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FALL HOLY DAYS SCHEDULE

Posted by raygun on Monday, September 07, 2009 3:36:34 PM
Feast Of Trumpets (Rosh haShannah) --
Saturday eve September 19th through Sunday September 20th.
 
Day Of Atonement (Yom Kippur) --
Monday eve September 28th through Tuesday September 29th.
 
Feast Of Tabernacles --
Saturday eve October 3rd through Sunday October 4th.
 
Last Great Day --
Saturday eve October 10th through Sunday October 11th.
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Timing Of The Passover Week Holy Days

Posted by raygun on Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:36:13 PM

The High Day of Passover this Spring begins at sunset Thursday eve NOT Wednesday eve as the official Jewish calendar chooses. How can this calendar be wrong? After all, so many Jews and Sabbath-keeping Christians have been following this calendar by tradition for so many centuries. Well, that is the problem -- we have been following TRADITION rather than the Biblically specified way of counting days. The calendar was changed in 150 AD by the head EARTHLY rabbi at the time, Hillel. Jesus/Yashua, the TRUE head Rabbi, though in Heaven rather than on Earth, never authorized this change.

Day One of the Spring (spiritual) calendar begins ON the day that we can see the first sliver of the new moon. I have always gone by an article that appeared in Sky and Telescope magazine in 1985. It discussed the results of a study to find out what is the earliest after new moon that a person could SEE the moon. The result was 13 hours. Translating that for this year (2009), we find that the moment of New Moon is 11:07am CDT on March 26th, 2009 (times calculated for Houston, TX). Adding 13 hours to that puts us at just after midnight later that night. But, we can't SEE the moon at that time as it is still so close to a sun that is toward the other side of the planet! We CAN SEE the moon the next day even before sunset as then it would be, say, 32 hours after the moment of New Moon. So, this day March 27th was the DAY 1 of the New Year and we count to the 15th day to get to the Passover High Day, Thursday/Friday the 9th/10th.

The problem with the Hillel calendar is that Day 1 was changed to fall on the ACTUAL day that the New Moon occurs astronomically. This is why, then, Day 1 by this false calendar was Thursday, March 26th and the Passover by this false count falls on Wed/Thursday of this week. By following this since 1993, I estimated that the Hillel calendar is OFF from the correct count about 85 percent of the time. And, this brings up the second problem with the Hillel calendar.

The Hillel calendar has a very definite POLITICAL component. Whoever does the official counts each year ADJUSTS the days so as to ensure that no Holy Day will ever fall on a Sunday or on any other "christian" holiday such as Easter or Christmas. Christians, does this sound like something that God would do or allow? Yet, ironically, this explains why the Hillel calendar gets it right ocassionally. It does so accidentally!

Now for the final major problem with the Hillel calendar: It only recognizes THREE of the EIGHT Holy Days! It only acknowledges Passover, Rosh haSannah, and Atonement. If the Jewish people, who are not even Christians, were representing God's Fourth Commandment in a TRUE way, why then do they not include the other five Holy Days?

The final irony here is that, this season, a Holy Day actually falls on a Sunday. In fact, it falls on Easter Sunday. It is NOT Easter for that day was a Catholic syncretism of a pagan observance. But the day is actually called The Feast Of Firstfruits. It always falls on a Sunday and was the day in 30 A.D. of Jesus/Yashua's resurrection.

So, this week, we have THREE Sabbaths in a row from sundown Thursday through till sunset Sunday. This is two High Days with a regular weekly Saturday Sabbath in between.

--Keep The Faith,

--Ray Curtis.
 
