Apologia & Doctrinal:
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ECLIPSES: Rosh Chodesh & 15th Day Moadim...
Regardless of which calendar tradition one goes by (Kararite, Rabbinic, Enoch-ian, Qumran, even the Pope, or whatever!); yet the fact remains that while a New-Moon (Psalms/Hebrew: A Dark-New-Moon) actually always occurs scientifically at it's appointed time, it most often cannot be seen -(exceptions are if 14.5+ hours after it's 100% new, & during solar eclipses)- hence the next day being declared by default Rosh-Chodesh II) - HOWEVER...
A solar eclipse ONLY happens on a New-Moon - so you can re-set your 'traditional' calendars by that - since you have now just seen a New-Moon happening (so that night IS Rosh Chodesh regardless of what anyone says) and you've noted it by seeing it in the literal appointed time by observing it. So if your calendars don't note the sunset of that day as the 1st, then they are in error.
By the same token: When YHVH says a Holy Day is on the 15th of the month, and you see a Blood Red Full Lunar Eclipse happening, then you KNOW it is the exact middle of the lunar month, and so that date IS the 15th of the Biblical calendar month - regardless of what your traditions may say otherwise. As a total Lunar Eclipse can only happen in the middle of a lunar month during a 100% full moon. So...Unless your 'traditional' calendars say the 15th (or the 14th in the case of a prior Rosh Chodesh II perhaps) then they are in error.
YHVH said to go by the New Moon (Defined in Psalms 81:3 as the 'dark/covered/hidden new moon'. - Literal Hebrew: "Blow the ram’s horn at the dark new moon today on our feast….") It's interesting to note:
The New-Moon's (Rosh Chodesh) appointed time (it's scientific time when YHVH created it and it actually happens) has been calculated and known since ancient times. The calculations used in the Israeli/Hebrew calendar for the New-Moon use of a mean lunation length, which was also used by Ptolemy and handed down from much earlier, which is still very accurate: ca. 29.530594 days vs. a present value of 29.530589 days. - This difference of only 0.0000005, or five millionths of a day, adds up to about only 4 hours since Babylonian times.
Of course the exact calculations weren't always available in every case during Biblical times, so it was still important for Israel to look for it at the appointed time. -(And I do believe it's important to note the condition of the Barley-Aviv re an Adar I/II 'reset' situation)- But don't let anyone condemn you for going literally by what Scripture says! - It says 'New Moon', and further gives a definition of what that is, but it doesn't specifically spell out A,B,C beyond that. - Much of that is deduced by historical accounts and traditions - and all those contradict each other and have some errors in how they approach this matter. - But each group (and there are many different splinter groups on this subject now, OY!) insists they alone are right. - I'm not saying all the 'traditional' methods are necessarily wrong; but I'll just say that if we KNOW exactly when the scientific New-Moon is, then it seems WRONG to ignore it if our 'traditions' are giving us a different time then when it actually is, and since we KNOW that to be the case. - Likewise: I believe it is WRONG to fault someone who takes a literal approach to what Scripture says in these regards.
SIDE-NOTE: A TETRAD (four blood red moons in a row) on Four Biblical Holy Days is EXTREMELY rare, happening during the last 500+ years only in the Biblical calendar years overlapping: 1492, 1948, & 1967 (and coming up again in 2014/2015). However, along with this what is interesting - is that about 3 & 1/2 years after the middle of the next TETRAD, on July 27th 2018, Tu B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, there is a central lunar eclipse - a "Bull's-eye Blood Moon" directly in line with Jerusalem...Now...Take that into consideration with the following...
1.) 1948 (The blossoming of the Olive Tree / Israel becomes a nation) + 70 years (the age of a man / generation) = 2018.
2.) 1967 (Israel re-takes the Temple Mount in Jerusalem) + 50 years (a Jubilee) = 2017 - and there is another lunar eclipse, again on Tu B'Av, in Aug. 2017.
What does this mean? - Don't know; but I find it very interesting !
Following is more information and links related somewhat to this subject, (in article attached to a photo) here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=285208481506669&set=a.185477824813069.48143.100000525582384&type=1
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ECLIPSES: Rosh Chodesh & 15th Day Moadim...
