Let’s look on page 246. A Roman soldier reports Jerusalem’s fall in A.D. 70 under Vespasian and it was on the day of Saturn (Saturday). Well it didn’t pinpoint what day of the moon (Month) was the day of Saturn, but Josephus does in Book 6, Chapter 10, verse 1. Page 750 of Wars of the Jews. “And thus was Jerusalem taken in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, on the eighth day of the month, (Sabbath) which was called Saturnday. Coincidence?
Let’s keep looking: In keeping Yahweh’s Appointments by Jonathan David Brown on Page 66, he tells of fragments of Lunar days 4 through 25 which were found at Qumran describing how on the 8th day of the moon you can see it all day (1st quarter) in the sky, and after the sun sets and the 9th day begins it is called the 1st day of the week. If the 9th is the 1st day of the week each month then the 8th is always the Sabbath.
By the way, it is written in the oldest Hebrew (Palieo) Wise, Abegg, and Cook, the Dead Seas Scrolls, A New Translation, (see Pages 301-303).This is true every month and the 9th day of the month will be the 1st day of the week every month, and is in perfect harmony with the many Sabbaths pinpointed in the Scriptures. Coincidence? Let’s keep looking: so far every thing people have given me is in support of the Sabbaths being on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th which includes every ancient calendar they mention along with writing to the emperor which puts the Sabbaths in that month on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th alone with the recorded history of the destruction of Jerusalem on the Sabbath again the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th were Sabbaths by the Moon.
I am trying to hit the high spots, but have found nothing to support a continuous seven day Solar cycle according to the calendar of today maybe you can help me find at least one historical record or calendar that supports the Roman Solar Sabbath. Remember Israel always kept the Lunar Calendar which includes Months, weeks, days, and years. Now to another book called The Seven Day Cycle by Zerubauel (given to me for the same reason as above) it says on Page 11 “the first people to establish a weekly cycle that was entirely independent of the lunar cycle were the ancient Egyptians. Possibly as a result of being Sun-Worshipers… that obviously involved dissociating the week from nature and its rhythms.
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Only being based on an entirely artificial mathematical rhythm could the Sabbath observance became totally independent of the lunar or any other natural cycle. A continuous seven day cycle that runs throughout history paying no attention what so ever to the moon ad its phases is a distinctively Jewish invention… in creating the distance between human beings and nature. The invention of the continuous week … creates a social world of their own.”
This book goes on and on telling how the continual cycle as we know it today is phony and is not found in nature as the day, year, and month and week is , but is absolutely an artificial man made cycle. There is too much for me to quote here so get the book and look on pages 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19. Of course, this book supports my belief, and the Sabbaths found in the scriptures. For more information, write or call.
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