When Will the New Moon and Sabbath be Past?
When Will the New Moon
and Sabbath be Past?
Amos 8:5
Today, if you are anything like me, you may hear a lot of banter regarding whether the New Moon Day is a worship day in the same way as the Sabbath. Did you know that in the days of the prophet Amos, they knew the answer but didn’t like it? They cried out in their hearts, “When will the New Moon be past that we may sell corn and the Sabbath that we may buy wheat?” I anticipate this short Scripture word study will help you make an informed decision.
Amos 8:5 presents us with a unique picture of a conflicted Israel at the time of the prophet Amos. While going through the motions of obedience to Yahuah, there dwelt quite a different scenario in their hearts. Their discontent and longing for the New Moon and Sabbath to be over, in reality, exposed their real heart’s desires. It also revealed that the Torah Law of Israel required them to cease their labors upon the Sabbath day and the Day of the New Moon. Please take a moment to consider the evidence presented by clicking in the following Word Study box. It is no surprise that you will NEVER be taught this from the pulpit of any Christian Church denomination. So the question shouted from the conscience of a true disciple and seeker of truth should be, WHY NOT?
The New Moon and Sabbath Burden
Here, we find Yahuah (YHUH) Alahim, the Eternal Father, speaking to Amos, the prophet. He is exposing the intent of the disobedient hearts and evil ways of Yasharel (Israel) toward Himself. Their minds were full of greed and desire to deceive ordinary people for profit. The significant points brought out in this verse reveal:
“Saying in the hearts, ‘When will be past the New Moon [day], so that we may buy and sell corn; and the Sabbath [day], so that we may open the grain sacks, to significantly reduce the dry measure by increasing the weights, and by falsifying the scales in deceit?'”
- The New Moon Day is a kadosh (sacred) worship day, all day, from sunrise to sunset, during the days of Amos the prophet, as it was required in the Torah Law of Yahuah Alahim (H#3068 YHUH – יהוה).
- The seventh-day Sabbath is a kadosh (sacred) worship day, all day, from sunrise to sunset, also as set forth in the Torah Law of Yahuah Alahim.
- Yasharel (Israel) desired for the New Moon and Sabbath to be over so they would be free to buy and sell grain.
- Yasharel actually looked forward to deceiving the poor and unsuspecting for their own profit, through the process of measuring grain utilizing false weights and measures.
- The reason they were desirous for these two sacred days of worship to be past, is because they stood as obstacles and burdens in their way of buying, selling, and turning a profit. But also, because the hearts of Yasharel were cold, not seeking to be honorable and obedient to Yahuah Alahim. They longed to do their own evil ways during these sacred days. For when mankind has no love for his Creator, he does not love to honor Him on His sacred and set-apart worship days, or the calendar of His creation. And has no compassion for His fellow mankind.
No matter what it is, if our hearts are not in it, mankind feels both the New Moon and the Sabbath to be a burden rather than a blessing. This was the case for Israel regarding the New Moon and Sabbath Days, for the mere fact they were both holy, sacred, and set-apart days of worship impeding their evil desires.
These insights into the book of Amos illustrate that the same commandment that applies to how to keep the Sabbath sacred (Kadosh) is also applied to the sacredness of the New Moon Day. For if the New Moon Day had not been a Kadosh (sacred and set-apart) worship day, then these Yasharelites, during the time of the prophet Amos, would not have been secretly wishing that it would be past so that they could buy and sell grain. There is no getting around it, as this story would never have been written to include the New Moon Day if it had not always been included as a sacred day to the Most High.
Is the New Moon Day a Worship Day?
From the beginning of Genesis until the days our Messiah walked the earth and ultimately sacrificed His life to restore mankind back to His Father, the true seventh-day Sabbaths and all the yearly Feast Days were unquestioningly tied to the count from one New Moon to another. (Isaiah 66:23) Together, this single time-measuring model laid out the BLUEPRINT of THE PLAN OF SALVATION, to be performed solely by the Messiah from beginning to end, from Aleph to Tav (Alpha to Omega).
