Thursday, June 27, 2019

All About The Biblical Calendar Hebrew

By Harold Brooks


The most commonly used calendars today are Gregorian calendars which are the ones usually found in watches or regular household calendars. However, these ones are only revised versions created by Pope Gregory XIII which was based off the old Biblical calendar Hebrew. Here are so, e of the things to know about this old version.

Now, it is extremely important to remember that the people of the Old Testament did not have any system back in their day so all they had to tell dates was their surroundings. What made it even more complex was that God commanded the people to observe feasts at very exact times in the year. That is why the old Bible calendars had dates that revolved around their feasts.

That said, the modern Jewish calendars are more calculated and have some sort of mathematical basis to them. The old version, on the other hand, was based on pure observation of the sky and the weather. Of course, the Bible did state how exactly the people were able to tell dates based on the instructions of God.

Now, if one would go to the book of Genesis and look at the fourteenth verse of the first chapter, then one will find the first instructions of God to the Old Testament followers. First of all, the verse states that there will be light in Heaven that would divide the day and night. It also states that there will be seasons that will be shown from the sky.

That alone will show readers that the sky and the weather were the two factors that would determine dates. This statement from the verse further backs up what was stated in Genesis chapter one verses one to five wherein God distinguished night and day. So when both day and night passed, then it would be considered that one day passed.

In order to observe weeks, God stated that when both day and night pass seven times, then one whole week has passed. In Genesis, he regards one whole cycle of seven days as the Shabbua or the Sabbath because it took him seven cycles to make the earth. It is sort of a symbolism that signifies perfection.

For determining the months, God stated in Deutoronomy sixteen that there will be a new moon at the start of a month. This is known in Hebrew as the Chodesh and it signifies that moon will begin a cycle. As the cycle goes on, the moon will become half, then crescent shaped, then full again.

Lastly, the book of Exodus would state that the beginning of a year was during the moon of Abib or the month of green air crop growth. From there, the book gives a detailed description about how the seasons move in a cycle signifying that one year has passed. After one year, the followers will then have to observe again how the moon moves to know when the next feast would be.




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