GOD'S TIMEPIECE

DALLAS M. QUINLEY

God's calendar was never thirteen months in scripture. Ephesians 3:1-5 "For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles— Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets." The sun, moon and the stars are God's timepiece. Genesis 1:14-18 "And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights— the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good." The sun rules over the day but the moon rules over the night. Psalms 136:7-9 "who made the great lights— His love endures forever. The sun to govern the day, His love endures forever. The moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures for-ever." Psalms 148:3 "Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars."

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This is how scripture defines the lights that separate day and night. They are for signs, appointed times, days and for years. What scripture doesn't say is that the lights are for months. Numbers 28:1-2 "The Lord said to Moses, “Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: ‘Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me." The word 'month' is not mentioned, however, what is mentioned is 'Mo'ed' or the appointed time. Numbers 28:11 "On the first of every month, present to the Lord a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect." The word for months is 'chodeshim.' The chodeshim are mentioned not as months but as appointed times. So- what Are chodeshim? Ezekiel 47:12 "Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.” The verse actually says The fruit trees will bear fruit every 'chodesh.' The tree of life is said to yield fruit every chodesh in Revelation 22:2. The closest word in English to chodesh is 'month.' According to these verses, there are twelve months (chodeshim) in a year. There are twelve fruits. One for every month. This is also confirmed in 1 Chronicles 27:2-15. The thirteenth month does not exist in scripture. It is a tradition of man. This is because man has been using the moon to establish the chodeshim. 2

A lunar month is 29.53 days. 29.53 times 12 is 354.36- and we know this is not a year. You get 12 and a half moon cycles in every year. Therefore, it cannot determine the chodesh. Using the moon to determine the chodeshim means we have to invent a thirteenth month. However, there is no scriptural instruction on how to do this. Some may say Ezekiel laid on his side for 430 days which is a year, but scripture does not tell us it is a year. We just make that assumption. There is no proof that 430 days is one year. If it were a year, it would not be thirteen months. It would be fourteen or more. The sun, moon and stars were given to us for the reckoning of time. Only the sun's position as it travels on it's circuit through the stars gives us 12 distinct periods that perfectly comprise of one year. It's like a giant clock. Where the sun is within the various 12 constellations will tell us where we are in the year. This movement of the sun through the constellations is intrinsic to the concept of a year. Therefore, it is the stars that deter-mine the chodeshim. 2 Kings 23:4-5 "The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel. He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem— those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts."

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If we look at this word 'constellations,' it means 'lodging places.' These were the twelve lodging places for the sun during the 12 months. These were the lodging places for the sun as it traveled through its circuit throughout the year. Job 38:31-33 "Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up God’s dominion over the earth? " This is Yahweh speaking and he is saying it is Him who does all of these things. Yahweh was the one who put the constellations in the sky. It is the pagans who have abused them with idol worship. However, they are there for a reason. Isaiah 47:13 "All the counsel you have received has only worn you out! Let your astrologers come forward, those stargazers who make predictions month by month, let them save you from what is coming upon you." Some translations say "predictions Made every new moon." The word is actually chodeshim, meaning the sun cycling within a new lodging place of the constellations. Exodus 12:2 "This month (chodesh) is to be for you the first month (chodeshim), the first month (chodesh) of your year." It should be starting to make sense by now. The new month begins when the sun enters a new chodesh, or constellation. In Exodus 12, we have the beginning (chodesh) of the beginning (chodeshim). In other words, this month shall be to you the beginning of months. So, the month here is referred to as the first chodesh. 4

Numbers 10:10 "Also at your times of rejoicing— your appointed festivals and New Moon (chodeshim) feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.” Here we have the beginnings of all the months (chodeshim). This is also in Numbers 28:11. 1 Samuel 20:5 "So David said, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon (chodesh) feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow." Chodesh means to make new or renew. People will say the moon is renewed each month. They say this is why it makes sense that the moon is new or renewed. However, the sun goes through a circuit in the sky, going forth and exiting the year. Everytime this happens, it is a renewal of the cycle. It goes through the 12 chodeshim. So, it's not about the moon, but rather, the sun. The Greeks have tied 'months' to the moon, because a new Month denotes a new moon. However, it does not actually denote that. All they have done is that they have taken the understanding and put in on this Greek word. The Greek is just trying to differentiate two concepts that the Hebrew uses one word for. Colossians 2:16 "Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day." Here again, we have something being new. People say it is the moon, but this is not what the verse actually says. The Greek word for moon is 'Selene.' The Greek word used in this verse is 'minia' or the word for month.

