Understanding how the Zadok Priestly Calendar calibrates time hinges on the Priestly Courses. This sets it apart from most solar, lunar, or luni-solar calendars. The ZPC also uses:
- sun, moon, and stars
- keeps the 7-day count set-apart per instructions given in Genesis
- has 364 days, 12 months, 30-day month (+1 at the end of each season), and uses the priestly courses found in 1 Chronicles 24
- There are 52 Shabbats per year, which are never disturbed by a Feast Shabbat.
- a complete week is intercalated at the end of the 6th year
GWDF ministry team member Robert Villa is our teacher in this video as we dive into the Priestly Courses.
To find out more about the Zadok Priestly Calendar, visit our website:
https://gospelworthdyingfor.com/2025-zadok-priestly-calendar/
https://gospelworthdyingfor.com/decoding-the-zadok-priestly-calendar
Image Credits:
Slides 9-11 Dead Sea Scroll fragment picture, attribution - ShareAlike 4.0 International (cc BY-SA 4.0) https://nerdbot.com/2021/03/16/new-dead-sea-scroll-fragments-discovered-in-cave-of-horror/
Slide 8 Priest Intercession art: stevecreitz.com
Slides 13-31 Menorah art: stevecreitz.com
Scroll fragments 4Q319 & 4Q320 - The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library, deadseascrolls.org
Pixabay.com
Wikimedia Commons, wikimedia.org, Images from the 1890 Holman Bible. (All media images from this collection is in the public domain in the United States)
Music Credits:
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