MY NEW DISCOVERY – Testimony of David M.
My New Discovery
Testimony of David M.
It has recently occurred to me that I have lived a large portion of my life and have never kept a Biblical Feast Day. Now I find out that neither have I kept a real Sabbath day, except once in a while, by accident, of all things. All this time, I had considered myself in compliance. But now I discover that I have yet to keep my first Sabbath day. And this while all my life I thought I was among Sabbath-keepers. What a surprise, what a discovery! Earth-shaking, actually!
Another Day
What I discovered was “another day,” of all things. One which I had never noticed. I had always known of workdays and Sabbath days, of course, and these were the only kinds of days that had ever come across my purview or entered into my field of vision. But then, opening my Bible a couple of days ago, there it was. Yahuah Alahim (H#3068 – YHUH), no less. He was the one speaking there. Along with Sabbath days and work days, He spoke of another day He called “the New Moon.” Ezekiel 46:1. To say the least, this was a new day for me, one that I had never noticed. What would it mean?
Not Two Kinds of Days Now, but Three and even Four
Now, this was according to Yahuah Alahim Himself. It came not from man, prophet, or great teacher. There were three kinds of days identified. Not just two, as I had always thought. Just as the Sabbath day would not occur at the same time as a workday, neither would the New Moon do that. In other words, the days would not be simultaneous, none of them. Each one had its own day or “twelve hours,” as indicated by the Messiah (John 11:9). And no day would share its time with another. Each one of the three was to be treated separately from the others. The East Gate, for instance, was to be open on the Sabbath, closed on the six workdays, and opened again on the New Moon day. There is no evidence in Scripture that these three different days would “overlap” with each other, but on the contrary, they were to stand alone as unique. Each day is treated separately, on its own, from the others. What would this mean?
Also, strikingly, six times a year, the lunar month has an additional day that completes a 30-day month. This is the fourth kind of day that is NEVER included among the seven-day week count but is only counted in the completion of the 30-day months and years. Some folks call this a “no day,” which is a false explanation for FIVE reasons:
- The 30th civil calendar date of the lunar month contains exactly the same number of hours as the day previous to it and the day following it.
- It is a full 24 hour day/night cycle that is beaconed by the moon with its own lunar phase, counted to complete the 30 day lunar month. Mankind can lay no claim to the unique lunar demarcation of 29 or 30 day months.
- As a full lunar appointed day/night cycle, it is counted to complete an entire astro-luni-solar YEAR, which contains an average of six 29 day months and six 30 day months.
- Both the lunar months and the astro-luni-solar years would be short if this 30th day were not counted. Six of the lunar months each year would be short a day, and the year would be short six days. Thus, this fourth kind of day cannot under any circumstances be called a “no day,” as it is entirely necessary to be counted to complete the lunar months and years with accuracy.
- The motivation to call the 30th day of the lunar month a “no day” comes from those who are living under the delusion of the Pope, false Prophet, Reformer, Rabbi, or Pastor, who has determined Saturday as the seventh-day in accordance with the Roman crafted calendar with a continuous week paradigm.
Yahuah Alahim’s Economy
This would mean that Yahuah Alahim had an economy that was unknown to me. And quite unlike mine. Both economies had days and weeks, months, and years, but the weekly cycle in which I existed was nothing like His. The most obvious difference is that while His economy included “New Moon days,” mine did not. What could be more obvious? Indeed, what could be more different? So then, whose was best, His or mine? Mine came from man, given me without another option, while His had another origin, it was divine. With New Moon days in His and not in mine, how would this represent any real or significant change? And if it would represent a difference, how significant would it be?
A Revolving Unending Week Cycle
If New Moon days actually exist, this would represent a serious change from the revolving, unending cycle of seven-day weeks to which the world has now so recently become accustomed. It would mean that the weeks were regularly separated by days that Yahuah Alahim calls the “New Moon day” once each month. And it would be from these days that we get the start of months (which should not surprise anyone). What did surprise me was that the discovery of these new days would mean that in His economy, the seven-day cycle was not without interruption. In other words, it had a specific start and would not revolve unendingly throughout the months and years, as I was taught and always thought it should. There would be at least twelve New Moon days in a year (obviously) and also another, as necessary, to complete an entire year. Man has his own ways of measuring time to make his system come out “right.” But man’s ways are not His ways, in case you had not noticed.
Keeping Sabbath by Accident
This meant that while I had been obedient to keep what I thought was Sabbath, it had only now and then been so, and entirely by accident. It was only a real Sabbath when Saturday fell on one of His lunar Sabbath days in His astro-luni-solar economy. Do I need to point out that man’s solar economy cannot produce a real Sabbath? And since my system had no New Moon days, His Sabbaths and mine would only coincide periodically and by accident. What a surprise!
The Sabbath of the Messiah’s Day
This meant that the Sabbath our Messiah observed did not occur as it now seems to, by those like me who knew no better. In the system popularized and familiar to the modern world, the Saturday Sabbath days occur on a completely different time rhythm than that of YAHUAH’S pre-ordained time-measuring model. This, to say the least, was stunning. I now plan to observe my first real Sabbath today. It will happen on what the world calls Monday, June 27, 2016. How do I know this? By counting it from the start of the month or by the full New Moon. What could be more obvious? This is how He does it. What will this mean, and how do I think it will be different from what I have always done?
The True Sabbath
This means there really is a true Sabbath (rest). And more, it means there really is a Kingdom. More still, it means there is a Kingdom economy, which is to provide for man. It is not the churches or governments that provide for man’s needs, including more than the spiritual, but also for the physical. It all comes from Him, not from man or from any of his false systems or traditions.
The Eternal Future?
Not just for the last six thousand years but into the future, His Kingdom and economy will continue to deliver. This is not from me, here it is from Him:
“And it shall come to pass, that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says YAHUAH.” Isaiah 66:23
“Thus declares the Almighty YAHUAH, ‘the GATE of the courtyard interior facing the EAST shall be SHUT six days for work, and in the day of the SABBATH it shall be thrown open wide, and in the day of the New Moon it shall be thrown open wide. But come unto the exalted one, by way of the porch of the temple gate from without, and stand beside the doorpost of the GATE and observe the Kohenim’s (Priests) symbolic first and last burnt offering and symbolic first and last peace offering. And you shall prostrate in worship upon the threshold of the open GATE, coming and going at any time, but the GATE shall not be shut until sunset.’ And thus worshiped the people of the land at the entrance way of the same GATE in the SABBATHS and in the NEW MOON DAYS before the face of YAHUAH.” Ezekiel 46:1-3
Man is to assemble to worship YHUH (YAHUAH) Alahim not only on Sabbath days but also on New Moon days, “From one New Moon to another.” How would you like to be among them? Those who accept and learn to do it now will find it natural to do it in the future as well. Or do you think the present system that man has recently put in place should work just as well and should really be preferred because it is more convenient?
