The Appointed times of Babylon

In the pre-Babylonian era, we find in the Scriptures only four months on the calendar that are identified by name: Only 4 of the original Alahym given names are used in scriptures.

The first month Abib

Exodus 13:3 “Remember this day in which you went out of Mitsrayim, out of the house of slavery. For by strength of hand Yahuwah brought you out of this place and whatever is leavened shall not be eaten. 4“Today you are going out, in the month Aḇiḇ

But, during, and after the Babylonian captivity, the Children of Israel called the first month "Nisan", as in Neh 2:1 and Esth 3:7.

The second month Ziw :

1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year the foundation of the House of Yahuwah was laid, in the month Ziw.

But, during, and after the Babylonian captivity, the Children of Israel called the second month as Iyar (the word Iyar not mentioned in scriptures).

The seventh month Ĕythanim

1 Kings 8:2 And all the men of Yisra’ĕl assembled to Sovereign Shelomoh at the

festival in the month of Ĕythanim, which is the seventh month.

But, during, and after the Babylonian captivity, the Children of Israel called the seventh month Tishrei. (The word Tishrei is not mentioned in scriptures)

The eighth month Bul

1 Kings 6:38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was completed in all its matters and according to all its plans. Thus he built

it for seven years.

But, during, and after the Babylonian captivity, the Children of Israel called the eighth month as Cheshvan (the word Cheshvan is not mentioned in scriptures).

Along with the Babylonian square script (modern Hebrew) Yisharal came out with a Babylonian calendar with names of months renamed by Babylon. This was prophesied by YeremeYahu (Jeremiah) the prophet.

Jer 16:14 ¶ Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Yahuwah, that it shall no more be said, Yahuwah liveth, that brought up the children of Yisharal out of the land of Egypt; 15 But, Yahuwah liveth, that brought up the children of IYisharal from the land of the north (Babylon), and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers.

While the above passages may seem to be speaking positive of Yisharal proclaiming their deliverance from Babylon we need to read the other three verses before making that conclusion.

Jer 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith Yahuwah, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.17 For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. 18 And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

They renamed Yahuwah’s appointed months and added names to months which had no names. They brought with them carcases of their detestable and abominable things back with them.

All the months which had no names were related to Abib the first month and hence testifying of Yahuwah bringing his people out from the land of Egypt by a great deliverance. The lunar calendar (the 12 months cycle) was a continuous reminder that Yahuwah is Alahym who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt but now Yisharal changed that. 

They added to his Turah the Babylonian culture which now would make them forget their deliverance from the land of Egypt. Their new calendar would now proclaim Yahuwah who delivered them from Babylon.

Ex 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Yisharal, and will be their Alahym.
 46 And they shall know that I am Yahuwah their Alahym, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am Yahuwah their Alahym.

The passage of Zech 8:18-19 without a proper spiritual vs spiritual comparison will mislead the reader because these fasts mentioned in these months are not appointed by Yahuwah but by men.

Zec 7:5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

 Let’s view this in scriptures which will show us how these fasts came into existence.

Zech 8:18 And the Word of Yahuwah of hosts came to me, saying, 19“Thus said Yahuwah of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth are to be joy and gladness and pleasant appointed times (muaed) for the house of Yahuḏah – and they shall love the truth and the peace.’

Now let’s view the scriptures:

These fasts were proclaimed by men of Judah to commemorate four terrible events that fell upon the Jews during the days of their final defeat by the Babylonians. We need to view these in the chronological events as it happened.

Tenth month: Jeremiah 52:4-5 records the account of King Nebuchadnezzar setting up the final siege against Yerushalam in the tenth month during the ninth year of the reign of Zedekiah.

Jer 52:4 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Yerushalam, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

5 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah

Fourth month: Jeremiah 52:6-7 records the Babylonians breaking into Yerushalam due to the city being so weakened by famine after sixteen months of the siege. This occurred during the fourth month of the eleventh year of the reign of Zedekiah.

Jer 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

 7 Then the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled, and went forth out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about:) and they went by the way of the plain.

Fifth month: In Jeremiah 52:12-14, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard of King Nebuchadnezzar came to Yerushalam with his army and carried away valuables that were in the Temple, burned the Temple and the city, and took away many captives. This event occurred in the following month of the same year that the Babylonians broke into Yerushalam as noted above.

