Why Does the Bible Have Two Calendars?
God gave Israel a calendar that began in spring. But spring depends on where you’re standing.
God gave Israel a calendar that began in spring. But spring depends on where you’re standing.
Seven feasts. But God specifically names three feast times — three seasons that group the seven. Why the distinction? One verse in James makes the grouping visible, and it changes how the whole calendar reads.
We think of understanding as something you acquire — study enough, grasp enough, and eventually you understand. But the Greek word the New Testament uses for “understanding” means something different: unification. A bringing together of what was scattered. Connecting the dots is the literal meaning.
Mix flour and water, add nothing, and in two days it leavens itself. Watch that happen, and Paul’s “become a new lump” — and what the old leaven really is — reads very differently.
The Bible runs to 66 books and hundreds of thousands of words — but a single thread runs through all of it. And “fulfill” turns out not to mean what either side of the usual argument assumes.
We read the cross as the answer to our sin — and it’s so deep in us we never check it. But watch what the Passover actually does at Calvary: the same thing it did in Egypt. The lamb is never called a sin offering, even there.
The feast calendar puts Atonement years past the cross. The cross says otherwise. Both are true — and the contradiction dissolves the moment you stop reading it as one straight line.
The feast calendar places Atonement long after the cross. The cross is full of it anyway. Both appear true — how do we hold both?
Almost all of us read the Passover as being about sin. But open Exodus 12 and notice what the lamb is never once called. The whole account is pointing somewhere else.
“The kingdom of heaven is like leaven.” The sentence should stop us — because most of us were handed a reading that makes it impossible. What if leaven was never sin at all?