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Topics include: The Enoch Calendar: How Father’s original 364 day year works | Errors in the 360 Day “Prophetic Year” Calendar | Seasonal drift | Rain in its due season | Finding today’s date on Father’s calendar | Sabbath days | 1260 days | 2300 days
This is Part 1 of a 3-part series on our Father’s calendar, the Biblical timeline, and End-Time prophecies.
By M. Dawson on October 6, 2023, which is the 1st day of the 8th Month (Last Updated June 2024)
Introduction
To the men and women who are Father’s watchmen:
There are many calendars out there – Zadok, Enoch, sighted moon, lunar, lunisolar, barley harvest, and more. We are a rare breed. We observe a 364 day Enoch calendar with no intercalations. We’ll tell you why, and how it makes things very interesting when applied to the biblical timeline.
We’re not here to dispute calendar systems; we’re here to share information with those who are watching for His return and trying to understand the historical timeline and end times events.
As it relates to the calendar, here are the things we live by:
- HE speaks to men and women today. HE is not mute like some teachers say, only speaking through the words printed in the Bible. HE is living, and the Spirit HE gave us was given, as HE said, to guide us in all things. There are things related to the calendar that HE has told us, and given us signs for, and we’ve seen miracles in our days, and these things triumph over anything we read from the history books.
- HE told one of us in April of 2001: “You are no longer an outcast.” We had no idea what this meant at the time.
- HE told us around 2004 that the Book of Enoch is true. The book contains a 364 day calendar.
- In 2014, HE told us, with a sign, that we are from tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali.
- In 2015 we asked Him if we needed a calendar, and if so, that HE give it to us. And HE told us with a sign that July 25, 2015 was the 9th day of the 5th month on His calendar. HE also said that the modern Jewish calendar was not His way, but that in 2015, they would have what’s called the 9th of Av correct as a sign to us.
These are the things we hold to, and that form the basis for any thoughts we have on biblical timelines and dates. Not your typical scholarly approach, but one that is based on hearing His voice. We encourage you to ask Him yourselves on any matter you have a question on. If you’re His, HE hears you and HE gave you His Spirit to guide you in all things, as YASHUA said.
How the calendar works
A day starts at sundown
In the Old Testament, Father describes the day of Yom Kippur as something to be observed from evening to evening (Leviticus 23). Likewise, the Feast of Unleavened Bread is to be observed from evening to evening (Exodus 12). And in the New Testament, John speaks of the Sabbath as beginning in the evening (John 19). All together these three scriptures are telling us that Father’s days start at sundown.
To borrow a metaphor from King David, the sun is like a man running a race. On race day, the first thing he needs to do is make his way to the starting gate. The sun gets to its starting gate, so to speak, by heading from the west toward the place in the east where it will rise from. That is, it starts its race at night.
Enoch similarly describes the sun as returning to and rising from the east. That’s a description of night and day, respectively. Enoch also alludes to the sun’s setting in the west as marking the completion of a full day when he says:
“And the sun…sets in the first portal in the west of the heaven…. And the sun has therewith traversed the divisions of his orbit.” (Enoch 72)
Enoch’s “portals” made simple
Some people have a hard time making sense of Enoch’s explanation of how the sun and moon move through “portals.” However, what he’s explaining is actually quite simple: the sun is lower in the sky in the winter, and higher in the sky in the summer. The portals (aka gates) he describes in the east and west correspond to the various positions where the sun rises and sets throughout the year, as we ourselves can observe. Here’s a simplified illustration:
In the spring and summer, the sun rises at the eastern positions numbered 4, 5 and 6 and sets in the corresponding western positions numbered 4, 5, and 6. During these months, the sun is higher in the sky and our daytimes are longer. In winter and fall, the sun rises in eastern positions 1, 2, and 3 and sets in the corresponding western positions numbered 1, 2, and 3. During these months, the sun is lower in the sky and we have shorter daytimes. Each of Enoch’s gates then are simply set points in the sky where we can expect to see the sun rise and set from in two months out of each year.