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Concepts in Hebrew are impossible to translate into other languages. This is what is happening with the word Chodesh. So, our concept of a month is similar, but not the same. Our word 'month' does not mean the same thing as 'chodesh.' When we come to a word in Hebrew like 'sheol'- the Greek uses a similar concept like 'Hades.' This is another example. Hades is not an equivalent concept to Sheol. It's just a similar concept. The chodeshim has nothing to do with horoscopes. What the pagans have done, is they have looked up at the skies, and they have seen the things set their by Yah, then they come up with their own stories to explain what's going on there. This doesn't mean that using the stars to track the cycle of the sun is bad. The Talmud identified the twelve constellations of with the twelve months of the Hebrew calendar. The correspondence of the constellations with their names in Hebrew and the months is as follows: -Aries - Ṭ'leh - Nisan -Taurus - Shor - Iyar -Gemini - Teomim - Sivan -Cancer - Sarṭan - Tammuz -Leo - Ari - Av -Virgo - Betulah - Elul -Libra - Moznayim - Tishrei -Scorpio - 'Aḳrab - Cheshvan -Sagittarius - Ḳeshet - Kislev -Capricorn - Gedi - Tevet -Aquarius - D'li - Shevat -Pisces - Dagim - Adar

Genesis 7:11 "In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month (chodesh) —on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened." People think the chodesh have to be 30 days in length (in order to be a month). This is not true. At the end of 150 days, the waters started to recede. Genesis 8:4 shows that there were 5 months between the time the beginning of the flood and when the ark rested. This would seem to support the idea of 30 days being equal to a month. This is not what the verses say. The flood started on the 17th day of the 2nd chodesh, then 150 days later, the waters began to diminish; then on the 17th day of the 7th chodesh, the ark came to a rest.

Equinoxes And Solstices

Where are the equinoxes in scripture? The position of the earth in its orbit around the sun at the solstices, equinoxes, or other time defined relative to the seasons, slowly changes. This is a problem. The equinox is not on a set date every year, forever throughout time. The equinox moves. The tropical year, measuring the cycle of seasons (for example: the time from solstice to solstice, or equinox to equinox), is about 20 minutes shorter than the sidereal year, which is measured by the sun's apparent position relative to the stars. After about 26,000 years, the difference amounts to a full year, so the positions of the seasons relative to the orbit are "back where they started."

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So, the equinox will move throughout the chodeshim about 20 minutes every year until after 26,000 years, it will get back to where it started. For identical reasons, the apparent position of the sun relative to the backdrop of the stars at some seasonally fixed time slowly regresses through a full 360 degrees through all 12 traditional constellations of the zodiac, at the rate of about 50.3 seconds of arc per year, or 1 degree every 71.6 years. At present, the rate of precession corresponds to a period of 25,772 years, but the rate itself varies somewhat with time, so one cannot say that in exactly 25,772 years the earth's axis will be back to where it is now. But- what we do know is that the equinox moves throughout the year. "The sun, too, the great day of the lord, bringing about two equinoxes each year, in spring and autumn, the spring equinox in the constellation of the Ram, and the autumn equinox in the constellation of the Scales (Aries), supplies very clear evidence of the sacred dignity of the 7th number for each of the equinoxes occurs in a 7th month, and during them- there is enjoined by law the keeping of the greatest national festivals, since at both of them- all fruits of the earth ripen; in the spring: the wheat and all else that is sown- and in the autumn, the fruit of the vine and most of the other fruit trees." -Philo on the Creation XXXIX All of the fruits of the earth ripen at a certain of the year. This is the equinox. We don't even need scripture to tell us this. 8

