The Gregorian Reset of 1582

The Calendar on Your Wall Has a Birthday

Most people have never thought about it, but the calendar hanging on the wall has a beginning. It was not given by Yahuah. It was not handed down from Adam. It was not the calendar Yahushua kept while He walked the earth.

It was created by a Pope. His name was Gregory XIII. The year was 1582. He signed a document called Inter Gravissimas and reset the calendar of the entire western world.

The calendar most of us grew up with — the one we use to mark birthdays, holidays, and worship days — is named after him. It is called the Gregorian calendar.

Before Gregory: The Julian Calendar

The Gregorian was not the first man-made reset. It replaced an even older Roman calendar known as the Julian calendar, created by Julius Caesar in 45 BC.

Julius Caesar was a pagan emperor who declared himself a god. His calendar set the year at 365.25 days, with leap years to balance things out. It was the calendar in use across the Roman Empire when Yahushua walked the earth — but Yahushua and His followers did not live by it. They kept the Father's calendar, marked by the moon and the barley.

The Julian calendar slowly drifted out of step with the actual movement of the sun. By the 1500s, the dates and the seasons were almost ten days off. Easter, which the Catholic Church had tied to the spring equinox, was sliding earlier and earlier.

So Pope Gregory XIII commissioned astronomers to fix it. They cut ten days out of the calendar. October 4, 1582 was followed directly by October 15, 1582. People went to bed on a Thursday and woke up on a Friday almost a week and a half later.

Why a Pope Was Setting the Calendar

Stop and consider this. The man who reset the world's calendar was not a prophet. He was not a king of Israel. He was the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

And his motive was clear in his own decree: the calendar needed to be fixed so the Church could properly calculate Easter. The whole point of the Gregorian reform was to keep the Catholic festival cycle on schedule.

This was the same Church that had moved worship from the seventh-day Sabbath to Sunday. The same Church that had replaced Pesach with Easter. The same Church that had absorbed pagan festivals from the Roman Empire and given them new names. And now this Church was setting the calendar that the entire world would live by.

"And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws…" — Daniel 7:25

Daniel saw it coming. A power would arise that would think to change the times Yahuah Himself had set. The Gregorian reset of 1582 is one of the clearest fulfillments of that prophecy in history. A man in Rome looked at Yahuah's creation calendar, decided it needed adjusting, and adjusted it.

What Was Lost in the Reset

When Gregory's calendar replaced what came before, several things were buried that had once been visible to Yahuah's people:

• The moon was no longer needed to know when a month began — mathematical tables took over.
• The barley was no longer needed to know when the year began — January 1 was fixed by decree.
• The seventh-day Sabbath was buried under a Sunday-first week.
• The feasts of Yahuah were replaced with feasts approved by Rome.

Every page of the calendar today still reflects this reset. Months named after Roman gods and emperors. Days named after pagan deities. A new year that begins in the dead of winter, disconnected from the sun, moon, stars, and harvest Yahuah anchored His calendar to.

The Calendar Question Is a Worship Question

This is not just a matter of paper and ink. The calendar a believer follows shapes when they worship, what they celebrate, and whose authority they submit to.

To follow the Gregorian calendar without question is to accept the timekeeping of Rome. To return to Yahuah's calendar is to return to the lights He placed in the heavens on day four. The Pope's reset was a man's decision. The luminaries are Yahuah's decision.