Introduction
Calendars are a topic of contention, though they shouldn’t be!
This might be, because many people have come out of institutions, where they felt kind of betrayed. Betrayed by people, who were in positions of influence. New members, or grown up in their communities, they expected and trusted these people were inspired by YAH (God) and were able to feed them spiritually, as shepherds feed sheep.
Then this awakening occurred, after “9/11” happened, and they realized that nobody is automatically safe; that governments can’t really protect them, and that welfare systems and government systems do not always have the best in mind for them. They would ask questions like “Is there a God?” They understand, that they had been lulled into sleep by feeling comfortable, and now they were waking up.
So, there are offended people, who discovered they had been lied to. With the immergence of the internet, and having access to all kinds of information, being it true or false, they feel less need of shepherds to tell them what to believe. This is good in itself, because we’re expected to test all things that are taught to us, just like the Bereans who were commended for that. ( See Ma’asiym, Acts, 7:11) But now the amount of information at our disposal is so much, that it is causing confusion.
Despite this, we have individuals who search things out with vehemence, determined to search on their own, taking care of their own loved ones, and wanting to be accountable. Although this is a noble thing, it can build up walls too. Walls of thinking that one knows self what is best for oneself and one’s loved ones. Walls of determining self who is worthy listening to. This is still motivated by fear. And being motivated by fear we cannot learn. It makes it difficult to be humble, to be vulnerable, to bend one’s neck.
But Yah (God) likes to teach us to bend our necks and accept His yoke instead of the yoke of the world. The yoke of the world is one of puffed up, vain, knowledge, which we received in our life’s times and stuff we inherited. He wants to remove those heavy yokes and replace them with His yoke, which is light and easy. But we need to be in a position in which we start to trust Him, bend our necks and allow Him to do that. This is a kind of prostrating oneself in humility.
Fear is counter-intuitive to that. While humility is a form of expression of love. We need to trust Him Who is leading us, the Ruach HaQodesh, the Holy Spirit, the Ruach of Yah (God), so that we will not be wise in our own eyes, but submit to His wisdom, which is wise to the deceptions of this world.
As said, the calendar is a topic of contention, and those who are contending information on this topic, mostly do so from fear. When motivated by love, we trust Yah. Formerly, we let a human person, be it a pastor or a teacher, stand in that place where alone Yah should be standing, letting that person take precedence over Yah and His word. So, He is reconciling us and bringing us into an intimate relationship with Him, where He says ”I am your Elohiym (God) and will commune with you."
Source of the information in this blog:
The information on the pages of this series on the “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” was shared by Dr Stephen Pidgeon in a video by YouTube channel “Crossing Over with Jessica Arellanes”, published on October 10th, 2019.
The link to this video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT6lsqRhpns&t=2273s
and the duration of the video is 2 hours, 33 minutes and 10 seconds, and that includes the Q&A session at the end. The actual presentation of the information about the “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” starts at 23:40 and ends at 1:25:50.
This broadcasting was streamed live on 10 Oct 2019.
That night, on “Crossing Over”, Dr Pidgeon shared his interpretation of the Biblical Calendar laid out in Genesis and called it the “Genesis Calendar”, which is based on “Yom Qodesh”, that is Holy, or Set-Apart, Days.
Dr Pidgeon was presenting his research; what he studied out and what he thinks is correct, and he is flexible enough to add to it or take away from it, if something worthwhile comes to his knowledge. He will change his opinion by how the Ruach HaQodesh guides him.
He is not superimposing something onto others, or condemning others who think differently, believing what they think is correct. As don’t I.
Add this presentation to the repertoire of info you have, and use it for comparing it to other info, so that you can sharpen your skills of analyses for the sake of your growth.
This presentation is of an opinion that is most likely right, and of counter-opinions that are less likely right.
Dr Pidgeon is passionate about this “Genesis Calendar”, because it is very capable of predicting reality. Biblical reality including the Feasts, the Yom Qodesh. Capable also of predicting animate life, which is captured in the word “Genesis”. It is about life. And about agricultural cycles.
Above mentioned information was complemented with information from several sources on the internet.
Calendars.
There are all kind of calendars. For instance, the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar, the Jewish calendar, the Chinese calendar, the Zadoq calendar and the Genesis calendar.
The Gregorian calendar reflects Roman authority.
It was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, with the goal of changing the date of Easter.
It replaced the Julian calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the year was moved from March 1st to January 1st. Finally, 11 days were dropped from the month of September 1752. That year it was finally also adopted by England and its colonies.
It should be clear to anyone, who reads and studies the Sacred Scriptures, the Bible, that the Gregorian calendar is a totally abject failure. This means that we need to determine the right calendar, according to the revelations in the sacred scriptures, and by simply examining our view of existence in nature.
The Gregorian Calendar can predict the Sabbaths in a continuous seven-day sequence; it can predict the Feasts and readily predicts the seasons of the year. But it cannot be ascertained by examining nature and requires the fixing of arbitrary dates, though it is consistent within a four-year period by the elapsing of the days, months seasons and years.
Concerning the confusion caused by the Gregorian calendar:
http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/colonialresearch/calendar
Concerning the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/julian-gregorian-switch.html
The Julian calendar, which was implemented in 45/46 B.C. by Julius Caesar, was the calendar Europe adhered to before the Gregorian calendar was introduced.
