Chapter 1: Introduction and context

Amen. Okay. Thank you, Paul and Lori, for the final Amen. Here we are at the biblical calendar, signs and seasons.

And in case you’re wondering what the Hebrew says there in that line, it simply says uh signs and seasons, days

and years. We, as you know, attempted to have a lesson like this months ago with

brother Doug Hamp. That was my first live presentation and it got messed up and

prevented us from going into everything that I wanted to go into on that lesson.

I couldn’t share my screen. You many of you who were there recall it was it was it was a train wreck. Um and so I promised to come

before full come back around and uh and do a a calendar uh not live to dive into some of this stuff. And let me say right

off the bat that I know doing a lesson like this is going to incur the wrath of

many people um because I dare to not agree with them on this matter or that. Lessons like

this tend to get the most hateful comments on YouTube, but that’s okay. I

just want to do my best to look at what the Bible actually says uh in this matter and I am not here to

tell you that I have it fully and 100% have it worked out. As a matter of

fact, just moments before logging on, Glenn number two and I were discussing a matter that we don’t see eye to eye on in regards to Pentecost.

And and so he and I, Glenn number two and I have spent many an hour in the

last few weeks going over the calendar, talking about the calendar, debating the calendar, arguing about the calendar, as

brothers should do, who respect one another, reasoning with one another, trying to figure out what’s what.

um trying to make sure that we all kind of see things the way we’re seeing them.

And uh and like I said, there’s still something out there that’s not quite understood by either myself or Glenn.

Now, we we are by no means the authority on the the issue, but uh I still feel like that’s something that we will

hopefully have worked out before part two comes around.

Chapter 2: Importance of the calendar

So, let’s jump into this. Is this an important study to do?

Well, yes, it is because it aligns us with Yah’s appointed times, his prophetic plan, and the rhythm of

scripture. While we are required to function within the Gregorian calendar, understanding the biblical calendar allows us to engage with Yah’s timeline

rather than just the worlds. It reminds us that his festivals, Sabbaths, and appointed times are not just ancient

rituals, but prophetic markers revealing Yeshua’s role in redemption, past, present, and

future. Now, we are forced to operate on a different system.

Recognizing the biblical calendar helps believers live in sync with Yahw’s order, strengthening our faith and

deepening our connection to his covenant. And although we have scripture to guide us, we are still thousands of

years removed from the time when his holy calendar was established.

Compounding this challenge is the fact that we have been raised under man-made under a man-made calendar that not only

disregards the ozap appointed times but also replaces them with pagan festivals and names derived from pagan gods.

This confusion is further compounded by the various so-called biblical calendars like hellu,

zadok, inocian, rabbitic, so on and so forth. Each claiming authenticity yet differing in their

calculations of months, feast days, and intercalations. And we’re going to learn what that word means here in a bit.

These discrepancies have led to divisions among believers, making it difficult to determine which system most accurately reflects the calendar

originally established by the father. So here we go. Here’s the first

Chapter 3: Scriptural approach only

controversial statement of the morning. In this study, we will be taking our cues from scripture

alone and not from any aforementioned calendars.

I accept the fact that no matter what I teach here today, somebody somewhere is going to have a conion. They’re going to

have a problem with it. But I am simply making an effort to be as close to what I see in scripture as possible. Having

said that, there are some out there who believe

that trying to find the exact dates and times of the

calendar outside the land is near impossible. That it’s very likely that

you could be a day off. And being a day off is no different than being a month off. you’re still

off. So, just do the best you can. And and to some degree, I agree with that. I think it is our

responsibility to find what we can about these dates and do our best to

calculate, to figure out, to use the resources that we have today to try to

get as close to it as possible. And isn’t that how we approach everything in our faith?

We’re always shooting for perfection when it comes to other areas of our life. We may not ever hit

perfection, but we’re always aiming for it. We want to always be pure. We want to always be faithful to our wives and

our husbands. We want to always be aware of our hearts and we’re always trying not to do things that we know are wrong.

We’re shooting for that goal. And I see this in the same way. We’re we’re we’re shooting for that goal the best we can.

No doubt we’ll make mistakes, but we have to be patient, loving, and forgiving with one

another where we disagree on these matters. Okay. In the spirit of testing

Chapter 4: Examining known calendars

everything, I took the time over the past couple of weeks to look at the most well-known calendars, and we mentioned

some of them already. Zadok, hell, Anokeian, and the Avivve calendar, which I’m not sure is an actual official

calendar, but we’re going to talk about it here in a moment. And here’s the bottom line for me as the one teaching

this lesson. Here’s my bottom line. The primary source of the Zadok calendar is

believed to stem from the priestly traditions during the time of the second temple period, particularly with the Zedekite priests.

Hel the Hell calendar was established by Rabbi Hel Benjuda in the 4th century to

standardize the Jewish calendar using a 19-year metatonic cycle replacing the decentralized system

of observation and intercolation to ensure the festivals remained aligned with the seasons.

The heart behind Hell’s efforts here was to provide a calendar for those in

diaspora, those outside the land to have a way to observe them. So his lesson or

his calendar became a series of fixed dates. The In Noian calendar, fixed solar year and

weekly Sabbaths do not align with the biblical lunar solar calendar, which bases festivals and Sabbaths on the moon

cycles, potentially causing discrepancies in the timing of these observances.

So the fact that the three that three of the four calendars mentioned above are

named in full or in part by the men who are credited with their origin is a huge

red flag for me as it suggests that these calendars reflect the influence of human tradition

and interpretation rather than being directly established by divine command.

command in scripture. For me, this is just another deviation from the ancient path.

Chapter 5: Following the ancient path

Okay, as you know, I wrote a book called Finding the Ancient Path.

And I make the argument in that book that humanity has veered away from the

ancient path since the days of Adam, beginning with Adam. Everybody

has. Adam did. Israel did, the prophets did, the kings did,

the early church did, the church fathers did. And if we think that we are 2,000

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years removed from the days of Yeshua, that we have not gone away from the ancient path, we are deceived.

And I think when you start talking about the calendar and you start putting your faith in the Zadok priesthood or Rabbi

Hal or Enoch because of their closeness to those days we’re going to trust them

is to put your faith in man. I had an argument long and hard with a brother

that I trust years ago because he was determined to base his faith around the

convictions of and the practices of the early church fathers because they were there. They were close to that time and

so they’re going to do what they did. I challenged him on this because at the end of the day, these men are not

inspired. They are just men. And when you do your research, you’ll find that many of those church fathers were

apostate by the time that they died. Okay? So, that’s a huge red flag for me.

