September 2010  
Volume 4, Issue 9
 
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On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.

 

      —Lev 23:39 NASB

 

 
     
   
Two Different Dating Systems
     
     

The Almighty has instructed us to go by the continuous sighting of the new moon and condition of the barley harvest (Abib) for determining our months and seasons and years. Today’s world has chosen to use dating by the pagan solar (baal) method, which calculates the time taken for the earth to travel around the sun to reach a set starting point. This works out to be 365 and a quarter days. Hence a leap year, which is 366 days, had to be introduced every fourth year to balance the difference.

     On observing the lunar months which are either 29 or 30 days, we find that the lunar year has only 354 days in its yearly cycle, but is not connected at all with the movement or position of the sun. It will be noticed that there is a difference of  11 days between the two systems, so if we take them over a period of four years the result will be the following.

— Four Solar Years  =  1461 days    

— Four lunar Years  =  1416 days   

— Difference =  45 days

     This shows that there are occasionally 13 months in a lunar year, indicating the sun has no part in the fixing of the months in the Sacred Calendar. Remember the beginning of each year is determined by the appearance of green ears of the barley, in the area of Israel (holy land), coinciding with the sighting of the new moon that particular month. This allows the green ears to ripen by the Feast of Unleavened Bread for the participation of the Wave Sheaf Offering from about 15 days later. 

     Some say there is a 19 year cycle that brings a balance between the two systems, but all through the yearly dating there is nothing in common with them.

For example : 19 * 365.25 =  6939.75    19 * 354 + 7 * 29.5 =  6932.5    Difference  =  7.25 Days 

     It is clear the Almighty gave us the sun to measure out our days and set the Sabbath which was handed down as a sign for His people. There is no naming of the days of the week in Scripture. that was introduced by man calling them after their own set of idols in which our Creator will have no part of.  We even see that man has named the solar month with their mighty ones, and Israel has also done the same thing to a few of Father’s Biblical months!          


For example:  1
st month      Nisan       =  Babylonian god of spring
                       4th month      Tamuz       =  A Phoenician & Syrian idol.  Ezekiel 8:14

                    8th month      Cheshvan     = The rain god  “bul” 1st Kings 6:38

                    12th month     Adar              =   Fire god        Esther   3:7

                   

     It must be understood from year to year, if a feast, a birthday, or any other similar occurrence  should happen on a certain day of the week, it is  very unlikely it would land on the same day of the week the following year.

     The Seven Day Week was instituted by our Creator, the first week of Creation, and has been miraculously preserved by our Almighty Father. Right down to this day and age, mankind has been able to keep this set of Seven Days, thereby preserving the weekly Seventh Day Sabbath being a sign for Yahweh’s people. There is no way the weekly cycle can be calculated through seasons, or lunar, or by any other astronomical signs, therefore this had to be handed down through the ages of man.

     The Lunar Month, also set by our Creator has an approximate 29.58 day cycle,. And we also note the modern Gregorian calendar, as used today, has either a 30 or 31 and a 28 day month placed in to complete the year, and one day thrown in every fourth year, to coincide with the Solar Year System.

     Now looking at this we can now see that the Seven Day cycle is not equally divisible by any of the monthly systems mentioned above, so it stands to reason the days of the year seldom end on the same day of the week.

     We have a clear Biblical record for the first Passover occurring on the 14th day of Abib. We have another  record of a fourth day of the week (Wednesday) Passover when our Saviour, Yahshua the Messiah, was impaled. Even the Scriptures prophesy that He was to die in the middle of the week. (Daniel 9:27)  So this was a similar setting to the plan of the first Passover (Wednesday starting Tuesday night), but we must note that the Wednesday Passover does not occur every year. There are, however, spaces from two to nine years, in which, Passover sometimes falls  in the middle of the week.

     For interest’s sake, it was discovered that in Central America the Mayan Calendar, which can be dated back to August the 12th 3114 BC, had a dating system far more accurate than the Gregorian calendar! Unfortunately for calendar makers, the earth does not travel around the sun to an exact number of days as we are told at school (365 days in the year). No, not quite! To be more accurate it is 365.25 days, hence we get the Leap year every fourth year. Yet this too is not quite exact enough. A year is actually eleven minutes and a few seconds less than 365.25 days. Over time there was a discrepancy developing between the seasons and the Julian calendar. So in 1582 to bring the calendar back into line with the solar cycle, Pope Gregory X111 published a bull, effectively annulling ten days, and also instituted a refinement in the Julian calendar with the years that close each century, that is those which end in 00 and are not divisible by four hundred were to be ordinary years. So in this Gregorian system the years 1600 & 2000 ( being divisible by 400) are leap years,  while 1700,1800 & 1900 were not. This system is used today.

