The Sabbath Question

The Sabbath Question

3 Books in 1

1 Feast Days

To Feast or Not to Feast

2 Sabbath “Day”

Starts and Ends When?

3 Sanctified

12 or 24 Hours

Compiled By: Everett Lloyd Anderson

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.

To steal from many is research.

This is my research.

June 1, 2009

“In Vain”

You have lost your Eternal Life!!!

You worship me in vain!

You follow rules taught by men!

You have let go of the My commandments!

You are holding to the traditions of men! Mark 7:7

My Deep Convictions

Isaiah 8:20 To the law (Torah, first 5 books of the Bible) and to the testimony! (The rest of the Bible)

If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light (no truth) in them.

Matthew 4:4 “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds

from the mouth of God.”

Note: I have replaced the pagan names of “God”, “the Lord” and “Jesus” with the true translation

of “YeHoVaH”, “Elohim” and “YeHoshuVaH” our Christ.

When confronted with the Satan, Christ (YeHoshuVaH) gave us an example of how we are to answer Scriptural questions, we must follow His example with “It is written” or “Thus saith God”. “YeHoVaH”

If I do not follow the Bible and Bible only, and give you sound doctrine from the Bible, I am a liar.

Great Controversy p 595 “God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. The opinions of learned men, the deductions of science, the creeds or decisions of ecclesiastical councils, as numerous and discordant as are the churches which they represent, the voice of the majority, --not one nor all of these should be regarded as evidence for or against any point of religious faith. Before accepting any doctrine or precept, we should demand a plain “This saith God” in its support.”

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I do not have love for every human on this planet, I have nothing.

Mark 7:6 Christ said: “‘These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
⁷ They worship me in vain; their teachings are doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸ “You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”⁹ And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observeyour own traditions!”

John 14:15 “If you love Me, keepMy commandments.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; (by sound doctrine, this I have done.) hold fast that which is good.

No Excuse for Wilful Blindness

Last Day Events p 217 Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary 5:1145 (1884). None will be condemned for not heeding light and knowledge that they never had, and they could not obtain. But many refuse to obey the truth that is presented to them by Christ’s ambassadors, because they wish to conform to the world’s standard, and the truth that has reached their understanding, the light that has shone in the soul, will condemn them in the judgment.

Mix a Little Lie with Mostly Truth

“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” - Lutheran turned atheist Friedrich Nietzsche.

1^st Book Index ~ Holy Sabbath Feast Days

Page 8 Introduction

8 Feast Days Fuss

10 This we know for Sure

12 God’s Last Movement

14 Who will be Saved ~ Who will be Lost

15 The Anti-Christ

17 The Beast Out of the Sea

20 The Beast Out of the Earth (USA / Trump in Prophecy)

21 The Mark of the Beast

22 Gods Holy Days Taken Away

22 Pope Changes Weekly and Annual Feast Days

23 The Beast Explains His Mark

25 The Seal of God

27 Old Testament Laws Do Not Change

28 Understanding God’s Laws

33 Difficult Texts

33 Matthew 5:

35 Colossians 2: ~ Nailing What to the Cross

40 Ephesians 2: ~ Abolished What

42 Galatians 4:

43 Acts 15: ~ Circumcision

44 Romans 14:

46 Feast Days, Past, Present and Future

48 God’s Holy Days: The Making of a Baby

51 History of Gods Holy Days

51 Prior to Sin

52 Prior to Flood

53 After the Flood

53 At Sinai

54 Christ and Feast Days

55 After the Cross

59 325 AD ~ All Christians Kept Annual Holy days

60 1100 AD ~ Scotland

60 1410 AD ~ Ethiopia 60 1600 AD ~ Waldensians 60 1844 AD ~ Oct. 22, 1844

61 Today

65 Elijah Message Just Before the Second Coming

65 Commencement of the “Time of Trouble”

66 Second Coming

67 New Earth

69 Pope’s Power

70 The Greatest Conspiracy

71 Black Pope

71 Jesuit Oath

72 Pope Calls for World Feast Day Sunday

74 Following the Mother of Harlots

75 God’s Feast Days

75 Weekly Sabbath

76 Passover

78 Feast of Unleavened Bread

79 First Fruits

80 Pentecost

82 Trumpets

83 Trumpets and Daniel 12

83 1^st Trumpet = Great Balls of Fire

84 2^nd Trumpet = 1000’s of Cities Destroyed

87 Day of Atonement = Judgement Day

88 Tabernacles = First and Second Coming of Christ

92 The Last Great Day = Entering Heaven

93 For Seventh Day Adventist’s Only

93 No Excuse for Willful Blindness ~ Last Day Events p 217

94 God’s Church is not the Seventh Day Adventist Church

95 Investigating New Ideas

96 New Light

100 Few Seventh Day Adventist’s Saved

101 New Light by Dr. Samuel Bacchiocchi

102 Why Ellen G. White didn’t promote Feast Days

103 Difficult Texts SOP

105 Seventh Day Adventist General Conference Refuted

107 Seventh Day Adventist BRI ~ Feasts have not been fulfilled YET!

110 Jesuits in Seventh Day Adventist Church ~ Since 1844 and today!

115 Laodicea End Time Church

117 Fourth Angel’s Message ~ Life and Death Message

121 1888 ~ 4^th Angels Light Put Out ~ Satanic Work 1888

122 Time Prolonged

123 1888 Righteousness by Faith Smokescreen

127 Ellen White ~ Exiled

128 Summary

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New Internation Verse Bible is used unless indicated. I know of all the errors of the New Internation Verse and have not used those verses. All Bible verses are in italics.

Note to Non- Seventh Day Adventist’s:

I have proven all things from the Bible first but have quoted E.G. White over 200 times on this

Subject of “Feast Days” to prove to the Seventh Day Adventist readers that the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference are agents of Satan. The following proves this from the Bible and by the truth about what really happened in 1888.

All of Ellen G. White’s writings and Seventh Day Adventist writings are in this Segoe Print.

2^nd Book Index ~ Sabbath “Day” Starts and Ends When?

Page 133 Front Page

134 No Excuse for Wilful Blindness

135 Indes

136 Introduction YeHoVaH’s Last Call

139 Day at Creation? Genesis 1:1-5

140 Light Started Time on Earth

141 Light and Darkness Defined

142 Evening and Morning Defined

144 Night Starts When

144 Day always precedes Night

145 Sabbath or Sabbath Day

145 Permanence of YeHoVaH’s Covenant of Day and Night

146 New Earth,

146 Evening to Evening

147 Day of Atonement; Leviticus 23

148 Dawn Chart

149 Summary

150 Confirmation Texts; Passover and The Death Angel

Exodus 12:1; Leviticus 23:4

151 Manna From Heaven; Exodus 16:21; Num. 11:32

151 Holy Night or Holy Day; Luke 2:8

152 Day Begins at Dawn; 20 Texts

154 Yesternight, This Night and Tomorrow. Genesis 19:33, Exodus 32:5;

Samuel 19:11

155 When did the “Day” start in Christ’ time?

Matthew 27:45; John 19:18; Matthew 28:1; Luke 23:52; John 6:16

157 Difficult Bible Texts;

Exodus 12:18; Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1; Nehemiah 13:19; Colossians 2:16

159 Mark 16:1-9 ~ Another Look

160 Second Definition of “risen”

162 Jerusalem Closed the City Gates at Sunset;

Nehemiah 13:19, Colossians 2:16

163 Nehemiah Chart

164 Origin of Sunset to Sunset

165 Questions on Day and Night, by Elesha Yisrael

167 Is this a Salvational Issue?

3^rd Book Index ~ Sabbath Sanctified 12 or 24 Hours

Page 168 Front Page

169 Index

170 Law of First Mentioned

Simple and Direct Quotes

Sound Principles of Biblical Interpretation

172 Blessed, Sanctified and Holy

173 Day of Atonement Leviticus 23

Sabbath Day and Night

174 Difficult Text Exodus 16:23, 31:14, Nehemiah 9:13, Isaiah 30:29, 45:7,

Matthew 28:1

176 Summary x 25 proofs

177 Satan Try’s to Change Times and Laws

177 Jews Started “Sunset to Sunset” Worship

178 Prophecy Fulfilled

What hours of the week did God Sanctify?

179 God defines Day and Night

180 Christ Confirms 12-hour Day and Night

180 Evening and Morning

First Version

182 Second Version

183 Third Version

184 When did the “Day” start and end in Christ’s time

John 6:16, 11:9, 19:38, Matthew 27:57, 28:1, Luke 23:52

185 New Earth Isaiah 66:23, Psalms 113:3

186 Summary

188 Day Begins at Dawn

189 Night Starts When Nehemiah 4:21

189 Silent Night Holy Night or Day Luke 2:8

190 How to Prove Scriptural Questions ~ Sound Doctrine

Introduction

Feast Days Fuss

What’s all the fuss about? I have never heard of keeping Annual Feast Days before. What are they?

Matthew 4:4 “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from

the mouth of God.”

Read the following for the commandments that came out from the mouth of our God.

Leviticus 23:1 And God spoke unto; Moses, saying, ²⁾ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [concerning] the feasts of God, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] My (God’s not the Jew’s) feasts. (God’s Commands)

Leviticus 23:3 Weekly Sabbath Feast Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of God in all your dwellings.

The Seventh Day Sabbath is the first of the holy Feast days; and all are holy convocations.

If you do away with all the Feast days you must do away with the Seventh Day Sabbath as well because it is declared a feast of God and the first one at that. We know that has not happened because the weekly Sabbath is part of the 10 Commandments; written in stone by the finger of God and prophesied for the future on the New Earth in the New Jerusalem; Isaiah 66:23.