Regardless of which calendar tradition one goes by (Kararite, Rabbinic, Enoch-ian, Qumran, even the Pope, or whatever!); yet the fact remains that while a New-Moon (Psalms/Hebrew: A Dark-New-Moon) actually always occurs scientifically at it's appointed time, it most often cannot be seen -(exceptions are if 14.5+ hours after it's 100% new, & during solar eclipses)- hence the next day being declared by default Rosh-Chodesh II) - HOWEVER...
A solar eclipse ONLY happens on a New-Moon - so you can re-set your 'traditional' calendars by that - since you have now just seen a New-Moon happening (so that night IS Rosh Chodesh regardless of what anyone says) and you've noted it by seeing it in the literal appointed time by observing it. So if your calendars don't note the sunset of that day as the 1st, then they are in error.
By the same token: When YHVH says a Holy Day is on the 15th of the month, and you see a Blood Red Full Lunar Eclipse happening, then you KNOW it is the exact middle of the lunar month, and so that date IS the 15th of the Biblical calendar month - regardless of what your traditions may say otherwise. As a total Lunar Eclipse can only happen in the middle of a lunar month during a 100% full moon. So...Unless your 'traditional' calendars say the 15th (or the 14th in the case of a prior Rosh Chodesh II perhaps) then they are in error.
YHVH said to go by the New Moon (Defined in Psalms 81:3 as the 'dark/covered/hidden new moon'. - Literal Hebrew: "Blow the ram’s horn at the dark new moon today on our feast….") It's interesting to note:
The New-Moon's (Rosh Chodesh) appointed time (it's scientific time when YHVH created it and it actually happens) has been calculated and known since ancient times. The calculations used in the Israeli/Hebrew calendar for the New-Moon use of a mean lunation length, which was also used by Ptolemy and handed down from much earlier, which is still very accurate: ca. 29.530594 days vs. a present value of 29.530589 days. - This difference of only 0.0000005, or five millionths of a day, adds up to about only 4 hours since Babylonian times.
Of course the exact calculations weren't always available in every case during Biblical times, so it was still important for Israel to look for it at the appointed time. -(And I do believe it's important to note the condition of the Barley-Aviv re an Adar I/II 'reset' situation)- But don't let anyone condemn you for going literally by what Scripture says! - It says 'New Moon', and further gives a definition of what that is, but it doesn't specifically spell out A,B,C beyond that. - Much of that is deduced by historical accounts and traditions - and all those contradict each other and have some errors in how they approach this matter. - But each group (and there are many different splinter groups on this subject now, OY!) insists they alone are right. - I'm not saying all the 'traditional' methods are necessarily wrong; but I'll just say that if we KNOW exactly when the scientific New-Moon is, then it seems WRONG to ignore it if our 'traditions' are giving us a different time then when it actually is, and since we KNOW that to be the case. - Likewise: I believe it is WRONG to fault someone who takes a literal approach to what Scripture says in these regards.
SIDE-NOTE: A TETRAD (four blood red moons in a row) on Four Biblical Holy Days is EXTREMELY rare, happening during the last 500+ years only in the Biblical calendar years overlapping: 1492, 1948, & 1967 (and coming up again in 2014/2015). However, along with this what is interesting - is that about 3 & 1/2 years after the middle of the next TETRAD, on July 27th 2018, Tu B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, there is a central lunar eclipse - a "Bull's-eye Blood Moon" directly in line with Jerusalem...Now...Take that into consideration with the following...
1.) 1948 (The blossoming of the Olive Tree / Israel becomes a nation) + 70 years (the age of a man / generation) = 2018.
2.) 1967 (Israel re-takes the Temple Mount in Jerusalem) + 50 years (a Jubilee) = 2017 - and there is another lunar eclipse, again on Tu B'Av, in Aug. 2017.
What does this mean? - Don't know; but I find it very interesting !
Following is more information and links related somewhat to this subject, (in article attached to a photo) here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=285208481506669&set=a.185477824813069.48143.100000525582384&type=1
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