Webster's Dictionary Definition:
rendezvous - 1a: a place appointed for assembling or meeting 2: a meeting at an appointed place and time.

Constantine, Emperor - (Emperor Constantine in A.D. 321-325 ) The modern seven-day week came into use during the early imperial period, after the Julian calendar came into effect, apparently stimulated by immigration from the Roman East. For a while it coexisted alongside the old 8-day nundinal cycle, and fasti are known which show both cycles. It was finally given official status by Constantine in 321. Roman Calendar Encyclopedia, Days of the Week.

A Profession Of Faith From The Church Of Constantinople in the year 325 C.E.(A.D.) Under The Emperor Constantine:
I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms. unleavened breads & sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspersions, purifications, sanctifications and propitiations and fasts, and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants and observances and Synagogues, and the food and drink of the Hebrews; in one word, I renounce everything Jewish, every law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with The Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils. Source: Parks, James The Conflict Of The Church And The Synagogue Athenaeum, New York, 1974, p. 397-398.

Dawn - The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise. To begin to develop, expand or brighten like the light of dawn. Oxford English Dictionary, 1971.

Dawn is defined in the Strong's Concordance NT # 4404 proi, -- the Fourth Watch of the night; to begin to grow light.

Dawn is the time frame that occupies the Fourth Watch of the night and is not part of the morning at all. It is also known as the morning watch, as the action of this Fourth Watch of the night is to actively watch for the first rays of direct sunshine at sunrise. Each new day begins at sunrise according to Scripture's weight of evidence and not at midnight, sunset, dawn or noon. Refer to article "Sunrise or Sunset, When Does a Day Begin?"

Day - Weighty evidence defines the Scriptural day as a twelve hour period of time from sunrise to sunset. Genesis 1:4 clarifies that the Creator first divided the light from the darkness calling the light day and the darkness night.

Remember, the Jews rejected Christ as their Messiah, and they rejected the New Testament which was about Him. Therefore they do not accept the following quote of Christ as evidence for the length of a day.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him." John 11:9-10 NKJV

Consider the morning and evening sacrifices; they always took place during the light part of the day and never after dark. Also, Christ died on the cross near the time of the evening sacrifice at the 9th hour which was a full three hours prior to sunset.

There are seven days in each week, 29 or 30 days in each month, and 354-384 days in each year, depending on whether it is an embolismic year or not. However, all days are not created equal according to Scripture:

Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh-day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. Exodus 20:9-10

Thus says the Lord God: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened." Ezekiel 46:1-2

Between these two texts, from Exodus 20 and Ezekiel 46, are found the details of "days" for the Creator's calendar. First we have the non-contended definition of the week that it is made up of six work days followed by the seventh-day Sabbath. Ezekiel states that on Sabbaths and New Moons the gateway is opened, and that it is closed on the six working days of each week. In this manner the text clarifies that there are three specific kinds of days that never overlap. The New Moons can never be Sabbaths and neither can they ever be work days. So this Scriptural verse sets the standard for days, by labeling them as either New Moon days, Sabbath days or work days. Therefore this is the standard by which to compare all calendars including the Roman Gregorian. If the days of any calendar change from week to week, or month to month, causing a New Moon day to be counted as a mere work day, or a work day to be counted as a Holy Sabbath, then you will know it is a counterfeit calendar. Show me a Gregorian year that has not placed New Moons on seventh-day Sabbaths or on week days.

• There are two kinds of days that make up a week- work days and Sabbaths.


• There are three kinds of days that make up a month, 1) New Moon days, 2) Sabbaths, and 3) work days.


• The east gate is opened on Sabbaths and New Moons


• Closed on work days.


• The Sabbaths and work days can never occur on the same day as in overlapping.


• New Moons can never be seventh-day Sabbaths, because they are stated as separate and unique.


• There is a New Moon day each and every month that cannot simultaneously fall on a work day or a seventh-day Sabbath.


• Therefore, it is impossible for unbroken-chains-of-weeks to have cycled without end, since creation.


• Chains of weeks cannot remain unbroken for six months, three months, or even one month, for the very reason that a New Moon day breaks the cycle each and every month. This was ordained by the Creator, as all His units of time bear His signature, and with each being governed by "the principles that rule in the heavens." These "principles" are only born out by the orchestration of the sun, moon and stars.

Sabbath (Shabaat) - The Creator's divinely appointed day of rest, occurring every seventh-day following each New Moon. There are precisely four seventh-day Sabbaths every lunar month, which consistently fall upon the lunar calendar dates of the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. The Sabbath is also the first of eight holy appointed Feast days as listed in Leviticus 23:1.
Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Hodesh), both periodically recur in the course of the year. The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410.