Leviticus 23:4 Annual Sabbath Feasts The Passover and Unleavened Bread

These are the feasts of God, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. ⁵⁾ In the fourteenth day of the first month at evening is God’s Passover. (God’s not the Jew’s Passover^{) 6)} And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto God: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. ⁷⁾ In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no work therein.

Leviticus 23:9 The Rest of the Feast Days ⁹⁾ Firstfruits ¹⁵⁾ Pentecost ²³⁾ Feast of Trumpets

²⁶⁾ Day of Atonement ³³⁾ Feast of Tabernacles (also called Feast of Weeks)

Leviticus 23: 14 + 21 + 31 + 41 it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Psalms 89:34 I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Matthew 12:8 For the Son of Man (Christ) is God of the Sabbath. (Weekly and 7 Annual Sabbaths.)

Matthew 5:17 Christ stated: Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the Law of Moses (Law- #3551=Nomos, or the Pentateuch, first 5 books of the Bible: Not just the Ten Commandments) or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish (fulfilled) their purpose. ¹⁸⁾ I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. New Living Translation.

Daniel 9:27 In the middle of the week he (Christ) will put an end to (fulfill) sacrifices and offerings.

Only the ceremonial blood sacrifices and offerings [offered on every day of the week and twice on any Sabbath] have been fulfilled by the blood of Christ. The seven perfect Annual Holy days have not been fulfilled [yet] nor nailed to the cross.

There are no buts … No one, not Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul or any of the Old or New Testament writer can change, alter, (Psalms 89:34) one jot or one tittle from the law. (Matthew 5:17) If you think any one of these Bible writers have changed God’s Holy law then you must re-examine the verse’s you feel are in violation. This applies also to all professed prophets or professed messengers of God’s down through the ages. If you think any writer has changed our God’s Holy law then you are mistaken because all of God’s messengers can never contradict each other because all scripture comes from God and He never changes.

If you have any buts … you are calling Christ a liar!!!

Malachi .3:6 For I am God, I change not.

Hebrews13:8 Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.

You may think that after the cross we came under Grace and that we are not under the law anymore; but Adam and Eve were the first to be under Grace; the sacrificial lamb was the application and Christ’s Death on the Cross was the fulfilment.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. … ²⁴He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings

Ezekiel 20:11 I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live. ¹² Also I gave them my Sabbaths ⁷⁶⁷⁶ (plural, weekly and annual Sabbaths) as a sign²²⁶ (a distinguishing mark) between us, so they would know that I God made them holy. … ²⁰ Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign (a distinguishing mark) between us.

1 Corinthians 10:31 What ever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Worship God on the days He commands!!!

Catholic Catechism: The Catholic Church abolished not only the (weekly) Sabbath

but all the other Jewish (God’s Annual) festivals.

The Seal of God is Christs’ weekly and Annual Sabbath Holy days.

The Mark of the Beast is Popes’ Sunday and Secular Pagan Holi days.

Well, there you have it. Christ said it; I believe it, what’s the problem with not keeping them?

There has to be some reason why we are not keeping these Annual Feast Days, so let’s study because:

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. ³ For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴ They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief.⁵ You are all children of the light and children of the day.

Psalms 111:10 The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments.

This we know for Sure!

Review and Hearld, Dec. 20, 1892 No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation.

John 3:17 God did not send his Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world

through him.

With the above in mind, if we want to be like Christ and not judge each other or prejudge true doctrine, let’s examine the topic of the Feast Days of the Bible. Below is a brief introduction, followed by Biblical and historic irrefutable evidence on this topic. Keep an open mind as you study and remember what God said in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together.” If you want to “reason”, offer a different point of view, you must present Biblical reasoning’s not the traditions of men. I’m sure you will have many questions but hopefully most of them will be answered by the end of this presentation.

God’s Annual Holy Feast Days Existed:

Prior to sin, after creation, after sin, after the cross: the Apostles preached and kept Feast Days, Roman Catholics kept God’s Weekly and Annual Feast days until 325 AD then they changed them, Waldensians kept Feast Days up to the 1600’s, 1844 was calculated by the Feast Day calendar, Feast Days are kept by many denominations today and will be kept, at the Second Coming and in the New Earth.

The last words in the Old Testament are the Elijah message; which will be given just before the

Second Coming.

Malachi 4:4 Remember (because we have forgotten) the law (Torah; the first 5 books of the Bible) of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws [including sacred feasts and annual holy days, without sacrifices and offerings] I gave him (Moses) at Horeb for all Israel. (For God’s people; today they are Spiritual Israel).

Moses wrote, as directed by God, the Torah, the first five books, the laws, statutes and judgments, during the 40 years in the desert. So, these books should tell us what laws God wants us to follow and not traditions men or any man-made laws because:

Mal.3:6 I God do not change.

Hebrews 13:8 Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Psalms 19:7 The law of God is perfect, converting the soul. The statutes of God are trustworthy, making wise the simple.⁸⁾ The precepts of God are right, giving joy to the heart.

Psalms 89:34 I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalms 119:2 Blessed are they who keep his statutes.

We also know that Satan has counterfeited Holy Feast Days with Sunday, Christmas, Easter, etc.

These quotes alone should want you to give up Pagan man-made holidays and follow God’s Holy days.

Do you want to play “Church” and follow the traditions of man or do you want to live your life for your Christ and obey His commandments.

Mark 7:7 Christ said: “They worship me In vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸⁾ For laying aside the commandments of God, you hold the traditions of men.”

¹³⁾ Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.

Following the Mother of Harlots

Revelation 17:5 Babylon is said to be ‘the mother of harlots.’ By her daughters must be symbolized churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions and follow her example of sacrificing the truth and the approval of God.

Tradition will not stand on Judgement Day. Any Church that accepts the days (Sunday instead of Sabbath and Christmas, Easter, instead of God’s Feast days) given by the Catholic Church is paying homage to the Catholic Church rather than God and His Bible as the source of authority in their lives.

Whatever law you follow, you pay homage to that law maker.

Romans 6:16 Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, (homage)

you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death,

or of obedience leading to righteousness?

Are you following the traditions, Christmas, Easter, etc., of the ‘the mother of harlots? If so, you and your church are daughters of the mother of harlots.

Revelation 12:17 Then the dragon was enraged at the woman (God’s people, Revelation 12:1, 19:7) and went off to make war against the rest of her offspring, those who obey God’s commandments and hold to the testimony of Christ.

The bottom line was and still is loyalty.

Who do you choose to follow,

God or the Mother of Harlots?

God’s Last Movement

Not a Church

1844 Seventh Month Movement Repeated

In 1844 God had a church, people from all over the whole, who studied the Bible and were convinced that the Second Coming of Christ was going to happen October 22, 1844; the 1^st day of the Feast of Tabernacles, the 15^th day of the seventh month. (Jew’s calculation for the Feast of Tabernacles.) That’s why they were called the Seventh Month Movement. History is being repeated at this time, just before the true Second Coming.

God’s Final Call

Revelation 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “‘Come out of her, my people,’ so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;

This is God’s final call for His people to come out of their churches and join God’s final movement; not a church organization. Every church on earth believes that their church is God’s final church and that their church has all the Biblical truths. Revelation 18:4 states that no church has all the truth until He calls them out into His final movement. How can we prove that the above statement is true? We must prove that every church is not following all of the Bible’s teaching. How can we do this? We must start at the beginning; we must start in heaven to see what the Great Controversy that started sin is all about. We must see what is important to God.

Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, ⁸And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. ⁹And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. … ¹⁷And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, (God’s last movement people) which keep the commandments of God,

(not man’s commandments) and have the testimony of Christ. (King James Version)

Ezekiel 28:1 The word of God came again unto me, saying, ² Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, (Lucifer now Satan) Thus saith God; “Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: … ¹³Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; … ¹⁴Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou were upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁵Thou was perfect in thy ways from the day that thou were created, till iniquity was found in thee.” (King James Version)

Patriarchs and Prophets p 342 The sacred statutes which Satan has hated and sought to destroy, will be (future) honored throughout a sinless universe. (New Earth)

Review and Hearld Dec. 2, 1875 “Satan is at war with that Law which is the foundation of

God’s government in Heaven and in earth.”

Sin started in heaven with Lucifer, the cherub angel, (one of the 2 top angels in heaven) later known as

Satan, was made perfectly sinless until he became proud and said: I am a God, I sit in the seat of God. He

wanted to make up his own government and rules and laws. He didn`t want to keep the commandments of

God, He thought he knew better than God the Father. Sounds just like most teenager’s right!

This first sin, first conflict resulted in a war in heaven, which was a war of words, like two lawyers arguing

their case. The war was about the commandments of God and have the testimony of Christ.

Now let`s confirm this from the Bible.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law⁸⁴⁵¹ (Torah ⁸⁴⁵¹, First 5 books of the Bible, Christ’s law’s) and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, (The Bible and Bible Only) it is because there is no light (No Truth) in them.

Lift Him Up, p 106 There are many in this age of the world who act as if they were at liberty to question the words of the Infinite, to review His decisions and statutes, endorsing, revising, reshaping, and annulling at their pleasure. We are never safe while we are guided by human opinions, but we are safe when we are guided by a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ We cannot trust the salvation of our souls to any lower standard than the decisions of an infallible Judge.

Mark 7:7 Christ said: “They worship me In vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸⁾ For laying aside the commandments of God, you hold the traditions of men.”

¹³⁾ Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.

Should we can sit back and relax until he calls us out? No!!!

