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Scripture's GPS Identifies the True Sabbath

It's Neither Saturday Nor Sunday



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ust as a GPS unit can accurately pinpoint an exact location on earth by utilizing three or more coordinates from satellites in space, so too, our Heavenly Father's true Sabbath is identified, as the celestial coordinates defined in Scripture are appropriately utilized.

Scholars and Theologians have long been aware that everything connected to the earthly Temple was defined by lunisolar time, as it was a copy of the Heavenly Temple pattern. Exodus 25:40, Exodus 26:30, Acts 7:44, Hebrews 8:5. As a result, the Heavenly Temple that began its three phase work at the cross of Yahushua (Jesus) continues today, as it will into eternity on lunisolar time without skipping a beat, as it was the pattern and original time system. The prophet Isaiah testifies to this, when he records the words of Yahuwah regarding His new Kingdom:

And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD. Isaiah 66:23 NKJV

What is meant by lunisolar time?
Lunisolar time represents all the units of time that are defined according to the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars, as divinely ordained by our Creator. Individual months and weeks that are beaconed by the New Moon are referred to as lunar, but they are also units of a lunisolar year. This article purposes that all the Creator's units of time are according to the same lunisolar measure, including the week and its Sabbath. Genesis 1:14-18, Deut. 25:13-16. Refer to article, "Years are to be Divided by Lunar Months."

There are many definable beliefs that utilize Scriptures GPS principles as set forth in Isaiah 28:13, "precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little." While the terms are manmade summations of the principles that many believe to be taught in Scripture, the terms themselves are no where to be found in the pages from Genesis to Revelation. Some popular examples of this, whether theologically correct or not are: The Trinity, the Millennium, the Investigative Judgment, Friday Crucifixion; Saturday Sabbath, Sunday Resurrection, The Second Coming, Eternal Hell Fire, The Rapture, and Lunisolar time.

In spite of themselves, all theologians must admit at the minimum that the time keeping system of the temple services from the time of Moses through the time of the Messiah was indisputably, lunisolar. Second, it must be pointed out that the pattern originally shown Moses on the mount was none other than the Heavenly Temple, which embodied the lunisolar pattern from its inception. Thirdly, the moment our Saviour and Messiah laid down His life, on the cross of Calvary, His ministrative work in the Heavenly Sanctuary commenced in full swing, with prescriptive power and authority, on lunisolar time, as it had been preordained. While the term "lunisolar" itself appears to be absent from Scripture its principles are taught with the grandest display in Genesis 1:14-18, Exodus 12, 16, and 19, Leviticus 23:1-39, Isaiah 66:23, and Ezekiel 46:1,3. In addition, every place a date can be applied to the seventh-day Sabbath, it always falls on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th of the lunar month.

"In the years following Clement of Alexandria's time, an ominous change started to take place that was to radically change the Christian concept of the Sabbath." Records the Encyclopedia Biblica: "This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom -- without paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the lunisolar month) . . . so that the New Moon no longer coincided with the first day of the month. Then, on page 4179 of the same encyclopedia, we read: "The introduction . . .of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon's phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath. . . Encyclopaedia Biblica, 1903 p. 5290.

The time principles of lunisolar calendation are generally embraced in regard to the twelve and thirteen lunar months being harmonized with the solar year over a 19 year period. However, tradition and modern calendar preconditioning with its unbroken cycling week, has caused many to not so readily agree that the lunar month itself, was originally divided into still smaller units of time- three distinctly different kinds of days, as well as lunar weeks with their inherent two kinds of days, work days and Sabbath. This resistance to accepting that the lunar months are to be divided into smaller units of lunar time, has caused these very ones to ask for an "it is written" or a "thus saith Yahuwah," that indeed the term lunar week or lunar Sabbath be sited directly in Scripture. This is a prerequisite not requirement for many of their currently held beliefs as previously sited.

The lunar Sabbath principles are displayed in multiple ways and places throughout Scripture following the very same methodology as used for establishing the Millennium, the Second Coming, and lunisolar time itself, etc. Yet, the unbelieving continue to want more proof. If all their conditions were met these naysayers would still not believe, because they have chosen to remain in one accord with the Vatican with each rhythmic step, and with the whole world who "wonder after this beast power."

