Postponement Part 3

Do you know the Priest had strict orders for the gate to be shut on a workday and strict orders to open it on the New moon day? YHWH is not the author of confusion. Who is? The answer is Man. Here is an example, you have the fourth Sabbath of the moon on the 29th, and the gate is open for worship. Then the next day is the New moon, and you leave the gate open also, but the next day (2nd), you are commanded to close it for the six workdays until the first Sabbath of that next moon, which will be on the eighth day of the moon. This is in perfect harmony with the examples given where they always rested on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th.

The historian Josephus records Sabbaths that can be pinpointed and they are on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. The Roman’s saw that the Jews, on the Sabbath, did not fight unless attacked. They moved there engines and battering rams up to the walls on the Sabbath day, which otherwise they could not do, and on the next day, they battered the city. Josephus records that it was the 23rd that they battered them, or the day after the Sabbath when they had everything in place. This proves that the pinpointed Sabbaths in his time was on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of the moon and the New moon was not counted as one of the six workdays.

Coincidence? You be the Judge. (See page 369 Antiquities of the Jews Book 14, Chapter 4:3 and footnote on page 370). Philo a prom ant Jew who lived at the same time of the Savior kept the weeks and Sabbaths by the moon write or call for our history book.

How can you ignore these facts backed with so great a cloud of witnesses and His Word? You will be judged in the end; and Moses, Paul and others will be a witness against you. Everywhere the Sabbath is pinpointed, it is by the moon. All scripture is written for our example to follow and all scripture is inspired by YHWH and is profitable for instruction in righteousness. (II Tim. 3:16)

Aaron and his sons were sanctified for seven days, which began on a New moon, and on the eighth day, there was an assembly (Moed) of the congregation. The point being that during these seven days, they were not to go out the door of the Tabernacle for seven days and nights. Lev. 8:34, 35

No calendar Sabbath could disrupt these seven days that they were being sanctified in the tabernacle. It was from the New moon until the seventh day. On the Sabbath, the 8th day, which was the seventh day after six workdays, they assembled the congregation and not before disrupting Aaron and his sons.

In Ex.40:1, YHWH spoke to Moses saying on the first day of the first moon thou shall set up the Tabernacle of the congregation.” In addition, in Ex. 40:12-15, Moses was commanded to anoint Aaron and his sons and to put them in Holy garments, and verse 17 says, “and it came to pass in the first moon in the second year on the first day of the moon that the Tabernacle was reared up.” The rest of the chapter tells what was put in the Tabernacle. Lev.1:1 says that YHWH called Moses out of the Tabernacle and instructs him further, this is still on the New moon. Remember, the Word is broken up by man into chapters, verses, and books when sometimes a thought goes on.

Lev.8:3 says that Moses was told to gather the congregation (on the New moon) and in verses 6-13, Moses brought Aaron and sons and put the Holy garments on them and anointed the Tabernacle alone with Aaron and his sons as YHWH commanded. In verse 33 they were commanded not to go out of the Tabernacle for seven days, but on the eighth day (Sabbath) YHWH appeared unto them. (Lev. 9:15, 23) This puts the Sabbaths on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th proving the New moon day is not counted as a workdays to get to the first Sabbaths.