Lunar Sabbath Rebuttal 6
Lunar Sabbath Rebuttal 6
Exodus 12:6-8 (NKJV) “Now you shall keep it [Passover lamb] until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight [towards the end of 14th]. 7And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. 8Then they shall eat the flesh on that night [of the 15th]; roasted in fire [on Preparation Day, the 14th], with unleavened bread [the 15th is the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread] and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.”
Exodus 12:18 (NKJV) “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening [beginning of the 15th day], you shall eat unleavened bread [on the 15th], until the twenty-first day of the month at evening [to the end of the 21st, sunset on the 21st].” The Feast of Unleavened Bread is a seven day feast, from the 15th through the 21st of Abib. Abib 14 is Preparation Day, a work day, not a feast day.
The fourteenth of the first month is Preparation Day, NOT THE PASSOVER FEAST DAY. The baking of unleavened bread and slaughtering and roasting of the sacrificial lamb took place on Preparation Day, the 14th day of the first month of the Hebrew year, which is the month of Abib, or Nisan. We do not sit down to the Passover Meal/Feast until after sunset on the fourteenth, which begins the 15th of Abib, the Passover Feast and first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, a Feast Sabbath celebration day.
The children of Israel escaped Egyptian slavery on the 15th of Abib in the year of the Exodus. Numbers 33:3 (NKJV) “They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover [day after Preparation Day, day after the 14th] the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.” Notice that they did not sit down and have a Passover Feast in the land of Egypt that year, they ESCAPED, they ran, they fled from Pharaoh and their tormenting slave drivers. The Feast of Unleavened Bread celebrates their 24 hour a day, 7 day forced military like march to the Red Sea. They were fleeing for their lives!
From Exodus 16 we learned that the Manna Miracle Sabbath resynchronization test began on the 16th of the second month from leaving Egypt, 2-16, or Ziv or Iyar 16. The Israelites then ate manna and observed the manna synchronized seventh day Sabbath for forty years. Exodus 16:35 (NKJV) “And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.” Joshua 5:6a (NKJV) “For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of Yahweh. . . “
Believe what you will, but Yahweh defined the day in Genesis 1:5 (NKJV) “Yahweh called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. Yahweh then defined the work week, or Sabbath Week, or Shabuwa, in Genesis 2:2-3 (NKJV) “And on the seventh day Yahweh ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3Then Yahweh blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which the Mighty Ones had created and made.” Days are defined by the sun, sunset to sunset is a day. A Shabuwa is 7 solar days of evening to evening. No moon, or lunar calendar, is involved in the determination of the day, or the Shabuwa, the Sabbath Week. This Shabuwa is known as the Law of Shabuwa, the law Yahweh refers to in Exodus 16:4 (NKJV) “Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law [What law? The Law of Shabuwa.] or not.” and in Exodus 16:28 (NKJV) “And Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?”” What laws? The laws of Shabuwa, the Sabbath Week, work six days, rest on the seventh. Yahweh used the Manna Miracle to get the resynchronization of the manna synchronized Sabbath lesson across. Exodus 16:26 (NKJV) “Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there will be none.” Yahweh patiently gave this 40 year test over 2,084 Shabuwas, or Sabbath weeks. Never call my Mighty One impatient! Did the Israelites learn the Shabuwa lesson? Apparently, the modern Jews still observe it, and informed Gentiles do also.
I’ve put together a little spreadsheet to show how the lunar Sabbath fails on the third Sabbath established on the manna synchronized Sabbath schedule found in Exodus 16, work six days and rest on the seventh day. Lunar Sabbatarians claim that the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th of each lunar month is a Sabbath. By definition therefore, the 1st also must be a Sabbath. You can clearly and easily see that by coincidence the first two manna synchronized Sabbaths line up with the lunar Sabbatarians lunar Sabbath theory on the 22nd and the 29th of the 2nd month, but once the Israelites reached the third manna synchronized Sabbath, only three weeks from the resynchronization of the manna synchronized Sabbath to Yahweh’s Law of Shabuwa, the manna synchronized Sabbath no longer lines up with the lunar calendars. The 3rd manna synchronized Sabbath occurred on 3-6 on one lunar calendar and on 3-7 on each of the other two lunar calendars. According to the Lunar Sabbatarian theory, that 3rd manna synchronized Sabbath should have occurred either on the 1st or the 8th of the 3rd month, BUT IT DID NOT. The following spreadsheet clearly reveals the obvious failure of the lunar Sabbath calendar theory.
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LUNAR
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SHABUWA
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1
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1
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1
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2
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2
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2
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3
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3
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3
1
4
1
4
1
4
1
5
1
5
1
5
1
6
1
6
1
6
1
7
1
7
1
7
1
8
1
8
1
8
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9
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9
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9
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10
1
10
1
10
1
11
1
11
1
11
1
12
1
12
1
12
1
13
1
13
1
13
1
14
1
14
1
14
1
15
1
15
1
15
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16
1
16
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16
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17
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17
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17
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18
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18
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18
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19
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19
1
19
1
20
1
20
1
20
1
21
1
21
1
21
1
22
1
22
1
22
1
23
1
23
1
23
1
24
1
24
1
24
1
25
1
25
1
25
1
26
1
26
1
26
1
27
1
27
1
27
1
28
1
28
1
28
1
29
1
29
1
29
2
1
1
30
1
30
2
2
2
1
2
1
2
3
2
2
2
2
2
4
2
3
2
3
2
5
2
4
2
4
2
6
2
5
2
5
2
7
2
6
2
6
2
8
2
7
2
7
2
9
2
8
2
8
2
10
2
9
2
9
2
11
2
10
2
10
2
12
2
11
2
11
2
13
2
12
2
12
2
14
2
13
2
13
2
15
2
14
2
14
2
16
2
15
2
15
0
TRAVEL ON THIS DAY, ISRAEL DID NOT OBSERVE SABBATH, BECAUSE YAHWEH HAD NOT YET TOLD THEM TO KEEP HIS SABBATH LAW FROM GENESIS 2:2-3.
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17
2
16
2
16
1
1
2
18
2
17
2
17
2
2
2
19
2
18
2
18
3
3
2
20
2