POSTPONEMENTS

Did you know that there was no such thing as Postponements of Holy days for over four thousand years? What brought them on? A man named Heliel set up rules for postponements around the time the week was divorced from the moon, and instead of the Shabbat coming at the end of a lunar week, a solar month and solar week was adopted which paid no attention to the moon. Guess what? The Shabbats then collided with New moons, The Day of Atonement, etc. so man took it on himself to add Postponements to keep certain days from falling next to or on certain other days, which will never happen on the true calendar. This alone proves the Shabbats were changed, because it is confusion for a commanded no work day to fall on a commanded work day such as the day of killing and preparing the Passover lamb etc.

One can see that we have been following the blind Jewish leaders in keeping the tradition of men by observing the Shabbat from Friday evening to Saturday evening as I done fore many years. This is the fact that cannot be denied.

One more point to end with. The Jews of today use Tishri 1 as the beginning of the new year, which is the chronological and or social calendar. True, Tishri day one started with the creation and the chronology of time. However the Religious new year starts on Aviv one, which is how the new year was to be reckoned after the Exodus and the first passover. So the Jews have changed the new year as well as the lunar shabbat.

****That should end the debate for the honest hearted, and those not desiring to be contentious.****

Below is a chart of about how the year is laid out as a pattern and not a cycle:

 MORE FACTS

Another pinpointed Shabbat is in John 5:9 (compare verses 1, 4, and 9). The Shabbat in verse nine is the same day as the Feast in verse one. The second day of the New moon is the first workday proving the New moon was not counted when counting out the week and the Shabbat was on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th of the moon. Joh 5:1  After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and YaHuWshuwaH went up to Jerusalem. Joh 5:2  And at Jerusalem is a pool at the Sheep Gate which is called in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches. Joh 5:3  In these was a great multitude of the infirm lying, blind ones, lame ones, withered ones, awaiting the stirring of the water. Joh 5:4  For an angel at a certain time descended in the pool and agitated the water. Then the one first entering after the agitation of the water became well, whatever disease he was held by. Joh 5:5  But a certain man was there, being in infirmity thirty eight years. Joh 5:6  Seeing him lying, and knowing that he had already spent much time, YaHuWshuwaH said to him, Do you desire to become well? Joh 5:7  The infirm one answered Him, YaHuWaH, I do not have a man, that when the water is agitated he may throw me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me. Joh 5:8 YaHuWshuwaH said to him, Rise up, Take up your cot and walk! Joh 5:9  And instantly the man became well, and took up his cot and walked. And it was a sabbath that day.

 There are other places like Numbers 29:12-39 where Holy Convocations are on the 15^th and 22^nd and there is no mention of other intermissions through the eight-day count and they were told specifically what to offer on each day of the 7 days. The 15^th and the 22^nd would have to be the weekly Shabbats every year in the seventh moon and can only be found by the moon. You could say it just happened to land on these days, but the Scripture teaches that in every seventh moon of the year, the 15^th and 22^nd are Holy Convocation days every year and there is no mention of a Shabbat in-between them. He has commanded a seven-day week in the seventh moon. Further, how can another Roman week start in the middle of YaHuWaH's commanded week? Confusion, Yes!

Another point of confusion are the words 765 and 2150 in Strong’s. It is Seb the root from which we get sabbaton in the Greek. Therefore this is translated wrong to coverup that it that sabbath-breaking was not to be inclided in the rest of the list of the command here. 1Timothy 1:9  Knowing¹⁴⁹² this,⁵¹²⁴ that³⁷⁵⁴ the law³⁵⁵¹ is not³⁷⁵⁶ made²⁷⁴⁹ for a righteous man,¹³⁴² but¹¹⁶¹ for the lawless⁴⁵⁹ and²⁵³² disobedient,⁵⁰⁶ for the sabbath-breakers⁷⁶⁵ and²⁵³² for sinners,²⁶⁸ for unholy⁴⁶² and²⁵³² profane,⁹⁵² for murderers of fathers³⁹⁶⁴ and²⁵³² murderers of mothers,³³⁸⁹ for manslayers,⁴⁰⁹ .

Sabbath-keeping was further covered up here 1Timothy 3:16  And²⁵³² without controversy³⁶⁷² great³¹⁷³ is²⁰⁷⁶ the³⁵⁸⁸ mystery³⁴⁶⁶ of Sabbath-keeping:²¹⁵⁰ Elohiym²³¹⁶ was manifest⁵³¹⁹ in¹⁷²² the flesh,⁴⁵⁶¹ justified¹³⁴⁴ in¹⁷²² the Spirit,⁴¹⁵¹ seen³⁷⁰⁰ of angels,³² preached²⁷⁸⁴ unto¹⁷²² the Gentiles,¹⁴⁸⁴ believed on⁴¹⁰⁰ in¹⁷²² the world,²⁸⁸⁹ received up³⁵³ into¹⁷²² glory.¹³⁹¹

 ESTER

We also have Ester chapter nine to prove, they kept the 15^th for a rest day, making the second day of the month the first workday of the week, and proves the New moon was not counted, and the Shabbats were on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th in the twelfth moon or month. Notice in the chapter that the 13^th and 14^th were the days they were victorious, but not the 15^th. They kept the 14^th alone, with the 15^th yearly, every twelfth moon. Why not the 13^th and 14^th instead of the 14^th and 15^th?? Could it be they wanted to keep 2 days instead of three? So being that the 15^th was already a Shabbat they chose to keep the 14^th and the 15^th instead of the 13^th, 14^th and 15^th?

Did you know that they were commanded to remember the Shabbat day because He brought them out of Mitzrayim's bondage with a mighty hand, and it was on the 15^th when He gave them an intermission (rest)? Compare Deut. 5:15 and Num. 33:3.

  SABBATH ON 15TH TWO MOONS IN A ROW

Watch this, if the Shabbat was on the 15th in the first moon when they were delivered from Mitzrayim, (Deut. 5:15 ) and again on the 15th in the second moon (Ex.16th chapter), it would be impossible to use the Roman Calendar count which counts the New moon as one of the six workdays, and have the weekly Shabbat on the 15th, two moons in a row. It would fall on the 14th in the 2nd month by man's calendar. Do the math.

Ex. 19:1, 2 teaches that the Shabbat was also on the 15th in the third moon, making three moons in a row that the Shabbat was on the 15th, which is impossible with man's calendar. Ex. 19:1 says in the third moon, when "the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Mitzrayim, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai, notice the phrase "same day" is talking about the same day that they went forth out of Mitzrayim. (16th) "For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai." Notice also the phrase, "For they were departed from Rephidim." Did you know the word Rephidim means “rest” and is a few miles from the Mount? (See Smith's bible dictionary)

They rested in Rephidim on the 15^th for Shabbat and when it was over on the 16^th they came to the Mount. Verse 1 says it was on the same day that they went forth out of Mitzrayim that they came to the mount; this makes three Shabbats in a row on the 15th. (The Book Of Jubilees Ch.1-v-1 also says "Moshe came to the mount on the 16th day of the 3rd month") Which is the same day [of the lunar cycle] that they actually went forth out of Mitzrayim.

Now what day did they actually go forth out of Mitzrayim? We know they were delivered from their burdens and given rest on the fifteenth day of the 1st moon from the reading of Psalm. 81:3-6. "Blow up the trumpet in the Full moon on your solemn Feast day. I removed his shoulders from the burdens and his hands from the pots." This was on the 15th day of the moon (Shabbat) that this happened; just as Deut. 5:15 says that YaHuWaH thy mighty one commands you to keep the Shabbat day, because He gave them rest on that Shabbat day in the first moon. (and we know that Ex-16th chapter teaches the Shabbat was on the 15th in the second month also) THIS ALONE PROVES LUNAR WEEKS AND Shabbats, because it is impossible to have two Shabbats in a row on the 15th with the Roman Calendar.

Now, they were delivered on the 15th, (or thrust out and departed from Rhameses), but they actually left Mitzrayim on the beginning of the 16th, which was the morrow after the Passover, when they went forth because the Mitzrayimites were burying there first-born. This was the self-same day that Moshe came to the Mount (16th), after they had departed from Rephidim, or rest, which was on the 15th, that they rested in Rephidim.

The Mitzrayimites' first born, which were killed about midnight on the 15th, were not being buried at daylight on the 15th, because that is too soon and when they went forth, Mitzrayim was burying their dead. (And they departed from Rhameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Mitzrayimites. For the Mitzrayimites buried all their firstborn, which YaHuWaH had smitten among them: - Numbers 33:3,4 and Deuteronomy 16:1) they went out by night (16th) "(Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover unto YaHuWaH thy mighty one: for in the month of Abib YaHuWaH thy mighty one brought thee forth out of Mitzrayim by night.-"

JOSHUA

     Also Josh. 5:10-12 compared with Lev. 23:11 puts the Shabbat on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th of each moon and proves again the New moon day was not counted as one of the six workdays of the week as Ezek-46:1 says. The morrow after Shabbat (16th), the Priest waved the sheaf, and then was allowed to eat parched corn. Some try to say that the 14^th was the Shabbat in Joshua, chapter 5, but if that were so, then counting backwards the seventh day of that moon would also be a Shabbat. But if you look at Joshua 1:11, Joshua commands the officers to pass through the host and commands the people to "prepare victuals, for in three days you shall pass over this Jordan." Now, this had to be the seventh day of the moon because they passed over the Jordan on the tenth day of that moon. (Josh. 4:19) This proves the 14^th was not a Shabbat.

