Did Ancient Israel Follow a Lunar Sabbath? What Does the Evidence Show? 2026

God Honest Truth

Before you accept or reject the lunar Sabbath, you owe it to yourself to examine what the Bible actually says. In this teaching, you'll discover why this topic has challenged the assumptions of countless sincere believers and why it deserves a careful, Scripture-first investigation.  If you are a passionate believer seeking the absolute truth about the Sabbath, you have likely run into major contradictions between modern calendars and scripture. In this video, we examine the lunar Sabbath from a Messianic and Christian perspective, comparing Scripture with tradition and encouraging you to test every claim against the Word of Yahweh.  This teaching is designed to help you: Understand what the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is. Examine the strongest biblical and historical evidence surrounding the Lunar Sabbath. Distinguish between tradition, personal ambition, and what Scripture actually teaches. Strengthen your Bible study skills by learning how to evaluate difficult passages in context.  If you're passionate about biblical truth, the Sabbath, Scriptural education, and in-depth Bible study, this teaching is for you. Whether you agree or disagree with the conclusions, our goal is to encourage you to search the Scriptures diligently and let the evidence speak for itself.  So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.  #BibleStudy #BiblicalCalendar #BiblicalSabbath #GodHonestTruth #LunarSabbath #Messianic #SabbathRest #Torah #TrueSabbath  Video Chapters: 00:00:00 Teaching Introduction 00:00:00 Video Start 00:03:24 Series Overview 00:05:09 Objective 00:05:55 Before Moving On 00:09:39 Study Principles 00:16:15 What is the Lunar Sabbath? 00:21:52 Foundations of the Lunar Sabbath 00:28:33 New Moon in Scripture 00:37:19 Testing the Lunar Sabbath Scripturally 00:37:46 Creation Week 00:46:56 Exodus From Egypt 00:55:21 Manna In The Wilderness 01:10:54 Counting of the omer 01:18:22 Summary 01:20:16 Final Thoughts  Resources from God Honest Truth: Get the full notes, drash slides, and transcript for this teaching: https://ght.short.gy/LunarSabbath2026  Find more resources to help you in your walk of faith: https://www.GodHonestTruth.com  Patreon: ⭐https://www.patreon.com/GodHonestTruth⭐  Venmo: ⭐https://account.venmo.com/u/GodsHonestTruth⭐  Paypal: ⭐https://paypal.me/GodHonestTruth⭐  Social Media Links: https://godhonesttruth.com/wp/connect-socially/  Music: TheFatRat - Kingdom Come Watch the official music video: https://tinyurl.com/tfrkingdomcome Listen to Kingdom Come: https://thefatrat.ffm.to/warriorsongs Follow TheFatRat: https://ffm.bio/thefatrat  —-Disclaimer: The information presented here is for documentary, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Any imitation or application of the content is done at your own risk. Neither the creators nor associated platforms shall be liable for any injury or damage resulting from such use. This content is freely accessible; please report any unauthorized attempts to charge. By viewing

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00:00:01So you're getting into the scriptures, you finally discover that we should be doing a

00:00:05Sabbath, but which Sabbath?

00:00:07There's all kinds of options out there.

00:00:09We've already looked at the arguments for Sunday as Sabbath, so now we're going to

00:00:14take a look at what's called the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine.

00:00:19So is the scriptures itself telling us that the Sabbath is determined by the new moon,

00:00:25or are the scriptures telling us something different?

00:00:28Well, make sure to tune in and stay tuned for this particular teaching.

00:00:33This is going to be part eight of studying the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine.

00:00:36So hang on.

00:00:38There's a lot that goes into this.

00:00:40It's going to be overwhelming sometimes, but just stick with us as we learn the God-honest

00:00:46truth about the Lunar Sabbath.

00:01:07So this teaching is going to be about the Lunar Sabbath, and this is going to be the

00:01:11starter episode for a two-part series on the Lunar Sabbath.

00:01:15And this is all part of a bigger series on the Sabbath in general, as it comes from scripture

00:01:21and as we start to study and learn more about what the Sabbath is, how to observe it, all

00:01:26the ins and outs, and stuff like that.

00:01:28So we've got a whole bunch of stuff going on, and this is just the next episode.

00:01:33And like I said, the Lunar Sabbath is going to be in two episodes, and this is the first.

00:01:38There's going to be a whole lot of information coming to you.

00:01:41And if you'd like even more information, as always, make sure to go to our website and

00:01:46click on the article post for this particular Dross, where you can find the on-demand video.

00:01:51You'll be able to find the Dross slides that you see on your screen here, and you can go

00:01:55through them at your own pace and stop at one or whatever you need to do.

00:01:59It makes it so much more convenient.

00:02:02Also, you'll be able to find on that page the notes that we took for this particular subject

00:02:06and the AI monographs that we had done, research reports on this particular subject as well,

00:02:12which has been very, very useful.

00:02:15So go check that out on our website at godhonesttruth.com.

00:02:20Now, if you're watching this live, the notes that we took are not up there yet because we

00:02:26have a bunch of notes that we are putting together and putting into this particular study

00:02:32and this particular two-episode teaching, and we don't want to spill the beans, as it

00:02:39were, about the information coming up next week or for the next episode because there

00:02:44is some bombshells, especially next episode.

00:02:50There's going to be some this time, so don't set your standards low for this episode, but

00:02:56there's going to be some really big ones coming next time, and I don't want to give

00:02:59it away too early, so once this teaching, this multi-part series on the Lunar Sabbath

00:03:06is done, then the notes will be up there, and you'll be able to have that for yourself,

00:03:09but as always, you can just take the notes as we go over them here on the teaching on

00:03:14the live stream.

00:03:14So make sure to stay tuned.

00:03:16Those are coming, but I'm going to wait until we are done with the Lunar Sabbath teaching

00:03:20before I release those so as not to let the cat out of the bag, as it were.

00:03:24So before we get started in this particular teaching, let's do a quick overview of the

00:03:28Sabbath series that we've been going over since it has been a little while since we

00:03:32did the last one.

00:03:35So during the series, we broke it up into various episodes to make it easier to understand,

00:03:39make it easier to digest, and make it easier to get through.

00:03:42Now each one has been at least an hour long, so if we did them all at one time, that

00:03:46would

00:03:46be a very long video.

00:03:48We broke them up into various episodes.

00:03:50In the first episode, we looked at Shabbat in the Tanakh, what mainstream churchianity refers

00:03:56to as the Old Testament.

00:03:58Episode two, we looked at Shabbat in the Brit Hadashah, or what mainstream churchianity refers

00:04:03to as the New Testament.

00:04:06Then we looked at Shabbat in the early centuries, and a whole bunch of good information there

00:04:10about that turning point where everything kind of went and veered off a little bit.

00:04:15So very good episode, and well, each of these are good episodes, but that one definitely

00:04:19has a bunch of good, how should I say it, illuminating information as far as this Sabbath

00:04:27goes.

00:04:28Then episode four, we looked at Shabbat, the Reformation, and also up until modern times

00:04:33and discovered some people that you probably hadn't heard about before, so that was definitely

00:04:37a good one to go back and look at as well.

00:04:39Then in episode five, we looked at some of the arguments that are commonly used to put

00:04:44forth a Sunday as Sabbath argument, I'm sorry, position, and that was the first episode in

00:04:51that one.

00:04:52And then in episode six, we did arguments for the Sunday position, the second part of that

00:04:59particular teaching.

00:05:00And now we're up to episode seven, and we're looking at the Lunar Sabbath, and this is going

00:05:05to be part A on the Lunar Sabbath teaching.

00:05:09So our objective for this particular teaching on the Lunar Sabbath is going to be to find

00:05:14what the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is, to examine the foundations that are used for the Lunar

00:05:19Sabbath, to test the Lunar Sabbath doctrine against scripture, to examine the Lunar Sabbath

00:05:25in light of logic as well.

00:05:27Then we're going to look at the Lunar Sabbath and history, and then finally consider what

00:05:31it all means.

00:05:32During this particular episode, this part A, as it were, we're only going to get through

00:05:38part ways through testing the Lunar Sabbath doctrine against scripture, and then next time

00:05:44we'll finish up with the rest of it.

00:05:46So we're going to get about halfway through this list of objectives this time, and then

00:05:50take on the rest of it in the next episode, part B, as it were.

00:05:55And before moving on, there's a few things I want to put out there and have it known before

00:06:01we really get into this particular teaching.

00:06:04Number one, this whole issue of Lunar Sabbath or non-Lunar Sabbath or whatever it is, this

00:06:11is not a salvation issue.

00:06:13If you are a Lunar Sabbatarian, if you are a Seventh-day Sabbatarian, or Lunar Sabbath

00:06:19keeper, or a Seventh-day Sabbath keeper, either way, you are my brother and sister.

00:06:24Or you are no more or less saved, depending on whichever one you are holding to, because

00:06:31this issue of the Lunar Sabbath is not a salvation issue.

00:06:35Let's put that out there right from the very beginning.

00:06:39Lunar Sabbatarians and non-Lunar Sabbatarians are all brothers and sisters of Messiah, like

00:06:42I said.

00:06:43And if you're not willing to consider something different than what you already know and look

00:06:47at some evidence for the Lunar Sabbath, then please click off this video.

00:06:51I'm not interested in people who are closed-minded.

00:06:54All you're going to be doing is wasting your time, and I don't want to waste your time.

00:06:58So go ahead and just start clicking off if you're not willing to look at some evidence

00:07:01for the Lunar Sabbath.

00:07:03Likewise, if you're not willing to consider some evidence testing the Lunar Sabbath, also

00:07:08go ahead and click off.

00:07:09You're just as closed-minded as the first, and I don't want to waste your time either.

00:07:13So if you're not willing to test some evidence that goes against what you already believe,

00:07:19this may not be the video for you.

00:07:21This is not about an appeal to the majority, which is commonly called the popular opinion,

00:07:26and is not appealed to the minority either, which is more like saying that, well, because

00:07:31a minority holds it, they're obviously oppressed because they have the truth.

00:07:35It's not about either one of those.

00:07:37This is about examining from base level what Scripture says about the Lunar Sabbath and to

00:07:43determine what the actual truth is.

00:07:46Some terminology that we're going to look at real quick and use during the course of these

00:07:52two videos or teachings on the subject of the Lunar Sabbath, we're going to be using the

00:07:57term Lunar Sabbath or Lunar Sabbatarian, and this is going to describe someone who holds to

00:08:03the doctrine of the Lunar Sabbath.

