The Truth of Genesis: The Seven Feasts Of Yehovah, Part 6
10/28
There are seven feasts, or appointed times, that God gave Israel to keep. Six of the feasts we know several days ahead of time when the feast day is going to occur. However, the only one that occurs “on a day that no man knows”, is the Day of Trumpets. It is the first day of the seventh month, called Tishri. At the end of the sixth month (Elul), witnesses in Jerusalem are watching the sky to see if the first sliver of the renewed Moon will be visible. It is either 29 days or 30 days after the beginning of the sixth month. But until NASA was able to create a system that would calculate the moment that the Moon would be visible, it was always a “guess”, and a “wait and see”. Now, it is just a “wait and see”, because NASA cannot predict cloud cover. If there is cloud cover on the 29th day, the new month is declared on the 30th day.

By protocol, two eye witnesses to the sighting of the Moon, must give their testimony to the High Priest on what they saw, in order for it to be declared the beginning of the seventh month, called Tishri. The time or moment of the evening is defined as when there are three stars visible as the sun is setting. At the evening of the 30th day, if the renewed Moon has not yet been sighted, the start of the 1st day is proclaimed, whether or not the lower crescent of the Moon has been seen. The cycle of the moon is 29.53+ days, or 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes, so there cannot be a 31st day. It can only be 29 or 30 days. The possibility of cloud cover makes it difficult to predict. That’s why it has been called “the day and hour that no man knows”. It has been associated with the day of the coming of Yeshua.

Exodus 19: 1, 2, 10 – 11, 16 - 20
In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,
11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

It is my belief that the following scripture occurred on the eighth day of the third month, which would be the very first “Day of Pentecost”, when God gave Israel the new language of Hebrew when He first spoke to them at Mt. Sinai.

16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Now, on a clear day, from the top of Mt. Sinai, Yehovah had thunder rolling, and lightning flashing, and the ground shaking, and His voice roaring. What other deity has ever done such a thing? Has any of the gods of Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, and Islam ever appeared in front of any people? Since they have not, why do people insist on worshiping such fictitious false gods?

Exodus 20:18-20
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Yehovah only spoke about ten of His 300 or so commandments, and Israel was so scared, that they asked Moses to tell God to stop.

Deuteronomy 5:1 - 28
1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
5 (I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
6 I am Yehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.