They would not command the people to prepare food on the Shabbat, which proves the seventh day of that month was not the Shabbat and therefore, the 14th was not either. The eighth day was the Shabbat then 7 days later, the 15th. You can mathematically prove the 14th was not a Shabbat by counting day cycles from the pinpointed Shabbat, in the 16th chapter of Exodus through the forty years that they were in the wilderness; you will find that the 14th was not the Shabbat at the end of forty years when they came into the land. This alone disproves the Modern/Roman calendar.

  JUBILEES PROVES CYCLE OF SEVEN IS NOT TRUE

The year of Jubilees breaks the cycle of six years of SOWING then rest, with two back-to-back land rests on the 49th and 50th year, same as the new Moon breaks up the cycle of the six workdays with two back-to-back worship days at the end of the month. On the last Shabbat of the month and the day of the new moon are worship days. (Ezechel 46: 1) “The gates of YaHuWaH’s house are to be shut the six working days of the week, and opened on the Shabbat “and” the day of the new moon.”

EXAMPLE:  The land is sown for six years and allowed to rest the seventh year but after 7 seven year land rests (49 years) you have another rest on the 50th year which breaks the cycle of six- rest, six- rest, ETC. Since on the seventh six- rest, you have six- “rest rest” counting the 49th and 50th year rest which broke up the cycle of six- rest with two back-to-back rests. This is an absolute. The cycle of six sowing then rest is broken up by a double rest at the end of the 49th year. The same is true when the new moon worship day. The gates of the of YaHuWaH’s house is to be shut the six working days of the week, and opened on the Shabbat “and” the day of the new moon. (Ezechel 46:1) this puts two worship days in a row and that is why the Shabbats are always on the 8^th, 15^th , 22^nd , and 29^th of the moon, because the work week begins after the New moon or Shabbats. This also is an absolute. In other words if the new moon is not an ordinary work day of the week in which you can “buy and sale” (Amos 8:5) and do all your work, then you will only have “five” days once a month where you can buy and sell and do all your work, and we know the Scripture teaches that we have “six” days to labor and do all our work. The same is true with the 50^th year Jubilees. If you count the 50^th year as the first year to the next Jubilees, you will only have “five” years of sowing the land in the first seven years and at the end of 50 years, you will have 99 years in the two 50 year Jubilees instead of 100 years. (Do the math) two Jubilees of 50 years is 100 years. Another absolute. All because in our minds we think the cycle of “six sowing one rest” should not be interrupted even though YaHuWaH breaks it up with two land rest in a row, same as He breaks up the ordinary workdays each month with “two” worship days in a row instead of one, which man disagrees with. This is YaHuWaH’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.

JOSEPHUS

The historian Josephus records Shabbats that can be pinpointed and they are on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th and the New moon was not counted as one of the six workdays. The Roman's saw that the Jews, on the Shabbat, did not fight unless attacked. They moved their engines and battering rams up to the walls on the Shabbat day, which otherwise they could not do, and on the next day, they battered the city. Josephus records that the 23rd was the “next day” after the Shabbat when the Romans battered them, or the day after the Shabbat when they had everything in place. (See page 369. Antiquities of the Jews Book 14, Chapter 4:3 and footnote on page 370).

PHILO

Philo a very influential Jew who lived at the same time the Savior did, and he kept the weeks and Shabbats by the moon, he said you have a full moon at the end of the 2nd week, which proves that the Jews in our Messiah’s time knew that the weeks were by the moon. See Preliminary Studies page 313, ch 19. (106).

In Philo's writings, he records that the feast of Unleavened Bread alone with the Feast of Tabernacles, were assigned to the weekly Shabbat day, which BOTH ARE on the 15^th / Shabbat. Philo knew the 15^th was a weekly Shabbat day, which began both of these Feasts of YaHuWaH, which lasts seven days. See Philo page 532 xxx (161) Philo knew the Israelites were given rest on the 15^th from Mitzrayim's bondage and the Feasts in the 1^st and 7^th months have to do with their deliverance form Mitzrayim's bondage on the 15^th, a Shabbat and these two feast were assigned to the weekly 7^th day (15^th) according to Philo who lived in the days of our Messiah, These are memorial days, which began these two festival weeks.

Although, Philo never came right out and said the seventh day is by the moon and is counted from the New moon; he had no need to, especially if it was common knowledge at this time. He did say "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 YaHuWaH: but the nation of the Jews keep every seventh day regularly, after each interval of six workdays." (Counting from the New moon). Philo page 526 xx (96).

At least counting from the New moon for the Shabbat is nothing new and Philo acknowledges that some were keeping it ONLY once a month and they found it by counting from the New moon.

Again, Philo mentions the moon with the seventh day. On page 26 (iv) (8) "Again, the periodical changes of the moon, takes place according to the number seven, that star having the greatest sympathy with the things on Earth. And the changes which the moon works in the air, it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each "seventh day."

If Philo, which lived before during and twenty years after the time of the Messiah, is saying what I believe he is saying; it is not out of harmony with the Scriptures or other history.

Aaron and his sons were sanctified for seven days, which began on a New moon, and on the eighth day, there was an assembly (Moed) of the congregation. The point being that during these seven days, they were not to go out the door of the Tabernacle for seven days and nights. Leviticus 8:34, 35.

No calendar Shabbat or assembly could disrupt these seven days that they were being sanctified in the tabernacle. It was from the New moon until the seventh day. On the Shabbat, the 8th day, which was the seventh day after six workdays, they assembled the congregation and not before. This proves the Assembly or Holy convocations were on the 8th, 15^th, 22^nd and 29^th.

In Ex.40:1, YaHuWaH spoke to Moshe saying on the first day of the first moon thou shall set up the Tabernacle of the congregation." In addition, in Ex. 40:12-15, Moshe was commanded to anoint Aaron and his sons and to put them in Holy garments, and verse 17 says, "And it came to pass in the first moon in the second year on the first day of the moon that the Tabernacle was reared up." Here again the First Moon of the First month is the pattern of the First week of Genesis, all things coming forth out of the darkness represented as a coming forth from conjunction.

Lev.8:3 says that Moshe was told to gather the congregation (on the New moon) and in verses 6-13, Moshe brought Aaron and sons and put the Holy garments on them and anointed the Tabernacle alone with Aaron and his sons as commanded. In verse 33 they were commanded not to go out of the Tabernacle for seven days, but on the eighth day (Shabbat) YaHuWaH appeared unto them. (Lev. 9:15, 23) By these verses you can pinpoint that they begin their sanctifying for the 7 days and the 8^th was the assembly of the congregation, on the New moon. This puts the Shabbats on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th proving the New moon day is not counted as one of the workdays to get to the first Shabbats. When people were set apart for cleansing, such as a leper, or when the temple was dedicated, it began on the Intermissions (Rosh Chodesh) or Shabbat just as did the sanctification of Aaron and sons.

SOLOMON

For example, in II Chr 7:8 it says also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, the Feast of Tabernacles (15^th - 21^st ). Verse 9 says that on the eighth day (22^nd) Shabbat they made a solemn assembly for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, (8^th - 14^th) and the Feast seven days (15^th - 21^st).  If you count backwards you will see that the dedication of the Altar began on the 8^th. Verse 10 goes on to say that on the 23^rd, He sent the people away. Why didn't He send them away on the 22^nd? Could it be that the 22^nd was a

Shabbat?? When you count from Shabbat to Shabbat, there are eight days.

The day of rebuilding can be a two-day Miqra, approximately every other moon. (I Sam. 20:5 - 27).

THE LAW OF THE LEPER

     Lev. 14:2-10 is the law of the leper. In the day of his cleansing, he shall be brought unto the priest (on the Shabbat). It goes on to tell how he is to shave his head and beard and wash his clothes on the seventh day and on the eighth day (Shabbat) offer sacrifice. The point being that if the count for the seventh day began anywhere or on any other day except intermission, the leper would sometimes have to do his laundry on a Shabbat.

The reason this seventh day is not a weekly Shabbat is because it is not the eighth day from showing himself to the Priest, which was on the Shabbat, and it was not the seventh day after six workdays. Therefore this seventh day was actually the sixth workday of the week that he washed clothes.

  EIGHTH DAY

The eighth day is many times synonymous with the Shabbat day. He said unto them that you circumcise a man on the Shabbat day so that the Law of Moshe be fulfilled. Well the law says to circumcise on the eighth day. What better day to enter this covenant than on the Shabbat day? (Gen.17:13) The Shabbat and eighth day is sometimes synonymous.

I have pinpointed weekly Shabbats by the moon on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th, and I have shown where they were keeping the Shabbats this way before the law, (Exodus chapter 16), at the time of the law, (II Chron.7:9) before the crucifixion (John 9:14), during crucifixion (Luke 23:56) and after crucifixion (Acts 20:6&7) even up to the Historian Josephus. And we are keeping them that way now, and I showed where we will be keeping them that way in the future. Isa. 66:23.