00:08:05The other term that we're going to go ahead and define right now is the Seventh-day Sabbath

00:08:10or Seventh-day Sabbatarian, and that's someone who holds to the belief that the Sabbath occurs

00:08:16every seventh day on a constantly repeating pattern.

00:08:20Now, I understand that the vast majority of Lunar Sabbatarians hold to, you know, six days

00:08:27and then Sabbath after the new moon or starting with new moon, so they consider themselves Seventh-day

00:08:32Sabbath Sabbath sabbatarians as well, but just to distinguish and differentiate during

00:08:36this particular teaching, the term Lunar Sabbath or Lunar Sabbatarian refers to someone who holds

00:08:43to the doctrine of the Lunar Sabbath, regardless of which model that is, and Seventh-day Sabbath

00:08:50or Seventh-day Sabbatarian refers to someone who is holding to a every seventh day repeating

00:08:55constantly, forever Sabbath kind of person, that kind of person.

00:09:01So, now I realize that this is, Lunar Sabbath people or those who hold to a Lunar Sabbath

00:09:09doctrine are not a monolithic block.

00:09:13They are, they hold different views and there's different nuances between different models.

00:09:18I understand that.

00:09:19So, don't believe that everyone is exactly the same regarding one particular side of the

00:09:25aisle.

00:09:25They're not.

00:09:26During this particular series, we will be getting nerdy and we're going to be getting

00:09:30in the weeds.

00:09:31There will be math involved.

00:09:33I'm just going to go ahead and warn you right now.

00:09:35There will be math involved.

00:09:36So, you have been duly warned.

00:09:39Now, since it has been a while since we have done the last episode in our Lunar, or I'm sorry,

00:09:44in our Sabbath series, let's go over some study principles just to keep in mind, especially

00:09:49during this study on the Lunar Sabbath.

00:09:54And I'm going to go over this real quick since we went over in depth in previous episodes.

00:09:58So, just bear with me.

00:10:00Stop the video or go check out the draw slides on our website if you want to stop at a

00:10:05particular

00:10:05one, but I'm going to go through this fairly quickly.

00:10:07First of all, we're going to look at the principles of a hermeneutics.

00:10:10And starting with the first one, we're going to look at the literal principle, which is

00:10:15taking the scriptures that we read in a literal meaning unless the passage or the genre dictates

00:10:23something else, like a vision or a dream or a prophecy, something like that, or poetry.

00:10:34That might dictate a different way of taking it other than literal.

00:10:38But in general, you take things in a literal fashion.

00:10:42Then we also look at the contextual principle, which means taking things into context and

00:10:47not taking just a single verse or phrase out of context.

00:10:50That is very helpful when studying stuff.

00:10:52Then we look at the principle of scriptural harmony, which means all of the scripture harmonizes

00:11:00together and is not contradictory.

00:11:04Also, it means that when you find a passage that is difficult, you can harmonize it and

00:11:10better understand it by looking at a passage that is easier to interpret and, we say, decipher.

00:11:19So that's what the principle of scriptural harmony is.

00:11:22Then we look at the grammatical principle and looking at the grammar, the syntax of the language

00:11:27that is being used at the time, which would be the Hebrew or Aramaic of the Tanakh or the Greek

00:11:33of the Brit Hadashah.

00:11:35Then we go on and look at the historical cultural principle, looking at how the people at the time

00:11:40the particular passage was written would have understood it, how the author would have meant it

00:11:44at that particular time in history and in that particular culture.

00:11:47Then we look at the genre, depending on what kind of genre it's being written in,

00:11:51whereas, like, Revelation is a prophetic and vision text, Psalms is a lot of poetry and other

00:11:59things, some could be historical, but looking at the genre that, and taking that into consideration

00:12:05anyways, when trying to interpret a particular passage.

00:12:07Then we look at the progressive Revelation principle, and this is something not to get tripped

00:12:11up on or misunderstand.

00:12:12This doesn't mean that, you know, the Bible is insufficient.

00:12:16We need the later rulings of man-made councils to understand things.

00:12:22No, that's not what it means.

00:12:23What it means is that you may not understand everything on Genesis 1, but as you go through

00:12:29the rest of the scriptures, then you start learning more and more and more and more gets revealed

00:12:35over time.

00:12:38And we look at the authorial intent.

00:12:39This pretty much goes back to the historical and cultural aspect thing that we looked at

00:12:44earlier.

00:12:45What does, or what did the author originally intend when they originally wrote what it

00:12:51is that they wrote and that we're looking at and trying to interpret.

00:12:54Now, the next thing we're going to look at is Sola Scriptura, and this means that the

00:12:58scriptures, the Bible itself, is the ultimate authority.

00:13:01It is infallible, and it's inspired autographs.

00:13:06So, not the translations come down to us.

00:13:08Those are important.

00:13:09Those are definitely helpful because not all of us speaks every language on the world or

00:13:15in the world.

00:13:16So, know that the original autograph, that is the authoritative, infallible authority that

00:13:23we go by, not man-made doctrines, not man-made councils or creeds or anything like that.

00:13:29Sola Scriptura by scripture alone.

00:13:33Now, creeds and councils can help in various commentaries, but the ultimate authority over

00:13:38top of all that is going to be scripture.

00:13:41Then we look at the distinction between descriptive and prescriptive, and this came in very important

00:13:47when we looked at the Sunday argument episodes.

00:13:50And this is also going to be very, very important as we look at the lunar Sabbath as well.

00:13:55So, descriptive will be something that describes what someone is doing that may or may not be

00:14:02something that we should do or model our lives after, but it's describing something that did

00:14:06happen, whereas prescriptive is something that we are commanded to do, we're told to do.

00:14:12It is prescribing something for us to do.

00:14:15The Ten Commandments are prescriptive.

00:14:19Do this, don't do that.

00:14:21Those are prescriptive.

00:14:22Whereas the people leaving out of Egypt and they stopped here, they did this, that's all

00:14:27descriptive.

00:14:28So, keep that distinction in mind between descriptive and prescriptive.

00:14:32Then we get into the distinction between exegesis and eisegesis.

00:14:35And exegesis is the process of drawing out the meaning of the text from the text itself.

00:14:42And eisegesis means taking your own thoughts, your own ideas, your own doctrines, and trying

00:14:47to read back into text what you want it to say.

00:14:51And that's not what we should be doing.

00:14:53We should be doing exegesis and allowing scripture to change us and not be trying to change scripture

00:15:00to fit what we want it to say.

00:15:03Then we look at the process of, or I'm sorry, the idea of anachronism.

00:15:07And this is taking something that is more modern or past the time of the scripture you're looking

00:15:13at and trying to force it back in there.

00:15:15And that's just simply incorrect.

00:15:17And it's almost a form of eisegesis, to tell you the truth.

00:15:21Then we look at confirmation bias.

00:15:23And this is something that we all have.

00:15:25And sometimes it's very subtle and it's very implicit.

00:15:30We don't know that we're doing it sometimes.

00:15:32We do all have confirmation bias and we need to be aware of that.

00:15:36So definitely look out for your own confirmation bias.

00:15:40And if you see a passage that seems to support something you already believe and someone else

00:15:45is trying to present something different, give them the time of day.

00:15:48Let them put forth their case and examine it in light of scripture and see if what they're

00:15:54saying is actually true and try to guard against your own confirmation bias.

00:16:00So that's the foundation for this teaching and just a reminder of some study principles

00:16:03to keep in mind as you're doing anything in the scriptures or anything in the Bible

00:16:08as far as studying goes, but especially in the Sabbath series and especially now as we

00:16:12get into this Lunar Sabbath study.

00:16:15So if you're just coming at this from a very fresh perspective and you have no idea of what

00:16:20the Lunar Sabbath is, well, what is the Lunar Sabbath?

00:16:24I'm glad you asked.

00:16:25Let's go ahead and define that real quick.

00:16:27The Lunar Sabbath is a calendar system doctrine, which asserts that not only does the month

00:16:33start with the siding of the first sliver of the new moon, but also the beginning of

00:16:37the week and therefore the counting for the week and Sabbath as well.

00:16:41According to the majority of Lunar Sabbatarians, the first day of the month is a non-work day

00:16:46and not a standard weekday or weekly Sabbath.

00:16:49The second day is a work day, a regular weekday, and the first day of the first week of the

00:16:55month, then the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th are the following weekly Sabbaths for that

00:17:02respective month.

00:17:03This is all in reference to the concept of the Hebraic biblical calendar and not the

00:17:08common Gregorian calendar that we use in the world today.

00:17:13Now, like I said before, Lunar Sabbatarians are not a monolithic group.

00:17:20There's some people or some Lunar Sabbatarians have a different model than what I just described

00:17:26or just a little bit.

00:17:28Anyways, the vast, what I just described is the vast majority of what I came across in

00:17:33the research, and most of the time they start with the sliver of the moon.

00:17:38That's what they consider the new moon.

00:17:41But some that I came across say that it starts with the conjunction of the moon when it's still

00:17:48dark, and others say that the month starts with the full moon.

00:17:55That could be a discussion all in itself, but what we're going with during this particular

00:18:00teaching series on the Lunar Sabbath is the more common one or the more widespread one,

00:18:06which says that it starts with the sliver of the new moon, and then on the Sabbaths for

00:18:11the week, I'm sorry, the Sabbaths for the month are the 8th, the 15th, the 22nd, and the 29th

00:18:15all the time.

00:18:17It does not change.

00:18:18It's always the 8th, always the 15th, always the 22nd, and always the 29th.

00:18:21Now, other models might have the 1st, 14th, 21st, and 28th, but again, the biggest model

00:18:30that I looked at said the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, always, forever, in a repeating pattern

00:18:36because it starts with the new moon day, and then starting counting seven after that.

00:18:41That's why it's on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

00:18:45So, in a nutshell, just to make it even a little bit more simple to, for those of you who

00:18:51may

00:18:51just be coming at this from the very beginning, anyways, the core claim of the Lunar Sabbath

00:18:57doctrine is that the month and the week, month and the week both, resets with a monthly lunar

00:19:02cycle rather than running on an unbroken seven-day cycle.

00:19:06Day one is the new moon and a non-work day, neither a standard work day nor a weekly Sabbath.

00:19:13It's just a new moon day, in other words.

00:19:17And then, days two through seven are the six standard work days of that week, where day

00:19:24two is work day number one.

00:19:26Then the fixed Sabbaths occur on the 8th, the 15th, the 22nd, and the 29th of every lunar month.

