Book Description
"The secret things," says Moses, "belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever;" and the Lord declares by the prophet Amos, that He "will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets." Deuteronomy 29:29; Amos 3:7. The students of God's word may then confidently expect to find each one of the crucial events in human history clearly pointed out in the scriptures of truth. And aside from the cross, the greatest event in human history is that foretold by Gabriel to Daniel and by all of the prophets - the final atonement of Christ on our behalf and the establishment of the New Covenant in the remnant church.Where in the sacred writings do we find these promises and the end-time road map? The books of Daniel and Revelation provide much of the essential information. But one source that is especially helpful in interpreting both books is the biblical calendar of the Old Testament containing the prophetic Hebrew feasts.Religion, prophecy and the calendar are closely linked. Most if not all religions, ancient and modern, observe a religious calendar. The most widely used calendar today, the Gregorian, named after Pope Gregory XIII, was and still is essentially a religious calendar. Even though most of us who use it, use it for secular purposes, historically our calendar's primary function was to mark the holy days of the Roman Catholic Church. That tradition continues today. Secular science provides the precision of measurement of the celestial cycles to within a split second but the Roman Catholic Church defines the calendar observed around the world and the observed holy days or holidays in the west. Easter, for example, in the Gregorian calendar is determined by a sub-set of ecclesiastical rules. Whereas Christmas is a fixed day of the month, Easter is always a Sunday requiring special rules to determine when it will fall. These rules are followed by western Christendom but the Orthodox churches of the east calculate Easter differently using the older Julian calendar of the Roman empire from which the Gregorian is derived.Below we'll examine the evidence, reconstructing the ancient calendar of the patriarchs, Jews and apostles from scripture and newly discovered, authenticated sources. More than an academic exercise, the re-emergence of the scriptural calendar is pregnant with meaning for all of us. The sacred calendar is the authority for 1) the Holy Days that God appointed for us for our corporate and individual atonement and for worship and 2) the same calendar tells us where we stand prophetically now and on into the future to the end of the age and beyond. Could the re-emergence of the calendar of scripture itself be one of the most important signs that God is speaking to us today, showing us that we're living at the end of time, drawing our attention to earth's final events and inviting us, urging us to prepare ourselves for what is about to transpire?