Proof that all days are counted by the Moon, Even the weekly Shabbat day.

The fact is the weekly Shabbat was the only Appointment at that time; it was years later when they were delivered from Mitzrayim's bondage (on the 15^th Shabbat.) And they were commanded to keep the Shabbat day (15^th) in the 1^st month because they were delivered from Mitzrayim bondage on the 15^th day of the 1^st month. (Deut. 5:15 and Num. 33:3) It was a feast for seven days.

All days that He designates as worship days are Appointment days, and are special days, not ordinary days. The New moon day, every month, is a worship day (Appointment). (Eze. 46:2, Isa. 66:23, Num. 10:1-10, Num. 28:11-14, Num. 29:1, Amos 8:5) Every New moon (month) is positively a worship day appointment (special day) and it is by the Word of YaHuWaH in this world and the world to come, and all flesh will worship Him on this day, and not off somewhere working. (Isa.66:23)

Others, He calls Sabbatones, but they have the same meaning as Shabbat from the word means intermission. (See concordance) Weekly Shabbats are called Sabbatones in (Lev. 23:3, Ex. 31:15, Ex. 16:23 - look up the word "rest" in these verses.)

Example; Solomon began to build the House on the 2^nd day of the moon (1^st workday of the week). (II Chronicles 3:2) If every place in the entire Scriptures the six workdays were found by the moon, wouldn't the seventh or next day be by the moon also?

Now, to add to the list of worship days and changing His Appointments with a man made count or calendar is no less than blasphemy. (Daniel 7:25).

The New moon days are specified as worship days. (Ez. 46:2, Is a. 66:23, Num.10:1-10, Num. 28:11-14, Num. 29:1) We have the Feast of Weeks (or Pentecost) which is fifty days after the seventh Shabbat complete; it is a Holy Convocation or worship day according to the instructions of the Father. Now Pentecost was after Moshe had fasted forty days and nights, and Aaron proclaimed it and it was the same day the law was given to Moshe, and it was at the end of the forty days and nights, which would be exactly fifty days from the seventh Shabbat.

Weeks are counted from time sickle is put to corn. (The morrow after the first Shabbat Lev. 23:11 and Deut. 16:9) Now 50 days are counted from the morrow after the seventh Shabbat is complete (Lev. 23:16) and (Ex. 32:5) (see the section on the true count to Pentecost, which proves Pentecost is in the fourth moon not the third.)

Here are some scriptures which prove the new moon and Shabbats are different from ordinary work days.

Daily Offerings (Numbers 28:3-8): two lambs of the first year, tenth ephah of flour mingled with oil, drink offering (1/4 hin per lamb) Weekly Shabbat Offerings (Numbers 28:9,10): two lambs of the first year, 2 tenths ephah of flour mingled with oil, drink offering (plus the daily offerings) New Moon Offerings (Numbers 28:11-15): two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs of the first year, 3 tenth-measures of flour mingled with oil per bull, two tenth-measures of flour mingled with oil with the ram, several tenth measures of flour mingled with oil for each lamb, drink offerings (half hin per bull, one-third hin for ram, and one-fourth hin per lamb), one kid of the goats (plus the daily offerings)

The trumpets (shouts) began sounding before light at creation (Dark moon) (See Job 38:7) The Father asks Job questions concerning creation, "Where were you when the sons (angelic beings) of YaHuWaH shouted or trumpeted for joy?" The angels began shouting for joy at the creation before He worked on it for six days; we need to keep this memorial to commemorate the dark beginning (creation) each moon. Then the next day is the first workday, the same as the first workday after the beginning at creation or dark creation, WAS THE 1ST WORK DAY OF THE WEEK.

Then, the seventh day would be the eighth day from the beginning or darkness. The new Heaven and new Earth will also have a beginning or New moon, Isa. 66:23, "from one New moon to another and one Shabbat to another, all flesh will worship". It will start with a New moon then six workdays, then rest on the seventh, which is the eighth day from the New moon or beginning (worship day) then six more workdays then 15^th is a Shabbat and so on. The 1^st day of the New Heaven and New Earth will be both the 1^st day of the year and the 1^st day of the month, and the 2^nd day of the month will be the 1^st work day of the week.

If we believe the New Earth has a beginning and the first day will be the first day of the moon (New moon), and it will be the first day of the year and on this first day they will be shouting for joy (blowing of trumpets). It will be a Holy Convocation (worship day). Then, the next six days, will be work days, and we know the next day will be a Shabbat (eighth day intermission). If the New Heaven and Earth has a beginning on New moon and it is the first day of the New Creation, then how is it so hard to believe the old Heavens and the Earth did not start the same way? _ Dark, then six workdays, then rest on the seventh, being the eighth from the dark.

There are not six workdays in the seventh moon from the eleventh through the fifteenth, because He made the tenth day a Shabbat, just like the weekly Shabbat except no eating,  it is a worship day not a workday and you are not to count it as one of the six ordinary workdays in your count for intermissions.

The fifty-year Jubilee Appointment would be by the Sun. The monthly Appointment by the moon, and there are four weekly Appointments in every moon.

Deut.5:12-15 says that the Israelites were to remember the Shabbat day because they were delivered from Mitzrayim's bondage and it was on the 15^th and Num. 33:3 teaches it was on a Shabbat or the 15^th, that they were delivered. Psalm. 81:3 teaches it was the 15th and the Hebrew "time appointed" means Full moon, and a Solemn Feast day.

 FACTS ABOUT THE SABBATHS BEING ON THE 15TH

Fact # 1 Everywhere the Shabbat is pinpointed in the Scriptures; the 15^th is one of them, like in chapter 16 of Exodus; the Shabbat was on the 15^th in the second moon after they left Mitzrayim.

Fact #2 The Shabbat was on the 15^th in the first moon when the children of Israel were delivered from Mitzrayim's bondage. Deut.5:15 and Num. 33:3 and on the 15^th in the 2^nd month, Ex 16, this should end the debate about keeping the Shabbat every seven days regardless of the New moon. Because, it is impossible to have the Shabbat on the 15^th two moons in a row, unless you are keeping the Shabbats by the moon. It is impossible on a Roman calendar because it will count the New moon as an ordinary workday and put the Shabbat on the 14^th instead of the 15^th. Julius Cesar booted the moon out of the Roman calendar.

No one denies the Shabbat was on the 15^th in the second moon (Ex. 16), but let us look at some scripture which proves the Shabbat is on the 15^th in the first moon also, which kills the calendar count doctrine.

You can pinpoint 17 separate months the Shabbat appears in the Scriptures and the 15^th is one of them every time, without exception. The first moon, when they left Mitzrayim was on the 15^th, that day they actually got rest from Mitzrayim bondage. Deut. 5:15 says "and remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Mitzrayim, and that thy mighty One brought thee out (15^th) thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore thy mighty one commanded thee to keep the Shabbat day."

Now ask yourself, what did being delivered from Mitzrayim bondage have to do with the Shabbat day? Unless, it was on the 15^th, and a Shabbat.

They were commanded to keep the Shabbat day because they were delivered from Mitzrayim bondage on the Shabbat day, which was the 15^th. (See Num. 33:3) Just as in the Creation Week, YaHuWaH rested on the Shabbat day. It is a Memorial Day of rest. He now commanded the children of Israel to keep the Shabbat day as a memorial of the deliverance that took place on the 15^th, when He gave them rest and the rest that He gave them on both accounts were on the Shabbat day. (See Psm. 81:3-6)

It teaches to blow the trumpet in the New moon and the Full moon (15^th) on our Solemn Feast day (15^th). "For this was a statute for Israel and a law of the Deity of Jacob." This He ordained in Joseph (and I believe that Joseph taught Mitzrayim the true Shabbats of YaHuWaH and had the power to see they were carried out and no one worked on the fifteenth day (Full moon) until another Pharaoh arose, who knew not Joseph. Verse 6 says "I removed his shoulder from the burden: and his hands were delivered from the pots." (He gave them rest on the 15^th, a Full moon Shabbat, also Num. 33:3 says that they departed from Rhamses in the first moon on the fifteenth day. Therefore, YaHuWaH commanded them to keep the Shabbat day because He gave them rest on that day. (Deut. 5:15) Just as He rested on the seventh day at creation and that is another reason to remember the Shabbat day.

More evidence that the 15^th was a Shabbat in the first moon is if you count back through the plagues (three days of darkness, locus, hail, etc.) seven days you'll find the father YaHuWaH called the eighth day of that moon a Moed (or appointment) the same word used for weekly Shabbat in Lev. 23:3 and Gen. 1:14 where the moon is for Feasts. Shabbats were on the 8^th, 15^th, 22^nd, and 29^th in the first moon.

Ex. 9:5 is where the word Moed appears as a set time. Look up set in concordance (Moed). The father said that He would kill the cattle on a Moed (Shabbat) the eighth day of the first moon and if so the 15^th was another Moed (Shabbat) they were made to rest from Mitzrayim's bondage, that is why He commanded them to keep the Shabbat day (Deut. 5:15) because He Freed them on that day. Remember too, if everywhere else in the Old and

New Testament the Shabbat was on the 15th, Why not here in the first moon?

