The Julian calendar, instituted in 45 B.C.E. by Julius Caesar, is the reckoning of time that is utilized for astronomical calculations and computing events in ancient history. NASA’s calculated accuracy for the Julian calendar is measurably better than one millionth of a second. The calculations for the Astronomically and Agriculturally Corrected Biblical Hebrew Calendar for dates before 1582 are all calculated and expressed in the Julian mode. The Gregorian calendar was instituted in 1582 to rectify the miscalculation of leap years inherent in the Julian system. Pontifex Maximus Gregory XIII added ten days to the calendar at midnight on Thursday, October 4th, which then became Friday, October 15th. The seven-day week and the seventh-day Sabbath have continued uninterrupted from both the Julian and Hebrew reckoning – and it is highly probable that it has continued uninterrupted since it was begun by the Almighty during creation week (Genesis 1&2).
It has been astronomically and mathematically verified that the Sabbath Yahshua kept holy is the same day of the week it is now. The astronomical proofs are precise to one one-millionth of a second, and the mathematical calculations are accurate to within one ten-millionth of a day. This irrefutable data constitutesprima facie evidence that the recently concocted “lunar sabbath” is pure fiction. If Yahshua did not find it necessary to “renovate” the Sabbath when he was here, but meticulously guarded its sanctity, it is presumptuous and impertinent to assume that someone would know more about the “correct” Sabbath than Yahshua did. I am not of the mind to straighten “the Lord of the Sabbath” out concerning this particular issue! Considering the multiple “fatal errors” in the various lunar-sabbath systems, which attempt to invent a sabbath that coincides with the phases of the moon, this is, by far, the most fatal. I will stick with Yahshua on the seventh-day Sabbath. If he was wrong, I will go to the grave in the same error – just to be safe (Matthew 12:1-8).
Messianic believers can be absolutely confident that they are keeping the same Sabbath the Creator keeps. Contrary to contrived calculations of new age lunar sabbatarians and neo-Babylonian solar equinox aficionados, there never has been, nor will there ever be, a time in which the Sabbath is determined by the phases of the moon or the year discerned by astronomical calculations – no matter how convenient. One must be able to count to seven to be able to determine the Creator’s Sabbath. The second witness and simple test of basic intelligence that must be met is found in Exodus 34:21 – “Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest…” Thus, one must work six days in order to fulfill the commandment, and one must also be able to add 6 + 1 to find the number of days in the Creator’s “week” – or in Hebrew, shavua, a linguistic derivative of sheva, the number seven. The seventh day that we are to rest is the seventh in a series of at least seven. The seventh day comes immediately after the sixth day in the series. It would have been more convenient for the Creator to give us a ten-day week, since we all have ten fingers to count on. A two-week month consisting of ten days each would enlist the help of our ten toes to culminate the counting. France was once under a ten-day week because their revolution, contrary to America’s, was based on secular humanism, and they wanted no reliance on or remembrance of the seven-day week the Creator gave us. With the seven-day week we must use our intellect to count to a number we don’t see on our body – or in the sky. Once we learn to count seven days to find the day of rest, also known as the Sabbath day, we will be familiar enough with the divine pattern so that we can count seven years to find the Sabbath year (Leviticus 25:4). If we can keep up with the pattern long enough to count seven Sabbath years, we can then enjoy the benefits of the Jubilee – or fiftieth year. Reinforcing the repeating pattern of sevens each spring, we are commanded to count seven Sabbaths from the Firstfruits offering to arrive at the day following the seven Sabbaths, which is the fiftieth day – the day we celebrate the Feast of Shavuot – the Feast of Sevens or “weeks” (Leviticus 23:10-21). Notice how the moon, as from the beginning of creation, has absolutely nothing to do with the counting of sevens. It is mathematically impossible to count the yearly or bicentennial pattern of sevens accurately by using a lunar-sabbath model. Impossible!
The seven-day week has been used all over the world for thousands of years by many cultures dating thousands of years before the Roman Christian era. Although it is not the only work/rest cycle, it is by far the most common cycle on the planet, and has been so, long before the birth of Yahshua. Jews, who were separated by centuries and continents, were all found, without exception, to have been keeping the same seventh-day Sabbath. With the basic intelligence mankind has been endued with from creation, it appears that, as a general rule, the human race is able to count to seven without losing track. If, at one time, we did lose track of what day it was, the Creator got the entire nation of Israel back on His calendar before we left Egypt, along with its contrived ten-day-week and Babylonian solar equinox calendar. We did a pretty good job of getting the planet on His seven-day week, and many people are actually keeping the seventh day holy. However, there is a new wind blowing through the cavernous minds of a sugar-shocked generation that looks to the moon for answers that can only be found on a mountaintop in the land of Midian. Moses penned those instructions, and we still have them with us to this day. We haven’t missed a day of work or rest since. Frivolous case dismissed!
