The presumption here is that satyrday IS that seventh day. In that case...
1. Where in Scripture does it say that satyrday is the Sabbath?
2. Where in Scripture does it say that the Sabbath is every seventh day in succession?
Answer these two simple questions and this issue goes away. Simple as that. All Scripture says is that the Sabbath
is the seventh day of the WEEK, not every seven days in succession. In fact, every test that can be applied to this
premise destroys the idea that the Sabbath is every seven days in succession...
3. Every weekly Sabbath that can be date identified in Scripture falls on either the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th day of
the (lunar) month. This cannot happen with the current solar calendar; this does however occur on a lunar-solar
calendar though. Can you find a single weekly Sabbath in Scripture that falls on a date other than these?
The ONLY way for the Sabbath to fall on these days is if the new moon days are not counted as week days.
4. The new moon days never fall during the common week; they are a third category of day. 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. New moon days can
fall on any day of the Gregorian week. If it fell on a tuesday and if the tabernacle were still here and I asked you,
“Would the gate have been open or shut?” How would you answer? If you say open because tuesday is new moon
day, I would respond that it is a work day, it must be shut. If you agreed, “Of course tuesday is a work day, it must
be shut.” I’d reply, “But friend, it is new moon, it must be open.” You have no correct answer because you are
applying a pagan/papal/Roman/solar-only/man-made calendar to this Scriptural calendar event. Isaiah 66:23, II
Kings 4:18-23, Amos 8:5 are three more witnesses that the new moon cannot fall on one of the six work days.
5. The 14th day of Abib is always the preparation day for first day of Unleavened Bread. Abib 14 floats on our
current version of the Roman calendar. Abib 10 is the day to purchase a lamb if you don’t already own one. Abib
10 floats on the Roman calendar. The fact is that the 10th, 14th and 16th of Abib are, without exception,
commanded work days. The barley could be harvested on the 16th only after the Wave Sheaf had been offered
and accepted, Leviticus 23:9-14. If there is a continuous 7 day cycle, every few years either the 10th, 14th or 16th
will fall on a satyrday. In fact, satyrday fell on Abib 10 in 2003. Satyrday fell on the 14th of Abib in 2004 and 2008.
Satyrday fell on the 16th of Abib in 2002, 2006 and 2009. There is no legislation provided to do these tasks a day
early or late in case these days “just happen” to fall on the Sabbath, these work dates are fixed. YHVH never has
Israel do common work on a rest day, and did not here either. These days will never fall on the Sabbath, yet they
will fall on your satyrday every few years. Can you explain this?
6. The battle of Jericho was a seven day event. Every able bodied Israelite male took with him every available
weapon at his disposal. The priests even carried with them the sacred Ark of the Covenant. In this battle/siege,
Israel is on the offensive, they are the aggressors. Read the account in Joshua 6. Only Joshua knew it would be a
7 day affair, the men were told they would attack when Joshua gave them the signal. These soldiers were marching
around Jericho for seven days in attack mode, on a full tilt adrenalin rush, not knowing for sure when the signal
would come. Which day was the Sabbath? Did YHVH ever send Israel into battle on the Sabbath? No. The battle
of Jericho is more a calendar statement than it is about the conquest of Canaan. How do I know this? Simple.
Israel had JUST come out of the wilderness after a 40 year sojourn, having to relearn the law (including the
Sabbath) of Yah. Do you suppose that the VERY first thing YHVH commanded Israel to do would be to break the
Sabbath with a 7 consecutive day siege? The Book of Jasher (which is mentioned twice in Scripture) reveals that
this battle began on new moon day. Please compare the verse below with the illustration above.
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
Starting on new moon dayd, Israel marched around one time for six days and seven times on the seventh day.
Looks like this.
.1 1 1 1 1 1 7
7. You cannot count backward by 7 to any of the years accepted by scholars for the crucifixion [30, 31 or 33 A.D.]
and find a fri, satyrday (Sabbath), sun. crucifixion weekend. In fact, there was not a fri-sat-sun sequence for the
crucifixion in any of the years from 27-34 A.D. There are two reasons for this. 1. In the first century, Israel was still
observing the natural calendar established at Creation. 2. Nature [the cycle of the moon] does not lie. Rome was
not using the current calendar in the first century either. They had an 8 day market calendar called the Roman
Republican Calendar. Since Israel was not using the Julian or Gregorian calendar in the first century (Hint: the
current calendar, the Gregorian calendar, was not invented until 1582) and Rome was using an 8 day weekly
calendar, why do you assume that the crucifixion was on a f-day followed by a satyrday in the grave and a s-day
resurrection? Rome did not officially adopt the pagan seven day planetary week, which is still in use today, until 321
A.D. The pagan freya’s day (Friday) was not added to the calendar until the Middle Ages, several hundred years
