Determining Passover after the beginning of the New Year, i.e. after the Vernal Equinox, then setting Abib 1st before the Vernal Equinox would be allowing Passover to be in the New Year, but setting Abib 1st before the year ends, i.e. before the circuit of the sun is complete at the vernal equinox. This is still in the winter of the previous year, which isn't ABIB. That is the reason for intercallary years, i.e. the addition of an extra month, so that the first new moon after the year (shaneh) begins, i.e. after the Vernal Equinox, is ABIB, thus ABIB is OF THE YEAR and the beginning of months...not the beginning of the year.
The Gregorian calendar is part of the problem here. Is Julius Caesar (who accepted January 1st as the beginning of the civil year), or Hillel III (
who changed Abib calculation), or Pope Gregory (who set January 1st as the beginning of the year...and Easter according to Hillel's unscriptural changes)... the arbiters of time?
Starting the year on the first day of the first month is an inheritance from pagan Rome (both civil and ecclesiastical) influenced by Hillel's Talmudic changes to ancient biblical practices. These changes made Abib 1st completely dependent on Passover, rather than having Passover dependent on Abib.
For example, if the spring equinox is to fall on March 20th, then Abib can't be any earlier than March 7th. Why? Isn't it because Passover is first calculated and must be in a New Year? Absolutely! If, then, the Vernal Equinox marks the beginning of the "shaneh" (i.e. year), why is Passover calculated first (in relation to the new year) to determine which month is Abib? That is just wrong!
It shouldn't be hard to understand that the great light that determines years is the sun, because years are made of days, and the sun obviously is involved. Nowhere does scripture mark the beginning of the year with the moon. The year is from spring to spring, from vernal equinox to vernal equinox. There can only be one Abib 1st and one Passover per year, so the first New Moon after the Vernal Equinox is the New Moon of Abib. Remember, the law shall go forth from Jerusalem, so the (law of the) new moons as well as the barley harvest, shall also be set from that location, and will be when Messiah returns.
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