And one other red flag, let me just put this out here. I’ve had people approach me in recent months knowing that I’m

teaching this who want to convey to me that they have found the true calendar

of God hidden in this verse or that verse and this book or that

book. Something that you might read and not associate with the calendar at all in the spirit of testing everything. I

looked at that as well. But here’s my conviction. I don’t believe the father

hid these dates, hid these appointed times in such a way that you had to find

the answers for them in some obscure passage in some book where it’s not really talking about the calendar, but

you’ve pulled something out of it that seems to say that it’s talking about the calendar. I don’t think that’s the nature of our father. He is not a god of confusion.

and he gave us these appointed times because he wants to honor these appointed times. Why would he make it

difficult for us to figure it out? I don’t think he has. And so for those who have reached out to me and

said, “Here’s the true calendar that nobody knows about. We just figured this out.” I I categorically disregard that position. Now, again, I’m just one man.

I’m just Ed doss. I’m nobody in the grand scheme of things. And I would encourage you that

regardless of what you see here this morning, you also test everything as Paul said so that you can have your own

convictions. So after careful study, I believe we should hold strictly to what we see in scripture alone.

Chapter 6: Signs, seasons, and lights

Ironically, it does not have a name in the Bible, God’s calendar, but we affectionately call it the A of Eve

calendar. So, let’s look at

that. Okay. Genesis 1\:es 14- 16. Pivotal passage of scripture that we can’t

ignore in looking at this topic. Back in the days of creation, God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the

day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light

on the earth.” And it was so. Then God made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, that would be the sun.

The lesser light to rule the night, that would be the moon. He made the stars also. Okay, if you’re just some bloke

who is reading his Bible one day and he comes across this verse and he looks at these words, signs and

seasons, you might immediately think that we’re talking about winter, summer, spring, fall, autumn, all the seasons,

so to speak. And that’s what many people think in regards to the scripture, unless you look at the Hebrew, which we’re going to do this

morning. But the word signs, that’s the word oath. And you look at the definition down there, it says a sign, a

token, a mark, a miracle, a signal, a flag, a beacon, a monument, or an omen.

And the word for seasons is this word called moed or moadeem for plural. It’s an appointed time, a

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meeting, uh an assembly, festivals, an appointment, a fixed time, a

season of festivals. Okay. So there we see a

little bit different picture as to what the father is talking about here.

Chapter 7: Leviticus 23 and holy convocation

For the purpose of these great lights in the sky, we can collect some

keywords from the box on the left. Sign, signal, omen, and on the right, we can

also collect certain key words that we’re going to see in the color of course of our study. Appointment,

meeting, assembly. There’s one other word that we have to look at or phrase

found in Leviticus 23. Leviticus 23 is where you’ll read the instructions from Yahw about the festivals. Says in verses

1-2, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the feasts of the Lord which

you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my feasts.” Okay, two things I want to pull from this. And by the way, Glenn number two,

since you and I bounced around on this for so long, anytime you want to just jump in there and make a point, feel

free. Couple things I want to point out here in Leviticus 23. There is a widely held belief in the

Christian church that these festivals, these feasts are only for the Jews. Most Christian churches you’ll find teach

that. And yet here we see in Leviticus 23 that the feasts belong to the Lord.

They are the feasts of the Lord. They are his feasts. Is he making them known to

Israel? Yes, he is. That doesn’t make them Israel’s. They are his. And if we are

following him, we should be following these. The second thing I want to point out here is this word holy convocations.

We’ve talked about this in other lessons before. What is a holy convocation? When you look at that that word in the Hebrew, you see the word

mikra. Convocation, assembly, reading, something called out, a public meeting,

a rehearsal. For lack of a better term to help you understand

um what this means in today’s vernacular, these would be considered meetings of the body.

of believers. Now, in the Christian world, the pastors and teachers and reverends and all those guys, the

evangelists will try to tell you that every midweek is a meeting of the body.

That every Sunday service is a meeting of the body. Anytime the leadership of that church decides to call a meeting,

it’s considered a meeting of the body in the Bible. No, it is

not. Only Yah gets to decide what the meetings of the body are. And they are

built within the framework of the festivals. He gets to decide when those

meetings are. And we’re going to see when they are in a moment. But it’s important for us to understand that these are his festivals that we should

embrace as his sons and daughters and recognizing that these are the times

that he has com commanded his people to gather for very imper important reasons. Any other thoughts on that, Glenn?

Okay, he said perfect. Wow, I feel good. Okay, signs and seasons. So, what should this what how can we say that?

Chapter 8: Rehearsing future events

How now that we understand what those words mean in the Hebrew? What’s a a good English way of of saying that?

Well, we could say that signs and seasons based on what we just looked at

can be communicated as scheduled gatherings, scheduled meetings of the body to

practice future events. We can see in that little English statement the key words that we

looked at a moment ago. These holy convoca convocations were considered to be rehearsals. Rehearsals for what?

Rehearsals for future events. Case in point would be Passover. They were to sacrifice a lamb

once a year. And we know that Yeshua was the Passover lamb. So, these were practiced

events, practiced gatherings that had omens to the future. Make sure I’m

saying that correctly. The feasts will become the framework of the entire ministry of Yeshua. Now this is

important because every major event in the New Testament that is that

has happened and has been prophesied to happen all falls within the framework of the festivals.

We know that Yeshua fulfilled the spring feasts during his pass his passion week

down to the hour and we’re going to go through that next week. We also know that the second

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coming will all fall in line with the teachings of the fall festivals.

So it’s important to understand that because it helps you to understand the grand importance of these

festivals and of these times, these appointed times and these appointed dates. And what do we have? We have the

Chapter 9: The seven festivals

Passover. We have the unleven bread. We have first fruits. We have Pentecost, trumpets, atonement, and tabernacles.

Those are the uh typical seven festivals that most people know. Glenn argued last

week when we were together that the actual festivals or the actual times were the holy convocations and not

necessarily these other titles. So if you see there the H stands for holy convocations and we can see that there

is uh seven of them. unleaven bread is saddled by two. There’s one with Pentecost. There’s one with trumpets.

There’s one with atonement. And tabernacles is saddled by two. Um Glenn argued, and I found it interesting, that

Passover wasn’t so much a feast as it was an event, a sacrifice. Uh first fruits isn’t so much

a feast as it was an event as well. of that being the resurrection of Christ and the wa the the waving of the sheath.

I can see some wisdom there. But for the purposes of our study, here’s what we’re looking at when it comes to the

festivals and the holy convocations assigned to them.

Now, you’ll find that the holy convocations assigned to them all include a what could be called a

Sabbath and is called a Sabbath. It’s not the high Sabbath, but they are times where we are not working. We’re focused

on the festival. We’re focused on one another. And again, we’re going to break that down and what that looks like in

next week’s lesson. I want to make sure that we not only talk about these these festivals, but I want to talk about how

how do we observe them? What does it look like for us to observe each of these festivals?