How do we know? Because it was recorded throughout the Tanakh (O.T.) and illustrated first in the Wilderness Sanctuary and later in Temples. In fact, it was for this purpose the Sanctuary/Temple was erected. Any change to His sacred calendar model today uproots His PLAN and your SALVATION. The reason is that both the Messiah and the PLAN to save you and me are proactively tied to only one specific calendar model. It begins its years in spring, its months with each New Moon, and its Sabbaths occur on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th according to the moon’s phases.
From the top of the pinnacle of the manmade Roman Solar Calendar edifice and its structural paradigms, it is difficult at best to discern the details of the adjacent yet distant time-measuring foundation laid in antiquity. From this position, the blind will rely on their experience, while others may seek manmade methods to perceive and grasp its monumental value. Still, others will pursue methods to prove it false or wholly unnecessary in light of remaining at peace and harmony with the status quo of pagan Rome and the world at large. Some will even claim that with the lunar calendar model, the New Moon days float throughout the month, creating chaos, landing on work days and Sabbaths alike.
But our Eternal Father does not leave His seekers of truth without a compass of resolution. When something is so necessary to keep His people on the straight and narrow of “following the Lamb whithersoever He goes” unto their salvation, He shines a light on their path and removes all obstacles. These alone are represented by the five wise virgins who will enter at the door of the appointed time while it remains open. But how can we know?
The answer is provided in Ezekiel 46:1 and 3 and supported throughout Scripture. Here, we find that the east gate of the Temple’s inner court was to be closed on workdays. Yet, on the sacred days of the New Moon and the Sabbath, this gate would always be open from sunrise to sunset, providing a way to enter the set-apart places of Yahuah. Thus, the Sabbath and the New Moon are treated precisely the same as the required worship days of Yahuah, in contrast to ordinary workdays. But with this said, the New Moon must not be confused with the Sabbath because it is never the seventh day. Instead, the New Moon day stands alone as a third kind of day, as it is the beacon of light for the commencement of each New Year, New Month, and the count Sabbaths, and demarcates each day with its own specific lunar phase from 1-29 or 30. All years, month dates, seventh-day Sabbaths, and Feast Days are counted from the New Moon Day. This yearly count begins again each spring as announced by the trinity of lights of the full New Moon after nearest the feet of Bethulah (Virgo, the starry constellation). Refer to the article Is There Evidence for a 13th Month?
Thus says Yahuah Alohim: “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. . . Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before Yahuah in the Sabbaths and in the New Moons. Ezekiel 46:3
Perhaps you’ve read this verse before, wondered what it meant, or wholly disregarded it as a stumbling block to your current Roman solar calendar with its Saturday/Sunday traditions. Some might even see this verse as a divisive tool undermining their perceived prophetess, Pope, Reformer, Rabbi, or Pastor. Indeed, it may be a test of truth to illustrate the YAHUAH (YHUH), the Most High’s STANDARD of RIGHTEOUSNESS, and the time-keeping model of His Eternal Kingdom. And if it is the STANDARD, might it naturally expose how far our perceived church and synagogue leaders have fallen by the wayside of teaching you His eternal truths? Might it be that while each contained some morsels of truth, they have missed the mark, causing their members to become guardians of the lie unwittingly?
We have all rightly believed that the week was fashioned at creation with only two kinds of days, but now we discover that His ordained months have not just two but three kinds of days. What this verse pragmatically illustrates by way of the east gate being open or closed is that there are three kinds of days each month that can never overlap. A gate cannot be both opened and closed at any given time. So when the gate is closed on six work days, it cannot be said to be opened on the same, ever. Rather, the east gate was to be opened only on the New Moon and Sabbath days for worship. A reality that causes the week cycle to be broken following each set of four cycling weeks. This disallows a floating New Moon day throughout the week cycle. The following chart will summarize all the elements that clarify the sacred calendar STANDARD of Yahuah Alahim and His eternal Kingdom economy.
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Simply because we have not understood until recent years just how sacred the New Moon day is to our Creator and the Messiah does not make it null and void. The Reformation that began with Martin Luther will continue incrementally until our Messiah’s Second Coming. So, as these truths are revealed from the pages of Scripture, they provide an opportunity to recognize that they are being restored to His obedient followers in preparation for His return. They will be received only by those willing first to hear and then search the Scriptures to see if these things are so. Their great desire to be obedient followers is driven by their love for their Creator and Messiah, who has done all in His power to save you and me from certain death. HalleluYAH!!!
