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March 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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In this article, the title “God” is replaced by the Hebrew word “Elohiym”.

The name “Jesus” as used in the King James and nearly all other version of Scripture is replaced by the true name YaHuWshuaH also recognized as “Yahshua” or “Yahushua”. The name Jesus is not a Hebrew name and has absolutely no meaning in the Hebrew language yet few people deny that the Messiah was a Hebrew. To this very day, neither the Hebrew nor Greek Language contains a letter equivalent to “J” or the sound of “J”. Evidence bears out that the Authorized Version (King “J”ames Version) in 1611 AD did not contain a single letter “J” from Genesis to Revelation.  The name “Jesus” [pronounced “Gee-sus”] is a new invention of man that dates no further back than sometime between 1611 AD and 1630 AD.

The Title “LORD” which the translators of the Bible used when they removed and made a substitution for our Creator and Heavenly Father’s Name, in direct opposition to the Word of YHWH not to add to or take away from His Word, has been omitted and the true Sacred Name of YHWH has been restored using probably the most accurate phonetic spelling of the Tetragrammaton “Yod Hey Waw Hey (YHWH)” as “YaHuWaH”.

Also, a very special thank you is extended to Brother Arnold Bowen of lunarsabbath.org for his ground breaking research into this subject matter of a lunar based Sabbath and that all Sabbaths throughout Scripture fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of the Lunar cycle; much of which is addressed herein with additional elaboration and explanations by this author.

Conclusive Evidence that the True Scriptural Shabbat is Reckoned by the Moon

By Dauwd Ray

The evidence provided here will prove that the true weekly seventh day Shabbat of the Scriptures is observed on the same days of the Lunar cycle each month. These days are the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of the Lunar cycle. We have all been taught the Roman Calendar and its concomitant changing of seasons, times, days and years. However the Modern/Roman Calendar is not the calendar of Sabbatical reckoning.

This author presents an open door to anyone who can pinpoint a weekly Shabbat on any other day than by the moon. Seventy two weekly Shabbat days, observed by the Qadosh men of old, have been pinpointed in scriptures and all of them are on either the 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th day of the Lunar cycle. This is not happenstance or coincidence; the reason for this is that they never counted the day of the New moon when counting out the six workdays of the week. The New moon is a worship day all by it’s self and is not counted when counting out the week.

The original months were by the moon, and NOT just a count of 30 or 31 days. The original weeks were by the moon and NOT just count of 1 through 7 as is in common use today, and how we all were taught. All appointed times (moadiym), which include the Shabbat, were to be reckoned by the moon. See Gen 1:14  And Elohiym said, Let luminaries be in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.; [Bereshith (Genesis) 1:14 (ISR Version) says “And Elohim said, “Let the lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and appointed times and for days and years.”] Psa 104:19  He made the moon for seasons; the sun knows its going down. [Psalms 104:19 (ISR Version) says “He made the moon for appointed times; the sun knows its going down.]  The counting of the days did not start at midnight either; it started with the evening (Sunset, usually around 6:00 P.M. to 6:00 A.M.) followed by the day (Sunrise was usually from 6:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M.). Therefore there is Evening and then Morning as a proper day reckoning that has to sync up with the Lunar Calendar; See this defined in Gen 1:5  And Elohiym called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And there was evening, and there was morning the first day.

The gates of His house were to be shut during the six workdays, and open on the Shabbat and New moons  Rosh Chodeshim), which proves that the New-Moon-Day is NOT one of the 6 work days of the week. (See Ezekiel. 46:1 – 3); Eze 46:1 Thus says the Adonai YaHuWaH : The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the day of Shabbat it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. Eze 46:2  The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate outside, and shall stand by the post of the gate; and the Kohanim shall prepare his burnt offering and his shalom 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. Eze 46:3  The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before YaHuWaH on the Shabbats and on the new moons.).

INFORMATION OF THE NEW MOON

The day of the New moon was a worship day and was not counted as one of the six work days of the week. (Which see Numbers 28:11 – 14; Isaiah 66:23: Num 28:11  In the beginnings of your months (Chodeshim) you shall offer a burnt offering toYaHuWaH: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; Num 28:12  and three tenth parts [of an efah] of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with olive-oil, for each bull; and two tenth parts of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with olive-oil, for the one ram; Num 28:13  and a tenth part of fine flour mixed with olive-oil for a meal offering to every lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to the YaHuWaH . Num 28:14  Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year. Isa 66:23  It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Shabbat to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, says the YaHuWaH .)

The first workday was on the second day of the moons lunar cycle, and the seventh would be on the eighth day from the New moon (Chodesh), an intermission day, with six workdays in between. The same is true from one Shabbat to the next, it is eight days.

New Moon (Chodesh), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat;  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat;  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Shabbat.

New Moon (Lunar Day 1) 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,  Shabbat (Lunar Day 8); 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, Shabbat (Lunar Day 15); 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, Shabbat (Lunar day 22); 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, Shabbat (Lunar day 29); New Moon (Lunar Day 1)

From Shabbat to Shabbat is 8 days with 6 work days in between, and from New moon to the 1st Shabbat is 8 days with six work days in between. It can be seen that the Shabbat comes after six workdays and the New Moon is not one of them.

