The Celestial Clock Establishes the Hebrew Calendar
To clarify,
when we use celestial clock calculations (CCC) to arrive at a date for Passover, or any other date, such as the underlying Hebrew calendar date of the 17th day of the 2nd month for May 21, 2011. We are NOT throwing the Hebrew calendar away. Or diminishing the Hebrew calendar in any way.
What we are doing is establishing the ACCURATE Hebrew calendar date for Passover, or for the feast of tabernacles, or for the 17th day of the 2nd month.
The CCC establishes the true dates by which the Hebrew feast days are to be observed.
The Hebrew calendar calculated and maintained by rabbis, etc., is often correct but sometimes incorrect. Therefore, it is not to be trusted.
This is an important distinction – I am not saying we do not trust the Hebrew calendar in which God has established His feast days; but we distrust the keepers of that calendar (the Hebrew calendar converter sites which are governed by man-made rabbinical rules).
When we use the CCC to confirm that May 21, 2011 was indeed the 17th day of the 2nd Hebrew month, we are establishing the true and accurate Hebrew calendar date.
It so happens that the Jewish calendar converter sites and the rabbis agree with that particular date. That's fine. But they did NOT establish that date at all. And Mr. Camping's conclusion that it was the 17th day of the 2nd Hebrew month, thus agreeing with the date the flood began in the days of Noah, was not a result of, nor dependent upon, what the Hebrew calendars caretakers determined.
In other words, if the Hebrew calendar sites and the rabbis had established that May 23rd was the 17th day of the 2nd month in the year 2011, Mr. Camping still would have concluded that the true and accurate date for the 17th day of the 2nd Hebrew month in 2011 was May 21.
Again, the celestial clock is the final authority. The celestial clock establishes correct dates for the true and accurate Hebrew calendar. Not the rabbis and their rules.