article showing how the scriptures show which Moon is to be used to determine the beginning of the month. (6) The Glory of Yahweh and the Glory of Kings shows how Yahweh has hidden things and Kings are to search out those truths contained in the scriptures. It is also the conclusion of all the evidence concerning the calendar and asks you to decide how it should be determine. You are asked to judge, based on the evidence shown you in these articles, because you have the potential to be a King in the Kingdom of Yahweh. (7) Admissions of the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar is an article using the Jewish Ecylopedia and COG Quotes showing that the Churches of God do know and have admitted to knowing that the Hebrew Calendar they now adhere to, was and is in error. Well you obey Yahweh or will you continue to follow the traditions of men?

Those articles covering this important subject are covered under the following Headlines. (1) The Biblical Calendar is needed to be understood before you can go on to understand the Jubilee message as so much about the Jubilee comes from understanding the deep meaning of each of the Holy Days laid out in Leviticus 23. So I recommend this as a basic first read. (2) I also know many of you will skip step one, and if you do you need to read at least the following. Pentecost Hidden Meaning which explains the counting to 50 for Pentecost. A yearly reminder of the Jubilee year.(3) Having read the preceding proceed on to read The Eighth Day, which explains why the Eighth day of the Feast oF Tabernacles is important, the day Yahweh comes to this earth. This understanding is needed to be able to understand the timing of Prophecy that the Jubilee explains. (4) The Land Sabbath- A commandment for Today is an article by Hope Of Israel Ministries which explains why we need to keep the laws of the Land Rest years and the Jubilee in our age. They are not done away. (5) The article I am currently rewritting. Times Up! No More Excuses. It should soon be ready but is not now. I have now posted it on the site and will edit it as time permits. I beleive it to be so important that it can not wait any longer. It will explain when the Jubilee is and the importance of understanding it’s meaning. By Understanding this you then can understand prophecy in a much clearer light, and not be blown around by the many interpretations that are out there. Understanding the calendar and all the articles aforementioned is needed if you are to understand this. Skipping to the end will not help the serious student to understand. We are living in the last days. You do need to know what Yahweh is going to do next and how long it will last. Times Up! No More Excuses explains this in a convincing manner. (6) The Sign The Seal and The Secret is a very deep understanding of the Jubilee message and conclussion of Yahweh’s Plan. I myself have argued against it in the past passionately. It is only after much prayer and study that I have come to understand this controversial subject. Graig Peters does a good job of explaining it.

In this categorie will be those articles that are from or for the heart. To help each of us be more than we are.

Living with an Uncoverted Mate is my personal experence of living with and loving a spouse who does not and cannot see those spiritual things that those who are called can see.

Pay It Forward is an article on How and Why we should be generous. It is the result of a conversation I had with someone at the Feast.

How Will You Be Remembered? is an article about the death of My Nan, and comparing it to the death of our dog at the same time.

Shall We Dance? is an article about my Feast Experience this year of 2006. It deals with the Pride we all harbour.

Blessed is the Peace Maker is an article concerning the Beatitudes ( beautiful Attitudes). It is not what we have been taught.

We are now in the 4th month,
of the 7th year of the 2nd cycle of seven year cycles, or the 14th year,
of the 119th Jubilee since creation
The 4th month of the year 5845
This is A SABBATICAL YEAR

Thanks to Joseph Dumond of www.sightedmoon.com for picking out a second small typo in the Spring Festival Dates chart. If YHWH wills, it is now corrected. Please discard the earlier charts, and use only the one marked “v1.2″. And thank you for proving all things.

Unless it turns out that the first crescent sliver of the new moon actually was sighted from the Land of Israel on 3/27 (which seems unlikely), this month defaults to the standard of 30 days. This means that the first Hebrew month begins at sunset 3/28 (close of Shabbat), rather than the evening starting Shabbat.

Counting 14 days (two weeks) from the close of Shabbat means that the Passover will also fall on the Shabbat. The First Day of Unleavened Bread and the Wave Sheaf Offering will take place the following day (on the first day of the week).

Unless new information comes in from the Land of Israel, the Spring Festival Dates for 2009 are as follows (v1.2):

Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year): sunset 3/28 thru sunset 3/29 (day after Shabbat).

Pesach (Passover): afternoon of 4/11 (Shabbat).

First Day of Unleavened: sunset 4/11 thru sunset 4/12 (day after Shabbat).

Omer (Wave Sheaf): Afternoon of the First Day of Unleavened Bread.

Last Day of Unleavened: sunset 4/17 thru sunset 4/18 (Shabbat).

Shavuot (Pentecost): sunset 5/30 thru sunset 5/31 (day after Shabbat).

The dates for the Fall Feasts cannot be determined precisely until the new moon of the seventh month is seen from the Land of Israel.

