True Sabbath is Based Off New Moon; It's not Always Saturday Or Sunday

True Sabbath is Based Off New Moon

New Moon occurs the day after conjunction.
On New Moon you are to blow the trumpet, it's a day of worship, there is to be no buying or selling and it is not a work day.

The Sabbath occurs after six work days.
The Sabbath is a day of worship or holy convocation, no servile work is to be done and no buying or selling and the horn is to be sounded.

Christians keep Sunday midnight to midnight as Sabbath but this is not the true Sabbath. For one, Scripturally the day may be from evening to evening and some believe dawn to dawn but I've not seen evidence for midnight to midnight. Secondly, any strict continually reoccuring 7 day Sabbath breaks Scripture as I will show.

Even Orthodox Jews who keep the Friday sunset to Saturday sunset do not keep it correctly.

I submit three proofs that any Sabbath occurring every 7 days breaks Scripture.

Proof #1

Ezekiel 46:1-3 (Holman Christian Standard Bible)

46 “This is what the Lord God says: The gate of the inner court that faces east must be closed during the six days of work, but it will be opened on the Sabbath day and opened on the day of the New Moon. 2 The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the doorpost of the gate while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be closed until evening. 3 The people of the land will also bow in worship before the Lord at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and New Moons.

From Ezekial 46:1-3 it is clear that the Sabbath and the New Moon are not work days. So let's say an Orthodox Jew holds the Sabbath to be from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset and New Moon falls on the following Wednesday. Now the Orthodox Jew will likely want to keep Sabbath the next Friday evening to Saturday evening but the question is "Do we have six work days?". Well, according to Ez 46:1-3 the New Moon is not one of the six work days so the truth is we had 3 work days, then New Moon and then 2 work days. But we did not have six work days. So it is not proper to keep the Sabbath on the following Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.

One may argue that the six work days don't have to be consecutive but that opens up a can of worms. First that breaks the pattern is Genesis 1 where God worked six CONSECUTIVE days and then kept the Sabbath on the seventh day. Secondly, if we can pick any six workdays from the past then we can justify any day being a Sabbath and that was clearly not what was intended.

So when will the Sabbaths occur then? Well New Moon is a day of rest and worship and is the first day of the lunar month. Then we have six work days (2nd through 7th days of lunar month) and the 8th day of the lunar month will be the Sabbath or the day after six work days. Then after another 6 work days we will have the next Sabbath on the 15th. So we will have New Moon on the 1st day of the lunar month and the Sabbaths occur on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. The month is about 29.5 days so a month may have 29 or 30 days.

What if we have a Sabbath on the 29th, work day on the 30th and then New Moon? Does this present a problem? No, because we need six consecutive work days and then comes a Sabbath. The 30th was only one work day and then we had New Moon which cannot be counted as a work day so we have to restart the count.

Proof #2

In celebrating Passover the sacrificial lamb is chosen on Aviv 10 and it may have to purchased on that day and the lamb is sacrificed on Passover which is Aviv 14 which requires work. So Aviv 10 should not fall on a Sabbath since someone may need to buy a lamb nor should Aviv 14 fall on a Sabbath because there is quite a bit of preparation with slaughtering and cooking the lamb. In any continuous 7 day Sabbath cycle (whether it be Saturday, Sunday or any or other day) Aviv 10 and Aviv 14 will eventually fall on a Sabbath and there will be a contradiction and either you would break Sabbath or keep the Passover properly. God does not contradict Himself or give you laws that will force you to break one. But if the Lunar Sabbath is true as I propose to you that it is, then we would never have this contradiction because only the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days would be non-work days so we would always be able to work on the 10th or 14th of a month. So Lunar Sabbaths solve the problem and any continuous 7 day Sabbath cycle breaks Torah.

Proof #3

Philo of Alexandria and/or Flavius Josephus state that the two great festivals (meaning Feast of Unleavened Bread on Aviv 15th and Feast of Tabernacles which starts on Tishri 15th both occur on Sabbaths and full moons. Both these men lived during the time of Yahshua/Jesus and are indicating what was normative Jewish practice. Yahshua never chides the Pharisees or Saducees for not keeping the festivals on the right days and there is not indication that Yahshua observed them on different days so this likely means they kept them correctly.

Now, New Moon is at conjunction when the gives off no light so it makes sense that 15 days later we have full moons on these festivals. But Philo and/or Josephus state that these are Sabbaths. As I've shown, if they are keeping Lunar Sabbaths then the 15th will always be a Sabbath. But a continuous 7 day Sabbath presents a problem because there is no way both Aviv 15th and Tishri 15th can both be Sabbaths if we have a every 7 days Sabbath. A lunar month has 29.5 days approximately so between Aviv 15 and Tishri 15 we have 6 months or (29.5*6)= 177 days. Now in order for both these days to be Sabbaths on a continuous 7 day Sabbath count 177 days would have to divide evenly into 7 but it does not since there is a remainder of two days. Hence, the every 7 days is a Sabbath notion is once again proven false.

There are some excellent articles that have been written on the Lunar Sabbath. I strongly suggest you read all of them.

Suggested Reading:

[link to www.judaismvschristianity.com]

[link to www.ministersnewcovenant.org]

[link to lunarsabbath.info]

God bless you!