Postponment - part 2

Ex. 19:1 says in the third moon, when “the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai.” Notice the phrase, “For they were departed from Rephidim.” Did you know the word Rephidim means rest and is a few miles from the Mount? They had rested there on the 15th for Sabbath and when it was over on the 16th they came to the Mount. Verse 1 says it was on the same day that they went forth out of Egypt that they came to the mount, this makes three Sabbaths in a roe on the 15th. Now when day did they actually go forth?

We know they were delivered from their burdens and given rest on the fifteenth day of the moon from the reading Psm. 81:3-6. “Blow up the trumpet in the Full moon on your solemn Feast day. I removed his shoulders from the burdens and his hands from the pots.” This was on the 15th day of the moon (Sabbath) that this happened; just as Deut. 5:15 says that YHWH thy mighty one commands you to keep the Sabbath day, because He gave them rest on that Sabbath day in the first moon. (and we know thatEx-16th chapter teaches the Sabbath was on the 15th in the second month also)

Now, they were delivered on the 15th and spoiled the Egyptians, but they actually left Egypt on the 15th day at evening. The beginning of the 16th, which was the morrow after the Passover, they went forth for the Egyptians were burying there first-born. This was the self-same day Moses came to the Mount (16th), after they had departed from Rephidim, or rest, which was on the 15th. The Egyptian’s first born, who were killed at midnight on the 15th, were not being buried at daylight on the 15th, because that is too soon. Moreover, when they went forth, Egypt was burying their dead. (Num. 33:4) and they went out by night (16th) (Deut 16:1) “YHWH thy mighty one brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt by night.”

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

(Josh. 4:19) They would not command the people to prepare food on the Sabbath, which proves the seventh day was not the Sabbath and therefore, the 14th was not either. The eighth day was the Sabbath then the 15th. You can mathematically prove the 14th was not a Sabbath by counting day cycles from the pinpointed Sabbath, in the 16th chapter of Exodus through the forty years that they were in the wilderness; you will find that the 14th was not the Sabbath at the end of forty years when they came into the land.

Isa.66:23 says from one New moon to another and one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship. And, Isa. 66:24 says, every one who transgresses this will be destroyed.

In Ez. 46:1, it clearly states that the Gate that looketh toward the east was to be shut the six working days, but open on the Sabbaths and the New moons. Now, was the New moon or Sabbath ever to be called or counted as one of the six workdays? If so how can the gate be open and shut at the same time?