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1 Chronicles 23:30-32
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Parameters of the "Day"
In light of Daniel 7:25, many have maintained that the only divinely ordained unit of time that has been compromised by Rome was the "Saturday Sabbath," in A.D. 324. That was the year Constantine allegedly changed the solemnity of the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday on the Julian calendar. This however, is not the truth. Constantine never changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Prior to the edict that established Sunday as Rome's holy day, the Roman Julian week consisted of eight days, and not seven. Saturday had up until this edict been the first day of their eight-day week that cycled without end. Therefore Saturday had never been a holy appointed Sabbath of either Rome or our Creator, Yahuwah. The change or shift that was masterminded by Constantine was designed to forever "fix" a holy solemnity to Sunday, rather than to the lunar Sabbath of the Bible and the Israelites. The Sabbath of the Israelites had always been determined according to lunisolar time and had NEVER previous to this been associated with Saturday or an unbroken cycling week.
Under these two factors, the Julian week began a centuries-long evolutionary process that ended in the week as it is known today. The original seven-day planetary week is the third and final piece of the puzzle proving that Saturday is not the Bible Sabbath, nor Sunday the first day of the Biblical week. This transformation took several hundred years. Franz Cumont, widely considered to be a great authority on Mithraism, links the acceptance of the seven-day week by Europeans to the popularity of Mithraism in pagan Rome:
It is not to be doubted that the diffusion of the Iranian [Persian] mysteries has had a considerable part in the general adoption, by the pagans, of the week with the Sunday as a holy day. The names which we employ, unawares, for the other six days, came into use at the same time that Mithraism won its followers in the provinces in the West, and one is not rash in establishing a relation of coincidence between its triumph and that concomitant phenomenon. Franz Cumont, Textes et Monumnets Figures Relatifs aux Mysteres de Mithra, Vol. I, p. 112, as quoted in ibid, p. 156.
The establishment of a counterfeit calendar is the first step necessary for counterfeit worship, both of which were crafted at the famous Council of Nicaea. Upon this premise "the repulsive and revolting" Biblical lunisolar calendar was replaced with the pagan solar calendar, as a tribute to their gods. The planetary continuous weekly cycle then replaced the Biblical week, which had always been fixed to the count from the New Moon.
When the historical and time centric facts of the Julian calendar are comprehended, it becomes apparent that Sunday is not the only spurious worship day established upon paganism. Saturday, dies Saturni, is also a counterfeit and spurious worship day. For the mere fact it is the seventh-day of the modern week, it is in opposition to the true seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible. Both days are fruit of a false, man-made calendar system. Therefore, neither Saturday nor Sunday can be the true Bible Sabbath.
In one fell swoop, a double deception was masterminded. Constantine crafted not one, but two major deceptions, both the spurious fruit of his instituted artificial calendar. First, he changed the cycling eight-day week to a cycling seven-day week, creating an illusion that this "new week" and its calendar were indeed in harmony with Scripture. Second, he anointed Sunday of this new unbroken-cycling-week, to be "holy." By so doing, he crafted the greatest deception of all. Those Bible students and scholars of later generations to come would discover that the seventh-day was ordained by Yahuwah to be holy and not the first day. By default they and their followers would adhere to "Saturday," as if it were holy, simply because it represented the seventh-day on Rome's calendar. Thus, thinking they are in harmony with Scripture, many would cling to "Saturday," believing it to be the true seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture. All the while, the entire premise that the Roman "week" was in sync with Scripture became the hidden deception. All will be brought to test over this question, as all have the opportunity to know the truth. Each of the Creator's units of time are beaconed by the orchestrated harmony of the sun, moon and stars. In sharp contrast, Rome's week floats through the Creator's month with no connection what ever to the moon.
Has Rome changed any other ordained units of time? Bible scholars will agree that Rome has also altered for her own glory, the year, month and day. Roman time dictates that the "year" commences in winter, the "calends" (Roman months) were crafted according to her arbitrary whim and are not fixed to the moon, and "days" are to commence at midnight. All the while, Scripture testifies from cover to cover that Yahuwah ordained the year to commence in Spring (Exodus 12:1-3), the month is to commence at the New Moon lunar phase (Isaiah 66:23, Ezekiel 46:1), and the "day" was ordained to be twelve hours in length and commence at sunrise.