Exodus 23:15 "Celebrate the Festival 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 Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt." The Aviv (Abib) means when the barley is ripe. This is at the time of the equinox when things are going to be ripe. They only needed to be told it was the chodeh when things would become abib (after the equinox). We have something similar with Sukkot as well… Deuteronomy 16:13 "Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress." So, here gain, all they need to know is when the equinox is, then they will know when the harvest is, and when things are ripe. In the Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3, Chapter 10- it says: "Upon the 15th day, the same month, when the season of the year is changing for winter, the law enjoins us to pitch tabernacles in every one of our houses, so that we preserve ourselves from the cold of that time of year." In scripture, there are not 4 seasons. There are 2 seasons. There is the hot season and the cold season; summer and winter. The problem is when we try to reckon the Bible and we come to it with the idea of four seasons. We see here, Tabernacles (or Sukkot) is during the cold time of the year. The chapter goes on: "And we keep the festival for eight days, and offer burnt offerings, and sacrifice thank offerings, that we should then carry in our hands a branch of myrtle and willow, and a bough of the palm tree, with the addition of the pomecitron."

These are the things that are commanded. Notice, it does not say to wave them. The instruction is to carry them in our hand. Here is Philo again- on Moses 2.222: "Moses puts down the begin-ning of the vernal equinox as marking the first month of the year, attributing the chief honour, not as some persons do, to the periodical revolutions of the year in regard to time, but to the graces and beauties of nature, which it has caused to shine upon men; for it is through the bounty of nature that the seeds which are sown to produce the necessary food of mankind are brought to perfection. And the fruit trees in their prime, which is second in importance, only to the necessary crops, is engendered by the same power; for we always find in nature that those things which are not very necessary are second to those which are indispensible." These are the chodeshim of the year 2022: -Sun enters Capricorn on January 14, 2022 -Sun enters Aquarius on February 13, 2022 -Sun enters Pisces on March 15, 2022 -Sun enters Aries on April 14, 2022 -Sun enters Taurus on May 14, 2022 -Sun enters Gemini on June 15, 2022 -Sun enters Cancer on July 16, 2022 -Sun enters Leo on August 17, 2022 -Sun enters Virgo on September 17, 2022 -Sun enters Libra on October 17, 2022 -Sun enters Scorpio on November 16, 2022 -Sun enters Sagittarius on December 16, 2022

Pisces and Virgo denote the change of season based on the Equinox. The Equinox is always in the 7th month. Psalm 74:16-17 "The day is yours, and yours also the night; you established the sun and moon. It was you who set all the boundaries of the earth; you made both summer and winter." Genesis 8:22 and Isaiah 18:6 also confirms there is only summer and winter. Deuteronomy 11:13-14 "So if you faithfully obey the commands I am giving you today—to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul— then I will send rain on your land in its season, both early rains and the latter rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine and olive oil." The former and latter rains were items on the Hebraic calendar. The word for 'former rain' translates as autumn shower. So, you may see the word 'autumn' in scripture, but it doesn't mean 'autumn.' These rains may be from October to December. The former rain was the rain that prepared the ground for seeds. The latter rain is probably tran-slated as 'spring rain.' These rains may be from March to April, but they didn't understand it to be spring. This pertains to the growing of crops. There are the barley harvest, the wheat harvest, and the wine harvest. We would think of these as spring, summer, and autumn.

