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PART II
Tishri 9/10 falls on Sunday/Monday, the Day of Atonement, which the Bible calls the day of “affliction,” the day of eternal “cutting off” (Heb: ‘karath’) from the Lord Himself and from the congregation of Israel, of any soul who refuses to ‘afflict’ himself in repentance and turning from sin by that day, Lev 23:26-32. It is called “a sabbath of rest” and is also ‘high sabbath’#5, on whatever day it falls. If the Feast of Firstfruits on March 31,2013 is Day 1 of the 7 years of Tribulation,1290 days later will fall on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, the day of Tishri 9, Jewish year 5777, the day the Beast will commit “the abomination that desolates,” - Dan 11:36-37; 12:11, Matt 24:15-20 - and declares himself above GOD, having no regard for any god…that day falling neither “in the winter nor on a sabbath” – Matt 24:20. [Revelation reveals that no soul comes to salvation in the last half of the Tribulation as the wicked “did not repent” - Rev 9:20-21; 16:9,11.]
Tishri 15 falls on Sabbath, the first day of seven of the Feast of Tabernacles, but is also ‘high sabbath’ #6 no matter on what day it falls according to Lev 23:35…”ye shall do no servile work therein.”
Tishri 21 falls on Friday, and is the end of the seven days of Tabernacles.
Tishri 22 falls on Sabbath, but according to Lev 23:39 it is also ‘high sabbath’ #7, as “ye shall do no servile work therein.” It is sometimes referred to as ‘the great Eighth day’ and is a symbol of the eternal God-commanded rite of “circumcision” – a setting apart and consecration unto the Lord on the 8th day after human birth, the day upon which a ‘priest of the Lord’ is deemed fit for service, and also, it symbolizes the righteous purity of Eternity no matter on what day it falls.
Kislev 25 falls on Friday, the first day of the 8 days of the Feast of Dedication, (Hanukkah) and the last day of the feast always falls on Friday.
Tebeth 10 falls on Friday, the Fast of Tebeth, when king Nebuchadnezzar
came down to begin his siege against Jerusalem - 2 Kings 25:1-2.
Adar 13, falls on Thursday, the Fast of Esther
Adar 14 and 15, fall on Friday and Sabbath, as Purim and Shushan Purim, in the book of Esther.
The year of perfect order - always opens on the Biblical/Sacred calendar on Thursday, Nisan 1 at or close to the New Moon, and closes the following year on Adar 29, at or close to the New Moon, which is usually a Monday. Only in such a year as ‘order’ does the phenomena above occur. This calendar year runs from Spring to Spring, at the season when God comes to visit!
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon [*Rosh Chodesh] to another [*Rosh Chodesh] and from one sabbath* to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD”- Is 66:23.
*Rosh Chodesh: Strong’s # H2320
*Sabbath: Strong’s #H7676: 7th day, Day of Atonement, 7th year, week
WHAT YEARS CAN BE PROVED TO BE ‘YEARS OF PERFECT ORDER’ ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE AND THE ROSETTA CALENDAR?
If the Creator’s 6,000 years of the ‘6 days of Creation’ in Genesis 1 (“a day for a year”- “a year for a day” - Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:
end at the beginning of the Fall Hebrew year 5780 opening on Tishri 1, 2019, than Year 1 of the World was 3981/3980 B.C. [ If 5780 is the closing of the 6,000 years, then the Jews are off 220 years on their own calendar, 5780 + 220 = completes 6,000 years. 22 characters completes the Hebrew alphabet + 5 vowels which may or may not be used.] [I personally believe that the Lord will begin His brand-new eternal counts of years in the year of perfect order - beginning in the Spring of Nisan 1, 2020, 5780, and a new, holy Sabbatical and Jubilee cycle will begin on Tishri 1, 2020, at the opening of Jewish year 5781, still in the year of perfect order of 2020, thru Adar 29, 2021.]
Noah’s Flood took place on the Civil calendar, “in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month,” - Gen 7:11 - which is the month of ‘Heshvan’ (Heb: Marcheshvan) in the fall at the time of the “early/former rain. ” The Hebrew definition of Marcheshvan is “drop down” (as rain). Heshvan is the second month on the Civil calendar and the eighth month on the Sacred calendar.
