Number All Sacred Days – 1 Chronicles 23:30-32
Number All Sacred Days
from the Same Lunar Measure
In this interlinear Hebrew word study, it is demonstrated that mankind is commanded to take a stand to establish “SUNRISE” as the commencement of the “day, rather than the traditional Yahudim (Jewish) sunset to sunset or Roman midnight to midnight.” In addition, Yahuah is calling His obedient believers to restore all of His units of time. He defines how this is to be accomplished. We are to “NUMBER” the days of the lunar months, the Sabbaths, and the other fixed appointed Feast Days according to the unique yet unparalleled lunar phase demarcation that begins with the full moon as the start of lunar months.
As a nail in a sure place, neither Saturday nor Sunday is Kadosh (sacred and set-apart) days to the Eternal Father according to the rhythm of His marvelous LIGHTS He ordained at creation. By extension, the modern Roman Gregorian calendar, with its unbroken chains of weeks that have purportedly cycled without end since creation, is once again exposed as artificial fruit of a spurious calendar model that cannot be consistently numbered from any of the three luminaries (sun, moon, and stars) in the shamayim (heavens).
Sunrise to Sunset – The Parameters of the “Day”
“AND TO ESTABLISH SUNRISE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE DAY to extend hands in thanksgiving and to give praise unto YAHUAH, AND THEN AFTERWARD FOR SUNSET.” 1 Chronicles 23:30
Verse 30 defines the parameters of the “day” according to our Eternal Father, Yahuah. In this profound narrative, we are exhorted to establish the commencement of the “day” as beginning with SUNRISE. This we are asked to do while the whole world, in opposition, adheres to and defends man-made traditions, beginning their days either at midnight with the Romans or sunset with the Pharisee Yahudim (Jews). We are also to acknowledge that we believe and follow this by extending hands in thanksgiving and praise to Yahuah at SUNRISE and then secondly, at SUNSET, the close of the day.
The night is the interim between two daylights, but the night is also the second half of a lunar, civil calendar date. Therefore, the DAY/NIGHT cycle begins at SUNRISE according to this and many other Scripture verses such as Genesis 1:14-16; Lamentations 3:23; Psalms 113:3; Genesis 8:22; Malachi 1:11; Psalms 110:3; Psalms 50:1-2; John 11:9.
This revelation is in sharp contrast to the current tradition of both Jews and other Saturday Sabbatarians.
Those who hold to the Rabbinical Pharisee tradition that Genesis chapter 1 begins each day with the darkness of “evening” have not been rightly dividing the word of truth. For years, I was part of this multitude who blindly ignored several facts: 1) The creation of LIGHT was the first thing created; 2) It was only the LIGHT that was called DAY; 3) Each of the six days of creation occurred during the LIGHT that was called DAY; 4) In the aftermath of each DAY of creation the following words were given, “and the evening and the morning were the first day, second day, etc.” But more perfectly, the Hebrew text is rendered as “and then followed dusk, and then followed dawn, the first day.” So in this way, a complete day/night cycle begins with sunrise, when all the works of creation were accomplished, then followed by dusk, and then followed by dawn, the first day, ending at the next sunrise. Refer to the article/study: A Day in Genesis.
Number according to the Ordained Measure
“And for ALL the sacrifices to YAHUAH: FOR THE SABBATHS; FOR THE NEW MOONS; AND FOR THE SPECIFIC COMMEMORATIVE LUNAR APPOINTED DATES, ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE ALAHIM COMMANDED THEM, PERPETUALLY BEFORE THE FACE OF YAHUAH.” 1 Chronicles 23:31
Verse 31 begins with another exhortation to exalt and restore the timing of Yahuah’s three additional units of time, specifically His Sabbaths, His lunar months, and all His ordained annual Feast Days. But how can this be done? What are the standards that define each? Remarkably, it is a single remedy that restores each of these units of time. This remedy for the lost Sabbaths, New Moons and their lunar months, and set-apart feast days is to be accomplished by “numbering” them according to the “elliptical perpetual measure of the moon.” Shocking as this may be, “the week” with its seventh-day Sabbath was ordained at creation to be fixed permanently to the same numbering count as that of the month. As a result, the seventh-day Sabbaths by divine design were eternally fixed to the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th civil calendar dates, each and every lunar month.