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The spring equinox marks the chodesh of the year. Then their year would look like this: -Barley Harvest -Feast of Unleavened Bread -Fruit Planting -Wheat Harvest -Feast of Shavo'ut -Autumnal Equinox -Trumpets -Yom Kippur -Fruit Harvest -Sukkot -Former Rains -Barley and Wheat Planting -Latter Rains -Vernal Equinox This is how their calendar looked. This was their year. Next we will deal with the sun. The sun to them, traveled through the constellations. The sun, moon and stars are all said to be IN the firmament. The sun will travel through the six chodesh, then at the equinox, it will begin to travel back through the other six chodeshim, starting with the seventh chodeshim. 12

Psalm 19:1-6 "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course. It rises at one end of the heavens and makes its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth." Our English translations do not pick this up, but the sun goes forth on a path through the constellations. It goes forth in its circuit. The scriptures say that the sun goes around the sky, not that we go around the sun. The sun goes forth from a place. The latter end of the year is when the sun is traveling back from the beginning chodeshim from where it started on its path. According to Exodus 34:22, the feast of ingathering is at the end of the year. The problem with that is Sukkot is in the 7th Chodesh, not the 12th. Did you see that? The Septuagint translates it right however: "And a holiday of a period of sevens you shall observe to me, the beginning of the harvest of wheat, and a holiday gathering being in the middle of the year." The King James translation fails to translate this correctly. Another way of saying ' in the middle of the year' is 'when the year turns' of 'at the revolution of the year.' A better translation is: "Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turning of the circuit of the year."

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Deuteronomy 33:13-14 "About Joseph he said: 'May the Lord bless his land with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below; with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield…" It's not just the sun that goes through the constellations. The moon does this as well. Yahweh is the Father of the lights in the Heavens (James 1:17). He is the Father of the turning, meaning the lights that turn. The 'Mazuroth' in Job 38 is the circuits of the Heavens. Whenever a festival or something happens in the 6th Chodesh (before the turning of the year, or before the 7th Chodesh), it is called the 'outgoing' of the year. Some translations (Such as in Exodus 23:16) use the wording 'the end of the year' instead of the 6th Chodesh or the outgoing of the year. Another phrase 'at the return of the year' can also be found in scripture. The word 'return' is the same word as 'repent' and it means to return. This is pointing to the return of the sun from the 7th Chodesh to the 12th. It is completing the cycle. Now we will look at the moon… Job 3:6 "That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months." Traditionally, the word 'moon' is translated as 'month.' This word is different than 'Chodesh.' The Hebrew word for 'moon' is 'Yareakh.' In Job, the word is plural, so it means 'moons.' 14

When you have a New Moon, Full Moon, then the moon waxes.. This is called a 'lunation.' This is a period of 29.35 days. Sometimes, the word 'moons' just means 'nights.' In other words, the number of nights is the number of moons. Job 7:3 says "so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me." This is known as Hebrew parallelism, when you say one thing two different ways. Here are the scriptural references where the word 'Yareakh' which means 'moon' is mistranslated as 'month': Genesis 37:9, Deuteronomy 4:19, 17:3, Joshua 10:12-13, 2 Kings 23:5, Job 25:5, 31:26, Psalm 8:3, 72:5, 72:7, 89:37, 104:19, 121:6, 136:9, 148:3, Ecclesiastes 12:2, Isaiah 13:10, 60:19, Jeremiah 8:2, 31:35, Ezekiel 32:7, Joel 2:10, 2:31, 3:15, and Habakkuk 3:11. Exodus 2:2 "and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him for three months." The correct translation is that she hid him for "three moons." If it were months, the word used would be Chodesh, not Yareakh. A moon is also a way to reckon time. For example, in Deuteronomy 21:13 the phrase "a moon of days" means a month of days. Sometimes, a moon is a period of time, and sometimes, it is a chodeshim.

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Sometimes, you will come across the phrase "a moon of days" as in 2 Kings 15:13. A moon of days is a lunation. This is the 29.35 period of the moon cycle mentioned previously. Many assume such verses as 1 Kings 6:37, where it says "in the month Ziv…" means the chodesh (month) of Ziv. But we can see here, it is not chodesh. This word is 'moon.' It should read: "in the moon Ziv." Early native Americans gave each full moon a nickname to keep track of seasons and lunar months. Most the names relate to an activity or event that took place at the time in each location. However, it wasn't a n uniform system and tribes tended to name and count moons differently. Some, for example, counted four seasons a year while others counted five. Others defined a year as 12 moons, while others said it was 13. As a side note, there is evidence that suggests the Native Americans actually came from Hebrews. Here are some of the moon names and the corresponding months they are associated with: -January (Wolf Moon) -July (Thunder Moon) -February (Snow Moon) -August (Sturgeon Moon) -March (Worm Moon) -September (Harvest Moon) -April (Pink Moon) -October (Hunter's Moon) -May (Flower Moon) -November (Frost Moon) -June (Strawberry Moon) -December (Cold Moon)

