by Tziona Yisrael

Created on: April 15, 2009   Last Updated: April 16, 2009

What better time to post this topic than now in preparations for next year's Passover. Too many people believe that a "barley search" is in order before we can identify the start of the Hebrew New Year, but nothing could be further from the Truth!

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Our GOD-given Lighted "Signs" in the Heavens are our INDICATORS For the BEGINNING of months unto us NOT a Barley Search

"By the word of the LORD were the heavens made;
and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.

"Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast." Psalm 33:6,8,9

"And God 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 seasons, and for days, and years:

"And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth: and it was so." Genesis 1:14.15

MONTHS are determined by the Lighted "Sign" of the sun.
DAYS are determined by the Lighted "Sign" of the sun. The evening and the morn (Genesis 1st Chapter).

YEARS are determined by the Lighted "Sign" of the sun.
New Moon Crescents are Sighted by the Lighted "Sign" of the sun's reflection on the moon.

March 19 21 (Spring), the time of the "Equinox" which is determined by the sun. (The First New Moon Crescent following the Equinox marks the Hebrew New Year.)

There is an obvious and clear connection denoted in regard to the above Lighted "Signs" in the Heavens (Genesis 1:14,15) and the words: month, year, time, and season found in the Hebrew Scriptures listed below, and it should be understood that "barley" in no way is a part of this Heavenly equation. And to add the "barley search" theory, an meaningless imagination, is to instigate confusion and discredit and belittle the CREATOR's Commandment to use the Lighted "Signs" for "Seasons, Days, and Years".

It would be nave and unwise to imagine that any of the roles of the Hosts of Heaven changed, as a result of the CREATOR instituting the BEGINNING of Months unto the Children of Israel ahead of their coming out of the Land of Egypt. All the Seasons, Days, and Years were all in place just as they were when the Hosts of Heaven were made. The GOD of Israel only informed the Israelites of when their New Year would begin.

"And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you." Exodus 12:1,2

"This day came

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