THE HOLY CALENDAR - THE NEW MOON (CRESCENT)

It is that time of the year once again when we do something that most people today would find very strange. It’s strange to them because they have been taught since childhood to look at the year differently. The year for them began on January 1st. For those of us who have been given an understanding of how the yearly cycle really works, the New Year begins in the spring. So, on March 27, 2009 once the sun has set in the sky: There will appear a visible crescent shape moon. The observance of this Crescent Moon starts the Holy Calendar year for the year 2009-2010.

What is most remarkable about this fact is that most people will consider these statements to be sinful. They hold in their possession a bible which gives clear instructions on how those who follow the teaching contained in this book are suppose to determine the start of the year. In other word: A Holy Calendar is revealed in the pages of the bible!

Yet, most of mankind follows a calendar that most people don’t even understand or care to know the truth of its origin. If you are receiving this bible lesson, then you have already had the opportunity to study the lesson on the origin of the Gregorian Calendar, which was entitled, “What is the Real Jesus.” It should also mean that you have completed the “Letters to the Black Man and Woman” series: This, in turn, should mean that you at least have a basic understanding of the seven day week, and its importance. With this understanding, it should be clear to the student that the “Seventh Day” is Holy! And the third of the Ten Commandments should by now be deeply ingrained into your brain:

Ex. 20:8-11, Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Eternal your (YHWH). On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Eternal Ones made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but “They” rested on the seventh day and made it holy.

As students, and servants, of the Two Creators; we have this understanding of the Sabbath (Shabbath) because we learned from the letters that the heavens above operate with a seven-day cycle. We learned that the moon operates in seven day increments, but what was not made clear at that time is the fact that the moon receives her light from the sun. It is the sun’s rays that impregnate the surface of the moon with its light. This, then, is really the sun and the moon working in harmony to form the seven-day cycle. However, we also learned that it is the sun that is responsible for marking off days:

Ps. 136:3-9, Give thanks to the Eternal Ones: to “Them” who alone does great wonders, who by “Their” understanding made the heavens, who spread out the earth upon the waters, who made the great lights – the sun to govern the day, the moon and stars to govern the night;

So, once the movement of the sun and the moon, working in harmony with each other, established the seven-day cycle for the month: It was the movement of the sun alone that established the seven-day week. This seven day week has been traced back through time, and it has been conclusively proven that the seven day week is a very old and ancient observance:

The British Museum houses a Babylonian calendrical tablet, showing the month as divided into four weeks, each of seven days’ duration. This was a lunar calendar, with a month of twenty-eight days, with seven days for each of the four phases of the moon: new moon, first quarter, full moon, and last quarter. Every seventh day was a Shabattu (Sabbath), or day of rest. Hence, we can trace our seven-day week, Sabbath day included, back to the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia. MAN, GOD, AND CIVILIZATION, By John G. Jackson, pg. 243

The seven day week, as we know it today, has not been altered throughout time. Although, the names for the different days of the week may have changed over time: This seven day week has remained the format for measuring time since antiquity. The only notable change, however, is that the Christian world now observe (as stated in the letters) the first day of the week; instead of the seventh day of the week. The format of the seven day week has not changed, so by looking at any calendar of today; you will notice that Sunday is actually the first day of the week, and Saturday is still ,indeed, the seventh day of the week. This, however, is not the time or the place to discuss how this cleaver switching of the seventh day to the first day of the week was orchestrated on an uninformed and unsuspecting Christian world. That information was already covered in the letters.

Not-with-standing then, the quoted author makes several fatal errors in the following narrative; he does, however, go on to establish the fact that the earliest calendar was found in Egypt:

Another great Egyptian invention was the calendar, the earliest Egyptians measured time by observing the phases of the moon. The month (the interval between two new moons) was the unit of time measurement. Unfortunately, the lunar month varies in length from twenty-nine to thirty days, and hence the moon calendar is cumbersome and inaccurate. The lunar year of 354 days falls short of the solar year by eleven days. Such a calendar can be made to work only by intercalating an extra month at suitable intervals; MAN, GOD, AND CIVILIZATION, By John G. Jackson, pg. 227

I don’t know, and at times it is hard for me to understand, how it never seemed to have occurred to any of our people too – just simply connect the dots. I can only assume, as I have in the past, that the time had not yet come for the truth to be revealed back to us. So, as has often been the case, when I have read the work of one of our black predecessors who has done a considerable amount of research work into our black history – This author, too, never realized the powerful information he had uncovered. To say that the earliest calendar known to mankind originated in Egypt, and that this calendar was a lunar calendar based on observing the four main phases of the moon; is in reality: To say that the Egyptians were the first to keep a seven day week!

If, then, it is a clear undisputed fact that the Egyptian civilization, which has a history that can be traced back tens of thousands of years, was by far much older than the so-called nation of Israel (Hebrew people), which by their own admission only dates back to the last six thousand years: Then this fact that the Egyptians observed a calendar of seven days – long before the so-called Israelites – should have at least caused a moment of pause in the thought process. Now, think about this, please, black people: If the very first calendar (as we are told in the bible) of observing a seven-day week was first introduced on the earth by the Creators giving instructions to their created people; then it could only have been these people whom were or who became the Egyptians that the Creators were speaking to when they were instructing them on how to observe the year. Because the very first calendar to appear on the earth of a seven-day week was an Egyptian calendar. How hard can that be to understand? How difficult can it be to just open your eyes and accept the truth? As the author just made plain; this historical fact is not in dispute today. What is in dispute, or at least what should be in dispute; is the actual identity of the race of the people of the bible. The only reason why there is no credible dispute taking place is because we, as black people, have been taught and conditioned to believe and accept a notion that blacks had nothing to do with the formation of civilization and religion.