Ever since Constantine legislated in A.D. 324 his new “seven-day week” with its continuous-weekly cycle and appointed Sunday as the sacred day, the whole world has been deceived by His dual craftiness and led to forget the Creator’s true calendation.
Shortly afterward, in A.D. 358, Sanhedrin Patriarch Hillel II, motivated by the onslaught of continued Jewish persecution, determined to provide an authorized mathematically-based calendar for all time to come that would be in harmony with Rome. By so doing, he severed the ties that united the Jews of the Diaspora to their historical Scriptural roots and to the Patriarchate. It is recorded that Rome’s unbroken-cycle-of-weeks of seven days was adopted at a clandestine and maybe final meeting of the Sanhedrin in A.D. 358, marking the last universal decision made by that body. Thus the Jews swapped the Biblical lunar Sabbaths for the popularized Roman continuous weekly cycle, causing her Sabbaths to no longer be in sync with the New Moons and all other sacred and set-apart feast days.
The present Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, Letter by Louis Finkelstein to Dr. L. E. Froom, Feb. 20, 1939. Regarding the present Jewish calendar.
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 (early) Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moon’s course. Rest Days, p. 254-255 by Hutton Webster
The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites . . . The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136.
These . . . eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, ‘the star of the Sabbath.’ It was not until the first century of our era, when the planetary week had become an established institution, that the Jewish Sabbath seems always to have corresponded to Saturn’s Day [Saturday]. Rest Days, p.244 by Hutton Webster
Blindly, all the modern world “has wandered after the beast,” and this by believing either Rome’s lie that Sunday is sacred or the Roman/Jewish lie that Saturday is the true Sabbath of the Creator and the Torah Law (Revelation 13:3).
But we can have confidence, as the light from above is brilliantly shining to dispel the darkness of error at such a critical hour. Scripture after scripture and verse after verse is being revealed and restored from the rubble of being entirely lost in translation. On the wings of two or three witnesses, they testify to the truth and unravel the lies. It is discovered that Bible scholars for the past 1600 years have all bought into Rome’s calculated dual deception, either in part or as a whole. Sunday keepers have swallowed it whole, while Saturday keepers have at least required a “thus says Yahuah” for their seventh-day Sabbath. Yet, both fall short, and today, they are the same distance from the true Scriptural Sabbath. Both days are built upon the same false, Roman-devised, continuous weekly cycle. While Saturday is indeed the seventh day, it is not the seventh-day Sabbath of the Kadosh (sacred) calendar model of Scripture, as ordained by the Creator and Savior.
There is a cross to bear for each soul who chooses to follow the only “way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). It is the Eternal’s time principles that rule in the shamayim (heavens) (Genesis 1:14-18), born out in the sun, moon, and stars, that will place His obedient in sync with Yahuah’s seat of power above, His divine winged messengers, and the unfallen worlds beyond.
“Now a great sign appeared in the shamayim: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of twelve stars.” Revelation 12:1 NKJV
The Elliptical Perpetual Face That Turns
So what is meant by the term elliptical?
Merriam Webster Dictionary
elliptical – marked by an ellipsis 1) of, relating to, or marked by an ellipsis
ellipsis – to leave out or fall short. See ellipse.
ellipse – 1a: Oval b: a closed plane curve generated by a point moving in such a way that the sums of its distances from two fixed points is a constant: a plane section a plane section of a right circular cone that is a closed curve 2: Ellipsis.
Click on the image below to enlarge it.
If the above heliocentric illustration appears to be the top of a merry-go-round canopy, think again. Each oval “elliptical” loop demonstrates the path of the moon’s orbit around the earth, which are approximately 29.5-day lunations or months.
