This morning I will be changing Topics. Instead of continuing in the Book of Revelation, I thought it best if I were to talk about the Birth of Yahshua Messiah or as many Christians say Jesus Christ.
Now I know that next Sunday many churches in Sussex County and across this great nation and throughout the world will be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ or as I like to say Yahshua Messiah.
But here lies the question that I am asking you, the listeners this morning, “Was Yahshua Messiah really born on our December 25?
Can your pastor or reverend tell you without batting an eye that Yahshua Messiah was born on December 25th?
Many pastors will tell you that we may not know the exact date, but that’s okay, because this is the day that the church fathers of old picked!
My dear friends, the problem with that answer is the fact that December 25 is actually a pagan holiday! That’s right, you heard me, a pagan holiday!
Paul wrote in Colossians 2:8, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Yahshua Messiah.”
Luke Chapter 1 verse 5
Abijah = This was the eighth of the priestly courses of ministration in the Temple (1 Chronicles 24:10), and occurred, as did the others, twice in the year. The "Courses" were changed every week, beginning each with a Sabbath. The reckoning commenced on the 22nd day of Tisri
Bearing in mind that all the courses served together at the three Great Feasts, the dates for the two yearly "ministrations" of Abiah will be seen to fall as follows:
The first 9 ministration was from 12-18 Chisleu = December 6-12.
The second ministration was from 12-18 Sivan = June 13-19.
The announcement therefore to Zacharias in the Temple as to the conception of John the Baptist took place between 12-18 SIVAN (June 13-19), in the year 5 B.C. After finishing his "ministration", the aged priest "departed to his own house" (Luke 1:23), which was in a city10 in "the hill country" of Juda (verse 39).
The day following the end of the "Course of Abia" being a Sabbath (Sivan 19), he would not be able to leave Jerusalem before the 20th.
The thirty miles journey would probably occupy, for an old man, a couple of days at least. He would therefore arrive at his house on the 21st or 22nd. This leaves ample time for the miraculous "conception" of Elizabeth to take place on or about 23rd of SIVAN 11 - which would correspond to June 23-24 of that year. The fact of the conception and its date would necessarily be known at the time and afterwards, and hence the 23rd SIVAN would henceforth be associated with the conception of John Baptist as the 1st TEBETH would be with that of our Lord.
The conception of John Baptist | on or about 23rd SIVAN = June 24 | in the year 5 B.C.
The Gennesis (Begetting) of our Lord | on or about 1st TEBETH = December 25 | in the year 5 B.C.
The birth of John Baptist | on or about 4th-7th NISAN = March 25-28 | in the year 4 B.C.
The birth of our Lord | on or about 15th TISRI = September 29 | in the year 4 B.C.
280 days = 40 weeks - forty sevens, the perfect period of human gestation
7x5x8=280].
The Component Numbers of 280 are highly significant in this connection.
7 denotes Spiritual Perfection.
5 denotes Divine Grace.
8 denotes Resurrection, Regeneration,
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