How can we know the lunisolar time keeping did not end at the cross?
We can know with certainty, because our Saviour had to die according to its precise time system. Not only did He die on lunisolar time, He also resurrected and ascended according to lunisolar time. This is verified in the lunisolar feasts He fulfilled precisely (Passover, First Fruits, and Pentecost). If He hadn't died and resurrected according to this preordained time system unerringly, the evidence would expose Him as an imposter. In addition, just as His law of love was not to end at the cross, neither was the lunisolar time system. For it was at the cross that His law and lunisolar time system were glorified with prescriptive power and authority, for the purpose of commencing with Him in is work above in the Heavenly Temple.

For where there is no law there is no sin. Restoring sinners back to our Heavenly Father is the prioritized work of our Saviour. The Saviour's ministry only just begun at the cross as the Lamb, changed at His ascension to be our High Priest in the Heavenly Temple above, not made with hands. It cannot be forgotten that the Heavenly Temple and its system was the original pattern shown to Moses, to copy. Therefore our Saviour today continues to minister on our behalf before His Father, claiming His blood to cover our sins as we pray and confess to Him, all on lunisolar time. Are you aware the 1844, seventh month movement, was entirely based upon lunisolar principles?
Refer to article, "The Twelve Criteria of the True Crucifixion Date."

Creators Calendar
Click on image above or enlarge it to see how the each feast is locked to the Sabbath.


How can we know the Sabbath was lunar and has never ended?
There are many ways we can know with certainty the Sabbath is counted from the New Moon, but here we will discuss only three as beaconed by Scripture's GPS.

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #1
In addition to days and years, the signs and seasons are also counted from New Moons on lunisolar time. According to Scripture, the Creator prepared His calendar prior to creating Adam and Eve, by appointing the sun, moon and stars to rule (measure time) for signs (Sabbaths), seasons (months), days and years during the fourth day of creation. All they had to do was to look up into the starry heavens for the first visible crescent moon to commence the monthly count of dates and monthly count of weeks.

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years . . . Genesis 1:14 NKJV

Strong #

Bible Version   NKJV

Hebrew

Strong's Hebrew Definitions

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Definitions

226

signs

'owth

a sign; a flag; a beacon; evidence; mark; token;

a sign; a signal; a distinguishing mark; a banner; remembrance; standard; ensign; a proof ;

4150

seasons

mo-ade'

moed`

an appointment; specifically a festival; an assembly; technically the congregation; a signal; an appointed fixed time;

an appointed time; an appointed place; a appointed meeting; a set feast; an appointed sign or signal;

3117

days

yowm

from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day; sunrise to sunset; sunset to sunset;

day; time; year; a day (as opposed to night); a working day; today; yesterday; tomorrow;

8141

years

shaneh

a year; a revolution of time;

a year; a division of time; a measure of time;

2320

new moon

chodesh

the new moon; by implication, a month: monthly, new moon.

the new moon, month, monthly;

  1. the first day of the month;
  2. the lunar month

At first glance above, it may appear that the "seasons" (mo-ade` #4150) reference only festival appointments, or congregational assemblies. However, notice in the Strong's Bible Dictionary and B-D-B, it is also identified as both a signal and an appointment in fixed time. So of what might it be a signal of, and what time might it be fixed to? Amazingly, both questions can be answered with one answer: the common denominator is lunar time as defined by the moon. This is verified in Psalms 104:19.

He appointed the moons for seasons (#4150 mo-ade`). . . Psalms 104:19

What becomes apparent from the Hebrew definitions above in connection with the Scripture verses below, is that the seventh-day Sabbath is indeed also a "sign." The implication of this is that the Sabbath, which punctuates the seven-day week of creation, is after all, reckoned by numbering from New Moon day, making it a lunar Sabbath. In contrast there is no mention in Genesis, or anywhere else in Scripture that the Sabbath is reckoned by an unbroken-cycle-of-weeks since creation, wholly disconnected from the Creator's principles that rule in the heavens (Genesis 1:14).

Notice it is the heavenly Father speaking. He is the one who preordained the Sabbath to be "a sign." Is it conceivable that the "signs" referred to in Genesis 1:14, and associated with days and years, may be eternally linked to "the week" ending with a "Sabbath?"

