Created by pastorbuddy on 3/10/2009
part 2 sabbaths
TRUE SABBATH
The Scriptures teaches that ALL days are ordinary workdays, unless the Word of Yahweh deems them otherwise. With no adding to or taking away from the Word, all days are ordinary days except the ones He designates as worship days. For example, the Scriptures teaches us that after six workdays we are to rest. (Gen. 2:2, Ex. 16:26, Ex. 20:8-11, and Lev. 23:6 – 7; Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day Elohiym completed His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. Exo 16:26 You shall gather it six days, and on the seventh is a sabbath; in it none shall be found. Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy; Exo 20:9 six days you shall labor and do all your work; Exo 20:10 and the seventh day is a sabbath to YaHuWaH your Elohiym; you shall not do any work, you, and your son, and your daughter, your male slave and your slave-girl, and your livestock, and your stranger who is in your gates. Exo 20:11 For in six days YaHuWaH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all which is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; on account of this YaHuWaH blessed the sabbath day and sanctified it. Lev 23:6 And on the fifteenth of this month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to YaHuWaH; you shall eat unleavened things seven days. Lev 23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service; )
We are not only to rest, but it is a worship day, a Holy day set apart, a Qodesh intermission from the previous workdays. Intermission or rest from what? The six ordinary workdays. The sun rises and sets on every day alike, but by the Moon, we are told which ones are not ordinary days.
The first pinpointed Shabbat is in Ex. 16:22,23 and if you count backwards the second day of the moon; is the first workday of the week, which proves the New moon was not counted as one of the six workdays, and the Shabbats are on the 8th , 15th , 22nd , and 29th of the moon.
Without the Moon, we would not know which days He has chosen because they all look alike. The Moon will signal the days with its light, which increases and decreases.
For example, the seventh month, fifteenth day of the Moon is an intermission, along with the 1st, 8th, 15th, 10th, 22nd, and 29th. We are to assemble for worship. Lev. 23:3 teaches that after six ordinary workdays, there will be a worship day.
Two months are outlined in the Scriptures and specifically telling which days are Qodesah Convocations or worship days.
The New moon of the seventh Moon is a worship day: Ez.46:1-3 “Thus saith The Adonai YaHuWaH; the gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Shabbat it shall be opened, and in the day of the New moon, it shall be opened. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening. Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before in the Shabbats and in the New moons. )
Isaiah. 66:23, And it shall come to pass, that from one New moon to another, and from one Shabbat to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says YaHuWaH.
Numbers 28:11-14 which refers to worship on all the New moons throughout the year (Lev. 23:24, Numbers 10:2, 7, 8, 10; Numbers 29:1: Lev 23:24 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, a sabbath shall be to you, a call to a memorial, a holy gathering.
Num 10:2 Make two trumpets of silver for yourself. You shall make them of hammered work, and they shall be to you for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to pull up stakes.Num 10:3 And when they blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. Num 10:4 And if they blow with one, then the rulers, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall assemble to you. Num 10:5 And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall then pull up stakes. Num 10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall pull upstakes; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. Num 10:7 But when the assembly is gathered, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm. Num 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets. And they shall be to you for a never ending statute throughout your generations. Num 10:9 And when you go into battle in your land against the foe distressing you, then you shall blow with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before YaHuWaH your Elohiym. And you shall be saved from your enemies. Num 10:10 And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and in your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohiym. I am YaHuWaH your Elohiym. Num 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first of the month you shall have a Qadosh gathering; you shall do no work of service. It shall be a day of blowing the trumpets to you. Without question the New moon is not one of the six ordinary workdays.
Now it says nothing about day two through seven anywhere. Therefore, we work those six days, but we are commanded to rest after six workdays, which would be the eighth day of the seventh Moon. We are not forbidden to work the ninth, but are commanded to rest and worship on the tenth (Yom Kippur – atonement) with no food. Now we assume we can eat the other 364 days of the year. Why not assume, we can work on ordinary days that are not designated worship days?
After the tenth, there is no commandment not to work on the eleventh through the fourteenth, except on man’s calendar. After the tenth has passed, we assume we can eat and work on the eleventh through the fourteenth, but we are commanded to rest on the fifteenth. It is a worship day. (See Num. 29:12; Num 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service; and you shall celebrate a feast to YaHuWaH seven days.) Now we are not commanded to fast or worship the next six days (16th-21st), but we are ordered to dwell in booths seven days from the 15th to the 21st (See Lev. 23: 40-43; ) Lev 23:40 And you shall take to yourselves on the first day the fruit of majestic trees, palm branches, and boughs of oak trees, and willows of the valley, and shall rejoice before YaHuWaH your Elohiym seven days. Lev 23:41 And you shall keep a feast to YaHuWaH, seven days in a year, a never ending statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month you shall keep it. Lev 23:42 You shall live in booths seven days; all who are native in Israel shall live in booths, Lev 23:43 so that your generations shall know that I caused the sons of Israel to live in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt; I am YaHuWaH your Elohiym.Now we are ordered to keep the eighth (22nd ), counting from the fifteenth day, which will be the 22nd , another worship day.
