Oh my, Lew White used over a dozen different colored fonts in this article and about as many different fonts themselves. This makes my ability to respond difficult because I usually use a different colored font from the original writer so as to distinguish my rebuttal from his/her false accusations against the Lunar Sabbath. He uses a black font primarily, as well as three shades of teal, three shades of blue, three shades of green, orange, pink, purple, red and dark red. I guess I will respond in brown, [bracketed in brown in mid paragraph], a little gold, and a little slime green, and perhaps a little light purple as well as write TM before my stand alone responses. If all these colors make you as nauseas as they do me, I will try to keep it simple. Lew White does not know this, but his book, Fossilized Customs, was a HUGE influence on me and was very instrumental in my journey toward truth. I have even spoken to him on the phone. His book helped me to recognize that paganism has pervaded christianity, helped me understand the feasts better, and also that the men in the positions of spiritual authority can and MUST be questioned and held accountable. For that, I owe him a great debt of gratitude. Now, probably much to his dismay, I am going to practice just that, and I'm going to ask you, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, to join me. We are going to question everything Lew White alleges about the Sabbath established at Creation, the Lunar Sabbath and the weekly Sabbath he observes. The student is going to practice what he has been taught by the teacher. But even if I am successful, I do not believe for an instant that it is possible to teach Lew White anything. White is an eccentric, thinks outside the box and is not your regular pew warmer. Nothing wrong with that if employed properly, and if you care to join me on this journey, I am as curious as you about how this is going to turn out. But I will say this: No one has successfully brought a charge against the Lunar Sabbath, and Bro. White will not be the first. Dated 5-7-2018

LUNAR SABBATH SYSTEM?

article by Lew White

SEE (sic) ALSO www.fossilizedcustoms.com/lunarsabbath.html

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TM: I have been outside during a full moon. It seems that I was completely unaware that Lew White snapped a photo of me. I suppose the only legal reason I cannot sue him for publishing a photo of me without my permission is that you cannot identify me in silhouette. [I'm joking.]

~ Or, as some will insist: 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th ~

TM: Look at the lunar illustration above. Does it LOOK confusing? Looks rather uniform, balanced, even, symmetrical and natural to me. I could not have created a better illustration. For the sake of this argument, we are going to stick with 8, 15, 22 and 29. The 14th day of the first lunar month, Abib 14, is Passover, a preparation day for the Sabbath of Unleavened Bread (Abib 15). So the 14th can never be a weekly Sabbath; it is a work day. There are new Lunar Sabbatarians who inadvertently come to the conclusion that the Sabbaths are the 7th, 14th, 21st and 28th days of the month, but the math simply does not work (or they learn these were the Babylonian Sabbaths) and the quickly adopt the accurate dates.

LUNAR SABBATH: LIKE "SUN-DAY", AN ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION

TM: And his evidence is...where? These are strong words. Let's see if he bothers to try to back them up with something called evidence or if he merely wishes you to accept his word for it.

THE TEMPLE NOT MADE WITH HANDS IS THE BRIDE OF YAHUSHA. HE IS THE

'MASTER OF THE SABBATH', AND THE SABBATH IS THE SIGN OF THE EVERLASTING COVENANT (EZ 20). IF A TEACHING REMOVES THIS SIGN AND

SETS UP AN ABOMINATION THAT "DESOLATES" THE COVENANT, AND ITS SIGN, WE HAVE TURNED ASIDE TO MYTHS AND DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.

TM: The Zen Master has spoken. Bro. White alludes to Mark 14:58, but the context of the verse says nothing about the temple made without hands being the bride of Yahusha. Rather, the illusion is that the man from Galilee is referring to his body, the mortal temple. If Yahusha is the master of the Sabbath, then he was so in a masterly fashion. Every weekly Sabbath that can be date identified in the NT fell on either the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th days of the month, without exception, same as the OT. http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/28-8-15-22-29_Proof.pdf. See the study at this link.

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Indeed, the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant, and the Sabbath is also identified as a sign in Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20:20. And Genesis 1:16 says that the signs (using the SAME Hebrew word in the three other verses listed) would be regulated by either the sun or the moon--one of the great lights in the heavens. Lunar Sabbatarians do not remove this sign, we embrace it fully. Bro. White, can you go outside and look at the sun and tell whether it is satyrday or the Sabbath? No, the sun looks the same every day. The moon, however, is a different story. See photo on previous page. Thanks Bro. White, the photo is great illustration of how simple the truth is.

Circumambulating or "Tawaf " is discussed near the bottom of this page. Moon

dancing too . . .

TM: Huh? Remember, I mentioned that Bro. White is rather eccentric? Be prepared for lots of odd, out of place statements like this. Consider them for what they are, a deliberate distraction. EVIDENCE FOR 7-DAY PATTERN NOT BASED ON THE MOON: TM: Look at that photo on the previous page again. How many days between 1-8 (seven). How many between 8-15 (seven). Try 15-22 (seven). And 22-29? Seven. See the perfect balance between the phases of the moon on 7 day intervals? Read pages 39-41 now if you want. QUESTION asked by Lunar Sabbathers: "Can any evidence be found in Scripture of a repeating 7-day pattern?" TM: I ask this question all the time. And no one, including Lew White, will offer a text that says that the Sabbath is on an unbroken, repeating 7 day cycle. The ONLY reason he thinks that the weeks are on a repeating 7 day pattern is he reads the passages he will no doubt offer below, then he looks at the pagan/papal calendar and draws the conclusion that the 7 day weeks spoken of in Scripture repeat as they do on the Gregorian calendar. And I will soon show you that the texts he offers do not at all say what he THINKS they say... THE ANSWER WILL CAUSE PARADIGM-COLLAPSE TRAUMA: TM: You can look up "paradigm collapse trauma" in a medical dictionary and you will learn that it does not exist. It is something Bro. White has made up. When he makes up terms that are not directed at you or what you believe, he can be quite clever. ANSWER: First, look in any concordance for the word "week" (Hebrew, SHABUA, #7620). This word is based on the word SHEBA, "7". [True.] The word Sabbaton is used 58 times in the Messianic writings, or Brit Chadasha, and translated as the 7th day of the week, or weekly Sabbath day. [Not sure why Bro. White thinks what the Brit Chadasha (the NT) has to say about the Sabbath is so important.

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Last I knew the Sabbath command originated in the Old Testament (OT). The Hebrew word for Sabbath (H7676, Shabbat) appears 111 times in 89 verses in the OT. The Hebrew word for week (H7620, Shabua) appears 19 times in 16 verses in the OT. The Hebrew word for seven (7651, sheba) appears in the OT 395 times in 346 verses. And get this, the Hebrew root word for "week" and "seven" is H7650 (Shawbah) and the root word for Sabbath is H7673 (Shawbath). So, in reality, even though all three of these words have a "sh", and "a" and a "b" in them, in Hebrew, seven and week are NOT related linguistically to the word Sabbath. Please note that this entire paragraph is an effort to link the seven to the word Sabbath. I am not denying that there are seven days in a week and that same week ends in a Sabbath, but it is a false assumption to ASSUME that these words are related. Two, Too and To are all spelled similarly in English, they even SOUND the same, but they are not related. How the Greek words are related or interrelated is irrelevant. The Sabbath command was not originally given in Greek.] But, in 9 other cases, it is translated as "week", referring to the cycle or period of 7 days we are familiar with. [Um, no it is referring to a week. ONE week. A repeating cycle is neither mentioned nor implied. Again, Bro. White reads these verses, then looks at the Gregorian calendar and makes the diabolic leap of faith that the word week spoken of in the New Testament is referring to the Roman calendar week.] Further, at Lev. 23:15,16 the weekly Sabbaths are used to count off 7 Sabbaths. It tells us to count 7 "completed Sabbaths", up until the "morrow after the seventh Sabbath", you count 50 days. [The phrase "Sabbath complete" is a Hebrew idiom that means a complete seven day week.] Do the math. [Please, do the math. Bro. White, were you told to count days from wavesheaf? No, you were told to number 50 days AFTER you get to the morrow after the seventh Sabbath complete. You are adding ONE day after the seventh Sabbath and calling it 50 days when you were not told to number ONE day after the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, you were told to add 50. More complete evidence coming up.] This is another example, and even numbers the total elapsed days involved, so we know that "Shabuoth" falls on the 1st day of the week each year. [Um, no it does not. Bro. White, Fossilize this. You are repeating the Catholic count to Pentecost. You recognize the pagan holidays, but you fail to recognize when the papacy has usurped the Father's holidays.] As Brian Allen recently pointed out, if the weekly Sabbath were governed by the moon, you'd run into trouble reconciling the "7 Sabbaths" within this 50 days, because you'd have 2 new moons falling within this period. [Brian Allen is also observing the Catholic count to Pentecost. More complete evidence coming up.] The way they (Lunar Sabbathers) figure it, you'd have more than 7 Sabbaths within 50 days' time (in just 30 days, the lunar Sabbath folks calculate 6 Sabbaths, and so they reach their count to the day after their 7th Sabbath in only 37 days). [Well, either Bro. White does not have a clue what Lunar Sabbath keepers believe or he thinks to slander us with impunity. New Moon days are not Sabbaths. The only New Moon that is called or counted as a Sabbath is the seventh New Moon, Feast of Trumpets, which is not part of the initial count toward Pentecost.] The 50th day, called "Pentecost" (Greek, "count fifty"), is our (Israel's) Wedding Anniversary, commemorating the giving of the Torah at Sinai, and should be the day after the 7th Sabbath.

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[The command was given in Hebrew, not Greek. And it is true, Shavuot is a memorial of the receiving of the law, but not when Bro. White and Brian Allen think. Evidence forthcoming.] Instead of taking 49 days to get there, they reach 7 Sabbaths in only 37 days. [Oh brother. No, we reach 7 Sabbaths at the end of the seventh Sabbath complete, you know it is kinda commanded that way. Does Bro. White think Lunar Sabbath keepers are so ignorant that we cannot count seven Sabbaths? The implication of the Hebrew idiom "Sabbath complete" is a complete seven day week. Seven of them. This is a very false and misleading accusation, one that he will be eating when I get to the end of this VERY long paragraph. Salt, pepper?] Shabuoth (weeks) is the plural of Shabua (week), and is a High Sabbath, and follows the weekly 7th-day Sabbath. In another place, Sabbatical "years" are explained (7 cycles of 7 years each, sheba shabbathot shanah, seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years, Lev. 25:8), so that we can determine when the year of Jubilee arrives, the 50th year of the cycle. [I'm glad Bro. White brought this up. Please note that the 50th year (Jubilee year) interrupts the seven land Sabbath cycles. The land Sabbath cycle is not a repeating seven year cycle. And neither are the Hebrew weeks a repeating seven day cycle. Evidence forthcoming. I need to get out of the confines of this very long paragraph in order to truly address these false accusations.] Remember, SHABUA means week, and SHABUOTH means weeks. A Shabua would represent a "complete" week of seven days, from day 1 through Shabbath, the seventh day. After that, we have “the first day of the week” starting over again, as most of us can wrap our minds around that concept. [So can Lunar Sabbath keepers. We can number seven days of the week as well as any 4-5 year old. It ain't rocket science. The problem is that just like the papacy and the Gregorian calendar, Bro. White and Brian Allen do not understand that the New Moon days are not week days, they are a third category of day. Evidence forthcoming, the end of this looooong paragraph is at hand.] The week of 7 days cannot be altered by mankind. The seven lampstands on the menorah remain an eternal sign of Yahuah’s Torah, and the seven days of the week remain an eternal sign of Yahuah’s act of creation. TM: Free at last.

-- PARADIGM-COLLAPSE EXPRESSION -- MENORAH

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TM: Yes, Lunar Sabbath keepers are wondering, same as you, just what a Paradigm Collapse Expression is for or about or what causes it. The seven wicks on the Menorah is never linked to the seven days of the week anywhere in Scripture. To claim that they are linked without Scriptural support is unwise. Add thou not unto His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Proverbs 30:6 However, we are not at all confused about the New Moon or the count to Pentecost and I am going to make good on my promise for evidence that proves Bro. White and Brian Allen wrong while at the same time proves the Lunar Sabbath. 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. Looks like this....

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) 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 White, “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.

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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. 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 following three studies will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Feast of Weeks (a.k.a. Pentecost) is in the summer, not a mere 50 days from wavesheaf: 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. 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. 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 YHWH. 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. Count the underlined days on this calendar....

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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 light purple, 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. 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.

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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. Yes, Israel received the law at Pentecost, but it was not on or about the 6th day of the third month. The evidence: Exodus 19:1 says that the children of Israel arrived at Sinai on the 16th day of the third month. Please read the context. Moses indicates that the children of Israel rested at Rephidim the 15th of the third month. The root word for Rephidim means “rest” and this passage says that they arrived at the Wilderness of Sinai the “same day” of this month that they left Egypt (two months earlier). If you’ll remember, Israel got as far as Succoth the 15th, and actually left Egypt the on the 16th. Numbers 33:3-6. [Note: The Abib 14 is Passover day. To my present knowledge, the events that followed took place after even, making it the dark portion of the 14th when YHWH actually “passed over” Egypt, proving that the days begin at dawn, not even, otherwise, the Death Angel broke the Sabbath by killing the Egyptians during the Sabbath hours. Israel left after the Death Angel passed over, leaving early on Abib 15.] “And it happened in the first year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the 3rd month, on the 16th of this month, and YHWH spoke to Moshe saying: “Ascend to me here on the mountain, and I will give to thee the two stone tablets of the law and the commandments; as I have written them, thou shalt make them known.” Jubilees 1:1. Their arrival date, the 16th of Sivan (the third month) is well past our present count to Feast of Weeks which occurs the 6th, 7th or 8th of Sivan (depending on who is counting). The 29th day of the 4th month is Feast of Weeks, here’s another witness. Exodus 19:1 places our starting point in the 3rd month. Israel arrived at Sinai on the 16th (which is the 1st day of the week) and Moses was immediately summoned up the mount. YHWH told Moses to go back down the mountain and to tell the people to consecrate themselves for on the third day of the week (the 18th) He would come down on the mount in a cloud, Exodus 19:10-11. At the set time, YHWH comes down from heaven and the Ten Words came thundering down the mount, (Exodus 20:1-17). The people drew back in fear so YHWH calls Moses up and verbally gives him the remaining part of the covenant. In Exodus 24:1-3 we find Moses giving an oral dissertation of what he heard on the mount and the children of Israel agreeing to the terms of the covenant. Moses then spends that night (of the 18th) writing down the terms of the covenant. The next morning (the day of the 19th) Moses rose and built an altar, offered sacrifices and then read the terms of the covenant to the people who once again agree to the terms, (Exodus 24:4-7). After this, Moses is again called up on Mount Sinai where he stayed 40 days and 40 nights.

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Notice that in Leviticus 23 we are told to count “seven Sabbaths complete” and here we are told to count 40 days and 40 nights. By counting 40 days and nights, we must count even the new moon days, because they ARE a day. However, when counting “Sabbaths complete” we only count a six work day/Sabbath sequence, not the days of the rebuilding of the moon. Now, from the 19th of the third month, count 40 days. You again end up on the 29th of the fourth month. Evidence that this particular day is a feast day—see Exodus 32:1-6. Aaron used the word Chag (H2282) which is used 62 times in Scripture and is only used to refer to the pilgrimage feast days (found in Exodus 23:14-17), in this case Pentecost, the 29th day of the 4th month. Aaron knew it was a feast day for it was his job as high priest to proclaim the feasts of YHWH; he just celebrated it the wrong way and YHWH was wroth. On this same day (the day Aaron said was a feast ("chag") unto YHWH) Moses came down the mountain with the tables of the covenant, Exodus 32:7-20. Count the underlined days... 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 40 days from when Moses 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <= came down Mt. Sinai.

Not to be lost is the fact that the Law was indeed delivered at Feast of Weeks, in written form, not orally on the 6th of Sivan, as Israel did not arrive at Sinai until the 16th. At the end of the 40 days and 40 nights, Moses received the tablets of stone, Deuteronomy 9:11. Granted, Moses broke them in a fit of rage, but the Law was indeed sent down the mount to the people at “Pentecost.” Remember, YHWH came upon the Mount on the 18th day of the third month, well after the day presently observed as Feast of Weeks (the 6th of Sivan) which is in early June on the Roman calendar. This cannot be overlooked and should not be lightly regarded or ignored. There is always perfect harmony in the truth. Oh, and we are not done counting the evidence... The Natural world—it takes wheat more than 50 days to reach maturity. Now there are some who say that the wheat spoken of for the Feast of Weeks is sown in the fall along with the barely and matures a few weeks after the barley is harvested. And yes, this would permit a wheat harvest on or about the 6th day of the third month. The problem with this theology is that there are too many witnesses placing the wheat harvest late in the fourth month. This is the type of “contradiction” that sets Bereans searching for answers. The answers are found in both Scripture and the natural world.

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Nature: The compelling fact is that there are 2 types of wheat. Winter wheat is planted in late fall and takes 7 months to mature (about early June), then there is spring wheat (planted in the spring) which takes 4 months to mature. (<Remember this). Which one was planted in Exodus 9 and is referred to for Feast of Weeks? We agree that maybe both types of wheat are now planted in the Middle East. But this doesn’t answer the second part of the question above. Scripture: Let’s examine Exodus 9:18-35 and the plague of hail that destroyed Egypt. In verses 31-32 we will find our answer. The flax was ready to harvest and the barley was near ready. Both crops were a total loss. When sown, winter wheat very quickly sends up a 4-6 inch blade of grass which winters over, then as the days get longer and warmer, it begins to mature. The wheat was not destroyed in the plague of hail because it was “not grown up”. The Hebrew for this phrase means hidden or in the dark. By calculating the time between plagues, the hail fell on or about the 10th day of Abib. The significance of this is that the wheat in question had just been sown a short time before the plague and had not yet germinated. It was hidden in the dark, buried in the earth. This phrase “hidden in the dark” does not mean that the wheat grass was dark green (not ready to harvest) and somehow survived the hail. Scripture does not permit this understanding. At the time of the barley harvest, winter wheat would already be sending up stalks. Said another way, it would be very much above ground. If in doubt, notice that “every herb of the field” was also smitten, Exodus 9:22-25. Strong’s concordance (H# 6212) says that this word herb means “to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot): grass, herb.” If the winter wheat had not yet sent up a stalk, it was certainly in grass form, and therefore would have been destroyed by the hail. The Torah says that the wheat was not destroyed. So what wheat was used for Feast of Weeks? Regardless of what type is traditionally held, this wheat is indisputably spring wheat. Now that we have established that the ancient wheat crop was planted in Spring followed by a Summer harvest, would you like to see if I can provide any other witnesses? Speaking of the ancient Near East, The Historical Atlas of the Bible, page 11, says this…

“Cereals were the main agricultural crops, as wheat and barley are indigenous to the region. Barley was a currency in Mesopotamia as early as 2000 BC. Modern bread wheat is a hybrid crop, but the ancient native emmer wheat is still grown widely as it is much hardier.” Do you suppose that emmer wheat was also planted in ancient Egypt? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmer says: “Emmer [Triticum dicoccum] had a special place in ancient Egypt, where it was the main wheat cultivated in Pharaonic times….” Care to guess when emmer wheat is planted and harvested? Early Spring, and amazingly it is harvested 16-20 weeks [4-5 months] after being sown.

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Which can be learned here: www.bountifulgardens.org/Wheat-Red-Emmer-Organic/productinfo/GWH-7525/. http://archaeology.about.com/od/eterms/qt/Emmer-Wheat.htm says this: “The earliest evidence of the use of emmer wheat is from the site of Ohalo II, where hunter-gatherers collected wild emmer [thousands of] years ago, on the shore of the sea of Galilee in what is today Israel.” Friends, I’m not making this up. I’ve been able to read since I was 5-6 years old. Would you consider what I’ve presented above to be something akin to rocket science, or something a 5-6 year old child COULD have understood had he or she had read about it? According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture it takes 110-120 days for spring wheat to mature, so we need an accurate count to get us to that point. From the 16th Abib, 7 Sabbaths complete is 49 days. Added in this count are 2-4 new moon days (we’ll use three for this count) that are not figured in the weekly cycle, but are days in the sun for the wheat. 49 + 3 = 52. The morrow after the 7th Sabbath, adds one day to make 53. Now add 50 more. 49 + 3 + 1 + 50 = 103 days. Since this wheat is planted on or about the first work day of spring (Abib 2), we can safely add 14 or more days for a total of 117 days. Right on time for a new meat offering when there are also grapes in the field. Count the underlined days...

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 22 117 days from the sowing 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 <= of the summer wheat

Does 117 fall between 110 and 120? Yes it does. This is called corroborative evidence. There is always perfect harmony in the truth.

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The last bit of evidence is in red lettering in my KJV. I am using red here because that is how it printed in the KJV. [Do you remember when I asked you to remember that it takes 4 months for spring wheat to mature?] This event recorded below took place in the month of Abib, shortly after Passover when the man from Galilee cleared the temple the first time, John 2:13-16. After an evening meeting with Nicodemus (3:1-21), he headed to Judea for a short visit with John who was in that region (3:22-36), then headed toward Galilee, (4:1-3). On the way, the carpenter from Nazareth, exhausted by the quick trip, stopped in Samaria to rest (4:4) where he encountered a woman at the well, (4:7-26). Later when his disciples had returned with food, they said, …Master, eat. But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Yahshua saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work. Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. John 4:31-35 It was the first month when Yahusha made this statement! Wheat is white when it is ready to harvest! From the beginning of Abib to the end of the 4th month, is four months. When the disciples turned around, all they saw were little spikes of green because the wheat had just been planted, however Yahusha spoke of a harvest of souls, not the wheat. Without question, this precludes “Pentecost” from occurring in early June. But I am not done with the NT just yet. There is MORE evidence that Bro. White does err, not knowing the Scriptures OR nature or that nature is the first gospel. All nature screams the majesty of YHWH. Nature does not lie, men do. Nature is far from finished weighing in on this subject. The rye was also not smitten along with the wheat in Exodus 9:32. As any farmer knows, and one farmer in particular that I know who caught this and brought it to my attention, rye is planted in the fall and WOULD have been destroyed by a hail storm in the spring. The underlying Hebrew word translated as rye is spelt or fitches. Spelt is also planted in the fall, so this can also be ruled out as it would have been destroyed by the hail also. However, fitches (vetch or black cumin) IS planted in the spring after the last frost and it is native to northern Africa meaning it would have been planted in Egypt in Exodus 9:32. Scholars admit that “rye” is a bad translation for this verse. Naturally, spelt would have been an equally bad translation, so it should have been translated as fitches, which are sown in early spring and harvested 4 months later, JUST like spring wheat. Regarding vetch or black cumin: “Throughout its history, and still to this day, this spice is harvested by hand which takes place about 4 months after sowing.” http://www.bespokespices.com/cumin-plant.html Acts 2:1, 13 says that the disciples were accused of being drunk with new wine after Pentecost had “fully come.” These men knew that there was new wine available otherwise they would have been laughed to scorn. But Peter, who was rather hot headed, doesn’t correct their agricultural assessment, but simply says that they were not drunk as supposed. If Pentecost was in early june, Peter COULD have chewed them a new one, but didn't. Why? Because there is no new wine in early June, but there is at Pentecost. Here is a passage where nature meets Scripture:

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Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Daniel 2:35 Do you know what harvest produces chaff when it is threshed? Wheat! Can you practice your 2nd grade skills and read what season this was? Summer! Behold the Word: Nehemiah 12:44. There are only three times in the year when Israel was to bring a tithe of first fruits. Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Harvest or Tabernacles. Which feast time is Nehemiah in reference to here? See also Nehemiah 13:5 and 13:12 tells us that new wine and oil was also offered at this time. This is, by default, the tithe of Feast of Weeks because the new wine and oil are summer harvests. Nehemiah 13:15 even records that the sheaves were being brought in from the fields along with wine and grapes. Add Joel 2:15-19 and 2:23-24, he speaks of a time when wheat is still on the threshing floor while new wine and new oil are in the vats. See also Haggai 1:10-11, Numbers 18:11-12 and suddenly if you are scoring this at home, we have compiled a rather lengthy list (well more than 2-3 witnesses) that place the harvests of wheat, grapes and olives in the SAME season, and it is NOT late spring. Grape vines … grown either in vineyards or…around houses and courtyards, have long

flexible stems with tendrils and lobed leaves. Short flower heads grow among the new leaves in early summer, and the numerous tiny flowers develop into a cluster of round sweet grapes… Holman Bible Dictionary, 1991 edit., p. 1118.

Grapes FLOWER in early summer, so grapes are not even possible until later. Olive trees … are small rounded orchard trees with narrow gray-green leaves and small

cream-colored flowers in May. The stone fruits ripen toward the end of summer… Holman Bible Dictionary, 1991 edit., p. 1118.

Please note the following passages where wheat, olives (oil) and/or grapes (wine) are all being harvested at the SAME time in Israel. Lunar Sabbath keepers did not join this movement for the root beer, accolades or prestige. We did so because.... There is always perfect harmony in the truth. Bro. White, most Lunar Sabbath keepers are not rookies or virgins. Many Lunar Sabbath keepers are veteran truth seekers. Most of us know what evidence is when we see it and how to find it if it is missing. The only evidence you have for Pentecost being a mere 50 days form wavesheaf to use the misinterpretation of the KJV (Even Unto that should read While From) and the Catholic count to Pentecost. This is the 9th (NINTH) page of evidence proving that Pentecost is a summer feast. How much evidence can Bro. White provide that will not contradict all the plain and clear evidence I just offered from Scripture and nature?

