I no longer support the use of the Aviv Calendar as the only indicator of the Biblical year. I support the use of the Seven Species Calendar.
Why?
If I only look at the timing of the barley I can only be 1/7 = 15% confident I have the correcting timing for the feast dates.
But if I am looking for the timing all 7 of the species then I can be 7/7 = 100% positive I have the correct timing of the feasts.
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey (dates); Deut 8:8
That thou shalt take of the **first of all the fruit of the earth**, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put *it* in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there.[.](https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Deuteronomy-26-2/) Deut 26:2
And to bring the **firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees**, year by year, unto the house of the LORD: Neh 10:35
And [that] we should bring the **firstfruits of our dough**, and our offerings, and **the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil,** unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. Neh 10:37
All the best of the **oil (olives)**, and all the best of the **wine (grapes)**, and of the** wheat**, the firstfruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given thee. Nu 18:12
The **first of the firstfruits of thy ****land*** * **thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. Exodus 34:25
Ex 23:14 **Three times** **thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.** 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and n**one shall appear before me empty (of firstfruits)**:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. 17 **Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.**
Yes, I have to begin by correctly determining the timing of the barley.
However, if you are thinking adding the other 6 species into the equation cause a sense of relaxation in the process of determining the Biblical Calendar, then you would be wrong. In fact, in 50 days after the Wave Sheaf during the week of Unleavened (which is barley Firstfruits) I can be proven wrong if the Black Wheat is not ready to harvest.
As we have seen this year, if the second species, the wheat is ready for Shavout/Pentecost then the other 5 species will be available in their correct window of time.
And what a beautiful thing that is!Updated Sep 10, 2020, 9:41 PM