From ancient times it has been observed that the sun and stars are stationary, while the moon orbits the earth in a cyclic manner, as the earth orbits the sun. It is well documented that the earth orbits the sun every 365.25 days, known as a solar year. In comparing the sun, moon, and stars, it is the “moon” alone that has an oval, or what is referred to astronomically as an “elliptical orbit,” as seen from Earth. In a regular astro- luni-solar year, only twelve complete lunations are counted, falling short of the solar year by 11 days each year. This is because there are, in fact, 12.368 lunations every solar year of 365.25 days. This is why adherents to astro-luni-solar calendation must add a 30-day month, approximately every 2.72 years. This 2.72-year cycle brings lunar phases back to the same time of the year, but because 2.72 is not near an integer, it only does so approximately, and more similar lunar phases at the same time of year occur after 8, 11, or 19 years. Refer to definitions, “Lunar Cycles.” Also, refer to Wikipedia / Orbit of the Moon Hawaii.edu / Shape of Lunar Orbit
Visible telltale markers that the moon is on an oval or “elliptical” orbit around the earth can be verified by its apogee and perigee.” Refer to definitions “Apogee” and “Perigee.”
Each orbit of the sun by the Earth can be considered perpetual motion, but this verse specifies the “ordained measure” is to be both “elliptical” in nature and display a “perpetual face that turns.” As it turns out, the moon is the only astronomical sphere that qualifies for both defined characteristics, as it has a marked daily “elliptical orbit around the earth,” and it alone has the “perpetual face that turns.” It has long been a mystery how and why the moon can make its orbit around the earth, yet always present the same face, as the moon has never exposed its backside. This peculiarity of the moon is evidence of Creation in itself and a powerful witness to divine design.
Scripture defines in Genesis 1:14-18 that all of the Creator’s units of time are to be made manifest by the orchestration of the sun, moon, and stars. Here in this passage of 1 Chronicles 23:30-32, we discover that we are to number the Sabbaths, the New Moon and its lunar month days, and the years with their specific set-apart days, according to the “elliptical” and “perpetual face that turns.” Can this be representative of anything other than the moon since we can clearly rule out the sun and the stars? This command to number the Sabbaths according to the “elliptical and perpetual face that turns” is another way of commanding that we “fix” the seven days of the week to the numbered days of the month. In addition, the months are also to be numbered or counted for each year according to the number of lunations.
As illustrated in the graphic below, both the Earth and the moon orbit the sun in a counter-clockwise direction. Notice the oval or “elliptical” pattern of the moon’s path around the Earth. When the moon is farthest from the sun, as pictured on the left, it is full. When the moon is closest to the sun, it is in its dark “conjunction” lunar phase. This occurs because the sun is shining on the moon’s backside, causing the moon to have no light on it, making it invisible from Earth. However, the moon is recognized as “renewed” only when the full New Moon rises at sunset and shines from east to west all night through. It turns out it is the “full moon” that is the instrument divinely ordained from the beginning to be the Creator’s Lunar International Dateline (CLID) marker.
The graphic below specifically defines:
- Twelve lunar months in this astro-luni-solar year (a thirteenth month occurs approximately every third year).
- There are 29-30 days in each lunar month.
- Notice how the counter-clockwise path of the moon commences in the position of New Moon day (1), in the position of opposition to the sun. Then the moon’s path continues around its orbit toward the sun at the middle of its lunation (month). As stated in Proverbs 4:18, “The path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.” This is describing the lunar phases waxing (growing) in their light until the moon is shining in its perfection as the full New Moon. The moon remains in a varied but perpetual state of an ellipse.
- The seventh-day Sabbath was preordained at creation and “fixed” to the lunar civil calendar dates counting from New Moon day. Fraudulently, mankind has been led to believe that there are only two kinds of days— work days and Sabbath days. Yet, Scripture teaches there are three kinds of days— work days, Sabbath days, and New Moon days. It is the New Moon day that occurs at the opposition to the sun that begins the commencement of each month breaking the weekly cycle, and refreshing each new month with a cycle of four complete weeks.