Chapter 10: Defining biblical time

Okay. Okay. So, I think it’s important for us to ask in this process, what is a day? What is a week? What is a month?

What is a year? That’s important. The the calendar as we see it in the Bible is not like the Gregorian calendar that we are forced to observe

in our world. So, it’s important for us to answer these questions. In Genesis 1\:es

3-5, it says, “Then God said, let there be light and there was light. And God saw the light. It was good. And God

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divided the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the

morning were the first day. Now notice here that it does not

say the morning and the evening as it is currently understood in our culture. In our

culture the day begins truly begins at midnight, right? or just right after the

first second after midnight would be considered morning. But even more prevalent is the

understanding that our day doesn’t begin until sunrise because we’re all sleeping during the night.

However, what I believe Genesis 1 here is telling us the new day begins at sundown.

Okay. Now, I know that me just saying that right there is going to make many of you mad because there’s a lot of

people out there who want to argue this point. There’s a lot of people out there who believe that Shabbat is from morning

to morning instead of evening to evening. But I believe Genesis 1 here amongst other passages throughout

scripture make it clear when the day begins.

And and because of that, that’s the model that we’re going to follow going forward. We look at the word day in Hebrew, yom, and it means a day.

Cultural and historical background in ancient Hebrew culture, a day was reckoned from evening to evening, beginning at sunset. This understanding

is rooted in the creation account in Genesis where there was evening and there was morning, the first day. The

concept of Yom was central to the Hebrew calendar and religious observances such as the Sabbath which was a day of rest

and worship. So that is a day. There are seven days in a week that ends with Shabbat. How do we know that Glenn?

Number two, well because the father told us in Genesis 2 that he created the

earth and everything on it. He created the entire universe in six days and on the seventh he

rested. So from that single section of verses alone we can

conclude what a week is and this may sound super elementary to you guys but

there’s actually a lot of argument going on in the body of Christ about this stuff. I have people ask me almost

weekly, “How are you so certain that today’s Shabbat is actually the Shabbat that we see in the scripture?” Well, to

me, it’s kind of a no-brainer. Seven days is always seven days. There’s no question as to whether

or not seven days has passed. Now, have there been attempts in the future by certain individuals to change certain

things? Yes, of course. I concede that. But seven days is still seven days

and we can’t get around that. So I I believe that the Shabbat that we celebrate today by nature of the fact

that it’s every seven days is the Shabbat that we see in scripture. There are 29 or 30 days in a

Chapter 11: The start of the year

month that begin with a new moon. And we’re going to explain that here in a moment. But for sake of this one slide,

if the new moon was seen after 29 days, the new month began, making the previous month

29 29 days long. If the moon was not visible due to weather or other factors, the month was

counted as 30 days before automatically starting the next month. Right. Amen. Right. Glenn number

two. Okay, let’s move on. Numbers chapter 10 verse 10. Also in the day of

your gladness in your appointed feasts. I just sent off my Siri for some

reason. Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feast, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt

offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. and they shall be a memorial for you before God. I am the Lord your God. Okay, why am I showing

you this verse? When you pull out the Hebrew from the beginning of your months. The word for month there is

kodesh and it basically means the moon or the new moon. So, how can we read

numbers 10:10? In your appointed feast, and at the beginning of the new moon, you shall blow the trumpets over your

burnt offerings and over the sacrifices, so on and so forth. So, here in Numbers 10, we see a nod, a teaching that the

month begins with the sighting of the new moon.

beginning of your months equals the first of the year which is Avivve. So that would make it Avivve one. You

following me so far? So when the year actually begins has significant impact on the dates of

all other appointed times namely Pak or Passover which falls on the 14th of

Avivve. Now, I put this here because it’s important for us to understand that this date is a moving target and not

fixed. Why is it a moving target and not fixed? I’m going to explain that here in a moment.

But when you look at the hell calendar, when you look at the In Noian calendar,

um they have fixed dates for these events.

Why did they fix them? At least I can speak to halal too more than I can speak to an Nokian, but they were fixed so

that there would be no question for those in diaspora. They would just have a fixed date. Others are

are fixed because they uh employ the strictly solar calendar. But biblically, from what I

can tell in my Bible, this is a moving target. when

Passover happens. Exodus 12:2. Now the Lord spoke to Moses and

Chapter 12: Determining the year length

Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be the beginning of your months. It shall be the first month

of the year to you.” How do we know? How can we know that the month spoken of here is of Eve?

Well, again, research because of other scriptures like Exodus 23 and Deuteronomy 16, we can see that the

month here that’s being referred to in Exodus 12 is indeed the month of

Avivve. So then if that’s the case, what is a year in Yos calendar? Remember this

whole slide is answering the question what is a day, a week, a month, a year. So let’s look at

that. The Aviv calendar does not have a fixed number of days in a year like the Gregorian calendar. Instead, it follows

a lunar solar system where the length of the year is determined by the sighting of the new moon and the ripeness of the

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barley or the Avivve stage. Matter of fact, you’ll see that that’s exactly what Avivve means. Basically, the

ripeness of the barley in the land of Israel.

Now, that’s also key because if you grow Harley or barley in say Arizona, it may ripen in a

different time of this the the week, the month because of its location. And so, is it important that

we try to understand the ripeness of the barley in the land of Israel? Glenn, what do you say?

Yes. if the wave sheath is important.

Yes, because it it impacts the wave sheath which we’re going to look at here in a moment. Okay. So, yes, we have to

know. How can we know? Well, that’s been the question for a long time, for a lot of years. And quite honestly, the reason

why a lot of people just don’t bother not to have the right dates because I can’t I don’t live in Israel. But today

in today’s technology, you absolutely can. Matter of fact, there are people in Israel who

are devoted to this. That’s all they do is pay attention to this. I’ve started following a couple of them. Um, and I

can make all those resources known to you available to you in the next uh lesson when we go over this. But yeah, there are people out there who are

actually paying attention to this. And then what do they do? They put it on their websites. They put it on Facebook.

They send out messages and texts. So it can be known for the person who’s trying to know it. So a standard year, and I

apologize for some of this being boring, but it’s important that we have some of this basic stuff out of the way going

forward. A standard year typically consists of 354 to 355 days. 12 lunar

months of about 29 12 days each. When the barley is not yet avivve,

when the barley is not yet ripened at the end of the 12th month, an intercolary or 13th month is

added, making that year about 383 or 384 days long. And as it turns out, this

year will be an intercolation. Okay, what am I saying here? Um, many people have reached out

to me and said, “Hey, Ed, I’m trying to get the dates off, you know, for for Passover. Can you tell me what they are?” Uh,

well, I I can’t really. And this is this is why it’s a moving target. It’s a moving target because if the barley is

not a ve, then you can’t have a wave sheath. You have to wait until the wave

the barley is is ripened before you have the wave sheath. If that’s not the case, then you have to add a month to the calendar. Am I making sense, Glenn?