Moreover I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign (#226 owth) between them and Me, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes; they despised my judgments, which, if a man does, he shall live by them; and they greatly defiled My Sabbaths. Ezekiel 20:12-13 NKJV

I am the Lord your God: Walk in My statutes, keep My judgments, and do them; hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign (#226 owth) between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God. Ezekiel 20:19-20 NKJV

They also who dwell in the farthest parts are afraid of Your signs (#226 owth); you make the outgoings of the morning and evening rejoice. Psalms 65:88 NKJV

Your enemies roar in the midst of Your meeting place; they set up their banners (counterfeit wall calendars with continuous weekly cycles) for signs (#226 owth). Psalms 74:4

We do not see our signs (#226 owth); there is no longer any prophet; nor is there any among us who knows time (#5704 `ad). Psalms 74:9

Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs (#226 owth), of heaven (#8064 shamayim - revolving celestial bodies) for the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are futile . . . Jeremiah 10:2-3 NKJV


In the final analysis of Genesis 1:14, a more correct translation would read:

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for lunar Sabbaths and lunar months, and for days and lunisolar years . . . Genesis 1:14

Is it possible that in the heavenly Father's great wisdom, these terms were encoded on purpose and connected to clues that would later be found?

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #2
This second GPS coordinate is found in Leviticus 23, which reveals the appointed holy feast dates are permanently fixed to seventh-day Sabbaths. Whether you believe the feasts are to be kept, and are binding today or not, is not the focus of this article. Rather, the purpose is to illustrate the timing of the Levitical feasts reveal the timing of the true and holy seventh-day Sabbath, and expose the cycling imposter.

Each and every time the lunisolar monthly feast dates are given, it is also illustrated their direct relation to the true seventh-day Sabbath. So, in the same way the feast days are locked to specific lunar monthly dates as counted from the New Moon, so too are the seventh-day Sabbaths fixed in time to lunar dates. As a result, the feast days are forever locked together in time to the true seventh-day Sabbaths.

This chapter in Leviticus overtly illustrates that the true Sabbaths and their weeks are consistently linked with the lunisolar feast dates, so as they cannot be separated one from another. This can only occur consistently, if the Sabbath is also counted from the New Moon as are each of the holy appointed feast dates. Case in point, just as a GPS unit can accurately pinpoint an exact location on earth by utilizing three or more celestial coordinates, so too, can our Heavenly Father's true Sabbath be identified, as the coordinates given in Scripture are appropriately utilized. These coordinates include: the sun, the New Moon, the stars, the lunar monthly feast dates, the numbered days of the week, making 5 actual coordinates in all. Refer to the image above often as you review each feast.

  • Feast of Passover, the 14th of Abib is always to be one day prior to seventh-day Sabbath, the 15th of Abib, each and every year. As a result the Sabbath is lunar, because it is shown to be fastened tightly to the dates counted from the New Moon.

  • Feast of Unleavened Bread commences on the Sabbath the 15th of Abib, each and every year. As a result the Sabbath is lunar, because it is shown to be fastened securely to the same date as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is counted from the New Moon. A second witness is that the first day of Unleavened Bread is also called a High Sabbath, for the very reason it is both a feast day and a seventh-day Sabbath.

  • Feast of First Fruits occurs on the 16th of Abib, the first day of the week, each and every year. As a result the Sabbath is lunar, because it is shown to be fixed firmly to the day prior to the Feast of First Fruits, as counted from the New Moon.

  • Feast of Pentecost is counted from the 16th of Abib, the day after the Sabbath, which was counted from New Moon. It is made up of seven whole Sabbath’s complete. As a result the Sabbath is lunar, because it is shown to be fixed securely to the dates counted from the New Moon, the 1st and 16th day of Abib.

  • Feast of Trumpets is located on New Moon day, the first day of the seventh month. Because of the dates sited for Feast of Tabernacles below, as they are connected to the seventh-day Sabbath, all of the Sabbaths for the seventh lunar month are located on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th, and are counted from Feast of Trumpets (New Moon day).

  • Feast Day of Atonement is counted from the Feast of Trumpets (New Moon day) and is located on the 10th day of the seventh month. But to establish how it is related to the seventh-day Sabbaths for the month, we must look at the Feast of Tabernacles, as it consistently commences on the seventh-day Sabbath of the 15th. As a result the Day of Atonement occurs five days earlier on the second day of the second week, two days after Sabbath the 8th, and five days prior to Sabbath the 15th.

