Sabbath is not on Sat or Sun

The development of our modern Gregorian calendar verses God’s Calendar as described in the Bible and why the Sabbath is not Saturday or Sunday.

Jesus kept the Sabbath holy just as he kept all of the 10 commandments. Although Christians are under grace rather than the law it is still our guide as to how to live and as such we are expected to try our best to keep the commandments as Paul also states:

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

God listed the 10 commandments in order of importance and therefore remembering the Sabbath and keeping it holy is actually more important than murder in God’s judgement, just as respecting our parents is. However, as I will show most people do not even know when the Sabbath is. I hope you will consider what I have written below but to be clear Paul tells us how to consider any of these special days:

Romans 14:5

One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

I hope and pray you will be convinced of the truth presented here.

Part One

The development of our modern Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar is named after Pope Gregory the thirteenth (b.1502 – d.1585), which came about because in 1582 this Pope over saw the amendment of the older Julian calendar in order to bring it into very close alignment with the astronomical solar year of 365.25 days, as by then it was 11 days out of sync.

The older Julian calendar was named after Julius Caesar (b.100BC – d.45BC) which came about because in 46BC he over saw the amendment of the even older Roman Republic calendar, that the first century BC Greek astronomer and mathematician Sosigenes (d.31BC) was employed to amended and bring it into relative alignment with the astronomical solar year.

The even older Roman Republic calendar was called the ‘Fasti Antiates Maiores’ or ‘Calendar of Permitted days of the Greater Antiates Peoples’ which had been used in Rome since at least 173BC and perhaps as far back to 738BC when king Romulus, the first purported king of Rome ruled over Rome (Reign 753BC – 716BC).

Shown in the picture below are fragments of a Roman Republic calendar that date to between 84 and 55BC, which were discovered in 1915 in the ruins of Nero’s villa at Antium (Anzio) near Rome and is now housed in the Palazzo Massimo Alle Terme Museum in Rome. More than 200 other fragments of this Roman Republic calendar have been found so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar

Below is a recreation of what this Roman Republic calendar looked like. It has abbreviated names of the months arranged across the top, preceded by the letter K for ‘Kalends’ which means ‘the first day of the month’ and from where the word calendar comes from.

Unlike our modern calendar it does not have a seven day week but instead has an eight day week that are called Nundina, as labelled from A to H and a further letter denoting what was permitted on those days for the ruling classes. I will come back to this eight day week in a moment but as can also be seen there are thirteen months with a total number of days listed at the bottom of each month, with a total of 382 days per year.

This was because this type of calendar was based on the lunar cycle, which was a common type of ancient calendar derived from the ancient Greeks, Babylonians and Hebrew lunar calendars. The extra thirteenth intercalary month was added every two or three years after the month of February, to keep it in relative alignment to the solar year as 12 lunar months only have 354.37 days per year. The origins of the names of these months are all Roman and pagan as seen in the table below:

Month	From the Latin
January	Januarius, in honour of the Roman two faced god Janus.
February	Februarius, in honour of the Roman festival of general recompense and purification that occurred on the ‘ides’ when the moon was full.
March	Martius, in honour of the Roman god of war Mars.
April	Aprilis, in honour of the goddess Apru (Aphrodite) whose festival was on the first of the month. It’s also derived from the Latin ‘Aperio’ meaning to open, as it’s when the earth opens to produce new fruits. new fruits.
May	Maius, in honour of the Greek goddess Maia.
June	Junius, in honour of the Roman goddess Juno.
July	Julius, in honour of Roman emperor Julius Caesar but it was originally called Quintilis which is Latin for five.
August	Augustus, in honour of Roman emperor Augustus Caesar but it was originally called Sextilis which is Latin for six.
September October November December	The rest of the months: September, October, November, December are derived from the Latin words for the numerals 7, 8, 9, and 10.

As can also be seen the last six months were originally numbered from five to ten, which some believe points to an older ten month calendar that originally did not account for the rainy winter period but this theory has never been conclusively proven. The most likely explanation however is because most other ancient lunar calendars began the year when the vernal equinox occurs in March (or when the harvest of the first grain crops begin, notably barley in the spring around March or April). The reason why the lunar Roman Republic calendar started in January rather than March has been conjectured about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_calendar#cite_ref-28

However, the most likely reason, was because King Numa Pompilius (b.753BC – d.673BC), who become the second king of Rome in 715BC, highly venerated the pagan god Janus. History records that one of his first acts as king was to construct a temple to Janus at the foot of the Argiletum road in the centre of Rome and it’s claimed to be his most famous architectural achievement. Having secured peace with Rome’s neighbours he kept the doors of this temple shut for the rest of his reign and this was apparently the only time this was done in all of Rome’s history. It is this dedication of King Numa to Janus that points to why he is credited with altering months eleven and twelve in around 713BC, to become the first months of January and February of the calendar year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numa_Pompilius#cite_ref-LivyAb_a_10-1

This is substantiated by Roman historian Plutarch (b.46AD – d.119AD) in his book written in the early second century:

The parallel lives. The life of Numa. Chapter 18:2-3

2 But Numa, estimating the extent of the inequality at eleven days, since the lunar year had three hundred and fifty-four days, but the solar year three hundred and sixty-five, doubled these eleven days, and every other year inserted after the month of February the intercalary month called Mercedinus by the Romans, which consisted of twenty-two days. 3 This correction of the inequality which he made was destined to require other and greater corrections in the future. He also changed the order of the months. March, which had been first, he made the third month, and January, which had been the eleventh under Romulus, he made the first month; February, which had been twelfth and last, thus became the second month, as now. But there are many who say that these months of January and February were added to the calendar by Numa,

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0052%3Achapter%3D18%3Asection%3D2

However, by the first century BC the Roman Republic calendar had become hopelessly confused, not only because the intercalary thirteenth month was difficult for everyone to keep up to date with, in a ever growing Roman Empire, every time it was added but it was further compounded by political manoeuvrings. For instance the chief high priest, the Pontifex Maximus of the college of Pontiffs, had the authority to delay the thirteenth month in order to extend the term of a particular magistrate or public official, or visa versa.