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The "Lunar Sabbath" idea is a new wind of doctrine promoting the idea that the phases of the moon identify or set the weekly Sabbaths. [New wind of doctrine? Don't make me laugh.] Even among those promoting this concept, there are major differences. [That is because of the religious baggage we carry to this message. Bro. White, you know something about this religious baggage. You rail against it in Fossilized Customs. This baggage does not make the Lunar Sabbath wrong, it just means that we have to unlearn a lot of crap that we learned in the churches that causes us to misinterpret the information regarding the Scriptural Sabbath.] These doctrines say the new moon re-sets the "week" we know as the 7-day pattern ending with a Sabbath, and that the way the Yahudim have been doing it is wrong, and inherited from the Romans. [Correct, sort of. The Babylonian rabbis adopted the pagan seven day planetary week from Babylon, but first century Israel did not adopt this calendar week. But Israel did not adopt the pagan planetary week (with its repeating 7 day weeks) from Rome. They were scattered in A.D. 70 LONG before A.D. 321 when Rome adopted the pagan planetary week. However the Jews (who are not Israelites, they are Edomites) got their Sabbath practice from the Babylonian rabbis.] All the cultures on this planet - even those never having contact with the Roman Empire - have the same 7-day week, and this pattern goes far back into the mists of history. [Um, that is not entirely true. All nations recognized a seven day week from Creation, but that week was lunar. The pagans later adopted a seven day week based on the planets. So regardless of whom they were exposed to, the seven day week has been the most common throughout history, with few exceptions. Since both the Creation Calendar week and the pagan planetary week are 7 days long, Bro. White's argument here is invalid, impotent and weak.] It is unchangeable, and yet these new doctrines claim there was a change. [There has been no change to the Sabbath command, men have simply started observing the Sabbath on the wrong calendar. We have never said there was a Sabbath change. It is still the same as it was at Creation.] Yahusha never claimed there was any problem, and certainly since His coming there has been no alteration attempted by anyone, anywhere. [Indeed, in the first century, Israel was still observing the Lunar Sabbath. Examine the evidence here: http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/28-8-15-22-29_Proof.pdf. But to say that there has been no change since then is just plain historical ignorance. Hillel II altered the Lunar Sabbath calendar in A.D. 341 establishing postponement laws that are not found in Torah because there would be times when there would be back to back Sabbaths after the Jews adopted the pagan seven day planetary week. There would be times when Day of atonement would fall on a friday and satyrday Sabbath would follow, thus the need for postponement laws. There absolutely was a calendar change and to deny what anyone can verify is foolishness.] Those who teach this new "Lunar Sabbath" method have no Scripture to back them up. Reading their books and articles will readily show this. [No Scriptural support? ROFLMAO! See above and below.] When we go to unbelievers (such as Karaites) to learn, our foundations will soon begin to spin out of control. Yahuah's Word is our sure foundation. TM: The Karaites do not recognize the Lunar Sabbath; we did not learn it from them. We went to the sure foundation... Creation Calendar Class 101. Genesis 1:14 says that the two great lights would be for signs, seasons, days and years. Thus the calendar of Yah is in the heavens.

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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. 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 (mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts). This alone is enough to prove that the Sabbath is 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 and watching for patterns. The Lunar Sabbath is not new. It has been around since Creation, but I confess that this message started gaining ground in the USA in the early 1990's, but has been observed by someone, somewhere on the earth in every generation. If not, then YHWH is not returning to this earth. For the record, every place in Scripture that mentions it, YHWH is returning to gather first a remnant of Israel, then all of Israel. This includes Israelites born and those adopted or grafted in. Please recognize how important the ordinances of the moon are to the Creator and the relationship between the moon and the nation of Israel... Thus saith YHWH, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; YHWH of hosts is his name: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith YHWH, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever. Jeremiah 31:35-36 Do you get that? If the ordinances of the moon cease to be observed, then Israel will cease being Yah's chosen nation. Since prophecy demands that Israel is going to be saved, then someone, somewhere on earth has observed the ordinances of the moon in every generation, regardless of Lew White's assessment of it.

DID YAHUAH RE-TEACH YISRAEL THE "WEEK" WITH THE MOON, OR MANNA? “And Yahuah said to Mosheh, ‘See, I am raining bread (manna) from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, in order to try (test) them, whether they walk in My Torah or not. And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” (Ex. 16:4,5) TM: There is SO much more that Bro. White could have said about manna, but he asks a question then is on to the next, like a bee pollinating flowers. Did not bother to make a case, build a case or prove his point. I, on the other hand, am under no such delusion. I understand that I cannot expect you to simply accept my conclusion without offering you any evidence. Exodus 16 is the first place where the word “Sabbath” is used in Scripture. In the first verse, YHWH is speaking to Moses and Aaron on the 15th day of the 2nd month and gives them what turns out to be a simple math equation. From day 15 add 6 days of manna = 21. Next day (22nd) is the Sabbath.

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New Moon

x1

x1

x1

x1

x1

x2

7th Day Sabbath

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) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Israel was to collect one portion of manna from the 16th to the 20th and a double portion on the 21st because the morrow was the Sabbath. If the 22nd is a Sabbath, so is the 15th (as well as the 8th and the 29th. The first day of the month is new moon day, not a Sabbath. So the question is, what was Lew White's point? The evidence surrounding the manna proves that the Sabbaths were on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of that month, same as every other lunar month. Why toss out this opportunity for me to pounce upon? What prompted him to "assume" that this proved satyrday was the Sabbath? Exodus 16 offers a ONE week sample, not 40 year sample that proved the Sabbath was every seventh day without interruption. Here is an interesting fact. Historically, Israel fasted on new moon days. Says Hutton Webster, “...the establishment of a periodic week ending in a Sabbath observed every seventh day was doubtless responsible for the gradual obsolescence of the new moon festival as a period of general abstinence, since with continuous weeks the new-moon day and the Sabbath Day would from time to time coincide” (Rest Days., p. 255). “Each new moon was celebrated with a fast” (Jewish Family Celebrations, p. 35). And we also find the following: “the sacred festival of the new moon, which the people give notice of with trumpets, and the day of fasting, on which abstinence from all meats and drinks is enjoined . . .” (Philo, Book 26, XXX, 159). I find it interesting that science has shown that fasting once a month is great for your health. Satyrday Sabbath keepers who have knowledge of the health message should jump up and shout, but they won’t because they must also admit defeat regarding the manna issue. Satyrday Sabbatarians have tried to use the story of the manna as “proof” that the Lunar Sabbath is a false teaching. They say the narrative in Exodus 16 offers no instruction for Israel to pick up manna (or not) on New Moon during their 40 years in the wilderness. These same folks admit that the new moons were observed, but because there is no mention of them in conjunction with the falling of the manna, they say that this proves that the seven day weeks are not interrupted by the new moon days and therefore, manna MUST have fallen on the new moon days. In the same breath, these same well meaning folks insist that the days of the week go 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 uninterrupted all the way back to Creation, and with no evidence other than our present Gregorian calendar and their tradition, say that Satyrday IS that seventh day.

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Let me propose that this is not the case—for several reasons. (1) When Israel was walking in the Torah, they always observed the same lunar-solar calendar established in Genesis 1. (2) With this calendar, the days of new moon are described as a third category of day in Ezekiel 46:1, II Kings 4:23, Isaiah 66:23 and Amos 8:5. Since new moon is a third category of day (neither a work day nor Sabbath) elsewhere in Scripture, then it was a third category of day during Israel’s wilderness sojourn. (3) By insisting that Israel gathered manna on new moon days during their wilderness sojourn, they are adding to Torah, in violation of Deuteronomy 4:2. Scripture does not say whether Israel gathered or ate manna on new moon days, so they can only speculate. Where Scripture is silent, silence (on our part) is golden. (4) Satyrday is only the seventh day of the week by virtue of Emperor Constantine. In 321 A.D., he venerated the day of the sun which moved satyrday from its coveted position as the first day of the week to the seventh day of the week. Cannot simply state this without offering you the evidence. 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.

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

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Rome ruled the world in the first century B.C., thus the Roman numerals, but this is not a Roman calendar. This is a bona fide pagan seven day planetary week as it existed from 800-600 B.C., until A.D. 321 when Constantine venerated the day of the sun. You see, 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 (at left). You see, the dirty little secret is out. You can count backward by seven all you want, but 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. In the first century, Rome observed an 8 (EIGHT) day calendar week. They were identified as A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H. Below is an actual copy of a first century Roman calendar.

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So, what are you implying by bringing up the manna issue, Bro. White? Was Israel using the Roman 8 day market calendar week or the 7 day pagan planetary week at the time of the exodus? If something else, are you going to produce any evidence to support your conclusion? We do not assume that Israel observed the Roman or pagan calendar. We have TONS of evidence that they observed the calendar established in Scripture which you are discovering that in this rebuttal. A word about "crescent sighting", a teaching that is found in the Koran (Quran): "Crescent sighting" is not done by the Yahudim today, but rather their view is that the first day of each moon begins with the "conjunction", or dark moon. They did not learn this from Babylon as some will claim. The moon "builds" from this zero-point, until the first 24-hour period ends at sunset, and a thin crescent may be seen above the western horizon, indicating that the first day of the moon is completed. Many Messianics teach that we should view the "crescent sighting" to be the starting point, or "zero", counting forward from that sunset as the beginning of the first day of the moon. This delay of one full day causes the "full moon" to appear on the 14th day of their count. By deduction, we find this to be in conflict with this text: TM: Again, this has nothing to do with the Lunar Sabbath. It is neither evidence for nor against the Lunar Sabbath doctrine. Israel did not get their Sabbath or New Moon from the Koran. In addition, the large paragraph shows a distinct lack of knowledge about modern Jews (whom White calls Yahudim). On the website, Judaism 101, we find the following bit of contradictory evidence, "In ancient times, Rosh Chodesh was a significant festival day. At that time, the new months were determined by observation. Each month began when the first sliver of moon became visible after the dark of the moon." http://www.jewfaq.org/chodesh.htm On the site Hebrew for Christians, it says, "The first time that the waxing crescent of the Moon is visible (from Jerusalem) marks the beginning of a Jewish month, called Rosh Chodesh ("head of the month.)" http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Holidays/Rosh_Chodesh/rosh_chodesh.html On the website, Being Jewish, we find this, "Rosh Chodesh was declared only after two witnesses came to the Sanhedrin and testified that they had seen the new moon (a little piece of the moon beginning to show) during the previous night. If no witnesses showed up by the thirtieth day of the month, Rosh Chodesh was declared on the thirty-first day (the previous month will therefore have thirty days), and all the dates of the coming month were thus set." http://www.beingjewish.com/yomtov/chodesh/newmoon.html I'm so sorry Bro. White, but the Yahudim, by their own admission, still observe the first crescent as New Moon. Lunar Sabbath keepers do not reckon New Moon from the first sliver because this is a pagan practice picked up in Babylon. Click on the following link for more evidence. http://www.creationcalendar.com/CalendarIssue/25-FirstVisibleCrescentMonth.pdf. Modern Jews go by the crescent because they adopted Judaism from the Babylonian rabbis in A.D. 700.

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Modern Jews are not Israelites, they are Khazars, descendants of the Edomites. Listen and you can hear it from their own lips... “Here is a paradox . . . A most ingenious paradox: an anthropological fact, many Christians may have much more Hebrew-Israelite blood in their veins than most of their Jewish neighbors.” Jewish author, Alfred M. Lilienthal, What Price Israel, p. 223. The 1980 Jewish Almanac, p. 3, in the first chapter entitled, “Identity Crisis” said… “Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a ‘Jew’ or to call a contemporary Jew and ‘Israelite’ or a ‘Hebrew.’” A percentage of the people who are known today as Jews are descendants of Abraham and Isaac, but not of Jacob. History reveals that they are actually the descendants of the fierce Turkish, Khazar tribes which roamed regions of southern Russia and who adopted Judaism between 7th and 9th centuries A.D. “No one can deny that the Jews are a most unique and unusual people. That uniqueness exists because of their Edomite heritage. You cannot be English Jews. We are a race, and only as a race can we perpetuate. Our mentality is of Edomitish character, and differs from that of an Englishman. Enough subterfuges! Let us assert openly that we are International Jews.” Manifesto of the “World Jewish Federation,” January 1, 1935, through their spokesman, Gerald Soman. [Emphasis my own.] From the above, we can clearly see that the Jews fully understand their Edomite heritage and as the third edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia for 1925 records: “Chazars [Khazars]: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews of Russia. The kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians.” (855). Hasdai ibn Shaprut, who was foreign minister to Abd-al-Rahman, Sultan of Cordova, in his letter to King Joseph of the Chazars (about 960 A.D.) speaks of the tradition according to which the Chazars once dwelt near the Seir Mountains. The ‘Seir Mountains’ are none other than the original land of Esau-Edom - ‘Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom’ (Genesis 36:8). Seir was a mountain range south of the Dead Sea and was also known as the ‘land of Edom’ (Genesis 36:21). The Seir Mountains were the home of the Edomites for nearly a millennium (The Edomites arrived in Edom or Seir at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 13th century B.C. Encyclopedia Judaica, Vol. 6, p. 372). Thus we have it from Jewish sources that the Khazars originally ‘dwelt near the Seir Mountains’ so are racially of Edomite stock, not Israelite. But how and when did Edomites get to Khazaria? There is evidence that in the 6th century BC, some of the Edomites fled their homeland of Seir and migrated north, ‘After the fall of Jerusalem, in 586 BC, the Edomites began to press northward (Ezekiel 36:5). The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible, ed. by Henry S. Gehman, The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1970, p. 418.” (The Jewish Encyclopedia, Vol. IV, (1905), p. 3).

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“Edom is modern Jewry.” —The Jewish Encyclopedia, 1925 edition, Vol.5, p.41 “Today, the Khazars are known as ‘Jews,’ not because of any racial question, but because of their religion.” (Jewish historian, Arthur Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe, New York: Random House, Inc. 1976) And contrary to Bro. White's claim to the contrary, Jews STILL observe New Moon based on the first visible crescent and the DID get this from Babylon. It is as if Bro. White thinks that something is true just because he says it. As if there is no historical evidence that he might run afoul of. It is with no great pleasure that it has fallen to my lot to prove that Bro. White is not a teacher that bothers to examine the evidence every time before he opens his mouth. Psa 81:3 "Blow the ram’s horn at the time of the New Moon; at the full moon, on our festival day." If the moon is not full when you reach the 15th of your count, investigate why this might be, and adjust your beginning point to "zero" using the dark moon. TM: For the record, I agree that New Moon is the dark of the moon, not conjunction, not the first crescent. Neither of these provide quarter phases to announce the weekly Sabbath. The first offers quarter phases a day too early, the latter a day too late. My argument is based on the fact that New Moon is a third category of day, not included in the seven day work week. With that in mind, the quarter phases being about 7 days apart, are timed due to nature not man's various false New Moon models. The Islamic tradition uses the "crescent sighting", and you may verify this by visiting their website, http://www.icoproject.org/, where the ICOP (Islamic Crescents' Observation Project) carefully explains how the Koran (Alcoran) directs the crescent sighting. TM: Jewish tradition too. The "Lunar Sabbath" ~ This new wind of doctrine is extremely divisive, and is rapidly becoming a new custom within our generation. We must watch, and stand fast and hold to the traditions which you were taught, and be without wrath and disputing. (see 2 Thess. 2:15, 1 Tim. 2:8). TM: I'm not sure what to say other than the obvious. The truth is always divisive. The New(er) Testament says that the truth does not bring unity, rather it brings a sword, able to divide joint from marrow (Matthew 10:34, Hebrews 4:12). By that standard, because the Lunar Sabbath is divisive lends it more credibility, it is more evidence of its verity. The languages of Earth affirm the universality of the 7-day week, and 108 of them have based their name for the 7th day on the original Hebrew word: Ancient Syriac: shabatho, Babylonian: sabatu, Arabic: assabt, Etheopic: sanbat, Armenian: shapat, Polynesian: hari sabtu, Swahili: assabt, Latin: Sabbatum, Italian: Sabbato, Spanish: Sabado, Russian: Subbota, Polish: Sobota, Assyrian: Sabata, Tigre: Sanbat, Kurdish: Shamba, Georgian: Shabati, Morduin: Subbota, Portuguese: Sabbado, New Slovenian: Sobota, Prussian: Sabatico.

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TM: I counted 106, but, OK, let's say it is 108. What is the big deal? There are presently over 10,000 languages and dialects on earth. Add to this number the many languages that have been lost over the years, and that 108 is less than 0.01% of all the languages in earth’s history that uses some form of Sabbath (Subota, Sabado, Shabbat, Sabat, et al) for the name of the seventh day of the Gregorian planetary week. Meaning more than 99.99% of all language groups do NOT immediately recognize satyrday (by name) as the Sabbath. Add to the above facts that satyrday was not the seventh day of the week until A.D. 321, meaning that the 106-108 languages that do use some form of the word Sabbath for satyrday came up with that particular name sometime AFTER the 4th century A.D. This is not a strong argument against the Lunar Sabbath; it is little more than a desperate attempt. Robert Wells made this observation: "If we believe Yahshua, the Master of the Sabbath, then we can see that there were two Sabbaths in the week that He died: a high Sabbath - the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the weekly Sabbath. He died and was put in the tomb on the fourth day of the week. Three days later, in the latter part of the weekly Sabbath, He rose from the grave." TM: Bro White, I hate to break it to you, but there is no strength in numbers if you are both in error. The truth will disprove Robert Wells' observation as well as your own. “All error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because no one will see it.” Gandhi Let me set the table here. Robert Wells says (and Bro. White agrees) that Yahshua (Yahusha) was placed in the tomb on the 4th day of the week. We shall see if the evidence bears this out. But first of all Where does it say Yahshua would be in the grave for 3 days (and 3 nights)? Heart of the earth means the land of Israel. Please understand that Scripture is its own dictionary and the FIRST time this phrase is used is in Genesis 48:16. Matthew was writing his gospel to Israelites so he wrote in terms that they would readily recognize. “In the heart of…” is very much a Hebrew idiom or expression, a figure of speech. This phrase is found several times throughout the Old Testament, which was the only Scripture extant at the time Matthew wrote. Let’s examine some of them. The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth, Genesis 48:16. See also Exodus 8:22, Psalm 74:12, and Daniel 4:10 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. Deuteronomy 4:36 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. Proverbs 30:18-19

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Midst of the earth and heart of the earth are the same thing. Heart of the earth is a Hebrew idiom used in both the OT and the NT and it is never used to mean grave. If Yahshua had wanted to say he was going to be in the "grave" for 3 days and 3 nights, he had plenty of words and expressions to choose from: grave, sheol, hell, the pit, gehenna, tartarus, the abyss, hades, etc. Granted, some of those are Greek, not Hebrew/Aramaic, but the Greek translators did not use the Greek equivalent for grave either. He is saying that he will be in the middle of Israel for three days and three nights. What exactly is meant by this is open to debate, but what cannot be successfully argued is that this phrase means grave when it literally means something on the surface of the earth, not 6 feet under (so to speak). How can we know? Do any of the above passages in any way indicate a location beneath the surface of the earth or sea? Is a ship that is in the heart of the ocean on the surface or has it sunk to the bottom? Was the heavenly voice heard from underneath the fire or out of the middle of it? Many (including me at one point) thought that the sign of Jonah meant the time he spent in the belly of the great fish. And if you only read Matthew's account, this is easy to think. But stopping there will show our lack of studiousness. Read Luke's account. If you compare Matthew 12 to Luke 11:29-32, the sign of Jonah is about the message Jonah gave the Ninevites, not the interesting journey Jonah endured getting to Ninevah. Evidence: What was the only sign Jonah gave the Ninevites? It was "repent or die." The Ninevites had no knowledge of Jonah’s interesting ride to the shore. In case you have never considered this, Ninevah is about 300 miles from the shore where Jonah was vomited out on the beach. Do you suppose that it was one of Darwin’s fish that had sprouted legs permitting this great fish to walk on to Ninevah? There is no evidence that Jonah gave this testimony in Ninevah, so the Ninevites had no knowledge of it. So how could it be a sign for the Ninevites if they knew nothing of it? What was the ONLY sign Yahshua gave to the scribes and Pharisees? The same one Jonah gave Ninevah. Repent or die. There is always perfect harmony in the truth. In order to have Yahshua in the tomb for three full days and be resurrected on a “sunday” some say that Passover must have been on a “wednesday”. Even then the resurrection is forced to take place minutes after sundown on the Sabbath (from sunset on the 14th to sunset on the 17th) when Scripture said it took place shortly before dawn on the first day of the week. (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1 and John 20:1) This segment of their calendar looks like this: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Interestingly, if you were to count backward by seven using today’s calendar, Passover was on what we now call tuesday (if 31 A.D. is the crucifixion year), not friday or wednesday. Look at the calendar model above. Let’s assume for a moment that the remark about the sign of Jonah WAS prophetic. Did you notice that the "prophecy" was for 3 Days and 3 Nights (in that order).

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Order is everything in a prophecy. That is one way to determine if it was a false prophecy or a false fulfillment. If he was buried at even (at sunset) on the 14th, then he was in the tomb for 3 nights and 3 days, not 3 day and 3 nights. Which would be a false fulfillment, right? And in order for him to be the wavesheaf, he would have had to be resurrected right at dawn, the morrow after the Sabbath. Yet by forcing a 3 day/3 night prophecy onto this passage (and applying it to a calendar) he would have been raised at sunset on the 17th, the seventh day, not at dawn the first day: 14th n, 15th d/n, 16th d/n, 17th d -- that's 3 nights and 3 days. And according to the NT record, he was resurrected on the first day of the week, not the seventh (see passages above). Understanding the weekend of the crucifixion in this manner creates another very critical problem. See the first calendar model above. It is correctly said that the Sabbath that occurred after Passover was the first day of Unleavened Bread (Abib 15). The problem is that this forces the 17th of Abib to be some spurious “weekly” Sabbath after which would follow resurrection Sunday (the 18th as presented here). Now, count backward seven days from the 17th. Do you know what the 10th day of Abib was for? Every year, on the 10th day of Abib, Israel was commanded to go into the field and select the Passover lamb and set it aside. Folks who did not have livestock went to the temple and purchased a sacrifice. There are no instructions to postpone the purchase or to make the purchase a day early if the 10th just happened to fall on the Sabbath. Isn't that odd? You cannot say that this was Holy Work or a Holy Purchase because these were common men, not the priests. There is no such thing as a Set-Apart (holy) purchase. Commerce is commerce. Those who force Passover (Abib 14) to fall on a wednesday have a problem. See again the calendar model on the previous page. If the 17th was a Sabbath, so was the 10th. The 17th is nowhere called a Sabbath, but the 10th IS a commanded work day, see Exodus 12:3-6. If you will read Leviticus 23 you will find that the Passover is the 14th of Abib, the Sabbath is the following day, the 15th so the morning AFTER the Sabbath is the 16th. Unless I've missed something somewhere, it is always best to make things line up with Torah. The resurrection took place on the 16th in the NT if the OT is to be believed. What is NOT to be believed is that the phrase “in the heart of the earth” has anything to do with a grave/tomb. The day after Passover in the year of the crucifixion was most certainly the weekly Sabbath, see Mark 15:42, Luke 23:54-56, John 19:31. Now, let’s put the Abib 14 back where it belongs as preparation day for the Sabbath (see below) and add the false prophecy of 3 days and 3 nights IN THE TOMB, and now Yahshua would have been raised at sunset on the 17th, the second day of the week, not the first day at dawn. There is nothing about the statement in Matthew 12 that is prophetic or that found fulfillment at the crucifixion.

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There are many places where the man from Galilee said he would rise on the third day. Third day and 3 days and 3 nights are two different things. Let me explain. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. If the text said it had only rained for 40 days, that would mean it stopped raining at night, raining only during daylight hours. That’s why the flood account reads as it does, specifically mentioning day AND night. Third day means exactly that. We have an example in Exodus 19:11. And YHWH said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day YHWH will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. Exodus 19:10-11 Look at the context: Today, tomorrow and the third day comprises the 3 days in question. There are MANY places in the 4 gospels where the man from Galilee says he will rise on the third day. Only one where he says in three days he would rise (John 2:19), and in this account he distinctly does not add “three nights” to his statement. In the context of how days are counted, he was killed on the 14th, rested on the 15th, and raised on the third day (the 16th). The accounts in Matthew 12 and Luke 11 taken together say nothing about him being in the grave for any amount of time. There isn’t anything in either passage that resembles the grave nor is there a word/phrase that means “grave” in either passage. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20 A couple of things: 1. Leviticus 23:4-14 gives the timeline for this particular event. If it is prophetic, then anti-type has to line up with it to the letter. Leviticus 23 is Torah. In this passage, Abib 14 is Passover, the next day is the Sabbath of unleavened Bread, and the morrow after the Sabbath (Abib 16) is wavesheaf. If you want a historical reference for this, is Josephus acceptable? In The Antiquities of the Jews, Chapter 10, section 5, Josephus says this: (248) “In the month of Xanthicus, which is by us called Nisan, and is the beginning of the year, on the fourteenth day of the lunar month, when the sun is in Aries (for in this month it was that we were delivered from bondage under the Egyptians, and law ordained that we should every year slay that sacrifice which I before told you we slew when we came out of Egypt, and which was called the Passover; and so we do celebrate this Passover in companies, leaving nothing of what we sacrifice till the day following. (249) The feast of unleavened bread succeeds that of the Passover, and falls on the fifteenth day of the month and continued seven days, wherein they feed on unleavened bread… (250) But on the second day of unleavened bread, which is the sixteenth day of the month, they first partake of the fruits of the earth, for before that day, they do not touch them. …. (251) They take a handful of ears, and dry them, then beat them small and purge the barley from the bran; they then bring one tenth deal to the altar, to Elohim; and, casting one handful of it upon the fire they leaven the rest for use of the priest; and after this it is that they may publicly or privately reap their harvest.”

