Hello Melody, 9-23-2009 I see that those who have gone before me were correct. I have reproduced your study here in its entirety, without edition, in blue.  Any addition to your text will be [bracketed] and in this bold black font. You wrote:Enclosed is our latest article on lunar sabbaths (I decided to add in another paragraph after I emailed it to you earlier this morning and so am sending you now the latest copy). We are going to print this in our newsletter someme [sic-sometime] later on this week or the beginning of next week.  If I don’t hear back from you before then I will assume that you cannot show us from the Word of God where we are wrong.   I have already shown you from Scripture that you are in error.  The issue now is that you take your tradition over Scripture.  Well, I know now what Ezekiel meant by sighing and crying.   In our article on lunar sabbaths we refer to our article on how to calculate the timing of the feasts, so I am enclosing that article as an attachment for you to read so you understand fully what we are trying to say.  We address what you say is the one answerable argument--the cross.  There is an answer and we give it.   A Scriptural answer or your own understanding? Here is our article: The greatest of God’s Holy Days is the Seventh-day Sabbath. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, Satan has invented a way to get God’s people to no longer worship on the Seventh-day Sabbath by inventing lunar Sabbaths. We were hoping to not have to address this, but it has come to our attention that more and more Sabbath observers are falling for the error of observing lunar Sabbaths, including some of our dear friends. [Your dear friends are wise.]

You have lied (or will lie) to your readers in your second sentence.  Satan is a liar and the father of it. You are giving Satan credit for Yah’s work. You sure you want to go that route? Genesis 1:14 says that the two lights would be for signs (owth), seasons (appointed times), days and years.  Thus the calendar of Yah is in the heavens.

Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12, and 20:20 all say that the Sabbath is a sign, using the SAME Hebrew word found in Genesis 1:14 meaning signal or beacon. So one of the lights will announce the Sabbath. Psalm 104:19 says that the moon will regulate the seasons (Mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts).  Leviticus 23:1-3 shows the weekly Sabbath to be the first feast (Mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts).   I do not see a Thus saith Satan in ANY of these verses.  I do however see YHVH Himself telling us that the weekly Sabbath is a lunar event. This is ink on the page, Melody, and it is in Scripture. 

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Also, some lunar sabbatarians are promoting our book God’s Holidays and our website as a way of also promoting lunar sabbaths, making it appear that we agree with their agenda when we do not. For these reasons we felt compelled to address this issue in this newsletter. Even if you don’t know of anyone who is embracing this belief, hang on to this newsletter because you will probably eventually meet some of these people and when they try to share with you, you will need to know how to answer them. We have spent a massive amount of time researching their beliefs, reading their websites, and talking to several of their leaders via email. So we have a pretty good grip about what they believe and what Bible texts they use to support this belief.   I have to give you credit for not wanting to profit from something you do not believe.   It remains to be seen how good of a grip you have on this subject, but I will tell you if/when you are successful.  So far, none of the objectors of the lunar Sabbath have ever accurately presented what lunar Calendar observers believe.  You have been picking our brains for quite some time.  Let’s see if you have been listening...

For those of you who have not yet heard about this belief, lunar sabbatarians believe in timing the Seventh-day Sabbath according to the new moon. In other words, suppose the new moon is on Wednesday this month. Lunar sabbatarians believe that the Seventh-day Sabbath should be counted from the new moon. This is their premier basic belief for which they have no proof from the Bible for.

Well, so far so good/bad.

You accurately presented what we believe, thank you, but then you follow it up with a lie of the highest order of magnitude (I have underlined it above). 

Melody, this is your OPINION; it is not a fact.  You are leaning on your own understanding. How sad that you feel qualified to share the truth with others when you cannot candidly present the facts without adding your own spin to the evidence.  The texts shared above and below have already been sent to you and they reveal the lunar Sabbath in Scripture. These texts are contradicted nowhere in Scripture.

Ezekiel 46:1 proves that every new moon day (the first day of every month, even the first month of earth’s history) is a third category of day and is not counted as a week day.  The temple gate is shut during all SIX working days, but it is opened each and every Sabbath and new moon.  Your new moon count goes against this verse, (your new moon days fall on week days and Sabbaths) yet you feel qualified to stand against the Creation Calendar.  Amos 8:5, Isaiah 66:23 and II Kings 4:23 also prove that the Sabbaths and new moon days belong in separate categories, apart from the six common work days. This Scriptural “fact” alone destroys your new moon and Sabbath count. Amos: The unscrupulous venders are seeking to cheat the Israelites, but it is Sabbath and new moon. Israel won’t come out to buy their wares until a work day.  Isaiah: We will worship YHVH at the appointed times, not on work days.  II Kings: The boy collapses in the field, his mother carries him inside. There the boy dies in her lap. So she runs upstairs, places the by on Elisha’s bed, then runs to her husband asking permission to take a donkey and a servant with her to go see the prophet. To which he inquires, “It is neither New Moon, nor Sabbath,” why do you want to go see him today? Where was the man? In his field. What was he doing? Working.

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 Put the new moon day back in its rightful place in the lunar cycle, and suddenly (IF one is going outside and LOOKING at the Creator’s clock--the lights in the heavens) the Sabbaths will be announced by quarter phase moons before the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of each lunar cycle.  There is simply NO evidence in Scripture that the Sabbath is EVERY 7th day in succession. This is not merely my opinion, it is a natural fact. I can honestly make this claim, because I know that you cannot present a single text that says otherwise. There is simply NO evidence in Scripture that satyrday is the Sabbath.  This is not merely my opinion, it is a fact.  I can honestly make this claim, because I know that you cannot present a single text that says otherwise.  Scripture says that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week.  Whose week?  Yah’s week or the pagan planetary week?   Will you prove that satyrday is the Sabbath in this study?  If so, I will show you that Scripture calls satyrday observance idolatry.  I have a feeling you won’t even try to prove that satyrday is the Sabbath from Scripture. You are too wise to try the impossible, so I will give this evidence at the end of this study.  I already know you will ONLY try to poke holes in the Creation Calendar, as if undermining the Creation Calendar will somehow “prove a true” your doctrine, which has no support in Scripture.

So seven days after the new moon is the first Seventh-day Sabbath. The new moon is Day One of their month. Suppose the new moon is on a Wednesday for this month. This means that the next four Sabbaths will be on the next four Wednesdays. After the fourth Wednesday Sabbath, there will be about [one or] two days until the next new moon and then another seven days after that new moon before the next Seventh-day Sabbath.

Again, you have pretty accurately presented what we believe. I am pleased. One slight correction above.

This means that once a month they have eight to nine days in between their Sabbaths, breaking the simple one through seven count that God instituted at Creation (see Genesis chapter 1).

Yes, let’s do see Genesis 1.

The first part of your sentence is accurate; there is 8-9 days between Sabbaths from the last Sabbath of a month to the first of the following month.  But it does not break anything in Genesis 1.  In fact, Genesis 1 proves the Creation Calendar, at the same time it destroys your man-made calendar.  Creation (Genesis 1) began the first month of earth’s history, and began with a new moon day, described in Genesis 1:1-2.  That unnamed, unnumbered segment of time was dark, and it is not part of the SIX work days that followed.  In this Creation model, the Sabbath was indeed the seventh day of the week (it always has been), but it was the EIGHTH day of the first month.  It has always been that too, as well as the 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the lunar cycle.  Interestingly enough, because I went outside and looked, I discovered that the first quarter moon is seen directly overhead at sunset before the morning of the 8th, announcing the 8th as the Sabbath. 

I also discovered that the full moon later rose in the east at or after sunset before the morning of the 15th announcing the 15th as the Sabbath. I saw that I was onto something so I looked at sunset before the morning of the 22nd and saw nothing.  What happened?  The moon is moving at right angles to the earth approximately every 7.3 days (in relation to the sun), and 90 degrees from the full moon at sunset is DAWN.  So, I went outside the MORNING of the 22nd and lo and behold, there was the third quarter moon directly overhead, announcing the 22nd day as the third weekly Sabbath. Amazing. 

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Using this idea, I went out the morning of the 29th day of the lunar month and discovered that at dawn, I could see the last sliver in the east, announcing the 29th as the Sabbath.  If I saw the sliver that morning, there usually followed two days of new moon celebration (two dark days).  If the crescent was not seen, it was still the Sabbath, but there usually followed only ONE day of new moon (one dark day).  Nature is the FIRST gospel, and proves Scripture over and over again. Isn’t it amazing how all nature sings the wonder and majesty of Yah?  The sun AND moon were named as time pieces for all Yah’s calendar events.  You worship on satryday by counting out seven solar days in succession.  Please find and share with us those instructions in Scripture.   You see, Scripture says that the Sabbath would be regulated by either the sun OR the moon.  Leviticus 23:1-3 and Psalm 104:19 prove that this light is the moon.  Can I prove this in nature?  Absolutely.  Can you go outside, look at the sun, and tell me whether it is either a Sabbath or satyrday?  Nope.  Go outside on every morning and look at the sun as it is rising.  If you can tell the difference between satyrday and the other days of the pagan/papal calendar by looking at the sun, let us know. 

This then resets their Sabbaths for the next month on yet a different day of the week. They believe that the new moon is day one of the month, and they are correct here. In Exodus 12:2 God spoke to Moses and said, “This month (month in Hebrew means “moon”) shall be unto you the beginning of months.” With each new moon the Israelites began a new month and counted the days of the month from that new moon, which is why they had a special worship/celebration on this day each month to mark the beginning of the new month. However, lunar sabbatarians then carry this one step further and say that the Seventh-day Sabbath is also to be counted from the new moon, and they have no text from the Bible which says that. Here is where they make their first great error.

Again, you mislead your readers (underlined above). The Sabbaths are only “reset” when seen through the eyes of a pagan calendar or by those who observe a pagan calendar. The Sabbaths are always the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month. There is no resetting. It is quite set in stone.

We carry this a step further because an honest look at Scripture bids us do so. I do not wish to remain behind in my traditions, in bondage to a pagan/papal calendar, especially when YHVH bids me follow Him.

Genesis 1 begins with a single dark segment of time that is not counted with the other days of creation week. There is a new moon day that began last month, a new moon that began the second month of earth’s history, so what do you think began the FIRST month of the first year of earth’s history? New moon, Melody, and Genesis 1:1 is it. Neither the FIRST new moon day, nor the ones presented in Ezekiel 46:1, Amos 8:5, Isaiah 66:23 or II Kings 4:23 fell (or will fall) on a work day.

I’m sorry you don’t see it, but I would not send out this study if I were you. If there are any Bereans on your list, they will not simply take your word for it. When they examine the evidence and you and/or your study will be found wanting. Worse than that, you will be on record in heaven as fighting against Yah. You will be better served to remain silent in your disbelief than to share this with others. I know by that statement alone that I have just galvanized your determination to go forward with this feeble effort to stop the Creation Calendar. So be it. Nothing you say here will prevent the Creation Calendar from going forward or from gaining momentum. You have been warned. A word to the wise is sufficient. You should take the advice Gamaliel gave to Paul.

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Yah’s word and/or the historical record will destroy the remainder of this study. If you feel wounded in this effort might I suggest you put some distance between yourself and my intended target. I hate false doctrine, but I love sinners. Any shrapnel wounds you receive are a direct result of your own relationship to false doctrine and will have to heal naturally. But first, here is how I determine truth...  1. If I find a single text that says “thus saith YHVH”, (Deuteronomy 8:3b, Matthew 4:10, Luke 4:8), it is truth, and I must admit it, and obey His command, whether there are 2-3 witnesses or not. 2. If I find 2-3 witnesses, texts saying the same thing, (Genesis 41:32, Deuteronomy 19:15, II Corinthians 13:1) then it is truth that I must admit, and comply with. 3. If I find a chain of texts where there is an unfolding of truth, one expounding upon the other, (Isaiah 28:9-10), it is truth that I am responsible for. 4. If it agrees with the Torah and the prophets, neither adding nor subtracting anything, (Isaiah 8:20, Deuteronomy 4:2), it is the straight truth. 5. A lack of all the above means that something is NOT true. If there is no “thus saith YHVH, no 2-3 witnesses, no chain of textual evidence and no support found in the Torah and the prophets, then it is false. It is my privilege to admit it and tell others that it has no foundation in truth. Feel free to add a test of your own. As long as it is sustained in Scripture, I will abide by it. I will point you to one or more of these Scriptural tests for every point you attempt. And I will ask you for your evidence that abides by these same tests above.

God tells us in Genesis chapter one and again in Exodus 20:8-11 that the determination of the Seventh-day Sabbath is a simple one through seven day count.

