The Biblical Calendar Belies Heliocentrism

In his dedication to Pope Paul III (r. 1534-1549) Copernicus implored the Pope to silence all possible critics who, not being knowledgeable of mathematics, would dare criticize his book with Biblical quotations totally irrelevant, as he claimed, in the context of the revolving earth. In other words, Copernicus was intentionally contradicting the truth of divine revelation with his mathematical equations. The same arrogance lurks behind the title of Newton's book; mathematical principles explained to Newton the workings of the universe better than ordinances of God. Newton shared with Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler their Pythagorean faith that mathematics would reveal the structure of the world.
Saul Bellow once observed that a great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. In the Renaissance Rome the need for mathematical illusion was unlimited. In ancient Rome 'Babylonian' was synonymous with 'mathematician.' The Babylonian astrologers called planets 'wanderers' or 'sheep' and they called the Sun, 'The Shepherd' which, of course, means a sun-centered system.
Latium Latinus (the Roman form of the Greek Lateinos), and Lateo, “to lie hid,” all alike come from the Chaldee “Lat,” which has the same meaning. This is evident from the name of the fish Latus, which was worshipped along with the Egyptian Minerva, in the city of Latopolis in Egypt, now Esneh, that fish Latus evidently just being another name for the fish-god Dagon. We have seen that Ichthys, or the Fish, was one of the names of Bacchus; and the Assyrian goddess Atergatis, with her son Ichthys is said to have been cast into the lake of Ascalon. That the sun-god Apollo had been known under the name of Lat, may be inferred from the Greek name of his mother-wife Leto, or in Doric, Lato, which is just the feminine of Lat. Dagon was venerated by the Philistines whom the KJV turned into Palestinians. By order of emperor Hadrian the Holy Land was renamed Palestine.
It should be reminded here that the Etruscans, called themselves Rasena; and the descendants of the most ancient families always believed that the Rasena had come from the great and ancient city of Resen or RSN, the capital of Aturia in the land of Assyria situated on the great river Tigris. In the country of Ethiopia, where the Pharaohs had granted lands to a group of no less than 240,000 Rasenas, they built the town of Esar – that was the Etruscan word for demigod. From Egypt they had brought many of their sacred rites; for many centuries they used to place Egyptian things and implement in their tombs.
The founding fathers of the modern astronmy, like their ancient predecessors: “set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. And they say, how doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Eternal God? - Ps 73: 9-11
The ancient Jews also possessed sufficient knowledge of mathematical astronomy to fix the dates of festivals and holidays: “And the children of Issachar that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” 1 Chron. 12:33. There is, however, a problem with this verse; we know from the Bible that it was Judah who was given authority over the calendar, so why does Scripture say it was Issachar that had “understanding of times.”
We find solution to this problem in the Biblical mention of such important astronomical tool as sun-dial. And this is a very revealing mention: “And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that has spoken; Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degree which is gone down in the sun-dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.” - Isa 38:7-8
This verse was supposed to be a caution to all ancient and modern scientists who trusted more in their tools and their mathematical reasonings than in God's teachings. Unfortunately, in their arrogance they forget that it is God who rules the world and not their speculative laws expressed in mathematical formulas. The sons of Issachar were working out calculated calendars and prophet Isaiah wrote about the calendar which rested purely on the observation of the sun and the moon. Let me unmask for you the frightening superficiality of the heliocentric mind which ignored the profound teaching of the Hebrew Bible.
The first commandment the Jews were given as a people is the mitzvah of Rosh Chodesh, the New Moon: “And God said to Moses...in the land of Egypt ... This month is for you, the head of the months. First it is for you among the months of the year.” - Ex 12:1-2
This is a strange first commandment. You'd think the development of the calendar would only come after the establishment of the basic fundamentals like the Ten Commandments. And yet the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. And what was wrong with the solar calendar that everyone else had been using? What is the significance of basing the Jewish calendar on the moon?
Whereas the sun is the symbol of unchanging nature, rising in the east, setting in the west, day in and day out every day of the year, the moon changes and it seems to be telling us something. And her message thwarts all matematical calculations. The moon is mathematically unpredictable. By commandment of the New Moon which meant the rejection of Egyptian mathematical and godless science Moses consolidated his nation. Moses did, what this blog is trying to do. Let's hope that the eye of the sun god Horus will disappear from the one dollar bill. Do you prefer One Nation under Horus?