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Josephus is explaining to the Gentile nations how the barley could be harvested on the 16th very year, saying exactly what Leviticus 23 says about the feast of Passover, Unleavened Bread and wavesheaf. 2. If you are going to apply the timeline of Leviticus 23 to the crucifixion, than you are obliged (dare I say, forced) to stay within the parameters of the text. That means you have the 14th, 15th, and 16th to work with. According to Isaiah 8:20, if it speaks not according to this Word, there is no light in it. Oh, yeah, and I might add, there is always harmony in the truth. False teaching: Lunar Sabbath The fact that men of Yahuah worked or traveled on a new moon day is one of the strongest indications that it (a new moon day) was never understood to be a day of rest (except for the 7th new moon, which is specifically set apart as being a day of rest, so deductively this means the other new moons were not). The week is never aligned to the moon in any way, and the moon is a light given for the annual moed’im which are counted from the new moons. TM: Says the man who knows nothing about the Sabbath and calendar of Scripture. Lunar Sabbath keepers (by and large) do not call or consider New Moon to be a Sabbath at all. It is a New Moon day, a third category of day, not included in the week. And, we agree, only the 7th New Moon (Feast of Trumpets) is called a Sabbath in Scripture. But right from Creation week, the moon was linked to the Sabbath. In fact, Leviticus 23:1-3 TWICE calls the weekly Sabbath a mo'edim, the calendar appointed times that Genesis 1:14 reveals are regulated by one of the two great luminaries in the heavens. Can you go outside and look at the sun and tell whether it is satyrday or the Sabbath? No, the sun looks the same every day. So, try the other light. It ain't rocket science; you've only got two lights to choose from. The weeks are not counted or marked from the new moons, but stand on the foundation of creation week only. TM: Partially true. Creation week looks like this:

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

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We agree that the weekly Sabbath is linked to Creation week, but the 4th commandment is not only found in Exodus 20:8-11 (which links the Sabbath to Creation); it is also found in Deuteronomy 5:12-15, and here the weekly Sabbath is a memorial to the exodus, which occurred on Abib 15. It appears that in his zeal to prove that the Sabbath is linked to Creation week, not only does Bro. White NOT identify the New Moon of the first month of earth's history, he also failed to discover that the Sabbath is not only a memorial of Creation, but also a memorial of the exodus. And, in a masterful stroke, the Creator designed a calendar that not only produces a Sabbath at the end of every work week, even though the months are not (4x7) 28 days long, it also produces a Sabbath on the anniversary of the exodus, every year. And does satyrday fall on the 15th day of the first month every year? Not hardly. Just one more nail (out of a full box of nails) in the satyrday Sabbath coffin. I just feel terrible for satyrday Sabbath keepers who think they have all the answers without actually LOOKING for the answers. The moon is not the foundation of the week, it was only a part of creation, coming into existence on the 4th day. The “week” had already started before the moon came into existence! TM: Here we go again. Another statement made as if it were fact when it is completely false. New moon days are not numbered in the week in Scripture, they are a third category of day. What was the first thing created? Light you say? Friend, did you miss the Creation event that occurred prior to the creation of light? It says, “In the beginning, Elohim CREATED heaven and earth.” This was a time consuming event that took place. Obviously, there were many things created prior to the first day of the week when light was created. What was the first thing created (as far as humans are concerned)? The heavens and the earth! However, it does not say, “and the evening and the morning were the ____ day,” after this first creation event. Why? Because the sun that regulates day and night had not been lit yet. Then we read about the “first day” of Creation week, Elohim said, “Let there be light,” and there was light… And the evening and the morning were the first day. What light regulates the day? Is there any light in the universe that does not have a source? It would be ridiculous to say that YHWH was the light source during day one because He is a Being of Light. On day one of earth’s Creation Week He didn’t create the light that emanates from Himself, nor does the light from His Being divide Day from Night. The light referred to in Genesis 1 separated light from darkness, creating Day and Night. The book of Revelation says that where YHWH is—there is no night. There is only one luminary in the cosmos, as seen from earth, that can regulate an evening and morning; that can divide light from darkness, and cause day and night to come upon the earth.

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The SUN! Isn’t it interesting that after Elohim created light, then and ONLY then was there an evening and a morning that made the first day? “Houston, we have a problem...” How can we have a day as seen from earth before the sun was created on day 4? Interestingly, there is an evening and morning for the second day of creation and an evening and a morning for the third day of creation all BEFORE the sun was made on day four. Days on earth are regulated by the sun! The evidence from Scripture reveals that the sun was ignited on DAY ONE! Evidently, after this un-numbered creation event, the sun was just a big ball of gas, then on day one…PHOOM! YHWH lit the sun. And the evening and the morning were the first day. It may not say this in English, but it does in Hebrew. The sun is the only source of light that can possibly separate day from night on this earth. So as strange as it sounds, it appears that the other heavenly bodies were created at the same moment that this blob of earth was initially created. This is made evident by the phrase: In the beginning, Elohim made the heaven and the earth. So YHWH lit the sun on the first day of creation therefore creating light (and Day and Night as a result). And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:14-19 Since the sun was lit in Genesis 1:3-5, the moon was thus illuminated as the moon resides in the same heaven with the sun, meaning the sun, moon and stars were not created on day 4! And, naturally, I can prove it from Scripture. Moses used two different words in the creation account. One means created from scratch (H#1254, bara) an example of which can be found in Genesis 1:1, the other (asah) doesn’t. An example of "asah" can be found in Genesis 1:16. And God made (asah) two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. Genesis 1:16-19 Created: H1254 ברא bârâ’, baw-raw’, A primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): - choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). See Genesis 1:1

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Made: H6213 עשה ‛âśâh, aw-saw’, A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application: - accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress (-ed), (put in) execute (-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, [fight-] ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfil, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ([a feast]), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, practice, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be [warr-] ior, work (-man), yield, use. See Genesis 1:16 Asah means made from something, or advanced upon or appointed. The Hebrew word “made” would be used in this sentence; I made (asah) my bed this morning. The bed was not created from scratch this morning; it was already there, it was only advanced upon and made ready for use the next night. For example: He appointed (asah) the moon for seasons…Psalm 104:19. Here David very nearly quotes Genesis 1:14, only he’s very specific about the role of the moon. Genesis 1:14 says the two great luminaries in the heavens were created to regulate signs, seasons, days and years. Seasons here in Psalm 104:19 is the same Hebrew seasons found in Genesis 1:14; mo’edim, meaning appointed times or set feasts. Leviticus 23:1-3 calls the weekly Sabbath a feast, using the same Hebrew word, mo’edim. So, right from creation, the Sabbath has been regulated by a luminary in the heavens, not by a pagan/papal man-made calendar created for the express purpose of worshipping false gods. Yah’s Creation week began the first month of earth’s history, and began with a new moon day (the same as every other month in Scripture), described in Genesis 1:1-2. That unnamed, unnumbered segment of time was dark, and it is not part of the SIX day work week. In this Creation model, the Sabbath was indeed the seventh day of the week (it always has been), but it was the EIGHTH day of the first month. It has always been THAT too, as well as the 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the lunar cycle. Please see the calendar model again on p. 27 above. In order for the sun and moon to be the hour and minute hand of YHWH's celestial time piece, the clock had to be in place from the very beginning. What this means, and what it entails becomes crystal clear based on what was done on the next day, the first day of the work week. And it is at this juncture where some folks refuse to “see”, even though it is ink on the page. And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light. And Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and Elohim divided the light from the darkness. And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:3-5 As proven above, there is only one light source in the universe that can divide Day from Night, the sun. Please note that if the sun was NOT lit on day one, how are there 3 numbered “days” before the 4th week day of Creation? The Hebrew word day (yom) means heat as in from the sun. Since the Hebrew understanding of day requires sunlight, how were there 3 days before the 4th day of creation week? According to Genesis 1:3-5, this separation of day and night is the sole responsibility of the one great luminary lit on that day, the sun.

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The simple fact is that time on earth began in Genesis 1:1-2, not Genesis 1:3-5. It is the movement of the sun, moon and stars that define time on earth. Also, it is a universal truism that without motion there can be no time. And the inverse is also true, without time there can be no motion. So, since time began on earth at the moment the Creator spoke heaven and earth into existence, what all did He create and set in motion at that time? Do you deny the absolute laws of the universe? You must deny them if you insist that the sun and moon did not exist until the 4th day of Creation. Lunar Sabbatarians do not deny the universal Codified Law, we embrace it. Bro. White wants to hide behind what he thinks is true. I wish to stand on principle, upon truth. In light of the evidence just presented, is it mere speculation for Lunar Sabbath keepers to consider that the very first Sabbath was ALSO based on the phase of the moon? If there was a New Moon at the beginning of the second month of earth's history, and a New Moon last month, what do you suppose the very FIRST month of earth's history began with? With New Moon in it's rightful place, the quarter phases announce the weekly Sabbaths on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month. Just like clockwork. Is the MOON the real "Master of the Sabbath"? TM: Not the master, but it is one of the two great lights that the Creator said was to regulate the mo'edim (Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19). The weekly Sabbath is the first of the named mo'edim in Leviticus 23. The new moons are indicators for us to tell time. Sundials and clocks are round because the sun and moon are round. We know that days, moons, and years can be established from a study of Scripture, and world History. [This is actually a true statement, but the problem is that Bro. White accepts the pagan/papal calendar that history handed down to us rather than examine the evidence to see whether this calendar lines up with the Scriptural calendar. Evidence forthcoming...] The pattern of the 7-day week is something that reflects or echoes the reminder of the Creation week to each person on Earth. And it's a daily reminder! A very good question was asked of me about the pattern of 7 days: Q: Can you find any Scripture that says there is an unending seven-day cycle from Creation? Is it safe to assume such without evidence? [Prepare yourself for a NOT very good answer though...] Answer: We already know about the 1st and 2nd chapter of Genesis (Bereshith), so we'll assume that isn't good enough proof, and look at a couple of other Scriptural situations where the cycle of 7 days are involved (a week of days). There are also cases where a "week of years" are mentioned. We'll even get the thrill of multiplying 7 x 7 to get the answer of 49 -- so pay close attention kids. We need to consider the Hebraic concept of the week as a unit, made up of seven days; and in some cases units of 7 years. TM: Very astute Bro. White. No, Genesis 1-2 is not good enough evidence--primarily because there is no evidence of an unbroken cycle of 7 day weeks revealed here. First of all, there is only a ONE week sample size offered. How can you deduce that all weeks run sequentially from a ONE week sample size, especially when there is a New Moon day staring right at you in Genesis 1:1-2 that was not included in the FIRST week?

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Secondly, there is a New Moon day at the beginning of Creation week that is excluded from the very first week. Unless I miss my guess, if these "New Moon" days repeat, that's gonna interfere with the concept of a repeating seven day week on an uninterrupted cycle.

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

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(30) Does every lunar month begin with a New Moon, Bro. White? Of course they do. Thus, there is not a single place in Scripture where an interrupted weekly cycle is introduced. All of them are 6 days and a weekly Sabbath. Each week that begins, ends without interruption. That does not mean that the weeks themselves are not interrupted. First, look in a concordance for the word "week" (Hebrew, SHABUA, #7620). This word also means "7". The word Sabbaton is used 58 times in the Messianic writings, or Brit Chadasha, and translated as the 7th day of the week, or weekly Sabbath day. [And again, each weekly Sabbath is the seventh day of its respective week. This supports the meaning of the Hebrew word used without assuming that the weeks are run cyclically without interruption.] But, in 9 other cases, it is translated as "week", referring to the cycle or period of 7 days we are familiar with. Further, at Lev. 23:15,16 the weekly Sabbaths are used to count off 7 Sabbaths. It tells us to count 7 "completed Sabbaths", up until the "morrow after the seventh Sabbath", you count 50 days. [How does one get 50 days from the morrow after the seventh Sabbath when there is no command to count days from wavesheaf? When you get to the seventh Sabbath, the number you have is 7, not 49. And if you WERE counting days from wavesheaf (though lacking any instructions to do so), the number would be 51-53, depending on the number of New Moon days between the first and second month, and between the second and third month. The false count again spoken of by Bro. White is debunked on pages 7-14 above.] This is another example, and even numbers the total elapsed days involved, so we know that "Shabuoth" falls on the 1st day of the week each year. [Au contraire. We are not told to number 50 days from wavesheaf to Shavuot, we are told to number 50 days FROM the morrow after the seventh Sabbath.] As Brian Allen recently pointed out, if the weekly Sabbath were governed by the moon, you'd run into trouble reconciling the "7 Sabbaths" within this 50 days, because you'd have 2 new moons falling within this period. [Brian Allen's anti-Lunar Sabbath article refuted in the Hall of Shame. The truth is an equal opportunity offender.] The way I figure it, you'd have more than 7 Sabbaths within 50 days' time (in just 30 days, the lunar Sabbath folks calculate 6 Sabbaths, and so they reach their count to the day after their 7th Sabbath in only 37 days). [Bro. White is making stuff up now. Unless you are in the 7th month, there is never more than 4 Sabbaths in any Lunar Month. Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement (the 1st and the 10th) are annual Sabbath in addition to the other 4 Sabbaths. All other annual Sabbaths fall on a weekly Sabbath, thus not adding to the number of Sabbaths in a month.] The 50th day, called "Pentecost" (Greek, "count fifty"), is our (Israel's) Wedding Anniversary, commemorating the giving of the Torah at Sinai, and should be the day after the 7th Sabbath. Instead of taking 49 days to get there, they reach 7 Sabbaths in only 37 days. [This is a complete fabrication. Which I never expected from Lew White. Anyone who knows anything about the feasts knows that you count 7 weekly Sabbaths.

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That is what the command means when it says to number seven Sabbaths COMPLETE, meaning seven complete weeks, which naturally culminate in a Sabbath. At the end of seven weeks (which alone accounts for 49 days, 12 more than 37) we have then and ONLY then come to seven Sabbaths. Add the New Moon days in there (which we are not instructed to do) and you have 51-53 days, not 37. To impugn the Lunar Sabbath based on a false accusation is rather shameful, but Bro. White apparently has no shame. So, perhaps I should not be surprised after all.] Shabuoth (weeks) is the plural of Shabua (week), and is a High Sabbath, and follows the weekly 7th-day Sabbath. [Actually, it falls on the 29th day of the 4th month, which is a weekly Sabbath, and by definition is indeed a High Sabbath.] In another place, Sabbatical "years" are explained (7 cycles of 7 years each, sheba shabbathot shanah, seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years, Lev. 25:8), so that we can determine when the year of Jubilee arrives, the 50th year of the cycle. Remember, SHABUA means week, and SHABUOTH means weeks. A Shabua would represent a "complete" week of seven days, from day 1 through Shabbath, the seventh day. TM: And remember, the 50th year interrupts the 49 year (7x7) cycle. Remember I said above that historical evidence was forthcoming? Here it is. “The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.” Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410. 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." “…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.”

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“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. “… 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 [Ed.—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. Thus the condemnation in Amos 5:26 was set in stone. In Amos 5:26, the prophet is recorded as reminding Israel of their apostasy. Israel started worshipping Chiun, a star-god of their own making. In Acts 7:43, Stephen quotes Amos and is translated into Greek as saying “Remphan, the star-god…” Chiun and Remphan are the respective Hebrew and Greek words for Saturn. The Sabbath of Scripture is based upon the lunar cycle. So Israel did indeed come to worship Saturn on his day, but at a much later date and not by Divine command. “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. “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..

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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: “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. These quotes destroy every false conclusion of Bro. White (and Brian Allen) above. Oh, and as if this is not bad enough, I am not done with historical quotes. The most damning ones (to satyrday Sabbatarians) are yet to come. Father Yahuah did not have to explain what a week of 7 days was (shabua), until Israel had forgotten it; He used the manna to re-train them how to count the week again in the wilderness. If the week, and specifically the 7th day Sabbath (the completion of a week), could be ascertained at all from something in the skies, the manna would not have been necessary to train Israel. [I don't remember seeing Lew White named to the Father's council in heaven, do you? There is not a single weekly Sabbath that falls on a date other than the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th day of the month in Scripture. These just happen to be announced by the quarter phases of the lunar cycle. How the Father goes about retraining His children is up to Him, not men like me, not men like Bro. White.] A day without food tends to get your attention. [And here I thought Bro White was going to wave off the manna issue with half a mention above. Whatever he adds here has already been refuted on pages 16-18 above. He still does not press this point as he could though.] One important thing to remember is that the moon in no way effects or rules over the day/night pattern, or the count of the 7 days of creation. The moon rules over the night, and the moedim, or annual High Sabbaths. It can never affect the 7-day cycle of creation. [True, the moon does not regulate the day/night cycle, but I have repeatedly shown that the moon has affected time since Creation and still does to this day, the heavy evidence presented on pages 28-31 above.] In Daniel, we see the “7 sevens”, or 7 weeks of years. Again, at Lev. 25 we can apply this 7-year cycle for us to know when to let the land rest in the “Sabbatical years”, and there is smooth rhythm of 7 x 7 years, making up 49 years, in the count to the “Jubilee year” following this “seven weeks of years”, sheba shabua shanah. [But Bro. White, the year of Jubilee (the 50th year) interrupts the land Sabbath cycle after 7 cycles, no different than the New Moon interrupts the weekly cycle after 4 cycles.] If the 7 years (a week of years) establishes the model for the land to rest, we can be sure that our interpretation of the week of days is also sound.

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[Indeed, a land Sabbath (week of years) is an exact duplicate of a week of days: six on, the seventh off. And BOTH cycles are interrupted, not sequential. I know it, and Bro. White knows it. And I know Bro. White knows it. Please notice that he has so far NOT said what the 50th year does to the land Sabbath cycle. He can't because he knows that it means the land Sabbath cycle does not support his uninterrupted weeks nonsense.] So, yes, it is safe to say there are Scriptures to back up the understanding of “an unending seven-day cycle from Creation”. [And you were going to provide them, when?] The Pagan Babylonians did not establish the 7-day week (shabua), nor did the Romans; it was Yahuah alone. Sabbath, the word, is not even a stone's throw from the Hebrew word for seven, sheba, or the word shabua. The “7 pillars” referred to at Ps. 75:3 and Prov. 9:1 in their context refer to the unmovable and unshakable foundation which Father Yahuah established for the 7 days of each week. [Has anyone been arguing that the week has anything other than 7 days?] The moon is brought in to determine the 7 annual High Sabbaths. [And please don't forget that the weekly Sabbaths are twice called mo'edim in Leviticus 23:1-3. Genesis 1:14 says that the two great lights will regulate the signs (owth), seasons (mo'edim), days and years. Psalm 104:19 specifically rules out the sun, stating that the MOON regulates the mo'edim. Bro. White ADMITS that the moon regulates the annual feast Sabbaths (mo'edim), but ignores the fact that Leviticus 23:1-3 includes the weekly Sabbaths in with the annual Sabbaths, calling them the SAME thing, mo'edim.] The 7 millennia, or pattern of 7 periods of 1000-years each, is unaffected by the moon. [Not true. The first day of each and every year begins with the New Moon of the first month of the new year. Thus the year is indeed a lunar event. Granted the sun brings the cycle back to spring, so the year is in reality a lunar-solar event. And Bro. White cannot deny that what I have said is factual. He won't like what it portends, but he knows that it is true.] The first 7 days (creation week) established a repeating cycle of 7 in order that we recall creation, and honor the Creator each 7th day. [Except that Creation began with a New Moon segment that was not included in the week and it is only a one week sample that is no way proves a repeating cycle. All it proves is that each week is seven days long. Period.] Besides all this, if the Yahudim (Jews) and the 12 tribes of Israel dispersed all over the Earth think that the Sabbath Day each week is the same one the Pagans have been calling "Satyr Day" (or day of Satyrn), and it isn't REALLY the Sabbath, then why would Satan arrange to change the day of rest from the true 7th day of the week to Sun-Day (the 1st day of the week) for his deceived followers? (Under penalty of death, Constantine ordained the change of the Sabbath to his "Sun-Day" in the year 321 CE, in his "Edict of Milan"). [Wow, this is a rather ignorant statement. Neither the seventh day nor Sabbath was a concern of Constantine. Satyrday was the FIRST day of the pagan planetary week in the first century. Constantine worshiped Mithra (the Persian version of the sun god), and sunday was the second day of the week at that time. He was not going to let the venerable day of the sun take a back seat to satyrn's day, so since he was in charge of Rome, he was in charge of the calendar of Rome. So he moved the day of the sun into the first column and bumped satyrday from the coveted #1 position all the way back to the seventh day of the week. That's right, satyrday is the first day of the week, not the seventh. Constantine merely rearranged the week days to suit his religion. Proof already provided on pages 18-20 above.] Satan changed the day of rest for Mohammad's pupils in the 7th century to the six day of the week. Why would Satan do that, if the 7th day was already wrong? The real answer is, the 7th day of each week really is the true Sabbath, the commemoration of creation; and this honors the true Maker of Heaven and Earth, Yahuah - the ELOHIM OF ISRAEL. [The real answer is that satyrday is part of a dual counterfeit.] Even if the cycle of seven days had been changed at any point from some "lunar pattern", how could the whole Earth have adopted the flaw all at once, without any echo of the previous "correct" pattern lurking about in some culture? Also, remember that many remote cultures all over the Earth have retained in their indigenous languages the meaning, and often a close sounding word for the Hebrew word, "Sabbath" -- for their 7th day of each week (Shabbath, Sabbath, Sabo, Sabado, Subbata, Shubuta, etc.,.). [See p. 23] The Sabbath is really the only day of the week that has a name -- the other days were only numbered, until the Pagans decided to give homage to various deities by calling the days by the proper names of their false elohim (i.e., Sun Day, Moon Day, Tyr's Day, Woden's Day, Thor's Day, Frigga's Day, Satyrn Day).

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TM: And Israel worshiped on saturday. 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. Here Amos sees a day where Israel worships a star-god that they would make for themselves. Stephen, in Acts 7:43 quotes Amos and is translated as Remphan, which is Greek for Saturn. 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 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. 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 idolatry; Stephen repeated it and it got him killed. Which day do you keep sacred? Sunday, the current first day of the pagan Roman/papal calendar, or satyrday, 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.

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As a side note, I find it 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 week of every year, Sabbatarians everywhere, in spite of themselves, worship on satyrday — a day named after Satan himself. 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 satyrday 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. Please feel free to connect the dots… The source for the information in light purple is given later. Satan (or Pan) is 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, the common name of 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 or Saturn, “the Horned One,” appropriate to him also) was symbolized by the Kerastes, the Horned serpent. Horned goat, horned serpent, father of the gods, Titan, Sheitan, Satan (Adversary)….hmm. Kronos, who is none other than Satan himself also claims to be in charge if TIME! Kronos is where we get our work Chronology, the study of time. Kronos, said another way, is also called Father Time. Please recall the following text… 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

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The word congregation here is the Hebrew word Mo’edim, which means “appointed times”. This is the same word found in Genesis 1:14 there translated as seasons. Clearly Isaiah 14:13-14 is a calendar statement. A mountain in Scripture is a controlling power or authoritarian presence. What Satan is proclaiming here is that he will sit on the mount of the appointed times. He is saying that he will control the calendar, and the appointed times. And indeed he does. He controls his own calendar, which runs counterfeit to the Father’s. 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 = 060 T = 400 U = 006 R = 200 The information in the light purple font on the last two pages was 666 gleaned from Alexander Hislop’s, 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? Fact: Satyrday bears the name of our Adversary. A counterfeit has to look a like the original. Sunday has never been called the Sabbath and cannot rightly be called a Sabbath (spurious or otherwise) as it has never been the seventh day of anything. Sunday does not “look” like a Sabbath nor should we refer to sunday as a spurious Sabbath. Sunday is the obvious fraud. Satyrday, however, looks a lot like the 7th day (just the 7th day of the wrong calendar), making it part of a very clever dual counterfeit. Yes, Bro. White, we agree. Satan has tried very hard to stop YHWH's people from keeping the true Sabbath. And if you want to keep worshipping the Father on the seventh day of a pagan/papal calendar, you go right ahead. Just stop telling the children of Yah that they are worshipping on the wrong Sabbath. The sun rules over the day. A week of 7 days cycles over and over, and the moon is in no way able to interfere with it. The manna, not the moon, was used to emphasize this "shabua" cycle to remind Israel. Days and months are not connected or geared together, but flow separately through time. The period of 7 days, which we call the week (Hebrew, SHABUA, #7620), has been assaulted in recent years by the new teachings concerning new moons. This mostly is the result of deciding to believe something, then hunting down the texts that support that belief (eisegesis). Once a person falls for the re-setting of the weekly pattern which they believe is caused by the moon, the moon becomes an all-consuming topic for them from that point on. They feel that they must convince everyone else to see the hidden secret they've discovered. TM: Without offering any evidence, Lew White says that the moon and week are not linked. Earlier I said that I had not shared all the historical evidence yet. Here is what I withheld... Philo, the first century Hebrew historian, linked the Sabbath or the “week” with the phases of the moon. 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.