“Unfamiliar” is no more synonymous with wrong
than “familiar” is synonymous with right.
Calendar Ramifications
Now that we have established that the New Moon Day is a significant monthly worship day to Yahuah and set apart from the Sabbath and work days, it is essential to explain what ramifications this revelation presents for the calendar.
The Creator’s Calendar is beaconed from the shamayim (heavens) and was designed to call all humankind to His specific sacred appointed worship days as His ordained pathway unto Salvation. Through this time-measuring mechanism, humanity has been invited to commune with their Eternal Father in unison with all the hosts of divine messengers and other created beings.
“For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,” says Yahuah, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another all flesh shall worship before me says Yahuah.” YashaYAHU (Isaiah) 66:22-23
As Isaiah 66 points out above, the same eternal future slated for the Sabbath is also attributed to the New Moon Day. Either both are slated for infinity and beyond, or neither. Each receives the exact same future.
But because of Yasharel’s idolatry and the hardness of their hearts, Yahuah, at times in their history, caused them to forget His New Moons, Sabbaths, and yearly Feast days. The reason is that Yahuah would not have a rebellious people be the sole proprietors of His MOST HOLY AND SACRED TRUTHS. In each case, Yahuah accomplished this by causing them to go into captivity under the rulership of their heathen or pagan neighbors. It only took 50-100 years for Yasharel to lose sight of the oracles of truth, which they had been honored to protect for many years.
I will also cause all her [Israel’s] mirth to cease, her feast days, her New Moons, her Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts. HosheYAH (Hosea) 2:11
Yahuah was like an enemy. He has swallowed up Yasharel (Israel), He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds, and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Yahudah (Judah). He has done violence to His tabernacle, as if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; Yahuah has caused the appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and priest. Akhah (Lamentations) 2:5-6
Today, neither the nation of Yasharal nor the scattered Rabbinical Pharisee Jews are worshiping according to the Creator’s authentic celestial timepiece in even one single unit of time.
Their “day,” which the Creator designed to be ruled by the sun’s visible rays, has changed to begin at “night” when there is no sun at all. They have done exactly what Yahuah asked them not to do:
“And the word of Yahuah came to Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah), saying, “Thus says Yahuah: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the Kohen (priests), My ministers.” Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 33:19-21
“Thus says Yahuah, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea, and its waves roar, Yahuah of hosts is His name. “If those ordinances depart from before Me, says Yahuah, then the seed of Israel shall also cease from being a nation before Me forever.” Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 31:35-36 NKJV
“To Him who made great lights, for His mercy endures forever. The sun to rule by day, for His mercy endures forever. The moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endures forever.” Tehilim (Psalms) 136:7-9 NKJV
From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same YAHUAH’S name is to be praised. Tehilim (Psalms) 113:3
For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, said YAHUAH of hosts. Malachi 1:11
The Evidence
“In AD 351-352 Roman persecution flared and the Jews revolted. They were soon crushed. Many Jewish towns were destroyed and decrees issued against the local authorities and against Judaism. The privileges of the head of the Sanhedrin and the freedoms of the Sanhedrin itself were curtailed. Roman pressure to conform “Jewish” TIME to Roman TIME had reached crisis level. ibid
Under this pressure Hillel II agreed to limit the functions of the head of the Sanhedrin, as well as the Sanhedrin itself, with respect to proclaiming the New Moon, setting festival dates, and employing intercalation [adhering to the 13th lunar month]. With the decline of the Jewish power-base in Israel, the Jewish community in Babylon had been rising in influence to fill the vacuum. Hillel II published details informing all Jews of the methods of the [new] calculated calendar developed in Babylon. From that time on the Sanhedrin in Judea ceased to function or to maintain calendar experts. Hillel II is thus given the credit for the present fixed Rabbinical calendar, but in reality it originated in BABYLON and was just the starting point of the development of the Rabbinical calendar in use today.” Encyclopedia Judaica, s.v. “Hillel.”
