Tsiyon Answer - Wrong program for Sukkot?

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Unfortunately, we do not control which of our programs are broadcast on a given station on a given week day. However, we will be posting a special program for Sukkot today, at our website at www.tsiyon.org.

Tsiyon Answer - Impossible to be saved again?

Here are the verses:

This is not talking about "backsliding" from which one can repent and recover. This is speaking about a person who has tasted of every spiritual blessing in Messiah, and yet, willingly chooses to go to the other side. There is no turning back from that choice. Such a one is lost forever in the same manner as hasatan himself.

Listener Comment - "prophetic year" of 360 days?
   Many commentators starting with Sir Robert Anderson in 1881 contend that for these end time prophecy calculations a "prophetic year" of 360 days should be used, which correlates to fewer solar years. The rationale for this is based in part on parallel passages such as Revelation 12:6 and 13:5, where for example 3.5 years correlates with 1260 days (3.5 * 360) or 42 months of 30 days (42 * 30 = 1260). Sir Robert and others have used these prophetic years to validate the Daniel 9 time table for the Messiah's entering Jerusalem "to be cut off, but not for himself". Also, Grant Jeffrey in his book, Armageddon Appointment with Destiny, p. 41, has used "prophetic years" in correlating the Ezekiel 4 prophecies with the May,1948 rebirth of the state of Israel. Is there merit to this concept of a prophetic year being equal to 360 days?

Tsiyon Answer - "prophetic year" of 360 days?

Sir Robert Anderson, Grant Jeffrey, and others who use an imaginary "prophetic year" of 360 days, which they then adjust to a modern solar year of 365 days, are adding an element that is not in the text under discussion [Ezekiel 4]. This is based on extrapolating from a couple of places in Scripture (Dan + Rev) where a 360 day period is in view - and then making a general rule out of it. The text in Ezekiel is speaking about the passage of ACTUAL YEARS - not a math formula. If they understood the Biblical calendar they would realize that Biblical years are intercalated as needed to keep the months in step with the solar year, so that, through a cycle of every 19 years, the cycle comes back into perfect alignment with the solar year on a perfect 1 to 1 reckoning. Therefore, their math to "correct" for the solar year, in effect, seeks to correct for something that is already corrected. Their math formula is not justified by the text or by the way that the Biblical calendar actually works. In a nutshell, their approach is typical Greco-roman thinking, that is well-meaning human reasoning that, unfortunately, simply misses the Hebraic reality of Scripture.

From Eliyahu

Sukkot is a very special time of year. As our program for this Sukkot demonstrates, this is the season when Messiah was born into the world, to tabernacle here among us. As we contemplate that great miracle and all it means for us we cannot help but be filled with joy. Our prayer for you this Sukkot season is that you will experience that amazing Sukkot joy reserved for those who have entered into the superlative love of YHWH, in all of its breadth, height and depth, through the greatest gift ever given to man, God's own Son. Be blessed in His love!