  • Feast of Tabernacles commences on the 15th of the seventh month as counted from the New Moon and ends on the 21st day. Because the first day of this festival begins on a seventh-day Sabbath, it is also a High Sabbath. By clarifying that the day following the seven day feast (the eighth day) was also a seventh-day Sabbath (holy convocation), Yahuwah punctuated that His ordained week and seventh-day Sabbath are reckoned by His sacred and holy lunisolar calendar system. As a result the holy seventh-day Sabbath is “lunar,” as it can only be found by counting from the New Moon. This evidence is illustrated by the Sabbaths being securely fixed to the lunar feast dates, which are counted from the New Moon.

  • This is demonstrated and clarified by this full week festival being “fixed” simultaneously to both the date of the lunisolar month, as well as to the specific days of the week, each and every year. This Feast of Tabernacles can not be located correctly on any other form of calendar other than the calendar of Divine origin, because the date is counted from the New Moon. What does that say about the true Sabbath of Scripture? Likewise, the true Sabbath can only be found by using the appointed coordinates established at Creation— the sun, moon, and stars (Genesis 1:14), including the lunar feast dates and the week days.

    It is from this appointed feast that the Sabbaths are found for the entire seventh lunar month, making it possible to show the relation of the seventh-day Sabbath to the Feast of Trumpets (New Moon day) and the Feast Day of Atonement.

    Each of the feast days on earth were divinely designed rehearsals of prophetic proportions, pinpointing our Saviour’s true ministerial commencement on behalf of the true Temple in Heaven, which began right on time according to the preordained lunisolar appointed feasts.

    The fact that this did occur at the precise appointed time is our greatest evidence that Yahushua (Jesus) was indeed the true Messiah. This occurred precisely on time, to the very day, Passover, Abib 14, A.D. 31. Heaven’s lunisolar time system continues today, as our High Priest continues within its courts to intercede for sinners and bestow His Father’s forgiveness to all those who humbly confess.

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #3
The Scripture's defined week contains two kinds of days, while the lunar month contains three kinds of days.

Thus says the Lord God: "The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the day of the New Moon it shall be opened. Ezekiel 46:1 NKJV

1) East gate is shut six working days.
2) East gate is open on the Sabbath.
3) East gate is open on New Moon day.

The Evidence Revealed in this verse:
  • Two kinds of days make up the Biblical week - • work days and • Sabbaths.

  • Three kinds of days make up a Biblical month - • New Moon days, • work days and • Sabbaths.

  • The east gate is opened for worship on both New Moon days and Sabbath days.

  • The east gate is shut and excludes worship on work days.

  • Sabbath days and work days never overlap.

  • New Moon days and work days never overlap.

  • New Moon days and Sabbaths never overlap, as they were divinely designed as distinct kinds of days.

  • Therefore, the New Moon day, occurring once each month is never a work day or a seventh-day Sabbath.

  • However, by its very existence, the New Moon day breaks the cycle of work days and Sabbath days, each lunar month.

  • It is impossible for the Creator's weeks to have cycled without end since creation, for the mere fact that there are three kinds of days and not just two, as all have previously believed.

  • Cycling weeks cannot remain unbroken for 6,000 years, 6 months, or 6 weeks, for the very reason that the New Moon day exists and continues to stand as a beacon of time, breaking the week cycle each and every month. All units of time are heralded by the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars, the great principles that rule in the heavens. These alone bear the signature of the Creator.
    Refer to article, "A Case for the Lunar Sabbath: Rebuttal to Angel Rodriguez."

Cumulative Evidence from Each of Scripture's GPS Coordinates

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #1 Evidence
In addition to days and years, signs and seasons are also counted from New Moons on lunisolar time:
  1. The term “seasons” as found in Genesis 1:14 is discovered to mean “appointed fixed time, and signal.”

  2. Next it is discovered in Psalms 104:19 that, “Yahuwah appointed the moons for seasons.” This means that appointed fixed time is defined by the moon as they are counted from the New Moon. So without using the term “lunar month,” Psalms 104:19 defines the purpose of the term “seasons” in Genesis 1:14, leaving NO room for any kind of month in Scripture that is not lunar, with all monthly dates counted from the New Moon.

