My Dream & Journey into the Light

Introduction:

In light of the many false dreams recently proclaimed as truth, and no doubt will continue to the end of time, I have been reluctant to share my own experience. At the time of this writing I have shared this story with only those that can be counted on two hands. My doctrinal paradigms have not changed because of this dream, but rather in the Heavenly Father's divine plan He has used it to confirm to me what I have in the last few years discovered through Bible study and prayer. This confirmation He gave only after I clarified my willingness to faithfully walk in the new light of Scripture. Therefore with this in mind I share my dream and my story, and pray it will encourage another along life's path to the light of His truth.

My Dream:

The year was 1970, and I was 13. Dad was a workaholic seeking fame and fortune in the van camper industry. Mom did her best trying to keep sanity in the house. From an early age she faithfully taught us children our Sabbath School lesson and took us to church every Saturday and Pathfinders on Wednesday evening. My two brothers and I attended our local Seventh-day Adventist church school from the time I was in 4th grade. In addition, I had a dear grandmother who was a prayer warrior, and loved me very much.

While I had always loved school, and was a good student, seventh grade was different. There was one girl in the grade above me that was making my life miserable. It was a period of intense unhappiness, and felt that I was under a dark cloud.

One particular evening I was doing my homework in the living room, my Mom came in to ask or tell me something. I do not recall now why I became enraged, which was out of character for me. Most likely I was frustrated with a paper I was writing, but I stood to my feet and threw my books at her. Then I ran to the safety of the bathroom and locked the door. But while there alone in the bathroom I began crying out to God for help. I felt so angry, guilty, and remorseful, all in one. I did not know why I was empty, unhappy and utterly miserable. Why did I feel so ugly inside? Where was the joy and happiness? Life had no meaning or purpose. I then asked God for help? After what seemed like hours I finally came out and went straight to bed, for I wasn't yet ready to meet up with my Mom.

That night I had a dream which lasted all night. I had never had a dream like it previously nor since. This dream was in high definition and living color. The scene opened and there I was alone with Christ, standing in the expansive universe. I experienced His love in that he understood my deepest self. From this vantage point the earth was visible as well as the sun, the moon and the stars. Christ was dressed in white and had the Holy Bible in His left hand. With His right hand He began pointing to specific things in the heavens around us. He was teaching me things I had never heard before regarding the sun, moon, and stars. Then He went through the entire Bible, verse by verse, showing me from the Scriptures that what He was teaching me was also written there. I remember feeling overwhelmed, that there was no way I could remember all that He showed me. He assured me that I had no need to worry as all would be brought to light in due time.

When I awoke the next morning, my life was profoundly changed, for I had been with (Jesus) Yahshua. While I could recall with vividness the scene, I could not recall even one Scripture verse He had shown me. Also, I could not recall the details of what He was teaching about the sun, moon and stars. At the time this was most disconcerting. For if I shared it with anyone it would appear that I had made it up, as I could not recall the content of the message. All I was left with was the scene as He pointed to the sun, moon and stars and then verified it in many, many places in Scripture.

I went directly to my mom's bedroom where I found her making her bed. I first told her how truly sorry I was for becoming so angry, and for throwing the books at her. I asked her to please forgive me. Then I told her of my experience, that overnight my life had been changed by the love of God. I told her of the dream and that it had something to do with the sun, moon and stars. I told her how He loved me, a mere child, enough to spend a whole night with me showing me lessons for the future, and revealed that I was to have a part in it.

I could not then, or even now fully wrap my mind around this profound encounter. In my anger, He had brought me peace; in my loneliness He had shown me friendship; for my sadness He gave me joy; and in my hopelessness He gave me a future.

As the years rolled by I often leaned on this encounter with a loving God when life would become difficult, and just as often I forgot the experience and how He would continue to lead me. Other than my mom, I never shared it with another soul and we never spoke of it again.

On several occasions over the years I have asked the Lord what these things meant. But no light was given.

Shortly after my 50th birthday, I was driving home through the canyon from town. The moon was up and would come into view as my car would maneuver around the many turns. I began asking the Father what the purpose is for the many differing phases of the moon. I said Lord, I am now 50, how long must I wait before you once again reveal to me the meaning of the dream you gave me 37 years ago. Then all of a sudden it dawned on me, that He was waiting for me, rather than the other way around. He would reveal these truths to me only when I would seek Him with all my heart. I was overcome with the reality of my need of Him and His truths from Scripture.

Arriving home, I got on my knees and asked Him to change my life again, and to bring me into harmony with Him. I asked Him to teach me new light as it is in Scripture and to equip me with faithfulness to walk in that new light. Once again He gave me a renewed heart and joy. I knew something incredible was about to happen, and I lived the next few days with anticipation.

Through the course of events, and my newly established Photography Business, I had an invitation to photograph a wedding. On July 13, 2007, two days prior to the wedding I met with the bride to discuss her photo needs and to check out the wedding location.

