Double Portion Inheritance: The Biblical Rosh Ha’Shanah (04/08/16)
In this episode, Maria begins by explaining the two calendars in scripture and why the Jewish people refer to Yom Teruah (Day of Blowing) as “Rosh ha’Shanah.” The true “Rosh ha’Shanah” is in the spring according to scripture:
Shemoth (Exodus) 12:1-2 And YHWH spoke unto Mosheh (Moses) and Aharown (Aaron) in the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt) saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning [Rosh] of months: it shall be the first month of the year [Shanah] to you.
*Note: as you can see, the term “Rosh ha’Shanah” is used in connection with the first month of the year, Abib. Leviticus 23 refers to the 1st day of the 7th month of Tishri as Yom Teruah (Day of Blowing), not Rosh ha’Shanah.
Shemoth (Exodus) 13:3 And Mosheh (Moses) said unto the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from Mitzrayim (Egypt), out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand YHWH brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
Shemoth (Exodus) 13:4 This day came you out in the month Abib.
However, scripture does support the idea of the “end of the year” being during the Feast of Tabernacles. While this seems a bit confusing, it all comes into focus once we realize that there are two calendars:
1.) The seven-month-long agricultural year measuring the Feasts of YaHuWaH and the three harvest times in Yisra’el. This begins in the first month of Abib, and culminates in the 7th month of Tishri at the “Feast of Ingathering” or “Sukkot.”
2.) The twelve-month-long linear time calendar which runs it’s course from Yom Kippur to Yom Kippur. This calendar cycles around from the seventh month of Tishri to the seventh month of Tishri annually.
This is also when the seven-year sabbaticals (sh’mitta) as well as the fifty-year Jubilees are measured.
Two scriptures are primarily used to defend the month of Tishri as Rosh ha’Shanah:
Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 The feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.
Shemoth (Exodus) 34:22 You shall celebrate... the Feast of Ingathering at the turn (revolution) of the year.
The End of a Seven-Month-Long Sacred Year
The end of the year mentioned in the above scriptures refers to Yisra’el’s Sacred Calendar whereby the feasts are measured on a seven-month-long cycle. These feasts begin with Passover and end seven months later with The Feast of Tabernacles.
This agricultural year begins with the spring barley harvest during the season of Passover and ends with the fall wheat harvest on the last day of Tabernacles (Sukkoth). This agricultural calendar is based on a seven-month-long lunar cycle, which refers to the monthly rotation of the moon around the earth. Thus the Hebrew Concordance describes a revolution of time as “the time of planting and harvests.”
The following words below in Hebrew are used to describe the beginning and the end of the harvest season:
#8622 tquwphah tek-oo-faw from #5362; a revolution (of the sun) course of time; circuit, come about, end.
#5362 naqaph to strike with more or less violence; beat, knock together; surround or circulate; cut down, destroy, go around.
This word “naqaph” refers to the season of threshing the wheat. The wheat is “beaten” so that the chaff is left behind and nothing but the wheat is left. Yisra’el’s lunar-based agricultural year ends at the conclusion of Sukkoth, with the winter wheat harvest at the last feast of the agricultural year which represents “the end-time harvest” for followers of Messiah. The “first-fruits” harvest for those who were redeemed when Messiah resurrected happened during the Spring Feasts representing all those saved under the “Mosaic Covenant” (Ephesians 4:8-10).
The Hebrew sages have long believed that the creation of mankind and the world took place in the 7th month of Tishri. This means that linear time began in the 7th month of Tishri, whereas the Exodus of Yisra’el out of Egypt began in the spring in the first month of Abib. This would explain why there is a spiritual calendar beginning in the spring and a civil calendar beginning in the fall.
There are some hints to support the idea of the creation taking place in the seventh month of Tishri. First of all, the word “Bereshiyth” (in the beginning) comes from the root word “rosh” (head or beginning). Additionally, when YaHuWaH covered Adam & Eve with animal skins, this was more than likely on “Yom Kippur,” because the word “kippur” comes from a root word “kaphar” which means “covering.” Hence, Yom Kippur is the “day of covering” and YaHuWaH was their High Priest, Melchizedek, who was actually the pre-incarnate Messiah.
Yahuwshuwa our Messiah was born on the 1st of Tishri on Yom Teruah, and Adam was created also on the 1st of Tirshi according to the sages. The bride of Messiah will also be resurrected or “reborn” into immortality on the 1st of Tishri, Yom Teruah. This would make sense since Yahuwshuwa Messiah is called “the last adam” (1st Corinthians 15:45).
See the related articles at these links below: TIMES, SEASONS & THE THIEF IN THE NIGHT: WHEN IS THE REAL NEW YEAR?
http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/05/times-seasons-thief-in-night-when-is_25.html
To understand more about the two calendars, see the blog below:
MESSIAH’S FORTY DAYS OF FASTING LEADING UP TO YOM KIPPUR:
http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/09/messiahs-forty-days-of-fasting-leading_4090.html
WHAT IS A BIBLICAL NEW MOON?
http://www.yrm.org/whatisbiblicalnewmoon.htm
DOWNLOAD MARIA’S RENEWED COVENANT PASSOVER HAGGADAH IN ENGLISH FOR FREE:
http://doubleportioninheritance.com/files/87640/A_Renewed_Covenant_Passover.pdf
