Today (Gräsem) is the third Yom (or "time period") of my year (although Gräsem is the fifth of the seven yoms in a week), Anreu 3rd in the year 7703 YY. In order for You to understand the dates You see here, i should probably explain what the designations are and what they mean.
i do not count "days" as most people do. The reason for not doing so is that i Live by a different orientation regarding the ~ 24 time period. Most people think of a "day" as beginning with dawn or, in our current Western, American culture with midnight (12:00 AM). However, i count the ~ 24 time period progression on my calendar the way that YHWH (Blessed be His Holy Name) counts it: by periods of time that begin with the evening (the appearance of stars in the heavens) and run through the following day until the next evening. In other words, an evening and a morning - just as described in the book of Genesis. Therefore, i find the word "day" not really a good term to use, since most people are conditioned to think of a "day" as the morning followed by the night. Therefore, i use the Hebrew word "yom" (literally: a period of time) instead of "day." This subtle change in terminology helps prevent me from agreeing with the world in the orientation of time & space and reminds me that Abba begins with the evening (and night) and then includes the morning (and day).
Also, the nomenclature is different on my lunar-based calendar. The names of my yoms and my months come from Hebrew words and not from the Greco-Roman pantheons (as the current "days" derive) and the Babylonian culture (as the current months derive). Regarding the yoms, the first half has to do with the meaning of Scriptural numerology for that yom's number, and the second half ends in "em" (reminding me that i count from evening ("e") to morning ("m") and not the other way around. Regarding the months, the first half is based on the names of the Twelve apostles in the order in which they chronologically began to follow Y'shua Christos (my Hebrew/Greek way of saying "Jesus [the] Christ"), and the second half is based on the birth order of the twelve tribes of Israel.
"Gräsem" begins on what most people would call "Wednesday" evening and finishes on what most people would call "Thursday" afternoon, and "Gräs" is short for "grace." As the fifth yom of the week of seven yoms, the number "5" in scriptural numerology has to do with the "grace." Anreu is the first month (corresponding to the Jewish "Nisan" or "Nissan," and Anreu derives from Andrew-Reuben. The current year (7703) comes from the symbolic calculation of 5771 (the Jewish Year #) + 165 (a reference to the "missing years" in the Hebrew calendar) + 1000 (symbolizing both the billions of years involved in the creation of the universe before the Genesis account picks up the earth-creation narrative as well as also the billions of years encompassed in at least some of the "yoms" (or "periods of time") in the actual Genesis creation narrative) + 767 (symbolizing the unknown amount of time Adam & Eve spent in the garden before missing the mark and going their own way (or "sinning") apart from the LORD Most High). When You add 5771+165+1000+767, You get 7703. The designation "YY" stands for "YHWH Year" - Blessed be His Holy Name. i believe the universe (and, therefore, the earth) are billions of years old and that people are much older than 7000+ years, but i also believe that has absolutely no effect on the veracity, validity, or legitimacy of the Scriptural text (but that's for another time & place). Given all of this, i refer to years as YY, because YHWH (Blessed be His Holy Name) is behind all of it and the only "One" Who knows the Truth about the age of the universe, the earth, or anything involving creation.
In conclusion, the "date" of toyom (or "today," to most people) for this particular post might be more easily read as "Gräsem, Anreu 3rd, 7703 YY."
Genesis 7:1 Then the LORD said to Noah, "Enter the ark, you and all yourhousehold, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in thistime. 2 "You shall take with you of every clean animal by sevens, a maleand his female ; and of the animals that are not clean two, a male and his female ; 3 also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth. 4 "For after sevenmore days, I will send rain on the earth forty days and forty nights ; and I will blot out from the face of the land every living thing that I have made."5 Noah did according to all that the LORD had commanded him. 6 NowNoah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon theearth. 7 Then Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons' wives with him entered the ark because of the water of the flood. 8 Of cleananimals and animals that are not clean and birds and everything thatcreeps on the ground, 9 there went into the ark to Noah by twos, maleand female, as God had commanded Noah. 10 It came about after theseven days, that the water of the flood came upon the earth. 11 In thesix hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on theseventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of thegreat deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. 12The rain fell upon the earth for forty days and forty nights. 13 On thevery same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered theark, 14 they and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after theirkind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, all sorts of birds. 15 So they went into theark to Noah, by twos of all flesh in which was the breath of life. 16 Those that entered, male and female of all flesh, entered as God hadcommanded him; and the LORD closed it behind him. 17 Then the floodcame upon the earth for forty days, and the water increased and liftedup the ark, so that it rose above the earth. 18 The water prevailed andincreased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water. 19 The water prevailed more and more upon the earth, so that all the high mountains everywhere under the heavens were covered.20 The water prevailed fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains werecovered. 21 All flesh that moved on the earth perished, birds and cattleand beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the earth, andall mankind ; 22 of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died. 23 Thus He blotted out every livingthing that was upon the face of the land, from man to animals to creepingthings and to birds of the sky, and they were blotted out from the earth ; and only Noah was left, together with those that were with him in the ark.24 The water prevailed upon the earth one hundred and fifty days.
The Flood Subsides
Genesis 8:1 But God remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark ; and God caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also the fountains of the deep and thefloodgates of the sky were closed, and the rain from the sky wasrestrained ; 3 and the water receded steadily from the earth, and at theend of one hundred and fifty days the water decreased. 4 In theseventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark restedupon the mountains of Ararat. 5 The water decreased steadily until thetenth month ; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the topsof the mountains became visible. 6 Then it came about at the end offorty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made ;7 and he sent out a raven, and it flew here and there until the water wasdried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land ; 9 but the dove foundno resting place for the sole of her foot, so she returned to him into theark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he put out hishand and took her, and brought her into the ark to himself. 10 So hewaited yet another seven days ; and again he sent out the dove from theark. 11 The dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in her beakwas a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abatedfrom the earth. 12 Then he waited yet another seven days, and sent outthe dove ; but she did not return to him again. 13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the coveringof the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was driedup. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 "Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons' wives with you.17 "Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birdsand animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on theearth." 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons'wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird,everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from theark. 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every cleananimal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.21 The LORD smelled the soothing aroma ; and the LORD said toHimself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for theintent of man's heart is evil from his youth ; and I will never again destroyevery living thing, as I have done. 22 "While the earth remains,Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, Andday and night Shall not cease."
Covenant of the Rainbow
Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful andmultiply, and fill the earth. 2 "The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky ; witheverything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3 "Every moving thing that is alive shall befood for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. 4 "Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. 5 "Surely I will requireyour lifeblood ; from every beast I will require it. And from every man,from every man's brother I will require the life of man. 6 "Whoever shedsman's blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God Hemade man. 7 "As for you, be fruitful and multiply ; Populate the earthabundantly and multiply in it." 8 Then God spoke to Noah and to hissons with him, saying, 9 "Now behold, I Myself do establish My covenantwith you, and with your descendants after you; 10 and with every livingcreature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of theearth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of theearth. 11 "I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall neveragain be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be aflood to destroy the earth." 12 God said, "This is the sign of thecovenant which I am making between Me and you and every livingcreature that is with you, for all successive generations ; 13 I set My bowin the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and theearth. 14 "It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and I will remember My covenant,which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh ; andnever again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16"When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember theeverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all fleshthat is on the earth." 17 And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of thecovenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth."
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