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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.” … Notice that Philo says the moon is perfect in its shape or appearance at seven day intervals. Had a Hebrew speaking Israelite written this he would have said “it perfects chiefly in accordance with its own configurations on each Sabbath day instead of each “seventh” day because elsewhere in his writings, Philo identifies that when he mentions the seventh day [of the week] he is speaking of the Sabbath. Continuing on with Philo: The Decalogue XXX (159), “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”… To the seventh day of the week He [the Father above] 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. Satyrday Sabbath 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.” Philo’s 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 the weekly Sabbath can begin these two festivals on the 15th in the 1st and 7th month each year, on a continuous seven day cycle presented by the Gregorian calendar we have today. Speaking of “lunar” intervals, in Special Laws I. (178), Philo writes…

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“…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.” The half-moon (first quarter moon) announces the first Sabbath of the month. It is the seventh day of the week, naturally, but this is the 8th day of the month. New moon day is 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”. Please let what Philo just said sink in. His readers in those days understood that the weeks were by the moon, same as in Scripture, and that at the end of the second week there would be a full moon. This statement needs no interpretation and is impossible to misunderstand. For the record, in the first century, Rome was stiffly persecuting Israel. Eventually Israel put together delegates to present the plight of their people before the Bishop of Rome. The Hebrew historian Philo was chosen to be one of these delegates. If Philo believed or promoted doctrines or beliefs contrary to mainstream Israel, or recorded things in his writings that were untrue about Israel, would he have been selected to represent Israel before Rome? Absolutely not, which makes his record of Israel's first century Sabbath observance all the more significant (to truth seekers anyway). Bro. White apparently likes the sound of his own voice. And apparently uttering complete falsehoods about the Sabbath and the evidence for the Lunar Sabbath as well as the evidence AGAINST satyrday means very little to him. When reading Fossilized Customs, I thought him to be a man who dug in and found the evidence to support his position. I suppose that is still true, just not regarding the weekly Sabbath. His tradition is stronger than his desire to examine the evidence. Shame on him. I am nobody compared to the man who wrote Fossilized Customs, and I have been able to show from Scripture and the historical record that Bro. White does err. By deduction, or the taking away (discounting) of what is not discussed, we know there is only one new moon day which is a day of rest from work; the first day of the 7th moon. By simple deductive reasoning, we know that the other 11 new moon days are not rest days. The fact that men of Yahuah worked and traveled on new moon days is but one indication of this. The best method for study is by exegesis, not eisegesis. TM: Not sure where this paragraph came from or where it fits in, but he IS correct.

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We do not worship or serve the men who promote a floating weekly Sabbath involving the moon cycles, so we don’t have to fear them or their teachings; but we should not be hateful to them in their deception either. There is not a single text from Scripture which suggests or implies that the 7th day Sabbath is regulated or connected to the moon or its phases; [Guffaw! Sorry, that slipped out.] the only associations that can be made between new moon days and Sabbaths are imagined assumptions, and the mishandling of the Word of Father Yahuah. Bending, wrestling, and twisting the Scriptures is a grievous thing to do, and falling from our steadfastness can easily be the end result. We are not to judge the person, however as the Body of Mashiach we are to judge the teachings regarding food, drink, new moons, Sabbaths, and moedim. TM: Indeed, your lunar Sabbath brethren are indeed doing more than judging your false doctrine. We are repeatedly proving it false. It's natural to have differences of understanding, but we must not allow these to become roots of bitterness between one another. There are many points of contention today; the "new moon" re-setting the weekly Sabbath is one example. The controversy over who is to be the recipient of the tenth part of our increase is another point of difference, mostly argued by those who have been used to taking the tithe as teachers. Then there is the issue of whether the crescent moon sighting is the beginning, or the end, of the actual first day of the new moon. Like the Bereans, we need to test and examine if what we hear is really true. TM: Indeed. But if you have a false premise, and apply a test that is not designed to discover the falsehood of the original idea, then you actually prove your false doctrine, and in ignorance accept that answer as the gospel. And while I thought I identified a Berean as the author of Fossilized Customs, that is not the man I am rebutting now. While I truly appreciate him encouraging satyrday Sabbatarians to not be hateful to Lunar Sabbatarians, that does not change the fact that Bro. White has flat out lied about Lunar Sabbath keepers, misrepresented what we believe and has yet to offer a single shred of evidence that supports his position. TWO APPROACHES IN UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURE FIRST: We go to the Writings with an open, unbiased attitude, free of denominational slants or teachings, or previous impressions. [A great idea if ever put into practice. You should try it regarding the Lunar Sabbath, Bro. White.] This is called Exegesis (direct analysis or interpretation of Scripture). Allowing the Word to directly speak to us, we can form a solid foundation through personal study, guided by our Teacher, the Spirit of Yahusha. Listening to other men teach us what Scripture says is fine also, as long as we test everything we hear, being careful how we listen, as the assembly at Berea did (Acts 17:10,11). TM: In case it has been lost on the ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that is exactly what I have done thus far. On page 15-16 and 37-39 I presented the Scriptural evidence. On pages 33-35 and 40-41, I provided the historical evidence that supports the Scriptural evidence. SECOND: (the wrong approach) -- We go to the Writings to prove something we already believe, finding sentences which hint at the idea. This is called Eisegesis (analyzing from one's own ideas). In these cases the text is not directly describing or teaching the concept we are trying to prove, but rather the words are extracted and hunted-down, to "prove" what we believe. [I cannot even believe that I am reading this and Bro. White cannot see that this is EXACTLY what he has done. Unbelievable. The same man has amazed me with his intellect as well as his ignorance.]

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This is how men "twist" or "spin" the Words of Scripture, especially the letters of Shaul (Paul): ". . . as also our beloved brother Shaul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him, as also in all his letters, speaking in them concerning these matters, in which some are hard to understand, which those who are untaught and unstable TWIST (spin) to their own destruction, as they do also the other Scriptures. You, then, beloved ones, being forewarned, watch; lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the delusion of the lawless." - 2 Kepha 3:15-17 Ha shatan, the adversary, hates the marriage Covenant, and Israel. This means the enemy of our beings hates the "sign" of our Covenant, the Sabbath. [Which is why the Adversary said he was going to sit on the mount of the mo'edim (control the calendar) and has made good on his word by creating a dual counterfeit causing nearly everyone to worship him in one way or another. Having the blind leading the blind only helps his cause.] This being attacks Israel at every turn, and attempts to alter the Covenant, or make it seem unimportant. The “sign” of this Eternal (Everlasting) Covenant is the sign of the Sabbath, which is the 7th day of each week. [That is correct. Not to be confused with every 7 days.] Today some have begun to believe that the Yahudim (tribe called "Jews" today) altered the original pattern for keeping track of the correct WEEKLY Sabbaths. They feel that the MOON was originally used to determine not only the ANNUAL High Sabbaths, but also the WEEKLY day of rest. [This is a completely false assessment. Neither the Jews nor Israel altered the weekly pattern. This pattern in the lunar cycle was not altered; it was observed, recorded as evidence, and mostly forgotten or ignored by modern man.] The 7-day pattern is found in every corner of our world, and the 7th day, which most English-speaking people call "Saturday", is widely known [erroneously] to be the Sabbath day which is found throughout Scripture. Many languages exist on our planet; and if you study the various names these languages have for this 7th day, you will find they closely relate cognatively (sic) to the Hebrew word for Sabbath, SHABATH (cease). So, even if the Yahudim attempted to change the pattern, it would become evident to everyone that they did so when the patterns are compared to one another. The pattern of 7 weekdays (shabua) is found across the entire planet without any conflict in its rhythm -- none of the cultures on Earth use a lunar phase to determine or re-set their week. Their languages even identify within themselves the day of rest being the one called "Shabbath" in Hebrew. Their word for this day still bears a strong resemblance to the Hebrew original! TM: As mentioned previously: There are 106 languages, to be exact, that use some form of Sabbath [from the Hebrew Shabat] as the place name for satyrday, the 7th day of the Gregorian calendar. This is so weak it boggles my mind. There are over 10,000 languages and dialects in the world today (plus an untold number of old and lost ancient languages from yesteryear). That means that one tenth of one percent of languages call satyrday the Sabbath (or the equivalent). Conversely, that means that 99.99% of all languages and dialects on earth do NOT name satyrday (the modern seventh day of the pagan/papal planetary week) the "Sabbath". Let that number sink in for a moment and ponder why that 0.01% is considered evidence by Bro. White. Israel was scattered in 700 B.C. Judah has been scattered to the four corners of the earth since 70 A.D. They apparently did not do a very good job of educating the masses. Truth be told, the word satyrday for the seventh day only goes back as far as 321 A.D. and no further as it was the first day of the week prior to that time. Constantine changed it from the first day to the seventh day when venerating the sun, so it's no wonder that so few languages have adopted the name "shabat" or the equivalent for satyrday. Without question, some nations and languages picked this up and called saturday “sabbath” or the like, but it is out of tradition, certainly not a command in Scripture. This is not a strong argument for satyrday or against the Creation Calendar; it is a very weak, desperate attempt.

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“My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a SIGN (guarding His Sabbaths) between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, Yahuah, am setting you apart. (sign = mark, signal) And you shall guard the Sabbath it is set-apart to you. Everyone who profanes it shall certainly be put to death, for anyone who does work on it, that being shall be cut off from among his people. Six days work is done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, set-apart to Yahuah. (Sabbath, or Shabbath, means "seven"). Everyone doing work on the Sabbath day shall certainly be put to death. “And the children of Yisra’el shall guard the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant. (Gentiles must engraft into Israel to partake of the Covenants, and the Sabbath is the sign of the Everlasting Covenant, the marriage between Yahuah and His wife, Israel). “Between Me and the children of Yisra’el it is a sign forever. For in six days Yahuah made the heavens and the Earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.” Exodus (Shemoth) 31:13-17 (see also Ezek. 20:12-20) Look at what Hebrews 4:4-16 says, referring to the above text: “For somewhere (Ex. 31) He has said thus about the seventh day, ‘And Elohim rested on the seventh day from all His works’, and again, ‘if they shall enter into My rest . . .’ “Since then it remains for some to enter into it, and those who formerly received the Good News did not enter in because of disobedience, He again defines a certain day, “Today” . . . So, there remains a Sabbath-keeping for the people of Elohim. For the one having entered into His rest, has himself also rested from his works, as Elohim rested from His own. Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.” (Heb. 4:4-11) TM: And everyone of the Sabbaths spoken of in the verses above are found on the calendar below, without a single exception.

New Moon

Day 1 of week

Day 2 of week

Day 3 of week

Day 4 of week

Day 5 of week

Day 6 of week

7th day Sabbath

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(30) The outward “sign” that we actually give worth-ship (obedience=worship) to the REAL Creator, “Who made heaven and the Earth, and sea, and fountains of water” (Rev. 14:4), is this “sign” of resting as He rested, every seventh day - since creation. This message of the messenger sent forth “to announce to those dwelling on the Earth, even to every nation and tribe and tongue and people” is going forth from the Natsarim today: “Fear Elohim and give esteem to him, because the hour of His judgment has come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the Earth, and sea, and fountains of water.” Again, it is important to discern how we have been deceived into believing we are giving worth-ship (worship, obedience) to the Creator of heaven and Earth, while having the “sign” of our worth-ship to Him removed by revisionism.

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TM: Revisionism? What is revisionistic about the following verses AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN HEBREW? Genesis 1:14 says that the two great lights would be for signs, seasons, days and years. Thus the calendar of Yah is 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. 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 (mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts). The only revisionism here is that the translators wrote "seasons" rather than "set feasts" (as they should have), and the pagan/papal/Roman calendar was eventually adopted in Israel by Hillel II in the 4th century. Thus, when one reads the above verses they are now predisposed (some 1700 years later) to assume the pagan/papal calendar, not the calendar of Scripture which is actually spoken of. THE TEST OF THE MANNA “And Yahuah said to Mosheh, ‘See, I am raining bread (manna) from the heavens for you. And the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, in order to try (test) them, whether they walk in My Torah or not. And it shall be on the sixth day that they shall prepare what they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” (Ex. 16:4,5) CRAFTY SCHEMES TO CAUSE DIVISION The elect can be deceived, and fall away from the Covenant, by crafty schemes and trickery. The false doctrine will claim this "hidden manna" is a SECRET, and is only revealed to those it is intended for. That's why it's not clearly explained in the Torah, so they will say. However, if we don't know what we are to believe and do, and we are not given the teaching, then we are without sin: "If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin." Yn. 15:22. If Yahuah is keeping secrets from us about when His REAL Sabbaths are, then we are without sin -- but He DID tell us about them, and each one is a commemoration of the first week of creation (Heb. 4:9-11). TM: I have no idea what "hidden manna" means. I have never heard the term much less used it to prove the Lunar Sabbath. I know of no Lunar Sabbatarian who attempts to mislead or deceive others by presenting a "hidden manna" in response to the challenge of the manna. If you will recall, New Moon is a third category of day, not counted in the 1-2-3-4-5-6-Sabbath work week. Bro. White knows that this is what we believe (because it is true, I might add). If I had to guess, I THINK Bro. White is suggesting that "hidden manna" means that Israel received manna on New Moon days even though neither Exodus 16 (nor Torah) says as much. Thus, he believes we are inventing this "hidden manna", which would run afoul of Deuteronomy 4:2, by ADDING to the law. For the record, only baby believers, new Lunar Sabbath keepers may believe that YHWH keeps information from us. Veteran believers, students of the Word, Bereans KNOW full well that while YHWH may have secrets, everything we need for salvation has been revealed...

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The secret things belong unto YHWH our Elohim: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. Deuteronomy 29:29 (This is Torah.) See also Amos 3:7. “. . . We should no longer be children, tossed and borne about by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men, in cleverness, unto the craftiness of leading astray . . .” (Eph. 4:14). Ephesians 4 reminds that while we grow toward a “unity” (oneness of belief and pattern for living), we have to be patient, humble, meek, and bearing with one another in LOVE. We will have to tolerate differences with patience, and not grow apart in bitterness. Yahusha said we would be known by the LOVE between us, not that we would all be exactly alike. The blind faith of those captured by the Mother of Harlots, Catholicism, may never be able to overcome the deceptions until they personally study and struggle to get at the Truth. We all must study. TM: Me thinks the pot calleth the kettle black. The only one captured by Catholicism here is Bro. White and the pagan/papal week he is presenting. But what he says above (underlined by me) is absolutely true. He is SO deceived that he does not even know it, thus he feels compelled (and qualified) to correct those who are actually studying and discovering the true Lunar Sabbath of Scripture and the pagan origin of the Gregorian calendar. I appreciate that Bro. White now wishes to be civil in our disagreement here, but he has not entirely borne that out in the pages above. But nothing at this point would surprise me from Bro. White. I was being reserved in my assessment that he is rather eccentric. There are new teachings which are entangling the Natsarim today, coming from interpretations of Scripture, which alter the patterns of the days, nights, and appointed times ruled by the new moons. [I know where he is going with this, and I can say with some authority that these are not "inter-pretations" or private interpretations as he is implying, rather we are reading what is actually INK on the page.] Some interpret “day” (yom) and “night” (layelah) somewhat differently than others. Reading Genesis, some have come to believe that “creation” began with “light”, therefore the 24-hour period begins at sunrise. [Ok, he said it. He has played his hand. Now let's examine Scripture below and see what we can learn.] In contrast, the end of the “day” which arrives at the moment the sun sets, beginning a new cycle of 24 hours, actually reflects the six creation days. At creation, it was first “dark”, and Yahuah created water, Earth, and the rules of physics. Kepha (Peter) tells us that the Earth was formed out of water. Darkness was on the face of the deep. The first sentence of Genesis states: “In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the Earth. And the Earth came to be formless and empty, and darkness was on the face of the deep.” The evolutionist will say, "First, there was nothing. Then, it exploded. The elements were not yet existent, since all the energy (from nothing) was purely kinetic (active, non-material, radiation). After the cooling effect from the expansion of space, and the propagation of the energy from this cosmic “big bang”, the first material elements coagulated together as hydrogen, oxygen, and traces of H2O2." (I am not a proponent of the “big bang”, nor string theory). TM: Please note that Bro. White does not offer the verse that actually SAYS that the day begins with light. I really did not expect him to, but I have to point this out in order to prove that not only is he not presenting the truth, he is actively obscuring it. No Lunar Sabbath keeper believes that creation began with light. Genesis 1:1 is rather clear that darkness was rampant, covering everything. But this verse does not name and divide the different segments of time like the following passage does... And Elohim said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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And Elohim saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Genesis 1:3-5 When the Creator lit the light, did it wait 12 hours before it came on or did it illuminate the earth immediately? Answer: It came on immediately. The light portion (alone) is called Day. The dark portion (alone) is called Night. This lit portion in Hebrew is yom (day), actually meaning heat, as in from the sun. DOES THE LIT PART (called day in Hebrew) START AT SUNSET OR SUNRISE? Answer: The day starts at dawn. It ain't rocket science. The dark portion in Hebrew is Layil (night). When does night begin? Answer: Sunset. So Bro. White wants YOU, the ladies and gentlemen of the jury to believe that both day AND night begins at sunset. Or even worse, since he insists that the day begins at sunset, then night must begin at dawn? Come now, let us reason together. Please note that the Creator DIVIDED the light from the darkness, meaning that day and night never touch. Those dividers are evening and morning. Evening (Hebrew, erev) means twisting away (of the light), it does not mean night nor is it intended to mean a 12 hour dark period that is called night. Evening is neither night nor day, it is an increasing/decreasing mixture of both. Evening divides the day from the night. Morning (Hebrew, boqer) means dawn, or the break of day, it does not mean day, nor is it intended to mean a 12 hour daylight period. Dawn is neither day nor night, it is an increasing/decreasing mixture of both. Morning divides the night from the day. Bro. White above admits that the day ends at sunset, at which points begins a new 24 hour period. But what is he saying? Does the next "day" begin at sunset or is the 24 hour cycle a Night/Day cycle? Indeed, it was dark when YHWH created heaven and earth in Genesis 1:1, but that time consuming creation event is not called a day, even though it was indeed a time consuming event. But please note the timeline of the first day of Creation week. Elohim light the light (which He called Day), AND (later) there was evening, AND (later still) there was morning. Day One. Please note that the AND's above are actually in the Hebrew. And is a connective word, meaning that SOMETHING came before the evening. Can you guess what that was? Answer: Day, the first one. You can go outside right now and see the EXACT same timeline. Please note that the Day/Night cycle begins at dawn and ends at the following dawn. But the entire 24 hour period is NOT called day. According to the Creator, the dark portion is called NIGHT. Yahusha answered, "Are there not twelve hours in the day? ..." John 11:9 There are some who understand how long the day is. And there are some who don't. The day beginning at sunset is a Babylonian invention, not Hebrew. That modern Israel picked it up from Babylon is a natural conclusion, but that does not make it the day established at Creation.

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And the Father gave us a couple of warnings that Bro. White should heed... Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you. My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart. They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. Job 17:10-12 Bro White is smarter than this and yet still he persists in the folly of his tradition. So, even the blind theories and imaginations of non-believers are establishing the truth of the first several verses of Genesis to some extent. But many Natsarim believe creation began with LIGHT, therefore the periodic 24-hour night/day scheme is interpreted to be “day, then night” (light, then darkness), as opposed to “night, then day” (darkness, then light). “And there came to be evening (darkening, Ereb) and there came to be morning (lightening, boker), the first day.” (This suggests a 24-hour period). [Yes it does. There are two ways that the Hebrew indicated a 24 hour period. Evening and morning is the first, and day and night is the other. Examples below. Both of these are Hebrew idioms. But what CANNOT be said is that the day is 24 hours long, because it is not. Day is only HALF of the Day/Night cycle.] By interpreting the order of occurrence differently, differences in patterns of behavior can be seen today among the Natsarim. This has the effect of making a Sabbath “day” only pertain to when the sun is up, and so “night” has no pertinence to the “Sabbath day”. No man can “work” at night they will explain, from Yahusha’s words at John/Yoh. 9:4. To these brothers, Sabbath begins at sunrise. Do we have the capacity to be different, yet have love? (Please don’t do it because I do it, but study; I rest every week, beginning at sunset at the end of the sixth day (sunset), and there follows a twilight of nearly 30 minutes before night arrives (complete darkness). One of my favorite Scriptures to quote that establishes whether Shabbath begins at sunset or sunrise is Neh. 13:19 (also see context): “And it came to be, at the gates of Yerushaliyim, as it began to be dark before the Sabbath, that I commanded the gates to be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath.” The interlinear Hebrew-English rendering of this text shows that before the Sabbath shadowed the gates of Yerushaliyim, they were commanded to be shut. Just as each "month" (new moon) BEGINS with a dark moon, so the beginning of each "day" begins at the darkening, ereb, the going-down of the sun. Beginnings seem to be a progression of darkness-to-light. TM: Quite the contrary. The Sabbath was not imminent; the need to shut the gate to protect the city from attack at night was imminent. All this verse is saying is that the gate needed to be shut the night before the Sabbath, just at it was shut the night before every other day of the year. Shutting the door after the fox is already in chicken coop defeats the purpose. The Day does not begin at night. Night begins at night. Nehemiah 13:19 is a verse I have used to defend “evening to evening” but now, after honestly examining the verse, I find that it does not defend even to even at all. Read it again (above). It is not saying that the Sabbath began at evening it says that right before it became dark the gates were shut and the Sabbath had still not yet begun. If the Sabbath begins at sunset or evening (which is the transition between day and night) then the Sabbath would begin before darkness fell, which is called night. Nehemiah says that as darkness fell, it was still not the Sabbath. Here it is already at the very END of evening, when darkness begins, and it was STILL not the Sabbath. I thought Bro. White was trying to prove that the days began at evening? If darkness (the definition of Night) was just beginning, then evening was past, and it should already be the Sabbath according for about the 30 minutes of twilight Bro White spoke of. What happened? Nehemiah would not speak contrary to the Torah, would he?

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Genesis 32:24, Judges 19:26 and Joshua 6:15 agree that the days begin at dawn. Job felt the day began at dawn, Job 3:9, and 7:4. So did Solomon, Song of Solomon 2:17 and 4:6. Solomon was a very wise man. Please follow along. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights. In Hebrew, if it had been written that it rained for 40 days, that would have meant that it stopped raining each night, then began to rain again each morning. Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights. In Hebrew, if it had been written that Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days, that would have meant that he came down the mountain every evening, then returned the next morning. Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for 3 days and 3 nights. In Hebrew, if it had been written that Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for 3 days, that would have meant that the great fish spit him out each evening, then swallowed him again each morning. JUST BECAUSE THE DAYS YOU KNOW ARE 24 hours long, does NOT mean that every time you read the word "day" in Scripture that it is referring to the day as you presently know it. Here is one more example of how a Hebrew uses an idiom to refer to a 24 hour cycle. The timed prophecy in Daniel 8:14 says this... And he saidH559 untoH413 me, UntoH5704 two thousandH505 and threeH7969 hundredH3967 days;H6153 H1242 then shall the sanctuaryH6944 be cleansed.H6663 See the Strong's numbers there after the word days? H6153 and H1242 are erev and boqer respectively, evenings and mornings. This famous prophecy does not say 2300 days in Hebrew, it says 2300 evenings and mornings. THAT is how a 24 hour cycle is portrayed in Hebrew, either evening and morning, or day and night as the examples above reveal, because a DAY in Hebrew is only 12 hours long. It is only HALF of a Day/Night cycle. Thus, when it says in Hebrew, Remember the Sabbath DAY, WHAT segment of time is this referring to? The Babylonian 24 hour day (sunset to sunset) or the Roman 24 hour day that was adopted from Egypt (midnight to midnight) or the Hebrew 12 hour day? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Bro. White has already given his answer. What say you?

SABBATHS, NEW MOONS: ANY RELATIONSHIP?

Most Messianics who enter into the Lunar-Sabbath system are reading texts like Isaiah 66:23 and believe there is an equivalence between a weekly Sabbath and a New Moon day. Let’s analyze that here a bit:

"And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, declares Yahuah." They explain that the connective word, "and", makes both things the same (marrying them in likeness and oneness), not distinct. Is this really so? [I have been a Lunar Sabbath keeper for over 15 years and this has never occurred to me. I suppose you mean like saying men and women, or bow and arrow, or cows and horses or maybe black and white? I have never in all my years assumed nor was I taught that the use of the connective word "and" meant that whatever you are connecting must be similar or alike. Day and Night. Wow, those are not married in likeness, nor are these...

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Mountains and valleys. Good and evil. Evening and morning. David and Jonathan. Rich and poor. Wheat and tares. And these are all memorable examples that are found in Scripture of the connective word "and" connecting things that are not married in likeness. Bro. White, are you making stuff up? Again?] What this verse seems to be saying is that the SPAN "from" new moon TO new moon, and the SPAN "from" Sabbath to Sabbath, is when all flesh will worship -- it will be every day. Yahuah used these terms to gather all time into a kind of net to describe the fact that the span of time concerning His worship will have no break in it. Should we not worship every moment? Now, most do not; but those in the world-to-come will do so. “From new moon TO new moon” — and “from Sabbath TO Sabbath” ; can you see the interesting way this is expressed? Trying to force texts to say what they aren’t actually saying is what Peter warns us of, and he called it “twisting” the Scriptures. The text does not say "ON new moons" or "ON Sabbaths", but FROM one TO the other. TM: As per his norm, Bro. White does err, not knowing Scripture. According to this end time prophecy, we will be building and planting in the earth made new, and these events will naturally take place on WORK days not worship days.... They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. Isaiah 65:22 Isaiah 66:23 is referring to New Moon and the weekly Sabbath as days of worship, just as these days were days of worship in ancient Israel, not that Israel will worship for an entire month (FROM New Moon to New Moon) which would include 4 weeks, making the worship FROM one Sabbath to another entirely redundant (x4). We will NOT be worshipping YHWH across the SPAN from one New Moon to the next, or the SPAN of one Sabbath to the next. Nor are we commanded to worship Yah (in this life or the next), on work days. Yeah, trying to force texts to say what they aren't actually saying is called twisting the Scriptures. But this only applies to folks NOT named Lew White apparently. Were this a live debate, I can only imagine that Bro. White would say that what this verse is saying is that we will neither build NOR eat in the new earth. But if that were the case, it would not follow with the comment, "and another inhabit" or "and another eat" (respectively). Just throwing that out there to cover every angle. Our Father has not put me on this Earth to judge my brother, because if I do this I also judge the Torah. [I don't know about that. A man that kills his neighbor has broken the commandment. If I see him do it, then in ancient Israel, I would be called upon to cast stones along with his aggrieved family. I am judging him guilty. We ARE put on this earth to judge our neighbor, what we are NOT to do as commanded by YHWH is to unrighteously (unfairly) judge our brother. Regardless, until this point, Bro. White has not hesitated to judge Lunar Sabbath keepers, and I dare say that he will not stop in spite of his confession.] The “manna” which Yahuah fed Israel for 40 years is very much related to the week, in that it made the arrival of each Shabbath very easily recognized. [True statement.] If the “hidden manna” really is about the moon, [There is no hidden manna, see page 17 above.] or the week and its relationship to Shabbath, then more are going to be lost than even I had realized. [Wait now, IF the "hidden manna" really IS about the moon, then that was the point YHWH was trying to make. That means the manna/moon connection is true and those who REJECT this message will be lost, or maybe that was Bro. White's point. It is unclear because few things Bro. White says are ever clear on the surface. But by his own admission, he just counted himself in the number of the lost, without even attempting to reevaluate or reexamine the evidence. Amazing and at the same time, so utterly sad.] To me, it seems someone has brought in a corrupted “virus” of sorts among Yahusha’s elect, confusing them.