It may be helpful to know that when these things were shown to Enoch, he was standing here on earth. It is only from the vantage point of an observer on land that he could make the statement that the moon and sun are the same size. Solar eclipses, after all, are only possible because Father made it so that from our view here on earth, the circumference of the sun and moon appear to be equal.
Calendar basics
Father’s calendar has 364 days per year.
There are four seasons per year, with three months in each season.
The three months of each season follow this pattern: 30 days in the first month, 30 days in the second month, and 31 days in the third month.
There are a total of 91 days in each season (30+30+31 = 91 days and 91 days*4 seasons=364 days).
No intercalations
Enoch wrote that there are 364 days each year, forever, until the new creation. No added days, weeks or months (intercalations) are spoken of by him or by any of the writers of the Holy Bible, so we do not observe any intercalations.
Enoch wrote: “and he showed me all the regulations, exactly as they are, for each year of the world, and forever, until the new creation shall be made, which will last forever.” (Enoch 72)
And also: “the year is completed in 364 days. And the account of it is true, and the recorded reckoning of it is exact, for the lights, and the months, and the feasts, and the years, and the days.” (Enoch 82)
A 364 day year was the natural order in the days of Enoch – when did it change to 365.242 days as it is today?
The 364 day year matched the natural year in the days of Enoch, sometime before the flood. At some point after Enoch, a year on earth changed to 365.242 days. We don’t know when this happened, but my hunch would be that it was a result of the violent geological events that occurred at the time of the flood. It’s written that, at the beginning of the flood, the fountains of the deep were broken up. And Enoch records that Father opened up new chasms in the earth to drain the waters, which likely created new mountain ranges. The Book of Enoch also records that before the flood, the earth was “tilted.” It’s possible that these events are what caused the length of a year to change.
Seasonal drift
If Israel observes a 364 day calendar and the earth is on a 365.242 year, the feast days of Israel will eventually drift through the seasons. Meaning Passover, which should be a spring festival, will end up being a day earlier the next year, two days earlier the following year, and so on. Eventually, the spring feast Passover will be in the winter, and in the fall, and in the summer.
The prophet Enoch actually prophesied a seasonal drift, saying “in the years of the sinners, the fruits will be tardy on their fields.”
And if you look at the difference between a 364 day year and a 365.242 year, you will see that each year the fruits show up later and later than they ought to – they are indeed tardy on our fields. Here’s an oversimplified illustration of what I mean. The top line is a 364 day year, and the bottom is a 365.242 day year. The diamond on both lines represents the first day of a season, and how that day becomes later and later when comparing the two calendars.
Rain in its due season
Regardless of the length of a year, Father told the people of Israel that if they listened to Him, HE would send them rain in its due season (“in its time” in Hebrew).
It says in Deuteronomy 11 (emphasis mine):
“For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven: a land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year. And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto My commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.”
In other words, HE would make things work on His clock while Israel was in the land. HE controls everything from rain, weather, and agriculture to the sun, moon, and stars, and HE could have easily made things work on a 364 day year at His command.
We have plenty of other examples in the Scriptures of Father overriding what we call the “natural order” of things. In preparation for Sabbath years and Jubilee years, HE ordered the land to produce more than it normally did. There’s also the story of the wilderness manna. If you were to leave leftovers until the morning, the manna would breed worms and stink, unless it was on the 7th day of the week. Father overriding the natural order is the very nature of all miracles. HE can do anything HE wants, including making things run on a certain clock in a certain place.
Sabbath is on Thursday night
When Father first told us that July 25, 2015 was the 9th day of the 5th month on His calendar, my next question was ‘what day of the week is it – do we have the Sabbath right?’
And HE told us that the answer would be in the 21 day fast of Daniel.
In Daniel 10, we read that Daniel mourned “three full weeks” and that “three whole weeks were fulfilled.”
This told us that Daniel was speaking of three full weeks in Father’s calendar, from the first day of the week through the sabbath, meaning the next day after Daniel’s fast was the first day of the week. And the Scriptures give us a date for the day after the three full weeks!