Unless we study the Bible for ourselves, we will not know the truth when God calls us out of our churches. We must study our Christ`s laws and know the difference between God’s laws and man-made religious laws that are in vain traditions of men.

Special Testimonies Nov. 14, 1895 Satan in his rebellion in Heaven sought to find some flaw in the Law of God, in order to support his argument that the Law of God must be changed; but his efforts were in vain. He did not succeed, and after he had deceived thousands of angels, and had drawn them to his side, he was cast out of Heaven. But the Law of God was not changed in one jot or tittle. God is wise and unchangeable, and those who flatter themselves that they can find a safer rule of life than that which God has given, are deceived by the same delusions that led the angels of heaven to join the ranks of Lucifer in questioning the authority of God’s Law and the justice of His Government.

Great Controversy p 498 The discord which his own course had caused in Heaven,

Satan charged upon the Law and Government of God. All evil he declared to be the result of the divine Administration. He claimed that it was his own object to improve upon the Statutes of Jehovah.

Today’s Christians are doing the same thing; they think they can improve upon the Statutes of Jehovah.

Who Will Be Saved

Matthew 7:21 Christ stated: “Not everyone that saith unto me, God, God, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.”

What is the will of God?

John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands.”

God’s Holy commandments are included Leviticus 23; both the weekly and annual Sabbath days.

Revelation 3:21 Christ stated: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

Who Will Be Lost

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God.

2 Thessalonians 2:10 They did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹⁾And for this reason, God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, ¹²⁾ that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Everyone living, during the Second Coming, will know the truth but only a few will love and follow it.

Matthew 24:12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most (the majority) will grow cold, ¹³⁾ but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. ¹⁴⁾ Small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life and only a few find it.

Matthew 22:14 Christ stated: “For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

Only a few fully surrendered Christians will remain loyal to our God and His commandments.

God’s end time people are not a church denomination; God’s end time people are all His children who

fully surrender to His will. We pray that a few will be shaken out of all churches; because, you cannot be

saved by being a member of a church, you must fully surrender your heart and love to obey our Creator by

following the Bible teachings and not mans traditions.

The Anti-Christ

The book of Daniel was written approximately 530 B.C. shortly after the capture of Babylon by Cyrus in

539 B.C. Daniel Chapter 7 tells the prophetic history from 530 B.C. up to 1798 A.D. when the Pope was captured and put into a French prison. This chapter was the main reason I became a believer in God and the Bible. There is no other explanation for the facts in the book of Daniel than there is a Higher Power that knows the beginning from the end; and gave over 2300 years of exact history in the book of Daniel.

Isaiah 46:10 I make known the end from the beginning.

Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions in his head as he was lying upon his bed. Then he wrote down the dream and told the gist of the matter. ²Daniel said, I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of the heavens [political and social agitations] were stirring up the great sea [the nations of the world]. ³And four great beasts came up out of the sea in succession, and different from one another. ⁴The first [the Babylonian empire under Nebuchadnezzar] was like a lion and had eagle's wings. I looked till the wings of it were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand upon two feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. ⁵And behold another beast, a second one [the Medo-Persian empire], was like a bear, and it raised up itself on one side [or one dominion] and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and it was told, Arise, devour much flesh. ⁶After this I looked, and behold, another [the third; Grecian empire of Alexander the Great], like a leopard which had four wings of a bird on its back. The beast had also four heads [Alexander's generals, his successors], and dominion was given to it. ⁷After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast [the Roman Empire] --terrible, powerful and dreadful, and exceedingly strong. And it had great iron teeth; it devoured and crushed and trampled what was left with its feet. And it was different from all the beasts that came before it, and it had ten horns. [symbolizing ten kings]. (Rome broke up into 10 kingdoms.) (Amplified Bible)

8 Identifiers of the Papacy as the Anti-Christ

⁸I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one,

(1. The Little Horn, Kingdom, came up from among the other 10 horns, which was Western Europe.)

before which three of the first horns were plucked up

(2. Destroyed, wiped out; the kingdom horns, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Heruli.)

by the roots; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great things.

(3. The Pope is the head and His word is law.)

The Interpretation of the Dream Amplified Bible

¹⁶I came near to one of those who stood there and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of the things. ¹⁷These four great beasts are four kings who shall arise out of the earth. ¹⁸But the saints of the Most High [God] shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. ¹⁹Then I wished to know the truth about the fourth beast--which was different from all the others, exceedingly terrible and shocking, whose teeth were of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured, broke and crushed, and trampled what was left with its feet.

²⁰And about the ten horns

( 1. ) [representing kings of countries] that were on its head, and the other horn [representing king of religion] [The Rome Catholic Church, which believed Christ was God, and controlled the religions of 7 countries out of the 10 countries that came from the Roman empire break up. The other 3 kingdom horns, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Heruli; all Arians’, believed Christ was a created God. ] which came up later and before which three of fell. ( 2. Destroyed, wiped out.) The horn which had eyes and a mouth that spoke great things

( 3. ) and which looked greater than the others. ²¹As I looked, this horn made war with the saints

( 4. The Papacy admits to this persecution. A conservative estimate of 50 million killed, see; W.E.H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, Volume 2, p 40)

and prevailed over them. ²²Until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High [God], and the time came when the saints possessed the kingdom. ²³Thus [the angel] said, “The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, tread it down, and break it in pieces and crush it. ²⁴And as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings shall arise; [representing kings of countries] and another shall arise after them, and he shall be different from the former ones,

[ 5. representing king of religion, while the others represents 10 secular kings.] and he shall subdue and put down three kings.

( 2. Destroyed, wiped out. The kingdom horns, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Heruli; were wipe off the face of the earth by 538 AD, see historic book of The Raise and Fall of the Roman Empire. This left the Roman Catholic church the Religious King over the Country Kings]

²⁵And he shall speak words against the Most High [God]

( 6. Speaking words against God; two examples of blasphemy: Claiming to forgive sins, Luke 5:21 and to being Christ on earth, the Vicar of Christ, John 10:33.)

and shall wear out the saints of the Most High

( 4. The Roman Catholic Church had millions killed during the dark ages.)

and think (but cannot)

to change the time [of sacred feasts and holy days]

( 7. The annual Holy days of God, Leviticus 23. In its catechisms, the papacy has omitted the 2nd commandment, reduced the 4th commandment from 94 words to 8, and divided the 10th into two commandments.)

and the law;

(The weekly Sabbath, Saturday, Holy feast days of Christ, Leviticus 23.)

and the saints shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time [three and one-half years].

( 8. A day for a year, 1260 days = 1260 years; From 538 AD when the last of the 3 Arian Kingdoms were up rooted, until 1798 AD when, Napoleon had his General Berthier go into Rome and take the Pope prisoner and put in a prison in France to deal the Papacy a deadly wound, Revelation 13:3.]

The Papacy is the only organization that could possibly fit these 8 points.

Every Protestant religion has agreed with this at one point of time.

See R. Allen Anderson, Unfolding the Revelation, p. 137.

The Beast Out of the Sea

Most Biblical scholars date the book of Revelations being written approximately 95 A.D. From Daniel we know that what God reveals will happen, does take place. Revelation 13 is in the future and it will take place also.

7 Identifiers of the Papacy as the Beast Out of the Sea

Revelation 13:1 Amplified Bible

[As] I stood on the sandy beach, I saw a beast coming up out of the sea

( 1 ) Sea represents people or a populated area, Revelation 17:15, The Papacy came from populated Western Europe.)

with ten horns (10 kingdoms after Rome broken up.) and seven heads.

( 3 ) kingdoms were up rooted.)

On his horns he had ten royal crowns (diadems) and blasphemous titles (names) on his heads. ²And the beast that I saw resembled a leopard, but his feet were like those of a bear and his mouth was like that of a lion.

( 2 ) Notice that this beast is the same as the ones in Daniel, they represent the Roman Catholic Church, see below.)

And to him (the Pope, the Beast Out of the Sea)

the dragon (Satan) gave his (The Pope, Satan’s #1 human agent.) [own] might and power and his [own] throne and great dominion.

( 3 ) The Pope has his own country, money and postage, but it is not a democracy, see more below)

³And one of his heads seemed to have a deadly wound.

( 4 ) In 1798 the Pope was captured, died in exile, and thought to be dead forever. See above Daniel 7:25 point #8 )

But his death stroke was healed;

( 5 ) The Popes power is coming back stronger than ever. See Below.)

and the whole earth went after the beast in amazement and admiration. ⁴They fell down and paid homage to the dragon,

( 5 ) because he had bestowed on the beast all his dominion and authority; they also praised and worshiped the beast, exclaiming, “Who is a match for the beast”, and, “Who can make war against him?” ⁵And the beast was given the power of speech, uttering boastful and blasphemous words,

( 6 ) See above Daniel 7:25 point # 6.)

and he was given freedom to exert his authority and to exercise his will during forty-two months

(1260 days, three and a half years).

( 7 ) Literal time, of persecution of the Saints just before the Second Coming, see below.)

⁶And he opened his mouth to speak slanders against God, blaspheming His name and His abode, [even vilifying] those who live in heaven. ⁷He was further permitted to wage war on God's holy people (the saints) ( 7.) and to overcome them. And power was given him to extend his authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation, ⁸And all the inhabitants of the earth will (future, not now) fall down in adoration and pay him homage,

( 5 ) everyone whose name has not been recorded in the Book of Life of the Lamb that was slain [in sacrifice] from the foundation of the world. ⁹If anyone is able to hear, let him listen: ¹⁰Whoever leads into captivity will himself go into captivity; if anyone slays with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Herein is [the call for] the patience and the faith and fidelity of the saints (God's people).

