The influence of Enoch can be found throughout the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. This Bible study shows that the book of Exodus and the Crucifixion and Resurrection provides some of the strongest evidence that the calendar revealed to Enoch is in force and supported by powerful events.
The “Revealed” calendar from the Enoch’s “Book of the Luminaries,” one of the books in I Enoch, sets pattern that persists from quarter to quarter and from year to year. The first day of the month is always on a solar event, that is, either an equinox or a solstice. The first day of the month always starts at sunset and is the fourth day of the week. Each month is thirty days long, and an extra day is added as the 31st day of the third month. There are exactly fifty-two weeks in each year.
The weekly Sabbaths are always on the same days of each quarter and the same days of the year. This means that if we know on what day of the month a weekly Sabbath occurs, then we can relate that to a position on the Revealed calendar. For example, if we read that a Sabbath is on the 16th day of the month, we know that would be the second month of the quarter. As noted, all quarter follow the same pattern.
Evidence from Exodus: First Month
Does what happened during the weeks before and after being delivered from Egypt, provide support for the Jewish lunar calendar or for the Revealed calendar given by the Messenger Uriel to Enoch?
In the Bible in Exodus 12 Eyahuwah begins to align the people of Israel with the revealed calendar. First He declares the start of the year: …
This month shall be for you the beginning of the months. It shall be for you the first month of the year. (12: 2)
Today you are living in the month of springtime. (13:1)
Then He gives instructions about what is to happen on specific days during that first month:
On the tenth day of this month each one is to take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. (vs 3)
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings [of the fourteenth and fifteenth]. And they shall eat the flesh on that night [of the fifteenth], roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Chapter 12 of Exodus focuses on the events of the “sparing.” The first event is the offering of the sacrifice of sparing on the fourteenth day. The sacrifice was made after the morning of the fourteenth “between the evenings,” which some say also means at “noon.” At that time the people were to take the lamb, the pesach offering, and kill it on the fourteenth and place the blood of the lamb on the posts and lintels of the doors of their homes where they were going to eat the lamb. Pesach means the “sacrifice of sparing:”
This is a sacrifice of sparing [pesach] unto Eyahuwah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our households. Exodus 12:27
Chapter 12 also tells about the seven-day feast that immediately follows. This Feast starts on the fourteenth day at its close at sunset, which is also the beginning of the fifteenth day and continues through the twenty-first day until its close also at sunset. The Feast begins with the roasting and eating of the pesach on the night of the fifteenth. So the Feast of Unleavened Bread starts on the fifteenth day of the month at sunset. This is a High Day on which “no servile work is to be done.” The twenty-first day is another High Day on which “no servile work is to be done.” The Feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days long.
On the start of the fifteenth day at sunset, they went into their homes, roasted the lamb and ate it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. It is on this day that the actual “sparing” event happens:
At midnight on the fifteenth Eyahuwah killed all the first-born of Egypt (vs 29). And Pharaoh “rose up at midnight” as did the rest of Egypt and a great cry went up. Then he called for Moses and Aaron and told them to take the Israelites out of the land, as Moses had requested. In the night, Eyahuwah, “passed over” and spared the Israelites, and this moved Pharaoh and the Egyptians to do whatever they could to help the Israelites get out of Egypt immediately.
And the Egyptians urged [lit: Egypt imposed itself strongly upon] the people, to hasten to send them away out of the land. For they said, “We are all dying!” And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders. (12:33-34)
These are the Feasts and High days of the first month. However, this does not provide sufficient evidence to conclude the days of week for these days.
The Food Test in the Wilderness: Second Month
Chapter 16 provide another fascinating series of events.
They journeyed from Elim, and the entire assembly of the children of Israel arrived at the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month from their departure from the land of Egypt. And all the congregation of the children of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. (16:1)
The people began to complain against Moses because of food, and the children of Israel said to them,
“If only we had died by the hand of Eyahuwah in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to satisfaction! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.”
