God’s Calendar and Sunrise begins the Day
Timothy Schwab video: Who Changed the Calendar in Israel? And When? Length: 27 Minutes 38 seconds
Link to the video in TheGodCulture, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEwwFEMIrUs
Transcript Who Changed the Calendar in Israel? And When?
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
The original calendar established by God in the Bible was replace for a Babylonian calendar by the Pharisees and Hasmoneans (all Gentiles) when they moved into Judea from Samaria in 165 B.C. God’s calendar is based on the sun, while the Babylonian calendar cycles around the moon. Jubilees and Enoch confirm the 52 weeks, 30-day month and 364-day year. Another change these “Sons of Darkness”, as Jesus called them, also changed the day to begin at sunset instead of sunrise, which God had established. They based it on Passover which does start at sundown but it is one of the few evening feasts. The rest all start at daybreak. There is good documentation presented in this video to explain this.
The Calendar Hoax — a short video by ScrewBigGov on Rumble — Length: 3 minutes 25 seconds
Link to the video in ScrewBigGov on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v64mb5s–the-calendar-hoax-.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
A 13-month 28-day calendar was used by ancient civilizations for over 5,000 years. Sept = 7, octo = 8, nov = 9 deci = 10. It follows the moon cycle as well as a woman’s cycle and makes more sense. We are now following the Gregorian Calendar, instituted by the Romans.
Timothy Schwab video: Sabbath Series 6A: What Time Is Sabbath? Do We Use the Moon? Length: 19 Minutes 44 seconds
Link to the video in TheGodCulture, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ4SFJqdVdU
Transcript Sabbath Series 6A: What Time Is Sabbath? Do We Use the Moon?
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
Based on the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, observation and science, we can know that God’s calendar is based on 364 days in a year with 12 30-day months and an extra day added each quarter. This does not follow the moon cycle which would throw it off. The Babylonian calendar is false and it was followed by the Pharisees and Judaism today. The day begins at sunrise, although some of the feasts start the evening before. The Sabbath is 1 day each week — the seventh. A site providing a calendar is zadokway.com. The evidence from the death and resurrection of Jesus is introduced and will be explored in detail in the next video.
Sabbath at Sunset? Absurd and Impossible by World’s Last Chance: Sabbath at Sunset? Absurd and Impossible
Excellent article following the details and movements of those involved in removing Jesus’ body from the cross and his burial which required more time than there was before darkness fell. To quote the article, “The purpose of this study,… is to demonstrate the impossibility of finishing the burial of Yahushua prior to sunset.”
Excerpt from this article explaining day and night in Genesis 1: Tradition: People have traditionally assumed Genesis 1 teaches the day begins at sunset because of the oft repeated phrase: “And the evening and the morning were the [first, second, third, etc.] day.” However, this phrase is taken out of context. In the first chapter of Genesis, Yahuwah had already clarified what constituted a day: light! “And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light. And Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and Elohim divided the light from the darkness. And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.” (Genesis 1:3-5, KJV)
Out of the impenetrable blackness of pre-Creation, the first day of Creation began when Yahuwah declared, “Let there be light.” His next act was to divide light from dark. He then named the two things He had divided. Yahuwah “called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.” To insist, therefore, that the “day” begins with the darkness is to join together what Yahuwah has separated.
https://www.worldslastchance.com/yahuwahs-calendar/sabbath-at-sunset-absurd-and-impossible.html
Timothy Schwab video: Sabbath Series 6B: What Time Is Sabbath? NOT Friday Evening! Not Sunday! NEW REVELATION!!! Length: 31 Minutes 59 seconds
Link to the video in TheGodCulture, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNozoANey-o
Transcript Sabbath Series 6B:What Time Is Sabbath? NOT Friday Evening! Not Sunday!
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
The four gospels are compared as to the timing of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus. The differences between the biblical sabbath, which the disciples and Jesus’ followers followed and the false sabbath that the Pharisees believed. Thus, the need to have Jesus buried before sundown (Pharisees belief) and the waiting until sunrise to buy spices (the Marys — biblical sabbath.) Some discussion of the weekly sabbath and the sabbath of Unleavened Bread.
Timothy Schwab video: Sabbath Series 6C: TIMELINE of Messiah’s Death & Resurrection. Sabbath Begins Saturday at Sunrise Length: 14 Minutes 50 seconds
Link to the video in TheGodCulture, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYUZW27MBQ&t=92s
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
The timeline of the week is laid out starting with Tuesday, the 14th of Abib, when Jesus celebrated Passover and was captured afterward. The 15th of Abib, a Sabbath, the first day of Unleavened Bread, Jesus was crucified and “gave up the ghost” at around 3 p.m. and was put in the tomb. The Marys waited until Sabbath was over — just before sunrise — and annointed the body then. The 16th, 17th and 18th days of Abib were the 3 days in the tomb. Yahusha rose just before sunrise on the 18th — the Sabbath for that week (seventh-day — Saturday). The matter of calling Sunday a Sabbath, or the Lord’s Day, is dealt with.
