The M+G+R Foundation
New Judeo-Christian Liturgical
Calendar
Why? What Does It Mean? Why Is It
Spiritually Important?
Originally Published in the
year 2017
PURPOSE
The purpose of this effort is to
propose a true Christian Liturgical Calendar, which logically must
include key pre-Babylonian Jewish Holy Days. The world keeps forgetting
the reality that Jesus
was a Jew who followed the Essene Calendar and not an
adulterated (1)
post-Babylonian calendar.
Therefore, a true Christian Liturgical Calendar cannot be without
those fundamental key pre-Babylonian Jewish Holy Days.
BACKGROUND
The pre-Babilonian Essene Calendar
hinged on the day when the Spring Equinox took place.
The Essene Year starts at sundown of the first Tuesday after the
Spring
Equinox. However, if the Spring Equinox happens to fall after the
sundown of a calendar Tuesday, the Essene Year will start after the
sundown of the Tuesday of the following week.
The post-Babylonian Jews changed that and determined the beginning of
the Jewish New Year on the Lunar calendar. (2)
That is part of the adulteration of Judaism that Jesus spoke about, and
lived surrounded by. Otherwise, His Last Passover Meal (what Christians
erroneously
refer to as "The Last Supper") (3)
would have coincided with the Temple
Masters' Passover Meal who were of the post-Babylonian Judaism school -
a school which was clearly
rejected by Jesus.
INTRODUCTION
Let us now review the key
pre-Babylonian Jewish Holy Days which should be observed by every
Christian.
Definition
of Key Jewish Holy Days
Rosh
Hashanah
Sometimes translated as the Feast of
Trumpets is the
Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah. It
is the first of the
Jewish High Holy Days. (4)
Passover
or Pesach
Is an
important biblically derived Jewish festival. The Jewish people
celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from
slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of
Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the
Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites
were freed from slavery in Egypt. (5)
Yom Kippur
Also
known as the Day of Atonement,
is
the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are
atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this holy
day with an approximate 25 hour period of fasting and intensive prayer,
often spending most of the day in synagogue services. (6)
Sukkot
Also known as Feast of Tabernacles,
is a biblical Jewish
holiday commemorating the
Exodus and the dependence of the People of Israel on the Will of God. (7)
Shavuot
Also known as the Feast of Weeks
and as
Pentecost in Ancient Greek, is
a Jewish holiday that commemorates
the anniversary of
the day God gave the Torah to
the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai, although the
association between the giving of the Torah and Shavuot is not explicit
in the Biblical text. (8)
Those are the five Jewish Holy Days which were or should have been
observed in pre-Babylonian Judaism. The observance of some of them were
commanded
by God, others, like Sukkot
and Shavuot,
whose observance should have been so logical that they did not need to
be commanded by God for a faithful Jew to have observed them.
There is one more, a post-Babylonian and post-Greco Jewish Holy Day
(yet, pre-Christian) which best
symbolizes the Judaism-Christianity link:
Chanukah / Hanukkah
Also known as the Festival of the
Lights. According to
tradition as recorded in the Talmud, at the time of the rededication of
the Temple
there was very little oil left that had not been defiled by the Greeks.
Oil was needed for the menorah (candelabrum) in the Temple, which was
supposed to burn throughout the night every night. There was only
enough oil to burn for one day, yet miraculously, it burned for eight
days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of oil for the menorah.
An eight day festival was declared to commemorate this miracle. (9)
DETAILS
What
we have done, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God,
is to match the observance of some of the pre-Babylonian Jewish Holy
Days to the dates which correspond to the Life, Death and Resurrection
of the One and Only Messiah - Yeshua, Whom we know as Jesus.
Nonetheless, the pivotal point of all holy dates is the beginning of
the Essene Year which, as we mentioned in the Background section, is
determined as follows:
The Essene Year
starts at sundown of the first Tuesday after the Spring
Equinox. However, if the Spring Equinox happens to fall after the
sundown of a calendar Tuesday, the Essene Year will start after the
sundown of the Tuesday of the following week.
The Jewish Holy Days which are to be incorporated into
the
current Christian calendar, after making the appropriate corrections
for their hinging of the start of the Essene
Year, are:
Period of the
Unleavened Bread
Is to be observed now from the sundown on the
Tuesday of the Passover Meal until sundown of Holy Saturday
(Resurrection).
Yom Kippur
(atonement and repentance)
Is to be observed from sundown on the
Tuesday of the Passover Meal until 3 PM of Holy Friday, when
Yeshua
expires on the cross for the salvation of humanity.
Sukkot
(the
freedom from slavery)
Are the seven days from sundown of Holy Saturday
(Resurrection) until the sundown of the following Saturday - the
Saturday prior to Sunday of Divine Mercy. In this period the Exodus is
memorialized.
Shavuot (the delivery of the
Ten Commandments by God to Moses)
Should be
celebrated 50 days after Holy Saturday - on Pentecost Sunday.
Chanukah (when the oil for
rededicated Temple's Menorah lasted eight days)
Should
be celebrated on December 25th as we observe the dawn of the Light of
the World - Jesus Christ. The celebration is to last for eight days
which in Christianity is called the Christmas Octave.
Finally, as a reference point, and not necessarily as a religious
celebration, the Rosh Hashanah (New
Year) also deserves to be fixed in its proper place:
Rosh Hashanah
It makes perfect sense that "Rosh
Hashanah", meaning "New Year", be celebrated at the beginning of the Essene year,
which is in March - regardless of the fact that it goes against the
custom of the adulterated
post-Babylonian calendar, which celebrates the new year in September.
CONCLUSION
Henceforth, we will commence using the truly Christian Liturgical
Calendar
(10) starting
January 1st, 2018, and invite all Christians to honor Yeshua in this
manner as we joyfully await for His Return in Glory.
NOTES
(1) Matthew
12:39,
Matthew 16:4, Mark 8:38
(2)
Source
1 and
Source 2
(3) The real timing of
Jesus' Last Passover, His Crucifixion and Burial
(4) Rosh Hashanah
(5) Passover
(6) Yom Kippur
(7) Sukkot
(8) Shavuot
(9)
Chanukah/Hanukkah
(10) 2018
Judeo-Christian
Liturgical
Calendar
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Originally Published in the
year 2017
Format improved and Rosh Hashanah
issue clarified on September 1st, 2020
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