THE CALENDAR ARGUMENT

Has the calendar ever changed?
Times never change

First Enoch 72:1 (RHCV, R.H. Charles Version)The book of the courses of the luminaries of the heaven, the relations of each, according to their classes, their dominion and their seasons, according to their names and places of origin, and according to their months, which Uriel, the holy angel, who was with me, who is their guide, showed me; and he showed me all their laws exactly as they are, and how it is with regard to all the years of the world

Genesis 8:22 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease."

Jeremiah 31:35-37 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: "If this fixed order departs From before Me," declares the LORD, "Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever." Thus says the LORD, "If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 33:25-26 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"Thus says the LORD, 'If My covenant for day and night stand not, and the fixed patterns of heaven and earth I have not established, then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.'"

Jubilees 6:4 (RHCV, R.H. Charles Version)And the Lord smelt the goodly savour, and He made a covenant with him that there should not be any more a flood to destroy the earth; that all the days of the earth seed-time and harvest should never cease; cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night should not change their order, nor cease for ever.

Second Esdras [4th Ezra] 4:37 (1611 KJV, King James Version)By measure hath he measured the times; and by number hath he numbered the times; and he doth not move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.

Evil ones will alter the calendar

Daniel 7:25 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

The Calendar will be lost/forgotten

Jubilees 6:32-38 (RHCV, R.H. Charles Version)And command thou the children of Israel that they observe the years according to this reckoning- three hundred and sixty-four days, and (these) will constitute a complete year, and they will not disturb its time from its days and from its feasts; for everything will fall out in them according to their testimony, and they will not leave out any day nor disturb any feasts. But if they do neglect and do not observe them according to His commandment, then they will disturb all their seasons and the years will be dislodged from this (order), [and they will disturb the seasons and the years will be dislodged] and they will neglect their ordinances. And all the children of Israel will forget and will not find the path of the years, and will forget the new moons, and seasons, and sabbaths and they will go wrong as to all the order of the years. For I know and from henceforth will I declare it unto thee, and it is not of my own devising; for the book (lies) written before me, and on the heavenly tablets the division of days is ordained, lest they forget the feasts of the covenant and walk according to the feasts of the Gentiles after their error and after their ignorance. For there will be those who will assuredly make observations of the moon -how (it) disturbs the seasons and comes in from year to year ten days too soon. For this reason the years will come upon them when they will disturb (the order), and make an abominable (day) the day of testimony, and an unclean day a feast day, and they will confound all the days, the holy with the unclean, and the unclean day with the holy; for they will go wrong as to the months and sabbaths and feasts and jubilees. For this reason I command and testify to thee that thou mayst testify to them; for after thy death thy children will disturb (them), so that they will not make the year three hundred and sixty-four days only, and for this reason they will go wrong as to the new moons and seasons and sabbaths and festivals, and they will eat all kinds of blood with all kinds of flesh.

Matthew 24:36 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

Lamentations 2:5-7 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The LORD has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger. The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces. They have made a noise in the house of the LORD As in the day of an appointed feast.
"Zion" in the Book of Lamentations is referring to Earthly Zion.

Jubilees 1:13 (RHCV, R.H. Charles Version)And they will forget all My law and all My commandments and all My judgments, and will go astray as to new moons, and sabbaths, and festivals, and jubilees, and ordinances.

Jubilees 50:1 (RHCV, R.H. Charles Version)And after this law I made known to thee the days of the Sabbaths in the desert of Sin[ai], which is between Elim and Sinai.

Romans 14:5-9 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)One person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

Daniel 2:21 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"It is He who changes the times and the epochs; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men And knowledge to men of understanding.

Psalm 90:12 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.

Acts 1:7 (ASV, American Standard Version)And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

Multiple Calendars & Practices in Yeshua's Day

Mark 2:18-20 (ASV, American Standard Version)And John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting: and they come and say unto him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast. But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.

The errors of the Hillel Calendar

It is difficult to give direct verses from the Bible for the Hillel Calendar as the it wasn't developed until 358 CE by the Great Sanhedrin and Rabbi Hillel II. Then later confirmed as the official calendar by Maimonides in the 12th Century. To this day however, there is not a consensus in Israel for a calendar. Kharijite Jews for instance do not have a predetermined calendar as they monthly look for the sliver of the moon. Other groups look for the conjunction moon (dark moon). The Hillel Calendar is based off the 19-Year lunar Metonic cycle. The establishment of the Hebrew Calendar in 358CE was the last universally binding decision of the Great Sanhedrin. The Great Sanhedrin was finally disbanded in 425 CE. The effort to create a permanent, unchanging calendar, was due to religious persecution by Christians according to rabbinic sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar

Rosh Hashanah

Exodus 12:1-3 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, "This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household.
The beginning of the year should occur in the springtime before Passover

Leviticus 23:24 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
The Feast of Trumpets should occur in the seventh month.

The Months

Rosh Hashanah literally means "Head of the Year". The Hillel Calendar begins it year in the fall at the Feast of Trumpets.

Exodus 23:13 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)"Now concerning everything which I have said to you, be on your guard; and do not mention the name of other gods, nor let them be heard from your mouth.

First Kings 6:38 (NASB, New American Standard Bible)In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.
This is the only instance of the name of this month found in the "Canon of 66". It is not found in the Hebrew or Babylonian Calendar months.

Yeshua's death & Passover

Was the Last Supper the Passover?

The Babylonian Calendar

Babylonian calendar, chronological system used in ancient Mesopotamia, based on a year of 12 synodic months-i.e., 12 complete cycles of phases of the Moon. This lunar year of about 354 days was more or less reconciled with the solar year, or year of the seasons, by the occasional intercalation of an extra month. From about 380 BCE the beginning of the first month of the year, Nisan, was maintained near the onset of spring by the use of a regular cycle (similar to the Greek Metonic cycle) of intercalations, in which 7 out of 19 years had an extra month added. The Talmud Yerushalmi (Rosh Hashana 1:2) tells us that the names of the Hebrew months are Babylonian in origin. For example, the 4th month is Tammuz and the 8th month is Cheshvan are the name of Babylonian gods.
https://www.britannica.com/science/Babylonian-calendar