However, Julius Caesar put a stop to all of this when he implemented his Julian calendar in 46BC, which had twelve fixed months every solar year, however, the eight day week of the old Roman republic calendar continued to be used with the new Julian calendar, as recorded by Roman Historian Cassius Dio (b.155 – d.235AD) who mentions that it had continued to be used during the first century AD, when he mentions ‘Market day’ that was held every nine days. Market day was held on day eight of the week, as denoted by the letter ‘H’ and the Roman way of counting was was inclusive, so that it was held every nine days. This is in his book written between 202 to 229AD:

Roman History Book 48 Chapter 33:4

In the year preceding this, men belonging to the order of knights had slaughtered wild beasts at the games in the Circus on the occasion of the Ludi Apollinares, and an intercalary day had been inserted, contrary to the rule, in order that the first day of the succeeding year should not coincide with the market held every nine days—a clash which had always been strictly guarded against from very early times.

https://lexundria.com/dio/48/cy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar#cite_ref-33

Therefore the seven day week that we use today must have been introduced into the Julian calendar some time after 46BC. Many people, including Christian’s, believe that the seven day week must have been introduced from the Bible by the Jews or Christian’s, so that today we are using the original week as begun at creation but there is no evidence of this.

Instead the evidence from history shows that the Roman’s had been subjugating and persecuting the Jew’s, and when Christianity began the Romans did the same to them. Therefore there is no way that the Roman’s were going to take on board the seven day calendar week from either of these obscure sects, who the Romans were subjugating and killing in their tens of thousands; from the first century BC to the fourth century AD. So where did the seven day week we currently use come from?

As you may realise these were by no means the only calendars used in history, in fact hundreds of calendars from history have been discovered all over the world, each with varying lengths of weeks and months, and calculated using a variety of methods. All these calendars throughout history competed for supremacy, with the most accurate easy to use and popular calendars becoming more widely used, or calendars which were used by the majority winning out over other calendars used by the minority.

In the first century AD another calendar made its way to Italy, this was the seven day week planetary calendar. Shown in the picture below is a stone carving of this calendar that’s called a Parapegma. It was found in 1930 at the baths of Roman Emperor Titus (b.39 – d.81AD) in Rome, that were constructed between 79 and 81AD and is now housed at the Museum of the Roman Civilization in Rome. There are holes in this stone calendar for placing sticks in, so that the day of the date, the week and the month can be marked.

https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/PlateWithSignsOfTheZodiacAndPlanets.html

https://dayology.com/2017/03/24/the-trajans-baths-parapegma/

Above is clearer line drawing that shows each of the seven days were named after the seven planetary gods and goddesses that the Roman’s worshipped. The Roman worship of these and other god’s was strong, in the picture below is a silver and gold Roman worship statuette of the Gallo-Roman goddess of protection Tutela, that dates to 150 to 220AD and is on display at the British Museum. She is seen as supporting these same seven gods of the planetary week as seen from left to right; Saturn (the eldest of the gods who ruled over agriculture), Sol (sun), Luna (moon), Mars, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus. (Along with Castor and Pollux on her wings and Diana and Apollo in her left hand).

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1824-0424-1

Cassius Dio also reported on this planetary calendar being used throughout the Roman Empire during his time in the second and third century AD, stating that it had been a recent adoption from Romanised Ptolemaic Egypt and was based on astrology; as shown by the twelve signs of the Zodiac and the seven heavenly bodies representing the days of the week. Cassius goes on to also explains two methods the Romanised Egyptians used to order the days of week from their understanding of the order of the seven visible classical planets, as seen from the Earth. Cassius Dio’s references to this can be found in his 229AD book:

Roman History Book 37 Chapters 18 & 19

18 The custom, however, of referring the days to the seven stars called planets was instituted by the Egyptians, but is now found among all mankind, though its adoption has been comparatively recent; at any rate the ancient Greeks never understood it, so far as I am aware. But since it is now quite the fashion with mankind generally and even with the Romans themselves, and is to them already in a way an ancestral tradition, I wish to write briefly of it, telling how and in what way it has been so arranged. I have heard two explanations, which are not difficult of comprehension, it is true, though they involve certain theories. For if you apply the so -called “principle of the tetrachord” (which is believed to constitute the basis of music) to these stars, by which the whole universe of heaven is divided into regular intervals, in the order in which each of them revolves, and beginning at the outer orbit assigned to Saturn, then omitting the next two name the lord of the fourth, and after this passing over two others reach the seventh, and you then go back and repeat the process with the orbits and their presiding divinities in this same manner, assigning them to the several days, you will find all the days to be in a kind of musical connection with the arrangement of the heavens. 19 This is one of the explanations given; the other is as follows. If you begin at the first hour to count the hours of the day and of the night, assigning the first to Saturn, the next to Jupiter, the third to Mars, the fourth to the Sun, the fifth to Venus, the sixth to Mercury, and the seventh to the Moon, according to the order of the cycles which the Egyptians observe, and if you repeat the process, covering thus the whole twenty-four hours, you will find that the first hour of the following day comes to the Sun. And if you carry on the operation throughout the next twenty-four hours in the same manner as with the others, you will dedicate the first hour of the third day to the Moon, and if you proceed similarly through the rest, each day will receive its appropriate god. This, then, is the tradition.

https://lexundria.com/dio/37/cy

https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/7-days-week.html

The days of the pagan planetary seven day week, originally named after the Greco-Roman gods associated with the seven classical planets, were later rendered into their Germanic interpretations based on indigenous deities, from which we then get their Anglicised names; Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as shown below.

