Hmm. This should be interesting. I have mathematically proven the Lunar Sabbath from the OT and the NT in dozens of rebuttals. And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I will easily disprove Bro. McHyde's "proof" and show you, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that his mathematical evidence is nothing more than his tradition. This is not arrogance, this is called confidence. You cannot successfully rebut as many articles against the Lunar Sabbath as I have and not have gained some insight into what sort of man or woman has the chutzpah to fight against YHWH and the sort of evidence they bring against His calendar. This is a very short article (all of 3 pages before I typed a word in response), so Bro McHyde is either VERY confident in his tradition or he has NO idea what evidence a veteran Lunar Sabbath keeper can bring to the table in defense of the Creation Calendar. Bro. McHyde writes in black and a little blue. I will respond in brown, [bracketed in brown in mid paragraph], a little green and a little red. Dated 2-8-2017.

Lunar Sabbath / Shabbat Mathematically Proven False The "Lunar Sabbath" is a fringe Christian belief [...um, no it is not. There are many from all walks of life finding this message, feast keepers primarily, but not exclusively so. Christianity shuns feast keeping, so this is NOT a "christian" belief...] that the sabbath day is not fixed at the 7th day of the week but is dependent on the phase of the moon, Since (sic) seven does not divide evenly into the 29.5 day lunar cycle, it requires some days of the month not to be counted. [Actually, the Sabbath of Scripture is always the seventh day of the week and at the same time it is regulated by the phases of the moon. The days he is referring to are New Moon days, and they ARE counted as days of the month, they are just not days of the week. Evidence forthcoming.] Yet if an interpretation of the Bible requires you to change how you count to seven in order to fit Scripture, could it really be what God meant? At issue here (as I predicted) is that Bro. McHyde wants you to count to seven as the Gregorian calendar (circa 1582) dictates. Lunar Sabbath keepers count to seven very well, we just identify New Moon the way Scripture does, not ignore them like the Gregorian calendar does. And what does God have to do with it? God is the name of the Scandinavian pagan sun deity. The Creator has a Name, and it is not God. In fact, YHWH commanded that we not take the names of false "gods" upon our lips. And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. Exodus 23:13

By Tim McHyde

Overview of Lunar Sabbath Theory

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If you are a sabbath keeper, you may one day encounter the "Lunar Sabbath" or "Lunar Shabat" doctrine. This theory says that the fixed traditionally Jewish timing for keeping sabbath of Friday sunset through Saturday sunset is a corruption of an "original" Biblically instructed reckoning of Sabbath based on the lunar cycle. True, you will encounter a Lunar Sabbath doctrine one day. Today is as good as any. And we don't say that the traditional (there's that word again) Jewish sabbath has been corrupted; the Jews ADMIT that it has been corrupted. “The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.” Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410. Please note the source. No quote can be clearer than this. “… each lunar month was divided into four parts, corresponding to the four phases of the moon. The first week of each month began with the new moon, so that, as the lunar month was one or two days more than four periods of seven days, these additional days were not reckoned at all.” Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. 10, p. 482. Article "Week." Please note the source. “…the Hebrew Sabbathon … was celebrated at intervals of seven days, corresponding with changes in the moon’s phases...” Encyclopedia Biblica, 1899. p. 4180 “In the time of the earliest prophets, the New Moon stood in the same line with another lunar observance, the Sabbath. Ezekiel, who curiously enough frequently dates his prophecies on the New Moon … describes the gate of the inner court of the (new) temple looking eastward as kept shut for the six working days, but opened on the Sabbath and the New Moon.” Scribner's Dictionary of the Bible (1898 edit.), p. 521 “The Hebrew month is a lunar month and the quarter of this period—one phase of the moon—appears to have determined the week of seven days.” Encyclopedia Biblica, p. 4780. And why have we never been taught any of this??? “…The [early] Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks…which ended with special observances on the seventh day but none the less were tied to the moon’s course.” Hutton Webster, in his book, Rest Days, page 254. In the article Shawui Calendar: Ancient Shawui Observance, we find confirmation of a radical change in YHWH’s calendar. “The [lunar]...calendar was used by all the original disciples of Yeshua... This original Nazarene lunar-solar calendar was supplanted by a Roman ‘planetary week’ and calendar in 135 C.E. -- when the ‘Bishops of the Circumcision’ (i.e. legitimate Nazarene successors to Yeshua) were displaced from Jerusalem. This began a three hundred year controversy concerning the true calendar and correct Sabbath.” “This intimate connection between the week and the month was soon dissolved. It is certain that the week soon followed a development of its own, and it became the custom -- without paying any regard to the days of the month (i.e. the lunar month) -- ...so that the New Moon no longer coincided with the first day [of the month ].” Encyclopedia Biblica, (1899 edit.), p. 5290.

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“… the custom of celebrating the Sabbath every 7th day, irrespective of the relationship of the day to the moon’s phases, led to a complete separation from the ancient view of the Sabbath...” Encyclopedia Biblica, (1899 edit.), p. 4179. “The calendar was originally fixed by observation, and ultimately by calculation. Up to the fall of the Temple (A.D. 70), witnesses who saw the new moon came forward and were strictly examined and if their evidence was accepted the month was fixed by the priests. Eventually the authority passed to the Sanhedrin and ultimately to the Patriarchate. … Gradually observation gave place to calculation. The right to determine the calendar was reserved to the Patriarchate; the Jews of Mesopotamia [Babylonian Jews] tried in vain to establish their own calendar but the prerogative of Palestine was zealously defended. So long as Palestine remained a religious centre, it was naturally to the homeland that the Diaspora looked for its calendar. Uniformity was essential, for if different parts had celebrated feasts on different days confusion would have ensued. It was not until the 4th century A.D. that Babylon fixed the calendar…” Encyclopedia Britannica: Vol. 4, article “Calendar”. “These imported [from Babylon] superstitions eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, ‘the star of the Sabbath,’ [and]...it was not until the first century of our era, when the planetary week had become an established institution, that the Jewish Sabbath seems always to have corresponded to Saturn’s Day [Satyrday].” Hutton Webster in his book, Rest Days, p. 244. “With the development of the importance of the Sabbath as a day of consecration and the emphasis laid upon the significant number seven, the week became more and more divorced from its lunar connection...” Universal Jewish Encyclopedia: Vol. 10, 1943 edit. Article, "Week," p. 482. Please note the source. “The four quarters of the moon supply an obvious division of the month...it is most significant that in the older parts of the Hebrew scriptures the new moon and the Sabbath are almost invariably mentioned together. The [lunar] month is beyond question an old sacred division of time common to all the semites; even the Arabs, who received the week at quite a late period from the Syrians, greeted the New Moon with religious acclamations. … We cannot tell [exactly] when the Sabbath became disassociated from the month.” Encyclopedia Biblica, 1899 edit., pp. 4178-4179.. How is it that Scholars cannot tell when the Sabbath was disassociated from the lunar cycle while modern Satyrday sabbath keepers in general deny that the Sabbath was ever connected with the moon in the first place? The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, My people doth not consider. Isaiah 1:3 If there is any possible remaining doubt that Israel observed a lunar Sabbath in Scripture, let this quote settle your conscience:

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“Luni-solar calendar foundations of the Jewish calendar extend from the earliest verses of scripture. Natural, uniform motions of the heavenly spheres are the pivotal markers of time reckoning. The list of ancient characters mentioned in the Old Testament used this lunar-solar calendar system of time recording. Observation of lunar phases coupled with solar positioning graduated the lifetime ages of Adam and his descendants. . . . “Changes in the appearance of the moon provided the seven-day week. Originating with ancient interpretations of lunar time, divisions of seven days separate the four basic lunar phases... Starting with a dark new moon, the moon gradually comes into view on following nights. In about seven days the first half of the moon is visible. The second half waxes until full moon at the end of two weeks. Lunar light reverses progression in the third week, waning to half visibility again. A fourth week completes the month, and visibility again diminishes toward a new moon. Completion of four lunar phases comprises the month.” Ages of Adam, published in 1995, by Clark K. Nelson. The cloud is moving. We need either to follow or be left in the wilderness. Oh, and Bro. McHyde, this is called evidence. If you didn't bring any to prove your point or to disprove the Lunar Sabbath, this is going to be a long afternoon for you. Your tradition is NOT evidence; it is merely what you believe because you were told it is true. Under (one version) of this model, the sabbath falls on the 8th, 15th, 22st and 29th day of each lunar month, or at the first quarter, full moon, last quarter, and new moon. The claim is made that God intended that one can just look up in the sky and know when the sabbath is. True (mostly). Clearly, Bro. McHyde disagrees with the Lunar Sabbath, but he is presenting what we believe accurately (at least so far). I will give him credit where credit is due. Let's see if he maintains this accuracy throughout his article. The part that is not true is McHyde's understanding of when the quarter phases are. They are first quarter, full moon, third quarter and last sliver. The New Moon is not part of the weekly Sabbath equation, either on the calendar or in the visualization of the moon. Hopefully using the sky as your calendar is easier than it sounds, because the lunar sabbath can fall on any day of the week, and with each new lunar month, it falls a day or two later in the week than the last month. [Yes, it is very easy if you would bother to try, even a 4 year old can determine the Sabbath by the moon. Bro. McHyde has accurately presented what Lunar Sabbatarians believe. Good for him. I am not being effusive in my praise or trying to set Bro. McHyde up. VERY few who come against the Creation Calendar do so with this level of honesty. No only am I surprised, I am pleased. His only problem is that he thinks that the Gregorian calendar is the calendar of Scripture.] As a result, to follow this system one must deal with the difficult, if not impractical, situation of having to take a day off from work during the five day work week over 70% of the weeks—on a rotating schedule, no less. This last sentence is pretty sad. Apparently, Bro. McHyde thinks that obedience to the laws of YHWH is like a beauty contest where you pick only the ones you like best or want to obey. If you wanna be found righteous, you will find a way to obey them all.

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What we have to deal with now is irrelevant. When Israel was obedient, they were either land owners who worked on work days, rested on rest days, and feasted on feast days, following the calendar of YHWH. Or if they had squandered their land and were indebted, they worked for employers who worked on work days, rested on rest days, and feasted on feast days, following the calendar of YHWH. When Israel was in bondage, they were not free to worship as the Father commanded, and we are in a form of economic and spiritual bondage today. If this were not true, we would not be told in the last days to "Come out of Babylon." There are many ways to keep the Sabbaths and still work in the world. You can work four 10 hour shifts to get your Sabbath off, volunteer to work weekends (in order to get a week day off), or start your own business. Make yourself so valuable to your employer that they would be stupid to not give you the day off you request. A child of the King will find a way to obey. Fence straddlers, pew warmers and those merely playing church will look for loopholes or make excuses for their lack of obedience. It is sadly rather clear which camp Bro. McHyde is in. Of course, the fact that a commandment of God is hard to follow would not be a valid reason to discount it or doubt it. [Ah, nice follow up. But it is a little late to back peddle now Bro. McHyde, you have already played your hand.] But if you are sensing already that something does not sound right with this theory, you are not alone. In my experience much false doctrine comes from breaking the rules of how to properly read the Bible. We will see that is exactly the case here. Ok. This is McHyde's party; I'm the gate crasher. If Lunar Sabbath keepers are breaking the rules of how to properly read Scripture, by all means show us how to correctly interpret it. The Fatal Flaw Let's review the biblical instruction for reckoning the sabbath: Exodus 20:9–11— 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of YHWH thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days YHWH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore YHWH blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Does Bro. McHyde actually believe that Lunar Sabbath keepers don't understand the 4th commandment? Come now, let us reason together. In just a moment, it will be clear to all just who does not understand how to read or interpret the Sabbath commandment. First of all, let me ask the following questions: Does this commandment say that satyrday is the Sabbath? No. Does this commandment say that the Sabbath is every seventh day in an unbroken cycle of seven day weeks? No, it does not. The context of this verse is that the Sabbath is the seventh day OF EVERY WEEK in context. There is not a single verse in Scripture that says or implies that the weekly Sabbath is every seven days in an unbroken cycle. The ONLY reason Bro. McHyde thinks it's every 7 days is because he is reading Exodus 20:8-11 while LOOKING at the pagan/papal Gregorian calendar.

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Did you know that the 4th commandment is listed a second time in Deuteronomy 5:12-15? Everyone agrees that the Sabbath commandment in Exodus 20 links the Sabbath to creation week. But the 4th commandment in Deuteronomy 5 links the weekly Sabbath to the day of the exodus. Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as YHWH thy Elohim hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of YHWH thy Elohim: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that YHWH thy Elohim brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore YHWH thy Elohim commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Do you know what day Israel was commanded to get out of Egypt? Abib 15, the 15th day of the first lunar month. The Father also linked the weekly Sabbath to the day Israel was freed from bondage in Egypt. Does satyrday fall on Abib 15 every year? NO! Do you honestly believe that YHWH would create a memorial to His weekly Sabbath then command Israel to use a calendar that cannot produce a Sabbath on every Abib 15? The Creation Calendar looks like this...every month.