Jews calculated the month according to the phases of the moon, each month consisting of either twenty nine or thirty days, and beginning with the appearance of the new moon. It was impossible to know in advance whether a particular month would have twenty-nine or thirty days. The length of the moon was never determined until the thirtieth day actually arrived.
Whe the Sages of Israel decided to adopt the Calculated Rabbinical Calendar to avoid further tragic political persecutions the Moon of that calendar became a mean or average moon moving uniformly, in the same way as the artificial moon of Hilarius (or Dr. Jarvik's artificial heart), which is used in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. The beginning and duration of the months depend on the moladoth (the times of the new moon) and the time which elapses from one molad to the next. The average figure given by tradition for this interval is 29 days and 12 hours and 793 parts.
New Moon in Scripture, the visible crescent is not the same as the astronomical new moon (molad), which is not visible. molad is the moment that the moon passes between the Earth and the sun. It is the theoretical beginning of the new moon. molad is commonly used not for the actual time of New Moon, but for the computed time, which governs the commencement of each year and of each cycle, axactly, like Newtonian principia mathematica.
This astronomical new moon enabled the mathematical astronomers to play the role of “God knowing good and evil, times and seasons.” Indeed, many ancient philosophers were venerated by illiterate people as “gods knowing good and evil” (The Biblical hieroglyph 'good and evil' denotes wisdom gained by dialectic, i.e. speculative philosophy) And indeed, most of them were familiar with practice of magic and divination which were forbidden by the Bible. Attempt to foretell events was guiding Copernicus's endeavor. Kepler believed that man's ability to understand the mathematical laws governing the universe enabled him to mirror God's own thoughts and thus put him in special mysthical union with the Creator of the Universe.
This is nothing else but the very well known ancient mathematical mysticism, or Gnosis against which the words of Prophet Isaiah are directed: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Is 55:8-9)
God's months begin with the new moon, mathematicians' months begin with the calculated, theoretical conjunction of the sun, earth, and moon which occurs in the midst of what is generally 1.5 -- 3.5 days of the moon being concealed. You won't see the astronomical new moon even with the biggest telescopes, so the astronomers are on the safe side, nobody can contradict them if they made a mistake i.e. if their calculations don't match the actual events in the heavens.
This mathematical hoax was invented by the ancient Egyptian astrologers who used the time when the old crescent was invisible in the morning as the beginning of their month. This Egyptian custom of using the old crescent was embraced by our modern astronomers who also use the conjunction as the marker. And that also explains why the Torah considers the process of establishing the new month as a major breakthrough in creating a nation. The Jewish national uniqueness is reflected in their calendar which became the catechism of this nation. There is no room for flawed mathematical formula in Science of the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew prophets did not express their teachings in the imaginary mathematical equations. The Biblical Calendar is the science of synchronicity between the heavens and the earth.
Only God can expose heliocentrists' pretentious ignorance and He actually did that to prove the Truth of His teaching. “Owing to inequalities in the rate of both the solar and the lunar motion in longitude, the mean conjuntion (molad) may precede or be preceded by the true conjunction.” (Cecil Roth, editor, Enc. Judaica, Vol.5, p. 46, article: Calendar.
The Jews readily admit that the current calculated calendar in use, exactly like the Gregorian Calendar, is in error and needs reform. Here is a relevant passage from Enc. Judaica: “The present calendar system was expected to be replaced again by a system based on true values more akin to the earlier Jewish calendar in which New Moon and intercalations were proclaimed on the basis of both observation and calculation.” (ib.)
In Jesus' time the new moon was established by observation. What we know from first-century records is that the calendar was operated by observation and controlled by the Sanhedrin. If Jesus and the Church followed this habit, then Jesus accepted something that, as some are claiming, is unacceptable. Maybe that was the true reason that Jesus was crucified by Pilate. The Roman AUC (AUC stands for Ab Urbe Condita, meaning “from the foundation of Rome”) calendar was enforced, with capital punishment for non-compliance, throughout the powerful Roman Empire of the time. The Jewish calendar starts with the creation of the world. But creationism is so “unscientific”!
