Timekeeping

So how do we keep track of holy days and why they don’t fit into our calendar?

Psalm 104
19 He made the moon for the seasons. The sun knows the place of its setting.

In this scripture (Psalms 104:19) the word ‘seasons’ is incorrectly interjected, I am led to believe deliberately, here is why.

The bible is written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, but Psalms itself was written in Hebrew, let’s look at the same scripture before it was mistranslated into English.

Tehillim 104
19 He appointed the yarei’ach for mo’adim; the shemesh knoweth the place of its going down.

Strong’s 3394. yareach (yarei’ach)
Strong’s Concordance

yareach: moon
Original Word: יָרֵחַ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: yareach
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-ray’-akh)
Definition: moon

Strong’s 4150. moed (mo’adim)
Strong’s Concordance

moed: appointed time, place, or meeting
Original Word: מוֹעֵד
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: moed
Phonetic Spelling: (mo-ade’)
Definition: appointed time, place, or meeting

Strong’s 8121. shemesh
Strong’s Concordance

shemesh: sun
Original Word: שֶׁמֶשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun
Transliteration: shemesh
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh’-mesh)
Definition: sun

*Notes. It is most probable that in Genesis 1:14 (P), where ׳מ ‘‘ אֹתֹת, the reference is to the sacred seasons as fixed by moon’s appearance; and so also ׳עשׂה ירח למ he made the moon for sacred seasons Psalm 104:19, although many Lexicons & Commentaries refer these to the seasons of the year. *Strongs

As we can see, the word ‘seasons’ has no place in this scripture. The direct Hebrew translation is ‘appointed times/meeting/place’. Therefore, the moon has been created for us, to keep our fathers appointed times. There are numerous scriptures that mentions new moons and sabbaths together as theses are clearly depicted by the moon. So why have they changed it to seasons? Many awoken bible scholars believe it was changed to hide the true day of worship, as mentioned above, the seventh day is for worship to our heavenly father. Obviously its impossible to know when the true seventh day of worship is as we do not have the archives of sabbath keeping from over six thousand years ago. Or is it? If we already know that the new moon day is when the moon is renewed (when the moon is not ‘illuminated’ at all, see; I Samuel 20:5, 18 & 24; 2 Kings 4:23; Psalm 81:3; Isaiah 66:23; Ezekiel 46:1; and Amos 8:5.), then why can we not simply count seven days from then? If we count forward seven days from a new moon, we find the moon to be in a first quarter phase, then if we continue to count forwards another seven days, the moon is now a full moon, add another seven days and it presents itself as a third quarter crescent, with seven more days added we are back to a new moon. Coincidence? impossible, considering every single country in the world is governed by this same timekeeping and it works flawlessly. Some people say ‘ah, but some days are 8 days apart from a moon phase’, yes this is true, but only on the Gregorian calendar, also seasons and geography play a role in this case. When cross referenced to the original Hebrew calendar, we find in that specific month they have an extra day added, which when converted from a lunisolar calendar to a Gregorian calendar, makes perfect sense. The lunisolar calendar does not fit into the Gregorian calendar as the lunisolar calendar has 354.36707 days.

*Since each lunation is approximately 29+1⁄2 days, it is common for the months of a lunar calendar to alternate between 29 and 30 days. Since the period of 12 such lunations, a lunar year, is 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 34 seconds (354.36707 days), purely lunar calendars are 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year. lunar calendars, which do not make use of intercalation, like the Islamic calendar, the lunar months cycle through all the seasons of a solar year over the course of a 33-34 lunar-year cycle. On the Biblical lunar-solar calendar, each lunation (or lunar month) always begins with a New Moon Day, which is in a class of worship day all by itself. Six work days follow on the second through seventh of the month. The seventh-day Sabbath always falls on the 8th, the 15th, the 22nd and the 29th of every lunar month. *Wikipedia

*Scripture itself supports this calendar configuration. Every time the seventh-day Sabbath is given a numbered date in the Bible, it always falls on the 8th, the 15th, the 22nd or the 29th of the month. Either the actual date itself is assigned or contextual dates and other details consistently allow for that extrapolation. For example, the story of the Exodus from Egypt contains specific dates and details for three months in a row, all of which have the seventh-day Sabbath falling on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th for each month! These calendar details were confirmed 40 years later at the time of Joshua and again at the crucifixion of the Savior on Passover.

As mentioned previously, the lunar year is shorter than the solar year and without some means of anchoring the lunar months to the solar year, the seasons would float through the calendar. The true New Year is anchored to the vernal equinox. Thus, every two to three years, an extra thirteenth month was intercalated into the year. This was called an embolismic year, because an entire additional month was added to bring the lunations back into alignment with the seasons. Ezekiel provides scriptural proof for the thirteenth month used in embolismic years. See: Ezekiel’s 13th Month. *Worlds Last Chance

Let’s have a quick recap. We have proven that YAH has given us a separate way to keep time and track appointed days, which is the luminaries of the sky. We have found many scriptures that explain the importance of the sabbath and new moon days. The true manner of time keeping has now been regained and it is as flawless as the maker himself, unchanged and undeniably working in unison with all of nature.