New Moon

(Genesis 1:1-2)

Day 1 of week

(Genesis 1:3-5)

Day 2 of week

(Genesis 1:6-8)

Day 3 of week

(Genesis 1:9-13)

Day 4 of week

(Genesis 1:14-19)

Day 5 of week

(Genesis 1:20-23)

Day 6 of week

(Genesis 1:24-31)

7th day Sabbath (Genesis

2:1-3) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

(30) At first glance, the Lunar Sabbaths on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th, spaced 7 days apart, resemble the biblically prescribed seven day sabbath cycle. However, this resemblance ends once you pass a month boundary. Instead of there being the required six intervening work days between one sabbath and next, you instead have alternately seven or eight days between the last sabbath of the month on the 29th and the first sabbath of the next month on the 8th. This is due to the fact that the lunar cycle averages 29.5 days, instead of the needed 28 days to make this idea work. And I asked the question above, Where does Scripture say that the Sabbath is every seven days in an unbroken cycle of seven day weeks? You can't find one. I can't find one, and if Bro. McHyde could find one, he would have presented it already. He did not, but that has not stopped him from defending his tradition as if it were the gospel.

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New Moon days in Scripture ARE days of the month, and they are days of the year, they are just NOT days of the week. They are a third category of day. Bro. McHyde is about to give me the opportunity to prove this to you. Please be patient. I will never just SAY something without backing it up with either Scripture, nature or the historical record. This should be a fairly obvious death knell to the Lunar Sabbath theory. [Only if you are ignorant of Scripture, looking for loopholes or are not a truth seeker.] You may wonder how anyone could answer this clear mathematical impasse? [I'm guessing McHyde has never seen what I am about to present, which means that Proverbs 18:13 and 30:6 are accurately employed against him.] Proponents sidestep it by claiming that those one or two extra days at the end of the month while the moon is dark do not count because hidden days are "void" days. In other words, the seven or eight days interval between sabbaths at month boundaries are equated with the required six day interval. If this sounds irrational to you then you are not alone. The law of YHWH irrational? Come now, let us reason together. Israel did not recognize New Moon day as a day of the week. If last month began with a new moon and the second month after creation began with a new moon, what do you think the FIRST month of the first year of earth’s history began with? New Moon. Genesis 1:1-2 and Ezekiel 46:1 proves that new moon day (the first day of every month, even the FIRST month of earth’s history) is a third category of day, not counted as a week day. Genesis 1:1-2 is a time consuming creation event that was not included in the first work week, yet it WAS part of the first month of earth’s history. See calendar model on previous page. Ezekiel 46:1 says that the gate to the temple is shut on ALL SIX working days, but open on the Sabbath and new moon. Last month, New Moon was on a friday (as of this writing). If the tabernacle were still here and I asked Bro McHyde, “Would the gate have been open or shut?”, how would he answer? If he said open because it is New Moon day, I would respond that friday is a work day, the gate must be shut. If he agreed, “Of course friday is a work day, it must be shut.” I’d reply, “But friend, it is New Moon, it must be open.” He has no correct answer because he is applying a pagan/papal calendar to this Scriptural calendar event. And I have 3 witnesses. Amos 8:5, Isaiah 66:23 and II Kings 4:23 also prove that the days of set-apart convocation (Sabbaths and new moon days) belong in a separate category, apart from the six common work days. Amos: The unscrupulous venders are seeking to cheat the Israelites, but it is Sabbath and new moon. Israel won't come out to buy their wares until a work day. Isaiah: We will worship YHWH on the Sabbaths and new moon days, not on work days. II Kings: The boy collapses in the field, his mother races out, scoops him up and runs inside. There the boy dies in her lap. So she runs upstairs, places the boy on Elisha's bed, then runs to her husband asking permission to take a donkey and a servant with her to go see the prophet. To which he inquires, It is neither New Moon, nor Sabbath, why do you want to go see him today? Where was the man? In his field. What was he doing? Working.

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Put the New Moon day back in its rightful place in the lunar cycle, and suddenly (IF one is going outside and LOOKING at the Creator’s clock--the lights in the heavens) the Sabbaths will be announced by quarter phase moons before the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of each lunar cycle. There is simply NO evidence in Scripture that the Sabbath is EVERY 7th day in succession. There is simply NO evidence in Scripture that satyrday is the Sabbath. Scripture says that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. Period. But whose week? Yah’s week or the pagan planetary week? Children of the King believe that it is the seventh day of Yah's calendar week. The other explanation I have been given, which stunned me even more, was that "Scripture never says that shabbat is a cycle of seven, just that we are to 'accomplish' our work in six days and rest in the seventh. It is never stated that we must go back to work the next day :-)" This comment comes from the author of a book on Lunar Sabbath, an authority on the subject. [Bro. McHyde, Scripture NEVER says that the Sabbath is a cycle of seven. If it were on a repeating seven day cycle, why have you not yet presented the text that proves it? What are you waiting for? Give us this text and you will shut the mouths of every Lunar Sabbath keeper, and I will publicly announce that the Lunar Sabbath has been defeated, that Tim McHyde has correctly identified the weekly Sabbath and I will take down the website at www.CreationCalendar.com.] Yet, if God was not describing a seven day cycle, then why does he say things like... Leviticus 23:15-16— And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days... ...which naturally cause most of us to reasonably conclude that the sabbath is the last day of a repeating seven day weekly cycle? Is God capricious and prone to playing tricks on us to trip up sincere truth seekers? Why not just tell us, "You shall surely keep one day every quarter of the moon as a sabbath unto me" instead of explicitly describing a repeating seven day weekly cycle for reckoning sabbath? Leviticus 23;15-16 is the passage in question. Remember, a Sabbath complete (one week) is a different yardstick in time than a day. There is a 7 week count and a 50 day count. You, like most (and like me until 2003) probably see “seven Sabbaths complete” (seven weeks) and immediately think 49 days. But there are not 49 days in this segment of time. These are Scriptural weeks--six work days ending with a Sabbath. New moon days are a third category of day, they do not count against the week. There are at least three new moon days in this seven week count for a total of 52 days, so adding one more day to 52 days does not equal 50. The most salient point here is that a “Sabbath complete” is one yardstick to measure time, a “day” is an entirely different yardstick. I am five feet, nine inches tall. Two separate units of measure are used. You don’t measure the five feet from my heels then turn around and measure the nine inches from my heels too. You add the nine inches after the 12th inch of the fifth foot. Pentecost also has two separate units of measure. Seven weeks are counted or completed and then the 50 days are counted. There is no command in Leviticus 23 to begin the 50 day count at wavesheaf, it says to number 50 days from the morrow AFTER the seventh Sabbath complete.

