The
Scriptures teaches that ALL days are ordinary
workdays, unless the Word of YHWH deems them otherwise.
With no adding to or taking away from the Word,
all days are ordinary days except the ones He designates
as worship days. For example, the Scriptures teaches
us that after six workdays we are to rest. (Gen.
2:2, Ex. 16:26, Ex. 20:8-11, and Lev. 23:6) We are
not only to rest, but it is a worship day, a Holy
day set apart, a sanctified intermission from the
previous workdays. Intermission or rest from what?
The six ordinary workdays. The sun rises and sets
on every day alike, but by the Moon, we are told
which ones are not ordinary days. They are intermissions
and they all look alike. Without the Moon, we would
not know which days He has chosen. The Moon will
signal the days with its light, which increases
and decreases.
For example,
the seventh month, fifteenth day of the
Moon is an intermission, along with the
1st, 8th, 10th, 22nd, and 29th. We are to assemble
for worship. Lev. 23:3 teaches that after six ordinary
workdays there will be a worship day. Two months
are outlined in the Scriptures and specifically
telling which days are Holy Convocations or worship
days.
For example, on the seventh
Moon, the New Moon is a worship day:
Ez.46:1-31 Thus saith the master YHWH; the gate
of the inner court that looketh toward the east
shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath
it shall be opened, and in the day of the new Moon,
it shall be opened.
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch
of that gate without, and shall stand by the post
of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt
offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship
at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth;
but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
Likewise the people of the land shall worship at
the door of this gate before YHWH in the Sabbaths
and in the new Moons. ) (Isa. 66:23, 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, saith YHWH.
See
also Num 28:11-14 which refers to all the
New Moons throughout the year (Num. 10:2,
7, 8, 10; Num 29:1; Lev. 23:24). Without question
the New Moon is not one of the six ordinary workdays.
Now it says nothing about day two through seven
anywhere. Therefore, we work those six days, but
we are admonished to rest after six workdays, which
would be the eighth day of the seventh Moon. We
are not forbidden to work the ninth, but are commanded
to rest and worship on the tenth with no food.
Now
we assume we can eat the other 364 days
of the year. Why not assume, we can work on ordinary
days that are not designated worship days? After
the tenth, there is no commandment not to work on
the eleventh through the fourteenth, except on man’s
calendar. After the tenth has passed, we assume
we can eat and work on the eleventh through the
fourteenth, but we are commanded to rest on the
fifteenth. It is a worship day. (Num. 29:12)
Now
we are not commanded to fast or
worship the next six days (16th -21st), but we are
ordered to dwell in booths seven days from the 15th
to the 21st (Lev. 23: 40-43) Now we are ordered
to keep the eighth (22nd), counting from the fifteenth
day, which is the 22nd, another worship day. Counting
on, with the instructions of the Heavenly Father
there is no Holy worship day on the 23rd through
the 28th, but the pattern of rest and worship after
six workdays applies on the 29th, unless you use
man’s calendar.
There
is a New Moon rebuilding and sometimes
it starts after the day does, making the next evening
and morning the first day of the rebuilding or New
Moon. Sometimes the new month starts rebuilding
before the 29th ends, so the first evening and morning
after the rebuilding would be the first day of the
New Moon giving us 29- and 30- day months.
The
scripture teaches that the New Moon is
a worship day. It is a day of no buying and selling
and not one of the ordinary workdays (Ez. 46:1,
Isa. 66:23, Amos 8:5). After that, there is no commandment
not to work on day two of the Moon through day seven,
but we must take an intermission on day eight for
worship because it is the seventh day or Sabbath
from the first workday after the New Moon worship
day. Then, six more workdays, then rest and worship
on the 15th, etc. This goes on year after year from
one New Moon to another and one Sabbath to another,
even into the New Heaven and New Earth, which He
will make. (Isa.66:23)
Our
Heavenly Father gives us specific instructions
as to which days of the year to set apart for rest
and worship. We are not to add to or to diminish
from what He orders, by inventing a calendar of
our own. So, changing the Laws and Times of worship
as spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, concerning the
Roman Empire (Daniel 7:25) and fulfilled by Julius
Caesar the Roman Emperor, where he removed the Moon
as a basis for the calendar. We must speak where
the Scriptures speaks, and be silent when it is
silent.