In the Biblical narrative of the Flood in Genesis 7, the Holy Spirit notes precise and specific timing for the age of Noah at the beginning of the Flood and for the ending of the Flood, i.e. beginning …“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month…” - Gen 7:11. Then, this exact statement is made about the end of the period of 150 days that “the water prevailed upon the earth” - Gen 7:24: “ And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat” - Gen 8:4. On the Civil calendar, counting 150 days from the eve of 17th day of the second month (Heshvan 16/17) to the eve of the 17th day of the 7th month, (Nisan 16/17) brings one to Nisan 17, which is ONLY and always “a day of rest” – a sabbath - in a particular type of Jewish year - a year of perfect order. For this to have occurred as Gen 8:4 clearly says, Nisan 1 had to have opened on a Thursday, 17 days prior on the Sacred calendar in order for the ark to come to rest on Sabbath. When the Bible refers to “rest” it is always symbolized physically and spiritually by the Sabbath day, the Sabbatical year, the Jubilee year, the Millennial Kingdom Age and Eternity itself. “There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his” - Hebrews 4:9-10 . Rest always comes in the ‘7th year, the ‘49th’ year of Israel’s sabbatical cycle followed by the rest of the ‘50’th year of Jubilee, which is really Year 1 of the next 49 years - Lev 25. In the Bible and in Judaism, the number ‘49’ is a symbol of Saturday, the 7th day of the week, and number ‘50’ is a symbol of Sunday, the 8th day which is really the 1st day of the next 7 days of the week. The number ‘8’ in Judaism stands for “new beginnings.” The numbers 1, 8 and 50 are called ‘transcendent numbers’ as they transcend, going beyond 7, according to Judaism.
Bible chronologists tell us that the years of the history of the Patriarchs from Year 1 of Creation to the death of Joseph may be counted from Scripture itself. Noah died 2006 years from Year 1; Abraham was born 2008 years from Year 1. Noah was born 1,056 years before the Flood. The ‘Deluge’ began in year 1,656 from Year 1 of the World, when Noah was 600 years of age. (Bible History Old Testament, Alfred Edersheim, William B Erdmans, pages 1X to X).
If the Fall of 3981 B.C. was Year 1 of the World, 1,656 years and 5 months (150 days) later would have of 2325 B.C. The Rosetta calendar shows that in that year, Jewish year 1436, Nisan 1, opened on Thursday, which made it ‘a year of perfect order’ in which Noah’s Ark came to rest on Sabbath, Nisan 17.
[In the ‘set time’ of Spring - when God comes to visit.]
We do not know the date of the year, in Genesis 17, when the Lord came to visit Abraham to deliver to him the ‘PROMISE ’ of a son, Isaac, with whom He promised to establish His eternal covenant. The first Isaac exemplifies the Second Isaac - Yeshua. Gen 17:1 says that Abraham was 99 years of age at this time.
When the Trinity came to visit Abraham and Sarah in Genesis 18, in the same year as chapter 17, Abraham bowed before all THREE (he was not allowed to bow before mere angels), and addressed THEM in the singular as “My Lord,” at noon time (v.1...”at the heat of the day”). Abraham specifically instructed Sarah to prepare a meal for THEM
v.6: “take flour and knead it and make cakes upon the grill”). Judaism teaches that Passover begins on Nisan 14, at noon, by which time, all leaven must have already been removed from each house in preparation for the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread at the even, the beginning of Nisan 15, at sundown. Those cakes were “unleavened cakes” as Abraham’s specific instructions to Sarah were to knead the dough in order to keep out any remaining leaven that could have been in the house. The only time Israel was specifically instructed to eat unleavened bread under the Law was during the week of Unleavened Bread. Though this occurred before the Mosaic Law was given, the Lord had obviously instructed His people - beginning with Adam and Eve down through Abraham and his line, in the principles of the future Law of Moses. It was on this day – on Passover that the Lord announced the future birth of Isaac, in Gen 17:21, saying to Abraham “Sarah shall bear unto you at this set time in the next year. ” The word ‘set time’ in Hebrew - Gen 1:14 - is ‘a season’ which in Hebrew is “mow’ed” - a reference to the Mosaic feast days. This day though not named, yet so specifically implied, is absolutely noon time of Nisan 14, the Feast of Passover. In v. 18:14 the Lord clearly promised ... “at the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” Again, in the Hebrew, “the time appointed” is the word mow’ed which is ‘a season,’ revealing a Jewish feast day. In v. 10, the Lord gave another clue about what season this was: “I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life.” The phrase ‘time of life’ in Hebrew is the word ‘Chay’ which means “green vegetation, flowing of fresh water, the reviving and renewal of springtime.” [In the ‘set time’ of Spring, at ‘the time of life’ - when God comes to visit.]
