when does the day really begin from a biblical perspective is it at midnight at sunrise or at sunset and when exactly does the week begin on monday saturday or sunday finally when does the month and the year really begin from a biblical perspective there are so many calendars today we have the roman calendar the chinese calendar the islamic calendar the hebrew calendar and many others and since each one is different from all the others there's so much confusion about this topic so which among them is correct in this episode i will share with you the correct biblical reckoning of time which humans lost when they rejected god in their lives let's discuss our god yahweh elohim is the author and creator of time therefore he is the only authority on the calendar but we human beings pagan cultures in particular have usurped that authority leading to the present-day calendar confusion in this world therefore let us understand god's mind on this matter of time which he alone created in the beginning of your bible genesis god tells us how to reconcile correctly notice genesis 1 14 and 16. 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 the hebrew word there is moed god's divine appointments and for days and years then god made two great lights the greater light sun to rule the day and the lesser light the moon to rule the night he made the stars also now let's look at how the bible defines the basic units of time the day the week the month and the year first the day a day as we know it from the roman calendar reckoning of time is a 24-hour period from midnight to midnight but a day is defined by god as a 24 hour period starting and ending at sunset or evening astronomically this corresponds to one rotation of the earth around its axis genesis 1 verse 5 says god called the light day and the darkness he called nights so the evening and the morning were the first day notice the order evening precedes morning in a 24-hour day this evening preceding a morning format is consistently repeated in verses 8 13 19 23 and 31 showing us that the true beginning of a biblical day is at sunset the evening before here are three further proofs number one exodus 12 18. in the first month on the 14th day of the month at evening you shall eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the month at evening leviticus 23 32 it shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest and you shall afflict your souls on the ninth day of the month at evening from evening to evening you shall celebrate your sabbath and mark 1 32 at evening when the sun had set they brought to him all who were sick and those who were demon possessed number two the week the week is a seven day period from sunday the first day to saturday the seventh day sabbath however beware because a number of calendars are now incorrectly starting on a monday and ending on a sunday following the european international standards organization the iso 8601 also in the middle east the first day of the week is saturday and the seventh day is friday but how does god the very author of time define a week when does the week really begin a week is defined by god as an unbroken cycle of seven days starting at creation from the first day of the week now called sunday to the seventh day of the week called sabah now called saturday since days begin at sunset the true biblical sabbath starts at sunset on the sixth day now called friday and ends at sunset on the seventh day now called saturday there is no astronomical phenomenon that explains the week it is revealed by god in genesis chapter 2 verse 2-3 and on the seventh day god ended his work which he had done and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done then god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his work which god had created and made since god does not get tired he obviously set the example for us on how we humans are to keep the sabbath holy number three the month what is a month some of you remember the nursery rhyme the days of the month 30 days september april june and november all the rest have 31 except february alone which only has about 28 days clear and 29 in each leap year so a month today you can have 28-31 days but how does the bible define a month a month is a period of time from one new moon to another the word month is actually derived from the word for moon the old month ends and a new month begins at sunset after the astronomical new moon or conjunction conjunction means the alignment of the earth the moon and the sun in that order producing a dark new moon as viewed from the earth astronomically a month corresponds roughly to one revolution of the moon around the earth and exactly one complete cycle of moon phases from one new moon to the next the following passage in isaiah defines both weekly and monthly cycles notice isaiah 66 23 and it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another all flesh shall come to worship before me says the lord or yahweh today our months wrongly begin on any phase of the moon but a true biblical month always begins on a new moon and the length of a biblical month usually alternates between 29 and 30 days since the average number of days from one new moon to the next is approximately 29.
