Facts About the Sabbath
Fact # 1
Everywhere the Sabbath
is pinpointed by a date in the Scriptures;
the 15th is one of them, like in chapter 16 of Exodus;
the Sabbath was on the 15th in the second moon after
they left Egypt.
Fact #2
The Sabbath was
on the 15th in the first moon when the children
of Israel were delivered from Egypt’s bondage.
Deut.5:15 and Num. 33:3 this should end the debate
about keeping the Sabbath every seven days regardless
of the New moon. Because, it is impossible to have
the Sabbath on the 15th two moons in a row, unless
you are keeping the Sabbaths by the moon. It is
impossible on a Roman calendar by counting the New
moon as an ordinary workday.
No
one denies the Sabbath was on the 15th
in the second moon (Ex. 16), but let us look at
some scripture which proves the Sabbath is on the
15th in the first moon also, which kills the calendar
count doctrine.
You
can pinpoint fifteen separate months the
Sabbath appears in the Scriptures and the 15th is
one of them every time, without exception. The first
moon when they left Egypt was on the 15th, that
day they actually got rest from Egypt bondage. Deut.
5:15 says “and remember that thou wast a servant
in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH thy mighty One
brought thee out (15th) thence through a mighty
hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore YHWH
thy mighty one commanded thee to keep the Sabbath
day.” Now ask yourself, what did being delivered
from Egypt bondage have to do with the Sabbath day?
Unless, it was on the 15th, a Sabbath.
They
were commanded to keep the Sabbath day
because they were delivered from Egypt bondage on
the Sabbath day, which was the 15th. (See Num. 33:3)
Just as in the Creation Week, YHWH rested on the
Sabbath day. It is a Memorial Day of rest, He now
commanded the children of Israel to keep the Sabbath
day as a memorial of the deliverance that took place
on the 15th, and the rest that He gave them on both
accounts were on the Sabbath day. (See Psm. 81:3-6)
It teaches to blow the trumpet in the New moon and
the Full moon on our Solemn Feast day (15th). “For
this was a statute for Israel and a law of the Deity
of Jacob.” This He ordained in Joseph (and
I believe that Joseph taught Egypt the true Sabbaths
of YHWH and had the power to see they were carried
out and no one worked on the fifteenth day(Full
moon) until another Pharaoh arose, who knew not
Joseph. Verse 6 says “I removed his shoulder
from the burden: and his hands were delivered from
the pots.” (He gave them rest on the 15th,
a Full moon Sabbath, also Num. 33:3 says that they
departed from Remises in the first moon on the fifteenth
day. Therefore, YHWH commanded them to keep the
Sabbath day because He gave them rest on that day.
(Deut. 5:15) Just as He rested on the seventh day
at creation and that is another reason to remember
the Sabbath day.
More
evidence that the 15th was a Sabbath in
the first moon is if you count back through the
plagues (three days of darkness, locus, hail, etc.)
seven days you’ll find the father YHWH called
the eighth day of that moon a Moed (or appointment)
the same word used for weekly Sabbath in Lev. 23:3
and Gen. 1:14 where the moon is for Feasts. Sabbaths
were on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th in the first
moon.
Ex.
9:5 is where the word Moed appears as a
set time. Look up set in concordance (Moed). The
father said that He would kill the cattle on a Moed
(Sabbath) the eighth day of the first moon and if
so the 15th was another Moed (Sabbath) they were
made to rest from Egypt’s bondage, that is
why He says to keep the Sabbath day (Deut. 5:15)
because He Freed them on that day. Remember too,
if everywhere else in the Old and New Testament
the Sabbath was on the 15th, Why not here in the
first moon? Another point to make is the Sabbath
day is called a sign day between Him and His people.
(Ex. 31:13-17)
Well,
in Ex. 13:1-9 the 15th is called a sign
day. In Verse 3, Moses said, “remember
this day (the 15th) you came out of Egypt.”
(Verse 9) says, “It shall be a sign that YHWH’s
law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath
YHWH brought thee out of Egypt.” Truly, the
15th was a Sabbath in the first moon as well as
the eighth (Moed).
Remember
it is impossible to have a Sabbath on the 15th two
months in a row using man’s calendar, because
it will count the New moon day as one of the six
workdays, which will throw the Sabbath off one day.
Food
for thought, Daniel was ruler in Babylon
and had power to pass laws. The King gave orders
to serve the Deity of Daniel, and that would include
keeping the correct Sabbaths. Now do you think that
a righteous man such as Daniel would allow the Lunar
Sabbaths to be observed if they were not correct
especially if He had power to stop them? There are
Historical records proving the Babylonians calendar
was by the moon,
What
about Joseph, he too was ruler in Egypt
and had power over all Egypt to enforce a Lunar
Sabbath with no problem. History records that Egypt
at one time observed the Lunar Sabbaths. and that
the Egyptians were the first to abandon the lunar
calendar. We know that another Pharaoh arose who
knew not Joseph, and the children of Israel were
forced to abandon the rests of YHWH until the Father
heard their groaning and once again gave them rest,
and it was on a Sabbath (15th) when He delivered
their shoulders from the burdens and their hands
from the pots. (Psalms 81:3) Would not it make sense
to restore the Sabbath that was lost under Egypt’s
bondage on the Sabbath, whether Saturday, Sunday,
or 15th?