after the crucifixion
8. Exodus 12, 16 and 19 reveal that the Sabbaths fell on the 15th of the month for three consecutive months.
Exodus 12 reveals that Israel was released from bondage on Abib 15, the 15th day of the first month. It is not
called a Sabbath in Exodus 12, but later Scripture does reveal the nature of this day. Leviticus 23:4-8 shows us
that Passover (Abib 14) is preparation day for Abib 15, the Sabbath of Unleavened Bread. Some say that Abib 21 is
also a Sabbath, but his is not the case. The evidence is that the 15th of the first month is the weekly Sabbath;
Scripture is not saying that the 21st is an annual Sabbath at all. Consider the following.
The first day of the feast and the “seventh day” [of the week in context] are one and the same. The 21st is the 6th
day of the week and of course the 7th day of a seven day feast, but….
09 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
…the “seventh day” spoken of in Exodus 13:6 is called a 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, Abib 15. It is not referring
to the last day of the feast, rather the first. This Chag can only be the 15th of Abib. See also Deuteronomy 5:12-
15 and Leviticus 23:6-8.
The Sabbath commandment in Exodus 20:8-11 is linked to Creation week. The 4th commandment listed in
Deuteronomy 5:12-15 is linked to the deliverance of Israel. That date was the 15th day of the first month.
I submit to you that this “seventh day” is Abib 15, and it is not only an annual Sabbath, but a weekly Sabbath as
well. There are no back to back Sabbaths in Scripture. The 15th is without question a Sabbath, meaning that the
22nd of the first month is also a Sabbath. If the 21st is an annual Sabbath, there would be two Sabbaths back to
back, and there would be no preparation day for the second Sabbath of the two. Common sense, right?
Exodus 16 is the first place where the word “Sabbath” is used in Scripture. In the first verse, YHVH 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.
..........1 1 1 1 1 2 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
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.
Exodus 19:1 also proves 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. So Israel arrived at Sinai on the 16th and Moses was
immediately summoned up the mount. YHVH 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.
If the 18th is the third day, then the 16th is the first day, meaning that they were “resting” in Rephidim on the
Sabbath, the 15th, which is the weekly Sabbath.
Looks like this:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th
09 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Amazing isn’t it? There is always harmony in the truth. The evidence presented here cannot happen with the
modern seven day cyclical week. Nature also chimes in with tests that disprove the idea that the Sabbath is every
seven days in succession.
9. You and I have been in storm at sea for two weeks, not knowing day from night before we are finally ship
wrecked. We both wake up floating in the surf of a deserted island. We have no idea what day it is. You are a
satyrday Sabbatarians, I am a lunar Sabbatarian. I would know the when the Sabbath was within 48 hours of
regaining consciousness. Unless someone comes along and shows you a calendar or tells you what day it is, you
will NEVER know. The sun tells you when a new day begins. The MOON tells you which day it is. In order to count
seven you MUST have a frame of reference, and keeping any day in seven is the sin of presumption.
10. Here is another example of why counting to seven will not work in the real world. You and I meet at a certain
place. We immediately make peace and become friends. You introduce me to the seventh-day Sabbath (based on
a repeating seven day cycle) which I accept. You are a farmer, I am a seafaring nomad. You and your family bid
me farewell and I embark on a journey around the world. I travel westward and circumnavigate the globe. When I
return to you and your people I throw my arms around your neck and say, “Happy Sabbath Brother.” You look
perplexed and say, “Friend, you are mistaken, the Sabbath was yesterday.” Because of the fixed man-made
international dateline, I would either be a day early or a day late, depending on whether I went east or west around
the earth even though we are BOTH counting sunsets.
The lights in the heavens reset or regulate the days, weeks, months and years. Regardless of our position on
earth, if we would each “observe” the setting of the sun, phases of the moon, and conjunctions (new moon phase)
we will always be on the same lunar date, not only locally, but even if one or BOTH of us are moving away or toward
one another.
The luminaries in the heavens are a local phenomena. We see them reset wherever we are. There is no need for
an international time line. If you don’t start your Sabbath when they start the Sabbath in Jerusalem, you can
observe the local lights in the heavens for every other appointment on YHVH’s calendar.
26. The feasts were based on a luni-solar calendar, but this calendar does not supplant the
original foundation of a perpetually recurring seven-day cycle with the Sabbath occurring on
the seventh of each week.
Objections to the Calendar of Creation:
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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