Jer 52:12 ¶ Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Yerushalam,

13 And burned the house of Yahuwah and the king's house; and all the houses of Yerushalam, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Yerushalam round about.

Seventh month: This fast commemorates the tragedy of Gedaliah and those with him at Mizpah being slain by Ishmael and his band of murderers. This account is recorded in Jeremiah 41:1-3. Gedaliah had been appointed governor by the Babylonians in the wake of the captivity to oversee those left behind to manage the land.

Jer 41:1 ¶ Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

2 Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

3 Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war.

When Yisharal would once again obey Alahym’s laws and His way of life, He will change these man-appointed fasts. Zechariah 8:19 states that these days of sorrow “shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.” Verses 20-23 show that Yahudah will follow Alahym and be blessed abundantly. They will no longer need to remember these horrific events. He will wipe their tears. In no way does Alahym endorse these fasts to be HIS APPOINTED TIMES but the usage of the word ‘muaed’ is purely prophetic that Yisharal would meet his Savior Mashiyach Yahusha in their affliction, in their desolation.

The original system was to count months in numeric order, starting from Abib. Thus, any time a person mentioned a month, he was in effect recalling the exodus from Egypt: we are in, say, the sixth month—six months since the month of the Exodus. Thus, the numeric naming served as a constant reminder of Yisharal’s deliverance from Egypt. This was the pattern given by Alahym. After Yisharal was delivered from Babylonian captivity, they started using the names that they became used to using in Babylon. And now, these names served to remind them that Alahym has redeemed them from this second exile.Hence finding fault with them scripture says that Yahuwah will make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisharal and with the house of Yahudah. The problem was not with the Covenant but with the people who pinned their belief system and their calendar with Babylon.

Heb 8:7 For if that first had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith Yahuwah when I will make a renewed covenant with the house of Yisharal and with the house of Yahudah:

Alahym calls all his children to come out of Babylon and when we come out we must leave everything of Babylon in Babylon and return back to his Turah.

The Babylonian names for calendar months:

First month: Nisanu: Esther 3:7, Nehemiah 2:1

Second month: Iyar-not mentioned in scriptures

Third month: Sivan: Esther 8:9

Fourth month: Tammuz-not mentioned in scriptures

Fifth month: Av-not mentioned in scriptures

Sixth month: Elul: Nehemiah 6:15

Seventh month: Tishrei-not mentioned in scriptures

Eighth month: Cheshvan-not mentioned in scriptures

Ninth month: Kislev: Nehemiah 1:1, Zech 7:1

Tenth month: Tevet: Esther 2:16

Eleventh month: Shevat: Zech 1:7

Twelveth month: Addar: Ezra 6:15,Esther 3:7, 3:13,8:12,9:1,9:15,9:17,9:19 & 9:21.

Some of these months are not mentioned in scriptures and some are mentioned. Just because the ones that are mentioned doesn’t mean Yahuwah endorses the Babylonian calendar. These are mentioned to show us that what Yisharal brought back with them from Babylon the names of pagan deities.

1) Nisan
Babylonian: Nisanu – First, refers both to the month as the first month of the year and to the presiding god, Bel.

2) Iyar
Babylonian: Āru / Ayaru - Bull or Herd, Prosperity. Presided over by Ea, the Babylonian name for the (earlier) Sumerian god Enki, the god of life. Originally the god of water, Enki is often depicted with the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowing from his shoulders.

3) Sivan
Babylonian: Simanu - Brick-making. Presided over by Sin, the god of the moon, after the conflation of the Semitic god Sin with the Sumerian god Nanna. Interestingly, the main centers of Sin worship were Ur and Haran, both cities which figure prominently in Avraham’s story: the first as his birthplace and the second as his long-time adopted home.

4) Tammuz
Babylonian: Dumuzu – Babylonian name of the god known in Hebrew as Tammuz. The only month to share its name with a god.

Eze 8:14 Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahuah's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

5) Av
Babylonian: Abu – Fire.

