The topic of which calendar to use has caused many debates and divisions amongst the Body of Messiah; it is definitely not a reason to stop fellowshipping with another brother or sister or hating one another. There is much confusion surrounding which calendar to use, so again it is not my intention to cause any fights over this topic, but to share why I use it and to shed some light on the topic, because there may be some information contained within this message that you were unaware of.
This message also isn’t about covering the vernal equinox and when to start the next year, however I would like to share the things that jumped out to me and prayerfully make it easy to understand based on the scriptures I present. The goal of this message is simply to show the evidence of the use of the solar calendar. We will discuss did our ancestors use a solar calendar or a lunar calendar? There are 10 days missing on the lunar calendar, and is it really translated “New Moon” where we see it in scripture?
Did our ancestors use the solar calendar?
The Dead seas scrolls website states:
Calendrical Texts (חיבורים קלנדריים) – "Calendrical texts" found in the Qumran caves rely mainly on SOLAR rather than LUNAR calculations. The calendars are useful sources of information about festivals and priestly courses (mishmarot). The cryptic script (a type of unusual Hebrew writing) of some of the calendars may imply that the information was secret and (intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.) These manuscripts are especially valued for their orderly and systematic lists of days and months, enabling scholars to recreate missing pieces of the calendar. The most prominent calendar consists of 364 days divided into 4 seasons of 13 weeks each.
At the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established and we see the Dead Sea Scrolls website verifies it and The Zadok Priestly calendar which is a solar calendar are referenced in Enoch, Jubilees, and the Aramaic Levi document of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which shows that our ancestors used this calendar.
Jubilees 2:8-9
“And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light upon all the earth, and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness. And YAHWEH appointed the SUN TO BE A GREAT SIGN ON THE EARTH FOR DAYS, AND FOR SHABBATS, AND FOR MONTHS AND FOR FEASTS, AND FOR YEARS, AND FOR SHABBATS OF YEARS, AND FOR JUBILEES, AND FOR ALL SEASONS OF THE YEARS.”
This scripture tells us clearly that the sun aka the solar calendar is what we are to use to determine the Shabbats so that cancels out the lunar sabbath keepers, and also for days, feasts and years. If you have not please check out the written blog or video I did titled “The Lunar Shabbat deception”. Evening marks the end of a day and starts the beginning of the next; therefore, the SUN gets the last say in the day, but for those who follow the morning to morning days means the darkness gets the last say in the day. And we see clearly that the Book of Jubilees which is a malach aka messenger aka angel of YAHWEH speaking to Moses tells us to use the sun.
Jubilees 4:20-21
“And in the twelfth jubilee, in the seventh week, he (Enoch) took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Dani’el, the daughter of his dad’s brother, and in the sixth year in this week she bore him a son and he called him Methuselah. And he (Enoch) was with the messengers of ELOHIM these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens: the RULE OF THE SUN; and he wrote down everything.”
Enoch 72:37
“As he (the sun) rises, so he sets and does not decrease, and does not rest, but runs day and night, and his light is seven times brighter than that of the moon; but regarding size they are both equal.”
Theapocryphalstone.com states: (Parenthesis mine)
“ALD (Aramaic Levi Document) uses a 360-day solar calendar (4 intercalary days added to make 364) of the type promoted by Jubilees and the Enochic Book of the Luminaries. Later, the same calendar was also advanced by the Dead Sea Sect. where it originated is still a mystery as is the question of its social location.”
So, the Aramaic Levi Document uses the 360-day solar calendar as the base year, just as Jubilees and Enoch does because 12 months X 30 days in a month= 360 days in a year and then Enoch explains that there must be four intercalary days added at the end of each season to equal a total of 364 days. The scriptures proving Jubilees and Enoch uses a 364-day solar calendar is in the next section (There are 10 days are missing on the lunar calendar).
Enoch 75:1-2
“And the leaders of the heads of the thousands, who are placed over the whole creation and over all the stars, have also to do with the FOUR INTERCALARY DAYS, being inseparable from their office, according to the reckoning of the year, and these render service on the FOUR DAYS which are not reckoned in the reckoning of the year (base year of 360 days). And owing to them men GO ASTRAY therein, for those lights truly render service on the world-stations, one in the first portal, one in the third portal of the heavens, one in the fourth portal, and one in the sixth portal, and the EXACTNESS OF THE YEAR is accomplished through its separate THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR STATIONS.”