Julius Caesar wanted to solve problems with the old republican calendar, which did have 12 months that were supposed to be more or less as long as the moon cycles.
It consists of 12 months based on a solar year, and employs a cycle of three years of 365 days, followed by a year of 366 days (leap year). After the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, the new year was gradually realigned to coincide with Christian festivals until by the 7th century Christmas Day marked the beginning of the year in many countries.
By the 9th century parts of southern Europe began observing 1st day of the new year on March 25th to coincide with Annunciation Day (the church holiday 9 months prior to Christmas celebrating the angel Gabriel’s revelation to Mary that she was to be mother of the messiah). The last day of the year was March 24th. However, England did not adopt this change in the beginning of the new year until late in the 12th century.
The Julian calendar has an error of only about 2 seconds per year or 1 day in 31,250, and it is 10 times more accurate that the Gregorian calendar.
The Zadoq calendar is a priestly calendar, that was introduced by either the Zadoqiym or the Essenes, depending on what story you believe to be true concerning who was in Qumran at the time the calendar was introduced. It is a kind of Enochian calendar, which is a Lunar-Sabbath calendar.
The Zadok calendar is quite justified in the 1st month of the year, but loses its justification as you move out of that month. One runs into some very significant problems when you run into the 70th or 40th year. Much of the Zadok calendar is not scriptural, but rather supposedly relies on dead sea scroll stuff. But, however, it hasn’t been seen by Dr. P. If compared the Books of Jubilees and Enoch it gives some parameters of that calendar.
The Zadoq Calendar does not predict the Sabbaths in a continues seven-day sequence (you have to adjust it each month). It does not predict the Feasts beyond the 1st month; predicts the seasons of the year by equinox and solstice.
It cannot be ascertained month by month by examining nature, and requires the fixing of arbitrary dates.
It is inconsistent with the elapsing of the months, seasons, and years. (You must add an extra week every 7 years, and it’s proposed to add two weeks every 14th year.)
The Chinese and Islamic calendars are exclusively Lunar calendars. This is the cause of the keeping moving up of the Islamic feast of Ramadan. The Islam has 12 lunar months, and then they have the next year. It’s a 360 day schedule, which keeps losing 5.25 day a year. Its symbol is the sickle moon.
The Islamic Lunar calendar can predict the Sabbaths in a continuous seven-day sequence. It can predict the Feasts; readily predicts the seasons of the year. And it can be ascertained by examining nature.
It does not require the fixing of arbitrary dates, and is consistent by the elapsing of the days, months and years. It does not predict the seasons at all.
The Solar calendar, which was practiced by the druids, reflects the rhythm of inanimate life. It is reflected with the equilateral cross, which reflects the Vernal Equinox, the Summer Solstice, the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice. When you add the intermediate dates that becomes the Star of Remphan (see Acts 7:43 KJV), and this was practiced at their time by the ancient druids.
The Genesis calendar, which name was given to Dr Stephen Pidgeon in prayer, is supported biblically and reflects the rhythm of animate life.
The printed version is the 3rd edition, which sets forth the dates up to 2024, comparing them to the Gregorian calendar.
And there is the Soli-Lunar calendar.
Rome.
“And ELOHIYM said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for appointed feasts, and for days, and for years.” – Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:14.
The Gregorian calendar reflects Roman authority. It’s one of their marks.
There are 2 clear signs that one is still on a leash to the Roman Catholic Church.
Firstly, one keeps the Gregorian calendar.
Secondly, one worships on the 1st day of the week (Sunday).
These are the 2 markers of Rome (!) that hold one to them, connect one to them. You may be a “Protestant”, a member of a protestant denomination, and you can protest as much and as loud as you want, but you are still connected to Mother Rome, if those markers are present in your life!
Days.
There are 3 theories concerning the beginning of the day, none of which is consistent with the Gregorian calendar we are on:
1st is that the day begins at dark, at sunset.
2nd is that the day begins at sunrise.
3rd is that the day begins at high noon.
Current practice, according to the Gregorian calendar, is that the day begins at midnight.
Distortions.
The Jewish calendar is based on a book called “The Seder Olam”. It contains an error, of which they know it’s there. They assume that there were 490 years from the destruction of the 1st temple to the destruction of the 2nd temple.
This could be true, but nearly everybody is wrong about which temple is meant. The one destroyed in 70 A.D. was the 3rd temple. The 2nd temple was a kind of bad replica of the 1st temple, which was nothing like Herod’s temple, and was destroyed even earlier, but there are no records about this fact.
The book “Seder Olam Rabbah”, subtitled “The Great Order of the World”, calculates from 586 BC (the destruction of the 1st temple) to 70 A.D. (the destruction of Herod’s temple) and they try to say that’s 490 years. There is an error of 166 years here!
This gives a distortion that makes it not accurate.
The Jewish Rabbis manipulate their calendar to match their theology, which causes distortions.
“Anti-Christ”
This has to do with Daniel’s timeline and the “anti-Christ”, who will change times and seasons.
In the original Greek, the word “anti” means “in the place of”. The papacy is regarded by the Roman Catholic Church as the Vicar of Christ, that is the earthly person who is in the place of Christ. Some popes even declare, that they are Christ.
This matters to us, because it’s important to cut the yoke with the Roman religious system, which is very explicit about them changing the times and seasons because they had the power to change it.
