Forty Years Later
Part 4
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orty years after the heavenly manna had been first given by the loving heavenly Father to feed the Israelites during their wilderness wondering, it ceased. In His providence, He had restored to His chosen people His time centric principles that rule in the heavens. Moses had died and Israel was now under the new leadership of Joshua. As the Red Sea had parted for Israel to cross during their Exodus from Egypt, the heavenly Father also parted the Jordan River forty years later as Israel entered the Promised Land.When Yahuwah began re-clarifying His time keeping system, it was on the first day, of the first month of the first year before leading the children of Israel out of Egypt. Commencing on the 16th day of the Second Month He had sent manna from heaven for the first time. Now, forty years later on the 16th of the First Month of Abib, the manna forever ceased.
After entering the Promised Land, Joshua recorded the following details:
So the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day. Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5:10-12 NKJV
The book of Joshua was written by Joshua, yet it remains in complete harmony with the calendation principles recorded by Moses. Though the leadership changed, Yahuwah's calendation principles did not.
A heavenly spotlight highlights three consecutive days to verify the continuity of time keeping under Joshua's leadership.
The Feast of Passover was kept in the same way it had always been kept under the leadership of Moses, beginning at sunset on the 14th of the First Month (Abib) and ending at the sunrise of the 15th day. This 14th day of the First Month continued to be the 6th day of the week followed by the seventh-day Sabbath on the 15th, forty years later.
This truth is established by following 16 facts:
The Feast of Passover was kept in the same way it had always been kept under the leadership of Moses, beginning at sunset on the 14th of the First Month (Abib) and ending at the sunrise of the 15th day. This 14th day of the First Month continued to be the 6th day of the week followed by the seventh-day Sabbath on the 15th, forty years later.
This truth is established by following 16 facts:
- Manna was given for five days, with a double portion on the sixth day of the week. None was to be given on the seventh-day Sabbath.
- The manna was to illustrated full, complete weeks, defining Yahuwah’s calendar and its Sabbaths.
- Yahuwah would have defeated His own purposes of illustrating His time system if He were to cease giving the manna in the middle of the week.
- The 14th of the First Month (Abib) was the last day that manna was given with its double portions for the Sabbath, completing the full week.
- No food preparation was to be done on either a seventh-day Sabbath or a holy Feast Sabbath.
- The 15th was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread making it a Feast Sabbath.
- The only way Israel would have had unleavened bread to eat on the 15th is because they would have received the double portion of manna on the 14th and prepared it at that time.
- The manna never lasted until the next sunrise unless that sunrise was that of the seventh-day Sabbath.
- On that Sabbath, Israel’s diet consisted of unleavened bread made from manna and parched grain from the fields in the Promised Land.
- The first day of each week it was expected that manna would commence following a Sabbath Rest with no manna.
- It is clearly stated that “the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land.”
- The Israelites had eaten the produce of the land on the 15th along with their unleavened bread that was prepared on the 14th.
- On the 15th, no manna had been given.
- There was only one day when the manna could officially cease. It could not cease on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th day of the week, because the manna’s purpose was to illustrate complete weeks. It could not cease on the 6th day because there would be no unleavened bread for the Sabbath Feast. It couldn’t cease on the Sabbath, because it was never given on the Sabbath. The only day for it to cease was the first day of the week.
- The manna ceased on the 16th when it had ordinarily been expected to commence for the week. This illustrates that the 16th of the month is always the first day of the week.
- If the 16th is the first day of the week, then the 15th is always the seventh-day Sabbath according to the count from the New Moon.
When manna was first given after the Exodus, it was used by Yahuwah to illustrate His weeks and Sabbaths for the Second Month. Notice that this verse in Joshua 5:10-12 is now using the manna to define the same dates for the First Month of (Abib) as well. Here Yahuwah highlights, with the use of His final manna illustration that during the First Month (Abib) the Sabbath is also located on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th just as it was in the Second Month.
Forty years after the Exodus, Joshua punctuates that the 14th of the First Month (Abib) remains the Feast of Passover and the 6th day of the week by giving a double portion of manna. He establishes that the 15th of the First Month (Abib) is consistently the Feast of Unleavened Bread as well as the seventh-day Sabbath for the entire duration of forty years and even into the Promised Land.
It is recorded that on the 16th of the First Month (Abib), for the first time in forty years no manna fell. On this first day of the week, it ceased forever.
Forty years after the Exodus, Joshua punctuates that the 14th of the First Month (Abib) remains the Feast of Passover and the 6th day of the week by giving a double portion of manna. He establishes that the 15th of the First Month (Abib) is consistently the Feast of Unleavened Bread as well as the seventh-day Sabbath for the entire duration of forty years and even into the Promised Land.
It is recorded that on the 16th of the First Month (Abib), for the first time in forty years no manna fell. On this first day of the week, it ceased forever.
Conclusion:
We can also have confidence that this is the same time signature or calendation that the Saviour Yahushua kept during His life, even through to the cross and resurrection, as He fulfilled the Passover events in every particular. Today He is re-clarifying and restoring His time signature as demonstrated in the Creator's lunisolar calendar. His faithful followers will be as one awakened from sleep, as He prepares to deliver them from the bondage and slavery of sin in this world, and prepare this remnant for the true Promised Land. Just like the Hebrews of old, the final generation will in haste have many truths to learn, and many false teachings to unlearn.
We can also have confidence that this is the same time signature or calendation that the Saviour Yahushua kept during His life, even through to the cross and resurrection, as He fulfilled the Passover events in every particular. Today He is re-clarifying and restoring His time signature as demonstrated in the Creator's lunisolar calendar. His faithful followers will be as one awakened from sleep, as He prepares to deliver them from the bondage and slavery of sin in this world, and prepare this remnant for the true Promised Land. Just like the Hebrews of old, the final generation will in haste have many truths to learn, and many false teachings to unlearn.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. Revelation 2:17 NKJV
And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Revelation 22:17 NKJV
From one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me," says the Lord. Isaiah 66:23 NKJV
Surely My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. Exodus 31:13-14
Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation. Council to Writers and Editors, p. 35.
May you be abundantly blessed in all you do as you keep looking up and seeking the Father of lights (James 1:17).
Introduction 1
The Exodus 1 2 3
The Manna 1 2
The Mountain 1 2
Forty Years Later 1
Kerrie L. French
Freelance Writer/Illustrator