The
Roman calendar is a recent invention, an
evil instrument designed to confuse and destroy
the true times and Appointments of YHWH, just as
the false fires sent up by the enemy to get us off
the true Sabbaths, and New Moons. To verify, check
your calendar to see if the first day of the month
lines up with the first day of the Moon (month)
on YHWH’s calendar that He gave to man “and
they (sun, Moon, and stars) shall be for signs and
seasons, days and years.” (Gen 1:14) In other
words, they shall beacon you for the appointment
days of YHWH. Appointments mean seasons (from the
King James Version). signs—means beacons.
(See concordance)
To
further prove the Appointments or intermissions
occur after the six working days (not counting the
New Moon) save the tenth day in the seventh month,
which breaks up the six workdays and the twenty-first
day in the first Moon each year. The second day
of the New Moon is always the first workday and
the Sabbaths are always on the 8th, 15th, 22nd,
and 29th, without exception.
The
first pinpointed Sabbath is in Exodus,
chapter 16 and is on the 22nd day of the Moon (Ex.
16:22, 23) and, if you count backwards the second
day of the Moon is the first workday, and the Sabbaths
are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
The
same thing can be seen again in the Crucifixion
Week. The Sabbath is on the 15th. (John 19:31 and
Luke 23:54,-56) A simple count backwards tells us
that the first workday is the second day of the
Moon, which places the weekly Sabbaths on the 8th,
15th, 22nd, and 29th and if our Savior had not been
killed on the 14th, He would have kept the 15th
Sabbath, as was His custom.
Preachers
try to create a Sabbath on the
17th during the Crucifixion Week, but if that were
so, then the tenth day of that Moon would have to
be a Sabbath also, but the Scriptures proves otherwise
in John 12:1. It says that it was six days before
Passover (referring to the 15th, see John (12:1),
Luke 22:1) and this would be on the 9th of the Moon
and verse twelve says on the next day, the 10th,
He came to Jerusalem. Now, notice this is when the
Passover lamb was to be put up (He the Lamb) on
the 10th, a very busy day.
This
was definitely not a Sabbath because #1,
He would have broken the Fathers law by riding the
ass and causing it to work, if the 10th were a Sabbath.
And #2, they were cutting tree limbs, etc., but
most of all they were buying and selling on that
day and He entered the house of YHWH and healed
a man on the 10th and they said what a wonderful
work, instead of accusing Him of breaking the Sabbath.
This all proves the 10th was not a Sabbath and therefore
the 17th could not have been a Sabbath either.
You
can prove this in Luke 19:35-45. Matthew
21:2-15 tells how He came riding on an ass and how
He entered the Temple where they were buying and
selling. It was a very busy day each year. For everybody,
it was a scheduled workday by YHWH. It would be
pure confusion to have commanded a non-work day
Sabbath on this day, or any workday like the fourteenth
day of the first Moon when everybody is to kill
and prepare the Passover. It is a commanded workday,
pure confusion.
Another
place the New Moon and Sabbaths are pinpointed
is John 9:14. To prove this compare the following
verses. John 7:2 tells us that the Feast of Tabernacles
was at hand. Verse 10 tells that He went up to It.
Verse 37 tells us that on the last day of the Feast
of Tabernacles, which is the 21st. (Lev. 23:32 and
Ez. 45:25) John 8:1 tells us that He went to the
Mt. of Olives and verse 2 says that early in the
morning He came again into the temple and taught
(on the 22nd Sabbath) and verse 59 says that He
went out of the temple and passed by. Chapter 9:1
tells of seeing the blind man as He passed by him.
Verse 6 says He made clay, and verse 14 says it
was the Sabbath (22nd) when He made the clay, which
proves the 22nd was a 0Sabbath. The second day of
the Moon was the first workday of the week again,
and the weekly Sabbaths were on the 8th, 15th, 22nd,
and 29th. How could we fail to see these Sabbaths
always being on these set days of the Moon? Moreover,
Our Savior (the Son of YHWH) was keeping the Heavenly
Sabbaths that were created in Heaven and not by
man’s calendar. The Sabbath here was on the
22nd. He, also, kept the 29th as a Sabbath. Won’t
you also follow his example?
Paul
was also using YHWH’s calendar after
the Crucifixion in Acts 20:7. He mentions the first
day of the week, which was on the second day of
the Moon. (Acts 20:5, 6, 7) They sailed away from
Philippi after the days of unleavened bread (22nd)
and came unto them in Troas in five days (26th),
where they stayed seven days. The seventh day was
the second day of the Moon and Paul calls the second
day of the Moon the first day of the week, and that
puts the Sabbaths again on the 8th, 15th, 22nd,
and 29th.