However, lunar sabbatarians break this count once a month when they have eight to nine days in between Sabbaths—a position for which there is absolutely no Bible text.  Lunar Sabbaths are the seventh day of every week as proved by Nature, Genesis 1:1, 1:14-16, Psalm 104:19, Leviticus 23:1-3, and Ezekiel 46:1. Please share with me any Scripture that shows that the Sabbath is every seventh day in succession. Since you cannot provide this, I present Test #5 as evidence that you do err, not knowing the Scriptures. In Leviticus chapter 23 God clearly tells us that the yearly Sabbaths are to be counted from the new moon. All it would have taken was another one or two sentences for God to tell us that the Seventh-day Sabbath was also to be counted from the new moon—but there is no such text anywhere in the Bible.

Genesis 1:14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons [Strong’s Hebrew #4150, appointed times], and for days, and years:  Do you see first three words there?  That’s Test #1.  Psalm 104:19 He [YHVH] appointed the moon for seasons [Strong’s Hebrew #4150, appointed times]: the sun knoweth his going down.

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  Leviticus 23:1-3  And YHVH spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts [Strong’s Hebrew #4150] of YHVH, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts [Strong’s Hebrew #4150, both meaning appointed times]. Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of YHVH in all your dwellings.

Do you see that first verse?  That is also Test #1.    Do see a pattern?  In Genesis 1, Elohim says that one of two great lights will regulate His calendar appointed times.  In Psalm 104:19, David, under the inspiration of YHVH, says that the moon is the light that regulates Yah’s appointed times.  In Leviticus 23:1-3 YHVH tells Moses that the weekly Sabbath is His first calendar appointed time, the first in a list of appointed times.  This is Test #3.   Lunar sabbatarians violate many rules of Biblical interpretation to come up with their belief, but the one rule of Biblical interpretation that they violate the most is that we must never read more or less into a text than what it actually says. Here’s this rule from the Bible itself. . “Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.”  (Deuteronomy 4:2)  “If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”  (Revelation 22:18-19)  These are serious words not to be taken lightly. Every text that lunar sabbatarians quote to prove their position they are violating the principles in these last two texts because they always read into the text things that it does not say in order to support lunar Sabbaths. To refute every single one of their arguments would literally take a book to do, so we have chosen what they consider to be their biggest arguments for the lunar Sabbaths to cover in this newsletter.

Please look at Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19, and Leviticus 23:1-3 and tell me how we have violated Deuteronomy 4:2 or Revelation 22:18-19. I used these texts applying Test #3, Isaiah 28:9-10. I disagree with what I have underlined above.  It will not take a book.  It will take one of two things.  Show us a single text that says satyrday is the Sabbath OR that the Sabbath is every seventh day in succession.  You have written at least a chapter for a book here, yet you have failed to produce a single text to support the basis of YOUR sabbath. Shouldn’t that have been your FIRST duty? Their foundational text for this belief is Genesis 1:14 where it says that the lights in the heavens are to determine the “seasons.” The original Hebrew word behind “seasons” is “moed” which is the same word for “feasts” in Leviticus chapter 23. However, Genesis 1:14 does not tell us which heavenly light determines the feasts and this text also does not say which feasts are determined by these heavenly lights. [The underlined is a lame excuse. Are you looking for loopholes or the truth?]

Isn’t Genesis 1:14 about YHVH’s calendar? What appointed times do you find on His calendar?  Indeed, these are foundational texts, and you accurately presented how we use them, thank you.  But again, you let your own tradition prove your bias.  I let Scripture tell me what to believe.  Scripture says that of the two great lights, it is the moon that regulates the CALENDAR of Yah’s appointed times.

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  Psalm 104:19 He [YHVH] appointed the moon for seasons [Strong’s Hebrew #4150 appointed times]: the sun knoweth his going down. This doesn’t spell out which feasts either.

But this does. Read all of Leviticus 23 especially the first three verses. Here a little, there a little, line upon line.  Test #3 proves you are in error, not knowing the Scriptures.  We must ALWAYS let the Bible interpret itself and never read more into the Bible than what it says.   [Note: YHVH forgive me, You know that this is not what I believe. I am doing this to make a point.]   Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made [and on every seventh day in succession after that]. And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made. Genesis 2:1-3   Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But [every] seventh day [in succession] is the sabbath of YHVH thy Elohim: Exodus 20:8-10a   Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as YHVH thy Elohim hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work: But [every] seventh day [in succession] is the Sabbath of YHVH thy Elohim: Deuteronomy 5:12-14a   Melody, you have added the words in blue to Torah, not I. They are NOT in the original, yet this is what you want us to believe is the truth about the Sabbath of YHVH. I present Test #4 that you are in error, not knowing the Scriptures. You are adding to Torah, which is an accusation you bring against us, breaking the 9th commandment. Those words in blue are not in our Scriptures.  To find out which heavenly light determines the feasts we go to Psalm 104:19 which says, “He appointed the moon for seasons.” (The original Hebrew word behind “seasons” in this text is again “moed” or “feasts.”) So now the Bible has told us which heavenly light determines the feasts. Now we need the Bible to tell us which feasts are determined by the moon. In Leviticus chapter 23 God tells us that the timing of the yearly feasts are determined by the moon—but God never says the weekly feast, or Seventh-day Sabbath, is determined by the moon. Here is where lunar sabbatarians read more into the Bible than what it says and violate the texts where God severely warns us not to do so. The Bible NEVER says the timing of the weekly Sabbath is to be determined by the moon. God could have said so in one simple sentence in the Bible—BUT HE NEVER DOES. Bold emphasis my own.

Re Bold above: Melody, you just hung yourself with your own rope.  You JUST said that Psalm 104:19 is regarding the feasts of YHVH listed in Leviticus, and that these feasts are by the moon. Leviticus 23:1-3  And YHVH spoke unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts [Strong’s Hebrew #4150] of YHVH, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts [Strong’s Hebrew #4150, this is the word Mo’edim, meaning appointed times].

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Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of YHVH in all your dwellings.

Do you see that first verse?  That is Test #1.  The weekly Sabbath is clearly listed before the annual Mo’edim of YHVH.  The Sabbath is called an appointed time, Melody, right there in Leviticus 23! By your underlined sentence above, you are now diminishing aught (taking away) from Torah, saying that it does not say what it really does say! I present Test #4 that you do err, not knowing the Scriptures.   Lunar sabbatarians quote the following text most frequently as proof for their belief. “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.” (Ezekiel 46:1) They say that this text proves that there are three kinds of days, working days, Sabbath days, and new moon days and that these days never fall on each other as they are separate and distinct from each other. They are correct in that these are three different kinds of days,  I broke in here to thank you for telling the truth about what Lunar Sabbatarians believe and for admitting the truth. The new moon is a third category of day. This admission is strange considering you do not treat new moon days as a third category of day.  Your new moon days can fall on either work days or Sabbaths (admission below). Makes Isaiah 1:13-14 come to mind.

Nothing has been edited or deleted from your narrative.  Let’s continue...   …but except for a working day never falling on the Seventh-day Sabbath (see Exodus 20:8-11), the Bible never tells us that the new moon cannot fall on a Seventh-day Sabbath and that working days cannot fall on the new moon. Again, here is where they read more into the text than what it says. According to Leviticus 23:24 the Feast of Trumpets, a yearly Sabbath, falls on the new moon, showing that different kinds of days can indeed fall on each other. [NOTE: Trumpets is an annual Sabbath, not a weekly one. The point is that the new moon does not fall on a weekly Sabbath like it can with your new moon days.] We believe that Ezekiel 46:1 is simply saying that the gate is to be opened on the Seventh-day Sabbath and on the new moon.

Thus saith the Sovereign YHVH; 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.  Ezekiel 46:1   Do you see the first 5 words there?  That is Test #1.  Do you see the underlined in the text above? What have I added to this passage? Sorry Melody, it doesn’t simply say that the gate is opened on the weekly Sabbath and new moon.  It also says that the gates are shut all six work days.  Can you explain to me how a new moon (gate open) can fall on one of the six working days (gate shut)? There are only six work days each week, and they are all marked with a SHUT gate, Melody.   You do err, not knowing the Scriptures. You continue to run afoul of Deuteronomy 4:2, Test #4, (diminishing from Scripture) while maintaining that it is lunar Sabbatarians who are violating it.  

Lunar sabbatarians claim that the new moon is always a day of no work and therefore not one of the six working days. (When you understand their theology, they have to say this in order to make everything fit.) ....  

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Whoops! Breaking in here (without edition). I didn’t figure you could maintain your level of accuracy regarding what lunar Sabbatarians believe. But considering your track record, and if this is the only misstep, you still did very well. So far, you own opinion/tradition/bias is where you have gone wrong.  I know of a few lunar Sabbatarians who still maintain that all new moon days are non-work days, and this was originally my position as well as I was re-discovering the new moon days. It was a stepping stone. It is not the final destination of our effort to find the truth about new moon. The other “honest” lunar Sabbatarians will eventually come to the same knowledge as they study it out.  I should explain why I disagree with you here. It is indeed a fact, we have said in the past that all new moon days were non commerce days, some still do, but most of us have moved away from this entirely which means your parenthetical statement is completely false. We do not have to have it thus because we are still keeping the Creation Calendar quite well without maintaining the notion that no work may be done on regular new moon days.   ....They quote Ezekiel 46:1 which we have already covered, Isaiah 66:23, and Amos 8:5 as proof. Isaiah 66:23 says that in the new earth that all flesh will worship God on the new moon day but it does not say that the new moon day is a day of no work.   Agreed. It was Isaiah 66:23 that led us to believe that all new moon days were non-work days, but an honest evaluation of the text does not support this. Most of us have abandoned this idea altogether. Only the 7th new moon (trumpets) is a non-working new moon day. Those who are newer to the Creation Calendar are still discovering this, and I’m sure a few will dig in their heels and not move.   However, the Father laid the foundation of the earth on a new moon day (Genesis 1:1). This was the first day of the first month of the first year of earth’s history, which proves that the Sabbath was the 8th day of the first month. The desert tabernacle was raised on a new moon day (Exodus 40), and the command to lay the foundation of Solomon’s temple was given on new moon day (Haggai 1, 2, 8, 12). We are coming out of bondage to a Babylonian/pagan/papal calendar. What do you expect? That we will be in perfect obedience JUST like the Israelites were when they exited Egypt? Melody, if Yah afforded Israel the learning experience of the school of hard knocks, finding out the hard way what is NOT the way of Yah, why are you unwilling to permit us the same?   The difference between us is that we are learning, you are stagnant. Our faith and doctrine is alive and vibrant, yours is the dead tradition of your fathers.   We believe that yes, the new moon day is a day for God’s people to have a time of worship to God to mark the beginning of the month, kind of like a prayer meeting, but the Bible never commands us to not work on the new moon. We can and should have a worship time with God on working days and just because God’s people do so does not mean that this day is a Sabbath. Amos 8:5 says, “When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat…” We believe that this text is addressing the Feast of Trumpets because this is one time a year that a Sabbath falls on the new moon. It could also be addressing the few times that a Seventh-day Sabbath falls on a new moon.

Agreed.  Amos 8:5 is probably about Trumpets.  I find it interesting that you believe this about Amos 8:5, but you can’t figure out that this very verse presents evidence that new moon does not fall on any of the six work days, which is in total agreement with Ezekiel 46:1.  

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The following are texts where God’s people did work on the new moon. “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.” (Exodus 40:1-2) So God commanded all Israel to work on this new moon day and set up the tabernacle which was a lot of work. Ezra 7:9 states that Ezra took a long several month journey from Babylon to Israel that he began and ended this journey on the new moon. If the new moon was considered a day of no work, Ezra would not have done an extensive trip on this day. There is no prohibition against travel on new moon day, so I’m not sure what you think Ezra 7:9 proves. They are still a third category of day though, neither part of the six working days nor the weekly Sabbaths. Trumpets is the exception in that it is an annual Sabbath, but it is still neither a work day nor a weekly Sabbath. Interestingly, Trumpets is not every 7th new moon in succession, occurring only one time a year. The land Sabbaths are not every 7th year in succession, as Jubilees (the 50th year) disrupts the count between the last and first week of years. Likewise, the new moon disrupts the seven day weekly count once a month. That is 3 witnesses. This is Test #2. A biblical rule of interpretation is that all texts must harmonize or else we are not interpreting them correctly.  I agree. You hold us to this standard, and I hold myself to this standard, all my responses to your allegations meet this standard, but you do not hold yourself to this standard. I present your entire study above and below as evidence.  If Ezekiel 46:1, Isaiah 66:23, and Amos 8:5 are saying that ALL new moon days are days of no work, as lunar sabbatarians claim, then this puts those texts in conflict with Exodus 40:1-2 and Ezra 7:9. But, if one realizes that part of the time a Seventh-day Sabbath can fall on a new moon and that once a year the yearly Sabbath of the Feast of Trumpets falls on the new moon, and that the Bible never commands us to not work on the new moon, then all of these texts can be harmonized.