They did that in the early 4th century AD.
The “church” in the “British” isles practiced Shabbat on the 7th day until the 1200s, and it rejected the feasts that were being given by Rome.
This is important, because Elohiym gave us the sun, moon and stars for determining times and seasons, to be able to keep His appointed times.
The Anti-Messiah does this to wear out the people. He replaces those set-apart feasts with alternative, counterfeit feasts. This causes confusion about what day we are in, when the day begins, etc.
Ancient times
What did the ancients do to determine the right calendar?
Ancient peoples, from cultures around the world, built edifices to determine the Vernal Equinox, the day when night and day were exactly equal, precisely. Examples are Stonehenge in England, and different kinds of pyramids in places around the world, like El Castillo in Mexico and of course the ones in Egypt.
An edifice in Mexico known as El Castillo, has 4 staircases at 4 sides which at the equinox makes the sunlight slither like a snake down the staircase. The “plumed serpent” represents Kukulkan, a snake deity whose carved head is found at the base of the stairs. Kukulkan appears twice a year, on the spring and the autumnal equinox, when day and night, light and dark, are equal and in balance.
Stonehenge includes a celestial observatory function, which allowed prediction of eclipses, solstices, equinoxes and other celestial events.
Note: If one questions the fact that,
for instance, Stonehenge would have
been built by mere humans, then I
would like to point at the theory, used
by author Bernard Cornwell for his
book “Stonehenge”, where he
describes a very plausible way it might have been done. I call it plausible, because I
have used the same technique to lift a large, very heavy, stone up on a pile of other
stones.
English Heritage, the caretakers of Stonehenge, open the ancient site on the day of the spring equinox to mark the official beginning of springtime. Stonehenge was built for the above-mentioned reason, not as a execution site or something like that.
“A 360° View of Stonehenge” is a video by “English Heritage” of 3:16 minutes.
The solstices are easy enough to observe, because the day must be the longest or the shortest, but the equinoxes are more difficult, because dark and light needs to be equal.
Looking at Stonehenge and all the different Pyramids, they are built in such a way as to display the Vernal Equinox, the Marker that allows you to adjust your year for the agricultural year.
The Grianan of Aileach is a group of historic structures atop a 244 meters tall hill in County Donegal, Ireland. The main structure is a stone ringfort, thought to have been built by the Uí Néill in the sixth or seventh century AD. The monument is aligned to the rising sun of the equinox, its beam effectively halving the inside of the ring into a northern and southern part. Upon entering through the gate, 3 feet wide, the beam reaches the lower stones of the opposite wall. The Grianan of Aileach was built to observe the equinox.
Angkor Wat was first a Hindu, then subsequently a Buddhist, temple complex in Cambodia, built by the Khmer King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century AD. It is a massive stone complex tucked quietly way in the dense jungles of Angkor. The layout of the Angkor temples and the iconographic nature of much its sculpture, particularly the asuras (‘demons’) and devas (‘deities’) are intended to indicate the celestial phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes and the slow transition from one astrological age to another. One the morning of the spring equinox, the sun rises, up the side of the central tower of the temple and crowns its pinnacle.
Mnajdra is a megalithic temple complex found on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta, dating back to the fourth millennium BC. It is one of the most ancient religious sites on earth. The unique, easterly orientation of Mnajdra above-ground temple suggests that the temple may have served as one of the world’s oldest solar calendars. One the equinox days, a ray of sun enters the temple and lights up its main axis. On the solstices, sunlight illuminates the entrance chamber’s megaliths.
The record shows that the Ancient Druids celebrated a festival on the full moon which followed the vernal equinox. We are not completely sure of it, but it seems that this was the feast of Bikoor – first fruits.
All these ancient edifices have been built, because to the ancient peoples these days were critically important.
Why?
Because it established the basis of their calendar!
And it is going to establish the basis of our calendar as well!
So, let’s jump into this thing!
The “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” is a Soli-Lunar Calendar.
The Month is calculated on the Moon Cycle, but the year is adjusted in accord with the Equinox.
Not specific the Vernal or Autumnal Equinox, because Dr Pidgeon, as well as I, believe we are on a spherical, round earth, and we have two different sets of seasons: in the Northern Hemisphere we have Spring, which begins on or around the Vernal Equinox (March 20th or 21st), as compared to the Autumnal Equinox (on, or around, September 21st) which takes us into the Fall Season.
The “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” year is a year which resets each year in an adjustment to the vernal equinox and cannot, nor should, be factored on a 360-day cycle to shorten the number of years.
It becomes precisely completed on the day, that the sun descends into the west, while the moon ascends at night from the east.
(See Chanok (Enoch) 78:15)
But in the Southern Hemisphere it is the opposite way.
The last month of the year sees the sunset to the west of due north, but the full moon to the east of due north. The first month of the year has both to the east of due north.
For people living in the Southern Hemisphere the planting season begins in association with the Autumnal Equinox, not the Vernal Equinox. This is given to us by YAH, and leads to two different calendars, as you will; one in the Northern Hemisphere, and one in the Southern Hemisphere.
The first month of the year is calculated where the vernal equinox comes after the covered moon beginning the month, and the first full moon following the equinox.
This is difficult to understand.
So, the new moon just before the vernal equinox and the full moon directly after the vernal equinox, marks the start of the first month of the year. The Full moon marks the 15th day of that month.