“The persecutions under Constantius finally decided the patriarch, Hillel II. (330-365), to publish rules for the computation of the calendar, which had hitherto been regarded as a secret science. The political difficulties attendant upon the meetings of the Sanhedrin became so numerous in this period, and the consequent uncertainty of the feast-days was so great, that R. Huna b. Abin made known the following secret of the calendar to Raba in Babylonia: ‘Whenever it becomes apparent that the winter will last till the 16th of Nisan, make the year a leap-year without hesitation.’ Ibid
This unselfish promulgation of the calendar, though it destroyed the hold of the patriarchs on the scattered Judeans, fixed the celebration of the Jewish feasts upon the same day everywhere. Later Jewish writers agree that the calendar was fixed by Hillel II… 359 C.E… Saadia afterward formulated calendar rules, after having disputed the correctness of the calendar established by the Karaites. That there is a slight error in the Jewish calendar—due to inaccuracies in the length of both the lunar and the solar years upon which it is based—has been asserted by a number of writers.” Jewish Encyclopedia.com, the unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, “History of the Calendar,” “Post-Talmudic Period,” by Joseph Jacobs, Cyrus Adler, Vol. 3, p. 500.
“The FOUR RULES OF POSTPONEMENTS allow the [new Roman] seven-day week to cycle without interruption, while corrections by way of DELAYS are imposed upon the day of the New Moons (mo’eds). This system proactively DELAYS the Feast Days by one to two days.” Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac – U.S. Naval Observatory, Edited by P. Kenneth Seidelmann, p. 586.
The mere fact that the Rules of Postponement continue to be utilized to this day is evidence that the modern Rabbinical Jewish calendar is far different than that of the Bible. All units of time, including the Feast Days, were preordained to be beaconed by the same lights in the heavens and were, therefore, in perfect harmony with each other before they were proactively altered by rebellious mankind.
“The changes in the calendric position of the weekly religious rest day have been few from pre-historic times to the present day. The Sabbath which came down to the Jews from pre-historic [prior to Moses] times was the seventh day of the lunar week. The lunar week and the lunar month gave the simplest form of time division to early man . . . Moon and month meant the same thing. The division of the month into four weeks of seven days . . . and the weekly division begun again at the time of the next new moon. The change from the lunar week to the seven-day week running continuously through the year, while a momentous change, was unrecorded. The use of two styles of weeks seems to have existed together, and the more modern seven-day week slowly, but finally, supplanted its ancient but inexact competitor. The lunar week was simple and serviceable . . . When the continuous seven-day week was generally accepted, then it was linked with the past, as we now date events before Christ by a scale unknown to the people and historians of those times. . . The lunar Sabbath was succeeded by the seven-day weekly Sabbath without confusion, and the mention of the Sabbath in Exodus 31:13 and elsewhere, may be taken to refer to the lunar day.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, “The Sabbath, the Day Which Divine Love Established and Human Love Must Preserve,” Theodore Gilman, p. 479. Published for the New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1916.
“Several customs which prevailed during the age between the Exodus of the Israelites and the resurrection of Christ had so completely changed by the seventeenth Christian century that the translators of the “Authorized Version” of the English Bible were not able to perceive some important truths taught in the Greek version of the Old Testament and the Greek New Testament. Unseen truth would not be clearly translated into the English Bible. The student, who of necessity was limited in his studies to the English version would not be able to see more truth than was expressed in the English version. . .ibid
Second – Since the Jews for more than sixteen centuries have been observing a Saturday Sabbath, and since Christians have been for more than eighteen centuries having a fixed Sunday Sabbath, it is only reasonable to expect most Sabbath writers to try and interpret all Bible Sabbath teachings on the theory of fixed septenary cycles. But the noted Rabbi Hirsch believes and teaches that “The old (Jewish) Sabbath had no connection with a fixed [cycling] week.” ibid
Third – The passing out of sight of the old Bible lunar calendar and the now almost universal effort to interpret the Bible upon the basis of solar calendars . . . ibid
Sixth – . . . Because of the failure to note the above mentioned difficulties it has become quite difficult so to write or teach as to be clearly understood about the Scriptural Sabbaths.” Sunday the World’s Rest Day, The Sabbath-The Lord’s Day, by Rev. Samuel W. Gamble, D.D. p. 81-82. Published for the New York Sabbath Committee, Doubleday, Page and Company, New York, 1916.
