Scriptural Calendar:
This is the Sighted-New Moon-Equinox calendar
After the Vernal Equinox, in the spring, look for the first light of the new moon. You will see the new moon BEFORE the sun sets. So, at sundown is day one of the Biblical New Year.
Therefore, the First sighted new moon after the Vernal Equinox is day one of the new year.
The Equinox for 2024 will be on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 10:06 PM
(SPRING FEASTS)
Month 1 – on the 14th day is Passover (Leviticus 23:4-8)
*The “Night to be Much Remembered” is on the evening of the 14th.
**The Lamb is slain “between the evenings”
***The Passover Lamb is EATEN in the evening of the 15th
1st day of Unleavened Bread begins on the 15th day and ends on 21st day. (Leviticus 23:6)
*The day end of the weekly Sabbath, in the middle of the Feast of UB, is the first day of the count to Pentecost. Also called “Wave Sheaf Offering Day” (Leviticus 23:10)
Month 2 -on the 14th is the Second Passover, for those who missed the first one
Month 3 – From the weekly Sabbath in the middle of Unleavened Bread count seven Sabbaths or 50 days is PENTECOST. (Leviticus 23:16)
(FALL FEASTS)
Month 7 – Day 1… Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24)
Day 10… The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16, 23:26-32)
Day 15… for seven day is The Feast of Tabernacles, the first day is a High Holy Day. (Leviticus 23:34)
Day 22… The Last Great Day, is a High Holy Day
Scriptural Calendar on the Modern Gregorian Calendar approximations :
First day of the Year- Sundown of April 10th
(SPRING FEASTS)
Passover– Sundown on April 22
Feast of Unleavened Bread
First and last day of Unleavened Bread are High Holy Days– Sundown April 23 & 29
Wave Sheaf– Sundown April 28th –
Pentecost– Sundown June 16th
(FALL FEASTS)
Estimated Feast of Trumpets– October 5th
The Feast of Trumpets is determined by the visible new moon. Trumpets is ON the day of the New Moon, and is a high Sabbath. It represents the second coming, when Christ says he will return like a thief in the night… and also, calculation of the exact day a new moon can be sighted can sometimes fail… like a thief in the night.
Day of Atonement.
October 14th at sundown
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
Saturday, October 19th – Friday, October 25th
(15th day of the 7th month) Its an 8 day observance, with the first day being a high Holy Day, and the last day a High Holy Day… called “the Last Great Day”. This is when Christians around the world camp together and numerous camp sites around the world.
The Last Great Day
Saturday, October 26
The New Year
Determining the New Year is so easy, even a shepherd boy out tending the flock can know the date.
The sunset of the first New Moon after the vernal equinox is day one.
The Biblical Calendar