Count
the 26th as the first day, the 27th as
the second, the 28th as the third, the 29th as the
fourth, the 30th as the fifth, the first or New
Moon as the sixth day, and the second day of the
Moon as the seventh day of Paul’s stay at
Troas. The Scriptures calls this second day of the
Moon the first day of the week, when they broke
bread, because they only stayed seven days. The
first day of the week was the seventh day they stayed
and the second day of the Moon was the first workday
of the week, this proves Paul kept the weekly Sabbath
on the 8th day of the Moon, then the 15th, 22nd,
and 29th. Won’t you follow Him as He follows
the master?
The
Sabbaths were on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and
29th in the second Moon, just like in Exodus, chapter
16. Remember, this was in the second Moon. Apostle
Paul remembered the True Sabbath day to keep it
Holy, and following the Savior’s example on
the 8th, 15th, etc.. There is much proof. Think
on this awhile, Paul kept the Sabbath on the 22nd
day of the second month which was the exact day
and month that Moses was commanded to keep many
years earlier when the Sabbath was made known to
by these words, it is the rest of the Holy Sabbath
and it was the 22nd of the moon. (Ex.- 16:23).
The
22nd day of every moon will always be a
Sabbath, just as it was when the Savior made the
clay on the 22nd. (John 9:14) Solomon kept the Sabbath
on the 22nd in the 7th month. (2.Ch.-7:9) The same
22nd of each moon will always be a Sabbath just
as He said to Moses “it is the rest of the
Holy Sabbath” (Ex. 16:23.). This is no coincidence,
no more than every time we walk in the rain we get
wet.
The
command to keep the Sabbath is found in
the Law of YHWH (Torah), and to know when it is,
is also found in the Law of YHWH. You do not have
to go outside of the Scriptures to find when the
Sabbath begins and consult man’s calendar.
Do we really believe a command that carried the
death penalty if not obeyed would be left up to
man’s calendar and not the Heavenly calendar
for days, years, signs, and seasons? (Gen. 1:14)
The
only calendar that cannot be tampered with
by man is YHWH’s calendar. If you have to
go outside the to find when a year begins (January
1st) or when a day begins (12:00 a.m.) or how long
a month is (30 or 31 days), then YHWH’s times
are not honored. The same is true with the weekly
Sabbath; it is also in the Scriptures. If the time
of a day, year, month, or week is not found in the
Scriptures, then it is not right. All of these are
found in Nature and Nature has a way of signaling
when the year begins (Equinox), or when a day begins
(dark), when a month begins (New Moon Conjunction),
when a week begins (phases of the Moon — New,
First quarter, Full, and Second quarter). All of
these are conjunctions found in Nature without man’s
calendar or artificial time keeping devices. You
can find the Feast days by the Moon without a man-made
calendar, you can find the right month and the right
day of the month, all by the Moon.
For
example, the seventh month, tenth day of
the Moon is the Day of Atonement, easy
to find without a calendar, then the fifteenth day
of the Moon, which is the first day of Tabernacles.
If all of these Holy days of YHWH can be found without
going out of the Scriptures to man’s calendar,
then why cannot the weekly Holy days or Sabbaths
be found in the Scriptures also? They can. By finding
the workdays, you can determine the non-workdays
or Sabbaths (intermissions) and the only way you
can find the workdays is by the Moon.
You
begin each month with the New Moon as a
worship day (Isa. 66:23; Ez. 46:1; Amos 8:5), then
count the six workdays, and rest on the seventh
(the weekly Sabbath), which will always be on the
eighth day of the Moon. This is how the Holy men
of old understood it and did it. There are too many
examples where they did it this way to refute it
and no examples where they did it any other way.
We
are accused of breaking the weekly cycle,
and this accusation is true. It needs breaking because;
it is a man-made cycle, not found anywhere in Nature
or Scripture, unlike the cycles for the year, day,
and month. A man called Julius Caesar broke the
cycle in 46 B.C. when he had a calendar made and
disregarded the Moon cycles in the calculations.
He used a 30-31 day count for the months no matter
what the True Moon did. Thus, changing times as
prophesied by Daniel the Prophet. The Roman week
is an artificial measurement of time and is not
found in Nature or the Scriptures, the same as the
year beginning in January, and the day beginning
at 12 a.m., and the month, beginning every 30-31
days. None of these is found in Nature or Scripture,
they are traditions of men.
