s a fifth generation Seventh-day Adventist, I was taught that all Sunday keeper objections to a Saturday Sabbath could easily be met with Scripture. For twenty years of teaching Sabbath School and sharing the "Word" this appeared to be the case. But recently, following a paradigm shift, I inadvertently stumbled upon a shocking piece of evidence to the contrary. In the S.D.A. church archives I discovered that there has always been one great objection to a Saturday Sabbath in Scripture - and it was completely unanswerable until now. This is the point at which Christ's death on the cross on the 14th of the lunar month of Abib, the 6th day of the week on Passover, followed by His resting in the tomb on the Seventh-day Sabbath (a High Sabbath), does not actually intersect with either a Saturday or a Sunday of the modern Roman Gregorian calendar.

On page 66 of the online 2007 Yearbook, which featured the first S.D.A. yearbook ever published, 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.  Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook, 1883

If you are finding it difficult to comprehend the above statement, then you are not alone. Perhaps the reason is because it is exactly opposite of what we have always been taught. What it says, in other words, is this: Faithful Sunday keepers bring up many objections to the Saturday Sabbath. These arguments are all easily answered from Scripture except for one. This "one" objection is unanswerable because neither Saturday nor Sunday of the Gregorian calendar intersect with the prophetic preordained appointments of Christ's sixth-day Crucifixion, His rest in the tomb on the seventh-day Sabbath and first-day Resurrection in A.D. 31 - the only year for the crucifixion that fits the time constraints of Daniel 9:24-27 and the Sanctuary's lunisolar calendation. Thus making this an unanswerable objection to a Saturday Sabbath, and it makes "THE CROSS" the great test for defining the Creator's true calendar and ultimately the true seventh-day Sabbath.

Most of us have been unaware that there was a weak link in our Saturday Sabbath doctrine and foundational pillar of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, World Wide Church of God and the Jews. Second, a public admission in a church publication is disconcerting. But what should be very clear is that this was a known fact between 1843 and 1883, and not just by a few in high places.

The weight of evidence illustrates that Friday of the modern Gregorian calendar does not coincide with the Scriptural account of the sixth day crucifixion of Christ Yahushua in A.D. 31. From Scripture we are told this day was known as Passover, which always fell on the 14th day of the month of Abib, counting from New Moon day. It was also the 6th day of the week, the preparation day, as well as the day of the full moon. For more details refer to article,"Twelve Criteria of the True Crucifixion Date."

Likewise, it appears that Saturday, the seventh-day of the Roman Gregorian calendar does not coincide with the Scriptural account of the seventh-day Sabbath, in which Christ spent in the tomb. From Scripture we are told that this seventh-day Sabbath was the 15th day of the month of Abib, and was also the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. When a feast begins on the seventh-day Sabbath, it is known as a High Sabbath, of which there are precisely two each year. These are the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the first day of the fall Feast of Tabernacles. Contrary to what many believe there are no feasts that end on a seventh-day Sabbath.

Finally, it appears that Sunday, the 1st day of the following week on the Roman Gregorian calendar does not coincide with the Scriptural account of the Resurrection of Christ on the 1st day of the week. From Scripture we are told that this first day of the week was also the 16th day of the month every single year, as counted from the New Moon. It was also known as the Wave Sheaf Offering day, which was always the 2nd day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

It appears that these three most important days in Scripture, when transferred to the Roman Gregorian calendar, actually fall on the 4th, 5th and 6th days of the week, rather than the 6th, 7th and 1st as is stipulated in Scripture. What has occurred is that lunisolar calendation details have been inadvertently applied to Roman calendar, but only in the minds of the ignorant, as these two calendars are in eternal conflict, and never capable of be being in harmony. It all has to do with how the weeks cycle. Roman Gregorian weeks follow a continuous weekly cycle, purportedly proclaimed by Rome to be unbroken since the time of creation. The lunisolar weeks are fixed to the New Moon and are broken each month by the New Moon day which refreshes the new month count of days and weeks. The events that were to fall on the 6th, 7th and 1st days of the week are diminished in their prophetic fulfillment of types and shadows of the Sanctuary, as lunisolar calendation is replaced with pagan calendation. This causes it to appear that Friday, Saturday and Sunday actually fell on those days during the month of Abib, in the year A.D. 31. A combination of both astronomical records and their sound application in conjunction with the factual differences between lunisolar calendation and Roman Gregorian calendation, define this as an impossible match, not made in heaven.

The purpose of this article is to get to the bottom of why for over 150 years there has been at least one unanswered objection to Saturday Sabbath, and why it could not be resolved until now. Let's take a closer look to find out what is really going on. To do so, we will investigate how three completely different calendars function, and whether or not they harmonize with the calendar facts of Scripture, so that we may be sure we are keeping Yahuwah's true Sabbath. If it matters to Yahuwah, it must be relevant to us.