00:19:34And again, the 8th, 15th, and 22nd, and 29th of every biblical month must always be weekly

00:19:40Sabbaths, rest, of which no regular work or heavy labor is to take place.

00:19:44And all the commands and regulations in Scripture regarding Sabbaths apply here in this particular

00:19:53model as well.

00:19:54For those of you who like a visual style learning, that's me included, here's a calendar that

00:20:01lines up with this model of the Lunar Sabbath.

00:20:05There's the Lunar Sabbath model that we're looking at anyways, which is the most common one

00:20:09that I run across.

00:20:10You look up there, day one, that is the first sliver of the new moon, when the new moon

00:20:15is sighted, and that is the new moon day.

00:20:17It's not a work day.

00:20:20It's not a Sabbath day.

00:20:21It's just simply a new moon day.

00:20:25And then on the second is the first day of the week, running all the way through the

00:20:28eighth, which would be the seventh day of that particular week, making it a Sabbath.

00:20:33Then it goes on to the ninth through the fifteenth, and the sixteenth through the twenty-second,

00:20:37and the twenty-third through the twenty-ninth.

00:20:39Now, lunar months are not like the months in our Gregorian calendar.

00:20:46Lunar months are either twenty-nine or thirty days long.

00:20:49And it's all dependent on when it's sighted.

00:20:52So some months have twenty-nine days.

00:20:55In the Hebrite calendar, in this Lunar Sabbath calendar, some months have twenty-nine days,

00:21:00other months have thirty days.

00:21:02And this is something that also lines up with what we find in Scripture as well, which we'll

00:21:07look at here in just a moment.

00:21:09But it's important to note that in this Lunar Sabbath model, the first day is not a work

00:21:15day, a weekday, or a Sabbath day.

00:21:18It's just a new moon day.

00:21:20Keep that in mind.

00:21:22And number two, another very important thing to understand about this is that every Sabbath

00:21:27for the month is on the eighth, fifteenth, twenty-second, and twenty-ninth, and cannot

00:21:31in any way be any other day.

00:21:35Those are some of the most important things to understand right here.

00:21:39And there's a visual representation of a Lunar Sabbath calendar, and that'll be coming up

00:21:44more as we go through this particular teaching when it is appropriate.

00:21:49So what is, that's what the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is.

00:21:52So what is the foundations of which the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is built?

00:21:57Where do they actually get this idea and this doctrine from?

00:22:01Well, let's look at some Scripture.

00:22:03Let's look at number one, starting at the very beginning in Genesis.

00:22:06And this comes from Genesis chapter 1, verses 14 to 18.

00:22:11And Elohim said,

00:22:12Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens, to separate the day from the night,

00:22:16and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years, and let them be for

00:22:21lights in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth.

00:22:24And it came to be so.

00:22:25And Elohim made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light

00:22:30to rule the night, and the stars.

00:22:31And Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens, to give light on the earth, and to rule over

00:22:36the day, and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness.

00:22:40And Elohim saw that it was good.

00:22:44Notice here, in the very beginning of this passage, it says that Elohim created lights

00:22:50in the heavens, and they were to separate the day from the night, and they were to be

00:22:54for the signs and appointed times.

00:22:58That's an important thing to keep in mind here when it comes to the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

00:23:02And this appointed times here is, in Hebrew, what's referred to as Moedim.

00:23:07And you can actually see that when I put up the Westminster-Leningrad Codex there, you

00:23:11can see it says Moedim.

00:23:14And for further verification about this, and just to get more in-depth and specific on

00:23:20the moon itself, we go and look at Psalms 104, verse 19.

00:23:26He made the moon for appointed times.

00:23:28The sun knows it's going down.

00:23:31So, further verification that the moon is for appointed times, or Moedim.

00:23:37And just to back that up, I've highlighted there in the Hebrew the word for moon, and

00:23:42also the word for Moedim, or appointed times.

00:23:46It's clear, crystal clear, that the moon is for appointed times, as we saw back in Genesis,

00:23:51and now we see here in Psalms 104.

00:23:55Some further evidence of what we're talking about here, as far as the Lunar Sabbath doctrine

00:23:59goes, we look at Leviticus chapter 23, verses 2 through 3.

00:24:04Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the appointed times of Yahweh, which

00:24:09you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, my appointed times are these.

00:24:14Six days' work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering.

00:24:18You do no work.

00:24:20It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

00:24:23So, the weekly, I'm sorry, the, I guess you say weekly or regular Sabbath, is listed as

00:24:30an appointed time here in Leviticus 23.

00:24:32And if you don't believe me, you can always just go and read it in whatever translation

00:24:36you got.

00:24:36It says the exact same thing.

00:24:38And again, this word here in Hebrew for Sabbath is Shabbat.

00:24:43And again, the word for appointed time is Moedim, or Moed.

00:24:48Here, it's got the conjugation of Moedim, which is my appointed time.

00:24:53That's how you do it, or conjugate it in Hebrew anyways.

00:24:55But it's all the same thing.

00:24:57It's pointing to the Sabbath being one of the appointed times, of which we already saw

00:25:03that the moon is a sign for guiding the appointed times, or the Moedim.

00:25:09Some further verification here, or I'm sorry, some further basis for the foundation of the

00:25:14lunar Sabbath, we look at Exodus chapter 16, or we'll be jumping around through various

00:25:19sections.

00:25:19We're going to look at verse 1, verse 4 through 5, verse 13, verses 21 through 23, and verse

00:25:2530.

00:25:27And they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael came to the wilderness

00:25:31of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the 15th day of the second new moon, after

00:25:36they're going out of the land of Mizraim.

00:25:38And Yahweh said to Mosheh, See, I am raining bread from the heavens for you, and the people

00:25:43shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, in order to try them, whether they walk

00:25:48in my Torah or not.

00:25:50And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall

00:25:54be twice as much as they gather daily.

00:25:57And it came to be that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the

00:26:01dew lay all around the camp.

00:26:03And they gathered it every morning, each one according to his need.

00:26:07And when the sun became hot, it melted.

00:26:09And it came to be on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for

00:26:14each one.

00:26:15And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Mosheh, and he said to them, This

00:26:20is what Yahweh has said, Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set apart to Yahweh.

00:26:26That which you bake, bake, and that which you cook, cook, and lay up for yourselves all that

00:26:30is left over to keep it until morning.

00:26:32So the people rested on the seventh day.

00:26:36So how does this play in to the foundation of the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine?

00:26:40Well, as you go through this particular passage, you see they're coming out of Egypt.

00:26:44They're heading toward the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai.

00:26:50And we see that it's in the second month after they came out of Egypt, and it's on the

00:26:5515th day when they get there.

00:26:57That's something to keep in mind, okay?

00:26:58They get there on the 15th day, and they start whining.

00:27:01They start complaining.

00:27:02And so Yahweh says, I'm going to teach you my Sabbath now that you've come out, and you

00:27:08can start learning.

00:27:09I'm going to teach you my Sabbath by giving you manna and quail.

00:27:12And in order to teach you my Sabbath, you're going to gather manna for six days, but none

00:27:18on the Sabbath.

00:27:19So on the sixth day, make sure to gather enough for two days, so to cover day six and day

00:27:26seven, the Sabbath.

00:27:29And he tells them this, from what we can see here, on the 15th, and then the next day,

00:27:33which is the 16th, it starts raining manna.

00:27:36And that would be day one.

00:27:38So the 16th would be day one.

00:27:40Then you've got the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and then 22nd.

00:27:4722nd would be the seventh day after that.

00:27:49I'm sorry, it would be the seven days after when this started, which would be a Sabbath.

00:27:59So if the seven days after it started is the 22nd, and it's a Sabbath, that just lays further

00:28:06credence to this model of the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine, where the Sabbath always falls on

00:28:13the 22nd, and counting backwards, that means the 15th would have also been a Sabbath, further

00:28:20lining up with the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine.

00:28:23So that's what the Lunar Sabbath Doctrine is, and also some of the scriptural foundation

00:28:27that goes into the composing of the doctrine itself.

00:28:33All of this revolves around the new moon, and a lot of people I've come to find out don't

00:28:39know that much about what the new moon is in Scripture.

00:28:43So what we're going to do now is take a quick look at what the new moon is in Scripture,

00:28:47how it's regarded, what it's used for, and this could be an entire teaching all on its

00:28:53own about just the new moon.

00:28:56And that's something that we probably should be doing, and look for that coming up here

00:29:00probably next season on God Honest Truth.

00:29:03But for right now, we're just going to do a brief overview of what the new moon is in

00:29:08Scripture, and how it's treated, what it's used for, all that kind of stuff.

00:29:12As we look at the various passages in Scripture, and we'll go over some of these coming up here

00:29:18in just a moment, but we see that number one, the new moon is a guide for appointed times,

00:29:23because it starts the month, then that's how you know when the 14th is of the month, so

00:29:29you can have Passover, or the 10th of the month is to have Yom Kippurim, etc., etc.

00:29:35So the new moon is used as a guide for appointed times, or Moedim.

00:29:40On the new moon, this is also a special day.

00:29:43It's a Moed itself, actually.

00:29:46And during the new moon celebration, you are to sound the shofar and things like that, make

00:29:52a joyful shout, joyful noise, or like at Yom Teruah, but this is every single month, actually.

00:29:59You also, I'm sorry, in Scripture, there's also special offerings and sacrifices that

00:30:04are prescribed.

00:30:04We'll go over a couple of those in just a minute.

00:30:06We can also see in Scripture that we'll look at here in a moment, that it's a time for feasting,

00:30:13fellowship, and seeking the word, instruction in Yahweh's word.

00:30:17And we also see it sometimes tied to prophetic and future worship as well.

00:30:23Let's look at some of those Scriptures real quick, especially the, or starting out with

00:30:27the one, the point that the new moon is a guide for appointed times.

00:30:31We look at, again, at Genesis 1, verse 14, and Elohim said,

00:30:36Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens, to separate the day from the night,

00:30:39and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years.

00:30:44Then in Psalms 104, 19, one more time,

00:30:48He made the moon for appointed times, the sun knows it's going down.

00:30:53And then as far as what to do on a new moon celebration, the sounding, the trumpet, or

00:30:58the shofar, we look in Numbers chapter 10, verse 10,

00:31:01And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and at the beginning of

00:31:05your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets over your ascending offerings, and over your

00:31:09slaughterings of peace offerings, and they shall be a remembrance for you before your

00:31:13Elohim.