For more on when a day begins, refer to article,
"Sunrise or Sunset, When Does a Day Begin?"
Also, refer to Word Study on "Genesis 1:1-5."
The Mighty One, God the Lord, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its going down. Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth. Psalms 50:1-2 NKJV
For from the rising of the sun, even to its going down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles; in every place incense shall be offered to My name, and a pure offering; for My name shall be great among the nations," says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 1:11 NKJV
Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. John 11:9 NKJV
The Ordained Measure for Time
Ever since Constantine legislated in A.D. 324, his new "seven day week" with its continuous-weekly-cycle, and appointed Sunday as the holy day, the whole world has been deceived by His dual craftiness, and led to forget the Creator's true calendation.
Shortly afterward, in A.D. 358, Sanhedrin Patriarch Hillel II, motivated by the onslaught of continued Jewish persecution, determined to provide an authorized mathematically-based calendar for all time to come that would be in harmony with Rome. By so doing, he severed the ties that united the Jews of the Diaspora to their historical Scriptural roots and to the patriarchate. It is recorded that Rome's unbroken-cycle-of-weeks of seven days was adopted at a clandestine and maybe final meeting of the Sanhedrin in A.D. 358, marking the last universal decision made by that body. Thus the Jews swapped the Biblical lunar Sabbaths for the popularized Roman continuous weekly cycle, causing her Sabbaths to no longer be in sync with the New Moons and all other holy appointed feast days.
Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Hodesh), both periodically recur in the course of the year. The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410.
The (early) Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moon's course. Rest Days, p. 254-255 by Hutton Webster
The connection of the Sabbath with lunar phases, however, was (later) discarded by the Israelites . . . The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia, p. 135-136.
These . . . eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, 'the star of the Sabbath.' It was not until 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]. Rest Days, p.244 by Hutton Webster
Blindly, all the modern world "has wandered after the beast" by believing either Rome's lie that Sunday is holy or the Jewish lie that Saturday is the Sabbath (Revelation 13:3)
But there is hope, as the light from heaven is brilliantly shining to dispel the darkness of error at such a critical hour. Scripture after scripture, and verse after verse are being revealed and restored from the rubble of being entirely lost in translation. On the wings of two or three witnesses, they testify to the truth, and unravel the lies. It is discovered that Bible scholars for the past 1600 years have all bought into Rome's calculated dual deception, either in part or in whole. Sunday keepers have swallowed it whole, while Saturday keepers have at least required a "thus saith the Lord." For a seventh-day Sabbath. Yet, both fall short and today they are the same distance from the true Biblical Sabbath. Both days are built upon the same false, Roman devised continuous weekly cycle. While Saturday is indeed the seventh-day, it is not the seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible, as ordained by the Creator, and Savior. There is a cross to bear for each soul who chooses to follow the only "way the truth and the life" (John 14:6). It is "the principles that rule in the heavens (Genesis 1:14-18)," born out in the sun, moon and stars, that will place His faithful in sync with all of heaven, the angels and the unfallen worlds beyond.
The Elliptical Perpetual Face That Turns
What is meant by the term elliptical?
elliptical - marked by an ellipsis 1) of, relating to, or marked by an ellipsis
ellipsis - to leave out or fall short. See ellipse.
ellipse - 1a: Oval b: a closed plane curve generated by a point moving in such a way that the sums of its distances from two fixed points is a constant: a plane section a plane section of a right circular cone that is a closed curve 2: Ellipsis
Each oval "elliptical" loop demonstrates the path of the moon's orbit around the earth, which are approximately 29.5 day lunations or months.
From ancient times it has been observed that the sun and stars are stationary, while the moon orbits the earth in a cyclic manner, as the earth orbits the sun. It is well documented that the earth orbits the sun every 365.25 days, known as a solar year. In comparing the sun, moon and stars, it is the "moon" alone that has an oval, or what is referred astronomically as an "elliptical orbit," as seen from earth. In a regular lunisolar year only twelve complete lunations are counted, falling short of the solar year by 11 days each year. This is because there are in fact 12.368 lunations every solar year of 365.25 days. This is why adherents to lunisolar calendation must add a 30 day month approximately every 2.72 years. This 2.72 year cycle brings lunar phases back to the same time of the year, but because 2.72 is not near an integer it only does so approximately and more similar lunar phases at the same time of year occur after 8, 11 or 19 years. Refer to definitions, "Lunar Cycles."
