The Feast of Trumpets is fixed on the seventh New Moon, emphasizing a demarcation of time in the Hebrew lunar calendar. Seven months from Abib to Tishri contain more light hours than darkness, distinct from months where night predominates, and thus, they house the Feasts of YHWH as Festivals of Light (See Blog 3: Festivals of Light). Found twelve times in the Bible, the term “New Moon” first occurs in Numbers 29:6 in the context of Yom Teruah, while “the beginning of Israel’s months” (new moon) offerings are given in Numbers 28:11-15. The new moon appears as the first crescent of light that waxes until the full moon on the fifteenth of the lunar month. Created to rule over the night when sunlight is absent, the moon’s monthly rhythm divides light from darkness (the word for divides is the verb of bdellium, H0914, 7² = 49, הַבְּדֹ֖לַח “creating a distinction between night and day”¹). An image of eternal service or worship (Psa. 72:5; 89:37), the moon’s cyclic regularity is for “signs and appointed times (mo’ed), and for days and years” (Gen. 1:14, Psa. 104:19). In the day that YHWH binds up the bruise of His people and heals the stroke of their wound, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun (Isa. 30:26). The light of the New Moon begins Yom Teruah.

Non-Israelite nations of Mesopotamia used the monthly cycles of the moon as a cultic calendar and worshiped the moon in “lunar festivals.” ² Their new moon festivals were initially called the “head of the crescent” and later expressed as the “head of the month.” ³; The Ancient Near East cultures “organize its days of labor and rest by the month, not the week.” ⁴ Within these societies, “there is no evidence of a seven-day week, but only in Israel.” ⁵ In contrast, Israel established their calendar on the preeminent sabbatical weekly cycle and used the lunar calendar to count the months. Every aspect of Israelite culture was based on the sabbatical cycle, keeping their minds focused on the creation week (See Blog 4’s chart), even counting the seven months of light as a week of months. Worship of the moon’s phases proliferated everywhere Babylon’s culture spread, but it held no power of influence in Israel because they based their year on the week, and YHWH had charged them to worship no other gods (Deu. 4:19; 32:7-9).

The dependability of the moon’s phases gives reason to trust it as a counting mechanism for the appointed times. A 100% accurate lunar calendar cycle takes 689,472 years, factored as factored as 432 × 19 × 12 × 7. The sun’s radius number 432 is multiplied by the moon’s 19-year Metonic cycle of twelve common years and seven leap years set to the melody of the C-Major chord, 3-3-2-3-3-3-2 (See Blog 16’s chart, Biblical Lunar Time). The Feast of Trumpets crescent moon declaration falls only on day 2 (Monday), day 3 (Tuesday), Day 5 (Thursday), or Day 7 (Shabbat), identical to the first four prime numbers, 2, 3, 5, and 7, and the integers of the seven-day week in lunar calendar parts, 181,440 = 2⁶ × 3⁴ × 5 × 7. A year’s calendar adjustments always occur outside of the seven months’ 207 days. The seven-day week stabilizes the lunar calendar’s Yom Teruah declaration with the 2-3-5-7 key.

The Sabbath month, with its four Feasts of YHWH, is associated with its twin month, Iyar. The first of Iyar falls only on days 2, 3, 5, or 7, the same as Tishri 1’s declarations. The difference between the second and the seventh month is one day. Iyar has only 29 days, and Tishri has 30 days; months with 29 days are without holy convocation feasts. The Hebrew names for Iyar and Tishri are Ziv and Ethanim, respectively. Why are these things important? The “second month” occurs fourteen times, and the “seventh month” occurs twenty-six times in the Tanakh. Fourteen flags Passover and twenty-six numbers YHWH. The second Passover is on the fourteenth of the second month, a month of 29 days. (In the next blog, we will see what Hezekiah does to resolve the conflict.) Ziv means light, glow, brightness (H2099, BDB), or splendor (Gesenius’ Hebrew and Chaldee Definition), referring to the month the manna, the color of bdellium, came, its sparkling dew as the gem of Eden (see footnote 1 and Blog 71). In this way, Ziv relates to the Hebrew word for light, “ohr,” and is the month that both Solomon’s and Zerubbabel’s temple work began (1Ki. 6:1; Ezr. 3:8). Ethanim means “ever-flowing streams” (H0388, ISBE), relating to Eden’s ever-flowing waters and is the month Solomon brought the ark of the covenant into the temple (1Ki. 8:2). The count of days from Ziv 1 to Ethanim 1 is always 147 days, the time marker of Jacob’s age fastened to the creation days 1, 4, and 7, pointing to Israel’s temple, the light of Eden with its living waters of the spirit flowing out to heal the earth.