00:31:14I am Yahweh, your Elohim.

00:31:16And then also in Psalms 81, 3,

00:31:18Blow a shofar in the new moon, in the covering for the day of our festival.

00:31:24And then also, since the new moon celebration in Scripture is a moed, there are special offerings

00:31:30and sacrifices that go along with this particular celebration.

00:31:34And again, that's if the tabernacle or the temple was still standing.

00:31:37Of course, we can't do it now because there's no priesthood, no temple.

00:31:41But when it was standing, these are the offerings and sacrifices that were commanded.

00:31:45We look at Numbers chapter 28, verses 11 through 15.

00:31:49And on the beginnings of your new moons, you bring near an ascending offering to Yahweh,

00:31:54two young bulls and one ram and seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, three tenths of an

00:31:59ephah of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil for each bull, two tenths of an ephah

00:32:04of fine flour as a grain offering mixed with oil for the one ram, and one tenth of an ephah

00:32:09of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for each lamb, as an ascending offering of sweet

00:32:14fragrance and offering made by fire to Yahweh.

00:32:17And their drink offering is a half a hen of wine for a bull and one third of a hen

00:32:22for a ram

00:32:23and one fourth of a hen for a lamb.

00:32:26This is the ascending offering for each new moon throughout the new moons of the year.

00:32:30And one male goat as a sin offering to Yahweh is prepared besides the continual ascending

00:32:36offering and its drink offering.

00:32:39So there were special offerings and sacrifices that went along with this.

00:32:43Now, as we mentioned earlier, the new moon celebration was also a time for getting together

00:32:48and getting instruction and stuff like that.

00:32:50A few examples that we can see from scripture here is 1 Samuel chapter 20, verse 5.

00:32:55And Dawid said to Yonathan,

00:32:57See, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit with the sovereign to eat, but let me

00:33:02go, and I shall hide in the field until the third day at evening.

00:33:05Now, there's a whole bunch of stuff going on in this particular story, but we can see here

00:33:09that it was actually rather customary for David to go and eat or feast with the king on

00:33:15the new moon.

00:33:16So they were getting together.

00:33:17We can also see in 2 Kings chapter 4, verse 23, and he said, Why are you going to him

00:33:23today?

00:33:24It is neither the new moon nor the Sabbath.

00:33:26And she said it as well.

00:33:28I apologize for that.

00:33:29I should have put more context there.

00:33:31But anyways, they're going to see the prophet and they have the presumption that you only

00:33:37go see the prophet on a new moon or a Sabbath to receive instruction, not on just any regular

00:33:42day.

00:33:42But they were going anyways.

00:33:45So here we see they have the custom of going on a new moon to receive instruction from a

00:33:50teacher, in this case, a prophet.

00:33:52Now, one thing I do want to point out here is that these examples and other examples we

00:33:57see in scripture of getting together on a new moon are descriptive in nature, not prescriptive.

00:34:05So keep that in mind.

00:34:07This is not saying that, you know, thou shalt get together with the king on the new moon.

00:34:13Nothing like that.

00:34:14This is just describing what people did on a new moon celebration.

00:34:19Another thing I want to point out and have you look at this is coming from what we've just

00:34:26presented to you about the new moon.

00:34:28And it goes a lot more in depth.

00:34:29And I invite you to go do your own study in that.

00:34:32And hopefully we'll have an episode coming up within the next year about this.

00:34:35But notice that when you look at the new moon celebration or the new moon, Moedim, in

00:34:40scripture, a couple of things come up that people are mistaken about a lot of times or

00:34:47incorrect about.

00:34:48I'm not really sure the best way to put that.

00:34:49But they think that the new moon is a rest day.

00:34:53And it's not.

00:34:55There is no command in scripture that the new moon be a type of Sabbath or a Shabbaton, a

00:35:02minor Sabbath or anything like that, like a feast day.

00:35:05You know, on Passover, you got on the first and seventh days, you have rest days, regardless

00:35:11of what day of the week it is.

00:35:13On Yom Kippurim, you have a rest day, even though it's not a Sabbath.

00:35:19You also have I'm sorry, even if it doesn't fall on Sabbath, then on Sukkot, as we just

00:35:26got done learning not too long ago, the first day and the eighth day are Sabbaths as well.

00:35:32But this rest day is not prescribed or told, commanded to us as far as the new moon goes.

00:35:39That's important to know, because we look all throughout the Torah as for the commandments

00:35:43and the prescriptions surrounding the new moon celebration.

00:35:46There is no command to, you know, rest or to have a sort of Sabbath on the new moon.

00:35:53Another thing to keep in mind, too, and look this up in the Torah, if you don't believe me.

00:35:58But as far as the new moon commandments go in the Torah, what we are prescribed and commanded

00:36:03to do.

00:36:04We are not told to refrain from commerce.

00:36:11Shocker.

00:36:12I know.

00:36:14By all means, it's going to be shocking sometimes, but is not commanded that we do not buy and

00:36:22sell on the new moon celebration.

00:36:26You will not find that in the Torah.

00:36:30And I know what some of you out there are thinking.

00:36:32You're thinking about, OK, well, this particular verse is coming up.

00:36:35I know this particular verse and we'll get to that.

00:36:38Not this episode.

00:36:39It'll be next episode.

00:36:40I promise you we'll get to that.

00:36:41But just know that in the Torah and all the commandments regarding the new moon celebration,

00:36:46there is no command to refrain from buying or selling.

00:36:50And there's no command to rest on the day of the new moon.

00:36:54So just keep that in mind as we go forward, as you learn more about the new moon celebrations.

00:37:00Now, one thing I do want to point out is that culturally, it eventually became a day of rest

00:37:07and no commerce in Israel, but it's not commanded.

00:37:10And I don't know exactly how long it took to become like that.

00:37:14But again, that's the distinction between tradition and what scripture says also.

00:37:19So now moving on, let's start doing some testing on the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

00:37:25And as always, and this is something I really got to applaud those who hold to the Lunar Sabbath.

00:37:32They always say that scripture should be what we go off of to determine the doctrine.

00:37:36And I completely agree.

00:37:38So let's go ahead and look at this and test the Lunar Sabbath doctrine according to scripture.

00:37:47First thing we're going to look at is testing it against what we see in the creation week.

00:37:53So just a quick synopsis of what went on during creation week.

00:37:56On day one, the heavens and the earth were created.

00:37:59And take special note here that in Genesis 1, 1 through 5, during day one,

00:38:05we clearly read that light was created.

00:38:10Not stars, not sun, not moon, but light.

00:38:14Light in general.

00:38:15Keep that in mind.

00:38:16It's going to come up to be a very important point in just a moment.

00:38:20And then on day two, the expanse was created to separate the waters above and the waters below.

00:38:25You know how that goes.

00:38:26On day three, the waters were gathered together.

00:38:28Dry land appears and plants are created and appear.

00:38:32Then on day four, lights in the heavens are created.

00:38:36What lights are these?

00:38:37These are the sun, the moon, and the stars.

00:38:42And they're set in the heavens.

00:38:44And they're to be for signs and for appointed times, as we read earlier.

00:38:52This is something important to take note of.

00:38:54The moon, the sun, and the stars were created on day four.

00:38:59But there was already light and dark before this, since day one.

00:39:05So keep that in mind.

00:39:07We're going to look at day five.

00:39:08Aquatic creatures were created and also fowl or birds, aerial creatures were created.

00:39:15Then on day six, the land creatures were created and also humans were created as well.

00:39:21Yay, humans.

00:39:22And then on day seven, Yahweh himself ceases his work of creating.

00:39:29He blesses the seventh day and he sets it apart or makes it holy, in other words.

00:39:35And this is the very first thing that was ever blessed or set apart.

00:39:40This is the very first Sabbath.

00:39:42And this is the example that was given to us and is the connection that is made in Exodus 20

00:39:48when we are given the Ten Commandments.

00:39:50So some important points to consider as far as creation week goes.

00:39:57And if you have an opinion or interpretation, then by all means, let me know.

00:40:01But here's some points that I would like to bring up for you to consider.

00:40:05Number one, the moon wasn't created until day four.

00:40:10Why is this important?

00:40:10Well, if we go back and we think about the Lunar Sabbath doctrine, the model asserts that there's the new

00:40:20moon and then seven days after the new moon, that's when the first Sabbath of the biblical month occurs, on

00:40:28the eighth day.

00:40:31That doesn't jive what we see within the creation week because the moon and creation week was created on day

00:40:38four and the first Sabbath was three days after that.

00:40:42Now, some of the pushback that might come is that when the moon was created, maybe it was created in

00:40:48the phase it was supposed to be.

00:40:50And then after that, it got into sync that we were supposed to be in with the Lunar Sabbath model.

00:40:57But we're not told that.

00:40:58In all fairness, we're not actually told what phase the moon was in when it was created.

00:41:03But if ever the moon was to be considered a new moon, it would have been when it was first

00:41:13created and brand spanking new.

00:41:16It even had that new moon smell right on day four.

00:41:19So that's an important point to consider there.

00:41:22But again, it does not specify what phase the moon was in.

00:41:27I'll give you that.

00:41:29However, another thing to keep in mind, another important point, I think, to bring up and for you to consider

00:41:34is that light existed on day one before the sun and the moon and the stars were created and put

00:41:41in the heavens, which was on day four.

00:41:44Light existed long before, three days before on day one.

00:41:49That is how long light has been around.

00:41:51Light has been around longer than the sun and the moon.

00:41:54And as such, there were days that existed before the sun and moon.

00:42:02Remember, sun and moon weren't created until day four.

00:42:05But on day one, it says the evening and the morning were day one.

00:42:10That's when light was created.

00:42:12And on day two, the evening and the morning were day two.

00:42:15Day three, the evening and the morning were day three.

00:42:18There was already three days of light and dark to come.

00:42:23That's what a day is comprised of, right?

00:42:25Twenty four hour period of dark and light.

00:42:29Obviously, we can see from creation week that sun and moon are not required for that.

00:42:34So it was.

00:42:35Three days there that existed before the month, this moon and the sun were even created.

00:42:41And light existed long before the sun and moon were created.

00:42:46The seventh day, as we see in the creation week, is the seventh day of creation.

00:42:52The seventh day of light, not the seventh or the eighth day after the moon was created.

00:43:00Think about that.

00:43:03Evening and morning are a day.

00:43:05And there were six days and then the seventh day.

00:43:10That's important to keep in mind, I think, because it was only three days after the moon was created when

00:43:17the first Sabbath occurred.

