Why does our annual Service-year starts in September?

[Arcy]

Hello Brothers and Sisters! 

Happy new Service-year to us! 

But since i was a baptized until now, I'm always and still wondering, why our Service-year starts in September? Thank you in advance for your help brothers and sisters! 😊

[New World Explorer]

Because the old one ends on 31 August? LOL .....

 

Welcome to the forum ...hint, please ignore my humorous remarks

Edited September 2, 2019 by New World Explorer

[rbrown1205]

I think there is a hint of an answer in

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1951041?q=service+year&p=par

 

Apparently it was related to the release of the yearbooks in January.  But aren't the yearbooks discontinued now?

 

[jayrtom]

Check this other thread about the same subject

 

[Arcy]

I just tought of it, because, God's have been stablished October 1914, why does the GB choosed the month of September as the start of our service-year instead of october? 

[Arcy]

2 minutes ago, jayrtom said:

Check this other thread about the same subject

 

Thanks bro jayrtom for sharing this thread! I've been searching for this topic here but i couldnt find, so i decided to submit this topic. Thanks a lot brother! 👍😅

[➕👇 ꓤꓱꓷꓠꓵ🎵Tone]

I would like 13 months like the Jewish Calendar. If it was to end in October, I can have more days to get my time in.

Just Older

[Dustparticle]

Even some of your corporations  do the same thing.

 

[Hammerhead]

Sept 1 starts the new fiscal year also I think

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[nzbeeker]

It will be interesting to see what the days of the week and months are renamed in the New World. 

[Ahuvah]

may not have weeks ... we've not always had weeks - initially it was broken up to day such and such of the month such and such going on the lunar month. Not sure when weeks came in ... after Moses I'm thinking if someone can remind me.

[nzbeeker]

That would be interesting, going to a luna calendar

[Ahuvah]

Yeah ... wolves like moons too ay?

[nzbeeker]

Shhhhh, Icewolf is right next to me.

[Ahuvah]

well it's no secret you two are married you know ... i kinda twigged onto that a while ago.

[nzbeeker]

Shhhhh, Icewolf is right 

23 years this year. My profile pic is from our 22nd anniversary 

[Ahuvah]

old fogies.

[nzbeeker]

Yeah, I know ay. Early to bed and on our iPads.

[Ahuvah]

I find laying on beds are more comfortable, Ipads are hard and have this horrible habit of buzzing just when you start to fall to sleep. 

[New World Explorer]

45 minutes ago, nzbeeker said:

It will be interesting to see what the days of the week and months are renamed in the New World. 

Monday ...Donutay

Tuesday ... Twodonutday.... and you know how the rest goes ... LOL

[Ahuvah]

On 9/2/2019 at 6:53 PM, Arcy said:

Hello Brothers and Sisters! 

Happy new Service-year to us! 

But since i was a baptized until now, I'm always and still wondering, why our Service-year starts in September? Thank you in advance for your help brothers and sisters! 😊

Hi there brother Arsenio, how rude of me not to welcome you!! Distractions, distractions, distractions, ... it's lovely to have you here.

3 minutes ago, New World Explorer said:

Monday ...Donutay

Tuesday ... Twodonutday.... and you know how the rest goes ... LOL

Problem is, gluttony will not be a thing - Sunday seven donuts? That would be a sin yes?

[Newtonian]

On ‎9‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 3:38 AM, Arcy said:

I just tought of it, because, God's have been stablished October 1914, why does the GB choosed the month of September as the start of our service-year instead of october? 

There were two Jewish calendars.   We use Jewish calendars - this is how we determine the date of the Memorial which is Nisan 14 on one of these calendars.

 

One of the calendars began in September/October, the other in March/April - see:

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000866#h=8:0-20:418

 

Excerpt:

 

"The chart accompanying this article shows the months in their relation to both the sacred and secular calendars and also their approximate correspondence to the months of our present calendar."

 

Here is a chart of one of these calendars - the one beginning with Nisan (March-April):

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1001061237#h=1:0-59:1

 

Concerning the Jewish calendar beginning in September and the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashana) - 

 

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001435#h=5:0-6:181

 

Excerpt:

 

"Start of Agricultural Year. Whereas Abib (or Nisan) became the first month of the year in the sacred Jewish calendar following the Exodus from Egypt, Ethanim continued to be viewed as the first month in a secular or agricultural sense. With this month, almost all the harvesting had been completed, marking the conclusion of the agricultural year. The early rains that thereafter fell softened the ground for the plowing that would follow and that would denote the initiation of new agricultural operations. Jehovah referred to Ethanim as the turning point of the year when speaking of the festival of ingathering as being “at the outgoing of the year” and “at the turn of the year.” (Ex 23:16; 34:22) It is also notable that it was not in the month of Abib but in this month of Ethanim that the Jubilee year began.—Le 25:8-12.

The later name applied to the month, Tishri, means “Beginning of the Year,” and Tishri 1 is still observed by the Jews as their New Year’s Day or Rosh Hashanah (“Head of the Year”).

[Note: the field is the world!]

[Newtonian]

On ‎9‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 3:36 AM, jayrtom said:

Check this other thread about the same subject

 

Actually, Genesis 8:22 shows the seasons and agriculture will continue on earth forever - and September/October is the beginning of this cycle in an agricultural sense.

 

I doubt we would use a pagan Roman calendar with pagan names for months and days!

 

You all - do you know where the name January comes from?