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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto YHVH. Leviticus 23:15-16. KJV 1. These are weeks as reckoned on YHWH’s calendar, not the Gregorian (Roman Catholic)

calendar. Yah’s weeks do not count new moon days. See the Creator’s Calendar study. 2. If you will read the context of the passage, the 50 days are numbered from the morrow after

the seventh Sabbath, not from Wave Sheaf. Consider the following calendar…

1………….. 1st Month 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

wave sheaf > 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 <1st “Sabbath complete” 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <2nd complete week 30 1…………… 2nd Month

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 <3rd complete week 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <4th complete week 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 <5th complete week 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <6th complete week

1………….. 3rd Month 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 <7th complete week

morrow after >9 10 11 12 13 14 15 7th Sabbath 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

1………….. 4th Month 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Feast of Weeks/Pentecost, 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 50 days from the morrow 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <= after the Seventh Sabbath

The Sabbaths are in Red, the New Moon days are in Green. As odd as it sounds, the New Moon days are never included in the seven day week. (Evidence given on p. 7 above.) The New Moon, though never called a Sabbath by name (except for the 7th New Moon), was a segment of time celebrated in a similar manner as the Sabbath. They blew horns (Numbers 10:2-3 and 10; Psalm 81:3) there was no commerce (Exodus 20:8-11, Amos 8:5) and it was a day for a holy convocation (Leviticus 23:3, Ezekiel 46:1, 3). Count the underlined days on the calendar model above. There are 50 from the morrow after the 7th Sabbath, just as instructed. Please see these three studies: http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/16-QT-WhatSeasonWheatHarvested.pdf. http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/17-FeastOfWeeks.pdf http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/17-3WitnessCalendarCount.pdf.

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These three studies will show beyond a shadow of a doubt that the calendar I have just presented is the calendar established at Creation. The Evidence to Consider: There are two parts or two counts that must be made before Pentecost can be “fully come.” In addition to the 7 Sabbaths complete, we need to add 50 days, not just add one day for a total of 50 days. Leviticus 23:15-16 in the KJV is not as clear as it could be. Some have pointed out that “ad” or “od” (Strong’s H-5704, H-5703) does not mean “FROM” the morrow after the 7th Sabbath, but H-4480 DOES. Guess where THAT word is? Leviticus 23:16 Even unto 5704 the morrow 4480, 4283 after the seventh 7637 sabbath 7676 shall ye number 5608 fifty 2572 days; 3117 and ye shall offer 7126 a new 2319 meat offering 4503 unto YHWH. 3068 Look at what Strong’s says about H-5704 “whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until)”. Leviticus 23:16 is about time, not space, so we’ve been applying the word in the wrong manner all along. The Hebrew actually should have been translated: WHILE FROM the morrow (after the) seventh Sabbath (shall ye) number fifty days (and ye shall) offer a new meat offering (unto) YHWH. The Fenton Translation is the ONLY translation that seems to be honest with the Hebrew: You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath that you bring the Wave-Sheaf, seven Sabbaths. They must be complete. Then after the seventh Sabbath, you shall count fifty days, when you shall present a new offering to the Ever-Living. Leviticus 23:15-16 There is always perfect harmony in the truth. Obviously, these are irrational answers to the clear conflict between Lunar Sabbath and the Bible. [How is it irrational? Scripture repeatedly says that the wheat harvest is a summer harvest. The Catholic count to Pentecost (the one Bro. McHyde promotes) lands this feast in late spring, the one Lunar Sabbath keepers observe is in summer, as commanded.] When a doctrine is in conflict with pretty clear and explicit Scripture, it should be rejected, without fear. [Which is why Lunar Sabbath keepers rejected the Catholic count to Pentecost and now observe this feast in the summer, where it belongs.] When this theory is so easily proven false mathematically just by following it across the month boundary, then it must be rejected. It is not necessary to hear any more of the mountains of support usually presented for the theory. The God of the Bible does not expect us to use irrational logic to interpret his words. Oh, I have not yet begun to present the support of the Lunar Sabbath. And quite frankly, I have not seen McHyde's mathematical proof yet either. He has presented satyrday as the Sabbath of a uninterrupted seven day cycle (without any Scriptural evidence) and now offers the count to Feast of Weeks, a.k.a. Pentecost, as a feast a mere 50 days from wavesheaf, not only without Scriptural evidence, but also without explanation other than these two positions are his traditional understanding. His tradition has become his god, and he serves it without question. Mathematical proof (evidence) REQUIRES that one actually PRESENT their proof.

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How We Approach the Bible Makes All The Difference And this is exactly the point where most people misstep in evaluating the Lunar Sabbath. They accept (at least momentarily) the irrational math to make it fit a seven day cycle, and keep listening to the rest of the inferred scriptural support offered for it. And there are entire books full of evidence for this error, in fact. This should be no surprise, though. If you have been around long enough, you probably have heard the Bible used to support many things it was never intended to. Inferred? The Hebrew presents the case for the Lunar Sabbath, and the English translation does nothing to change that fact. And a perfect case in point of McHyde's assertion is he presently thinks he is using Scripture to support his satyrday Sabbath. He thinks he has Scriptural support for the Sabbath being every 7th day in an unbroken cycle, when in reality, Scripture neither says, nor infers any such thing. In a classic example, Bro. McHyde has presented nothing more than his tradition as evidence, JUST as predicted. Here is now Lunar Sabbath keepers present Scriptural evidence... Creation Calendar Class 101. Genesis 1:14 says that the two great lights would be for signs (owth), seasons (mo'edim), days and years. Thus the calendar of Yah is written in the heavens. Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12, and 20:20 all say that the Sabbath is a sign, using the SAME Hebrew word found in Genesis 1:14 (owth), meaning signal or beacon. Doesn't say which light though. Psalm 104:19 says that the moon will regulate the seasons (mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts). Leviticus 23:1-3 shows the weekly Sabbath to be the first feast using the same Hebrew word found in Genesis 1:14 (mo’edim--appointed time, set feast). Genesis and Leviticus are Torah. This is the greatest argument and it is enough to prove that the Sabbath is regulated by the moon, but it does not answer every possible question as to HOW or WHY that might take place. Yours is not to ask WHY. Either do (obey) or do not. The HOW will only be answered by going outside and looking at the clock in the heavens and taking note of the patterns in the sun and moon. Lunar Sabbath keepers do not offer "inferred Scriptural support," we offer genuine Scriptural support. Has Bro. McHyde offered ANY Scriptural support for satyrday? Nay, he infers that his tradition is the interpretation of the Scriptural Sabbath. Indeed, anything is possible when you abandon the proper and reasonable approach to handling the Bible. [So the only "reasonable approach" to handling Scripture is to infer that your tradition is the proper Scriptural interpretation of the question at hand? Come now, let us reason together.]