Week Day	Planet	Greco-Roman Deity	Latin	Germanic Name	Old English
Saturday	Saturn	Cronus-Saturn	dies Saturnī	Zaterdag	sæterndæg
Sunday	Sun	Helios-Sol	dies Sōlis	Sun	sunnandæg
Monday	Moon	Selene-Luna	dies Lūnae	Moon	mōnandæg
Tuesday	Mars	Ares-Mars	dies Martis	Tiwaz	tiwesdæg
Wednesday	Mercury	Hermes-Mercury	dies Mercuriī	Wodanaz	wōdnesdæg
Thursday	Jupiter	Zeus-Jupitar	dies Iovis	Þunraz	þunresdæg
Friday	Venus	Aphrodite-Venus	dies Veneris	Frige	frīgedæg

In further substantiation that our current modern week is pagan and not Biblical is how on the pagan planetary Parapegma calendar Sunday (Sol), as depicted by the rays of light coming from Sol’s head, is the second day of the week rather than the first and that Saturday is the first day of the week rather than the seventh! This is of course assuming the day of Saturn was some how meant to also be the Sabbath just because they sound vaguely similar? But this makes no sense considering they have no real connection other than the day of Saturn was the most venerated day, just as the Sabbath is, but even if that assumption is true then of course the day of Saturn is on day 1 on the pagan planetary calendar, that our current modern week is based upon, rather than on day 7!

This fact along with the fact that all the days are based on the seven classical planets and their associated pagan gods, rather than anything from the Bible, conclusively proves the current seven day modern week of the Gregorian calendar used around the world does not originate from God’s Biblical seven day week.

However, we must also therefore understand how Sunday (Sol) became revered on the pagan planetary calendar over and above Saturday (Saturn). This came about because of the increased popularity of the worship of the Syrian sun god ‘Sol Invictus’ (The unconquered Sun) which was the official sun god religion of the later Roman Empire and the patron of soldiers in the third and fourth centuries AD. On 25th December 274AD the Roman Emperor Aurelian (b.214 – d.275AD) made Sol Invictus an official religion alongside the traditional Roman cults. This god was favoured by emperors after Aurelian and appeared on Roman coins until 387AD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus#:~:text=Sol%20Invictus%20(Classical%20Latin%3A%20%5B,alongside%20the%20traditional%20Roman%20cults.

Eventually the planetary seven day week became ubiquitous throughout the Roman empire and on the 7th March 321AD Rome’s first Christian Emperor Constantine I (b.272 – d.337AD) who had also been a solider and a Sol Invictus worshipper, decreed that Sunday would be observed as the Roman’s official day of rest, forcing all Christians to also rest on this day, by declaring:

“On the venerable Day of the Sun let the magistrates and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed in the country.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus#cite_ref-34

Constantine’s position on religions traditionally practiced in Rome evolved during his reign. At first his coinage and other official motifs until 325AD had affiliated him with the pagan cult of Sol Invictus. He also encouraged the construction of new pagan temples and accepted traditional additional sacrifices but by the end of his reign he had begun to order the pillaging and tearing down of these Roman temples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity#cite_ref-EusebiusSchaff_55-0

However, despite the official adoption of Sunday as a day of rest by Constantine, the Nundial eight day week continued to be used within the Roman Empire until at least the late fourth to early fifth century, as according to James Ker in his 2010 book ‘Nundinae: The Culture of the Roman Week’, Phoenix, Vol. 64, No. 3, p.360–385.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nundinae#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKer2010364_46-0

This is also substantiated by Pierre Brind’Amour in his 1983 book ‘The Roman Calendar: Chronological Research’ p.256-275.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week#cite_ref-31

As the popularity of the planetary seven day week in the Roman Empire increased, with Sunday becoming its venerated day, due to Sol Invictus sun worship, even Christian’s adopted it as the day to worship on and the first specific notation of Christians gathering on Sunday is by Justin Martyr (b.100 – d.165AD) a gentile of Roman decent, who recorded this in his book written between 155 to 157AD.

‘First apology of Justin’ Chapter 67.

“But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn; and on the day after that of Saturn, which is the day of the Sun.”

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm

Justin Martyr’s comments clearly shows his assumption that the pagan seven day planetary calendar is also the Biblical week.

Another record of Christians worshipping on Sunday was made by Christian author Tertullian (b.160 d.220AD) who admitted that early Christians of his persuasion prayed eastward to the sunrise on Sunday just as pagans did and that pagans held Sunday as their rest day just as he did, in his 197AD book.

Ad Nationes I, Chapter 13

Commentary: ‘Tertullian now turns to the pagan charge that the Christians worship the sun and conduct their main worship service on Sunday. Once again there are similar trends in pagan practice. The pagans who disapprove of deviating from one’s own ways should acknowledge that in fact they have borrowed this inclination in favour of the Sabbath from the Jews. Pagans and Christians again stand under the same condemnation.’

