[Insight into the creation of the calendar, from 2000.]

For centuries, the rabbis have taught that just as God created the heavens and the earth in six days and the seventh day He rested: what this means is that man would have his time of rule upon the earth for six thousand years, and in the seventh millennium, the Messiah would reign.  A day with the LORD is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day: The veracity of that interpretation was referenced in the writings of both Barnabus and Shimon Kefa, Jewish followers of Yahshua (Jesus) of Nazareth, during the first century of the Common Era (see: The Acts of the Jewish Apostles, II Peter 3, and the book of Barnabus).  The Biblical Hebrew year 6001 marks the first year of the Seventh Millennium, the seventh "day," the Day of the LORD. This epoch did not begin on January 1, 2000 as that date is a thoroughly fictitious and impertinent invention of man. We must look to the Creator's calendar, which points to Aviv 1, 6001 (which we calculated to have occurred on May 5, 2000: sundown in Jerusalem) as the beginning of the seventh period of one thousand years since creation. This calculation is based neither on the Gregorian calendar with which most of us in the occident were raised, nor the Jewish calendar, which is based on ancient mathematical calculations rather than the Biblically commanded moon sightings. Our Biblical Hebrew Calendar utilizes the most current computerized calculations to project the probable sightings of the new moon over Jerusalem, corrected for the "Aviv" barley in the land of Israel for both 1999 and 2000, and exact year from creation astronomical calculations (intellectual property of E.W. Faustich.)    This provides us with the first astronomically and agriculturally corrected Biblical Hebrew calendar since the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E.

The Barley in Israel is a critical, yet ignored witness in the calculations for the modern Jewish calendar.  In the spring of 1999 an Adar Bet was required to correct the calendar for the

Aviv.  The Jewish calendar was one month off from the Creator's calendar last year.  In the Fall of 1999, we planted eight barley fields in the environs of Jerusalem.  At the new moon of April 5^th 2000 (not sighted until April 6^th) the barley in Jerusalem was an entire month from being "Aviv."  The rains expected at Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles) were two months late, and the barley seed sprouted two months late.  Adar Bet was required again this spring to allow the barley to "aviv."  The new moon of the Aviv was then reckoned by our visual inspection of the barley on the Mount of Olives and Mount Zion upon our return to Jerusalem on May 5th.  Aviv 1 was declared from the city of Tekoa as we sighted the new moon of May 5^th 2000.  That was the evening of the extremely rare, "Menorah" alignment of the seven heavenly bodies that heralded such events as the birth of Avraham, the building of the 1^st and 2^nd temples and the birth of Yahshua of Nazareth - the most noted Jewish personality on the planet.  On May 5^th 2000, the ancient Mayan sun calendar came to an abrupt halt - on the last day of man's millennia.  Many, ignoring the testimony of the Hebrew Scriptures, expected the world to end on that date.  If our calculations are correct, it was the end of an age and the year 6001, the Day of the LORD has begun.

Did we expect that the Messiah would arrive on Aviv 1?  No! In the Hebrew Scriptures we read of the Great and Notable Day of the LORD. This Day, or Millennium, starts out with bloodshed, fire, pillars of smoke that darken the sky, plagues, and all manner of pestilence. Then comes an era of peace with the Messiah as King over all. The Messiah will not come immediately, but after a time of tribulation. And of course, we expect the prophet Elijah, who must come before the Messiah.  When shall we expect Elijah? When will the Messiah arrive? And what does this have to do with the Ark of the Covenant? 

This and more will come to light as you explore the pages of our calendar.