Nothing in Yehova’s calendar goes by the position of the sun, ever.
Josephus was a sun worshiper, thus his testimony is irrelevant.
Yehova’s calendar has always been in an ever shifting relationship to the sun. It is controlled by the Aviv Barley, not the sun.
This is why none of his feasts ever have any relationship to the sun, and it is obvious that he did this deliberately to shun the sun worshipers.
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The position of the sun is evident in Enoch’s calendar for those who celebrate passover in March as they claim the year begins before the official equinox date on the pope gregory calendar..
So they tend to celebrate passover in pope gregory march.
The sun and the ‘equinox’ is used as a marker for those who celebrated passover in pope grerory april as it was the first full moon time after the equinox on the pope gregory calendar.
The sun is used in all timekeeping.. some use it exclusively, like the pope gregory calendar.
Israel didn’t have ears of any barley harvest to look for in the wilderness but scripture, Numbers at least, detailed that they held the feast of passover in the wilderness.
So without those ears of barley, they still knew when the new year began.. does anybody who doesn’t think the sun has no role in telling time have an explanation for that?
It really is a clock in the sky.. His timekeeping.. He taught Moses the proper way to tell time.. that would differentiate them from all others..
The sticky wicket for people is there were at least three different passover observances, and probably more depending on their sources.
Passovers were held In march, in april and in may in different sects of people who believe in the Holy Scriptures.. they all can’t be right..
Folks who celebrated Passover in March have already had their yom Kippur.
Those who celebrated Passover in April are awaiting their yom Kippur.
And those who celebrated in May have another month.. (although those who celebrated in May probably were celebratin May because they didn’t observe it in April and the one in May is considered the 2nd passover in Israel this year)
And that 2nd passover in Israel was the only one where the sun was in Aries..
If somebody doesn’t like the fact that the sun travels through the stars and those stars have some interesting parallels to Scripture, take it up with Him who created it all..
I believe His word.. those lights in the sky are for our use.. they are for signs, and for appointed times (seasons in the english-moed in the Hebrew), days and years..
Nothing up there is an accident..
But the smart phones have people looking down today instead of up..