Happy New Year!
The month of January is named after a two-faced Roman god named Janus. Janus is pictured as having two faces: one looking backward at the past and one forward to the future, portraying new year’s reflections and resolutions. The Romans made their new year’s promises to Janus. But new year’s day to the Greeks is when the sun is reborn. Their new year begins with the resurrection of the sun god Sol. The day after the shortest day of the year (winter solstice) is when the days start lengthening rather than shortening.
Today we start the new year like Romans on January 1st, about ten days after the winter solstice. Solstice is usually December 21st. The Greek new year marks the first day of winter for us, which is the day with the least amount of daylight hours. The next day the sun begins moving northward and the daylight hours begin to increase rather. Except in the southern hemisphere where our winter solstice is their summer solstice, which is their longest day of the year, but only 10% of the population lives in the southern hemisphere.
When is the Biblical new year according to what Yahweh said to Moses? Yahweh commemorated the birth of the nation Israel by changing their new year from the month of Tishri to the month of Nisan. Yahweh changed the Hebrew new year from fall to spring. The forming of the nation of Israel was considered a typical new creation, hence a new calendar for the promised land. By the way, the more ancient Roman new year was also in the spring, like the Hebrew new year. Italy today celebrates the birth of Rome on April 21st. Winter eventually became Rome’s new year and fall became the new year for the expelled “Jewish” unbelievers after the Jewish believers transitioned to their new covenant. Believe it or not, the Torah clearly tells us that the 1st month of the year is Nisan and the Torah clearly calls Tishri the 7th month of the year.
Exodus 12:1-2
CLV 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying. 2 This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first for you of the months of the year.
The Hebrews entered the new creation land in the spring. They were in the land for 6 months before their summer betrothal they had accepted at Sinai was re-read to the new generation in the fall marriage. The betrothal agreement then became their marriage covenant. Then the people in the land took a marriage sabbatical, beginning in the 7th month. The promised land calendar clearly started in the month of Nisan when they entered the land. Leaving Egypt actually started their new creation. The summer betrothal defined it in the wilderness at Sinai, but they failed the wilderness test and did not continue to the land in the power of God that year. The fall marriage consummated 40 years later. The 40 year delay was for the re-generation of the failed body. The old generation that left Egypt died. The new generation entered the new creation land on Nisan and was retested.
They actually entered the land on the month God told them would be the first month of their new creation. If they had past their wilderness test and arrived to the land in the fall of the first year, maybe they wouldn’t have had two flesh and blood battles in the first 6 months, like Jesus first year of ruling in the land after He past the test in the wilderness and returned in the power of the Holy Spirit. At that fall time of the year Jesus began His ministry in the already existing old covenant. He would start His new creation three and a half years later in Nisan.
Rash Hashanah means the head of the year. Yahweh told His people to let the land rest for a year every 7th year starting in the 7th month (Tishri) of that year. This renewed their marriage not their betrothal. Jesus entered the land on the 10th of Nisan to reset the entire creation; betrothal and marriage. The typical renewals were to commence in the 7th month rather than the first month. It was an old covenant renewal not a new covenant creation. A new creation would redo the whole creation, the betrothal and the marriage. Jesus resurrection was the new creation and Pentecost was the new betrothal. The new covenant creation was in the first month just as the old covenant creation was. It was the complete typical fulfillment.
The new nation didn’t have two calendars. Tishri was always referred to as the 7th month of the year, even for sabbatical years. The sabbatical was from the beginning of the 7th month to the beginning of the 7th month. The 50th year sabbaticals especially re-established their marriage as a nation. They were somewhat reset every 7th year by trusting God’s word rather than working, but the 7th sabbatical was the big one. Everyone returned to their original allotments and started over. Today the religion called the national Jewish religion calls the 7th month of the year, “the head of the year”, even though it is called the 7th month in the Torah. God said Nisan was Rash Hashanah for Israel not Tishri.