5 days number four year the roman calendar in popular use today is the gregorian calendar which was introduced in 1582. our years begin on january 1 in the dead of winter this is clearly a mistake a year in god's sacred calendar starts and ends on the new moon on or after the spring or vernal equinox equinox is a latin word which literally means equal night more recently in the word equilox has also been used which literally means equal light but which means almost the same thing except with a slight variation in time as one gets into the higher latitudes the spring or vernal equinox is that time of the year usually march 20 in the western hemisphere when the length of days and nights are approximately equal this is the heavenly sign or marker that the winter season is now over and spring has officially begun astronomically this corresponds to one revolution of the earth around the sun the starting and ending point being the spring or vernal equinox the first full month after the spring equinox was named by god as habib or aviv which literally means green ears when most vegetation begins to sprout new leaves after the babylonian captivity the jews began to use the name nissan to also represent abeem does it make more sense that life should begin in spring rather than in the dead of winter there are two scriptural passages which bears on this topic notice exodus 13 verse 4 on this day you are going out in the month abeem which begins in late march to april exodus chapter 12 verse 2 this month shall be your beginning of months it shall be the first month of the year to you god plainly says that habib or nisan is the first month not january or any month that we like now do we have historical proof that this time reckoning is correct we do we know that the jews were taken captive to babylon in the 6th century bc the prophet daniel and his friends became very influential over the wise men of babylon and later even persia the prophet daniel had been given by god's special wisdom and revelation on this on the calendar today the babylonian and the persian calendars are known to be one of the most accurate in existence we can examine the babylonian calendar from 499 bc onward as preserved and available under ancient clay tablets as found in the british museum and in eastern europe although the babylonian calendar was not always perfectly identical to the hebrew calendar from 499 bce onward it did show that it followed the calendar prescription based on genesis 1 14 as used by the aaronic priests after aeron the special astronomical knowledge and wisdom was continued by the priest zadok and his descendants especially appointed by god in ezekiel 44 15 16 and 24 because they alone remain faithful please note that the first month began in the spring meaning they did not allow the first day of the first month to come before the vernal equinox in fact modern astronomy software when comparing babylonian eclipse dates in their history can confirm that the babylonian calendar from 499 bce onward never began years until the first visible new moon on or after the spring equinox our newman today is known as the conjunction or astronomical new moon since that kind of moon is dark and invisible it was the visible first crescent the new moon they looked for right after sunset on the first day of the month confirming that the month had already begun you will notice that the motions of the earth the sun and the moon while incredibly accurate are not 100 perfect the bible indicates that we once had a perfect calendar before sin entered the world it had a year of exactly 360 days each of the 12 months had exactly 30 days and each day had exactly 24 hours our calendar today is no longer perfect instead of 24 hours we now have 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds that's how long it takes for the earth to rotate around its axis our month instead of 30 days takes 27. 3 days to complete one orbit around the earth but 29.
5 days to complete one cycle of phases from new moon to new moon the moon spends the extra 2. 2 days catching up because the earth travels about 45 million miles around the sun during the time that the moon completes one orbit around the earth finally the earth goes around the sun not in exactly 360 days but it takes 365 days 5 hours 59 minutes and 16 seconds why is this so it started when joshua fought in defense of the gibeonites and asked god to stop the sun and the moon on their journey across the sky as we read in joshua 10 12-13 also this astronomical disturbance was further compounded during the time of king hezekiah when god turned the sun dial back 10 degrees as we read in isaiah 38 verse 8. the bible shows that when christ returns he will restore all things including a perfect calendar for the world so in summary what is the correct calendar according to god's true biblical reckoning of time number one the day begins and ends at sunset not at midnight number two the week begins and ends at sunset on saturday which is already the start of sunday number three the month begins and ends on the day after the astronomical new moon or the conjunction number four the year begins and ends on the day after the first astronomical new moon on or after the spring or the vernal equinox which is march 20 in our generation i hope you can see now how god is the author of time and that he alone is the authority on the calendar why is this important in a future video we will discuss god's seven annual holy days for those who firmly believe in keeping god's ordained holy days rather than pagan holidays such as halloween valentine's day and christmas it is absolutely necessary to know precisely when these days occur for those who are convicted in obeying yahweh elohim we can offer you a copy of the sacred calendar so you can know precisely when to observe these festivals and holy days knowing this truth you are now left with a choice to follow the calendars of men or the calendar of god as confirmed by the signs in the heavens i hope you will make the right choice since this is a technical subject please feel free to review this video as may be necessary likewise feel free to read the four related articles in our biblical truths dot website until next time this is daniel mcrae of biblicaltruths.