00:43:19Another important thing to keep in mind.

00:43:23So there was just there was more than just the moon declared as a light as well.

00:43:28Keep in mind that it's not just the moon that we go by for signs and appointed times.

00:43:33We're also to go by the sun and we can also use the stars as well.

00:43:38Don't ask me how to use the stars.

00:43:40I'm not an 18th century sailor, but, you know, you can use the stars as signs as well.

00:43:46Something I probably got to learn more about.

00:43:48Anyway, there was more than just the moon that was declared as a light and as a sign and a

00:43:53guide for the appointed times.

00:43:55The seventh day was memorialized from the very beginning of Yahweh's creative work.

00:44:00And it was memorialized on the seventh day after six days of creation.

00:44:06And these days are composed of light and dark, irregardless of a sun or a moon.

00:44:14So let's look at Exodus chapter 20, verses 8 through 11.

00:44:18You're probably already familiar with this, but we're going to look at it anyways.

00:44:22Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart.

00:44:24Six days you labor and shall do all your work.

00:44:26But the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yahweh your Elohim.

00:44:29You do not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female

00:44:34servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.

00:44:37For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and

00:44:43rested the seventh day.

00:44:45Therefore, Yahweh blessed the seventh day and set it apart.

00:44:49All right, so why do we have this pattern of six days and then a Sabbath?

00:44:53Because it's a memorialization of what Yahweh did in the creation week.

00:44:59And it's been like that ever since everything was created.

00:45:04Six days, then a Sabbath.

00:45:05Six days, then a Sabbath.

00:45:06Six days, then a Sabbath.

00:45:07Unfortunately, the Lunar Sabbath model, every single Lunar Sabbath model, breaks this command of six days and then a Sabbath.

00:45:18And you'll see why coming up here a little bit later.

00:45:21And it's because there are actually eight or nine days in a Lunar Sabbath week sometimes.

00:45:28And, yeah, it completely breaks the six days and then a Sabbath model.

00:45:32And there's objections to what I just brought up.

00:45:34We'll get to that a little bit later on.

00:45:36But just know it breaks this command here of the commandment in the Ten Commandments here.

00:45:44So, it doesn't read in the Ten Commandments about the Sabbath.

00:45:48It doesn't read, six days after the new moon, thou shalt work, but the seventh is a Sabbath.

00:45:52Nothing like that.

00:45:53A day, as we already intimated, a day is evening and morning as shown in creation week and irrespective of

00:46:01the sun and moon or even the stars.

00:46:03Days one through three were still days, even though the sun and the moon and stars had yet to be

00:46:08created.

00:46:09The command in the Ten Commandments is undeniably tied to six days and then the Sabbath.

00:46:16There's absolutely zero connection to the moon and the Sabbath either in the creation week or in the Ten Commandments.

00:46:24And, again, you look at creation week and it's not seven days after the moon was created.

00:46:28We look at the Ten Commandments and it doesn't say seven days after the new moon.

00:46:33Nothing like that.

00:46:34No, it's a repeating pattern of six days and then the Sabbath.

00:46:39So, that is how the whole concept of creation week and the commandment or the Sabbath and the Ten Commandments

00:46:49correlates or doesn't correlate or how you think that goes with the concept of the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

00:46:56Another thing we want to look at and examine and test against the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is the Exodus from

00:47:03Egypt.

00:47:03We already read this.

00:47:04We looked at some of the foundations that are used for building the Lunar Sabbath doctrine, but it bears repeating.

00:47:11And let's look at it again, but look at it some more in detail.

00:47:15What we looked at earlier, let's read it again.

00:47:17Again, this is Exodus chapter 16, and we're going to be jumping around through several different verses, just taking out

00:47:23the irrelevant parts as far as our study here goes.

00:47:26We're going to be looking at Exodus chapter 16, verses 1, 4 through 5, 13, 21 through 23, and verse

00:47:3330.

00:47:35And they set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Yisrael came to the wilderness of

00:47:39Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second new moon, after they're going out

00:47:45of the land of Mizraim.

00:47:47And Yahweh said to Moshe, See, I am raining bread from the heavens for you, and the people shall go

00:47:52out and gather a day's portion every day, in order to try them, whether they walk in my Torah or

00:47:58not.

00:47:58And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be

00:48:03twice as much as they gather daily.

00:48:04And it came to be that quails came up at evening and covered the camp, and in the morning the

00:48:09dew lay all around the camp.

00:48:11And they gathered it every morning, each one according to his need, and when the sun became hot, it melted.

00:48:16And it came to be on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each

00:48:21one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moshe, and he said to them,

00:48:25This is what Yahweh has said, Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath, set apart to Yahweh, that which you bake,

00:48:31bake, and that which you cook, cook, and lay up for yourselves all that is left over to keep it

00:48:36until morning.

00:48:37So the people rested on the seventh day.

00:48:39Okay, that's what we read earlier, but let's look at it more in detail and look at some different points

00:48:45to consider on this particular passage.

00:48:48I'm going to go to another slide, but if you want to hold that in your own Bible, then it

00:48:52might help for you to go back and look at as well.

00:48:55But some points to consider here.

00:48:58Number one, as we look at this passage, the 15th in Scripture is not referred to as a Sabbath.

00:49:06That's an important point to point out, as it were.

00:49:10The second month is later on, as we see in Scripture, slated, and the opportunity for a second Passover is

00:49:19put forth in the second month when this is happening now.

00:49:22The original Passover, when they left Egypt, happened in the first month.

00:49:26They're now in the second month in this passage, and as we saw, on the 15th day of the second

00:49:31month is the second chance for the second Passover.

00:49:35In case you happen to miss the first one, right?

00:49:37I mean, you guys already remember that.

00:49:40Another point.

00:49:41The start of the manna isn't specifically said to be on the 16th.

00:49:45It just says the next day, but it says they arrived on the 15th, and then it goes on to

00:49:51tell that they were complaining, but it doesn't say that they, it doesn't specifically correlate their complaining with the 15th

00:49:58and then the start of the manna on the 16th.

00:50:00So, the start of the manna in Scripture isn't specifically said to be on the 16th, and as a result,

00:50:06it doesn't mean that the 7th day isn't the 22nd either, because in Scripture, the 7th day here in this

00:50:15passage isn't specifically said to be the 22nd.

00:50:18That's something important to keep in mind.

00:50:20We'll take things literally as we read them, and exegete, not eisegete.

00:50:25As far as the Sabbath goes in this passage, it's not said to be on any particular day, actually.

00:50:31The 15th, as we see, they arrived at the wilderness on the 15th.

00:50:38Now, why is that important to consider?

00:50:41Well, think about this.

00:50:42There were well over a million people traveling through the wilderness.

00:50:48Well over a million people that was arriving on the 15th day at this particular spot.

00:50:56Why is that important to consider?

00:50:57Well, think about it.

00:50:58All these people, when they're moving through the desert, they've got everything packed up.

00:51:04They've got the tabernacle packed up.

00:51:05They've got their household stuff packed up.

00:51:08They've got their livestock they're moving through.

00:51:11All kinds of stuff they've got packed up.

00:51:13So, when they set up camp and they arrive at places like this, they then pretty much have to set

00:51:18up and construct a temporary city.

00:51:23Right?

00:51:24I mean, they've got to sleep.

00:51:25They've got to set up their tents and all this other stuff.

00:51:26So, it's going to be a day of physical exertion when they arrive at a spot to set up camp.

00:51:32And that would have been, as we're told here, on the 15th.

00:51:35That's when they arrive.

00:51:36So, the 15th would have actually been a day of physical exertion.

00:51:40Now, how does that jive with the commandments that we see later on regarding the Sabbath?

00:51:46We'll get to that more in just a moment.

00:51:48Or a little bit more, anyways.

00:51:51So, on that even more, the people had not yet learned about Yahweh's Sabbath.

00:51:57This is where they actually start learning about the Sabbath.

00:51:59So, they hadn't yet learned about the Sabbath and hadn't yet got all the commandments, including the commandment to rest,

00:52:06yet.

00:52:06They might have known it before slavery in Egypt.

00:52:11But after 430 years, they would have probably forgotten a whole bunch of stuff and they were having to relearn.

00:52:17And the Sabbath is something they were especially having to relearn.

00:52:20And that's where the whole story of manna comes in to reteach them the Sabbath and what to do and

00:52:26when it was and all this other stuff.

00:52:28So, the people had not, at this point, yet learned the Sabbath and this was starting to teach them the

00:52:33Sabbath.

00:52:33And as such, the 15th being a Sabbath, assuming that it's a Sabbath, could have simply been a case of

00:52:42Yahweh overlooking ignorance.

00:52:43And as we see, there are cases for when people unintentionally sin, right?

00:52:49There's plenty of sacrifices that go on for that later on, as we see in the Torah.

00:52:54So, this very well could have been a Sabbath on the 15th, and this very well could have been a

00:53:00case of Yahweh just overlooking their own ignorance.

00:53:05And in my personal opinion, take it how you will, but in my personal opinion, I think the plain reading

00:53:12would indicate that the 15th was a weekly Sabbath.

00:53:17Because, as we read earlier, the way it reads, the plain reading, they get on the 15th, they complain.

00:53:23The next day, as it says, it starts the manna, and then they gather it for six days, and seven

00:53:29days after that is a Sabbath.

00:53:31Seven days after the 15th would have been the 22nd, and that seventh day is said to be a Sabbath,

00:53:38and so you count backwards, and that would make the 15th a Sabbath.

00:53:41So, I personally think that the 15th was a weekly Sabbath, and the 22nd was also a weekly Sabbath.

00:53:49However, that does not prove the Lunar Sabbath doctrine, and here's why.

00:53:58This passage that we just read, and the story of the people arriving at Elim, and the starting of the

00:54:03menna, and stuff like this, this is a description of only one single month.

00:54:08It's not a command that says the first Sabbath starts seven days after the new moon, or anything like that.

00:54:18It doesn't say that the Sabbaths are every 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, nothing like that.

00:54:24It's simply describing what happened during that particular month.

00:54:28It's not an actual command for the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

00:54:34Do you understand what I'm saying?

00:54:35For this to be happening once, and yes, this particular, at least in my opinion, going off a plain reading,

00:54:43this particular passage does align with the Lunar Sabbath model that we presented earlier.

00:54:48However, just because something happens once, that could be just an isolated incident.

00:54:54If it happens twice, that could just be a coincidence.