The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites . . . The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136.

Yeshua (Jesus)...observed a Sabbath, but this Sabbath was neither Saturday nor Sunday. The Nazarene Sabbath was a lunar Sabbath . . . Of the lunar month. (A lunar month starts on the New Moon). This was standard practice among the Beni-Aumen Nazarene Order and most of the other orthodox Jewish sects of the time...Lunar Sabbath observance is an ancient Semitic custom concurrent and ante-dating the time of Yeshua . . ." (ibid.). Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance


Passover, Feast of (Pasch) - The Feast of Passover is one of two solemn yearly feasts. However, it is the only appointed feast that begins at sunset and ends at sunrise the following morning, and so incorporates only the dark period of night. This Feast was to have a dual application in that it was a memorial of the night the death angel passed over Israel and killed all the first born in Egypt, but also it was a prophecy of the Messiah who was to die for the sins of the whole world.


Unleavened Bread, Feast of (Matsaw) - The spring Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th day of the first month of Abib, counting from the New Moon. It begins at the moment Passover comes to an end at dawn. This second feast commences on a seventh-day Sabbath, making the first day of this seven-day feast a "High Sabbath" each and every year. This feast ends on the sixth-day of the week.


Feast of First Fruits or Wave Sheaf (Raysheeth) - Abib 16. It is always the first day of the week as it permanently follows Sabbath the 15th, beginning at sunrise and ending at sunset. The first fruits of the barley harvest were to be waved before the Lord. This feast symbolized the resurrection day of the Messiah that was to come. While He died according to the time centric requirements of Passover, He rose from the dead in sync with this preordained holy feast, so that all who believe upon Him and confess their sins to Him shall have everlasting life. Leviticus 23:9-14; John 11:9; Psalms 113:3; Psalms 50:1-2.


Wave Sheaf (Raysheeth) - Refer to First Fruits


Pentecost, Count to (Shavuot) - Pentecost means fifty, which stood for fifty days. There has been much discussion on how to count to Pentecost. First and foremost, the correct calendar must be established upon which to calculate it. Neither the Julian nor the Gregorian calendars existed at the time Pentecost was instituted by Yahuwah. Also, it is utterly impossible to count to Pentecost using any other calendar than the Scriptural mandated lunisolar calendar, as it is the only one that fits all the criteria:


Trumpets, Feast of (Rosh Hashana) - In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Leviticus 23:24


Feast Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) - Annual Rehearsal of the Prophetic Judgment Day and Close of Probation - Leviticus 23:27-32
The Day of Atonement falls on the 10th day of the Seventh Month (not a pagan named day), counting from the New Moon. Like all the appointed Feast days of Yahuwah, it is fixed not only on the specific date of the month counting from the New Moon, but is also fixed on its specific day of the week. This is because five days later is the Feast of Tabernacles which commences every year on the seventh-day Sabbath, the 15th of the Seventh Month. Therefore, it will always fall on the 2nd day of the second week, the 10th calendar date of the month, counting from the New Moon.


Tabernacles, Feast of (Sukkot) - it is clearly stated in Leviticus 23:34 that the fall Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day feast, not an eight-day feast as some have supposed (Leviticus 23:39-43).

Hebrew Calendar - In Second Temple times (c. 518 BCE - 70 CE), the Hebrew calendar operated on an observational basis. The beginning of each lunar month was decided on the basis of two eye witnesses testifying to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset. Patriarch Gamaliel II (c.100) would ask the witness to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month. According to tradition, these observations were compared against calculations made by the Sanhedrin. When thirty days elapsed since the last New Moon, the witnesses were readily believed. The destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the general disruption of Jewish communal life after the Jewish-Roman Wars of 66-73, 115-117, and 132-135, caused major disruptions in Jewish Life. It also disrupted the calendar.

When you are convinced that the winter quarter will extend beyond the sixteenth day of Nisan declare the year a leap year, and do not hesitate (R. H. 21a). There is a popular tradition, first mentioned by Hai Gaon (d. 1038 CE), that as religious persecutions continued, Patriarch Hillel II determined to provide an authorized mathematically-based calendar for all time to come, though by so doing he severed the ties which united the Jews of the diaspora to their mother country and to the patriarchate. It is recorded that the calendar was adopted at a clandestine, and maybe final, meeting of the Sanhedrin in A.D. 358, marking the last universal decision made by that body.

Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord's Day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.

