THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 89, 11 January 1923, Page 4

THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR

AND TJIE CREATOR’S APPOINTMENT

Just recently the international delegates met again at Rome to confer y.-ith each other about time reckoning. The Calendar has never given complete satisfaction, hence many suggestions have been made to correct it. Tho fourth day’s work in Creation week has been much under-rated, and misunderstood, but of that work, and of all that had been made, it was pro? nounced “very good.” Averse 31. Of all the Creator’s work, inspiration has loft on record the statement: “I know that whatsoever God doth, that will bo forever, to it nothing can be added, and from it there is nothing to he diminished, and God hath so made it, that men should be afraid of Him.” Ecc. 3: 14. Hob. Trans, by Isaac Lesser. Nothwithstanding those assurances of the perfect worlj of the Almighty, men and nations have taken in hand to meddle, change and’ abrogate, and the result is “tangled time.” Now consider the Creator’s A T ear Calendar.

It is now certain that the epoch of creation, year 0 a.m., was a period when all tho ten cycles of -time started together,. The Solar year can only begin when the sun is on the cquinoxial colure, producing day and night all over the world, the autumnal equinox on the 22nd or 23rd of September ; therefore, the Solar year cannot begin with Ja.nuary, for thqt is the fourth month, when many are calling it the New Year. How much mistaken are the people who wish each other “A Happy New A’ear”, when it is three months old. The line of historical time in Scripture is found to be always absolutely perfect from the prime date (Sunday), the first day of the week and month, year 0 a.m., which was autumn equinox. It is also the form of year made by planetary motion. Everything is straightforward from, this point and no tables of repeating eclipses can be produced without starting in this, way. It was the true point, from which planetary motion began. Creation, for example, is found to be an -astronomical date of the highest character. This fact would have been known before, lint astronomy, by baring its calculations of fictitious years, was unable to make the proper investigation. There is no other Book in the world than the Bible, which contains scientific timer- It is our wisdom to stand by the Creator’s calendar. Time is the amount of duration whilst some heavenly body moves from one portion to another. Investigation shows that the line of time in Scripture is true planetary motion, therefore every event narrated in the Biblo is capable of being proven, and that bv the Creator’s appointed calendar. The present New Year’s Dav occurred on October 7, 1922 —now 1923. _ The New Zealand almanac New Year is set down for January 1, 1923, is twelve weeks too late. To begin the year three months too late, and continue three months later than the Creator’s year is a change for which there should bo some reason. The Biblo months are numbered, and what names we find are mostly Babylonian. The days of the months are 30 and 29 ’ alternately, and, an extra month every third year, rhich keeps tlio season all right. 'File Gregorian calendar lias 28, 29, 30, and 31 days in the months. Many of the feasts, in the Bifile are set by the moon, the correct time-keeper. The great Creator appointed the seasons. The first harvest was in the Garden of Eden, and the course of the season would be westward, and hence they would come later to Australia. Another appointment was the days. These are made by the revolution of the earth,, and the week bv the number of days it took the Creator to prepare the earth for man’s habitation. The days are numbered, and the names they have now got are from our Pagan ancestors. There is only one name given, that is the Sabfiath. for the seventh day Sabbath, which is the memorial of creation. In Psalm 19: 1-6. The sun is compared to a bridegroom running a race. Adam would be tho first to see the sun to come out of his" chamber at Eden, and there would the sun’s race begin, and also end after his circuit was finished There is no place .in the Scriptures so well located , as the Eden district by its four rivers, the lake, and the high mountains. The time by the westward course would bring the day to New Zealand some 15 hours later. But meddlers with the sun’s rale took upon themselves to count the hours and day eastward, which is contrary to fact and reason, and by that means the day is counted twenty-four hours earlier. Thus making our Monday to bo Sunday in New' Zealand and our Sunday to be Saturday. the S.D. Sabbath. In the island of‘Samoa the American side is Saturday and the British portion is Sunday/ Saturday resfieirs think they are keeping the seventh day, when they are resting uiSn the Biblo sixth dav, Friday. The New Zealand Government bar-' had the confusion under consideration to change Hie dav-line, and the Admiralty approved ■of‘it But in making the change it «as found that it would make one dav of difference 'between Samoa and Uistralia. and tho confusion is a) owed to remain for the present. Some wars ago the Cook Islands adopted western' time, and there is no reason whv New Zealand should not do the same and thus cmjforn to the Creator’s appointment for the sun to run his npixnront race unhindered a.I round the globe. But at present in that circular race one clay is omitted on tho westward eom-e, and one dav added before it is finished.

Note the Harrs of the Day. Tho sun being set to rule the day, tho rule, would end when the light disappears, but no, says the calendar, the dav and night are divided at midnight ' For this there cun bo no reasonable authority. From 6 a.m. to 9 it is called the third hour, brom 9t012 is the sixth hour. When Jesus died it is called the ninth hour. Then from 3 to 6 it is the twelfth hour. The Creator’s calendar is perfect and good; it was the first bv 5000 years. The Gregorian calendar comes later, and is second-hand, and usually discounted. An event look place at Melbourne at 10 s-.m. Monday H ' vas known and published m London nt 5 a.m. the same morninn-. A cablegram was received in M ellir7gton dated January 18 in America. In 'Wellington the same day was 19th of January, 1922. Those seeming impossibilities could not occur .it the Creator’s calendar was allowed to operate.

Tha Holy Days of the Calendar. Tho birth of Jesus could not take place on December 25. It is a fact Hiat Jesus was 33 years and 6 months old on March 28, A.D. 31. So that His birthday must have been 6 months previous, most probably on the Civil New Year’s Day, in-September or October. Then the day in which Jesus was CRUCIFIED was not upon Friday. but upon Wednesday. But here wo" "have two National Holidays perpetuating untruthfulness regarding the birth and death of Jesus Christ. Then, aga.ni, it is not a fact that the Resurrection of Jesus took place upon Sunday, the first day of the week, but upon SATURDAY. tne third day of the THREE DAYS’ SIGN, that was given to prove that Jesus was the

Messiah. Matt. 12-40. In answer to the question, “Oil what day did Christ rise from the dead?” Tho Catechism answers “On Easter Sunday. THREE days after His death Christ rose in boilv’ and soul, glorious and immortal from the dead.”' If Jesus died upon Friday, it is impossible to count THREE NIGHTS and.THREE DAYS from Friday afternoon to Sunday morping. . The* organisation that cannot count three must be incompetent to devise a calendar for the Nations. The Sun and Moon were for SIGNS in Heaven, “for seasons, and for days, and years.” The Apostles’ Creed requires belief “in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth. But the Gregorian calendar denies in fact these SIGNS of Heaven and a. special warning is given in Jere. 10-1-3. “Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the SIGNS of Heaven- . For the customs” (statutes or ordinances are vanity). Mar. Of the TWO calendars we must be LOYAL to the Creator’s, for it will be amongst the ALL THINGS which will be restored. Acts, 3-21. DAVID NIELD. 148 Tasman Street, Wellington, N.Z., 10/1/23. (Published by arrangement.)