Did God keep time by the moon?
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^ What he said and also to mark the Months (Mooneths in old English). The Hebrew calendar is still luni-solar to this day and used as the basic of Hebraic time from Months to metonic cycles of leap months. Even in Revelation we can see the important of the Moon in marking the Times of the Divine Working where the 'Maiden of the Starry Crown of 12 Astra is standing on the Moon, clothed with the Sun. This implies a full Moon and mark a Time of a Sign.
Well God dosnt need the moon to keep time, but he gave us an amazing Heavenly calender so that we could. There is far more to the constellations than we realise or will ever know, but we are told not to go there and dabble in Astrology.
Jews have always used the lunar cycle for their calendar and still continue to do so today.
Jews have always used the lunar cycle for their calendar and still continue to do so today.
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You find that, Christians are children of the light. So the solar calendar is accurate; there is no availabilities there like with the months or moons.
When you read of prophecies having to do with Months or moons, in the Bible, it almost always has to do with the lunar or night, which is Satan's time.
When you read of prophecies having to do with Months or moons, in the Bible, it almost always has to do with the lunar or night, which is Satan's time.
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psalm 104:19..."He made the moon for the seasons; The sun knows the place of its setting."
this verse suggests that the ancient israelites marked the seasons by the moon...
however at the same time i would say that a purely lunar calendar does not line up with other examples of timekeeping in scripture...for example the first month of the israelite religious calendar was always in the spring... while a fully lunar calendar on the other hand causes each month to 'drift' through the seasons in a cycle lasting many years...due to the fact that the length of time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun does not exactly line up with any sum of whole lunar cycles... for example the isalmic calendar -is- purely lunar and its months cycle through the year over a period lasting about thirty-three years before a month returns to its original place in the year...as a result no muslim month permanently corresponds with any given season...
so the ancient israelite calendar must have been what is called a 'lunisolar' calendar...one primarily based on the moon but with certain adjustments intended to keep specific months in line with specific seasons...
i know that in ancient israel the new moon always marked the beginning of a new month...so the ancient israelite calendar could not have kept in time with the seasons by having months of varying lengths the way we have in our modern western calendar...each israelite month had to be exactly the length of the regular lunar cycle accurate to the day...
the only alternative scheme for keeping the months in line with the seasons would be to add a 'leap month' every few years...specifically in years where the 'drift' of months had progressed to the point where the proper months and seasons would otherwise be a month off from each other...
the modern jewish calendar works that way...however it also includes more complex mathematical considerations that were developed from around the third century AD to until they were officially set down by the jewish philosopher maimonides in the twelfth century...
the original israelite calendar was probably more simple than the modern jewish calendar...and the 'leap month' corrections were probably based entirely on observations of natural phenomena such as harvest times and rains instead of the modern system where the corrections are largely based on computations related to the astronomical position of the sun relative to the earth...
this verse suggests that the ancient israelites marked the seasons by the moon...
however at the same time i would say that a purely lunar calendar does not line up with other examples of timekeeping in scripture...for example the first month of the israelite religious calendar was always in the spring... while a fully lunar calendar on the other hand causes each month to 'drift' through the seasons in a cycle lasting many years...due to the fact that the length of time it takes for the earth to orbit the sun does not exactly line up with any sum of whole lunar cycles... for example the isalmic calendar -is- purely lunar and its months cycle through the year over a period lasting about thirty-three years before a month returns to its original place in the year...as a result no muslim month permanently corresponds with any given season...
so the ancient israelite calendar must have been what is called a 'lunisolar' calendar...one primarily based on the moon but with certain adjustments intended to keep specific months in line with specific seasons...
i know that in ancient israel the new moon always marked the beginning of a new month...so the ancient israelite calendar could not have kept in time with the seasons by having months of varying lengths the way we have in our modern western calendar...each israelite month had to be exactly the length of the regular lunar cycle accurate to the day...
the only alternative scheme for keeping the months in line with the seasons would be to add a 'leap month' every few years...specifically in years where the 'drift' of months had progressed to the point where the proper months and seasons would otherwise be a month off from each other...
the modern jewish calendar works that way...however it also includes more complex mathematical considerations that were developed from around the third century AD to until they were officially set down by the jewish philosopher maimonides in the twelfth century...
the original israelite calendar was probably more simple than the modern jewish calendar...and the 'leap month' corrections were probably based entirely on observations of natural phenomena such as harvest times and rains instead of the modern system where the corrections are largely based on computations related to the astronomical position of the sun relative to the earth...
