The
revelation of the Millennial Calendar has been given in large part to Eric Schneggenburger,
one of the twelve apostles. He had
studied the calendar for many years, trying to come to a conclusion as to what
was Yahweh’s true calendar.
You will now
begin to understand the order of the Millennial Calendar as you read how it
unfolded in Eric’s considerations.
Again, keep in mind that the week prevails, especially at the beginning
of the new year. The first day of
the new year must always be the first day of a new week. This, once again, follows the pattern
of creation. You will see how this
order works out and impacts the remaining year, as well as the feasts. Also, as you will see, the feast days
and the days of the week always match, the pattern being repetitive from year
to year. You will understand this
better as you read here.
Knowing that
the present calendars were fraught with many inherent problems and errors, Eric
and another gentleman concluded that the Jews and Christians could not be right
concerning their calendars.
Eventually, they began considering if there was an alternate day to the
Jews’ Saturday sabbath and the Christian’s Sunday sabbath –
something that would make the calendar work. The problem was that there had to be a consistent, enduring relationship
between the appointed times and the full moon.
In 2003 they
began examining what would happen to the calendar if Monday was the sabbath;
but they soon realized that that would not work. So the next year they began examining what would happen if
Tuesday was the true sabbath. But
that too was afflicted with incongruency.
Then at Tabernacles, 2004, they considered the outcome if Wednesday was
the true sabbath. Given the
conflicting opinions and even seemingly conflicting scriptures and inherent
difficulties that Eric had thus far experienced, at this point he came to the
conclusion that these conflicting issues were irreconcilable, and he pretty
much gave up on resolving this matter.
The main
remaining problem for Eric was that with the first month of the year beginning
on a first day with a sabbath on day seven, he was troubled that in the seventh
month this meant that the sabbath would always fall on day four. Under the Passover-first calendar, the
sabbaths in the first month would always be on the seventh, fourteenth, and
twenty-first. This, of course,
meant that Passover, on the fourteenth, was on a seventh-day sabbath, as well
as the last day of Unleavened Bread, which was on the twenty-first.
Let us
illustrate this first month in a simple way. In the days laid out here, the larger bold underlined
numbers are the sabbaths, the purple number is Passover, and the blue numbers
are the seven days of Unleavened Bread.
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5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
But, when it
came to the seventh month and Tabernacles, the sabbaths fell on the days that
totally missed all the significant days of the feast. The sabbath days were the fourth, eleventh, and
eighteenth. In fact, the sabbath
of the eighteenth fell right in the middle of Tabernacles, which takes place
from the fifteenth to the twenty-first, with a holy convocation on the
twenty-second.
In the days
laid out here, again the larger bold underlined numbers are the sabbaths, the
red number is Trumpets, the blue numbers are the seven days of Tabernacles, and
the green number is the eighth-day holy convocation. Atonement on the tenth will not be addressed.
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
It is quite interesting
that this sabbath in the middle of the seven days of Tabernacles is the very
day that Yahshua went into Jerusalem after telling His disciple that He would
not go to the feast – “But when it was now the [lit.] middle of the
feast [of Tabernacles], Jesus went up into the temple and began to teach” (John 7:14). Yahshua changed His mind and did go to
Tabernacles on the Millennial Calendar sabbath, which is undoubtedly a
prophetic message for us today.
Before
continuing, we must add some important information in order for you to
understand that which will be addressed next. There were seven days called holy convocations which required assembly in Jerusalem, and there
could be no labor. Though they
were not seventh-day sabbaths, they were in fact still sabbaths. The Hebrew word for
“sabbath” means “to cease, or to rest.” On these seven days they were to cease
from their works, just as any seventh-day sabbath required. These seven holy convocation sabbaths
were:
Let us now
continue. Initially, Eric tried to
keep the months complete weeks.
Also, he assumed that it was critical that the holy convocations of both
of these feasts coincide in some manner with the seventh-day sabbaths, which he
found would not happen at Tabernacles.
But in August, 2005, Yahweh showed him the justification of letting one
week overlap the sixth and seventh months – in other words, splitting a
week. When he saw that the full
moon came on the fourth day in creation, it freed him to make the fourth day of
the week the first day of the seventh month. Once he was willing to do this, the remainder of the
calendar worked out so that the year ended on a sabbath. This finishing point was necessary so that,
as we have noted, the first day of the first month would be the first day of a
new week.
It is quite
significant that before Yahweh flipped the feasts and Trumpets/Tabernacles was
the beginning of the year, that feast did what Eric felt needed to take place
– possesses a more complete correlation between the sabbath and the holy
days. Following is how
Trumpets/Tabernacles would have taken place relative to the sabbaths before the
flip.
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5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Since the
first day of Tabernacles on the fifteenth is a holy convocation sabbath, along
with the holy convocation on the twenty-second, what that did was make two
periods of back-to-back double portion sabbaths – the fourteenth and the
fifteenth, as well as the twenty-first and the twenty-second.
It is very
revealing that when Yahweh reversed these two feasts, giving the greater glory
to Passover and making Tabernacles the death work, He literally gave the
glory to the first month. Let us consider what the month of
Passover was like before the reversal.
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19 20 21
As you can
see, the day of Passover on the fourteenth loses its glory of being a
seventh-day sabbath as well, along with the last day of Unleavened Bread. The middle of the feast is the only
seventh-day sabbath. This will now
be the case with Passover after Trumpets, October 25, 2007, when
Trumpets/Tabernacles is restored to being the first month, and Passover returns
to being the seventh month. And by
restoring Trumpets/Tabernacles back to its original place as the beginning of
the year, its original relationship to the sabbaths is restored as well.
Let us note
here also that the calendar that Yahweh has revealed to the Bride is just the
opposite of that of Christians and Jews.
We have already noted that Yahweh flips things. It is quite revealing that the
Christian’s and the Jews’ calendars with their
crescent-moon-darkness and evening-darkness beginnings, have sabbaths that are
just opposite the Millennial Calendar.
The Jews’ and Christian’s Saturday and Sunday sabbaths are
located opposite the Millennial Calendar’s Wednesday sabbath. From the Jews’ Saturday sabbath,
going backwards we find that the Bride’s Wednesday sabbath is the third
day away. From
Christianity’s Sunday sabbath forward, the Bride’s Wednesday
sabbath is equally the third day away.
Quite revealingly and appropriately, the true calendar is the opposite,
the reverse, the flip, the antithesis of the Jews’ and Christian’s
calendars.
Fri. Thr. |
Sat. Sun. Wed. |
Mon. Tue. |
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