The Importance of Keeping Hebrew Calendar Timing
Rosh Kodesh (New Moon, the new month inauguration, LIKE THE GENESIS SHABBAT, is a statutory holy tradition and testimony, our joint heritage, FOREVER – Ex 31:13,16; Ps 81:3-5; 119:111; Is 56:6-8; 58:13,14; 66:24; 2 Thess 2:15), is a reminder to take the Biblical calendar New Year seriously, to avoid being complicit in spreading falsehood, which has a bad ending for “all liars” (Rev 21:7,8).
Ex 12 defines the composite Hebrew Lunar-Solar New Year by which Time is sanctified by observance of Shabbat and the Holy Convocations (Is 56:6), the fundamental, perpetual, immutable ‘time-related precepts’ contained in Lev 23; Deut 16; Ps 42:2,4; 119:45; 2 Thess 2:15.
Rome’s calendar is solar only.
Islam’s is lunar only.
Isn’t it astonishing how History has been Divinely recalibrated to showcase the Passover Sacrifice of Messiah (1 Cor 5:7,8; Lk 22:1,9-20), but Rome’s hatred for Zion led them to “change the (perpetual) ordinance” of the Feast of Unleavened Bread called the Passover (Ex 12:17,24; Is 24:5), to disguise Passover as Babylonian ‘Easter’ (Ishtar, Eastre).
Every ‘AD’ as in 2023 AD, stems from the Crucifixion which is grounded in the first Passover in Egypt, which was a new beginning for Israel (Gen 15:13,14; Ex 12:40-42), as the Lamb of God’s Passover salvation is for us (Is 53).
In other words, our years should be reckoned from the 1st of the Passover month, and thereby TRUTHFULLY be called “the year of our LORD” (Anno Domini).
1 AD fell on the first of the Ex 12:1,2 month (Nisan) in the year following Y’shua’s Jerusalem Passover Atonement, when he was a ‘yearling.’
Indirectly, that’s another reinforcement of His Sacrificial identity as Lamb of God, because it was unblemished YEARLINGS that were sacrificed at Passover (Ex 12:5,6,27).
Paul taught the Passover ordinance as a New Covenant Biblical tradition essential to not fall away from the faith (1 Cor 5:7,8; 11:1,2; 2 Thess 2:15)
The world is reaping from the curse, principally because the church is failing to sanctify TIME and is “mentioning the name of other gods” (Easter), by disputing and denigrating the “traditions” (God’s own “Testimonies,” our heritage too – Ps 119:1,111) which Y’shua bulletpointed through Paul in 2 Thess 2:15, just as Moses did in Ex 23:12,13,15,17.
Have you noticed that the Lamb of God’s bones/legs weren’t broken during Crucifixion, not so much because He had already passed (the soldiers might have done so anyway, since that was routine and they refrained on their own initiative, not under orders), but because the Passover ORDINANCE expressly forbade it (Ex 12:46; Matt 19:31-33).
Rome has grossly distorted context to stage manage a false gospel.
So especially for the sake of the unsaved orthodox Jew who has little patience with our descriptions of the Messiah as the Lamb of God (which they’re forbidden to read in Is 53), the new computation of ‘AD’ dating from new year on Nisan 1, and which was inspired by the Spirit, was INTENDED to draw closer attention to infallible proofs of the identity of the Messiah, from the fulfilment of the many, statistically overwhelmingly persuasive PASSOVER Crucifixion prophecies cited in the Gospels, which one by one erase doubt about who the Jewish Torah- magnifying Y’shua really is (Is 42:21; Matt 5:19), including His DEITY which Pilate’s Title above Y’shua’s head reduces to the Tetragrammaton YHVH (spotted in horror by the priests, in the epithet: “Y’shua Ha Notzri Ve’ Melech Ha Yehudim”), as an acronym (Jn 19:19-22).
He’d already been accused of “MAKING HIMSELF the Son of God” (Jn 19:7).
Now, they said, Pilate was advertising that He (Y’shua) claimed that He was King of the Jews (vs 21).
Shifting the Crucifixion to ‘Good Friday’ and ‘Easter Sunday’ to whitewash Passover and de-Judaize the Gospel not only misrepresents the totality of the teaching of the Passover in the full counsel (including the goal of personal sanctification taught from the chapters describing the Exodus journey), but as a result throws most Christians off the scent of the narrow path and makes restoring them to the truth, a mission and a half!
So the sooner the church returns to the teaching pattern of the full counsel (originally kept by the Messianic church according to Acts 24:14) which is based on keeping Hebrew time and Hebrew Appointments, in which the luni-solar calendar is central, the sooner all Israel will be saved by being provoked to emulation by our being led lawfully by the Spirit (Rom 2:13-15,26,27; 8:4-14; 11:11-15), and this age will be brought to an end
