Seventh-Day Sabbaths
Beaconed by the New Moon

Answer:Saturday Sabbatarians, when speaking to Sunday keepers, have always insisted that the precise day for worship most certainly matters. This is because the seal of the Spirit of God is demonstrated in obedience to keeping His holy Sabbath. It is a sign between the Heavenly Father and His people forever (Exodus 31:12-17). It would be very inconsistent of Saturday Sabbatarians to now shrug their shoulders and say, "the Roman calendar's seventh-day Sabbath is good enough for me!"

Either it is important to keep the correct day (the Sabbath of the Lord thy God) or it is not. If it is not, then Sunday is as good as Saturday, or any day for that matter.

Answer:Saturday Sabbatarians have enthusiastically and successfully used the manna story to illustrate that Sunday is not the seventh-day Sabbath. However, it is also easily demonstrated that Saturday is not the seventh-day Sabbath from this self same story.

Answer:If you use this approach that there was not time for a lunisolar seven-day cycle before the first Sabbath, then you must also apply this same principle to everything that was created. We know from Scripture that everything Yahuwah created was created in its fully mature, and "advanced upon" state, and not as seeds, eggs or babies. This would hold true for the sun, and moon as well. Scripture states that on the 4th day Yahuwah appointed, and advanced upon the placement of the sun, moon, and stars. Like setting a clock, He appointed them for their specific work of measuring time (Genesis 1:14-18).

Answer:Your statement here actually supports both of our beliefs perfectly. However, there are additional criteria that begin to cause the breakdown of the concept of "unbroken chains of successive weeks since creation." No doubt you are aware that Yahuwah reinstituted His time system and true seventh-day Sabbath to Moses and the Israelites one month after leaving Egypt? We have always used the manna story to prove that Sunday cannot be the Sabbath because it is not the seventh day. But surprisingly, this same manna story gives weighty evidence that Saturday is not the Sabbath either. There are at least ten Scriptural tests that give evidence that Saturday cannot be the true Sabbath. Read about this in detail in article entitled, "Ten Calendar Tests from Scripture." You are accountable to Yahuwah to explore the evidence for yourself.

Answer:Healing of the Blind Man

• The last day of the Feast of Tabernacles always falls on the 21st day of the seventh month: (Leviticus 23:34, 36, 39-41; Numbers 29:12; Deuteronomy 16:13-15; Nehemiah 8:13-18; Ezekiel 45:21-25.)
• Christ attended the Feast of Tabernacles. (John7:10.)
• On the last day of the Feast, the 21st of the seventh month, Christ stood and spoke. (John 7:37.)
• Christ spent that night on the Mount of Olives. (John 8:1.)
• The next morning, the 22nd of the seventh month, Christ returned to the temple. (John 8:2.)
• At the temple, Christ healed a blind man. (John 9:6.)
• The healing of the blind man caused great anger for it was the seventh-day Sabbath. (John 9:14.)

This places the weekly seventh-day Sabbaths on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

Answer:The Scriptures tell us in over 200 verses that the faithful Hebrews kept track of the Sabbath according to the New Moon. They kept track only until they became unfaithful and were then taken into captivity by the Babylonians. They remained in Babylon for approximately 60 years. Then Yahuwah raised up Ezra and Nehemiah to restore Israel not only to their home land, but also to the truths of His Laws, Sanctuary services, and His true calendation. This was why they were the restorers of the breach. Every divine institution was to be restored, just as in the end time, one stone of truth upon another.

"For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD." Isaiah 66:22-23 KJV

Answer:Yes, they have been keeping track but on the wrong calendar. This complete calendar swap took place among the Jews just following the calendar change by Constantine in A.D. 321-324, by one of their own and High Priest of the Sadducees in A.D. 358 by Hillel II. We can know this for certain because the Julian/Gregorian calendar is not in harmony with the criteria outlined in Scripture. Yahuwah has been keeping track of His own calendar, the light of which has been hidden till such a time as this. Scripture remains the empirical standard for calendation and time keeping. While Ellen White received prophetic light that the seventh-day is the Sabbath, the first step in its full restoration. It appears from the abundant evidence coming to light today, that our generation gets to take part in the second step and full disclosure of the true seventh-day Sabbath as it is revealed to be on the Hebrew ceremonial Sanctuary calendar, also known as the lunisolar calendar.