Counting on, with the instructions of the Heavenly Father there is no Holy worship day on the 23rd through the 28th, but the pattern of rest and worship after six workdays applies on the 29th, unless you use man’s calendar. There is a New moon rebuilding and sometimes it starts after the day does, making the next evening and morning the first day of the rebuilding or 1st day of the New moon. Sometimes the new month starts rebuilding before the 29th ends, so the first evening and morning after the rebuilding would be the first day of the New moon giving us 29 and 30 day months.
The scripture teaches that the New moon is a worship day. It is a day of no buying and selling and is not one of the 6 ordinary workdays of the week (See Ezekial. 46:1, Isaiah 66:23 as above, and Amos 8:5 ; Amo 8:5 saying, When will the new moon have passed, so that we may buy grain? Or the sabbath, so that we may open the wheat, making smaller the ephah, and making greater the shekel, and to falsify the deceitful balances.)
After that, there is no commandment not to work on day two of the Moon through day seven, but we must take an intermission on day eight for worship because the 8th day is the seventh day or Shabbat from the first workday after the New moon worship day. Then, six more workdays, then rest and worship on the 15th, etc. This goes on year after year from one New moon to another and one Shabbat to another, even into the New Heaven and New Earth, which He will make. (Isa 66:23 And it will be, from new moon to its new moon, and from sabbath to its sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, says YaHuWaH.
Our Heavenly Father gives us specific instructions as to which days of the year to set apart for rest and worship and gives us the moon to tell which days they are. We are not to add to or to diminish from what He orders, by inventing a calendar of our own. So, changing the Laws and Times of worship as spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, concerning the Roman Empire (Dan 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall wear out the saints of the Most High. And he intends to change times and law. And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and one half time. ) and fulfilled by Julius Caesar the Roman Emperor, where he removed the Moon as a basis for the calendar. (See Encyclopedia under Calendar)
We must speak where the Scriptures speak, and be silent when they are silent. The universe is self contained and has it’s own built in calendar and does not need man to tell when a year begins and ends, or a month, or a day, or a week.
The Modern/Roman calendar is a recent invention, an evil instrument designed to confuse and destroy the true times and Appointments of YaHuWaH, just as the false fires sent up by the enemy to get us off the true Shabbats, and New moons.
To further prove the Appointments or intermissions occur after the six working days (not counting the New moon) except the tenth day in the seventh month, which breaks up the six workdays and the twenty-first day in the first Moon each year. The second day of the New moon is the first workday and the Shabbats are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
The first pinpointed Shabbat is in Exodus, chapter 16, and is on the 22nd day of the Moon (Ex. 16:22, 23) and, if you count backwards the second day of the Moon is the first workday OF THE WEEK, and the Shabbats are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
The same thing can be seen again in the Crucifixion Week. The Shabbat is on the 15th. (See John 19:31 and Luke 23:53,-56; Joh 19:31 Then, since it was Preparation, that the bodies not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for great was the day of that sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and they be taken away. Luk 23:53 And taking it down, he wrapped it in linen, and placed it in a quarried tomb, where no one was ever yet laid. Luk 23:54 And it was Preparation Day, and a sabbath was coming on. Luk 23:55 And having followed, also the women who were accompanying Him out of Galilee, watched the tomb, and how His body was placed. Luk 23:56 And returning, they prepared spices and ointment. And indeed they rested on the sabbath, according to the commandment.) “That” Shabbat day was not only a weekly Shabbat, but was the 1st day of Unleavened bread.
A simple count backwards tells us that the first workday is the second day of the Moon. This again places the weekly Shabbats on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th and if our Messiah had not been killed on the 14th He would have kept the 15th Shabbat, as was His custom.
Preachers try to create another Shabbat on the 17th during the Crucifixion Week, but if that were so, then the 10th day of that Moon would have to be a Shabbat also, but the Scriptures proves otherwise in John 12:1 (Joh 12:1 Then six days before the Passover, YaHuWshuaH came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had died, whom He raised from the dead. ) . It says that it was six days before Passover (Passover is referring to the 15th, see Luk 22:1 And the Feast of Unleavened Bread, being called Passover, drew near.) Six days before the 15th would be on the 9th of the Moon and verse twelve says on the next day, the 10th, He came to Jerusalem. Now, notice the 10th is when the Passover lamb was to be put up (He is the Lamb). A very busy day for the Jews, and this was definitely not a Shabbat because,
(1) He would have broken the Fathers law by riding an ass and causing it to work on the Shabbat, if the 10th were a Shabbat.
(2) They were working by cutting tree limbs, etc.,
(3) They were buying and selling on that day,
(4) He entered the house of YaHuWaH and healed a man on the 10th and they said what a wonderful work, instead of accusing Him of breaking the Shabbat.