Exodus 12:1-2
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THE PASACH
And Yah Veh says to Mosheh and Aharon in the land of Misrayim, saying, 2 This month is the head of months to you – the first month of the year to you:
By the way Nisan is when God’s people were called out of Egypt. It is also the month Jesus was resurrected or reborn to start His new covenant creation. Jesus is the fulfillment of passover who died in the place of the firstborn to resurrect the dead and about to die firstborn. He did it in Nisan.
Exodus 12:1-3
CLV 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying. 2 This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first for you of the months of the year. 3 Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves, each man a flockling according to the their fathers’ house, a flockling for each household.
Jesus entered Jerusalem on the 10th of Nisan. He was killed on the 14th and resurrected on the 17th: new creation.
Acts 26:23
CLV 23 if He, the first out of a resurrection of the dead [ones], is about to be announcing light both to the people [the old covenant Jews] and to the nations [Gentiles].”
Paul was dramatically rescued out of the old covenant (Egypt) and into the new.
Acts 26:14-18
YLT 14 and we all having fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew dialect, Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute? hard for thee against pricks to kick! 15 `And I said, Who art thou, Lord? and he said, I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; 16 but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things in which I will appear to thee, 17 delivering thee from the people [Jews], and the nations [Gentiles], to whom now I send thee, 18 to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot [allotment] among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.
Peter writes to the chosen ones in the scattered nation of Israel.
1 Peter 1:1-2
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SALUTATION
Petros, an apostle of Yah Shua Messiah: To the pilgrim diaspora throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Biyournia, 2 Select according to the prognosis of Elohim the Father, in holiness of Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Yah Shua Messiah: Charism to you and shalom be multiplied.
1 Peter 2:9-12 – new creation: now you are the people of God
CLV 9 Yet you are a chosen race, a “royal priesthood, a “holy nation, a procured people, so that you should be recounting the virtues of Him Who calls you out of darkness into His marvelous light, 10 who once were “not a people yet now are the people of God, who “have not enjoyed mercy, yet now are “being shown mercy.” 11 Beloved, I am entreating you, as sojourners and expatriates, to be abstaining from the fleshly lusts which are warring against the soul, 12 having your behavior among the nations [Gentiles] ideal, that in that in which they are speaking against you as of evildoers, by being spectators of ideal acts they should be glorifying God in the day of visitation [consummation of their salvation].”
At first the new creation was made up of Jews only. Jewish Jesus only commissioned the Jews and they spoke the gospel only to the Jews. The Bible is clear about Jews being first and that salvation is of the Jews. Peter wasn’t the first person to start accepting the Gentiles into Yahweh’s new creation. The Holy Spirit started birthing the Gentiles into their new assembly. Peter just acknowledged it. On Pentecost only the Jews and their proselytes were being added to the church, by the Holy Spirit. The month of Nisan is when the Holy Spirit started their new creation with the resurrection of Jesus. Their new creation is a spirit realm nation. Both the birth and the rebirth of Israel started in Nisan not Tishri. The New Jerusalem is kept incorruptible in the spirit realm, which is heaven. It extends to earth because there is no procreation in heaven. Procreation is in the spirit realm on earth. Sabbaticals typically started in Tishri. The typical land was finally put to rest in Tishri of AD 70. Jerusalem is now kept in the spirit realm in heaven and on earth.
Hebrews 12:22 – To the Hebrews in the diaspora
CLV 22 But you have come to mount Zion, and the city of the living God, celestial Jerusalem, and to ten thousand messengers,
Galatians 4:26
CLV 26 Yet the Jerusalem above is free, who is mother of us all.”
Acts 10:40-50
YLT 40 `This one God did raise up the third day, and gave him to become manifest, 41 not to all the people [Jews], but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God—to us who did eat with him, and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead; 42 and he commanded us to preach to the people [Jews], and to testify fully that it is he who hath been ordained by God judge of living and dead— 43 to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.’ 44 While Peter is yet speaking these sayings, the Holy spirit fell upon all those hearing the word, 45 and those of the circumcision believing were astonished—as many as came with Peter—because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out, 46 for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God. 47 Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive—even as also we?’ 48 he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.