I saw that the Bible was the standard book, which will judge us at the last day." Ellen White, Ms 4, 1850; 16 Manuscript Release, p. 34.

I saw that God had children, who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They had not rejected the light on it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth [Hosea. 6:2, 3.] and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the church, and nominal Adventists, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth. And at this time, God's chosen, all saw clearly that we had the truth, and they came out and endured the persecution with us. Word to the Little Flock 18.4

Answer:It has been discovered that neither Saturday nor Sunday are the true seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture. I believe that in these last days the Lord Yahuwah is restoring all the Biblical truths that have been lost, which includes His true Scriptural calendar and holy days. It has been discovered that the Scriptural calendar follows the phases of the moon rather than solely the sun, therefore the timing and algorithms are far different than what we have all been familiar with. In this way Yahuwah has leveled the religious playing field, by showing the world that all the religions have worshiped on the wrong day, including Seventh-day Adventist.

"God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent." Acts 17:30 NIV

"Men who pass on indifferently in regard to the especial claims of God's holy law, and who turn from and reject the light given upon the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and seek to ease their consciences by following traditions and customs, will be held responsible by God . . ." Review and Herald, May 6, 1875 par. 17

"All who neglect the word of God to study convenience and policy, that they may not be at variance with the world, will be left to receive damnable heresy for religious truth." Spirit of Prophecy, Vol. 4, p. 346

While the S.D.A. Church has rightly recognized that Sunday is not the Sabbath, they have inadvertently assumed that Saturday was, since it was the seventh-day on the Roman Gregorian calendar. By not recognizing that the Roman Gregorian calendar is a man made instrument of time keeping, and not the one set up at Creation, the S.D.A. Church is now unwittingly discovering that she is marching to the beat of the drum of the beast power after all, which would "seek to change both times and laws. This is a direct fulfillment of prophecy, as Scripture clearly states, "the whole world wondered after the beast"; and not simply "the whole world", excluding the S.D.A. Church.

This prophecy is fulfilled by the Catholic Church and most protestant churches by their keeping Sunday Holy, as it is the right arm of the Roman Catholic Church and its Gregorian calendar. Amazingly, the Jews and Saturday Sabbatarian churches have also fulfilled this prophecy by keeping Saturday Holy, becoming the left arm of the same Roman "beast" power and her counterfeit calendar.

Shocking as this may be, it is now time to recognize this sad, but prophetic state of affairs, and make a calendation U-turn. Only Yahuwah's truly faithful will be willing to take up this cross of truth and follow His appointed and ordained dual action system of both sun and moon for calendation, as it will be most difficult and unpopular in the days ahead. As Sunday Laws are enacted for religious control of the people, only those who seek to "follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes" will remain faithful to Yahuwah and His Scriptural lunisolar calendar. His New Moons and true seventh-day Sabbaths were set forth by the Creator and beaconed from the heavens. This time reckoning ordained at Creation has never been changed by Yahuwah, but only by man under satanic influence as displayed on wall calendars in every home around the world as evidence.

As the Lord Yahuwah is waking up His faithful in all parts of the earth, it appears that they are scattered throughout and not condensed in any one location. These will find themselves apparently walking alone on this path of truth, but never in closer proximity to the person of Christ Yahushua, the ever present Saviour.

Answer:No. Traditionally, it has been said that since the time of creation 6000 years ago, successive weeks, a cycle of six days followed by a Sabbath rest, has never been broken to this very day. In addition, it has been said, that our seven-day cycle is a tribute to a seven-day creation week rather than the popular evolutionary process of millions of years. After all, who can argue this point when the Jews still keep this same weekly cycle today, as well as a Saturday Sabbath? But do they?