Tertullian: “Others of kinder disposition imagine that the sun is the Christian god. They have observed that when we pray, we face to the east and we rejoice on the day of the sun. Do you do anything less than this? Do you not sometimes cause your lips to quiver toward the rising sun as an act of adoration? It is most definitely your preference to single out Sunday, the seventh day from the sequence, to refrain from bathing, at least until evening? This is also your designated day for leisure and festivity. By doing this you depart from your traditional practices in favour of alien religions. The Jewish festivals are the Sabbath and the feast of purification. And the Jews also have the rite of the lamps and of fasting with unleavened bread and prayers at the seashore — all of which are alien to your gods. Now to return to our subject, you who deride us for sun worship and Sunday worship, see how close you are to us. We are not far removed from your Saturn and your Sabbath.”

http://www.tertullian.org/articles/howe_adnationes1.htm

Again however, like Justin Martyr, Tertullian is also assuming the seven day planetary calendar is the same as the Biblical seven day week but as we have seen the origins of the planetary calendar are pagan and that the day of Saturn, as day 1 of the planetary calendar, does not match the Sabbath, that is day 7 of the Biblical calendar.

Even the Jews in the Roman Empire were eventually allowed to rest on the day of Saturn, as recorded by Cassius Dio.

Roman History Book 37 Chapter 16:5

They have also another name that they have acquired: the country has been named Judaea, and the people themselves Jews.

Roman History Book 37 Chapter 17:3

– the day called the day of Saturn, on which, among many other most peculiar observances, they undertake no serious occupation.

https://lexundria.com/dio/37/cy

So we see references to Christians recognising Sunday as the first day of the week by at least 157AD and shows the popularity of the pagan planetary seven day week, which originally had Sunday as its second day. So why did Christians worship on the wrong day using an unbiblical pagan calendar?

There are a couple of logical reasons, firstly most of them would have had no knowledge the planetary seven day week was any different to the Biblical week, as shown by the assumptions made by Justin Martyr, Tertullian and Cassius (and even like most Christians today do). After all most converts to Christianity in the Roman Empire had been using, or were at least aware of the planetary seven day week and would have had no reason to object to using it, especially as most people were illiterate and had little or no access to the very rare, hand written historical records and the very rare biblical texts (In Hebrew and Greek) that might have helped them know about their different origins.

Secondly, Christians were being persecuted over the first few centuries and therefore had to obey the Roman way of life; “When in Rome do as the Romans do”. If they didn’t they ran the risk of being put to the test of having to burn incense to the pagan Roman deities and if they failed to do that they would usually be executed, often in the arena with wild animals. Besides, even if a Christian did somehow find out they were worshipping on the wrong day, it is not a salvation issue anyway and they would have been more focused on the Great Commission of telling others about Jesus whenever it was safe enough to do so.

For example, even though the Jewish apostles Peter and Paul would have know the Roman calendar was pagan, when they came to Rome, they instead preached about the Good news of Jesus’ resurrection rather than which day was really the Sabbath, as this was a very minor issue in comparison. This is also why this issue is not specifically written about in the Bible, similar to how it not often mentioned today within Christianity.

In fact one of the earliest references to any Christian voicing there concerns over this issue was not until the fifth century when there were enough devotees to Sol Invictus that the Christian theologian Augustine (b.354 – d.430AD) found it necessary to preach against it, although this was only to do with the day the sun god ‘Sol’ was supposed to be born, the 25th December and recognising that God had created the sun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus#cite_ref-8

Further more to all this evidence there is absolutely no evidence that Jesus or the Jews of His time ever used this Romanised Egyptian pagan planetary seven day week calendar, let a lone the Julian calendar, as used by their Roman oppressors.

In addition the Biblical calendar that Jesus, Moses and the Israelite’s had been using, had existed for over 1500 years prior to the Julian calendar’s introduction and over a 1000 miles away from Rome too, in Israel. Yet in the Bible we often read about God’s original calendar, this Biblical calendar is revealed from scripture in part two below.

Part Two

God’s Calendar

The Hebrews had been using a calendar from at least when Moses left Egypt and which goes back even further to the flood, for example we read in Exodus:

Exodus 12:1-2

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

And in Genesis:

Genesis 7:11-12

11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

This calendar given by God is completely different to the Julian and Gregorian calendars and its pagan planetary week. Firstly none of the days have names but were simply numbered by God, even the months were originally only numbered by God, although later they were given some Hebrew and Babylonian names by the Israelite’s themselves. Below are the names of these month as found in scripture:

Month           Hebrew name           Babylonian name

1                      Aviv                             Nisan
2                      Ziv                               Lyyar
3                      –                                  Sivan
4                      –                                  Tammuz
5                      –                                  Av
6                      –                                  Elul
7                      Ethanim                     Tishri
8                      Bul                              Heshwan
9                      –                                  Kislev
10                    –                                  Tevet
11                    –                                  Shevat
12                    –                                  Adar

From scripture we can find out how this calendar was organised. God’s day begin just after sunset and ends the following day just after sunset:

Genesis 1:5

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day.

This is confirmed several times else where, where it describes a day as being from evening to evening, for example:

Exodus 12:6

And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.

The months on God’s calendar actually begin with the sighting of the new crescent moon which was a rest day when there was a new moon feast as shown in 1 Samuel:

1 Samuel 20:18 + 24-27

18 Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty.

