Now, in the Jewish tradition the time for the sun-set is calculated. This has been done for years. In the modern-Jewish-calendar the phase moon as well as its coordination to nature is calculated to find the time for holidays. Holidays such as Passover, Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) among other things. The biblical-Menorah itself actually points to the phases of the moon in some way or another.
However, the time for calculating the "moon rise" is not a particular focus. It was a focus in the time of the Qumran Calendar. But scripture AND science points to the reality that "moon rise" time matters. Not just a little bit, but a LOT.
When the moon is a full-moon it will ALWAYS rise when the sun is setting. Any almanac will show a person this. It has done this since the beginning of time!
When the moon is a new-moon it will ALWAYS rise when the sun is rising. Any almanac will show a person this. It has done this since the beginning of time!
So in Matt 27:45 it indicated a "miraculous" sort of solar-eclipse. It more than likely occurred during a "new moon" because the sun was darkened at NOON. To point to the promise of JESUS, a person NEEDS to know "moon rise time." He or she wouldn't need to be super smart about it, just generally KNOW that the FULL moon always rises in the sun-set and the NEW moon always rises in the sun-rise!
In order to find a standard of "holiness" a person would need to know "when" certain things happened in nature! Yes, else a person would not know how to coordinate with the divine!
A person may wear all the right clothing as indicated by the New Testament description of how a person may dress, but if that person simply doesn't understand the heavens from a divine standard, then that person may only end up following the patterns of "the world" rather than following the standards established by the CREATOR of the HEAVENS!
Essentially a person SHOULD get used to understanding the "moon rise time" in order to grasp the HOLY and his ways of doing things. Try it out! Create a Qumran Calendar sort of Calendar that points to patterns in the heavens.
Here is a link showing that different cultures refer to "moon calendars" http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8991
Here is a link for more culture and astronomy history: http://www.crystalinks.com/astronomicalobservatories.html
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