Remember the Sabbath Day
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY
by David M.
“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8). Who pays any attention to this command anymore? The answer to this question is that there are indeed some who do remember it. But not necessarily the ones who think they do or who you think are keeping it.
For those who remember, for those who intend to obey the great Creator, this is what He said to do. So then, who is it that remembers and knows how to calculate when His true Sabbath day occurs? Refer to the article, The Creator’s Calendar Portal.
Is Saturday the True Sabbath of Creation
Okay, let’s start out with this most startling fact: Sunday is NOT the Lord’s Day, but neither is Saturday the Sabbath! As it turns out, it isn’t Saturday keepers who remember the Sabbath day or keep it holy. The keeping of Saturday is NOT what the commandment is talking about. Saturday keeping is how men “forget” the Sabbath day. And Saturday is not the seventh day, not when you remember creation and how TIME was determined or what was ordained to rule it.
Then we who intend to keep it holy, how do we successfully do so? Of this, be sure He has not left us ignorant. To truly keep the Sabbath day holy, it must be done in unison with our Creator, or it will be done alone. And strikingly, those doing it alone are not keeping it at all but doing it in vain. In other words, it must be kept on the same day He keeps it, or we have utterly missed the mark. It is not just for mankind to keep “it is the Sabbath of Yahuah,” the Creator of the Universe. This providential information comes to us from the same commandment.
In order to obey the fourth commandment, one must know on which day He intends to meet with you. What could be more obvious? And if you belong to a worship assembly that has forgotten how to know when He is keeping it, you will not be able to “keep” the Sabbath or the fourth commandment. This, no matter how sincere you are or how hard you try, breaks this one commandment, and by default, you “break them all.” Refer to the article, Worship at the East Gate.
Method for Finding Our Creator’s True Sabbath
So, how does one forget the Sabbath day and NOT keep it holy? He does this by forgetting the Creator and His creation and when the Sabbath was made. It is from the Scriptural record that we know on which day Yahuah is keeping His Sabbath. Or did you think it was His intention that we are to be left ignorant or confused as to which day was the Sabbath day?
“It shall be established forever like the moon, even the faithful witness in the sky.” Psalms 89:37
“A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness will utter lies.” Proverbs 14:5
And how do people forget the Creator? We forget Him by forgetting what He created and how He ordained the two great lights to rule and measure time: 1) The sun to rule by day and 2) the moon to rule together with the stars by night. If we forget this and forget the moon and its faithful function, and we will naturally forget the Sabbath. This means you will have no clue when it takes place.
Most who are guilty of this nefarious practice don’t even realize their error. And there are also some, it seems, who would not care to bother themselves over which day it was, the Sabbath day. Keep it on some other day; they don’t mind as long as it conforms to their tradition and worship convenience. It seems they would rather not realize any error they might make. And so they won’t look. For these, the beauty and value of truth have lost their luster. Refer to the article, The East-West Time Continuum.
His Benevolent Creation
But for those willing to have a look, what they see is the creation and the Creator, His moon, the faithful witness, and the lunar Sabbath day, along with how they were forever inextricably interconnected. These are actually what bind mankind to their Creator, and it is not a trivial matter. Creation and its Sabbath blessing are not men’s doing but His. This is not really news or a recent occurrence as if it should surprise; it has always been so.
From the beginning of time, the New Moon and the count to each Sabbath have been there for man, and the corresponding blessing intended has never been changed.
The most that man can do to destroy the three-part harmony of the New Moon, the lunar Sabbath, and its accompanying blessing is to “seek” to change their relationship. It is only by turning your back on Yahuah, the great Creator, that men can “think” to change any aspect of creation so as to forget the Sabbath. They “think” to change times and laws, which in reality, cannot be changed at all. They can only attempt to accomplish what is actually an impossibility for man. But the damage they actually “accomplish” is only in their mind and for the destruction of their eternal reward. They cannot really damage creation or even fool with it but only “think” to do so, which is what inspiration describes as their intention. Refer to the article, The Fourth Day of Creation.
The Count from the New Moon
In the original calendar, which was created in the very beginning and still exists, it was from the New Moon that the Sabbath day was calculated. It still serves this function today. What could be a more faithful timepiece, really? Believe it or not, the Sabbath day has always been determined in this manner. If you want to obey the fourth commandment, you simply count the days from the New Moon day, seven of them. How difficult is this? Yet, it is how it has always been done. Those using some other method, producing their own Sabbath day, a holy day of their own devising, have, in reality, changed nothing. The Sabbath is still the seventh day from the Creator’s New Moon Day.
The seventh day from the New Moon Day is the first Sabbath of every month. And then, with seven more days, you have the second Sabbath day, and so on throughout the lunar month, which always has four Sabbath days in it. Using this method, no one will forget the Sabbath day. Do it some other way; use mankind’s hand-crafted Roman calendar hanging on your wall, for instance, and without fail, you will be forgetting the Sabbath day along with the rest of the world. Refer to the article, From One New Moon to Another.
How to Forget the True Sabbath
Forget creation’s system, and you forget the Sabbath, a violation of the fourth commandment. This is how men fail at it. And you, doing the same as they, will not be able to avoid that same infraction. This, no matter how faithful or strictly you think to “remember it” according to a fraudulent system, will not be correct, and it will not be holy to any degree.