6) Elul
The names of the months on the Jewish calendar come from the Babylonian names by way of Akkadian. Akkadian was the common language of the Ancient Near East, and Babylonian was actually a variant of Akkadian. Akkadian was used for some two thousand years, until it was replaced as the common language by Aramaic with the rise of the Persian Empire about three thousand years ago.

“Ellul” was originally “Ululu” in Babylonian and “Elulu” in Akkadian. It comes from a root meaning “harvest” and also refers to the “mission” of the reigning deity of the month, Ishtar. Ishtar was the Babylonian fertility goddess, and shared a similar-sounding name and near-identical story and powers with the Egyptian goddess Isis and the Semitic Astarte. So, using "Ellul" as a the basis for vertlach is not quite as damning as creating divrei torah directly from the name of a Mesopotamian god, but certainly it is a word that has nothing to do with repentance and closeness to Alahym. “Ellul” is at best a straightforward name for the time of year – “harvest time” – and is at worst a reference to the role the Babylonian fertility goddess was believed to play in the annual agrarian cycle..

7) Tishrei
Babylonian: Tashritu – Beginning. The beginning of the second half-year of the Babylonian calendar. Presided over by Shamash, the Mesopotamian god of the sun and the likely origin of the Hebrew word “shemesh.”

8) Cheshvan/Marcheshvan

Babylonian: Arachsamna - Eighth month. Presided over by Marduk, here going by his name rather than his title.

9) Kislev
Babylonian: Kislimu (meaning uncertain). Presided over by Nergal, a god of the sun as it appears during specific times of day and of the year.

10) Tevet
Babylonian: Tebetu – Violent rain. Presided over by Papsukkal, the messenger god.

11) Shevat
Babylonian: Shabatu – Rain.

12) Adar
Babylonian: Adaru – Threshing time. Presided over by Erra, an Akkadian plague god, also responsible for political confusion (perhaps like that found in the Purim story?).

Acts 17:29 Being then the children of Alahym, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.

Acts17:30 Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, Alahym now commands all men everywhere should repent

Re 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

 5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Alahym hath remembered her iniquities.

Alahym calls us out of Mystery Babylon and it is sad to say that many say they have come out of Mystery Babylon but have carried with them her baggage and are ignorant of the fact that they are still part of her.

The four significant months of Yahuwah mentioned in scriptures: All pointing to Mashiyach

1) Abib the first month: 

1      Abib : Aleph Beyt  (Aleph Beyt: Abha) Yod (hand) Beyt (tent/house) : ‘Tent/house of Ahba’s hand’

Heb 3:6 But Mashiyach as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

What happened in Abib? Yisharal was delivered from Egypt: Passover & Unleavened bread feasts were instituted in this first month

 Mashiyach is our Passover lamb and he purged out our leaven and made us Unleavened in him.

1Co 5:7 ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Mashiyach our passover is sacrificed for us:

The first month Abib shows us his house/tent he pitched in the wilderness by brining his people into it from the house of bondage ie. Egypt.

2) Ziw the second month: 

Zain (cut off) Uau (enjoined) : 'Cut off and enjoined'

Eph 5:31  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 
Eph 5:32  This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Mashiyach and the assembly. 

Mashiyach came out of Aluahym to enjoin to us as our Ishi (husband)

What was significant in this month? The foundation of the Temple of Yahuwah was laid.

1Co 3:11 ¶ For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Yahusha ha Mashiyach.

Zec 10:4 From them (Yahudah) shall come the cornerstone, from them the tent peg (Yathed), from them the bow of battle, from them every ruler together.

Yathed (tent peg): 

Yod (Hand) Tau (Covenant) Dalet (Doorway): Put together ‘Hand extending the Covenant in the doorway’

The cornerstone and tent peg (yathed) coming out from Yahudah is our Mashiyach Yahusha. The tent which Yahuwah himself pitched and the tent peg pitches the tent securing it. The tent peg in the name of Yahuah is also adorable: Yod (hand) Hay (behold) Uau (nail/tent peg) Hay (behold)

When those nails pierced our Savior that secured our salvation and we entered into the Covenant with Yah.

Ziw shows us the tent peg (Mashiyach) which secured the tent (house of Yisharal) in the wilderness.

Yael’s yathed:

Jud 4:21 But Yael, Heber’s wife, took aleph tau tent peg (yathed) and seized aleph tau hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the aleph tau peg (yathed) into his temple, and she beat it into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.

