Holy Day Calendar for 2016

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March 19, 2016, is a date that most of us recognize as symbolic of changing seasons.  In 2016 this Vernal Equinox happens on Friday Mar 19, 2016.    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 and March 19th in some years) is significant for astronomical reasons.  On Mar 19, 2016 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 21;  In 2016 this will be on Sept 23nd  2015.  (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.  Holy days are counted from new moons, not equinoxes,

In order to have the Passover and Equinox in the first month, and the spring green starting in March, I have picked New Moon on April 7, 2016 at 5:25 a.m. Local Daylight time in Wheatland, WY  Mountain Daylight Time.   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.

Dates of Moon Phases in 2016 Year

Below you can find dates and hours of all Moon Phases in 2016 Year. All dates and times are given both in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and America/Denver Time Zone time. Times are shown in Daylight Savings Time when necessary and in Standard Time in the other cases.

2016 Lunar Phases — Wheatland (America/Denver) Time
New Moon		Full Moon
Jan. 9 Sa. 06:31 PM		Jan. 23 Sa. 06:46 PM
Feb. 8 Mo. 07:40 AM		Feb. 22 Mo. 11:20 AM
Mar. 8 Tu. 06:55 PM		Mar. 23 We. 06:01 AM
Apr. 7 Th. 05:25 AM		Apr. 21 Th. 11:25 PM
May 6 Fr. 01:31 PM		May 21 Sa. 03:16 PM
June 4 Sa. 09:01 PM		June 20 Mo. 05:04 AM
July 4 Mo. 05:03 AM		July 19 Tu. 04:59 PM
Aug. 2 Tu. 02:46 PM		Aug. 18 Th. 03:29 AM
Sept. 1 Th. 03:04 AM		Sept. 16 Fr. 01:07 PM
Sept. 30 Fr. 06:13 PM		Oct. 15 Sa. 10:25 PM
Oct. 30 Su. 11:39 AM		Nov. 14 Mo. 06:53 AM
Nov. 29 Tu. 05:19 AM		Dec. 13 Tu. 05:06 PM
Dec. 28 We. 11:54 PM

 

Biblical Holy Day Calendar for 2016 (Based on the Moon)  
The New Moon 2016 (1st day of Year) is on April 7, 2016 at 5:25 a.m. Local Daylight time in Wheatland, WY.  Mountain Daylight Time.  The first new moon is after the Equinox in 2016.  So the first day of the first month is after the Equinox in 2016.

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

    New Moon on  April 7, 2016 at 5:25 a.m. Local Daylight time in Wheatland, WY. This day probably reflects the day of the rebirth of the Moon.  The true invisible conjunction. This makes it the first day of the First Month

 

Passover April 21st, 2016   (Starts evening before On Apr 20th.)
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 21st, 2016) Passover Day on the April 21st, 2016
    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)  He had to be off the cross before the Jewish Passover, remember.

The First Day of Unleavened Bread starts late afternoon on April 21st, 2016 at the going down of the sun.  Making that the Passover day and 1st Day of UB  April 1st, that evening before would be Christ's Passover Ceremony.  April 27, 2016  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  27, 2016
            This last (7th) day coincides with Abib 20. and ends the 7-- 24 hr periods at about 7:00 in the
            evening of Apr 8th . (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 24, 2016 is the Feast of First of the First Fruits   (Sunday) or:
        Waive Sheaf Day (Sunday) Apr 24, 2016  (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?
             

Jewish Reasoning or "Forbidden Days"       The UCG and LCG does not understand the Jewish Calendar
Admissions on the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar               Inconveniences are not Postponements

The Jews would calculate the Passover being on April 3, based on 2% illumination and their crescent viseability.  But since the 3rd is on a Friday and it would interrupt the day of preparation, they postpone the Holy Day to the 4th, so that no one has a hardship on a preparation day.  We do not accept this circular reasoning.  April 2, Thurs is the Holy Day, not April 3rd, Friday--then postponed to April 4th Sat. like the Jews Keep.

   Feast of Weeks    June 13, 2016 (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      Oct 1, 2016   Sept 30, 2016, (Friday) 6:13 p.m. starts the correct new moon.   Unless you use Jerusalem time, then we could advance the Trumpets to the 2nd of Oct. 
Now I don't live in Jerusalem, so I will just have to use Wyoming Time to Calculate a New Moon here. So I adhear to Oct 1, 2016 as the magical memorial day of blowing of Trumpets.

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 Sept 30, 2016, (Friday) 6:13 p.m. starts the correct new moon.. Wyoming Mountain Daylight Time.  Since it is so late on Friday that sundown is eminent so that Makes October 1, 2016 the 1st day of the 7th month.

             So  October 1, would be the exact 1^st day of the 7^th month or Trumpets.

When you go back to the new moon on this month and the next month, and take the half way point to make the full moon. It is not easy to see why they have advanced the FOT one full day.  The rabinnical calculation only advances it so they can postpone it so it doesn's land on a Friday.  And pray tell, why would God ever allow a holy day on a Friday? (sic)

           
           Day of Atonement = October 10, 2016 (Lev. 23:27) Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement:  Sept 22 is the 10th day after the new moon in the 7th Month.  Probably not good Jewish reasoning, but Great Biblical reasoning.  I have noticed that sometimes these days don't match "The Inspired Pocket Calendar".  (Pun Intended).

            Feast of Tabernacles (7 day Feast of Tabernacles)  October 15, 2016  Lev 23:34 The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.

            Phase of the Moon on October 15, 2016: Full Moon at 10:23 p.m. (local daylight time) Mountain Daylight Time  
         
             First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles is on  October 15, 2016   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   October 15, 2016   (The 15th day of the 7th Month)  (But the count starts on the New Moon and is not proved by the Full moon.)

Many of the COG churches and Jewish recogning use the Oct 17th as the first day of  the FOT.  That neither fits the plan for an invisible conjunction new moon or a look-see at the correct full moon for those that like to see full moons for the FOT.  They will have only missed it by 2 days.

Sun and Moon Data for One Day U.S. Naval Observatory
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Wheatland, Platte County, WY (Longitude W104° 57', Latitude N42° 4')
Phase of the Moon on October 15, 2016: Full Moon at 10:23 p.m. (local daylight time)

We do not use the full moon for the calcualtion of the FOT only the new moon to calculate Trumpets.  The full moon is not used at all, only as reference.

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            Last Great Day  =  October 22, 2016

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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Forbidden Days - Postpone God’s Holy Days ??            Problems with the Hebrew Calendar
Jewish Reasoning or "Forbidden Days"       The UCG does not understand the Jewish Calendar
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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