If 3981/3980 B.C. was Year 1 of the World, and Abraham was born 2008 years after creation – in the spring of 1972 B.C. – and Abraham was 100 years old when Isaac was born – Gen 21:5 – in 1872 B.C., the Rosetta calendar shows that Isaac was born in ‘a year of perfect order’ on the ‘high sabbath’ of Thursday, Nisan 15. [This is a fact that Judaism also teaches], at the opening of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 8 days later, Isaac was circumcised – Gen 21:4 - on Thursday, Nisan 22, in Jewish year 1889.
The DISPENSATION OF ‘PROMISE’ OPENED IN A YEAR OF PERFECT ORDER, WITH THE BIRTH OF ‘THE PROMISED ONE’ – ISAAC.
[In the ‘set time’ of Spring - when God comes to visit.]
Because of what Exodus 12 says, we can know for sure that ALL events of the nation of Israel’s first year occurred in ‘a year of perfect order,’… at FIRST:
1. the institution of the eternal statute of Passover
2. the stating of the eternal irrevocable truth: “When I see the blood, I will pass over you.”
3. Israel’s freedom from the bondage of Egypt
4. Israel’s crossing of the Red Sea
5. the 9 stages of Redemption to Mt. Sinai, which concluded with the victory over
Amalek - (a symbol of “the ‘mixed’ people in the land” round about the nation of Israel) about whom the Lord swore… “The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation” - Ex 17:16. (One of the definitions of “forever” in Hebrew is: “generation and generation.”)
6. when the Lord uttered a ‘telescoping’ statement to Moses… “ Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.” Ex 19:4, at which time the Lord betrothed national Israel to Him forever
7. the Lord “came down from on high” when He came to visit - the nation of Israel at Mt. Sinai to meet with Moses and gave Israel and the original 72 nations the Ten Commandments, and the Mosaic Law which OPENED THE DISPENSATION OF ‘LAW’ including His Eternal ‘order of worship’
9. the breaking of the Law and the original tablets- with the worship of the molton calf
10. and so on…
[In the Season of Spring - when God comes to visit, when He called national Israel to “Arise, My love, My fair one, and come away.”]
Though we do not know the precise year that the Children of Israel crossed over into the Promised Land with Joshua at the end of their 40 year wilderness journey in Joshua 1-5, they definitely crossed over on Nisan 10 - Jos 4:19. In Josh 5, the males born after the first circumcision just after release from Egypt, were circumcised, which “rolled away the reproach of Egypt.” After healing, 3 days later they kept the Passover on Nisan 14/15, they ate the produce of the Land on Nisan 15 on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, after which the manna stopped the next day on Nisan 16. Joshua then met Yeshua - Who was “the Captain of the Lord’s host” – Josh 5:6-13 - and then Joshua and Israel were instructed on how to capture and destroy Jericho - Josh 6. Because of this precise day count in the text, it is very likely ALL this occurred in a year of perfect order.’ It is also very likely that anytime the Bible mentions a particular day- especially in “the first month” of Nisan, this signifies to the reader that it is indeed inside a year of perfect order, especially concerning such a significant event like Israel ‘crossing over’ into the Promised Land the FIRST time!
[In the Season of Spring - when God comes to visit, when He entreats national Israel to “Arise, My love, My fair one, and come away.”]
