Eating Chammaschith From the Genizah

In our bible, many of you have made a big deal out of this one word and have totally missed the meaning being put forward to you. It is the word sorceries and is G5331 and in greek is pronounced as pharmakeia. Here are two verses it is found in.

Galatians 5:20  Idolatry, G1495  witchcraft, G5331  hatred, G2189  variance, G2054  emulations, G2205  wrath, G2372  strife, G2052  seditions, G1370  heresies, G139

Rev 18:23 And G2532  the light G5457  of a candle G3088  shall shine G5316  no more at all G2089 G3364  in G1722  thee; G4671  and G2532  the voice G5456  of the bridegroom G3566  and G2532  of the bride G3565  shall be heard G191  no more at all G2089 G3364  in G1722  thee: G4671  for G3754  thy G4675  merchants G1713  were G2258  the G3588  great men G3175  of the G3588  earth; G1093  for G3754  by G1722  thy G4675  sorceries G5331  were all G3956  nations G1484  deceived. G4105

From this many of you assume that all drugs made in a pharmacy is witchcraft and to be avoided. And this became the big hullabaloo over the vaccines during the COVID pandemic.

So just read the verse again and insert the current misunderstood word. Instead of saying “for by your sorceries were all you nations deceived” say, For by your druggist or pharmacies or modern medicines were all the nations deceived. This is absolutely ludicrous. That is not what Yehovah is conveying to you. Notice what Thayer has to say about this word and take note of #4.

G5331   (Thayer) φαρμακεία pharmakeia

Thayer Definition:

1) the use or the administering of drugs

2) poisoning

3) sorcery, magical arts, often found in connection with idolatry and fostered by it

4) metaphorically the deceptions and seductions of idolatry

It is the mixing of religious ideologies. The worship of false gods and pagan worship is the mixing of it with the worship of Yehovah and thinking it is all good. Covering all the bases as it were. Or it is believing all roads lead to Yehovah. This is utterly false and it is an abomination.

Let’s look at this word in the Old Testament. In 1 Samuel, Saul did not obey the commands of Yehovah and read how Samuel rebuked him.

1Sa 15:19 Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you fly on the spoil and do evil in the sight of Jehovah?

1Sa 15:20 And Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have completely destroyed the Amalekites.

1Sa 15:21 But the people took from the spoil, of the flocks and herd, the best of the things devoted to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal.

1Sa 15:22 And Samuel said, Does Jehovah delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice! To listen is better than the fat of rams!

1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idol-worship. Because you have rejected the Word of Jehovah, He has also rejected you from being king!

Like Saul, many of you also say, “Yes, we have obeyed the voice of Yehovah, and follow His Commandments.” Samuel says to him that his rebellion at not obeying is like the sin of witchcraft, and he associated this sin with idol worship. Idol Worship? Saul did not obey Yehovah’s commands, and that is likened to idol worship.

At first, Saul did as God commanded him: “Saul attacked the Amalekites, from Havilah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt” (verse 7). Yet, for some reason—perhaps it was a personal or political aversion to slaying a fellow king—”Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling to utterly destroy them” (verse 9). For this act of disobedience, God rejected Saul as king over Israel (verses 11, 23, 26), and in the process of time, gave the throne to David.

There is a bit of irony in the fact that, when questioned about sparing Agag and the livestock, Saul frames his disobedience as a way to honor God: “[The people] have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed” (verse 15). The prophet Samuel, justifiably, tells him to shut up.

After some back and forth, in which Saul doubles down on his excuse, Samuel explains why the king’s disobedience was such a great sin in the eyes of God:

Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft [or divination], and stubbornness [or defiance] is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king. (I Samuel 15:22-23)

Saul had convinced himself that God would accept an extravagant offering of animal flesh, bestowing on Him great honor and glory for their victory over the Amalekites, in place of his simply doing what He said. Put another way, the king had prioritized a pious demonstration of worship (read, appeasing gift) over obedience. Samuel’s inspired response is essentially, “Sorry, Saul, but you got it completely backward!”

As the prophet says, “To obey is better than sacrifice” (see Mark 12:33). God looks more favorably on a person who takes His Word at face value and single-mindedly follows its direction than on someone who blithely excuses his failures and reframes them as “opportunities” to bring God glory. This latter attitude is perilously close to the apostle Paul’s rhetorical question, “Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?” (Romans 6:1).

The explanation for Samuel’s declaration of God’s priorities appears in I Samuel 15:23: “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.” Not doing as God says is not merely disobedience but rebellion: “open opposition toward a person or group in authority,” as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it. In other words, it is a manifestation of an individual’s active, anti-God nature. Disobedience to God’s commands puts a person on the wrong side of the battle line dividing right from wrong. Such a one may as well have taken up arms against God!

His comparison of rebellion to witchcraft can seem strange at first, since insurrection and sorcery appear to have little in common. However, the comparison is not focused on the kinds of sin they represent but on their magnitude: Rebellion is just as bad as witchcraft. Disregarding God’s clear commands is just as spiritually dangerous as getting involved in demonism. In fact, rebellion is one of the demons’ great sins. Both rebellion and divination lead a person away from God, and without repentance, open a place for him in the camp of the demons. This is why God rejected Saul as king over His people. He would not have a declared enemy ruling over Israel.

How many of you are the same as Saul? You obey at first but then change the Torah or those things Yehovah commands us to do, to suit your way of thinking.

We have another example of the word witchcraft, but it does not use the word witchcraft. You must look at the story and understand it. Then, as now, there was no king over Israel, and every man did what was right in his own eyes.

It is the story of Micah in the book of Judges.

 Jdg 17:3  And when he had given back the eleven hundred of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly given the silver to Jehovah from my hand for my son to make a graven image and a molten image. And now I am giving it to you.

Jdg 17:4  And he gave the money back to his mother. And his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a refiner, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image. And they were in the house of Micah.

Jdg 17:5  And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod and household gods, and anointed one of his sons, who became his priest.

Jdg 17:6  In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his eyes.

This is the story of Micah, who is not the prophet Micah from Morasthite in the book of Micah.

This Micah stole some money from his mom, repented, and returned it to her. In return, his mom consecrated the silver to the Lord to make an idol. This idol was joined by several other ‘worship items,’ and a Levite was hired to be Micah’s priest. Then, Micah’s shrine and priest were stolen by the tribe of Dan. And they became an object of worship for that whole tribe.