Earlier, we seen the verse with the words 'the moon of Ziv.' Ziv means "brightness." Bright Moon is in May. The Flower Moon is also the "Bright Moon" and may even be called the "Milk Moon." 1 Kings 6:1 "In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month (chodesh), he began to build the temple of the Lord." The first chodesh is known as Nisan (God called it Aviv). Nisan means "their flight." What happened in the first chodesh? The Passover and the Exodus- their flight from Egypt. The third chodesh is Sivan, meaning "their covering." Not only did they name their chodesh, but they began naming their moons also. Zechariah 7:1 "In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month of Kislev." This would have you believe the 9th chodesh is Kislev. However, this is not what it says in the Hebrew. What it actually says is "In the fourth year of King Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth chodesh, in Kislev." 1 Kings 6:38 shows that they were reckoning things by the moon and the chodesh. The moon does give us signs. We notice full moons, the harvest moon (which is the full moon closest to the autumn equinox), black moon (the 2nd new moon in a calendar month), blue moon (the 2nd full moon taking place in one calendar month). Then we get to Psalm 104:19.

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Psalm 104:19 " He made the moon for appointed times, The sun knows its going down." If we continue to read through Psalm 104, we can begin to see what this is making reference to. Verse 20-23 give us the passing of a day… night, sunrise, and evening. Also note, this does not mean a day begins at night or in the evening as some "Messianics" claim. That is a reckoning of time done by the Babylonians which the Hebrews Hellenized. -Very simply the appointed times in Verse 19 are the times telling us when a day passes. It divides day from night and it shows us when one day ends and another begins. The sun and moon set in the same place on the Equinox. The sun knows the place of its setting. The sun is a giant clock in the sky. The moon's orbital motion (combined with the larger orbit of the earth around the sun) carries it farther eastward among the constellations of the zodiac from night to night. At any one moonrise, the moon occupies a particular place on the celestial sphere (the great dome of the heavens), but when the earth turns toward that point 24 hours later, the moon has moved off to the east about 12 degrees, and it takes an average of 50 minutes longer for the earth to rotate toward the moon and for the moon, thus to rise. But, around the date of the harvest moon, the moon rises about the same time. Remember that the zodiac is the band of constellations through which the moon travels from night to night. 18

The section of the zodiac band in which the full moon travels around the start of autumn is the section that forms the most shallow angle with the eastern horizon. Because the moon's orbit on successive is more nearly parallel to the horizon at that time. Its relationship to the eastern horizon does not change appreciably, and the earth does not have to turn as far to bring up the moon. The moon may rise as little as 23 minutes later on several nights before and after the full harvest moon (at about 42 degrees north latitude), which means extra light at peak harvest time near autumn. By the time the moon has reached last quarter, however, the typical 50 minute delay has returned. At the start of spring, the opposite applies. The full moon is in the section of the zodiac that has the steepest angle with respect to the eastern horizon. For several days bracketing the full moon nearest the vernal equinox the delay in moonrise is as much as 75 minutes (at 42 degrees north latitude). Using the moon for chodeshim comes from Babylon. Babylon had a pagan priesthood which would spread into Assyria, so that the border between Babylon and Assyria was somewhat artificial to their priesthood. It didn't mean much. Before Babylon conquered Assyria's capital city, Nineveh, in 612 BCE, this priesthood performed their nightly observations of the heavens and made their first forays at mathematical astronomy.

