Dr Barry Awe has a new video out, giving even more perspective to the Feast of New Wine (Pentecost) and its correlation with 8/9 Av. Quite compelling. He also puts the calendar confusion 'to bed', explaining that Father God only works by the sun, moon and stars. Check it out if you have an hour and a half to spare.
@blue Thank you Blue, I've been watching July 7 which when you use the date of Nisan 1 starting on March 11, Av 1 new moon appears on July 7 and aligns with the day count for Feast of New Wine. Pretty exciting time.
Here is a picture of the Moon phases showing new moon on Sunday July 7, 2024. This is also 50 days since the Feast of Weeks on Sunday May 19. Note that the 50 day count begins on Saturday May 18 which is a Sabbath (7 Sabbaths plus one day)
@rickjones427 No, more like this. I think this one is from Farmers Almanac, but it's the closest example I could find. Even Mr. Google can't find one. Plain old regular calendars had a little picture of the moon phase in the bottom corner of the date square when it changed. I guess nowdays people look it up on their phone somehow.
@rickjones427 Rick, I think early July for Feast of New Wine, makes a lot of sense because it means that the Feast of Oil does not interfere with or land right on top of the Feast of Trumpets. I like Dr Barry Awe, but an August Feast of Wine just seems to cancel out the Feast of Oil.
I suppose that the true FOT could be in late October, early November each year?
@hopeland Thank you Dave. This year abib was very early. Normally it occurs closer to the spring equinox because the weather is warmer, but this year the green grain was early in March. Then when the new moon appeared on March 11 that became the first day of Nisan. Each of the spring and summer feasts have come a month early compared to other years. I have no idea why there is so much confusion about when Nisan 1 occurred but it is also very strange.
Speaking of looking up on their phones nowdays, we were watching an online broadcast of a live prophecy conference. Billy Crone told everyone to get their phones out and find the calculator to see for themselves what he was about to show. We don't have those fancy phones, so I was bewildered. When I realized what he wanted was a calculator, never mind the phone, I got my little desk calculator out of the drawer and could play along.