Amen. Glenn says, “Amen.” Okay.

This system ensures that the feasts of Yah remain in their proper agricultural seasons, particularly that

Passover occur occurs in the spring when the barley is ripe. Now, I’ve bolded proper agricultural seasons for a

reason. The festivals are, if I could boil it down to its simplest

purpose, is all about the harvest.

And so it’s important that the the festivals are scheduled properly so that

they remain in these agricultural agricultural seasons. The harvests all

represent future events like the second coming of Christ, like when we are

collected and harvested. So, it’s very important that you have a a basic understanding of this. Okay. Any any

other thoughts, Glenn? Come on, man. You’re being too quiet, man. You’re you’re you’re right on. Okay.

Okay. All right. I’m just I’m just waiting to jump in.

No, I’m gonna mute Scott Harwell. He’s a fro He’s a troublemaker. I’m just You You’re doing great. Keep going, brother.

Okay, thank you. Okay, so I I I put this this timeline together here to kind of give us a visual. I’m a very visual

Chapter 13: Passion week timeline

person. And the timeline that I chose was the passion week uh for Yeshua for

us to have some idea of what’s going on here. Okay, so we start over on the far left hand side where we have the what we

have the new moon, right? That is the first day of the month. The first day of

the month is always the first day of the month based on the sighting of the new moon. The father has told us in

Leviticus 23 that Passover is always on for the

14th of of Eve. In later times it was renamed Nissan and the captivity but the

proper name for this month is of Eve. Uh so Passover is always on the 14th.

So what makes that a moving target as we already discussed is the barley right?

If the barley is not of Eve then it’s going to affect the schedule. It’s going to affect everything that happens after it.

That’s the Avivve. That’s the ripening grain. Does that make sense, Glenn?

Okay. Thumbs up. Okay.

But because we’ve got a little time here, I’m moving a little faster than I thought I would move, which is weird for me. Probably because I’m not coughing my

brains out like I have the last few times together.

Um, Scott, did you did you have something that you wanted to say or or ask? Oh, you’re doing great, man. I

mean, I just I tuned in because I’m proud of you for you even tackling this as much uh controversy. So, keep going.

Okay. Amen. All right. So, let’s just take a brief look here at the Passion Week. We have um the Passover falling on

Chapter 14: Discussion on terminology

the 14th, which was uh a Wednesday. The little the little gray triangles are there to kind of show us how the the day

begins in the sundown or the sunset of that day moving into the next day. So we

have Passover and then the next day is unleavened bread which is a holy convocation. That’s what the HC means

there at the bottom. And then we move forward in the week to Friday and Saturday which is a Shabbat.

And then the first fruits were waved that Sunday. Now that’s when Yeshua was

resurrected from the dead and became the first fruits. And then we go further down the the date line and we see that

uh unleaven bread ends with a holy convocation. And by the way, Glenn, let me just pick your brain here for a

moment. Uh tell me why you think uh unleavened bread is saddled by these holy convocations. I I think it adds

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completion to uh what the feast of unleaven bread stands for and what it

pictures and uh so anyway that’s that’s what I got. Uh if we were to, you know,

the feast of tabernacles is also has bookends, although they’re they’re they’re not seven-day bookends. Uh and that’s that’s for another lesson. Mhm.

Which we’ll tackle. Yeah. So having a holy convocation signals the end, the final day and the, you know, the day after then they can eat leaven bread.

Okay. Now, Scott, just so you know, brother, I we typically don’t uh do discussion during the the lesson and

save it for afterwards, but Scott is not just your every every everyday brother.

He’s a member of the Commonwealth of Israel uh board with me and so I’m giving him a little leeway. But, uh

Scott, what what were you going to share? No, I was just going to say this would be and you’ve heard me before, this would be such a minor quibble, but

uh just I I I sort of my current understanding, that’s the way I like to say it, is I do believe Yeshua was put in the grave on what we would call

Wednesday afternoon on the 14th and would have risen shortly before the the weekly Sabbath ended. And what he

fulfilled is is when he presented himself to the father as the first fruits as a but again, that’s such a minor quibble. We’re talking about

potential minutes. Uh, you know, no, I think you’re I think you’re absolutely right. And and by the way, let me make a point here that is not

necessarily in my notes. Without mentioning names, there there was a a group of of people who uh wanted to

argue that um Yeshua was not represented by barley but

by wheat because of all the places in scripture where he is called bread. He is the bread of life. He was born in

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Bethlehem, the city of bread. And because of that, um, he’s certainly not representative of

barley. Um, however, when we look at the scripture, when we look at the

timing, the there are many first fruits in in the festivals. We have first fruits here. We have first fruits of the

wheat. We have first fruits of the the fruit and and many other things besides the agriculture that were offered as

first fruits. So despite what somebody wants us to believe in regard to Yeshua

being a wheat first fruits, that’s just not what we see in scripture. And so as awesome as it

sounds and as respectful as it sounds for that group to make this

argument again I will not leave the ancient path.

If the ancient path is telling me that this is a barley first fruits period

then that’s what it is.

Okay. Uh okay. So, what Ed, can I make a comment here? Um, sure.

I know you don’t normally allow that, but um if you can go back to the previous slide. This is pertinent and I

don’t want it to get lost later. Uh, so far I’m in total agreement

with everything you’re saying, but I want to caution you. This is where I think everybody gets it wrong

is when you try to understand the biblical calendar, you must completely

remove the pagan Gregorian calendar from your understanding because when you try to unite the two calendars, it’s always going to lead to misunderstanding.

Now, you are absolutely correct in the way that you’re presenting this that Passover occurs on the 14th, unleven

bread is on the 15th, first fruits is on the 16th, and then the final Sabbath is on the 21st of the biblical orientation.