24 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon feast came, the king sat down to eat. 25 He sat in his customary place by the wall, opposite Jonathan, and Abner sat next to Saul, but David’s place was empty. 26 Saul said nothing that day, for he thought, “Something must have happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean, surely he is unclean.” 27 But the next day, the second day of the month, [Day 2] David’s place was empty again. Then Saul said to his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

This is confirmed in Ezekiel 46:

Ezekiel 46:3

On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are to worship in the presence of the Lord at the entrance of that gateway.

After New Moon Day there were 6 days of work followed by the first Sabbath.

Leviticus 23:3

There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of SABBATH rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a SABBATH to the LORD.

As a lunar month is on average 29.53059 days long the sliver of the new moon is seen again on either days 30 or 31, at which point the monthly cycle begins again and that day then becomes day 1 – New Moon Day. Months therefore alternate between 29 and 30 days in length and Sabbaths therefore fall on day’s 8, 15, 22 and 29 each lunar month. Throughout the Bible there are many places where Sabbaths are shown to fall on one of these 4 days and never on any other day of the month (with the exception of the Day of Trumpets which is the seventh new moon of the year and the Day of Atonement). Then the process begins over again with the sighting of the next new moon which is either one or two days later after day 29. Therefore Sabbaths are not on a continuous ‘rolling’ seven day cycle like it is on the pagan Julian/Gregorian calendars. Below are some examples from scripture where Sabbaths fall on one of the four days of the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th Jesus died on the 14th Aviv (Preparation day) Just before the 15th as it says in Luke 23.

Luke 23:54-56

54 It was Preparation Day, and the SABBATH was about to begin. 55 The women who had come with Jesus from Galilee followed Joseph and saw the tomb and how his body was laid in it. 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the SABBATH in obedience to the commandment.

Jesus rose on the 16th Aviv (the day of First Fruits) the day after the 15th which was a Sabbath as shown in Matthew 28.

Matthew 28:1

After the SABBATH, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

In Leviticus 23 God instructed Moses that the 15th and 22nd of the 7th month would be Sabbaths:

Leviticus 23:39

“‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of SABBATH rest [Day 15], and the eighth day [Day 22] also is a day of SABBATH rest.

God told Moses the 15th of the first month after leaving Egypt would be a Sabbath followed by the day of First Fruits:

Leviticus 23:4-16

4 ‘These are the LORD’S appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5 The LORD’S Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’S Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day [Day 15] hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day [Day 21] hold a sacred assembly, and do no regular work.’ 9 The LORD said to Moses, 10 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter the land I am going to give you, and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain your harvest [The first grain of the barley harvest]. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before the LORD so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the SABBATH [Day 16]. 12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect, 13 together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour [Made from the new grain of the barley harvest] mixed with olive oil, a food offering presented to the LORD, a pleasing aroma, and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine. 14 You must not eat any bread, or roasted new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God [Day 16]. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. 15 ‘From the day after the SABBATH [Day 16], the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. 16 Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. [The first grain of the wheat harvest]

So here it shows God is naming day 15 of the first month as a Sabbath and day 16 was called the day of First Fruits, when a sheaf of the new barley harvest was waved before the LORD and an offering of fine barley flour was burnt on the altar of incense in the temple.

However, from the above scriptures the fifty day count up to Pentecost (Shavuot in Hebrew) although counted as fifty actual days up to day 6 of month 3, as traditionally practised by present day Jews, should actually be counted to the day after the seventh full Sabbath, which is day 9 of month 3 and is the day after the actual seventh Sabbath on God’slLunar-solar calendar. This is an important point that is discussed further in chapter 2.

Also, in Exodus chapter 16 it can be determined that a Sabbath in the second month after leaving Egypt fell on day 22 of that month and therefore shows that God’s calendar and his Sabbaths are most certainly linked to the phases of the moon on days 8, 15, 22 & 29:

Exodus 16:1-26

1 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim, and came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim, and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt. 2 In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. 3 The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the LORD’S hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve this entire assembly to death.” 4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from Heaven for you. The people are to go out each day, and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test them and see whether they will follow my instructions. 5 On the sixth day [Day 21] they are to prepare what they bring in, and that is to be twice as much as they gather on the other days.” 6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening [Day 16] you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of Egypt, 7 and in the morning [Also day 16] you will see the glory of the LORD, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we, that you should grumble against us?” 8 Moses also said, “You will know that it was the LORD when he gives you meat to eat in the evening, and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the LORD.” 9 Then Moses told Aaron, “Say to the entire Israelite community, ‘Come before the LORD, for he has heard your grumbling.’ ” 10 While Aaron was speaking to the whole Israelite community, they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the LORD appearing in the cloud. 11 The LORD said to Moses, 12 “I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘In the evening [Beginning of day 16] you will eat meat, and in the morning [Also day 16] you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’ ” 13 That evening [Day 16] quail came, and covered the camp, and in the morning [Also day 16] there was a layer of dew around the camp. 14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat. 16 This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer for each person you have in your tent.’” 17 The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. 18 And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed. 19 Then Moses said to them, “No one is to keep any of it until morning.” 20 However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. 21 Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. 22 On the sixth day [Day 21], they gathered twice as much, two omers for each person, and the leaders of the community came, and reported this to Moses. 23 He said to them, “This is what the LORD commanded: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of SABBATH rest, [Day 22] a holy SABBATH to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left, and keep it until morning.’ ” 24 So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. 25 “Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a SABBATH to the LORD. You will not find any of it on the ground today. 26 Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the SABBATH, there will not be any.”

So here it shows God names day twenty-two of the second month after leaving Egypt a Sabbath (four times to be sure). This was not a feast day that God was initiating, otherwise it would be listed with the others in Leviticus. Also, as it’s known that the new moon festival was held on day one of every lunar month, it can be determined, with certainty, that God’s calendar had four Sabbaths every lunar month, on days 8, 15, 22, and 29 with six days of work preceding each Sabbath.