This story shows how they merged the worship of Yehovah with pagan practices. It is just reported as a historical event with no indication that this was a problem. The only indication that something was wrong was the phrase, “In those days, there was no king, and everyone did what they thought right.” So it would appear that Micah and the others in this story did not see anything wrong in their actions.

How guilty are we of doing what Micah did? Mixing the worship of Yehovah with idolatry and never even realizing what we are doing? Most of us would probably vehemently deny that we are guilty of such a thing. But idols take many different forms.

This week, we are exposing the false worship of Yehovah by those who use the Enochian, also known as the Jubilee, and Zadok Calendar.

These various names are all used for the same system. They had remained “Buried” in history until their remains were found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls between 1946 and 1956 in various caves around Qumran.

Sacha Stern wrote the following about the Enoch and Jubilee Calendars in his book CALENDAR AND COMMUNITY, A History of the Jewish Calendar Second Century BCE-Tenth Century CE

1.1.7 Qumran sources and calendrical practice

Given this diversity of calendars, it may be wondered whether they were all intended to be used in practice. Schematic calendars excel in mathematical simplicity, but for this reason, they fail to comply with astronomical reality. Both the calendar of Jubilees and the 3-year lu­nisolar cycle assume an average solar year length of 364 days, which as we have seen, falls short of the real solar (tropical) year by approxi­mately 1-1/4 days. There is no provision, in these calendars, for occasional adjustments or intercalations—in spite of various attempts, by modern scholars, to conjecture that there must have been.6S Observance of these calendars over a protracted period would have caused the biblical festi­vals to occur in the wrong agricultural seasons, in blatant violation of Mosaic Law. This is unlikely to have been tolerated by any Jewish sect or community.

Likewise, the average length of the lunar month, which is assumed in the 3-year lunisolar cycle, is considerably too short. Every three years, the calendar month would fall behind the lunar month by approximately half a day. This discrepancy is smaller than the solar discrepancy of  1 1/4 days per annum, but arguably just as significant. This is because the phases of the moon are far more obvious to the casual observer than as­tronomical solstices and equinoxes. Whereas a discrepancy of one week between the calendar and the actual solar year can easily go unnoticed, a discrepancy of two days between the middle of the calendar month and the full moon is obvious to any inexperienced observer.

The length of the lunar (synodical) month is, in reality, over 44 minutes in excess of 29 1/2 days. Consequently, a lunar calendar cannot consist of a simple alter­ nation of 29 and 30-day months. Approximately every 36 months an additional day must be inserted, and a further day every 360 months (which make up for the accumulation each month of 44 minutes). In the Qumran 3-year cycle, this requirement is partially met with the intercalation every 3 years of an extra-se­quential 30-day month. However, this intercalation only provides an additional half-day to the cycle (i.e. the half-day remaining after deduction of 29 1/2 days for the actual lunar month).66 Therefore, the 3-year lunar cycle of the Qum­ran calendar accumulates a discrepancy of approximately half a day every three years, and of an additional day every 360 months.

The calendars of Qumran sources could only have been used in practice if their users were not bothered by these discrepancies. Some scholars have entertained this possibility on the basis of a passage in Enoch 80: 2-8, which reads that in the days of sinners the years shall be shortened, so that rain and vegetation will come ‘late’. This passage sug­gests a discrepancy between the calendar and the seasons; Enoch does not attribute this discrepancy to a fault in the calendar, but rather to human sin causing disruption of the seasons. Such a perspective could have justified the observance of a calendar that was falling behind the moon and the seasons.67

This Enoch passage may have justified a moderate discrepancy; but whether it would have justified a revolving calendar, with festivals such as Passover occurring in all seasons of the year, remains perhaps to be established. To repeat, the observance of Passover in any other season than the spring would have been a blatant violation of Mosaic Law. Many scholars, therefore, would favour the view that if any of these calendars were ever adopted in practice, as suggested by the book of Jubilees and the Damascus Rule, they would have been abandoned early on, as soon as these discrepancies became excessive.68 Alternatively, schematic cal­endars such as the calendar of Jubilees or the 3-year lunisolar cycle could have been used over a longer stretch of history, but only for short periods at a time. Discrepancies could have been rectified whenever necessary, on a purely ad hoc basis.

Most likely, perhaps, is that these schematic calendars served only as idealistic or theoretical models—much as has been argued in the con­text of Enoch’s calendars, with which Qumran calendars are evidently related.69 Qumran calendars may also have been construed as relevant to some futuristic, ideal world order. This might be suggested from the syn­chronization, in 4Q320-1, of the lunisolar cycle with the cycle of priestly courses;70 in the context of the Qumran community, the Temple-centred priestly courses would only have pertained to some eschatological ideal.

61 Pace Wise (1994*) 229.
62 So Wise (1994*) 229-30.
63 According to Talmon and Knohl (1995: 297—8), reference to this last day can also be found in 4Q321.
64 e.g. Wacholder and Wacholder (1995) 7-8 and 29-30; see bibliography cited in Wise (1994a) 100. This theory does not account for the listing of the last day of the months in 4Q320 (which in this theory would correspond to one day before the full moon).

65 For a summary, see Beckwith (1970). For a more recent attempt, see Glessmer (1996b) and (1999) 262-8. Glessmer emphasizes that this attempt is only hypothetical, as it is not supported by any explicit statement in the text (1996b: 156-7).

66 Beckwith (1992: 459) gives an erroneous account of this discrepancy, corrected in the later version (1996: 119).

The Qumran calendars, called the Zadok calendar today, are based on 30-day months for a 360-day year.

They assume that the 150 days Noah spent in the ark prove that Noah kept a 30-day month for those five months in the ark. They do not recognize that Noah could not see the moon during that time, so each month became 30 days in length by default.

You will also notice that the Zadok calendar has two 30-day months each quarter and a 31-day month for every third month in a quarter. The year is divided by four quarters each.

Noah does not mention nor count that 31^st day as they try to insist. But they do try to confuse you with hyperbole talk to explain it away. In other words, our modern expression of “bullshit baffles brains.” Don’t fall for it

When Daniel speaks of a 1260-day, and 1290-day year, they will use this as further proof of the 360-day year and 30-day months. Again the sun and moon will not be seen during this time, so they are automatically 30-day months.