In Ezekiel’s jubilee temple of a restored Israel, the gate to the inner court that faces east is shut for the six working days of the week but opened for the Sabbath and the day of the New Moon. What does it mean? The time of Israel’s restoration is stamped on Joseph in Psalm 81:3-5, when YHWH freed him from prison on the Feast of Trumpets and crowned him with glory and honor, ruling all the land. As an image of the perfect Adam suffering before honor, he pointed to the second Adam to come, Yeshua, who, after He suffered death was crowned with glory and honor (Psa. 8:5; Heb. 2:9; Rev. 4:11). Yom Teruah of the seventh New Moon celebrates the Sabbath month and Yeshua’s second coming in glory, freeing humanity from oppressors to celebrate an Eden new creation in which YHWH dwells in His temple among them with the gates always open (Rev. 21:25).

Takeaway:
YHWH placed the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens to divide between light and darkness, creating signs and appointed times, days and years that feed us with the Word of God. Created to show the strength of His salvation, the Sabbath and Holydays stabilize our times with wisdom and knowledge (Isa. 33:5-6). Knowing the Torah and justice, the wise understand the times (Est.1:13). Each year, Yom Teruah‘s declaration on weekdays 2, 3, 5, or 7 sets the flow of months for the next year and even patterns of trumpet declarations in calendar time blocks connected to a restored Israel and humanity.

Fun Factors:
The numeric values below consistently are time stamped with Light’s victory, the Word of God going forth.

Numbers 29:1-6, the offerings of Yom Teruah with the New Moon, has 281 letters (60^th P, 28^th PP; 16² + 5²), 68 words (2² × 17; 8² + 2²), totaling 20228, 2² × 13 × 389, 52(17² + 10²); digit product = 64, 8²; digit sum = 14; 389 = 77^th P, 36^th PP, digit product = 216; digit sum = 20; 20228 divided into two parts, 20 and 228 (228 = 12 × 19) and 20 × 228 = 4560 = T₉₅, 95 = miklah, the menorah’s golden perfections, and hamelek, the King; 20228 – 8² = 20164 = 142² (142 = 2 × 71). On Sinai, YHWH gave Moses 42, 6 x 7, laws.

Numbers 28:11-15, the New Moon offerings, has 303 letters (303, 3 × 101, or 3(1² + 10²), 101 = 26^th P, 12^th PP), 73 words (21^st P and 9^th PP, 8² + 3²), totaling 21095, 5 × 4219; 4219 is the 578^th P, 2 × 17², 7² + 23², indicating YHWH’s (26) wisdom (73) bringing the ten generations (10) to victory (17) in Him (1), His “I AM” (21) signature on the sureness (3) of the 19-year Metonic Holyday cycle (3 x 19 = 95).

The “second month” has a numeric value of 682, 22 × 31, and Ziv equals 13.

The “seventh month” has a numeric value of 714, 42 × 17, and Ethanim equals 506, 22 × 23.

Psalm 81 has 502 letters (2 × 251; digit product = 10, digit sum = 7; 251 = 54^th P, 2 × 27) in 125 words (5³, 2² + 11²), totaling 30977, the 3339^th P, 1663^rd PP, 176² + 1²; 176 = 8 × 22, 11^th pentagonal number and 8^th octagonal number; 176’s digit product = 42, digit sum = 14; 30977 = 11² × 16² + 1; digit product = 1323, 27 × 7², digit sum = 26, saying YHWH’s (26) House (16), Light (11) perfections (7²).