Heads Up to God’s Solar / Lunar Festival Calendar?

Waxing Crescent Moon
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Considering these words:

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: (Old Testament | Genesis 1:14-19; bold emphasis added);

should we be paying more attention to God’s “sky calendar”? How much awareness do we give to the mechanics of the sun and the moon in determining Biblical festivals / feasts, appointed days, and prophetic signs and seasons, or do we just trust in “authorities” who make (or change) calendars. In Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12, God gave all Twelve Tribes of Israel directions to inaugurate feasts and days of anticipatory prophetic events. For many, the Spring feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) were all fulfilled in the first coming of Christ and therefore, the subject now of commemoration and thanksgiving, but that the Fall feasts remain anticipatory recognitions of a Second Coming.

Despite understanding this in part, I have been distracted over past months from paying attention to the celestial “sky calendar” until this past week when I encountered an almost 3-year old series of vlogs that seem enlightening and timely.

So once again, I take up the desire to understand how it all works. My personal preference is for even numbers: no quarter days that require a February leap day every four years or so; no annual 11 day shortage between the solar year (365.25 days) and the lunar year (circa 354 days) that requires a thirteenth lunar month every two or three years to realign the two cycles — a thirteenth lunar month that most of us aren’t even aware of because it just happens as part of God’s design; and also unaware because our solar, Gregorian calendar pays no attention to the moon or its first waxing crescent that marks when each of God’s calendar months begin. Enoch’s alleged calendar of four 91-day seasons¹ (364 days) that repeat (on paper) with exactness seems so perfect, but for some good reason God’s “sky calendar” has fractions and shortages (like the monthly, lunar, waning / waxing cycle of 29.53 days) that requires regular adjustment to keep assigned days, festivals, and seasons from wandering through every month of the year. And what can we make of the Metronic cycle² of 19 years that the moon repeats?

I have yet so much to observe and learn, so I just give a brief intro to some principles that pod-caster Lani Finley of Grace and Truth Ministries shares:

▪ God’s Solar Year begins on the Vernal Equinox and ends at the next Vernal Equinox;
▪ God’s Lunar Festival Year begins on the first of Abib (Nisan) and ends at the next first day of Abib;
▪ The first day of Abib (being the beginning of the lunar year and first Festival month) is determined by observing the first waxing crescent moon that always appears in the west just after sunset on or after the Vernal Equinox;
▪ God’s day begins at sundown [disputed by some but adhered to be Mr. Finley];
▪ The Vernal Equinox marks the beginning of the spring season which may or may not coincide with the first day of Abib / Nisan;
▪ Every two or three years, the celestial mechanics gives the world a thirteenth lunar month to reconcile its normal 354.36 day lunar year with the sun’s 365.25 day year.

I may not understand or agree with all of Mr. Finley’s insights, but his research, in my opinion,  merits further study in the spirit of the Bereans.³

God's True Biblical Calendar Revealed At Last! - Part 8
(Grace and Truth Ministries | Apr 16, 2022 | Time: 58:14 min.) at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFnduhDYG8
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBFnduhDYG8&t=317s

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1. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/search/label/Enoch
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonic_cycle
The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year. The recurrence is not perfect, and by precise observation the Metonic cycle defined as 235 ;synodic months is just 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds longer than 19 tropical years. Meton of Athens, in the 5th century BC, judged the cycle to be a whole number of days, 6,940.[3] Using these whole numbers facilitates the construction of a lunisolar calendar. A tropical year (about 365.24 days) is longer than 12 lunar months (about 354.36 days) and shorter than 13 of them (about 383.90 days). In a Metonic calendar (a type of lunisolar calendar), there are twelve years of 12 lunar months and seven years of 13 lunar months.
3. New Testament | Acts 17:11
   11 These [people of Berea] were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word [delivered by Paul and Silas] with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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