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Three Months in a Row

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ithin the parameters of this second month in a row, the Heavenly Father, Yahuwah further demonstrates to the infidel Hebrew people, in a gentle, beautiful, and unassuming way, additional insight and confirmation of His calendation system. Having been nearly a hundred years in slavery to their pagan Egyptian masters, they had many things to learn about there Creator, and many things to unlearn. With the falling of the heavenly manna, their lessons had only just begun.

Exodus 16:1-36 NKJV

And they journeyed from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. 2 Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 And the children of Israel said to them, "Oh, that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

4 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not. 5 And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily." 6 Then Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, "At evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt. 7 And in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord; for He hears your complaints against the Lord. But what are we that you complain against us?" 8 Also Moses said, "This shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to the full; for the Lord hears your complaints which you make against Him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord."

9 Then Moses spoke to Aaron, 'Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, 'Come near before the Lord, for He has heard your complaints.' 10 Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 12 "I have heard the complaints of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"

13 So it was that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay all around the camp. 14 And when the layer of dew lifted, there, on the surface of the wilderness, was a small round substance, as fine as frost on the ground. 15 So when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, "What is it?" For they did not know what it was. And Moses said to them, "This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: 'Let every man gather it according to each one's need, one omer for each person, according to the number of persons; let every man take for those who are in his tent.'" 17 And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more, some less. 18 So when they measured it by omers, he who gathered much had nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack. Every man had gathered according to each one's need. 19 And Moses said, "Let no one leave any of it till morning." 20 Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them. 21 So they gathered it every morning, every man according to his need. And when the sun became hot, it melted.

22 And so it was, on the sixth day, that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. 23 Then he said to them, "This is what the Lord has said: 'Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.'" 24 So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 25 Then Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none." 27 Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day." 30 So the people rested on the seventh day. 31 And the house of Israel called its name Manna. And it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

32 Then Moses said, "This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: 'Fill an omer with it, to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread with which I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'" 33 And Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot and put an omer of manna in it, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations." 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. 36 Now an omer is one-tenth of an ephah.

The Evidence and Key Time Details

During the Second Month of the Exodus, Yahuwah sent manna from heaven, which presents the second detailed calendar layout in a row. What this means is that Yahuwah has given us two months in a row for comparison, each of which establish details for monthly calendation, weekly cycles, New Moons, and lunar seventh-day Sabbaths. The story of the heavenly manna present some unique details that will, step by step, reveal an otherwise hidden calendation system. Then a comparison will be drawn between the "Passover" events of the First Month of Abib and the "heavenly manna" details of the Second Month for added clarification and confirmation.

• From the New King James Version above it is not entirely clear at first glance, that the Israelites had arrived at the Wilderness of Sin on the 14th, then murmured and complained of hunger on the 15th.
  
  It is well known that during translation, punctuation is placed in Scripture at the discretion of the translators. On occasion punctuation has been discovered to be in error, and has a significant impact on the meaning of a sentence or even on an entire doctrinal belief. Below is a case in point of a clearer rendering of the same event of the arrival at Mt. Sinai, from the Septuagint translation. Here a semicolon is placed at the natural change in thought in the Hebrew sentence structure known as an "atnach."
  
  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 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. Exodus 16: 1-2 Septuagint.
  
  The point being made here is not that the Septuagint version of Scripture is the most accurate, but rather it presents the punctuation in the location that does indeed change the meaning of the verse. So the point here is that since punctuation is not given in the original Hebrew, but applied by mere mortals as they render the Hebrew into English, the possibility of punctuation error must be considered. After all, punctuation is generally placed in position to support the views of the translators. A famous example of a misplaced comma is in the story of the thief cross (Luke 23:43).

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• On the 15th day of the second month of the year, after departing from Egypt, the people murmured and complained of hunger. Exodus 16:1-3

• "At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread." Exodus 16:12. Twilight means dusk and commences at sunset. According to Deuteronomy 16:6, 7, "there you shall sacrifice the Passover at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. Deuteronomy 16:1 says, "for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night."

• Yahuwah told Moses and Aaron that He would send quail that very night of the 15th, but on the next morning He would rain down bread from heaven, clearly identifying the 16th of the month as the first day of the week.

• The 1st and the 15th days of the month are the calendation markers given for this second month. From these two markers we can lay out the entire calendar month in both directions. Exodus 16:6-7; 12-13

• The Israelites were to gather one omer (measure) per person per day for five days, but on the sixth day they were to gather a double portion for that day and the seventh-day, for the seventh-day was the Sabbath, a Holy day of rest unto the Lord. Once we established that the first day of manna fell on the 16th day of the month it is easy to add six more days to calculate that the seventh-day Sabbath is on the 22nd of the month. Exodus 16:16-26

• A point that is often missed in the daily count of the falling manna is that - each day the manna was given in the morning, not during the night hours. Notice how each new day begins with the manna at sunrise.

• An additional point is that none of the manna was to be kept over until the next morning. If they did it bred worms and stunk. Exodus 16:19, 20. This is a detail that must not be overlooked, because Yahuwah was not choosing an arbitrary time to illustrate the beginning of each new day. He was being very specific that each day began at sunrise followed by the darkness of night, and was illustrated by the replacement of fresh manna each morning. The Heavenly Father's plan was to use the manna as a continual test of the Israelites faithfulness to Him. If this manna schedule is His test, then the smallest details must not be overlooked.

• "They shall gather a certain quota every day, so that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law." Exodus 16:4. Using the miracle of the manna, Yahuwah shed light on the parameters of His months, weeks, days, true holy seventh-day Sabbath as He had ordained each of them at Creation. Then He used the parameters of manna gathering for the Sabbath to test the people's faithfulness to Him. Keeping the true Sabbath holy on the correct days of the lunar month, counting from New Moon was to be the test and sign of their faithfulness. There seeking faithfulness in this area was to be a revealer of their true heart intentions. In the exact same manner, Yahuwah uses the true Sabbath as a test of our faithfulness to Him today. His true Sabbath is only found, by following the same principles as outlined in this manna story. Exodus 16:4, 5; Exodus 31:13

• So the people rested on the seventh-day. The date of this first Sabbath of resting from gathering manna would have been the 22nd day of the Second Month counting from the day following the 15th when they complained of hunger. Exodus 16:29-30

                                                      Introduction 1    
                                                      The Exodus 1   2   3
                                                      The Manna     1   2
                                                      The Mountain     1   2
                                                      Forty Years Later   1