Those who have so much time on their hands that they feel compelled to calculate new ways to determine the Sabbath should perhaps try working six days. They will be ready for a rest on the seventh day – regardless of the phases of the moon…
Please enjoy the entire series of articles that follow. They detail important milestones in the Creator’s calendar restoration process that many missed because they were not yet awakened. As with the ripening of the barley, flax, wheat, and vine – each one awakens and is brought to maturity in his own season.
Don’t know why you ( and all these other teachers ) try to make this so difficult to understand – just look at the first month of their lunar-sabbath ( or luni-solar being pushed by worldslastchance.com [yeah right], or solar being promoted by Ralphah and the Kings Covenant which are both WRONG ) – they have the 14th of Abib falling on either the 6th day always or the 7th day always, and have YAHUSHUWAH dying on the 12th or 13th and not at the same time as the lambs are killed which means YAHUSHUWAH was NOT Our Passover Lamb, and that would mean His death and gift of eternal life is MEANINGLESS – AND THAT IS BLASPHEMY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amen, brother!! He actually just went over that, this night:D.
Thank you for that info. I was once fooled by the lunars…but, then I found there to be 8 or 9 days between sabbaths; going against the actual Command. In the end, I just want to do what The Most High wants. I have always said, “If there was 1 question I could ask and get an audible answer…it would about His Sabbath.”
Thank you for this incredible and well-put answer to my prayers. Toda Raba and I look forward to getting to know you through your web site.
May The Most High bless you and your family in Yahushua’s Name,
–John
Response to both Tom and John.
It would help if you all take the time to study the over 50 articles on the Luni-solar calendar published at Worlds Last Chance.
Tom.
Within our pages there is no such thing as our Yahushua dying on the 12th or 13th of Abib. He died at precisely the time and day as the Passover lambs which were a shadow of Him.
John.
You must read the account of Joshua and the fall of Jericho for glaring evidence of the Luni-solar calendar. They could not have marched around the city on 7 days with no ‘break’ for the Sabbath recorded in the text.
-Fred
Joshua, Jericho… Sabbath march. The torah gives NO commands on how far one can walk, hop, run or march in any Sabbath. It says we are to rest, to abstain from work, kindling fires, buying/selling. If YHVH tells me to go for a walk carrying His Ark of the Covenant with me, on Sabbath, with the rest of the congregation – I think I’ll do that! Especially since it breaks NO command of Torah!
Sorry Fred but you are mistaken. The Pharisees accused Jesus of breaking the Sabbath when He healed. The Sabbath is not about doing nothing. It is to sanctify the day unto the LORD. When they marched around Jericho, they were doing God’s will. It would have been easy to defeat Israel. Just attack them on a Sabbath and they won’t be allowed to fight back, right?
My confession:
Gd be with us all. I believe love is the over all theme in the bible, splitting hairs is what divided faith in the first place. Every day is holy in the site of Gd.
My comment is for Allen Horvath: I have watched hours of your tapes and had noted one thing that appears in all of them, its as if you have hardened your heart. Jesus sat with sinners and forgave all, my question to you is can you forgive hitler, nero, etc. If so then Christ consciousness resides within you, however when one projects their guilt for only knowing the baptist version of faith it is easy to over compansate and become like those jesus condemed with thier tassles and long robs. I am an adult child of holocaust survivors and as a judeo-christian I have learned to pray for those who are perpetuating hate in all forms including forgiving those who are forgetting the law of unconditional love.
I bind everyone especially those who are my enemies to my heart for the kingdom of Gd in Jesus name. Were all broken babies. Forgivness is teaching others that no matter how evil a person is unconditional love understands and I believe this is what Jesus meant when he said, “forgive them father they no not what they do.”
I like your ministery and have been reassured through your teachings yet I never hear that Gd forgives those who have commited sins such as murder abortion. In your ministrey you stress that those who do these things are condemed for eternity? If this is so, than the heart of christ has not yet manisfested in the hearts of man, instead the battle of words of seperation continue. I have lived as a pagan bound in christ Jesus because to the christian a jew is pagan to a jew a christian is pagan and to a pagan everyone else is false, so how do we stop dividing the baby? Forgiveness understanding compassion, all else is Gd’s to tend to.