Quod non oportet Christianos Judaizere et otiare in Sabbato, sed operari in eodem die. Preferentes autem in veneratione Dominicum Diem si vacre voluerint, ut Christiani hoc faciat; quod si reperti fuerint Judaizere Anathema sint a Christo. Council of Laodicea, Canon 29

Lunar Months - The word month (or chodesh in Hebrew, see Strong's #2320) in Scripture specifically means New Moon or lunar month. New Moon Day is the day after the first visible sighting of the crescent New Moon as seen in Jerusalem. This is repeated each and every month for twelve (or thirteen) months. The month consists of 29 or 30 days. Six months of every year are 29 days in length and the other six are 30 days, usually rotating every other month, but not always. (Click to open image)

Lunar Sabbath - The early Hebrews kept their Sabbath according to the count from the New Moon. Deis Saturni of the Roman calendar was never synonymous with the lunar Sabbath, as the two calendars can never be harmonized. Several years after Rome's eight-day week was transformed to a seven-day week by Constantine in A.D. 324, Saturday was only then adopted by the Hebrews because of Roman occupation and the ongoing persecution and pressure to adopt it.

The lunar Sabbath can only be found by numbering (counting) the days of a lunar month, commencing day one on New Moon day. New Moon day begins the next morning at sunrise following the first official sighting of the crescent moon in Jerusalem. This is because Jerusalem is Yahuwah's ordained international dateline. (Click on the illustration below to enlarge.)

While the Genesis Creation story and the Ten Commandments are silent with regards to the New Moon day, there are many other places in Scripture that give us the missing criteria for establishing the Creator's time-keeping as the moon was ordained to do (Isaiah 28:10). It is the moon, that sets the count and establishes the first day of the year, the month, the week, and the date of each day. As an end result, it is the moon that positions all the holy appointed Feasts: both the weekly, lunar Sabbath, and the monthly, lunar Feasts.

Ezekiel 46:1 defines with a "thus saith the Lord" that Yahuwah ordained three kinds of days which are named and have specific function. Notice below that the "east gate" of the temple, being open or closed for worship, actually defines that these days can never overlap. A day is either a work day or a worship day and never both. There is no guess work here. New Moon days will never fall on work days, just as Sabbaths can never fall on work days. Likewise, New Moon days can never be seventh-day Sabbaths, because the New Moon day must always be the first day of the month, as it only can be the day following the first visible crescent. Notice in the following verse, are the words of Yahuwah, Himself.

• Two kinds of days make up the Biblical week – work days and Sabbaths.


• Three kinds of days make up a month – New Moon days, work days and Sabbaths.


• The east gate is opened for worship on both New Moon days and Sabbath days.


• The east gate is shut for worship on work days.


• Sabbath days and work days never overlap.


• New Moon days and work days never overlap.


• New Moon days and Sabbaths never overlap, as they were divinely designed as distinct kinds of days.


• New Moon day occurs each month and is never a work day or a Sabbath.


• By its very existence, the New Moon day breaks the cycle of work days and Sabbath days, each lunar month.


• It is impossible for the Creator’s weeks to have cycled without end, since creation, for the mere fact that there are three kinds of days and not just two, as all have previously believed.


• Cycling weeks cannot remain unbroken for 6,000 years, 6 months, or 6 weeks, for the very reason that the New Moon day exists and continues to stand as a beacon of time, breaking the week cycle each and every month. All units of time are heralded by the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars, the great principles that rule in the heavens, bearing the signature of the Creator. But it is the moon that defines the date of each month, the count to the Sabbath, the placement of the Feasts in their lunar months and weeks, and the completion of each year.

Metonic Cycle - Traditionally, the years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 are embolismic years, because they each have the added 13th intercalary month in the sequence of the Metonic cycle. This cycle is said to be so accurate that it can be used to predict eclipses in addition to forming the basis of the Biblical lunisolar calendar. Perhaps it can best be illustrated by using a piano keyboard. The cycle commences with what would be known as C# (the black key between C and D) and ends with the 19th embolismic year, that would fall between B and C.

Short Metonic Cycle article can be found here

Month - A measure of time corresponding to the period of revolution of the moon. Oxford English Dictionary, 1971. The word month (or Chodesh in Hebrew, see Strong's #2320) in Scripture specifically means New Moon which declares that a new lunisolar month will begin the following sunrise. In other words, New Moon Day is the day after the first visible sighting of the crescent New Moon. This is repeated each and every month for twelve (or thirteen) months. The month consists of 29 or 30 days. Six months of every year are 29 days in length and the other six are 30 days, usually rotating every other month, but not always. The term "month" is eternally connected to the term "New Moon" as the New Moon is the beacon and first lunar phase defining when a month commences.