Reference Point #2

Daniel ~ Chapter 7 Revelation ~ Chapter 13

Babylon Lion like beast (vs 4) Mouth of a lion (vs 2)

Medo-Persia Bear like beast (vs 5) Feet of a bear (vs 2)

Greece Leopard like beast (vs 6) Like unto a leopard (vs 2)

Rome Ten-horned beast (vs 7) Having … ten horns (vs 1)

Andre Retif,

The Catholic Spirit, trans, by Dom Aldhelm Dean, Vol. 88 of the Twentieth Century Encyclopaedia of Catholicism, New York, Hawthorne books, 1959 p 85:

“In a certain respect, she (the papacy) has copied her organization from that of the Roman Empire, has preserved and made fruitful the philosophical intuitions of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, borrowed from both Barbarians and the Byzantine Roman Empire, but always remains herself, thoroughly digesting all elements drawn from external sources.”

Reference Point #3

Adolf Harnack,

What is Christianity?

Translation by Thomas Bailey Saunders

New York, Putnam, 2^nd ed. Revelation, 1902 p 270

“The Roman Church … pushed itself into the place of the Roman World-Empire, of which it is the actual continuation … The Pope .. is Caesar’s successor.”

Alexander Clarence Flick,

The Rise of the Mediaeval Church

reprint: New York, Burt Franklin, 1959 p 148

“The mighty Catholic Church was little more than the Roman Empire baptised. Rome was transformed as well as converted. The very capital of the old Empire became the capital of the Christian Empire. The office of Pontifex Maximus was continued in that of Pope.”

Reference Point #5

Malachi Martin

The Keys of This Blood

“He is as determined to be world ruler as was Constantine in his day.” p 49

“He is protected by four governments.” p 120

“He is the best-known person of the 20^th century.” p 123

“He is personal friends with the leaders of 91 countries.” p 490

“People of the world seem to him ready for strong worldwide moral government with control.” p 160

“Sixteen thousand journalists covered his American visit.” p 490

“The American ambassador says the Vatican is unmatched as a “listening post.” p 120

“The Vatican knows by Saturday what will happen on Monday anywhere in the world.” p 439

“Papal structure is prepared for worldwide rule now.” p 143

The wound is just about fully healed.

Reference Point #7

History will be repeated, all the Kings of the earth will allow the Papacy to have dominion over the whole world will wonder after the beast; just like the Pope had for 1260 years from 538 to 1798, this time the Pope will have power for 1260 days, Daniel 12:6+7

Daniel 12:6 One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled?” ⁷ The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, times and half a time. (3 ½ years = 1260 days) When the power of the holy people has been finally broken, all these things will be completed.” … ¹¹ “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, (From the time that the Pope becomes the Beast Out of the Sea, the Spiritual Leader of the world) there will be 1,290 days. (There will be 1290 days to the Second Coming of Christ.) ¹² Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days. (The context of all of Daniel chapter 12 is the Second Coming, because no one can live 1335 years.)

History will repeat itself, but this time it will be literal days, a day for a day, instead of prophetic time,

a day for a year. The same Anti-Christ Papacy of Daniel 7 is the Beast Out of the Sea in Revelation 13, and

this will take place just before the Second Coming.

The Beast Out of the Earth

USA ~ Trump ~ in Prophecy

Remember Beasts in Bible prophecy symbolize nations or world powers (Daniel 7:17, 23)

Revelation 13:11 Then I saw another beast rising up out of the land [itself]; (Opposite of sea, and many people, land represents few people, like the start of the USA.) he had two horns like a lamb, (USA started out like a lamb.) and he spoke (roared) like a dragon. (Now is the world military power.) ¹²He exerts all the power and right of control of the former beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell upon it to exalt and deify the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed, and to worship him. ¹³He performs great signs (startling miracles), even making fire fall from the sky to the earth in men's sight. ¹⁴And because of the signs (miracles) which he is allowed to perform in the presence of the [first] beast, he deceives those who inhabit the earth, commanding them to erect an image in the likeness of the beast who was wounded by the [small] sword and still lived. ¹⁵And he is permitted [also] to impart the breath of life into the beast's image, so that the statue of the beast could actually talk and cause to be put to death those who would not bow down and worship the image of the beast. ¹⁶Also he compels all [alike], both small and great, both the rich and the poor, both free and slave, to be marked on their right hands (Ecclesiastes 9:10. Symbolic for what a person physically does.) or on their foreheads, (Hebrews. 10:16. Symbolic for what a person thinks.) Amplified Bible

The Beast out of the Sea came to power in 538 AD and ended with a deadly wound in 1798. It came to power “Out of the Sea” which is out of a populated area; many people.

Revelation 17:15 Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages.

The USA came to power “Out of the Earth” which is out of an unpopulated area. The USA declared its independence in 1776, voted the Constitution in 1787, adopted the Bill of rights in 1792 and was a world power by 1798. The two horns represent the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which are civil and religious liberty. These two governing principles have been labelled “republicanism” (a government without a king) and “Protestantism” (a church without a pope). The USA started out like a lamb, welcoming all the poor and oppressed people of the world. It has now become the world’s super power and speaks like a dragon.

The USA is the military world force of the world that will become an agent of Satan and work through the United Nations to be the Police force for the Beast out of the Sea and force people to worship contrary to the Bible. For details see my book on “The Last 1335 Days”.

The Mark of the Beast

Revelation 13:17 So that no one will have power to buy or sell unless he bears the mark, [that is] the name of the beast or the number of his name. ¹⁸Here is [room for] discernment [a call for the wisdom of interpretation]. Let anyone who has intelligence (penetration and insight enough) calculate the number of the beast, for it is a human number [the number of a certain man];

his number is 666. ( 8. See below) Amplified Bible

Reference Point #8

The Pope has many names: Roman numerals =

Latin Vicar of Christ = 666 This is written into one of his Sceptres.

Greek Latin Speaking Man = 666

Greek The Latin Kingdom = 666

Greek Church of Italy = 666

First, let me make it very clear; no one has “The Mark of the Beast” today.

From the above we have discovered that the Little Horn Anti-Christ is found and identified in Daniel chapter 7 and the Beast out of the Sea in Revelation chapter 13 are the same; however, people now, do not have the Mark of the Beast, but will receive “The Mark of the Beast” during the last days, Daniel chapter 12, just before the Second Coming.

But what is “The Mark of the Beast”? Is it a physical mark like a bar code or an implanted computer chip under a person’s skin? Does the Anti-Christ give the Mark of the Beast? What does the Bible says?

Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant I will make with them after that time, says God. I will put my laws in their hearts, and I will write them on their minds. (Your Decisions)

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, (Your Work) do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

The Mark of the Beast is not an implanted computer chip or bar code. It is what a person physically does or thinks in their mind. During the last days people will be given a choice to follow the Bible and Bible only or follow man-made (Pope-made) traditions; to follow God’s Holy days or Satan’s Holy days.

We know that the Second Coming of Christ will soon be here. We know that Roman Catholic Church organization, management, not the people, is represented in Daniel chapter 7 as the Little Horn Anti-Christ; which is Satan’s # 1 representative that is against (anti) God’s laws. (See below) These facts are repeated in Revelation chapter 13 in the Beast out of the sea. Further Biblical proof follows.

Gods Holy Days Taken Away ~ Satan at war with God’s laws

Daniel 7:25 KJV And he (Little Horn, Anti-Christ, the Pope) shall speak [great] words against the most High, (the Pope calls himself, the Vicar of Christ or Christ on Earth) and shall persecute the saints of the most High, (Had millions killed during the Dark Ages) and think (but cannot because God’s laws and times are unchangeable) to change times ²¹⁶⁶(see below) and

laws ¹⁸⁸² (see below): and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

times ²¹⁶⁶dath 1) a set time, time, season

laws ¹⁸⁸²ze-man 1) decree, law a) a decree (of the king) b) law c) law (of God)

These two words dath and ze-man are Chaldean words that are unusual to the used by Daniel writing in

Aramaic, showing his knowledge that it was/is, impossible for the Anti-Christ power to change the Laws of

our Heavenly Father.

Daniel 7:25

Amplified Bible ²⁵⁾ “change times of sacred feast and holy days and the law”

King James Version ²⁵⁾ “change times and laws”

New International Version ²⁵⁾ “change the set times and the laws”

New Revised Standard Version ²⁵⁾ “change the sacred seasons and the law”

Pope Changes Weekly and Annual Feast Days

An Abridgement of the Christian Doctrine (1649) p 58 by Henry Tuberville, of Douay College, France

Q. How prove you that the (Roman Catholic) Church hath power to command feasts and holydays?

A. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves by keeping Sunday strictly and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same (Roman Catholic) Church.

Catholic Catechism – Bishop Enright 1905

“The Catholic church abolished not only the (weekly) Sabbath but all the other Jewish festivals.” (The festivals are God’s annual Holy Feast days; they are not Jewish.) .… “The new law (Pope’s Law’s) has its own spirit and its own feasts, (Christmas, Easter, etc.) which have taken the place of those appointed in the Law of Moses (Torah). If we would know the days to be observed, we must go to the Catholic Church, not to the Mosaic Law.”

Here the Catholic Church calls our God’s feast days, Jewish, when it very clear that, Leviticus 23:4“These are the feasts of God, even holy convocations” they are not Jewish. Because of this lie we know the Catholic Management as Satanic agents; thus, if any Pastor or Church leader also state that Leviticus 23 feast days have been abolished or are Jewish, then they too are Satanic agents, if they know that they are truly God’s feast days.

