The Hebrew Calendar

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The Jewish Calendar

October 7, 3761 B.C.­ The date God created Adam and Eve (according to the Jews of the Middle Ages). This date is still used in calculating the year of the Jewish calendar. According to the Hebrew calaendar the seventh "day" (if we consider a day to God to be a thousand years to man as the Bible says) will begin in September or October 6001 A.D. The following table beginning from the year 2000 lists the corresponding Jewish year that coincides with the Christian era date and also the years remaining until that "7th Day" arrives and "everything that belongs to God has to be returned to Him irrevocably". Jesus said the last days would be so violent and wicked, God has shortened the time for the sake of the elect.





Jewish Year 5761 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2000) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 240

Jewish Year 5762 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2001) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 239

Jewish Year 5763 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2002) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 238

Jewish Year 5764 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2003) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 237

Jewish Year 5765 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2004) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 236

Jewish Year 5766 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2005) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 235

Jewish Year 5767 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2006) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 234

Jewish Year 5768 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2007) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 233

Jewish Year 5769 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2008) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 232

Jewish Year 5770 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2009) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 231

Jewish Year 5771 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2010) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 230

Jewish Year 5772 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2011) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 229

Jewish Year 5773 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2012) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 228

Jewish Year 5774 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2013) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 227

Jewish Year 5775 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2014) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 226

Jewish Year 5776 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2015) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 225

Jewish Year 5777 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2016) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 224

Jewish Year 5778 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2017) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 223

Jewish Year 5779 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2018) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 222

Jewish Year 5780 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2019) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 221

Jewish Year 5781 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2020) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 220

Jewish Year 5782 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2021) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 219

Jewish Year 5783 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2022) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 218

Jewish Year 5784 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2023) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 217

Jewish Year 5785 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2024) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 216

Jewish Year 5786 ­ Tishri 1 (begins in Autumn During Christian Year 2025) - Years Remaining Until 6001 - 215





There are three major feast days in the ancient Hebrew calendar Passover - Early Spring (7-day celebration beginning on 14th day of Nissan) Feast of Weeks - ('First Fruits' or first harvest) 50 days after Passover begins Yom Kippur (the Day of God) celebrated on Tishri 10, 9 days after the Jewish New Year



Christian Holy Days and their Jewish counterparts Easter replaces Passover Pentecost replaces Feast of Weeks ('First Fruits') (50 days after Easter Sunday) The light of Christ shining on earth replaces the Day of Atonement. Saint's Day (All Souls, All Saints) - November 1 (No Jewish counterpart) Christmas superscedes Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication - Jewish Feast of Lights) New Years Day (January 1) replaces Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Years (Tishri 1). Advent (The 12th day of Christmas - January 6) "Appearance" - No Jewish counterpart Ash Wednesday (beginning 40 days of Lent) - No Jewish counterpart





The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, based on moon cycles. The Christian calendar is a sun calendar, based on annual cycles.





Passover is a Jewish celebration honoring the flight from Egyptian captivity. It is combined with the Feast of the Unleavened Bread which also pertains to that escape. It is celebrated on the 14th day of Nissan (the first month in the Hebrew calendar). See Exodus 12:1-20 and Exodus 23:15. Because the Jewish calendar is based on the moon, this festival falls on different days in the Christian calendar each year. The Christian counterpart to Passover is the seven-day Holy Week starting with Palm Sunday ­ a week that includes Good Friday (the day of crucifixion) and ending with Easter Sunday.





The Feast of Weeks (Harvest) was a festival where the "first fruits" of the harvest were offered to God. It was celebrated 50 days after the beginning of the Passover. See Exodus 23:16 and Leviticus 23:15-21. In Christianity, the Holy Spirit descended from the Father and the Son on that day in 30 A.D., 52 days after Jesus had been handed over to the forces of the prince of this world in Gethsemane.





The Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, falls on the first day of the 7th Hebrew month, Tishri ­the new moon of the 7th month. The New Year is also called the 'Feast of Trumpets', because it involves the blowing of trumpets (a "shofar", or ram's horn). No trumpet is sounded if Tishri 1 falls on saturday, the Jewish sabbath. Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period of spirituality culminating with Yom Kippur, the day of God, the highest holy day in the Hebrew Calendar, a day of fasting, worship and reconciliation.





Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement is celebrated 9 days after Rosh Hashanah on the 10th day of Tishri . It is the highest holy day in the Jewish calendar and is called 'Yom Kippur', or "Day of Atonement". The Jews call this day, "the Day of the Great Pardon". Christian symbolism imparts enormous prophetic symbolism to this day with respect to the 'ingathering', viewing the "Day of Atonement" in relation to the declaration in Psalms that a "day" to God was like a "thousand years" to man (Ps.90:4). Joshua's declaration that God "stopped the sun in the sky to make one day into almost two" (Joshua 10:12-14) stretched that "day" into almost 2000 years, bringing it into our own times, with an end time not far distant. It is a day that will culminate in the breathtaking vision seen by the prophet Daniel (Dan.7:9), when God, Himself, will appear seated on His throne before all mankind.





The Feast of Ingathering (also known as the Feast of Tabernacles) is the 3rd major holiday in the month of Tishri. Seven days long, this feast commemorated the end of the fruit harvest. The Feast of Tabernacles begins on the 15th day of Tishri (the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar). See Exodus 23:16 and Leviticus 23:33-43. The Feast of Tabernacles celebrates the sovereignty of the Lord. It is called Tabernacles to celebrate the temporary shelters the Israelites had to dwell in during their 40-year journey out of Egypt. Christian prophecy equates the Feast of Tabernacles with communion offered in the churches during the "Day of the Great Pardon" brought by baptism into the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, who went to the cross to atone for the's sins of all who would accept His free gift of forgiveness from God. The prophet Zechariah predicted severe punishment for all nations that failed to celebrate this feast (Zech. 14:16-21). In relation to this prediction, and the feast it heralds, scripture declares that a "beast" will come and put a stop to sacrifice and oblation, and tied this action to the end of the world, as did the prophet Isaiah (Dan.9:26-27; Is. 24:1-6).





All Jewish feast days, celebrations and festivals are connected in some way with the number 7.





Sabbatical Year. Every 7th year a year was declared for the land to lie fallow. During that year, freed from labor, the people were to spend their time in instruction in the ways and laws of God.





Jubilee Year. Every 50th year all property had to be returned to its original owner. All Hebrew slaves were freed. The Jubilee year was designed to stop the wealthy from taking the land into the hands of just a few. It also remined the people that the "original owner" is God and is to Him that all belongs, and to whom it all must one day revert.





The Jewish calendar is based on the birth of Adam in the Garden at Eden. That date was determined by Hebrew scholars around 1000 A.D. to have occurred on October 7, 3761 B.C. This date corresponds to the year 1 in the Hebrew calendar, and has ever since formed the basis for that calendar. The Hebrew calendar, therefore shows us a 6000 year period involved in the history of mankind, with today's date less than 240 years shy of the year 6000 and the advent of the 7000th year. In prophecy terms each "thousand" equates to a "day" to God. That means the 7th day begins just a couple of hundred years from now. Since scripture dictates that everything that belongs to God must be returned to Him without equivocation on the 7th day, the advent of that day is seen by prophecy to herald the end of the world. Jesus said that the last days would be cut short, so if that expectation is correct, the end will come before the Hebrew year 6001.





The Christian calendar is based on the appearance of Jesus Christ, the Messiah promised by Moses. The Christian calendar entered it's third day on January 1st, 2001. Prophecy predicts that the Christian era on earth (in terms of the "light" of Christ brought by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in 30 or 33 A.D.) will last "almost" 2000 years. As with the end of the Mosaic calendar, Christianity's calendar has also almost reached the end predicted for it in scripture. This, in light of the fact that Moses predicted that the people would see God, the Father, face to face early on the "third day". He ordered the Israelites in the desert of Sinai to "wash and clean for two days" and then meet God face to face on the third day. This washing and cleaning is seen by prophecy as relating to the term of baptism on earth, structuring a two-day "Day of Atonement" (Gen.3:18; Ex.19:10-11; Joshua 10:12-14).







The Christian Calendar

The "Edict of Milan" ­ The Roman emperor, Constantine, legalized Christianity in the year 313 A.D.





.The Roman emperor Theodosus, a fierce Christian, together with Galerius in the east issued decrees making Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire in 392 A.D., completely forbidding pagan worship in the world.





Until 1582, New Years Day in the Christian calendar was celebrated on March 25th, a date which coincided closely with the beginning of the first Jewish month (Nisan), i.e., the beginning of Passover and Easter.





In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII moved New Years Day to January 1st when he initiated the Gregorian calendar. Britain did not accept this change until 1752. Russia adopted it in 1918, and Turkey in 1927.





If Jesus began preaching in 27 A.D. as some think, exactly 365 years passed between the time He began preaching and the time world paganism officially ended, i.e., a year of years.





If Jesus was conceived in Mary's womb by the Holy Spirit on Christmas day, he would have been born nine months later, i.e., around the 7th of October. That is the day Jewish tradition gives for the start of creation. It is the day that began the Hebrew 6000-year calendar.





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