The Shabbat day is called a sign day between Him and His people. (Ex. 31:13-17) "Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Shabbats ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the YaHuWaH that doth sanctify you."

Ex. 13:1-9 the 15^th is called a sign day. In Verse 3, Moshe said, "remember this day (the 15^th) you came out of Mitzrayim." (Verse 9) says, "It shall be a sign that YaHuWaH's law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath YaHuWaH brought thee out of Mitzrayim." Truly, the 15^th was a Shabbat in the first moon as well as the eighth (Moed). Gen-1:14 says "let them be for SIGNS…"   The 15^th is the SIGN DAY and is by the Great lights of Gen-1:14, NOT man's calendar.

How many are willing to forget all the traditions of men that they have inherited? The lies. "Our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things where there is no profit." (Jeremiah 16:19) Follow the scriptures they are profitable for doctrine. (Tim.3:16)

May YHWH's bless you with understanding.

http://www.lunarsabbath.com/articles/conclusive_evidence.htm

THE BURNING QUESTION

Sabbath - When is it?

By Ernie L. Hoch

1/18/2002

Many will ask this question after reading the title, “is this just another article that proscribes Saturday as the Sabbath over Sunday, or Sunday as the Sabbath over Saturday?  The answer to this is a resounding “No”.  You might be surprised if I should flip a clue and say that an argument could be made that both are right about the same amount of time.  To the person who remains “boxed” into their current set of beliefs, red flags are probably flying high right about now.  If you have even so much as a sliver of an open mind, hang in there; read on and allow the Ruach haKodesh  (the set apart Spirit) to take these seeds and do with them as the Spirit intends. 

If the two bolded words in the above passage of Scripture mean anything, then I’m sure that whatever belief you are currently of, (Saturday Sabbath or Sunday Sabbath) you are telling yourself that the “your” must mean “the other guy’s beliefs”. We’ve all been taught, trained and thoroughly convinced that we are doing it right, right?

Let me say right now, that I do believe that there are some of Yahweh’s chosen who are, in fact, keeping Sabbath as Yahweh intended.  Are the others wrong in what they are doing?  Who am I to judge if Yahweh has not yet chosen others to open their eyes to His truth and His ways?  For I will certainly not deliberately judge another. This writing is to present what historical documentation has been currently uncovered along with new revelations in Scripture.  Once your eyes are opened to the subject matter of this article, you might be surprised at how the Ruach will reveal much more in the Scriptures than we had never considered before. 

Have you ever heard the phrase “can’t see the trees for the forest”?  Try to put aside all your biases and watch and see if what I relate here proves itself in time. You may, then, begin embarking on even a closer walk with our Heavenly Father, one in which gives Him another reason to say “well done, thou good and faithful servant”.  Praise Yahweh.

To begin with, let’s look at perhaps the most intriguing of recent discoveries.  In the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, page 410 under the heading “Holidays”, I quote:

“1. Sabbath and New Moon (Rosh Hodesh), both periodically recurring in the course of the year.  The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle. Both date back to the nomadic period of Israel. Originally the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less important, while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instruction, or peace and delight of the soul, and produced powerful and beneficent effects outside of Judaism.”

I quote the whole passage above so that one can see that as soon as humanity departs from the “original” and supplants the use of the lunar cycle in the determination of the Sabbath day with another day determined by man, it becomes “more and more” popular.  When humankind substituted Yahweh’s appointed times (feasts - moedim) with manmade traditions/ celebrations/ feasts, they also become more popular. 

Let’s examine the above encyclopedic quote a little closer to see what they are really saying. 

    a.   The New Moon is still… dependent upon the lunar cycle.

    b.   The Sabbath originally was dependent upon the lunar cycle.

    c.   Originally the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath.

   d.   Gradually it [the New Moon Sabbath] became less important, while the [Saturday – Saturn’s day] Sabbath [after being changed from Yahweh’s appointed time according to the lunar cycle as the set apart day of rest] became more and more a day of religion and humanity.

Have you noticed how the NEW MOONS generally go by unnoticed among humanity in this day and age (except for a few small groups that this matters to)?  Could this be because man has not found a good way to supplant them with an alternative?  For how then could it be called the “new moon”?  It couldn’t so man has let slide into obscurity that which he cannot change and promote/proscribe the Saturnday Sabbath because man has now determine and “fixed”: it to a 7^th day Saturday in a seven day circle [examined more closely below] devised by man.  Man has therefore rejected Yahweh’s establishment of the Sabbath according to the “laws of the moon” and His “faithful witness”.

YirmeYahu 31:35-36 states, “Thus said Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the laws of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, and it’s waves roar – Yahweh of hosts is His Name: ‘If these laws vanish from before Me’ declares Yahweh, ‘then the seed of Yisra’el shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.’” ISR

Psalms 89: 35  Once have I sworn by My holiness: I will not lie unto David:  36  His seed shall endure for ever, And his throne as the sun before Me.  37  It shall be established forever as the moon… the faithful witness in the sky. [Selah] KJV

Prov. 14: 5  A faithful witness  will not lie; But a false witness uttereth lies.

So if the moon is Yahweh’s “faithful witness” and the Sabbath ORIGINALLY was dependent upon the lunar cycle, where are other scripture supporting this way of determining what day to celebrate and rest and call Sabbath then?

Turn to Tehillim [Psalms] 104:19a.  “He hath made the MOON for APPOINTED TIMES [mowadah]”.  ISR

Psalms 104:19a. “He appointed the moon for seasons:…”  King James Version

Notice how other versions and translators have subtly rearranged the meaning of these words to reroute our way of thinking.  “Seasons” makes us think of the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, fall and winter; not the Sabbath Day and Feasts, the appointed times of Yahweh!

“APPOINTED” Strong’s Concordance #6213 [asah], means to MAKE (MADE)

“SEASONS”  Strong’s Concordance #4150 [mow’ed], means “appointed time”.

Yahweh has “made the moon for appointed times”.

So what are Yahweh’s appointed times?  Let’s take a look at Lev. 23.

Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:1 “And Yahweh spoke to Mosheh (Moses), saying ‘Speak to the children of Yisra’el, and say to them, ‘The appointed times of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as set apart gatherings, My appointed times are these: Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work, it is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings. These are the appointed times of Yahweh, set-apart gatherings which you are to proclaim at their appointed times.”

Then the Scriptures goes on to describe the seven yearly feasts – appointed times- moedim (mo’ed – mowadah) of Yahweh.  Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Shavuot (Pentecost), Yom Teruah (blowing or Feasts of Trumpets), Yom Kipper (Day of Atonement) Festival of Booths (Tabernacles) and the last appointed time is called the Last Great Day, the eighth day after the beginning of Tabernacles.

Modern day Jewish calendars use somewhat of a lunar reckoning to determine the seven annual appointed times – feasts – but never use the lunar reckoning to determine perhaps the most significant “appointed time” of all – the 7^th day Sabbath. 

I’m sure by now you have even more questions than answers.  That’s pretty normal at this stage when an entirely foreign concept (to our current understanding) is presented.  Again, I’m not here to convince or force anyone to accept this.  I’m only a husbandman – farmer- seed planter.  Only the Ruach haKodesh can open your eyes if that is Yahweh’s desire and will for you.

Does it not seem foreign to you that a Jewish calendar must first consult with a Julian calendar and look in the last column under Saturday and then count and insert these days into the Jewish calendar?  It certainly did me! 

During the last several years as Yahweh has been dealing with me to show me His truth of His Ways and His reckoning of time keeping, it was so odd that all of His timekeeping ways could be found in nature except this goofy thing called a “week”. 

Anchors –

I love the word “anchor” for are we not to be firmly anchored to the “ROCK”?  Isn’t Yahweh’s way of determining the “Day” anchored to the setting of the sun?  Yes. Isn’t the beginning of every ancient Israelite/Hebrew month anchored to the “NEW MOON”?  Yes.  Is not the beginning of the Hebrew/Israelite Year according to the Scriptures to be determined by the Abib (a stage of ripeness) barley and the New Moon?  Yes.  When you have anchors, everything else can be fastened to those anchors and remain steadfast and sure.

Now I ask you again, what about the “week” as we currently understand this word.  It is so very true that our only understanding of the word “week” is a 7 day revolving never-ending cycle of sevens or a “CIRCLE” if you will.  Is that the true meaning of the Hebrew word “Shabuwa”.

07620 shabuwa` {shaw-boo'-ah} or shabua` {shaw-boo'-ah} also

(fem.) sh@bu`ah {sheb-oo-aw'}

properly, pass part of 07650 as a denom. of 07651; TWOT - 2318d; n m

AV - week 19, seven 1; 20

1) seven, period of seven (days or years), heptad, week

1a) period of seven days, a week

1a1) Feast of Weeks

1b) heptad, seven (of years)

Here we see that the King James Version has translated “shabuwa” as “week” 19 times and only once as “seven”.  Yet the Hebrew word “shabuwa” means “seven, period of seven”.  Here, man has given it the meaning of “week” which is of a more modern concept dating perhaps only to about 400 to 500 CE (common era - AD).  Shabuwa does not have the meaning of a never-ending seven day circle. It is a period of SEVEN.