“…the Jewish festivals being regulated solely by the moon, may fall on any day of the [modern Roman continuous cycling] week.” Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 Edition, Vol. 2, Pentecost.
The Truth vs. Assumptions and Lack of Curiosity
The majority of Jews and Christians today have assumed that the Roman Gregorian calendar and its week have followed the original unbroken chain of time, cycling from Creation nearly 6,000 years ago to this very day with no known interruptions. This generalized belief has caused a sheer lack of curiosity or interest in this subject the world over, mostly extending from one of the following views:
- They trust that the calendar utilized for their worship schedule today remains in sync with the Biblical narrative ordained by the Creator in the Beginning for time divisions of Years, Months, Weeks, and Days.
- They have a full and complete trust in their leaders. Believing that their Rabbinical scholars and Church theologians have it all worked out and have approved this time arrangement as authentically consistent with that of Scripture.
- They believe there is no way that all of the Jews could have lost track of the sacred days of worship at the same time that would allow them to be out of sync today.
- They fear that if the current weekly cycle and worship schedule were discovered to be spurious and out of sync with Scripture’s Creator appointed worship schedule, then they would be faced with some hard and painful decisions.
- They have a lack of interest in adhering to the Creator and Most High if it affects the status quo of their current traditions with regard to relational ties with family, friends, Pastors, Rabbis, Popes, Reformers, or presumed Prophets. In this way exposing their real purpose in gathering for worship assemblies.
The Karaite Jews’ Assessment of Their Saturday Sabbath Tradition
Stunningly, the modern Karaite Jews provide an honest assessment of their current Saturday Sabbath tradition. Here is what they say:
“Through all the trials and tribulations that humanity has experienced over the past 5,000 years, we have no proof whatsoever that our current Saturday is the actual seven-day “anniversary” of the original Shabbath of Creation.”
http://www.karaiteinsights.com/article/shabbat.html
Ironically, these are the same Karaite Jews from which William Miller and later Ellen White, along with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, adopted their crescent New Moon for locating the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) of October 22, 1844. It is this same Saturday Sabbath for which the Seventh-day Adventist Church is linked to the Seventh-day Baptists. Bottom line, the Karaite Jews have courageously stepped forward to honestly admit they don’t know if Saturday is the authentic Seventh-day Sabbath of Creation, nor are they able to identify any principles in Scripture that would support a Saturday Sabbath tradition.
So why does it matter?
It is because our Creator promised that through the seed of Abraham and his descendants, He would provide the Atoning Lamb (His only Son) to take away the sins of the whole world so that through Him, mankind may be restored back to the Father. You see, Salvation’s mechanism that our Creator and Messiah continue to accomplish for mankind is according to the strictest adherence to TIME & EVENT from one unique preordained calendar model, as laid out in the Torah Law (first five books of Moses) and its prophetic appointed times.
“But when the fullness of the time had come, Alahim (God) sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the [Torah] Law, to redeem those who were under the [Torah] Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. Galatians 4:4-5
The Plan of Salvation and Its GPS Coordinates
As a three-part plan, the Promise of Salvation is a GPS unit that consists of three things permanently. 1) The ATONING WORK of the Messiah; 2) TIME, with the correct use of the sun, moon, and stars (astro-luni-solar) to assemble at the appointed times for prophetic rehearsals; 3) EVENT, the prophetic layout of the lunar appointed Feast Days, to be accomplished by the Messiah alone in the Temple above, not made with human hands.
This three-part arrangement reveals as a visual aid the Plan of Salvation in the daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly Sanctuary/Temple ceremonies rehearsed each year by His faithful and obedient followers. Any change in one of these three portions of Salvation’s divine GPS will entirely disengage its adherents from the Promise of Salvation by allowing utter pandemonium with 1) an imposter Messiah, 2) all prophetic appointments out of sync and missing the mark, 3) the meaning and/or order of prophetic events altered, so again missing the mark.
