In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
In the
beginning, Yahweh set forth the pattern for the new heavens and the new earth,
revealed in the original creation.
But first that pattern was to be reversed, wherein, like Pharaoh’s
dreams concerning the good and evil cows and ears (Genesis 41:26-27), good
became devoured by evil; darkness prevailed over light; death prevailed over
life; and most significantly, the nations ruled over the kingdom of heaven.
In The
Revelation of the Millennium, we saw how, very importantly, Yahweh reverses
two things so as to split them and make them clean, giving the greater glory
and authority to the latter, the lesser.
This is precisely what He did with many aspects regarding man – it
is His replicable pattern, His repetitive way. Let us lay out some evidences of this that will be addressed
in this writing.
Repeatedly,
Yahweh has flipped good and evil, light and darkness, life and death. Even when Yahshua, the Son of God, the
creator of the world, came to this earth, He did not contest the fact that the
nations had the right to rule.
Even though he was God, He never addressed them nor did He challenge
their right to judge Him or even to put Him to death. He had come into their world, and they had the legal right
to rule over Him. As Yahshua
stated to Pilate, “You would have no authority over Me, unless it had been
given you from above” (John 19:11).
This is the authority that the nations have had over the kingdom for
6,000 years.
It is the
like authority revealed in Jeremiah 29:4-7 when Yahweh sent the exiles of
Jerusalem into Babylon and told them: “Seek the welfare of the city where
I have sent you into exile, and pray to Yahweh on its behalf; for in its
welfare you will have welfare.”
Just as He placed the exiles of Jerusalem into bondage in Babylon, so He
placed the kingdom of heaven into bondage in the nations; and the kingdom was
to pray for and seek the welfare of the nations. But, even as with the exiles of Jerusalem, this bondage does
not last forever; for equally as with the exiles, Yahweh has assigned a time
when the nations are to build up the kingdom of heaven, the new Jerusalem. That time is at hand!
In like
regard, neither did Yahshua contest with Satan regarding his right to take men
to death for the remaining 2,000 years.
Though Yahshua came to put away death, yet death had a right to prevail
for another 2,000 years, even over His kingdom.
Thus we see
that Yahweh has repeatedly flipped things, just as Yahshua affirmed many times,
saying, “the first will be last, and the last first.” Once you understand this, you will see
how it affects and effects everything there is that relates to Yahweh God and
man, even the entirety of His creation.
In this writing we will see its impact on Yahweh’s marking of
time, His calendar, or calendars, as it is, and thereby on the fulfillment of
His kingdom. Some of the issues or
questions to be addressed are:
Because of
its prevailing importance, let us begin by considering Yahweh’s original
creation pattern for the heavens and the earth. In the first five verses of Genesis we read:
In
the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the
surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the
waters. Then God said, “Let
there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light
from the darkness. God called the
light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.
You will
notice that it is stated: “God called the light day, and the darkness He
called night. And there was
evening and there was morning, one day.” So, what then did Yahweh lay out as the original pattern for
“one day”? Quite
obviously, He explicitly said that it began with the dawning of light, then
there was evening and there was morning, and all of that incorporated
“one day.”
But just as
we have seen, though this is indeed Yahweh’s pattern, He corrupts that
original order and reverses it.
Thus, as practiced by Jew and Christian alike, they say that the day,
relative to the lunar calendar, begins at evening, at darkness, and goes to
evening. This is indeed the
reversed corrupted form.
Before
addressing that which begins a month, let us add a testimony relating to both
the day and the month, specifically regarding its reversed form, and in fact
speaks to all of these examples.
In Exodus 12,
we see that the Passover lamb was to be slain at twilight, the beginning of the
day under the corrupted reversed pattern, and its blood was sprinkled on the
two doorposts and the lintel. The family
then went inside the home, and throughout the night they prepared and ate the
lamb with bitter herbs and with a staff in hand and sandals on their feet (the
very two items Mark Christianity is told to take). For what did they await throughout this period of
darkness? They awaited the break
of day, the coming of light; and they could not go out of the house until
then. But with the dawning of the
new day, they could finally come out of their house and leave the bondage of
Egypt and set out for the promised land.
Such we see
once again with any of these reversed testimonies – they begin in
darkness and await the light. And
since Passover as the first of the year is a reversed testimony, it is quite
appropriate that it evidenced this beginning darkness and bitterness; for it
represents precisely what a Passover-first calendar is – the flip whereby
a period of darkness is followed by the light.
Now for the
next question: When does a month begin?
Once again, Jews and Christians take the corrupted form and begin the
month in darkness with essentially no moon, the crescent moon. But Psalm 81:3 clearly states:
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full
moon, on our feast day.
There were
only two appointed times wherein they were instructed to blow the trumpet. In Leviticus 25:8-9, they were
instructed to blow the trumpet at Jubilee, which was every fifty years. This was on the tenth day of the
seventh month, which was also the Day of Atonement. But Jubilee was not but every fifty years; and even then, we
find in the Scriptures that not once did they even hold a single Jubilee. Also, Jubilee was on the tenth day of
the month, and the full moon had to be at the first of the month. Therefore, Psalm 81:3 could not be
referring to Jubilee. The only appointed
time when a trumpet would have been blown was at Trumpets.
