Abib Calendar of the Creator!

When Barley is Abib, it is in a specific state of maturity, that will enable a harvest in the upcoming 14-21 days, hence 2-3 weeks, at which point it would have dried enough, with the grains then being hard and making a pounding into crushed flour possible.

Thus, the first month has been named by the Creator after a development level of the Barley crop - there can be no mistake. Equinoxes are never once mentioned. Remember, if we get the first Holy Feast date wrong, all upcoming feasts in the year will be invalid. [Lev 23:37].

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[earlysda]

There is nothing in the Bible regarding any grain being a sign for the seasons or days or months or years. This idea that the barley harvest plays a part in determining the new year is entirely speculation.

[firstfruitsPT]

@earlysda Did you actually see the video to the end?

[earlysda]

@firstfruitsPT Yes. There is no scriptural evidence for any grain signalling the start of a new year. You are probably more knowledgeable about this than i am, but i have spent many hours studying this over the last few months, and am still searching for truth on "when does the year start"? The Israelites were commanded to wave the first fruits after the passover, so it is INFERRED that the grain must be "abib" in the new year, but it seems to be more of an effect than cause of a new year.

[firstfruitsPT]

@earlysda Scriptures point out that the barley was smitten at the 7th plague and defines the condition it was in as "abib". This "abib" condition is something you can test for yourself today in the land of Israel. Pick a field of your choice and experiment under which conditions barley would be smitten. The year is then to start with the "abib" month. (All these is referred to in the video.)

So how is it then, that you do not see a relation between "abib barley" and the year starting at "abib"?

[earlysda]

@firstfruitsPT Because there is no scriptural support for having the barley, even in "abib" stage, signalling the start of the new year. All this idea of the barley being a sign for the start of the new year is nowhere found in the Bible. As mentioned above, it is a CAUSE of the new year occuring, rather than EFFECTING the beginning of the new year.

There are many other holes in the abib-new year theory, but the reason cited in the above paragraph is sufficient to debunk this.

[firstfruitsPT]

@earlysda However, you have not yet come up with your explanation of what the truth really is ....

[jpmay26]

@earlysda ...Exodus 12:17-18 "Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on *this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt*. In the *first month* you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day." Exodus 13:4 "Today, in *the month of Aviv*, you are leaving." Aviv is a specific agricultural term for ripe barley...it's not used for any other crop.

[jpmay26]

@earlysda ...Where I typed "10th day", I mean "14th day". The 10 day was when the lamb is selected and inspected.

[jpmay26]

@earlysda Aviv Barley starts the 1st month: In Ex 9;31 the hail crushes the ripe barley; the word "headed" (or "in the ear") is אָבִיב (aviv/ripe). The 10 plagues continue day-by-day until the last plague in Ex 12;2-3 says "this is the beginning (רֹאשׁ/rosh/head) of months", and then it goes on to speak about keeping Passover on that 10th day. The Hebrew word for month is "חֹדֶשׁ / hodesh" = new moon. Finally, Deut 16;1-2 says, "Observe the (Aviv) month God brought you out of Egypt, & Passover."

[earlysda]

@firstfruitsPT I "am still searching for truth on "when does the year start"?" I do thank you for explaining the position of those who believe the barley stage determines the start of a new year. May we all be dliigent students of the Word of God, and follow what it says, and not what man's traditions do when the two disagree. On day 4 God made the sun, moon, and stars to serve the calendar functions, so the answer lies there somewhere.

[earlysda]

@firstfruitsPT As stated many times, there is no scriptural advice for any grain being a signal to start any time reckoning. That is very large. It is just fact that all this grain-date stuff is just speculation, based on something that while perhaps having been carried out for centuries or even millenia, has no basis in the Bible. Reminds me a little bit of the state of the Christian world in worshipping on Sunday........

[earlysda]

@firstfruitsPT Yes i did. There is nothing at all in the Bible about any grain being given for "signs and seasons". Sure, you can try to infer that the barley must be harvested before Passover occurs etc., but that still does not mean anything about the barley being a "sign". The role of determining seasons is given completely to the sun, moon, and stars. So while studying about the role of barley in the feasts is good, it has nothing to do with the timing of those feasts.