So if we can separate our current understanding of “week” from the Hebrew word “shabuwa” we might be able to see this picture clearer.  Yahweh’s way of timekeeping which He desires for us to follow is clearly shown in the lunar cycle.  Now man will put a mental block in here and state “but there are 29.5+ days in a lunar cycle and that is not divisible by 4.  Brilliant deduction, but why do you think Yahweh has established the NEW MOON?  To intentionally give you a moon end (moonth end) rest.  Have you ever stopped to consider that maybe our “weekend” (work 5 days get two off) is a man made substitute for Yahweh’s moonth end rest? It certainly appears to be so.

NOTE: To aid and assist in understanding the following, there is a lunar Sabbath calendar on http://www.YahwehMusic.com/lunar_sabbath_model.htm  or .  If you click the "click here" icon, it will take you to a printer friendly version of the calendar. Consider printing out that calendar as a visual aid as we proceed though the following details.

If our scriptural understanding is that the NEW MOON Sabbath arrives at the FIRST OF THE MOONTH then we are to WORK SIX days and the 7th day, REST, work SIX days and the 7^th day, REST, etc, for 4 shabuwas, until the next new moon period; lets work it out and see what we learn.

Day ONE of a brand new lunar cycle (from conjunction) is the NEW MOON Sabbath DAY.  When the first sliver is sighted after sunset on the evening of the first day (first day is now over with) two witnesses give testimony, trumpets are blown, bond fires are lit on the hill topes and the moonth end rest (long Sabbath) has ended. Tomorrow morning everyone goes back to work and begins the counting of the first shabuwa (period of seven as in “six days you shall labor and the seventh you rest).  So now we see that day ONE is a NEW MOON DAY (observed as a Sabbath day) then work six days (lunar days 2 – 7) and then rest for the 7^th day Sabbath (on the 8^th day of the lunar cycle). Count seven more days (2^nd shabuwa) and you rest on the 15^th day of the lunar cycle.  Seven more days (3^rd shabuwa) rest on the 22^nd day of the lunar cycle and again on the 29^th day of the lunar cycle.   A fuller explanation of this way of reckoning is detailed near the end of this article.

Now we have come to the 4^th Sabbath – the 29^th day of the lunar cycle. What a time of rejoicing it is for our labors have ceased for this moonth and we enjoy the 7^th Day Sabbath rest of Yahweh.  At sunset (the completion of the 4^th Shabbat of this moonth) we continue in the Sabbath mood and immediately begin the New Moon day or days.  After the first full NEW MOON day, (the second day of the MOONTH END PERIOD) we watch the western sky just after sundown to see if the first crescent of the moon is visible.  If it is sighted, the trumpets are blown, bond fires lit and tomorrow we start a new work shabuwa. [This would be a two day moonth end].  If the first crescent is NOT visible, we continue on in Sabbath and again watch for the first crescent. Seen or not seen this 3^rd Sabbath moonth end/beginning evening, the trumpets are blown and tomorrow we go to work.

Regardless of whether there is one or two solar days of no (null) moon [after the 4^th Sabbath], it is considered day ONE of the new lunar cycle. This may be hard to understand but during the no/null moon period, it is a time of darkness where the “faithful witness” in unobservable in its changes.  Every other day of the lunar cycle, one can visible observe changes that take place each and every solar day.  Praise Yahweh.

What about this Seven Day Circle that we currently observe?  Hasn’t that been the only way of determining Sabbath since creation?  Well, let’s see what history shows.

In an article by John D. Keyser entitled “From Sabbath to Saturday: The Story of the Jewish Rest Day” Keyser writes:

“Talking about the time prior to the Diaspora, Hutton Webster tells us that an old and still common theory derives the Sabbath institution from the worship of Saturn after which planet the first day of the astrological week [Saturday] received its designation. The theory is untenable for more than one reason. In the first place the Hebrews did not name their weekdays after the planets, but indicated them by ordinal numbers. In the second place Saturn’s Day [Saturday] began the planetary week, while the Jewish Sabbath was regarded as the last day of the seven, a suitable position for a rest day. And in the third place neither the Hebrews nor any other Oriental people ever worshipped the planet Saturn as a god and OBSERVED HIS DAY AS A FESTIVAL day (Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality. New York: The MacMillan Company. 1916, p. 243).

However, in the Diaspora, this soon changed with the influence of the Zoroastrian revival and the Roman planetary week –

These imported [from Babylon] superstitions eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn SHABBTI, "the STAR OF THE SABBATH," [and]...it was not until [after] the first century of our era, when the planetary week had become an established institution, THAT THE JEWISH SABBATH SEEMS ALWAYS TO HAVE CORRESPONDED TO SATURN'S DAY [SATURDAY]" (ibid., p. 244).

"The association of the Sabbath Day with Saturday," explains Webster, "was probably one reason why Saturn, a planet in Babylonian astrological schemes regarded as beneficent rather than malefic, should have come to assume in late classical times the role of an unlucky star (sidus tristissimum, stella iniquissima)...Dio Cassius [Roman historian born 155 A.D., died after 230 A.D.] also speaks of the Jews having DEDICATED TO THEIR GOD THE DAY CALLED THE DAY OF SATURN [SATURDAY], 'on which, among many other most peculiar actions, they undertake no serious occupation'...Tacitus [another Roman historian] (Historiae, V, 4) thinks that the Jewish Sabbath may be an observance in honour of Saturn..." (Rest Days, p. 244-245).

Notes the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: "With the development of the importance of the Sabbath as a day of consecration and the emphasis laid upon the significant number seven, the week became more and more DIVORCED FROM ITS LUNAR CONNECTION..."(volume 10, 1943. Article, "Week," p. 482).

Also, writes Hutton Webster, "the establishment of a periodic week ending in a Sabbath observed every seventh day was doubtless responsible for the gradual obsolescence of the NEW MOON FESTIVAL AS A PERIOD OF GENERAL ABSTINENCE, since with continuous weeks the new-moon day and the Sabbath Day would from time to time coincide" (ibid., p. 255).

This obsolescence of the New Moon festival is also noted by the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia --

“However, in the Diaspora the New Moon came to occupy a secondary position in contrast to the Sabbath; the prohibition against work and the carrying on of commerce was LIFTED, and the New Moon, although still celebrated by means of increased offerings, soon was reduced to the rank of a minor or half holiday. Its importance was confined to the fact that it remained of great value and necessity for the fixing of the festivals“ (volume 8, p. 171. Article "New Moon")

Eviator Zerubavel, in his book The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, observes that the Jewish and astrological weeks evolved quite independently of one another. However, given the coincidence of their identical length, it was only a matter of time before some permanent correspondence between particular Jewish days and particular planetary days would be made. A PERMANENT CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE SABBATH AND "THE DAY OF SATURN" WAS THUS ESTABLISHED... later than the first century of the present era, Jews EVEN CAME TO NAME THE PLANET SATURN SHABTAI, AFTER THE ORIGINAL HEBREW NAME OF THE SABBATH, SHABBATH. Moreover, as they came into closer contact with Hellenism, their conception of their holy day was evidently AFFECTED BY THE ASTROLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF SATURN AS A PLANET that has an overwhelming negative influence (a conception which, incidentally, is still evident even from the association of the English word "saturnine" with a gloomy disposition). There are traditional Jewish superstitious beliefs about demons and evil spirits that hold full sway on the Sabbath, and an old Jewish legend even links the choice of "the day of Saturn" as the official Jewish rest day with the superstition that it would be an inauspicious day for doing any work anyway! (New York: The Free Press, 1985. P. 17).

 http://www.yahwehmusic.com/covenants/burningquestion.htm

Eviator Zerubavel makes some interesting comments and observations on page 11 about the Jews’ departing from Yahweh's true Sabbath day; from the reckoning of the lunar phases --

...the dissociation of the week from a natural cycle such as the waxing and waning of the moon can be seen as part of a general movement toward introducing a supranatural deity. Not being personified as any particular natural force, the Jewish god was to be regarded as untouched by nature in any way. Accordingly, the day dedicated to this god was to be regarded as part of a divine temporal pattern that transcends even nature itself. That obviously involved dissociating the week from nature and its rhythms. Only by being based on an entirely artificial mathematical rhythm could the Sabbath observance become totally independent of the lunar or any other natural cycle.

A continuous seven-day cycle that runs throughout history, paying no attention whatsoever to the moon and its phases, is a distinctly Jewish invention. Moreover, the dissociation of the seven-day week from nature has been one of the most significant contributions of Judaism to civilization. Like the invention of the mechanical clock some 1,500 years later, it facilitates the establishment of what Lewis Mumford identified as "mechanical periodicity," thus essentially increasing the distance between human beings and nature. Quasi [lunar] weeks and [continuous] weeks actually represent two fundamentally distinct modes of temporal organization of human life, the former involving partial adaptation to nature, and the latter stressing total emancipation from it. The invention of the continuous week was therefore one of the most significant breakthroughs in human beings' attempts to break away from being prisoners of nature [and away from Yahweh’s laws] and create a social world of their own (The Seven Day Circle, p. 11).