Just before I left, the bride to be, shared with me that she and her, soon to be husband, were enthusiastically studying their Bibles. When I shared that I had missed them both at church, she said, "We've discovered that Saturday is not the Biblical seventh-day Sabbath." She then went on to say, "This month the Holy seventh-day Sabbath falls on the pagan Gregorian Tuesday." I was in shock!

I had attended Seventh-day Adventist grade school, Academy and College. I considered myself to be quite well read in all the church publications and doctrines, along with the writings of Ellen White. As a hobby I even studied other religions for the purpose of witnessing. In addition I had been a Sabbath School teacher for 20 years. Yet I had never even heard of this concept, at least not from this frame of reference. While my mouth was still open in apparent amazement and for lack of words, she pointed out that I could easily do my own research online by Googling: luni-solar calendar, luni-solar Sabbath, creation calendar, and calendar history.

Completely forgetting my prayer about the moon, all the way home I actively prayed for her, her husband to be, and their families. Certainly, this would be a weighty burden for all of them to bear. Upon reaching home I went directly to my computer and began the ordeal of researching the luni-solar Sabbath belief and comparing it with Scripture, line upon line. I was obsessed with these new concepts, and could not let them go. My prayer to the Heavenly Father was that He would continue to lead me into all truth. I had momentarily forgotten that I had asked Yahuwah to reveal new light and to teach me about the lunar phases. I didn't yet understand nor could I believe that the moon had any connection to the Sabbath. I had previously declared to Him that I only wanted truth that proceeded from the mouth of Yahuwah.

No longer was I satisfied to follow after the traditions of men that were not supported by a "thus saith the Lord". My heart's desire was to get just as close to Yahshua and truth as possible. I was hearing a call to wake up and come out of Babylon and be restored fully to the truth as it is in Scripture. Babylon, as I have discovered is the false teachings and traditions of men that have been linked with the truths of Yahuwah, but can be easily identified by their lack of Scriptural support or a "thus saith the Lord".

I fully believed at the onset of my research that this whole luni-solar calendar concept would be found to be in error and not be provable from Scripture alone. After all Ellen White supported a Saturday Sabbath. Yet I made up my mind that if it was the truth, if it bore the heavenly seal of a "thus saith the Lord Yahuwah from Scripture", that I would with His help, walk in the new light. To my great surprise it soon became apparent that Scripture supported a luni-solar calendar and it's corresponding seventh-day Sabbath without exception. I read through and studied every article and every website I could find on the subject and found while all of them were not in perfect agreement on every detail such as what constitutes the New Moon, it was evident that a very strong golden thread of truth ran consistently through the luni-solar Sabbath teaching.

He who commanded the light to shine out of darkness sheds light into the mind of every one who will properly behold Him, loving Him supremely, showing unswerving faith and trust in Him. His light shines into the chambers of the mind and into the soul temple. The heart is filled with the light of the knowledge of the glory that shines in the face of Jesus Christ . . . Yielding willingly to the evidence of truth, and walking in the light that shines in our pathway, we receive still greater light. This Day with God, p. 135.

I discovered that William Miller was finally able to connect all the prophetic dots of the 2300 day prophecy utilizing luni-solar calendar reckoning obtained from the Karaite Jews.
All the given dates in the Scriptures clearly identify that each month actually begins with the New Moon day followed by four successive weeks. As a result the Sabbath always falls on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.
The unbroken chain of successive weeks since creation, I discovered to be a Roman myth to keep unsuspecting souls in harmony with the pagan Gregorian calendar of her own man made devising.
The Jewish Encyclopedia states clearly that the Jews have not always kept Saturday Sabbath as we have been lead to believe.
Under the reign of Constantius the persecutions of the Jews reached such a height that . . . the computation of the calendar [was] forbidden under pain of severe punishment. The Jewish Encyclopedia, "Calendar."
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.
A foundational principle of time that is nearly lost and forgotten is that while the sun has a 365.25 day rotation as visible from earth; what we call the solar system is actually on a full 19 year cycle. This is when both the solar and lunar cycles are brought back into harmony with each other. For mankind to follow only the suns circuit for calendation each year is like using only the hour hand on a clock for keeping time. The same however is true with the timekeeping calendar that Yahuwah placed in the heavens at creation. While the sun gives us our increments of time in relation to what we call days and solar years; the moon gives us new months, and their four corresponding Sabbaths, then refreshes, beginning new each month. While the moon is on a completely different yearly cycle than that of the sun, it also designates years, luni-solar years, which are 354 days in length on regular years, then 384 days on years that have a 13th month. But in addition, the moon was also set to beacon the completion of the 19 year solar cycles.
Time isn't complete until the moon has completed its 19 year cycle. We have clearly been using the sun to reckon our years which was never the intention of Yahuwah in Scripture. True time according to the Creator in Genesis 1:14-17 is kept according to the sum of all the parts, not simply one part.
I also discovered that while Ellen White was given a "thus saith the Lord" that the seventh-day is the Sabbath, she never actually received a "thus saith the Lord" that Saturday is that seventh-day. This is not to negate her as a prophet of Yahshua, but to show that all things were not revealed to her. In fact it is this very subject that evidences her prophetic gift, because of her many statements that describe this calendation subject that she did not yet even understand.