Upon hearing the complaint Eyahuwah told Moses to tell the people:
“Look, I shall rain down for you food from heaven. Let the people go out and pick each day’s portion on its day, so that I can test them whether they will follow My Torah or not. And it shall be on the sixth day when they prepare what they bring, it will be double what they pick every day.
I have heard the grumbling of the children of Israel. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Eyahuwah your Elohim.’”
That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost appeared on the desert floor. … “What is it?” they asked.
Moses told them, “It is the bread Eyahuwah has given you to eat.”
Here is the puzzle. The people arrived on the fifteenth day of the month. If this was a Sabbath, then they would have been traveling on a Sabbath. If this was the sixth day of the week, then what? They arrived late on the sixth day with no food and then next day being a Sabbath, known to Moses and Aaron, but not so to the people. So they start to grumble and complain against Moses and Aaron, saying, “What are you trying to do? Starve us to death?”
Moses, however, had a powerful ally, Eyahuwah, who told him to tell the people that Eyahuwah was going to feed them. It doesn’t appear that they were impressed, that is, until the cloud appeared in the desert.
‘Approach the presence of Eyahuwah, for He has heard your complaints.” When Aaron spoke [these words] to the entire assembly of the Children of Israel, they turned to the Wilderness, and behold! – the glory of Eyahuwah appeared in a cloud. 16:9-10
Remember the cloud was with them during the day, and a pillar of fire at night.
Eyahuwah went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so they could travel day and night. He did not remove the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night from before the people. Exodus 13: 21:22
So the promise was that they would get meat in the evening and bread in the morning. And it was declared that this would happen every day except on the Sabbath, and they were not to do any gathering (survival work) on that Day. Also, they did not get any food on the day they complained. Instead they had to console their sorry, hungry selves and wait for sunset and see if the food came as promised. And on the evening, the quail came and in the morning the manna.
This continued for six days and on the sixth day, the people gathered twice as much as they did in the previous five days. This was a concern to the leaders who came to Moses and told him what the people had done, because in the first five days, if they gathered too little or too much what each had was the same, no more or no less. But on this day, each went back to his home with twice as before. So Moses told them,
“This is what Eyahuwah had spoken: tomorrow is a rest day, a holy Sabbath to Eyahuwah. Bake what you wish to bake and cook what you wish to cook. And whatever is left over put away for yourselves as a safekeeping until the morning.”
Running this back we find that the sixteenth of the second month had to have been the weekly Sabbath, which is why the people had to wait for the evening and the quail, even though the Sabbath was not something they were in the habit of keeping.
They went to bed on the fifteenth, probably tired and hungry after walking all day, then in the morning, they found no food. So the attack rose up against Moses and Aaron, who replied, “What are we, that you should incite complaints against us? … Your grumbling are not against us, but against Eyahuwah!”
A Kingdom of Priests: Month Three
In chapter 19 we learn that in the third month after Israel came had out of Egypt, on the same day of the month, they came to the wilderness of Sinai. Verse 2 shows that they were already camped before the mountain:
For they set out from Rephidim, and had come to the Wilderness of Sinai. And camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain.
The sense is that the distance between Rephidim and the encampment was not very far. And that this chapter starts by showing they had settled into the camped on this day.
Therefore, they were already in place on the fifteenth day of the third month, This was to be one of the most significant weeks since the day they walked out of Egypt on the fifteenth day of the first month.
On this day, Moses went up to Elohim and Eyahuwah called to him and gave him this message to tell to the people:
“You have seen what I did to the Mitsrites, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. Now, if you diligently obey My voice and shall guard My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession above all the peoples – for all the earth is Mine – and you shall be to Me a kingdom of Priests and a set-apart [holy] nation.”
Moses took these words back down and called the leaders of the people and gave them these words as he had been commanded to do. And all the people answered together:
“All that Eyahuwah has spoken we shall do.”
So Moses took these words back up the mountain to Eyahuwah. This is one of the shortest and most powerful covenants of the Hebrew Scriptures. Being one of the Chosen people of the earth is looked upon today as a racist and horribly biased statement. But this only shows how far away the people have drifted from their roots. The Nations of Israel (not just the Jews, who come primarily from the one tribe of Judah) have been selected out of all the people on earth as a treasure and to be a Priests, not for themselves, but for all the rest of humanity. The entire creation is waiting for this to become a reality. It is not a mushy sentiment.