The Beast Explains His Mark

Library of Christian Doctrine:

Why Don’t You Keep Holy the Sabbath-Day?

London: Burns and Oates, Ltd. p 3, 4.

We ask the Papacy, Q: she replied: A:

Q: Did you really change Sabbath to Sunday?

A. Yes, we did. It is our symbol, or mark, of authority and power.

Q. How could you even think of doing that?

A. You will tell me that Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that the Christian Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! But by whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty God? When God has spoken and said, “Thou shall keep holy the seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day; but thou shalt keep holy the first day in its stead? This is a most important question, which I know not how you can answer. You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and Bible only and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible and put another day in the place of the day which the Bible has commanded. The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the Ten Commandments; you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which this fourth commandment is expressly altered.

Roman Catholic Church is the Biggest Cult

Jesuit Catechism ~ Roy Livesey, 1998, Understanding the New Age: World Government and World Religion (Chichester, England: New Wine Press, p 104)

Q. What if the Holy Scriptures command one thing, and the Pope another contrary to it?

A. The Holy Scriptures must be thrown aside.

Q. What is the Pope?

A. He is the Vicar of Christ, King of Kings, and God of Lords, and there is but one Judgment-Seat belonging to God and the Pope.

The Catholic Record, September 1, 1923

Sunday is our mark of authority, the (Roman Catholic) church is above the Bible and this transference of Sabbath (to Sunday) observance is proof of that fact.

If God’s Feast Days were first abolished, done away with, nailed to the cross; then the Pope would have nothing to think to change. Even the Catholic Church knew that the weekly Sabbath is one of God’s other Jewish festivals.

Jerimiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith God. ²Therefore thus saith God 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 God. ³And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.

God will hold all Pastors accountable for not sharing the truth of the Bible with their flock. The members of the many different churches will only be held accountable when they learn the truth and do not follow it.

Conclusion

The Roman Catholic Church leaders freely admit to changing God’s Holy laws by changing the weekly and annual feast days; thus, going against (anti) God’s laws. You are now more informed as to what Satan’s mark of his people is. There will only be two groups of people on judgment day; those who have the Seal of God and those who have the Mark of the Beast.

You can sin by commission or omission. If you are not keeping God’s weekly and annual Feast days you sinning by omission. If you are keeping Satan’s holy days, Christmas, Easter, etc. you are sinning by commission.

It is a matter of life and death to know the difference and to obey God. Will you obey or not?

The Mark of the Beast ~ is the Popes’

Sunday and Secular Holidays.

The Seal of God

God’s Seal is in all the Holy Feast days, both weekly and annual.

Exodus 13:7 Eat (Feast of) unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. …..^…⁹ This observance (Feast of Unleavened Bread) will be for you like a sign ²²⁶(a distinguishing mark) on your hand (What you physically do.) and a reminder (memorial) on your forehead (What you truly believe) that this law of God is to be on your lips. (You will proclaim it publicly.)

Owth ²²⁶1) sign, signal a) a distinguishing mark

Revelation 7:3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed ⁴⁹⁷² (marked) the servants of our God in their foreheads. (Mind)

sphragizō ⁴⁹⁷²1) to set a seal upon, mark with a seal, to seal a) for security: from Satan

Ezekiel 20:11 I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live. ¹² Also I gave them my Sabbaths (plural, weekly and annual Sabbaths) as a sign ²²⁶

(a distinguishing mark) between us, so they would know that I God made them holy. …

²⁰ Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign (a distinguishing mark) between us.

Ezekiel 31:17 It (Sabbath) is a sign ²²⁶ (a distinguishing mark) between Me and the children of Israel (Now Spiritual Israel) forever; for in six days God made the heavens and the earth.

Isaiah 8:16 Bind up the testimony, seal the law (Torah) among my disciples.

Romans 4:11 And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because

there is no light in them. (No truth in man’s opinion.)

1 Corinthians 10:31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

Being good, by not being bad, is not being good, unless: you do it all for the glory of God. This is the only

way you can go to heaven, you have to have the right motive. To have the right motive you need to develop a

love relationship with your Heavenly Father. To develop a love relationship, you need to communicate

continuously in prayer with Him.

2 Corinthians 10:5 We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commands.

Our Creator’s Holy day commandments are in Leviticus 23

Ezekiel 44:23 They (the priests (you) – see verse 15) shall teach My people the difference between the holy (true religion of God) and profane (false religion of Rome Catholic Church) and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. ²⁴⁾ In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep My laws and My decrees for all My appointed feasts and they are to keep My Sabbaths holy. (All of them).

God created earth in 6 days, and rested on the 7^th. The weekly Sabbath (Strongs # 7676 = shabbat = is a

weekly (7^th day) Sabbath) is a memorial of His creation week, a memorial of the Creator and the annual

Sabbaths ((Strongs # 7677 = shabbaton = is a annual Sabbath) are a memorial to our Saviour.

The Seal of God ~ is His

Weekly and Annual Sabbath Holy Feast days.

Old Testament Laws Do Not Change

Only the Heart

New Covenant in the Old Testament

Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees (My statutes, New King James Version) and be careful to keep my laws. My judgments, ²⁸You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

2 Corinthians 3:3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. ⁴Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. ⁵Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. ⁶He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

This is a conditional covenant; if you are willing, to fully surrender, you will to receive the Holy

Spirit in you. You will be moved to follow Christs’ decrees, statutes, judgments and laws that He gave at

Mount Sinai.

Deuteronomy 4:1 Obedience Commanded Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land God, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. ²⁾ Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of God that I give you.

John 8:31 The Children of Abraham (Today’s Spiritual Jews) To the Jews who had believed him, Christ said, "If (conditional covenant) you hold to my (Christ) teaching, (He taught them all the laws in Mount Sinai) you are really my disciples. ³²Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

John 14:23 If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 15:10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love.

Salvation was and is “conditional”. Old Testament promises to the Jewish nation were also “conditional”. They failed and the responsibility of spreading the Gospel to the world fell on Spiritual Jew’s after the stoning of Stephen; Acts 7:54.

Understanding God’s Laws

To understand God’s laws and the end time events, the end of sin events, it is imperative that we understand the beginning of sin events. Sin started in heaven with Lucifer, later known as Satan, becoming proud, which is the beginning of sin, and wanting to become a god and to change God’s laws and make his own.

Satan started his war on God’s laws in heaven.

Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven. (A war of word, like two lawyers) Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought back. ⁸⁾ But he was not strong enough and they lost their place in heaven. ⁹⁾ The great dragon was hurled down, that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth and his angels with him.

In this world we have many laws and many types of laws. There are City laws, County laws, Provincial laws, Federal laws and international laws. Did God have only 10 commandments in heaven or did He have the 10 main commandments, 10 chapters of commandments and lots of other laws to explain the 10 more fully?

Of course there must have been many other laws in heaven. Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Just as God has many laws on earth, as recorded in the Old Testament, such as the Moral, Ceremonial, Civil, Dietary, Statutes, Precepts and Judgements. The question of the day is; which ones are in effect and which ones are abolished?

An interesting point is that on the High Priests garment is a pomegranate.

The pomegranate seeds represent Gods Laws.

There is an average of 613 seeds in a pomegranate and there are also 613 laws in the Mosaic Laws!

Christ and the Mosaic Laws

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. ¹⁸ For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

Heaven and earth have not disappeared, Matthew 5:18, so the Laws of the Old Testament are still to be obeyed.

Really? Are there any exceptions and why? Yes, the exceptions are:

1) Ceremonial laws (sacrifices and offerings; Daniel 9:27); which Christ fulfilled at the cross. Christ fulfilled the sacrificial ceremonial laws but did not destroy any laws; not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear. Matthew 5:17

Ceremonial Law Nailed to the Cross

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 365 The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrifices and offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ “took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.

Daniel 9:27 Crucifixion And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation (offerings = wine and grain) to cease.

2) Civil laws; which, were set aside when the Jews rejected Gods theocracy (1 Samuel 8:6) and choose to have a King’s civil laws rule them. It is very interesting that the King of the Jews also had God’s laws which they were also to obey. However, when the King lost his power to a foreign nation, Christ told them to obey the ruler’s laws provided that they did not break God’s laws.

Matthew 22:21 Then he said to them, “So give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

3) Temple services were fulfilled and replaced with Christ as our High Priest now in Heaven.

Matthew 27:51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

Revelation 1:5 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, ⁶ and has made us to be a kings and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen.

The Levite priesthood has been fulfilled because we are now all priests.

4) Circumcision has been replaced by our circumcised heart; See also Acts chapter 15.

Of all the Feast days, the weekly Sabbath was the first and it had more ceremonial laws (sacrificial blood laws) than the Annual Sabbath Feast Days, (see Numbers 28:9 below) but we keep this Feast day because it is the fourth commandment the moral law; however, we do not keep the ceremonial laws because Christ fulfilled them at the cross; terminating/ending them according to God’s plan in scripture, see Daniel 9:27.

We have been taught that the 10 commandments were written in stone; thus, they can never be done away with but the handwritten ordinances containing statutes are done away with because they were written by Moses hand and put into the side of the ark and these were nailed to the cross. Yet we are taught to keep the statutes of “Tithing” “Dietary Laws” “Marriage” “Strong Drink” “Jewellery” and others; they were not nailed to the cross either. So who is doing the picking and choosing of which statutes are to be followed? Why are we not following all of them, both the laws written in stone by the hand of God and the laws written by Moses as directed by God that are located in the ark which is located in the Most Holy Place.