Time Belongs to Yahuah
“And for ALL the sacrifices to YAHUAH: FOR THE SABBATHS; FOR THE NEW MOONS; AND FOR THE YEARLY APPOINTED FEAST ASSEMBLIES, NUMBER ACCORDING TO THE ORDAINED MEASURE, BY REASON OF THE PERPETUAL FACE THAT TURNS BEFORE YAHUAH.” 1 Chronicles 23:31
Verse 31 brings out another important point of how each unit of time is referred to as Yahuah’s. It is Yahuah’s Sabbaths, Yahuah’s New Moons and corresponding lunar months, and Yahuah’s Feast days. This is a second witness to Exodus 20:10, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of Yahuah your Alahim.” Our Creator shared His Sabbath with mankind so that we may be in sync with the worship rhythms of His messengers and unfallen worlds as they assemble on His pre-appointed sanctified days. But in addition to Yahuah sharing His Sabbaths with mankind, He also imputed to Earth His New Moons, lunar months, and sacred Feast Days.
How can we know for certain?
Each day of earth’s creation fell upon a workday of Yahuah. These six workdays were sandwiched between two sacred days of Yahuah. These are His sanctified seventh-day Sabbath, His rest day, which correspondingly fell at the end of earth’s creation week, and the New Moon day, which occurred at Yahuah’s abode the day prior to the first day of creation. As a result, earth’s first week of time was hung from the New Moon of His Kadosh (holy) seat of power, and not our own, as the sun, moon, and stars were not created, or their time set, until the fourth day. Therefore, while the Sabbath was indeed the seventh day of the week, the actual calendar date for that first seventh-day Sabbath would have been the 8th of the lunar month, in acknowledgment of the New Jerusalem’s shared gift of time.
Thus earth’s first week and month were set according to her clock and her New Moon. This was the missing puzzle piece in the Genesis account, bringing it now into full harmony with the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures.
The calendar illustration below demonstrates what occurred during the creation week. On the New Moon Day (in blue), the Creator could not have been on Earth for any reason. He had to be on His throne, receiving worship from all His creation. Each of the creation’s workdays is (in green). The first day of the creation of earth would have been the second day of the month for Yahuah, whose time rhythms He was to share with Adam and Eve of His new creation called earth. The 8th day of the month (in gold) is the seventh day of the week, an eternal set-apart seventh-day Sabbath of Yahuah’s, past, present, and future. Here again, He would be on His seat of authority receiving worship from all His creation, including Adam and Eve.
Could it be any other way? The Creator is to be worshiped from eternity past to eternity future by all of His created beings upon these two kinds of days from month to month (Isaiah 66:23). As a result, and by divine design, the earth could never have a Creator ordained eight-day week, for the simple fact that the Creator Himself was receiving worship upon the New Moon day from all the messenger hosts of shamayim. The first day of creation could not have been the New Moon day, as some believe, for the very reason that Yahuah rests from work upon all the worship days, as He and His son alone are the subjects of worship (1 Chronicles 23:31). Ezekiel 46:1 verifies this:
Thus says Yahuah Alahim: “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. . . Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before Yahuah on the Sabbaths and the New Moons.” Ezekiel 46:1, 3. NKJV
The very next day following New Moon in the courts above, the Creator, Yahuah, commenced the work of creation for six days. On the seventh-day Sabbath, He again ceased His work to receive worship by all of His created beings, but now with the addition of those upon the earth, namely, Adam and Eve. Lovingly, our Eternal Father made provision to include earthlings in with the appointed times for all sacred days of the New Jerusalem. It is mankind that has resisted this great gift of Yahuah’s astro-luni-solar time. As a result of their rebellious hearts, they have sought their own timekeeping systems and appointed times for worship that do not honor the Creator and Savior of mankind. Was it not prophesied in both Isaiah 14:13-14 and Daniel 7:25 that the powers of the earth would change the “times” of the Creator?
Yahuah, at this pinnacle of time, is now requesting that all of His units of time be restored so that all His trusting followers everywhere may be in harmony with all of shamayim and His worship times.
New Moon Day Preceding Creation
So how could our Creator, Yahuah, receive worship on New Moon Day if Earth’s moon was not even created until the fourth day? For that matter, it had yet to be set and advanced into its proper time-centric phase and position in orchestration with the sun and stars.
The New Moon Day prior to the Creation of Earth was not involving the Earth’s moon at all, but the moon connected with Yahuah’s dwelling. Earth’s moon is only a copy to keep us in sync with the unfallen worlds and the New Jerusalem itself. Our Creator illustrates to earthlings that it was the “ New Jerusalem’s New Moon” and “her time” that set Earth’s clock, so to speak, by not even creating or advancing upon Earth’s sun, moon, or stars until the fourth day. How else could we be certain that, indeed, the Earth’s time system was set according to the divine time of the New Jerusalem? Yahuah is calling His dutiful followers to look up and return to His time principles that rule in the shamayim.