So, this is also what marks the 15th day of the 1st month of the year on the Yom Qodesh Calendar: The Full Moon that immediately follows the Vernal Equinox.
The year of this presentation (2019) was particularly difficult, because the full moon was on March 21st. And the Catholic Church and the other people, who use the same kind of factoring for trying to determine Easter, got confused about it because they naturally assumed that the vernal equinox is always on March 21st, but it is not. In 2019 it was on March 20th, and 2020 it was on March 20th, the next 3 years it will be on March 20th.
The full moon on March 21st did follow the vernal equinox of March 20th. That placed the beginning of the year back 15 days, which meant that the year began actually on March 7th.
People reacted that’s an awfully early year, but it would mean that we have an early spring, an early summer, an early autumn, and an early winter.
A big controversy.
So, let’s get into one of the big controversies:
Tehilliym (Psalms) 81:3 “Blow the shofar on the dark New Moon today on our solemn feast.”
In transliterated Hebrew: “Teqiah b’chodesh shofar b’kasah l’yom chag’nu”.
Kasah (H3680) means “close, clothe, conceal, or cover”.
The Dark new moon is also called the Covered new moon.
In the Hebrew we see the word “Teqiah”, which is a kind of shofar blast.
Chodesh doesn’t mean “new moon”. It comes from Chadash, which is the word which we use when we talk about the Briyt Chadasha, which is the Renewed Covenant. When Mashiach had taken the cup, He said “ger ha’brit chadasha ba’dami”, “this is the renewed covenant in my blood”.
Chadasha doesn’t mean New, it means Renewed. It’s a cycle, like a car. My new car was new to me, but it wasn’t a New car. It’s the same with the new moon. It’s not a New moon. There’s not suddenly some new planet. No, we’re talking about a Renewed moon, that is about a Renewed Cycle of the moon.
Chodesh doesn’t necessarily mean Moon cycle, it could also mean Sun cycle, or the cycle of the equinoxes, the cycle of the days, or anything else.
Some say that Chodesh does not mean moon, because Yireach means moon. However, the root of the Hebrew word “Yireach” means month (H3391). Chodesh is of the same root as Chadash (as in Briyth Chadasha) which means renewed. Although the moon is implied in the word Chodesh (the renewal), in the Hebrew language it has always been considered to mean the renewal of the moon cycle.]
The moon-cycle is extremely important in how we deal with the calendar. Not exclusively, but in how we deal with it.
“Kasah” is Not the same as “Kaseh”. That is a Masoretic interpretation!
So, “blow the Teqiah on the Shofar on the Chodesh, our holy (set apart) day”.
David was of course speaking of what they now call Rosh Hashanah. We refer to it as Yom Teruah, the day of trumpets. This was this feast that began with the dark moon.
The dark moon lasts for only about 3 hours. Sometimes it’s a bit longer, sometimes a bit shorter, than that. But if you ever watch a lunar eclipse, when the moon turns blood red, you will only see that red moon for three hours because that’s the length of the eclipse.
When we are talking about a dark moon, or a covered moon, we are talking about 3 hours after which light begins to be reflected by the moon again and the first slither is visible again.
But the Jewish calendar says we cannot begin a new month until a rabbi sees the slithered moon.
Well, that is just not accurate. How can the Jews publish a calendar for many years when no rabbi has seen a slither of a new moon? They project when the rabbi is going to see the slithered moon.
But if you look in Genesis 1 there is nothing; you won’t see the word rabbi anywhere. It just doesn’t appear there. Instead, what appears there is the sun, the moon and the stars, being there for times and seasons and days and years.
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:1-2 tells us [“1 And YAHUAH (the LORD) spoke unto El-Mosheh (Moses) and El-Aharon (Aaron) in the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.”
So, this month here, the month in which we are going to have Pecach (Passover) and Matsah (Unleavened Bread), is going to be the first month of the year.
Mosheh doesn’t tell us how to calculate the first month, but historically it’s been predicated on the vernal equinox, and Chanuk (Enoch) tells us that the last month is just the month before the vernal equinox.
So, we know then that the new cycle begins at about the vernal equinox.
The name of this month is Aviyv (Aviv), which also describes a condition of the barley, when it is ready for harvest. Shemoth (Exodus) 9:31 “And the flax and the barley was smitten for the barley was in the ear (aviyv), and the flax was bolled,”
The Jewish calendar gives you the Babylonian name: Nissan. But the scriptural name is Aviyv.
Aviyv is spelled with two “vav”s. sometimes it is pronounced Abib, but it is Aviyv. This Aviyv is the barley being ready for harvest. Even this year (2019), which is the earliest year you can possibly have the calendar begin, the barley was Aviyv, even in the northern parts of Israel and the wheat was growing all over Israel.
Still the Jewish calendar says that the earliest month is April, that the 1st month is going to begin in April. Which is going to place Pecach at April 23rd, and April 24th would begin Matsah. Where was the barley in April? Long gone! It had already been harvested, the Aviyv had been gone, everything was gone. There was no barley left for harvest. That was the same condition as 2015, when we also proposed an early calendar year.
At that time the Nascent Sanhedrin saw our calendar and agreed with us, that our calendar was right and that the rabbinical calendar was wrong. Eventually after Shavuot showed to be wrong, they came back to the rabbis and said we got to change the calendar. The rabbis said forget it. It’s not going to happen. But they knew it was inaccurate to the actual agricultural cycle.
