Holy Day Calendar for 2008

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March 21, 2008, is a date that most of us recognize as symbolic of changing seasons. As we welcome spring, people south of the equator are actually gearing up for the cooler temperatures of autumn. What Happens at the Equinox?

Far from being an arbitrary indicator of the changing seasons, March 21 (March 21 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons. On Mar 20, 2008 at 5:58a.m. (5:58 a.m. Universal Time), the Sun will cross directly over the Earth's equator. This moment is known as the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere. For the Southern Hemisphere, this is the moment of the autumnal equinox.

 

Equinox Means "Equal Night"   Translated literally, equinox means "equal night." Because the sun is positioned above the equator, day and night are about equal in length all over the world during the equinoxes. A second equinox occurs each year on September 22 or 23;  This date will mark the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern (vernal denotes "spring").

1st New Moon After the Spring Equinox is 2008 Apr 6    at 3:56 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

Biblical Holy Day Calendar for 2008  (Bases on the Moon)  
The New Moon 2008 (1st day of Year) is on 2008 Apr 6, 2008      3:56 a.m.

   This makes the first day of the First Month on  Apr 6, 2008 Since the day is just started at (the evening before.)
This 6th  day probably reflects the day of the rebirth of the Moon. 

Passover April 19, 2008  (Starts evening before)  On April 18th.
Counting to Abib 14.  Abib 14 starts when the sun goes down.

    The commanded Passover Meal is after sundown on the beginning of Abib 14.  (Of April 18th, 2008) 
    The commanded service of taking the bread, wine and foot washing comes after the main (regular) meal.  This is
    Christ's Passover meal also.  We will also observe that Special Night to be Much Observed (Exo. 12.42), not
   Abib 15 as the traditional doctrine believes.  (see Passover is the Feast)

The First Day of Unleavened Bread starts late afternoon on April 18th, 2008  at the going down of the sun.  Making that the Passover day and 1st Day of UB.  April 19th, the evening before would be Christ's Passover Ceremony.  April 25, 2008  would be the last day of UB or the 20th day of the 1st month. This then matches the OT with the NT.
       The First Holy Day will  continue all through the 1st day. (Which is the 14th day of Abib).  The Unleavened Bread will last for only 7 days which is called the Feast of the Passover.   (See this explanation)

         The Seventh day of the Feast of the Passover (Unleavened Bread) is on April 25, 2008
            This last (7th) day coincides with Abib 20. and ends the 7-- 24 hr periods at about 7:00 in the
            evening of April 25th. (Or as is stated "until" (the start) of the 21st day of Abib...)
 

        April 20th,  2008 is the Feast of First of the First Fruits   (Sunday) or:
        Waive Sheaf Day (Sunday)  April 20, 2008  (Lev 23:9-14)   
          Go to the weekly Sabbath during the week of UB.  
          Then morning after the Sabbath.  It is Waive Sheaf  Sunday. 
        ("...on the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.)
                Is that in the Bible?  Is it a Holy Day?   Is it to be kept forever?
             

   Feast of Weeks    June 9th, 2008   (Monday)   (Pentecost) Article 1,  Article 2,  An old Pastor Understood this.
     Article 3   

            Feast of Trumpets         
             New Moon on  Sept 29, 2008 (8:13 a.m.)  . Mountain Daylight Time.   
             So  Sept 30, 2008 would be the 1^st day of the 7^th month or Trumpets, since the moon is about 14 hrs.after sundown.
The New Moon or the 1st Day of the 7th Month.)    If we use the New moon starting the night before there is about 14 hours after sundown the previous evening before the real actual inviseable conjunction of the moon.  It will still be a new moon (dark) on into the 30th.   (Even though the bible does not recon the feasts by the full moon, It would make the Feast of Tabernacles come out on October 14th at 8:04 p.m. 2 hrs after sundown for a full moon. If we made the the FOTab  start on the 15th of October it would be one day past the full moon) (Just a thought).   
           
           Day of Atonement         October 9, 2008

            Feast of Tabernacles (7 day Feast of Tabernacles) 
            (The Full moon is on  October 14th at 8:04 p.m. 2 hrs after sundown.)   MDT
             First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is on Oct. 14, 2008.
           
           The 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles  would start On  14th, 2008  (The 15th day of the 7th Month)

            Last Great Day   October 21, 2008

This is all calculated in MST and not Jerusalem Time.  As we do not observe the Sabbath based on Jerusalem time but on MST or sundown to sundown in the area of which we live.

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Admissions on the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar               Inconveniences are not Postponements

The Holy Day arrangement for the year is determined by rules (traditions of men) that aim to prevent Yom Kippur (Atonement) from occurring either before or after the Sabbath. Thus making the "Day of Preparation" (Fri.) or the Preparation for the weekly Sabbath, more important than the High Day.

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