Lunar Sabbath Theory

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7TH DAY SABBATH OR LUNAR SABBATH

WHICH ONE IS THE TRUE SABBATH?

The written documentation of the Oral Law began in 70 CE, about 30 years after Yesu's (Jesus') death. It was written in order to to preserve the Oral Law after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple. The Oral Law is called the Mishnah and it was completed around 200 CE.

The Mishnah proves that the Lunar Sabbath Theory, which has rotating sabbaths, is incorrect. With the Lunar Sabbath Theory, the seventh day sabbath changes each month depending on the new moon day. Thereby, the sabbath day can fall on any day of the week, from Sunday to Saturday.

The Holy Scriptures tell us that the First Day of Unleavened Bread and the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles must fall on the 15th Day of the Month (Leviticus 23:6, 23:34, 23:39 and Numbers 28:17, 29:12). The 15th day of the Month can fall on any day of the week, including Seventh Day Sabbath.

With the Lunar Sabbath Theory, two of the "High Sabbaths," the First Day of Unleavened Bread and the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles, "must always fall on their seventh day, which begins 7 Days After the new moon day" (i.e. the new moon day + 7 days is a sabbath + another 7 days is their "high sabbath" (the 15th day) + 7 days is a sabbath + 7 days is a sabbath) and so there is only 29 days per month. However, the lunar cycle averages 29.5 days per month, resulting in 6 days that are unaccounted for each year.

The Mishnah clearly shows that the First Day of Unleavened Bread and the First Day of the Feast of Tabernacles can fall "on, before, or after" the Seventh Day Sabbath, meaning they could fall on any day of the week, and it does not have to be a Sabbath. The Mishnah also shows that the Seventh Day Sabbath can fall in the middle of the Feasts and that the Seventh Day Sabbath can fall "on the New Moon," whereas this is impossible with the Lunar Sabbath Theory:

MISHNAH - Tract Pesachim (Passover) CHAPTER V

The continual (daily) offering was slaughtered half an hour after the eighth hour, and sacrificed half an hour after the ninth hour; but on the day before Passover, whether that day happened to be a week-day or a Sabbath, it was slaughtered half an hour after the seventh hour, and sacrificed half an hour after the eighth hour. When the day before the Passover happened to be a Friday, it was slaughtered half an hour after the sixth hour, sacrificed half an hour after the seventh hour, and the Passover sacrifice celebrated (immediately) afterwards.

In what manner was the paschal sacrifice suspended and its skin removed? Iron hooks were affixed to the walls and pillars, on which the sacrifice was suspended and its skin removed. Those who could not find a place to do it, in that manner used thin, smooth sticks of wood provided there for that purpose, on which they suspended the paschal sacrifice (and resting the sticks) between the shoulders of two persons, to remove the skin. R. Eliezer says: "If the 14th (of Nissan) occurred on a Sabbath, one person would place his left hand on the right shoulder of another, the latter would place his right hand on the left shoulder of the former, and thus suspending the sacrifice on the arms would remove the skin with their right hands."

MISHNAH - Tract Pesachim (Passover) CHAPTER VII

The bones, sinews, and other remaining parts must be burned on the 16th; and should that day fall on a Sabbath, they must be burned on the 17th, because the burning of these does not supersede the laws of the Sabbath or those of the festival.

MISHNAH - Tract Succah (Booths) CHAPTER IV

The Lulab and willow to surround the altar were sometimes used on six days, and sometimes on seven days of the festival. The Hallel and the eating of peace-offerings took place on eight days. The dwelling in the Succah and the pouring out of water lasted seven days, and the pipes were played on sometimes five, sometimes six days. In which case was the Lulab used seven days? When the first holy day of the festival fell on a Sabbath, the Lulab was used on seven days; but when the first day of the festival fell on any other day of the week, the Lulab was only used six days. In which case was the willow used on seven days? When the seventh day of the willow happened to fall on a Sabbath, the willow was used seven days; but when the seventh day fell on any other day of the week, the willow was only used six days.

MISHNAH - Tract Succah (Booths) CHAPTER V

If a festival falls before or after a Sabbath, all the twenty-four orders share alike in the shewbread. But if a day intervenes between the Sabbath and the festival, the order whose regular turn it was, received ten of the shewbread, and the loiterers received two shewbread.

MISHNAH - Tract Yomah (Day of Atonement) CHAPTER II

[The parts of] the daily sacrifice are offered [according to circumstances] by nine, ten, eleven, twelve--no less and no more. How so? Itself by nine. During the Feast [of Booths] one carries a pitcher of water; thus it is ten. Toward evening by eleven, itself by nine, and two carrying two measures 1 of wood. On Sabbath by eleven, itself by nine, and two having in their hands two spoonfuls of frankincense for the showbread. On the Sabbath which occurs in the middle of the Feast [of Booths], one carrying a pitcher of water [added to the eleven].