To summarize the above information, which is maybe hard to understand, we can state that the new moon just before the vernal equinox and the full moon directly after the vernal equinox, mark the start of the first month of the year. The Full moon marks the 15th day of that month. This is what marks the 15th day of the 1st month of the year on the “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar”: The Full Moon that immediately follows after the Vernal Equinox.
The year, marked as 2019 on the Gregorian Calendar, was particularly difficult, because the full moon was on March 21st. And the Catholic Church and the other people, who use the same kind of factoring for trying to determine Easter, got confused about it, because they naturally assumed that the vernal equinox is always on March 21st, but it is not. In the year 2019 it was on ‘March 20th’, in the year 2020 it is on ‘March 20th’, the next 3 years it will be on ‘March 20th’.
The full moon on ‘March 21st’ did follow the vernal equinox of ‘March “20th’, which placed the beginning of the year 15 day back behind that, which meant that the year began actually on ‘March 7th’.
People reacted that’s an awfully early year”, but it would mean that we have an early spring, early summer, early autumn, and early winter. And that means the year will have a 13th month, which makes for a long winter!
Credibility
Qualities of Credibility:
Realistically, which calendar best succeeds in describing reality?
Premise 1: The calendar should be subject to rational inquiry;
Premise 2: The calendar should underpin all other understanding (fundamental);
Premise 3: The calendar should be confirm-able through inductive reasoning;
Premise 4: The conclusions of the calendar should be intentional and not accidental.
Premise 1: Rational inquiry
1. Is the calendar readily ascertainable from a simple view of existence? Or does it require reference to a calculated document or rabbinical decision?
2. Does the calendar correctly predict an annual sequence, or must it be adjusted from time to time?
3. Does the calendar predict the seasons of the year, or is it irrelevant to the seasons?
Point 1 is a big deal, because on the Gregorian calendar. The most sold product is a calendar. Your computer screen, your cell phone, etc. , they all give you the time and the date according to the Gregorian calendar. We can’t know it in another way. Looking at nature we can’t say what date it would be. This is because it is artificial placed, and it doesn’t have any organic existence.
The Jewish calendar says you can’t know the 1st day of the month until a rabbi sees the moon coming up over the horizon in Jerusalem, and then tells you, us and the world about it. If you are in a place where you can’t hear from that rabbi because you have to be in some place in southern Africa, or you are on an island of the coast of Tahiti somewhere, well then you don’t get to know the 1st of the month, you are cut out.
Now, it’s the same thing with the Zadoq calendar. You can determine the 1st day of the month, but you have an arbitrary fix that goes 30 – 30 – 31 – 30 – 30 – 31 … So, only if you keep your own record daily, you know what date it is.
And that, while we have all these things in place that help us to know when the vernal equinox is, so we know when the 1st month is. And I can look at the moon and tell you exactly what day of the month it is, by whether or not it is a waning or a waxing moon, whether or not it’s a quarter moon, a half moon, a full moon, or going back to a three quarter moon, or a dark moon. When it’s a half moon I know it’s either the 7th or the 8th of the month. When we come to the full moon, I know it’ the 15th of the month. When it comes to the dark moon, the new moon, I know that it’s the 1st day of a new month. So I can get within a day approximately to any day of the month by simply looking at the moon.
For those who can’t see the moon for whatever reason, that is an issue. But anyone who can see the moon can know what day of the month it is. And when you know when the equinoxes are you know where you are going.
Point 2: All calendars must be adjusted from time to time to some kind of degree.
The Gregorian calendar has this “catch basin” called leap-year.
February was originally the 12th month. The Julian calendar shows this clearly. September, sept is seven, October, octo is eight, November, Nove is nine, December, Deca is ten.
So how do we get the 1st of the year on the eleventh month? That is because Gregory moved it up there.
And we still got the “dump” in February, which was the end of the year.
The Zadoq calendar is particularly difficult, because at the end of a 7 year period you have to add a full week of days. There is nothing in scripture, or the dead sea scrolls, that talks about adding that leap week. There is no historical record of that at all. But it has to be done because you’re losing a day and a quarter every single year. You have to have these adjustments.
The Soli-Lunar calendar works with a 13th month every so much years. The thirteenth moon-cycle takes you to the vernal equinox to start the new year. It’s about every 3rd year that we get this 13th month. And this does have scriptural basis (see further on in this presentation).
Point 3: The Gregorian is kind of close to it. But it can’t tell you about long winters, early springs or summers, etc. This is why people buy a farmer’s almanac, because that doesn’t rely on the Gregorian calendar to give you a planting schedule, but it relies on the solar-lunar sequence to do this.
The Gregorian calendar is not as effective as it could be.
The Zadoq calendar is totally irrelevant to the agricultural cycle. It’s a priestly calendar, that doesn’t really care about the barly being aviv or the wheat being aviv, or anything else. It’s going to be fixed. Yom Teruah is always the 185th day of the year on this calendar.
The soli-lunar calendar gives you variation in the length of the months.
Sometimes 28, sometimes 29 and sometimes 30 days in a month. Even every now and then a 31st day. What you Never get in the soli-lunar calendar is a blue moon. That’s impossible.
