Today starts Elul, the name of the 6th month in God’s Calendar. Elul, seems like it is the name of the sixth month by the two verses below:
Neh.6 [15] So the wall was finished in
the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.
Neh.7[73] So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.
I often mention that God’s calendar is NOT like any other calendar on earth today. It is not the Roman calendar that we follow, or the equally pagan Jewish calendar that many churches believe is the calendar of God. To read more about God’s Calendar click here . There is a mistake that those who follow a Jewish calendar has made, and that refers to the word for new moon. That is a mistranslation, as the proper rendering should be NEW MONTH, as I did in The Plain Truth’s Red Letter Bible.
The Hebrew word ‘chodesh‘, which is Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance simply means “new” or to “rebuild.” Chodesh does not mean “new moon”. It means ‘new’ with an implication that a month is about to begin again.
Originally, when the earth had a perfect 360 day rotation around the sun, and the moon’s journey around the earth was exactly 30 days (today it is 29.5 days), new moons where on the new months. The calendar was in balance. However, probably after the flood, the weight of water slowed the earth rotational spin (this is NOT mentioned in the Bible) to 365.25 days a year and the moon’s rotation to the present one of 29.5 days.
The ancients noticed that the months were no longer 30 days and the years were not 360 days, but now over 365. A calendar needed to be made to reflect this. Egypt made the first perfect calendar, one Moses was very familiar with, which had 12 – 30 day months and then 5 days at the end of the year that did not count. This is also seen in Enoch’s calendar (see illustration on left).God’s calendar was like the Egyptian one except that year no longer started on the first day of summer, but on the first day of spring. Springtime is the birth of the new year in nature, as morning is the start of the day as well. The term for new moon became “new month” as the new moons and new months no longer matched up. This is not hard to conceive as the English word for month comes from moon! Yet our months have nothing to do with new moons! The same applies to God’s calendar
Names (if any, in God’s year according to the Bible:
1st Month Ha Aviv / Nissan, Est. 3:7 – ha Aviv, Exodus 12:2 and Exodus 13:4 – in English, scripture calls it Abib
2nd Month– – 1 Kings 6:1 calls it Zif – Not called Iyyar as Judaism states
3rd Month. Sivan – Esther 8:9
4th Month – Tammuz is Not the name of the 4th month as Judaism states – That is a false God
5th Month No name – Av is Not in the bible – This is Not the name of the 5th month as Judaism states
6th month- Elul is the name of the 6th month
7th Month – The Holy Month is called “ha Ethanim” – 1 Kings 8:2 – calls it Ethanim – Tishrei is the wrong name as Judaism states
8th Month-Bool – 1 Kings 8:38 – In English, scripture calls it Bul – Not called Cheshvan or Mar Cheshvan as Judaism states
9th Month-Chislev – Zach 7:1 – in English, scripture calls it Chisleu
10th Month- Teveth – Esther 2:16 – in English, scripture calls it Tebeth
11th Month-Shevat – Zach 1:7 – in English, scripture calls it Sebat
12th Month-Adar – Esther 3:7