The First Noel

So, last night (December 6, 2009) I'm remembering all the Christmas Songs that I used to sing in Junior High on the way home from Basketball practice at night when I was twelve or thirteen years old. It was about a mile and a half walk of about a half hour and that through the country, for the most part, with the fields clad in snow and the stars shining down and I would be singing to my hearts content, as loud as I could cause I knew there wasn't anyone around for miles to hear me and, my favorite song was the First Noel.

Then I realized that, perhaps, the songs that Abba (and our Lady) likes to hear the most are the songs about the birth of Y'shua and my mind strayed, eventually, to the big argument concerning the timing of our Lord's birth and I realized that, as with most everything else concerning the Church's Theology, that the Catholics were probably right.

So, I just got to the Library and checked out the argument and it all hinges upon when John's father ministered in the Temple. Those who say he was born on Tabernacles like to point out that Zacharias served in the Second Week of the Third Month (the tenth week of the year starting in Nisan), which they determine from the Courses of the Priests which Luke includes in his narrative. If that were the case then, in fact, Y'shua would have been born on Tabernacles.

However, what these people do not tell you is that this same course of Priests would also have served in the 34th Week of the Year which corresponds to Yom Kippur which is exactly how the Angel appears to Zacharias - right in front of the Veil of separation from the Holy of Holies. This, then, places John's birth in the following third month and Y'shua's conception right around Nisan first and his birth right exactly during Hanukkuh.

Some have argued that the Shepherds would not have been in the field during that time however, the flocks that were for the Temple would have been (for my source for this info click on the title of this post) and that is the primary reason the Angels appeared to those particular shepherds. Edersheim who, in my (and other's) opinion, is the expert on the life of Y'shua said there is no logical reason to change the date for the birth from December 25th.

But, most importantly, the Church has always placed his birth at this time dating back to the first century and confirmed by Hippolytus in the second - long before the 'dreaded' Catholic Church of the third century decided to use a pagan holy day for this festival. In other words, as with many of the other mythological points, the Pagan's got their teachings from the constellations which were given by God to Adam, Seth and Enoch and which predicted the Life of Messiah 6,000 years ago - including the time of his birth (see Seiss' Gospel in the Stars as well as Bullingers work on the same subject).

Now, get this, Jerusalem has been known to receive snow and, two thousand years ago, it was supposedly a little colder, globaly, then it is now and it is very possible that there was actually a light dusting of snow that night, and I refer the reader to my post the Eye of the Storm for my reasoning concerning this.

But now, lets take this all a little further. It has been determined that Y'shua had to have been born between 4 and 3 BC due to the timing of the death of Herod and, therefore, we can know that Y'shua was born around Hanukkuh of 4 BC (3BC would be too late) making him 33 Years old in 30 AD precisely, when he started his ministry. This places the First Day of Hanukkuh (24th day of the 9th month), according to one Site, around December 13, 4 BC, but they assuredly forgot to take into account the ten days that were added by Pope Gregory XIII during the Gregorian Reformation

I say this because, if we use Your Sky - we see that Astronomical New Moon of the Ninth Month occured precisely on November 29th, 4 BC , and the actual sighting of the New Moon of the Ninth Month would have occured the next night, thus making December 1, 4 BC to be the First Day of the Ninth Month and that would place the First Day of Hanukkuh - the Twenty Fourth Day of the Ninth Month - to have occured, literally, exactly on December 25th, 4 BC and that, my friends, is just about the most incredible piece of Chronological Work I have ever seen in my entire life.

Thus, Y'shua ben Y'hava was born precisely on December 25, 4 BC on the First day of Hanakkuh and he would have been circumcised on the Eighth Day of Hanakkuh.

I've got my Christmas Back!!!

Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Blessed are thou among women and Blessed is the Fruit of Your Womb - Y'shua ben Y'hava...

The First Noel

And, get this! The King Planet - Jupitor - was in the constellation of Auriga - the Shepherd! Now you know why Y'shua associated with the Shepherds so much!



The reader can check the comment section for any more relevant information that I add to this post at a later date.