The Birth of the Nation of Israel on May 15, 1948 was Shavuot/Pentecost:

(According to the original Jewish Babylonian Talmud calendar rules)

Chapter 9: Conclusion

This is an interesting and convincing discussion that confirms with evidence that the birth of the nation of Israel on May 15, 1948 was Shavuot for the Jews and Pentecost for the Christians. The world missed that because the Jews continue to keep time and seasons based on the calculated Jewish calendar that was instituted nearly 1,600 years ago. In addition, this fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah 66:8 with a nation being born on a single day. However, the Jewish audience has no expectation of prophecy fulfillment on Feast days.

However, for the Christians prophecy fulfillment on days which are Feasts of the Lord as described in Leviticus 23:2, and Deuteronomy 16:16 are the expectation after Jesus literally fulfilled the meaning of the spring Feasts on Feast days with the first coming. Now, with the birth of the nation of Israel occurring on Shavuot/Pentecost we realize God continues to coordinate the activities of nations and men in His time, which is neither the Christian nor Jewish calendar. This leads to an expectation that the second coming of Jesus will fulfill the Fall Feasts.

Technology has allowed for this researched confirmation. It is amazing that we have access to daily percent illumination data from Israel in 1948 so we know the precise days of the beginning of months with the lunar calendar. This revealed that the Jews celebrated Shavuot exactly 30 days the birth of the nation, and with understanding how leap years are added with the current calculated Jewish calendar it becomes evident that if 1948 should not have been a leap year then May 15, 1948 was Shavuot.

Then the Calendar Council’s rules for determining leap years according to the original Jewish calendar and documented in The Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 11B was presented. The three criteria which are used are the timing of the maturity of the barley harvest, the condition of the fruit trees, and the timing of the equinox. There are both religious ceremonial and practical reasons for these three criteria.

Each of these three criteria was then considered separately. The decision based on the condition of the barley crop is dependent on the timing of sowing the seed, germination timing, and growth and maturation of the crop. We know the timing that the seeds were sown because amazingly we have the date of the first rain in Israel for both the 1948 and 1949 crop from The Israeli Atmospheric and Climate Data Center. We also can compare the time for germination for 1948 and 1949 because we also know the date of the second rain in Israel for both years. Barley farming agricultural resources was then presented and introduced the well utilized concept of Growth Degree Days which determines when the crop will be ripe. For obvious reasons the crop will mature sooner when it is warmer. The daily temperature data for these years from The Israeli Atmospheric and Climate Data Center confirm that the temperatures for the 1948 growing season were above average and that the 1949 season was an epic cold year. These results confirm that the decision according to the condition of the barley crop criteria of The Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 11B in the original Jewish calendar would not have made 1948 a leap year, and that makes May 15, 1948 Shavuot.

The next of the three criteria of the Calendar Council that was considered was the condition of the fruit trees. Fruit tree horticulture was presented and is very different than barley farming because fruit trees go into dormancy. The concept of the chill inception date and cumulative chill units to end the period of endodormancy was discussed. Then the period of ectodormancy and growth rate to maturation of the fruit was presented. This revealed the 1948 fruit trees had a chill inception date 1-2 weeks earlier than the 1949 trees, that chill unit accumulation from that time was similar leading to the beginning of ectodormacy 1-2 weeks earlier for the 1948 fruit trees. From this time the date to mature fruit on the trees is determined by the temperature and we know the fruit was ripe earlier for the 1948 trees than the 1949 trees for the same reason based on Growth Degree Days as was used with the barley crop.  These results confirm that The Calendar Council’s determination of leap years according to The Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 11B in the original Jewish calendar based on the criteria of the condition of fruit trees would not make 1948 a leap year, and that makes May 5, 1948 Shavuot.

The final criterion of the Calendar Council that was considered was the timing of the spring equinox. Since the equinox is the beginning of spring, both the Talmud and ancient Christian literature confirm that if Passover would be before the spring equinox, then that year should be a leap year with a month added so that Passover is always after the spring equinox. The dates of the equinoxes in the past are known as well as the dates of the cycles of the moon so this criterion can easily be applied. The equinox criteria for determining leap years according to The Calendar Council of the original Hebrew calendar which used The Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 11B and 13B makes 1948 not a leap year, and this makes May 15, 1948 Shavuot.

So, it has been shown that according to all three criteria of the timing of the maturity of the barley harvest, the condition of the fruit trees, and the timing of the equinox used by The Calendar Council of the original Hebrew calendar which used The Babylonian Talmud that 1948 should not have been a leap year, and this makes May 15, 1948 Shavuot. The birth of the nation of Israel on a single day fulfilling prophecy occurred on one of the days of The Feasts of the Lord.