We no longer claim this (as underlined above).  And even when we thought they were all non-work days it never interfered with the Creation Calendar or the Sabbath being the 7th day of the week.  This argument is weak.  Remember, you agreed with us that there are three categories of day earlier?  There are STILL 6 work days and 4 Sabbath’s each month to go along with 1-2 days of new moon celebration each month.   Regarding your last sentence above: Please show me a single new moon in Scripture that falls on a WEEKLY Sabbath.  There isn’t one, so what harmony are you trying to tell us exists?  I can never “realize” something that is not a reality.  It is your OPINION that new moon can fall on a weekly Sabbath.  You have no evidence to prove it.  So, I call Test #5 to bear witness against your conclusion.    Another chapter lunar sabbatarians quote all the time as proving lunar Sabbaths is Exodus chapter 16. To understand what they say regarding this chapter, you have to realize that they claim that the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of the month are always a Seventh-day Sabbath, although the Bible never says this.   Never? Read Exodus 16:1-23 in context, Melody. YHVH is speaking to Moses on the 15th day of the 2nd month. Israel would get quail THAT evening (the 15th), and on the morrow, they would get manna for 6 days. Do the math. 16 – 17 – 18 – 19 – 20 – 21 - 22 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Never didn’t last very long did it?

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12 3 4 5 6 7 89 10 11 12 13 14 15 (got quail at even, manna the following morning) 16 17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 29

30  15 + 6 days of manna = 21. They got a single portion for 5 days, and twice as much manna on the 6th day (the 21st day of the month) because the “morrow” (22nd) was going to be the Sabbath. Since the 22nd is a Sabbath, so is the 15th (and the 8th, and the 29th).   Never? II Chronicles 7:8-10. Here Tabernacles is presented as a seven day feast (which agrees with Leviticus 23:33-39 and Numbers 29:12-34). And JUST like Leviticus 23 and Numbers 29 go on to say, II Chronicles 7 shows that this seven day feast is followed by a Sabbath, called the 8th day. This is the 22nd day of the seventh month. If the 22nd is a Sabbath, so then is the 15th (and the 8th, and the 29th). Melody, the “8th day” is a Hebrew idiom for the Sabbath.   How about a NT reference? The OT and NT agree that the weekly Sabbaths fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th days of the month, with not a single weekly Sabbath falling on a date OTHER than these.   See John 7:2, then John 7:37 through 9:14. Here the man from Galilee is seen speaking on the last day of Tabernacles. The entire OT says that Tabernacles is a seven day feast, which begins on the 15th day of the seventh month, so the 21st day of the seventh month is the last great day of Tabernacles. [There is no “last great day” in the Torah, which states that the last day of this feast is the 21st day.) On this date, Jesus is speaking. There is an argument, and everyone goes home. The following day, called the 8th day in the Torah (the 22nd day of the 7th month), they all convene again. Again, an argument ensues, and again everyone leaves. On his way, Jesus heals a man. Read John 9:14 to see what day this is. This day, the 22nd day of the 7th month is called the Sabbath, same as II Chronicles 7. And it is a weekly Sabbath in context. If the 22nd is a Sabbath, so then is the 15th (and the 8th, and the 29th).   These are only a few samples. There are many more. There is always harmony in the truth.   (Yes, some yearly Sabbaths fall on the 15th day of the month but these are yearly Sabbaths and not Seventh-day Sabbaths, although occasionally a Seventh-day Sabbath does fall on a yearly Sabbath, but not always.) They quote Exodus 16:1-2 which says, “And all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth ay of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses…” This text is from the King James Version which sounds like the Israelites traveled on the 15h day of the month. However, lunar sabbatarians, in order to prove their point, claim that the Septuagint is more accurate. (The Septuagint was a corrupt version of the Bible translated in Alexandria, Egypt, a hotbed of apostasy at that time and this version cannot be trusted as being accurate.) The Septuagint translates this text as saying, “And they departed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sina [sic-Sinai]; and on the fifteenth day, in the second month after their departure from the land of Egypt, all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron.” This version makes it appear that the Israelites had finished their traveling before the fifteenth day and then on the fifteenth day they complained. Either way, it really doesn’t matter, as we shall shortly see.

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It doesn’t matter?  Indeed, we shall see… In passing, the KJV version of Exodus 16 does not necessarily say that Israel traveled on the 15th.  It could just as easily be understood that they murmured on the 15th.  Remember, the punctuation is not inspired.  There are some who say the Septuagint is more accurate.  Some even say that Jesus was reading the Septuagint in the NT.  These are all just speculations and opinions and used to distract from the issue at hand.  Let’s stay on point.   Again, you overstep your bounds by claiming that lunar Sabbatarians say that the Septuagint is more accurate.  Perhaps some have, but I have never made this claim. This (the underlined above), is another false statement. You are bearing false witness (again).   In verse 4, God spoke to Moses and said that He would rain bread out of heaven. Lunar sabbatarians claim that God said on the fifteenth day (which they claim was a Seventh-day Sabbath) but here is where they read more into the text than what it says. The Bible does not say that God spoke to Israel on the same day they complained. Maybe God did, and maybe He didn’t. God might have waited several days to speak. The Bible simply doesn’t say.  Following our Biblical rule of interpretation that we can’t read more into a text than what it says, then we cannot conclude that for sure God spoke to the Israelites on the 15th day. ...   Breaking in without edition: Can you find another text in Scripture where the date is given and the events that followed did NOT happen on THAT date? Shame, shame. Why do you think that date was given, Melody? This is your most feeble excuse yet.

...In verse 5, God tells the Israelites that on the sixth day they were to gather twice as much manna. That’s because, according to verses 22-23 the sixth day was the day before the Sabbath and they were not to gather manna on the Sabbath. Lunar sabbatarians claim that this sixth day was the sixth day from the fifteenth day in verse 1 of this chapter. Again, lunar sabbatarians read more into these texts than what it says. The Bible never says that this sixth day was the sixth day from the fifteenth—lunar sabbatarians are assuming something the Bible does not say. When God spoke to Israel telling them about the manna, it could have been the third day of the week and then it would have only been three more days until the sixth day. We don’t know what day God spoke to Israel and we don’t know that it was six days from when He spoke until they were to gather a double portion of manna. All of this is “assumed” by lunar sabbatarians.   We have assumed? We take it as it reads. You are diminishing from it. Dates in Scripture are given for a reason, Melody. In order to defend your position, you have to assume the dates mean nothing.   The evidence so far is that you are assuming that satyrday is the Sabbath and because you make this assumption, you are assuming that it is every 7th day because satyrday is every 7th day of the current version of the Roman calendar. This is a self eating watermelon (circular reasoning). You have to do so because you have not offered a single text to support your assumption. And there IS NO support in Scripture for your assumption. Would you say all the dates in Ezekiel are given for no reason at all or do the events that follow occur on or begin on the dates given? This is such a feeble attempt it would be laughable if it were not to utterly, utterly sad.  Lunar sabbatarians, because they claim that God spoke to Israel on the 15th (which the Bible does not say) and that that 15th was a Seventh-day Sabbath (which the Bible also does not say), that the manna came down for the next six days from the 15th (again which the Bible does not say, the Seventh-day Sabbath then landed on the 22nd day of the month, proving that Seventh-day Sabbaths also always land on the 22nd day of the month (again something the Bible does not say). …

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Breaking in without edition. A simple reading of the passage shows your bias. You cannot read Scripture with a preconceived bias, Melody. You know better.

“As we take up the study of G-d’s word, we should do so with humble hearts. All selfishness, all love of originality, should be laid aside. Long-cherished opinions must not be regarded as infallible. It was the unwillingness of the Jews to give up their long established traditions that proved their ruin. They were determined not to see any flaw in their own opinions or in their expositions of the Scriptures; but however long men may have entertained certain views, if they are not clearly sustained by the written word, they should be discarded. Review & Herald, 7-26-1892 [All emphasis my own.] “Do not read the word in the light of former opinions; but, with a mind free from prejudice, search it carefully and prayerfully. If, as you read, conviction comes, and you see that your cherished opinions are not in harmony with the word, do not allow what you have believed or practiced in the past to control your understanding...Find out what is written, and then plant your feet on the eternal Rock.” Messages to Young People, p. 260

“The spirit in which you come to the investigation of the Scriptures will determine the character of the assistant at your side. Angels from the world of light will be with those who in humility of heart seek for divine guidance. But if the Bible is opened with irreverence, with a feeling of self-sufficiency, if the heart is filled with prejudice, Satan is beside you, and he will set the plain statements of G-d’s word in a perverted light.” Testimonies to Ministers, p. 108 “Those who are engaged in proclaiming the third angel’s message are searching the Scriptures upon the same plan that [William] Miller adopted. In the little book entitled ‘Views of the Prophecies and Prophetic Chronology,” [William] Miller gives the following simple but intelligent and important rules for Bible study and interpretation:-- ‘1. Every word must have its proper bearing on the subject presented in the Bible; 2. All Scripture is necessary, and may be understood by diligent application and study; 3. Nothing revealed in Scripture can or will be hid from those who ask in faith, not wavering; 4. To understand doctrine, bring all the scriptures together on the subject you wish to know, then let every word have its proper influence; and if you can form your theory without a contradiction, you cannot be in error; 5. Scripture must be its own expositor, since it is a rule of itself. If I depend on a teacher to expound to me, and he should guess at its meaning, or desire to have it so on account of his sectarian creed, or to be thought wise, then his guessing, desire, creed, or wisdom is my rule, and not the Bible.’” Review & Herald, 11-25-1884

This is one man’s opinion, and it is a good one. It agrees with the 5 rules to discover truth established in Scripture, given at the top of page 5 and repeated here (with the evidence for the Creation Calendar).

1. If I find a single text that says “thus saith YHVH”, (Deuteronomy 8:3b, Matthew 4:10, Luke 4:8), it is truth, and I must admit it, and obey His command, whether there are 2-3 witnesses or not.

Genesis 1:14, Leviticus 23:1-3, and Ezekiel 46:1 all begin with this or its equivalent. These texts support the Creation Calendar and destroy your calendar model. 2. If I find 2-3 witnesses, texts saying the same thing, (Genesis 41:32, Deuteronomy 19:15, II Corinthians 13:1) then it is truth that I must admit, and comply with.

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Three witnesses: Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20:20 all say that the Sabbath is a sign using the SAME Hebrew word found in Genesis 1:14-16. Two great lights were created for signs, seasons, days and years. Which of the two great lights in the heavens regulates the Sabbath, the sign of Yah’s True people? Can you go outside and look at the sun and tell me whether it is the Sabbath or satyrday? No you cannot, because that is the wrong light. These verses support the Creation Calendar.

Four witnesses: Ezekiel 46:1, Amos 8:5, Isaiah 66:23 and II Kings 4:23 all say that the new moon is a third category of day. These verses support the Creation Calendar while at the same time destroy the pagan/papal calendar which presently has no place for a third category of day. 3. If I find a chain of texts where there is an unfolding of truth, one expounding upon the other, (Isaiah 28:9-10), it is truth that I am responsible for.

Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19 and Leviticus 23:1-3, is a chain of texts in which the same Hebrew word can be found. Seasons and feasts are both translated from the Hebrew word, Mo’edim, which means set feasts or appointed times. Genesis 1 says that two great lights will regulate the signs (appointed times), seasons, days and years. Psalm 104 says that the light that regulates the seasons (appointed times) is the moon. [Clearly this is not about summer, fall, winter and spring as the moon has nothing to do with these events.] Leviticus 23 calls the Sabbath the first feast (appointed time). These verses together say that the moon regulates the weekly Sabbath. These texts support the Creation Calendar. 4. If it agrees with the Torah and the prophets, neither adding nor subtracting anything, (Isaiah 8:20, Deuteronomy 4:2), it is the straight truth. Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus ARE Torah. Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Amos ARE the prophets. 5. A lack of all the above means that something is NOT true. If there is no “thus saith YHVH, no 2-3 witnesses, no chain of textual evidence and no support found in the Torah and the prophets, then it is false. It is my privilege to admit it and tell others that it has no foundation in truth.

Please record the texts that say the Sabbath is every 7th day here: ______________________________

Please record the verses that call satyrday the Sabbath here: __________________________________

You know you don’t have any, and I know you don’t have any, so I took the liberty of giving you the opportunity of writing your supportive texts under Test 5.

