That Day and Hour No One Knows. Why?
A. Because The Moon determines the Beginning of a Month & AVIV the 1st Month of the Year.
The Moon
The new Sliver Crescent Moon is what begins each biblical month, followed by the countdown to each of the Holy Days as outlined in Leviticus 23.
It is the Crescent Moon that is the variable in how a month begins.
It can be seen on one of two nights.
Each month is either 29 or 30 days in length as the Moon circumnavigates the Earth. It takes the Moon 29.5 days to travel around the Earth. Because there is no such thing as a ½ day, each month is either 29 or 30 days in length adding or subtracting that ½ day each month.
This is why no man can know the exact day when the Crescent Moon will be sighted.
Will they see it on the 29th or on the 30th?
No one knows for certain in advance.
The exact time the Moon will be sighted after the Sun has set, is the other variable. If the haze is not too thick and there are no clouds, then sometime between sunset and moonset the Crescent Moon can be seen (and by two witnesses). We just never know when, or at what time, exactly.
And this now proves the veracity of the Hebraism spoken of in Matthew 24.
Matthew 24:36
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.”
Our warning; like the 10 Virgins:
Revelation 3:3
Remember. then how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.Revelation 3:18
I counsel you to buy from Me gold purified by fire, so that you may be rich; and white clothing, so that you may be clothed, and so that the shame of your nakedness does not appear. And anoint your eyes with eye salve, so that you may see.
AVIV
Deuteronomy 16:1
Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate the Passover of the LORD your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night.
Observe = H8104 shâmar shaw-mar’ A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.: – beware, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep (-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch (-man).
Rms (שמד Sh-MR) – Guard: To watch over or guard in the sense of preserving or protecting. [freq. 468] (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hitpael, Piel, Participle) |kjv: keep, observe, heed, keeper, preserve, beware, mark, watchman, wait, watch, regard, save| {str: 8104}
Note: We are to Guard or Protect the Month of AVIV? It kick starts the Feasts of the year and the correct days for the Holy Days.
Aviv or Abib = אביב ‘âbı̂yb aw-beeb’ From an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, that is a young ear of grain; hence the name of the month Abib or Nisan: – Abib, ear, green ears of corn.
Bba% (אבב ABB) ac: ? co: Grain ab: ?bm) Biba% (אביב A-BYB)– Green Grain: The new green ears of growing grain as the parent seeds attached to the stalk (pole) of the next generation of crops. Also Abib, the name of a month in the Hebrew calendar. [freq. 8] |kjv: abib, corn| {str: 24}
Barley is looked for in Israel. So, the main difference between aviv and abib is that aviv refers to the greenness of the new grain, while abib refers to the ripeness of the grain.
Why the Barley?
An omer1a Hebrew measure: ~2.84 Litres (~5 Pints) of barley is ‘marked’ by red ribbon before being cut for Wave Sheaf Day (see below). Just like we are marked so we are not touched by the Angels released to do harm (Revelations).
Barley from seed to harvest is ~80-100 days. We have to watch to see in the 70-89 days period… the Clear liquid milk stage (70-79) that changes to Dough Stage (81-89) and head begins to turn yellow…it is this stage we look for this so that in 15 days it is Ripe Stage (91-99) and ready to be harvest.
The barley must be far enough in the dough stage so that the new moon appears in the late 70 days. You must be able to rough handle the barley (drop on ground and seed doesn’t fall off), cut it into sheaves, taken to barn and stood up and stacked in stookes so the moisture is sucked up to the head to fully form the seed. (Roundup speeds up this process; called desiccation; no stokes now days, it is all mechanical).
Then must be within a 2 week period when the new moon appears OR ELSE the beginning of the year moves to the following month.
The new moon must be looked for on 29th day or it rolls over to the 30th day. Important to know which day it actually is. This is why no one ‘knows the day’.
Deuteronomy 16:9
Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.
This is the first count. Sickle to the grain = the day of Harvest is Wave Sheave Day, the day after the weekly sabbath during the Feast of Passover or Unleavened Bread Week.
You cannot cut it two weeks earlier…the day you cut it, you give the first fruits.
If your harvest is two weeks earlier because it was ripe, then you must recalculate the beginning of the year back to the month before because you “keep the Passover unworthily”, repent and fix it (change date back for Passover, you can’t keep the second Passover).
Cutting and storing the barley for a couple weeks to make the first fruits offering is NOT first fruits, it is classed as ‘common fruit’ because it was not the first of the fresh cut “the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain”.
Does everyone have to wait to be able to present their first fruits on Wave Sheaf Day? Ie From the North all the way to the South – different ripening due to difference in weather conditions. This can cause, like it did in 2023, the start date 2 months later!! Are ALL supposed to make the Wave Offering on the same day?
Deuteronomy 16:10
Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to the LORD your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the LORD your God has given you.
One offering is made in the temple on behalf of ALL – it is the first of the harvest wherever that was made in Israel. Then, as the individual farmer, they give their first fruits offering when their first fruit is harvested.
Now you know.
These TWO things:
The Barley and the New Moon is God’s starting clock for His Holy Days of the year.
Let’s now explore: Are we ready for Christ’s Return?
- 1a Hebrew measure: ~2.84 Litres (~5 Pints)