By connecting the Creator’s Sabbath command to man’s, even Rome’s rebellious, witty calendar system. If this is what you have always done, you have indeed been forgetting the Sabbath day to keep it holy. This is just how easily that particular mistake is made.
Yahusha, our Messiah, did not make this mistake, as He always kept the true Sabbath day holy. And so did all His followers in those days, as they came together on the correct day for the Sabbath to worship the Eternal Father, Yahuah Alahim.
How did they avoid making the mistake so common today? Not a difficult question to answer. For in their day, the Roman man-made system of calendation had not yet been enforced upon the Israelites. Although the pagan nations of that day did utilize opposing calendar styles, while faithful, Israel adhered to the correct use of the moon, stars, and sun to rule their sacred times and laws as it had been done since creation. Well, of course, this was the practice of the faithful from the beginning. This is why they did not forget the Sabbath, and by the same token, it is how the Sabbath day is not forgotten today (for those who know how to recognize it). Now you know, too.
But today, the majority of mankind, including “official religious leaders,” have forgotten the Sabbath by forgetting creation and the Creator’s calendar. To what end: The world has utterly forgotten how to keep the Fourth Commandment, the symbol that identifies His true followers. Refer to the article, Constantine’s Easter Controversy with the Faithful Quartodecimen.
The Blind Leading the Blind
If you and your church are depending on the “faithfulness” of Rabbinical Pharisee Jews, the Popes of Rome, Reformers, presumed modern Prophets, or pastors to indicate what day on which the true Sabbath of Creation should fall, you will be just as mistaken as they. As a result, you will be depending on the very ones who were blindly following their leaders, the ones who purposely forgot it.
Since the time when our Messiah walked this Earth, the Jews have forgotten the Sabbath day by forgetting how to calculate it. Might it all be a cover-up to remove themselves far from the guilt of denying their Messiah? History records that in the years following their Roman captivity, they were pressured to give up their entire calendar, including their week and Sabbath. Today, in apparent ignorance of their history, they make the same mistake everybody does; they continue to follow the Roman calendar. This Roman calendar was proactively designed from its inception to be at odds with the Torah Law of the Old Testament and ignore the New Moon Days and lunar Sabbaths of Scripture, a witty invention which is now become convention. This, instead of the Creator’s calendar. Refer to the article, The Constantinian Creed, The Forgotten Foundation of All Christian Churches.
They no longer regard creation and the Creator’s Sabbath, which is the seventh day counted from the New Moon Day (the first day of every lunar month). It is only the original system that remains intact to this very day, which provides a continual invitation to enter in. And as there have always been, there are still men today who find it and are blessed with His presence, which is not an inconsequential blessing.
Substitute Month Divisions
His calendar makes no reference to October or November. For example, while the New Moon indicates the first day of every lunar month, it has nothing to do with man’s substitute month divisions or their names. It is a fact that every reference in Scripture to the “month” is in reference to lunar months. The Creator’s year begins in spring instead of the modern Jewish fall or the Roman winter. The start of man’s months and cycling weeks are meaningless as they are entirely divorced from ALL the great LIGHTS designed and ordained for measuring time by our Creator (Genesis 1:14-16).
Simply said, the Sabbaths are not the same on man’s calendar as they are on His. The Roman man-made calendar was deliberately designed to forget the Creator’s Sabbath days as found in the Torah Law of the Old Testament. As a result, by following it instead of His, you will be in violation of the command to “REMEMBER….” This will cause you to forget to be present on His day when He is present. And there is no Sabbath promise for any other day. Refer to the article, A Great Sign Appeared in the Heavens.
No Proof Saturday is the Seventh-day
It was the Karaite Jews, from which the Seventh-day Adventist Church adopted their crescent New Moon for counting ten days to Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) of October 22, 1844. Today, the Karaite Jews admit they have NO PROOF that Saturday is the Sabbath of Scripture, and they don’t know when the true Seventh-day Sabbath actually occurs anymore.
“Through all the trials and tribulations that humanity has experienced over the past 5,000 years, we have no proof whatsoever that our current Saturday is the actual seven-day “anniversary” of the original Shabbath of Creation.”
But that is only a grain of sand on the seashore of evidence against Saturday being the authentic and original Sabbath of creation and Scripture. If this is true, wouldn’t you want to know so that you may re-align your worship schedule and synchronize your soul temple with that of His? Consider the ancient historical evidence. Can you hear the still, small voice of your Messiah calling you higher in preparation for His RETURN and the Eternal Kingdom government that is based upon the same principles given to earthlings at creation? Refer to the article, The Stunning Historical Evidence.
Calendar Designed to Cause You to Forget
The Roman Gregorian calendar, most popular among the religious and heathen alike, was designed in such a clever way as to cause you to not only forget the Creator’s Sabbath day but also, by following it you are prevented from keeping the true Sabbath holy and receiving the blessing as His true follower. How can you keep it holy if you no longer even remember how to calculate which day it is?
Who is it that can “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy?” Only those who remember their Creator, what He created (sun, moon, and stars) for time-measuring, and how He ordained His full New Moon to measure and rule YEARS, MONTHS, WEEKS, and DAYS along the east-west time continuum. And now that you have this evidence and history as well, you can choose to be included among them, the faithful. Refer to the article, Sabbath’s Consistent Lunar Month Dates.
The Mounting Evidence for the Lunar Sabbath
Support Evidence for the Full New Moon