This would result in the downfall of Salvation’s perfect plan and the uprising of false religious institutions that claim the Bible as their guide, all the while denying the power unto salvation. No longer would they have legal ties to the PROMISE OF SALVATION because they have been fully removed. Has this occurred? Emphatically YES! Roman Catholicism, all sects of Protestant Christianity, Rabbinical, and Karaite Judaism, have each incorporated one or more aspects of Salvation’s altered three-part system. This means that while each contains some elements of truth, they are entirely flawed by the overt mixture of truth and error.
The Boastful Roman Calendar Changes that Affected the Jews
It is no secret that the Romans have vast records of how their Julian/Gregorian Calendar model and all its units of time have proactively changed over the centuries. Not only are they not hiding this fact, but they are boastingly proud of it. For the most part, their ongoing changes were instituted for the express purpose of having no unit of time in common with the hated Jews and their Torah Laws. Contained in their Constantinian Creed are the specific details that differentiate their new Christian calendar from that of their despised Jewish neighbors and their once Scriptural foundation.
Constantine’s Christian Creed
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other Feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and New Moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances, and synagogues. Absolutely everything Jewish, every [Torah] Law, rite and custom and if afterwards I shall wish to deny and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Cain and the leprosy of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be an anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.”(Profession of Faith, from the Church of Constantinople, Stefano Assemani, Acta Sanctorium Martyrum Orientalium at Occidentalium, Vol. 1, Rome 1748, page 105)
For more on this subject refer to article The Constantinian Creed.
For more historic calendar quotes refer to The Lunar Sabbath’s Stunning Historical Evidence.
The act of the Romans eliminating every Torah Law (613 of them), including the New Moons, Sabbaths, and Feast Days of the Jews from their new Christian religion and its calendar, precluded that they had indeed existed previously and were statutory requirements for the humble and faithful followers of the Most High, Yahuah Alahim and His Son.
From the Roman perspective, as documented in the Constantinian Creed above, can any evidence be found to support that the new Roman Julian/Gregorian Calendar, with its perpetual week cycle, remains in harmony with that of Creation, as recorded in the Torah Law? No! There is NOT even one chance in seven.
The Wake-up Call
It has been established above that the Roman Julian/Gregorian calendar framers have NEVER, from its inception, desired it to be synchronized with the original calendar of Scripture, which included the Torah Law, its New Moons, Sabbaths, annual Prophetic Feast Days, as given by Yahuah Alahim and recorded by Moses. Rome’s new counterfeit calendar system was then imposed upon the Jews under pressure in AD 359, during the Talmudic Period and the long years of their captivity.
It has also been discovered in the historical quotes above that the Jewish calendar underwent several man-made alterations over the eons of three historical periods. Today, the Jewish calendar is an amalgamation of ancient Babylon’s corrupt use of the astro-luni-solar system in combination with the Roman Astro-solar time-measuring with its entire removal of the moon. Only a hint of the Biblical lunar time-keeping principles remain. Yet, As a result, not even one Scriptural unit of time, be it a day, week, month, or year, can be found in the Jewish or Roman calendar systems of modern times.
From beginning to end, this article presents a WAKE-UP CALL to those who seek to follow the Lamb wherever He goes and choose to be among the five wise virgins, as presented in Matthew 25. Only those with lamps filled with Kadosh (Holy) oil of the Ruach ha Kadosh (power and presence of the Eternal Father), trimmed and burning, will have prepared to meet the Bridegroom when He returns. These alone will know the authentic appointed day and hour when to enter at the door when it is open. Might it be on a specific lunar appointed date as presented on the Menorah? The Missing Key Puzzle Piece.
Modern Jewish Timekeeping
Modern Yasharel and the Yahudim (Rabbinical Pharisee Jews) follow two calendars instead of one. They use the lunisolar calendar for their dark conjunction New Moons and Feast days and the Roman Gregorian calendar for their weeks and Saturday Sabbaths. (Click on the chart below to enlarge it.)