Today we could make new year’s resolutions in light of the national re-creation of Israel. Jesus came to call His people out of ‘Egypt’, into His new creation. Our calendar year signifies the first birth of Jesus as the new creation that God made for His chosen people. But Jesus was born in the month of Tishri as eschaton Adam. He put that old creation man to death in order to save His people. Salvation is of the Jews because they were the one’s who were actually in the old covenant that was coming to it’s thousand year end. Without a doubt Jesus called out His Jewish people first. Then the gospel went to all the nations. The old covenant didn’t end before all God’s chosen people were all brought into the new covenant. Jesus reigned in the millennium with His chosen people. The old covenant hold-outs reigned out the millennium without Him. They were accountable for their second 490 years of failures. Those in the first resurrection were not harmed at all by that second death. The new covenant creation never ends in death. People from all nations are being born into it.
1 Peter 1:4
CLV 4 for the enjoyment of an allotment incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, kept in the heavens for you,
Revelation 21:2
YLT 2 and I, John, saw the holy city—new Jerusalem—coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;
Strong’s: καταβαίνω to descend (literally or figuratively)
Actually figurative is a form of literature. Therefore a figurative interpretation is a literal one. All the Bible should be interpreted literaturely, i.e., according to it’s form of literature. To interpret The Apocalypse of John literaturely would necessarily involve consideration of the form of literature that contains this portrayal of the spirit realm Jerusalem in heaven. It is a spirit realm marriage of the made new heaven and earth that John saw. He also saw the destruction of the old heaven and earth in his spirit realm vision. Flesh and blood did not reveal it to John. The Revelation came from the Father in Heaven.
Revelation 21:9-10
YLT 9 And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb—the wife,’ 10 and he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and did shew to me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God,
The final feast of Tabernacles representing the new covenant marriage of God to His people was in Tishri. And according to the Torah, the husband who took a new bride typically took a sabbatical. Jesus fulfilled the final Jubilee sabbatical for the spiritually engaged people of God. The rebirth at Pentecost was only the betrothal to the new creation of Firstfruit. AD 70 marked both the destruction of the old marriage and the consummation of the never ending new marriage covenant. Jesus didn’t marry flesh and blood covenanted people. He married Holy Spirit covenanted people.
The marriage to new covenant Jerusalem may have been a few years before the AD 70 destruction, since AD 66 0r 67 was more likely 70 years from Jesus’ birth than AD 70 was. If Jesus was born in 2-4 BC then Jesus’ humanity turned 70 around AD 66 or 67. His 70 years of true humanity fulfilled the sabbath rest that the old covenant land failed to fulfill for the second time. According to Jesus, forgiveness for Peter’s old covenant brethren who offended him ceased at 490. The Roman campaign to quell the revolt of old creation Jerusalem lasted 3.5 years, commencing in the spring and consummating in the fall. The Roman campaign that ended in the destruction of old Jerusalem may have commenced 6 months prior to the consummation of new Jerusalem. It was a de-creation event to those who killed their messiah after His 3.5 years of ministry.
The old covenant hold-outs continued to reject Him for 40 years before their old covenant sacrifices for forgiveness came to an end. 40 years signified the re-generation of the body of God’s people that actually inherited the promised land of God’s new creation. Jesus started to minister to His people in that land with the Holy Spirit when He was about 30. I suppose He continued His Holy Spirit ministry until He was about 70 and then He spiritually consummated his new marriage covenant. Jesus did not take a flesh and blood bride. He rescued the flesh and blood bride from the dead and about to die husbandman by taking Adam’s place on the cross. Obviously the Bible is more concerned with the big picture than the exact dates. We don’t like that much but it is what it is. The big picture is a thousand years. Happy New Creation Year whatever. The new creation actually started Nisan 17th less than 2000 years ago. The new creation will be 2000 years when Jesus’ humanity becomes 2033 years old, if He was resurrected into His new covenant when He was 33.. That will be the year 2033 plus or minus the 3 or 4 years that our calendars are said to be off from His first birth.
Rome’s 3.5 year advance on Jerusalem resulted in its destruction in 70 …
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