Hebrew calendar
222The Lord's Supper
4 Aug 2025
5:41¶ 16
“I did have one additional interpretation that could be maybe more plausible. You may not know, but a lunar calendar is not consistently the…”
6:10¶ 17
“At that time with the dispersion of the Jews in many different places, they would often not get the news of when a religious…”
11:31¶ 34
“Here’s something else I’ll throw in just to confuse everything. Given the lunar nature of things and reconciling with the secular solar calendar, the…”
59Happy New Year... Again
14 Feb 2021
1:00¶ 4
“The original Hebrew calendar began with the day of creation, which appears to have been the autumnal equinox some 4,000 years before Christ was…”
1:27¶ 5
“What threw it askew, or perfected it and unfolded it, depending on your perspective, was Passover. God comes to Moses and says, “This month…”
2:40¶ 8
“God, in order to elaborate on the Sabbath theme and draw some things together, restructured the calendar so it would begin with Passover, with…”
58The Calendar in Context
7 Feb 2021
26:02¶ 103
“So we got as far as the yearly festivals. Here’s something we have to talk about first, though, and that’s the whole concept of…”
26:35¶ 104
“When God brought his people out of Egypt, he shifted the calendar by six months so that what had been the seventh month beginning…”
27:03¶ 106
“Yeah, interesting. But Israel continued to use both calendars. The liturgical or ecclesiastical calendar is the one that we pay attention to when we’re…”
40Sociology of the Sabbath
4 Oct 2020
6:58¶ 22
“We actually have just passed, at the time of this recording, Rosh Hashanah, and I didn’t know this but there’s a number for each…”
7:29¶ 23
“The Jewish people don’t accept Messiah as the climax of old covenant history, so why would they stop counting? Yes, they’ve always counted. They…”
8:12¶ 24
“These are not arbitrary numbers. We believe these are real numbers and they don’t recede into infinity. There’s a time when we start. There’s…”
32Identity Crisis: Passover, Community, and Freedom
9 Aug 2020
7:45¶ 23
“The original calendar as scripture records it apparently dated from creation. Rosh Hashanah, New Year’s Day, was the day the world was born, and…”
8:08¶ 24
“But at this point, God shifts everything by seven months so that the first month becomes the seventh money, and the seventh month becomes…”
8:30¶ 25
“God made the world, but now God is taking on a new form of creation, a new creation by a new covenant, and he’s…”
13The Day the World Died
29 Mar 2020
29:40¶ 98
“The original calendar for Israel and for the ancient world began with the autumnal equinox, sometime around September 22-23. Again, there’s been a drift…”
30:08¶ 99
“Later on in Israel’s history, God would re-set their calendar, shifting everything by seven months and make Abib or Nissan the first month of…”
30:32¶ 100
“If you count from there the distance that scripture gives us, the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, you’re getting awfully close…”