“In those days I Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river…” (Daniel 10) By this we knew, the 24th day of the first month (Aviv) had to be the first day of the week.
Dates always fall on the same day of the week in a 364 day calendar. So, if Aviv 24 was on the first day of the week in Daniel’s time, it would also be the first day of the week in YASHUA’s time. A few years before this, I had done a study on the crucifixion and arrived at the Aviv 17 as being the day of YASHUA’s resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week (John 20:1). There are rather extensive details on how I arrived at that resurrection date in our video called the Mystery of the Last Supper for anyone who is interested, but what you’ll notice here is that what my research told me (Aviv 17 is the first day of the week) matches what Father later led us to (Aviv 24 is the first day of the week).
Since HE had given us Saturday night as being the 9th day of the 5th month, we were now able to build out the full calendar (free download links below).
The picture is a bit small, but you may have noticed that Aviv 1, the first day of the year, is on the sixth day of His week. We don’t know why HE set it this way, but it makes sense since Father created man on the sixth day, and this calendar is for man.
Each of the four seasons looks identical, so you could use a simplified 3-month calendar like this to keep track of a full year:
How to find today’s date:
The charts previously pictured are useful for finding a particular date, but when it comes to keeping track of the time, here is the printout that we use. The inner wheel is for the month and the outer wheel is for day of the month. In case you would like to print this out and use it yourself, here’s how we display a “regular” date like the 1st day of Aviv (the 1st month):
On Father’s calendar, there are four “unique” days, that, before the flood, corresponded to what we call the summer and winter solstices and spring and fall equinoxes. “Tequphah” is the name given to each of these four days by the scribes at Qumran. If you use our calendar kit printout, you can display the tequphah dates using the middle crossbar lines of the calendar. Here is an example of how the 31st day of the 3rd month would look:
Free download links:
Free Calendar kit (PDF): Includes the calendar in circular and table formats, with instructions on how to keep track of the dates.
Free Excel Calendar Kit (XLS): Includes editable calendar tables, with a list of Gregorian dates converted to Father’s Calendar dates from 1948-2040 AD. Also has a date lookup function.
How the sun, moon and stars work together to form the biblical Calendar
In Genesis 1:14, we read: “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.” Some take this to mean that the biblical calendar should be at least partially determined by the moon. But the words of Genesis 1:14 are fulfilled even with a purely solar calendar.
For signs and seasons: The Hebrew word for seasons is “moedim,” and it means appointed times. One such appointed time in the scriptures is the time of the end (Daniel 8:19). It’s written that in the last days, the sun will be darkened and the moon will turn to blood. Enoch also speaks of the stars straying from the order that Father set. These are all signs in the heavens occurring in their appointed times (seasons).
For days and years: Father established the sun to rule the day and “the moon and stars to rule the night” (Psalm 136:9). The “moon and stars” represent night itself. It’s important to recognize that without night, there would be no days – there would just be one long permanent daytime. And if it was always daytime, then there would be no years. So, the very existence of the moon and stars and the nights that they rule are essential to the 364 day count that makes up each year.
Two calendars we stay away from
When it comes to dating historical biblical events like the Resurrection, many Bible teachers make use of two calendars that we believe are unbiblical: 1) the modern Jewish calendar, and 2) the so-called 360 day “prophetic year” calendar. Since the use of these two calendars has influenced so many people’s understanding of the biblical timeline and end times events, I’ll spend a little bit of time in this document explaining why we avoid them.
The lunar-based Jewish calendar
For a long time it was assumed that the modern Jewish calendar was the one used by ancient Israel, however it’s now more widely known that at the time of the Second Temple, different Jewish sects had different calendars – some were lunar and some were solar. Notably, the Dead Sea Scrolls speak often of a 364 day solar year.
The moon, as Enoch describes, has its own days, months, and years. To distinguish between a lunar year and a solar year and to let us know which calendar we should use, he tells us that the year for appointed times is the 364 day solar year, and that a year “for the moon alone” is 354 days long (Enoch 74).