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[See, as I predicted, Bro. White will not hesitate to judge his brethren if it suits him. And quite frankly, if he believes that the Lunar Sabbath message is in error, he is perfectly within his right to call us on the carpet for it. But he has to provide the evidence. He doesn't have or offer any, just this tradition. All the evidence lays in the camp of Lunar Sabbath keepers.] ( I realize this can be taken either way, depending on which perspective one takes on the “lunar-setting Sabbath” issue ). Yahuah used manna, not the moon, to teach us when the Sabbath day arrived each 7 days. (7=Shabua, week). TM: Where is his evidence? Here is the Scriptural evidence. YHWH established His calendar in the heavens in Genesis 1:14, at the time of Creation. It was written in the heavens, regulated by the two great lights, and man was not consulted for his opinion at that time, nor since. Naturally, while in captivity in Egypt, Israel probably forgot everything they ever new about YHHW and His law, much less how His calendar worked. However, in Exodus 12:2, before Israel even left Egypt, YHWH is shown pointing out to Moses AND Aaron (and this is important) how to identify the first New Moon of the year, and one might suppose, every New Moon in general.... ThisH2088 New MoonH2320 shall be unto you the beginningH7218 of months:H2320 itH1931 shall be the firstH7223 New MoonH2320 of the yearH8141 to you. In this verse, the Father is identifying a particular, unique, once-in-a-year occurrence, but the TIMING of this unique appearance would also help identify every other New Moon of the year. I don't think even Bro. White will argue that the New Moon is a lunar event. Now Israel had not been commanded/reminded of the feasts or even the Sabbath yet, but whose job was it to announce the feasts? The high priest. Who was the high priest? Aaron. Now, a month later, Israel is stuck in the wilderness and are grumbling against Moses and who? (Aaron) about the flesh diet they had in Egypt. They are moving frequently to keep their livestock in fresh food, so they cannot garden, they can't eat ALL their livestock because that was their wealth, and they needed to have animals in order to survive in the promised land, basically, they have become gatherers and are having a tough time rustling up enough food to feed a million people in the desert. (Whod'a thunk it?) So YHWH sends them a throat full of quail to choke on for a night, then manna for 40 years. If you will re-read pages 16-17 above, the very FIRST week of manna proved the lunar Sabbath, the morrow after the double portion of manna falling on the 22nd day of the second month (meaning that the other Sabbaths that month were the 8th, 15th, and 29th days of the month). Israel was stuck in the desert for 40 years. Deserts are notorious for their clear skies, meaning that not only would they have the full force of the sun during the day (thus the Pillar of Cloud), they would also see the moon nearly every day and night. Rarely would a storm obscure their view. So if the timing/appearance of the New Moon did not change from month to month, and the timing of the Sabbaths are not simply random events, in VERY short order, the appearance of the moon at each Sabbath would have become self-evident, and Aaron would have been responsible for the blowing of the shofar for the Sabbaths and the trumpets for New Moon. And the fact that Moses is responsible for writing the entire Torah during the wilderness sojourn, it seems rather prudent to understand that calendar revealed in Genesis 1:14 was also self-evident.

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Bro. White, just how ignorant to you think the nation of Israel was while under the direct tutelage of the Father Himself?

The use of the connective “and”

When a statement is made in Scripture which involves a list of several things, and these are thought [Who thinks this?] to not only connect the words together in the sentence, but that the “and” unites them — marries them in likeness and oneness — we are treading into very murky waters of interpretation. [Lunar Sabbatarians do not interpret this verse in this manner.] The “sun and the moon” are used with an “and” between them, but these two are not the same things. Good and evil, Qayin and Hebel, Adam and Chawah; [I see we agree on this point, which is a non-point as Lunar Sabbatarians do not marry two things together just because of a connective "and". If they are connected because they are similar, that will be borne out in the context of the verse itself, not because of any private interpretation, examples given below.] These are distinctions between things and people, the “and” in no way makes them the same or equivalent. “Sarah his wife and Lot his brother’s son” were not the same entities, but completely separate individuals in their persons. Dawid and Golyath were both people, but very different people. In the same way, New Moons and Sabbaths are distinct. If we are told the first day of the seventh moon is a Sabbath, this means by deductive reasoning that the other 11 new moons are not Sabbaths [correct], unless they happen to coincide with the weekly pattern established during Creation Week. [Which never happens with the Father's calendar. Only with Hillel II's altered calendar does this happen.] To reason from a general principle, using logic, we can arrive at what is factual truth by deduction. [Oh brother. Isaiah 55:8-9.] Deduction literally means that we arrive at our conclusion by deducting, or taking away what is known to not apply; and this principle is how we arrive at a conclusion by reasoning. [] TM: New Moon, feasts and Sabbaths are linked with an "and", in a similar fashion as commandments, statutes and judgments are linked with an "and". Are these (in context) married in likeness? You bet they are. There are 8 places in Scripture where these three different, but similar "holidays" are mentioned together in the context of the same verse.

Yearly Monthly Weekly

1 Chronicles 23:31 set feasts new moons sabbaths

2 Chronicles 2:4 solemn feasts new moons sabbaths

2 Chronicles 8:13 solemn feasts new moons sabbaths

2 Chronicles 31:3 set feasts new moons sabbaths

Nehemiah 10:33 set feasts new moons sabbaths

Ezekiel 45:17 the feasts new moons sabbaths

Hosea 2:11 feast days new moons sabbaths

Colossians 2:16 holyday new moons sabbath days

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What is the connection? They are all times to meet with the Father. But it is the CONTEXT that lends this connection. Naturally, an annual meeting is quite different from a weekly meeting, etc. But these are all meetings WITH YHWH and that is what makes the connection. That said, this connection is not the reason that Lunar Sabbath keepers use Isaiah 66:23. Isaiah 66:23 does not by itself prove the Lunar Sabbath, but it DOES prove that the New Moon is a third category of day, which leads one to understand the role of New Moon in the calendar of YHWH. It interrupts the weekly cycle, just like the year of Jubilee (the 50th year) is a third category of year, being neither a year of sowing and reaping, nor a land Sabbath. Commandments, statutes and judgments (which appear in 42 different verses) are different, but similar because they are all part of the "Law" of YHWH that was given to Moses for the ruling of the people. Day AND Night are not the same, but they are the opposite parts of the same segment of time. Sheep and goats are not the same, but are both acceptable for sacrifice. Adam AND Eve are not the same (and I imagine Adam was sure glad of that), but they were two distinct halves of the first couple on earth. Wheat AND tares are not the same, but they both grow in the same field and will be dealt with at the final harvest. The AND is not what connects or marries these in likeness, it is the context in which they are used that performs this task. Lew, you are losing your mind over the mote in our eye, while choking on a gnat. No wait, you think we are swallowing a camel but perceive not the plank in your own eye. (Just gotta LOVE mixed metaphors when dealing with an eccentric). “My enemy’s enemy is my friend”. This statement contains deductive reasoning. “Whosoever is not against us is for us.” This is also an example of deductive reasoning. TM: Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Isaiah 5:21 YHWH knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Psalm 94:11 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 1 Corinthians 10:12 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith YHWH. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 Deductive reasoning can be a useful tool, but it does not determine truth. Sabbaths are days of rest from work, we would all agree. No one is in rebellion on that issue except those who deny they apply to us, or those who have changed the law. Shabbath is in fact the only day of the week which has its own name. Shabbath means “cease” or stop; and at the same time, it also means “seventh”, as we see in several Hebrew words which derive from the root, such as Shabuoth (weeks). [And as I have shown at the top of page 4 above, there is no textual linkage in the Hebrew between seven and Sabbath. This is assumed (by deductive reasoning?) by Bro. White. There is no Scriptural evidence for this or in the Hebrew itself.] The Hebrew word for “seven” is SHEBA, #7651. I want to let the Word of Yahuah speak to us mostly on this, so I want to let you read the following text slowly, and go ahead and strain to make the moon seem to tell us when a Sabbath is, or relate to us how it “rules” the week in any way:

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“And Elohim said, ‘Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heaven to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days and years.” Bereshith 1:14 Is there any indication that the moon resets the week each month? TM: And as pointed out on pages 15-16 above, no, this verse alone does not specifically link the moon to the Sabbath, but when you add Psalm 104:19 and Leviticus 23:1-3, the linkage becomes self-evidence. All Genesis 1:14 does is tell us that at least ONE of the two great lights will tell us when the mo'edim are. It is by "deductive reasoning" that when we read Psalm 104:19 and it tells us that the MOON specifically will rule the calendar mo'edim that intelligence, if not integrity, demands that I further consider the matter. Just WHAT is a mo'edim. Not what do I think is a mo'edim, what does YHWH consider a mo'edim? The answer to that question is found in Leviticus 23. It ain't rocket science. Lew White wishes you to use deductive reasoning to come to a false conclusion. I don't. If you wanna include your own intelligence into the equation, then you owe it to yourself to gather and consider ALL the evidence before coming to a conclusion, not just base that conclusion on your own traditional beliefs. This is why we were told that the blind are leading the blind, because none of them are examining the evidence. Those being led assume that their blind leaders have done their homework. The blind leaders assume that their forefathers did their homework. Thus the traditions of men are held forth as the Word of Yah Himself. They worship YHWH IN VAIN, and at the same time can't get over themselves and how wise they are and how ignorant those are who dare to disagree with them. We all know that “signs and appointed times” are signals and "moedim", and we count the days of the moons which establish these moedim. But when we take a leap into applying it to also affecting the weekly pattern, suddenly the weeks are sliding around the Earth with the moon; and the bad math at the end of each month doesn’t seem to indicate there’s a problem? [Bro. White's bad math is rooted in the false idea that the weeks are on an unbroken seven day cycle. And the ONLY reason he thinks that is because he is looking at the modern pagan/papal calendar and thinking it is the Scriptural calendar. Bro. White's bad math is also rooted in the fact that he does not recognize the New Moon as taught in Scripture, that it is a third category of day that interrupts the seven day weekly cycle each and every month. Two very simple corrections to make and look how far from the truth this has led him.] Can we find some text from Scripture that explains this bizarre anomaly? [He labels it bizarre before he understands it. Rather small of him, don't you think?] This is not asking too much. Does Scripture tell us anywhere we can find the weekly 7-day pattern in the sun or moon? It shouldn't be necessary to hunt it down, because if such a scheme were of the Truth, it would be seen everywhere we look in Scripture. If something becomes complicated or confusing, then something has gone terribly wrong. The following is NOT what Scripture states: “And Elohim said, ‘Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heaven to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed times, and for days, (and weeks?) and years.” No, it doesn't say the lights are for our weeks. This pattern is not seen in the skies. TM: Forgive me for answering this question before it was asked. You will find this answer back on pages 15-16 above. The Father never asks us to truckle to unreasonable demands, He actually gives us all the evidence we could ask for. It is not too much to ask Him for evidence, it is quite another thing, however, to question or disregard that evidence.

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Creation Calendar Class 101. Genesis 1:14 says that the two great lights would be for signs, seasons, days and years. Thus the calendar of Yah is 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. 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 (mo’edim--appointed times, set feasts). This alone is enough to prove that the Sabbath is 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 and watching for patterns. Everywhere you look in Scripture, the weekly Sabbaths fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th days of the month. If fact, when given a date, or enough information to determine a date, a weekly Sabbath does not fall on any other date in Scripture. The ONLY reason Bro. White is implying that the evidence does not exist is because he does not process the evidence that is given because he assumes that the calendar in Scripture is the same as the pagan/papal calendar on the wall. It is THAT simple. The weekly Sabbath is called a sign (owth) and a mo'edim. The two great lights in the heavens regulate those two things along with days and years. Stop being stiff-necked and face the evidence. Go outside and look at the sun. Can you tell whether it is satyrday or the Sabbath? No, the sun looks the same every day. Did you consider the moon? Mere deductive reasoning should lead you to this consideration. One's indolence to apply the evidence does not turn truth to error. Now watch very closely; here's a few words which should show the distinction between a "new moon" and a "Sabbath": TM: Who said they were not distinct? New Moon is a third category of day. Work days and Sabbaths are the other two. The point here (and the one I am about to make) is the CONTEXT of this verse below... "Why are you going to him today? It is neither New Moon nor the Sabbath." 2Kings 4:23. This is the text describing the events in Shunem, concerning the Shunammite woman, her son, and Elisha the prophet - her son had just died in her lap. But, this same text may cause some to make a Federal case out of it, declaring it to mean that all "new moon days" are also days of rest from work. [Sad, but true. Some Lunar Sabbatarians DO make this wrong assumption when in reality, only the seventh New Moon (Feast of Trumpets) is called or considered a Sabbath.] They even go to the extent of allowing new moon days to recalculate the weekdays, without a single shred of evidence from Scripture for doing so. [Not a shred, huh? How about Ezekiel 46:1 and the other verses shared on pages 6-7 above?] It was a "custom" to visit a prophet on the day of the new moon, as well as the weekly Sabbath; but not everyone could do this, and it certainly wasn't a Torah instruction.

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TM: True, we are not instructed to go see the prophet (Elisha or otherwise) on the New Moon or Sabbath. BUT these days are days of holy convocation according to Torah and visiting the only prophet of YHWH on these days seems rather prudent. So the linkage is that New Moon and Sabbaths are days that it would be considered common practice to go see the prophet. What was uncommon and what got the Shunammite husbands attention is that his wife wanted to go see him on a work day. Remember, three different categories of day. Bro. White, everything you say at this point is going to be an indictment against your position. There is always harmony in the truth, and you have made it your practice here to obscure and ignore the evidence that leads one to the truth. That is not my fault, and is not true because I say so. It is repeatedly manifest every time you move your fingers over your keyboard. “You are exhausted by your many counsels; let the astrologers, the stargazers, and those who prognosticate by the new moons stand up and save you from what is coming upon you.” Isaiah / Yesha Yahu 47:13 In the above text, these moon-worshippers are equated with astrologers, stargazers, and witches. [Um, there is no mention of moon worshippers in the passage above. There surely were moon worshippers in the Scriptural era, in fact Jericho was a moon-worshipping city. Seems like a contradiction for the Father to lead Israel to destroy Jericho, then lead the children of Israel to determine the Sabbath by the moon is that is considered moon worship.] Both sun worshippers and moon worshippers will be devoured by fire, which they so fervently honor. The “lake of fire” will destroy the enemies of Yahuah, and His wrath at the end of days will consume them with fire. The moon was a deity among the Pagans, and it ruled their lives as we see it echoed in the horoscopes of Astrology today. Crystal gazing, Tarot card reading, and spellbinding (chants, enchantments to bewitch) are exploding in popularity all over the Earth today, reflected in the success of the adventures of Harry Potter. Moon dances and rain dances are performed at pow-wows, where incantations and dancing are used to invoke divine aid in hunting, battle, or against disease. TM: But Lunar Sabbath keepers do not worship the moon Bro. White. The sun and moon are the minute and hour hands of the clock in the heavens, established in Genesis 1:14. How is looking at the sun and moon to tell what time it is any different than you looking at your watch or wall clock? If we worship the moon, then you are worshipping your watch because we observe them for the SAME reason. To tell where we are in time. Bro. White, if we are guilty of moon worship but you are not guilty of worshipping your watch, you are a hypocrite. The elect can be drawn away from the sign of the Everlasting Covenant, and deceived into believing they have not been. Certain texts of Scripture seem to be telling us that each new moon is a Sabbath, but it doesn’t actually state this in a resolute way - it’s only arrived at by extrapolating (to broadly infer, or estimate from known information). [There are no verses that say or imply that every New Moon is a Sabbath, this is just, regrettably, something that some Lunar Sabbath keepers conclude (probably by faulty deductive reasoning).] We read about directives to open gates and curtains, or to blow a shofar on a new moon; however there is only ONE new moon spoken of on which no work is to be done. [The horse was dead the first time you beat it. Let it go Lew.] So, yes, there is one new moon out of the year that is, in fact, a Sabbath of rest prescribed by Torah. Can we bear with one another with love, enduring such a difference between ourselves? We have to. Colossians 2:16 tells us: “Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths - which are a SHADOW of what is to come for the body of Messiah." (corrected literal translation). [Yeah, right. Bro. White assumes the authority to correct the translation, but offers no evidence for his conclusion. I will not be so indolent.] Even here, there is a distinction between new moons and Sabbaths. And, they are shadows of what is to come (as in a "model" or plan).

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A shadow is understood to mean a metaphor, or example of something else. It points to a coming reality, like a rough outline, and it is a semblance, and is insubstantial. If we condemn one another over an unreal, indistinct pattern we are wrong even if we’re right. If we get it all perfect, and have all wisdom, and yet lack love, we have failed the big test. TM: What is so loving about disregarding the truth established in Scripture, nature and the historical record while being dismissive of those who wish to follow this evidence? Bro. White hisses with a forked tongue. WhichG3739 areG2076 a shadowG4639 of things to come;G3195 butG1161 theG3588 bodyG4983 is of Christ.G5547 Colossians 2:17 When correcting the literal translation, Bro. White neglected to include a word that is actually in the Greek. It is highlighted above for you. And please note that the "is" is in italics, meaning it is added by the translators (not Bro. White in this case). Read without the "is" makes a confusing verse.... WhichG3739 areG2076 a shadowG4639 of things to come;G3195 butG1161 theG3588 bodyG4983 of Christ.G5547 Colossians 2:17 .... because it has been taken OUT of context. Put it back in context, understanding that (Which are a shadow of things to come) is a parenthetical statement, included for clarity, but the original thought can be understood without it, and you suddenly have a completely different understanding, without any private interpretation. Just looking AT the words in Greek... Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: (Which are a shadow of things to come); but the body of Christ. Colossians 2:16-17 So who and ONLY who are we to submit to in judgment? The righteous body of believers. Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath, BUT [the word Bro. White omitted] the body of believers. I did not use the word "Christ" (Cristos) as a matter of obedience because that is also the name of a pagan Greek god (see Exodus 23:13). His omission was one of convenience. His conclusion made no sense with that Greek word "but" in there, so he omitted it. Terrible exegesis, but not altogether unexpected at this point. Please note that this Greek word means more than "but" but is never translated as "for" as in the LWCV (Lew White corrected version), see below... Strong's G1161, δέ, de, deh, A primary particle (adversative or continuative); but, and, etc.: - also, and, but, moreover, now [often unexpressed in English]. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if this is as tedious for you to read as it is for me to rebut, it is time for a recess. I will, however, return. I delight in the truth because there is always harmony in the truth. In the mean time, I shall let Bro. White's nimbly rigid mind wander where it will. “If I speak with the tongues of men and of messengers, but do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. “And if I prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all belief, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am none at all. “And if I give out all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.

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“Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not seek it own, is not provoked, reckons not the evil, “does not rejoice over the unrighteousness, but rejoices in the Truth. It covers all, expects all, endures all. “Love never fails. And whether there be prophecies, they shall be in active; or tongues, they shall cease; or knowledge, it shall be inactive. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part shall be inactive. “When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I did away with childish matters. “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known. “And now belief, expectation, and love remain - these three. But the greatest of these is love.” 1 Cor. 13:1-13 TM: In addition, love does not bring accusation against those who have discovered truth that you have yet to accept. Love is not condescending or sarcastic toward those who are following said truth. True love does not demand or expect fellow servants to regress to adopt provably false doctrine. True love does not make public one's personal animosity toward true doctrine that has been adopted by others. In fact, in this case, ignorance is the opposite of true love. Watch... Ignorance brings accusation against those who have discovered truth that you have yet to accept. Ignorance is condescending and sarcastic toward those who are following said truth. Ignorance demands or expects fellow servants to regress to adopt provably false doctrine. Ignorance makes public one's personal animosity toward true doctrine that has been adopted by others. See what I mean? In this case, ignorance (rather than hatred) is the opposite of true love. Many articles have been written debunking the idea that the first day of each new moon is a Sabbath. [Which was entirely wasted time. No New Moon is ever called a Sabbath, but the seventh one. Admittedly, some Lunar Sabbatarians believe that New Moons are Sabbaths. Shame on Lunar Sabbath keepers who need Lew White to point out their error.] Not only have many sincere Natsarim begun to believe each new moon is a Sabbath, but they also “re-set” the pattern of the 7-day week each new moon. [But in this case, these sincere Natsarim are correct, the week is reset each New Moon, and in this rebuttal I have taken the time to prove just that.] This reshuffles the 7-day week into a new beginning each month for these folks, and each new moon begins with the seventh day rest, counting from nothing. TM: Lunar Sabbath keepers do not count from nothing. New Moon days are something. The first day of the month (New Moon day proper) is day one of the month. Day one is not nothing. DAY OF THE MOON COUNT: 1-29 (lunation period is 29.5 Earth days) DAY OF THE WEEK COUNT, starting on the first day of the moon: (they calculate that the Sabbaths are on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th) TM: I am still not sure who "they" are in this context. There are individual Lunar Sabbath keepers who think New Moon day is the Sabbath, but no Lunar Sabbath ministry teaches this.

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7-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-1-2-3-4-5-6-7 BOOM! The moon is done, and they begin again, getting to rest on their new moon day Sabbath right after their 7th day Sabbath.

TM: Yeah, lunar week. See pages 33-35 and 40-41. Scripture does not call New Moon day a rest day. It is linked to the weekly Sabbath in that Israel went before the tabernacle on those days, but labor WAS performed on New Moon. Please note the source material. This was not "employment", but it was "work or labor" that would never have been performed on the weekly Sabbaths... The foundation of the earth was laid on new moon day (Genesis 1:1). This was a segment of time BEFORE the first work day of the first month of the first year of earth's history. On the first day of the first month, Noah removed the roof from the ark (Genesis 8:13), not typically something that would be done on the weekly Sabbath, but was non-commerce labor. The desert tabernacle was erected on new moon (Exodus 40:2-17), the foundation of Yah's temple was laid on new moon day (I Esdras 5:57) and the foundation of Solomon's Temple was relaid on new moon day (Haggai 1:1, 2, 8, 12). The first census was taken on new moon day (Numbers 1:1-4). Again, not a Sabbath activity, but neither was it commerce. YHWH never sent Israel into battle on the Sabbath. The first day of the battle of Jericho was on New Moon day (Joshua 6:1-4, Jasher 88:14). There is also another seven day battle in I Kings 20 (see 20:29 specifically). The only way for Israel to be engaged in a seven day siege or battle without violating the weekly Sabbath is if the first day of the seven is New Moon day (see illustration below and pay attention to the color codes, green and light purple). posture posture posture posture posture posture engage

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And it was in the second month, on the first day of the month, that YHWH said to Joshua, Rise up, behold I have given Jericho into thy hand with all the people thereof; and all your fighting men shall go round the city, once each day, thus shall ye do for six days. And on the seventh day they went round the city seven times, and the priests blew upon trumpets. Jasher 88:14, 17 Jasher says the EXACT same thing as Joshua 6:1-4, the only addition is Jasher specifically gives a starting date. What I have said to those inquiring is that I believe Israel did not work their trade on New Moon. At some point they had a convocation (appeared before the temple), but then they sharpened or repaired their tools, tended to any wounded or sick work animals, washed their clothing, played with the children, had a picnic (translated to modern times...) cleaned the gutters, repaired the roof, worked on their car, caught up with their ironing, played with the children, went on a picnic. In none of the examples above can we find or prove that any of this activity was paid labor. But it WAS labor! Nor is there any evidence of commerce (buying or selling). That does not mean there was no buying or selling, just that there is no record of any, but there certainly was no buying or selling on the 7th New Moon (Feast of Trumpets). Why? Because it was an annual Sabbath. Just like the 7th day Sabbath is different than regular week days, so would the 7th New Moon different than regular New Moon days. Is it wrong to go back to work on New Moon? I have no idea. We are not told. All I know is that New Moon is not included in the "work week" as it is a third category of day. But labor of some sort could be performed on this day (just not the 7th New Moon). Lunar Sabbath keepers--if YOU think that every New Moon is a Sabbath, will you PLEASE cease and desist. The evidence presented does NOT support your conclusion. You are not having to spend your time and energy defending the Lunar Sabbath, I am, and all you are doing is giving nay-sayers and scorners such as Lew White ammunition to use against the Lunar Sabbath. Thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter. We now return to our regularly scheduled rebuttal... The final few days of this pattern chop the last week of their month off with the abrupt arrival of a sudden “7th day Sabbath”. It is not harmonious at all. [See #1, below.] The pulse of the first week of creation is lost to those who follow this pattern, and so they have become observers of some lunar-based Sabbath system. If the weekly Sabbath is set by the new moon, the pattern of the week is under constant change. [#2, below.] During the week of creation, the moon was brought forth on the 4th day, and is simply called the “lesser light” to rule over the night. It is also used to calculate the appointed times, or annual Sabbaths, referred to as “High Sabbaths”. The greater light, the sun, is used to calculate day and night. [#3, below.] Brian Allen has correctly noted that: "If the 15th day of every month is a Sabbath, the Israelites certainly ignored it when traveling in the wilderness. [#4, below.] At Exodus 16:1 it reads: 'The children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin . . . on the fifteenth day of the second month.' In this, the cloudy pillar led them to disregard this day as a Sabbath! If it were a Sabbath, the cloud would not have moved, and they would have rested." [#5, below.] If we follow the wrong order for the week, we will depart from the sign of the eternal covenant, the Sabbath Day, and we will be guilty of making our own Sabbaths, straining to make our own logic

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TM: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, after reading this far, just how much are Lunar Sabbatarians making their own Sabbaths and straining to make our own logic fit into the New Moon? Or are we simply following where the preponderance of evidence leads? #1 Harmony huh? The Sabbaths and New Moon days are days when Israel met before the temple, so in this model, I am putting them in the same column, but different colors to indicate the three different categories of day. Please compare the following calendar models and tell me which seems harmonious... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 First Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Second Month, 29 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Third Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Bro. White does not recognize the New Moon days as a third category of day. So if this third category is ignored, please observe (below) what this does to the calendar model above...