So, there are 360 days in a base year and Enoch says that you have to add four intercalary days to get to 364 total days to bring in the year exactly.
Jubilees 6:23
“And on the first day of the first month, on the first day of the fourth month, and on the first day of the seventh month, and on the first day of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and THE DAYS OF THE SEASONS IN THE FOUR DIVISONS of the year. These are written and ordained as a Witness forever.”
So, the first month is spring, the fourth month is summer, the seventh month is fall, and the tenth month is winter. All we have to do is add the 1 intercalary day to the end of each season and you will get 364 days. So the days in a month are 30, 30, 31 and it repeats.
We see the first example of proof of there being 30 days in a month is found in Genesis.
Genesis 7:24
“And the waters were mighty on the earth, one hundred and fifty days.”
5 months X 30 days in a month= 150 days, so we have proof of a steady 30-day count and not a 29 or 29.5 day count based on the lunar calendars. YAHWEH uses perfect math for all of His calculations and makes it easier for His children to follow.
10 days are missing on the lunar calendar
One of the biggest eye openers is the fact that the solar calendar as outlined in Enoch, Jubilees, and the Aramaic Levi document attest to the year consisting of 364 days and the Lunar calendar as a total of 354 days so there are 10 missing that needs to be accounted for and the Book of Enoch and Jubilees explain this.
Sciencing.com says (Parenthesis mine)
“A lunar year has approximately 354 days. A solar year has 365 days (But we have shown from scripture it’s 364 not 365). This leaves an 11-day difference (10 according to scripture) between one solar year and one lunar year, resulting from the difference in their definitions. The term epact describes this specific time difference. Over the course of 33 years, there will be a lag of one year between solar and lunar calendars because of the successive epacts.”
So, science is very close to backing up the word of YAHWEH as they are off by one day, there are 364 days not 365. The point that I’m proving is that even based on their calculations there are days missing on the lunar calendar. So, let’s look at Enoch and Jubilees are other witnesses.
Enoch 74:9-17 (Parenthesis mine)
Solar calendar 364 days:
“Thus I saw their position: how the moon rose and the sun set in those days. And if five years are added together the sun has a surplus of thirty days, and all the days which accrue to it for one of those five years, when they are full, amount to THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS. And the surplus of the sun and of the stars amounts to six days: in five years, six days every year come to thirty days: and the moon FALLS BEHIND THE SUN AND STARS to the number of thirty days. And the SUN AND THE STARS (Not the moon) BRING IN ALL THE YEARS EXACTLY, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day to ETERNITY; but complete the years with PERFECT JUSTICE IN THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS. In three years there are one thousand ninety-two days (3 years divided into 1,092 days equals 364 days), and in five years there are one thousand eight hundred and twenty days (5 years divided into 1,820 days equals 364 days), so that in eight years there are two thousand nine hundred and twelve days (8 years divided into 2,912 days equals 364 days”
Lunar calendar: 354 days
“For THE MOON alone the days amount in three years to one thousand and sixty-two days (When you take three years and divide them into 1,062 days you get 354 days on lunar) And in five years there are one thousand seven hundred and seventy days, so that for the moon the days in eight years amount two thousand eight hundred and thirty two days (8 years divided into 2,832 gives you 354 days). For in eight years she falls behind to the amount of eighty days, all the days she FALLS BEHIND IN EIGHT YEARS ARE EIGHTY. And the year is accurately completed in conformity with their world stations and the stations of the SUN, which rise from the gates though which it the sun rises and sets THIRTY DAYS.”
We see the sun and the stars bring in the year exactly in 364 days and do not delay or advance their positions at all, not even a single day to eternity. However, we see the moon goes her own way and falls behind the sun and stars. So, if you follow the moon aka the lunar calendar the days will off because the moon DOES delay and advance her position unlike the sun and stars. And we see that the moon falls behind 80 days in 8 years, so 8 divided into 80 is 10 days, which shows that on the lunar calendar there are 10 days missing and the book of Jubilees will drive this point home.
