Feast Dates
The Date of Passover for Lunar
Year 2005 -2006
I have decided to post the following
article because many Messianic Believers have been keeping
Pesach according to the Jewish-Fixed Calendar of Rabbinical
Judaism. As a result they end up celebrating the rest of the Set-Apart Feast Days
of Yahweh in the wrong months and/or on the wrong dates and days.
This is a grave mistake.
Please, allow me to remind you that
you were not
called to be a Judaist, to follow the errors and blindness
of those who swear to remain in conformity with Rabbinical
Judaism in order to be accepted by those whom they perceive or
are taught to represent all this or that.
Rabbinical Judaism
is led by a spirit of lie, for the dark veil falls only in Yahshua.
Period. The Rabbis and Doctors of Law of Judaism deny Yahshua
Ha Mashiach, our Savior, the Light of the world. Therefore
they have no wisdom and true knowledge. The Ruach plainly says
that the spirit that does not confess that Yahshua has come in
the flesh is not of Elohim. It is the spirit of the
Anti-Messiah, 1 Yohanan 4: 1-3. Those who have the Ruach
testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the
world, 1 Yohanan 4: 14.
"All too well the Rabbis have rejected
the commandment of Elohim, that they may keep their own
tradition," Mark 7: 8-9. This is why Rabbinical Judaism
celebrates their Shavu’ot on any day of the week, whereas the
Torah fixes it on a Sunday (the day after a weekly Sabbath).
One thing to keep in mind:
the Feast of
Passover cannot be kept before the Spring Equinox. Therefore,
if the Full Moon of March falls before the Spring Equinox (a
day when the daylight is equaled to the night), we have to
postpone the celebration of Pesach for the next month. When we
do so, we declare the year that's leaving a leap year, i.e. a
13-month year.
Understand, there is no direct command in the
Torah about any 13 months or leap year. The reason why we have
to add an additional month to the outgoing year is because the
cycle of the Moon always fall behind the cycle or number of
days of the Sun by 10 days, each year. Thus every three years
30 days are added to the Lunar Year to keep it in line with
the solar season, for it is the Sun that regulates the four
seasons (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter).
And, also, the
date of Passover is based on
barley harvest in Israel. Such
harvest
is not done in Winter, a dead season, but in the
Spring.
For the Lunar Year, 2005 - 2006, however, the Full
Moon is on March 25, 2005. Passover can be kept on March 24
(Nisan 14) at twilight, which is, biblically, the night part
of March 25, the First Day of Unleavened Bread. Counting
backward takes us to March 11th, first day of Nisan.
Passover is about renewal. Spring brings new life. It is a new
beginning in Nature as it is a new life in Yahshua.
By way of example, consider the Lunar Year 1999 -
2000. The 355th day (which would have ended that
year) fell on March 5, 2000; the next day, March 6, 2000 was
the New Moon. Counting from the 6th Passover would
have fallen on March 19, 2000; thus before the Spring Equinox,
still in Winter. Therefore we had to add an additional month
of 30 days to that Lunar Year, 1999 - 2000, ending that year
on April 4, 2000; that adjustment consequently put Nisan 1 on
April 5, 2000. Thus, for the Lunar Year 2000 - 2001, which
began on April 5 (Nisan 1), Passover fell on April 19, 2000,
beginning April 18th after sunset. That was the
case for both Messianics and Judaists.
Therefore, based on the above explanation,
here is what we've got:
1999 - 2000
Leap or Irregular Year
2000 - 2001
Regular Year: The conjunction took
place April 4th at 18:12 or 6:12 PM. Therefore the
first day of the Moon (month) was April 5. Passover is kept
April 18, 2000 at
twilight, the 19th
being the First of UB or First Day of Pesach.
2001 - 2002
Regular Year:
April 7, 2001 after sunset, the
8th being the
First of UB or First Day of Pesach.
2002 - 2003
Leap or Irregular Year: March 28,
2002, after sunset...
2003 - 2004 Regular Lunar Year:
Passover, April 16, 2003.
2004 - 2005 Regular Lunar Year: Passover
, April 5, 2004 (night before).
2005 - 2006 Irregular Lunar Year:
Passover is eating on March 24th after sunset, the
25th is the First of UB. But next Lunar Year
it is going to be in April.
New Moons: Mar. 11, Apr. 9, May 9, Jun. 7, Jul. 7, Aug. 5,
Sep. 4, Oct. 3, Nov. 2.
Passover Seder ,
March 24 (Abib 14);
First Day of Unleavened Bread / Hag Ha
Matzo , March 25 (Abib 15);
Last Day of UB, March 31.
Begin to count for Shavu’ot on Sunday,
March 27th, the day after the weekly Shabbat from
the day the wave sheaf is brought, Leviticus (Wayyiqra) 23:
15; seven Shabbats must be completed, to a total number of
49 days, the 49th day being a weekly Shabbat
(7x7=49, just as in Sabbatical Years; Judaists don’t
understand that). Your Shavu’ot falls on the 50th
day, a Sunday, after a weekly Shabbat (the 49th
day).