The people on earth can be divided into three groups, the righteous, the elect (chosen), and the wicked. Enoch shows that the righteous will “inherit the earth” and take the thrones from the wicked rulers. The righteous are not part of this world’s reality, and are not bamboozled by its religions. The elect consists of both the righteous and those who “shall be to Me a kingdom of Priests and a set-apart nation.” Though the elect may not appear to be fulfilling that role now, they “shall” in spite of their failures.
Enoch saw the world from a different reality. He saw how the righteous would appear before the people, and that all the others would see them, and then aspire to follow them.
My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him, to fear. And he feared Me, and stood in awe of My Name. The Torah of truth was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and straightness, and turned many away from crookedness. The lips of a Priest should guard knowledge, and they seek the Torah from his mouth, for he is the messenger of Eyahuwah of Armies. Malachi 2
This is the meaning and significance of the Feast of Firstfruits, the High of the fifteenth day of the third month. The very day when this great covenant was made, to which the people of Israel replied:
“All that Eyahuwah has spoken, we shall do.”
And so they shall, whether they know it or not. Eyahuwah took them at their word on this day. After the entire nation of Israel is raised from dead as both Enoch, Daniel and Ezekiel saw in their visions, all the Children of Jacob will diligently obey His voice, guard His covenant, and become His treasured possession above all people, and become to Him a kingdom of Priests and a holy nation!
The Appointed Times: Quarter 1
The following calendar, of the first quarter of the year according to the pattern revealed to Enoch, shows the events of the Exodus. Also shown are the other appointed times from Leviticus 23: the Wave Shear (WS) offering, the “Seven Complete Weeks” (W1-W7), the Feast of Firstfruits (FF) that also includes the Wave Loaves offering.
For us, it is difficult to look at this calendar and comprehend that the days start and end at sunset. We have a “burned-in” image of days starting and ending at midnight. So we “interpret” this sunset-to-sunset day and substitute thoughts like, “the Sabbath starts on sunset on Friday.” This is unfortunate and leads to confusion. Probably the best way to counter this habit is to view the vertical lines between the days as the sunset lines, because that is what they are! This takes a little mental agility.
Month one covers the events recorded in Exodus 12 through 15. Month two is Exodus 16 through most of 18; and month three is Exodus 19, which shows the people on the fifteenth day camped at the base of Mount Sinai, where they remained for some time.
The Events of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus
It is no accident that the events of the death and resurrection of Eyahushuah [Jesus] also fit within this calendar and its appointed times. The Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday pagan-based traditions are exceedingly poor substitutes for what really happened.
The Bible in the Gospel of John records that on the ninth day of the first month Eyahushuah came to Bethany to the house where Mary, Martha, Lazarus, lived. This is about one half mile from Jerusalem. John 12:1 records that this is six days before the Passover – that is a reference to the actual “sparing” or passover event, which as noted, happened on the night of the fifteenth.
The next day – the tenth – is the day when the Lamb was picked out and kept. On that day Eyahushuah entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey while the people placed palms on the path. The Lamb was to be kept until the fourteenth day and then killed on that between the two evenings or about midday. This day is the third day of the week.
Therefore, since it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the stakes on the Sabbath — for that Sabbath was a High one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies taken down. John 19:31
After He was killed, His body was taken down and placed in a nearby garden tomb that had never been used. All of these tasks were accomplished in haste.
Because of the Preparation Day of the Jews, they laid Eyahushuah there because the tomb was near. John 19:42
The Preparation Day was time the people had to clean the leaven out of their homes and get ready for the Passover meal on the night of the fifteenth: a High day and the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
So, Eyahushuah was placed in the tomb, before sunset at the end of the fourteenth day! This was not on Friday, but on the end of the third day. Eyahushuah said that the only sign He would give them was that He would be three days and three nights in the tomb and that He would be resurrected on the third day.