Yael: 

Yod (Hand) Ayin (guards) Lamed (the rod)

Put together: ‘The hand that guards the rod’

Yathed: Yod (Hand) Tau (Covenant) Dalet (Doorway): Put together ‘Hand extending the Covenant in the doorway’

Sisera:Samech (Grab) Yod (hand) Samech (sin) Resh (beginning) Aleph (strong man/leader)

Put together: ‘Grab the hand of sin of the beginning strong man’

Yael represents the bride of Mashiyach who guards the Covenant of Yahusha and through the tent peg (the covenant with Mashiyach) drives the peg into the head of Sisera (a type of Shatan who is the strong man from the beginning)

The ‘tent peg’ and the ‘hammer’ were used to pitch the tabernacle of Yahuwah in the wilderness. The second month Ziw is the month when Shelomoh laid the foundation of the temple and is very significant in understanding prophecy.

1 Kings 6:37 In the fourth year the foundation of the House of Yahuwah was laid, in the month Ziw.

Our tent secured by the tent peg

3) Ĕythanim the seventh month: 

1     Aleph Tau (aleph tau: first and the last) Nun (life) Yod (hand) Mem (flows): ‘The life of the first and the last from the hand flows’.

Col 3:4 When the Mashiyach, who is our life, shall appear, then you also shall appear with Him in glory.

Re 1:11 Saying, I am the Aleph Tau, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

There were/are three appointed times in the seventh month: 1) Rosh Hashanah (festival of trumpets) 2) Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and 3) Feast of Booths (Feast of Tabernacles).

1 Kings 8:2 And all the men of Yisra’ĕl assembled to Sovereign Shelomoh at the festival in the month of Ĕythanim, which is the seventh month.

Yisharal observed two feasts with Shelomoh 1) Feast of dedication of the altar (Day of Atonement) and 2) Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).

1 Kings 8:62And the sovereign and all Yisra’ĕl with him made slaughterings before Yahuwah. 63And Shelomoh brought peace offerings, which he slaughtered to

Yahuwah, twenty-two thousand bulls and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep. Thus the sovereign and all the children of Yisra’ĕl dedicated the House of

Yahuwah.64On that day the sovereign set-apart the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the House of Yahuwah, for there he made burnt offerings and the

grain offerings and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahuwah was too small to contain the burnt offerings and the grain offerings and the fat of the peace offerings.  65And Shelomoh at that time observed the Festival and all Yisra’ĕl with him,a great assembly from the entrance of Ḥamath to the wadi of Mitsrayim, before Yahuwah our Alahym, seven days and seven days – fourteen days. 66 On the eighth day he sent the people away. And they blessed the sovereign and went to their tents rejoicing and glad of heart for all the goodness that Yahuwah had done for His servant Dawiḏ and for Yisra’ĕl His people.

Verse 65 says Shelomoh and all Yisharal with him was a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the wadi (river) of Mitsrayim (Egypt). They were before Yahuwah seven days and seven days-FOURTEEN DAYS.

Now the fifteenth day of this seventh month was the feast of tabernacles for seven days and we have scripture recording that on the eighth day Shelomoh sent them away (1 Kings 8:66) whereas 2 Chronicles 7:8 states that they held a solemn assembly on the 8th day. Is there a contradiction? At first glance it seems to be a contradiction but when we look deeper we find harmony in scriptures.

We must compare with what’s recorded in 2 Chronicles 7:8-10.

2Chr7:8 So Shelomoh observed the feast at that time for seven days, and all Yisrael with him, a very great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt

2Chr7:9 And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days

2Chr7:10 And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that Yahuwah had shown to David and to Shelomoh and to His people Yisrael

2 Chronicles 7:8-10 records 7 days (2 Chr 7:9) for the dedication of the altar and 7 days for the feast of Tabernacles which equals to 14 days. So these 14 days they were before Yahuwah. They first observed 7 days for the dedication of the altar and on the eighth day of the feast of dedication of the altar was a solemn assembly. They then observed 7 days of feast of tabernacles and the eighth day solemn assembly which was the end of the feast of tabernacles was not held and that’s when he sent them back to their tents.