But where it goes off the rails is when you try to put in the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday of the pagan

calendar. Because the pagan calendar is just like what you said at the beginning of this lesson is a

distraction. It’s the world getting people away from understanding Yhovah’s

calendaration. And so I would caution you to not have the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday because that leads to

this confusion when you’re absolutely right.

the calendars in there. Thank you. Yeah, I I appreciate that. But one thing I have to I have to remind a lot of people of

here, my lessons are geared at helping people who are coming out of

Babylon to understand biblical concepts. In doing so, I I for the sake

of clarity and helping a person arrive from point A to point B, I have to use terms that they are familiar with. Now,

in my opinion, getting away from the Gregorian calendar days like you just mentioned is important, but it’s also a

a process of maturation. People will get there eventually but initially in trying to

understand this you have to combine the two so people can have a so they can grasp it better. Now eventually as they

mature and they move on what you just said is absolutely going to happen. It’s the same reason why I I will sometimes

use the word Jesus and Lord and God. I am more concerned about

reaching uneducated ears than I am about offending somebody’s idea of what we

should call God. If I’m if I’m trying to reach a Jesus person, I’m going to use

Jesus name initially. That’s why Paul said, “You become all things to all men in hopes

that you might win a few.” So although I see the the the value and and and what you say and agree with it

100%, I want to make sure that I don’t lose young ears in this early process.

Hey Ed, I’m going to chime in real quick and just say, yeah, I’m I’m hosting this year uh Shabu Oak and I am letting to

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get it out to get it out to the people I want to reach. I’m calling it the feast of Jesus because Yeshua, Jesus, created them and I want to reach them and

understand so they’ll hear and have ears to hear. These are not Jewish. They’re the feast of But if I said the feast of Yah or the feast of Yahwh or the feast

of Yahweh, they’re going to immediately they’re not even going to have ears to hear. And so that’s that’s, you know, I totally agree with you and understand

you to explain this to people. you have to use things like Tuesday night initially as they’re as they’re

unlearning. So, yeah. Yeah. Amen. Okay, let’s move along. Thank you for your uh

Chapter 15: Passover and unleavened bread

insights and comments even though they’re not normally accepted, but that’s okay. We’re here together learning this stuff. Passover feast, first fruits, Pentecost over on the left

hand side. I’m going to I’m going to bunch together Passover and unleaven bread here in this first section to look at Israel’s first festival cycle. Now,

we may end here, we may not. It all depends on how we go. But I thought it was important for us to see the

festivals that we see laid out in Leviticus 23, how they unfolded in Israel’s first festival

cycle. Okay, we know that the rehearsal so to speak for

Passover happened in Egypt where they were in bondage, enslaved, where they were instructed to

select a lamb 4 days before the night of its

sacrifice. Okay, what is the omen there?

Well, the omen is twofold, I think. When you look at the whole picture of the

first Passover, what do we see? We see the killing of the firstborn sons of Egypt, right?

And the lamb that was sacrificed in these people’s homes, in Israel’s homes,

the night before they fled, was a sacrifice that was required to happen before they could escape

bondage. Now, remember, as I’m walking you through this, I’m trying to connect the dots. I’m trying to connect the dots

from the original Passover to Yeshua and and how it unfolded in

history. So, a sacrifice was required before they could escape

bondage, just like a sacrifice for us was required before we could escape our

bondage. And of course, we saw that fulfillment at the cross with

Yeshua. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 5 that he was our Passover

lamb. We look at unleavened bread. We can see the rehearsal for Israel was to do what? It

was to remove the leaven from their territories.

And you’ve probably heard the colloquial stories about how the parents of children used to make it fun for them by

hiding uh levan throughout their dwelling and go on a hunt for levan. But it was a very serious deal.

And we’re going to talk about what that looks like for us today in 2025. not to have leaven in your

territories. Not just in your home, but in your territories. Well, what’s the omen there? Well, during unleavened

bread, during the actual festival or feast, the time period of unleavened bread, they were fleeing from

Egypt. And where were they headed? They were headed into the desert where they would learn what? Righteousness and holiness.

So this time period of unleavened bread was this transition, if you will, from

sin to righteousness. And of course, that’s exactly what Yeshua did in the

grave by providing a method of righteousness for us by faith that would

allow us to leave the leaven of our lives.

So we get to see here these amazing comparisons omens

foretellings of future event that Yeshua would fulfill in regards to these festivals.

It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you just as he promised that you shall keep this service and it shall be when your

children say to you, what do you mean by this service? that you shall say, it is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who

passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.

So the people bowed their heads and worshiped. What is Passover about? What is the

uh the combined celebrations of Passover and unleavened bread about? It is about

the sacrifice of the Lord. The Passover sacrifice of the Lord. When children asked their parents, why do we do this?

They would talk about the importance of the Passover sacrifice of the Lord.

Again, remember rehearsal, remember holy convocation because it would be the

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ultimate Passover sacrifice of the Lord that would pro provide atonement for the sins of the world.

Let’s look at uh first fruits, the rehearsal. Well, the rehearsal was the wave sheath that happened the day after

Chapter 16: First fruits and redemption

the Sabbath. What was the wave sheath representative of? The omen the the first omer that was and we kind of did that together, didn’t we? Offering.

We’re raising our hands up. We’re offering this first, this first wave sheath, which is basically two words

that mean a bundle of barley, which was what? It was a promise

of a larger harvest. And of course, we see that Yeshua fulfilled that in his

resurrection, becoming the first of many.

Now, during the uh time frame, the weekly time frame, Israel during this

first first fruits, if you will, was passing through the Red Sea, which I find to be interesting.

Christ’s resurrection on first fruits aligns with Israel’s emergence from the Red Sea, making them both first fruits

events. Israel as the first redeemed nation being taken out of

Egypt and Yeshua as the first resurrected from the dead.

Now in Exodus 14, as they are preparing to cross the

Red Sea, what did Moses say? Do not be

afraid. Stand still and see what the salvation of the Lord, which he

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will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall again see no more forever. The Lord will

fight for you and you shall hold your peace. So here we see this connection, if you will, in the Red Sea

event to the salvation of Israel. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 4, I believe.

We’re going to look at that verse later on, maybe next week, that this was Israel’s

baptism when they passed through the Red Sea and emerging from the Red Sea as a

redeemed people. And that’s exactly what Yeshua accomplished by his resurrection.

giving us that avenue, that way for us to be redeemed in him. And let’s move to

Chapter 17: Pentecost and the two loaves

Pentecost. What’s the rehearsal? Well, again, more wave 50 days after unleavened

bread. What was this a waveloaf of, Gren Glenn? What was the harvest in Pentecost? First fruits. Okay. What’s the agricultural harvest? Wheat. Wheat.

That’s right. So before it was a first fruit or or a wave sheath of barley in

Pentecost it’s a wave sheath of loaves. These were are are baked loaves.

Leavened leavened baked loaves. You’re getting ahead of me Glenn. Number two.

So these wave loaves are now offered on Pentecost 50 days after

unleaven bread. What is the omen? What do the two loaves mean? Well, I just gave the answer away,

didn’t I? I I believe the two loaves are representative of two peoples. What two peoples?

Judah, the house of Judah, and the house of Israel, which includes Ephraim, which

includes the grafted in nations. That’s what I believe the two wave loaves represent.

