***Where did the name January come from?*** -Named after the Roman god of beginnings and endings Janus (the month Januarius).
***Who is Janus?*** -In ancient Roman religion and mythology, Janus is the god of beginnings and transitions, thence also of gates, doors, doorways, endings and time. He is usually a two-faced god since he looks to the future and the past. The Romans dedicated the month of January to Janus.
***Why is the new year in January?*** -Modern celebration of New Year’s Day stems from an ancient Roman custom, the feast of the Roman god Janus – god of doorways and beginnings. The name for the month of January also comes from Janus, who was depicted as having two faces. One face of Janus looked back into the past, and the other peered forward to the future.
***Why January 1?*** -When the Romans used a lunar calendar, the year began in March, on the day the new consul took office. But by 153 B.C., with the addition of some months, consuls assumed office on Jan. 1. There’s also some religious significance, as January had a festival forJanus, the god of gates, or beginnings.
***What does the bible say about when the new year should start?*** -Exodus 12:2 “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.”
-Exodus 13:4 “This day came ye out in the month Abib.”
***So what is ABIB?*** -(From the hebrew strongs’s) H24 - ‘abiyb aw-beeb’ from an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, i.e. a young ear of grain; hence, the name of the month Abib –Abib, ear, green ears of corn (not maize).
-Abib is the Hebrew word used for the state of a crop which is, in between the stage of green colour ripening and completely ripe golden streaks. It is the stage when the grain is a light yellowish green color.
-The month of Abib/Aviv does not coincide with a month in the standard western calendar in any way. This means that the 1st day of the Biblical Year could fall on any day in the season of March/April (Spring). The biblical calendar is not one which is set in paper, but which is set in the heavens. When our Creator made the Sun, Moon & Stars, He proclaimed “let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years”.
-So if you call yourself a Christians Why are you not keeping the biblically correct New Year and is instead keep the one made for a false god? You are keeping the ways of the heathen.