At least 72 weekly Shabbats on these days can be pinpointed in scripture. The first place the word Shabbat, is mentioned and it was on the 22nd of the second moon and He said it is the rest of the Qodesh Shabbat: See Exodus. 16:1-23; Exo 16:1  They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of  Yisra’el came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Mitzrayim. Exo 16:2  The whole congregation of the children of Yisra’el murmured against Moshe and against Aharon in the wilderness;
Exo 16:3  and the children of Yisra’el said to them, “We wish that we had died by the hand of  YaHuWaH in the land of Mitzrayim, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Exo 16:4  Then said YaHuWaH to Moshe, “Behold, I will rain bread from the sky for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law, or not. Exo 16:5  It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” Exo 16:6  Moshe and Aharon said to all the children of  Yisra’el, “At evening, then you shall know that YaHuWaH has brought you out from the land of Mitzrayim; Exo 16:7  and in the morning, then you shall see the Kabowd of YaHuWaH; because he hears your murmurings against YaHuWaH. Who are we, that you murmur against us?” Exo 16:8  Moshe said, “Now YaHuWaH shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because YaHuWaH hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against YaHuWaH.” Exo 16:9  Moshe said to Aharon, “Tell all the congregation of the children of Yisra’el, ‘Come near before YaHuWaH, for he has heard your murmurings.’” Exo 16:10  It happened, as Aharon spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Yisra’el, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the Kabowd of YaHuWaH appeared in the cloud. Exo 16:11  YaHuWaH spoke to Moshe, saying, Exo 16:12  “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Yisra’el. Speak to them, saying, At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am YaHuWaH your Elohiym.’”
Exo 16:13  It happened at evening that quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay around the camp. Exo 16:14  When the dew that lay had gone, behold, on the surface of the wilderness was a small round thing, small as the frost on the ground. Exo 16:15  When the children of Yisra’el saw it, they said one to another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moshe said to them, “It is the bread which YaHuWaH has given you to eat.” Exo 16:16  This is the thing which YaHuWaH has commanded: “Gather of it everyone according to his eating; an omer a head, according to the number of your persons, shall you take it, every man for those who are in his tent.” Exo 16:17  The children of Yisra’el did so, and gathered some more, some less. Exo 16:18  When they measured it with an omer, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. They gathered every man according to his eating. Exo 16:19  Moshe said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.” Exo 16:20  Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moshe, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moshe was angry with them. Exo 16:21  They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted. Exo 16:22  It happened that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moshe. Exo 16:23  He said to them, “This is that which the YaHuWaH has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a Qodesh Shabbat to YaHuWaH. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”

The last place the word Shabbat is mentioned is in Colossians 2:16; Col 2:16  Therefore, Let-no-one-judge you-all in eating, or in drinking, or in this-part-in-particular-of a-feast-day, or a new moon, or Shabbats, (This verse has been severely mistranslated so as to intimate that one does not have to keep the feasts of the shabbat, so here is the most correct meaning in the Greek). The weekly Shabbats can be proven before the Law, under the Law, and before the Crucifixion, during the crucifixion, and after the crucifixion; and all were on these days and will be in the New Heaven, and there is not even one example of another day other than by the moon. The Shabbat was for a Qodesh Miqra (Assembly as in Leviticus 23:3; Lev 23:3  “‘Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, a Qosdesh Miqra; you shall do no manner of work. It is a Shabbat to YaHuWaH in all your dwelling), and we are to be assembled before Him when the gates to His temple are open.

The Modern/Roman Calendar started around 46 B. C. under Julius Caesar. Prior to that time there are a few other sources that tell us that the Shabbat was reckoned by the Lunar Calendar; The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia acknowledges it, saying the Shabbats were originally by the phases of the moon. Philo the Jew who lived at the same time as our Saviour acknowledges that the weeks were by the moon alone, as well as Clement of Alexandra (Stomata Vol. VI). However the Jews did not always continue to keep the Shabbat as YaHuWaH caused them to forget it; See Lamentations 2:6; Lam 2:6  And He violated his booth like a gardenand destroyed his meeting-places. YaHuWaH made meeting-places and sabbaths forgotten in Tsion, and He rejected king and priest in the fury of His anger.

He said He would destroy their place of worship and cause His Shabbats to be forgotten in Tsion. Also when they were delivered from Mitzrayim’s bondage, He made His Shabbats known to Moshe and it was on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. (Ex-16 ch.) They had forgotten the Shabbat in Mitzrayim also. They are also forgotten in modern Mitzrayim as the Jews today hold the Shabbat to be from Friday Evening to Saturday Evening every seven Modern/Roman Calendar days and not according to Lunar reckoning. This is done today because of Commercial convenience, because the money-changers whined about when will the new moon and the shabbat be over that we may buy and sell. Since a Lunar sabbath is never on the same day each Modern Roman Month, it is quite an upset to money changing.

One must now carefully consider the Scriptures that teach that the traditions of men would make the Word of YaHuWaH of none effect?  (See Matthew 15:6 and Mark 7:13; Mat 15:6 and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you annulled the command of Elohiym on account of your tradition. Mark 7:13  making the Word of Elohiym of no effect by your tradition which you delivered. And many such like things you do.) We also know that the Old Testament was written for our example (1Col 10:10  Neither should you murmur, as also some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer. 1Col 10:11  And all these things happened to those as examples, and it was written for our warning, on whom the ends of the ages have come.). We are to keep Torah and the Royal Law (Ten commandments), and the one that turns his ear from hearing the Torah his prayers shall be abomination (Prov 28:9  Whoever turns aside his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayer is an abomination.

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