Premise 2: Ask of your calendar these questions:
1. Does the calendar readily predict the Sabbaths in a continuous seven-day sequence?
2. Does the calendar readily predict the feasts?
3. Does the calendar readily predict the seasons of the year?
Quesion 1: The Zadoq calendar has a fixed set of dates. The 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day are Sabbaths. Sometimes you’ll have this stretch of 8 or 9 days from sabbath to sabbath. That depends on the length of the month. This doesn’t give you a regularly occurring Sabbath.
The Soli-Lunar calendar doesn’t say this is the sabbath, but the sabbath falls every 7th day.
There is backing up for this way of thinking, like in the Sumerian records. Those are all based on sixes to formally number. They practiced the 7th day sabbath in a 7-day week. It was them that put 60 minutes in the hour. There is no calendar in practice that I know of that doesn’t practice a 7-day week.
However, when you look at the Zadok calendar, all of a sudden you get an inordinate count. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …, or 9, or 10.
And I don’t think that that is accurate. It doesn’t give you the 7th day Sabbath.
Question 2: We know that we have a couple of feasts that fall on the 15th. Matstsah and Cukkoth fall on the 15th. We know that Yom Teruah falls on the 1st day.
The Soli-Lunar calendar predicts the feasts readily, the Gregorian calendar has to have them fixed, same thing with the Zadok calendar. They pick the day arbitrarily and tell you it is so. If I don’t have it in writing, I don’t know on what date it is and I can’t find it.
Question 3: Well, again, the Zadoq calendar doesn’t care about the seasons. The Gregorian calendar predicts them somewhat. But they are explicitly predicted by the Soli-Lunar calendar.
Premise 3: Your calendar should be Inductively Derived:
Point 1. Can the calendar be ascertained by examining nature?
Point 2. Does the calendar require the fixing of arbitrary dates?
Point 3. Is the calendar proven by the consistent elapsing of the days, months, seasons and years?
Point 1: The Gregorian calendar starting on January 1st is a totally abject failure. It is difficult to determine in nature, without help from outside. But with the Soli-Lunar calendar we see that cultures in nations all over the world created edifices and artefacts to be able to determine the Vernal Equinox, so that they could examine nature and find the 1st month of the year. So, it can be found by examining nature.
The Zadoq calendar also stresses that it begins with the solar equinox, which allows us to find the 1st if the year.
Point 2: That is the big issue. The 1st month of the year flows like clockwork for the Zadoq calendar. But the following months, coming into month seven, it does not flow, it must be arbitrary fixed. The Gregorian year is all arbitrarily fixed. We had to learn a poem to remember their system. But with the Soli-Lunar calendar you simply look up into the heavens and you know what date it is.
Point 3: In other words, do you continually have to adjust? For instance, the Lunar calendar of the Islam is not consistent with the elapsing of the days, months, seasons and years. It just keeps trotting over the top of everything. You cannot plant according to an Islamic calendar. Nor can you harvest according to it. You just can’t understand any agricultural season. This is also why Ramadan keeps moving through the year.
Premise 4:
The conclusions of the calendar should be intentional and not accidental.
Question 1: Can the markers of the calendar be intentionally obtained?
Question 2: Do the markers of the calendar intentionally fit, or are they accidentally aligned from time to time?
Question 1: The Zadoq calendar comes down with pin-point accuracy in the 1st month. And the proponents of the Zadok calendar will tell us: “We have never a problem with the feast days like you do.”
With the Soli-Lunar calendar you have sometimes Pecach falling on a weekly sabbath. Pecach is a day of preparation, it’s not a Shabbat, so, if it lands on a Saturday sabbath what do you do? You can’t prepare because it’s the “Saturday” sabbath, so you have to prepare the day before.
This never happens in the Zadok calendar. Matstsah always begins on a Sabbath day and always ends on a Sabbath day. You have a same kind of fitting in the 7th month where the 1st of the month is a Sabbath and then the 10th of the month is not, but when you get to the 15th of the month it is again. So, you have less worries about the feast landing on the wrong days.
But the markers of the Soli-Lunar calendar, the Genesis calendar, can be readily obtained, merely by looking up into the heavens. Once you can put up an artefact that helps you find the vernal equinox, you can easily find your calendar from there wherever you are.
Question 2: Well, in the Gregorian calendar everything is an accident. And that is why you get stuff as “blue moon” and so on. That is because it is unnatural, and nothing ever fits except for the fact that they mark the equinoxes and solstices. And even those are inaccurate from time to time.
It cannot be ascertained from a simple view of existence; requires reference to a calculated document; it must be adjusted every four years; the calendar predicts the seasons of the year by the equinoxes.
The Islamic Lunar Calendar can be ascertained from a simple view of existence; does not require reference to a calculated document; it is never adjusted; the calendar does not predict the seasons of the year at all.
The Zadoq Calendar cannot be ascertained from a simple view of existence; requires reference to a calculated document; it must be adjusted every seven years; the calendar does not predict the seasons of the years.
Years
The Physical Year.
The physical year is approximately 365.24218967 says long (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 45.1875 seconds) on average.
A 364- day calendar is 1.24 days short per year. In a seven-year period, the calendar falls behind 8.68 days. Adding a “non-scriptural” leap week, leaves 1.68 days remaining, that are unaccounted for.
According to the Sacred Scriptures (the Bible) the year starts with the month of Aviyv in spring.
