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Many of you, some readers and others not, have been searching this blog for information about the “special” year 5769, what makes it special, and does that have any cause for concern on your part.

First, according to the Jewish lunar calendar, their new year starts on the sunset of September 30 and continues through the sunset of October 1. The interesting fact, to them at least, is that that day is also the fourth day of the week on their calendar. The fourth day for those who know Genesis 1, is the day when the sun, moon, and stars were set for “signs and appointed times, and for days and for years,”

However, the fourth day of Genesis has been known forever as the time of the vernal or spring equinox, and not the autumnal or fall equinox. So the “fourth day of creation” in the fall on the lunar calendar is only a mathematical/astronomical event that happens periodically.

Yet this is a special time of prayer and spiritual closeness in the minds of those who follow the lunar calendar.

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One wonders why, because "God is love," are so many suffering and living lives that appear to be cursed. Nothing seems to go right. Decisions, in spite of heroic efforts always seem to turn out wrong and costly! Is this what was intended for us humans — the handiwork of the Creator? Or have we simply missed the point of it all?

There are many books out today that encourage us to "manifest" or otherwise produce the things we want in life. These are usually best sellers. But how many people have actually been blessed by the creation of wealth and prosperity? Some have tried only to find themselves in worse condition than when they started. What went wrong?

Can personal "creation" work for you and for me?

In the two earlier posts in this miniseries, I wrote about some things that block us in our "walk with God?" I did not cover everything in that context, because, frankly, that can be disheartening. Rather, I will tell you point blank and from personal experience that a relationship with our spiritual family is the key to wisdom, understanding, knowledge — the very power that can bring us all to incredible wealth, joy, peace, and to living a blessed life.

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Can what we believe be “bad” for us? Of course! And It is hard for us to see that what we believe could be a great mistake, isn’t it? For example, where did you learn the meaning of the “sin”, which I don’t even like to use in writing? It is a “bad” and “unhealthy” word because it does not present an image of the truth, instead it triggers a very different meaning in our mind that is not Scriptural.

But before I begin let me tell you a personal story about this strange word “sin” …

When I was a teenager and, of course, very green, like a young “sapling,” I was asked to speak before a small assembly of adults and teenagers, in a “father and son” night. I really had no idea what to talk about, but as I sat fidgeting in my seat, a thought struck me: “I will talk about sin!” So when my name was called, I quickly stood up and strode to the lectern and proceeded to denounce “sin” in all its “forms” and finished by saying that I would devote my life to the “fight against sin.” You imagine the feedback I got from my tirade, can’t you?

I also got a smart lecture from my dad, who told me that I really shouldn’t talk like that to anybody. At the time, I didn’t understand what he was saying, and what I found out later was a revelation: people don’t like to be told they are “sinners” or because of sin, “they will all burn in hell.” Yikes!

You can see that this not what eternal life is all about, can’t you? And you don’t really believe that God is so cruel that all He wants to do is forever roast people over hot coals like a goat on a spit, do you? …
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On this date at 5:50 AM Universal Time Code, the spring or vernal equinox happens bringing in a new year according to the calendar revealed by the messenger Uriel to our father Enoch.

This is the scientific calculation of the exact moment when the axis of the earth is perpendicular to a line from the earth to the sun. According to the calendar, this day is marked not by a scientific and mathematical calculation, but by observation. This event would be noticed at sunrise, when a shadow cast by a plumb post traces a line pointing to the place on the horizon where the sun will set on that day.

This event is sensitive to the very day. It does not happen on the prior day, nor on the day that follows. Only on the equinoxes of spring and fall are the periods of night and day of equal length. This precision marks the beginning and end of the year.

This has nothing to do with our political Christian calendar, which we borrowed from the Romans. Nor does it have anything to do with the Babylonian lunar calendar, which the Jews brought back from captivity in Babylon.

This march of time will continue, as Enoch was told, “until the new heavens and earth are created.”

It is on this calendar with four quarters of exactly thirteen weeks or 91 days that all prophecies have been pegged. The calendar counts 360 days for prophetic time periods. This makes each month contain 30 counted days when determining prophetic events. It also has four intercalary days, one at the end of each quarter. This brings the total number of days in the year to 364. It is the only calendar where 1,260 days, 42 months, and three and one half years equal the same period of time.

But after the flood the ancients determined that things did not come out exactly that way …
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Jeff Benner, founder, researcher, and author of the Ancient Hebrew Research Center tells how to learn Hebrew so that you can understand the context of the Scripture writers, not the translators. This amazing study is a must for anyone interested in not only learning Hebrew, but also how to really understand what was written from the point of view and context of writers, like Moses, and the Prophets.

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