Although, it has been demonstrated through the use of DNA that the first people to appear on the earth were blacks living in Africa, and it has been confirmed that the bible we have today was originally African documents that were first translated into the Greek language in ancient Egypt: We, and the entire world, have been lead to believe that black people had nothing to do with the writing of those original documents. How preposterous is this claim that we have accepted on blind faith!

If all the historical evidence and all the scientific evidence establishes an undeniable truth which differs from the perceived facts; then it is these perceived facts that are wrong, and not the evidence. Somehow, not one of us has been able to see this plain and simple truth staring us in the face – Until Now!

In the records left to us by the ancient Egyptians, they state unequivocally that their civilization was not the first civilization on earth, and that the knowledge received by them to form their civilization came into their land from the south:

The Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, who lived in the first century B.C., wrote a world history in forty books. He utilized good sources and recorded them accurately. In book III is a valuable account of the Ethiopian origin of Egyptian culture, from which we cite the following extracts: Now the Ethiopians, as historians relate, were the first of all men and the proofs of this statement, they say, are manifest. For that they did not come into their land as immigrants from abroad but were the natives of it and so justly bear the name of autochthones (sprung from the soil itself), is, they maintain, conceded by practically all men… They say also that the Egyptians are colonists sent out by the Ethiopians, Osiris having been the leader of the colony. For, speaking generally, what is now Egypt, they maintain, was not land but sea, when in the beginning the universe was being formed; afterwards, however, as the Nile during the times of its inundation carried down the mud from Ethiopia, land was gradually built up from its deposit. MAN, GOD, AND CIVILIZATION, By John G. Jackson, pg. 213

Now we see, by doing the difficult but necessary research, that it was these Nubian people who, not only brought civilization to the Egyptians, but also was responsible for teaching them the worship of religion. Osiris and Isis were the main gods of, what is called, the Old Kingdom. These gods were not originally Egyptian gods, and their worship was much older than the Egyptian civilization itself.

The Ethiopians said that Egypt was a colony drawn out of them by Osiris. The greatest of all the Egyptian myths centered about Osiris and Isis. Their primitive seats of worship were at Philae and Abydos high up the Nile. Here Petrie found many relics of the Old Race. At Abydos was the tomb of Osiris. Every Egyptian of sufficient wealth and dignity desired to be buried there. Horus was the son of Osiris and Isis. Isis wears the horned crescent, the moon disk between. She was a black goddess of the Soudan. Thot was a magician priest. One text calls him the brother of Osiris. He was the chief Moon-god and deity of knowledge, wisdom and art. The seat of Moon worship was the Soudan. WONDERFUL ETHIOPIANS OF THE ANCIENT CUSHITE EMPIRE, By Drusilla Dunjee Houston, pg. 81

All the religious worship that became associated with the Egyptians had its origin among the people of Ethiopia. When we read of the accomplishment of our ancient ancestors today, many of us feel ashamed, because we have been told that these practices were heathen and wrong. We don’t understand today that the religion of our ancient ancestors is the very same religion found in the pages of the bible: Which, now, has been suppressed in the bible the Europeans have been responsible for bringing on the earth. Therefore, instead, we turn to a religion that put chains around our necks, and carried us away from our homeland to a foreign land to be enslaved. Or, our brothers and sisters allowed themselves to be deceived by the people who came to Africa carrying and preaching the message of their bible to them; all the while, they took possession of all the choice farmland, all the natural resources, and all the gold and diamond mines. But, each African got a fresh new bible. When are we going to understand what really happened to us? When are we going to finally wake up and open our eyes so we can see that it is the religion given to the world by the Europeans that has brought the world to the point of destruction? Well, if any of you are going to wake up and see it; now would be a good time to do so, and you had better hurry up, because time is running out.

I want to apologize to the bible study group, because I have gotten a little carried away, and I’m preaching. I know this is supposed to be a study into the Holy Calendar: So, I should not be talking to those who have already read the letters this way. The message I’m giving is really for those who have not read the letters. And, even though, the information I’m using is the information needed to establish the truth of the Holy Calendar; I have gotten off point to a certain degree. Perhaps, it was what was needed to be done. Maybe, this first lesson should be shared with more then just the group. I know this Bible Study Lesson was just suppose to be for you who completed the letter series, but we still have not yet gotten into the details of the Holy Calendar. And, not a whole lot of detailed information has been shared yet. So, what I’m going to do is send each of you a copy of this lesson first, so you can read it. Then I would like to hear your input. If the majority agrees, then I will post this lesson to my blog for others to read as well. I still reserve the right to make the final decision on my own. I just thought a little group participation would be good.

We will continue uncovering and revealing the truth of the Holy Calendar in part-two of this series.