The druids, who kept the original calendar for a long time, practiced additional feasts, and the world of today still practice these days: Halloween, Mayday, Samhain, Beltane.
These days are still celebrated in the exclusively solar calendar, which is reflected with the equilateral cross, which reflects the Vernal Equinox, the Summer Solstice, the Autumnal Equinox, and the Winter Solstice. When you add the intermediate dates that becomes the Star of Remphan (see Acts 7:43 KJV), and this was practiced at their time by the ancient druids.
In Enoch, the Last month of the year is when there is a full moon to the east of due north, but the last sunset is to the west of due north.
Now, at the 1st of the new year, the sun sets for the 1st time to the east of due north, as the full moon is also east of due north.
This happens, of course, due to the tilt of the earth.
When this happens, it tells you we have arrived at the Vernal Equinox, at the day that there is exactly the same amount of darkness (night) as there is of light (day).
Many of these ancient edifices, these places, were built to capture that exact moment.
Of course, that is inverted in the southern hemisphere.
Days celebrated on a solely solar calendar:
1. Start of the year = start of spring = +/- 1 Feb. > St. Brigid’s Day > Bogha Bride = Brigid’s Cross
2. Mid-spring (= +/- vernal equinox = +/- 21 Mar.) > St. Patrick’s Day (Mar. 17th)
3. added Start of summer = +/- 1 May. > Mayday, Bealtane. > Bonfires, Farmers markets.
4. Mid-summer = summer solstice = +/- 23 Jun. (longest day) > bonfires at roadsides, song, dance.
5. Start of autumn = +/- 1 Aug. > Lughnasa in honor of celtic god Lugh, start of harvest, the time for “hand-fastings” or “trial-marriages” that would last a year and a day. > reunions, bonfires, dancing.
6. Mid-autumn = autumnal equinox = +/- 21 Sep. > symbol: cornucopia, as all harvest is collected and stocks for winter are plentiful.
7. Start of winter = +/- 1 Nov. > Halloween, 31 Oct./1 Nov. > Samhain falls between Oiche Shamhna (Oct. 31st) and La na Marbh (Nov. 1st) > Oiche Shamhna (Oct. 31st) is Halloween and La na Marbh (Nov. 1st) is the Day of the Dead, or All Souls Day, when those who have passed away are remembered.
8. Mid-winter = winter solstice = +/- 21 - 23 Dec.] (shortest day) > Imbolc > Newgrange, Co. Meath, Ireland: illumination of ancient burial site.
Should we stick to the Jewish calendar? No!
First of all, it’s not supposed to rain before Cukkoth in Israel according to the Biblical instructions on the calendar, called “the Yorah”. Yorah derives from the Hebrew “yôrâh”, meaning “he instructs”. Yorah (Jorah) was the head of a family of exiles that returned from Babylonian captivity with Ezra. (See Ezra V’Nechemyahu, Ezra, 2:18)
The Yorah happened in late September in 2019. In Montana, USA, it was on September the 27th, and 50 centimetres of snow in some places. Snowfall in Montana in the end of September! It’s an very early onset of winter in Seattle, USA, also.
Markers given to us are for instance Bikoor being in Aviv, the wheat being ready for harvest is another marker, the grape and the olive being ready for harvest is one, and of course the former rains, which are going to take place sometime following Cukkoth.
If your calendar doesn’t include your barley being ready for harvest in Aviyv, and it doesn’t include the wheat harvest, because you missed it, or it’s somehow wrong, and it’s raining before Cukkoth, you have inordinate cold temperatures and then there is a good chance that your calendar is not accurate to what the Torah intended.
Yom Qodesh
The seven Moediym, or Appointed Feasts:
1. Pecach (Passover) – 14th day of 1st month,
2. Matstsah (Feast of Unleavened Bread) – 15th day (full moon) of 1st month
3. Bikkoor (First Fruits) – first “sunday” following the full moon of the 1st month
4. Shevu’oth (Pentecost) – 7 weeks following Bikkoor
5. Yom Teruah (Day of Trumpets) – 1st day of the 7th month
6. Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) – 10th day of 7th month
7. Cukkoth (Feast of Tabernacles) – 15th day (full moon) to 23rd day of 7th month.]
In Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23 we find the instructions for these 7 feasts.
Shabbat (Sabbath) could be considered as an 8th Feast, but officially it doesn’t count as one of the seven Feasts.
Dr Pidgeon was not fully certain about the matter of bikkoor, but thinks that considering Luqas (Luke) 6:1-5 in this respect is helpful.
“AND it came to pass on the second Shabbath after the first, that he went through the fields; and his Talmidiym plucked the heads of grain, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.” - Luqas (Luke) 6:1.
With the use of the Greek word deuteroprotos (i.e., second), we will see that we are discussing the first Shabbath of the year (and potentially no other time).
deuteroprotos (δευτερόπρωτος) Strong's G1207, means actually second-first, i.e. (specially) a designation of the Sabbath immediately after the Paschal week (being the second after Passover day, and the first of the seven Sabbaths intervening before Pentecost): i.e., the second … after the first.
This tells us that the reference to the first Sabbath that appears in Ma’asiym 20:7 and Qorintiym Ri’shon (1 Corinthians) 16:2 means the first Sabbath of the year following the Paschal week. The count of the seven shabbaths would then begin at the close of Matstsah. On the first such shabbath, the Talmidiym would come together to break bread, and the feast of firstfruits (bikoor) would follow the next day.