Rather than try to pull magic bunnies out of Easter bonnets and some how fit three days and three nights between Friday and Sunday morning using all the tricks of weird theology, all we need to do is count three days and three nights between the time He was placed in the tomb to find the time when He left the tomb! These must amount to full days and nights, not fractions of days and nights, and that means that if we start with a fraction of a day, we will need to borrow some time on the third day.
So we have a very small piece of a day on the fourteenth. Then one night and one day on the fifteenth. One night and one day on the sixteenth. And one night and almost one day on the seventeenth. This brings us to the time just before sunset on the sixth day of the week: shortly before the weekly Sabbath. This is exactly three nights and three days after he was placed in the tomb. Instead of being raised on Easter Sunday morning, Eyahushuah was up and about on the Sabbath.
Finding the Empty Tomb
There is some controversy over the events that followed His resurrection because of the alternate translations of mia ton sabbaton. Mia is a form of the word eis, which can mean: to, towards, for, another, first, one, and other things depending on the context. So some translators think that this means “very early on the first [day] of the week.” But it could also mean “toward the Sabbath.”
Regardless, if the events after the resurrection happened on the time just prior to the Sabbath, or early (while still dark) on the first day of the week, nothing changes. This speaks of the time when Mary and the disciples found the tomb empty and the only thing we can conclude from the passages is they arrived there after the resurrection.
The weekly Sabbath may have prevented them from arriving on the Sabbath, so they waited until after the first day of the week started at sunset. They may have visited the tomb on both the fifth and sixth days of the week, which were not Sabbath days. But it is not likely that Mary would have taken the burial spices to finish the job in the time just before the Sabbath. Furthermore, the disciples were hiding out! (John 20:19)
The best time might have been after the Sabbath had finished as it was dawning on the first day of the week. But none of this has anything to do with when the resurrection took place. They were not even expecting a resurrection!
“They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.”
One more event helps put this into perspective. This what Eyahushuah was told as He approached the tomb of Lazarus and ordered them to open it.
“But Lord,” said Martha, the sister of the dead man [Lazarus], “by this time he stinks, for he has been there four days!”
Mary of Magdala was very concerned about this also. She knew that they had to hurriedly place his body in the tomb before the Sabbath High day. No preparations were made. Nicodemus brought myrrh and aloe, but that had not been used. So Mary laid awake most of the night in anticipation of rising early and running to tomb all the while thinking about how she alone was going to roll back the stone. This was four and one-half days since they put him in the tomb! She was also afraid of what she might find — a stinking bloated body? When she arrived and found the tomb open, she was on the verge of shock. So she turned and ran back to the disciples. And probably out of breath, she shouted,
“They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
Peter and another disciple ran back with Mary and examined the empty tomb. Not knowing what to do, the two men returned and Mary remained and cried. She remembered how He was wrapped and placed in the tomb. She knew that more needed to be done that was omitted when they closed the tomb.
Then a man approached her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “ and I don’t know where they have put him.” She turned an looked him, but did not recognize him.
“Woman, “ he said, “why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where he is, and I will get him.”
Eyahushuah said to her, “Mary.”
She turned and knew who he was and cried, “Teacher!” and sought to embrace him.
“Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘ I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my Elohim [the Family name] and your Elohim.’”
Mary returned and told the news to disciples.
On the evening of that day, to the disciples still in hiding behind locked doors, Eyahushuah came and stood with them and said, “Peace be with you.”
What we have not been told remains fixed in the calendar revealed to Enoch and in the Law given to Moses. On the first day of the week, during the Feast of Unleavened bread, a very special offering was required. This is called the Wave Sheaf offering. This is the offering of the first harvest. A handful of wheat was picked out of the field and presented to Elohim as the first of a great harvest.
Eyahushuah is that Wave Sheaf Offering who returned to the Father and the Family on the first day of the week during the Feast of Unleavened Bread about one and one-half days after He was raised from the dead.
Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. and the Living One. I became dead, and see, I am living forever and ever. And I possess the keys of the grave and of death. Revelation 1:17-18.