On Page 8, Zerubavel further expounds:

...the establishment of a seven-day week based on the regular observance of the Sabbath is a distinctively Jewish contribution to civilization…it is crucial to remember that the ancient dwellers of Mesopotamia themselves did not have a real seven-day week [like we know and understand today]. …One of the most distinctive features of the [present] week is the fact that it is entirely dissociated from the lunar cycle. It is essentially defined as a precise multiple of the day, quite independently of the lunar month. Quasi [lunar] weeks, on the other hand, are generally defined as rough approximations of fractions of the lunar month, and are appropriately called "lunar weeks" by Francis H. Colson (ibid.}....the indispensability of a continuous week for the establishment of settled life with a high level of social organization, particularly significant since the rise of a market economy, which involved orderly contact on regular recurrent, periodic market days. Only by establishing a weekly cycle of an unvarying, standard length could society guarantee that the continuity of its life would never be interrupted by natural phenomena such as the lunar cycle. The dissociation of the week from the lunar cycle, is, therefore, the most significant breakthrough in the evolution of this cycle from its somewhat rudimentary and imperfect [?] predecessor. Only by defining the week as a precise multiple of the day, rather than...a fraction of the lunar month, could human beings permanently avoid the problem of having to handle loose remainders and, thus, introduce into their lives the sort of temporal regularity that they could never attain with the quasi [lunar] week (The Seven Day Circle, p. 10).

The New Schaff-Herzog Religious Encyclopedia takes note of a radical change to the calendar:

"The association of sabbath rest with the account of creation must have been very ancient among the Hebrews, and it is noteworthy that no other Semitic peoples, even the Babylonians, have any tradition of the creation in six days. It would appear that the primitive Semites had FOUR CHIEF MOONDAYS, probably the first, eighth, fifteenth, and twenty-second of EACH month, CALLED SABBATHS from the fact that there was a tendency to end work before them so that they might be celebrated joyfully. Among the Babylonians these seventh days through astrological conceptions became ill-omened, while the sabbath in the middle of the month was made a day of propitiation, and its name was construed as meaning 'the day for ending the wrath of the gods.' The Israelites, on the other hand, made the sabbaths [as anchored to the moon] the feasts of a living and holy God. The work of man became symbolic of the work of God, and human rest of divine rest, so that the sabbaths became preeminently days of rest. Since, moreover, the LUNAR MONTH had 29 or 30 days, the normal lapse of time between sabbaths was SIX DAYS, although sometimes seven or eight; [at the moonth end only] and six working days were accordingly assigned to the creation, which was to furnish a prototype for human life. The connection of the sabbath with lunar phases, however, was discarded by the Israelites [more specifially, the Jews]...and the weeks were accordingly divorced from the days of the months and were made to follow in succession throughout the year, a more regular correspondence with the week of creation being thus secured. [And an uninterrupted flow of commerce was more appealing] The first lunar day, however, or the day of the new moon, retained, although no longer called sabbath, somewhat of its sabbatical character, so that in the Old Testament it frequently appears as a pendant of the sabbath" (Edited by Samuel Macauley. 1912. Vol. X, pp. 135-136).

We can certainly see that 7^th day Sabbath and the New Moon Sabbath was originally anchored to the lunar phases as Yahweh intended.  We can see additional resistance to walking Yahweh’s ways in the book of Amos.  Amos 8: 5  Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat…”  They could hardly wait to get back to “business as usual”.  Here we see the end of an Israelite/Hebrew moonth and the fact that it was two to three days long. The merchants were clambering to get back to the business of buying and selling.  Author Jonathan David Brown, in his book “Keeping Yahweh’s Appointments”, “It is quite easy to see how flowing with the natural rhythm of the moon cycle would disrupt commercial enterprise. When you're waiting with a truckload of rotting vegetables, who wants to wait for the new moon to be gone? The uninterrupted flow of our current seven-day cycle was thus very appealing to our predecessors who were caught up in building commerce" (p. 92).

Instead of being frustrated at the deception, I say, “Praise Yahweh for deliverance”.  Can’t you feel yourself being released from the bondage of man’s false and deceitful traditions?  Satan’s deceitful fingers are being pried off Yahweh’s elect one by one.  Hallelu-YAHWEH!!!   If anything, I am personally more determined than ever to walk Yahweh’s WAY!  His TRUTH keeps setting me freer every day!

Can we see just a little clearer now with renewed eyes?  Has not nearly everything Yahweh intended for us to use in observing His way of timekeeping and reckoning the 7^th day Sabbath and His appointed times?  Remember the passage in Dani’el chapter 7 where in it states in verse 25, “and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.”?  Have you been finding yourself weary of having fallen to deceit at every turn since your birth.  If Yahweh has been leading you on His path to truth, at every turn now, you find that man (at Satan’s instigation) has devised ways to supplant Yahweh’s ways.  Let’s count a few of them.

1.      Yahweh’s Name was supplanted (changed) or declared ineffable (not the be spoken out loud).

2.      Sabbath was “fixed” to a Saturn’s day or a Sun day instead of being determined according to Yahweh’s faithful witness, the moon and it’s lunar cycle.

3.      Sabbath falls on any day of a Jewish calendar month evenly spaced apart according to the invented seven day circle instead of the reckoning of shabuwas and New Moon days.

4.      The New Moon Sabbath was rendered insignificant and more or less discarded and totally ignored as a Sabbath.

5.       Unclean foods have been declared fit for consumption. It's just not truth.

6.       Lawlessness has been declared righteousness.  Again, it's just not the truth.

7.       Being obedient to our Heavenly Father by keeping the law has been declared legalism.  :-(

8.      The beginning of days now starts with midnight instead of sunset. (What is midnight anyway?  Have you ever seen it without a manmade timekeeping device called a watch or a clock?  We’d be in real trouble if an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) wiped out all electronics, wouldn’t we?

9.      The hour of the day used to be determined by the sun and a stick in the ground (shadow).  Now that is archaic.  Grab the clock again.

10.    The month begins when the Julian calendar says it does (thanks to the RCC) instead of the conjunction of the moon. That’s why I use the term “moonth” because our minds have been polluted to a false and deceitful understanding of a month.

11.    The year begins in the dead of winter, again when the Julian calendar says it does (thanks again to the RCC), instead of observing nature and when Yahweh determines to cause the barley crop to be in the stage of Abib along with the beginning of a new moonth.

12.    And the institution of that great INVENTION, the WEEK!!  A/K/A (also known as) the Great Seven Day CIRCLE.  Do you believe in the ancient Israelite/Hebrew “Shabuwa” (period of seven) or the modern invention called the week (an endless circle of seven)?  Yahweh never, NEVER, gave us “weeks”.

SO WHAT ROCK ARE YOU ANCHORED TO?

Let us examine a few more scriptures that give credence to the days we spoke of earlier as being Sabbath days of a lunar reckoning.

Numbers 29:12-35 are the instruction for the feast of Tabernacles.  The first day of the Feast of Tabernacles (the 15^th day of the Seventh moonth) you do no servile work (sounds like a Sabbath day and it is according to the lunar reckoning. It is the 7^th day of the second Shabuwa).

Feast of Tabernacles

1^st day  - 15^th of seventh moonth- no servile work - Sabbath day (day 7 of 2^nd shabuwa)

2^nd day  -16^th day (day 1 of 3^rd shabuwa)

3^rd day - 17^th day (day 2 of 3^rd shabuwa)

4^th day – 18^th day (day 3 of 3^rd shabuwa)

5^th day – 19^th day (day 4 of 3^rd shabuwa)

6^th day – 20^th day (day 5 of 3^rd shabuwa)

7^th day – 21^st day (day 6 of 3^rd shabuwa)

8^th day – 22^nd day of seventh moonth-no servile work – Sabbath day (day 7 of 3^rd shabuwa)

When the children of Yisra’el came out of Egypt into the wilderness, it is no coincidence that Yahweh spoke to the children of Yisra’el on a Sabbath day.  Shemoth (Exodus) 16 begins with the children of Yisra’el entering the wilderness of Sin on the 15^th day of the second month from their leaving Mitzrayim (Egypt).  At the “even” (evening after sundown) the quail blew in.  the Sabbath of the 2^nd shabuwa was over, a new day began at sunset. The next morning manna was gathered for the next SIX DAYS, then the 7^th from at time was the 7^th day Shabbat of the 3^rd shabuwa when they were not allowed to collect manna for there would not be any.  By simply counting from the 15^th, seven days later, the 7^th day (a Sabbath rest) was on the 22^nd of the moonth.

Passover, the 14^th day of the moonth, is a preparation day (for it is the 6^th day of the 2^nd shabuwa), the day Messiah was impaled at the stake. The feast of Unleavened bread begins at sunset.  The Passover meal is eaten after sunset on the 14^th making it the 15^th day when the meal is eaten, thus the feast of Unleavened Bread  - a day of no servile work – a 7^th day Sabbath Day.

In the book of Esther we find an interesting passage concerning the celebration of the Jewish festival of Purim.  Esther 9:17-18 says “That was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.” [Ed. Note: This is how the Jews celebrate Purim today]  Verse 18 “But the Yehudim who were at Shushan assembled on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth day.  And on the FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH THEY RESTED, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.”  WOW!! Here we find a group of believers apparently keeping a lunar Sabbath in addition to the two days of Purim.

In the apocryphal book “Ecclesiasticus” a very profound statement is recorded.