Within a week I acquired a two part DVD of eLaine Vornholt speaking on the subject of the luni-solar calendar and its relationship to the Sabbath and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. I was truly astounded that some of the leaders of the church had knowledge of this time system since 1938, and earlier, and yet I had never known of it.

In 1938 Grace Amadon, along with the General Conference appointed research committee met to study the affects that the New World Calendar would have on the S.D.A. church. In the process, the discrepancy of the crucifixion date with the Saturday of the Gregorian calendar was discovered. When it was taken to the Church leaders, it was decided that it would only confuse the common people, and cause them to loose trust in their leaders as they discovered they had been lead to keep the wrong Sabbath. So the whole discovery was shelved. There are over 5000 letters and documents preserved in the Grace Amadon Collection, which is kept safe in a vault at Andrews University. The most compelling evidence from the Grace Amadon Collection has been place into a fascinating book entitled, "The Great Calendar Controversy" by eLaine Vornholt and is available to read in a PDF format in my Book section.

I sat and watched this video in amazement, and only then did it finally dawn on me that this was the light of truth Yahuwah had revealed to me in a dream so long ago. He had revealed His divinely ordained time keeping system, it was the Creator's luni-solar calendar. His divinely unique system instituted at Creation (Genesis 1:14-18) was portrayed by the dual action of both the sun and moon, not simply the sun as has been promoted by Rome and followed by the whole world. In this last hour of earth's history this same Creator was restoring His last message to a despairing and dying world. His final test would indeed be over time. And yes, ultimately it would be over the true Sabbath, however that true Sabbath was not to be either Friday, Saturday or Sunday, as these are both products of a counterfeit man made time reckoning beaconed by only the sun.

Some months later I discovered in the first S.D.A.Yearbook published in 1883, that not all Sunday keeper objections to the Saturday Sabbath could easily be met with scripture. For it was even well known in 1883 that there existed at least one unanswerable objection to a Saturday Sabbath – The Cross. Because of this I realized that I was not willing to uphold a doctrine that clearly had a flaw and to its discredit even one known Biblical objection. How could I stand before kings and courts against a Sunday legislation while knowing that Saturday also is not founded on the rock, on the clear word of truth, specifically a "thus saith the Lord" from Scripture, in a similar manner as Sunday.
I discovered three identical months in a row were outlined by Yahshua beginning with the Exodus. This is one of the most amazing and self evident examples from Scripture that the seventh-day Sabbath can be neither Saturday nor Sunday, and it comes directly from the story of the heavenly manna. See article, "Three Months in a Row."
It became evident that this luni-solar calendar truth is the light that dispels the darkness and confusion of Babylon and all her false pagan holidays and traditions. Every single pagan holiday falls right off the calendar as the Gregorian calendar is replaced by the luni-solar calendar. Only then can each appointed feast day of Yahuwah be restored to their rightful places unencumbered by false calendation and traditions of men. This very fact that the Roman holidays which are kept worldwide could never work on the luni-solar calendar is in itself evidence that these are two diabolically different calendars. Truly the whole world has wondered after the beast, but our Redeemer and Deliverer has come after us with the banner of truth to give us a clear choice. If its significance is once pondered, it will be discerned that it is through this venue that all the world will consciously choose whom they will server, whom they will faithfully follow after, the beast or the lamb.

When the magnitude of all of these new concepts began to settle into my mind, I could not go on with life as usual. I was gripped by the knowledge that this was truth and that at this late hour Yahshua was restoring it to His faithful people around the world. I was thrilled that I was given an invitation to follow as well as the ability to understand. With His power He has enabled me to walk in this new light of truth while the whole world continues to walk to the beat of a different drum, a calendar of human devising.

I will for all eternity be grateful to Yahshua and those he used to minister to me; first Elizabeth Overbeck, followed by eLaine Vornholt and Laura Lee Vornholt-Jones, who have gallantly testified to the truth for such a time as this.

Final Notes:

Today my mother has no recollection of my dream.
The main reason I had not shared my dream all these years is because of pride, as I could not support it with details, as all the specific details were removed from my memory as I awoke.
Scripture has an established protocol that the Lord gave King Nebuchadnezzar a dream and then removed it from his recollection as well. It was through Daniel that Yahuwah ultimately revealed his dream which was for the purpose of bringing glory to His Name.
It is also my desire that this dream may bring glory and honor to the Lord Yahuwah.
Many more advancing Scriptural truths have come to light on the subject of the luni-solar calendation and the lunar Sabbath since my first discovery in 2007.
If this dream has had a special influence on you, or you would like to share a similar experience of coming to the light of the lunar Sabbath, I invite you to email me at: TheCreatorsCalendar@wildblue.net

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