Passover and Easter
The 23rd of March 2021 was the tenth of Abib on the Biblical calendar. In the Old Testament it was the day when the Israelites chose the Passover lamb and kept it up to the 14th Abib when all Israel would slaughter it at evening to begin the Passover festival. The lamb was closely examined to ensure it had no blemish. The Passover festival is different from the Easter festival. Many if not all Christians celebrate Easter believing that it is Passover .Easter is not Passover and Passover is not Easter, these are two different festivals dedicated to two different deities and established by two different calendar systems and celebrated differently too. Easter this year is from the 2nd April 2021 to the 5th April 2021.
In the new testament the tenth day of Abib was the day of the triumphantly entry into Yahushalem (Jerusalem). The crowd put leaves and garments on the road and shouted “Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.” Hosanna is translated as, ‘Oh Save!’ On that day the crowd was declaring that Yahshua had no blemish and was fit to save the world.
Passover festival will begin this year on 14th Abib on the biblical calendar which is the 27th March on the Gregorian calendar. Easter this year will begin on the 2nd April. I have mentioned the Biblical calendar; is there such a thing in the Bible? Definitely yes! The creation account is based on the Biblical calendar, and it is specifically mentioned in Genesis 1:14 “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:” please note the functions of these lights, primarily they are to divide the day from the night and tell the signs, seasons, days and years. They are a time system that tells the day from the night; tell signs, seasons, days and years. From their function they are a calendar system.
They divide the day from the night; and tell the signs, seasons, days and years. Their first mentioned function is plain enough, when the sun is up it is day and when the sun sets the night begins. There is no day that begins at sunset, day ends at sunset and night begins. They tell signs, seasons, days and years. What are signs and seasons? Days and Years are self explanatory, but signs and seasons what are they? In exodus 31:13 the bible says “Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD (YAHUWAH) that doth sanctify you.” And again in Ezekiel we read “Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD (YAHUWAH) that sanctify them… And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD (YAHUWAH) your God (Elohiym).” Eze.20:12, 20. From these three texts we learn that the Sabbath is a sign; therefore the sign is the Sabbath. The Hebrew word translated sign is owth, it is the same word used in all the texts quoted.
Signs are Sabbaths, what are seasons? The Hebrew word translated seasons is moed. In the Strong’s Hebrew dictionary it is listed as meaning: appointment, fixed time, festival and feast. It is the same word translated feasts in Leviticus 23:2 “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts (moed) of the LORD (YAHUWAH), which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts (moed).” If you read the whole chapter you will discover those feasts (moed-seasons)
We can now paraphrase Gen. 1:14 as “And God (Elohiym) said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for Sabbaths (signs), and for feasts (seasons), and for days, and years: “These lights tell when is the Sabbath and when are the feasts, they tell days and years, therefore they are a calendar system. If we use this calendar system we will know the correct Sabbath days, the correct feast days, the correct days and the correct years. For example today is the 11th Abib 5782 which can be written as 11/01/5782 meaning the eleventh day of the first month of the five thousand seven hundred and eighty second year since creation. On the Gregorian calendar it is 24th march 2021 which is the 24/03/2021, meaning the twenty fourth day of the third month of the two thousand and twenty first year, since the birth of Christ, which completely ignores the period before Christ, it is plain that this date expression is not fully informative. It intimates that time began with Christ’s birth yet time began at creation of heaven and earth.
The Biblical calendar if superimposed on the Gregorian calendar, the Sabbaths will fall on different days of the Gregorian calendar week each month, in other words it floats from day to day in the Gregorian week. Example this month Abib, it is on the Sunday of the Gregorian week and next month Zif, it will be on a Monday of the Gregorian calendar, but is always the seventh on the Biblical calendar and regularly on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each month. This was established in the creation week. Heaven and earth were created in the beginning meaning the beginning of days, month, and years, which is expressed as 01/01/0001; so the first of the first month of the first year heaven and earth were created. Light was created on the second of the first month of the first year and so forth until man was created on the seventh of the first month of the first year, which ended the work of creation; and the first ever Sabbath was on the eighth of the first month of the first year, meaning the second and subsequent Sabbaths were on the 15th, the 22nd and the 29th. The last Sabbath of the month on the 29th can be followed by the new moon day or the 30th in some months. The new moon day, the first of the month like the Sabbath is a worship day, a feast day “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Ps.81:3 “Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD (YAHUWAH) in the Sabbaths and in the new moons.” Ez.46:3. It can be followed by the 30th day which is month end, then by the first of the next month which is new moon day and the Sabbaths on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th , just as in the first month of the first year of creation; and the wise man says “I know that, whatsoever God (Elohiym) doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God (Elohiym) doeth it, that men should fear before him.” Ecc.3:14. The sequence of days and worship days was established at creation it is forever, nothing can be added to or removed from it.
From the foregoing it is plain that there are two calendar systems viz. the biblical calendar and the Gregorian calendar; these two are neither compatible nor complementary, they are in conflict. Who are the owners of these calendar systems? Who owns the biblical calendar? He who set it up: “And God (Elohiym) 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:” according to this text it is Elohiym(God). Who owns the Gregorian calendar? It is named after Pope Gregory, which can mean he owns it or the authority he represents owns it. There are two opposing authorities in the universe Elohiym (God) and Satan (devil). The calendar you use is of the deity you worship. The first angel cries “Saying with a loud voice, Fear God (Elohiym), and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” Rev. 14:7. One way of ensuring you worship Him is by worshipping on the days of worship using His calendar, i.e. on the new moon days, Sabbath days and feast days.
May you solemnly celebrate the Passover, feast of unleavened bread and first fruits day, this year beginning 14/01/5782 to 21/01/5782, which corresponds with the 27/03/2021 to 03/04/2021 on the Gregorian calendar!
Be blessed in Yahshua’s name!
