1st DAY OF THE YEAR - Time to Sync Up with Yehowah

This post comes as a result of hearing Kevin Solomon’s sermon on Sabbath, March 21, 2026.

Kevin began his sermon with this Scripture: Exodus 12:1-2, “Yehowah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “For you, this month will be the start of months, the first month (Abib, Exo. 13:4) of the year.” Yehowah was re-syncing Moses and the children of Israel with his calendar, on the first day of the first month of the year. We call this date Abib 1, circa 1650 BC. This was to become Israel’s first year as a free sovereign nation on the world scene. Why did Yehowah set this day and date as the first day of Abib (Month 1, later known as Nisan) in c. 1650 BC, the year of the Exodus from Egypt?

Psalm 8:3-5, “When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them? 5 Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.”

James 4:13-15, “Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into this city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” 14 Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and what is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears. 15 Instead, you should say, “If Yehowah wills, we will live and do this or that.””

Exodus 40:1-2, “Then Yehowah spoke to Moses, 2 “On the first day of the first month you must set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.”

Exodus 40:17, “So in the first month in the second year, the tabernacle was set up on the first of the month.” That would have been on Abib 1, circa 1649 BC. This Passover season of the year therefore became an annual reminder to Israel of their Exodus from Egypt. Kevin stated that only one thing was done in Torah on the 1^st day of the 1^st month of the year, the Tabernacle was set up. But why on the 1^st day of the year?

Yehowah answered that question in Exodus 25:8, “Let them make me a sanctuary, so that I may live in their midst.” The Tabernacle was set up on the 1^st day of the year, so Yehowah could dwell with man! It’s when Yah meets man. The New Year is when Yah chose to meet with mankind. It’s when Yah decided to dwell with his children. This revelation should cause us to break into worship and praise of Almighty Yehowah!

John 1:14, “And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We have seen his glory, glory as of the One and only Begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” This understanding of what occurred on the 1^st Day of the 1^st Month of the Year is pretty strong Scriptural evidence to say that Yeshua was born on Abib 1, circa 3 BC.

Kevin’s conclusion is that Yehowah set his clock, his calendar, to the time when He chose to dwell with, live with, tabernacle with his created humans. The whole purpose of our clock and Biblical calendar is to know when to meet with Yehowah, our Heavenly Father and Creator of everything. We can begin preparing to dwell with Yehowah on the 1^st Day of the 1^st Month of the New Year, to get ready for meeting with Yehowah during Passover, Unleavened Bread, FirstFruits, and Shavuot. It’s that time of year to prepare to meet with Abba Father according to his set special times, the Set-apart Feast Days of Yehowah as revealed in Scripture, especially in Leviticus 23. And later, in the Fall, we’ll celebrate the Fall Feasts of Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, and Feast of Tabernacles.

Isn’t Father Yehowah wise? He could have begun the New Year on Passover day, Abib 14 or 15, but he knows humans need time to prepare for parties, for Feasts with Yehowah. We’re going to celebrate Passover on April 2, 2026. We’ll probably have guests over on Sunday, April 5^th. If you can’t make it to our place, I encourage to enjoy the Passover season, which includes crucifixion week, the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior, Yeshua Messiah! Then the Feast of Shavuot, or Pentecost, will be celebrated on Sunday, May 24, 2026. Shavuot is a great day to be filled with Ruach Ha’Kodesh, the Holy Spirit of Yehowah, or to get baptized in water first, then get baptized in the Ruach! Just give your life to Yeshua today and begin following Yehowah on his calendar.

I personally believe that the New Year of Yehowah begins on the Vernal Equinox, the Spring Equinox. I believe that is what Noah taught us in Genesis 8:13, “It came about in the six hundred and first year (c. 3397 BC), on the first of the first month (Flood Day 305; Spring Equinox), that the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, looked out and saw that, behold, the surface of the ground was dry.”

Check here for my explanation of what Noah observed and did on the 1^st Day of the 1^st Month, beginning the Biblical year of 3397 BC:

HOW DID NOAH KNOW?

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