"God's Holy Days" 2030 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed one day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2029 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2028 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2027 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed either one or two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2026 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2025 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2024 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( No postponements this year.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2023 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2022 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2021 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2020 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2019 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed one day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
"God's Holy Days" 2018 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed either one day or two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
"God's Holy Days" 2017 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed either one day or two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
"God's Holy Days" 2016 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2015 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2014 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Some Holy Days are postponed a day in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2013 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows conventional Roman Gregorian dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( No postponements this year.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2012 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows Roman dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed one day or two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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"God's Holy Days" 2011 calendar based on the teachings of Mr Herbert W Armstrong, shows Roman dates and corresponding dates in the lunar month. ( Most Holy Days are postponed two days in accordance with Rabbinical customs.)
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The Month God's Holy Calendar Failed
This report examines what some Christian groups refer to as "God's Sacred Calendar", "God's Holy Calendar", or "The Calendar of Christ and the Apostles". Although praised for alleged amazing accuracy, it is demonstrated in this report that for a particularly important month it failed miserably, nullifying the claim of divine origin.
Why does the Jewish calendar have postponements? provides an explanation of the necessity for those who follow the traditions of the Jewish elders to adjust their calendar months, or "postpone" months by one or two days or even a whole month or so, to avoid conflicts between religious duties.
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Why New Moons Are Irrelevant to the Jewish Calendar shows how new months are arrived at in the Jewish calendar. It is not the way some think it is.
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Many Keep Pentecost One Week Late in 2011 explains how postponements in the Jewish calendar in 2011, to enable Jews to observe customs of the elders, will cause some Christians, who do not observe those customs but weirdly keep the same delayed days, to celebrate Pentecost one week later than they intend.
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Why Celebrate Two Days Late? questions why devout Jews and the followers of Herbert Armstrong observed the Holy Days of the first and seventh month two days late in 2011 and 2012.
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Will You Observe the Passover on the 16th in 2011 and 2012? points out that the Jewish calendar has postponed Passover for two days in 2011 and 2012, from the 14th of the lunar month to the 16th.
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Why xCoG Will Celebrate Two Days Late in 2020 explains why the followers of Herbert Armstrong observe the Holy Days of the first and seventh month two days late in 2020.
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Why Will xCoG Celebrate The Seventh Month One Day Late in 2023? points out the glaring error in the timing, and almost all of those observing the delayed celebrations are unaware or do not care, just going along like sheep, without even bothering to confirm the dates.
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The Key to the Calendar shows how the Wave Sheaf Offering indicates the yearly beginning of the Calendar of Leviticus 23.
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Why was "The Key to the Calendar" written? There is a calendar revealed in the Bible, which is largely ignored by Christians in favour of a pagan calendar imposed centuries ago by military force from Rome. Why are Christians still using this Roman calendar? Most don't even know a Biblical calendar exists, but one problem is that there are different versions all claiming to accurately represent "God's Calendar".
Many of the minority of the Christians who want to follow the religious Festivals of God embedded in the Bible calendar use the version propagated by Jewish culture, which was published by Rabbi Hillel around the time theologians in Rome were creating the doctrine of the Trinity, three centuries after the resurrection of Christ. The Rabbis now admit the Hillel calendar does not comply with the specifications in the Bible, and use the additional complex rules of Rabbi Hillel to justify their behaviour which gives priority to the traditions of Judaism.
The problem for Judaism is that often the lunar dates fall on days of the week which make it impossible to conduct their traditions. For example, if the tenth day of the seventh lunar month of the lunar year, i.e. the Day of Atonement, falls on the sixth day of the week, i.e. Friday, then the traditions of the (Friday) afternoon before the weekly Sabbath cannot be observed because they are regarded as work, which tradition says cannot be done on the Day of Atonement. As another example, if the tenth day of the lunar month falls on the first day of the week, i.e. Sunday, then the very important traditions of the (Saturday) afternoon before Atonement, i.e. Yom Kippur, cannot be done because that would be doing work on the weekly Sabbath.
The solution officially adopted by the Sanhedrin before it was dissolved in the fourth century because of Roman persecution was to formally introduce a fixed tabular calendar with a 19 year cycle, carefully designed so that clashes never happen in it. This calendar declares when a month begins, which may or may not happen to coincide exactly with the start of a lunar month. Astronomical calculations and observations were made irrelevant. The calendar mostly had months starting on the day of the astronomical new moon, but, where there would otherwise be a clash with traditional customs, it "postponed" the start of a month to a convenient later day so its followers would be able to conduct the traditions and still appear to observe the correct date according to this calendar (but not according to the astronomical calendar). It seems that this calendar was not a new invention by the revered Rabbi, but was a brilliant documentation and justification of practices which had been followed in Judaism for quite some time.
If the followers of Judaism do not follow the calendar documented by Rabbi Hillel, they would have to abandon some of the traditions of the elders in some months of some years. So Judaism has its own special calendar, oriented around the traditions of Judaism.
OK, so the followers of Judaism have a good reason for using the Hillel calendar, but what about the few groups of Christians using the calendar for festivals but who don't follow the traditions of the elders? Why are they using it? Why observe a "postponed" date if you have no clash with dates and traditions, and so no reason to postpone?
One of the excuses used by Christians who follow the non-Biblical Hillel calendar follows from the extraordinary claim that the Bible does not indicate when the Biblical calendar year should start, therefore the Judaism traditions must have the correct times by default, so the calendar of Judaism should be copied. This claim of no indication of the start of the year in the Bible is not true, and this article explains the overlooked key to the problem of determining the starting month for the Biblical year.
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Hayah and the New Moon analyzes claims in one publication that some verses in chapter twenty of the First Book of Samuel show that the current religious calendar of Judaism was in use thousands of years ago. Much of the reasoning is based upon claims about the meaning of the ancient Hebrew word "hayah" and assertions regarding the visibility of the new crescent (in the day following the lunar conjunction). The critical foundations of the arguments are investigated in this publication, and found to be false.
Passover Days 28-35 CE uses data from the US Navy to produce calendar fragments for the weeks around the Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread in the years 28 CE to 35 CE.
The Crucifixion could not have been on a Friday is an analysis of the week day of Nisan 14 in the years when the Crucifixion might have occurred. It considers data from the US Navy to reach the conclusion of its title.
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