Happy Biblical New Year! Well, maybe I said this is too late or too early this year depending on when you read this.🧐 The EATT website was viciously attacked right when the world was looking to see if the Aviv barley was present to proclaim the new year. I profusely thank my partner and God for working very hard to try and get the website back so it can continue to serve those The Lord has called!
Our beloved, Tim, started the tradition of keeping you updated on the calendar at the beginning of this website. I intend to keep up the tradition. Happy Holy Day time to all of you! - Katrina
Once you understand that the "Jewish festivals"/Feasts of the LORD from Leviticus 23 are prophetic and a key to end-time prophecy, you may want to start tracking them using the right calendar based on the crescent new moon sightings and aviv barley search. This is not the precalculated Jewish calendar invented by the rabbis as used by the State of Israel (or the WCG did). The rabbis put Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year's) in the fall, which is against Exodus 12:2. For more information on the Biblical calendar, read the article about the aviv barley.
2024 Biblical Holidays Dates
The dates for the spring feasts below are based on finding enough Aviv barley in April of 2024.
| Festival/Holiday | Date * |
|---|---|
| "New Year's Day" (only for reference) | April 9, 2024 |
| Passover (Pesach פסח) | April 23, 2024 |
| 1st Day of Unleavened Bread (מצות) | April 24, 2024 |
| 7th Day of Unleavened Bread (שביעי של פסח) | April 30, 2024 |
| Pentecost/Weeks (Shavuot שָׁבוּעוֹת) | June 16, 2024 |
| Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah/"Rosh Hashanah" יוֹם תְּרוּעָה) | Oct. 5, 2024 |
| Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur יוֹם כִּפּוּר) | Oct. 14, 2024 |
| Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot סוכות) | Oct. 19, 2024 |
| Last Great Day (Shemini Atzeret שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת) | Oct. 26, 2024 |
* Note: All holy days begin the previous evening at sunset.
These questions came up for Tim every year in emails so he answered them here permanently for all those who struggle with these questions. Enjoy!- Katrina
Q. What If the Crescent Moon Was Visible Earlier in America Than Jerusalem?
Q. What If the Calendar I Follow Is Wrong?
Tim,
More of a statement than a question. The crescent moon was visible from Dallas, TX at sundown on March 12th, 2013. Since the Creator uses the laws of nature to determine times and seasons, wouldn’t it stand that if communication wasn’t as prevalent as it is today, (years ago), that those who were viewing the crescent would have started their month from their actual viewing? Thus their feast days may be one day different than those in other parts of the world.
- Torah Keeper
A. In ancient Israel, thanks to the prophets with the Holy Spirit and the priests with their Urim and Thummim, the revelation from God needed to know when the years (Ex 12:2) and months began and even which day was Sabbath (Ex 16) was readily available. Since it was a single tiny nation keeping the feasts, disseminating this revelation nationwide was not hard.
In the Millennium, all nations will keep Torah (Zech 14:16; Isa 66:23) (although it will be updated for the 21st century, not resembling ancient Israel's Torah as much as people think). I can't imagine the world will calculate the days the way that many Torah Keepers (TK) practice today, i.e., based on local barley and lunar observations. This would have the world out of sync keeping feasts a day or even a month apart. One might argue that this is not strange since people around the world already keep Sabbath at different times. However, Sabbath is still on the same day or date in each time zone.
Instead of a local-observations-based system, prophecy seems to indicate about the Millennium that Jerusalem will be the standard and headquarters for the Torah or instruction of God:
Isaiah 2:3 (HCSB) — and many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
How will they do it? They could use the telecommunication technologies already invented many decades ago that we are all using today to get news from Jerusalem. Or a (true, accurate) prophet in each locale would know by the Holy Spirit whether aviv barley was discovered in Jerusalem or whether the new moon was sighted. This is not a problem for God.
One thing is for sure, at that time people will not have to write a stranger on the internet for help as everyone must resort to today. They'd just ask their local judge, Levite, priest or prophet set up as a recognized authority for such matters. =)
Don't Fear - Intention Is What Counts
That not being the situation today, those who choose to observe the Torah festivals have a choice to make on which of many proposed calendar reckonings to use. There is no reason to worry whether they have not chosen the right calendar or are observing feasts on the wrong days when there is no undisputed authority today to tell us the right calendar reckoning and end all the dispute we now see.
The fact that you want to celebrate the "festivals of Yehovah" (Lev 23:1,4) because they are from God is already pleasing to God. God judges on the heart, not by perfection of execution. Certainly whatever calendar you are convicted to go by, right or wrong, will not change God's view of you as righteous (assuming you do not judge or attack those who disagree with your choice!).