Picking up where we left off…

This chapter is one of the major proof texts that lunar sabbatarians give, and as you see, they are reading all sorts of things into this chapter that the Bible does not say in order to prove their lunar Sabbaths. Some other major proof texts that they give are found in Leviticus chapter 23. Yes, yearly Sabbaths do fall on the 15th and on the 22nd days of some months in this chapter, but this chapter never says that the Seventh-day Sabbath also falls on these days, again a point which lunar sabbatarians assume but which the Bible does not state. Lunar sabbatarians make a very big deal out of saying that the Bible never gives any other dates for the Seventh-day Sabbath other than the 15th and the 22nd days of the month. But, the texts they quote as proof are speaking of the yearly Sabbaths and not the weekly—again twisting these Bible texts.

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I have to laugh at your accusation here.  This is entirely your opinion. It is satyrday sabbatarians who violently strain these texts by illegitimate spiritualizing. We are simply taking Scripture to mean what it says, and to say what it means.  I thank thee O Father, because you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babes. Matthew 11:25.

“For His church in every generation G-d has a special truth and a special work. The truth ... is revealed to the childlike and humble. .... At the outset its advocates are few. By great men of the world and by a world conforming church, they [the childlike and humble] are opposed and despised.... “As in earlier ages, the special truths for this time are found, not with the ecclesiastical authorities, but with men and women who are not too learned or too wise to believe the Word of G-d.” Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 78-79

You have both added and subtracted from Scripture throughout this entire diatribe against the Creation Calendar, Melody, and to compound your own error, you have insisted that lunar Sabbath keepers have been guilty of such.  Regarding your last two sentences above: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, please reexamine the passages at the bottom of page10 and the top of page 11.   Because of the great lack of Biblical support, lunar sabbatarians have to then delve into historical quotes to prove their Sabbath. Just briefly, so you can begin to see what we mean about how they twist their proof here is the following analysis of one of their quotes. …

Breaking in without edition: This is once again your opinion.  Above is a TON of Scriptural evidence. You have offered not a single text to support satyrday as the Sabbath. The weight of evidence is clearly NOT in your favor, considering you have yet to offer a single text that says satyrday is the Sabbath, or that the Sabbath is every 7th day in succession.

One of their biggest sources of proof is the writings of Philo the Jew. Philo was a Jew who was born in raised in Alexandria, Egypt, and who lived at the same time as Jesus. Lunar sabbatarians claim that Philo’s writings prove that the Jews during the time of Jesus were observing lunar Sabbaths and whatever the Jews were doing during the time of Jesus was correct because Jesus observed the Sabbath on the same day that the Jews of His time did. Lunar sabbatarians are correct when they say that the Jews in Jesus’ day were observing the Sabbath on the right day because that is when Jesus also observed the Sabbath. However, when we examined the quotes from Philo’s writings that lunar sabbatarians give, we find that Philo’s writings do not support lunar Sabbaths at all. Here’s a typical example. On one lunar sabbatarian’s website, we found the following quote from Philo as proof for lunar Sabbaths. The author of this website insists that the following quote proves that the Jews observed lunar Sabbaths during the time of Jesus on this earth. “The fourth commandment has reference to the sacred seventh day, that it may be passed in a sacred and holy manner. Now some states keep the holy festival only once in the month, counting from the new moon, as a day sacred to God; but the nation of the Jews keep every seventh day regularly, after each interval of six days.” Philo is saying here that some states (in other words, other nations that are not Jews) observe a holy festival counted from the new moon, BUT (anytime you see the word “but” you know a rebuttal to the previous quote is coming) the entire nation of the Jews observes the seventh day after an interval of six days. In other words, other pagan nations based their holy festival on the new moon, but instead the Jews observe their holy festival based on a simple seven day count and not from the new moon. This is what Philo is really saying in this quote.

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We are not forced to use Philo, but he DOES record the SAME lunar Sabbath as Scripture. Would you like to see the evidence?  By the way, you will find Philo saying that the Sabbath is satyrday and/or every 7th day about as often as Scripture does.  Which is not once! Here is what Philo means when he uses the term “week”.   In Allegorical Interpretation, 1 IV (8), it says…

“Again, the periodical changes of the moon, take place according to the number seven, that star having the greatest sympathy with the things on earth. And the changes which the moon works in the air, it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each seventh day. At all events, all mortal things, as I have said before, drawing their more divine nature from the heaven, are moved in a manner which tends to their preservation in accordance with this number seven. …Accordingly, on the seventh day, Elohim caused to rest from all his works which he had made.” [All emphasis my own.]

Notice that Philo says the moon is perfect in its shape or appearance at each seventh day of the week. Had a Hebrew speaking Israelite written this he would have said “it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each Sabbath day instead of each “seventh” day because elsewhere in his writings, Philo identifies that when he mentions the seventh day [of the week] he is speaking of the Sabbath. Above, he tells us that the moon perfects its own configurations on each seventh day, meaning on each Sabbath, not every 7 days in succession because the moon is not on a perfect seven day cycle without interruption. If you add the new moon days as a third category of day, the moon is perfected in accordance with the Sabbaths (the seventh day of each week). It was understood that at the end each period of six work days there would be a weekly Sabbath. Here is more evidence from Philo what he means by week or seventh day: The Decalogue XXX (159),

“But to the seventh day of the week he has assigned the greatest festivals, those of the longest duration, at the periods of the equinox both vernal and autumnal in each year; appointing two festivals for these two epochs, each lasting seven days; the one which takes place in the spring being for the perfection of what is being sown, and the one which falls in autumn being a feast of thanksgiving for the bringing home of all the fruits which the trees have produced”… [All emphasis my own.]

To the seventh day of the week He [the Father above] has assigned the greatest festivals, in other words, the greatest (or longest) festivals have been assigned to the seventh day of the week.  Philo, keeping the same luni-solar calendar established in Scripture, calls the first day of each of these seven day feasts the “seventh day of the week”. Scripture says that both of the seven day feasts (Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) begin on the 15th day of their respective months. These are annual feasts, so the first day these feasts must be is the seventh day of the week EVERY year. If the 15th is the weekly Sabbath, so are the 8th, 22nd and 29th days of the month.

Notice Philo did not say they would receive two holydays of festivals, but one, the 15th. Satyrday Sabbath keepers insist that there will be a satyrday Sabbath that interrupts these seven day feasts, and indeed, if the Gregorian calendar were the calendar of Scripture that would be true. But Scripture says nothing of a [satyrday] Sabbath in the middle of these 7 day feasts. To prove the seventh day of the week is the same as the 15th, elsewhere Philo states: 

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“And this feast is begun on the fifteenth day of the month, in the middle of the month, on the day on which the moon is full of light, in consequence on the providence of Elohim taking care that there shall be no darkness on that day.”  Special Laws II, The Fifth Festival, Section XXVIII (155)

How have we been forced to twist these historical documents? They say the same thing as Scripture. Melody, these quotes from Philo are on my website. You continue to mislead your readers not only with your bias for satyrday observance, but your bias against the Creation Calendar, and now you are putting words in Philo’s mouth as well. If you cannot present your “evidence” with candor, you should not present it at all. Any student worthy of the title “Berean” will find you out.

Here is how the lunar sabbatarian interpreted the above quote. He says that the “states” that observed their festival according to the new moon were Jewish states and since these states observed their festival according to the new moon, this is proof that the Jews figured their Seventh-day Sabbath according to the new moon. But notice that these same “states” only kept this holy festival once a month! If this lunar sabbatarian is correct, then the Jews who figured their Sabbath according to the new moon were only observing one Sabbath per month. We know that the Jews observed their Sabbath once a week and not once a month; therefore, this reference to these states that observed their holy festival once a month according to the new moon CANNOT possibly be Jews. Yet this is the proof that is given from Philo the Jew that the Jews observed lunar Sabbaths.

No, he said SOME of these states observed the Sabbath only once a month.  You are misquoting Philo, again. These people were just as in error as you are.  They look at the same text you do (which says seventh day) and they took it to mean ONLY the 7th day.  You take it to mean EVERY 7th day.   We decided to research the context of this quote and we found Philo’s entire article on the internet at http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/text/philo/book26.html. Right after the above quote, we found the following statement of Philo’s which the lunar sabbatarian conveniently left out. “The commandment, in effect says: Always imitate God; let that one period of seven days in which God created the world, be to you a complete example of the way in which you are to obey the law, and an all-sufficient model for your actions. Moreover, the seventh day is also an example from which you may learn the propriety of studying philosophy; as on that day, it is said, God beheld the works which he had made; so that you also may yourself contemplate the works of nature, and all the separate circumstances which contribute towards happiness.” All emphasis supplied by Melody Drake.

Let Philo tell you want he means by seventh day:   Philo is saying the weekly Sabbath begins these feasts, and is on the 15th. This proves the Sabbaths by the lunar calendar because there is no way the weekly Sabbath (the 15th) can begin these two festivals on the 15th in the 1st and 7th month each year, on a continuous seven day cycle presented by the pagan/papal Gregorian calendar you have, use and hold so dear today.

Speaking of “lunar” intervals, in Special Laws I. (178), Philo writes…

“…there is one principle of reason by which the moon waxes and wanes in equal intervals, both as it increases and diminishes in illumination; the seven lambs because it receives the perfect shapes in periods of seven days—the half-moon in the first seven day period after its conjunction with the sun, full moon in the second; and when it makes its return again, the first is to half-moon, then it ceases at its conjunction with the sun.” [All emphasis my own.]

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The half-moon (first quarter moon) announces the first Sabbath of the month. It is the seventh day of the week, naturally, but this is the 8th day of the month. New moon day is not counted against the week. The full moon rising at the end of the 14th day of the month announces the 15th as the second Sabbath of the month. If the new moon was counted, the quarter phases (or as Philo describes them, the moon as it perfects in its own configurations on each seventh day) would not come at the end of the week, disconnecting the perfection of the lunar cycle from the Sabbath. What YHVH has joined together, let not man put asunder.

Philo gives a second witness in On Mating with the Preliminary Studies, XIX (102)…

“For it is said in the Scripture: On the tenth day of this month let each of them take a sheep according to his house; in order that from the tenth, there may be consecrated to the tenth, that is to Elohim, the sacrifices which have been preserved in the soul, which is illuminated in two portions out of the three, until it is entirely changed in every part, and becomes a heavenly brilliancy like a full moon, at the height of its increase at the end of the second week”. [All emphasis my own.] Please let what Philo just said sink in. His readers in those days understood that the weeks were by the moon, same as in Scripture, and that at the end of the second week there would be a full moon. This statement needs no interpretation and is impossible to misunderstand.  The sacred seventh day of the week, which comes at the end of the second week of each month, is a full moon Sabbath (Psalms 81:3-6). People would like for us to believe that the months were originally by the moon but the weeks were not. Friend, is there a Sabbath at the end of that second week?

Philo did not count the new moon when counting out the weeks as calendars do today. This statement is very easily proven from the writings of Philo because he states in other places throughout his book that the full moon is seen at end of the second week, the 15th each month, and he also separates the new moon from the weeks as a separate feast day.  Writers today would instead count the new moon day in counting their weeks, but it is obvious from Philo that he did not. Philo recognized the same order of the month as is described in Scripture. Ezekiel 46:1 and verse 3 proves that the new moon and Sabbaths cannot fall on any of the six working days. See also Amos 8:5, II Kings 4:23 and Isaiah 66:22-23 for corroborating witnesses.  If the new moon was counted as the first day of the first week, at the end of the second week the full moon would rise before the 14th instead of the 15th which Philo plainly declares many times. In other words you have your new moon worship day, then six work days and then the weekly Sabbath on the 8th day of the moon (Ezekiel 46:1). You then have six more workdays and a full moon seen before day 15 or at the end of the second week or second seven. The first day (below) is not a Sabbath, it is not a satyrday; it is a new moon day, a third category of day.

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in Genesis 1 or in Exodus 16 when he made the Sabbath known to Moses.  If the new moon, the first day of the month, was ever counted in counting out the weeks in Scripture, there would be pinpointed weekly Sabbaths on the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th etc.  Yet, you cannot find these days pinpointed as the weekly Sabbath anywhere in Scripture because these days are always preparation days for the weekly Sabbath, i.e. Passover (Abib 14) is preparation day for Abib 15, the Sabbath of Unleavened Bread. When Philo spoke of the 10th or 15th day of the month, he was counting the new moon day in his count. When Philo refers to the Sabbath, he calls it the 7th day of the WEEK. It is an absolute that when he counted out the days of the week, he did not count the new moon, which in itself proves lunar weeks. Weeks and months are distinct segments of time. Philo’s account agrees with Scripture.    In other words, Philo was saying that Creation Week was to be the model that we are to follow today. Just as God worked for six days and then rested on the seventh day, so we are to work for six days and rest on the seventh day. …

Breaking in without edition: In other words, Philo actually presents lunar weeks, same as Scripture. 