Some people believe that because the ordinances, including the feasts, were placed in the side of the Ark that they are of leaser value. Pardon me…. The Ark is in the Most Holy Place; thus, the statues and ordinances must be Most Holy just as the 10 Commandments are Most Holy.

Numbers 28:9 Weekly Sabbath Offerings

On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its

drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive

oil. ¹⁰ This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and

its drink offering.

How can you say that all the feast days are nailed to the cross, of which the first feast day was the Weekly Sabbath, and yet keep only part of the Weekly Sabbath service? If you can make an argument for doing away with the sacrifices and offerings on the Weekly Sabbath, then you should be able to see that the same argument should be applied to the annual feast days without removing the actual Feast days themselves.

Matthew 22:37 Christ replied: “‘Love 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 (10C written by Christ in stone.) and the Prophets (Statues, written by Moses’ as direct by Christ.) hang on these two commandments.”

This is not in Exodus 20 with the 10 Commandments, and that is why most Christians think they have been done away with and Christ was giving new commandments but Christ was only quoting from the statutes that already existed in the Old Testament.

Deuteronomy 6:5 Love God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. ⁶ These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. (We are their children; we are spiritual Jews.)

Christ said that all the laws, all the commandments and the prophets hang on these two commandments.

We can give a small illustration of this principle like this:

a. Do not lie with your daughter-in-law. See Leviticus 20:12.

b. Homosexuality is condemned. See Leviticus 20:13.

c. Do not lie with your father’s wife. See Leviticus 20:11.

d. Do not lie with a beast. See Leviticus 20:15.

Others: Hangs Under Commandment

Sexual Relations 7th Thou shall not commit adultery

Health Laws 6th Thou shall not kill

Tithing 8th Thou shall not steal

One can go through the Mosaic Law and put every statute under one of the Ten Commandments, with the exception of those laws that were, fulfilled, accomplished, and nailed to the cross.

It is crucial to understand that the statute that explains the commandment has the same force of law as the commandment that it further explains. Think of it this way; the Ten Commandments are chapter titles to God’s Law and the statutes are the description or further explanation of what is included in each commandment. All of the commandments and the statutes together make up God’s Law.

Have you ever wondered why the Bible writers record “the law and the prophets” or “the law and the statutes and judgements” etc.? Why not just say all the laws of the Torah, first 5 books of the Bible, the books Moses wrote? What’s the difference? The difference is that God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger and these are referred to as “the law” and man wrote all other “statutes and judgements” as they were delivered privately to Moses by God.

Please take note the following terms are repeated in Psalms 19 + 119; here’s the count:

Law: 26 times; Strong’s OT: 8451
Commandment(s): 23 times; Strong’s OT: 4687 command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law): KJV - (which was) commanded law, ordinance, precept.
Testimony(ies): 24 times; Strong’s OT: 5713
Ordinances: 1 time; Strong’s OT: 4941
Statutes: 22 times; Strong’s OT: 2706 or 2708 Feasts and Festivals are Statutes.

Lev 23.

Judgment(s): 22 times; Strong’s OT: 4941
Precept(s): 21 times; Strong’s OT: 6490, appointed, i.e. a mandate

of God; plural only.

Total 139 times Collectively, for the Law: commandment, precept, statute.

All of the above are part of the Moral Law. The following terms are significantly absent:

Sacrifices and oblations ended at the cross. See Dan 9:27.

1 Sacrifices: 0 Never mentioned

2 Sacrifice: 0 Never mentioned

3 Oblations: 0 Never mentioned

Sacrifices and Oblations are Not part of the Moral Law. They are the Ceremonial Law and not statutes either!

How can you abolish precepts and statues that are: Psalms 19 and 119: trustworthy, firm, blessed who keep them, rejoice, delight, turn my heart, meditate, heritage forever, wonderful, etc.

Do Not Change the Law

Deuteronomy 4:2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of God that I give you.

Revelation 22:18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. ¹⁹⁾ And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.

We can do nothing, zero, to the word of God. The laws are forever, which is for eternity or they are fulfilled

and then they are removed, de-activated, deleted, terminated, by being nailed to the cross.

Sinners Brought into Harmony with the Law

Romans 8:3 For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh,God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so, he condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

Great Controversy p 467 - 469

“The law reveals to man his sins, but it provides no remedy. While it promises life to the obedient, it declares that death is the portion of the transgressor. The gospel of Christ alone can free him from the condemnation or the defilement of sin. He must exercise repentance toward God, whose law has been transgressed; and faith in Christ, His atoning sacrifice. Thus, he obtains “remission of sins that are past” and becomes a partaker of the divine nature. He is a child of God, having received the spirit of adoption, whereby he cries: “Abba, Father”! Mark 14:46

Is he now free to transgress God’s law? Says Paul: “Do we then make void law thought faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law” Romans 3:31. “How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” Romans 6:2. And John declares: “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous” 1 John 5:3. In the new birth the heart is brought into harmony with God, as it is brought into accord with His law. When this mighty change has taken place in the sinner, he has passed from death unto life, from sin unto holiness, from transgression and rebellion to obedience and loyalty. The old life of alienation from God has ended; the new life of reconciliation, of faith and love has begun. Then “righteousness of the law” will “be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” Romans 8:4. And the language of the soul will be: “O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day” Psalms 119:97.

“The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul” Psalms 19:7. Without the law men have no just conception of the purity and holiness of God or of their own guilt and uncleanness. They have no true conviction of sin and feel no need of repentance. Not seeing their lost condition as violators of the God’s law, they do not realize their need of the atoning blood of Christ. The hope of salvation is accepted without a radical change of heart or reformation of life. Thus, superficial conversions abound, and multitudes are joined to the church who have never been united to Christ. … By the Word and the Spirit of God are opened to men the great principles of righteousness embodied in His law.”

Difficult Texts - Biblical

Matthew 5

Matthew 5:17 Christ stated: Think not that I am come to destroy²⁶⁴⁷the law³⁵⁵¹, or the prophets⁴³⁹⁶: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil⁴¹³⁷ . ¹⁸⁾ For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. King James Version

destroy ²⁶⁴⁷to dissolve, disunite

law ³⁵⁵¹ a law, a command, torah (First 5 books of the Bible)

prophets ⁴³⁹⁶ one who, moved by the Spirit of God and hence his organ or spokesman,

fulfil⁴¹³⁷ “pleroo” is out of context = to make full, to fill up, i.e. to fill to the full

fulfil⁴¹³⁷ “pleirosai” is correct context = complete, to end, to accomplish, perfect

Matthew 5:17 Christ stated: Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the Law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. ¹⁸⁾ I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. New Living Translation

Heaven and earth have not disappeared so the Laws of the Prophets (Torah) are still to be obeyed. Christ fulfilled the blood and bloodless ordnances and laws (ceremonial laws); thus, blotting them out nailing them to the cross.

Psalms 19: 7 The law of God is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of God are trustworthy, making wise the simple. ⁸ The precepts of God are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of God are radiant, giving light to the eyes. ⁹ The fear of God is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of God are firm, and all of them are righteous. ¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. ¹¹ By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 89:34 I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalms 119:1 Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of God. ² Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart, ³they do no wrong but follow his ways. ⁴ You have laid down precepts that are to be fully obeyed. ⁵Oh, that my ways were steadfast in obeying your decrees! ⁶ Then I would not be put to shame when I consider all your commands.

True Midnight Cry, Aug. 22, 1844 “Thus we see that those types (The Spring Annual Feast Days) that pointed to events connected with our Lord’s first coming were fulfilled exactly at the time of their observance. And every one who is not willingly blind, must see, and feel, too, that those, which remain unfulfilled, (Pentecost and Fall Annual Feast Days) will be fulfilled with an equally strict regard to time. Not only so, but Christ Himself confirms this argument from analogy, by saying, that one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Those types which were to be observed in the seventh month, have never yet had their fulfilment in the antitype.”

This confirms that the annual feasts days can not have been nailed to the cross because the annual feasts in

the seventh month, fall feasts, have never yet had their fulfilment. There is not one feast that has had

complete fulfilment.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 342 The sacred statutes which Satan has hated and sought to destroy, will be (future) honored throughout a sinless universe. (New Earth)

Review and Herald Dec. 2, 1875 “Satan is at war with that Law which is the foundation of God’s government in Heaven and in earth.”

If Satan is at war with that Law, then we should closely investigate it more thoroughly.

Satan is at war with that Law, which is the foundation of God’s government in Heaven and in earth.

If Satan is at war with that Law, then we should closely investigate it more thoroughly.

Sabbath = Sab b oth

Learned Father House Sign, Miracle

“His Rest” = “Dwelling place for the Father’s Sign”

Colossians 2:

Colossians 2:8-17 Jewish New Testament Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human traditions which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah. You were dead because of your sins, that is, because of your ‘foreskin’ your old nature. But God made you alive with the Messiah by forgiving you all your sin. (Context; your sins have been forgiven.) He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the (Cross) execution stake. Stripping the rulers and authorities of their power he made a public spectacle of them triumphing over them by means of the (Cross) stake. So don’t let anyone pass judgment of you in connection with eating and drinking, or in regard to a Jewish festival or Rosh-Chodesh or Sabbath. These are a shadow of things that are coming, but the body is of Christ.

Nailing what to the Cross?

Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, ¹⁴⁾having cancelled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. North American Standard

Colossians 2:13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive—right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant cancelled and nailed to Christ's cross. Message Bible

Colossians 2: 13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

(Context; your sins have been forgiven.)