Another major faux pas or blunder of the Zadok calendar is that each quarter begins at the vernal equinox, and the month subsequently begins at that time. So, the equinox is day one on the calendar. This then does two things. It pays no attention to what phase the moon is in now nor does it matter to them what state the first fruits of the land of Israel are in.

All that matters is the equinox and no witnesses are needed.

This year, 2023, the spring equinox fell on Mon, Mar 20, 2023 5:24 PM Do they count Monday as day one or Tuesday? This year that works out to be the Conjunction of the moon to begin your counting from. Not the crescent moon. Don’t let them use this year to say, “see it is right on”, because it is not.

Look at 31 AD when Yehshua was killed.

The Equinox was March 23, 31 AD. That is 18 days before the conjunction of the next month. You can see it just by looking at Torah Calendar.

Another form of this abomination, for that, is what it is, are those who use the equinox and the Zadok calendar to line up the constellations so that every season is aligned to the constellation. They claim this is proven by Gen 1:14. They liken this claim to the paleo hebrew letter Tet.

All of this is the same as when Satan spoke to Eve. He ignored some basic facts. When Eve also glossed over those facts, then, Satan continued to lead her astray.

What basic facts do these Qumran, Enoch, Jubilee, Zadok and Equinox Solar or sun-only calendars all neglect and minimize?

Notice what Encyclopedia Britannica has to say about the length of time of one year. You will notice that it is never 360 or 364.

year, time required for Earth to travel once around the Sun, about 365 ¹/₄ days. This fractional number makes necessary the periodic intercalation of days in any calendar that is to be kept in step with the seasons. In the Gregorian calendar a common year contains 365 days, and every fourth year (with a few exceptions) is a leap year of 366 days.

In astronomy, several kinds of year are distinguished, having slightly different lengths. The solar year (365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds), also called tropical year, or year of the seasons, is the time between two successive occurrences of the vernal equinox (the moment when the Sun apparently crosses the celestialequator moving north). Because of the precession of the equinoxes (an effect of a slow wobble in Earth’s rotation), the solar year is shorter than the sidereal year (365 days 6 hours 9 minutes 10 seconds), which is the time taken by the Sun to return to the same place in its annual apparent journey against the background of the stars. The anomalistic year (365 days 6 hours 13 minutes 53 seconds) is the time between two passages of Earth through perihelion, the point in its orbit nearest the Sun. A lunar year (used in some calendars) of 12 synodic months (12 cycles of lunar phases) is about 354 days long. A cosmic year is the time (about 225 million years) needed for the solar system to revolve once around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Now let’s look at the lunar cycle of a month. again from Encyclopedia Britannica

month, a measure of time corresponding or nearly corresponding to the length of time required by the Moon to revolve once around the Earth.

The synodic month, or complete cycle of phases of the Moon as seen from Earth, averages 29.530588 mean solar days in length (i.e., 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes 3 seconds); because of perturbations in the Moon’s orbit, the lengths of all astronomical months vary slightly. The sidereal month is the time needed for the Moon to return to the same place against the background of the stars, 27.321661 days (i.e., 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes 12 seconds); the difference between synodic and sidereal lengths is due to the orbital movement of the Earth–Moon system around the Sun. The tropical month, 27.321582 days (i.e., 27 days 7 hours 43 minutes 5 seconds), only 7 seconds shorter than the sidereal month, is the time between passages of the Moon through the same celestial longitude. The draconic, or nodical, month of 27.212220 days (i.e., 27 days 5 hours 5 minutes 35.8 seconds) is the time between the Moon’s passages through the same node, or intersection of its orbit with the ecliptic, the apparent pathway of the Sun.

As a calendrical period, the month is derived from the lunation—i.e., the time elapsing between successive new moons (or other phases of the moon). A total of 12 lunations amounts to 354 days and is, roughly, a year. A period of 12 lunations was therefore used by some primitive peoples to make their calendrical year. As is obvious, the lunar-based year (and a calendar derived from it) cannot be accurately correlated with a solar-based year, and the month’s continued use in the Gregorian calendar of modern times is merely a recognition of its convenience as a calendar division (see Table).

The reality of hard facts about the moon’s rotation around the earth, and both the earth and the moon’s rotation around the sun, are proof enough to disprove the solar calendars of Qumran false and that they are based on a complete lack of intelligence.

Yehovah’s calendar revolves around understanding that each month is either 29 or 30 days each month. This compensates for the .530588 variable each month.

The year is 354 days a year. A difference of 11 days from the Solar year each year. This is adjusted by an intercalated month about every three years. But this is also determined by the growth of Barley in Israel—something these other calendars all want to dismiss.

They do not regard the barley nor having the very first fruits for the wave offering. They completely miss the mark.

The reason these false calendars have been found in the Genizah is because they have Yehovah’s name on them, not because they are true or Holy. And the Genizah was the burial place for both old, worn-out scrolls and for heretical books.

Do not be deceived by sophisticated double talk.

But there was a problem. If this Akra Citadel should be captured again by the Gentiles in the future, they would once again have this fortress that could be used against the Israelites. This same tower looked over and into the Temple.

Recently Nehemia Gordon interviewed Dr. Miryam Brand who holds a Ph.D. in Bible and Second Temple Literature from New York University and an M.A. in Bible and Biblical Interpretation from Matan and Haifa University. Her book on the portrayal of sin in the Second Temple period (Evil Within and Without: The Source of Sin and Its Nature as Portrayed in Second Temple Literature) was published in 2013 and her commentary on the Book of Enoch was published as part of Outside the Bible in 2013. She has taught at Brown University, New York University, and Stern College and has spoken at Hebrew University, Cambridge University, and the University of Kiel. She is currently an Associate Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research.

Dr. Brand stated in this interview that

the Book of Enoch is really several books. It’s really about five books, maybe six if you count the last chapters as a separate book, which by the way, themselves are kind of built up of different pieces. But those books each have a different point. The only thing they have in common is Enoch as a character, and that’s pretty much the only thing they have in common.

She also said the book of Enoch was written between the 2nd century BC and 70 AD. It was not written the Enoch before the flood. The earliest full copy of Enoch was not found until the 16th century and only in the Ge’ez Ethiopian version. Then, we find them in fragments in the Genizah of Qumran—no full-text versions.

