1. How to Escape from Babylon and to understand our Creator’s calendar
Life in Babylon
The lyrics of “By the rivers of Babylon” reveals a life of a suppressed society that has a longing for freedom, just like the Hebrew nation longed for freedom when they were in captivity under Babylon.
BY THE RIVERS OF BABILON - The Melodians 1970 and later Boney M
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down
Yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down
Yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion
When the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
When the wicked carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Let the words of our mouth and meditation of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight
Let the words of our mouth and meditation of our heart
Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down
Yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down
Yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion
By the rivers of Babylon (dark tears of Babylon)
There we sat down (you got to sing a song)
Yeah, we wept (sing a song of love)
When we remembered Zion (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)……..
When the exiles stayed under the rule of the oppressors, all the practices and cultures of the oppressors applied. The character of the exiles is replaced with something else within one or more generation.
When Moses led the descendants of Israel out of Egypt to the promised land, they did not have the privilege to enter the promised land. It was a new generation that entered the promised land.
This process was repeated when the Hebrews were taken into exile to Babylon. Here the Hebrew exiles found new practices, culture, habits, and time. Yes, time is also a very important variable. Egypt used a three-season annual calendar. Babylon made use of a very advanced calendar system that not only made use of the sun and the moon, but also stellar constellations. We therefor get the months: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces from the Babylonian era.
This time the Hebrews spent a significantly shorter time in exile, and they did not all return. Babylon was a model for the era and some aspects of their modern elements came with the exiles when they returned. Ancient Israel was known for its calendar with the months Abib, second month, third month and so on until the twelfth month. There is no mention of a thirteenth month. When the exiles returned, the Hebrews used the Lunar/Solar calendar with the months: Nisan, Iyar, Siva, Tammuz, Ab, Elul, Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tebeth, Shebat, Adar and Adar II. It was constructed of twelve months per year up to Adar and from time to time a thirteenth month Adar II was added to align with the lunar cycles.
The Christian Gregorian Calendar (named after Pope Gregory XIII in 1582) begins the year 10 days after the winter solstice on the 1st of January. The day/night equinox is very accurate and mostly fixed on the 20th March, but the solstice (in December) happens over a period of 2 days in December.
The name of the months also tells their own story and gives proof that the year should begin in March:
SEPTEM-ber (from Latin septem, “seven”)
OCTO-ber (from Latin octo “eight”)
NOVEM-ber (from Latin novem “nine)
DECEM-ber (from Latin decem “ten”)
It is supposed that the months January and February were added as extra months 11 and 12 to the end of the Roman 10 month calendar by Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome, but it is unknown when it was changed to be the first 2 months of the year. (Ref: Time in Roman Religion, Origin of January)
In the Julian calendar, every 4 years, there are 366 days between the spring vernal
equinoxes where the 29th day in February was added at the end of the year, for the equinox to occur on 20th March. The Christian Easter festival is always on a fixed day of the week (Sunday), but is determined by the first full moon after the vernal equinox, which is why the date changes every year. The Babylonian (Hebrew) Pesach are also determined by lunar cycles, but Christmas (not the birth of Yeshua) is always on a fixed day – 25th December.
The Babylonian (Hebrew) calendar is the basis of the modern “fixed” Jewish calendar (also known as the Hillel Calendar) being used today with Jewish festive days being shifted around to fit into this calendar.
(A leap year in the Jewish calendar has 13 months and occurs 7 times in a 19-year cycle. In Hebrew, a leap year is referred to as Shanah Me'uberet, or pregnant year. Catching Up with the Solar Year Months in the Jewish calendar are based on the phases of the Moon. A new month begins on the day of the Crescent Moon after the New Moon phase. Because the sum of 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than the solar year, a 13th month is periodically added to keep the calendar in step with the astronomical seasons.) - Ref (Jewish Leap Year)
NOTE: There are NO reference found in the Bible of a 13th month.
Furthermore, in the absence of the Temple, the Synagogues became a place of gathering for the practice of religion. This is probably why the use of Church buildings is still applied today.
Babylon brought an era of art and innovation, astronomy, philosophy, science and medicine. It also brought the curses and plagues over the people.
(Isa 13:19) And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
(Isa 13:20) It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Also, in the end, the command from the Angel:
(Rev 18:4) And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Now how shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Daniel warned that times and laws would be changed. (While he was still in Babylon)
(Dan 7:25) And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Our Creator’s calendar has been changed a long time ago and currently there is a proposed new calendar prepared by John Hopkins University. The two professors working on the project are Prof. Hanke and Prof. Henry. It is currently named the “Hanke Henry Permanent Calendar”. (More on this calendar later in the document).
The Ten Commandments is also in the process to be replaced by seven “Noahide Laws” under the guise of “Educational Laws” and “Universal Morality Laws”.
There is a lot of information to be found on these subjects by simple searches on Google.
The Noahide Law is NOT founded on the Bible or the Torah and comes solely from the Talmud.
Yahweh warned us in Hosea that we do NOT acquire enough wisdom (knowledge):
(Hos 4:6) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
We do, however, have a choice to make:
(Jos 24:14) Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
(Jos 24:15) And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
We MUST therefore return to the beginning…