Abib of God Elohim

The Essential Guidelines

1. Any potential new moon starting from the 15th of March forward will probably be a New Year.

2. Passover cannot be before the 18th of March. This means if the end of the 12th month is on or before March 4th it will be an Intercalated Year: 13th month added.

3. For a New Year to begin, there needs to be a very big warmup, cloud free skies, and no extended rains from the 15th of February or earlier. One Sharav event occurring from February 1-15 usually guarantees that.

 

Also, of note are the following points:

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1. This does not work using the Nehemia standard that the barley must be aviv by the New Moon of Abib. Keep in mind it is the Month of the Abib not the day of the Abib new moon. It only applies to the Abib Calendar using Christ/Messiah as the representative Wavesheaf. It must be aviv by the 14th of the 1st Month. That will have ensured their will have been representative samples from maturing fields in Jerusalem by the 13th of that Month.

2. Every year still needs to be followed from afar at the start of the early rains to see which fields germinate first (October/November) and then more intently from January as to weather and plant growing conditions.

3. Any potential New Year falling between March 5-15 needs special attention from trusted brethren in the Land, or a personal inspection if it is not clear from all else.

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New moon dates from our past inspections and decisions made to start of year at the end of each 12th month:

 

2002: March 16 Normal

2003: March 5 Intercalated

2004: March 23 Normal

2005: March 12 Intercalated

2006: March 31 Normal

2007: March 21 Normal

2008: March 9 Intercalated

2009: March 28 Normal

2010: March 18 Normal

2011: March 7 Intercalated

2012: March 24 Normal

2013: March 14 Normal

2014: March 3 Intercalated

2015: March 22 Normal

2016: March 11 Normal

2017: February 28 Intercalated

2018: March 19 Normal

2019: March 9 Normal

2020: February 26 Intercalated

2021: March 16 Normal

2022: March 5 Intercalated

2023: March 24 Normal

2024: March 12 Normal

2025: March 31 Intercalated (date still tentative based on crescent sighting)

 

The entire Calendar of the Elohim is predicated on cycles and patterns in creation witnessing to its commencement and the appointed times of meeting.

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Notice the dates above: no New Year has started prior to March 9th.

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Everything after the 15th of March has been a New Year starting.

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Between March 5-15 we had 5 Intercalated and 3 Normal years commencing. These are the years that need most of the witnesses in harmony. The birds are driven by the effects of sunlight so they will be consistently appearing in this time period as noted on the calendar.

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The figs and grapes may be the ultimate confirming witnesses holding up the hands of the early barley. No samples are to come from microenvironments. Those are all subject to early greenhouse effect. For the figs and grapes to reach their Biblical criteria events in growth as witnesses to winter being gone, there will need to be a minimum of 20 days of favorable weather before the respective date falling in this time span of the 5th to the 15th.

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These are all guidelines established over 20 inspection trips in Israel at the end of the 12th lunar month of a Biblical Year. And, for the most part, confirmed what we had witnessed from afar for several years prior to 2002.

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You can get more detail on the 10 witnesses in creation with their Biblical authority in the article "Abib Calendar Criteria to Use When Not in the Land" available for on our Publications page under Calendar Related.