As we learn to keep the seven day count as the sabbath day's rest, according to our Creator's calendar, I pray you all can take a moment or two to feel His Love and Peace in your lives, each day. Give thanks for His steadfast love and everlasting covenant.
When
me and mine first started keeping the Day of Rest (which most think is
every Sunday) we were taught it was every Saturday so we gathered
together on Saturdays to study God's Instructions as they are written in
the first 5 Books of Scriptures:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
The
more we read and studied and discussed His Word I learned man's way of
keeping track of days, months and years did not line up with God's
method of counting. Every Saturday was not the day of rest either.
Whatever
day you begin to keep His Day of Rest, please continue to read the
first 5 books of Scriptures and His Spirit will reveal the truth which
exposes what mankind has invented over the years.
This
is all a learning process as we choose to come out of Babylon and
follow Yahshua His Son. Let us listen and hear and obey the Good
Shepherd's voice.
Who
changed Yah's day of rest from the 7th day to the 1st day of the week
and teach it was the correct day? Yahweh warned about 'taking from or
adding to' His Word which turns His Truth into a deception. His people
are destroyed for lack of knowledge. I have read that the Roman Catholic
church takes credit for changing our Creator's sabbath day from the 7th
day to sun-day.
Sun Worship was the official religion of the
Roman Empire, known as Mithraism. It had its own organizations,
temples, priesthood etc... and the first day of the week was when
special homage was given to the sun, called The Venerable Day of the
Sun. It is where the name Sunday comes from.
Emperor
Constantine, after seeing a 'vision'* felt he must become a 'Christian'
and claimed all his pagan soldiers were, too, although they remained
pagan at heart. In order to get all those pagan sun worshipers into the
church, he accepted their day of worship, sun-day, instead of the
seventh day sabbath kept by believers in God, followers of The Way
taught by Yahshua the Messiah.
*(Constatine was squinting at the sun and claims he saw the 'cross').
So let's get back to the Truth of
the Word of Yah. Changing what He says to fit man's perceived needs is
wrong and probably an abomination to Him. False teachings have led
many astray for many years. How on earth can we keep His commands if we
won't take the time to discover what they are? Satan hopes we're too
distracted and complacent to take notice.
Seek and ye shall find.
Once
we learn what a day is and when it began, we understand Yahweh did His
work of creation in six days; blessed and rested from His work on the
Seventh Day. Yahweh made the seventh day sabbath for us, as a sign
between Himself and His people. Since He is Set
Apart and rested on the 7th day of creation He desires that we also rest
on the 7th day from our work. He set the pattern for us to follow. He
counted from the first day of Creation..... we count from the sighting of the new moon.
Exodus
35:2 "For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall
have a Set Apart day, a Sabbath of Complete Rest to Yahweh
Elohim....Leviticus 23:3 'For six days work may be done, but on the
seventh day there is a Sabbath of Complete Rest...Deuteronomy 5:12
'Observe the sabbath day to keep it set apart as Yahweh your God
commanded you.
Yahweh's Pattern:
In
Exodus 12 Yah tells Moses that the month they are to be set free from
Pharaoh is the first month of the year... and on the 15th day is when
they were set free.
In Exodus
16 we read: the Israelites came to the wilderness of Zin on the 15th
day of the 2nd month after they left Egypt (when did the new count of
days begin the second month?
This
is where the moon and the month connect = Exodus 19: On the 3rd new
moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt... 19:16
On the 3rd day as morning dawned.
This
reads as a count of days from the new moon, the 3rd new moon since Yah
told Moses when the first month was. Three Moons = 3 months. He says the
third new moon and then counts the 3rd day from that new moon, and
indicates what part of the day it was: dawn. And in Exodus 12, 16 and 19
we can see our Creator considers the sighting of the new moon as the
first day of the next month.
- There is a reason Yah said this:Isaiah 1:11 - What need have I of all your sacrifices... I have no delight that you come to appear before Me - trample My courts no more. Bringing your offerings is futile, incense is offensive to Me. New moon and sabbath you proclaim solemnities and assemble with wickedness I cannot tolerate. Your new moons (man's appointed months) and your fixed seasons (man's traditions and substitutes for Yah's set apart times) fill Me with loathing - they have become a burden to Me, no longer a joy. When you lift up your hands in false praise and worship I will turn My Eyes away from you.Bottom Line is the Seven Day Count does not fall on the same 'week day' each month when we use Yahweh's method of counting. If we were keeping count according to His Plan we would not be filling Him with loathing. We would not be a burden to Him making Him sad, or angry. We know His Day of Wrath is coming so lets not be part of the reason why.