“And then the moon, ever punctual to mark the times, an everlasting sign: It is the moon that signals the feasts, a luminary that wanes after being full. The month derives its name from hers, she waxes wonderfully in her phases, banner of the hosts on high, shining in the vault of heaven.” Eclesiasticus 43:6-8).

  The word “feasts” here, written in Greek, “heorte”, is the same word as the Septuagint Version in Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:2.  We know now that the 7^th day Sabbath cannot be separated in its way of being reckoned from the other annual feasts of Yahweh.

I promised earlier in this article, to present a more detailed explanation as to why the New (null) Moon Sabbath is day 1 and the Sabbaths are reckoned and observed on Days 8, 15, 22 &29.  The scriptures translate “chodesh” as “new moon” which is derived from “chadash”. Thayer’s concordance defines this as follows:

02318 chadash {khaw-dash'}

a primitive root; TWOT - 613; v

AV - renew 7, repair 3; 10

1) to be new, renew, repair

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to renew, make anew

1a2) to repair

Each lunar cycle has the moon coming between the earth and the sun for a specified period of time.  During this time, the moon is being renewed.  What does that mean?

“New”, in its basic form and understanding means “prior to being used, not used, unused”. Each day of a lunar cycle from the first sighting of a waxing crescent sliver till the last sighting of a waning crescent sliver, the moon, as a faithful witness, testifies to the day and the phase of the month we are in.  It gives witness.  It is performing a function.  When the first crescent sliver is sighted, it has (past tense) performed “work”; it is no longer a “new moon”.  When you buy a car, the first time you sit behind the wheel and drive it, it is “used”.  At that point it is no longer new/unused.  Think about that for a minute and you will grasp this concept.  We like to show off our “new” car but in fact, it is something that is “relatively new” for we have used it.  There is nothing that says we can’t get excited about it relative newness but technically, it is only “new” prior to having been driven.  Likewise, the “new” moon/ renewed moon is only new until it is visible, for at that first moment it is spotted, it has performed the “work” which Yahweh intended for it to perform for His people, a sign, or signal that a new group of four shabuwas has begun.  It has given us the time; a marker with which to begin counting the next four shabuwas leading up to the next new/null/no moon day(s).  Day One is a no/null/new/renewed moon sabbath.  Day 2 begins the counting of the four shabuwas.  Why is this important?  Have you ever heard the saying, “A day late and a dollar short”?  If the feasts and the counting of the month begins with the sighting of the first crescent sliver, the quarter moon phases will be off and the feasts will be kept a day later that proscribed. “A day late and a dollar short.” Also, new moon (being renewed in the dark period) is not synonymous with “first crescent sliver” as many would have us believe.  I hope this helps in the understanding of its reckoning.   If not, pray for guidance from Yahweh and in time, the pieces will fall into place.  Satan has manipulated us, and those we’ve trusted, all our lives. It may take more than a few moments to get focused on Yahweh’s truth, so take that in stride.  As always, I reserve the right to modify or change my understandings, also, concerning this and other issues as the Ruach HaKodesh teaches and reveals truth to me.  Blessings to you.

I might also add that I believe more historical information will be forthcoming but I also believe that much historical proof of a lunar reckoning has been destroyed to hide the truth and further the deceitful schemes Satan has devised many ways to keep us from walking Yahweh’s way of truth and light.  Can I say to you, “BEWARE OF THE TRADITIONS OF MEN”?  Yahshua warned the people of His day concerning the traditions of men.  I personally believe that the lunar Sabbath was primarily being observed during Messiah’s day and that the seven day circle (known as the “week”) was instituted by man after the time of Messiah.

CAUTION: If it is a widely accepted and celebrated holiday or tradition, in this world today, I’d caution, BEWARE. 

Question everything.  Question me.  Seek Yahweh’s truth. It’s the only thing that can and will set you free.  Let the Ruach HaKodesh speak to you concerning these matter presented above.  I seek no following, only the truth Yahweh has to give and for me to walk in.  Trust Yahweh's Ruach (spirit) to show you the truth of these matters spoken of .

May we have the convictions to do as our forefathers in YirmeYahu’s (Jeremiah) day did.

YirmeYahu 42:4-6 “And YirmeYahu the prophet said to them, ‘I have heard. See, I am praying to Yahweh your Elohim according to your words, and it shall be that I declare to you all the word Yahweh answers you. I withhold not a word from you.’  And they said to YirmeYahu, ‘Let Yahweh be a true and steadfast [faithful] witness between us, if we do not do according to all the word which Yahweh your Elohim sends us by you. Whether good or evil, let us obey the voice of Yahweh our Elohim to whom we send you, in order that it might be well with us when we obey the voice of Yahweh our Elohim.”  ISR

Let this be our prayer of commitment.

Yahweh bless you abundantly.

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    The evidence provided here will prove that the true weekly seventh day Sabbath of the scriptures is always observed on the same days of the Moon each month, and that is on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. The author offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can pinpoint a weekly Sabbath on any other day than by the moon. Seventy Two (72) weekly Sabbath days, observed by the holy men of old, have been pinpointed, and every one of them is on either the 8th, 15th, 22nd, or 29th day of the Moon, without exception. The reason for this is that they never counted the day of the New Moon when counting out the six workdays.
 
    In examining the evidence set forth in this work, you will see the true Sabbath comes after the six workdays of the week, and the day of the New Moon is not one of the six work days, no more than the Sabbath day is. Ezech-46:1. A new week always began after the New moon or Sabbath, they are both worship days, and not one of the six work days. Isa. - 66:23 This explains why the Sabbath days in the scriptures are always on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of the month,without exception. It is exciting to read the examples set forth in this work based on the oldest history book in the world, and the only inspired one.
 
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Here Is an “eyewitness” account as to how our “Saviour” and the “Jews” of HIS DAY kept the weeks and "7th" day of the week, and it is NOT the way it is being done today.

People accept the scripture where it says that they would “forget” His name for Ball/lord but won’t accept where the scripture says that He would destroy their Sanctuary and cause His Sabbaths to be "forgotten" in Zion (Lamentation 2:6.)

Yes the Name AND Sabbaths were both forgotten and are now being restored to those that are willing to listen.

The following will actually show the Saviour and the Jews of His day keeping Lunar Sabbaths.

WHY ARE THE WRITING’S OF PHILO THE JEW SO IMPORTANT?????

In the quest for historical evidence as it relates to this subject (LUNAR SABBATHS), we have noticed that Philo is not often mentioned by those who support the tradional Saturday Sabbaths. The writings of Philo are very important for establishing Jewish practice and belief both before and during the Messiah’s time here on earth. Philo lived from approximately 20 BCE until about 50 CE. Thus, his lifetime spanned not only the years prior to the Messiah’s birth, but also the years following His resurrection (not to mention the years in between).

The evidence reveals that Philo’s beliefs were representative of those of Judaism during that period of time. Philo, who was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of more than 100,000 Jews living in that city. When the prefect Flaccus initiated a massacre of the Jews in the year 39 CE, Philo was selected to head the Jewish delegation that went to to plead their case before Gaius Caligula.

Please pause for a moment and reflect on the significance of Philo’s having been chosen from among his peers for such a monumental task. Would Philo have been chosen for such a mission “if” his practice and beliefs “had not” squared with those of normative Judaism?

No, he would not have been chosen unless his views matched those of his peers. We know from Philo’s writings that he did {observed} "Lunar Sabbaths." If normative Judaism had practiced "Saturday Sabbaths" while Philo rebelliously observed "Lunar weeks and Sabbaths," would this detail have affected their decision to select him to lead a delegation to Rome?

Absolutely. Sabbath observance is one of the most distinguishing marks of Judaism, or as author Dayan Grunfeld put it, the Sabbath "epitomizes the whole of Judaism."

For Philo to have "gone against the grain" of Judaism with regard to Sabbath observance would have signaled a break with Judaism. We can thus discern that if Philo observed the lunar weeks and Sabbath by the phases of the moon each week, so did the rest of his fellow Jews, "including our Savior" because there were "no" controversy between our Savior and the Jews concerning the weekly Sabbath because many scriptures prove that He kept the "same" weekly Sabbath day as they did.

We believe Philo did a pretty decent job of explaining how, the weeks are connected to the moon, which are covered in his book.

We feel that a major blow to Sat- sabbatarian theology involves that which Philo “left out” of his writings pertaining to any Saturday Sabbaths.

Not once did Philo mention another week other than the "lunar" cycle in determining the Sabbath day. In fact, the word "Saturday or Saturn’s day" isn’t mentioned even “once” in Philo’s entire book. This is significant, as elsewhere in Philo’s writings, he devotes much space to discussing the cycle of the moon and the #7. In fact, the day of the new moon is listed as one of the majour Feasts and was not counted when counting out the 4 Lunar weeks each month, and he never counted the new moon when counting the 28 days of the 4 weeks or 4 Sabbaths each month/moon.

We find it to be very interesting that Philo mentioned the "moon" and it’s phases of waxing and waning in his commentary regarding the Sabbath. In his writings, Philo distinguishes new moon observance as a separate feast from the weekly Sabbath, and that is why he never includes the new moon in counting out the weeks.