We find that Philo is absolutely correct. …

Breaking in without edition: Good. We are in agreement then. So why don’t you keep the same Sabbath described in Scripture and Philo’s writings?

In Genesis chapter one which covers Creation, God tells us how to figure the timing of the Seventh-day Sabbath. It is a simple count of one through seven. Work six days and rest the seventh and this cycle is never to be broken. Remember, lunar sabbatarians break this simple seven-day count once a month when they have eight to nine days in between their Sabbaths. God gives us no such model in Genesis chapter one. And neither does God give us any command anywhere in the Bible to figure the Sabbath in this manner. Thus, we find that this “proof” from Philo the Jew has been absolutely twisted. Furthermore, the context this quote was taken from is totally ignored as the context does not support lunar sabbaths at all but rather a simple seven-day cycle that is never to be broken and which lunar sabbatarians do break.

Philo worked six days and rested on the seventh.  So does every lunar Sabbath keeper.  Does Philo ever say satyrday is the Sabbath?  No.  Does Philo say that the Sabbath is every seven days in succession?  No, he says it is the seventh day of the week, then goes on to show that those weeks are lunar in origin, each week ending in a quarter phase of the moon, written right there in his book.   Nothing was twisted, no smoke, no mirrors, no bailing wire or duct tape.  We present what Philo says.  You took a quote, took it out of context, and twisted it to mean something other than what Philo intended.  Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, what think ye?  Who twisted Philo’s words?   Lunar Sabbatarians do not break the successive seven day count because there never was one.  Philo does not recognize 8-9 day weeks and neither do any lunar Sabbath keepers.  Those 1-2 days are new moon days.  They are not week days.  Melody, you AGREED that they were a third category of day, yet you think that they fall on week days and Sabbaths.  How can a new moon day (category 1), that is NOT a week day (category 2) and NOT a Sabbath (category 3) fall on either a week day or a Sabbath?  You are double minded and speak with a forked tongue, Melody, make up your mind.  Are there three categories of day in your system of belief or not?  If so, treat them separately.  

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Because lunar sabbatarians begin their month with the new moon, their first day of the week can land on any day of our week and their seventh day of the week can also land on any day of our week.   You need to make yourself clear here, Melody.  The new moons and Sabbaths can land on any day of YOUR pagan-papal week; they don’t with the Scriptural weeks. You are comparing apples and oranges but won’t admit it, or don’t understand it. New moon days and Sabbaths do not fall on any day of the Creation Calendar week. New moon always is the first day of the month, and is never counted as a work day. The Sabbaths are always the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month.

You are applying the dates of the Scriptural Sabbath to a calendar that has only been around since 1582. The last word of the NT was written before the first century A.D. was over. Why do you seem to think that the Calendar found in Scripture has to meet YOUR calendar model when it took another 1,400 years before YOUR calendar model even showed up on the historical landscape?  On one lunar sabbatarian’s website who either used to be a Seventh-day Adventist or still is (which we are not sure) he uses Ellen White quotes and also boldly states that Ellen White never called Saturday the Sabbath. In researching her writings to prove this claim true or false, we found numerous quotes where she says that Saturday is the Sabbath, that Sunday is the first day of the week, and that Friday is the preparation day for the Sabbath. Here’s one quote where she describes her explaining the Sabbath to some who observed Sunday. “I began by reading a text in the first of Genesis. Then I read the fourth commandment. When I had read this, they said, ‘Yes, but Sunday is the seventh day.’ I explained to them that Sunday is the first day, and that the day called Saturday by the world is the seventh day. Then I read the last six verses of the thirty-first chapter of Exodus, where the Sabbath is clearly specified as the sign between God and His people.” (Letter 163, 1904) So SDA lunar sabbatarians quote from Ellen White when they find it convenient and then ignore many other quotes from her writings; thus they pick and choose from her writings.

If you are referring to me, I was referring to ONE single article, one called The Creation Sabbath.  In this article, EGW never calls satyrday the Sabbath, and the whole article is about the Sabbath established at Creation.  IF you are referring to me, you are a false witness, misrepresenting what I said before your readers.   I agree with EGW.  Satyrday IS a seventh day of the week as called “by the world”--the pagan seven day planetary week that was adopted by Rome and forced upon the Roman Empire by papal decree.  But when Constantine adopted this week, satyrday was the first day of that calendar.  It is now the seventh day of the week by virtue of Constantine, not Scripture.   Another source lunar sabbatarians quote from frequently as proof for lunar Sabbaths is the Encyclopedia Biblica such as the following quote. ““The introduction...of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath. . .” (Encyclopedia Biblica, p. 5290). We found that one of the authors of this Encyclopedia Biblica was from Oxford University, which is a Jesuit university, and therefore was most likely a Jesuit. (Since Jesuits are notorious for twisting the truth we do not want to base our faith on them.)   Agreed. I do not need to ever use another quote by this Encyclopedia. By the way, it was a Jesuit astronomer, Christopher Clauvius, who was the scientific mind behind Pope Gregory’s calendar. When are you going to stop basing your faith on them and the seventh day of their week?  

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One lunar sabbatarian, in commenting about what the Encylopedia [sic] Biblica says, states that they do not know when the Sabbath changed from a lunar sabbath to being reckoned on what is now our Saturday. However, we found that the Encyclopedia Biblica did address the timing as being before the Bible was written. Here’s the quote. “We cannot tell when the Sabbath became dissociated with the month, but the change seems to have been made before the Book of the Covenant, which already regards the Sabbath simply as an institution of humanity, and ignores the new moon.” (Encyclopedia Biblica, p. 4179) In researching what they meant by the “Book of the Covenant” we found they meant the Torah or the first five books of the Old Testament. So these authors are saying that lunar Sabbaths existed before the Bible was written (they don’t give any proof for this statement and so we wonder by what authority they make this statement to begin with) and that by the time the Bible was written the Sabbath was no longer determined by the moon. [Yah does not change. If the Sabbath was EVER by the moon, it still is. The proof for the lunar Sabbath is in Scripture itself.]  Hmm. I vaguely remember reading this somewhere recently: “We found that one of the authors of this Encyclopedia Biblica was from Oxford University, which is a Jesuit university, and therefore was most likely a Jesuit. (Since Jesuits are notorious for twisting the truth we do not want to base our faith on them.)” Sister Melody, you now are using a quote from this SAME resource to prove your point. Is it possible to be any more disingenuous than this?

The quote used says “seems to have been made…”. This is not a definitive statement and I can show you other quotes that differ. They differ because you cannot count backward by 7 to the crucifixion and find a satyrday Sabbath, so the change took place AFTER the NT was penned.  This is an admission that lunar Sabbaths are not in the Bible at all. If lunar Sabbaths are not in the Bible, we do not want to follow lunar Sabbaths. Our entire faith must be based on the Bible. Furthermore, the Torah gives the history of the world back to Creation; therefore, if lunar Sabbaths are not in the Bible, they were never ordained by God. Thus the Encyclopedia Biblica, rather than proving lunar Sabbaths, disproves them.   I agree that the lunar calendar pre-dates the writing of the Torah, but this one particular resource is only one opinion of when it was abandoned.  Since the Sabbath’s are lunar in both the OT and the NT, and many scholarly references that concur, I can without hesitation or guilt discard this quote you have presented that places the change before the Torah was written. You do not believe the lunar Sabbath and you can find plenty of scholarly references that support YOUR position. That makes the works of scholars a little schizophrenic, going either and all directions at once. Do yourself a favor; stick to Scripture. If certain scholars are unbelievers, they will be responsible for your blood. If the scholars are telling the truth, you would do well to heed their words or your blood will be on your own head.

Here is how I figure out if the scholars are telling the truth. To the law [Torah] and the testimony [of the prophets], if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20.

I accept the quotes from any scholar, Jesuit or otherwise, if their recorded words concur with the Torah and/or the prophets. Balaam was expected to listen to the words of an ass. Why, because the donkey was telling him the truth. It’s the message, Melody, not the messenger that counts.   On two prominent lunar sabbatarians’ websites they state that the cross is the one unanswerable objection to a Saturday Sabbath and that this is the biggest proof of all for lunar Sabbaths.

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Breaking in without edition… No, this is the most condemning evidence for the continued satyrday observance by SDA’s since they made that statement in 1883. Scripture is the evidence of reality, the SDA quote (below) is just their observation of and comment on the reality.

On one of their websites they show a calendar of the month of April for AD 31, the year Jesus was crucified. On this calendar they show that in April, AD 31, Passover fell on Wednesday. The Bible is clear that the year Jesus died, Passover came on the “preparation day” or the day before the Seventh-day Sabbath. So, these lunar sabbatarians reason, the year Jesus died the Sabbath was on Thursday and only with a lunar Sabbath reckoning can the Sabbath ever land on a Thursday, thus proving lunar Sabbaths, they say. (We couldn’t find a calendar for AD 31 and so when we asked these lunar sabbatarians where they got this calendar, they stated that up until about two years ago NASA had this information on their website. So, we are having to take their word for this.)

Interrupting without edition: You do not have to take anyone’s word for it, any moon phase calculator that is able to go backward in time will tell you the same thing. Any software whiz can obtain a lunar mathematic equation and apply it. QuickPhase, Sky View Café, and EZComos will tell you the SAME thing that the SDA pioneers were suspicious of in 1843, stated in 1883, and proved in 1938-39 by doing their homework the hard way.

IF one goes back in time, counting by the current calendar weeks, 7-6-5-4-3-2-1, all the way back to 31 A.D., Passover falls on what we now call wednesday. You know full well that the day following was the weekly Sabbath because the NT writers indicate that the weekly Sabbath (an high day) followed.

Here is the graphic from QuickPhase for April, 31 A.D. This is projecting a Gregorian calendar week back into time (some 1500 years before the Gregorian calendar even existed).

  April 0031  

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday1 2 3

LQ4 5 6 7

8 9 10NM

11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18FQ

19 20 21

22 23 24 25FM

26 27 28

29 30

Notice that there is a full moon seen on what we now call wed, april 25, 0031. That day would have been Passover. The full moon is announcing the following day as the weekly Sabbath JUST like Philo said, only Philo said that the full moon comes at the END of the second week. Funny, this full moon is in the middle of this pagan/papal Roman week. I wonder what calendar Philo was observing.

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The SDA church admitted that the one unanswerable objection regarding the Sabbath was – the Cross. Here is that quote: On page 66 of the online 1883 Yearbook, (see last page) appeared the following statement beneath the calendar for July:

“Those who disbelieve in the seventh-day Sabbath bring against it numerous objections, all of which are readily answered with the exception of one, –THE CROSS. This is the great, the unanswerable objection to the Bible Sabbath.” (Capitalization in original)

So from the early 1840’s to 1883, early Adventists were UNABLE to prove that satyrday was the Sabbath. There is a reason for this. Satyrday is not the Sabbath. The Sabbath is the seventh day of the Hebrew week, not the pagan seven day planetary week.

However, one important critical fact our lunar sabbatarians did not take into consideration is that the timing of Passover is supposed to be when the barley in Israel is ready to be harvested. (A paper proving this is on our website at www.godsholidays.com. This paper is too long to be included in this current newsletter but we strongly suggest that you study it so that you will more clearly understand what we are saying here.) In AD 31, if the barley harvest was not ripe for an April Passover, then Passover would have been delayed until May. Indeed, in AD 31, a May Passover falls on Friday.

That’s right, IF. The problem is that the barley is ready 14 days after the new moon nearest the Equinox. The other problem is that the barley was not given as a sign until Israel entered the land. The original command was that the moon would regulate the appointed times. (Genesis 1:14, Palm 104:14). Exodus 12:2 clearly shows how to determine the first month of the year. Do you see YHVH telling Moses to look for barley? No, they were looking at the moon. The word chodesh is used THREE times in this passage, clearly saying that the moon is the beacon that heralds the new year (after the sun is back in the spring season, of course). The barley will NEVER be ripe as late as May unless something catastrophic happens to alter the earth’s relationship with the sun and moon again. Abib begins in late march or early april. Sister Ellen even says as much, and you know this for a fact Melody, but you are leaning on the arm of flesh.