I am nobody with nothing, is this so because I am a paracite because of my sins or is it those who cast the lable the ones who are not rooted in christ consciousness? I am a sinner and will be untill the day I stand in front of the king of kings. Inspite of being a sinner, I will forgive anyone and everyone inspite of the rocks being tossed at me nor shall I judge them as they beat me or rob me instead I will yield to thier hatred in grace and love them even more. When humanity can do this then they have the word in thier heart.
I am societies garbage and I’m glad that I am.
I dont know anything and everyones faith has just divided me even more. I am all people, all faiths bound in the wisdom of the word of God that I received not just from one book but from every living book I have met and yet to meet. The living book we are in the word of the Messiah. I pray my book emulate the heart of Gd heart and not his wrath. For surly his wrath will come, and not one human will have it right because of the divisions in thier own heart. I pray not to divide the baby (faith) nor shall I judge any man for his or her inturrpretation of God as I too am a sinner. I will pray for one heart of man to manifest in Christ consciousness and untill the Messiah returns I pray I may remain forgiving in mind body and soul ever forver, Amen.
I dont know who is right and who is wrong just that I have learned to understand the many variables that influence a person to make the choices they do by seeing the spec in my eyes only.
There was a time I couldn’t say this because I too was caught in the thorns trapped in the fear of being unforgiving. Now I see how much hell I was in and thank Gd that I didn’t feel the flames of the fire that burned within me because of my inability to trust myself in the messiah.
Shalom,
I agree that there is no evidence for a sabbath cycle based upon the moon.
Re our seven day weekly cadence, or in other words, the so-called perpetual calendar going back uninterrupted and to ancient Israel I believe we have proof that this is not the case and that there was a miscarriage of the sabbath cycle at the Council of Nicaea back in 325 A.D.. At that time the Roman Julian calendar was changed from an 8 day week, (the nundinal cycle), to a 7 day week.
See this PDF PowerPoint.
http://endtimepilgrim.org/San-tues.pdf
Sorry the correct URL is
http://endtimepilgrim.org/sab-tues.pdf
The first 69 weeks of the 70 weeks terminates in 32 A.D.
But the perpetual calendar does not mesh with the events and the dates of those events in holy week in the year 32 A.D. Either the year 32 A.D. Is wrong, (and we have proof that it is not wrong), or the perpetual calendar has a slippage, a disconnect. I have no doubt that the pagans in Constantine’s committees had no love for the Jews or for their weekly cadence since the Romans had forbidden the Sanhedrin to meet and set the calendar for the feasts. So the miscarriage of the Jewish weekly cadence would have been at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Hillel when he set forth his calculated Jewish calendar in 359 A.D. would have been told to go with the Roman sequence or have the Jews would be left with no calendar at all.
Blessings,
Gavin Finley MD
I am in total agreement with Mr. Rood The so called Lunar Sabbath is bunk. Yahshua, our Messiah, called himself the Master of the Sabbath, and he said nothing about a moon phase Sabbath. And Tom, Yahshua died on Abib 14 about 3:00 p.m. according to the Scriptures. I knew that long before I started walking the old paths which the prophet Jeremiah spoke about.
The 10 commandments clearly states that one is to work 6 days and rest on the 7th. What is so hard to understand about this? Must people always go out there little ways to make something so easy, so complicated?
I thank you so much for the TRUTH! When I first turned too the Holy Bible, because my mom had invited me to an Easter Sunrise service. I had a question about the Sabbath, you understand what I mean. Since then I have been the black sheep of the family, church, ect. I questioned so much of what I see the Church do, which is against what I read, or how I feel when reading the Holy Words. You kind sir have made me feel so excited and happy that I am not crazy. I am blessed by your shows and your truth and knowledge of Yeshua and His Hebrew ways. I have tried to watch your shows on net, but my computer is to old or slow to show the video till end. I will try again this next sabbath! Once a Bible study teacher told me that The old Testament was for the Jews and the New for US (Gentiles) My maiden name is Leversee (Lieverse, Levinus, found in family tree) not that my family would speak upon us even having a Gd or Lord. They say just because you have been so horrible that you need a Gd, fine, but we do not. I am so grateful that He never stopped loving me. Since I learn of Jesus from a neighbor when 7 years old I have believed in Him…. I just Pray that He calls my name when the time comes. Until then I will study and learn thru you and the knowledge you teach. Bless you so much for Blessing us with the Truth! Shalom