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How To Observe Each Saturday Sabbath

Posted by raygun on Friday, February 27, 2009 4:55:29 AM
The weekly Sabbath begins AT SUNDOWN on Friday night and lasts until SUNDOWN Saturday eve.  One observes it in six simple ways: 1) do no servile (money-making) work, 2) do not buy or sell anything, 3) do no travel (that is, outside your city limits), 4) do not lift any heavy load(s), 5) do not engage in any personal pleasures (such as movies, games, entertainment TV, etc.) and 6) meet with other christians in some way or place (it's referred to as a Holy Convocation).   These are not man-made criteria.  Each of them is spelled out in the books Exodus through Deuteronomy from the mouth of God.  To observe them is NOT to go back under the Law as Paul writes in Galatians.  There he was referring to the man-made pagan laws of that region of Asia Minor.  Those people were NOT Jews nor lost House Israelites, and so, their laws were NOT derived from The Bible.  When men add law to God's Law, we do not have to obey it.  But we DO HAVE to obey Law that God speaks Himself if it is FOUNDATIONAL LAW.  The 10 Commandments are part of FOUNDATIONAL LAW and the sabbaths are #4 of them.  You will find that God will specially bless you in some way if you begin to keep the sabbaths.  It may be a job if you are unemployed, or some new insight of knowledge, or something else specific to your situation.  Try it.  Put Him to the test in a similar way that we do for the tithe at the end of Malachi.  He promises there to open the stores of Heaven and I have seen BOTH the tithe and the Sabbath obediences to work for me!
--Ray Curtis,  Friday  February 27, 2009
e-mail me if you have any questions about this --    rc_peak@yahoo.com  
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Holy Days #5

Posted by raygun on Saturday, February 14, 2009 3:33:10 PM

Pentecost

The Fourth High Day in the annual timeline is Pentecost. It comes 7 weeks after The Feast of Firstfruits Day and is always on a Sunday.

This is the Day in 30A.D. that The Holy Spirit descended on disciples that were meeting to observe the Day. Thus began the so-called "Church Age". I believe it should more properly be called "The Holy Spirit's Age". This Age will end when, on that last Pentecost of The Tribulation Period, The Holy Spirit is taken out from The World to make way for God's final Judgements. So we see the dual fullfillments again of a Holy Day.

The Feast of Weeks ( or Feast of Firstfruits ) represents this Holy Spirit Age that we are still in. The fact that this 7 week period is bracketed by 2 always-on-Sunday Days is God's way of picturing to us that Sunday has indeed been the principle Day of Worship these last almost 2,000 years. The 4th Commandment meanwhile, has been kept by observing the annual Holy Days. Those Christians who have NOT been keeping The Holy Days have been sinning thereby. And, all pastors who have never instructed their flocks to keep the Days will be in a precarious and embarrassing position on Judgement Day!

--RPC, Saturday February 14, 2009

I will take a break for awhile on the Holy Day series to do other articles and book reviews. Will resume in August with the 4 Fall Days.
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Holy Days #3

Posted by raygun on Monday, February 09, 2009 9:59:00 PM

The Feast Of First Fruits

The second High Day on the annual timeline is The Day of Firstfruits. It is always on a Sunday (by our modern calendar) and begins the 7 week Feast of Firstfruits (also called The Feast of Weeks). This feast ends with The High Day of Pentecost which is usually in late May or June. Pentecost is also always on a Sunday. What this 7 week period depicts is this so-called "church age" that we have been in since 30A.D. The fact that this time is bracketed by the only two always-on-Sunday High Days is proof that Sunday HAS been the principle day of worship for over 1,900 years. But that is now changing.

The Day of Firstfruits is actually the very day that Jesus/Yashua was resurrected. It was that first day of the week (Sunday) just AFTER sunset on that 7th day (Saturday). He had been deceased and in the tomb since sundown on that Wednesday (exactly 72 hours). The event of His resurrection was the FIRST fullfillment of this Day. Paul referred to Jesus as "Christ the firstfruit". And we, the rest of the true church, were also referred to as firstfruits. So, we can see that the future resurrection of the dead-in-Christ will also be on this Day. It will be in the Spring of the last year of the Tribulation Period.

How is this Day calculated? It falls on the Sunday just after the Saturday Sabbath during the Days of Unleavened Bread. I didn't actually know of it's existence as a High Day until March 2006 when I discovered it in Numbers 28:26 . This is the only verse in The Bible that specifically mentions it as a High Day. So, it is understandable that the sabbatarian churches missed it for so many centuries. They had mistaken this reference to be one concerning Pentecost.

Next: Rapture Day ( my term for it! ).

--RPC, Monday February 9, 2009

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