The forerunner to the Roman Gregorian calendar was the Roman Julian calendar, masterminded by Emperor Julius Caesar and Egyptian Astronomer Sosigenes in 45 B.C. This Julian calendar utilized a successive eight-day week cycle that they acquired from the earlier pagan nations. This was just a few short years before the birth of Christ. During the Saviour's life, Israel was a sovereign nation and continued unimpeded to uphold the lunisolar calendar for its temple services, for years, months, weeks, and calendar dates. In Christ Yahushua's death, He met all the requirements of the law, and died precisely according to lunisolar calendation, to demonstrate that He was the promised Messiah and Creator of the heavens and the earth. Indeed, He was the selfsame one who placed the celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars in the heavens for time keeping (Genesis 1:14-18). Forty years after the crucifixion, Jerusalem was destroyed and most of the Israelites were taken captive. The Jews along with the Christians tried to hold onto the Scriptural calendar, but finally surrendered to the pressure to conform to Rome in the fourth century A.D., under the Jewish leadership of Hillel II.

One of the secrets that unlock this mystery lies in the "twelve criteria" that identify the true crucifixion & resurrection days.

Response:The belief that the Gregorian calendar has been in step with the weeks of the Scriptures has been "assumed" by the whole world for the past 1700 years. The fact that Yahuwah revealed to the early Adventists that the seventh-day was the Sabbath, was the first step in restoring His true calendation and true Sabbath. Notice that Yahuwah had allowed the world to keep Sunday, a counterfeit Sabbath, as the holy day for a full 1600 years before He began to restore it in the mid 1800's. Therefore it is another "assumption" to believe that He would not allow us to continue to keep the wrong day holy for a mere 150 years.

As you are aware the Scriptures themselves define the parameters of the Holy things of Yahuwah, as He passed down to us through His prophets.

Leviticus gives us the details and parameters for His Holy Feast days, whether you believe they need to be kept or not, are paramount in giving Yahuwah's layout for locating His true seventh-day Sabbath.

As you know the spring feast of Passover beginning on the evening of the 14th is followed by a seventh-day Sabbath on the 15th of Abib, every year. In addition the fall feast of Tabernacles begins on the 15th of Tisrei, which is also identified by Yahuwah as a seventh-day Sabbath and High Sabbath, each and every year. This means that this same sequence of calendation timing, was not just for a single year, but for all time, past, present and future.

Adventism has rightly taught that Christ Yahushua fulfilled this same time centric criteria in every detail. So, we know that the same details defining the appointed time for the feasts and seventh-day Sabbath in the days of Moses was the same as in the days of Christ. But amazingly, down here in 2009, not only do we teach that the feasts on every level are no longer obligatory, but we teach that the Hebrew calendar is no longer binding or of none affect. Inadvertently, by doing this Adventism is not able and/or willing to see the need for following the Lunisolar calendar, and thus miss entirely the ability to keep the correct seventh-day Sabbath.

This last point can be emphasized by the overwhelming evidence that the Roman Gregorian calendar cannot meet both the placement of the day of the week, as well as the date of the month of the Scriptural criteria. This applies to only the spring feast, or only the fall feast separately for more than 1 year and never for two years in a row. However, the greatest and most profound evidence regarding the placement of the feasts given to Moses, and kept perfectly by Christ is the fact that it is impossible using the Roman Gregorian calendar to connect the Spring feast of Unleavened bread to the fall Feast of Tabernacles with an "unbroken chain of successive weeks."

It simply can never happen, ever. In light of Scripture's weight of evidence, the concept of "unbroken successive weeks" since creation is proven false. This is one of the pinnacle Scriptural tests for the true calendar and the true seventh-day Sabbath.

Answer:God's messenger was given prophetic understanding that the seventh-day was the Sabbath. It was the first step in coming back to the knowledge of the true Sabbath. The manna story reveals in detail that the seventh-day Sabbath is beaconed by the New Moon. Utilizing each piece of evidence as given in Exodus 12; 16; and 19, quite a different picture is given than what most of us were led to believe. Not only is it clear that Sunday cannot be the seventh-day Sabbath, but it is also discovered that Saturday cannot be the Sabbath either.

