Posted: 3/31/2007 5:42:02 PM EDT
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Our church (United Church of God, offshoot of Herbert Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God) has the Passover starting tomorrow (4-1-07) at sunset but the calendar shows it as Tuesday, which would mean sunset Monday. Counting up the days of Nissan and all that is beyond me, but my question is, has someone changed the Jewish calendar to the point that there can be any discrepancy in this, or is it non-Jewish who somehow view it differently? I know the Bible gives a starting point and then a certain amount of Sabbaths until various other Holy Days, so how do people find a way to change which day it is?  EDIT - Our church's calendar; www.ucg.org/resources/calendar.htm |
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I even asked one guy in our congregation, because one of the verses we read said something about killing the Passover lamb at the start of the first day of Unleavened Bread, but we did it two different days. (Which started sunset yesterday for us). I still don't understand how they figure it, so of course I follow what they say. I read where it says when to do these things, such as in Leviticus 23; "Le 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. Le 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. Le 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. Le 23:7 In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Le 23:8 But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein." I have no way of knowing when the "first month" starts though, so I can't count it out myself. Thanks for the reply Ed.  |