And the fulfillment of that with Yeshua again all goes back to his cross where

all things were reconciled. The unity between the two houses was

reconciled fulfilling in part Jeremiah 31 and Joel 2. The coming together of

the two sticks, the restoration of the one new man. I believe this is all tied

to the wave loaves and Pentecost. Okay, so Glenn Glenn made sure to remind me

that these loaves that were offered are leavened loaves, which is interesting,

right? Because leaven always represents what? Sin. Sin. Yeah, it always represents sin. Leviticus 23, we see the

command. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves, two tents of neva. They shall be fine flour and they shall be baked with leaven.

Chapter 18: Leaven and faith

Okay. Romans 11, we see this verse where Paul says, “I don’t desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest

he should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, and so all Israel

will be saved.” This is what I believe to be one of the loaves. The other loaf was Judah. The the second loaf was a

fulfillment here of Paul Paul’s words which is d a direct fulfillment of the father’s words to

Abraham Jacob and Ephryim about how the nations will be saved through them or through their

prophecies. When it says all Israel will be saved, it doesn’t I don’t think that’s talking about bloodline Israel. I

think that’s talking about you and me who have been grafted in to that

tree and we are leavened. What does that mean? Well, we’re going to go into it in a much

deeper way in part two, but in a nutshell, that means though we still have sin, we are accepted through faith in Yeshua.

Judah still has sin. We still have sin.

And though we are leavened, we are still offered to the father as the two loaves in the wave

uh because of our faith in in Christ. I wanted to provide for us a um an extended time at least 20 30

minutes for us to talk and ask questions about the things that we learned today. What are we going to look at next week?

Well, next week I want to show you specifically with specific details how Yeshua

fulfilled the spring festivals in his passion week down to the hour. You may

recall in your Bible, it’s always talking about certain hours of the day. That’s not there for nothing.

that’s there for us to see just how Yeshua accomplished this and we’re going to do that with the spring festivals.

The second thing I want to do in next week’s lesson is talk about how how we do these things. How should we who are

coming out of Babylon celebrate these festivals? What does it look like? Do we have to have a seder? Do we not have to

have a seder? What is a seder? We’re going to talk about all those kinds of things so that we can have a better understanding of these festivals,

especially as we head into um the festival cycle. So with

that, let’s open it up now for thoughts, questions, anything you anything you

have. I was just going to say I appreciate, you know, the topic, very important topic to discuss.

Um, I also appreciate the effort in in in trying to put it together in a in a lesson format because it is complicated

because it is there’s a lot of moving parts to it and it’s very challenging and you know and I had a brief text

exchange that even I was having my my daughter was asking something about the festivals and I had a a challenging uh

time trying to explain some stuff to her and I said, “You know what? Why don’t you wait until Saturday? We’ll see what what Eddie says.” and and you know, he’ll he’ll probably do a better job

trying to explaining it than I did uh than I can. So So I acknowledge it’s it’s a it’s a challenging topic. So I

appreciate the uh effort here. Um and and we can talk about some details.

They’re not they’re not um uh theological differences. It has to do more with how to how to how to try and

understand it. That’s all. But no, I I again appreciate the effort and uh you

know it I think it just to me it it demonstrates the beauty of God’s plan,

the beauty of his word and the fact that you know when you’re reading things there’s so many layers laid on top of

one another and how one thing uh is like you said a a a a prophecy or a sign of

something to come in the future. And it’s beautiful just to see how that all comes together in God’s beautiful perfect plan. And I think you were uh

you were showing a lot of that in this lesson. I appreciate that. Amen. Thanks, David. Somebody else.

Chapter 19: Q&A and concluding thoughts

Well, it looks like I’m the only one who has his hand up. Go ahead.

And I do want to say again uh just like the others, thank you for addressing this topic because this is a difficult

thing to do because as human beings, we have a tendency to

uh not humble ourselves and seek the word of God. Instead, we go, I’m right because I say I’m right. And that’s

something that we have to deal with as as humans. Um, and so I thank you for allowing me to uh express my concern.

What helped me with understanding this is I had to go back and start with the

Gregorian calendar which led me to the Justinian calendar which led me to the

um Julian calendar which then led me to the Babylonian calendar. And what you

see when you do your research on that is you find that Israel when they were taken into captivity into Babylon, they

were heavily influenced by the Babylonian calendar. We in our secular

calendaration uh live essentially according to the uh Babylonian calendar with some

tweaks. And what helped me to understand the biblical calendar was I had to say, “Okay, I’m going to completely remove

the Gregorian calendar from my understanding.” And as I read scripture, try and figure out according to all the

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different verses where it shows the calendar, it allowed me to be able to set my mind right on what the biblical

calendar is. And so I would just encourage everybody, not with me trying to say, “Hey, you need to do it this way

or that way,” but remove the Sunday through Saturday

mindset. Read your Bible and try to figure out exactly what the Bible’s saying. And I think it will help you to

better understand God’s calendar as opposed to the influence that we’ve been raised under. Thank you. Amen. Amen.

Thank you, Matt. Travis. Okay, go ahead, Samuel. Thank you, brother Ed. It’s still an issue that I that I struggle

with. I know for for my house um for the time being, we’ve opted into the the the

Zettoite calendar um until I’m able to do proper research and and and prayerfully the father leads

me to to the correct calendar. So, a lot of what you’re sharing is is very intriguing, very interesting. I’m really looking forward to uh to the second part to help me further along in my studies.

Just to second something that that Matt said that I think is important to remember. Um there may have been some

Babylonian influence in the development of some of the current calendars that we use. There’s definitely influence from

the Egyptian and Babylonian mystery schools into um Greco Roman timekeeping and some of

what we experience now under the Gregorian calendar. There there’s no doubt in my mind with respect to that.

But a lot of what we see with respect to the to the calendar um I’m not going to say controversy because it’s not controversial. Everyone is doing their

best with with what they had. Um but but a but you touched on something that’s important which is that some things were

done because of the the fact that you have those who are dispersed and scattered in the attempt in order to bring everyone together to celebrate

around the same time um in order to meet at least part of what the father has called for in terms of a holy convocation

um and put everyone on a particular schedule where you don’t have separate groups doing this thing or that thing.

So, so I understand that. So, I applaud you for for this and I thank you for this. And just in in just to land the

plane, one thing that I also find interesting and I and and David spoke to this beautifully in terms of the layering. One thing that was brought to

my well two things that were brought to my attention. So, you know, with respect to Shàuote or or Pentecost, you can see also a replaying of what occurred um

during the Exodus. So when the the children of Israel brought to Sinai, you had the the rushing sound and everyone

hears the voice of the Most High. You have a repeat of that during the time of the apostles when they were held up in the room um and and waiting on the Most

High to um to send down um the rock hakadesh. Um and and the last thing is that there also seems to be an

interweaving of Hebrew marriage ceremony um with respect to the expectations and the rehearsals that we’re going through

right now and it it plays out so beautifully. So again, I thank you um and I’m looking forward to uh to next week’s um assembly. Shalom.

