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occurred to me I have two good friends who months and an excellent understanding by the
were long time members of Worldwide, one now Karaites as to what Abib really means.
with the Mr. Meredith group, and the other with
United. I am not a Karaite but I respect their willingness
to keep the true biblical calendar and be our
So here's two addresses and may the great watchmen on the wall regarding these matters.
Yahweh open up their eyes to truth.
Rather than repeat, I have included a faq from
Enclosed a little for the postage, etc. It costs, I've their website that defines the pertinent scriptures
been mailing them some things that I copied. and explanations for use in determining Abib as
Yahweh's beginning of months.
And may the great Father just keep on inspiring
your people there, I pray that the whole world Your use of the equinox and solstices does not
would learn truth. work. It would be difficult to imagine that the
Priests would use a celestial component when
Sincerely, the agricultural components are available. It also
R.C. is not correct to assume that there would be no
grain in the "rest" years otherwise there would
*** also not be a wave sheaf offering in those years.

Hello, and thank you for sending me The Berean The barley has been seen in an Abib state and the
Voice. After reading Counting in the Hebrew new year started at sundown on March 15 in
Idiom I still have a question. After all is said and Jerusalem. While Hillel II's calendar, "the Jewish
done, is Saturday the Sabbath or not? calendar" is off by a day or two generally
because it is based on the conjunction, it usually
Thank you again, follows the months pretty closely because of
N.T. their nineteen-year cycle.

COMMENT: No, Saturday is not the Sabbath. My hope would be that we can promote the new-
However, the weekly Sabbath can fall on moon based Shabbats by following Yahweh's
Saturday occasionally -- just like it can on any command to begin the new year in the month of
other day of the week in the present Gregorian Abib.
calendar.
Keep up the great work.
*** With Love, in the name of Yahshua,
Y.
Shalom:
COMMENT: Dear Y., thank you for your
Your original article in the Jan/Feb 2000 Berean message. Regarding the calendar some
Voice re: Yahweh's Sabbath Day came from the (including yourself, it seems) have believed, due
"Your Arms to Israel" newsletter and I must to the fact that YEHOVAH's calendar highlights
confess I devoured it. Not only does it make so agricultural details, that the state of the barley
much intuitive sense, you have done a great job harvest determines which new moon to start the
of laying it out from scripture. It truly has the year. You believe, it seems, that the barley has to
ring of authenticity about it. I am surprised that it be sufficiently in ear during the Feast of
has taken this long to "make the rounds." Unleavened Bread to be used for the omer of the
wave sheaf offering.
I then sent you an e-mail asking about a current
calendar and subsequently, came across the However, we should note the fact that during the
article in your Nov/Dec 2001 re: The Calendar. 40 years of Israel's wanderings in the wilderness
I want to tell you that I did not know it is that they did not sow or harvest crops because
possible to be that excited and then crash on the they were supernaturally fed by YEHOVAH
rocks of new-age thinking all in the same day. God -- see Exodus 16:35. They, therefore, would
There is plenty of reference in the Scriptures to not have used the criterion of the maturing barley
the month of Abib being Yahweh's beginning of to determine when the new year should begin.
Even when they arrived in the land of Canaan

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