Luke 11:36, ‘If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.’

Tradition is a hard thing to break, just as new wine cannot be contained in the old wine bottles. The tradition of the dark moon phase being the new moon or the dark new moon goes back many generations, even unto the days of ancient Babylon… but is it biblical? The truth is, we have been counting and looking at the lunar cycle of the moon incorrectly, for it is meant to be counted as a lunar month of 29.5 days from full new moon, back to full moon renewed again, the New Moon. The week is similar, the 7th day is completion, and the next day is day 1 of the week; the Full Moon also is completion, and the next day is day 1 of the month. Now that the 400 years of darkness has been fulfilled, we realize that as per the Book of Daniel, times and dates have been changed, and it is now time for the head to become the tail, and the tail to become the head with the blessings thereof as per Deuteronomy 28:13.

Throughout the Bible, from the beginning of its inception, the Moon is always described as a light. Even in the Book of Enoch, the Moon is first described perfected in its fullness, as being a light, then decreasing and counting down from the 1st day to the 15th day when it is fully in darkness (this is mid-month, or the dark moon phase that the world today calls the new moon). Then the second phase is counted as 15 days back up to the full moon, the original light made to rule the night, which is the full moon renewed, the New Moon; not partial nor dark or renewing, but fully renewed again as the head of the Month. So there is a full new moon phase, and a dark new moon phase. One is the head, the other the tail… but again, which one is the Bible describing? Is an ornament giving light describing the dark new moon, or the full new moon?

PRECEPT; Ecclesiasticus 43:6-9, ‘He made the moon also to serve in her season for a declaration of times, and a sign of the world. From the moon is the sign of feasts, a light that decreaseth in her perfection. The month is called after her name, increasing wonderfully in her changing, being an instrument of the armies above, shining in the firmament of heaven; The beauty of heaven, the glory of the stars, an ornament giving light in the highest places of the Lord

A BLESSING AND NO LONGER A CURSE; Deuteronomy 28:13, ‘And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:’.

NEW MOON

In Psalms 81:3, it is written to ‘Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the appointed time, on our solemn feast day’. This is a reference to a particular time, known as the ‘Blowing of Trumpets’, in the Seventh Month; an Holy Convocation and solemn feast, which was a statute given unto Israel in memory of Joseph, whose ‘hands were delivered from the pots’, when he was made to rule as second over Egypt. The Psalm then goes on to mention how the LORD answered in times of trouble, called out from the secret place of thunder, redeemed Israel out of Egypt, and how the people now walk after their own hearts… this is why we need precepts when reviewing scripture.

PRECEPT; Leviticus 23:5, ‘These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.’ Leviticus 23:23-25, ‘And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the Children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation’.

Blowing of Trumpets is a special set-apart day, and this 7th New Moon is the only one commanded to be observed as a Holy Convocation. The shofar could also be sounded on various occasions, such as ‘when going to war, as an alarm’, and during the solemn days and the new moons, where the instruction was to blow the trumpet specifically over the burnt offerings and other sacrifices of peace offerings during all the feasts (as per Numbers 10:10). But this was over the food to give thanks, not to announce the sighting of the moon.

Even if we were supposed to blow the trumpet at the sighting of the moon, how is it that the wolves by nature get it right, yet man gropes around in darkness? So this tradition of Blowing the Trumpet to announce the sighting of the Moon as the beginning of the months was never actually an instruction, it was a tradition that was developed while the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. The Most High already gave us a sign of the new moon, and beginning of the month that can be seen by all, and without the blast of a trumpet. In fact the dark moon is actually mid-month, and was never the beginning of the month until the Jews went into captivity, and thus the tail became the head. How do we know this? It’s simple, the world has been deceived into following darkness for light. The beginning of the month is not the Babylonian dark new moon, or the sliver of light, nor the first quarter or crescent moon. For in the beginning, God made two great lights on the fourth day of creation, the greater to rule the day, and the lesser to rule the night.

The Most High was not referring to the full moon and the dark moon as being the greater and lessor lights, that’s the deception… God was referring to the Sun, and the Moon in its fullness. There was no dark moon, or partial moon ruling the night, as the ruling light of the month is the Full Moon. Remember, from full moon to full moon is 29.5 days, which is the New Moon of a Lunar Month. So on that day, when the two great lights were created, it had to be the Sun and the Full Moon seen on the evening and the morning of the fourth day, because the dark moon is not a light, and a partial light is not a ruling light. Therefore the Full Moon renewed again is the Biblical New Moon.

PRECEPT; Genesis 1:16-18, ‘And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.’

Genesis 1:19, ‘And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.’

That ‘evening and morning’ is described in the Book of Enoch as the day of the Full New Moon… the SIGN of this New Moon and beginning of the Month is this:

Enoch 78:6-9,

‘And on the first day she is called the new moon, for on that day the light rises upon her. She becomes full moon exactly on the day when the sun sets in the west, and from the east she rises at night, and the moon shines the whole night through til the sun rises over against the moon.’

Exodus 12:1-2, ‘And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.’

That is the description and SIGN that was shared with Moses and Aaron… the New Moon appearance begins each lunar month of 29 days, and a half for the day portion (29.5 days). Don’t just believe me, look and see for yourself. Every new occurrence of the renewal of the Full Moon, this SIGN is seen; the sun and the full moon ruling together, rising and setting in the horizon in perfect balance and harmony once per month on the New Moon, and the day of the New Moon. It is also the sign of the year, as it aligns us with the Spring Equinox, and the first sign of the Mazzaroth (Sign of the Ram), being the ruling Moon to announce the ‘Beginning of Months’… the Spring season called ABIB.

As it was from the beginning, once God said ‘let there be light’, there is no more darkness. Memra, Genesis 1:2, ‘And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.’