This all proves the 10th was not a Shabbat and therefore the 17th could not have been a Shabbat either. There is another understanding for the three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
You can prove this in Luk 19:35 – 45 And they led it to YaHuWshuaH . And throwing their garments on the colt, they put YaHuWshuaH on it. Luk 19:36 And as He went, they were spreading their garments in the highway. Luk 19:37 And as He was already drawing near to the descent of the Mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began rejoicing, to praise Elohiym with a loud voice concerning all the works of power which they saw, Luk 19:38 saying, “Blessed is the One coming in the name of YaHuWaH,” the King. Peace in Heaven, and glory in the highest! Luk 19:39 And some of the Pharisees from the crowd said to Him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. Luk 19:40 And answering, He said to them, I say to you, If these should be silent, the stones will cry out. Luk 19:41 And as He drew near, seeing the city, He wept over it, Luk 19:42 saying, If you had known, even you, even at least in this day of yours, the things for your peace! But now they were hidden from your eyes. Luk 19:43 For the days will come on you, and ones hostile to you will raise up a rampart to you and will surround you and will keep you in on all sides, Luk 19:44 and will tear you down, and your children in you, and will not leave a stone on a stone, because you did not know the time of your visitation. Luk 19:45 And entering into the temple, He began to throw out those selling and buying in it, Luk 19:46 saying to them, It has been written, “My house is a house of prayer,” but you made it “a den of plunderers.”
Matthew 21:2-15 tells how He came riding on an ass and how He entered the Temple where they were buying and selling. The 10thwas a very busy day each year for everybody, it was a scheduled workday by YaHuWaH. It would be pure confusion to have a commanded non-work day, or Shabbat fall on this day, or any workday like the fourteenth day of the first Moon when everybody is to kill and prepare the Passover. It is a commanded workday, and would be pure confusion. (Mat 21:2 saying to them, Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tied, and a colt with her. Loosening, lead them to Me. Mat 21:3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, YaHuWaH has need of them. And he will send them at once. Mat 21:4 But all this happened that might be fulfilled that spoken by the prophet, saying: Mat 21:5 “Tell the daughter of Tsion, Behold, your King comes to you, meek and mounted on an ass, even a colt, the son of an ass.” Mat 21:6 And the disciples, having gone and having done as YaHuWshuaH ordered them, Mat 21:7 they led the ass and the colt. And they put on them their garments, and set Him on them. Mat 21:8 And the very great crowd strewed their garments in the road. And others were cutting branches from the trees and were spreading them in the way. Mat 21:9 And the crowd, the ones going before and the ones following, were crying out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David! “Blessed is He coming in the name of YaHuWaH”! Hosanna in the highest! Mat 21:10 And as He entered into Jerusalem, all the city was shaken, saying, Who is this? Mat 21:11 And the crowds said, This is YaHuWshuaH, the Prophet, the Onefrom Nazareth of Galilee. Mat 21:12 And YaHuWshuaH entered into the temple of Elohiym and threw out all those selling and buying in the temple. And He overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling the doves. Mat 21:13 And He said to them, It has been written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer,” but you have “made it a den of plunderers.” Mat 21:14 And blind and lame ones came to Him in the temple, and He healed them. Mat 21:15 But the chief priests and the scribes, seeing the wonders which He did, and the children crying out in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were incensed.)
Luke 22:1 “Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.” (The 15th is Unleavened bread) Another says “It was the preparation of the Passover and Pilot said behold thy King” This proves Passover was referring to the 15th, NOT 14th as Passover. (See also Joh 13:1 And before the Feast of the Passover, YaHuWshuaH knowing that His hour had come that He should move from this world to the Father, loving His own in the world, He loved them to the end. )
Another place the New moon and Shabbats are pinpointed is John 9:14 And it was a sabbath when Joh 9:14 And it was a sabbath when YaHuWshuaH made the clay and opened his eyes. To prove this compare the following verses. John 7:2 And the Jewish Feast of the Tabernacles was near. Joh 7:10 But when His brothers went up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret. Verse 10 tells that He went up to It. Joh 7:37 And in the last day of the great feast, YaHuWshuaH stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. Verse 37 tells us that on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, which is the 21st.
(Lev 23:32 It is a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall humble your souls in the ninth of the month at evening; from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath. and Eze 45:25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall make ready like these seven days as the sin offering, as the burnt offering, as the food offering, and as the oil. and Nehemiah 8:18 where it says “Also day by day, from the first day unto the “last day”, he read in the book of the law of Elohiym. And they kept the feast “seven days”; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. WE see here that the “LAST” day of the feast is the 21st and NOT the 22nd, no matter what man’s tradition says. Manner means Divine-Law. (see strong’s concordance #4941)
John 8:1 tells us that He went to the Mt. of Olives and verse 2 says that early in the morning He came again into the temple and taught (on the 22nd shabbat) and verse 59 says that He went out of the temple and passed by. Chapter 9:1 tells of seeing the blind man as He passed by him. Verse 6 says He made clay, and verse 14 says it was the Shabbat (22nd ) when He made the clay, which proves the 22nd was on a Shabbat. How could we fail to see these Shabbats always being on these set days of the Moon?
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