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Schedule of Holy Days 2005 |
Dear Brethren,
It is time to mark our calendars with God's Holy Days
for this year - if you have not done so already. The first day of God's sacred calendar
year falls on April 10th.* This day is not a holy convocation.
Passover, this year, falls on April 23rd and is always observed the
evening before. So, the Footwashing and Passover service will be
held Friday evening - just after sunset - April 22nd. We have been
given very direct instructions by Jesus Christ:
"Jesus poured water into a basin, and began to
wash the disciples' feet... and said, If I then, your Lord and
Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one
another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you
should do as I have done to you."
"Jesus took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my
body which is given for you: do this in remembrance of me. Likewise
also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for
you."
This year, the First Day of Unleavened Bread is Sunday, April 24th.
It is a holy convocation. Holy Convocations are days of commanded
observance by God - sometimes called high Sabbaths, or as we
see in the following verse - they are called simply high days.
"The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain
upon the cross on the Sabbath day, (for that Sabbath day was a high day.)"
(John 19:31)
The Night To Be Much Observed this year is on the previous evening of April 23rd when the first
high day actually begins.
"It is a Night To Be Much Observed unto the Lord for
bringing [the children of Israel] out from the land of Egypt: this
is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the children of
Israel in their generations." (Exodus 12:42)
The Days of Unleavened Bread continue for seven days through April
30th, the last day of Unleavened Bread also being a High Day.
"You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days
shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even
the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of
Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest
forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life."
(Deuteronomy 16:3)
Pentecost (count fifty) is counted to fall on Sunday, June 12 in
2005. "You shall count unto you from the morrow after the
Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave
offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow
after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days." (Lev
23:15-16)
The Feast of Trumpets is Tuesday, October 4th.
The Day of Atonement is Thursday, October 13th.
The Feast of Tabernacles is from October 18th through October 24th.
The Last Great Day is on Tuesday, October 25th.
Please request the Ten Year Sacred Calendar if you do not have one.
*The first day of the sacred year is determined and set by the Jews
as the first new moon, as the moon proceeds forward out of
its alignment between the sun and the earth after the spring,
or vernal equinox, in respect of all God's Feast Day requirements.
The Bible does not define the beginning of God's sacred calendar
in terms of an absolute astronomical new moon. Individuals cannot
take to themselves the prerogative or privilege of establishing an
alternate or more accurate astronomical sacred calendar. It is only
the Jews who were given Godly authority over the sacred calendar.
"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were
committed the oracles of God." (Romans 3:1-2)
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