Neither Saturday nor Sunday!

By David M.

Saturday is a man-made contrivance that originated rather recently, first in the Julian and later in the Gregorian calendar, which was not of divine origin. It is not the Sabbath. This was done purposely to obscure the real Sabbath and is easily discovered, what happened.

The real Sabbath was always calculated from the full moon as the original New Moon, something someone everywhere could see, no matter their location. Since creation, man has used this magnificent timepiece to know what day it was, what month, and what year. In other words, by comparison, NEWS FLASH: “The sun, moon, and stars are not a recent creation.” The Julian and Gregorian (Pope Gregory) calendars are of much more recent origin.

So what is the real difference, if any, between the recent man-made system and the previous Creator’s calendar?  Much! And in every way. In His, all the previous Sabbaths in antiquity were calculated from the full New Moon Day. The full New Moon Day was the first day of each lunar month, which is no longer apparent in the Roman solar time model. Each lunar month the full New Moon interrupts the weekly cycle causing the first Sabbath to fall on the 8th day of the lunar month, yet remains the 7th day of the week in a four-week cycle. The next three Sabbaths would occur on the 15th, the 22nd, and the 29th of the lunar month, and always the seventh day of the week.

The Creator’s system was in place from creation, it was of course in place and used by His proclaimed followers from creation to the day of the Messiah, our Savior, and beyond. He did not use our “modern” system obviously; as it had not been enforced upon the Jews until the 4th century A.D. The Messiah’s practice was to be at the temple when everyone else was, on the same Sabbaths as they. Not on the Pope Gregory calendar’s seventh-day Saturdays. The “seeking to change times and laws” (years, months, Sabbaths, and days of Daniel 7:25) had not yet been concocted by the man of sin nor accepted universally as it now is. This is a bigger issue than the Saturday/Sunday question, which churchmen spend so much time discussing and arguing over.

The new system in place today has already changed more than just Saturday and Sunday sacredness.  This new system seeks to replace the sun, moon, and stars in the heavens, designed to govern/rule over man.  Changing the entire calendar was mankind’s rebellious purpose, which includes entirely different Sabbaths. It seeks to institute foreign Sabbaths on which He is not present. Inspiration tells us that mankind “seeks” (Daniel 7:25) to do this, although the heavens are still there and cannot be replaced except in the deceived mind of man.

The New Moon Day was a Kadosh (holy) celebration day, just as the Sabbath is, yet it was never the seventh day (Ezekiel 46:1). In other words, it was not one of the weekly workdays nor a Sabbath.  This pragmatic New Moon Day interrupted the weekly seven-day cycle every lunar month, occurring on day one of every month. The full moon that arose in the night sky along the east-west time continuum announced that the next day was the New Moon Day. Then, on day two, the seven-day weekly cycle would begin for four weeks, from one New Moon to the next. This cannot compute with what man has come up with to take its place. In the two calendars, the Sabbaths are on completely different days.

All one needs to do to verify this is to recognize that the two calendars are not the same. Just this simple fact. Man’s calendar has an endless recycling of seven days, which has no relation to anything in the heavens and is therefore meaningless. It ignores the moon for its lunar months and lunar Sabbaths calculated by the moon. Then, they call it  Saturday (by the religious).  In man’s system, Saturday would only fall on the true Sabbath on rare occasions, and nobody would notice or care if it did or not.

The original calendar appointed for both heaven and earth utilized the sun, moon, and stars, as was the Creator’s intention. This is the one the Messiah, our LAMB, observed. In it are found the true Sabbath days, which are written in the heavens and easily observed. To know where he is, one need not procure a calendar to hang on his wall or carry it with him. It wasn’t necessary.

So the argument between which day, Saturday or Sunday is to be kept set-apart (sacred), is completely moot and wholly meaningless. It is neither Saturday nor Sunday that is Kadosh (holy). They are each a workday unless the moon places the Sabbath on one of them. If, according to the moon, the Sabbath falls on Sunday, that particular Sunday would be set apart (sacred) along with the following three Sundays, which would complete the month. Even the religious today have bought into the substitute system and calendar. Now, the authentic calendar of creation, ordained by their Creator, doesn’t pass their smell test.

If you were brought up keeping Saturday or Sunday Kadosh (holy) as most are now, you were doing it alone, meaning the Creator wasn’t celebrating it with you as promised for the real one. But think what this means; you have yet to experience a real Sabbath—with Him.