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As a matter of fact, over the years I have adopted a guideline regarding this. Once I realize a person is using different rules of interpretation for the Bible, I end discussion with that person. [How very noble of him. I have said it many times, that the "christian" army is the only one that shoots its own wounded, and this is a perfect example. Perhaps he would do well to try to educate the other party before simply cutting them off. Kind of like I'm doing for Bro. McHyde.] For such people, it is not simply a matter of showing them a literal verse that plainly contradicts their theory as it is with most people who come to me asking for help. [You mean like all these verses that I have offered that plainly contradict Bro. McHyde's position? Oh, I get it. In this dialog, Tim McHyde has become the person that he would normally cut off from further discussion. Like many before him, he is the pot that calleth the kettle black. I don't shoot the wounded, my target is their false doctrine.] They will say, like Lunar Sabbath proponents, that the verse does not contradict their theory but means...something else. So the likely result with such types is an endless debate. [Tim McHyde is manifestly not qualified to help anyone understand Scripture. I have shown him the texts that contradict his position (and I'm not done). We shall see who refuses to accept what Scripture says.] You cannot debate with someone using their tradition as Scriptural evidence. They have been brainwashed; they can see nothing but what they have been taught and filter every new message through their tradition. Below is how this Lunar Sabbath keeper determines what is truth.... 1. In Scripture: If I find 2-3 witnesses, texts saying the same thing, (Genesis 41:32, Deuteronomy 19:15, II Corinthians 13:1) then it is truth that I must admit and comply with. 2. In Scripture: If I find a single text saying "thus saith YHWH", (Deuteronomy 8:3b, Luke 4:8, Matthew 4:10) it is truth; it is my duty to obey His command whether there are 2-3 witnesses or not. 3. In Scripture: If I find a chain of texts where there is an unfolding of truth, one expounding upon the other, (Isaiah 28:9-10), this reveals truth that I am responsible for. For example, Genesis 1:14 says that the luminaries in the heavens regulate the seasons (Hebrew: mo'edim). Psalm 104:19 reveals that the moon alone regulates the seasons (mo'edim). Leviticus 23:1-3 calls the weekly Sabbath a feast (mo'edim). This is a chain of evidence that cannot be questioned. 4. If it is in the law [Torah] or the prophets, it is true, Isaiah 8:20. If something outside of Torah and the prophets agrees with the Torah and the prophets, neither adding nor diminishing aught (Deuteronomy 4:2), it is the straight truth. The standard listed in Isaiah and Deuteronomy (above) was given to trump Test 1 IF the 2-3 witnesses are false witnesses (speaking not according to the Torah and the prophets). 5. A doctrine or accepted belief that fails any of the above 4 tests means that it is NOT true. YHWH says that He will do NOTHING unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets, Amos 3:7. If the prophets are silent, then it did not come from YHWH. If there is no "thus saith YHWH, no 2-3 witnesses, no chain of inter-textual evidence and thus no support found in the Torah and the prophets, then it is my privilege to admit it and tell others that it has no foundation in truth.

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6. Any historical evidence that agrees with Scripture (e.g. the Torah and the prophets) is acceptable as supportive evidence of the truth. Any historical record that disagrees with or contradicts Scripture, failing the first 4 tests above, is a lie in the highest order of magnitude. 7. If someone makes a statement, it does not matter if 1000 witnesses come later saying that he did NOT say such and such or did not MEAN such and such; the spoken word of the person in question (Almighty Yah, the prophets, you or I) takes precedence over that of all his defenders OR detractors. 8. If someone claims to be Messiah, or a prophet, or to have a special message for the body of believers, but fails to pass Tests 1, 2 and 3 above, then Isaiah 8:20 and Deuteronomy 18:18-22 (in essence, Tests 4 and 5) must be applied. If what they say doesn’t come to pass or they speak not according to the Torah or the testimony of the prophets, fear them not, there is no light in them. Included here are the tests that the New Testament (NT) authors recognized and taught their converts. John and Paul instructed their converts/followers to try the spirits (I John 4:1), to prove all things and hold fast that which is good (I Thessalonians 5:21), and also to search the Scriptures daily to see whether these things (that Paul taught them) were so, Acts 17:10-11. As silly as this might sound, the Carpenter from Nazareth never quoted a verse from the NT because the ONLY Scripture in existence during the first century was the Old Testament. In other words, the NT must meet the standard of the OT, not the other way around. In truth, if a NT writer does not meet the standard of the law [Torah] the testimony of the prophets, there is no light in this writing either. For example, proponents will claim, "every single Shabbat in the entire Bible which can be pointed to a specific date, occurred on 8-15-22-29 - EVERY one. Coincidence?" Some even offer cash bounties to anyone who can find a case in the Bible that contradicts this claim. But, to do this would be an exercise in futility. [And why is that? Because satyrday Sabbath keepers are not prepared to admit that they are in error when the one offering a cash bounty proves their effort to be in vain?] Whether it is true or not that all the sabbaths fall on those days, this, once again, is not how to properly determine the timing of sabbath. [WHAT!!?? Is this man completely nuts? Everything in Scripture is there for OUR example we are told. His satyrday cannot possibly produce Sabbaths exclusively on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month, and rather than ADMIT that this might actually mean something, he's going to go with the defense that this is not how to properly determine the timing of the Sabbath? Has it EVER occurred to him that since satyrday does not always fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month that perhaps HIS method of determining the timing of the Sabbath is in error? Of course not, that would be to admit that he is in error, and he would rather climb a tree and proclaim a false Sabbath than stand on the ground and embrace the true Sabbath. This is utterly, utterly shameful.] There are clear scriptures telling us explicitly when it is, and those should be our foundation (along with consistent universal counting from the number one to seven), not circumstantial evidence. [And WHAT Scriptures are these Bro. McHyde, that tell us explicitly when the Sabbath is? Has Bro. McHyde produced a single text that says satyrday is the Sabbath? Not one. Has he offered a single text that says the Sabbath is every 7th day in an unbroken cycle?

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No, he has not.] And if you somehow did get them to admit this claim is erroneous, they have dozens of other arguments left waiting to be disproved. It's better to learn to spot the key false assumption that all false doctrines have and avoid getting lost in a sea of side issues. What side issue have I offered? I have responded to every point, line by line. And I have hardly done presenting the Scriptural evidence. I get the impression that Bro. McHyde is looking in the mirror and using what he sees to describe Lunar Sabbath keepers.

When In Doubt...