Post a Watch over this Sacred Thing
“And guard His (Aleph and Tav) FIRST AND LAST [lunar phase] with a posted watch at the tabernacle of the assembly, as a token of evidence. And namely, post a guard over the kadosh (sacred and dedicated things), and keep watch of the sons of Aaron and others that minister unto the house of YAHUAH.” 1 Chronicles 23:32
Verse 32 gives additional care instructions that identify the magnificent importance the Creator attaches to these time-keeping truths, as beaconed by the moon.
- Guard and protect this sign-marker.
- Post a watch at the place of assembly.
- It is for a token of evidence.
- Watch over this sacred and dedicated thing as a charge and service of the sons of Aaron (wilderness sanctuary).
- The same charge is given for those who are to minister unto the Sanctuary of Yahuah (the temple above not made with hands).
It is only things of the greatest value on earth that have ever been guarded by a posted watch. Yet the Creator of time itself has asked that mankind guard and protect His divinely “ordained measure of the moon” as it is the great “sign-marker” in the sky.
The idea of posting a watch at the place of assembly establishes a protocol for all to see and be taught the significance of this measuring tool. It also identifies this method of defining time with the appointed time units themselves, a bond never to be broken.
It is this “ORDAINED MEASURE” that the Creator exclaims is a token of evidence. But what is it evidence? It is evidence of Divine Design. It is evident that the earth was indeed created in six literal days sandwiched between the New Moon day and the seventh-day lunar Sabbath, and not thousands or millions of years. It is evident that His sacred week is indeed a fruit of, and in fact, numbered from the New Moon. It is evident that the King of the Universe, by His love, has provided earthlings with an invitation to participate with all the hosts above and all the unfallen worlds in coming to Mt. Zion (Yahuah’s sacred mountain of time) for all sanctified and set-apart worship days. It is evident that upon this same time system, the Son of Yahuah met the criteria of the sacrificial LAMB and rose to become our mediating Melchizedek Kohen unto the forgiveness of sins for the restoration of fallen mankind. It is the evidence that according to this same “ordained measure of time,” our Messiah will, one day soon, “stand up” and come forth from Yahuah’s Most Kadosh Place to receive His ready and obedient believers. It is an illustrated truth that, by its intrinsic evidence, precludes our hopeful expectations.
While Aaron and his sons ministered unto the earthly sanctuary during the wilderness wandering and beyond, today Yahuah is calling His obedient everywhere to trustingly follow Him as He ministers in His temple above, not made with hands. He beckons us to keep all His set-apart days as Kadosh and follow the work of His son, Yahusha, as He accomplishes our Salvation through our confession and His forgiveness. Doing so can only be accomplished upon the time-centric and preordained measure of the moon, the Eternal’s trustworthy witness in the sky (Psalms 89:37).
Was the Sabbath Really Changed from Saturday to Sunday?
Many have maintained that the only divinely ordained unit of time that has been compromised over the millennia was an altercation to change in the Sabbath, from Saturday to Sunday, on the Roman Julian calendar. This, they believe, was accomplished by the Roman Emperor Constantine in A.D. 324. The premise for this view comes from Daniel 7:23, which states: “And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS . . .”
While a Sabbath change did occur, it was NOT what you might think. This is because there are several factors at play here that have not been factored into the full mix of evidence so as to assemble a complete viewpoint.
- The Hebrew terms for TIMES (H#2166 – זמנין zeman) and LAWS (H#1882 – דת dath), while singular, act as umbrella terms for plural TIMES and LAWS. This means that more than one Time and Law were prophesied to be altered. And it appears to be ALL of the units of time have been changed.
- Neither the Julian, nor the modern Gregorian Roman calendars existed at the time of the Daniel 7 prophecy.
- The modern Rabbinical Pharisee calendar did not exist among the Yahudim (Jews) at the time of the Daniel 7 prophecy.