There are at least ten Scriptural tests that reveal Yahuwah's time keeping is based on the dual orchestrated action of "the principles that rule in the heavens", which are the sun and moon working together as ordained at creation (Genesis 1:14-18). The current Roman Gregorian calendar is reckoned based solely on the "sun" in direct defiance of the Creator's appointed dual action system. This pagan system of time keeping and worship was then named "Sol", meaning one or only, and was the foundation of "sun worship" in ancient times. Any unit of time that is a fruit of this "single orb" time keeping system is therefore spurious, of false origin, making neither Saturday nor Sunday the true Sabbath of Scripture.

Answer:No. Traditionally, it has been said that since the time of creation 6000 years ago, successive weeks, a cycle of six days followed by a Sabbath rest, has never been broken to this very day. In addition, it has been said, that our seven-day cycle is a tribute to a seven-day creation week rather than the popular evolutionary process of millions of years. After all, who can argue this point when the Jews still keep this same weekly cycle today, as well as a Saturday Sabbath? But do they?

The forerunner to the Roman Gregorian calendar was the Roman Julian calendar, masterminded by Emperor Julius Caesar and Egyptian Astronomer Sosigenes in 45 B.C. This Julian calendar utilized a successive eight-day week cycle that they acquired from the earlier pagan nations. This was just a few short years before the birth of Christ. During the Saviour's life, Israel was a sovereign nation and continued unimpeded to uphold the lunisolar calendar for its temple services, for years, months, weeks, and calendar dates. In Christ Yahushua's death, He met all the requirements of the law, and died precisely according to lunisolar calendation, to demonstrate that He was the promised Messiah and Creator of the heavens and the earth. Indeed, He was the selfsame one who placed the celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars in the heavens for time keeping (Genesis 1:14-18). Forty years after the crucifixion, Jerusalem was destroyed and most of the Israelites were taken captive. The Jews along with the Christians tried to hold onto the Scriptural calendar, but finally surrendered to the pressure to conform to Rome in the fourth century A.D., under the Jewish leadership of Hillel II.

One of the secrets that unlock this mystery lies in the "twelve criteria" that identify the true crucifixion & resurrection days.

Answer:Actually the 14th of Abib was a Wednesday rather than a Thursday. Your comment here sounds terrific on the surface, but since Yahuwah's calendar as defined by Him as fixed to the lunar phases and location in the sky, with its months refreshing with each New Moon, the 14th and 15th are always in the middle of the month. The 14th is always the 6th day of the week, known as the preparation, followed by the 15th, which is always a seventh-day Sabbath. Since the previous month is never longer than 29 or 30 days. It is not very easy to get off on the calendation. If this were not enough, the middle of each month is a full moon, which would be a secondary back up. The full moon was visible either the night of the 13th as in the case of Christ in Gethsemane, or on the night of the 14th.

In company with His disciples, the Saviour slowly made His way to the garden of Gethsemane. The Passover moon, broad and full, shone from a cloudless sky. The city of pilgrims' tents was hushed into silence. Desire of Ages, p. 685

Answer:This belief has been effectively taught among Saturday Sabbatarian churches for over 150 years, but there are volumes of Scriptures stating otherwise. At the time of Moses, Yahuwah re-clarified to Israel through setting up the holy feast days, as well as the manna feeding schedule to illustrate His correct calendar.

In His wisdom, and according to His covenant agreement, the Lord Yahuwah carefully built a symbolic wall of protection around the ancient Hebrew people. The stones of this great wall were inseparable divine truths, made from His Moral Law; Statutes; Judgments; New Moons; Feast days; and true seventh-day Sabbath. According to their covenant agreement, as long as they remained obedient they would also remain a sovereign and free people. If at any time Israel was to willfully break His Laws, creating a weak link in this wall, Yahuwah would chasten them by allowing them to go into captivity. Once in captivity they must succumb to keeping the laws of the ruling nation, along with its calendation system, festivals and holidays. In this way, and because of their unfaithfulness in keeping their covenant agreement, Yahuwah caused them to forget His ways.