According to the journal entitled “Climatic Change” the barley harvest in the Middle East can vary by as much as forty days, depending on the rain and how cool the winter is. (You can read the article at www.springerlink.com/content/p750303vj3n1578w/.) According to NASA the full moon in May (Passover son the full moon) in AD 31 is May 25. If our lunar sabbatarian friends’ calendar is accurate for April, AD 31, then counting from April, May 25 fell on Friday. Some say this would be too late for either Passover or the barley harvest.

That is because it is too late. Funny, you had no way to prove what we have said about Passover and the full moon being on a wednesday in 31 A.D., yet you have “proof” from NASA that the full moon would fall on friday, the 25th of pagan month of may (a mere month later). Once again, your deceit shows, Sister Melody.

However, according to NASA at http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phases0001.html, all dates given for the moon cycles before AD 1582 are according to the Julian calendar. This was because in AD 1582 the calendar was changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. At that time 10 days were added to the calendar in order to adjust the calendar back to being in sync with the seasons but the days

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of the week did not change. So, to go back to the Julian calendar and adjust it according to our seasons, we would subtract ten days from the calendar. Thus, the Passover date of Friday, May 25 was really Friday, May 15 in our calendar.

You have GOT to be kidding me? This is the shoddiest work you’ve done yet. Sister Melody, if you don’t know your facts, STOP trying to sound like you do, you are misleading people, and their blood may be on YOUR head. Two things here….

1. Passover has never occurred in the pagan month of may, and never will, so stop trying to force it to prove your pagan theology.

2. The ten days had to be added ONLY AFTER 1628 years had passed. The Julian calendar was 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer every year than the solar year, this added up to 10 days AFTER the 1628 years from 46 B.C. when the Julian calendar was established until 1582 when it was corrected. From 46 B.C. to 31 A.D., less than 14.5 HOURS would have to be added to the calendar. That is less than half of ONE day.

Would you please let someone who knows something about history or astronomy help you? This is embarrassing and I am on the other side of the issue. It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Proverbs 18:13.

Since the above article on the climates in the Middle East stated that the barley harvest could vary by as much as forty days, then it is entirely possible to have a May Passover in AD 31 land on a Friday, thus disproving the lunar sabbatarians’ biggest argument (according to them) for lunar sabbaths. Only those who believe in dating Passover from the barley harvest can show lunar sabbatarians’ “biggest” argument for lunar Sabbaths to be false, which is why you need to read the article on our website regarding this.   Those 40 days would be from march 20 or so to april 30. The Hebrew calendar started to lose time after YHVH dented His clock, so the Israelites began adding a 13th month 7 times every 19 years. Abib always corresponded to about late march to early april. The lunar cycle lost 11 days every year, necessitating the addition of a 13th month every 2 to 3 years to keep Abib aligned with Spring. That means that Passover would be going the opposite direction (earlier in the year) not LATER in the year as you have vainly tried to prove here.

I have never used barley as an indicator of Passover. Passover is observable without seeing ripe barley. This barley was a second witness, added only after they entered the land of promise, not the primary witness to the seasons (appointed times). Genesis 1:14 and Exodus 12:2 reveals the primary witness: a certain chodesh MOON. It was look up (see the moon), then look down (at the barley). If the moon is right, the barley will be there as a second witness.  This paragraph addresses the biggest historical quote used by lunar sabbatarians. …

Breaking in without edition: The biggest historical quote? Not hardly. Here is the quote from the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, referred to below: ‘The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.’ Melody, as we used to say it back home, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” If you find fault with this quote, there are plenty more historical quotes coming up.

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…The following was written by our friend, Merwin Abbott. I quote him because I have been unable to find this historical quote on the internet. I emailed one lunar sabbatarian leader who has this quote on their website and asked where they got this quote and they admitted they had not seen the original source themselves, but simply got it from another lunar sabbatarian. …

Breaking in without edition: If you cannot find the quote on the internet, how do you expect us to? I don’t need 10 volumes of a Jewish encyclopedia. The Jews are not Israelites, they are Edomites-Khazars, Esau’s descendants, so I’m not going to purchase their encyclopedia. I will accept this quote since its use is widespread, accepted, and has not been refuted or its authenticity disputed.

…In this following paragraph, Merwin Abbott states that he has seen this quote and read the context. Here is what he says: “Several years ago I challenged a lunar sabbatarian friend to give me historical evidence that Yahweh’s people ever observed Lunar Sabbaths. In response, he gave me a photocopy of a page from The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. On that page, he conveniently highlighted the following sentence for me to read: ‘The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.’ We can definitely understand how someone might read the above commentary and then subsequently question the origin of the traditional Sabbath that has been handed down to us by Judaism, especially since the remark is found in a Jewish reference!

Breaking in again: Herein lies the rub. The Sabbath Bro. Merwin is in reference to (underlined above) is the traditional Sabbath, the one handed down by Judaism. In fact, Merwin himself admitted to me that Judaism is “the Mother of all harlots, not the Catholic church.” Judaism was combining paganism with the true faith of Israel LONG before the papacy. Judaism is a religious amalgamation, a cross between the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob with the mystery religion of Babylon.

In 70 A.D., the last 2 tribes of Israel were scattered, the first 10 leaving the scene 700 years before.  These 12 tribes are said to be lost to history, not retaining their true identity, But they are still around. In the 4th century A.D., the papacy came to power, thinking to change times and laws.

Sometime between 700 and 900 A.D., the king of the Khazars sent out messengers asking that representatives of every known religion to present themselves before him.  The Khazars were looking for a national religion, and wanted to see what was available.  As fate would have it, they selected the religion of the Babylonian Rabbis (the ones that did not go back to Israel with Ezra and Nehemiah).  Did you catch that?  The last of the 12 tribes of REAL Israelites had been scattered some 700-900 years previous, yet the Khazars adopted Judaism, a form of the Hebrew religion.  The only ones known to be practicing a form of the Hebrew religion at that time were the Babylonian Rabbis.

The Khazars went into history in the dark ages known as “the Jews”.  Not because they are Israelites by race or even because they worship YHVH, rather, it is because they adopted the paganized religion (the Talmud) of the Babylonian Rabbis.  The word Jew was a new word in the vernacular in 1611 when the KJV was translated, inserted where the word Judahite, Judean, or Israelite SHOULD have been.  Go ahead, if you doubt me, I challenge you to use a Strong’s Concordance and look at the underlying Hebrew and Greek words EVERY TIME where the word Jew is used in the KJV.

The Jews are not Israelites, Melody, (here it is from their OWN lips...see below) yet you trust Judaism for your Sabbath doctrine.  I know Merwin does in spite of his own admission of their harlotry.

“Here is a paradox . . . A most ingenious paradox: an anthropological fact, many Christians may have much more Hebrew-Israelite blood in their veins than most of their Jewish neighbors.”  Jewish author,

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Alfred M. Lilienthal, What Price Israel, p. 223.

The 1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3, in the first chapter entitled, “Identity Crisis” said… “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew and ‘Israelite’ or a ‘Hebrew.’”

The people who are known today as Jews are descendants of Abraham, but not of Isaac and Jacob.  History reveals that they are actually the descendants of the fierce Turkish, Khazar tribes which roamed regions of southern Russia and who adopted Judaism between 7th and 9th centuries A.D.

“Today, the Khazars are known as ‘Jews,’ not because of any racial question, but because of their religion.”  (Jewish historian, Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, New York: Random House, Inc. 1976)

Koestler also states that: …the Jews were “mint-masters, administrators of the royal revenue, tax collectors and ‘money lenders’ – i.e. bankers . . . Foreign trade and levying of customers duties had been the Khazars’ principal source of income. . .” A True Israelite would never charge usury.

Koestler also wrote that during the dark ages, they lost the name KHAZAR and became known as “Jews.”  (The Thirteenth Tribe, New York: Random House, Inc. 1976, pp. 152-161)

The Jews own all the major banks, all the major print media (newspapers, and news magazines), all of Hollywood, nearly all the major TV stations.  Everywhere the “Jews” went, they entered into a growing economic nation and left it in tatters, looting the wealth with their usury.  The Jews have been hated, despised, persecuted and run off throughout their history not because they crucified Jesus (his own people did that), but because of their usury.  What the Jews had not already stolen from the common man, the papacy later took.  Here’s the kicker...

The Khazars are descendants of Esau. The Khazars claim Mt. Seir as their point of origin (Jewish Encyclopedia, 1901-6, Vol. IV, p. 3). Mt. Seir was the origin of the Edomites that descended from Esau.  (Genesis 36:1-6, Deuteronomy 2:4-5). YHVH says, Jacob I have loved, Esau I have hated. 

Judaism started with apostate Israelites in Babylon and was later adopted by the Jews. The legitimate Israelites had long been scattered to the four corners of the earth so the only “Israelite” representatives the king of the Khazars found when interviewing for their new state religion were the Babylonian Rabbis.  That is why there are eggs on the Jew’s table at Passover, and they observe the sabbath from sundown f-day to sundown satyrday, and their months from the first visible crescent (along with many other pagan/Babylonian traditions).  These are traditions that cannot be found in Torah because they are the (pagan) traditions of men.  The Babylonian rabbis tried to gain control of the calendar early on, but as long as Jerusalem was the religious center for Israel, the Jerusalem rabbis held control. Please read the following...

Babylonian Rabbis Divorce the Sabbath

While the influence of Rome caused the early Christians to adopt a continuous seven-day week with the Sabbath on every seventh day, the Israelites came under a more subtle influence. Following the

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destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D., the Palestinian Israelites struggled hard to retain control of the sacred calendar. Notes the Encyclopedia Britannica:

“The calendar was originally fixed by observation, and ultimately by calculation. Up to the fall of the Temple (A.D. 70), witnesses who saw the new moon came forward and were strictly examined and if their evidence was accepted the month was fixed by the priests. Eventually the authority passed to the Sanhedrin and ultimately to the patriarch. When necessary, a second ‘Adar’ was inserted in order that the reaping of the corn should come at Passover. Gradually observation gave place to calculation. The right to determine the calendar was reserved to the patriarchate; the Jews [sic, Israelites] of Mesopotamia tried in vain to establish their own calendar but the prerogative of Palestine was zealously defended.” End quote. Mesopotamia is the land of Babylon. [All emphasis my own.]

Continues the encyclopedia -- “So long as Palestine remained a religious centre, it was naturally to the homeland that the Diaspora looked for its calendar. Uniformity was essential, for if different parts had celebrated feasts on different days confusion would have ensued. It was not until the 4 th century A.D. that Babylon fixed the calendar... The Talmud speaks of various New Year’s Days. It may be regarded as certain that in Palestine the New Year began in Nissan (Exod xii.2) and in Babylon in Tishri.” (volume 4, article “Calendar”). What is not realized by many is that control of the calendar implied ultimate POLITICAL AUTHORITY in Judaism. In other words, whoever controlled the calendar also controlled the destiny of the Israelites and the Jewish people -- for good or for evil!

“In the period after 70 C.E.” writes Herschel Shanks, “The rabbis abrogated this authority to themselves. In the story that appears in the Talmudim, Rabbi Hananiah, an emigre Judean scholar, tried to assert the supremacy of Babylonian Jewry by asserting its right (that is, his own right while in Babylonia) to intercalate the calendar. His attempt was unsuccessful because it was several centuries too early. This authority remained for some time with the rabbis in the land of Israel” (Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, p. 197).

Notes Shanks -- All this began to change in the third century C.E. Ultimately the rabbis of Babylonia themselves cited, in retrospect, the return of one of their own, Rav (Abba), to Babylonia in 219 C.E., as the beginning of a new era in the relative status of the two great Jewish communities: “We have made ourselves [or, consider ourselves] in Babylonia like Eretz Israel -- from when Rav went down to Babylonia.” While this may seem to telescope a long drawn out process into one identifiable event, the fact is that the date designated in that statement indeed points accurately to the early third century when Babylonia’s star began to rise (ibid., p. 262). While the control of the calendar remained in the hands of the Palestinian Israelites it was inviolate; but when control passed to the Babylonian Rabbis events transpired that affected the calendar and the keeping of YHVH Almighty’s true Sabbath day. The environment that brought this about is discussed by Herschal Shanks in the following pages of his book – As we enter the third century, we find that the Jews [sic, Israelites. Neither the word “Jew” nor the people described by the word even existed until 400-600 years after the 3rd century] of Babylonia have at their head an exilarch (resh galuta, “head of the diaspora”) with [false] claims to Davidic

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lineage...But the exilarchate did not rule the Babylonian Jewish communities single-handedly. Alongside the exilarch a new framework of leadership – the rabbis of Babylon -- emerged. Continues Shanks: If the rabbis of Babylonia were prudent in their relationship with the exilarch, they were even more cautious in defining and publicly stating their attitude toward the government. As we have already noted, it is in Babylonia [not Palestine] that we encounter the well-formulated principle that “the law of the government is law” (ibid., pp. 263-264). Shanks brings out the fact that there were very marked differences in the attitude toward government and the preservation of Hebrew religion and life between the Palestinian Israelite and Babylonian rabbis. The Palestinian Israelites jealously guarded their religion and way of life while the Babylonian rabbis were clearly willing to accommodate the government of their area and compromise certain principles they held. This included the Sabbath day.