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 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 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 Of course, Bro. White recognizes New Moon (for the annual feasts are regulated by the moon) but does not believe that the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month are always the Sabbaths, as regulated by the moon, so let's see what his calendar model looks like...

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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 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 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 Bro. White's New Moon days (Day 1) fall anywhere in the week (while Ezekiel 46:1, et al, denies that New Moon can fall during the 6 work days) and I am still using the 29 or 30 day lunar months. This calendar would be slightly different, but just as disorganized if these three months consisted of 31, 28 and 31 days (jar, feb, march). Please also note the harmony that exists in the days of the month (in purple) that Bro. White calls the seventh day Sabbath. Now compare this with the first calendar model on the page above. Which one represents harmony? Now consider the following. Is the year (pagan or Hebrew) contained within the confines of each calendar year, or do days of one year fall within either the previous or following year? Answer: The days and months of each year are confined within THAT particular year. Do the days of each calendar month (pagan or Hebrew) fall within either the previous or following month, or are they confined to that particular calendar month? Answer: All the days of any given month are contained within said month. Are there any hours of a day (pagan or Hebrew) that fall within the hours of the previous or following day? Answer: All the hours of any given day are confined within said day. I have intentionally omitted mention of the week. And you KNOW where I'm headed with this. Please note the weeks in the above two calendar models. EVERY time segment in Scripture is confined. The grandest time segment (the year) confines each of the other lesser time segments it contains (months, weeks and days). Part of a segment does not fall within either the previous or following segment, and yet, parts of the pagan week can span two successive months. How is this possible, and how is this harmonious with the other time segments that absolutely are NOT split between two consecutive larger time segments? In a year, do parts of the 12th month extend into the first month of the following year? No. In a week, do hours of seventh day extend into the first day of the following week? NO. In a day, do minutes of the last hour extend into the first hour of the following day? NO! And this applies to either pagan or Scriptural time segments. In Scripture, do parts of the last week of a month extend into the first week of the following month. Absolutely NOT! So there is a divergence between the pagan and Scriptural weeks. The pagan weeks share days between successive months, which can be witnessed in the calendar model above. The question is Does that mean that Scriptural weeks must follow the same pattern as the pagan week?

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Lunar Sabbatarians make no such assumption. Lew White does. #2 The pulse of the first weekly cycle is lost huh? The second month of earth's history started with a New Moon. Last month started with a New Moon. What do you suppose the very FIRST month of earth's history started with? New Moon. And where is this time segment identified in Scripture? Genesis 1:1-2. This creation event is a time consuming segment that precedes, but is NOT included in the first work week. Interestingly enough, Scripture goes to great lengths to reveal that New Moon days are not part of the work week. Go figure. In my book, what Lunar Sabbath keepers are doing is following the exact precise model of the first week of earth's history. And look at this calendar model again... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 First Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Second Month, 29 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Third Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ...How is the pulse of the first week of creation lost, and how is the pattern of the week under constant change? Looks rather uniform to me. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, what say you? #3 According to Bro. White, the moon was created on the 4th day of creation and rules only the night. Please re-examine the evidence on pages 28-31 above. The moon was not created on day 4, it was approached, advanced upon and given a job description. And when Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19 and Leviticus 23:1-3 are compared together (according to Isaiah 28:9-10), the moon does more than regulate the month, the annual Sabbaths and rule the night. The moon, according to Scripture, nature and the historcal record, also regulates the weekly Sabbath. And it does not matter whether Lew White agrees or not. The truth is suspended for no man, not even one the caliber of Bro. White. #4 Brian Allen and Lew White suffer from tunnel vision. These men, like so many others, are so desperate to disprove the Lunar Sabbath that they seem to forget or ignore the basic facts. Israel had not kept a Sabbath for who knows HOW many generations while in bondage in Egypt.

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In Exodus 16, a full month after the exodus, the Father establishes a test to TEACH them the Sabbath, and both these men know this. Israel did not know that Abib 15 (the day of their deliverance) was a Sabbath, so how are they guilty of breaking the Sabbath? The Father knew it was the Sabbath, and HE did not seem to have a problem with Israel being delivered on the Sabbath; and He later revealed to Israel that Abib 15 was indeed a Sabbath in Leviticus 23:6-11. The man from Galilee knew that it was a Sabbath, and he did not have any problem healing the paralytic on the Sabbath and sending him home carrying his bed linen. Do you see a pattern here? Brian and Lew don't, but the ladies and gentlemen of the jury sure do. Deliverance from any form of bondage (either physical, literal) on the Sabbath is NOT a sin. What Israel was doing, leading their flocks and family out of Egypt on a weekly Sabbath after many decades of slavery, was not work. It was a victory parade. What Israel would have been doing on the Sabbath while in slavery back in Egypt--THAT would have been work. You know it, I know it, and Brian and Lew know it. Now they need to get over themselves and their pride of opinion and recognize the facts for what they are. The facts do NOT line up to support any satyrday Sabbath. The facts ALL line up to support the Lunar Sabbath. At this juncture, what I just said should be rather self-evident. #5 If the 15th day of the second month was the Sabbath, the cloud would not have moved. Says who, Bro. White? You? See #4 above. Israel had STILL not been re-taught anything about the Sabbath. That would begin that evening, and the first Sabbath that they understood and observed was the 22nd day of the second month, after the first week of manna that began the morning AFTER the 15th, the day above that White is flapping his arms about. It has not been mentioned, but I have an idea that in the backs of both Brian Allen's head and Lew White's is the "Sabbath day's journey" spoken of in Acts 1:12. If so, I would like for either of them to show me in the Torah where there is any such thing as a Sabbath day's journey. There isn't one. So, read Isaiah 8:20, then tell me how much credibility I should give this argument. Like I said, being delivered on the Sabbath was not work, it was a victory parade. If the Father told Israel to follow the cloud (and He did), and it moved on a day that we NOW know was a weekly Sabbath, how is this a sin against Israel? They did not know it was weekly Sabbath (yet), and they were in the act of obedience by following the cloud. Brian? Lew? You have been shown the truth about the Scriptural Sabbath. The cloud is moving you away from the bondage of a false sabbath. You need either to follow or be left in the wilderness.

How this will be weighed by Yahusha, the Righteous Judge of us all, is unknowable. He told us that stumbling blocks would come, but woe to those through whom they come. Those who ignore the Sabbath each week (the real one) are cut-off from Israel, and death is proclaimed as their judgment. [And Yahusha observed the same Lunar Sabbath we are now discovering.] If the moon were involved in such a vitally important operation as calculating the weekly Sabbath, it seems He would have mentioned it somewhere in His Torah. [YHWH DID mention it in His Torah as well as His prophets, Bro. White, but you ignore and deny it. Your actions are the epitome of the passage in Luke 16:30-31 where one would not be persuaded even if one were raised from the dead.] Even though the 29.5 days in each moon don’t divide evenly by 7, this doesn’t matter to them; the new moon comes and they re-set their week, and it BEGINS the new moon day as a Sabbath. [The original months were 30 days long, which is also not divisible by 7, but the Sabbaths were still lunar.]

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Even though the true Sabbath is supposed to be the 7th day of each week, they let the MOON tell them when that 7th day is [The Lunar Sabbath IS the seventh day of each week, and is announced by the quarter phases of the moon every month. It ain't rocket science. It is rather natural in fact.]— the previous week which the same moon “set” for them is interrupted with a sudden arrival of a new 7th day, the 1st day of the moon (the first day of the moon is the seventh day of their week). [And this is a bold faced lie. The first day of the month is New Moon, it is NEVER the seventh day of any week.] Careful, you could get cross-eyed thinking about this too long. [If I were filling my head with false-hoods like this, I would get cross-eyed too. It seems that Bro. White's cross-eyedness is due to his lack of due diligence--proclaiming the Lunar Sabbath false based on own false accusations. This is like me saying that the sky simply cannot be blue because I say it is green. That is about how strong Bro. White's accusations are.] The week is simply not in the sky, but set by the counting of days! [...based upon the Gospel of Lew apparently. Must be that because there is no such legislation in Torah or the prophets.] The “greater light” determines these days, and all we have to do is count to 7, the number of completion. How could anyone possibly go for such a system? They read Scriptures which make them get panicky, and so hunt for other clues. [What made us panicky is that the read Scripture that destroyed any notion that the weekly Sabbath of YHWH was embedded in the pagan/papal calendar. That is when we went searching for other clues. And considering the mountain of evidence I have just piled on you, it seems that we did our research well.] A very strong urge comes from the following: Amos 8:5 brings out a question, “When does the new moon pass so that we sell grain, and the Sabbath so that we trade our wheat, to make the ephah small and the sheqel large, and to falsify the scales by deceit, to buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the chaff of the wheat?” The context of this verse in Amos shows that these are a list of things Yahuah finds displeasing to Him. The moon worship of that period had led many to observe strange customs, blending it together with His Torah. If we add to the Torah by reading something into the meanings of sentences like Amos 8:5, we can trouble ourselves. [For the record, Lunar Sabbatarians do not use this verse to prove the Lunar Sabbath. What this verse proves (in conjunction with Ezekiel 46:1, Isaiah 66:23 and II Kings 4:23) is that the New Moon is not included in the week. It was this discovery that LED us to the fact that the weekly Sabbath is regulated by the moon. And indeed, moon worship in Palestine was an issue. The Hebrew for moon is Yaw-ray'-akh (H3394). Jericho (H3405) stems from H3394. H3405, יחה חו יר יחו יר , יר

yerı ycho, yerêchô, yerı ychoh yer-ee-kho', yer-ay-kho', yer-ee-kho' Perhaps from H3394; its month; or else from H7306; fragrant; Jericho or Jerecho, a place in Palestine: - Jericho. Jericho was a moon worshipping center. It was the gateway into the southern end of the promised land, and the first place taken from the Canaanites. As I have said before, it seems rather odd to suggest that the Lunar Sabbath is akin to moon worship when the first place YHWH had Israel destroy was a Canaanite moon worshiping city.] According to the Torah, resting on the new moon from work only applies to ONE of the new moons, and it is possible that this particular new moon spoken of in Amos 8:5 was the 7th new moon, the harvest time of some grain they wished to sell. [And on this, I agree. Lunar Sabbatarians (honest ones) do not promote the idea or believe that New Moon is a Sabbath or rest day. In spite of this, White has wasted gallons of ink and hours of his life (and mine) saying that we do.] I can abide the people who believe these things about the other new moons being Sabbaths, but I cannot abide this new wind of doctrine for these reasons:

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Reason #1. Torah doesn’t know about it. TM: Actually, Torah teaches it; Genesis 1:14 and Leviticus 23:1-3 are Torah. Add Psalm 104:19 and the weekly Sabbath, along with the annual Sabbaths are regulated by the moon. In truth, I suppose that the Lunar Sabbath is a new wind of doctrine only because it is a doctrine that has been kept hidden from us for such a time as this. And while the Father certainly winks at our ignorance, there comes a time when He is going to hold our feet to the fire... Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance Elohim winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: The Shabbaths of Yahuah are listed at: Leviticus / Wayyyiqra 23:1-44, and Deuteronomy / Debarim 16:1-18 These are listed carefully, and only ONE new moon is designated as being distinguished from the other common new moons as a day of resting from labor. No indication is given that any other new moon is qodesh, or set-apart as a day of rest in any way. [I wish I could say FOR THE LAST TIME, but I am certain that Lew White is incapable of letting this go. FOR THE ___ TIME, Bro. White, ONLY the seventh New Moon is called a Sabbath. Lunar Sabbath keepers know this. We do not call every New Moon a Sabbath. You are continuing to beat this horse LONG after it has been declared dead.] Further, there is no hint that the weekly Shabbath is related in any way to the moon phases. [I call every brown, slime green, gold and light purple word above to stand as a witness against your willful ignorance, or is it arrogance. YHWH knows. I am just sowing seeds; the soil will prove itself.] This is entirely a misreading of the text at Yesha Yahu (Is.) 66:23. If Father Yahuah wanted us to know that every new moon was a Sabbath, all He had to do was say so. [Oh for the love of Pete. I can't even get out of this paragraph before Bro White AGAIN implies that Lunar Sabbath keepers think that the New Moon is a Sabbath, and accuses us of using Isaiah 66:23 as evidence. Again, Isaiah 66:23 proves (along with Ezekiel 46:1, Amos 8:5 and II Kings 4:23 that the New Moon is a third category of day. We do not use these texts to prove that the Sabbath is regulated by the moon because they do not teach this.] By the act of telling us that the 7th new moon was a Sabbath, He told us by deduction that the other new moons were not days of rest, and therefore He distinguished the 7th new moon for us. [We agree Bro White, because it is true.] TM: I am perfectly willing to be accused of something (repeatedly if necessary) if I am indeed guilty. But by being force fed a steady diet of this crap from Bro. White, I can honestly say that I detest the false accusations as well as the man who casts them. Bro. White you can pat yourself on the back all you want by saying how well you can abide by Lunar Sabbath keepers, that we are still brethren or whatever you have said (that it is merely the Lunar Sabbath doctrine you cannot abide by), but by repeatedly using false accusations to prove your point, you are nothing more than an accuser of the brethren, a scorner. In fact, Scripture calls Bro. White a liar. He does not love, appreciate nor can he abide by Lunar Sabbath keepers as he says... Proverbs 9:8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

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Proverbs 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise. A rebuttal is nothing more than a rebuke or reproval, so I am fully aware of how Bro. White really feels about men like me. And there is a reason why men like Bro. White cannot grasp or understand truth. Proverbs 13:1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Proverbs 14:6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. He cannot be corrected (by rebuke or rebuttal) because he has neither wisdom nor understanding. Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. Solomon was a wise man. Reason #2. There are examples of work done on the first day of the moons: At Genesis 8:13, Noach removed the covering of the ark he spent 100 years building. It was the 1st day of the moon. At Num. 1:1, on the 1st day of the 2nd moon, a census was taken of all Yisra’el. How odd is that? At Ezra 7:9, this prophet was journeying on two new moons. TM: And a longer list was given above. Still beating the same dead horse I see. I have to laugh. Either that or pull my hair out from the aggravation. Bro. White, New moon is not a Sabbath. Labor was performed on New Moon, but New Moon was NOT included in the work week. It interrupted the weekly count every month. And it does not matter whether you agree or not. The truth is not deterred by the rebuke of a scorner. Reason #3. The Sabbath is supposed to be the seventh day of each week, after 6 days’ work; but if you re-start each new moon with this Sabbath rest, then it becomes the seventh day of a new week, without having a previous six work days for that week. [Repeating false accusations will never make them true, it only sounds more convincing to the one repeating them. Please note that the weekly Sabbath, as observed by Lunar Sabbatarians as represented in the calendar model below, is the seventh day of EVERY week. Not the pagan/papal week, the Scriptural week found in Genesis.]

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

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The seventh day begins each of their months somehow, and makes the second day of each moon the first day of their week. [Bro. White, the seventh day does NOT begin our months; it is a New Moon day. It is the first day of the month and is not numbered in the week. Scripture excludes New Moon days from the week. And because they INTERRUPT the week, the Scriptural New Moon proves that the repeating seventh day satyrday is NOT the Sabbath of Scripture.] With an operation like this going on, you would think that our Father would have given at least a couple of sentences explaining the relationship of the moon to the week. [Seems like a logical deduction, naturally, YHWH obliged us with Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19 and Leviticus 23:1-3. Ask, and ye shall receive. But you gotta accept the answer to your query that Scripture offers, not argue against it. If you do that, you might be called a scorner and you wouldn't want that.] But, He’s totally silent about this relationship. [And once again he proves that he is little more than a scorner.] Again, these ideas don’t come directly from Torah, but are inferred from phrases embedded in sentences. He knows how easily confused we can be, so by not mentioning something this important, it would have to mean He is hoping to trick us. I don’t think He would do such a thing. TM: Of course the Father is not trying to trick us. Amos 3:7 says that the Father will do NOTHING unless He reveal His secret to His servants the prophets. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, feel free to peruse the evidence presented above in support of the Lunar Sabbath and render your verdict whether you think Lunar Sabbath keepers have had to infer anything. I just had an epiphany. I believe I know why Bro. White is so fixated thinking that Lunar Sabbath keepers think the New Moon is a Sabbath. And I think it is my fault. I used to exclusively present the Lunar calendar like this... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 First Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Second Month, 29 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Third Month, 30 days 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Bro. White saw New Moon in the seventh day column, but completely missed that it was in a different color, in an attempt to show that while it was in the seven day column (due to similarities with the Sabbath), we believe that it is a third category of day, not a weekly Sabbath, and certainly not the seventh day of the week. For example, between the first and second month above the 29th, 30th and 1st are all in the seventh day column, but are consecutive days. It is no wonder Lew White thinks we are idiots if he thinks that WE think all these are 7th day Sabbaths. But in reality, it is White who is the buffoon for not taking the time to even try to understand what Lunar Sabbath keepers believe. I have never thought New Moon was a 7th day Sabbath.

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Ever. I presented it in this manner early in my Lunar Sabbath journey, because a calendar with 7 days was the only calendar I had ever been exposed to, so I used a skeleton of the Gregorian calendar in the attempt to show not only that the calendar of Creation was made up of three different categories of day, (I printed them in three different colors) but also that the weekly Sabbaths were always the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the month. It was not until later that I also realized that New Moon had similarities with the work days (since labor was performed on New Moon days). I no longer present the calendar in this manner, of which the calendar near the bottom of page 67 bears witness. I regret that apparently I have been the root cause of my own consternation with Bro. White. LOL I admit, I never saw that coming. Reason #4. The moon circles the Earth in a period of approximately 29.5 days. For thousands of years, the same side of the moon has faced the Earth, perfectly synchronized with its orbital period and rate of rotation. Scientists cannot explain this circumstance, and mathematicians will tell you that it is almost infinitely improbable to ever develop this way on any planetary system in the universe. And yet, the planet we all happen to live on has this bizarre, unlikely situation. [None of which has anything to do with anything regarding the Lunar calendar.] If our Creator can do this, then He could have just as easily made the week fit into the moon’s orbit by division, and made the moon orbit in exactly 28 days. [But He didn't. He apparently wanted New Moon days in there too, and considering that the sun and moon are moving from east to west across the face of the earth at different rates, there WOULD be a time when the moon was not visible as it was passing the sun, and these "days" had to be accounted for and accommodated. Thankfully, the Father is also perfectly aware that He does not answer to Bro. White in an effort to make him happy or satisfy all his questions. Isaiah 55:8-9. And lest Bro. White has forgotten, YHWH is the Potter, WE are the clay. We don't get to ask Him why He does or does not do something. Isaiah 29:19, Jeremiah 18:6.] Then He could have also told us to watch for the new moons, and rest on each one. He could have also told us that each one of the new moons was also a 7th day of the week. TM: He did not because New Moon days are not the seventh day of the week. Any week. Ever. Nor do Lunar Sabbath keepers believe that they are. Reason #5. The manna was used to re-teach the Israelites when the seventh day was, not when the new moon arrived. During the captivity of the Israelites in Egypt, it is possible that no one on Earth had kept the record of days for the 7-day week. Israel had succumbed to the Pagan system, and lost it also. They had to be re-taught. [He admits this now, after siding with Brian Allen at the bottom of page 60 above.] This is why the 4th Commandment begins with the word “remember” - it had been forgotten. The manna was provided for 6 consecutive days without fail. There was no interruption in this cycle mentioned, [Chapter and verse, Bro. White. You don't get to make stuff up in the presence of truthseekers and present it as the gospel. I was weaned a long time ago. I have teeth. If you cannot prove this point with spiritual meat (and you cannot or you would have long ago), then do not continue to insult my intelligence.] nor did the new moon come into any references that pertained to the manna. A double-portion of manna coming before each new moon would surely have been a signal, and yet there is no record of this occurring. [There is no record of this occurring because the New Moon is neither part of the 6 work days nor the weekly Sabbath. The Sabbath has always been regulated by the moon, the manna was merely a secondary equation to RE-TEACH Israel about the importance of the weekly Sabbath.] The new moons have no connection to the 7-day week. [Wow, about time. A true statement. New Moon is not part of the 7-day week. They are connected (the first week follows New Moon), but New Moon is not part of the week.] TM: This entire manna issue is addressed on pages 16-17 above.

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Reason #6. The Yahudim (called Jews today) have kept the heartbeat of the 7-day week since they were among the Israelites being re-trained by the manna cycle in the wilderness. There is no record or any hint that a change in this pattern ever occurred. These are among the elect of Yahuah, and have preserved the Words of the Torah, prophets, and writings for us. They are also the direct recipients of the promises (Romans 9:4), and are of the lineage of Yahusha Himself. If I am going to trust any group to preserve this set-apart weekly cycle, I would lean heavily toward entrusting it to a group of orthodox “Jews” than a group / denomination that may shift on the sand of human counsel. Ephraim is the Scriptural term used for Gentile-dispersed descendants of Yosef, and the other lost tribes. A major problem with Ephraim is his arrogance, so the orthodox Yahudim will tell you. TM: This is all well and good if even a shred of it were true. The Jews are not Yahudim, much less Israelites (see pages 20-22 above) and have NEVER had the true Sabbath, much less having been put into a position to safeguard the Sabbath. And that Bro. White puts more trust in orthodox Jews is pretty much the final nail in the coffin. His faith is in the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9, 3:9) rather than the body of believers. Here is what orthodox Jews say in the Talmud, their holy book... Rabbi Ismael, Rabbi Chambar, et al: “The teachings of the Talmud stand above all other laws. They are more important than the laws of Moses.” Trach Mechilla: “Jehovah Himself studies the Talmud standing; He has such respect for that book.” Rabbi Menachem commentary on fifth book: “The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah Himself asks the opinions of the earthly rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven.” Michna Sanhedryn 11:3: “It is more wicked to question the words of the rabbis than those of the Torah.” Torah is the Word of YHWH. The Talmud says: “When you go to war do not go as the first, but as the last, so that you may return as the first. Five things has Kanaan recommended to his sons: ‘Love each other, love the robbery, hate your masters and never tell the truth.’” Pesachim F., p. 113B “How to interpret the word ‘robbery.’ A goy [non-Jew] is forbidden to steal, rob or take woman slaves, even from a goy or a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy.” Tosefta, Abda Zara, VIII The Talmud says: “It is forbidden to disclose the secrets of the law. He who would do it would be as guilty as though he destroyed the whole world.” Jaktut Chadasz, p. 171.

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“To communicate anything to a goy [non-Jew] about our religious relations would be equal to killing of all Jews, for if the goyim knew what we teach about them they would kill us openly.” Libbre David, p. 37. The Talmud says: “The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human being nothing but beasts.” Baba Mecia, p. 114. The Talmud says: “When a goy kills a goy or a Jew he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy he is NOT responsible.” Tosefta, Aboda Zara, p. 8. “A Jew is permitted to rape, cheat and perjure himself but he must take care that he is not found out, so that Israel may not suffer.” Schulchan Aruch, Jore Dia. “A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated.” Aboda Zara, 37a. “A Jew may violate, but not marry a non-Jewish girl.” Gad, Shas, 2:2 Erubin 21b (Soncino edition): “My son, be more careful in the observance of the words of the Scribes than in the words of the Torah (Old Testament).” Torah is the Word of YHWH. R.C. Musaph-Andriesse, From Torah to Kabbalah: A Basic Introduction to the Writings of Judaism, p. 40: “The authority of the Babylonian Talmud is also greater than that of the Jerusalem Talmud. In cases of doubt the former is decisive.” Jewish scholar Hyam Maccoby, in Judaism on Trial, quotes Rabbi Yehiel ben Joseph: “Further, without the Talmud, we would not be able to understand passages in the Bible...God has handed this authority to the sages and tradition is a necessity as well as scripture. The Sages also made enactments of their own...anyone who does not study the Talmud cannot understand Scripture.” Erubin 21b: “Whosoever disobeys the rabbis deserves death and will be punished by being boiled in hot excrement in hell.” Moed Kattan 17a: “If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is not known and do the evil there.” Sanhedrin 57a: “A Jew need not pay a gentile ("Cuthean") the wages owed him for work.” Baba Mezia 24a (and affirmed also in Baba Kamma 113b and Sanhedrin 76a): “If a Jew finds an object lost by a gentile ("heathen") it does not have to be returned.”