“Now in the seventh month, on the first day
of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious
work. It will be to you a day for
blowing trumpets” [Numbers 29:1].
Trumpets was
the first day of the seventh month under the Passover-first calendar. Today, with Tabernacles being restored
back to its original place, Trumpets is once again the first day of the first
month. Either way though, we are
told in Psalm 81:3 that that first day, the beginning of the month, is
specifically a full moon!
This makes
perfect sense since Genesis 1:16 tells us that when Yahweh made the sun and the
moon on the fourth day of the first month, He stated that the moon was made
“to rule the night.”
How could it rule the night at its creation if it was essentially no
moon at all? Based on Psalm 81:3,
the “new moon,” and it was in fact “new” in every
regard at its creation, was indeed a “full moon.” If the “new moon” is a
“full moon,” it is wholly reasonable that at the time of creation,
this entirely new moon was equally a full moon. Otherwise, how could Yahweh have called it one of two
“great lights” (Genesis 1:16)?
Therefore,
when the feast of Trumpets comes around each year, the moon is in fact to be a
testimony to its creation, and that as a full moon. Furthermore, this testimony is given at the beginning of
each month in the true and restored calendar, in that the new moon for the new
month is always a full moon.
Additionally,
the testimony of the full moon is its rising in the east, bringing light into
darkness. In contrast, the
testimony of the crescent moon at its first sighting is fittingly in the west,
bringing complete darkness afterwards.
The west is prophetic of darkness and death, and there was also not a
western gate in Jerusalem. In
contrast, the east is prophetic of the dawning of light, truth, deliverance,
and life; and Yahshua’s return is prophetically spoken of relative to the
eastern gate. Thus we see the darkness
and death work of the crescent moon in the west, and the light and hope of the
full moon in the east.
Having set
forth these two important points concerning when the day begins and when the
month begins, let us now see exactly what the pattern was at creation.
First, in the
beginning there was no moon at all.
The moon was not created until the fourth day. So then what was laid out as the prevailing and determining
pattern regarding the beginning of time?
The seven days that make up a complete week.
Thus, these seven days take precedence over everything regarding marking
time. Yahweh’s pattern of
these seven days is indeed a template whereby He sets forth time for all
mankind, not only on a day to day basis, but even as the template for periods
of seven-thousand years, and more.
In evidence
of this pattern, just as the sun and the moon were created on the fourth day,
so Yahshua, the Light of the world, came to this earth as a man on the fourth
“day,” at its very end.
In fact, He was crucified just before the fifth day began on the
following year. Like the crescent
moon that comes at the end of the day, just before complete darkness when no
man can work, so was Yahshua’s first coming (John 9:4-5). His first coming was a death – it
too was cursed – and His full light in the east so as to reverse the
curse of darkness and death would not rise for 2,000 years. (More on this later.)
Today, the
determining reason that the new heavens and new earth can now be established is
Yahweh’s order set forth per the original creation pattern of the week,
but in the magnitude of thousands of years. A legal six “days” have passed since creation,
and we have now entered into His seventh-day sabbath rest. And as you will see, understandably,
this seven-day pattern has equal precedence in effecting Yahweh’s true
calendar.
Under the
cursed system, men have tried to make the moon the entirely determining factor
as to the beginning of the month and the feasts. (Of course we are not addressing a solar calendar, such as
our present Gregorian calendar.)
But keep in mind, this is the corrupted system that is opposite the
truth, backwards, reversed, in the dark, and brings death. If the moon is the entirely determining
factor, then Yahweh would have created the sun and the moon on the first
day. Remember, at creation Yahweh
laid the pattern; He set forth the determining template.
Since the
moon was created on the fourth day, we see testified that there is a variableness
in its identification as the beginning of the month. Psalm 81:3 is indeed best translated that the trumpet was to
be blown “at the full moon” and not “on the full moon.” Again, as you will understand better as
we lay out the Millennial Calendar, the determining factor is not the moon,
but the week itself, the order of the initial seven days.
Therefore, the blast of the trumpet would be at the time of the full
moon, but not necessarily technically when the moon is at its fullest. The first of the month is indeed tied
to the full moon; but like a dog tied on a leash, there is sill room to
move. The prevailing order of
the seven days of the week, of necessity, trumps the moon.
Other than this passage in Psalm 81:3, there is not another command that the month begins at a full moon. But what we do see is that the integrity of the week must prevail, and all of this within the proximity of the month beginning at the full moon. In fact, the very outside of the deviation of a technically full moon from the first day of a month would be at most three days. And, of course, this is precisely what we saw at creation – three days after the beginning of what would have been Trumpets, came the full moon. With this important point noted, let us now examine the sabbaths and feasts of the Millennial Calendar.
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