God's Calendar Versus Gregorian Calendar

We've covered this many times before. If you're not familiar with it, we'll go through it quickly. This is found in Genesis 1:14-16. This is very important. If one doesn't understand this, this is really the beginning of proper theology and proper eschatology. It's Genesis 1:14-16. If I can say this in love, that's why it was written in the first chapter of the Bible. It's that important.

So look at what it says. "Then God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons and for days and years. Let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth.' And it was so. Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars." So, God's calendar begins with the sun, moon, and stars. That's what it's created by.

Unfortunately, the Gregorian calendar is based only on the sun. So, it does not meet the prerequisites of the biblical calendar. That's why, biblically speaking, you have to throw the Gregorian calendar out the window when you worship Yah, because nothing on it aligns with the prerequisites. The Gregorian calendar is based only on the sun. God's calendar is based on the sun, moon, and stars, all of them together.

There is only one calendar that does that today: the Hebrew calendar, the Hebrew Jewish calendar. That's what goes by the sun, moon, and stars. So, it's important to get on the right calendar because, again, He wants us to worship Him in spirit and in truth.

Let's go through these things quickly. Some of the understandings: He said the calendar is for signs and seasons. Signs are signals in the heavens: the blood moons, the solar eclipses, the Revelation 12 sign, whatever it may be in the constellations. Those are signs for us to understand what time it is, especially when lunar eclipses and solar eclipses fall on an important biblical date: Passover, Tabernacles, Pentecost, you name it, Trumpets.

And then, what is the word for seasons? It says, "for signs and seasons." The word for seasons is *moed*, and that word means a divine appointment in Hebrew. So, this is really a mistranslation when it says "seasons," because people start thinking about winter, spring, summer, and fall. It's really not talking about that at all. It's talking about divine appointments. It's called *moed* or *moadim*.

So, we've got to really understand the Hebrew in certain aspects, or we'll get lost in the mistranslations. And that leads to replacement theology. So, again, signs are signals: blood moons, solar eclipses. Seasons mean Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot, Trumpets, Yom Kippur, all these things, because that's what they are: *moed*.

When you turn to Leviticus 23, what's amazing is that these feast days are called feasts in Leviticus 23, but that word is *moed* as well in Hebrew, which means a divine appointment. So, He's saying that His calendar and His feast days are divine appointments. And that's why, when you look at the calendar, my friends, you don't see anything on there that Christians celebrate. You only see what He has designed for us to celebrate our Messiah, and also what He is going to do at His first coming and His second coming events.

So, again, if the feast days are not on this calendar, you've got to get rid of them because they're on the wrong calendar, which is not in the Bible. It's only based on the sun. So, again, just proper understanding: if it's not in the Bible, you've got to get rid of it. And the Gregorian calendar is not in the Bible. And that's why everything on that calendar, you have to get rid of it, discard it, repent of it, and get it out of your life. Get on the true ways to worship in spirit and in truth, because these days are on the calendar. Sabbath, Passover to Tabernacles – that's on the calendar, but nothing else is.

So, again, we've got to understand what Genesis 1:14-16 says. These were signs to let us know what's going on: blood moons, solar eclipses, and the constellations. And the seasons are *moadim*, divine appointments. Don't think of seasons as winter, spring, summer, fall. It's divine appointments, everybody, for Yeshua, Jesus, who a lot of people say they love. Well, this is for Him. Yahw made this for His Son, Yeshua.

So, let's go forward. For days and years. This is not talking about any day or year that Christians really think about, to be honest with you. No condemnation, they just don't think like this. The days are His days: Sabbath, New Moon, Passover, His days, the feast days, the divine appointments. That's what it's talking about. Not anything on the Gregorian calendar.

And then for years, it's not talking about 1988, the Lord will return, or Y2K, or the Mayan calendar. None of that. It's years. What does that mean? Well, it's based upon Leviticus 25, which is the *Shmita* year, and also the Jubilee year. If we don't understand the *Shmita* or the seven-year cycle, we're going to be off as well. We've talked about that before. We are on a seven-year cycle, and we've got to understand where that cycle is, because that will be the last seven years of the age. God is on His timeframe, everybody, not ours. He's got a cycle of seven that He began from Adam onward, and it's still true to this day. I've gone through that with America, with Israel, with Babylon, with everybody, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire. All of these empires are on that *Shmita* cycle. And we'll prove that again when we get down closer to the 2029 beginning of the cycle.

So, my friends, He's telling us right there: the time and the seasons, they're for days, they're for years. They're *moadim* for our Savior that we love, Jesus Yeshua. We've got to really understand this. Everything's for Him. What does John 1 say? "In the beginning was the Word." In the beginning, in Genesis 1, was the Word. The Word was made flesh, Yeshua, the Messiah, and He is God. So, we've got to put Him in there. Paul says that everything was made for Him and through Him. By His will, they exist and were created. In Revelation 4, it says that.

So, my friends, this is all about Jesus, all about Yeshua, the Messiah. And this is His calendar. He's the one who created the sun and the moon. A lot of people call it the Jewish calendar and things like that. Great. He gave it to the Jewish people to give to us. But this is His calendar. He's the one who appointed the times and the seasons. He's the one who appointed the faithful witnesses in the sky, not mankind. With all due respect to our Jewish friends, He's the one who made all these things for Yeshua to be esteemed.

So, again, in summary, Genesis 1:14-16 is God's calendar. His prerequisites for His calendar: it's got to be by the sun, the moon, and the stars. Only one calendar does that. The Gregorian calendar doesn't; it's only the sun. So, you've got to eliminate it and everything on that calendar because it has nothing to do with the Messiah. Amen.