Please study Philo carefully and prayerfully because Philo was an “eye witness” of how things were done by the Jews in our Savior’s day, including when a week begins and ends. We should not ignore the testimony of eye witnesses when searching for the truth on how something was done. Here are a few of the many proofs of how the Jews is our Saviour’s day understood weeks and Sabbaths.

In order to have a lunar Sabbath, you must have a lunar “week”, did Philo link the Sabbath or the “week” with the phases of the moon or not???

The answer is yes in fact the lunar week and lunar Sabbath is the only week or Sabbath mentioned in Philo’s writings. Let us begin in his writings.

ON MATING WITH THE PRELIMINARY STUDIES, X1X (102) it says,

"For it is said in the Scripture: On the tenth day of this month let each of them take a sheep according to his house; in order that from the tenth, there may be consecrated to the tenth, that is to God, the sacrifices which have been preserved in the soul, which is illuminated in two portions out of the three, until it is entirely changed in every part, and becomes a heavenly brilliancy like a full moon, at the height of its increase at the end of the second “week”…

Please let what Philo just said sink in. His readers and fellow Jews of that era, or in those days understand that the weeks were by the moon, and that at the end of the second week they would be a full moon.

This statement needs no interpretation. The people understood that the weeks were by the moon, same as the Jews in the Scriptures. If this is so then the sacred seventh day of the week, which comes at the end of the second week must be a full moon Sabbath (Psalms 81:3-6). Why? Because in many places Philo speaks of the weekly seventh day, and we all know that the seventh day comes at the end of the week. People would like for us to believe that the months were originally by the moon but the weeks were not.

Philo was making an observation of how a person can be spiritually illuminated to a full brilliance just like a full moon at the height of its increase at the end of the second week.

Philo did not count the new moon when counting out the weeks as these calendars do today. This statement is very easily proven from the writings of Philo because he states in other places thought his book that the full moon is on the 15th each month and he also separates the new moon as a separate feast day, from the weeks. Writers today would instead count the new moon day in counting their weeks, but it is obvious from Philo that he did not count the new moon day when counting out the weeks. This is because at the end of the second week the full moon would be on the 14th instead of the 15th as Philo plainly declares many times.

 In other words you have your new moon worship day, then six workdays and then the weekly Sabbath on the 8th day of the moon (Ezech-46:1). You then have six more workdays and a full moon on day 15 or at the end of the second week or second seven, i.e. at the end of 14 days after the new moon worship day.

This proves the new moon was not counted in counting out the weeks same as YHWH did not count it in Exodus the 16th chapter when he made the Sabbath known to Moses. If the new moon was ever counted in counting out the weeks in Scripture, there would be pinpointed weekly Sabbaths on the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th etc. Yet, you cannot find these days pinpointed anywhere in Scripture because these days are always preparation days for the weekly Sabbath. When Philo spoke of the 10th or 15th day of the month, he was counting the new moon day in his count, but it is an absolute that when he counted out the week, he did not count the new moon, which in itself proves lunar weeks. Remember Philo is just stating “how” things were done in his day.

Continuing on with Philo:

THE DECALOGUE XXX (159)

”But to the seventh day of the week he has assigned the greatest festivals, those of the longest duration, at the periods of the equinox both vernal and autumnal and autumnal in each year; appointing two festivals for thse two epochs, each lasting seven days; the one which teakes place in the spring being for the perfection of what is being sown, and the one which falls in autumn being a feast of thanksgiving for the bringing home of all the fruits which the trees have produced”…

Let’s look carefully at what Philo is saying. But to the seventh day of the week He has assigned the greatest festivals, in other words the greatest (longest) festivals have been assigned to the seventh day of the week and we know from scripture that the 15th begins both of these  Festival and lasts for seven days. Philo just calls it the 7th day of the week. We know both of these seven day feasts begin on the 15th (Sabbath). Each of them lasts for seven days, and each one of these 7 day events were assigned to the seventh day of the week (15th) or weekly Sabbath which begins the Feast and it lasts seven days.

Philo goes on to say that each month (1st and 7th) should receive an especial honor of one sacred day of festival, for the purpose of refreshing and clearing the mind with its holiday.

Notice he did not say they would receive two holydays of festivals, but one, the 15th. To prove the seventh day of the week is the same as the 15th, elsewhere Philo states,

"Again the beginning of this feast is appointed for the fifteenth day of the month (or seventh day of the week) on account of the reason which has already been mentioned respecting the Spring season might receive special honor of one sacred day of festival." {THE TENTH FESTIVAL XXXIII. (210) In other words, Philo is saying the weekly Sabbath begins these feasts, and is on the 15th. This proves the Sabbaths by the lunar calendar because there is no way the weekly Sabbath (15th) can begin these two festivals on the 15th in the 1st and 7th month each year, on a continuous seven day cycle by the calendar of today.

 Let’s continue:

F.H. Colson’s translation of THE DECALOGUE XXX (159) reads,

”The fourth, which treats of the seventh day, must be regarded as nothing less than a gathering under one "head" of the feasts and the purifications ordained for each feasts, the proper lustrations and the acceptable prayers and flawless sacrifices with which the ritual was carried out. By the seventh I mean both the seventh which "includes" the most creative of numbers, six, and that which does "not include" it but takes precedence of "it" and "resembles" the unit. "Both" these are employed by Him in reckoning the feast-times.” (Colson’s translation of Philo.)

What can be plainer than that? Let's analyze it. "The fourth, which treats of the seventh day, must be regarded as nothing less than a gathering under one "head" of the feasts." How can the weekly Sabbath day be regarded as a gathering under one head of the feasts unless it heads these feast i.e. begins them each year? This also proves Lunar Sabbaths.

Philo continues by saying,

“by the seventh I mean “both” the seventh which "includes" the most creative of numbers, six, and that which does "not include" it but takes precedence of it and "resembles" the unit."

The word precedence means it comes before the number six during the feasts, i.e. one of the sevenths comes before the number six during the 7 day feast and the other seventh comes after it and is combined with it. This is impossible if he used the count for the Sabbath as the people of today.

The word precedence also has a footnote that has the actual Greek word and states, "the verb, derived from the adverb ……., seem to be used as a thing which gets in front of something else and obscures it so here the idea may be that the unit or monad does not need six to make it equivalent to seven." (Spec. Leg. Iv.52).

This seventh is the weekly seventh and is in front of the six days during the feasts because to the weekly seventh day he has assigned these feasts. The footnote that says "…here the idea may be that the unit or monad does not need six to make it equivalent to seven…" This is because this single unit or monad does not need six to make it equivalent to seven because it is a seventh and both Yonge's and Colson’s translation says it is made to resemble the unit/first or number one.

Last but not least it says, "Both” these are "employed" by Him in reckoning the feast-“times." You cannot reckon feast-times with a seventh that jumps around during the 7 day feast, on a man-made calendar. Both the sevens have to be fixed not just the one that is on the 21st or last day of the feast because He employed both sevens in reckoning the feast-times. If one of the sevenths could move it would also fall on the 21st at times and would also be combined with the number six and then there would be only one seventh .

 I could go on and on with quotations from Philo, but anyone can call me at 770.483.8542 if you’d like to discuss this matter further. To close we will place the facts from Philo from both the Yonge and Colson translations.

FACT #1: Both translation state that the full moon is at the end of the second week which has been argued that the weeks have nothing to do with the moon.

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FACT #2: They both state that the full moon is on the 15th.

FACT #3: They both teach that the 15th begins both of the 7-day feasts/festivals each year, which is the same 15th/full moon that is at the end of the second week. (This is impossible with the Roman calendar)

The question is, could this same 15th be the weekly seventh day that the festivals are assigned to? He says both of these festivals has been assigned to the seventh day of the week, yes it is the 15th that is at the end of the second week and it is the 7th day of the lunar week and the same seventh day that begins theses feasts. They were keeping lunar weeks, let’s examine fact number four and see.

FACT #4: Both translations conclusively teach that they are two sevenths in each of these festivals and both are connected in some way with the number six.
When Philo states that there are two sevenths in both the festival of unleavened bread and the festival of booths is he somehow missing the point Saturday sabbatarians would bring up today - that there is a third seventh that will hit in between the 15th and the 21st the majority of years that the feasts come around? Why does Philo not mention this third seventh? It is because none exists. Philo only mention two sevenths in relation to the feast and the first of these two sevenths is none other than the weekly seventh day Sabbath that leads the feasts and is considered the first day of the feast - the 15th.

Does Philo speak about the Sabbaths in connection with the waxing and waning of the moon?

On page 17 of Ralph Marcus' translation of Philo’s work entitled “Questions and Answers, Exodus, Book 1”: in says,
“9. (Ex. xii. 6a) Why does He command (them) to keep the sacrifice until the fourteenth (day of the month)?
(Consisting of) two Sabbaths, it has in its nature a (special) honour because in this time the moon is adorned. For when it has become full on the fourteenth (day), it becomes full of light in the perception of the people. And again through (another) fourteen (days) it recedes from its fullness of light to its conjunction, and it wanes as much in comparison with the preceding Sabbath as the second (waxes) in comparison with the first. For this reason the fourteenth (day) is pre-festive, as though (it were) a road leading to festive rejoicings, during which it is incumbent upon us to meditate”.

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