     The Mayan system was extremely complex.  There is not enough space to describe the methods used to reconcile the solar date to their calendar. They refined their calculations using the solar cycle of the planet Venus. The result was a system that involved cycles of days, based on 260 days called Tzolkin, which became a larger cycle extending to the greatest cycle called Baktun, which is 144,000 Days. Thirteen Baktun completes a full epoch cycle. The current one will be completed on the 22nd December 2012. This Mayan calendar is far more accurate over a 500 year span than its Gregorian equivalent.

     Finally, dear reader, the point is that man with all his ingenuity cannot fully agree even with the dating of time. How much more, we of Yahweh’s people, will have to hold on to the Faith in our Creator Yahweh. He who has given us all we need to know of signs and of the times we live in. He is the Author and Finisher of all things.        

 

By Elder  Lionel  C. Gets

(South Africa)

 

   
   
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

‘You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute

throughout your

generations; you shall

celebrate it in

the seventh month.

 

                —Lev 23:41 NASB

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
       
   

   In This Issue

 
       
       
    2 Different Dating Systems
  2 New Mini-Studies
  YAIY Feast Auction  
  Maintenance Fund  
  Philippine Radio  
  Prayer List  
         
     
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

    

     
               
 
 

Two New Mini-Studies

 

     

At Yahweh’s Assembly In Yahshua we focus on biblical studies that are of interest. Many times, salvational topics are expounded upon and related for the benefit of the reader.

     Scripture states that “...Holy and Awesome is His Name!” (Psalm 111:9) We also believe this to be true of His inspired Word.  Therefore, the following two studies are now available online and can be ordered to share with others:

     1. Full Moon and Leavened Bread?  2.  The Hope of Israel

     As Yahweh provides, we also extend the right hand of fellowship to all those who have helped us to have a warehouse full of spiritual food for the sheep who hear the Master Shepherd, Yahshua the Messiah. We invite all those who are not willing to compromise Yahweh’s Truth to move forward with us out into the fields in His most Holy Spirit and  unadulterated truth. Pass the word along!

 

 

   
YAIY Feast Auction!    

                                     

 
               
 
               



 

 

“... render to

Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to Yahweh the things that are

Yahweh’s.”

 

           —Matt 22:21 NASB

 

  
     
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Philippine Radio Outreach (working together)
   

Greetings!

 

I've attached some photos during the radio broadcast in Davao City, a YRM-financed program under Deacon Joel Ybañez, with Elder Jorge as it's regular speaker. It is aired for 30 minutes every Sabbath between 4:30-5:00 p.m. The photos were taken during Elder Tadea's visit last August 21, 2010. Other Elders present were Villamor and Vidal, Bros. Marco and Noel Tadle.

     We're looking forward happily for the coming Feast of Tabernacles to celebrate it with brethren from Zamboanga and Digos cities and hopefully from other edahs.

     We know you are also busy for the upcoming feast. We'll pray unceasingly to The Almighty Creator YAHWEH, for all of us to be able to attend the feast with good health and blessed.

 

Regards to all!

 

Sincerely,

 

Sis. Day

   
  
     
Prayer List
 

Elder Dick Vaow, Hap Tew, Alice Findling, Cindy Gustke Family and Friends, Michelle Love and Family, Jewell Holt, Dolores Parker, Elder Don and Mil Mansager, Maxine Conrad, Patricia Prince, Terrel Frasure, Donald Appling, Lois McDonald, David and Barbara Creel, Vincent Gay, David Jones Jr. and Family, Larry Skinner, Charlie Pelton, Tami Lanphere, Robert Dorchester, Dries Van Zyl, Daphne Griffith and Family, Donald Carringer, Clare Kane, Elizabeth Bailey, R.C. Fernald Family and Friends, Ricardo Delgado, Gerald Bennet and Family, Al Jones and Family, David Wilson, Heidi Ann Eve Isdell, William Borgne, Stella Rogers, Sean Rogers, Elder Buel and Bev Hallpike, Elder Yahkara Sunith, Robert and Patricia Potter, Mark Conrad, Maria Francis, Benjamin Francis, Manuel Longoria and Family, Bobby Travis and Family, Gary and Lanai DuBois, Donnie and Roland Miller, Al Pagano, Mike Greene, Brian Huck, brethren around the world, world leaders, Jerusalem and all the land of Israel.

               
               
               
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