It can also be determined from scripture that Aviv is calculated each year by the need for the barley to be ripe enough for it to be made into fine flour, so that it can be offered as a burnt offering. The need for the barley to be ripe is confirmed again in Exodus when Moses mentioned that the seventh plague, the plague of Hail, happened when the barley was ripe:

Exodus 9:18 + 31

18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded till now.

31 (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. 32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)

This shows that it was the beginning of spring in the month the Jews call Aviv, which literally means ‘young barley’ or ‘spring’. According to various verses in Exodus chapters 9,10 and 11, the hail occurred five days before the first Passover:

Exodus 9:33-35

33 Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the LORD; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land. 34 When Pharaoh saw that the rain, and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. 35 So Pharaoh’s heart was hard and he would not let the Israelite’s go, just as the LORD had said through Moses.

Exodus 10:1-4

1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these signs of mine among them 2 that you may tell your children, and grandchildren how I dealt harshly with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the LORD.” 3 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, so that they may worship me. 4 If you refuse to let them go, I will bring locusts into your country tomorrow.

Therefore, the day after the hail was the plague of locusts, which was the eighth plague:

Exodus 10:13 + 16-19

13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and the LORD made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

16 Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you 17 Now forgive my sin once more and pray to the LORD your God to take this deadly plague away from me.” 18 Moses then left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD. 19 And the LORD changed the wind to a very strong west wind, which caught up the locusts, and carried them into the Red Sea.

Pharaoh again refused to let the Hebrews go, so on the same day Moses prayed and the plague of three days of thick darkness happened. The ninth plague:

Exodus 10:20-22

20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go. 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness spreads over Egypt, darkness that can be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his and toward the sky, and total darkness covered all Egypt for three days.

After these three days, Pharaoh refused to let the herds go with the Hebrews, this was now five days since the hail. Pharaoh then says:

Exodus 10:28-29

28 Pharaoh said to Moses, “Get out of my sight! Make sure you do not appear before me again! The day you see my face you will die.” 29 “Just as you say,” Moses replied. “I will never appear before you again.”

But before Moses leaves, he gives a warning about the final tenth plague:

Exodus 11:1 + 4-5

1 Now the LORD had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.

4 So Moses said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every first born son in Egypt will die.

So the barley was ripe just five days before day 15 of Aviv, when the Israelites left Egypt. Then God confirms that the month of Aviv was to become the first month of the new year in Exodus chapter 12:

Exodus 12:1-2

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

This tells us that God was changing which month of the year would now be recognised as the first month of the religious year. Present day Jews believe Tishri, now month seven, was originally the first month of the year and this is also shown in the Bible too:

Exodus 34:22

“Celebrate the Festival of Weeks [Shavuot/Pentecost] with the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering [Tabernacles] at the turn of the year.”

Although God had set the religious year to start from the month of Aviv, the civil new year continued to begin from the month of Tishri (as it always had done), which now became month seven; in fact Tishri means ‘beginning’. As lunar months are on average 29.53059 days long and in order for the Jews to determine when the new month began, the Sanhedrin (the highest Jewish court judges) would need two witnesses to testify they had sighted the first sliver of the new moon, within a days journey from Jerusalem on day 30 of the month. If it was not sighted then the next day would automatically be declared new moon day. It’s not clear from scripture what the Israelites did when there was an extra thirtieth day but it was not a Sabbath and as everyone was looking out for the new moon it may have been a day to go about one business as usual similar to other work days.

New moon day was not a Sabbath either, except on month seven, although it is actually called a Shabbathon (Strongs 7677 rather than a Shabbath: Strongs 7676). It was a feast day, so while work could take place on these days in the evening there would be a celebratory feast. There was also a reward for the first two witnesses who could correctly report the sighting of the new moon to the Sanhedrin, in the form of a grand meal. The first two witnesses who reached the temple gates with the news would be called up by the High Priest who would shout, “Come up here.” This was a prophetic foreshadowing of what will happen with the Two Witnesses in chapter 11 of Revelation:

Revelation 11:12

Then they heard a loud voice from Heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to Heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on.

Christians too should be looking out for the first signs of the coming of our Lord Jesus, as He too will have his reward with Him.

Revelation 22:21

“Look, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to each person according to what they have done”.

As there are only 354.36 days in twelve lunar months an extra thirteenth month, called Adar II, would be added whenever it was judged by the Sanhedrin that the barley was not going to be ripe enough to be made into fine flour, for the day of First Fruits held on day 16 of Aviv. This was determined at the end of month twelve, Adar I and if it wasn’t ripe enough the extra month, Adar II, was added. Then the whole yearly cycle would begin again with the sighting of the next new moon, which would begin the month of Aviv; month 1.

