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The Hebrew lunar-solar calendar is the true calendar for all mankind.
YEHOVAH God Himself established it, and gave it to the children of Israel
when they came out of Egypt (Exodus 12:1). At the time of the Exodus,
a series of catastrophes occurred that changed the axis and the orbit
of the earth and the orbit of the moon, and the ancient year settled
into a year of 360 days that lasted until the 8th century B.C. However,
the principles of the calendar go back to creation, when the sun and
moon were appointed by YEHOVAH "for signs, and for seasons, and
for days, and years" (Genesis 1:14. The word for seasons here is
moadim, and literally means "an appointment, a fixed time
or season; a FESTIVAL, by implication, an assembly" (see Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance, #4150). Thus YEHOVAH God appointed the
heavenly bodies to determine the "appointed times" of His
weekly Sabbaths, annual Holy Days and Festivals from the moment of Creation!
The annual Holy Days were intended for all mankind, even as the weekly
Sabbath was ordained for all mankind! (Compare Genesis 2:1-3; Mark 2:27-28).
Also note that the "Sabbath" -- which includes the annual
Sabbaths (Leviticus 23:32, 38-39) -- was "made for MAN" (Mark
2:27) -- not just for the Jewish people! In the coming Kingdom of YEHOVAH
God, ALL NATIONS will observe YEHOVAH's annual and weekly Sabbaths according
to the lunar-solar calendar (Isaiah 66:23), and go up to Jerusalem for
the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16-19) and worship before the
Shekinah Glory of YEHOVAH God Himself.
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