1. The Biblical New Year Celebration 2018
Getting On Board With Yahuwah’s Appointed Times

2. What’s There to Celebrate?
It’s about the Gospel – the Good News that the Creator has established a plan to redeem mankind. For Elohim so loved the world, that he devised a way for fallen mankind to be restored into right relationship with the Almighty. So he gave his only begotten Son that whoever believes (shema’s) in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

3. Psalm 146
Psalm 149
Blowing the Shofars

4. Gregorian v. Biblical Calendar
What’s Wrong with the Gregorian Calendar?
Why the Biblical Calendar?
Why is the Biblical New Year important?

5. The New Year
In the account of the ten plagues, simple and clear revelation was given to Mosheh:
Yahuwah said to Mosheh and Aharon in Mitzrayim, "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.  Tell the whole community of Yisrael that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household." (Shemot 12:1-3)

6. The New Year The Torah identifies precisely what month this was:
Then Mosheh said to the people, "Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Mitzrayim, out of the land of slavery, because Yahuwah brought you out of it with a mighty hand. Eat nothing containing yeast.  Today, in the month of the Aviv you are leaving. (Shemot 13:3-4)

7. The New Year The Torah identifies precisely what month this was:
Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of the Aviv, for in that month you came out of Mitzrayim.  (Shemot 23:15)

8. Aviv
Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of the Aviv, for in the month of the Aviv you came out of Mitzrayim. (Shemot 34:18)

9. Aviv
Observe the month of the Aviv and celebrate the Pesach of Yahuwah your Elohim, because in the month of the Aviv he brought you out of Mitzrayim by night. (Devarim 16:1)

10. What is Aviv?
The BDB identifies the Hebrew byIba' (pronounced aviv) as
1. fresh, young ears of barley; 2. month of ear-forming, or of growing green, Abib, month of Exodus & passover.
TWOT translates our word as barley, and has this to say about it:
Barley. This noun refers to barley that is already ripe, but still soft, the grains of which are eaten either rubbed or roasted... Abib was also the early name (later, Nisan) of the first month of the Jewish calendar (the month of Passover). In that month the barley came to ear.

11. What is Aviv?
In summary of the meaning of aviv, all sources are in agreement that aviv has to do with the stage of ripeness of grain.  All but one of these sources specifically identify the barley as that ripened grain.  This is because the first grain crop of the year in Yisrael is the barley harvest.

12. The Day of the Aviv or the Month of the Aviv?
How do we know which month is the month of the Aviv?

13. The Gospel in the Appointed Times
The Appointed Times are delivered to us with some detail in Vayiqra [Leviticus] 23:
Yahuwah spoke to Mosheh:  "Speak to the sons of Yisrael and tell them, 'These are Yahuwah's appointed times which you must proclaim as set-apart assemblies--my appointed times:  Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a set-apart assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to Yahuwah in all the places where you live. These are Yahuwah's appointed times, set-apart assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time.' " (Vayiqra [Leviticus] 23:1-4).

14. Hebrew “qara” The Hebrew verb ar'q' (pronounced qara) means to read, to call, to proclaim. It is used of a message spoken from the mouth. Here in Vayiqra 23 it is utilized four times.

15. These are Yahuwah's appointed times which you must proclaim as set-apart assemblies--my appointed times...(v1)
These are Yahuwah's appointed times, set-apart assemblies, which you must proclaim at their appointed time (v4)
On that same day you are to proclaim a set apart assembly and do no regular work. (v21)
'These are Yahuwah's appointments, which you are to proclaim as set apart assemblies (v37)

16. Yahuwah's Pesach begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month Yahuwah's Pilgrimage Gathering of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. (vss 5-6)

17. Pesach The Pesach (Passover) and associated Pilgrimage Gathering of Unleavened Bread was an appointed time which was a remembrance of the redemption of all Israel by the shed blood of a lamb, and the subsequent march to freedom out of Egypt. In rehearsing and remembering the Pesach on its anniversary year after year, the sons of Israel were proclaiming the Good News of the great work of deliverance and redemption which the power of Yahuwah performed for them.