Beginning in Ezekiel 40:1, the prophet receives the blueprint for the eternal Temple of Ezekiel in the great vision contained in the next 8 chapters, from “a man” who was Lord Yeshua, the High Priest of Israel. The text is precisely dated: “In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the Lord was upon me, and brought me thither.” If 587 B.C is the year that the phrase “the city was smitten” (some say 586 B.C.) when Solomon’s Temple was destroyed and the city of Jerusalem was devastated by Nebuchadnezzar - 2 Kings 25:8-9, then the phrase “in the fourteenth year after that” was year 573 B.C. Jewish year 3188,which began in the winter on Tebeth 10, “the beginning of the year in the tenth day of the month,” and continued thru to spring and into the summer on Av 9/10.
The Rosetta calendar reveals that in year 573 B.C., 3188, Nisan 1 fell on a Thursday, signifying that it began a year of perfect order. But even more wonderful, that particular Sabbath of Nisan 10, of course, fell at the beginning of the week of Passover and Unleavened Bread, and as such, was “the Great Sabbath,” the “Shabbos Ha Gadol!” What a day for the Lord to deliver those magnificent last 8 chapters of the book of Ezekiel concerning the Holy Lord’s eternal “order of worship” of Himself plus the wonderful explanation of Temple regimen that will be carried out in perpetuity - for evermore - and how and when He, Yeshua the Prince, will award His eternal inheritances to His own beloved brethren, the Twelve Tribes of Israel – Ezk 48/49.
[In the Season of Spring - when God comes to visit.]
Mary, the mother of Jesus was overshadowed by the Holy Spirit in the Jewish 9th month of Kislev. The Light of the World became Flesh at the darkest time of the year - near the winter solstice! The father of John the Baptist, Zacharias, was a priest after the order of Abijah/Abia - Luke 1 - which was the eighth priestly course – 1 Chron 24:10; 27. The cycle of priestly and levitical courses always begins in the 1st Jewish month on Nisan 1 in the spring, at the beginning of the new Sacred Year. The cyclical courses were 2 weeks in length, plus extra service on special holidays. Therefore Zacharias was free to come home to his wife very close to the first of June, in the 3rd Jewish month of Sivan, Jewish year 3755, 6 B.C. probably just before or just after Pentecost. Elizabeth immediately conceived with John, and “she hid herself for five months” - Luke 1:24. In Elizabeth’s 6th month of pregnancy (v.36) which would have been the 9th Jewish month of Kislev, 3756, 6 B.C. Mary came to visit Elizabeth, and baby John “leaped in her (Elizabeth’s) womb with joy” - v.41 - because Mary was carrying “my Lord.” Mary stayed with Elizabeth “about three months” - v.56) - which would have been until the end of the 12th Jewish month of Adar, 3756,5 B.C., just before the beginning of Nisan, exactly 6 months preceding the birth of Jesus, when John was born. John the Baptist was the forerunner of “the Christ, the Lamb of God” by 6 months. Israel’s Messiah BEGAN the announcement of His plan for their national Redemption in the season of SPRING, spoken through the lips of John’s own father, the priest Zacharias. By the power of the Holy Spirit, he uttered the profound prophetic declaration which foreshadowed the Cross, on the 8th day - at the circumcision of John in the spring month of Nisan, at the opening of the Sacred calendar year, in a year of perfect order: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,” - Luke 1:68. John himself, later uttered this statement as an adult, with these words… ”Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world” - John 1:29,36 - at the end of the latter rain, in the month of Nisan, which is the month of Redemption and Deliverance for the nation of Israel and all mankind, as he himself began preaching “the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins” – Lu 3:3.
John the Baptist, the forerunner, was born exactly 6 months before Yeshua the Messiah, in ‘a year of perfect order’ according to the Rosetta calendar, very possibly on Nisan 15, (the day Israel expects Elijah to arrive).
[In the Season of Spring - when God comes to visit.]
6 months later, the Jewish royal 7th month of Tishri, (Sept/Oct) opened the fall season. The Fall was the season of the birth of Jesus, (9 months from Kislev to the beginning of Tishri) when He was born as the King, Savior and Messiah in the Hebrew month of Tishri, 3757, 5 B.C., referred to in Judaism as “the royal month,” as the kings of Judah ascended to their royal thrones in that month. (The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, by Edwin R. Thiele by kregel Publications.) Jesus was born “the king of the Jews”- out of His own tribe of Judah and Tishri was the only appropriate month for His royal birth. That is the reason “the men from the East” presented Him with regal gifts fit for a king, and for his future burial. Jesus was born the Deliverer of Israel, and the Son of David “at the end of the (levitical) year” on the Sacred Calendar, but Zacharias had prophesized that God had already visited His people Israel in the preceding spring - at the beginning of the Sacred year, in the month of Nisan, in a year of perfect order.