2 Chronicles 7: 10 records he sent them on the 23^rd day of the seventh month.  Here is the sum: 9^th day of the seventh month at even was a Solemn Shabbat for the Day of Atonement

Le 23:27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto Yahuwah.

Le 23:28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before Yahuwah your Alahym.

Le 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your shabbat.

Le 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Yahuwah.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

So counting 7 days of the feast of dedication of the altar and the 9th as the first day of a solemn rest, the feast would end on the 15th day of the seventh month with 16th being the 8th day solemn assembly which was observed by Yisharal and Shelomoh, this 8th day solemn assembly was the beginning of the feast of tabernacles. Counting 7 days from the 16th the feast of tabernacles ends on the 22nd of the seventh month and the 8th day solemn assembly which falls on the 23rd of the seventh month was not held and the people were sent home. So from 9th till the 22nd of the seventh month the people were before Yahuwah for 14 days. The dedication of the altar was very important to Shelomoh because without the dedication of the altar there couldn’t be sacrifices on the altar and hence they wouldn’t be able to observe the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

Le 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Yahuwah

35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

 36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahuwah: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahuwah: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

Ĕythanim shows the life of the Alep Tau (first and last) flowing in the wilderness where the tent is secured and his people gathered to him.

 1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Mashiyach. 

4) Bul the eighth month:     BUL: Beyt (tent) Uau(secured) Lamed (rod) ‘Tent secured by the rod’

Ps 110:2 Yahuwah shall send the rod of thy (Yahusha) strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Re 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty Alahym.

1 Kings 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, the eighth month, the house was completed in all its matters and according to all its plans. Thus he built

it for seven years.

Shelomoh was zealous for Yahuwah and showed urgency to observe the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles in the 7^th month itself before the house of Yahuwah was completed in all its matters according to all its plans. In the eighth month the house of Yahuwah was completed and established after being built for seven years.

A few years later the apostasy was evident as a wicked king Yaraboam set up golden calves one in Bethel and another one in Dan and ordained a feast in the eighth month like unto the feast that is in Yahudah (referring to the fall feasts of the seventh month). He changed the law of Alahym.

1Ki12:28 So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Yerushalam; behold your Al, O Yisrael, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.

1Ki12:29 He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan

1Ki 12:32 And Yaraboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Yahudah and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

33 So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

The month Bul shows that once the house of Yahuwah is established in the wilderness Shatan comes to destroy it by tempting the people into Baal worship. Remember the golden calf set up by Yisharal when Mosheh went up the mountain.

Ex 32:1 ¶ And when the people saw that Mosheh delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
 2 And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.
 3 And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

 4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

When Yahusha came he saw so many man made traditions (golden calves) added to the Turah of Alahym, he rebuked the additions to the Turah openly and he established and uplifted the Turah by abolishing the death decrees for disobedience which made us guilty and liable for the death penalty by taking the death penalty on himself. By his obedience and the sprinkling of his blood we are set-apart to him with our hearts and minds circumcised to obey his Turah written on it.  Once delivered from the blood red moon calendar (Babylon) there are still many who are observing the appointed times made by man instead of the appointed times of Yah. For details on the appointed times of Yah please refer to my study on the blog ‘The Appointed times of Yahuwah’.

The fast of the fourth, fifth, seventh and the tenth month is still observed by many which Yahuwah says “When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in seventh months these seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?...”

Zec7:1 And it was in the fourth year of King Darius, the word of Yahuwah came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, in Chislev.

Zec7:2 When they had sent Sharezer and Regemmelech to BethEl and their men to seek the favor of Yahuwah

Zec7:3 speaking to the priests who belong to the house of Yahuwah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Shall I weep in the fifth month and abstain, as I have done these many years?

Zec7:4 Then the word of Yahuwah of hosts came to me, saying,

Zec7:5 Say to all the people of the land and to the priests saying, When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in seventh months these seventy years, did you truly fast to Me, even to Me?

Zec7:6 And when you eat and when drink, it was not for those eating, and for those drinking?

The priests and the prophets were praying and enquiring from Yahuwah whether they should keep the fasts of the fifth and seventh months as they did by weeping for these 70 years. Yahuwah sends his word to them by the mouth of Zechariah stating when they fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for 70 years they did not do it for him i.e. he did not command them but they did it for themselves. The feasts in these months (eating and drinking) was not for him but for themselves, for their distresses.