Dr Brand also said in the interview:

The following article is from our Newsletter 5850-014, published on June 28, 2014. It is taken from an article written by my friends Schalk and Elsa.

https://sightedmoon.com/the-heresy-of-the-enoch-calendar/

http://www.setapartpeople.com/enoch-calendar

The Heresy of the Enoch Calendar

Written by Schalk_and_Elsa and Posted in False teachings, YHVH’s Appointed times

In some of our recent posts, we have discussed the calendar and it’s origin. One topic that we have not yet addressed is the topic of the solar calendar – also known as the Enoch calendar. We have recently seen some groups starting to promote the Enoch calendar as the “original” calendar of YHVH. According to this group, the calendars based on the moon dates are from after the Babylonian exile. Followers of the Enoch calendar teach that the lunar calendar is something that the nation picked up from the Babylonians. According to them, the lunar calendar was never part of the first temple period. This topic also ties in nicely with the recent in-depth studies about the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes.

We often read that one of the ways to explain the misconception that Y’Shua was keeping a Pesach meal a day before the rest of the community, is the fact that He was following another calendar. Most often, the calendar referred to is the calendar followed by the Essenes. In our previous article, we have shown that Y’Shua was most likely anti-Essene. He warned His followers about the teachings of the Essenes.

Let us do a more detailed study of the Enoch calendar and the calendar of the Essenes. The more we know about this calendar the better we can decide what the Scriptural calendar is.

The origin of the calendar

There is no record of the Enoch calendar in Scripture. However, the books of Enoch and Jubilees—which do not make up our current canon of Scripture—are the most likely origin or proof of this calendar.

There are many texts in the Book of Jubilees that quote passages from the Book of Enoch. Thus, we can assume that the Book of Enoch was written first. It was then followed by the Book of Jubilees and the writings of the community at Qumran. The books of Enoch and Jubilees are not well known. Let us first get a bit more detail on these two books.

History of the books

These two books do not form part of the canon of Scripture that either Judaism or Christianity recognizes. These books are classified as “Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament.” These books were written later than the canonical books. These books are only accepted by the Ethiopian churches (Orthodox Christian and Jewish.) Interestingly, although Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews, see both these books as canonical, they still follow the lunar calendar. Their calendar combines the ancient calendar of Alexandrian Jewry, the Book of Jubilees, the Book of Enoch, Abu Shaker and the Ge’ez calendar.

At the caves in the Judean desert, archeologists found fragments of the book of Enoch. (1Q23-24, 2Q26, 4Q201-212, 4Q530-33, 6Q8) Most of the fragments found are too small to translate to English. Not all parts of the book of Enoch were present at Qumran. The fragments found were in Aramaic. The Aramaic versions of the book do not tie up nicely with the Ge’ez (Ethiopian) translation. In the Aramaic version, 4Q209, the Astronomical Book is longer than the Ge’ez version. Also, the Aramaic version of the Book of the Giants found in Qumran does not exist in the Ge’ez translation. But this book is preserved in the medieval Jewish literature. This indicates to us that the text of this book has not been well preserved. We do not even know which parts were originally included and which were added later.

We also have evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls that the Book of Jubilees was originally written in Hebrew. It was then later translated into Greek. In the caves of the Judean desert, archaeologists found several fragments of this book in Hebrew. They found twelve fragments of the Book of Jubilees. Only some fragments found in Cave 4 are large enough to be translated into English. (4Q216 – 4Q220) At Qumran, fragments of books that are close to Jubilees were also discovered but not exactly the same. The researchers have called these “pseudo-Jubilees” (4Q225-227.) We also find a reference to the book of Jubilees in the Damascus Document. Here, the book uses the original Hebrew name – “Book of the Divisions of Times into their Jubilees and Weeks” – CD 16.2-4. Based on the Hebrew manuscripts found, it appears as if the Ge’ez (Ethiopian) translations of Jubilees are still fairly accurate.

For both books, the most complete manuscripts only exist in Ge’ez. Ge’ez is the ancient South Semitic language that originated in Eritrea and the northern region of Ethiopia. We have proof that these books were translated from Hebrew/Aramaic to Greek, Greek to Latin and also from Greek to Ge’ez.

Content of the books

Enoch

The book of Enoch consists of multiple parts that were put together as one book by a later editor. The book consists of the following parts:

• Book of Watchers – Chapters 1-36, including fragments of the Book of Noah in chapters 6-11
• Book of the Parables – Chapters 37-71 is also known as the Book of Similitudes
• Book of the Luminaries – Chapters 72-82
• The Dream Visions – Chapters 83-90
• Critical Structure – Chapters 91-104
• God and Messiah to dwell in Man – Chapter 105
• Latin fragment of the book of Noah – Chapters 106-107
• Appendix added later – Chapter 108

The parts of this book were not all written by one author. It also appears that these books are not structured in chronological sequence. The authors of all the sections belong to the Chasids or their successors, the Pharisees. The Book of the Luminaries seems to be the oldest, dating from the third century B.C. The Book of Watchers contains parts of the Book of Luminaries, indicating that it was compiled at a later stage. The Book of the Parables appears to be the most recent. It is believed to be written towards the end of the first century B.C. This part of the book was not found among the scrolls at Qumran. Also, the Book of Luminaries found at Qumran is much longer than the Ethiopic versions.¹

The Book of the Luminaries is presented as a revelation from the archangel Uriel (YHVH is my light.) In the book, Enoch translates to his son Methuselah, all that Uriel has shown him about the laws of the cosmos and how this works. The purpose of this work is to show the uniformity of YHVH’s creation. It also shows how the movement of the luminaries and the blowing of the wind confirms this.

According to this model, the firmament is like an upside-down cup on a saucer. The saucer is the earth and where the cup and saucer meet, there are twelve gates. These gates are where the sun and moon rise during the 12 months of the year. The sun rises in the eastern gate and sets again in the corresponding western gate. Next to these gates are many windows through which the stars emerge and disappear. This pattern is based upon the solar calendar of 364 days. It is divided into 4 sections, each with 91 days. The months consist of 30 days, except for the 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th months. These four months each have an extra day. In the Aramaic fragments found at Qumran (4Q208-9), we also have a tabulation that correlates the movements of the sun and the moon during the annual cycle.

