Thank you for including the Zadokite calendar. I'm going to look into it.
I enjoyed reading your trilogy on substack, and as soon as the third book goes on sale in print, I'll purchase all three. I know several people who would enjoy reading them.
Thanks Anna, I really appreciate your support! You've been one of my most faithful and active subscribers.
If you're interested in the solar calendar there are some good resources at the bottom of my article on the topic. https://standinfaith.org/gods-calendar
When I get the third book in paperback I'll put them into a box set at a reduced price for at least a week or two, so my subscribers can get a good deal. I also plan to put all 3 into one attractive hardcover book.
Thank you Tom for promoting our family in Jordan and the wall calendar available for this biblical year! Our family is in a particular time of need right now so meeting a brother in Messiah like you is a blessing.
Good afternoon! I spent some time a few years back looking into the Zadokite calendar. I think there's a lot of awesome stuff in it but, if I remember correctly, the main hangup I had was the amount of time between Passover and the First Fruits of the Barley. Like I said, it was a while ago, so I may have missed something - or maybe I still have some presuppositions which don't need to be there - but it feels off that First Fruits can't be 3 days after Passover. Can you help me understand that?
Good question. Having the festival of Firstfruits on Aviv 26 is the biggest problem I have with the solar calendar.
In my website's article (at https://standinfaith.org/gods-calendar) about the Zadokite calendar I looked for an answer to this same question. I got an answer, but it's only 50% satisfying to me. To see it, go my article and scroll down to the major heading that says, "Resolving My Own Arguments Against the Solar Zadokite Calendar" and then scroll down to question #2.
Asherit, the sister who provides the answer to question #2, is the most knowledgeable person I've found on the topic of the Zadokite calendar. At the bottom of my article I provide links to "Asherit’s Zadok Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls 5-part series on YouTube." If you want to do a really deep dive, they're good videos.
Ok, so I had actually been reading your article on the calendar and I decided to respond to THIS article when I was LITERALLY a paragraph away from your "Resolving My Own Arguments..." section. I had actually watched Asherit's series a few times all those years ago when I was first looking into this and it was good to go back and revisit it. I'm still not sure how I feel about the Firstfruits concern but I DO have a bit of a separate question for you.
In your original article you use the Zadok Way calendar. I know their presence has diminished (they're still putting a yearly calendar out but that's about it) but they have an intercalary week this year to get the start of spring after the equinox (this puts the start of year at 3/26 on the Gregorian) and the Call to Jordan calendar doesn't use the intercalary week; is there a reason you went with that one instead of the one you'd used initially? I apologize if this is explained somewhere; I'm basically just trying to see if the intercalary week had something to do with it. This would also change when the 10th day of the first month would be (this alternate dating would put that on 4/4).
The short answer is "I don't know." These calendar studies are very technical. I'm definitely not an expert. So my plan is to be watchful during the period of 1-2 weeks while all the different calendars are in play.
For example, today is 3/25/25 and we're in-between when the solar and lunar calendars say the Hebrew New Year begins.
- One says it was around the time of the spring equinox, 3/20-21.
- The other says New Year begins on 3/29-30.
So I play it safe and watch during both times. I'll also be watching both times during Passover, Pentecost, and the Fall Feasts.
Looking forward Maj T. I've always wondered,what it will be like as we live on earth during the 1000. And why after the 1000 will some fall and tricked by the released Dragon? Even after seeing the proof of Jesus
Me too. For years I've had trouble accepting that God would bind the Devil for 1000 years, and then let him loose for one last attack on the godly. It just didn't feel right.
Until recently, I thought I had an alternate way of explaining it--that 1000 years wasn't literal, and Satan was actually bound when Jesus ascended, and then released after WW2 and is now deceiving the nations to rebuild Nimrod's Babylonian kingdom for the Antichrist.
But, as I wrote this newsletter the Lord revealed a perspective I hadn't seen before, causing me to revise my understanding, and the ending of Book 2.
As I looked at the details of Revelation 20:1-10, where it says (in vs 8) the nations that gather against the beloved city of saints will be like "the sand of the seashore," I realized that--even in the millennial kingdom of Jesus--there'll be a lot of carnal people (maybe a majority) who'll choose not to follow the Spirit into holiness and immortality.
So, the millennium won't be totally harmonious and peaceful. There'll be conflict, which is why the Bible says Jesus and the overcomers will have to "rule with a rod of iron."
At the end, these rebels will 'self-sort' themselves out of God's favor, and doom themselves to destruction in the final battle. Following their divine destruction, the only ones remaining will be the saints who follow God. They'll enter into the next age with immortality.
Thank you for including the Zadokite calendar. I'm going to look into it.