...Believe What You Have Always Believed. It's always worked for Bro. McHyde. But if you did not recognize the unsurpassable problems with this theory, hopefully you at least recognized how radical it is, and have the wisdom to know to tread carefully before adopting it. [I'm still waiting for an unsurpassable problem, just like I'm still waiting for his mathematical proof.] For whenever you are presented with something new and radical as God's instructions (like this "Lunar sabbath" is purported to be a restoration of) we need not and should not accept it hastily. [I agree, you should not. Examine the evidence first, then you should accept it.] We need not fear missing what God might be trying to tell us while waiting until our doubts are addressed properly. [God, being a pagan sun deity, has never told anyone anything. False gods are a figment of men's imaginations. But if your watchmen on the wall are like Bro. McHyde, you will certainly never know when YHWH is trying to tell you something.] We should trust that if God is really trying to correct us on a point, then he will be able to remove all doubt and rationally convince us of it. [Rationally? Since when does the Almighty have to stoop to the logic and understanding of men in order to get anything done? That Bro. McHyde thinks he can put YHWH in a box and demand that He correct us in a certain way is irrational. And ignorant.] God is more than able to give us all the reasonable proof we sincerely need to be sure something is of him before we adopt it Never doubt that. It is important to pray and wait before doing something so radical and life-changing. Yes, He is able, and He did give us reasonable proof. That the only Sabbaths that can be date identified all fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month is proof of something. The information for this can be found here: http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/28-8-15-22-29_Proof.pdf. That from Creation, the lights in the heavens were named as the regulators of the signs, mo'edim, days and years is proof of something. Genesis 1:16. That the weekly Sabbath is named as the FIRST feast (mo'edim) in a list of feasts (mo'edim) in Leviticus 23:1-3 is proof of something. That the Psalmist (104:19) proclaims that the MOON regulates the mo'edim is proof of something. It is all proof that the Sabbath is regulated by the moon. Oh yeah, here is more proof. Remember I said I was not done presenting the evidence? In Scripture, satyrday worship is called idolatry.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I beg your indulgence. I should never make such a statement and not offer the court the evidence (proof) for such a charge... I admit it, Israel worshiped on satyrday. But you have borne the tabernacle of your moloch [king] and Chiun your images, the star of your G-d which you made for yourselves. Amos 5:26. Chiun is the Hebrew word for Saturn. But that does not mean their worship was acceptable to YHWH. In this verse Amos sees a day where Israel worships a star-god that they would make for themselves which means that Israel would have been in apostasy at that time. Stephen, in Acts 7:43 quotes Amos and is translated as Remphan, which is Greek for Saturn. Satyrday is ONLY a day found on the pagan seven day planetary week. Satyrday was the first day (not the seventh) of this pagan calendar week from at LEAST 800-600 B.C. and perhaps further back. The Father’s calendar is found in the sun and moon (the two great lights), not in the planets. Why am I spelling it satyrday instead of saturn’s day? Because saturn and the satyr are both linked to the same false system of worship. Do this word study with your concordance. Isaiah 13:21 says… But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest. Isaiah 34:14 In both cases, the Hebrew word here translated as satyr is Strong’s Concordance H8163. It would seem that the Father stopped Israel’s satyrday observance early on. Speaking to Israel after their deliverance from Egypt, YHWH said… And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations. Leviticus 17:7. Notice the word for devils (below). And they shall no 3808 more 5750 offer 2076 (853) their sacrifices 2077 unto devils, 8163 after 310 whom 834 they 1992 have gone a whoring. 2181 This 2063 shall be 1961 a statute 2708 forever 5769 unto them throughout their generations. 1755 Same Hebrew word, H8163, satyrs. Jeroboam and his sons were later cursed for leading Israel BACK into idolatry. II Chronicles 11:15 says… And he [Jeroboam] ordained 5975 him priests 3548 for the high places, 1116 and for the devils, 8163 and for the calves 5695 which 834 he had made. 6213 Same Hebrew word, H8163, satyrs.

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Jeroboam brought back what YHWH had removed from Israel in Leviticus 17. And nearly every time Jeroboam’s name is mentioned thereafter it is either prefaced or followed by the statement, who has made My people Israel to sin. Amos reminded Israel of their satyrday idolatry, Stephen repeated it and it got him killed. Let me share with you why I believe it is a good idea to examine the foundation of the day that most Sabbatarians call “Sabbath”. Watch for the bold green font below because at least one particular scholar DOES believe that satyrday worship is linked to saturn worship (and worse), and he proves it VERY convincingly. Ever heard of a dual counterfeit? Only the enemies of YHWH would accept an obvious counterfeit, but for the more elect, the Adversary has a not-so-obvious counterfeit. How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be Almighty, follow Him: but if Ba’al, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word. I Kings 18:21. Ba’al is the obvious fraud, but what about “the LORD”? Every time you read LORD or GOD in all capital letters in Scripture, the underlying Hebrew is YHWH, the Creator’s Name. Ba’al means “Lord” in Hebrew. In Hebrew there is no deception, His Name is YHWH, (which is how the Hebrew reads) but in English there is no right answer from which to choose, both mean Lord. YHWH tells us to stop calling Him “my Lord” (Hosea 2:16-Baali means “my Lord”). Friends, what we have here is a dual counterfeit; one is obvious, the other not-so-obvious.

Which day do YOU keep holy?

• Sunday, the current first day of the pagan Roman/papal calendar

• Saturday, the current seventh day of the pagan

Roman/papal calendar. I say “current” because these days were not always the first and seventh days of the week, respectively. As a side note, I find it very interesting that we pronounce the “n” in woden’s day (wednesday), but we don’t for “saturn’s day” (saturday). Have you ever heard of a satyr? The cloven footed half-man, half-goat—the universal symbol of Satan himself?

Sunday is the obvious fraud. Only the enemies of YHWH would observe Sunday, in honor of the pagan sun-god. But every satyrday, of every week, of every year, Sabbatarians everywhere, in spite of themselves, worship on satyrday — a day named after Satan himself.

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Very cleverly, the Adversary receives his worship every week, all year long, by sincere folks who believe they are following YHWH. Friends, what we have here is a dual counterfeit; one is obvious, the other not-so-obvious. Even if Saturday really is named after Saturn, don’t think we are going to get off the hook so easily. Saturn worship is the oldest form of Satanism and is clearly and historically linked to Satyr, the horned goat. The Adversary does not care how you spell his many different names, or under which one you worship, as long as you do not worship YHWH. Please feel free to connect the dots… Satan (or Pan) is also called the “Horned God”. Pan a lusty satyr, half-man, half-goat, was given to every form of licentiousness and debauchery. Kronos, the father of the gods……for a certain wicked deed, was called Titan, and cast down to hell. Kronos is none other than Satan himself. Titan, or Teitan, as it is sometimes spelled, is the Chaldee form of the Hebrew word Sheitan (Satan), the common name for the Adversary. In the region where the Chaldean Mysteries were originally concocted,--that Adversary who was ultimately the real father of all the pagan gods,--and who (to make the title of Kronos (Saturn), “the Horned One,” appropriate to him also) was symbolized by the Kerastes, the Horned serpent. Horned goat, horned serpent, father of the gods….hmm. Kronos claims to be in charge of TIME! Kronos is where we get our word Chronology, the study of time. Kronos, said another way, is also known as Father Time. Cue Scriptural support: Daniel 7:25, see also Isaiah 14… For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of Elohim: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. Isaiah 14:13-14 The word congregation here is the Hebrew word Mo’edim, which means “appointed times”. A mountain in Scripture is a controlling power or authoritarian presence. The prophecy above is proclaiming that someone will claim to sit on the mount of YHWH’s appointed times. He is saying that he will control the calendar, and the appointed times. And indeed he does, but only in the hearts and minds of his followers, having no control of YHWH’s calendar appointed times. Now, the name Saturn in Chaldee is pronounced Satur; but, as every Chaldee scholar knows, consists only of four letters, thus — S T U R. This name contains exactly the Apocalyptic number 666… S = 60 T = 400 U = 6 R = 200