Luke 3:23 says this about the beginning of Jesus ministry to Israel: “And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli.” Jesus was born in the 7th month of Tishri, on the Sacred calendar. He had turned 30 in the month of Tishri of 26 A.D. at the opening of Jewish Sabbatical year 3787.
30 years back from Tishri, 26 A.D. 3787, was Tishri of Jewish year, 3757, 5, B.C.
In Tishri, the Fall of Jewish year 3757, 5 B.C….the Bible says this about the birth of Christ in Lu 2:7: “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.” This verse is a clue that Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles, which is also called “feast of ingathering“ at the end of the year - the end of the agricultural year and the Mosaic “feast” cycle as Ex 23:16 says: “…and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.” The feast of Tabernacles is one of three Mosaic feasts which require “all men” to appear in Jerusalem - Ex 34:22-23, 2 Chon 8:13. During the Feast of Tabernacles the city of Jerusalem and environs, including Bethlehem - were swollen beyond their limits by visiting pilgrims from all around. Therefore, the only place for Mary and Joseph to lay Baby Jesus was outside in a manger because “there was no room for them in the inn” – Lu 2:7 - as it was filled with the visiting pilgrims. Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus actually physically fulfilled the Law, as the manger outside was a type of ‘sukkah’ or ‘booth’ in which God commanded the Israelites to live during the 7 days of Tabernacles, Lev 23:42-43.
Yeshua fulfilled the Law by being circumcised on the 8th day as the Law commanded. So, the Bible reader can know the schedule of the first week of the birth of Jesus: The Rosetta calendar for 5 B.C., Jewish year 3757, in the ‘royal month’ of Tishri reveals the following: Nisan 1, 6 months prior - opened a year of perfect order and as such, Tishri 15 always falls on the 7th day of Sabbath - which is also ‘high sabbath’ #6 - of the levitical year.
Because of the year of perfect order, Jesus Christ was born on Saturday, the ‘double Sabbath’ of Tishri 15* on the opening day of the Feast of Tabernacles. This would have allowed Him to be circumcised 8 days later, on the following Saturday, again a ‘double Sabbath,’ Tishri 22, which is also the last ‘high sabbath’ (#7) of the Mosaic Feast year. Jesus Christ was ‘set apart in consecration’ to the Father on the eighth day after His birth, made ready for His future priestly duties!
John the Baptist’s birth opened the Mosaic Feast cycle 6 months previously, in the spring of 5 B.C., in Jewish year 3756 , and Yeshua’s birth closed the Mosaic feast cycle, in the month of Tishri, 5 B.C. Jewish year 3757.
[ * If Day 1 of the Tribulation begins on March 31, 2013, and 1290 days later – the beast declares himself above any God in the month of Tishri, in the year of 5777 , then, from 3757 to 5777 = 2020 years, from Tishri to Tishri ! ]
[ Born in a year of perfect order, Isaac was born on Nisan 15, which was also the first ‘high sabbath’ of 7, and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. 8 days later he was ‘set apart unto the Lord’ on Nisan 22. Yeshua the Messiah was born in a year of perfect order on the Sabbath, Tishri 15, which was the 6th ‘high sabbath’ which made it a ‘double Sabbath’ and the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles. He was ‘set apart unto the Lord’ on a double Sabbath, the Sabbath day of Tishri 22, which is the last ‘high sabbath’ of 7.]
Upon the conclusion of the Feast of Tabernacles, the pilgrims left the vicinity of Jerusalem immediately upon the end of the feast as there were many end-of-the-agricultural-year chores awaiting them back home. This freed up housing in Bethlehem and Jerusalem, hence, Mary and Joseph were able to move into a house immediately where the ‘men from the East’ found them by following the Star – Matt 2:11.