This seems to be the oldest recording we have of the solar calendar.

Jubilees

The Book of Jubilees is a re-telling of Genesis 1 to Exodus 12. It does differ in that this work is also an interpretation of the text. The author sometimes uses the exact same wording. Sometimes, he deletes the text, and in other cases, he adds his interpretation to the text. The retelling also follows a chronological sequence. This means that the author mixed the texts of different books of the Torah. The author also removed perceived contradictions. This provides us with a `targum´ on the books of Genesis and Exodus.

The author adds his own interpretation of the Scripture in several places. He does this by adding the phrase “For this reason it is written (or ordained) in the heavenly tablets ….” For example, he claims that nakedness is forbidden because YHVH clothed Adam and Eve. He also uses the same method to argue that the solar calendar must be followed to celebrate the feast²:
Jubilees 6:17-18

¹⁷ For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this month once a year, to renew the covenant every year. ¹⁸ And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah—twenty-six jubilees and five weeks of years: and Noah and his sons observed it for seven jubilees and one week of years, till the day of Noah’s death, and from the day of Noah’s death his sons did away with (it) until the days of Abraham, and they eat blood.¹

The main purpose of the author is to get the Jews of his time to return to Torah. He is specifically interested in the halakhah and the way these commandments should be lived. To encourage the Jews to keep these commandments, he sometimes adds text to raise the importance of some of the commandments. For example, he states that Noah made a proper sacrifice:
Jubilees 7:3-5

³And he celebrated with joy the day of this feast, and he made a burnt sacrifice unto YHVH, one young ox and one ram, and seven sheep, each a year old, and a kid of the goats, that he might make atonement thereby for himself and his sons. ⁴ And he prepared the kid first, and placed some of its blood on the flesh that was on the altar which he had made, and all the fat he laid on the altar where he made the burnt sacrifice, and the ox and the ram and the sheep, and he laid all their flesh upon the altar. ⁵ And he placed all their offerings mingled with oil upon it, and afterwards he sprinkled wine on the fire which he had previously made on the altar, and he placed incense on the altar and caused a sweet savor to ascend acceptable before YHVH his Elohim.¹ He also states that Jacob paid tithes of all he had (including his clothes). Jacob also made his son Levi a priest to do the offerings on the 15th of the month.

Jubilees 32:2-4

² And Jacob rose early in the morning, on the fourteenth of this month, and he gave a tithe of all that came with him, both of men and cattle, both of gold and every vessel and garment, yea, he gave tithes of all. ³And in those days Rachel became pregnant with her son Benjamin. And Jacob counted his sons from him upwards and Levi fell to the portion of YHVH and his father clothed him in the garments of the priesthood and filled his hands. ⁴ And on the fifteenth of this month, he brought to the altar fourteen oxen from amongst the cattle, and twenty-eight rams, and forty-nine sheep, and seven lambs, and twenty-one kids of the goats as a burnt-offering on the altar of sacrifice, well pleasing for a sweet savour before YHVH.¹

In the last two chapters, the author also provides a detailed description of how the Sabbath and the feast of Pesach must be celebrated.
As mentioned before, the author follows a chronological sequence in his retelling. This chronology is based on the solar calendar and uses the jubilees as a major marker of time. The author claims that the calendar revealed to Enoch by the angel Uriel is the true calendar.

Jubilees 4.16–18
¹⁶ And in the eleventh jubilee Jared took to himself a wife, and her name was Bâraka, the daughter of Râsûjâl, a daughter of his father’s brother, in the fourth week of this jubilee, *and she bare him a son in the fifth week, in the fourth year of the jubilee, and he called his name Enoch. ¹⁷ And he was the first among men that are born on earth who learned writing and knowledge and wisdom and who wrote down the signs of heaven according to the order of their months in a book, that men might know the seasons of the years according to the order of their separate months. ¹⁸ And he was the first to write a testimony, and he testified to the sons of men among the generations of the earth, and recounted the weeks of the jubilees, and made known to them the days of the years, and set in order the months and recounted the Sabbaths of the years as we made (them), known to him. ¹

Unlike Enoch, the author of Jubilees becomes specific about the solar calendar being the only calendar. He specifically makes the statement that people will later start following a calendar that is not 364 days. This will cause the people to celebrate the appointed times on the wrong days.

Jubilees 6.35–38
35 For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance. 36 For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon—how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. 37 For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees. 38 For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify to them; for after thy death thy children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh. ¹

The book is dated based on its contents and the paleographic dating of the fragments found at Qumran. Researchers currently date the Book of Jubilees to somewhere between 175 and 75 B.C. The late date of the book is also supported by the fact that the text most closely relates to the Septuagint. Yet, its text is different enough to show that it does not rely purely on the Septuagint text.

Why are these books not canonical?

Enoch

In the Book of Jude, we do find a reference that proves the author was familiar with some of the contents of the Book of Enoch. But, the author of Jude does not mention that he is quoting from the Book of Enoch.

Jude 14–15
¹⁴ It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, YHVH came with many thousands of His holy ones, ¹⁵ to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Thus, to take the fact that the two books contain similar material further would be inaccurate. It is not sound logic to now imply that the Book of Jude makes the Book of Enoch canonical. If we were to follow this logic, we would also need to make the works of the Greek writers Aratus (Acts 17:28), Menander (1 Cor. 15:33), and Epimenides (Tit. 1:12) canonical. Paul referred to their writings in his epistles.

A big concern with the Book of Enoch is in the way that it presents Enoch. Based on the Scripture of Genesis 5:22-24 we have the interpretation of Enoch ascending to heaven.

Genesis 5:22–24
²² Then Enoch walked with YHVH three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. ²³ So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 Enoch walked with YHVH; and he was not, for YHVH took him.

Enoch 1:1–2
¹The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect «and» righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked «and godless» are to be removed. ² And he took up his parable and said—Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, ‹which› the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come.¹

This interpretation has Enoch ascending into heaven, seeing the vision of YHVH and then receiving the wisdom that he has to share with his son. The story of the angel showing Enoch the heavenly beings is a similar style to the temple being shown to Ezekiel. We also see in Enoch 46:1-3 a description of the “One who had the head of Days” as well as another that is called the “Son of Man.”