Hag Ha Shavu’ot / the Feast of Weeks: May 15, 2005.
Moed Shopharim / Feast of Trumpets:
Sept. 4.
Yom Ha Kippurim / Day of Atonement:
Sept. 13, begins on the 12th after sunset.
Sukkot / Feast of Tabernacles: Sept. 18
(a Shabbat) - Sept. 24.
Last Great Day (a Shabbat): Sept. 25.
The Date of
Passover for 2006 - 2007
The Eating of Passover for 2006 - 2007 is on April 12, 2006 at
sunset. The First Day of Unleavened Bread is April 13.
Counting backward takes us to March 30.
2005 - 2006 had to be given the status of a
leap year, ending on March 29, 2006, for it is an irregular
year as stated, above.
Again why 30 days?
It is because the Moon falls behind the Sun
by 10 days every year; thus a total of 30 days in 3 years.
Remember April 12 is Nisan 14. After sunset
it is the same as April 13, Nisan 15. Begin to eat Unleavened
Bread and continue till the 7th day.
Begin to count for
Shavu'ot on April 16. Shavu'ot is Sunday, June 4th.
Feast of
Trumpet, Yom Shopharim, 2006 - 2007, is on
September 22 at night.
Comments: The Lunar Conjunction
or Molad, commonly called new moon, takes place at 1145 UT. To
find Eastern Standard Time add 5 hours. Thus if you live in
NY, your time is 1645 or 4:45 PM, the time at which you'd be
able to spot the moon if you were looking for a crescent. In
Israel it would be 5:45 PM.
There is no indication in the Torah
that we must look for a crescent moon, apart from
traditions that began, most likely, after the return
from captivity, we therefore prefer to allow the moon
to reign over the day when the lunar conjunction takes
place so early in the day, meaning that Friday, Sept.
22, could be regarded as the true first day of Tishri.
However, by virtue of the fact that on Wednesday, which
begins on Tuesday at sunset, we will already have been
a good 15 hours 45 minutes into the day before the
conjunction takes place, it is advisable to blow the
trumpet Wednesday night and keep a Shabbat on the 23
(Saturday).
Yom Ha Kippurim is October 2.
Feast of Tabernacles,
Sukkoth, begins October 6 at night, first Shabbat is October
7. Second Shabbat is on the 13; Sukkoth ends October 14
(Last Great Day).
Passover 2007 - 2008
The Eating of Passover for 2007 - 2008 is on April 2, 2007
(Nisan 14) at sunset. The First Day of Unleavened Bread is
April 3 (Nisan 15). The Last day of Unleavened Bread, the 21st
day, ends on April 9, 2007 at sunset.
Begin to count for
Shavu'ot on Sunday,
April 8 (which is the day after the Shabbat from the day the
sheaf is brought to be waved, Lev. 23:15.
Count fifty days to the day after the
seventh Shabbat. The fiftieth is therefore a Sunday
May 27. Counting 50 days backward from Sunday, May 27,
will certainly take you back to Sunday, April 8.
Yom Shopharim is September 12, beginning
September 11 at sunset, for the New Moon is on Sept. 11 at
1244 Universal Time (5 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.
Add 5 hours to 1244, you have 1744 or 5:44PM. This New Moon
therefore presides over the 12th of September, making it the
1rst Day of the 7th month. Remember, not so-called Rosh
Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is Nisan 1rst.
Yom Kippur, 10 days later, is on September
21(10th day of the 7th month), beginning on September 20 at
sunset (or the 9th day of the 7th month.
Sukkoth is on September 26 - October 3, 7
days + 1 great day = 8 days.
Passover 2008
-2009
The
Eating of Passover for
2008-2009
is on March 21st, at sunset. The First Day of Unleavened Bread is
March 22nd (Nissan
15).
Begin to count for Shavu'ot on the 23rd (a Sunday).
If you missed the March 21st. date you can
keep the feast on April 19, at sunset. April 20 is the 15th of
Nisan. Unleavened Bread, in this case, runs from the 20th to
the 26.
Notice that some of the people keeping the
first Passover on the above date celebrates the immolation of
the Lamb (that night of remembrance when we partake of the
Seder), on the 20th at sunset, instead of the 19th at sunset.
Their Nisan 15th, therefore, falls on April 21, running
the Feast of Unleavened Bread till the April 27. But, their
calculation is a little bit off track because (you may want to
verify this, yourself) the new moon is way back on the April 6
and not on April 7th. In fact the conjunction takes place on
Saturday, April 6 @ 0355 UT (Universal Time); 0355 is 3:55 AM.
There is no need to escape a whole day from the time the
conjunction took place and jump to April 7 as the new moon to
begin counting. I am making this remark to help others correct
their ways and stop relying on Rabbinical conclusions.
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