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Gittin 69a says: To heal his flesh a Jew should take dust that lies within the shadow of an outdoor toilet, mix with honey and eat it. Yebamoth 63a... States that Adam had sexual intercourse with all the animals in the Garden of Eden. Sanhedrin 55b says: A Jew may marry a three year old girl (specifically, three years "and a day" old). Sanhedrin 54b says: A Jew may have sex with a child as long as the child is less than nine years old. Kethuboth 11b: "When a grown-up man has intercourse with a little girl it is nothing." Yebamoth 59b says: A woman who had intercourse with a beast is eligible to marry a Jewish priest. A woman who has sex with a demon is also eligible to marry a Jewish priest. Abodah Zarah 17a states: There is not a whore in the world that the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eleazar has not had sex with. Hagigah 27a says: No rabbi can ever go to hell. Baba Mezia 59b says: A rabbi debates God and defeats Him. God admits the rabbi won the debate. Nuff said? These Jewish rabbis are not Israelites, they are Edomites, Esau’s descendants. And now I might add that these men are the ones trusted by Lew White to have upheld the Sabbath. “You are exhausted by your many counsels; let the astrologers, the stargazers, and those who prognosticate by the new moons stand up and save you from what is coming upon you.” Isaiah / Yesha Yahu 47:13 The three new moon days I mentioned where men of Elohim did work or traveled on new moons days are the only ones I've found so far, however by the word of 2 or 3 witnesses, a matter is established. [Funny how this statute is claimed by Bro. White when proving something he accuses Lunar Sabbaths keepers of doing, when we are not guilty, but this statute does not apply to the 2-3 witnesses that I have presented herein that proves the Lunar Sabbath. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you ARE aware of YHWH distaste for hypocrites, yes?] The fact that there is no mention of any disobedience involved in the work or traveling on new moon days for these men should end the controversy. [Because it is not a sin to labor or travel on New Moon. Apparently, this IS rocket science for some. The actual controversy is this: Israel marched around Jericho in full battle array for seven consecutive days. They were traveling from their camp to Jericho, then marching around it. Which day was the Sabbath? One of these days HAD to be the Shabbat of Israel according to Bro. White's calendar model. And he will neither respond nor admit that the seven day battle of Jericho (and the second witness in I Kings 20:1-29) blows up his calendar model.]

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People imagine "sin" lurking in men's hearts over many issues. Some even believe that celebrating Hanukkah might be "adding" to Torah, and therefore sin. In all Scripture, Hanukkah is mentioned once (if one ignores Maccabees I & II), at Yn. 10:22. So, Hanukkah is found in Scripture, yet "Christmas" is not. If a person shuns Christmas, and begins to celebrate Hanukkah, it will more often than not have consequences for them. Relatives and friends will shun or persecute them for it, thinking they have become influenced by radical ideas. TM: Indeed, Christmas is a pagan holiday, and is condemned in Jeremiah 10:1-5. Hanukkah is not listed anywhere in the Torah or the prophets, so is not required to be observed by anyone, for any reason. It is a national holiday of the nation of Israel, observed while in the land of promise. It is kind of like july 4th or labor day for US citizens. While I consider myself of Hebrew descent, I am not in the promised land. When all Israel returns to their land of promise, I rather doubt that Hanukkah will be among the festivals observed because it is not a date commanded to be observed by YHWH. If there was a Scriptural reference for Yahusha observing His birthday, or someone else doing it, then we would have a basis for remembering His birth at Sukkoth (Tabernacles, Tents). When Noach removed the outer covering from the ark on a new moon day, we know it involved a great deal of labor. If Scripture had stated that Noach RESTED on the new moon day, and removed the covering the following day, then the Looney Sabbath folks would have a leg to stand on - but that's not what it says. TM: Oh brother. He just keeps returning to his vomit. Of course Noah did not rest on New Moon, the day he removed the outer covering of the ark. It was not a rest day. Never has been. Never will be other than the seventh New Moon (Feast of Trumpets). The Sabbath was shown to Israel through re-training using manna for 6 days, then one day without it; if the moon were involved in any remote way, then Yahuah would have pointed it out to them. [In Genesis 1:1 and Exodus 12:2, New Moon is specifically manifest. In both instances, it is the first New Moon of the year, and in the latter verse, YHWH is clearly pointing out how to identify the New Moon. In Genesis 1:14, the Creator reveals where His calendar is going to be displayed, and what the great lights would regulate, the mo'edim being the second listed. Then in Leviticus 23:1-3, the weekly Sabbath is TWICE labeled mo'edim. So, which of the two great lights regulate the mo'edim? Later, just in case Israel or Bro. White are too dimwitted to connect the dots, Psalm 104:19 specifically names the moon as the regulater the mo'edim (that would be the CALENDAR mo'edim). So, WHAT exactly did the Creator Yah fail to reveal to Israel? Here are more than THREE witnesses Bro. White. And I am introducing these as evidence. Either cross examine or be silent. If YHWH was not interested in teaching Israel which light was going to regulate the Sabbaths, why did He have all this recorded?] For the same reason He left it unmentioned for 40 years in the wilderness, He left it unmentioned during the first week: the moon is not involved. [Laughing.] They had lost the Sabbath while in Mitsrayim, and Yahuah gently caused them to "remember" it by training with the manna. The moon's relationship to the weekly Sabbath didn't come up during the whole 40 years they spent living on manna. [Which must be why YHWH took the time to show Moses and Aaron how to identify New Moon in Exodus 12:2, and why Moses was given the Torah (including Genesis and Leviticus) somewhere between the exodus and the entrance into Canaan 40 years later. Oops, that seems to cover the wilderness sojourn as well as the time they received the manna. It appears that there is no end to the depth of Bro. White's ignorance.] The seasonal High Sabbaths involve the moon. The only new moon day that is a rest day is the new moon day of the 7th moon, so He was careful to mention it. [Just as He carefully inspired Genesis 1:1, 1:14, Exodus 12:2, Leviticus 23 and Psalm 104:19.] Neither this 7th new moon nor the other new moons have any bearing on the week of 7 days established at Creation Week. To ignore the weekly Sabbath, or make one up that follows the moon, causes us to depart from the Covenant sign between Israel and Yahuah.

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[He keeps saying unsubstantiated crap like this and never bothers to back it up with anything other than his opinion. Simply amazing. It would be difficult to believe this if I were not reading it for myself.] The Roman calendar has the imprint of the original 7 days of Creation Week, [Laughing out loud.] yet it ignores the real new moons. If you notice it carefully, those 7 days of the Creation Week have no relationship to any nuance of the Roman calendar, yet the 7 days keep plowing through it. Roman "months" have no foundation since they are not based on the moon. Their "new year" is loosely based on the winter solstice; but the echo of Creation Week throbs like a deafening drumbeat throughout the whole world. TM: Oh brother. Shakespeare has nothing on Bro. White. When you find that you are headed in a direction that is foreign to most of the body of Mashiach, then it's time to re-assess some foundational points. TM: For the record, please consider what "consensus" or unity means from a Scriptural standpoint. Who cares what "most of the body of Mashiach" think regarding the cyclical timing of the Sabbath? Since when has the majority ever been right? At the flood? At Sodom and Gomorrah? When Aaron fashioned a golden calf while Moses was on Mt. Sinai? The multiple times in the wilderness that Israel revolted against Moses and wanted to return to Egypt? When the 12 spies returned from the land of Canaan? On Mt. Carmel when Elijah challenged the 450 prophets of Ba'al? When 40 boys taunted Elisha to go up ("thou bald head") into heaven like Elijah did? When David (against everyone's wishes and all common sense) when up alone against Goliath? When all the intelligent youth chosen of Israel ate at the king Nebuchadnezzar's table, while Daniel and his 3 friends refused? When Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego alone among all the nobles of Babylon refused to bow to Nebuchadnezzar's great golden image? When Martin Luther challenged the papacy? Shall I continue? It makes me sick to have Bro. White play this majority card because when applied it causes spiritual stagnation, which is a tool of the enemy. Thinking for oneself, thinking outside the box, being convicted by the Spirit of YHWH is prohibited in the churches and is said to be extremism and the cause of dissension and disunity; in reality, it is the lifeblood of all true believers everywhere. Is the lighthouse correct or the hundred ships all heading straight toward the reef? Consensus to a lemming is to follow the lemming in front of him/her. This leads to the nearest cliff, never seeing or acknowledging anything more than the ass-end of the lemming in front right up to the point of the realization of death. Consensus to a sheep is to follow the shepherd. And you have been warned... Therefore thus saith YHWH Mighty One of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith YHWH. Jeremiah 23:2 “Even if you are in the minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” Gandhi "Let no man therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a festival, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days, which are a shadow of things to come; but the body of Mashiach." Col 2:16-17

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TM: Indeed. Do not let men (like Bro. White) judge you in food or in drink, or in respect to a festival or of the New Moon or of the Sabbath BUT the righteous body of believers. Men who are righteous judge righteously. Men who THINK they are right do not. NEW MOON CALCULATION There will always be differences in interpretations, but love overcomes these. Some "sight" a new moon sliver at sunset, others know the dark moon is the actual new moon. The day before a new moon, a "sliver moon" appears just before SUNRISE. Then, there's one day without a moon to see at all. [There are two actually.] When a sliver moon appears at SUNSET, that simply means that the first day of the moon just ended. [Of the New Moon models mentioned so far, this is the Scriptural New Moon.] The best test of when we should start the count is when the 15th of the moon arrives (on the 15th the moon should always be full). TM: I know others who use this concept in an effort to predict whether the New Moon will be a one or two day event. But neither nature nor Scripture leads to this conclusion; it is truly a man-made conclusion. "Blow the shofar in the new moon, and in the full moon, the day of our feast." Ps 81:3 (Referring of course to the Sabbaths of the 7th moon, when we blow the shofar on the new moon day. The important thing to notice is the FULL MOON, the "day of our feast", which arrives on the 15th - Sukkoth or Tabernacles). If the moon is FULL on the 15th, then we started with the dark moon. If the full moon arrives on the 14th of our count, it is because we started our count with a sliver moon. If the moon is FULL and we've only counted to 14, the following day the moon will be missing the same amount of light we started our moon with. The only new moon day that is a Shabbath of rest is the first day of the seventh moon. [Correct, the only New Moon day that is a Sabbath is the seventh New Moon.] TM: And the problem with the model presented above is that when the correct New Moon model is incorporated, the full moon ALWAYS arrives the evening of the 14th announcing the 15th as the 2nd Sabbath of the month. Only by using a false New Moon will the full moon toggle between the 14th and the 15th. The reason we're seeing so many differences in Messianic Natsarim observance is because people have allowed themselves to be infiltrated with teachings from misled individuals, anti-missionary groups, or the Karaites. [And non-believers, nay-sayers, scorners and accusers of the brethren should be added to this list.] Those who don't believe in Yahusha as the Mashiach must not be any final authority for our doctrine, but as time passes, the TALMUD and the Karaites are being quoted by more Messianic teachers all the time. Without the indwelling of the Teacher, we can be tossed back and forth by any wind of doctrine. Much may be correct, but there are even differences in observance between the Orthodox Yahudim and the Karaites.

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TM: Excuse me, but regardless of what Lew White says above, Isaiah 8:20 is the gold standard that stands as judge of all doctrine. Belief in Yahusha as the Messiah is not mentioned anywhere in this passage. And I will give you a perfect example of how Bro. White's conclusion is bogus... Lew White clearly believes that Yahusha is the Messiah, and yet he believes and is promoting a false sabbath (the seventh day of the pagan/papal calendar) as the Sabbath of Scripture, and believes that anyone who worships otherwise is worshipping YHWH in vain. While he is attempting to do so in a loving, non-judgmental manner, his true nature (as a nay-sayer and accuser of the brethren) has shown itself on several occasions here. According to Bro. White, he should be included in the body of righteous believers and has a right to judge your manner of Sabbath keeping. I have not trumpeted Yahusha as the Messiah in my effort to convince you of the Lunar Sabbath because according to Isaiah 8:20, that is irrelevant. What I HAVE presented is the law and the prophets as primary witnesses, and nature and the historical evidence as second and third corroborative witnesses. And according to the Torah, 2-3 witnesses saying the same thing establishes what is truth. See the difference? I am not trying to convince you of how righteous I am (that I believe a certain way so you should listen to everything I say), I am presenting Scripture and 2 other witnesses that agree with Scripture that the Sabbath is regulated by the moon. What I believe or how righteous I am is irrelevant. The truth is the truth regardless of who the messenger is. Balaam's donkey knew the truth; Balaam did not. If the Father can reveal His intent via an ass, he can use men like me. The pureness of the message is what identifies it as true, not the pureness of the messenger. “All error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because no one will see it.” Gandhi “Truth is not what I believe. Truth is not even what I know. Truth is Fact. I may not believe it. I may not know it. That does not change it. It is there nevertheless, waiting to be discovered and believed. Truth does not depend on the unsettled and changing opinions of men. It was truth before it was believed. It remains truth, whether it is believed or not. Reason does not originate or create it. It merely discovers it.” Carlyle B. Haynes No "moon sighting" is mentioned in the Torah. [See below.] For the most part, we find that Scripture agrees with most of the Orthodox views in the weekly Shabbath, and the 7 High Shabbaths, except for the count to Shabuoth - the Karaites actually keep that correctly. Neither of these groups have belief in Mashiach Yahusha; but if we have the Scriptures, the discernment of Yahusha, and the moon, we can eventually find the correct pattern. Most importantly, we are well advised to be at peace with others in spite of subtle differences. I'm not saying to compromise what we believe, but rather accept that others are searching for the Truth as well. Impatience, unkindness, and intolerance will interfere with the work of Yahusha. People change as they better understand Torah. There is still quite a bit that people do that is not found in Torah, and one of those is the "sighting" of a new moon. The only new moon that we are told is a day of rest from regular work is the 1st day of the 7th moon. TM: You cannot see "New Moon". During this phase, the moon is not visible.

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Regarding the concept that no moon sightings are mentioned in Torah, please consider the following with the understanding that the tests in gold font are Torah... Genesis 1:14 tells all humanity (believers in particular) that the two great lights, one of which is the moon, would announce the signs, seasons, days and years. If you, like Bro. White, cannot figure this out, that means either the sun or moon will regulate these timed events. The weekly Sabbath is called a sign (owth), a appointed time (mo'edim) and a day (Exodus 20:8, Deuteronomy 5:12) in Scripture. So either the sun OR the moon will regulate it. Can you go outside, look at the sun, and tell whether it is satyrday? No. The sun looks the same every day. Can you go outside and look at the sun and tell whether it is the Sabbath? No. The sun looks the same every day. Ok, so try the other light. It ain't rocket science. Exodus 13:31, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20:20 identify the weekly Sabbath as a sign. Psalm 104:19 reveals that the moon specifically regulates the mo'edim. Leviticus 23:1-3 identifies the weekly Sabbath as mo'edim. Exodus 12:2 clearly reveals YHWH pointing out a specific appearing moon that would announce that the new year had begun. Passover precedes the first day of Unleavened Bread. A full moon rises Passover night, which ANNOUNCES the Abib 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread as Sabbath. Leviticus 23:5-6. Leviticus 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first moonth at even is YHWH's passover. Leviticus 23:6 And on the fifteenth day of the same moonth is the feast of unleavened bread unto YHWH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. See also, Leviticus 23:24, 23:27, 23:32, 23:34, 23:39, 25:9, Numbers 9:3, 9:5, 9:11, 28:16-17, 29:1, 29:7 and 29:12. Month comes from moonth, from a time long ago when the month were recognized as being tied to the lunar cycle. The months were lunar in Scripture. Lew White admits this. So if you ignore the Torah verses in gold font as Bro. White has, then he's right. Scripture never tells us to consider the sighting of the moon. Again, a snake hiss with forked tongue, very much like a double minded man speaks out of both sides of his mouth. We certainly are seeing many new winds of doctrine these days. There are even those who feel that the FULL MOON is the new moon, which would mean that when the Israelites came out of Egypt, they had to travel in utter darkness. [Evidence that every so often even a blind squirrel can find an acorn. Lunar Sabbath keepers that have accepted this false Full Moon/New Moon model, what say you? Even a man the caliber of Bro. White has figured out how silly your New Moon model is.] There is no end to the development of new winds of teaching. What is most important is that we listen to the advice of Ephesians 4, and not lose sight of our foundation. TM: No, what is most important is that we listen to the advice of Isaiah 8:20 and not lose sight of what Scripture says is the foundation of truth. TRICKERY OF MEN, LED BY ADVERSARY

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Many now realize that the nicolaitans designed a crafty plot of control over civilization. From ancient cultures to the present, the authority over mankind has been a fusion or blend of religious and political purpose. One example is the obelisk described in the book of Daniel (3:18). Often the rulers were worshipped as the principle deity by the people, such as Pharaoh of Egypt or Caesar of Rome. It had begun this way under Nimrod, but after he was slain the Paganism became “occult” (hidden), and became shrouded in mystery. The true spiritual nature of what was being done was made to look innocent on the surface for the uninitiated. TM: I understand where Bro. White is coming from, but I disagree. The pagans practiced what they believed openly. They were not trying to convert the world, they were content to let you do whatever you wanted as long as you left them alone with their paganism. Paganism did not go underground (occult, hidden, shrouded in mystery) until it was fused with "christianity" in the 4th century A.D. Rome had tried to stamp out the first century movement and had failed for 200-300 years. Then Emperor Constantine became a "christian". Marrying Mithraism (his religion) with christianity. Then and ONLY then was there reason to hide the true nature of paganism because it would expose the Roman church as a half-pagan religion. Easter and Christmas were very high days on the pagan calendar (along with New Years, Valentines, May Day, Halloween and Thanksgiving, et al), now they were merged with the christian holiday observances. Fossilized Customs, Lew White's book, is about exposing this link to paganism in the christian church. So he knows. After Yahusha, people who had his Spirit in them spread out in the Roman Empire. The old idolatry was being questioned and exposed, and began to falter. The Pagan religious cults began to feel the effects of the Truth. Something had to be done to save the order and control which those who ruled civilization had, and their religious Paganism was failing. Along came Constantine, a compromiser who could find the “middle ground”. Keeping the previous Pagan priesthood and their framework intact, he brought together elders of the Natsarim from all over the Roman Empire to Nicaea in 325 CE (the first council of the Catholic Church). Upon hearing some of the matters being discussed, many elders fled for their lives. The elders who remained helped formulate what later became known as Catholicism, and they adopted the creed or constitution of the Roman Church, The Nicene Creed. This was to fight against what was called the Arian doctrine, thought to be a heresy at that time (research Arianism). The Pagan “leaven” would eventually leaven the whole lump. Shaul told the former Pagan Corinthians to purge-out the old leaven (errors, patterns), and be a new unleavened lump (1 Cor. 5:6-13). Yahusha also described this at Luke 13:21. TM: Yeah, what he said. LOL Evidence that I do not read ahead, that I answer every sentence or paragraph based on it's own merit. The former line of Caesars were of a family line, but Constantine was a break in that line; but he became the “father” of the Empire, assuming both political and religious control. The former Caesars (Czar, Kaisar) took titles such as “Pontifex Maximus” and Pope (father), and ruled over a body of Pagan priests called the Curia (Latin, council). The members of this body were called Cardinals, from the Latin word CARDO, meaning hinge. The idea that they were a “hinge” (of a door) suggested that they assisting the high priest of Janus, who was “the door” to the Elysian fields, the Pagans’ heaven. These Pagan priests assisted the Caesar, who was this Pagan high priest of JANUS*. So the Pagan title of “Pope” was retained by the man who held the office of Pontifex Maximus (Latin, highest priest). TM: I believe he is actually quoting from his book, Fossilized Customs.

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With the framework remaining in place, the central control of the Pagan administration could go on, simply blending-in with the elements of the Messianic belief, but leaving out the elements essential to the obedience of Yahuah. The Pagan organization in place retained the office / title of Pope, the body of priests called Cardinals, and even the word Curia for council. The “Pope” was no longer thought of as the high priest of Janus, but to literally be the authority of “Christ” on Earth. The former Pagan pattern was brought through perfectly intact. Idolatry mixed with Truth became clothed in the former framework of sun-worship. The main objective was to anger our Creator by mixing the patterns of idolatry together with the Truth, so that it would become poisoned (wormwood). Darkness and Light would mix together, and be taught for centuries through a Pagan framework of priests, and a calendar based on idolatry. *Janus was the 2-faced Roman deity of doors, locks, and arches, and was the door to the Elysian Fields, the Pagans' "heaven". TM: See what I mean? He is VERY good at exposing the paganism in the churches. This is why his book was so influential on me and my family. MOON WORSHIPPERS ORIGINALLY: "Allah" was the proper name of the moon-deity of the Arabs before Muhammad brought his brand of religion to them. They worshipped hundreds of idols in a big black cube, the Ka'aba, in Mecca. Today, they believe "Allah" resides inside this same black box, calling the Kaaba the "house of Allah". This term, Allah, was adopted because of its "name recognition" among the common population. Because the previously Pagan Arabs worshipped the moon diety they called Allah, you will often notice that the primary Islamic symbol is the crescent moon, placed above their places of worship in a similar way Christians use the cross. Both of these are "talismans". The Arabs used the moon's crescent shape in the design of their swords also, called the scimitar, a design inherited from the ancient Persians. The sword is also a symbol for Islam. By using the name "Allah" (Arabs' former term for their moon deity), and the symbol of the crescent moon, we see the pattern of adopting familiar terms and symbols from former Pagans. This "adopting" is called syncretism by scholars. And it certainly is not limited to the Arabs. Similarly, the Celtic/Druidic sun-deity was worshipped under the proper name "GOTT", which was adopted into our English as "GOD". The Hebrew term is Elohim, but translators chose to use a more popular term with "name recognition". In place of the personal Name of the Creator, Yahueh (yod-hay-waw-hay), Christians use the "device" LORD, and Muslims use the word "Allah". TM: As I have been saying, the crescent moon as New Moon is a pagan system, not Scriptural. And I might add, that using the moon as a time piece is NOT pagan. We were commanded to use it thus in Genesis 1:14. "And I saw thrones - and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them - and the lives of those who had been beheaded because of the witness they bore to Yahusha and because of the Word of Elohim, and who did not worship the beast, nor his image, and did not receive his mark upon their foreheads or upon their hands. And they lived and reigned with Messiah for a thousand years." Rev. 20:4 Have we arrived at the 5th or even 6th seal described at Rev. 6? The Islamic "sword" is seen beheading people for religious reasons, killing in the the (sic) name of their "god", Allah, the moon deity of the Arabs. The following blue text is quoted directly from the web page at www.biblebelievers.org.au/moongod.htm, Yeshua Communications Network. Copyright 1997-8, All Rights Reserved. Allah - The Moon God The Archaeology of The Middle East

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The religion of Islam has as its focus of worship a deity by the name of "Allah." The Muslims claim that Allah in pre-Islamic times was the biblical God of the Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles. (The saying of such does not make it true though. While there may be some similarities between Allah and YHWH, there are also from VAST differences.) The issue is thus one of continuity. Was "Allah" the biblical God or a pagan god in Arabia during pre-Islamic times? The Muslim's claim of continuity is essential to their attempt to convert Jews and Christians for if "Allah" is part of the flow of divine revelation in Scripture, then it is the next step in biblical religion. Thus we should all become Muslims. (Just like every other religion who claims to be the true faith, only "christians" do not yet kill us for not joining them.) But, on the other hand, if Allah was a pre-Islamic pagan deity, then its core claim is refuted. Religious claims often fall before the results of hard sciences such as archeology. We can endlessly speculate about the past or go and dig it up and see what the evidence reveals. (Which also applies to the Lunar Sabbath concept. Truth seekers dug up the truth. Men like Lew White refute what the archeology has revealed. So, digging up the truth does not really stop the endless speculation, it just moves the argument to a different venue.) This is the only way to find out the truth concerning the origins of Allah. As we shall see, the hard evidence demonstrates that the god Allah was a pagan deity. In fact, he was the Moon-god who was married to the sun goddess and the stars were his daughters.

Note regarding caption under photo above: A crescent that cannot be seen from earth. TM: And the hard evidence demonstrates that the patriarchs and ancient Israel observed a Lunar Sabbath as commanded in Torah, and attested to by nature and the historical record. Archaeologists have uncovered temples to the Moon-god throughout the Middle East. From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world was the worship of the Moon-god. In the first literate civilization, the Sumerians have left us thousands of clay tablets in which they described their religious beliefs. As demonstrated by Sjoberg and Hall, the ancient Sumerians worshipped a Moon-god who was called many different names. The most popular names were Nanna, Suen and Asimbabbar. His symbol was the crescent moon. Given the amount of artifacts concerning the worship of this Moon-god, it is clear that this was the dominant religion in Sumeria. The cult of the Moon-god was the most popular religion throughout ancient Mesopotamia. The Assyrians, Babylonians, and the Akkadians took the word Suen and transformed it into the word Sin as their favorite name for the Moon-god. As Prof. Potts pointed out, "Sin is a name essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites."

