Holy Day Calendar for 2009

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March 21, 2009, 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 20 in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons. On Mar 20, 2009 at 11:47a.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 2009 Mar 26   at 10:07 a.m.  Mountain Daylight Time.

Biblical Holy Day Calendar for 2008  (Bases on the Moon)  
The New Moon 2009 (1st day of Year) is on 2009   Mar 26   at 10:07 a.m.  Mountain Daylight Time.

   This makes the first day of the First Month on  Mar 26,   2009 Since the day is just started the evening before.
This 26th  day probably reflects the day of the rebirth of the Moon. 

Passover April 8, 2009  (Starts evening before)  On April 7th.
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 8th, 2009) 
    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 7th, 2009  at the going down of the sun.  Making that the Passover day and 1st Day of UB.  April 7th, the evening before would be Christ's Passover Ceremony.  April 13, 2009  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 14, 2009
            This last (7th) day coincides with Abib 20. and ends the 7-- 24 hr periods at about 7:00 in the
            evening of April 13th. (Or as is stated "until" (the start) of the 21st day of Abib...)
 

        April 12th,  2009 is the Feast of First of the First Fruits   (Sunday) or:
        Waive Sheaf Day (Sunday)  April 12, 2009  (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 1st, 2009   (Monday)   (Pentecost) Article 1,  Article 2,  An old Pastor Understood this.
     Article 3   
Lev 23:15  'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed.  Lev 23:15  'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, (In other words, the day after the Sabbath is Sunday) from (Sunday) the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: (the day after Sunday is day one) seven Sabbaths shall be completed.
 What is the day after the Wave sheaf Sunday?  Simply that is Monday and Monday is Day (1) one in our count to 50.  Pentecost means count 50, not 49. 

            Feast of Trumpets      Sept 19th, 2009
 
             New Moon on  18 September 2009 at 12:44 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.
             So  Sept 18, 2009 would be the exact 1^st day of the 7^th month or Trumpets, since the new moon is about 17 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 17 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 19th.  So to make a better balance for the full moon.  (Even though the bible does not recon the feasts by the full moon, probably the Feast of  Trumpets should start at sundown on Sept, 19th, 2009 about 7 hrs later.

It would make the Feast of Tabernacles come out on October 3rd, 2009  Daylight Time.  If we made the the FOTab  start on the 3rd of October it would be one earlier than full moon, 4 October 2009 at 12:10 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time) (Just a thought).   
           
           Day of Atonement  Sept 28, 2009   (Lev. 23:27) Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement:
 

            Feast of Tabernacles (7 day Feast of Tabernacles)  October 3, 2009.   Lev 23:34 The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

            (The Full moon is on  October 4th at 12:10 a.m.. 16 hrs after sundown.)   MDT
             First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is on  Oct. 3, 2009
           
           The 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles  would start On  Oct 3, 2009  (The 15th day of the 7th Month)

            Last Great Day   October 10, 2009

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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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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