So as you can see God’s calendar was similar to the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek luni-solar calendars. This was because originally all calendars were copies of God’s calendar and as time went by, in a world ruled by Satan, these calendars became evermore corrupted from God’s original calendar, in order to try and hide the Sabbath and the importance of God’s calendar and its prophetic feast days which Jesus was and is fulfilling, which is the topic of chapter 2. So what we see is the majority used Roman calendar won out over the minority used Israelite calendar. Below shows God’s Luna-Solar calendar as revealed from the scriptures. Please click on the image to view or print as a PDF:

Furthermore, God’s calendar is not the same calendar the Jews use today, they currently use a revised version of God’s calendar which uses the seven day planetary ‘rolling’ week system of the Julian/Gregorian calendar, instead of God’s lunar Sabbath weeks. This was due partly to the destruction of Jerusalem, its temple and their priests way of life in 70 AD by Roman general Titus (b.39 AD – d. 81 AD) and also later under the Roman Emperor Hadrian (b.76 AD – d. 138 AD), after he had put down the Jewish Simon Bar-Kokhba revolt in 135 AD and expelled the Jews from living in or near Jerusalem under pain of death. This prevented the Jews from making visually sighted new moon observances from Jerusalem which are needed for knowing when God’s lunar months begin. Hadrian also made an anti-religious decree forbidding Sabbath observance as well.

Finally in 363 AD Roman Catholic Canon number 29 was issued at the Council of Laodicea prohibiting observance of the Jewish Sabbath on Saturday within the Roman empire altogether, while encouraging Christians to work on Saturday and rest on the ‘Lord’s Day’ Sunday. The fact that the Canon had to be issued at all is an indication that adoption of Constantine’s decree of 321 AD was still not universal, not even among Christians and it also importantly indicates that Jews in the Roman empire were observing the Sabbath on Saturday, even though this was the first day of the pagan planetary week rather than the seventh day on God’s lunar calendar and that they had therefore practically forgotten God’s real Sabbath.

In response to all these anti-Jewish laws and persecution a new Jewish calendar was created in 359 AD by Sanhedrin Rabbi Hillel II who was the president of the Sanhedrin in Israel. Hillel’s calendar was based on the fixed nineteen year Metonic cycle of 235 lunar months (named after Greek mathematician Meton of Athens, fifth century BC), that closely approximated God’s visually sighted new moon calendar. This repeating 19 year mathematical lunar calculation approximates the timing of each new moon sighting from Jerusalem which allows Jews to celebrate their feasts on the same day no matter where they are living around the world but it is only accurate about half of the time for the feasts compared to the visually sighted new moon months and approximately only one-in-seven times do the Sabbaths on God’s calendar, coincide with the Friday-Saturday ‘Sabbath’ on the Julian/Gregorian pagan planetary rolling week. Hillel’s calendar is still used today.

I hope this helps you to see that the Sabbath is not on Sunday or Saturday but can actually be on any day of the seven day planetary rolling week system of the pagan Julian/Gregorian calendar.

Part Three

The Sabbath

All of this means that the Sabbath can occur on any day of the Julian/Gregorian calendar, whether a Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, etc., (which are all Roman Pagan names, for example Saturday is named after the Roman god of agriculture called Saturnus) and therefore most Christians and Jews are currently not worshipping God on the day He ordained as Holy but most are instead completely unaware of it; especially the Seventh Day Adventists who hold to strictly worshipping God on Saturdays. This also includes Muslims who worship on Fridays on this pagan Julian/Gregorian calendar, rather than their own similar lunar-solar calendar which was used by Muhammad and his followers in seventh century Arabia.

The fourth commandment: ‘Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy’ has virtually been forgotten, a command more important than murder for example, which is the sixth commandment and both were punishable by death! Jesus kept the correct Sabbath day holy; so… Should we also try to follow Jesus and keep the correct Sabbath day holy?

Well, even before Jesus came, God seemed to be getting a bit tired of His people trying to keep His Feasts and Sabbaths. The prophet Isaiah in the eighth century BC warned the northern half of Israel about this shortly before they were conquered by the Assyrians:

Isaiah 1:13-14

[The LORD says] 13 Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations I cannot bear your worthless assemblies. 14 Your New Moon feasts, and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

This was because their hearts were far from God:

Isaiah 29:13

The LORD says: “These people come near to me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.

Soon the northern kingdom of Israel was conquered and most of its inhabitants were taken as slaves, while the land was then resettled by foreigners who later became known as the Samaritans. Later still in the sixth century BC the southern half of Israel was conquered by the Babylonians, who destroyed Solomon’s grand temple and again many Jews were taken into captivity. However, after seventy years the Jews in Babylon were allowed back to Israel where they then rebuilt the temple and restarted the feasts and festivals. So by the time Jesus arrived He was fully adhering to all of these set feasts and Sabbaths. However, after His death and resurrection, we read from the Apostle Paul:

Colossians 2:16

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.

This expresses the fact that we are now not under the law and instead the laws should be in our minds and written on are hearts, as was always intended by God:

Jeremiah 31:33

“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds, and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people”.

This therefore sounds like we should perhaps pay even closer attention to the laws. After all, Jesus kept the law and is noted as saying:

Matthew 5:21-22

21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or will be subject to judgement. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Hell.

Although we are saved by our belief in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour and God’s Grace which supersedes the law, we should still use the ten commandments as our guide as to how to live. We are not dependent on them but it will prosper us if we adhere to them. Equally, if we break these laws then we will face the consequences. For example, murder could well result in a person going to prison etc and Paul also states:

1 Corinthians 9:21

To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law.

Jesus also gives us a simple instruction as to how to keep all of the laws; The Golden Rule:

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

However, Jesus here was still quoting from the law as these are two of the 613 Old Testament laws found throughout the first five books of the Old Testament, known as the Torah. Ten of these laws were the commandments given to Moses by God on mount Sinai and the extra 603 laws were later written in the Torah as well:

Deuteronomy 6:5

Love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength.

And:

Leviticus 19:18

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbour as yourself. I am the LORD.