MISHNAH - Tract Megilla (Book of Esther) CHAPTER IV

When the first of Adar (New Moon) falls on a Sabbath, the portion Shekalim [Exod. xxx. ii] is to be read; if it falls on any other day, that portion must be read on the preceding Sabbath, and nothing additional is read on the following Sabbath. On the second, the portion "Remember" [Deut. xv. 15] is to be read; on the third, that of the red heifer [Numb. xix.]; on the fourth, that of the new moon [Ex. xvii.]; on the fifth, they return again to the regular order. The regular order of Aphtaroth is also to be interrupted on the days of new moon, on that of Hanuka, on Purim, and on public fast-days, also on the fast of the standing men (this is explained in Tract Shekalim), and the Day of Atonement.

The Mishnah also shows that at the beginning of the 16th Day of the month the Omer Count starts, and that they would reap the Omer after the close of the First Day of Unleavened Bread, and that the 16th Day can fall on a Sabbath or a weekday:

MISHNAH - Tract Menahoth (Meal Offering) CHAPTER. X

How was it made ready? The messengers of the court used to go out on the Eve of the Festival-day and tie the corn in bunches while it was yet unreaped to make it the easier to reap; and the towns near by all assembled there together that it might be reaped with much pomp. When it grew Dark he called out, "Is the SUN SET?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Is the SUN SET?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Is this a sickle?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Is this a sickle?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Is this a basket?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Is this a basket?" and they answered, "Yea!" On the Sabbath he called out, "On this Sabbath?" and they answered, "Yea!" "On this Sabbath?" and they answered, "Yea!" "Shall I reap?" and they answered, "Reap!" "Shall I reap?" and they answered, "Reap!" He used to call out three times for every matter, and they answered, "Yea!" "Yea!" "Yea!" Wherefore was all this? Because of the Boethuseans who used to say: The Omer may not be reaped at the close of a Festival-day.

The rule of the Omer is that it shall be brought from standing corn; but if this cannot be found it may be brought from the sheaves. The rule is that it shall be brought from fresh grain; but if this cannot be found it may be brought from dried grain. The rule is that it shall be reaped by NIGHT; but if it is reaped by day it is valid. Moreover the reaping [of the Omer] overrides the Sabbath.

R. Ishmael says: If the Omer was brought on the Sabbath, it was taken from only three seahs of barley; if on a Weekday, from five. But the sages say: It is all one wheather it was a Sabbath or a Weekday: it was taken from three seahs.

Besides the Mishnah, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20 BCE - 50 CE), who was living during Yesu's (Jesus') lifetime is another witness that verified that there are two forms of the Sabbath day. The first is the Seventh Day that is combined with six working days, known as the seventh day "Sabbath," and the second is the Sabbath Day that is "Not" combined with six working days, but is added to it, known as the annual "High Sabbath":

PHILO - THE DECALOGUE

XXX. (158-159) (158) And the fourth commandment, the one about the seventh day, we must not look upon in any other light than as a summary of all the laws relating to festivals, and of all the purificatory rites enjoined to be observed on each of them. But the service appointed for them was one of holy ablutions, and prayers deserving to be heard, and perfect sacrifices. (159) And in speaking of the seventh here, I mean "BOTH" that which is combined with the number six, the most generative of all numbers, "and also that which, without being combined with the number six, is added to it, being made to resemble the unit," each of which numbers is reckoned among the festivals; for the lawgiver refers to the term, the sacred festival of the new moon, which the people give notice of with trumpets, and the day of fasting, on which abstinence from all meats and drinks is enjoined, which the Hebrews call, in their native language, pascha, on which the whole nation sacrifices, each individual among them, not waiting for the priests, since on this occasion the law has given, for one especial day in every year, a priesthood to the whole nation, so that each private individual slays his own victim on this day.