Strong's Expanded Dictionary of the New Testament month -- #3376 (18x) men, mane, a primary word; a month:-- month

Men, connected with mene, "the moon," akin to a Sanskrit root ma-, "to measure"
(the Sanskrit masa denotes both moon and month, cf, e.g., Lat. mensis Eng., "moon" and "month," the moon being in early times the measure of the "month").

[All mention of "months" or "New Moons" in the New Testament refer to lunar months]:

Luke 1:26 Luke 1:36 Luke 1:24 Luke 1:56 Luke 4:25 John 4:35 Acts 7:20 Acts 18:11 Acts 19:8 Acts 20:3 Acts 28:11 Galatians 4:10 Hebrews 11:23 James 5:17         Revelation 9:5 Revelation 9:10 Revelation 9:15 Revelation 11:2 Revelation 13:5 Revelation 22:2

in the sixth month the angel Gabriel and this is the sixth month with her conceived, and hid herself five months Mary abode with her about three months was shut up three years and six months Say not ye, There are yet four months    #5072 up in his father's house three months continued there a year and six months boldly for the space of three months And there abode three months after three months we departed in a Ye observe days, and months and times was hid three months of his parents     #5150 the space of three years and six months they should be tormented five months power was to hurt men five months for an hour and a day, and a month tread under foot forty and two months him to continue forty and two months and yielded her fruit ever month

Mosaic Calendar - The calendar established by God at Creation, reaffirmed by Him at Mt. Sinai, kept by Christ during His life on earth and used by apostolic Christians until the Council of Nicæa.

Mount Zion - #2022 = har + #6726 Tsiyown- The mountain of Yahuwah's system of government, which includes both His lunisolar times and all of His laws, statutes, judgments, and feasts.

Mountain - #2022 = har - mountain (literal or figurative) - Figurative system of government, which includes both times time reckoning of any single government and its laws.

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New Moon - The moon when first seen as a slender crescent shortly after its conjunction with the sun. Oxford English Dictionary, 1971. Strong's # 2320 - Chodesh- the New Moon; by implication a month; monthly. From its root word #2320 - Chadesh- to be new; to rebuild; renew.

The New Moon is day one of each month and never a seventh-day Sabbath or a work day (Ezekiel 46:1). The moon is a faithful witness because it never lies, as it is Yahuwah's sacred time signal for all appointed Feast days including the seventh-day Sabbath (Leviticus 23:1-4).

Historically, new moon spotters in Israel watched for the thin crescent to establish the beginning of each month. Once seen they reported their sighting to the calendar court authorities of the Sanhedrin. Note what one authority says, "Originally, the New Moon was not fixed by astronomical calculation, but was solemnly proclaimed after witnesses had testified to the reappearance of the crescent of the moon,"
Encyclopaedia Judaica, Vol. 12, p. 1039.

According to Leviticus 23:24-25, the Feast of Trumpets in the seventh month is the only Feast Sabbath that occurs on a New Moon day. New Moon days are never included in the Count to Pentecost, because they are not part of the Sabbaths Complete equation. (See Sabbaths Complete)

The belief that the dark phase of the moon, known as conjunction, is the New Moon, is not in harmony with Yahuwah's principle of light as it relates to truth. This is because the conjunction phase is not a visible dual action system that beacons light. No aspect of the moon can be seen at the dark conjunction lunar phase. Historically, a signal or beacon has always been synonymous with light and never with darkness. Therefore to be the light of the world or the light of truth from Yahuwah, it must be a visible and orchestrated dual action manifestation of both the sun and the moon. Yahuwah has never used any portion of darkness to represent His truths, thus making the teaching that the dark conjunction lunar phase is the New Moon, an obvious error.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 1 Thessalonians 5:5

Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, at the full moon, on our solemn feast day. For this is a statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob. Psalms 81:3-4

Both of these trumpet blasts on the Shofar would be at specific light phases of the moon. Yahuwah doesn't leave any room for error or guess work. Refer to full article, "The New Moon, When is It?

Strong's Expanded Dictionary of the New Testament month -- #3376 (18x) men, mane, a primary word; a month:-- month

Men, connected with mene, "the moon," akin to a Sanskrit root ma-, "to measure"
(the Sanskrit masa denotes both moon and month, cf, e.g., Lat. mensis Eng., "moon" and "month," the moon being in early times the measure of the "month").

Examples of Luke's careful accuracy of detail.