Hadrian had issued decrees against certain specific Torah-practices. After the war, and after the general punitive slaughter and the great sale of a multitude into slavery, Hadrian decreed a general Shmad against all forms of Torah-practices. Now was introduced a period of the greatest suffering in the history of the Jews. Everywhere, men and women were slaughtered and tortured and were forced to undergo death in the most painful manner, whenever they were discovered fulfilling any precept of the Torah.
The Roman persecution was so intense that Rabbi Akiva had to go to Babylon to declare a leap-year (Mishna: Yevamos 122A), because this was at that time not possible to do in any land under Roman domination (this was before Trajan conquered Babylon in the year 115 CE). And for that “crime” Rabbi Akiva was also crucified; he offended the offcial Roman sun god Sol Invictus. Tyndale who translated the Bible from Hebrew into English was imprisoned near Brussels and interrogated by theologians from Louvain; he was garroted and his corpse burnt in October 1536.
A few lines from M. Capella’s Ode to the Sun found in his general compilation of scientific knowledge entitled The Marriage of Mercury and Philology (De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercuri) unveils the religion hidden behind the solar calendar:
“Latium invokes thee, Sol, because thou alone art in honor, after the Father, the centre of light; and they affirm that thy sacred head bears a golden brightness in twelve rays, because thou formest that number of months and that number of hours.”
The baboons, as the Egyptians believed, were wont to raise their paws in adoration to the Sun. Mankind, they thought ought also to act like these pious and learned animals, and thus to say to the rising sun: “Adoration to thee, O Re!” Accordingly, Copernicus came to believe that the Sun was a god! What really mattered for him was his pagan belief in the divinity of the Sun. Darwin came to believe that “he who understands baboon knows more about metaphysics than philosopher Locke.”
As I mentioned earlier, the official Syrian translation of the New Testament Peshitta turned Jesus into a Jewish Copernicus thus contradicting the teaching of Col 2:8 : “Take care there is not someone who will carry you away as prisoners by means of his philosophy and idle fancies, following human traditions and the world's crude notions instead of following Christ.” Let me remind here that reading the Bible was punishable by death in the Papal empire. In a Major Motion Picture Release Ben Stein exposes the frightening agenda of the “Darwinian Machine” in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.
The same "religious beliefs" defended by the pagans in their debates against and with many early Gentile Church Fathers are yet today the very backbone of Gentile Christianity and their doctrines! What still amazes me and what escapes most Christians today is that historical investigation of many of these "debates" provides the multiple evidence that testifies to the fact that the early Christians and Chruch Fathers acknowledged that they had in fact copied the pagans and their beliefs and merged such beliefs into the "Christian faith." Astounding! Your New Testament is full of the dogmas and doctrines originating in Sun Worship and without such knowledge you read them as if it were "Divine Revelations." The Christian faith today is nothing more but an evolution of “Sun” worship which over time was transfigured into “Son” worship. (See, David Fideler, Jesus Christ, Sun of God).
On Jan 4, 2008 Peter Popham reported for the London Independent that the astronomical observatory that was a part of Castel Gandolfo for more than 75 years was dismantled.. The pope needs more room to receive diplomats, so the telescope must go.
But it was the mundane question of the reform of the calendar that first induced the popes to give house room to star-gazers of the 16th century. “Pope Gregory ordered a tower to be erected in 1578 and to be fitted out with the greatest and best instruments of that time,” Pope Leon XIII wrote in 1891. “There he held the meetings of the learned men to whom the reform of the calendar had been entrusted. When touched by the rays of the sun that are allowed from above the designs demonstrate the error of the old reckoning.” Indeed, "Astronomy is the science of continualy correcting your earlier errors". In other words, the mathematical straitjacket put by astronomers on God is bound to fail sooner or later, and the Gregorian calendar is no exception. The ecclesiastical Full Moon dates (Paschalia) is not the astronomical Full Moon – it is based on tables set up in 325 that do not take into account the full complexity of lunar motion. As a result, the date of an ecclesiastical Full Moon differs from that of true Full Moon.
The telescope was one of the central instruments of what has been called the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. It “revealed” hitherto unsuspected phenomena in the heavens and had a profound influence on the controversy between followers of the traditional geocentric astronomy and cosmology and those who favored the heliocentric hoax of Copernicus. Long before Galileo, some people could see phases of Venus with the naked eyes.