Also refer to:
Wikipedia / Orbit of the Moon
Hawaii.edu / Shape of Lunar Orbit
Visible telltale markers that the moon is on an oval or "elliptical" orbit around the earth can be verified by its apogee and perigee." Refer to definitions, "Apogee" and "Perigee."
Each orbit of the sun by the earth can be considered perpetual motion, but this verse specifies the "ordained measure" is to be both "elliptical" in nature and display a "perpetual face that turns." The moon is the only astronomical sphere that qualifies for both defined characteristics, as it has a marked "elliptical orbit," and it alone has the "perpetual face that turns." It has long been a mystery, how and why the moon can make its orbit around the earth, yet always present the same face, as the moon has never exposed its backside. This peculiarity of the moon is evidence of Creation in itself and a powerful witness to divine design.
Scripture defines in Genesis 1:14-18, that all of the Creator's units of time are to be made manifest by the orchestration of the sun, moon and stars. Here in this passage of 1 Chronicles 23:30-32 we discover that we are to number the Sabbaths, the New Moon and it's lunar month days, and the years with their specific appointed holy days, according to the "elliptical," and "perpetual face that turns." Can this be representative of anything other than the moon, since we can clearly rule out the sun, and the stars? This command to number the Sabbaths according to the "elliptical and perpetual face that turns," is another way of commanding that we "fix" the seven days of the week to the numbered days of the month. In addition, the months are also to be numbered or counted for each year according to the number of lunations.
As illustrated in the graphic below, both the earth and the moon orbit the sun in a counter-clockwise direction. Notice the oval or "elliptical" pattern of the moons path around the earth. When the moon is farthest from the sun, as pictured on the left, it is "full." When the moon is closest to the sun it is in its dark "conjunction" lunar phase, this occurs because the sun is shining on the moon's backside as seen from earth. However, the moon is recognized as "new" only when the "first visible crescent" of reflected light is seen "anew" at sunset, on the western horizon following the dark phase. This "first visible crescent" New Moon is the instrument divinely ordained from the beginning to be the Creator's Lunar International Dateline (CLID) marker.
The graphic below specifically defines:
- Twelve lunar months in this lunisolar year (a thirteenth month occurs approximately every third year).
- There are 29-30 days in each lunar month.
- Notice how the counter-clockwise path of the moon commences in the position of New Moon day (1), the day following the closest point to the sun. Then the moon’s path continues to the outer edges of its orbit only to swing in toward the sun again toward the end of its lunation (month). The moon remains in a varied but perpetual state of an ellipse.
- The seventh-day Sabbath was preordained at creation and “fixed” to the lunar civil calendar dates counting from New Moon day. Fraudulently, mankind has been led to believe that there are only two kinds of days— work days and Sabbath days. Yet, Scripture teaches there are three kinds of days— work days, Sabbath days, and New Moon days. It is the New Moon day that occurs at the commencement of each month that breaks the weekly cycle, refreshing each new month with a cycle of four complete weeks.
Time Belongs to Yahuwah
How can we know for certain? Each day of earth's creation fell upon a work day of Yahuwah. These six work days were sandwiched between two holy days of Yahuwah. These are His holy seventh-day Sabbath, His rest day which correspondingly fell at the end of earth's creation week, and the New Moon day, which occurred in heaven the day prior to the first day of creation. As a result, earth's first week of time was hung from heaven's New Moon time reckoning, and not our own, as the sun, moon and stars were not created, or their time set, until the fourth day. Therefore, while the Sabbath was indeed the seventh-day of the week, the lunisolar calendar date for that first seventh-day Sabbath would have been the 8th of the lunar month, in acknowledgement of Heaven's shared gift of time. Thus earth's first week and month were set according to heaven's clock and heaven's New Moon. This was the missing puzzle piece in the Genesis account, bringing it now into full harmony with the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures.
The calendar illustration below demonstrates what occurred during the creation week. On the New Moon Day (in blue) the Creator could not have been on earth for any reason, as He had to be on His throne receiving worship from all His creation. Each of creation's work days are (in green). The first day of creation of earth would have been the second day of the month for Yahuwah, whose time rhythms He was to share with Adam and Eve of His new creation called earth. The 8th day of the month (in gold) is the seventh-day of the week, an eternal holy seventh-day Sabbath of Yahuwah's, past present and future. Here again He would be on His throne in heaven receiving worship from all His creation, including Adam and Eve.