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TM: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you do realize what Lew White is trying to do, right? He's making every effort to liken the Lunar Sabbath with moon worship. Which, while rather low and juvenile of him, is also rather ignorant. Lunar Sabbath keepers do not worship the moon any more than Lew White worships his watch. We look at the moon for the same reason he looks at his watch: to tell time. The moon is not our god. The Creator is our Elohim, and He COMMANDED us to observe the lights in the heavens (one of which is the moon) in order to discern the signs, mo'edim, days and years--which I have made abundantly clear. If Lew White thinks we worship the moon because we look at it to determine the times appointed (mo'edim: Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19, Leviticus 23), then he is a fool. In ancient Syria and Canna, the Moon-god Sin was usually represented by the moon in its crescent phase. At times the full moon was placed inside the crescent moon to emphasize all the phases of the moon. The sun-goddess was the wife of Sin and the stars were their daughters. For example, Istar was a daughter of Sin. Sacrifices to the Moon-god are described in the Pas Shamra texts. In the Ugaritic texts, the Moon-god was sometimes called Kusuh. In Persia, as well as in Egypt, the Moon-god is depicted on wall murals and on the heads of statues. He was the Judge of men and gods. The Old Testament constantly rebuked the worship of the Moon-god (see: Deut. 4:19;17:3; II Kngs. 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5, etc.) When Israel fell into idolatry, it was usually the cult of the Moon-god. As a matter of fact, everywhere in the ancient world, the symbol of the crescent moon can be found on seal impressions, steles, pottery, amulets, clay tablets, cylinders, weights, earrings, necklaces, wall murals, etc. In Tell-el-Obeid, a copper calf was found with a crescent moon on its forehead. An idol with the body of a bull and the head of man has a crescent moon inlaid on its forehead with shells. In Ur, the Stela of Ur-Nammu has the crescent symbol placed at the top of the register of gods because the Moon-god was the head of the gods. Even bread was baked in the form of a crescent as an act of devotion to the Moon-god. The Ur of the Chaldees was so devoted to the Moon-god that it was sometimes called Nannar in tablets from that time period. A temple of the Moon-god has been excavated in Ur by Sir Leonard Woolley. He dug up many examples of moon worship in Ur and these are displayed in the British Museum to this day. Harran was likewise noted for its devotion to the Moon-god. In the 1950's a major temple to the Moon-god was excavated at Hazer in Palestine. Two idols of the moon god were found. Each was a stature of a man sitting upon a throne with a crescent moon carved on his chest . The accompanying inscriptions make it clear that these were idols of the Moon-god. Several smaller statues were also found which were identified by their inscriptions as the "daughters" of the Moon-god. What about Arabia? As pointed out by Prof. Coon, "Muslims are notoriously loath to preserve traditions of earlier paganism and like to garble what pre-Islamic history they permit to survive in anachronistic terms." During the nineteenth century, Amaud, Halevy and Glaser went to Southern Arabia and dug up thousands of Sabean, Minaean, and Qatabanian inscriptions which were subsequently translated. In the 1940's, the archeologists G. Caton Thompson and Carleton S. Coon made some amazing discoveries in Arabia. During the 1950's, Wendell Phillips, W.F. Albright, Richard Bower and others excavated sites at Qataban, Timna, and Marib (the ancient capital of Sheba). Thousands of inscriptions from walls and rocks in Northern Arabia have also been collected. Reliefs (sic) and votive bowls used in worship of the "daughters of Allah" have also been discovered. The three daughters, al-Lat, al-Uzza and Manat are sometimes depicted together with Allah the Moon-god represented by a crescent moon above them. The archeological evidence demonstrates that the dominant religion of Arabia was the cult of the Moon-god.

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TM: All this is good to know. But it is still not evidence that the Lunar Sabbath is idolatry. In Old Testament times, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), the last king of Babylon, built Tayma, Arabia as a center of Moon-god worship. Segall stated, "South Arabia's stellar religion has always been dominated by the Moon-god in various variations." Many scholars have also noticed that the Moon-god's name "Sin" is a part of such Arabic words as "Sinai," the "wilderness of Sin," etc. When the popularity of the Moon-god waned elsewhere, the Arabs remained true to their conviction that the Moon-god was the greatest of all gods. While they worshipped 360 gods at the Kabah in Mecca, the Moon-god was the chief deity. Mecca was in fact built as a shrine for the Moon-god. TM: Jericho was also a moon worshiping center. And the Lunar Sabbath observing Israelites destroyed it as their first act of conquest. The true religion and faith of Abraham was victorious over the false religious systems and faith of Abraham's descendants through Ishmael. This is what made it the most sacred site of Arabian paganism. In 1944, G. Caton Thompson revealed in her book, The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha, that she had uncovered a temple of the Moon-god in southern Arabia. The symbols of the crescent moon and no less than twenty-one inscriptions with the name Sin were found in this temple. An idol which may be the Moon-god himself was also discovered. This was later confirmed by other well-known archeologists. TM: Granted, this (in the blue font as revealed on p. 79 above) is not Bro. White work. But it is difficult to imagine why he included it. Everyone knows that Israel wandered through the Wilderness of Sin and what happened at Mt. Sinai. Sin/Sinai are being implicated as the moon and or moon worshiping words in Arabia. So, what exactly is Bro. White's motive for adding this work here? Perhaps he will tell us later. Perhaps not. Often Bro. White assumes his readers are on the same page or understand perfectly what he is saying. The evidence reveals that the temple of the Moon-god was active even in the Christian era. Evidence gathered from both North and South Arabia demonstrate that Moon-god worship was clearly active even in Muhammad's day and was still the dominant cult. According to numerous inscriptions, while the name of the Moon-god was Sin, his title was al-ilah, i.e. "the deity," meaning that he was the chief or high god among the gods. As Coon pointed out, "The god Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the Moon God." The Moon-god was called al-ilah, i.e. the god, which was shortened to Allah in pre-Islamic times. The pagan Arabs even used Allah in the names they gave to their children. For example, both Muhammad's father and uncle had Allah as part of their names. TM: Exodus 23:13 readily comes to mind. The fact that they were given such names by their pagan parents proves that Allah was the title for the Moon-god even in Muhammad's day. Prof. Coon goes on to say, "Similarly, under Mohammed's tutelage, the relatively anonymous Ilah, became Al-Ilah, The God, or Allah, the Supreme Being." This fact answers the questions, "Why is Allah never defined in the Qur'an? Why did Muhammad assume that the pagan Arabs already knew who Allah was?" Muhammad was raised in the religion of the Moon-god Allah. But he went one step further than his fellow pagan Arabs. While they believed that Allah, i.e. the Moon-god, was the greatest of all gods and the supreme deity in a pantheon of deities, Muhammad decided that Allah was not only the greatest god but the only god.

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TM: Interesting. The moon receives most of it's light from the sun, and Islam thinks that the moon is the supreme god. Using this logic makes the worship of the sun, as the dominant light source in the heavens, almost understandable,. In effect he said, "Look, you already believe that the Moon-god Allah is the greatest of all gods. All I want you to do is to accept that the idea that he is the only god. I am not taking away the Allah you already worship. I am only taking away his wife and his daughters and all the other gods." This is seen from the fact that the first point of the Muslim creed is not, "Allah is great" but "Allah is the greatest," i.e., he is the greatest among the gods. [Which is why Islam will never persuade students of Scripture to join the dark side. Deuteronomy 6:4, 4:32, 4:39, I Samuel 2:2, I Kings 8:60, II Kings 19:19, I Chronicles 17:20, Isaiah 43:10-11, 44:6-8, 45:5-6, 45:21-22, Hosea 13:4, Joel 2:27, et al] Why would Muhammad say that Allah is the "greatest" except in a polytheistic context? [In Israel, the "greatest" was in a monotheistic context. There's YHWH, then there might be all manner of false gods, but only ONE true Elohim/Deity.] The Arabic word is used to contrast the greater from the lesser. That this is true is seen from the fact that the pagan Arabs never accused Muhammad of preaching a different Allah than the one they already worshipped. This "Allah" was the Moon-god according to the archeological evidence. Muhammad thus attempted to have it both ways. To the pagans, he said that he still believed in the Moon-god Allah. To the Jews and the Christians, he said that Allah was their God too. But both the Jews and the Christians knew better and that is why they rejected his god Allah as a false god. TM: Smart move. Good thing that we don't worship the moon. Al-Kindi, one of the early Christian apologists against Islam, pointed out that Islam and its god Allah did not come from the Bible but from the paganism of the Sabeans. They did not worship the God of the Bible but the Moon-god and his daughters al-Uzza, al-Lat and Manat. Dr. Newman concludes his study of the early Christian-Muslim debates by stating, "Islam proved itself to be...a separate and antagonistic religion which had sprung up from idolatry." Islamic scholar Caesar Farah concluded "There is no reason, therefore, to accept the idea that Allah passed to the Muslims from the Christians and Jews." The Arabs worshipped the Moon-god as a supreme deity. But this was not biblical monotheism. [Agreed.] While the Moon-god was greater than all other gods and goddesses, this was still a polytheistic pantheon of deities. Now that we have the actual idols of the Moon-god, it is no longer possible to avoid the fact that Allah was a pagan god in pre-Islamic times. Is it any wonder then that the symbol of Islam is the crescent moon? [Is it any wonder that truth seekers, this one included, has said for years that the New Moon of Scripture is not linked to the pagan crescent moon?] That a crescent moon sits on top of their mosques and minarets? That a crescent moon is found on the flags of Islamic nations? That the Muslims fast during the month which begins and ends with the appearance of the crescent moon in the sky? CONCLUSION The pagan Arabs worshipped the Moon-god Allah by praying toward Mecca several times a day; making a pilgrimage to Mecca; running around the temple of the Moon-god called the Kabah; kissing the black stone; killing an animal in sacrifice to the Moon-god; throwing stones at the devil; fasting for the month which begins and ends with the crescent moon; giving alms to the poor, etc. TM: Which has what to do with Israel's Lunar Sabbath?

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The Muslim's claim that Allah is the God of the Bible and that Islam arose from the religion of the prophets and apostles is refuted by solid, overwhelming archaeological evidence. Islam is nothing more than a revival of the ancient Moon-god cult. It has taken the symbols, the rites, the ceremonies, and even the name of its god from the ancient pagan religion of the Moon-god. As such, it is sheer idolatry and must be rejected by all those who follow the Torah and Gospel. moongod.htm ~ END OF QUOTE ~ TM: Interestingly enough, the Catholicism is nothing more than a revival of the ancient sun-god cult, and has adopted the symbols, rites and ceremonies of the ancient pagan sun god religion. What is not so readily understood is that Catholicism bequeathed all this pagan sun worship to all of her Protestant daughters. ALL of them. Don't believe me? Read Lew White's book, Fossilized Customs. Didn't expect to get THAT endorsement here did you? FOSSILIZE THIS: circum: (around) + ambulate: (walk about) homage / worship performed by walking around the object of worship "Circumambulating" the "holy stupas" of Nepal are described in the sutras of Buddhism. The devotees of Shiva pay homage by circumambulation. The picture below shows the pilgrims circumambulating the Ka'aba (Arabic for "cube"):

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It is believed to create "merit" for the devotee to circumambulate the object of worship (See also: data on "cone of power" at www.fossilizedcustoms.com/birthday.html). Buddhists believe it will prevent them from being re-born as an animal or barbarian. The Buddhists teach that even "mental" circumambulation of an object will accomplish their goal. Buddhist worship at a stupa (solid) or temple (hollow) is performed by circumambulating the stupa. Oh, and reciting mantra while circumambulating the stupa is a wonderful thing, you know. The photos below show Buddhists circumambulating various stupas for blessing, and they make offerings as they pass the buckets. Making seven complete circuits, especially if they are holding a light or flame, gets them extra bonus points. Now, why take chances with playing BINGO or the LOTTERY? TM: Is Bro. White somehow trying to link the circumabulating of Buddhists to the Lunar Sabbath? Again, it is difficult to figure out where he is going here. One theory has it that you sling mud and see what sticks. That seems to be what Bro. White is doing as this has NOTHING to do with the Lunar Sabbath These people are all amazed at how silly the rest of us are for passing up this easy and obviously brilliant form of worship. Now that your brain has been stretched to this point, it will never return to its former size. [Good line. Just beware of letting the Lunar Sabbath truth stretch your brain. Can't have that now can we?] Recall all those times you've seen movies with natives dancing around a campfire, shaking rattles (snake tails usually), and beating on drums. Dt. 12:28-32 clearly tells us to NOT LEARN the ways of the goyim, the ways they worship; nor are we to pattern such worship toward Yahuah! TM: Jeremiah 10:2 also comes to mind. Yes, the Yahudim have been living among Pagans for too long also; there's a "Jewish" traditional wedding custom that may look suspicious. Who's perfect? In a traditional wedding, the bride circles the groom seven times under the khupe. One old tradition is for the mothers of the bride and groom to guide the bride as she circles the groom, sometimes each holding a candle. If it looks Pagan, sounds Pagan, and moves like a Pagan, it could be a Pagan thing. They inherited this custom from somewhere, and it wasn't Torah. So, if you take your vows to each other and no one "circles" anyone else, what have you lost? So break some traditions. TM: And in the context of this dialog, the first tradition you might consider breaking is your satyrday sabbath. It was originally the first day of the pagan planetary week then bumped to the seventh day by the pagan/christian Roman Emperor Constantine. It has only been the seventh day of the week since A.D. 321. From cryticcavern.com, we learn more about the "Maypole" phallic worship: The May Pole TM: So now, the Lunar Sabbath is akin to phallic worship? Bro. White has turned loose about 2 dozen rabbits in the room and you are suppose to catch them. It is a ruse. All he's doing is distracting you from the truth, and it should make you mad. Very mad.

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"Another was the Maypole, which was derived from archaic Roman religion. It was a tradition to erect Maypoles adorned with flowers in honor of the Roman goddess Flora. The Maypole is traditionally a tall pole garlanded with greenery or flowers and often hung with ribbons that are woven into complex patterns by a group of dancers. This is similar to the ancient dances around a living tree in spring rites designed to ensure fertility. Ash, birch, cypress and elm were some of the woods used for the maypoles." From pagannews.com: "The God and Goddess are represented by the May King and Queen, and the tradition of dancing 'round the maypole represents their unity - the pole being the God and the ribbons the Goddess, wrapped around him." (END OF QUOTES) Uh, it wouldn't be related to an ASHERAH POLE would it? Asherim were abominations condemned by Yahuah, and led Israel into sin. The "Christmas Tree" is an Asherah too - the worship of trees in the groves included leaving gifts on and under them. Brilliant of them, wasn't it? Why is it still going on? TM: For the same reason that you consider satyrday the seventh day Sabbath of Scripture. It is your tradition. It seems harmless and you find comfort in it. But it is JUST as pagan as the Asherah pole. Because Israel hasn't been doing the work of priests, preserving knowledge. Our mission is to teach the nations the Torah of Yahuah! We'll have to answer for not doing so. TM: Indeed, Israel was to preserve the truth. And they did a pretty good job actually. Where the wheels fell off is when christianity and paganism wed giving credibility to many pagan beliefs and practices. And, yes, you will have to answer for not presenting the truth about the Sabbath of YHWH. Circumambulating (Tawaf in Arabic) is discussed in this excerpt from www.islamonline.net: "The basic reason for keeping the Ka`bah on one’s left when performing Tawaf (circumambulation) is to follow the example of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). In this regard, Sheikh M. S. Al-Munajjid, a prominent Saudi Muslim lecturer and author states: 'The basic reason for keeping the Ka`bah on one’s left when performing Tawaf (circumambulation) is to follow the example of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). Following the Prophet has been ordained in the Qur’an. Allah says, (Obey the Prophet so that you may be blessed with mercy.) (An-Nur 24:56) We also read in the Qur’an, (Say (O Muhammad): if you really love Allah, then follow my example and Allah will love you and grant you forgiveness of your sins.)' (Aal `Imran 3:31)

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Regarding the rituals of Hajj and `Umrah, the Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "Follow my example in performing your rituals" (Al-Bukhari and An-Nasa’i). TM: And you thought you had already caught this rabbit didn't you? This should suffice as the reason for a Muslim performing Tawaf around the Ka`bah in the way it is prescribed. Muslims by nature must believe, submit to and act according to what was authentically and duly recorded as the behavior or statements of the Prophet. If on top of this a reason or some relevant wisdom comes to light, then so be it, and all thanks is due to Allah. Otherwise, a Muslim submits to the order of Allah and His Prophet and, will accordingly, be recompensed for his obedience and good deeds. Finally, we must note that circumambulation is an act specified only for the Ka`bah as part of worship and is not to be done in any other place or situation." ~ End of quote. This site was presented with the question, "What is the significance of doing Tawaf around the Ka`bah seven times?" The answer: "In Islam, there are symbolic acts that represent the Divine Wisdom. We are not required to search for this hidden wisdom. Acts like Tawaf or circumambulating around the Ka`bah are ta`budi in the sense that we must fulfill them regardless whether their immediate benefits are clear to us or not. The Ka`bah is the center and the focus that we are directed to turn in our prayers. By making Tawaf we are re-enforcing the centrality of this spiritual focus in our life. It also connects us with the tradition of Prophet Ibrahim (peace and blessings be upon him) who was perfect monotheist. By performing this rite consciously we are re-enforcing such ideals as Prophet Ibrahim, Isma`eel and Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon them all) manifested in their lives." ~ End of quote. TM: With YHWH, you do not have to search for hidden truth either. According to Amos 3:7, the Almighty does nothing unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. In other words, circling the Ka'aba seven times is done, but no one really knows why. The Buddhists were circumambulating with their stupas long before Mosheh received the Torah from Yahuah at Sinai. Abraham never mentioned doing any circling of the Ka'aba, nor did he ever mention its existence, nor is there a record of him being anywhere near it. According to Islamic tradition, Adam built the Ka'aba originally, and Abraham rebuilt it. Ur was in modern-day Iraq, Abram's origin. Surely Abram knew much about moon-worshippers, but Yahuah called him out of idolatry. Circumcision is much more prominent in the Scriptures than is circumambulating, and circumcision was only the sign of a Covenant regarding LAND, not salvation. TM: There was a bit more to the covenant with Abram than just land. A covenant is a promise. In Genesis 17:2 and 17:6-7 YHWH promises to greatly multiply Abrahm's seed. In Genesis 17:4, YHWH promises to make Abram the father of many nations (which was the root cause of his name change to Abraham in Genesis 17:5). The promise of land (the Promised Land, of course) is finally given in Genesis 17:8.

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And if circumcision has nothing to do with our salvation, please explain the following passage, Bro White. And please note who is speaking... And YHWH said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of YHWH, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, In that ye have brought into My sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, AND uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, when ye offer My bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken My covenant because of all your abominations. And ye have not kept the charge of Mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for yourselves. Thus saith the Sovereign YHWH; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel. Ezekiel 44:5-9 Here YHWH is berating Israel for their abominations, one of which is permitting the strangers (non-Israelites) into His house who are uncircumcised in the heart and in the flesh. Being able to enter the sanctuary is one of the benefits of salvation, is it not? Israel (the righteous body of believers) is expected to be circumcised in the flesh, that is a given. Yet here, even the strangers who have joined themselves to Israel need to be circumcised in the flesh as well, otherwise they pollute the temple. Israel was doing this and it was considered an abomination. Circumcision of the heart and of the flesh is EXPECTED by YHWH. Once again, Bro. White does err, not knowing the Scriptures. It's like he has been reading an entirely different book. Fascinating.

Allah or Jesus? TM: How is this "argument" relevant to the Lunar Sabbath issue?

By Rick Mathes (copied as written, but you should know that Rick means Yahusha when he writes "Jesus"). TM: And we have all seen this on the internet or social media. It is an interesting read, but misguided.

"Last month I attended my annual training session that's required for maintaining my state prison security clearance.

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During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Muslim faiths, who explained each of their beliefs.

I was particularly interested in what the Islamic Imam had to say.

The Imam gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam complete with a video.

After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers.

When it was my turn, I directed my question to the Imam and asked:

'Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world. And, that by killing an infidel, which is a command to all Muslims, they are assured of a place in Heaven.

If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?'

There was no disagreement with my statements and without hesitation, he replied: 'Non-believers!'

I responded, 'So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can go to Heaven. Is that correct?'

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The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

He sheepishly replied, 'Yes'.

I then stated, 'Well, Sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine Pope John Paul II commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith, or Dr. Stanley ordering Protestants to do the same in order to go to Heaven!'

The Imam was speechless. I continued, 'I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me.

Let me ask you a question. Would you rather have your Allah who tells you to kill me in order to go to Heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to Heaven and He wants you to be with me?'

You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame. Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the "Diversification" training seminar were not happy with Rick's way of dealing with the Islamic Imam and exposing the truth about the Muslim beliefs. I think everyone in the U.S. Should be required to read this, but with the liberal justice system, liberal media, and the ACLU, there is no way this will be widely publicized.

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Please pass this on to all your e-mail contacts. This is a true story and the author, Rick Mathes, is a well-known leader in prison ministry." (end of quote) TM: Well, not so fast. Others who know this story reveal that not everything presented in the quote above were as recorded above. See Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/allah-or-jesus/ And the "fact" of the matter is that the argument should have been Allah or YHWH, not Allah or Jesus, the idea being which was the Supreme Being. See Deuteronomy 6:4, 4:32, 4:39, I Samuel 2:2, I Kings 8:60, II Kings 19:19, I Chronicles 17:20, Isaiah 43:10-11, 44:6-8, 45:5-6, 45:21-22, Hosea 13:4, Joel 2:27, et al, with the understanding that every time you see LORD or GOD in any English translation, the underlying Hebrew Name is YHWH, not Yahusha. FOSSILIZE THIS:

THIS IS A SMALL GLIMPSE OF ANOTHER CIRCULAR FORM OF WORSHIP TM: And yet another rabbit to chase that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Lunar Sabbath or the false satyrday Sabbath. POW-WOW - Sacred fires, fire dancing, circumambulation-dancing in a "Circle of Life", drums, animal disguises (mascot is Latin for "witch"), sacrificing tobacco, tea, and meat to the fire, moon dancing; Hey-now . . . it's not just for the cub scout jamboree. The on-line encyclopedia, Wikipedia, tells us: "It derives from the Narragansett word powwaw, meaning shaman. It has since come to be used to describe any gathering of Native Americans of any tribe, and as such is occasionally heard in older Western movies. The word has also been used to refer to any meeting, but especially a congress, a friendly gathering, or a meeting of powerful people such as officers in the military." Photographing the authentic religious activity, such as fire dancing, is forbidden. Now, let's look briefly at the activity from the perspective of those who actually practice it: Pow-wow Etiquette

1. Pow-wows are fun events, but they are also sacred events. Ceremonial songs

and dances, which are sacred, are performed from time to time throughout the pow-wow.

2. People should stand during all ceremonial songs and dances. These include the Grand Enter, Flag Songs, Veteran Songs, Honor Songs and any other songs that the M.C. designates as ceremonial songs.

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3. Do not take any photos or video or sound recordings of ceremonies without asking permission from the person or group you are recording. Some areas of Turtle Island do not allow the recording of ceremonies, period.

4. People should listen to the M.C. because he will announce the different songs and will also let people know when they can dance and when they cannot. He will also give out other information and news.

5. Respect the Elders, drummers, singers, dancers, and the pow-wow staff and committee.

6. The dancers wear regalia while they are dancing, not "costumes". People should not touch the regalia before asking for permission.

7. Appropriate dress and behavior are required in the dance area. 8. People should take good care of their children at pow-wows. Please make sure

they are not getting into other peoples personal items as they are dancing. 9. Do no hold children while dancing in the dance area unless carrying the child

in a carrier on the back. The child may be construed as a gift to the Creator. 10. Do not run around the dance area. Always walk in a clockwise direction when

you are in the dance area. Horseplay is not tolerated. 11. Do not bring alcohol or drugs to a pow-wow. Do not come to a pow-wow while

you are intoxicated. 12. Dogs are not allowed around the pow-wow area. They may become drums. 13. Bring your own chairs. Do not sit on someone else’s chair unless you have

their permission. 14. Shelters are for the Elders so please move if you see your seat is needed. 15. The Sacred fire is also a ceremony and a place for prayer. Respect to fire

keepers and no fooling around the fire. 16. Women on their time can not attend the pow-wow. Their bodies are going

through a ceremony and the energy around them is too powerful. Please stay home as the dancers and drummers can become very ill from the conflicting energies.

17. Remember you are a guest. Have fun, ask questions and meet people.

Absolutely LEGENDARY. And, many people are proud of their ancestral customs. From the ENDS OF THE EARTH, the Gentiles will come and say something very interesting: O Yahuah, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to You from the ends of the Earth, and shall say, 'Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.' Shall a man make elohim for himself, and they are no elohim? Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahuah. Jer 16:19-21 The lesson will not be painless, you can count on that; yet Paganism persists in many cultures. Israel is here to warn the nations, but we are attacked for it. Time is almost up; Yahusha spoke of and "END" of the times of the Gentiles. If Yahuah did not instruct us to do something, question it. TM: I agree. Where did YHWH tell us to keep satyrday as the Sabbath, or to observe the Sabbath every 7th day in an unbroken cycle? Where is Bro. White's zeal to question whether the seventh day of the pagan/papal calendar is the Sabbath of Creation?

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, did Lew White offer proof that satyrday is the Sabbath? Did he provide evidence that disproved the Lunar Sabbath? In truth, he offered no evidence, no proof that satyrday is the Sabbath, just his opinion and a ton of distractions. People whose opinion is their god are the most self-righteous people on earth. You cannot teach them anything because they cannot be reasoned with. They are "correct" because they assume the authority to make this their reality. Ink on the page does not mean anything to them, evidence in whatever form is irrelevant. And all of this willful ignorance is JUST to feed their inner demon, pride of opinion. They are not interested in DOING right, all they care about is BEING right. And it does not matter what Scripture says, what the evidence is, whom they offend, the friends and family they alienate, the end justifies the means. They are right, you are wrong, and that is that. Which would be hilarious to those who have taken the time to examine the evidence, if it weren't so utterly, utterly sad. Respectfully submitted (to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury anyway), Troy Miller www.CreationCalendar.com