18. The Time of Firstfruits Yahuwah said to Mosheh, "Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest. He is to wave the sheaf before Yahuwah so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.'" (Vayiqra 23:9-11)

19. The Time of Firstfruits and the Counting of the Omer The Sadducees, Boethusians and Karaites maintain that the counting of the omer should begin the first day following the weekly Sabbath. The Essenes believed it started on the Sunday after the end of the entire eight day festival (one week later than the Sadducees, Boethusians and Karaites.) The Pharisees (Rabbinic Judaism) maintains that the counting should begin on Aviv / Nisan 16 which is the day following the first day of Unleavened Bread. So, who is right?

20. "'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.  Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to Yahuwah....  On that same day you are to proclaim a set apart assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. (vss15,16,21)

21. The form of our word in Vayiqra 23:15 is tB'êV;h; (haShabbat, or "the Sabbath").  In this form, haShabbat occurs 17 times in the Torah, including in our text, and every time this word is used in this form it is referring to the weekly seventh-day Sabbath day (Exod. 16:29; 20:8, 11; 31:14, 15, 16[twice]; 35:3; Lev. 23:11, 15, 16; 24:8[twice]; Num. 15:32; 28:9; Deut. 5:12, 15).  In the rest of the Tanach, the same is true - a total of about 40 times haShabbat is used in the Tanach - haShabbat always refers to the weekly Sabbath.
Furthermore, the word shabbat without the definite article also always refers to the weekly seventh day Sabbath, except where there are other modifiers to further define its meaning. 

22. Shavuot The Pilgrimage Gathering of Shavuot (Pentecost) was the appointed time when Yahuwah appeared on Mt Sinai and delivered the Ten Commandments to his people, which is a summary of the Covenant of Love he enacted with his people. In remembering and observing this day year after year, the true worshippers of Yahuwah are celebrating their anniversary with him and his proclaiming the commandments of the covenant as the marriage vows they took with their Creator.

23. Good News in the Day of the Blowing "Say to the sons of Yisrael: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a set apart assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to Yahuwah by fire.'" (vss24-25)

24. The observance of Yom Teruah (a blowing of trumpets) was another reminder of Mt Sinai when Yahuwah appeared on Mt Sinai and met with and spoke to his people.  It is an appointment which tells us when Yahuwah is going to appear to his people again.  The sons of Israel did not fully understand the meaning of this day of appointment.

25. "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement
"The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a set apart assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to Yahuwah by fire. Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before Yahuwah your Elohim. (vss27-28)

26. Good News About Atonement The day of Yom Kippur (or Day of Atonement) was an appointment Yahuwah made with his people to perform a cleansing of the nation by separating his people from their sins. One goat was slaughtered for the sins of the people, while the other goat was removed from the camp, symbolically taking with him all the sins of the nation into an obscure place.

27. Good News About the Creator Dwelling With Men Say to the sons of Yisrael: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month Yahuwah's Pilgrimage Gathering of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. The first day is a set apart assembly; do no regular work. For seven days present offerings made to Yahuwah by fire, and on the eighth day hold a set apart assembly and present an offering made to Yahuwah by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work. (vss34-36)

28. Paul’s Gospel
1 Corinthians 15:1-8:
Now I want to make clear for you, brothers and sisters, the gospel that I preached to you, that you received and on which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you--unless you believed in vain.  For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received--that Messiah died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day according to the scriptures, and that he appeared to Kepha, then to the twelve.  Then he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.  Then he appeared to Ya'acov, then to all the apostles.  Last of all, as though to one born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

29. Summary Identifying the month of the Aviv as the first month in the Hebrew calendar is critical in order that we may guard all the annual appointed times at the correct time. Otherwise we would miss the appointment he has established to meet with his people.