  3. The Sabbath is established to be a “sign” in multiple Scripture verses. Ezekiel 20:12-13; Ezekiel 20:19-20; Psalms 65:88; Psalms 74:4, 9; Jeremiah 10:2-3.

  4. The lights referred to in Genesis 1:14 are specifically shown and understood to be the sun, the moon and the stars. All the Creator’s time units are to be legislated by their three part orchestration. This is the ultimate test for knowing we are at this late day either in harmony with or out of harmony with our Creator’s universal time system. It is this three part orchestration that is referred to as lunisolar time.

  5. Weekly Sabbath “signs” are included as a unit of time in Genesis 1:14 and are beaconed by lunisolar time, which is established by the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years . . . Genesis 1:14 NKJV

      A more precise and relevant rendering of Genesis 1:14 might look something like this:

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for lunar Sabbaths and lunar months, and for lunisolar days and lunisolar years . . . Genesis 1:14

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #2 Evidence
Appointed lunar feast dates are permanently fixed to Seventh-Day Sabbaths.
  1. It is illustrated via the seven appointed annual feasts that each of them are counted from the New Moon. This is most clearly observed in the Seventh Month count from Feast of Trumpets, located on New Moon day, to the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, located on the 15th day of the lunar month.

  2. Next it is illustrated by each of the appointed annual feasts that in every case they are permanently fixed to the rhythm and timing of the seventh-day Sabbaths, in their respective months.

  3. It is discovered the appointed lunar feasts were divinely placed according to two criteria. This is displayed by the monthly date count from the New Moon, and their relation to a specific day of the week. This automatically fixes the cycle of weeks to the count from the New Moon. Therefore the week is forever locked to the lunar date count from New Moon. Seven times in Leviticus 23 this is illustrated, not once, or three times, but seven times so that this point would not be overlooked. In addition, this was to be the same placement each and every year, with no variation.

  4. The true Sabbath can only be found by the same precise method on which the appointed annual feasts days are found. They must all be counted from the New Moon, making the dates for the Sabbath consistently fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each lunar month.

  5. In A.D. 31, the crucifixion, rest in the tomb, and resurrection of our Messiah and Saviour met the requirement of the Levitical laws of Passover the 14th, Unleavened Bread the 15th (a high Sabbath), and the Feast of First Fruits, the 16th. At the time of the crucifixion the Sabbath fell on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each and every month, just as it had since the time of Moses and Creation. As a "nail in a sure place" by His death and resurrection, we have confirmation that indeed lunisolar time is the time system of both the earthly and Heavenly Temple services and that the dates of the lunar month continue to this day to be fixed permanently to specific days of the week, thus making the Sabbath lunar.

Scripture's GPS Coordinate #3 Evidence
Scripture's divinely ordained week contains two kinds of days, while Scripture's divinely ordained lunar month contains three kinds of days.

1) East gate is shut six working days.
2) East gate is open on the Sabbath.
3) East gate is open on New Moon day.
  1. Scripture's week is made up of two kinds of days, six work days and one Sabbath.

  2. Scripture's lunar month is made up of thee kinds of days, work days, Sabbaths and one New Moon day. This New Moon day stands in first position followed by six work days and then the seventh-day Sabbath. There are four cycling weeks in each lunar month. This pattern repeats within the confines of each lunar month. The fixed relation of the lunar month with the week, as both are counted from New Moon days, is verified in Isaiah 66:23.

  3. And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the LORD. Isaiah 66:23 NKJV

  4. It is impossible for the Creator's weeks to have cycled with out end since creation, for the mere fact that there are three kinds of days in any given lunar month, automatically breaking the cycle of the week made only of two kinds of days, with its work days and Sabbath.

  5. The parameters of the east gate being open on New Moon days and Sabbaths, and shut on work days eliminates all possibilities for there to exist an unbroken cycling week with a Sabbath of divine origin. This is self evident by referring to any modern Roman calendar. It will show that the New Moon is most often located on a work day of its cycling week. But according to Scripture the east gate cannot be both open and shut simultaneously. Ezekiel records the true standard of Yahuwah. Any week and month that do not fit this standard are imposters.