Enoch 46:1–3
1 And there I saw One who had a head of days,
And His head was white like wool,
And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man,
And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.
² And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and) why he went with the Head of Days?
³ And he answered and said unto me:
This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness,
With whom dwelleth righteousness,
And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden,
Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him,
And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever.¹

This vision is again very similar to another one we find in Scripture. In the Book of Daniel we find the following:

Daniel 7:13–14
¹³ “I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. ¹⁴ “And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion Which will not pass away; And His kingdom is one Which will not be destroyed.

In the Book of Daniel we see that the Messiah is called the Son of Man. What makes the Book of Enoch a serious problem is that later, the book describes how Enoch becomes the “Son of Man.”

Enoch 71:14–15
¹⁴ And he (i.e. the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto me:
‘This is the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness,
And righteousness abides over him,
And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.’
¹⁵ And he said unto me:
‘He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come;
For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world,
And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever.¹

The author of the Book of Enoch, sees Enoch ascending into heaven on a cloud and then later becoming the Son of Man (Messiah.) For any believer in Y’Shua the Messiah, this must be a reason to discard the Book of Enoch as an inspired writing.

A less serious issue with the book should be how accurate the revelation really is. Today we know that some of the truths revealed to Enoch are actually wrong. Here are some of the known inaccuracies:

• The solar cycle is 364 days. We know that it is 365,25 days. The counter argument to this is that Enoch is describing the solar year before the flood of Noah. This cannot be true as Enoch also describes how the days become shorter and then again longer as the year progresses. This would not be the case in a “pre-Noah calendar”.
• Enoch 72:37 states that the sun is 7 times brighter than the moon, but that these two are of equal size. We know that this is not correct. If a man looks at the sun and moon from earth, they may appear to be of the same size. If the Creator was to reveal the truth about the luminaries to Enoch, He surely would have known that the sun is much larger than the moon.
• The Book of Enoch describes two calendars. It has the details of a solar and a lunar calendar. If the solar calendar is the “real calendar”, why describe both?

Book of Jubilees

The first reason to doubt the Book of Jubilees would be it’s strong reliance on the Book of Enoch. As we have discussed in the previous section, there are serious concerns with some of the content of Enoch.

Another reason to doubt the Book of Jubilees is its inaccuracy of the chronology. The author takes a strong stance on the importance of the sabbatical and jubilee years, but he gets it wrong. For example, Jubilees 4:21 states that Enoch was six years of Jubilees with YHVH, but Gen 5:22 states that Enoch was 300 years with YHVH.
Jubilees 4.21

And he was moreover with the angels of YHVH these six jubilees of years, and they showed him everything which is on earth and in the heavens, the rule of the sun, and he wrote down everything.¹

Genesis 5:22
²² Then Enoch walked with YHVH three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.
This would mean that a Jubilee is 50 years. This is in contradiction with the rest of the Book of Jubilees (Jubilees 23.8). Let us look at another example. We have the following information about Abraham:
Jubilees 11.14–15
¹⁴ And in this thirty-ninth jubilee, in the Second week in the first year, Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was ’Ednâ, the daughter of ’Abrâm, the daughter of his father’s sister. ¹⁵ And in the seventh year of this week she bare him a son, and he called his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son.¹
Jubilees 22.1
And it came to pass in the first week, in the forty-fourth jubilee, in the second year, that is, the year in which Abraham died, that Isaac and Ishmael came from the Well of the Oath to celebrate the feast of weeks – that is, the feast of the first fruits of the harvest – to Abraham, their father, and Abraham rejoiced because his two sons had come.¹
Jubilees 23.8
And he lived three jubilees and four weeks of years, one hundred and seventy-five years, and completed the days of his life, being old and full of days. ¹
According to these verses, Abraham was born in the thirty-ninth jubilee, the seventh year of the second cycle. Abraham died in the forty-fourth jubilee in the second year of the first cycle. But, if we add 3 jubilees to his birth we get to the 42nd jubilee and if we add another 4 cycles we get to the seventh year of the sixth cycle. Thus we have at least one jubilee missing somewhere. The author tries to keep his text aligned with the book of Genesis 25:7. In the process he gets his calculations all wrong.

The Essenes

Many of the scrolls describe the calendar of the Essenes. We do not know everything about their calendar, but from their writings, we can learn a lot about their practices.

They followed a twelve month calendar in which the year consisted of 364 days. The Temple Scroll (11QTemple) describes this calendar in detail. The editor of the scroll, Yigael Yadin, dated the scroll to around the time of John Hyrcanus. This would date the scroll to around 135 to 104 BC.
With this calendar, the first day of the year would always be on the fourth day of the week after the spring equinox. The Essenes did this because YHVH created the sun on the fourth day. This, then implies that the first three days of creation was before the start of the first year. So we have three days that do not belong to any year.

The months also have a fixed pattern. There are always twelve months in a year. Each month is 30 days. Every quarter they added an extra day. Thus the sequence is 30; 30; 31. The calendar repeated the sequence 4 times to make a total of twelve months. This then ended up being a 364 day year.
Unless some change was made periodically to the Essene’s 364-day calendar, the time of the observance of the annual feasts would get out of synch with the seasons. The Essenes would end up observing the spring festivals in winter. It would take only a few decades for noticeable calendar slippage to occur because it was “off” by almost 1 1/4 days a year. Some form of intercalation was obviously necessary. But, we have no proof that the Essenes applied any intercalation. We also have no references in the books of Enoch or Jubilees on how to do this.

The scrolls of the community at Qumran also tell us about their annual feasts. They had more agricultural feasts than the feasts recorded in Leviticus 23. These were a harvest Festival of Grapes and another of Olives. Other festivals observed by the Qumran sectarians included the Festival of the Wood Offering, the Feast of the Wine and the Festival of the Priests’ Consecration (ordination). They did not celebrate the feasts of Purim or Chanukah.
The result of this method is that all dates always fall on the same day of the week every year. The sabbath falls on the same date in a given month, year in and year out. And festivals all fall on the same day of the week every year. Passover always falls on Tuesday.
The annual schedule was as follows:

The calendar regulated not only the schedule for the feasts. It also regulated the time for the various groupings of priests who provided service in the Temple. The community organized the priests into 24 courses (mishmar / mishmarot). Each mishmar conducted Temple service for one week starting on the first day of the week. Each group bore a family or clan name and was assigned specific weeks. Since 24 groups serving twice equaled only 48 weeks, four groups served three times a year. This made up the complete 52-week year. The scrolls include several tables of the six-year cycle of priestly courses. It also mentions the families who were expected to officiate in the Temple in weekly turns of duty. In every 52-week year, four families had three, rather than two, turns. Thus it took six years to complete the cycle.