¹⁴⁾ Blotting out¹⁸¹³ the handwriting ⁵⁴⁹⁸of ordinances¹³⁷⁸ that was against us, which was contrary to us, (the only hand written record that was against us, contrary to us, is the Heavenly record of our sins, which are nailed to the cross and covered by the blood of Christ.)

and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; King James Version

Blotting out ¹⁸¹³ 1) to anoint or wash in every part, a) to besmear: i.e. cover with lime

(to whitewash or plaster) 2) to wipe off, wipe away a) to obliterate, erase,

wipe out, blot out

Handwriting⁵⁴⁹⁸1) a handwriting, what one has written by his own hand

2) a note of hand or writing in which one acknowledges that money has either been deposited with him or lent to him by another, to be returned at the appointed time (used only once)

Exodus 32:32 Yet now, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, I pray, blot me out of Your book which You

have written. (Heavens Recording Angels handwriting record of our sins are the only

ordinances, laws that are against us because we broke them.)

Ordinances ¹³⁷⁸1) doctrine, decree, ordinance a) of public decrees b) of the Roman Senate

c) of rulers (Not mentioned in Strong’s is “Jewish Church laws, decrees, ordinances, dogma; 1000’s of them.)

2) the rules and requirements of the law of Moses; carrying a suggestion of severity and of threatened judgment 3) of certain decrees of the apostles relative to right living

Colossians 2:14 KJV Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us.

NLT God cancelled the record of the charges against us.

CEV God wiped out the charges that were against us for disobeying the Law of Moses

What was the handwriting of ordinances that was against us; which was contrary to us? Certainly not God’s laws; they are perfect. Reading Psalms 19 and 119 the statues are: trustworthy, firm, blessed who keep them, rejoice, delight, turn my heart, meditate, heritage forever, wonderful, etc; thus, the Feast Day statutes cannot be against us. His laws, complete with the Feast days, “Shall be a statute forever.” Leviticus 23:14, 21 and 31. God’s laws are never against us or contrary to us; so it must mean something else.

1 John 3:4 Sin is the breaking of the Law.

(Only sin is against us and our sins are recorded in heaven.)

Ephesians 2:15 By His death He ended the whole system of Jewish law (man-made laws)

that excluded the Gentiles.

Handwritten Ordinances; either way you look at it; written by the Recording Angel or written by Jewish leaders; both are against us and contrary to us and both were nailed to the cross. The Jewish man-made laws kept the people in bondage and so does sin keep us in bondage. Praise God, Christ nailed them both to the cross to free us.

The Bible Never Contradicts Its Self

If it was God’s law that was against us in vs. 14, does that mean that God made a mistake when he created his law? If Paul is stating that God did away with his law here, what does that imply about God’s statement in Psalms 89:34 when he says he will not alter the thing that comes out of his lips - that he was wrong, or worse yet, lied? Was Christ wrong when he said in Matthew 5:17-18 that he did not come to do away with the law? No, we mustn’t interpret any of Paul’s (difficult) passages in a way that makes God and Christ mistaken elsewhere. When dealing with a difficult passage, it must be interpreted in light of related passages that aren’t in doubt, and if there is anything crystal clear in Scripture, it is that God and Christ are not mistaken liars.

Colossians 2: 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday¹⁸⁵⁹,

or of the new moon ³⁵⁶¹, or of the Sabbath⁴⁵²¹ (Weekly Sabbath)[days] (supplied word):

holyday¹⁸⁵⁹1) a feast day, festival

new moon ³⁵⁶¹ 1) new moon a) of the Jewish (God’s) festival of the new moon

Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹ (Sabbaton)1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work a) the institution of the Sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week b) a single Sabbath, Sabbath day 2) seven days, a week

It does not say … you shall not keep holy days, new moons, or the Sabbath days! The context is freedom from human regulations through life with Christ, see Colossians 2:20 below.

Colossians 2:20 Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: ²¹⁾ "Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!"? ²²⁾These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. ²³⁾ Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

We know that Satan is at war with God’s law; thus, Satan will have a counterfeit for God’s Holy law, which are man-made laws. ²³⁾ Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, but they lack any value.

Paul is saying; when you keep God’s Feast Days laws; “Let no man therefore judge you.” Paul is not condemning the Holydays, New Moon, Sabbath, eating, or drinking; he is approving them.

“Sabbath days⁴⁵²¹” (Sabbaton) appears nine times in the KJV of the Bible. Matthew 5:12; 12:10; 12:12; Mark 3:4; Luke 4:31; 6:2; 6:9; and Acts 17:2. In all cases, Sabbaton refers to the Weekly Sabbath.

More evidence that “Sabbath Days” Sabbaton, refers to the weekly Sabbath is in the use of the Biblical sequential grouping of “Holy Days, New Moon, and Sabbath Days”. These are 3 categories of celebrations; Annual, Monthly and Weekly Holy Feast Days. The following verse groups these celebrations together: 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 8:13; 31:3; Nehemiah 10:33; Isaiah 1:13-14; Ezekiel 45:17; and Hosea 2:11. Thus the context of, “Sabbath Days” in Colossians 2:16 must also refer to the Weekly Seventh-day Sabbath.

A Shadow of Things to Come

Colossians 2:17 Which are (Future = not “were”, past) a shadow ⁴⁶³⁹ of things to come³¹⁹⁵ (Future.

You can’t nail anything to the cross if it is coming in the future!)

shadow ⁴⁶³⁹1) shadow, a) shade caused by the interception of light, b) an image cast by an object and representing the form of that object, c) a sketch, outline, adumbration

things to come ³¹⁹⁵1) to be about, a) to be on the point of doing or suffering something,

b) to intend, have in mind, think to

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith God, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith God.

The shadows of things to come, in the future on the New Earth are: the new moons and the weekly Sabbath.

If all are “a shadow of things to come”, then the weekly Sabbaths are done away with too.

Also; which are (future, not were, which is past-Calvary) a shadow of things to come.

Shadows of Things to Come

Weekly Sabbath: Points to the Seventh Millennial Sabbath. 6000 years on earth 1000 years in Heaven.

Passover/ Unleavened Bread: When Christ was eating the Passover meal, He said that He wouldn’t be eating it again until He eats it in the Kingdom of Heaven. Luke 22:15-16

Pentecost: Pentecost’s greatest fulfilment will be sounded in the Loud Cry and final preaching of the gospel. (6 Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary p 1055) “I know what day Pentecost will come … it will come on Pentecost just like it was the last time.”

Trumpets: The Trumpets are going to be repeated in the Trumpets of Revelation just prior to the Second Coming.

Day of Atonement: Points to the close of Earths probation; which is the 7^th Trumpet Revelation 11:15. It had no partial fulfilment until 1844 and is not yet completed because the scape goat is not in the wilderness so it is not over yet.

Tabernacles: Points to the final ingathering of souls and destruction of the wicked at the Second Coming.

Great Day of God: Points to the day we enter Heaven and sit at the marriage supper.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 365 The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ ‘took out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’ Colossians 2:14.

Why does the Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary, Volume 7, page 205 states: “Sabbath days cannot refer to the weekly Sabbath, designated by the fourth commandment, but must indicate the ceremonial rest days.” There is something fishy about this statement. You will understand why when you finish this study.

Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, Seventh Day Adventist Theologian

“The Seventh Day Adventist bible commentary interprets the Sabbaton (Sabbath Days) as a reference to the annual ceremonial Sabbaths and not to the weekly Sabbaths. It is linguistically impossible to interpret Sabbaton as a reference to any other ceremonial Sabbaths. The cited commentary rests its interpretation however, not on the grammatical and linguistic use of the word Sabbaton, but rather on a theological interpretation of the Sabbath as related to ‘shadow’ in Colossians 2:17. The theological interpretation which the Adventist commentary gives to the Sabbath is hard to justify.”

Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi from his book The Sabbath in the New Testament, p. 111.

Bible Translations for Colossians 2:14

“We conclude then that the document nailed to the cross is not the law in general or the Sabbath in particular, but rather the record book of sins. Any attempt to read into it a reference to the Sabbath or to any Old Testament ordinance is unwarranted gratuitous fantasy.”

Dr. William Richardson of Andrews University comments on Colossians 2:16

“Some Seventh Day Adventist scholars agree that the 7th day Sabbath⁴⁵²¹ is the context of Paul’s statement. Paul here refers to “Sabbaths.” If he meant the ceremonial (annual) Sabbaths, he was needlessly repeating himself. (holyday ¹⁸⁵⁹) a feast day) Ministry Magazine May 1997

Summary of Colossians 2

The context of Colossians 2 is “sin” and “forgiveness”. Specifically, our sins, we have broken the handwriting of ordinances, God’s laws, the Torah. When we break God’s laws, the Recording angel in heaven writes our transgression in the “Book of Life and Death” Daniel 7:10. These are the only handwriting of ordinances that are against us and when we ask Christ to forgive our sins; He does and they are nailed to His cross, blotting them off the record book in heaven. God’s laws are perfect and a delight to our hearts so they cannot be against us; so they can never be nailed to the cross. If you get a speeding ticket and someone pays your fine does that abolish the speed limit law; or your debt for the ticket? No, the law remains and the debt, in this case your sins, were paid by Christ. Shadow of things to come is the completion of the Plan of Salvation of which the Feast Days are a lesson study and yet to be fulfilled.

