Yahweh’s Calendar

Genesis 1:14-19

Then Yahweh said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Yahweh made the two great lights, the greater light to govern the day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars also. Yahweh placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness; and Yahweh saw that it was good. There was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

The greater light that govern the day is the sun. The smaller light that govern the night together with the stars is the moon. Sun, moon and stars are created to be signs and for days, seasons and years. They’re created to be our calendar and to be our clock.

Exodus12:2-3

“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for each household. 

Exodus 12:6-8

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 

Exodus 12:12-13

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the Yahwehs of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord. The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

New Year is 14 days before Passover. Passover is a celebration. They remember on this evening that they escaped the death of every firstborn and that they are liberated from Egypt by crossing the red sea. 

Exodus 34:18

“You shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

The feast of unleavened bread starts at Passover. Yahweh is telling us to celebrate this in the month Abib. Abib is the name of a month in the calendar they used in that time. It’s the month they left Egypt. Abib is the first month of the year. Modern name for this month is Nissan. In our calendar this month falls in March or April. Pope Gregorius XIII is the one who changed it to 1 January in the winter.

Leviticus 23:10-11

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. 

They have to bring the first sheaf of the grain harvest to the priest on the day after the sabbath. This is the first day of the week. We know this day as Sunday. Earlier in Leviticus 23 we read that the feast of unleavened bread is going on while they have to bring the sheaf. Let’s us read this one too:

Leviticus 23:6

Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 

In Israel is the barley harvest ripe in this period. So to determine when the new year starts they have to find a sheaf just ripe barley. And they have to sighted the new moon. Because every new moon starts a new month.

Exodus 34:22

You shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks, that is, the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year. 

The feast of Ingathering is celebrated in September or October. Yahweh mention this period the turn of the year. The turn of the year is the end of the harvest time. While Abib was the beginning of the harvest time. There come 5 months with no harvest. But in the last harvest the barley is sown. This is the end of September and beginning of October. The turn Yahweh speaks about is the turn from harvesting to sowing. 

The moon is marking the months, but the sun is marking the seasons and the days. One night and one day are together a complete day. If you put a long pole in the ground. You see the shadow change from position. This way they determined the hours. There are also two days that day and night have the same length. One is the start of spring, the other is the start of autumn. Every season has 3 months. So 3 months after spring is summer and 3 months after autumn is winter.

Yahweh’s calendar is not one on paper. And the years also don’t have the exact same length. His calendar is counting the days and the new moons. Yahweh’s calendar is checking the harvest too. All this observations are officially done in Israel. Yahweh’s calendar is perfect. No correction is needed.