00:54:59Still not setting a pattern yet.

00:55:02Now, if it happens three times or more, that is starting to establish a pattern.

00:55:06However, what we just looked at, that's just one case, and that's pretty much about all you can find in

00:55:13Scripture anyways.

00:55:14So, keep all those particular points in mind as we continue during this study, and also the study next week.

00:55:21Another point to bring up also, and this is still in the wilderness, in the exodus from Egypt, and this

00:55:26is probably one of the more major points regarding the Lunar Sabbath,

00:55:32and it's unfortunately not in favor of the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

00:55:37This is the manna in the wilderness.

00:55:39They commanded to gather twice as much manna on the sixth day, and we'll explain why this is important if

00:55:46you haven't called it already.

00:55:48So, in Exodus chapter 16, verses 4 through 5,

00:56:15And it came to be on the sixth day that they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each

00:56:19one,

00:56:20and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moshe, and he said to them,

00:56:24This is what Yahweh has said, Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set apart to Yahweh.

00:56:28That which you bake, bake, and that which you cook, cook, and lay it for yourselves all that is left

00:56:33over to keep it until morning.

00:56:34And they laid it up till morning as Moshe commanded, and it did not stink, and no worm was in

00:56:39it.

00:56:39And Moshe said, Eat today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh.

00:56:43Today you do not find it in the field.

00:56:46Gather it six days, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there is none.

00:56:51So they were given bread for two days on the sixth day.

00:56:55Exodus chapter 16, verses 29 through 30.

00:56:58See, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he has given you bread for two days on the sixth

00:57:04day,

00:57:04that each one stay in his place.

00:57:06Do not let anyone go out of his place on the seventh day, so the people rested on the seventh

00:57:11day.

00:57:12Now, why is this important?

00:57:14Well, another aspect to bring up real quick, just to give you a further context of what we're talking about

00:57:19here

00:57:20in the manna in the wilderness, if we go on in chapter 16 and look at chapter 16, verse 35,

00:57:26it says,

00:57:37So far what we see with the manna in the wilderness, we're told, and see in scripture, it says,

00:57:43Gather six days, then on the seventh there is no manna.

00:57:47Six days, no manna on the seventh.

00:57:50Make sure you gather twice as much on the sixth day.

00:57:53Six days of manna, and then the seventh is no manna.

00:57:56Six days of manna, and one day of no manna.

00:57:59Get it?

00:58:00There is an established pattern there.

00:58:02Six and then none, six and then none, six and then none.

00:58:05And they did this for 40 years.

00:58:07Notice that there is no special exception for any other pattern.

00:58:16Okay?

00:58:16What I mean by that is look at this calendar again.

00:58:19This is a lunar Sabbath calendar, and again,

00:58:21there are either 29 or 30 days in a lunar month.

00:58:28I should rephrase that also as a biblical month or a Hebraic month, whatever you want to put it.

00:58:33That's the way that you get a lunar month from scripture.

00:58:38Now, the calendar in scripture, as far as we can tell, is not a lunar calendar.

00:58:43It's also not a solar calendar.

00:58:45It's a luni-solar calendar.

00:58:47It's a combination between those.

00:58:49Remember, it's both the sun and the moon.

00:58:52But a lunar month is about 29 days or even 30 days.

00:58:57I think it's 29.4 if you want to get technical about it.

00:59:01But each month is going to be 29 days or 30 days.

00:59:05In a lunar Sabbath system, this would put certain weeks at either eight days or nine days.

00:59:16Because at the end, if you got 30 days, remember, the last Sabbath would have been on the 29th.

00:59:22Then you've got day 30, which you would gather manna.

00:59:26And then you would have a new moon day, which again is not a Sabbath day.

00:59:30So supposedly you'd gather manna on the new moon day.

00:59:35And then you would have the start of your week, which would be another six days.

00:59:40So you had three and another three.

00:59:42That's eight days before you get to the next Sabbath.

00:59:46Now, what does scripture say about gathering on the eighth day?

00:59:50It doesn't.

00:59:50It doesn't say anything about an eight-day week.

00:59:53And that's even, that's a contradiction in and of itself that we'll get into next time.

00:59:58So this pattern we see in the manna, it says gather for six and then you get none on the

01:00:03Sabbath.

01:00:04And this whole exercise of manna in the wilderness was to teach the people the Sabbath day, Yahweh's Sabbath day,

01:00:11when it was six days and then the Sabbath, six days and then the Sabbath, six days and then the

01:00:15Sabbath.

01:00:15A pattern that's continued on down through scripture.

01:00:18Again, there's nothing in scripture about an eight or nine day week and what to do with the manna or

01:00:25about the manna in such a circumstance.

01:00:27It says only gather twice as much on the sixth or the seventh is a Sabbath to Yahweh.

01:00:33A special instruction would have had to have had, have been given if the lunar Sabbath doctrine were true, especially

01:00:41during a 40 year span.

01:00:43You do one or two months, you could squeeze that and make it work, right?

01:00:48But not 40 years, there'd be a whole bunch of eight or nine day weeks there.

01:00:54And remember, this did this happen for 40 years and there was zero indication that there was any issue due

01:01:01to an eight or nine day week before the Sabbath came around.

01:01:04So, never anything said such as you are given bread for two days on the eighth or ninth day for

01:01:10the extra long week.

01:01:12Nothing like that in scripture.

01:01:13So, this issue of the manna in the wilderness and the people learning Yahweh's Sabbath as they come out of

01:01:21Egypt,

01:01:22it completely, it's very, very strong evidence against the doctrine of the lunar Sabbath.

01:01:29I'll put it that way.

01:01:32And if you, if you stay with me until the end of the, of this particular episode, I'll explain, you

01:01:38know,

01:01:39one, this has kind of been a little bit difficult for me, but yeah, there's nothing about in scripture about

01:01:45an eight or nine day week.

01:01:47And especially with the manna and when to gather it, it only says on the sixth day, gather twice as

01:01:51much because the seventh day is a Sabbath.

01:01:54Six days, Sabbath, six days, Sabbath, six days, Sabbath, done.

01:01:59Nothing else.

01:02:00And that is very, very detrimental evidence against the doctrine of the lunar Sabbath.

01:02:07So, some people who hold to the lunar Sabbath might push back and say, okay, so what did the Israelites

01:02:13do for Yom Kippurim if the manna was for two days for the Sabbath, right?

01:02:18During the regular week, you have six days and then the Sabbath, six days and the Sabbath.

01:02:21But Yom Kippurim does not play well in either system, either the seventh day Sabbath system or a lunar Sabbath

01:02:30system, right?

01:02:32So, how, what did the Israelites do for Yom Kippurim?

01:02:36You know, if it was only to be gathered twice as much on the sixth day for the Sabbath day.

01:02:42Okay, well, let's look at that.

01:02:44Let's look at the instructions for the various feast days real quick.

01:02:48And let's start out with Passover and Shavuot.

01:02:51Passover, we'll look at Leviticus 23, verses 6 through 8.

01:03:18And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheep of the wave offering,

01:03:22you shall count for yourselves seven completed Sabbaths until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, you count 50 days.

01:03:28Then you shall bring a new grain offering to Yahweh.

01:03:31And on the same day, you shall proclaim a set-apart gathering for yourselves.

01:03:34You do no servile work on it, a law forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

01:03:40Now, before we go on, let's take note of something to pay close attention to.

01:03:45It says here, you do no servile work.

01:03:49Remember, the first day and the last day of Pesach and the first day and last day of Shavuot are

01:03:54what they refer to as high days or like minor Sabbaths, stuff like that.

01:03:58It's where you do no servile work, but you still can eat.

01:04:02Okay, keep that in mind.

01:04:04It's not like a regular Sabbath, and we'll get to that in just a moment, too.

01:04:07But moving on, let's look at the Feast of Yom Teruah and the Feast of Sukkot.

01:04:12For Yom Teruah, we look at Leviticus 23, verses 24 and 25.

01:04:17Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying,

01:04:20In the seventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, you have a rest, a remembrance of

01:04:24Teruah.

01:04:24You do no servile work.

01:04:26You shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

01:04:29Now, for Sukkot, we look at Leviticus 23, verses 34 through 36.

01:04:34Speak to the children of Yisrael, saying,

01:04:36On the fifteenth day of the seventh new moon is the festival of Sukkot for seven days to Yahweh.

01:04:41On the first day is a set-apart gathering.

01:04:43You do no servile work.

01:04:45For seven days you bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

01:04:48On the eighth day there shall be a set-apart gathering for you,

01:04:51and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

01:04:54It is a closing festival.

01:04:56You do no servile work.

01:05:00Again, there is the commandment here for Yom Teruah and also for Sukkot is that you do no servile work.

01:05:09And for Sukkot, it's the first day and the eighth day, the first day and the last day.

01:05:13Do no servile work, but it does not forbid eating.

01:05:17And it also does not forbid cooking.

01:05:19So keep that in mind.

01:05:20Same as for Passover and Shavuot.

01:05:22You rest, but you can still cook and eat.

01:05:25You just don't do any servile work.

01:05:27That's the same for Passover, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Sukkot.

01:05:31You're sitting here for yourself.

01:05:32Now this is all, you know, considering that it does not fall on a weekly Sabbath.

01:05:39Keep that in mind too.

01:05:40So now let's look at Shabbat, a weekly Sabbath.

01:05:43Exodus chapter 16, verse 23.

01:05:45And he said to them, this is what Yahweh has said.

01:05:48Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set apart to Yahweh.

01:05:51That what you bake, bake.

01:05:52And that what you cook, cook.

01:05:54And lay it for yourselves, all that is left over to keep it until morning.

01:05:58And then we look at Exodus chapter 35, verse 3.

01:06:00Do not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.

01:06:06So what we learn from this?

01:06:07Well, on the regular weekly Sabbath, there is to be no cooking, right?

01:06:12It doesn't say you can't eat.

01:06:14It just says, don't cook.

01:06:16However, on the feast days that we looked at, Passover, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Sukkot, etc., etc.

01:06:23You have a command to rest, but you can cook.

01:06:28You can cook your foods.

01:06:29Don't do any servile work.

01:06:30You see the distinction there?

01:06:32Yeah, that's the difference between Shabbat and the feast days that we looked at so far.

01:06:37So what about Yom Kippurim?

01:06:38Let's go back to the pushback that we looked at earlier.

01:06:41What about Yom Kippurim?

01:06:42How would that have applied to the manna and the wilderness?