This is a sign of a great event yet to occur when the harvest takes place and in place of a handful of wheat grass, Wave Loaves prepared from roasted grain with leaven from each household will also be presented before His Father and Their Father, before His Family and Their Family. This also happens after they are raised from the dead.
This is the meaning of the Feast of Firstfruits, the fifteenth day of the third month, when a “kingdom of Priests and a set-apart Nation” is revealed to the world. The is seventy-fifth day of year, and, if you understand it, the 1,335th day in Daniel’s revelation, which we must aspire to and earnestly wait for!
Blessed in the one who waits earnestly and comes to the end of the 1,335 days. Daniel 12:12
Jewish Calendar Rules vs. the Revealed Calendar
Some believe that the calendar on which the Feasts and High days fall is a lunar calendar, and the start of the month is a referred to as the “new moon.” However, the Hebrew word for “month” (chodesh) is different than the word for “moon” (yareach). The word chodesh can be found 276 times in the Hebrew Scriptures. In the King James Version of the Old Testament, it is translated “month” or “new month” 256 times and as “new moon” 20 times; and where it is translated “new moon” makes more sense to translate it “new month.” The true Hebrew phrase for “new moon” never appears in the Hebrew Scriptures! Therefore, the first day of each month on the revealed calendar are chodesh — the start of a “new month.”
The following calendar rules show a “convenient” compromise that actually breaks the pattern established in the Torah.
Rosh Hashanah postponement rules: Although simple math would calculate 21 patterns for calendar years, there are other limitations which mean that Rosh Hashanah may only occur on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (the “four gates”), according to the table.
That means that the pattern can be varied to ensure that Rosh Hashanah does not fall on the other 3 days. This is to ensure that Yom Kippur does not directly precede or follow Shabbat, which would create practical difficulties, and that Hoshana Rabbah is not on a Shabbat, in which case certain ceremonies would be lost for a year.
Yom Kippur, on which no work can be done, can never fall on Friday (the day prior to the Sabbath), to avoid having the previous day’s fast day still going on at the start of Sabbath. Thus some flexibility has been built in.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
The tragedy of this “flexibility” is the price Judah and Israel paid for this “loss of faith.” It is as though Eyahuwah could not provide “manna” or “food” for the Sabbath following the fast of Yom Kippur! But their laws, received from the Pharisees, caused them to stumble. The Sabbath was a day of feasting as well as rest. But the prohibitions imposed by a “new law” made it a burden that the people could not bear! But, because they were convinced by their teachers that this was the “law,” they put the blame on Eyahuwah and called His Feasts and High days a burden.
In his second dream vision, Enoch saw how the “sheep” would return from captivity only to get into deeper trouble:
And they began again to build as before, and they reared up that tower, and it was named the high tower; and they began again to place a table before the tower, but all the bread on it was polluted and not pure.
Enoch 89:72-73
Malachi prophesied about this in the Spirit of Eyahuwah:
“You are presenting defiled food on My altar!”
Malachi 1:7 The Scriptures“But you! You have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” said Eyahuwah of hosts. “And I also shall make you despised and low before all the people, because you are not guarding My ways, and are showing partiality in the Torah.”
Malachi 2:8-9
And again, the witness goes against them:
“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said Eyahuwah of hosts.
Malachi 3:7Judah has acted treacherously, and an abomination has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem, for Judah has profaned what has been set apart to Eyahuwah – which He had loved – and has married the daughter of a foreign God! Malachi 2:11
By making a “new law” and by feasting on polluted bread, the people of Israel and Judah cut themselves off from the One who talked face to face with Moses and entered into a covenant with our fathers, and this continues even to this day in spite of the captivity and the dispersion.
My people do not know the requirements of Eyahuwah. How can you say, “We are wise, for we have the Torah of HaShem,” when actually the lying pen of the scribes has handled it falsely? Jeremiah 8:7-8
Well, there goes the theory of the “inerrancy of the Scriptures!” Because of the intentional changes made by the scribes, it is even more critical that we have the ability to discern the truth with the power of the Spirit:
“But when the Spirit of truth comes, It will guide you into all truth!” John 16:13
Timothy Sakach, PhD
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