  6. Cycling weeks cannot remain unbroken for 6,000 years, 6 months, or 6 weeks, for the very reason that the New Moon day exists and continues to stand as a beacon of time, breaking the week cycle each and every month. All units of time are heralded by the three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars, the great principles that rule in the heavens. These alone bear the signature of the Creator.

But what about the modern calendar we keep with its cycling week?
Sunday, is only the first day of the modern cycling week because Rome devised an extra Biblical calendar and named the first day of their independent calendar week, Sunday. In like manner, Saturday is the seventh day of Rome's independent calendar and is utterly disconnected by design to the original Biblical and Hebrew time system of the three part orchestration of sun, moon and stars.


So what is meant by an independent calendar?
Calendation was originally given to mankind at creation and divinely designed for the purpose of worshiping the Creator exclusively, on His sacred appointed days in harmony with all heaven and the unfallen worlds. Calendation has always been about worship. In contrast to being dependant on the laws and benevolent love of our Heavenly Father, Creator and Redeemer, ancient mankind devised calendars to disassociate themselves from Him and His requirements, and in so doing declared their independence.

Neither the modern Roman Gregorian nor the early Julian calendar were the first calendars to be crafted by man for the purpose of disassociating from the "times and laws" of our heavenly Father. We refer to the early independent calendars as pagan. Interestingly, history bears out that the early pagan calendars continued to be connected in some way to the lunar phases. However, both of Rome's calendars were crafted to utilize only the sun and NOT the moon. In this way they followed in the footsteps of Egypt, the first pagan calendar to disassociate altogether from the divine three part orchestration of the sun, moon and stars, explicitly given at creation.

To change the calendar of our Creator is a deliberate attack on His authority and reserved right to be worshipped. It is also blatant idolatry, as it is a public admission to worshiping other gods. By default, anyone who willfully follows an independent pagan calendar for days, weeks, months and years, and holy days (holidays), is in reality breaking all of the first Four Commandments.

Refer to article, "Amazing Evidence from Antiquity."

In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Cæsar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to advise him about the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided that the only practical step was to abandon the lunar calendar altogether. Months must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year used, as in the Egyptian calendar. "The Julian Calendar," Encyclopedia Britannica.
Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Hodesh), both periodically recur in the course of the year. The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410.

The Hebrew seven-day week, ending with the Sabbath, did not, of course, originate in Babylonia. The Sabbath day -- both Hebrew and Babylonian -- originated with the creation week and was transmitted down through the flood to Babylonia where Abraham was born. "The celebration of new-moon and full-moon festivals," remarks Hutton Webster, "which both Babylonians and Hebrews appear to have derived from a common Semitic antiquity, underwent, in fact, a radically unlike evolution among the two kindred peoples." "To dissever the week from the lunar month," continues Webster, "to employ it as a recognized calendrical unit, and to fix upon one day of that week for the exercises of religion were momentous innovations, which, until evidence to the contrary is found, must be attributed to the Hebrew people alone. Rest Days, p.254.

If you have been taught that only pagan calendars utilized the New Moon in their count of days, weeks, months and years, you have been deceived. The Bible speaks of the New Moon or lunar months nearly 300 times, which is twice as often as it speaks of the seventh-day Sabbath. While it is true that the pagans worshipped the sun, moon and stars, in place of their Creator, no one today thinks to exclude the sun as having a prescribed role in calendation. Yet, the use of the moon and stars for calendation, have been wholly abolished by Bible believers, under the pretext of paganism. How can this be?

It was our Creator who placed the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens at creation to define His times upon earth, as His ordained universal clock calendar. It is only as these three working together that we can find any of His holy days. All three time pieces were given that mankind could rightly divide the day from the night as well as define the four basic units of time, His weeks, His months, His days and His years. By design it is the only prescribed method to locating the true seventh-day Sabbath.

Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; Gen 1:14 NKJV

The call out of Babylon will continue until our Saviour's return. He is now calling His faithful out of false calendation, that they may worship Him alone, in spirit and truth, in preparation for a heavenly home. Would you like to be counted among the number who keep all His Ten Commandments, by worshiping the Creator and Redeemer according to His appointed calendar in the heavens?

When a man or woman is honestly mistaken and they hear the truth,

They will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest ~


Richard Humpal


May Yahuwah continue to bless you as you diligently seek Him.

Kerrie L. French
Freelance writer/Illustrator
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