01:06:46Well, let's look at the commandments and the restrictions that go along with Yom Kippurim.

01:06:50Let's look at Leviticus chapter 23, verses 27 through 32.

01:06:54On the tenth day of this seventh new moon is Yom Kippurim.

01:06:58It shall be a set-apart gathering for you, and you shall afflict your beings, and shall bring an offering

01:07:03made by fire to Yahweh.

01:07:04And you do no work on that same day, for it is Yom Kippurim, to make atonement for you before

01:07:11Yahweh your Elohim.

01:07:12For any being who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people, and

01:07:17any being who does any work on that same day, that being I shall destroy from the midst of his

01:07:22people.

01:07:23You do no work, a law forever, throughout your generations and all your dwellings.

01:07:27It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings on the ninth day of the

01:07:32new moon at evening.

01:07:34From evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.

01:07:38So what can you tell from this, and how does it relate to the prescription for the regular Sabbath, and

01:07:46also the prescriptions for the feast days?

01:07:48Well, in contrast to the other feast days, Yom Kippurim here says you do no work.

01:07:56It doesn't say do no servile work, it says you do no work.

01:08:00And actually, if you look in the Hebrew, it says Shabbat Shabbaton, meaning a Sabbath of complete rest.

01:08:09So here, I would actually say that this is also another day which you do not cook.

01:08:16But notice, it does not say that you cannot eat.

01:08:22So you don't cook, but you can still eat.

01:08:25Just like with a regular Sabbath, a regular weekly Sabbath.

01:08:28So how does this correlate and fit in with the manna in the wilderness?

01:08:31Did they have to gather twice as much on the day before Yom Kippurim?

01:08:36Nope.

01:08:38Think about it.

01:08:39When they got the original commandment for the manna, it says gather twice as much on the sixth day because

01:08:48there is none on the seventh day that comes down.

01:08:52That's to teach them the Sabbath.

01:08:54And they also weren't to cook on the Sabbath as well.

01:08:59But, think about this.

01:09:01If Yom Kippurim did not fall on a weekly Sabbath, and instead just fell during a regular weekday, the manna

01:09:11still would have come down.

01:09:12Right?

01:09:13And they could have eaten the manna raw without cooking it.

01:09:18And they did because it's described as what it tastes like.

01:09:22We'll look at that in Exodus chapter 16, verse 31.

01:09:27And the house of Yisrael called its name manna, and it was like white coriander seed, and the taste of

01:09:32it was like thin cakes made with honey.

01:09:35That was the raw version.

01:09:38Now, they also had a cooked version when they cooked it.

01:09:42And this is the description of that when they actually cooked it.

01:09:45Numbers chapter 11, verses 7 through 8.

01:09:47Now, the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like the appearance of bedellum.

01:09:51The people went about and gathered it, ground it on millstones, or beat it in the mortar, and cooked it

01:09:58in a pot, and made cakes of it.

01:10:00And its taste was as the taste of cakes baked with oil.

01:10:06So, they had it both ways.

01:10:08They ate it raw, and they had it cooked.

01:10:11And so, if it was Yom Kippurim, they couldn't cook, no problem.

01:10:16Go out in the morning, gather the manna, eat it raw, no problem.

01:10:21It sustained them, it nourished them, there's absolutely zero problem with that.

01:10:26They just couldn't cook it on Yom Kippurim.

01:10:28So, there's no contradiction there with the manna in the wilderness and Yom Kippurim.

01:10:33But there is a stark contrast between the manna in the wilderness and the lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:10:41In fact, the manna in the wilderness example is evidence against the lunar Sabbath.

01:10:47It totally contradicts it, and there's more evidence against the lunar Sabbath itself.

01:10:54All right, so we looked at what the lunar Sabbath doctrine is.

01:10:57We looked at the foundations used to build the lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:11:01We looked at Creation Week, we looked at the exodus from Egypt, we looked at the manna in the wilderness.

01:11:06Now, let's go ahead and look at the counting of the Omer and see how that relates or doesn't relate

01:11:12to the doctrine of the lunar Sabbath.

01:11:14So, how do we count the Omer?

01:11:16In Leviticus 23, verses 15-16, we read thus,

01:11:22And from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering,

01:11:27you shall count for yourselves seven completed Sabbaths, until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, you count fifty days.

01:11:34Then you shall bring a new grain offering to Yahweh.

01:11:37And again, Deuteronomy 16, verses 9-10,

01:11:59So, what are we saying here?

01:12:01Okay, so we go from Passover to Shavuot, and the way we get there is we have Passover,

01:12:06and then we have the weekly Sabbath, which comes sometime after Passover, a day, two days, whatever.

01:12:12And then the day after that weekly Sabbath, after the Passover, we start counting.

01:12:16And we count seven completed weeks, seven Sabbaths, for a total of forty-nine,

01:12:20and the day after that, we have Shavuot, and that would be fifty days, right?

01:12:25That's how you count it up. That's how you do the counting of the omer.

01:12:28It's not a specific date on the calendar. It's a counting exercise.

01:12:32I told you there's math involved.

01:12:34I gave you fair warning at the very beginning.

01:12:37Don't get mad at me now.

01:12:38So, how does this relate to the doctrine of the Lunar Sabbath?

01:12:42Well, this is a major problem for the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:12:47Here is, again, a visual example of the Lunar Sabbath calendar.

01:12:52The issue comes up with this.

01:12:54If we're counting seven weeks, a total of forty-nine days,

01:12:58and then fiftieth day after that seventh Sabbath,

01:13:02this would not jive with a Lunar Sabbath calendar.

01:13:05Because we already saw there are either twenty-nine or thirty days in a lunar month,

01:13:11and according to the Lunar Sabbath model,

01:13:13some weeks would have eight or nine days.

01:13:17And that presents a major problem when you're trying to get to fifty

01:13:21and using seven weeks.

01:13:25If it's seven sevens, no problem.

01:13:27That's exactly what's described in Scripture.

01:13:29But if you have four sevens and two eights,

01:13:34you know,

01:13:35that presents a major issue,

01:13:37because you don't get to fifty that way,

01:13:38and you can't keep the commandment as is given in Scripture.

01:13:42You can't get to fifty days.

01:13:44It's going to be more than that.

01:13:47That's the problem with the accounting of the Omer

01:13:50and the Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:13:52And in fact,

01:13:53some of these,

01:13:55how should I put this,

01:13:57some of the evidence that I looked at from the pro-Lunar Sabbath adherents,

01:14:04some of them put forth the idea that it was

01:14:07to count seven Sabbaths and then do fifty days.

01:14:11I still have no idea how they got that from Scripture,

01:14:16how they could get to that interpretation,

01:14:18that, you know,

01:14:20that's something they put forth,

01:14:21and it's all in an effort to try

01:14:23and justify this Lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:14:26But it's not what comes from Scripture, unfortunately.

01:14:29But again,

01:14:30if you're trying to count seven completed weeks

01:14:32for a total of forty-nine days,

01:14:33that has to be seven weeks of seven days.

01:14:36You can't have an eight- or nine-day week in there.

01:14:38It throws everything off the filter,

01:14:40because you wouldn't have fifty days.

01:14:42And Shavuot is fifty days after this counting.

01:14:46And we even see that Shavuot eventually becomes referred to

01:14:51even before the first century,

01:14:54that even before the first century,

01:14:57the festival of Shavuot becomes referred to as Pentecost,

01:15:00and Pentecost in Greek means fifty.

01:15:04We look at the writings of Philo.

01:15:08This is Philo of Alexandria,

01:15:10and he writes in the Special Laws,

01:15:12The solemn assembly on the occasion of the festival of the sheaf,

01:15:16having such great privileges,

01:15:18is the prelude to another festival of still greater importance,

01:15:21for from this day,

01:15:23the fiftieth day is reckoned,

01:15:25making up the sacred number of seven sevens,

01:15:29with the addition of a unit,

01:15:31as a seal to the whole.

01:15:33And this festival,

01:15:34being that of the firstfruits of the corn,

01:15:36has derived its name of Pentecost

01:15:38from the number of fifty.

01:15:42And on it is the custom to offer up

01:15:44two leavened loaves made of wheat

01:15:46as a firstfruit of the best kind of food

01:15:49made of corn.

01:15:51End quote.

01:15:53So even before the time

01:15:55of the first century,

01:15:57and you can read in the book of

01:15:591st Maccabees and 2nd Maccabees,

01:16:01and other places too,

01:16:02they refer to Shavuot as Pentecost,

01:16:06even before New Testament times.

01:16:10And that's something that mainstream churchianity

01:16:13doesn't realize,

01:16:14is that when it says in the book of Acts

01:16:17that the apostles were there at Pentecost,

01:16:20they were doing what Scripture already told them to do.

01:16:23It wasn't anything new.

01:16:24It wasn't the birth of the new church

01:16:26that was in contrast to Judaism.

01:16:29No, nothing like that.

01:16:30They were doing stuff according to the commandment.

01:16:33And it was already being called Pentecost

01:16:35before the apostles went up there.

01:16:38But yeah,

01:16:39you can't get to 50 days

01:16:42using a lunar Sabbath model.

01:16:45You're going to have more than that

01:16:47because you're going to have

01:16:47an eight or a nine day week in there,

01:16:49at least one,

01:16:51and it's going to throw everything off.

01:16:54And you cannot keep the commandment

01:16:56on a lunar Sabbath model.

01:16:57That's why a lunar Sabbath model

01:16:59just simply does not fit with Scripture.

01:17:02And the counting of the Omer

01:17:04is another detrimental example

01:17:06of why the lunar Sabbath model

01:17:10is not a biblical one.

01:17:13The biblical example we get

01:17:14is six days, then a Sabbath,

01:17:17six days, then a Sabbath.

01:17:18And the new moon starts the month, yes,

01:17:21but it does not reset the week.

01:17:23And that is the entire crux of the issue

01:17:26when it comes to the lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:17:29It's this question that has to be answered.

01:17:32Yes, the new moon does start the month.

01:17:36It resets the month.

01:17:37But the crux of the issue is,

01:17:40does the new moon reset the week?

01:17:43That is the central question.

01:17:45Not can we find an example here and there

01:17:48where the dates of the Sabbath and Scripture

01:17:52line up with our model?

01:17:53That's not the question.

01:17:55The question is,

01:17:57does the new moon reset the week?

01:17:59And it's not something we find from Scripture.

01:18:01In fact, we find just the opposite.

01:18:04We find Scripture and lunar Sabbath doctrine

01:18:07in contradiction to each other.