Mt 24:38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noach entered into the ark,

Jews still observe these fasts and feasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth month and some of them are Tish'a B'Av, Tzom Gedaliah, Asara B'Tevet, Tzom Tammuz. There are many more feasts which they observe which Yahuwah did not command.

In our previous study ‘The Appointed times of Yahuwah’ these appointed times were given so that man would meet Mashiyach in them. The word ‘Muaed’ for appointed times means Mem (Blood) Uau (nail) Ayin (seen) Dalet (doorway)

Put together 'The blood from the nail seen in the doorway'

If one doesn’t meet Mashiyach in the appointed times of Yahuwah then he is just observing the appointed time carnally without understanding the true meaning of that appointed time. Yahuwah says ‘MY APPOINTED TIMES’, it’s his appointed time.

Lev 23:2 Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them, the appointed times of Yahuwah which you shall proclaim them as holy convocations; My appointed times, they are these:

Sun moon and stars he set for the appointed times:

Ps104:19 He made the moon for the appointed times (muaed); the sun knows its going down. 

Ge 1:14 ¶ And Alahim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for appointed times (muaed), and for days, and years:

 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

 16 And Alahim made two great lights; the greater light (sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (moon) to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Alahim made the sun, moon and stars for the appointed times until the sun would turn black as a sackcloth, moon would turn into blood and the stars would fall from heaven and not give it's light which requires spiritual discernment. 

Ac 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of Yahuwah come:

The Appointed times also show the progression of time of life and the consummation of the Covenant:

While the first 5 feasts are spring/summer feasts and speak of salvation and deliverance, the 4 fall feasts including Hanukkah speak of autumn and winter when the weather will be tempestuous before salvation is completed/Covenant consumed.

While we don’t have time to go through all the feasts again, I will only speak briefly what’s required and related to the topic. Let’s start with Yom Kippur . Yahuwah places this feast towards the end (in the SEVENTH MONTH just before harvest time) to show us as stated in Heb 9:26 ....'but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself'

Secondly also to show that 'ALL YISHARAL WILL BE SAVED' 

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you shall be wise in your own conceits; that a blindness in part is happened to Yisrael until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Rom11:26 and so all Yisrael shall be saved; just as it is written, The deliverer shall come from Zion, He shall remove unrighteousness from Yaaqob (Jacob).   

The Yisharal that shall be saved is not the nation in the middle east but those whom Yahuwah will call both of the Yahudim (Jews) and the Goyim (Gentiles).

 Mt 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the harvest, neither on the Shabbat:

Matth 24:20. ‘a’k hith’palalu shel’ tih’yeh m’nusath’kem bachoreph w’lo’ baShabbat.

Matt24:20 “But pray that your flight shall not be in the harvest, or on the Shabbat.”
Matt24:21 “For then there shall be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.”

The Hebrew word ‘chorep’ can also be translated as ‘harvest’

Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my harvest (chorep), when the friendship of AL was over my tent.

The fall feasts fall in quick succession Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Feast of Booths (Harvest). The blowing of the shofar is to announce the coming of Mashiyach to take his bride to be with him, Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) speaks of ‘All Yisharal will be saved’ and the door shut and Feast of Booths shows the Harvest reaped and Yisharal rejoicing before Yahuwah but then Yahuwah shows us that the Harvest is past (Feast of Booths), summer is ended (now weather is tempestuous) and we are not yet saved.

Jer 8:20 Harvest is past, summer is ended, and we are not saved

This is the plight of Yisharal today (not the Middle East nation but we) as our flight happened in Harvest and on Shabbat. According to the feasts/appointed times mentioned in Leviticus 23 after the Feast of booths the time of life continues year on year with Shabbat, Pesach, Unleavened Bread, First fruits, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Feast of Booths but there is a break which shows the moon has turned into blood. The elect of Yahuwah flee Yerushalam as it is overrun with the heathen (Babylon) coming into her and have defiled her appointed times. Their appointed times Yahuwah loathes.