- The Scriptural calendar of Creation was entirely based upon the trinity of LIGHTS. It is apparent movements of the SUN, MOON, and STARS, from EARTH’S vantage point, commencing and terminating according to the correct signals that portray our Creator’s Calendar.
- ALL THE CREATOR’S UNITS OF TIME WERE BASED UPON AND NUMBERED FROM ONE FULL NEW MOON TO THE NEXT FULL NEW MOON. This numbered count can be visually witnessed in the 29-30 lunar phases that uniquely demarcate each day of the lunar month. The lunar months are then broken down into smaller units called lunar weeks (seven days long) that end with the Sabbath.
- Ezekiel 46:1-3 identifies that both New Moon days and Seventh-day Sabbaths are worship days. (This is not taught today by any organized church or synagogue. By extension it highlights the false prophets and teachers within their midst.)
- History records exactly what was changed by Constantine.
Constantine never changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Prior to the edict that established Sunday as Rome’s “sacred” day, the Roman Julian week consisted of eight days, and not seven. Saturday had, up until this edict, been the first day of their eight-day week that cycled without end. Stunningly, Saturday had NEVER been a sacred appointed Sabbath of either the Romans, the Jews, or our Creator. The change or shift that was masterminded by Constantine was designed to forever “fix” a sacred solemnity to Sunday rather than to the lunar Sabbath of the Scriptures and the Israelites. The Sabbath of the Israelites had always been determined according to astro-luni-solar time and had NEVER previous to been associated with Saturday or an unbroken cycling week.
“In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Cæsar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to advise him about the reform of the [Roman lunar] 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 was used, as in the Egyptian calendar . . . .” The Julian Calendar,” Encyclopædia Britannica.
Under these two factors, the Julian week began a centuries-long evolutionary process that ended in the continuous weekly cycle utilized by nearly ALL the world today. The original seven-day planetary week is the third and final piece of the puzzle, proving that Saturday is not the Sabbath of Scripture, nor Sunday the first day of the creation week. This transformation took several hundred years. Franz Cumont, widely considered to be a great authority on Mithraism, links the acceptance of the seven-day week by Europeans to the popularity of Mithraism in pagan Rome:
“It is not to be doubted that the diffusion of the Iranian [Persian] mysteries has had a considerable part in the general adoption, by the pagans, of the week with the Sunday as a holy day. The names which we employ, unawares, for the other six days, came into use at the same time that Mithraism won its followers in the provinces in the West, and one is not rash in establishing a relation of coincidence between its triumph and that concomitant phenomenon.” Franz Cumont, Textes et Monumnets Figures Relatifs aux Mysteres de Mithra, Vol. I, p. 112, as quoted in ibid, p. 156.
The establishment of a counterfeit calendar is the first step necessary for counterfeit worship, both of which were crafted at the famous Council of Nicaea. Upon the premise that “the repulsive and revolting” Scriptural astro-luni-solar calendar of our Creator was replaced with the pagan solar calendar as a tribute to their gods. The planetary, continuous weekly cycle then replaced the lunar week, which had always been fixed to the count from the New Moon.
“This planetary week was paganism’s counterfeit of the true, Biblical week instituted by the Creator at the beginning of Earth’s history. In the counterfeit week employed in ancient paganism, “the venerable day of the Sun” was esteemed by the heathen above the other six days because it was regarded as sacred to the Sun, the chief of the planetary deities . . . Just as the true Sabbath is inseparably linked with the Biblical [lunar] week, so the false Sabbath of pagan origin needed a weekly cycle. Thus we have found that the planetary week of paganism is Sunday’s twin sister and that the two counterfeit institutions were linked together …” Odom, op. cit., p. 243-244, emphasis supplied.
When the historical and time-centric facts of the Julian calendar are comprehended, it becomes apparent that Sunday is not the only spurious worship day established upon paganism. Saturday, “dies Saturni,” is a counterfeit and spurious worship day. The mere fact it is the seventh day of the modern week is evidence of its opposition to the true seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture. Both days are the fruit of a false, man-made calendar system. Therefore, neither Saturday nor Sunday can be the true Scriptural Sabbath.