Remember Matstsah is a 7-day feast, and 1 of those 7 days is going to be a regular shabbat. Bikkoor is on the ‘Sunday’ following the shabbat within Matstsah. (Dr Pidgeon may change his opinion on this and has his reasons for his opinion being changed on this, and that has to do with Luqas (Luke) 6 and what is being taught there. (See above.)
So, we have this 1st ‘Sunday’ following the full moon following the vernal equinox, traditionally being the day that was established by the Christian church as the day for the feast of Easter, but we would call it “Resurrection Day”.
Dr Pidgeon is reading work about an ancient historian called Gildas, who had spent the last 7 years of his life working on this dating for this Resurrection Day. He hasn’t read his conclusions yet, but there may be something in Luqas 6 that gives us a different date of lent/bikkoor. Some people say, “Look, if you have to eat matstsah/unleavened bread for the full feast of matstsah, that necessarily must put bikkoor out at the 2nd ‘Sunday’. That gives you an inordinate count on Shavuoth too. (7 weeks following Bikkoor.)
Shavuoth is always going to be on a ‘Sunday’ as well, if you keep the ‘Saturday’ sabbath, or 50 days after the Shabbat within Matstsah.
Mosheh tells us that Pecach and Matstsah follow the Aviyv barley, Shavuoth follows the wheat harvest, and Cukkoth the grape harvest and the olive harvest. But before the winter rains come.
You have some specific agricultural dating here that is related with the calendar.
If you get it wrong, it means that your planting is going to be off, your harvesting is going to be off, your agricultural schedule is going to be off. You’re not going to be able to predict the times and the seasons!
The Four Seasons
23 “And on the New Moon of the first month, and on the New Moon of the fourth month, and on the New Moon of the seventh month, and on the New Moon of the tenth month are the days of remembrance, and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year. These are written and ordained as a testimony forever. 24 “And Noach ordained them for himself as feasts for the generations forever.” [Yovheliym (Jubilees) 6:23-24.]
Currently in the solar calendar we have 4 seasons predicated on fixed dates: spring begins on the vernal equinox, summer begins on the summer solstice, autumn begins on the autumnal equinox, and winter begins on the winter solstice.
Oftentimes that doesn’t reflect the true seasons at all; we just have these arbitrarily fixed dates. The “Farmer’s Almanac” never goes by that. Because it is an arbitrarily fixed in-animate calendar.
When you take an animate calendar, like the Genesis calendar, what you see is that the new moon of the 1st month is the beginning of spring, the new moon of the 4th month is the beginning of summer, the new moon of the 7th month, Yom Teruah, is the beginning of autumn, and the new moon of the 10th month is the beginning of winter. These are the days of remembrance and the days of the seasons in the four divisions of the year.
Now what does Pa’al (Paul) say?
He says ”Let no one judge you in meat or drink, or in your new moons, your sabbaths.”
These 4 specific new moons were to be feast days to mark the 4 seasons.
It’s very interesting when you follow this, because you have a year like 2019 in which spring started on March 7th, summer began early in June, fall began on August 21st.
Rosh HaShanah is not the Head of the year for the northern hemisphere, but the 1st of Aviv. (In the southern hemisphere you might celebrate our Rosh HaShanah as the head of the year.)
September 1st was the beginning of Fall, which is going to bring the beginning of winter very early, somewhere around the 1st of December.
That meant that we were going to have a long winter.
We see that there is an organic-ness to this particular calendar. That is why I call it the Genesis calendar, because it is about the generation of animate life.
Conclusion
The “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” predicts the year beginning on the 1st of Aviyv, which was March 6th in 2019 on the commonly used Gregorian calendar (the earliest possible date, because the vernal equinox was March 20th, and the full moon was March 21st).
The Yom Qodesh then predicted an early spring, early summer, an early fall, and predicts an early long winter (based on a 13-month year).
Now again, this calendar predicted this in 2015 and was accurate.
We got the chance to see again that it was accurate in 2019/2020.
Some prove of this calendar being accurate:
1, By Carter Evans CBS News, September 29, 2019, 6:04 PM:
“Historic September snowstorm hits Montana as governor declares “winter storm emergency.” (Last Updated Sep 29, 2019 10:28 PM EDT.);
Montana’s governor declared a “winter storm emergency” tonight after the state was slammed by more than 3 feet of heavy, wet snow.
2, The Farmers’ Almanac Predicts Winter 2020 Will Be ‘Freezing’ and ‘Frigid’
The Farmers’ Almanac released its annual extended forecast for winter 2019-2020. The Almanac is predicting a “freezing, frigid, and frosty” winter. Soak up the sun while you can, because it’s going to be a very long winter.
When looking at the prediction for the then coming season, and the success of predicting the harvests for the year 2019, what is the winter prediction of:
- The Gregorian Calendar? The Gregorian doesn’t predict it at all.
- The Islamic Lunar Calendar? The Islamic Lunar doesn’t predict it at all.
- The Zadoq Calendar? The Zadoq doesn’t help us out.
My conclusion, after all information presented in this blog concerning the calendar, is that the “Genesis ‘Yom Qodesh’ Calendar” is presently the best calendar, and fully satisfies the requirements of the Sacred Scriptures and of all other possible requirements.
You, dear readers, are welcome to draw your own conclusions.
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