Since the months and years of the moon alone are the basis of the modern Jewish calendar, we avoid using it. We also avoid it because it often adds a 13th month to stay in alignment with the seasons. This is a particularly troublesome intercalation since there are several references in the Bible to there being only 12 months in a year:
- In 1 Chronicles 27, we learn that David made divisions of officers and leaders of men according to the 12 months of the year.
- in 1 Kings 4, we learn that Solomon had an officer for each month who provided food for him and his household, and that the total number of officers was 12.
- There’s another possible reference to the number of months in a year in Revelation’s description of the tree of life, which, depending on how you translate the verse, yields either 12 fruits or a single fruit 12 times a year, according to the months of the year (Revelation 22:2).
The Book of Enoch is also clear on the matter – it specifies that there are “12 leaders to divide the months” (Enoch 82).
The 360 day “prophetic year”
Enoch prophesied that men would be in error regarding four days of Father’s calendar. We believe that this prophecy is fulfilled, at least in part, by the modern use of the so-called “360-day prophetic year.”
The 360 day calendar year has become a popular theory among Bible scholars because of a book written in the 19th century by a gentleman named Sir Robert Anderson. In his book The Coming Prince, he used a 360 day year to apply dates to Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy, and to date the crucifixion. Others have pointed out calculation errors that he made, but for this paper what I’d like to focus on is the fact that using a 360 day year in the first place is a faulty premise with no biblical basis.
As one of Anderson’s proofs for a 360 day biblical year, he wrote:
“If tradition may be trusted, Abraham preserved in his family the year of 360 days which he had known in his Chaldean home.”
We don’t think tradition can be trusted, nor do we think that Father bases His calendar on the Chaldean system.
As another proof, Anderson says that 150 days is “specified as the interval between the 17th day of the 2nd month and the same day of the 7th month” in the Genesis flood story. This claim has been repeated by many people since Anderson’s time, but it’s simply untrue.
What Genesis 7-8 actually says is this:
- The first day of the flood was on the 17th day of the 2nd month
- The floodwaters prevailed for 150 days on the earth
- After 150 days, the floodwaters began to decrease
- The ark rested on Mount Ararat on the 17th day of the 7th month
Based on what’s written, the ark resting on Mount Ararat could have happened any time after the floodwaters began to decrease. Proponents of the 360 day year theory assume that the last two bullet points happened on the same day, but this is not what Moses wrote, they’re just making an assumption.
Picture for a moment a very large pool filled with rocks. Water begins rising so that it eventually reaches 15 cubits above the tops of the rocks (15 cubits is how high the floodwaters were above the mountains in Genesis).
Picture also a boat floating at the top of the water. Now, stop the water from rising, and begin to drain the pool. How long will it take for the boat to hit the rocks? Will it be instantaneous? Not necessarily – the water needs time to drain. In the Genesis story, we are told that it took several months after the 150 days for the tips of the mountaintops to even be seen, so to say that the ark made contact with Ararat on the first day of the waters decreasing is just an assumption. On Father’s 364 day calendar, we can see that the waters prevailed through the 14th day of the 7th month (the 150 days are shaded in the chart below), the next day was what would later become Sukkot (the 15th day of the 7th month), and the boat made contact with Ararat two days later, on the 17th day of the 7th month.
As a third proof of his 360 day year, Anderson claims that one half of seven years is “described… twice as 1260 days” in Revelation. This is also untrue. Revelation never states that 3½ years equals 1260 days. Here’s what it does say:
“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Revelation 11:1-3)
The assumption that Anderson and many others make is that the 42 months of the nations trampling the holy city is the exact same timeframe as the 1260 days in which the two witnesses prophesy. But if you keep reading in Revelation chapter 11, the nations are still trampling the city after the 1260 days have ended. It’s written that the Two Witnesses prophesy for 1260 days, then they’re killed. And in the days that follow their murder, the (wicked) people in the city won’t allow them to be buried and the whole world has a huge party for 3½ days. The city is still being trampled, and the end is not yet, because 42 months is longer than 1260 days.