Who are the true Zadokites?

Most of us see Second Temple Judaism as a singular unit of belief. Based on the writings of the Apostolic Scriptures, we acknowledge some splintering within the group. We know about the Pharisees, the Sadducees and also the Samaritans. In recent years the Essenes have also started coming into focus. Yet, there was a much larger division within Second Temple Judaism that most of us are unaware of. We need to understand this more fundamental division if we want to contextualize the Enoch calendar.

After the return of the nation from the Babylonian exile, a Zadokite priesthood was established in Jerusalem. They claimed, based on Scripture, that the sons of Zadok were the priests. Most importantly, Zadok was the priest in the time of King David. It was Zadok who anointed King Solomon. In the book of Chronicles, it is documented that they were the priests until the exile to Babylon. ⁷

1 Chronicles 6:3–15
³ The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. ⁴ Eleazar became the father of Phinehas, and Phinehas became the father of Abishua, ⁵ and Abishua became the father of Bukki, and Bukki became the father of Uzzi, ⁶ and Uzzi became the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah became the father of Meraioth, ⁷ Meraioth became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub, ⁸ and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz, ⁹ and Ahimaaz became the father of Azariah, and Azariah became the father of Johanan, ¹⁰ and Johanan became the father of Azariah (it was he who served as the priest in the house which Solomon built in Jerusalem), ¹¹ and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub, ¹² and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Shallum, ¹³ and Shallum became the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah became the father of Azariah, ¹⁴ and Azariah became the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah became the father of Jehozadak; ¹⁵ and Jehozadak went along when YHVH carried Judah and Jerusalem away into exile by Nebuchadnezzar.

1 Kings 1:32–34
32 Then King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” And they came into the king’s presence. ³³ The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon. ³⁴“Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

Now that the Davidic monarchy no longer existed, they felt the need to lead the nation. Soon the need for a king disappeared, as these functions were now taken over by the priesthood. The priesthood held that the Covenant at Sinai is the significant covenant. This covenant enforces the importance of Moses and Aaron. The Hasmonites replaced the Zadokite priesthood during the Maccabean period. They replaced the Zadokites because of their support of the Hellenization of the Jewish nation. The replacement of the Zadokites was in place in the time when Y’Shua went to the Temple.

At the same time there were other sects of Judaism. These included some of the people that never left the land during the exile. There were some smaller groups, all with their own truth. These smaller groups can be grouped together as the Enochic Jews. The Enochic Jews also included some of the Samaritans. We find in the writings of Abu’l Fath a description of an interesting group of Samaritans called the “Sect of Dustan” – also known as Dositheans. This is a group that formed after John Hyrcanus destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mt. Gerizim. This group shows many similarities with the teachings of the Qumran community.
These include:

1. Very strict sabbath observance – No feeding or rescuing of animals on the sabbath. (CD 10:14–11:18)
2. The concern regarding the purity of their water, both for drinking and for mikvah. (1QS 3:4–5)
3. They both followed a solar calendar as laid down by both the Book of Jubilees and 1 Enoch. (1QS 10:1–5; 1QpHab 12:5–9)8

We do know that they cannot be the exact same group. The community at Qumran saw Jerusalem as the place of worship. They also saw the writings of the prophets as canonical. However, we do know that one of the reasons that the sect of Dustan split from the Samaritans was the Judaising tendencies of this sect. The influence of this group on the community at Qumran is very obvious.

The Enochic Jews claimed that their priesthood was before the priesthood of Aaron. Their priesthood came from people like Adam and Enoch. To them the significant covenant is the covenant with Noah after the flood. Their writings did not emphasize the Sinai covenant. They based their covenantal proceeding around what happened with Noah.

For more information on this complex topic, we recommend the works of Gabriele Boccaccini. Specifically his book – Beyond the Essene Hypothesis – covers this topic in detail. This is an area of history and religion that still has so many unanswered questions.

Conclusion

In order for you to be able to accept the Enoch calendar, you also need to change some of the other fundamental parts of your belief system. These fundamental changes would include:

• Changing your definition of what inspired scripture is. You now need to make books like Enoch and Jubilees part of this definition. This would then include the part where Enoch sees himself as the Son of Man.
  Accepting these two books then opens the door to some other books to be included. It also puts books like Leviticus in opposition to some of these additional books. (e.g. Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs)
• To be a true follower of the authors of these additional books, you would need to de-emphasize the Mosaic covenant. You would then need to place a greater importance of the covenant with Noah. In the books of Enoch and Jubilees, there is a lot more focus on the way of Noah, than what happened with the nation as they were lead out of Egypt. They justified their calendar based on what Noah did.
• Thus we can see that the Enoch calendar carries behind it a fundamental shift in your belief. A small decision, like accepting the Book of Enoch as truth, has a ripple effect. The Book of Enoch leads to the book of Jubilees, which in turn leads to the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs. All this then leads to putting the Enoch literature (including their alternative priesthood) at the same level as the rest of Scripture.

As the final point, we would like to explain why we call this a heresy. We claim to be the followers of Y’Shua the Messiah. If we are His followers and His disciples, it means we must do as He did. In our previous article, we have shown you two proof points about why we believe that Y’Shua was anti-Essene. To take this point a bit further, we need to add the following facts:

• Y’Shua never quoted from the books of Enoch or Jubilees.
• Y’Shua went to the feasts in Jerusalem according to the calendar of the Judeans.

John 5:1–2
¹ After these things there was a feast of the Jews (Judeans), and Y’Shua went up to Jerusalem. ² Now there is in Jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool, which is called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porticoes.

• Y’Shua’s parents took Him to the Temple in Jerusalem to be redeemed.

Luke 2:22–24
²² And when the days for their purification according to the law of Moses were completed, they brought Him up to Jerusalem to present Him to YHVH ²³ (as it is written in the Law of YHVH, “Every firstborn male that opens the womb shall be called holy to YHVH”), ²⁴ and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the Law of YHVH, “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

• Y’Shua told us that we need to listen to what these people (the scribes and Pharisees) teach. We were not to do as they do, but still listen to them.