Ezekiel 46:1, 3. NKJV
Yahuwah, at this pinnacle of time is now requesting that all of His units of time be restored, so that all His faithful everywhere may be in harmony with all of heaven and His worship times.
New Moon Day Preceding Creation
The New Moon Day prior to the Creation of earth was not involving earth's moon at all, but the moon connected with heaven. Earth's moon is only a copy to keep us in sync with the unfallen worlds and heaven itself. Our Creator illustrates to earthlings that it was "Heaven's New Moon" and "Heaven's Time" that set earth's clock, so to speak, by not even creating or advancing upon earth's sun, moon, or stars until the fourth day. How else could we be certain that indeed earth's time system was set according to the divine time of heaven? Yahuwah is calling His faithful to look up and return to His time "principles that rule in the heavens." Refer to article, "The Principles that Rule in the Heavens."
Post a Watch over this Holy Thing
- Guard and protect this sign-marker.
- Post a watch at the place of assembly.
- It is for a token of evidence.
- Watch over this holy and dedicated thing as a charge and service of the sons of Aaron (wilderness sanctuary).
- The same charge is given for those who are to minister unto the Sanctuary of Yahuwah (heavenly sanctuary).
It is this "ordained measure" that the Creator exclaims is a token of evidence. But of what is it evidence? It is evidence of Divine Design. It is evidence that the earth was indeed created in six literal days sandwiched between the New Moon day and the seventh-day lunar Sabbath, and not thousands or millions of years. It is evidence that the King of the Universe, by His love, has provided earthlings with an invitation to participate with heaven and all the unfallen worlds in coming to Mt. Zion (Yahuwah's holy Mountain of time) for all holy appointed worship days. It is evidence that upon this same time system, the Son of Yahuwah, met the criteria of the sacrificial lamb and rose to become our Priest unto the forgiveness of sins for the restoration of fallen mankind. It is the evidence that according to this same "ordained measure of time" our Savior will, one day soon, "stand up" and come forth from Heaven's Most Holy Place, to receive His ready and waiting faithful. It is a truth that illustrates by its intrinsic evidence, our blessed hope.
While Aaron and his sons ministered unto the earthly sanctuary during the wilderness wandering and beyond, today Yahuwah is calling His faithful everywhere to follow Him by faith as He ministers in the heavenly Sanctuary. He beckons us to keep His appointed days holy and following the work of His son, Yahushua, as He accomplishes our Salvation, through our confession and His forgiveness. Doing so, can only be accomplished upon the "preordained measure" of the moon, His faithful witness in the sky (Psalms 89:37).
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. We are to show them that it is of vital consequence whether they bear the mark of God's kingdom or the mark of the kingdom of rebellion, for they acknowledge themselves subjects of the kingdom whose mark they bear. God has called us to uplift the standard of His downtrodden Sabbath. How important, then, that our example in Sabbath keeping should be right. Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. 352.1.
We are to recognize human government as an ordinance of divine appointment, and teach obedience to it as a sacred duty, within its legitimate sphere. But when its claims conflict with the claims of God, we must obey God rather than men. God's word must be recognized as above all human legislation. A "Thus saith the Lord" is not to be set aside for a "Thus saith the church" or a "Thus saith the state." The crown of Christ is to be lifted above the diadems of earthly potentates. God's Amazing Grace, p. 58.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." If the light presented meets this test, we are not to refuse to accept it because it does not agree with our ideas.--Gospel Workers, pp. 300, 301.
If the pillars of our faith will not stand the test of investigation, it is time that we knew it. There must be no spirit of pharisaism cherished among us. When Christ came to His own, His own received Him not; and it is a matter of solemn interest to us that we should not pursue a similar course in refusing light from heaven.
We must study the truth for ourselves. No living man should be relied upon to think for us. No matter who it is, or in what position he may be placed, we are not to look upon any man as a perfect criterion for us. We are to counsel together, and to be subject to one another; but at the same time we are to exercise the ability God has given us to learn what is truth. Each one of us must look to God for divine enlightenment. We must individually develop a character that will stand the test in the day of God. We must not become set in our ideas, and think that no one should interfere with our opinions.--Review and Herald, June 18, 1889.
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