SPIRITUAL LESSON 1

DETERMINING THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS

This lesson is to demonstrate how the Beginning of Months was determined for this year. We go
by the Perceived Spring Equilux*, which we define as the day near Spring that the hours of
daylight and hours of darkness are equal relative to civil twilight**, making this day EVEN
(darkness before light symbolism). Perceived means that no scientific instruments are necessary
to predict the Equilux and it is purely observational, however, out of necessity, we need to use
instruments because we are scattered throughout the Earth and none of us live in Jerusalem.
Even so, if there should come a day when we no longer have access to a computer, the
Beginning of Months could still be determined by pure observation, along with the knowledge that
YAHWEH has imparted to us (Hallel YAH!). There are two Perceived Equiluxes in a year. One
occurs near spring, and the other occurs near autumn. The Perceived Autumnal Equilux will
occur sometime during the 24-hour period on October 24, 2011.

*NOTE: Equilux is a fairly recent term (2006), which we will now make our own. You will not find
this word in a dictionary, but there are some limited resources you can find to study it on the
Internet, however, they use sunset and sunrise times to determine it, and we know from the Book
of Genesis that this is just not accurate.

**NOTE: There are two times of civil twilight. One is at dusk and the other is at dawn where
darkness and light are EVEN. In this lesson, these two points will be referred to as “civil twilight
p.m.” and “civil twilight a.m.”. As per Genesis 1:5, the Hebrew word for evening is H6150: ‘arab,
meaning “to grow dark”, this is after sunset but before night sets in. The Hebrew word for morning
is H1242: boker, meaning “the coming of sunrise” or “prior to sunrise”, meaning that sunset and
sunrise are inaccurate terms. Dusk and dawn were given as marker points for a 24-hour day. This
does not mean that a day as defined by Genesis 1:5 (and the rest of the Creation Days) is only
during the dark hours, but that the day begins with the light fading and the darkness prevailing,
hence evening (or the modern term “civil twilight p.m.”) being first. On the calendar below,
morning is first, so your times will need to be adjusted to Yahweh’s day beginning at civil twilight
p.m.

The ancient pagan nations predicted the equinox by solely using the sun. The vernal equinox was
marked by the path of the sun traveling due east to due west from whatever their location on
Earth was at the time. Many of these markers can be seen throughout the world, the most famous
being Stonehenge.

Keeping with the darkness before light symbolism (as per Genesis 1) the Beginning of Months
always starts on a completely dark new moon. The crescent moon teachings are Babylonian. I
hope that, by now, you all also understand that there is no scriptural basis for the barley
teachings, either. If you have any questions regarding this, please refer to this article:
http://www.sabbatarian.com/SacredCalendar/BeginningOfMonths.html.

The original intended "International Dateline" is Jerusalem, not its current location. Please see the
Sabbatarian Network articles for determining the Beginning of Months, New Moon Symbolism
and the International Dateline Dilemma for more information.

Now, onto the lesson…

1. GO TO THIS WEBSITE: http://www.sunrisesunset.com/predefined.asp

2. GO TO THE "SELECT A CITY" DROPDOWN MENU AND SELECT "ISRAEL-JERUSALEM"

3. GO TO THE "MONTH, YEAR" DROPDOWN MENU AND SELECT "FEBRUARY" AND "2011"

4. CHECK THE BOXES NEXT TO "CIVIL TWILIGHT" AND "MOON PHASES".

5. CLICK "MAKE CALENDAR"

6. LOCATE THE DAY WHERE CIVIL TWILIGHT (AM) AND CIVIL TWILIGHT (PM) ARE EQUAL.
THE CIVIL TWILIGHT (AM) IS AT THE TOP, AND CIVIL TWILIGHT (PM) IS AT THE BOTTOM
(THESE ARE NOT SUNRISE AND SUNSET TIMES!). THIS DAY FOR FEBRUARY 2011 IS ON
FEBRUARY 19TH.

7. THE NEXT DARK NEW MOON WILL FOLLOW THIS, AND THAT DAY WILL BE THE
BEGINNING OF MONTHS! CLICK "BACK" ON YOUR BROWSER AND RETURN TO THE
CREATE YOUR OWN CALENDAR MENU AND CHANGE "FEBRUARY" TO "MARCH" AND
CLICK "MAKE CALENDAR" AGAIN.

8. LOCATE THE DARK NEW MOON SYMBOL (IT LOOKS LIKE A BLACK CIRCLE). THIS DAY
IS THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS AND IT BEGINS AT EVEN (MARCH 4TH).

9. AS PER COMMANDMENT, PASSOVER IS 14 DAYS LATER, AND FELL ON MARCH 18TH

PRIOR TO TWILIGHT. FOR MARCH 18TH, CIVIL TWILIGHT (PM) WAS AT 6:13 P.M.
JERUSALEM TIME.

REMEMBER: ALL OF THE HOLY DAYS ARE SET IN MOTION BY THE BEGINNING OF
MONTHS, AS ALL OF THE REMAINING HOLY DAYS ARE TIMED ACCORDINGLY.

NOW, TRY AND SEE IF YOU CAN DETERMINE THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS FOR
YOURSELF FOR 2012. PUT YOUR ANSWERS BELOW AS A REPLY. DON'T BE SHY, IF YOU
MAKE A MISTAKE, WE CAN ALL LEARN FROM IT! YOU WILL NOT BE BERATED FOR THE
WRONG ANSWER!