[All mention of "months" or "New Moons" in the New Testament refer to lunar months]:

Luke 1:26 Luke 1:36 Luke 1:24 Luke 1:56 Luke 4:25 John 4:35 Acts 7:20 Acts 18:11 Acts 19:8 Acts 20:3 Acts 28:11 Galatians 4:10 Hebrews 11:23 James 5:17         Revelation 9:5 Revelation 9:10 Revelation 9:15 Revelation 11:2 Revelation 13:5 Revelation 22:2

in the sixth month the angel Gabriel and this is the sixth month with her conceived, and hid herself five months Mary abode with her about three months was shut up three years and six months Say not ye, There are yet four months    #5072 up in his father's house three months continued there a year and six months boldly for the space of three months And there abode three months after three months we departed in a Ye observe days, and months and times was hid three months of his parents     #5150 the space of three years and six months they should be tormented five months power was to hurt men five months for an hour and a day, and a month tread under foot forty and two months him to continue forty and two months and yielded her fruit ever month

Night - Night is the period of a calendar date that occupies the darkness. It is defined in Genesis 1:14-18 as being ruled by both the moon and the stars. The stars commence their shining at precisely sunset and shine until precisely sunrise. Night is never included in the "day" as clarified in Genesis 1:4-5,

where the Creator separated the light from the darkness and called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night". . . What He separates, we are not to put back together.

The night is not reckoned by hours as is the daylight, but by Four Watches.

The night watches are not divided into four equal lengths of time; rather each "watch of the night" is defined by the parameters of the unique features of the night.

• First watch: The evening watch commences at sunset and occupies the time known as dusk, evening or twilight, in keeping with its name.
• Second watch: The Midnight Watch commences at full darkness and ends at midnight, in keeping with its name.
• Third watch: The Cock Crowing commences at precisely midnight and ends at first light of dawn, this is when the rooster begins to crow, thus it is in keeping with its name.
• Fourth watch: The Morning Watch or Daybreak Watch commences at the time the Rooster begins to crow, occupying the period known as dawn. According to Hebrew, dawn and the Fourth Watch of the night are synonymous. The "Morning Watch" title defines it as the portion of time of watching for the full radiant beams of sunrise.

Nissan - This is a Babylonian name given for the first lunar month of the lunisolar calendar occurring in Spring. While it is not recorded in Scripture, the name Abib is (Exodus 12:1-2).

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Passover, Feast of - The Feast of Passover is one of two solemn yearly feasts. However, it is the only appointed feast that begins at sunset and ends at sunrise the following morning, and so incorporates only the dark period of night. This Feast was to have a dual application in that it was a memorial of the night the death angel passed over Israel and killed all the first born in Egypt, but also it was a prophecy of the Messiah who was to die for the sins of the whole world.

Passover is the first appointed annual feast of the year, and is always in the spring. According to Exodus 12 and Leviticus 23, it is always on the 14th day of the first month of Abib, counting from the New Moon day. It is always the 6th day of the week, also known as the preparation day. It is always on or very near the full moon. The day following Passover is always the seventh-day Sabbath, which is also always a High Sabbath, because on it the Feast of Unleavened Bread commences. The Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament never refers to Passover as Friday. This is the first of the Appointed Feasts which Christ the Messiah fulfilled precisely. Refer to full article, "Twelve Criteria of the True Crucifixion Date."

On the sixth day of the week they had seen their Master die. . .
Desire of Ages, p. 794.

These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover.
Leviticus 23:4-6

Pentecost, Count to - Pentecost means fifty, which stood for fifty days. There has been much discussion on how to count to Pentecost. First and foremost, the correct calendar must be established upon which to calculate it. Neither the Julian nor the Gregorian calendars existed at the time Pentecost was instituted by Yahuwah. Also, it is utterly impossible to count to Pentecost using any other calendar than the Scriptural mandated lunisolar calendar, as it is the only one that fits all the criteria:

1. Begin counting on the 16th day from New Moon;


2. The 16th day is always the first day of the week, because it always follows a seventh-day Sabbath on the 15th;


3. Only count "Sabbaths Complete"
   
   
4. Never count New Moon Days or Translation days;

Seven weeks is a total of 49 days ending on a seventh-day Sabbath;

Then a day is to be added to the count to make it 50 days, therefore the Festival of Pentecost is located on the first day of the week.

Yahuwah uses these six criteria to punctuate that His ordained week and seventh-day Sabbath are reckoned by the very same sacred Lunisolar calendar as all the yearly appointed festivals. This is demonstrated and clarified by this count to Pentecost being fixed simultaneously on both the date of the month counting from the New Moon, as well as fixed within the days of the week, each and every year. Again, this cannot be accomplished using the Gregorian calendar. Leviticus 23:15-17; Leviticus 23:21.