XX. (96) The fourth commandment has reference to the sacred seventh day, that it may be passed in a sacred and holy manner. Now some states keep the holy festival only once in the month, counting from the new moon, as a day sacred to God; but the nation of the Jews keep every seventh day "Regularly, after each interval of Six Days;" (97) and there is an account of events recorded in the history of the creation of the world, comprising a sufficient relation of the cause of this ordinance; for the sacred historian says, that the world was created in six days, and that on the seventh day God desisted from his works, and began to contemplate what he had so beautifully created;

PHILO - THE LIFE OF MOSES II

XXXIX. (209) Moreover, in accordance with the honour due to the Creator of the universe, the prophet hallowed the sacred seventh day, beholding with eyes of more acute sight than those of mortals its pre-eminent beauty, which had already been deeply impressed on the heaven and the whole universal world, and had been borne about as an image by nature itself in her own bosom; (210) for first of all Moses found that day destitute of any mother, and devoid of all participation in the female generation, being born of the Father alone without any propagation by means of seed, and being born without any conception on the part of any mother. And then he beheld not only this, that it was very beautiful and destitute of any mother, neither being born of corruption nor liable to corruption; and then, in the third place, he by further inquiry discovered that it was the birthday of the world, which the heaven keeps as a festival, and the earth and all the things in and on the earth keep as a festival, rejoicing and delighting in the all-harmonious number of seven, and in the sabbath day.

Yahweh showed Moses and the Israelites which day was the Seventh Day Sabbath. Yahweh trained the Israelites for Forty Years on observing the Seventh Day Sabbath properly and observing it every Seventh Day continously, and this observance remains until today and does not depend on the New Moon:

EXODUS 16:16-35 (16) This is the thing which Yahweh 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) Then 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 left 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 Yahweh has said: "Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. 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 Yahweh; 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 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? (29) See! For Yahweh 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 Yahweh 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 Yahweh, to be kept for your generations." (34) As Yahweh 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.

PHILO - THE LIFE OF MOSES II

XLVIII. (263) He gave a second instance of his prophetical inspiration not long afterwards in the oracle which he delivered about the sacred seventh day. For though it had had a natural precedence over all other days, not only from the time that the world was created, but even before the origination of the heaven and all the objects perceptible to the outward senses, men still knew it not, perhaps because, by reason of the continued and uninterrupted destructions which had taken place by water and fire, succeeding generations had not been able to receive from former ones any traditions of the arrangement and order which had been established in the connection of preceding times, which, as it was not known, Moses, now being inspired, declared to his people in an oracle which was borne testimony to by a visible sign from heaven. (264) And the sign was this. A small portion of food descended from the air on the previous days, but a double portion on the day before the seventh day. And on the previous days, if any portion was left it became liquefied and melted away, until it was entirely changed into dew, and so consumed; but on this day it endured no alteration, but remained in the same state as before, and when this was reported to him, and beheld by him, Moses did not so much conjecture as receive the impulse of divine inspiration under which he prophesied of the seventh day. (265) I omit to mention that all such conjectures are akin to prophecy; for the mind could never make such correct and felicitous conjectures, unless it were a divine spirit which guided their feet into the way of truth; (266) and the miraculous nature of the sign was shown, not merely in the fact of the food being double in quantity, nor in that of its remaining unimpaired, contrary to the usual customs, but in both these circumstances taking place on the sixth day, from the day on which this food first began to be supplied from heaven, from which day the most sacred number of seven begun to be counted, so that if any one reckons he will find that this heavenly food was given in exact correspondence with the arrangement instituted at the creation of the world. For God began to create the world on the first day of a week of six days: and he began to rain down the food which has just been mentioned on the same first day;

Now, with the Lunar Sabbath Theory, the weekly sabbath will fall on the 8th day, 15th day, 22nd day and 29th day of each month, plus the first day of the month (the new moon day) will equal 29 days per month. However, the synodic month averages 29.531 days per month (i.e. lunations range from about 29.27 days to about 29.83 days). As a result, under the Lunar Sabbath Theory there will be six months in which the last week of the month will have an extra day. The Lunar Sabbath followers will call this extra day, a second new moon day and they will have six months where they have two new moon days per month. This is against what the Holy Scriptures tell us, i.e. there is only One New Moon Day per month where the Gate of the Temple is Opened for Worship:

Exodus 31:15 Work shall be done for six days, but the Seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath Day, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 35:2 Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Ezekiel 46:1-3 (1) Thus says Yahweh: The gateway of the inner court that faces toward the east "Shall Be Shut The Six Working Days; "but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the DAY of the New Moon it shall be opened." (2) The Prince shall enter by way of the vestibule of the gateway from the outside, and stand by the gatepost. The priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate. Then he shall go out, but "the gate shall not be shut until evening." (3) Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the entrance to this gateway before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and the New Moons.

The weekly Sabbaths are observed on incorrect days under Lunar Sabbath Theory, as proven by the Holy Scriptures and the historical writings. The New Moon only begins the count to the Annual Feast Days, known as the High Sabbaths, but it does not determine the weekly Sabbaths, as shown above. Those who are observing Lunar Sabbaths are not keeping Yahweh's Sabbaths and are breaking the Fourth Commandment; "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy."

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