Chapter 20: Calendar authority discussion

Amen, brother. I appreciate that. Uh okay, Paul and Lori, first of all, thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for

spending all that time and effort and on this excellent

presentation. We’ve been praying for um for your revived health and uh Oh,

thank you. for inspiration to to do this study and we really appreciate it.

Um just one question from me anyway. Um, is there any documentation of what

uh calendar Yeshua followed and will you be addressing that?

Well, that’s a great question. Uh, and to me it’s a fairly simple answer. Um, there is no reason to believe that

Yeshua didn’t follow what we just looked at in scripture. There are people out

there who who teach and believe that by the time of Yeshua uh the Pharisees were on a different

calendar than Yeshua was. I don’t necessarily believe that to be the

case. And maybe we can maybe I can use a little bit of time in my lesson next

week to uh to address that. But Yeshua would have

followed the calendar as it’s laid out in scripture just as we looked at it because remember he is the word made flesh.

So just as we saw, just as we read, he would have followed that to the second.

And next week we’re going to see that.

We’re going to see how he followed it to the second. Um, and so it’s a great question, but I don’t think

there’s I personally don’t think Glenn, maybe you can share if you want to. I per personally don’t think that that we

have any reason to believe that Yeshua followed any other calendar other than what is written in

scripture. And and I also don’t believe that Israel during the time of Yeshua was following a different calendar.

People want to make that that claim based on when Yeshua

actually celebrated Passover with his guys.

Again, I think next week we can look at that, but I hope that answers your question. Okay. Um, I have a little one.

Um, it’s more of a confusion in my mind.

uh we we’re following the Avivve calendar because we think that’s what it should be. But when we go into a 13th

month, how do we reset? I mean, the the Gregorian calendar, we’ve got 12 months and it never gets reset except January

1st. So, if we have this 13th calendar, how do we 13th get get rid of that extra month for the next year? It actually

kind of does get it’s not that it doesn’t get reset, but there’s something built in the Gregorian calendar and that is the February

29th edition of a day and that helps with that extra month. Right. It’s a different method of of making that work

to kind of bring them back in sync like a leap year. Yes. Yeah. Ed, I can answer that if you don’t mind.

Oh, no. Go ahead. So just like what uh uh David Baronson was talking about, the

Gregorian calendar has uh structure to keep the seasons in line with the solar

movement. The biblical calendar uses the Avivve of the barley. So when you look

at barley, it has multiple stages of growth.

the aiv you look for the Aivve growth of barley which Avivve doesn’t mean it’s

ready for harvest but it’s nearing full maturation. So the way the biblical

calendar works and this is the genius of Yhovah is when you have the 12th

month if you go and you look at the barley and if the barley is immature meaning it’s not achieved the Avivve

stage then you add 13th month what that does is it keeps the biblical calendar

in line with the seasons so that you don’t get out of season. That’s why the biblical calendar

is a observational calendar whereas all of your man-made calendars are calculated. Right? Mhm. So

that’s how each year um you observe and you could have two

ADAR bets um following year after year because of the way that the cycle of the year goes.

But every year by observing the Avivve that allows you to stay in line

with the natural seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. Yeah, Glenn number two has something to say. Yeah, I I’ll just add to that. Everything that I I just

heard is spot on, but how do the calendars get off? It’s because the Gregorian calendar has 11 more days than

the 12 month calendar of the Hebrew calendar. And so you you keep adding those 12 days and it gets out of sync

with the agriculture. And so that’s that’s why you know, you know, you have 12 29 12

day months, but then every few years you have to have a 13th month and it’s not

every 3 years in particular, but it does get off 11 days every year until it self-corrects.

Okay. Amen. Rob and Amy. Um question is is is there any credibility to the idea

of canonization or current English Bibles and how previous books that were in the can or were considered part of

the Bible have been removed as it primarily pertains to like Enoch and Jubilees because I’ve heard

things about the Zadok calendar where you know that that comes from that there’s references in there that give

credibility and the fact that those books were removed. Is there an issue there and how would you sort of reconcile that?

Okay, different subject. It it is it is somewhat of a different subject, but I also see the value in the question he’s

asking regarding this. Uh basically the question he’s asking is if there’s a problem in the canon canonization process that would

have eliminated Enoch and there are things in the book of Enoch that speak to the Inocian

calendar. Is that a potential problem? I think that’s what you’re asking. My answer to this to that would be this. We

have to give the Holy Spirit enough credit to allow him to

decide what became canon and what didn’t. If we remove the Holy Spirit from the

process, then we can make any argument we want about this letter or that letter or this book or that book. And if you

saw my presentation a few weeks ago, there are hundreds of different letters and books

and writings out there that we could embrace as canon if we wanted to. If you remove the Holy Spirit.

For me, I personally believe the Holy Spirit was absolutely involved in the canonization of

scripture and allowed to remain what he wanted to remain. Now, does that mean

that writings like Enoch and others are useless? No, I don’t think that at all.

I think these extra biblical writings can provide some excellent insights into

the culture of that day. Um maybe a little extra insight into uh an event

that we read in scripture like uh the giants and in in Genesis 6, I don’t think they should be

completely dismissed. But when it comes to canon and what the Holy Spirit actually wanted

to be scripture, we cannot reject or we cannot

take him out of that process. Yes, it involved human

men, but men, I believe, carried along by the Holy Spirit, just as we’re taught elsewhere in scripture to arrive at these conclusions.

So, that’s my two cents on your question, Dave and Cassie. Okay. Um,

let’s see. I think Hinei had their hands up, so jump in there.

Um, yeah, I just wanted to to point out, um, and maybe everyone already knows, but that the Hebrew calendar is not the same as that that we use today is not

the same as the the biblical, uh, agricultural calendar of of Christ’s time. Um, it’s it’s just one of many

man-made calendars that that exist in the world today. And you kind of hit on that with Hill’s uh, you know, making his changes to it.

Yeah. Amen. Okay, Samuel.

So, here’s a question. So, if if we are to accept the the Aviv calendar as being the appropriate calendar, then it comes

down to um based on the the the ripening or the non-ripening of barley in what

region? Is it going to be regionally specific to to where we are scattered or do we use current technology to look at

what’s happening um in Israel or in Jerusalem particularly? And then lastly,

lastly, because this is tied into it, do we have to take into consideration any genetic

modification performed on um barley crop that may impact its its ripeness?