“In 321 A.D., Constantine, emperor of Rome . . . by civil enactments made “the venerable day of the Sun,” which day was then “notable for its veneration,” the weekly rest day of the empire . . . The enforcement of the weekly observance of Sunday gave official recognition to the week of seven days and resulted in the introduction of it into the official civil calendar of Rome. The Romans passed that calendar down to us, and in it we have still the ancient planetary titles of the days of the week.” Odom, op. cit., p. 243-244, emphasis supplied.
In one fell swoop, a double deception was masterminded. Constantine crafted not one but two major deceptions, and both are the spurious fruit of his instituted artificial calendar. First, he changed the cycling eight-day week to a cycling seven-day week, creating an illusion that this “new week” and its calendar were indeed in harmony with Scripture. Second, he anointed Sunday of this new unbroken-cycling-week to be “sacred.” By so doing, he crafted the greatest deception of all. Those students of Scripture and scholars of later generations to come would discover that the seventh day was ordained by Yahuah to be sacred and set apart, and not the first day.
But by default, they and their followers would adhere to “Saturday” as if it were suddenly sanctified, simply because it represented the seventh day on Rome’s calendar. Thus, thinking they are in harmony with Scripture, many would cling to “Saturday,” believing it to be the true seventh-day Sabbath, as ordained from above. All the while, the entire premise that the Roman “week” was in sync with Scripture became the “GREAT HIDDEN DECEPTION.” All will be brought to test over this question, as all have the opportunity to know the truth. Each of the Creator’s units of time is beaconed by the orchestrated harmony of the sun, moon, and stars. In sharp contrast, Rome’s week floats through the Creator’s month with no connection whatever to the moon and its 30 lunar phases.
Has Rome changed any other ordained units of time?
Scripture scholars will agree that Rome has also altered, for her own edification, the year, month, and day. Roman time dictates that the “year” commences in winter, the “calends/kalends” (Roman months) were crafted according to her arbitrary whim and are not fixed to the moon, and “days” are to commence at midnight. All the while, Scripture testifies from cover to cover that Yahuah ordained the year to commence in spring (Exodus 12:1-3), the month is to commence at the New Moon lunar phase (Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1), and the “day” was ordained to be twelve hours in length and commence at sunrise. For more on when a day begins, refer to the article, “Sunrise or Sunset, When Does a Day Begin? Also, refer to Word Study on “Genesis 1:1-5.”
From the rising of the sun to its going down Yahuah’s name is to be praised. Psalms 113:3 NKJV
The Mighty One, Alahim Yahuah, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, Alahim will shine forth. Psalms 50:1-2 NKJV
For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations,” says Yahuah of hosts. Malachi 1:11 NKJV
Yahusha answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. John 11:9 NKJV
Note to the reader— Before you are tempted to dismiss this as in error because you’ve been taught to believe the “day” commences at sunset, and believe the Sabbath is placed according to Roman cycling weeks, think again. All have been taught wrong, as Scripture defines that “ALL THE WORLD WONDERED AFTER THE BEAST.” The reformation is still marching forward and will continue until the return of our Redeemer, Yahusha. Take this opportunity to challenge your current paradigms, as knowledge is increasing and truths are becoming plain. Let not one doctrinal stone be left unturned in the search for truth (Acts 17:11), as the last conflict and your ETERNAL DESTINY will be won or lost over time.
In the parable of Matthew 25:1-13, the call went out, “Behold the Bridegroom is coming, go you out to meet Him!” Yet when all ten virgins awoke, only the wise virgins had the oil of the Ruach ha Kadosh (Holy Spirit), which alone leads into and restores all truth. They alone arrived at the appointed time when the door was open. While the foolish virgins were busy seeking to buy oil in a hurry that would light their path to the door, the door was shut.
This story represents the predicament of the whole world today. All the world has been following a variation of false calendar methods associated with a variety of religious views. Yet, now the Ruach ha Kadosh (Holy Spirit) is restoring His truths so that those who hear His voice will adhere and arrive at the appointed time when the door is open.
May Yahuah continue to guide you as you diligently seek Him.
Kerrie L. French
Freelance Writer/Illustrator
TheCreatorsCalendar@wildblue.net