With many arguments about which calendar should we follow, etc.

it is not hard to understand the

scriptural Calendar that Yahweh laid out before us. Yahweh NEVER declared that we were to keep
track of days and years, or months (Gal 4:9-11), but told us in Torah what we were to do. The
Scriptural Calendar starts upon our exit from Egypt;
Ex 13:4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
De 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto Yahweh Elohim: for in the month of
Abib Yahweh Elohim brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Observe: to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.:--beward, be
circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve,
save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Ex 12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to
you.
So Yahweh not only tells us that Abib is the first month, but we are to keep it, guard it, to lay wait for it.
Then Yahweh specifically gives us clear instructions.
Ex 23:14-17
Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I
commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and
none shall appear before me empty:)
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of
ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before Master Yahweh.
So He tells us to keep a feast three times (not 7, not 10, but 3) a year. Watch this.
Abib means the tender greening of the Barley ear. This means when the Barley turns green (this is after
the last frost, and normally before the Vernal Equinox) we are to count ten days to the slaughtering of
the lamb. The Lamb is to be kept until the 14th of Abib.
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the
one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened,
even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land. Ex 12:18-19
For 8 days (this is Shabbat to Shabbat, which I will show you in a moment) we are to eat unleavened
bread.
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf
of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new
meat offering unto Yahweh. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals:

they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto Yahweh.
Fifty days/Seven Sabbaths from the day after the last Sabbath of Unleavened Bread is Pentecost, or
Feast of Harvest. Yahweh gave us clear cut, and precise instructions on how to time our feasts with
Him, and how to mark our days, they all begin with Abib. Now watch this. From Abib 1, we have
started our counting. If we count seven months from Abib 1, we again are given precise and clear cut
instructions on what to do next.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of
tabernacles for seven days unto Yahweh.
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh: on the eighth day shall be an holy
convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh: it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
These are the feasts of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering
made by fire unto Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every
thing upon his day:
Beside the sabbaths of Yahweh, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your
freewill offerings, which ye give unto Yahweh.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye
shall keep a feast unto Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth
day shall be a sabbath. Leviticus 23:34-39
Now, I realize most of you are probably not that great at math, so I will show you something.
EVERYONE OF THESE FEASTS start and end on Shabbats/Sabbaths/7th day repose. If you watch for
Abib 1, as soon as the ear turns green, count 14 days, and it will be a Shabbat/Sabbath/7th day of
Repose. Because immediately after the 8 day feasts (Sabbath to Sabbath), we are commanded to count
7 Sabbaths/50 days to the next feast, which is another Sabbath (Holy Convocations). Counting from the
first day of Abib, if we count 7 months (30 day intervals, 7X30=210 days), then count 15, we again are
brought exactly to another Sabbath/Shabbat/7th day repose for another 8 day feast (Sabbath to Sabbath).
From the seventh month AGAIN we Observe/keep/guard/be on a look out for Abib 1. And the Calendar
starts all over again. Jews in the time of Saul & Samuel began following Luminary Calendars, because
Saul was a follower of Baal, which was an idol built unto the sun in the days of the Cananites. The
Moabites continued to worship Baal-Chemesh (image of the sun) even while serving under king David
(see the Mesha Stele). The problem with luminary observance/obeisance/worship, is that the calendar
NEVER is the same from year to year. Days disappear, times change, seasons do not stay in the same
periods from year to year. Yahwehs scripural Calendar remains the same from year to year, it never
changes, as He never changes.
Ex 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall
surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his
people.
Ex 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout
their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Everyone of Yahwehs feasts starts and ends on a Sabbath. Rabbinical Jews (which are NOT Jews)
under Saul changed Yahwehs scriptural Sabbath Feasts, to follow Luminary Calendars from the

Gentiles. This enraged Yahweh, and He sent the prophets to reprimand them.
Isaiah 1:10-15
Hear the word of Yahweh, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the Torah of Elohim, ye people of
Gomorrah.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Yahweh: I am full of the burnt
offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of
he goats.
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the monthly sabbaths, the calling of
assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Your monthly feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many
prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
In the Hebrew, chodesh mow'ed means monthly feasts. This was changed by Christian Scholars in
400ad in the Latin Vulgate to new moon feasts, because the Romans worshiped Luminaries. This is
clear even in their iconography, and art work of the early church, when they illustrated helios/halos
around their deities' heads.
But Torah is clear, that Yahweh never gave a commandment to observe luminaries.
Gen 1:14 Literal Hebrew to English
"Elohim said, Light the firmament of heaven and divide day from night; as tokens of the *seasons, days
and years.
*seasons - to congregate, where the seasonal elements meet.
The Luminaries were given as tokens to divide the day from the night, and for the seasonal (3 months)
markers. There was NO intention for us to be using them for His Calendar.
Dt 4:19-20
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars,
even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship (obeisance) them, and serve them, which
Yahweh Elohim hath divided unto all Gentiles under the whole heaven.
However Yahweh hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt
(Abib), to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
Yahweh gave us a strict commandment not to follow the sun, moon, and stars, He shows us this again
in Dt 17:2-6.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which Yahweh Elohim giveth thee, man or
woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of Yahweh Elohim, in transgressing his covenant,
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the
host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the
thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy
gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death;
but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
Now, Hebrew months fall between Gregorian months. Example: Abib is between March and April.
Abib usually starts around March 14th. The Last Sabbath (Gregorian Saturday) of March is actually 14
days AFTER Abib 1 (you can check this out, it has been the same for the last 8 years). This year
(2015), Abib 1 fell on March 14. Last year (2014) Abib 1 fell on March 15, and Passover was on March
29. Next year (2016), if we are watching for Abib 1, it will fall on March 12, and Passover will be on
March 26.
However, if we follow the luminaries, we end up observing Passover on Easter (as the Jews did for
the last 5 years), which is a week, to two (2) weeks past the Scriptural observance of Passover. Next
year, Easter will actually fall on March 27 (Sunday, not Sabbath). This year, Easter fell on April 5,
which was an entire week after Passover.
Shalom.