42 months in Father’s calendar is actually 1274 days. The prophets prophesy for the first 1260 days of the 42 months, then they lie in the street for 3½ days. That leaves 10 days before the very end of the last seven years. And, as bit of a side note, I have a hunch that in those 3½ days when the wicked of the world are celebrating the death of Father’s prophets, those same people are saying that “peace and safety” has finally come to the land because the Two Witnesses are dead. However, their sudden destruction is coming shortly thereafter, as it is written.
“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.” (Revelation 11:8-10)
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.” (1 Thessalonians 5:1-3)
Applying the 364-day calendar to the biblical timeline and end times prophecies
1260 days and “time, times, and half a time”
Besides the 1260 days of the Two Witnesses, there’s another New Testament reference to 1260 days that the Enoch calendar can help us understand better.
John writes in Revelation about the woman who is in the wilderness for 1260 days and also for a “time, times, and half a time.” Since 1260 days does not equal a time, times, and half a time, I believe that John is speaking of two different periods of time.
In Father’s calendar, a time, times, and half a time would actually be 1274 days. 1260 days is 14 days less than “time, times, and half a time.” And this 14 day difference is very interesting, because it appears to me that YASHUA already fulfilled the first 14 days of the last 7 years we’re all waiting for.
Let me explain.
When people speak of there being 7 years left, they’re referring to the last “week” of Daniel’s 70 week prophecy.
The angel Gabriel breaks the 70 weeks into three time periods – 7 weeks, 62 weeks and 1 week. And he says that part of the purpose of the 70 weeks is to provide atonement for Israel (Daniel 9).
We believe YASHUA’s crucifixion is what provides atonement for Israel and that His crucifixion is what is being referred to when Gabriel says Messiah will be “cut off, but not for Himself.”
Gabriel says Messiah is cut off after the 62 weeks. That would mean that when YASHUA is crucified, the 7 weeks has passed and the 62 weeks has passed, and there is only one week – one 7 year time period – left in the prophecy.
YASHUA was cut off 14 days into the year, on Aviv 14.
Again, the “cut off” of the crucifixion has to be included in the 70 weeks because of the atonement it provides. So, if it’s after the 7 and after the 62, there is only one week left in which to place it. It had to have occurred at the start of the final week (i.e. the final 7 years) of the prophecy.
If this is true, the 70 weeks clock stopped on Aviv 14 after the crucifixion, and we have exactly 7 years minus 14 days left in the prophecy. Another way of expressing “7 years minus 14 days” is “1260 days plus time, times, and half a time.”
This makes Aviv 15 a possible date for the restarting of the prophetic clock and the start of the last seven years, so it’s a watch date for us each year. We’re watching every day, but even more attentively on certain days of each year as you’ll see.
March 19, 2025, after sundown, is the next Aviv 15 in Father’s Calendar.
Now, let’s read Revelation 12 with the understanding that John’s “1260 days” does not equal “time, times, and half a time,” and that he could actually be speaking of both the first and second half of the final week:
“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
I believe the child is YASHUA (the glory of Israel).
“And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.”
I believe this is describing YASHUA’s birth and ascension to Heaven.
“And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 days.”
After YASHUA, Judah was forced off the land and joined the rest of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness of the nations (away from the land). The rest of the tribes were removed long before YASHUA’s birth – in the 8th century BC by Assyria. Judah was removed after them – in the 6th century BC by Babylon, but they were allowed back for a time, so Messiah could come. Once Messiah came, Judah was again removed.
Wherever the tribes of Israel are scattered and exiled to, there is a place prepared for us among the nations that HE will eventually rule. It’s written that although HE sends us far away among those nations and scatters us among the countries, HE will be a sanctuary for us wherever we are (Ezekiel 11). So we who are His are already being fed in the place HE has prepared. However, the 70 weeks clock hasn’t resumed yet. Once it does resume, there are only 1260 days left in the first half of the final week, during which time we’ll continue being fed.
Let’s keep reading:
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.”