Hos2:9 Therefore, I shall return and take My grain at harvest time and My new wine in its season. I shall take away My wool and My flax to cover her nakedness.

Hos2:10 And then I shall uncover her shamefulness in the sight of her lovers, and a man shall not deliver her out of My hand.

Hos2:11 I shall also put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her Chodeshs, and her Shabbats and all her solemn feasts.

The parable of the wise and foolish virgins also show us a beautiful picture of the fall feasts.

The wise virgins slumbered and slept with the foolish while the BRIDEGROOM TARRIED (Matth 25:5) i.e. the bridegroom did not come at the appointed time, he delayed his coming. They slumbered and slept shows that they did not guard Yahuwah’s commands.

1)      At midnight a cry was made that the bridegroom is coming (Rosh Hashanah shofar blown) Matt 25:6, and they all woke up.

2)     The foolish virgins go to buy oil while the door is shut. The foolish were also called VIRGINS. The door shut shows Yom Kippur when all Yisharal will be saved while the foolish virgins who understood some truth are outside knocking and trying to enter. Matt 25:10

3)     The wise virgins were in the marriage supper of the bridegroom rejoicing. (Feast of Booths) Matt 25:10

4)     The wise virgins (elect) had the golden oil in their lamps to sustain them (Hanukkah: the 9 branch Menorah with the 7 plus 2 additional branches which empty the golden oil itself giving light to the candle stick as seen by Zechariah in his vision)

In the study ‘The Appointed times of Yahuwah’ we also saw that Hanukkah is 75 days after the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement marks the completion of the complete number of Yisharal into the kingdom i.e. All Yisharal will be saved. Hence it’s the mark of testimony being completed (1260 days). 1260 +75 =1335 days which Daniel speaks saying…


Re 11:3 ¶ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth

Da 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Disclaimer: I am in no way setting up time lines here but giving the reader a spiritual exegesis of the passages as these days 1260, 1290 and 1335 are all related to Yahuwah’s appointed times

With this spiritual timeline if 1260 days is the Day of Atonement which was on the 10th day of the seventh month, 1290 days would be about 30 days from Day of Atonement which is in the eighth month. We saw in the eighth month how Yaraboam set up two golden calves and set one in Bethel and one in Dan so that Yisharal shouldn’t go up to Yerushalam to worship .

1Ki 12:30 Now this thing became a sin, for the people went before the one, even unto Dan.

He also made a feast on the 15^th day of the eighth month as Yahudah did referring to the Feast of Booths.

1Ki 12:32 And Yaraboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Yahudah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.

When Moshe, Daniel, Yahuchanan and other prophets prophesied of these days (which without spiritual comparison don’t make sense) the spirit of prophecy was relating these days to the Appointed times of Yahuwah.

75 days from the 10th day of the seventh month would bring one to the 25th day of the ninth month. That is when Hanukkah is celebrated.

When the weather in the NINTH MONTH is WINTER and it’s tempestuous while apostasy still prevails. This reminds me of the account of Yahuyaqim who like a man of sin sitting in the temple and not allowing the people to turn to Yahuwah but Yahuwah leads his elect to himself through the golden oil which he gives to the lampstand.

Jer 36:21 Then the king sent Yahudi to get the scroll, and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Yahudi read it in the ears of the king (Yahuyaqim) and in the ears of all the officials who stood beside the king.

Jer 36:22  Now the king was sitting in the winter house in the ninth month, with the firepan burning before him.

Jer 36:23 And it came to pass when Yahudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.

Jer 36:24 Yet the king and all his servants who heard all these words were not afraid, nor did they rend their garments

The above reference is also to show that the ninth month is winter time when the weather is not favorable for the elect of Yahuwah who flee apostasy.

All those involved in the Jewish calendar are not aware that the sun has turned into darkness, the moon has turned into blood and the stars have fallen. Their feasts and solemn assemblies are loathsome to Yahuwah. The Appointed times of Yahuwah is where we meet Mashiyach Yahusha and if we have missed him then we have nothing but a bloody moon (lunar) calendar which Yisharal brought with them when they came out of Babylon. If no Mashiyach then the Appointed times become appointed times of Babylon. Yahuwah’s commands are LIVING COMMANDS and relates to us in all ages in meeting us face to face in Mashiyach.