Biblical New Year

Exodus 12:1-3. ADONAI spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; he said, 2 "You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you. 3 Speak to all the assembly of Isra'el and say, 'On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household.

The New Year and Calendar scripture includes the references for when to begin Pesach/Passover marks the start of the annual Feast Day cycle.  The spring renewal is the season of new beginnings and awakenings.  There is another significant event that occurred on this day in History:
 
Exodus 40:1-3.  ADONAI said to Moshe, 2 "On the first day of the first month, you are to set up the tabernacle, the tent of meeting. 3 Put in it the ark for the testimony, and conceal the ark with the curtain.
 
In ancient Israel from the first time the Tabernacle/Mishkan was erected through the time of the Second Temple the New Year was celebrated as God ordained on Nisan 1st.  
 
The First day of the New Year was when the Mishkan was set up and all Israel witnessed the transfer of God’s Glory, His Divine Presence, as experienced from afar, hovering over Mt Sinai, move to hovering over the Mishkan directly among the people.  This day for the fledgling nation of Israel is when God became personal, real, and up close.  To review:
 
Sanctuary in Hebrew is Mikdash which means Holy Place, Tabernacle which is Mishkan in Hebrew, and "Ohel Moed" (Tent is Ohel in Hebrew whose root word is Ohen the presentence of love- loves) Moed (divine meeting)" (God loves to have divine meetings with us) or Tent of Meeting.  The most commonly used term is Mishkan or Tabernacle whose root word (Shakan-dwell) is the same as Shekhinah which means divine presence in Hebrew which is also the same root word in Sukkah that are built during Sukkot.  Mish (feminine form of Who is like God) Mish'al is a request or petition of God while Mishl'ey is a form of wisdom-the Hebrew name of the Book of Proverbs.  The dwelling place or "Ohel Moed" (God loves divine appointments) is where we meet God's divine presences to seek His wisdom or at least to request it and petition God!
 
This is where is gets interesting as another word comes from this root grouping in Hebrew: Mishpocha-Family!  God loves divine meetings (Ohel Moed) with His family!  The family is being be restored in the time to come.  Root word also refers to Mishpocha or family-the family of David (who the sages view this as a Messianic Reference concerning Messiah) the Messiah will reign as we see that booth or Sukkah in Hebrew also share the same root word(Shakan).  Sukkah refers to the coming Messianic age, the return and rule of Yeshua!  Sukkot is the bridal chamber for the wedding feast and represents the return of the Kingdom of God here on earth:
 
God says He will raise up the Meeting Place of His divine Glory where He dwells-a place of worship that will restore the Family of David-Those who call upon the Name of the Lord!  His Mishpocha (family) gathers around the Mishkahn the place where the presence of God loves to meet with His creation!
 
God Himself follows His calendar and time line, it is the prophetic clock for the Kingdom of God.  Follow the life of Yeshua and you’ll see that it follows the feast day cycle starting with Pesach.  This time of transition from the old year to the new years is a time for both physical and spiritual cleansing and renewal.  The One New Man, Unity between Jew and Gentile within the body has its roots in the New Year with the completion of the Mishkahn/Tabernacle and the ability to approach God!
 
The Tabernacle, now complete, establishes the correct pattern for God's divine Glory.  When the pattern is right the Glory falls.  In fact, God tells us to observe His New Year:
 
Deuteronomy 16:1. "Observe the month of Aviv, (Shamor et-chodesh ha'Aviv "Shamar's: Guard, observe, we are ordered to guard/safeguard the head of the month CHodesh ha’Aviv ) and keep Pesach to ADONAI your God; for in the month of Aviv, ADONAI your God brought you out of Egypt at night.

This is the Key to God's prophetic timeline and schedule of global events! What we are really doing keeping the Biblical New Year is realigning or resynchronizing ourselves with God's calendar and timeline in both our current worlds and in the world to come.  He desires us to safeguard this timeline, to remember the head of the New Year!  It’s not just an individual event, rather we doing this as Mishpocah, family!  I want you to understand this clearly as we have entered into the New Year!  We are not congregation building; we are restoring Family!  
 
Matthew 12:46-50. He was still speaking to the crowd when his mother and brothers appeared outside, asking to talk with him. 47 (Not original text) 48 But to the one who had informed him he replied, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" 49 Pointing to his talmidim, he said, "Look! Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 Whoever does what my Father in heaven wants, that person is my brother and sister and mother."

Whom ever does what God wants, whomever lives a biblical lifestyle, that person is my family!  Regardless of race, color, or past history!  
 
Observing Rosh Chodashim is considered the very first commandment given to Israel before the great Exodus from Egypt took place.  The Order to Observe Shabbat came in Exodus 16!  You can’t keep Shabbat or the feast if you don't know when to begin! This month shall be unto you the beginning of months:

Exodus 12:2.  You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month (Rosh Chodashim) of the year (R’ishon Chodashim) for you.

In the both Scriptures and Judaic tradition there are various names given to "this month," including the following: Chodesh Ha-Aviv (חדֶשׁ הָאָבִיב), "the month of spring," so named because it marked the time of the Exodus from Egypt "In Nisan our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt and in Nisan we will be redeemed."  
 
Within this same thought process, the month of Nisan is also referred to as Chodesh ha-Yeshuah, the "month of salvation".  This can be viewed and understood in both the Physical: Israel was physically delivered from Slavery in Egypt in the month of Nisan and Spiritually; The Salvation for both Israel and the world from the slavery of Sin occurred in the same month through the Messiah who was born today!!!!  Happy Birthday Yeshua!!!  Yeshua was also crucified on the stake 14 days from now in the same month during Pesach!

So we witness a heavenly ordered Cycle of Time.  A never ending repetitive circle that can be repetitive but not exactly identical!
 
Jewish thought regards time not in a linear, flat pattern but a spiral type of "helix," in a limitless forward or upward progression driven by a divine cyclic pattern that repeats certain divine patters in weeks, months, and years of life such as the Moedim or Feast Days beginning with the weekly Shabbat through the annual feast days).
 
The need to Shamar, to observe, to guard the biblical new year and associated feasts and cycles becomes clear.  The cycle is repetitive yet not identical from year to year as we stream towards the return of Messiah and the establishment of God's Kingdom and time line upon the earth, upon humanity!  The seed of redemption and salvation has already been sown, we need only to study and review the year to see it!
 
The power and joy of walking in Adonai’s path is something divine you can’t find outside of His word. May He give a joyous and prosperous new year and may He bless you and yours in this years Feast Days!.

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