The count to Pentecost begins in the spring on the 16th day of the first month of Abib, which must be located by counting from the New Moon day. This 16th day is the day after the seventh-day Sabbath, which makes it the first day of the week. For supporting evidence, refer to article, "The Creators Calendar Units of Time."

Perigee - "That point in the orbit of a heavenly body, especially of the moon, in which it is at the least distance from the earth: opposed to apogee" (ibid.). The moon in perigee appears widest at this point because it is nearest the earth.

Phase, Phases, Phasis - "In astronomy, any of the stages of variation in the illumination or appearance of the moon or a planet" (ibid.).

Planetary Day Designation - Planetary names applied to the days of the seven-day week. It should be noted that the oldest dated Christian inscription to employ a planetary designation belongs to the year 269 A.D. (Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, ed. De Rossi, 1861, i, No. 1).

Prophecy - History that is divinely appointed in advance.

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Quartodecimanism - Catholic Encyclopedia also Old Testament Christian View of the Law. Eusebius of Caesarea History Eccl., V. xxiii) wrote:

"Fourteenism", derived from Latin and refers to the practice of fixing the celebration of Passover for Christians on the fourteenth day of Nisan in the Old Testament's Hebrew Calendar (for example, in Latin "quarta decima"). This was the original method of fixing the date of the Passover, which is to be a "perpetual ordinance".

A letter of St. Irenaeus shows that the diversity of practice regarding Easter had existed at least from the time of Pope Sixtus I (c. 120). Further, Irenaeus states that St. Polycarp, who like the other Eastern Christians, kept Easter on the fourteenth day of the moon . . . following therein the tradition, which he claimed to have derived from St. John the Apostle.

About 195, Pope Victor I excommunicated the Quartodecimans. Though this was regarded as immoderate - Origen in the "Philosophumena" (VIII, xviii) seems to regard them as a mere handful of wrong-headed nonconformists - the practice (by the Jews & Christians of keeping Passover by the lunar calendar Nissan 14) was forced underground.

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Sabbath - The divinely appointed day of rest, occurring every seventh-day following each New Moon. There are precisely four seventh-day Sabbaths every lunar month, which consistently fall upon the lunar calendar dates of the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Hodesh), both periodically recur in the course of the year. The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410.

The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites . . .The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136.

Yeshua (Jesus)...observed a Sabbath, but this Sabbath was neither Saturday nor Sunday. The Nazarene Sabbath was a lunar Sabbath . . . of the lunar month. (A lunar month starts on the New Moon). This was standard practice among the Beni-Aumen Nazarene Order and most of the other orthodox Jewish sects of the time...Lunar Sabbath observance is an ancient Semitic custom concurrent and ante-dating the time of Yeshua . . ." (ibid.). Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance

Sabbaths Complete - Six work days plus one seventh-day Sabbath equals one Sabbath Complete. This was the template that Yahuwah ordained at Creation. These will never include New Moon days or translation days, because they are not the days specified in the equation. Yahuwah uses Sabbaths Complete to punctuate that His ordained week and seventh-day Sabbath are reckoned by the very same sacred luar solar calendar as all the yearly appointed festivals. This is demonstrated and clarified by His Sabbaths Complete being fixed simultaneously on both the date of the month counting from the New Moon to locate the 16th day. This 16th day follows the 15th day which is always a seventh-day Sabbath. Therefore the anchor markers are simultaneously fixed on both the dates of the month as well as within the days of the week, each month without variation, as well as each and every year. Again, this cannot be accomplished using the Gregorian calendar.

        0 (New Moon days are not to be counted)
        0 (Translation days, the 30th day of the month, is not to be counted)
        6 work days
     + 1 7th day Sabbath
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      = 7 (6 work days + 1 Sabbath) = 1 Sabbath Complete (perfect)

And you shall number to you from the day after the Sabbath, from the day you bring in the sheaf of the wave offering, seven Sabbaths perfect [complete, KJV] they shall be, to the day after the Sabbath seventh; you shall number fifty days. Leviticus 23:15, 16 (The Interlinear Bible: Hebrew, Greek, and English.)

Seasons - #4150. mowed` or mo`ed, properly an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventional a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand): appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemnity, synagogue, (set) time (appointed).

Shebat - This is the only name recorded in Scripture for the eleventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. This word appears to originate in Babylon (Zechariah 1:7).