During this time a major revival of the Zoroastrian religion (Mithraism) took place (226 A.D.) when the first Sassanian King, Ardeshir, came to the Persian throne. He made reforms to the old lunar-based calendar that had a far-reaching effect on his people (especially the Israelites) who initially rejected his new calendar since it affected their religious observances. This resulted, for a while, in TWO CALENDARS, one decreed by the king and the other, older one, followed by the majority of the people in the Kingdom. Eventually, however, the new calendar won out and the Persians, as well as the rabbis of Babylonia, began to organize their sabbaths according to the new solar calendar. In 1948, when the call was made for all “Jews” to return to Israel, who do you think responded?  The term Jew only applied to the Khazars, and they were accepted as genuine Israelites by every nation on earth.  That these men were not Israelites did not matter, they were the Jews, so they, Esau’s descendants, saw the golden opportunity to gain back their birthright thought long stolen by Jacob/Israel. And ignorance permits them to get away with this to this day. Whoever is in charge is in charge of the calendar.  During the dark ages, the papacy was in charge.  The calendar you use tells you when to work and when to worship.  WHEN you worship tells heaven and the on-looking universe WHO you worship.  The Khazars had no problem going along with the powers that be, thinking only of making money and mixing with the local population.  The Khazars adopted and retained their understanding of the 7th day Sabbath, but this was the Catholic version of the seventh day, having accepted the “Sabbath” long AFTER the Catholic Church had changed the calendar of the Roman Empire.  In 321 A.D., satyrday was made the seventh day of the week by Constantine, prior to that, it had been the first day of the pagan week.  And all of the Roman Empire eventually accepted this calendar, including the Khazars some 4-6 centuries later.

However, strangely missing from that particular commentary is the evidence supporting such a conclusion. Does their evidence come from Scripture? From historical records? What is their source? None is provided. This is certainly strange, coming from what would normally be considered a trustworthy reference. Adding to the mix here is the fact that this same reference also states, “The origin of the Sabbath is obscure.” How can the same reference on the one hand claim that the Sabbath was originally based on the lunar cycle, and then on the other hand state that the origin of the Sabbath is “obscure”? ….

Breaking in without edition: This is a slothful assumption on Merwin’s part based on his own tradition, and now repeated by you, Melody. I believe if you will examine the context of the passage you will find that the author was referring to the origin of SATYRDAY as the Sabbath is obscure, not

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the lunar Sabbath. Leaning on the arm of flesh will get you every time. Even a respected man like Merwin will fail you when he refuses to accept the truth regarding the Creation Calendar.

By the way, tell Merwin I still love him and speak of him fondly. I think about him often, and continue to owe him a debt of gratitude. He taught me how to think rather than what to think.

….The first thought is that, since these comments are found in separate articles in The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, they came from two different authors with two different perspectives of the historical record. However, it turns out that both articles were authored by the same person, a man named Max Joseph. Perhaps Mr. Joseph wasn’t quite as certain of the original method of reckoning the Sabbath as lunar sabbatarians would like for us to believe.”

Max Joseph knew what he was talking about. I appreciate his candor regarding satyrday. He apparently knew the same thing these scholars knew…

The Christian Divorcement of the Sabbath

On page 4179 of Encyclopedia Biblica, (The MacMillan Company, 1899. P. 5290), we read: “The introduction...of the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath...”

In the article Shawui Calendar: Ancient Shawui Observance, we find confirmation of this radical change in YHVH Almighty’s calendar –

“The [lunar]...calendar was used by ALL the original disciples of Yeshua... This original Nazarene lunar-solar calendar was supplanted by a Roman ‘planetary week’ and calendar in 135 C.E. -- when the ‘Bishops of the Circumcision’ (i.e. legitimate Nazarene successors to Yeshua) were displaced from Jerusalem. This began a three hundred year controversy concerning the true calendar and correct Sabbath.” Is there any wonder why the origin of satyrday observance is obscure?

This [calendar] controversy arose after the exodus of the bishops of the circumcision and has continued until our time” (Epiphanius, HE4, 6, 4).

“The groundwork for this supplanting of the true calendar”, suggests the ancient historian Iranaeus, “began in Rome with a Bishop Sixtus (c.a. 116-c.a.126).” According to Iranaeus, “Sixtus was the first to celebrate a Sunday Easter in Rome instead of the traditional Nisan 15 [full moon] date on the lunar calendar. This change from the lunisolar to a fixed solar calendar occurred in Rome during the repressive measures which were enacted against all Jewish customs and practices, including the lunar calendar, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. With the fall of the Nazarene headquarters...at Jerusalem, this new Roman calendar quickly spread throughout ‘Christendom.’ This new calendar not only replaced yearly festival dates such as Passover, but it also revamped the concept of the week and its seventh day.” [Note: Remember, the authors and modern translators of all these quotes are saying “Jew” rather than Israelite. Historically, neither the word “Jew”, nor the people existed until after 900 A.D.]

Hutton Webster points out that “the early Christians had at first adopted the [Hebrew] seven-day week with its numbered weekdays, but by the close of the third century A.D. this began to give way to the planetary week; and in the fourth and fifth centuries the pagan designations became generally accepted

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in the western half of Christendom. The use of the planetary names by Christians attests to the growing influence of astrological speculations introduced by converts from paganism” (Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. P. 220).

It should be noted that the oldest dated Christian inscription to employ a planetary designation belongs to the year 269 A.D. (Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae, ed. De Rossi, 1861, i, No. 1).        In the article Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance, the author asks these questions --

But what of Gentile Christians? Did this early break-off of true Nazarene[s]...also observe a Sabbath cycle? Early historical records clearly confirm that very early Gentile Christians also kept the same [lunar] Sabbath Calendar as the...Nazarenes. This practice was first changed by [Pope] Sixtus in 126 A.D. and later officially changed by a royal Roman decree from the emperor Constantine. Observance of the Sabbath day was made illegal and observance of a “Sunday” of a fixed week was made mandatory for all except farmers. Previous to this time the Roman Saturday was the first day of the Roman week. The veneration of the Sun in the second century A.D. began to pressure Roman culture to change the first day of their week from Saturnday to Sunday. (Had the Jews been observing this same Roman calendar at this early date, as some maintain, then their seventh day Sabbath would have been on Friday which was the traditional seventh day of this Roman calendar during the first century A.D.). Hutton Webster adds that “the change from such [lunar] cycles to those unconnected with the lunations would not have involved so abrupt and sudden a departure from the previous system of time reckoning as that from a bipartite division of the lunar month to a week which ran continuously through the months and the years” (Rest Days).

Talking about the time prior to the Diaspora, Hutton Webster tells us that “…an old and still common theory derives the Sabbath institution from the worship of SATURN after which planet the first day of the astrological week [Saturday] received its designation. The theory is untenable for more than one reason. In the first place the Hebrews did not name their weekdays after the planets, but indicated them by ordinal numbers. In the second place Saturn’s day [Saturday] began the planetary week, while the Jewish Sabbath was regarded as the last day of the seven, a suitable position for a rest day. And in the third place neither the Hebrews nor any other Oriental people ever worshipped the planet Saturn as a god and observed his day as a festival. ” (Ibid., p. 243).

However, in the Diaspora, this soon changed with the influence of the Zoroastrian (Mithraism) revival and the Roman planetary week:

These imported [from Babylon] superstitions eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, “the star of the Sabbath,” [and]...it was not until [after]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]” (ibid., p. 244).

Here is a pencil sketch of a first century clay calendar tablet: It gives the order of the week as follows: saturn’s day, sun’s day, moon’s day, mars’ day, mercury’s day, jupiter’s day, Venus’ day…

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Melody, you continued: We did find the original source for lunar Sabbaths—ancient Babylonian paganism. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica ancient Babylonian pagans had a Sabbaths in which they did no work that were calculated from the new moon—just like lunar sabbatarians today do. You can read about it at http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sabbath. Under “Calendar” the Encyclopedia Britannica also states that when the Jews went to Babylon they adopted the Babylonian method for beginning the new year, which was the spring equinox, and they adopted the Babylonian names for the months. …

Breaking in without edition: Melody, all nations originally had a 360 day, lunar solar calendar that consisted of twelve 30 day months. All nations. They got it at the Garden of Eden from YHVH, and it was handed down from Adam, Enoch, Noah, Shem and Abraham. I agree fully that Babylon had a lunar solar calendar. History records that they did, so why argue. And I also agree that Israel picked up some nasty habits in Babylon. They named the months after the Babylonian gods, they started their months by the first visible crescent and began their Sabbaths from sundown to sundown. They learned these things in Babylon, not from YHVH.

Yah’s months were called by ordinal numbers. Yah’s months begin in the dark (not the first sliver). Yah’s days begin at dawn. See http://creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/18-Dawndaystudy.pdf.

…We know that some of the Israelites also apostasized [sic-apostatized] from their faith and adopted customs from the Babylonian religion. So our guess is that some Israelites also adopted the Babylonian method of reckoning their Sabbath and this is how lunar Sabbaths crept into some of their literature—but without any proof from the Word of God as Merwin Abbott points out. How clever Satan is! He persuaded ancient Israelites to apostasize [sic-apostatize] from their faith, and then centuries later he says, “See, the ancient Israelites did this, so it must be the truth.” Dear friends, this method of calculating the Seventh-day Sabbath originated with paganism—not with God.

I don’t think Moses, Isaiah, Ezekiel or Amos (or YHVH) appreciates this slight. You do err, not knowing the Scriptures. How many texts have you offered to prove your position, Sis. Melody? None. The only texts you offered were the ones you believe we misuse. Every argument was answered by Scripture or the historical record. You are not fighting against flesh and blood, you are fighting against YHVH.

If satyrday is the Sabbath, please answer the following questions or solve the following problems:

1.  Where does it say in Scripture that satyrday is the Sabbath? 2. Where does it say in Scripture that the Sabbath is every seventh day in succession?

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Answer these two simple questions and this issue goes away. Simple as that. But there is a LOT more… 3.  Every weekly Sabbath that can be date identified in Scripture falls on either the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th day of the month.  This cannot happen with the current solar calendar; this does however occur on a lunar-solar calendar though. Can you find a single weekly Sabbath that falls on a date other than these?

4.  Read Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20:20 and understand that the Sabbath is not only a sign [Hebrew word owth] but also an appointed time [Hebrew word mo’edim] as discovered in Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19, and Leviticus 23:1-3).  Genesis 1:14 clearly says that either the sun or moon [or the stars] will regulate these calendar events, signs (owth), seasons (mo’edim), days and years.  Can you go outside, look at the sun and tell whether it is either satyrday or the Sabbath?  5.  The new moon days never fall during the common week; they are a third category of day Ezekiel 46:1 says that the gate to the temple is shut on all six working days, but open on the Sabbath and new moon.  Several months ago [as of this writing], new moon was on a wednesday.  If the tabernacle were still here and I asked you, “Would the gate have been open or shut?”, how would you answer?  If you say open because it is new moon day, I would respond that it is a work day, it must be shut. If you agreed, “Of course wednesday is a work day, it must be shut.” I’d reply, “But friend, it is new moon, it must be open.” You have no correct answer because you are applying a pagan/papal/Roman/solar-only/man-made calendar to this Scriptural calendar event. Isaiah 66:23, II Kings 4:18-23, Amos 8:5 are three more witnesses that the new moon cannot fall on one of the six work days.

I used to present the calendar in this manner to facilitate recognition (it is in the Gregorian format).  Day one and day 30 are NOT satyrdays, they are days of the new moon, just put in the seventh column as the new moon days have something in common with the Sabbaths--both are worship days, both are welcomed by an open gate to the temple.  There is not always a 30th day now.  There used to be 12 thirty day months, making a 360 lunar-solar year.                                            1 2        3 4 5 6 7 89        10 11        12       13 14 1516        17 18 19 20 21 2223 24 25 26 27 28 29                                          (30) Maybe this more accurately shows the uniqueness, presenting new moon as the third category of day... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9        10 11        12       13 14 15         16        17 18 19 20 21 22         23 24 25 26 27 28 29 (30)

6.  The 14th day of Abib is always the preparation day for first day of Unleavened Bread.  Abib 14 floats on our current version of the Roman calendar. Abib 10 is the day to purchase a lamb if you don’t already own one. Abib 10 floats on the Roman calendar. The fact is that the 10th, 14th and 16th of Abib are, without exception, commanded work days. The barley could be harvested on the 16th only after the Wave Sheaf had been offered and accepted, Leviticus 23:9-14.