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The kings of Assyria recognized the supposed powers of this priesthood and received letters from them… Letter Number 303: "On the 30th I saw the moon, it was in a high position for the 30th day; presently it will be as high as it stands on the 2nd day. If agreeable to the king, my lord, let the king wait (for a report) from the city of Ashshur. The king my lord, then may determine (for us) the (first) day (of the month)." Ezra 6:15 uses "the moon of Adar" showing us the trans-literation in the Hebrew of the Babylonian month's name, or the Babylonian moon's name. This came out of Babylonian captivity. 'Adar' means 'glorious.' Nehemiah 6:15 uses "the 25th of Elul" showing us the trans-literation in the Hebrew of the Babylonian month's name, or the Babylonian moon's name. 'Elul' means 'nothingness.' The Moon's Phases in Scripture: The significance of the moon is the phases. They are mentioned in scripture as well… 20

Proverbs 7:18-21 "Come, let’s drink deeply of love till morning; let’s enjoy ourselves with love! My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. He took his purse filled with money and will not be home till full moon.' With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk." The words translated as 'new moon' or 'full moon' here Is 'keceph.' The Dead Sea Scrolls say "the system that he uses to describe the moon may strike the reader as peculiar. It's really not so much peculiar as theological- certainly 'Biblical' in the eyes of its adherents. The writer conceives of the lunar month in terms of the moon's being 'obscured' or 'revealed." So, the full moon is not really said to be 'covered' with light, but probably spoken of as being obscured or covered over. Psalm 81:3 "Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival…" This doesn't mean the festival is going by the moon as argued. If you go by the New Moon as the start of the month, 14 days later is NOT Sukkot. It just doesn't work linguistically. The ISR version of the Bible reads: "Sound the ram’s horn at the Chodesh- a trumpet in the well marked day of your holiday!" It doesn’t mean any-thing about the moon being new. Remember, 'chodesh' is about the position of the sun in the zodiac… not the moon. Job 26:9 "He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it." The word for 'full moon' here is 'kece' or to have something to do with it being obscured. The ISR version says: "Covering the surface of His throne, spreading His cloud over it."

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'His cloud' can and is often used to describe God's glory. We also have another word here: 'Kicce.' Kicce means a seat, a throne, or a stool. Remember Isaiah 66:1 "The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?" The moon is in the heaven (sky) and the earth is His foot-stool. This puts God a little closer to us than previously thought. Isaiah 30:26 says "…the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be seven fold, as the light of seven days…" The word 'moon' means 'white' and refers to the moon's whiteness of brightness. We see the same word in Song of Solomon 6:10- one reference to it being covered and one to it being white or bright. Conclusion: Think of the Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars Like This:

(With Everything, Including the "Planets" in the Firmament)

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Not This:

(The Sun hurling through Space at 67,000 mph Dragging everything with it in a Vortex)

(While Earth spins at 1000 mph)

What Would This Mean?

This would mean we cannot travel beyond Low-Earth Orbit

Due to the Van-Allen Radiation Belt.

This would mean that the Earth is Geo-Centric, Not Heliocentric as suggested by those who worshipped Helios.

This would explain the lack of visible Curvature we see on Earth,

And why boats that fall over the Horizon can be brought back into view With the use of a Camera with a Zoom lense.

This would mean that Gravity is a made up theory

Used to explain away the mathematical problems of the Globe And that Buoyancy and Density is the actual forces acting as Gravity.

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The Circle of the Earth Explained: Isaiah 40:22 "He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in." The word "circle' here is better translated as disk. The Hebrew word that is used in Isaiah 40:22 (חוּג, chug) does not at all imply a spherical earth. The root word only occurs in the Hebrew Bible once as a verb (Job 26:10). In nominal forms, the same root occurs four times, three as the noun חוּג (chug; Job 22:14, Prov 8:27, Isa 40:22), and once as the noun חוּג (mechugah; Isa 44:13). This term refers to a "circle instrument," a device used to make a circle, what we call a compass. Isaiah 44:13 refers to this "circle instrument." The verbal form of the word basically means "to make a circle" or "to scribe a circle." If Isaiah wanted to use the word 'ball' he could have used the word 'dur' like he did in Isaiah 22:18. The word 'dur' means a ball, turn, or round about. Yet Isaiah chose 'chug.' Shalom.