Notice that the statement “Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ” comes before the second half of tribulation is mentioned.
If you think the second half of tribulation is going to be a time where Father’s children are running scared, you’re wrong. It will be a time of Father displaying to all His strength and power and miracles. And His power will be used against his enemies, and to protect us. We’ll have two powerful prophets in Jerusalem during the second half ensuring we are protected, HE will have angels on the job, HE will raise up prophets and judges in our groups, and His Spirit will be among us as it was with Israel in the wilderness in the days of Moses. What’s coming will be so magnificent, we will tell stories of His deliverance for 1000 years, and it will surpass the magnificence of the Exodus!
Getting back to the timing:
At the midpoint, it says the dragon pursues Israel who is and has been in the wilderness of the nations. But now, at midpoint, she’ll be given wings to fly away from the dragon’s face for a time, times, and half a time (1274 days), where she will be fed yet again. So, the theory is: since 1260 does not equal 3 ½ years on Father’s calendar, the 1260 days in Revelation chapter 12 may be referring to the first half of the last 7 years, and “time, times, and half a time” is referring to the second half. If so, the 1260 days starts on Aviv 15, and we begin the last week (that is, the last 7 years) with 14 days having already been fulfilled by YASHUA our King.
2300 days
YASHUA was resurrected on the 17th day of the 1st month (Aviv), and HE is Firstfruits (1 Corinthians 15:20). So, using our calendar, we can arrive at a date for Shavuot, also known as Pentecost. Shavuot is the 50th day from Firstfruits, so we if we count 50 days from Aviv 17th, we arrive at the 6th day of the 3rd month.
Knowing this, here’s something very interesting that I noticed on Father’s calendar:
On a seven year timeline, using a 364 day year, 2300 days is the number of days between
Shavuot (Pentecost) in year 1
and
Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) in year 7.
We’re not sure exactly what this means, but we know what it could mean. The 2300 day prophecy of Daniel appears to cover the time the daily sacrifice begins through the end of days. From Daniel 8:
“Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”
Notice that the first line says “and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away,” but the root word for “taken away” in Hebrew is rum, which means lifted up and exalted. And the word rum is used in Scriptures that talk about making or lifting up a sacrifice. So, “taken away” may very well be a bad translation. With the 2300 days, I think what we’re looking at is the amount of time that will be left once the daily sacrifice starts.
Later in Daniel, we read a prophecy that makes it sound like 1290 is the number of days we have left once the daily sacrifice is stopped. If it’s stopped, it has to start at some point, so it’s possible that it starts 2300 days before the last day, and later, when we get to 1290 days before the last day, it’s stopped.
Since 2300 days happens to be the number of days between a Shavuot and a Yom Teruah, and Yom Teruah is a likely candidate for His return (more on this in Part 3), the days surrounding Shavuot are annual watch days for us, and what we’re looking for is the beginning of sacrifices in Israel. We may not know when the seven years starts – the “covenant with many” may not be as obvious as some think – so the daily sacrifice is a good indicator of what time we’re in.
Our next Shavuot will be May 9, 2025, after sundown.
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In Part 2, we discuss the timeline from Adam to Exodus to YASHUA, Resurrection and the Jubilee year, Ezekiel’s 390 days, and how when you look at things from a 364 day year perspective, 2000 years goes by a lot quicker than you think.
Shalom unto Jerusalem.
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Corrections/updates since originally published:
1. December 2023: Clarified the point about how the Aviv 14 crucifixion date may mean the last 7 years starts on Aviv 15; clarified the reasoning behind how people arrive at a 360 day year; revised the Aviv 1 sample calendar picture to show the correct day of the week; and made minor grammatical adjustments.
2. January 2024: Added a note explaining the seasonal drift picture; minor grammatical edits and clarifications.
3. June 2024: Added more info on Enoch’s description of the sun; added more info on why we do not observe the modern Hebrew calendar or the 360 day so-called “prophetic year;” added a section discussing signs, seasons, days and years; replaced the calendar downloads with an easy to use guide; grammatical edits and clarifications.