01:18:11And like I said,

01:18:13it's been hard for me to do that.

01:18:16And it's been hard for me

01:18:16to put this whole presentation together.

01:18:18And I'll get to that in just a moment.

01:18:21So just bear with me.

01:18:23But anyways, in summary,

01:18:25let's go ahead and wrap up

01:18:26this particular teaching,

01:18:28part A on the lunar Sabbath doctrine.

01:18:31The lunar Sabbath is a calendar system doctrine

01:18:34which asserts that both the month

01:18:35and the weeks reset with the new moon.

01:18:38According to the lunar Sabbath doctrine,

01:18:40the first day of the month is a non-work day

01:18:42followed by six working days.

01:18:44Then the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th

01:18:47are the weekly Sabbaths for the month.

01:18:49The lunar Sabbath doctrine is based on the premise

01:18:51that the moon is for Moedim.

01:18:53The Sabbath is one of the Moedim

01:18:55and therefore the Sabbath is determined by the moon.

01:18:58In Scripture,

01:18:59the new moon is one of the Moedim,

01:19:00begins the months,

01:19:02and is used as a guide for the feast.

01:19:05But it does not reset the week.

01:19:06It only resets the month.

01:19:09Examination of Creation Week reveals

01:19:11that the moon was created on day four

01:19:13and only three days before the first Sabbath,

01:19:16not eight days.

01:19:18In Exodus 16,

01:19:20the people start learning the Sabbath pattern

01:19:22at a time when utilizing a plain reading,

01:19:25I'm sorry,

01:19:26at a time when utilizing a plain reading,

01:19:29the 15th and the 22nd are Sabbaths,

01:19:31but in a passage that is descriptive,

01:19:35not prescriptive.

01:19:36And that is exegesis,

01:19:39not eisegesis.

01:19:41During the 40-year wilderness journey,

01:19:43the people were told to gather manna for six days,

01:19:45twice as much on the sixth day,

01:19:47and none was available on the seventh.

01:19:49No special exception was stated

01:19:51for an eight or nine-day week

01:19:53ever during the entire 40-year period.

01:19:57When counting the Omer from Passover until Shavuot,

01:20:01we're told to count seven weeks

01:20:02plus the day after the last Sabbath

01:20:04for a total of 50 days.

01:20:06A counting that would be completely impossible

01:20:09within a Lunar Sabbath calendar system.

01:20:14And that's just the God honest truth.

01:20:17Like I said,

01:20:18this is the part A

01:20:20of the Lunar Sabbath teaching.

01:20:22We are, gosh,

01:20:25over two hours total stream time,

01:20:27and this is only maybe halfway through the teaching.

01:20:29So I'm really glad

01:20:31we busted this up into two parts.

01:20:33But just some final thoughts

01:20:35and something I wanted to

01:20:39relate.

01:20:43This is...

01:20:45This might be one of the hardest ones I've done.

01:20:48Going against the whole

01:20:50Sunday of Sabbath perception

01:20:52that was easy.

01:20:53Fun, actually.

01:20:55But this one wasn't.

01:20:57This one was very hard.

01:20:59I enjoyed the study.

01:21:00I really did.

01:21:01And looking through

01:21:02the ins and outs

01:21:03of both sides

01:21:05of the issue.

01:21:07But as I got through

01:21:09a lot of the videos

01:21:11and the teachings

01:21:11and the articles

01:21:13and the information,

01:21:15especially from the

01:21:17pro-Lenar Sabbath

01:21:18sectarian side

01:21:19of things,

01:21:21a lot of

01:21:22what I ran across

01:21:22was from people

01:21:23who have a...

01:21:27People who have

01:21:28a heart

01:21:29for

01:21:30scripture

01:21:31and want to do things right

01:21:32and want to get things right

01:21:33and learn more.

01:21:33And that's what came across.

01:21:35And they

01:21:36they came across

01:21:37in a lot of them,

01:21:39anyways,

01:21:39most of them,

01:21:40actually,

01:21:41came across

01:21:41in a very Christ-like manner.

01:21:44And that

01:21:45was

01:21:46a contrast

01:21:47to a lot of things

01:21:48that I saw

01:21:49in other studies,

01:21:51especially

01:21:51when it comes to

01:21:52Sunday versus

01:21:54the Seventh Day

01:21:55studies.

01:21:55You know,

01:21:56some of those

01:21:56within mainstream

01:21:57churchianity

01:21:57get downright

01:21:59nasty

01:22:00over such subjects.

01:22:02And this is not

01:22:03something that

01:22:04these

01:22:04pro-Lunar Sabbath

01:22:06people

01:22:07did.

01:22:08I'm sorry.

01:22:10Something that

01:22:11the pro-Lunar Sabbath

01:22:12people did

01:22:13when I was going

01:22:14over their stuff

01:22:15and their videos

01:22:16and their

01:22:18articles

01:22:19and the information

01:22:19they put out there,

01:22:20they were not

01:22:21nasty like that.

01:22:22They wanted to

01:22:23do,

01:22:23they tried to do

01:22:24the best they could

01:22:25to put out the

01:22:26information and study

01:22:27and that's what

01:22:28really made it hard

01:22:29trying to put this

01:22:30together.

01:22:31Knowing this would

01:22:31contradict everything

01:22:33that they believed

01:22:34as far as

01:22:35Lunar Sabbath goes

01:22:36and

01:22:37I respect them

01:22:38for wanting

01:22:39to have

01:22:41to have a heart

01:22:42for the scriptures

01:22:43and try to get

01:22:44the truth

01:22:44and stuff

01:22:45like that

01:22:45because unfortunately

01:22:46they've been led

01:22:47astray by this

01:22:48particular doctrine

01:22:48and I didn't want

01:22:50them to feel

01:22:50like failures.

01:22:52I didn't want

01:22:52them to feel

01:22:53like they had

01:22:54missed a mark,

01:22:55like they had

01:22:55wasted their time

01:22:56and stuff like that

01:22:57because they truly

01:22:58were good people.

01:22:59That's the way

01:23:00they came across

01:23:00to me and that's

01:23:01why it was

01:23:02hard for me.

01:23:03This is probably

01:23:04the hardest one

01:23:04I put together

01:23:05and

01:23:07sorry

01:23:09and

01:23:10yeah

01:23:10but

01:23:11at the end

01:23:11of the day

01:23:12they deserve

01:23:13to know the truth

01:23:14and they want

01:23:15to know the truth.

01:23:15That's why they

01:23:16came across.

01:23:16That's what I said.

01:23:17They seem like

01:23:18they really

01:23:18wanted to know

01:23:19the truth

01:23:19and that's why

01:23:19I want to put

01:23:20all this together

01:23:21and the ins

01:23:21and outs

01:23:22and in depth

01:23:22as much as

01:23:23possible

01:23:23to help them

01:23:25see the truth

01:23:26of the matter

01:23:27and

01:23:28one thing

01:23:28that I really

01:23:29noticed too

01:23:30and they came

01:23:31across to me

01:23:31is that

01:23:32certain subjects

01:23:33especially like

01:23:33the Godhead

01:23:36you know

01:23:37very tense

01:23:38around that

01:23:39subject

01:23:39it really

01:23:40does

01:23:41and

01:23:41that's

01:23:42something

01:23:42the

01:23:43Lunar

01:23:43Sabbath

01:23:44adherents

01:23:45did not do

01:23:45they did not

01:23:46say well

01:23:47it's confusing

01:23:48yeah but

01:23:48it's a mystery

01:23:49you have to

01:23:49accept it

01:23:49or you're

01:23:49not saved

01:23:51they didn't

01:23:52say that

01:23:52you know

01:23:53some people

01:23:53on the

01:23:54Godhead

01:23:54subject

01:23:55they do

01:23:55say that

01:23:56and you

01:23:56know who

01:23:56they are

01:23:57but

01:23:58this was

01:23:58not

01:23:59something

01:23:59the

01:23:59Lunar

01:23:59Sabbath

01:23:59people

01:24:01did

01:24:02like I said

01:24:03they came

01:24:03across

01:24:03very Christlike

01:24:04they came

01:24:04across

01:24:04very nice

01:24:05and like

01:24:06a heart

01:24:07for the

01:24:08truth

01:24:08and for

01:24:08scripture

01:24:08and for

01:24:09Yahweh

01:24:09but

01:24:10they were

01:24:11incorrect

01:24:12in their

01:24:13adherence

01:24:14to Lunar

01:24:14Sabbath

01:24:14and

01:24:16hopefully

01:24:19I really

01:24:19hope

01:24:21this one

01:24:21this teaching

01:24:22and the next

01:24:23teaching coming

01:24:23up

01:24:23comes across

01:24:24with

01:24:27the air

01:24:27of love

01:24:28and respect

01:24:29for those of

01:24:30you who do

01:24:31hold to the

01:24:32Lunar Sabbath

01:24:32doctrine

01:24:32I have

01:24:34love for you

01:24:35and

01:24:35we

01:24:37may

01:24:37disagree

01:24:38on this

01:24:38particular

01:24:38subject

01:24:39but you

01:24:39are still

01:24:39a brother

01:24:40or a sister

01:24:41and Messiah

01:24:41to me

01:24:42I do not

01:24:43reject you

01:24:43I will

01:24:44have

01:24:45fellowship

01:24:45with you

01:24:46I will

01:24:46break bread

01:24:46with you

01:24:47I would

01:24:47give my

01:24:47life for

01:24:48you

01:24:49even though

01:24:49we disagree

01:24:50on this

01:24:50particular

01:24:50subject

01:24:50you are

01:24:51still

01:24:51saved

01:24:51this is

01:24:52not a

01:24:52salvation

01:24:52issue

01:24:54hopefully

01:24:55this comes

01:24:56across

01:24:56in a

01:24:57spirit

01:24:57of love

01:24:58and education

01:25:00and

01:25:00not as

01:25:01a spirit

01:25:02of hatred

01:25:03or anything

01:25:03like that

01:25:04so

01:25:05yes

01:25:05this is

01:25:05the final

01:25:06thoughts

01:25:06I wanted

01:25:06to put

01:25:07across

01:25:07because

01:25:07this really

01:25:08has been

01:25:08one of the

01:25:09hardest

01:25:09if not the

01:25:10hardest

01:25:10to put together

01:25:11and to put

01:25:12out there

01:25:13and that's

01:25:13why

01:25:13but yeah

01:25:16but yeah

01:25:16just to wrap

01:25:17up

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