On the Other Hand — let’s hear from Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
In his book, Yeshua, The Life of Messiah from a Messianic Jewish Perspective, (X. E. 2. The Three Days in the Tomb — §181 pg. 644) he wrote:
“Many believe that the statement three days and three nights refers to three full 24-hour periods.” Fruchtenbaum goes on to explain: “In the the Jewish mode of counting years, any part of the end of the previous year, or any part of the new year, whether it be a few months or even just days, counted as a full year…. Likewise, even the last hour of a day or the first hour of a day counted as a full day. Yeshua was in the tomb during the waning hours of Friday, the full 24 hours of Saturday, and then in the early hours of Sunday, which in the Jewish reckoning of time counts as three days.”
He goes on to detail “Yeshua’s seemingly contradictory statements…”
* on the third day –> “the resurrection was to be on the third day, and although He was in the tomb in the early hours of the third day, later on that same day, Yeshua was resurrected, so He was resurrected on the third day
* after three days –>…”since Yeshua was in the tomb part of Sunday, it counted for all of Sunday. Therefore, from a Jewish point of view, counting one full day and the two partial days as whole days, Yeshua was not only resurrected on the third day, He was also resurrected after three days.
* three days and three nights –>He said He would be in the tomb three days and three nights “… the Jewish expression three days and three nights is … a figure of speech referring to any period of time that touches three days and is used in the Hebrew Scriptures several times (Gen. 42:17-18, I Sam. 30:12-13, I Kgs. 20:29 [seven days]…”
But What About Lazarus? — more from Dr. Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum
John 11:39 Martha said, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Fruchetnbaum writes, “Within a Jewish frame of reference, the fact that Lazarus had been dead for four days is significant. Yeshua deliberately waited to arrive on the fourth day. The reason for this relates to the common rabbinic teaching of that day that when a person died, their spirit hovered over the body for three days, and during those three days, there was always a small possibility of resuscitation. At the end of the third day, the spirit descended into Sheol, so resuscitation was impossible. … He deliberately set the stage in such a way that they could not explain it away by claiming that Lazarus had been resuscitated.” The Life of Messiah from a Messianic Jewish Perspective, (VI. I. 1. d. Yeshua and Lazarus — y181 pg. 413)
Applying this to Yeshua’s resurrection, if He hadn’t been truly three full days in the tomb, they could have claimed He resuscitated and hadn’t really died and resurrected.
And what about Jonah?
Matthew 12:39-40 “… but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” My question: Was Jonah a full three days and three nights in the great fish? Or can that also be “explained away” by part of the first day and part of the third day??? etc.
Timothy Schwab video: Sabbath Series 6D: Moses Records Sabbath Begins Saturday at Sunrise
Length: 29 Minutes 50 seconds
Link to the video in TheGodCulture, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8fmPPL8BpM
Transcript Sabbath Series 6D: Moses Records Sabbath Begins Saturday at Sunrise
Summary of the Video’s Teachings
The Passover, Pharoah’s actions, the departure of the Israelites and the incident of the Golden Calf prove that the day begins at sunrise.
Evidence from scriptures that the day begins at sunrise:
First plague will arrive “tomorrow.”
Exodus 10:4, 13
Moses promised the locusts would come “tomorrow”. They arrived the “next morning.” [After the east wind blew all day and all night (still “today”), the east wind brought the locusts (“tomorrow”.]
Exodus 10:4 “Else if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring locust into thy coasts.”
Exodus 10:13 “And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.”
Passover and Pharoah
Exodus 12:11 “for I [the Lord] will pass through the land of Egypt this night.” [the 14th of Abib]
Exodus 12:29 “…And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt…” [still the 14th]
Numbers 33:3 “And they departed from Rameses in the first month on the fifteenth day of the first month.” [Passover is done. It is the next day at sunrise.]
The Golden Calf
Exodus 32:5-6
“And when Aaron saw it [the golden calf], he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said tomorrow is a feast to the Lord”
“And they rose up early on the morrow …”
The Julian Calendar
By following the Julian Calendar, we are assured that the church’s celebration of Jesus’ Death, Burial and Resurrection will RARELY coincide with the Jewish celebration of Passover. Is this intentional to wrest us from our roots and traditions?
The Jewish Calendar — Coming soon
The Roman Calendars — Coming soon