Nowhere is the birthdate of Messiah mentioned in the Scriptures.  Or is it?

Christians celebrate December 25th, yet most scholars agree that this is an impossible date.  The main reason?  Shepherds would never take their sheep into the field at this time of year.  They are kept in winter quarters then.

The Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03724b.htm) states that it is impossible to calculate the date from  Zachary’s temple service:

"Arguments based on Zachary’s temple ministry are unreliable, though the calculations of antiquity (see above) have been revived in yet more complicated form, e.g. by Friedlieb (Leben J. Christi des Erlösers, Münster, 1887, p. 312). The twenty-four classes of Jewish priests, it is urged, served each a week in the Temple; Zachary was in the eighth class, Abia. The Temple was destroyed 9 Ab, A.D. 70; late rabbinical tradition says that class 1, Jojarib, was then serving. From these untrustworthy data, assuming that Christ was born A.U.C. 749, and that never in seventy turbulent years the weekly succession failed, it is calculated that the eighth class was serving 2-9 October, A.U.C. 748, whence Christ’s conception falls in March, and birth presumably in December. Kellner (op. cit., pp. 106, 107) shows how hopeless is the calculation of Zachary’s week from any point before or after it."

So, the Catholic church says that it was impossible for YHWH to find one person righteous enough to accomplish His Purpose and keep the shadow of events that He had been trying to teach the Nation of Israel for hundreds of years.

 

Check out the following webpage (http://www.messianic.com/articles/dates.htm)

Biblical Dates for Messiah’s Conception and Birth

This page makes all the appropriate references and does the math for you.  Notice that this shows Messiah’s Birth on the Feast of Tabernacles.  Zechariah Chapter 14 states the following that will happen in the World to Come:

16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

An annual celebration to rejoice in the birth of Y’shua upon His return.  You decide, is the Bible inaccurate?

Hebrews 8:5, "They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary; for when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, ‘See that you make everything according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain.’"

Colossians 2:16, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

17 Which are a shadow of things to come…"