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The information in the bold green font on the page above was gleaned from Alexander Hislop’s classic, The Two Babylons. Truth is a two edged sword. If we are going to condemn “sunday” observance as worshipping on the “venerable day of the sun,” satyrday Sabbath keepers need to look in the mirror. Is worshipping on a day named after Satan any better? Satyrday bears the name of our enemy. Here is the history of the more modern calendar... consider this MORE evidence that satyrday is NOT the Sabbath of YHWH. In the first century, Rome was not officially keeping the planetary week. They were aware of it, but the official Roman calendar was the Roman Republican calendar, which had an 8 day market calendar.

The actual Julian calendar represented here is from the time when the Julian calendar was already well-established. Although the original calendar of the Roman Republican period was replaced, some conventions of the earlier Republican era calendar continued to be maintained in the new calendar. One important feature carried over into the Julian Calendar from the earlier Republican Calendar was the 8 day “market” cycle, represented by letters A through H on the calendar. The 7-day Roman planetary week (7 day cycle named after the planet gods) had not yet evolved and is nowhere to be found on this first century Julian calendar. As we shall see, the 7-day planetary week was a later innovation initially unrelated to market day To assume that Israel observed the pagan seven day planetary week in the first century when Rome themselves did not is sheer lunacy. Rome did not officially adopt the seven day planetary week until A.D. 321 when Emperor Constantine became a “christian”. At that time, saturn’s day was the 1st day of the seven day planetary week, not the 7th. Below is a sketch of the planetary week, circa 100 B.C.

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saturn’s day, sun’s day, moon’s day, mars’ day, mercury’s day, jupiter’s day, venus’ day

Rome ruled the world in the first century B.C., thus the Roman numerals, but this is not a Roman calendar. This is the pagan seven day planetary week as it existed from about 600 B.C., until A.D. 321 when Constantine venerated the day of the sun. Constantine worshiped Mithra, the Persian version of the sun god. He did not want the day of the sun taking a back seat to saturn, so when he venerated the day of the sun all he did was bump satyrday from the coveted #1 position in the week all the way to the seventh day, which was vacated by all the other days moving up one position in the weekly cycle, permitting the sun’s day to hold the preeminent position. The sketch above came from this clay calendar tablet (below left). You see, the dirty little secret is out. Satyrday was not the seventh day of the week anywhere on

the planet until A.D. 321, and then by virtue of Constantine, not the Creator Almighty, so it certainly was NOT the Sabbath of Israel at any time in earth’s history. Indeed, sunday has never rightly been called the seventh day of the week, but satyrday, the day Bro. McHyde WISHES to call the seventh day of the week has only been the seventh day of the week for 1700 years. Satyrday is a day created, named and found exclusively on a pagan calendar. How then is it the Scriptural Sabbath?

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Whoever is in charge is in charge of the calendar. The calendar you observe tells you when to work and when to worship. WHEN you worship tells heaven and the on-looking universe WHO you worship, so getting the day right is THAT serious. Brother McHyde, the pagan planetary week was specifically and exclusively designed to worship the pagan gods in the heavens. YHWH did not adopt the pagan planetary week to embed His Sabbath in, He has his own calendar. You THINK you are worshipping the Creator, but you are doing it on the wrong calendar. And while YHWH will wink at our ignorance for a while, He will not always remain patient when modern Israel is just as stiff-necked as ancient Israel. Wow, that was fun. And THAT Bro. McHyde is how you present evidence, and THAT is what you call proof. Your tradition is not proof. It is not even truth. You just go on and believe whatever fairy tail you want, just stay out of the way of truthseekers and especially Lunar Sabbath keepers. None of us just thought we would invent some little doctrine then bend and twist Scripture, history and nature to suite our desires and opinions. We want to serve YHWH in whatever capacity we can, being as obedient as we can. And since He established the Lunar Sabbath at Creation, the least we could do is find a way to obey. If the least you can do is make excuses for your satyrday observance (since you clearly have no evidence, much less proof), so be it. We have Scripture, nature and the historical record to support our conclusion, you have your tradition. If you can live with that, so be it. Oh, yeah, I'm STILL not done. Remember Philo, the first century Hebrew historian? He was a man chosen by the nation of Israel to be a part of a delegation sent to Rome to represent the interests of Israel before the Roman Emperor. You don't get chosen to represent Israel if you are not in line with the mainstream Israelite belief system. Wanna know what he said about the Sabbath? Bro. McHyde probably does not, but perhaps you do... In order to have a lunar Sabbath, you must have a lunar “week”. Did Philo link the Sabbath or the week with the phases of the moon? Yes, in fact the lunar week and lunar Sabbath are the only week or Sabbath mentioned in Philo’s writings. Notice that the number seven, the weeks, the Sabbath and the moon are all linked together in Philo’s writings… In Allegorical Interpretation, 1 IV (8), it says: “Again, the periodical changes of the moon, take place according to the number seven, that star having the greatest sympathy with the things on earth. And the changes which the moon works in the air, it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each seventh day. At all events, all mortal things, as I have said before, drawing their more divine nature from the heaven, are moved in a manner which tends to their preservation in accordance with this number seven. … Accordingly, on the seventh day, Elohim caused to rest from all his works which he had made.”

