posted 12-22-1999 07:47 PM            

Thanks in advance

posted 12-22-1999 09:15 PM            

We are in the Hebrew year 5760. The Jewish calendar begins at Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

posted 12-23-1999 08:55 PM            

If a day is like a thousand years with YHWH then Messiah will return on the seventh Jewish Millennium. The Sabbath Millennium.
The thousand years of peace when Messiah rules the earth.

posted 12-23-1999 11:33 PM            

The Hebrew calendar is missing 240 years, so actually it is year 6000 from creation not 5760 [5760 + 240 = 6000].

This can be documented in Seder Olam Rabbah article of the Encyclopedia Judaica. See this link for more information:

Missing 240 years

Channah

posted 12-24-1999 02:55 PM            

Keep looking up!

sojourner

posted 12-24-1999 04:52 PM            

Yes, in hopes of a soon coming return to put an end to haSatan's Claus's kingdom and rulership. His kingdom contains so much suffering, pain, hardship, cruelty, disease, death and the like that a soon end will be welcomed. But 6000 years compared to all eternity past and future is but a blink. What is 6 little days to Yahweh anyway?

Exod 12:1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exod 12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
Exod 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house:

To answer your question sojourner, about the end of the pagan March or early April would begin the new year, when creation becomes new again in the Spring. It is called Abib (Aviv), and it is when the Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread takes place. The first new moon on or after the planet alignment of the vernal equinox is what most believe to be accurate. By the Roman calendar, this would be on or after March 21st each year, whenever the next new moon took place. I hope this helps give you some answers. I don't know a whole lot, but this is what I understand at this point.

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Shalom to all :) and may Iaue's people fear His name and glorify it...

Anav

posted 12-25-1999 03:06 PM            

Months are counted from Nissan, while the years themselves are counted from the month of Tishri, which according to Jewish tradition is the anniversary of the creation of the world, Tishri 1.

The first of Nissan marks the beginning of that year for recording the history of Jewish kings and the calculating of the holy days. The first of Tishri commences the cival year for the purpose of contracts.

So, the Jewish/Hebrew/Biblical year has double cycle--the first cycle relates to the earthly and secular life, which begins in the autumn, following the evolution of nature (seasons) itself connected with the creation of the world; the second cycle, spiritual and national, begins in the spring, which follows the unfolding history and comes into being with the creation of Yisrael.

However, both compliment one another just as the soul and body maintain one another. One does not annul the other, they both, the Sacred (Nissan) and the Cival (Tishri) calendars, are applicable and should be understood so to correctly understand Elohim's time frames within the Scriptures.

We see in Scripture a very good application of the two coinciding calendars is Yoel 2:23b. You cannot get the spring festivals (former rain) and the fall festivals (latter rain) both within the "first month." The "former rain" (spring) festivals begins in the first month on the Sacred calendar--Nissan, but the "latter rain" (fall) festivals begin in the first month of the Cival calendar--Tishri.

The counting within the Hebrew calendar years was not established by Shet. It was established at the creation of Adam on the 6th day, Tishri 6. In Judaism this is when we begin our count of the years from creation, of when the nishmat chayim (breath of life, Gen. 2:7) was imparted to Adam and began the count of the years within Elohim's plan for mankind---a 7 thousand year plan coinciding with the 7 days of a week, the 7th being the Shabbat (Messianic Kingdom).

Channah