Good question, Samuel. Glenn got his hand up before you even finished speaking your question, so let’s see what he has to say.

Samuel, I love your questions. I I really like the the depth of your thought and your questions are just, you

know, fantastic. Uh the your your question about uh does does the location matter?

Well, it absolutely does matter because the wave sheath can only be performed in Jerusalem.

uh and and you know that if it’s reinstituted, it’ll be on the Temple Mount. So that’s the only location that matters in the whole wide world. And

that’s so that’s the only location for the barley. And when you look at hybridized barley, you’re absolutely right. There’s some hybridized barley

out there, but if you look at the people that are uh searching for the barley, uh there’s still ancient barley also grown

and harvested. And so that that’s another very very good question. We don’t look at the hybrid stuff uh that

is harvested with combines and and modern agricultural things. These these

uh references that Ed talked about uh people that followed the barley.

What’s interesting is is they they give a lot of pictures of, you know, as it progresses and a commentary on what the

picture and what you’re seeing. And so they’re going to eliminate uh some of the uh what’s called wild oat barley.

They’re going to eliminate some of that be because it’s not harvestable barley e even though it’s there. So they’re

they’re really looking at uh following the the normal barley not hybridized not

combine harvested and the state uh in which it could be harvested.

One thing about barley, if you if you look into it, if the barley gets too ripe, it’s not a ve, then it’s called

caramel. And the grains actually fall out of the stocks. And so you can’t chop it this way and and you know, hold up a

sheath because all of the grains would have fallen out of the sheath. So it has to be harvested when it’s it’s uh some

people call it green but it’s the aviv stage where where the kernels can be roasted or dried dehydrated and and

still ground and used and yet it’s not yet caramel where the grains would fall to the ground. If they didn’t get this

exactly right, then since we’re not able they weren’t able to eat barley until

after the wave sheath, if they, you know, declared it too late, then by the time they were able to harvest the

barley, it would all be caramel and be on the ground. If it’s too early, then

there’s nothing to harvest. So this I mean just for the for the population to have uh barley to eat it had to be

exactly on schedule. Can I interject one more thing in there just real quickly?

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Yeah, of course. So so so we’re so and thank you um Glenn number two. That that was an exceptional um explanation. I

love it. Um so with with respect to the sighting of the new moon or the renewed moon in combination with um looking at

the Aiv and other markers um that that help us keep track of the correct biblical uh keeping of time which is

which is based in agrarian understanding and knowledge. My my understanding is that at some point um within Judaism

there was a issue or a problem with respect to um keeping the holy days

because you had two different rabbis that got reports on the sighting of the renewed moon. And it looks like the way it was

reconciled in the end is that the the the rabbi with the with the I don’t want to say I’m trying to keep it out of the

the context of of of modern parlance, but I’m finding it hard to do.

So the the the the head of the the head rabbi, the head of the rabbinet

um was going by by one observation of of what was counted as the new or the renewed moon. And then the the rabbi at

the lower level who received reports that he felt were actually correct that would place the the appointed time at

the right date. um fell into contention with the with the head rabbi and some of the other of of the ravenet. And the

resolution was that the head rabbi had to be um uh conceded to um by by virtue of of

his authority and in and where he landed. How how much of that influences our ability to reliably be reliably use

the the the signs that the father give us in order to determine the appropriate times um for um for observation of of his appointed days.

Well, Samuel, again, that goes back to what I said earlier in the lesson about how there’s um always the chance that

the the information up front, the sighting of the new moon, barley, could be off a day. And if and if you’re off a

day, then you’re off a month and it doesn’t matter. And and that’s the argument that some people make that you might as well not, you know, try to to

follow it that closely at all if if you’re going to be off, you’re going to be off a month. So, another reason why

some people go, I’m just going to I’m just going to celebrate hell. I’m just going to celebrate Zadakite or whatever.

Um however in in biblical times um those decisions were made

by an authority. They had they had people who whose job it was to make that call in today is in today’s Israel no

such authority exists. All of modern day Israel, and correct me if you if I’m wrong, David, number one, is is on the

rebbitic calendar or the hell calendar, right? So there is no official authority in Israel making these

calls, which blows my mind, but there we are. So what what are we to do? We are to rely

on educated individuals who’s made it their life’s work to look at this stuff in Israel.

And like I said, there are people that are dedicated to that. Um, if it’s off a

day, it selfcorrects, right, Glenn? Yes, sir.

So, I’m not too sure that that that deviation from one day to the next

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is at the end of the day all that important. Um, as long as you and I are

doing our best to using the tools that we have available to us to arrive at

that time. And once that time has happened, then everything else afterwards just falls in line with with

everything else. So to me, at least to my eyes, and I’m not by any means a a an

expert on the biblical calendar, uh getting that first calendar, that first event correct is paramount for everything else.

Uh thank you.

You’re welcome, Samuel. Thank you for your questions. Okay, we’re gonna we’re running long, so we’re going to listen to what Amy has to say and then we’re

going to finish up. Go ahead, Amy. I have a question about this last year. Do you believe that this last year um that

1 hour, 28 minutes

the hell calendar essentially was a month off? because I had some friends

that were in Israel and they were talking about all of the things that they were um essentially consuming

during Sukkot and that they it it it was a month

different than where we were in the states. If my memory serves me correctly, it was close to a month off last season. However, because of the

intercolation this season, we are much closer to the halal calendar this season.

Y does that make sense? If I’m not mistaken, which I might be, I’m not sure, but this is up for you now. um how

if all of it goes off of the barley harvest part of my question Samuel asks about you know like USDA zones where the

grain is grown but also the seventh year Sabbath would they do like a separate thing for for sewing then or would this

I’m just curious as to if they didn’t plant anything if there was something separate that I missed um about like the seventh year Sabbath when that comes into play.

So Glenn’s going to share in response to that, but thank you Dave. Your um your question actually reminds me to include something in part two about the Jubilee.

So thank you for that. But Glenn wanted us to to respond to that. Yeah, my my response is just simply that uh when

they didn’t plant, that doesn’t mean that uh the barley didn’t grow and they were still able to eat out of the fields

even though they weren’t harvesting out of the fields. So, there was still barley.

Okay, that makes sense. Okay, guys, listen. Thank you for being here. Have a

fantastic Shabbat Shabbat and a great weekend. And we’ll be back uh next week with part two and then just in time for

us to all of our all of us to go into the the the festival cycles together and we’ll have a fantastic time. So

blessings to everybody. There’s the fireworks

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shalom shalom shalom. Where’s my fireworks? No fireworks.

Okay guys, love you guys. We’ll talk to you soon. Thank you. Thank you.