Jubilees 6:32-38 (Parenthesis mine)
“And command the children of Yisra’el that they guard the years according to this reckoning: THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS, and these will constitute a COMPLETE YEAR, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their witness, and they will not leave out ANY DAY (Which will happen using the lunar calendar missing 10 days) nor disturb any feasts. They will corrupt appointed times, and the years will be moved from this order, and they will disturb the appointed times and the years will be moved and they will corrupt their ordinances. And all the children of Yisra’el will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new months, and appointed times, and Shabbats and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I now and now will I declare it to you, and its is not of my own heart, for the book is written before me, and is ordained on the heavenly tablets of the division of days; lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk in the feasts of the nations; after their ERROR and after their ignorance. For there will be those WHO EXAMINE THE MOON DILIGENTLY (Those following the lunar calendar and the new moons which we saw were off according to Enoch’s calculations) because it (the moon) WILL CORRUPT THE APPOINTED TIMES and it will advance from year to year, TEN DAYS. Therefore, the years will come to them as they corrupt and make an abominable day the day of witness, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will mix all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and Shabbats and feasts and Jubilees. Therefore, I command and witness to you that you may witness to them; for after your death your children will be corrupted so that they will not make the year only THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FOUR DAYS. Therefore they will go WRONG as to the months and appointed times and Shabbats and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.”
Notice how the messenger of YAHWEH says that those who follow the moon will miss 10 days? This is another witness to what Enoch showed us through his calculations of the 364 days on the solar calendar versus the 354 days on the lunar calendar. So, both Enoch and Jubilees confirm that those who follow the lunar calendar the phases of the moon will go astray to all the appointed times, because of the 10-day differential with the solar calendar. The messenger of YAHWEH warns to follow the solar calendar of 364 days and not the lunar calendar, which we see recorded in Enoch, Jubilees, and the Aramaic Levi Document.
Is it really translated New Moon?
All over the scriptures we read “New Moon” to establish the beginning of the new month, but is that what it actually says? The Hebrew word for the moon is “yareach” and you will be surprised to know that wherever you see the word “New Moon” the Hebrew word for moon “yereach” is not there! So how can it be the new moon when the Hebrew word for moon is not there? This should be very startling to the lunar calendar community. Example:
Genesis 37:9
“And he dreamed still another dream and related it to his brothers and said, “See, I have dreamed another dream, and see the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”
When you look up the etymology for the word moon in this passage it is #H3394 which is yareach. Now let’s look at the etymology for the word “New Moon”.
Ezekiel 46:3
“Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before YAHWEH in the Shabbats and the in the new moons.”
The etymology for the word “new moon” is #H2320 which is “Chodesh” which means month or first day of the month. As we can see the word “New Moon” doesn’t even contain the Hebrew word “yareach” for moon anywhere and it’s a completely different word being used, and also matches the truth presented by Enoch and Jubilees.
Numbers 10:10
“And in the day of your gladness, and in your Appointed Times, and AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR MONTHS (Chodesh), you shall blow the trumpets…”
Numbers 28:11
“And on the BEGINNINGS OF YOUR MONTHS (Chodesh) you bring near a burnt offering to YAHWEH…”
Now it makes more sense how David knew that the next day was “Chodesh” meaning month or new month, because all he had to do was count 30 days to get to the next month and not look for moon slivers etc. on the lunar calendar. As we read:
1 Samuel 20:5
“And David said to Jonathan, “See, tomorrow is CHODESH (Month/New Month), and I ought to sit with the king to eat. But let me go and I shall hide in the field until the third day at evening.”
This scripture is a clear indicator that David was aware of the solar calendar that our ancestors followed and now that we have already discussed that the word “new moon” is not the correct translation we can determine that David was counting the days and knew that the 30 days in that month had ended; and the next day was the first day of the new month.
Psalm 81:3
“Blow the trumpet at the new month (CHODESH), in the appointed times, on our solemn feasts day.” Again, they translate it as New Moon but the etymology says Chodesh for month.
And we see this same pattern throughout the scriptures such as: 1 Chronicles 23:30-31, 2 Chronicles 2:4, 2 Chronicles 8:12-13, Nehemiah 10:32-33, 2 Kings 4:23, Amos 8:5, Isaiah 1:13-14, Isaiah 66:22-23 and Hosea 2:11.
\I know that this will hard for many to accept because of the traditions we have been taught and practicing for years. I too, was one who walked in Judaism, but I must admit that it never felt right to me. So, I prayed and two years later I was shown this, so I encourage anyone who is having a hard time accepting the information I presented to take it to our Father YAHWEH in prayer.
I pray that this is helpful to many and that you can see the evidence that has been
presented. As always may our Father YAHWEH bless you in YESHUA’s Name!