I'm resting in Him and His work and am already trusting that my salvation is assured.
pretty sure
the example above is labeled "Enoch calender" - there are different circular counters
I'm talking about the yearly days counter 360 days in 12 months
plus 4 tekufahs (equinoxes/solstices) plus a sometimes leap week
other circular counters are used to track larger periods of time in the Ages
below is just an example - the subject is pretty cool
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"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
" Exodus/Leviticus
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Per wikipedia, the Enoch calender was inaccurate and over a period of 25 years would be off by a month or more. (1). Which may explain why the winter solstice is at the wrong time in your earlier picture.
it is important when trying to understand the ideas circulating around the time of the Essenes, for example, the idea of the birth of Christ. Right? Otherwise, Bad data IN = bad data OUT.
So when I want to know how THEY, the Essenes, thought about the birth of Christ, then it helps to accurately know the ideas (data) they held. Otherwise, I end up believing error then telling myself I am “resting” (on the error) on what I believe. Which could be a path leading nowhere. (Sad face)
Three points of information
1) winter solstice is defined as the longest night of the year, irregardless, of any proposed calenders. The Egyptians had accurate methods to mark the seasons long before the Essenes. IOW, if the winter solstice happens in winter then everyone knew that. It doesn’t happen in the Spring even if we imagine it did.
2) The birth of Christ was associated with winter solstice as it marked the coming of spring because the long night was over and light was increasing. Remember,
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Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
It correlated with the birth of Horus celebrated by the Egyptians who also worshipped at the cycles of the rising and setting sun long before the Essenes were doing so. (2)
Someone may ask, Why don’t we hear about this in the Christian churches?
Answer: Because people CHOOSE to believe something else, and have convinced themselves (i.e., are “resting“) in what they believe, even if reason and evidence support a different conclusion. (2 Tim 4:3)
3) The Essenes worshipped at the rising and the setting of the sun. They were not worshipping the solar orb itself, but what it symbolizes, specifically, the God of knowledge and his rays of light giving knowledge of himself. Therefore, the birth of Christ on earth is the knowledge of The Most High God on earth and the TOR was a Christ-anointed figure to the Essenes for that reason.
In anticipation of a certain poster claiming it is pagan to use the sun as a simile and therefore should be rejected, I would add that there is nothing wrong in finding similes from nature to explain celestial events. The Bible is filled with similes from nature. It does not mean that the symbol is causal in its effects but instead means that God manifests knowledge of himself through nature, in the sense that, “
the heavens declare the glory of God.” (Psalm 19:1)
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References
1) ”Calendar expert John Pratt wrote that "The Enoch calendar has been criticized as hopelessly primitive because, with only 364 days, it would get out of sync with the seasons so quickly: in only 25 years the seasons would arrive an entire month early.” (Wikipedia, Dec 27, 2021)
2) Per Epiphanius,
’at a distance of thirteen days from the increase of the light [ie., at December 25]; for it needs must have been that this should be a figure of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and His twelve disciples, who make up the thirteen days of the increase of the Light.’”
Therefore, the birth of Christ comes from an Egyptian Feast, namely the Feast of the Epiphany. The Feast of the Epiphany was a great day in Egypt, connected with the “Birth of the Aeon” —a phase of the “Birth of Horus”.
Per Mead,
“Epiphanius is stating that the true birthday of the Christ is the Feast of Epiphany.“ [associated with the winter solstice]. (GRS Mead, Thrice Greatest Hermes).