Holy Day Calendar for 2012

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March 21, 2011, is a date that most of us recognize as symbolic of changing seasons.  In 2012 this Vernal Equinox happens on Mar 22nd, 2012.    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 22, 2012 at  Mar 22, 8:38 a.m. Wheatland 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 Approximately September 22;  In 2012 this will be on Sept 22nd  2012.  (The Roman Calendar declairs this the 1st day of Fall)  This date will mark the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the vernal equinox in the Southern (vernal denotes "spring").   Fall Holy Days are calculated from the New Moons, not necessarily the Equinox's, but the Equinoxes tell the time of the year.

In order to have the Passover and Equinox in the first month, and the spring green starting in March, I have picked March 22, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. April after the equinox as the biblical 1st day of the year.  Since that is the mathimatical calculation of the Spring  new moon.   That is also the Scientific calculation of the new moon by the US Naval Observatory.  I do not use the Jewish traditional reasoning as my standard.   I looked at all the discussion regarding having the 1st day of the year before or after the Equinox and with all the angles of suggested and quoted scriptures and finally think that the 1st day can be before the equinox, so Passover can be in the first month.   This year it is after the Equinox.

2012 Phases of the Moon --- Greenwich, England Universal Time (Not Wyoming Time) I use Wyoming Time as the calculation as I do in observing the sabbath. New and Full Moons Universal Time (England) New Full 2011 Dec 24 18:08 2012 Jan 9 7:32 2012 Jan 23 7:42 2012 Feb 7 21:56 2012 Feb 21 22:37 2012 Mar 8 9:42 2012 Mar 22 14:39 2012 Apr 6 19:20 2012 Apr 21 7:20 2012 May 6 3:36 2012 May 20 23:48 2012 Jun 4 11:12 2012 Jun 19 15:03 2012 Jul 3 18:52 2012 Jul 19 4:25 2012 Aug 2 3:27 2012 Aug 17 15:55 2012 Aug 31 13:58 2012 Sep 16 2:11 2012 Sep 30 3:19 2012 Oct 15 12:03 2012 Oct 29 19:51 2012 Nov 13 22:08 2012 Nov 28 14:47 2012 Dec 13 8:42 2012 Dec 28 10:23 2013 Jan 11 19:45

 

Biblical Holy Day Calendar for 2012 (Based on the Moon)  
The New Moon 2011  (1st day of Year) is on Mar 22 at 8:38 a.m.  making the New Moon,  Mountain Daylight Time.  As it is later in the day, it  makes March 23, the 1st day of the year.  March 22nd could be the First Day of the year if you go back 15 hours to the previous eving to start that day before the actual correct new moon.

The following information is provided for Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming (longitude W105.0, latitude N42.1):

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The following information is provided for Wheatland, Platte County, Wyoming (longitude W105.0, latitude N42.1):

        Saturday

        22 March 2012         Mountain Daylight Time        

                          SUN                  

        Sunrise                    6:55 a.m.            
        Sunset                     7:17 p.m.                

                                        

Phase of the Moon on 24 March 2012:   waxing crescent with 4% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.

New Moon on 22 March 2012 at 8:38 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

Since 15 ½ hrs have passed to the start of the NM on the 22,  We would be closer to the next day, Which is Mar 23, 2012 as being the First Day of the Biblical Year.

   This makes the first day of the First Month on  March 23, 2012.
This 23rd day probably reflects the day of the rebirth of the Moon.  The true invisible conjunction.

Passover April 5th, 2012   (Starts evening before On Apr 4th.)
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 Apr 4th, 2012) Passover Day on the 5th.
    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 4th, 2011  at the going down of the sun.  Making that the Passover day and 1st Day of UB  April 5th, that evening before would be Christ's Passover Ceremony.  April 11, 2012  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) Not 8 days as one scripture indicates, which is conflict with all of the rest.

         The Seventh day of the Feast of the Passover (Unleavened Bread) is on Apr  11, 2012.
            This last (7th) day coincides with Abib 20. and ends the 7-- 24 hr periods at about 7:00 in the
            evening of Apr 11th . (Or as is stated "until" (the start) of the 21st day of Abib...) (Not inclusive of the 21st day of Abib which would make the Days of UB 8 days.)
 

      Apr 8th, 2012  is the Feast of First of the First Fruits   (Sunday) or:
        Waive Sheaf Day (Sunday) Apr 8, 2012  (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    May 28, 2012  (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 16th, 2012 

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  Lev 23:24

             New Moon on New Moon on 15 September 2012 at 8:11 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.  ( NM is 7:11 p.m. Pacific Time , Sundown is at 6:01 p.m.)
             So  Sept 16, 2011 would be the exact 1^st day of the 7^th month or Trumpets, since the new moon is about 1 hrs. after sundown on the 15th. The New Moon or the 1st Day of the 7th Month would be on that 16th day.)    It will still be a new moon (dark) on into the moon on the 16th.  

Phase of the Moon on 17 September:   waxing crescent with 4% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.  (This is more than the 3%  visibility required by Jewish reasoning)  US Naval Observatory.  So Sept 27th is too late if you use the moon in calculation)

8:11 PM (the calculated NM) is after sunset at 7:05 p.m. So it definitely is Sept 16, 2012 for the Feast of Trumpets.  Since the Actual NM is after sundown at the start of the next day.  And the next day is Sept 16^th. 2012.  Sept 16th the 1st day of the Seventh Month.

           
           Day of Atonement = Sept 25th, 2012   (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)  Sept 30, 2012  Lev 23:34 The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

            (Full Moon on 29 October 2012 at 1:50 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time  
             Full Moon on 29 October 2012 at 12:50 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.  (Tahoe City, CA)

             First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is on  Sept 30, 2012   the Full moon and the 1st day of FOT is about the same exact time.   But the Feast of Tabernacles is on the 15th day of the 7th month.   The 1st day of the Feast of Tabernacles  would start On   Sept 30, 2012   (The 15th day of the 7th Month)

Full Moon on 29 October 2012 at 1:50 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time.

            Last Great Day  =  Oct 7th, 2011

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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