For those who are wondering, the rabbis declare Rosh Hashanah in the seventh month due to a very complicated argument based in the Talmud. However, in Scripture, the Head of the Year always begins with the first month (and not the seventh). This is explained in The Torah Calendar study (attached), in the chapter titled, “Aviv Barley and the Head of the Year.”

Additionally, the Torah Calendar Study explains why the Equinox is irrelevant, and why only sightings from the Land of Israel count.

The Spring Festival dates on the Torah Calendar are ‘two days behind’ the Rabbinical Calendar dates, and ‘one day behind’ the Karaite Calendar. (In other words, the Rabbinical Calendar is two days early this year, and the Karaite Calendar is one day early.)

Karaite Korner Newsletter #375

New Moon Report - March 2009 - First Biblical Month

On Friday March 27, 2009 we did not sight the moon from Jerusalem. The horizon was covered with clouds. The moon would have been visible if there had not been clouds and therefore based on the principle of potential visibility tonight begins the new biblical month.

There may have been observers who sighted the moon from other locations around Israel but we do not expect to receive these reports until after Shabbat.

Shanah Tovah!
Happy New Year!

Nehemia Gordon
Jerusalem, Israel

Fall Feasts: (mm/dd/yy)

The exact timing of the fall feasts can shift, depending upon when the first crescent sliver of the new moon is actually seen from Israel. Based on the Aviv barley and the sighting of the new moon of the first and the seventh months, the tentative dates are expected to be:

Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets): First day of the seventh month. If the Aviv is sighted on 3/27 and the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the first day of the seventh month will be approximately sunset 9/20/09 thru sunset 9/21/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the first day of the seventh month will be approximately sunset 10/20/09 thru 10/21/09, depending on the new moon.

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): Tenth day of the seventh month. If the Aviv is sighted on 3/27 and the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the Day of Atonement will be approximately sunset 9/29/09 thru sunset 9/30/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the Day of Atonment will be approximately sunset 10/29/09 thru sunset 10/30/09, depending on the new moon.

First Day of Sukkot (Tabernacles): Fifteenth day of the seventh month. If the Aviv is sighted on 3/27 and the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the 1st day of Sukkot will be approximately sunset 10/4/09 thru sunset 10/5/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the Day of Atonment will be approximately sunset 11/3/09 thru sunset 11/4/09, depending on the new moon.

Last Day of Sukkot (the Last Great Day): 22nd day of the seventh month. If the Aviv is sighted on 3/27 and the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the Last Great Day will be approximately sunset 10/11/09 thru sunset 10/12/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then Last Great Day will be approximately sunset 11/10/09 thru sunset 11/11/09, depending on the new moon.

The Barley has been found and the Moon Sighted. The Feasts for this Sabbatical year of 2009,

MAy you have a blessed year.

Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year): sunset 3/28 thru sunset 3/29 (day after Shabbat).
Pesach (Passover): afternoon of 4/11 (Shabbat).
First Day of Unleavened: sunset 4/11 thru sunset 4/12 (day after Shabbat).
Omer (Wave Sheaf): Afternoon of the First Day of Unleavened Bread.
Last Day of Unleavened: sunset 4/17 thru sunset 4/18 (Shabbat).
Shavuot (Pentecost): sunset 5/30 thru sunset 5/31 (day after Shabbat).

The dates for the Fall Feasts cannot be determined precisely until the new moon of the seventh month is seen from the Land of Israel.

The exact timing of the fall feasts can shift, depending upon when the first crescent sliver of the new moon is actually seen from Israel. Based on the Aviv barley and the sighting of the new moon of the first and the seventh months, the tentative dates are expected to be:

Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets): First day of the seventh month. If the the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the first day of the seventh month will be approximately sunset 9/20/09 thru sunset 9/21/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the first day of the seventh month will be approximately sunset 10/20/09 thru 10/21/09, depending on the new moon.

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): Tenth day of the seventh month. If the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the Day of Atonement will be approximately sunset 9/29/09 thru sunset 9/30/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the Day of Atonment will be approximately sunset 10/29/09 thru sunset 10/30/09, depending on the new moon.

First Day of Sukkot (Tabernacles): Fifteenth day of the seventh month. If the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the 1st day of Sukkot will be approximately sunset 10/4/09 thru sunset 10/5/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then the Day of Atonment will be approximately sunset 11/3/09 thru sunset 11/4/09, depending on the new moon.

Last Day of Sukkot (the Last Great Day): 22nd day of the seventh month. If and the first crescent sliver of the new moon is sighted that evening, then the Last Great Day will be approximately sunset 10/11/09 thru sunset 10/12/09, based on the sighting of the new moon. If not, then Last Great Day will be approximately sunset 11/10/09 thru sunset 11/11/09, depending on the new moon.