As a result, they commence both the year and each month on a day not specified in Scripture. By extension, this single error causes all the Jewish New Moon Days, Feast Days, and Sabbath days to be out of sync with the worship rhythms of their Creator. So, as a result, the Kadosh (sacred) days are perpetually desecrated, as outlined according to the LIGHTS of Creation. (Bereshit (Genesis) 1:14-18)
In addition, to bring some cohesiveness to these two calendar methods, synchronizing both into one, the Yahudahim (Jews) have since A.D. 358, under the direction of Hillel II, utilized the Rules of Postponement. These Rules of Postponement allow for a Feast day, which is reckoned upon a New Moon calendar model, to be postponed if it would otherwise fall upon a seventh-day Sabbath of the Roman continuous weekly cycle. For example, if the Feast Day of Atonement, which, according to Leviticus, is never to fall on the seventh-day Sabbath, would in its natural flow because of the floating nature of the continuous weekly cycle, the Feast day is moved forward a day.
WAKE UP, WORLD! None of this manipulating of our Creator’s Calendar was ever required or necessary before Israel’s captivity by the Romans that commenced in A.D. 70, and they’re assimilating into the Roman calendar time-measuring methods under duress and persecution. You will NEVER find a need for the Rules of Postponement in Scripture, as it remained one consistent, single-purposed time-measuring model, perfectly synchronized with itself, aimed to bring obedient earthlings into PERFECT HARMONY with their CREATOR for worship. All time units fit perfectly into the next larger unit of time and are counted from the LIGHTS He designed for TIME-MEASURING. Not a single unit of time had a life of its own, wholly separated from the LIGHTS.
Might this signify that the modern Jews continue to remain in Roman captivity, as well as the remainder of the world? For ALL who keep the Roman Gregorian Calendar with years, months, and weeks utterly divorced from the CREATOR’S NEW MOON and His three-part orchestration of LIGHTS IN THE SHAMAYIM (HEAVENS), remain captives of ROME. These have become unwitting prisoners of Satan who have usurped His legal right to receive their worship. Some waking up may ask, “Where might I find the KEYS to unlock these prison doors and release me from being held against my will and paying homage to Lucifer?” THE KEYS OF THIS BLOOD HANG IN THE SHAMAYIM, DECLARING THE CREATOR’S TRUE CALENDAR. IT IS THERE FOR THE TAKING, a FREE GIFT FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD. But sadly, few there be that find it.
“All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” Hagilu Naton Elohim (Revelation) 13:8
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads. . .” Hagilu Naton Elohim (Revelation) 13:16
In Conclusion
In closing, an old saying is “wishing for the moon.” But, have you ever wished for the New Moon or Sabbath to be over so that you might do some other activity of your choosing? I know I have in the past. As humans, we can make many errors with respect to worshiping Yahuah. If honor, respect, and heartfelt worship are not always at the center of Yahuah’s set Kadosh New Moon, Sabbath, and Feast Days, we can find ourselves in the same predicament as ancient Yasharal. But the good news is that the more we learn of the Eternal YAHUAH Alahim/Elohim and how He sent His beloved Son, YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH, to pay the price for sin on our account, the more the sincere, pure love will flow upward from our humbled and grateful hearts.
Praise YAHUAH and YAHUSHA! “While we were yet sinners, YAHUSHA, YAHUAH’S only begotten SON, died for us so that we may each have an ETERNAL FUTURE!” Do you realize that each of the Kadosh (sacred) events of Salvation was worked out for you and me upon the New Moon calendar that commences in the spring? Isaiah 66:22-23 identifies that the same worship rhythm calendar model designed for obedient earthlings will continue in the eternal home and earth made new perpetually. Might this signify that His Calendar is still in effect today, as His provision and path of escape from the clutches of the enemy of souls and His Mark of the Beast?
“For according as the shamayim (heavens), the New Moons, and the earth: The New Moon that I fashioned and placed in this order was appointed for My chief corner [stone], declares Yahuah. Wherefore, it/they [the full New Moon & the Messiah] establishes and confirms your name and your descendants. “And it shall come to pass from its abundance— New Moon by New Moon you shall keep; and from its abundance— Sabbath by Sabbath you shall keep. It [the full New Moon] shall lead all flesh to prostrate in worship, according to My chief corner [stone],” declares Yahuah.” Isaiah 66:22-23 The Creator’s Calendar Version (Refer to article, New Moon by New Moon.)