Signs of the Times - Divinely appointed lunar Feast days designed by the heavenly Father to depict the specific work/ministry of Christ Yahushua (Jesus) in the heavenly Sanctuary. This work of the New Covenant's end result is to write His laws on our hearts rather than on mere stone as was the case with the Old Covenant. Each Feast or "Sign of His Times" is time centric to the lunar solar calendar and is to be fulfilled on its exact calendar date. These include from the past - Passover and Pentecost. Yet, future are the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles and the Seventh-day Sabbath. According to the Sanctuary model, the second coming of our Saviour and Redeemer will be a physical and visual manifestation that will occur on the 15th of Ethanim, the seventh lunar month on a year yet future.

Sin - Transgression of the law of Yahuwah (God). Romans 4:15; 1 John 3:4

Sivan - This is the only name recorded in Scripture for the third lunar month of the lunisolar year (Esther 8:9).

Sosigenes - an Alexandrian astronomer who advised Julius Caesar about the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided that the only practical step was to abandon the lunar calendar altogether. According to his council, months must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year used, as in the Egyptian calendar. "The Julian Calendar," Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Tabernacles, Feast of - it is clearly stated in Leviticus 23:34 that the fall Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day feast, not an eight-day feast as some have supposed (Leviticus 23:39-43).

This Festival commenced on the 15th day of the Seventh Month also called Ethanim, counting from the New Moon, and ends on the 21st day. Because the first day of this festival begins on a seventh-day Sabbath, it is also a High Sabbath. By clarifying that the following eighth-day was also a seventh-day Sabbath, Yahuwah punctuated that His ordained week and seventh-day Sabbath are reckoned by His sacred Lunisolar calendar system. This is demonstrated and clarified by this full week festival being fixed simultaneously on both the date of the lunisolar month counting from the New Moon, as well as fixed within the days of the week, each and every year. This Festival of Tabernacles can not be located correctly on any other form of calendar other than the calendar of Divine origin. It is here demonstrated that the unbroken cycles of successive weeks were not authored by the Creator as they can never be in harmony with the criteria given.

Tamuz - This is the name of a pagan god. It is a Babylonian name for the fourth lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. Tamuz is not used in the Bible as a month title.

Tebeth - This is the only name recorded in Scripture for the tenth lunar month of the lunisolar calendar. This name appears to originate in Babylon and is only recorded one time in the book of Esther (Esther 2:26).

Ethanim - This name for the seventh lunar month of the lunisolar calendar originates in Babylon and is not used anywhere in Scripture. The name Ethanim is the name used in Scripture for the seventh lunar month (1 Kings 8:2).

Translation Day - This title is purely an astronomical term and is not referenced in Scripture. It is the period of time between conjunction and the first appearance of the New Moon. It is the 30th day of the month, which lies between the seventh-day Sabbath on the 29th, and the New Moon of the following month. This 30th day known as Translation Day never ever affects the line up of lunar Sabbaths. This is because it follows the last Sabbath of any given month, and then is followed by New Moon day which beacons the new month and refreshes the new cycle of four weeks and their respective Sabbaths.

There are only three kinds of days defined in Scripture. While the sun rises and sets on Translation day exactly as it does on all other days, it is unique in its purpose, as it occurs approximately six times every year. This day can never be either a seventh-day Sabbath or a New Moon day; however it appears to be a mere work day. It is always the day following the fourth Sabbath of the month when the month is 30 days long. On 29 day months, New Moon Day follows the fourth Sabbath of the month. Translation days are not included in the Count to Pentecost, because they are not part of a consecutive set of six work days followed by the seventh-day Sabbath, which is the Scriptural criteria required for a "week" and for a Sabbath Complete.

The importance of this day lies in keeping the days of the 12 month years totaling 354 days, and the days of the thirteen month years totaling 384. This day is invaluable in bringing into harmony the Creator's lunisolar year with the solar year every 19 years.

Trumpets, Feast of - In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Leviticus 23:24

The Festival of Trumpets always begins on the New Moon day of the month of Ethanim/Tisrei, which is the seventh month of the Scriptural Hebrew year. The name of the feast itself identifies it as announcing or trumpeting a coming important event. In this case as in the typical yearly sanctuary service it is announcing the coming final judgment "Day of Atonement." Perhaps the last Feast of Trumpets will be the literal fulfillment of when the great trumpet shall blast from heaven, where Yahushua announces the day and hour of His coming. While the Festival of Trumpets is only a one day feast, it commences the ten day count down to the solemn feast Day of Atonement. These days are best utilized in surrendering our hearts and minds to Yahuwah. Confessing sin and asking for His loving and merciful forgiveness. Some focus their attention on one of the Ten Commandments for each day of the countdown. In this way they have not left any moral stone unturned in preparation for the coming symbolic great Judgment Day.

