Zadok Calendar
Is the Zadok/Enoch calendar a valid calendar? The Zadok uses a 364 day year divided by 12 months, with each month having 30 days except the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th months that have 31 days. So, a 3 month time period has 91 days [ref]. We read in Gen 7:11 that the water came upon the Earth on the 17th day of the 2nd month. The water lifted the ark above the Earth from the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:17). The water prevailed upon the Earth 150 days from the 17th day of the 2nd month (Gen 7:24; 8:3). Then, the ark rested on the mountains of ‘Ararath/Ararat on the 17th day of the 7th month (Gen 8:4). From the 17th day of the 2nd month to the 17th day of the 7th month gives us 5 months having 30 days each. From the 17th day of the 2nd month to the 17th day of the 7th month using the Zadok calendar gives us 152 days. If the Enoch/Zadok calendar existed before the Flood of Noach/Noah and it is the calendar that is to be used for the LORD’s feast/holidays written in HIS Word/Scripture, why are there only 150 days in a 5 month time period in the Word/Scripture instead of the 152 days of the Enoch/Zadok calendar? The Zadok calendar does not work. Some of you will be saying you can not have 5 months with 30 days using new moon sightings used in the standard Hebrew calendar. Actually you can. During the winter is the only time of year there can be 30 day months back to back. It does not happen every year, but there are times when five 30 days months occur back to back. This is how we know the 1st month of Noach/Noah started in the fall. This is also how we narrowed down the Flood of Noach/Noah to 2 possible years in our time line. This is enough to discredit the Zadok calendar. (On a side note, this also means the year of Creation and the 1st month of Creation started around the fall equinox.)
There are actually many more reasons to discredit the Zadok calendar. Another reason is the Zadok calendar always starts the 1st day of the 1st month on the 4th day of the week after 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. This does not sound like an issue at first, but the waive offering in Lev 23:10, 11 that is the first fruit of barley (the first grain to be harvested) has to be available in order to bring the offering on Yom-ha’Bikkurim/Day-of-the-First-Fruits. When Yisra’el/Israel was in Egypt, the barley would have ripened way earlier than the 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness [ref]. If we use the Zadok calendar, we can no longer find a year for the Exodus that matches the Scriptures.
Another issue is the Moon which establishes a month will never line up with the calendar months of the year using the Zadok calendar. I will say the average of the solar year (365.25 days) to the lunar year (354.24 days) is 360 days. There is a prophetic calendar with 360 day years used by the prophets [you can see another Believer’s work on this HERE]. So, I’m not saying the Zadok calendar is totally useless, it might be useful somewhere, just not as a way to calculate the Lord’s feast-days/holidays/anniversaries.
Another issue with the Zadok calendar is it ignores a 13th month. Every solar year has 12 full months and 11 days of a 13th month (365 days – 354 days = 11 days). When Yoseph/Joseph was joined together with his 11 brothers with him as the leader (head), 13 tribes were established. Ephraim and Manasseh, Yoseph’s sons from his gentile bride, were adopted into the 12 sons of Yisra’el/Israel to make 13 tribes in all, of which Ephraim mixed with the gentiles (Gen 48:5; Hos 7:8). YESHUA/JESUS, the Apostle and Head, called together the 12 apostles to establish 13 apostles including himself (Heb 3:1). After YESHUA’s ascension into Shamayim/the-heaven(s), 11 apostles remained. Once the LORD the SPIRIT baptized the Church, a 13th apostle to the gentiles was recognized as one of the 12 (Rom 11:13; 1 Tim 2:7). So, a 13th constellation is joined with the 12 constellations of the Sun and the Moon (celestial ecliptic); a 13th leap month is joined with the 12 months of the year; the 13th rib pair, the collar bone, is joined by the head of the sternum with the 12 rib pairs of the body; the thumb tip section is joined with the 12 sections of the 4 fingers to make 13 sections. The list goes on. But, if you take out the 13 from the 12, then you remove the gentiles as being grafted into the 12. It is like trying to remove the gentiles from the Body of YESHUA/JESUS.