I enjoyed reading your trilogy on substack, and as soon as the third book goes on sale in print, I'll purchase all three. I know several people who would enjoy reading them.
Thanks Anna, I really appreciate your support! You've been one of my most faithful and active subscribers.
If you're interested in the solar calendar there are some good resources at the bottom of my article on the topic. https://standinfaith.org/gods-calendar
When I get the third book in paperback I'll put them into a box set at a reduced price for at least a week or two, so my subscribers can get a good deal. I also plan to put all 3 into one attractive hardcover book.
Thank you Tom for promoting our family in Jordan and the wall calendar available for this biblical year! Our family is in a particular time of need right now so meeting a brother in Messiah like you is a blessing.
Good afternoon! I spent some time a few years back looking into the Zadokite calendar. I think there's a lot of awesome stuff in it but, if I remember correctly, the main hangup I had was the amount of time between Passover and the First Fruits of the Barley. Like I said, it was a while ago, so I may have missed something - or maybe I still have some presuppositions which don't need to be there - but it feels off that First Fruits can't be 3 days after Passover. Can you help me understand that?
AB,
Good question. Having the festival of Firstfruits on Aviv 26 is the biggest problem I have with the solar calendar.
In my website's article (at https://standinfaith.org/gods-calendar) about the Zadokite calendar I looked for an answer to this same question. I got an answer, but it's only 50% satisfying to me. To see it, go my article and scroll down to the major heading that says, "Resolving My Own Arguments Against the Solar Zadokite Calendar" and then scroll down to question #2.
Asherit, the sister who provides the answer to question #2, is the most knowledgeable person I've found on the topic of the Zadokite calendar. At the bottom of my article I provide links to "Asherit’s Zadok Calendar in the Dead Sea Scrolls 5-part series on YouTube." If you want to do a really deep dive, they're good videos.
Ok, so I had actually been reading your article on the calendar and I decided to respond to THIS article when I was LITERALLY a paragraph away from your "Resolving My Own Arguments..." section. I had actually watched Asherit's series a few times all those years ago when I was first looking into this and it was good to go back and revisit it. I'm still not sure how I feel about the Firstfruits concern but I DO have a bit of a separate question for you.
In your original article you use the Zadok Way calendar. I know their presence has diminished (they're still putting a yearly calendar out but that's about it) but they have an intercalary week this year to get the start of spring after the equinox (this puts the start of year at 3/26 on the Gregorian) and the Call to Jordan calendar doesn't use the intercalary week; is there a reason you went with that one instead of the one you'd used initially? I apologize if this is explained somewhere; I'm basically just trying to see if the intercalary week had something to do with it. This would also change when the 10th day of the first month would be (this alternate dating would put that on 4/4).
Sorry for the long comment.
Blessings!
AB,
The short answer is "I don't know." These calendar studies are very technical. I'm definitely not an expert. So my plan is to be watchful during the period of 1-2 weeks while all the different calendars are in play.
For example, today is 3/25/25 and we're in-between when the solar and lunar calendars say the Hebrew New Year begins.
- One says it was around the time of the spring equinox, 3/20-21.
- The other says New Year begins on 3/29-30.
So I play it safe and watch during both times. I'll also be watching both times during Passover, Pentecost, and the Fall Feasts.
Looking forward Maj T. I've always wondered,what it will be like as we live on earth during the 1000. And why after the 1000 will some fall and tricked by the released Dragon? Even after seeing the proof of Jesus
Me too. For years I've had trouble accepting that God would bind the Devil for 1000 years, and then let him loose for one last attack on the godly. It just didn't feel right.
Until recently, I thought I had an alternate way of explaining it--that 1000 years wasn't literal, and Satan was actually bound when Jesus ascended, and then released after WW2 and is now deceiving the nations to rebuild Nimrod's Babylonian kingdom for the Antichrist.
But, as I wrote this newsletter the Lord revealed a perspective I hadn't seen before, causing me to revise my understanding, and the ending of Book 2.
As I looked at the details of Revelation 20:1-10, where it says (in vs 8) the nations that gather against the beloved city of saints will be like "the sand of the seashore," I realized that--even in the millennial kingdom of Jesus--there'll be a lot of carnal people (maybe a majority) who'll choose not to follow the Spirit into holiness and immortality.
So, the millennium won't be totally harmonious and peaceful. There'll be conflict, which is why the Bible says Jesus and the overcomers will have to "rule with a rod of iron."
At the end, these rebels will 'self-sort' themselves out of God's favor, and doom themselves to destruction in the final battle. Following their divine destruction, the only ones remaining will be the saints who follow God. They'll enter into the next age with immortality.