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Elsewhere in his writings, Philo identifies that when he mentions the seventh day [of the week] he is speaking of the Sabbath. Above, he tells us that the moon perfects its own configurations on each seventh day. It was understood, that at the end each period of six work days there would be a weekly Sabbath. The Greek speaking Jews referred to the Sabbath as the seventh day or the sacred seventh day, while in the language of the Hebrews it was termed Shabbat, or the Sabbath. Continuing on with Philo: The Decalogue XXX (159), says: “But to the seventh day of the week he has assigned the greatest festivals, those of the longest duration, at the periods of the equinox both vernal and autumnal in each year; appointing two festivals for these two epochs, each lasting seven days; the one which takes place in the spring being for the perfection of what is being sown, and the one which falls in autumn being a feast of thanksgiving for the bringing home of all the fruits which the trees have produced.” Let’s look carefully at what Philo is saying. To the seventh day of the week He [YHWH Almighty] has assigned the greatest festivals, in other words the greatest (longest) festivals have been assigned to the seventh day of the week. Philo, keeping the same luni-solar calendar established in Scripture, calls the first day of each of these seven day feasts the “seventh day of the week”. Scripture says that both of the seven day feasts (Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) begin on the 15th day of their respective months. See Leviticus 23:5-6 and 23:34. Friend, the seventh day of the week is the Sabbath, is it not? It is the seventh day of the week EVERY year. If the 15th is the weekly Sabbath, so are the 8th, 22nd and 29th days of the month. Notice Philo did not say they would receive two holydays of festivals, but one, the 15th. Non-Lunar Sabbatarian feast keepers insist that there will be a satyrday Sabbath that interrupts these seven day feasts, and indeed, if the Gregorian calendar were the calendar of Scripture that would be true. But Scripture says nothing of a [satyrday] Sabbath in the middle of these 7 day feasts. To prove the seventh day of the week is the same as the 15th, elsewhere Philo states, “And this feast is begun on the fifteenth day of the month, in the middle of the month, on the day on which the moon is full of light, in consequence on the providence of Elohim taking care that there shall be no darkness on that day.” Special Laws II, The Fifth Festival, Section XXVIII (155) In other words, Philo is saying the weekly Sabbath begins these feasts, and is on the 15th. This proves the Sabbaths by the lunar calendar is true and the Gregorian false because there is no way satyrday can begin these two festivals on the 15th day of the month in the 1st and 7th month each year, on a continuous seven day cycle employed by the Gregorian calendar we have today. Speaking of “lunar” intervals, in Special Laws I. (178), Philo writes… “…there is one principle of reason by which the moon waxes and wanes in equal intervals, both as it increases and diminishes in illumination; the seven lambs because it receives the perfect shapes in periods of seven days—the half-moon in the first seven day period after its conjunction with the sun, full moon in the second; and when it makes its return again, the first is to half-moon, then it ceases at its conjunction with the sun.” [All emphasis supplied by Troy Miller.]

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The half-moon (first quarter moon) announces the first Sabbath of the month. It is the 7th day of the week, naturally, but this is the 8th day of the month. New moon days are not counted against the week. The full moon rising at the end of the 14th day of the month announces the 15th as the second Sabbath of the month. If the new moon was counted, the quarter phases (or as Philo describes them, the moon as it perfects in its own configurations on each seventh day) would not come at the end of the week, disconnecting the perfection of the lunar cycle from the Sabbath. What YHWH has joined together, let not man put asunder. Philo gives a second witness in On Mating with the Preliminary Studies, XIX (102)… “For it is said in the Scripture: On the tenth day of this month let each of them take a sheep according to his house; in order that from the tenth, there may be consecrated to the tenth, that is to Elohim, the sacrifices which have been preserved in the soul, which is illuminated in two portions out of the three, until it is entirely changed in every part, and becomes a heavenly brilliancy like a full moon, at the height of its increase at the end of the second week”. This statement needs no interpretation and is impossible to misunderstand. If a teaching requires you suspend good common sense, [Note: by common sense, Bro. McHyde means his personal tradition and opinion. Nothing more, nothing less.] such as how to count properly, then do not accept it no matter how much "supernatural" or even scriptural confirmation you believe you have received. [I see. We have a thus saith YHWH, we have 2-3 witnesses, we have Isaiah 8:20, so we have Scriptural evidence. We have the historical record. Nature corroborates what Scripture and history reveals. All nature screams the majesty of YHWH. Nature does not lie, men do. So it does not matter that all this evidence confirms the Lunar Sabbath, because it messes with Bro. McHyde's sense of what is common. Dude, you don't get to put Yah in a box. He is the Potter, we are the clay. You don't get to pick and choose what is true. Either do or do not. You've stated your case. It was weak--flimsy at best. You had your shot, you did not come prepared to defend what you believe. I did. Deal with it.] You can support anything from the Bible to fool people who have not yet acquired well-developed discernment and critical thinking skills (skills that are not stressed in our education systems which reward you mainly for accepting and regurgitating what your teachers tell you). You cannot support just anything from Scripture. This is why we were told to search the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so (Acts 17:10-11). This is why we were told to try the spirits, because not every spirit is from YHWH (I John 4:1). This is why we were told to prove all things, hold fast that which is true (I Thessalonians 5:21). And if you apply the Truth Tests provided on pp 12-13 above, you will learn how to discern what is truth and never fall for a lie, a false doctrine or a false teacher (like our intrepid Bro. McHyde). Only pew warmers, the willfully ignorant and fools will fall for whatever comes from their preachers, teachers or churches. We were instructed how to be truth seekers in both the OT and the NT. Not applying that wisdom will lead you to cast your lot with men like Bro. McHyde, those who speak before they have examined the evidence (Proverbs 18:13), those who think they stand, but who are about to fall (II Corinthians 10:12) and those who think NOTHING of inserting, insinuating their own tradition into Scripture, then reading and interpreting (twisting) the Scriptures toward their own conclusion, when it is all a lie (Proverbs 30:6).

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Go here to comment about the Lunar Sabbath Debunked Oh, don't get me started! LOL The link does not work. I tried it. Oh well, another time maybe. There you have it ladies and gentlemen of the jury. What say you? Did Tim McHyde present any evidence in support of satyrday being the Sabbath? Did he offer any evidence that the Sabbath is every 7th day in an unbroken cycle? Did he ignore a TON of evidence along the way in his zeal to prove a lie? Tim McHyde is just another in a long line of men/woman who think they know the truth when all they know and understand is their tradition, the lies taught to them by churchianity. Face it, the truth does not sell many tickets; it is not very attractive to men's carnal nature. But a cleverly packaged lie and a few smooth words will appeal to the itching ears of non-truth seekers everywhere. So the question is, would you rather stand in line and believe a lie or stand alone and accept the truth? “All error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because no one will see it.” Gandhi “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right.” Thomas Paine. “Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.” James Harvey Robinson. “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance; that principle is contempt prior to investigation.” Herbert Spencer Ladies and gentlemen, may I suggest to you that the express purpose of Bro. McHyde's article against the Lunar Sabbath has been to keep you in everlasting ignorance. I would like to appeal to your "common sense" to decline his invitation. Respectfully submitted, Troy Miller www.CreationCalendar.com