These divine oracles of truth Yahuwah had entrusted to Israel, He would like to entrust to us today. Again, in His wisdom, they would only be safe within the walls of His covenant agreement. Israel's story of unfaithfulness is our story, and their captivity is our captivity. But the Lord Yahuwah has a plan to restore all things to those who desire and diligently seek the restoration of His original divine covenant. Only to those who are willing to enter into His covenant will He open the way to discover His long lost and hidden truths.

Answer:This is an excellent question which applies mostly to Seventh-day Adventists and the belief that the day begins at sunset, and more specifically that the Sabbath begins at sunset and ends the following day at sunset. However, there is conflict between these words of Ellen White and the Scriptures.

Answer:We can know with certainty which day was the original Sabbath of Creation. This is self evident in the fact that Moses is the undisputed author of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus. If there had been conflict in the time centric details that Yahuwah gave at the time of the Exodus that conflicted with the Genesis account, or the later appointed Feasts and their positions in the calendar, Moses would have noticed. But rather all three Scriptural accounts are in perfect harmony. Therefore there is empirical evidence that the true seventh-day Sabbath was and is the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th day of Abib each and every year. Ex. 12:1-15; Ex. 16; and Ex. 19; Lev. 23:5-9; John 19:31-32; Matt. 27:62; Mark 15:42-44; Matt. 28:1-2; Mark 16:1-3; Mark 16:9-16; 1 Cor. 15:23.

Answer:Your question is insightful. Truly the test will be between the Scriptural lunisolar calendar with its corresponding seventh-day Sabbath and the counterfeit holy day of the pagan Gregorian calendar, which is identified by its chain of successive seven-day cycles. In light of this, any "day" that is considered Holy that is also in sync with the successive week cycles, is a counterfeit Sabbath. Therefore while Sunday is the right arm of this false system of worship and calendation, Saturday is the left arm of the beast in this most incredible double deception. Who would have guessed?

If we are seeking truth alone, that we may "follow the lamb whithersoever He goeth," He will place us upon the firm foundation of the true Sabbath that His glory may be seen by the whole world. The Sabbath of successive weeks simply falls apart in light of all the Biblical and historical evidence. This subject, I believe to be the loud cry of the fourth angel, which combines the message of the other three angels.

"He shall insult the Most High, he shall torment/wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and he shall attempt to change the calendar and the ordinance." Daniel 7:25 (Knox' translation, Twentieth Century)

"The three angels' messages are to be combined, giving their threefold light to the world. In the Revelation, John says, "I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory . . ." This represents the giving of the last and threefold message of warning to the world." (Manuscript Release 52, 1900.)

The truth about God's original calendar is the three angels' messages:

• It calls all the world to fear God and give glory to Him by worshiping on His memorial of Creation as calculated by His calendar in the sky.
• It brings the fall of Babylon when the one great lie on which Babylon rests is exposed: that while Christ was indeed killed on the 6th day of the week and resurrected on the 1st day of the week, it was not a Julian Friday and a Julian Sunday. See my article entitled, "The Twelve Criteria of the True Crucifixion Date".
• It warns everyone in the world against receiving the mark of the beast by showing allegiance to that power which thought to (and did!) change His times and laws:

I believe this is also the message that brings upon us all, the shaking.

• "This message [the first angel's message], if heeded, will call the attention of every nation and kindred and people to a close examination of the Word, and to the true light in regard to the power that has changed the seventh-day Sabbath to a spurious Sabbath." Selected Messages Vol. 2, p. 105.

It is truly serious times in which we live. The majority will not accept the truth as we are told, not even from our own ranks. Could it be that many Seventh-day Adventists have, along with all the world, fallen victim to the traditions of men?