Therefore, we should be trying really hard to be as excellent as possible to God, as well as one another but if we fail, and we all do, then it’s okay, because it’s by our belief in Jesus as our Saviour that makes everything right with God. Therefore the Sabbath and God’s calendar is still relevant to us today and if we really knew why this was then we would see why it was the enemy, Satan, who brought about this whole calendar confusion. We have ended up with the pagan Roman Catholic Julian/Gregorian calendar on which is celebrated Jesus’ death at Easter, which is a pagan religious festival named after Queen Ishtar (Semiramis) who was Nimrod’s Queen and own mother! Nimrod and Ishtar began the false Babylonian mystery and sun worshipping religion which included infant baby sacrificing. More is explained about Nimrod in chapter 13). This Roman calendar also celibates Jesus’ birth on the pagan day that celebrated sun worship; ‘Sol Invictus’ which means ‘unconquered sun’ and was also supposed to be the day Ishtar’s son Tammuz was born.

Whether we acknowledge God’s calendar or not, God is still using it and He sets His prophetic plans by it, if we ignore it then we will not be ready for when He has planned His prophetic acts to happen. However, just to be clear Paul tells us how to consider any of these special days:

Romans 14:5

One person considers one day more sacred than another; another considers every day alike. Each of them should be fully convinced in their own mind.

Therefore I suggest the following:

1. Be as excellent as possible to God and others every

2. Be aware of God’s calendar and when His Sabbaths and Feasts really are. (Although they currently still hold to a Friday-Saturday Sabbath; TorahCalendar.com is a useful website to help with this, a link to there can be found here: guidetothebible.wordpress.com/links

3. Take one day off in every seven, any day you like, just to rest and not to work. You will feel better and be more productive.

4. If you wish to honour God on the correct Sabbath, without having to take the day off work, why not try fasting, it doesn’t have to be a total fast of all food, you could just decide to skip a meal or eat only fruit, or even to just not watch non-Christian TV for example.

However, as said God’s original calendar is starting to be recognised by some Christians and Jews. In the year 2000 a Jewish American called Nehemia Gordon (b.1972) began to coordinate Aviv barley searches and new crescent moon sightings from Jerusalem. He is now the co-founder of the World Karaite Movement, a Karaite revival group in Israel. Karaites believe that the divine commandments handed down to Moses by God were recorded in the Torah and therefore do not accept the written collections of the oral traditions in the Jewish Midrash or Talmud Rabbinical writings. Some Christians have recognised the importance of his work in relation to the re-establishment of God’s calendar in the land of Israel and how it connects with end time prophecy.

For sometime orthodox Jews have been preparing to rebuild the original temple and restart Jewish worship and sacrifices. Founded in 1987 The Temple Institute based in Jerusalem emphatically states on their website that their ultimate goal is to see Israel rebuild the Holy Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, in accordance with the Biblical commandments. In addition, halfway between Jerusalem and Jericho in Mitzpe Yericho, is a school for teaching and training Cohanim and Levite priests in how to serve in the yet-to-be-built third temple.

In order to fulfil the biblical commandments the priests in the temple will have to celebrate God’s Sabbaths and feast days on the correct biblical days as God originally instructed Moses. However, currently most Jews around the world still use the calendar created by Hillel II in 359 AD but as this calendar is only accurate around half of the time for the feasts and approximately only one-in-seven times for the Sabbaths then in order for the priests to worship God on the correct days all of the time they will need to use God’s original calendar. World events are beginning to shape up to fulfilling one of the Bibles most famous prophesies:

Daniel 9:25

He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’ he will put an end to sacrifice, and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.

It’s widely believed amongst many Christians that these scriptures refer to the third temple that will be rebuilt in Jerusalem and the Anti-Christ’s actions in the last days:

Daniel 7:25

He will speak against the Most High, and oppress his holy people, and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time, [Three and a half years].

I believe God’s calendar will be re-established at the temple and it is these ‘set times’ that the Anti-Christ will try to change. Mankind’s enemy, Satan, has always tried to hide God’s calendar and His reckoning of time. The reason why is because for Christians this calendar and particularly His set feasts are of the utmost importance, as they have a specific purpose which is discussed in the next chapter.

This all said there are a minority of Christians who are aware of these facts and some of whom are today trying to teach about it, such as Bible Scholars John D. Keyser and Robert-Aaron Richmond for example. If you would like to know more about how the Sabbath is calculated you can view further studies on this by these and other Bible scholars:

Robert-Aaron Richmond explains from scripture how God’s calendar works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-sBopCfow&t=2s

The Gregorian V’s Scriptural calendars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmI5_hf54Vw

CONTINUOUS WEEKLY CYCLE. FACT OR FICTION?

https://calendarofscripture.com/2016/11/22/continuous-weekly-cycle-fact-or-fiction/

International Date Line Change: The Sabbath Unchanged by Worlds​ Last Chance Ministries? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUyZpM5xls

John D Keyser – founder of Hope of Israel ministries:

http://www.hope-of-israel.org/sabtosat.htm

“Saturday is the Sabbath” is FAKE NEWS!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJJwQmKJJbw&feature=youtu.be

The Creator’s calendar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzFGEfgP_8

You can also view comparison calendars to know when the next Sabbaths on God’s visually sighted lunar calendar will be from now until 2030:

https://guidetothebible.wordpress.com/sabbaths-from-now-till-2030

What you have just read is basically Chapter 1 of my book ‘The Christian’s Guide To The Bible’, if you enjoyed that then Chapter 2 explains how and where God’s feasts fit into His Calendar that Jesus is fulfilling.

https://guidetothebible.wordpress.com/chapter-2-gods-calendar-and-his-prophetic-feasts/