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If there is a continuous 7 day cycle, every few years either the 10th, 14th or 16th will fall on a satyrday.  In fact, Abib 10 fell on a satyrday in 2003. The 14th fell on satyrday in 2004 and 2008. There is no legislation provided to do these tasks a day early or late in case these days “just happen” to fall on the Sabbath, these work dates are fixed. YHVH never has Israel do common work on a rest day, and did not here.  These days will never fall on the Sabbath, yet they will fall on your satyrday every few years.  Can you explain this?

7. The battle of Jericho was a seven day event. Every able bodied Israelite male took with him every available weapon at his disposal. The priests even carried with them the sacred Ark of the Covenant. In this battle/siege, Israel is on the offensive, they are the aggressors. Read the account in Joshua 6. Only Joshua knew it would be a 7 day affair, the men were told they would attack when Joshua gave them the signal. These soldiers were marching around Jericho for seven days in attack mode, on a full tilt adrenalin rush, not knowing for sure when the signal would come. Which day was the Sabbath? Did YHVH ever send Israel into battle on the Sabbath?  The battle of Jericho is more a calendar statement than it is about the conquest of Canaan.  How do I know this?  Simple.  Israel had JUST come out of the wilderness after a 40 year sojourn, having to relearn the law (including the Sabbath) of Yah.  Do you suppose that the VERY first thing YHVH commanded Israel to do would be to break the Sabbath with a 7 day siege?  You think about this.  If you are interested in knowing how they took Jericho WITHOUT breaking the Sabbath, here you go…

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 89        10 11        12       13 14 15

         16        17 18 19 20 21 22         23 24 25 26 27 28 29 (30)

The Book of Jasher records that this battle began on the first day of the second month, meaning they started on new moon day, and went for 7 straight days. The 8th day of the month is the first Sabbath of the week. It is so simple a child can figure it out.  Let me know your response on this one, OK?

8. You cannot count backward by 7 to any of the years accepted by scholars for the crucifixion [30, 31 or 33 A.D.] and find a fri, satyrday (Sabbath), sun. crucifixion weekend. Nature [the cycle of the moon] does not lie.

Below is the conclusion of the matter.

Respectfully submitted,

Troy Millerwww.creationcalendar.com

I am not a prophet, but I was correct. Sister Melody, I knew you would not offer a single text to show that satyrday is the Sabbath (because there are none), so here is the evidence (as promised) from Scripture proving that satyrday observance is considered idolatry.

Indeed, Israel worshiped on satyrday. But you have borne the tabernacle of your moloch [king] and Chiun your images, the star of your G-d which you made for yourselves. Amos 5:26

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Chiun is the Hebrew word for Saturn. Here Amos sees a day where Israel worships a star-god that they would make for themselves. 

Stephen, in Acts 7:43 quotes Amos and is translated as Remphan, which is Greek for Saturn.  Satyrday is ONLY a day found on the pagan seven day planetary week.  Satyrday was the first day (not the seventh) of this pagan calendar week from at LEAST 800 B.C. and perhaps further back.  The Father’s calendar is found in the sun and moon (the two great lights), not in the planets. Why am I spelling it satyrday instead of saturn’s day?  Because Saturn and the Satyr are both linked to the same false system of worship.

Ever heard of a dual counterfeit? Only the enemies of YHVH would accept an obvious counterfeit, but for the more elect, the Adversary has a not-so-obvious counterfeit.

How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be Almighty, follow Him: but if Ba’al, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. I Kings 18:21.

Ba’al is the obvious fraud, but what about “the L ORD ”? Every time you read LORD or GOD in all capital letters in Scripture, the underlying Hebrew is YHVH, the Creator’s Name. Ba’al means “Lord” in Hebrew. In Hebrew there is no deception, His Name is YHVH, (which is how the Hebrew reads) but in English there is no right answer from which to choose, both mean Lord. YHVH tells us to stop calling Him “my Lord” (Hosea 2:16-Baali means “my Lord”). Friends, what we have here is a dual counterfeit; one is obvious, the other not-so-obvious.

Which day do YOU keep holy?

• Sunday, the current first day of the pagan Roman/papal calendar

• Saturday, the current seventh day of the pagan Roman/papal calendar.

I say “current” because these days were not always the first and seventh days of the week, respectively.

As a side note, I find it interesting that we pronounce the “n” in Woden’s day (Wednesday), but we don’t for “Saturn’s day” (Saturday). Have you ever heard of a Satyr? The cloven footed half-man, half-goat—the universal symbol of Satan himself?

Sunday is the obvious fraud. Only the enemies of YHVH would observe Sunday, in honor of the pagan sun-god. But every satyrday, of every week, of every

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year, Sabbatarians everywhere, in spite of themselves, worship on Satyrday — a day named after Satan himself.

Very cleverly, the Adversary receives his worship every week, all year long, by sincere folks who believe they are following YHVH. Friends, what we have here is a dual counterfeit; one is obvious, the other not-so-obvious. Even if Saturday really is named after Saturn, don’t think we are going to get off the hook so easily. Saturn worship is the oldest form of Satanism and is clearly and historically linked to Satyr, the horned goat. The Adversary does not care how you spell his many different names, or under which one you worship, as long as you do not worship YHVH. Please feel free to connect the dots… Satan (or Pan) is also called the “Horned God”

Pan a lusty satyr, half-man, half-goat, was given to every form of licentiousness and debauchery.

Kronos, the father of the gods……for a certain wicked deed, was called Titan, and cast down to hell. Kronos is none other than Satan himself. Titan, or Teitan, as it is sometimes spelled, is the Chaldee form of the Hebrew word Sheitan (Satan), the common name for the Adversary.

In the region where the Chaldean Mysteries were originally concocted,--that Adversary who was ultimately the real father of all the pagan gods,--and who (to make the title of Kronos (Saturn), “the Horned One,” appropriate to him also) was symbolized by the Kerastes, the Horned serpent.

Horned goat, horned serpent, father of the gods….hmm. Kronos claims to be in charge if TIME! Kronos is where we get our word Chronology, the study of time. Kronos, said another way, is also Father Time. Cue Scriptural support:

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of Elohim: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Isaiah 14:13-14. See Daniel 7:25.

The word congregation here is the Hebrew word Mo’edim, which means “appointed times”. A mountain in Scripture is a controlling power or authoritarian presence. What is prophesied here is that someone will claim to sit on the mount of the appointed times. He is saying that he will control the calendar. And indeed he does, but only in the hearts and minds of his followers.

Now, the name Saturn in Chaldee is pronounced Satur; but, as every Chaldee scholar knows, consists only of four letters, thus — S T U R. This name contains exactly the Apocalyptic number 666…

S = 060 T = 400 U = 006 R = 200 The information in the bold black font on this page was gleaned

666 from Alexander Hislop’s classic, The Two Babylons. Truth is a two edged sword. If we are going to condemn “sunday” observance as worshipping on the “venerable day of the sun,” satyrday Sabbath keepers need to look in the mirror. Is worshipping on a day named after a satyr any better? Satyrday bears the name of our enemy.

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Here is a devastating admission from the SDA’s, the largest satyrday keeping denomination on earth…

“The Sabbath question is to be the issue in the great final conflict in which all the world will act a part. Men have honored Satan’s principles above the principles that rule in the heavens. They have accepted the spurious sabbath, which Satan has exalted as the sign of his authority. But God has set His seal upon His royal requirement. Each sabbath institution bears the name of its author , an ineffaceable mark that shows the authority of each. It is our work to lead the people to understand this. … God has called us to uplift the standard of His downtrodden Sabbath. How important, then, that our example in Sabbathkeeping should be right. Testimonies to the Church, Vol. 6, p. 352-353

Fact: A counterfeit has to look a great deal like the original. Sunday cannot rightly be called a Sabbath (spurious or otherwise) as it is not the 7th day of anything, never has been. Sunday does not “look” like a Sabbath. Sunday is the obvious fraud. Satyrday, however, looks a lot like the 7th day of the week, just the wrong week, so satyrday observance is the other half of a very clever dual counterfeit.

When we who observe the Creator’s Calendar worship on the Gregorian satyrday (or any other pagan-named day of the week) it is because that particular day falls on the seventh day of the Creator’s Calendar week—a cycle established at Creation, by the Creator. When satyrday Sabbatarians worship on the seventh day (of every week of their papal solar calendar) it is because the calendar they observe tells them that it is the seventh day of their weekly cycle—a cycle established in 321 A.D., by Rome.

Do this word study with your concordance. Isaiah 13:21 says… But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. Isaiah 34:14

In both cases, the Hebrew word here translated as satyr is Strong’s H8163.

It would seem that the Father stopped Israel’s satyrday observance early on. Speaking to Israel after their deliverance from Egypt, YHVH said… And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. Leviticus 17:7. Notice the word for devils (below).

And they shall no 3808 more 5750 offer 2076 (853) their sacrifices 2077 unto devils, 8163 after 310 whom 834 they 1992 have gone a whoring. 2181 This 2063 shall be 1961 a statute 2708 forever 5769 unto them throughout their generations. 1755

Same Hebrew word, H 8163, Satyrs.

Jeroboam and his sons were later cursed for leading Israel BACK into idolatry. II Chronicles 11:15 says… And he [Jeroboam] ordained 5975 him priests 3548 for the high places, 1116 and for the devils, 8163 and for the calves 5695 which 834 he had made. 6213

Same Hebrew word, H 8163, Satyrs.

Jeroboam brought back what YHVH had removed from Israel in Leviticus 17. And nearly every time Jeroboam’s name is mentioned thereafter it is either prefaced or followed by the statement, who has

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made my people Israel to sin. Amos reminded Israel of their satyrday idolatry, Stephen repeated it and it got him killed.

Some people are touchy about their idolatry. I hope you are not and are willing to examine why the Father calls satyrday worship idolatry.  Satyrday was not the 7th day of the week until 321 A.D. when Rome adopted the pagan seven day planetary week.  Satyrday was the first day of this seven day week for its entire history (during the time Scripture was being written), and not promoted (demoted actually) until Constantine venerated the day of the sun, supplanting satyrday as the first day of the week. See calendar below… 

Jewish author, Eviator Zerubavel, in his book The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, observes that…

“The Jewish and astrological weeks evolved quite independently of one another. However, given the coincidence of their identical length, it was only a matter of time before some permanent correspondence between particular Jewish days and particular planetary days would be made. A PERMANENT CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE SABBATH AND ‘THE DAY OF SATURN’ WAS THUS ESTABLISHED...[some time] later than the first century of the present era, Jews EVEN CAME TO NAME THE PLANET SATURN SHABTAI, AFTER THE ORIGINAL HEBREW NAME OF THE SABBATH, SHABBATH. Moreover, as they came into closer contact with Hellenism, their conception of their holy day was evidently AFFECTED BY THE ASTROLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF SATURN AS A PLANET that has an overwhelming negative influence (a conception which, incidentally, is still evident even from the association of the English word ‘saturnine’ with a gloomy disposition). There are traditional Jewish superstitious beliefs about demons and evil spirits that hold full sway on the Sabbath, and an old Jewish legend even links the choice of ‘the day of Saturn’ as the

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official Jewish rest day with the superstition that it would be an inauspicious day for doing any work anyway!” (New York: The Free Press, 1985. p. 17).

This Jew (not an Israelite) admits the origin of Saturn observance that Amos and Stephen mentioned was with the Edomites. The Khazars, over 1000 years later adopted it without hesitation. Eviator Zerubavel uses the term “Jew” a little loosely. It was not a known word until after the Khazars adopted it in the Middle Ages, but is used to describe the people who would indeed become the Jews later in history.

You see, Scripture says that the Sabbath would be regulated by either the sun or the moon.  (Leviticus 23:1-3 and Psalm 104:19 prove that this light is the moon.  Can you prove this?  Absolutely.  Go outside on every morning and look at the sun as it is rising.  If you can tell the difference between satyrday and the other days of the pagan/papal calendar, then you have found a system that works.   What, didn’t that work for you?  NO?  Well the solution is simple.  You were looking at the wrong light.  Try the moon.  Psalm 104:19 was written for a reason.  (See Isaiah 28:9-10).  Then see Genesis 1:14 and Leviticus 23:1-3 again.

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