Matthew 23:1–3
¹ Then Y’Shua spoke to the crowds and to His disciples, ² saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; ³ therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them.

• Y´Shua chose Paul, a Pharisee, to be His apostle to the nations. He did not choose an Essene or a supporter of the Enochic Judaism.

Acts 9:11–17
¹¹ And Y´Shua said to him, “Get up and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for a man from Tarsus named Saul, for he is praying, ¹² and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and lay his hands on him, so that he might regain his sight.” ¹³ But Ananias answered, “Master, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he did to Your saints at Jerusalem; ¹⁴and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.” ¹⁵ But Y´Shua said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of Mine, to bear My name before the Gentiles and kings and the sons of Israel; ¹⁶ for I will show him how much he must suffer for My name’s sake.” ¹⁷ So Ananias departed and entered the house, and after laying his hands on him said, “Brother Saul, the Master Y´Shua who appeared to you on the road by which you were coming, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Acts 23:6
But perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, Paul began crying out in the Council, “Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”

These points make it clear that Y’Shua saw the priesthood in Jerusalem as the valid priesthood. He does not tell us to listen to those in the seat of Adam, the seat of Noah or even the seat of Enoch. It is about the priesthood as defined in the Sinai covenant. After the death of Y’Shua, His disciples and Paul kept on going to the Temple in Jerusalem. They continued with the offerings in the Temple, including sin offerings.

All this implies that if we want to accept the Enoch calendar as the true calendar, we would need to contradict, thus reject, the teachings of Y’Shua. We then need to follow the teachings of a renegade Second Temple Period sect of Judaism. Y’Shua even warned us about the teachings of this sect. I think it is significant that this sect has ceased to exist. Why are some so desperate to resurrect this false teaching?

References

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Here is the secret information most of those peddling the Qumran false teachings don’t want you to know.

They assume you don’t know how to count.

They assume you don’t care about Obeying Yehovah properly.
They assume you don’t know the year is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes 53 seconds long.
They assume you don’t know the moon or month is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes 3 seconds long.

They assume you do not understand Deuteronomy.

Deu 13:1  If a prophet rises among you, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
Deu 13:2  and the sign or the wonder which he foretold to you occurs, saying, Let us go after other gods which you have not known, and let us serve them,
Deu 13:3  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deu 13:4  You shall walk after Jehovah your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments, and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
Deu 13:5  And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn you away from Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slaves, to thrust you out of the way in which Jehovah your God commanded you to walk. So you shall put the evil away from the midst of you.

They assume you won’t understand that by keeping the Holy Days at the wrong times you will be serving other gods. These calendars cause you to keep the Holy Days at the wrong times.

Deu 18:20  But the prophet who shall presume to speak a word in My name which I have not commanded him to speak or who shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
Deu 18:21  And if you say in your heart, How shall we know the word which Jehovah has not spoken?
Deu 18:22  When a prophet speaks in the name of Jehovah, if the thing does not follow nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You shall not be afraid of him.

Don’t fall prey to false teachings about the calendar. You are susceptible to them if you do not understand how to prove which one is TRUE. Which one is from Yehovah.

So long as you keep your head in the sand, you are in danger of being deceived.

These Qumran calendars, the Enoch, Jubilee, Zadok, and Dead Sea Calendars, are all false teachings Yehovah has sent to test you.

Deu 13:3  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Remember what you are told. Love the truth. Search the Bible, not some garbage dump, also known as a Genizah where heretical teachings are placed. Do not swallow the chammaschith that was buried there.

2Th 2:8  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming,
2Th 2:9  whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2Th 2:10  and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2Th 2:12  so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned.

Those who teach these calendars are false prophets. They can repent right away or die in the next few years.

How can we know absolutely for sure what calendar to use?

Let me give you the deal breaker: these false teachers will not teach you. But you must do your homework, study this, and do the work, or you will remain unsure.

Do this homework to build your defences against all these false teachers, who are coming more and more as we approach the end of this age. Fortify your mind with the truth from the scriptures. Do it now.

The Deal Breaker is simple to do. All you have to do is count, but you have to do it.

Ezekiel’s 30 days are one of the teachings we have had on our site for some time. The Babylonians took Ezekiel captive in the first wave of attacks on Judah in 609 B.C. That was long before the Essenes ever lived. Long before the book of Enoch and the Enochian calendar were ever invented. Long before the Book of Jubilees was ever written, which can’t even add up the Jubilee cycles it is talking about and its version of the Enoch calendar. Ezekiel recorded the dates and seasons 2600 years before the sanctimonious-sounding Zadok calendar was reinvented, copying the Enoch calendar.

I do get upset and hate those who promote teachings that lead the brethren away from the Torah and Yehovah. We can disagree about things, but when you lead people away from the truth to serve other gods, I get upset.

Note the following story about Lashon Harah.

The harm done by speech is even worse than the harm done by stealing or by cheating someone financially, because amends can be made for monetary harms, but the harm done by speech can never be repaired. For this reason, some sources indicate that there is no forgiveness for lashon ha-ra (disparaging speech). A Chasidic tale illustrates this point: A man went about the community telling malicious lies about the rabbi. Later, he realized the wrong he had done, and began to feel remorse. He went to the rabbi and begged his forgiveness, saying he would do anything he could to make amends. The rabbi told the man, “Take a feather pillow, cut it open, and scatter the feathers to the winds.” The man thought this was a strange request, but it was a simple enough task, and he did it gladly. When he returned to tell the rabbi that he had done it, the rabbi said, “Now, go and gather the feathers. Because you can no more make amends for the damage your words have done than you can recollect the feathers.”

Speech has been compared to an arrow: once the words are released, like an arrow, they cannot be recalled, the harm they do cannot be stopped, and the harm they do cannot always be predicted, for words like arrows often go astray.

Those who preach these false calendars are doing the same as those who lashon harah. Once they have publicized their false teachings, how many others will become deceived? It began with one false book written about 150 B.C. and here we are today with thousands or more being led astray. Do not listen to it or share those false teachings.

So if you are ready, let me now share with you the deal breaker which will destroy all these false calendars. Then you will know the truth.