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Unleavened Bread, Feast of - The spring Feast of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th day of the first month of Abib, counting from the New Moon. It begins at the moment Passover comes to an end at dawn. This second feast commences on a seventh-day Sabbath, making the first day of this seven-day feast a "High Sabbath" each and every year. This feast ends on the sixth-day of the week.

There is no variation when "The Feast of Unleavened Bread" begins or ends, because it is fixed not only to a specific date, the 15th of the month counting from New Moon, but also within specific and fixed days of the week, each and every year. This is another one of the Creator's true and paramount calendar definers. This is because this shows that the weeks of Scripture and Yahuwah have never cycled as an unbroken chain of successive weeks since creation, but that the week and seventh-day Sabbath is also defined by the lunisolar calendar as are all the Holy appointed yearly Festivals. Using the Scriptural criteria, it is simply impossible to pinpoint this "Festival of Unleavened Bread" which has both a fixed monthly date as well as fixed days of the week on the Gregorian calendar, where the weeks cycle without end in a unbroken chain (Leviticus 23:6-8).

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Vernal Equinox - Otherwise known as the spring equinox officially fell on March 21, the precise time when the sun crosses the equator, making the day and night everywhere of equal length. Passover, the fourteenth of Nisan must never precede the vernal equinox.

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Waning - The lunar phases depicted from the full moon until the dark conjunction phase. To visibly decrease in size, extent or degree: dwindle, as in phase or intensity- used chiefly of the moon. To become less brilliant or powerful - dim. To fall gradually from power, prosperity, or influence. To move towards extinction.

Waxing - To increase. To increase in size, numbers, strength, prosperity, or intensity. To grow in volume or duration. To grow toward full development. To increase in phase or intensity - used chiefly of the moon.

Week (Biblical lunisolar) - The Biblical lunisolar week is made up of six work days followed by a seventh-day Sabbath. There are never more or less days in the Creator's divinely appointed week. His week will never contain either a New Moon day or a Translation day, as both of these days are not listed in the criteria that make up a week. If you use a calendar that demonstrates the New Moon floating through the months and landing on either a week day or a seventh-day Sabbath you can be sure you are not using the Creator's Biblical calendar (Ezekiel 46:1).

Each New Moon Day is followed by four successive weeks. These are exhibited by the moon's waxing and waning phases as it reflects the light of the sun, in addition to its location in the night sky. Following day one of each month is the first day of the week. Each week of seven days ends with the Sabbath on the specific dates of the 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th day as counted from New Moon, each and every month. In our Creator's wisdom, He appointed and "set" His three-part orchestrated time-keeping clock on the fourth day of creation, prior to any possible human intervention. According to Genesis 1:14-18 Yahuwah divinely appointed the sun, moon, and stars to measure time. The sun was to rule by day and the moon and stars to rule by night?

It is the lunisolar Sabbath that is defined by the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars that is the true evidence that Yahuwah is the Creator of the heavens and earth, and not an unbroken chain of successive weeks, as we have been led to believe?

Week (Modern unbroken seven-day cycle) - The modern seven-day week came into use during the early imperial period, after the Julian calendar came into effect, apparently stimulated by immigration from the Roman East. For a while it coexisted alongside the old 8-day nundinal cycle, and fasti are known which show both cycles. It was finally given official status by Constantine in 321. Roman Calendar Encyclopedia, Days of the Week

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Year - According to Exodus 12:1, the Lord revealed to Moses that the New Year began in the spring rather than in the winter. The Creator's lunisolar calendar year fluctuates in length from 354 days to 384 days. However this is brought into harmony with the solar year every complete cycle of 19 solar years.

Since the Creator gave specifically the sun, moon and stars to define time, it is believed by this author that the year is also defined by these celestial bodies. It appears that the secret to when the year begins is held in the movement of the stars and specifically the Pleiades. It appears that the Pleiades defines when both the twelve month years and thirteen month years are to commence.

As a second witness, the lunisolar year always begins as the barley harvest begins to ripen so their will be a first fruit harvest for the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, also known as the Wave Sheaf Offering. If it appears that the barley will not be ripe for the Wave Sheaf Offering on the 16th of the month of Abib/Nissan, then an additional month is added. This makes the year that is ending, a 13 month year of 384 days. This occurs seven times in a 19 year period, which averages out every 2-3 years. This 13th month is called by the name Adar II, or Ve-Adar, and the 13 month year is called an embolismic year.

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Ziv - This is the only name recorded in Scripture for the second month of the lunisolar calendar. The Babylonian name for this same month is Iyar.

May Yahuwah continue to bless you as you diligently seek Him.

Kerrie L. French

Freelance writer/Illustrator

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