Ephesians 2

Abolished Commandments Contained in Ordinances

Ephesians 2:1 And you hath He quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience; among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lust of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and if the mind and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others, but God, who is rich in mercy, for he is great love wherewith He loved us. (This is the context) King James Version

¹⁴⁾ For He is our peace, who hath made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; ¹⁵⁾Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the (Jewish) law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make Himself of twain a one new man, so making peace; ¹⁶⁾ and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby, ¹⁷⁾ and came and preached peace to you which were afar off and to them that were nigh. ¹⁸⁾ For through Him we both (Jews and Gentiles) have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God. ²⁰⁾ And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Himself being the chief corner stone. ²¹⁾ In whom all the building fitly framed tougher growth unto a holy temple in God,²²⁾ In ^whom ye also are builder together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

The Acts of the Apostles, p 19 The Saviour longed to unfold to His disciples the truth regarding the breaking down of the “middle wall of partition” between Israel and the other nations. The truth that “the Gentiles should be fellow heirs” with the Jews and “partakers of His promise in Christ by the gospel; Ephesians 2:14

Ephesians 2:19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God. ²⁰⁾ And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone. ²¹⁾ In whom all the building fitly framed tougher growth unto a holy temple in God, ²²⁾ In whom ye also are builder together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

The Bible does not contradict itself. Unfortunately, some Bible versions do; they must line up with the rest of the Bible and here below these versions contradict what Paul lived and spoke of in previous chapters of the Bible.

Contradicting Translations

Ephesians 2:15

New Life Version He put an end to the Law. Then He made of two people one new kind of people like Himself. In this way, He made peace.

NI Readers Version Through his body on the cross, Christ put an end to the law with all its commands and rules. He wanted to create one new group of people out of the two. He wanted to make peace between them.

Contemporary English Version

To destroy the Law of Moses with all its rules and commands. He even brought Jews and Gentiles together as though we were only one person, when he united us in peace.

Correct Translation

Ephesians 2:15

New Living Translation – Tyndale House

By His death He ended the whole system of Jewish law that excluded the Gentiles. His

purpose was to make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in Himself one new

person from the two groups.

Boundaries are Gone in Christ

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: ¹¹⁾ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Galatians 3:26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ. ²⁷⁾For as many of you as have

been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. ²⁸⁾ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is

neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ. ²⁹⁾

And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Summary of Ephesians 2

The context of Ephesians 2 is in verse 1, God’s great love for the human race. He does not want a wall to come between, the Jews and all other nations. The cross put an end to all the sacrifices, offering and all of the Jewish man-made religious laws.

Galatians 4

Service of the no gods is the Context

Galatians 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no³³⁶¹ gods²³¹⁶. (Heathen gods: Isis, Jupiter, Astarte, Cybele, Mars, Zeus, Mithra, Sun, Moon, etc.) ⁹⁾ But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, hereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? ¹⁰⁾ye observe days and months and times and years. ¹¹⁾ I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. ¹²⁾ Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am.

Paul was a feast keeper, thus “, be as I am.”

no³³⁶¹1) no, not lest

gods²³¹⁶1) a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

Galatians 4:8 Before you Gentiles knew God; you were slaves to so-called gods (heathen gods) that do not even exist. ⁹⁾ So now that you know God (or should I say, now that God knows you), why do you want to go back again and become slaves once more to the weak and useless spiritual principles of this world^{? 10)} You are trying to earn favor with God by observing certain days or months or seasons or years. ¹¹⁾ I fear for you. Perhaps all my hard work with you was for nothing. ¹²⁾ Dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to live as I do in freedom from these things, for I have become like you Gentiles—free from those laws. (Heathen god’s laws)

New Living Translation

“If the connection be made from verses 8-11, it will be seen that the Galatians, before their conversion, were

not Jews, but heathen. And these months, days, times and years were not those of the Levitical law, but

those which they had regarded with superstitious reverence while heathen.” The Gospel to the Galatians, by

E.J. Waggoner, p 50

Summary of Galatians 4

The days, months, times, and years were not God’s Laws; this is referring to pagan laws. Paul is telling the Galatians that they use to worship heathen “no gods” and now that they know the true God they are free from the pagan laws.

Acts 15: Circumcision

Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, [and said], Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Acts 15:5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees (Not Paul) which believed, saying, that it was needful to circumcise them, and to command [them] to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols (commandment and statute), and [from] fornication (statute), and [from] things strangled (statute), and [from] blood (statute). For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him (statutes and judgments), being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.

Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: ¹¹⁾ Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Deuteronomy 30:6 God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live.

The problem was circumcision, not worshipping God on His Feast Days. Paul does not contradict himself in Colossians 3:10. Circumcision has been replaced by our circumcised heart.

Romans 4:11 And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

Life of Paul 121.3 They (Christian Pharisees) refused to admit that the work of Christ embraced the whole world. They claimed that He was the Saviour of the Hebrews alone; therefore, they maintained that the Gentiles should receive circumcision before being admitted to the privileges of the church of Christ.

Life of Paul 121.4 After the decision of the council at Jerusalem concerning this question (circumcision), many were still of this opinion, but did not then push their opposition any farther. The council had, on an that occasion, decided that the converts from the Jewish church might observe the ordinances of the Mosaic law if they chose (circumcision), while those ordinances should not be made obligatory upon converts from the Gentiles. The opposing class now took advantage of this, to urge a distinction between the observers of the ceremonial law and those who did not observe it, holding that the latter were farther from God than the former.

Life of Paul 122.1 Paul's indignation was stirred. His voice was raised in stern rebuke: "If ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing." The party maintaining that Christianity was valueless without circumcision arrayed themselves against the apostle, and he had to meet them in every church which he founded or visited; in Jerusalem, Antioch, Galatia, Corinth, Ephesus, and Rome. God urged him out to the great work of preaching Christ, and him crucified; circumcision or uncircumcision was nothing. The Judaizing party looked upon Paul as an apostate, bent upon breaking down the partition wall which God had established between the Israelites and the world. They visited every church which he had organized, creating divisions. Holding that the end would justify the means, they circulated false charges against the apostle, and endeavored to bring him into disrepute. As Paul, in visiting the churches, followed after these zealous and unscrupulous opposers, he met many who viewed him with distrust, and some who even despised his labors.

Life of Paul 122.2 These divisions in regard to the ceremonial law, and the relative merits of the different ministers teaching the doctrine of Christ, caused the apostle much anxiety and hard labor. In his Epistle to the Corinthians, he thus addresses them on the latter subject:

Summary of Acts 15

Nowhere in Acts 15 does it state that the Feast Days are done away with. Circumcision has been replaced by our circumcised heart.

Romans 14

Romans 14:1 The Weak and the Strong Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarrelling over disputable matters. … ¹³ Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in the way of a brother or sister. ^{… 19} Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification. ²⁰ Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food.

Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing p 56 God has shown how high a value He places upon every human soul, and He gives to no man liberty to speak contemptuously of another. We shall see faults and weaknesses in those about us, but God claims every soul as His property--His by creation, and doubly His as purchased by the precious blood of Christ. All were created in His image, and even the most degraded are to be treated with respect and tenderness. God will hold us accountable for even a word spoken in contempt of one soul for whom Christ laid down His life. "Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" "Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth." 1 Corinthians 4:7; Romans 14:4.

The Desire of Ages p 551 In matters of conscience the soul must be left untrammeled. No one is to control another's mind, to judge for another, or to prescribe his duty. God gives to every soul freedom to think, and to follow his own convictions. "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God." No one has a right to merge his own individuality in that of another. In all matters where principle is involved, "let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." Romans 14:12, 5. In Christ's kingdom there is no lordly oppression, no compulsion of manner. The angels of heaven do not come to the earth to rule, and to exact homage, but as messengers of mercy, to co-operate with men in uplifting humanity.

The Ministry of Healing p 166 With a sense of our own infirmities, we shall have compassion for the infirmities of others.

"Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? "One is your Master; . . . and all ye are brethren." "Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?" "Let us not therefore judge one another: . . . but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." 1 Corinthians 4:7; Matthew 23:8; Romans 14:10, 13. … The apostle Paul found it necessary to reprove wrong, but how carefully he sought to show that he was a friend to the erring! How anxiously he explained to them the reason of his action! He made them understand that it cost him pain to give them pain. He showed his confidence and sympathy toward the ones who were struggling to overcome.

Summary of Romans 14

The context of Romans 14 is: do not judge. We have only one judge and that is God. Christ did not come to this earth to judge people but to show the Fathers love. (John 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.) Romans chapter 14 is not doctrine on food or Holy days but on love, being patient and kind to the weak.

Feast Days ~ Past, Present and Future

All Feasts are both Commemorative and Prophetic

Commemorative = Wedding Rehearsal on Earth

Prophetic = the Wedding in Heaven

God’s master plan for the spiritual harvest of the human race, His Bride, and His plan of salvation is given in His seven annual Feast Days of Leviticus 23. These seven annual holy days are a wedding rehearsal here on earth for the grand wedding that will take place in heaven when Christ, the Groom, will take for His Bride, the saved of earth, as His Bride. His plan starts with the spring planting and ends with the fall harvest. Each Feast has a specific purpose. Blessings attended these wonderful celebrations. They are listed below with brief reasons for celebration.

Passover Past Christ died on the Passover day for our Sins.

Celebrate Present Our own Baptism when we confess that we are sinners and died to sin.

Look to 2^nd Coming Sealing of the Righteous just prior to the Second Coming.

Heaven Celebrate Passover in Heaven when we will be totally sin free!!!

Date 1^st month 14^th day; not a holy day

Unleavened Bread Past To eat bread without yeast. Yeast represents sin that spreads in us.

Celebrate Present Focus on Christ ability to deliver us from sin, our Saviour.

Look to 2^nd Coming Unknowing living a sinless life just prior to the Second Coming.

Heaven When we will be totally (unleavened) sin free!!!

Date 1^st month 15^th day; 1^st holy day and 21^st day; 2^nd holy day

Pentecost Past The start of the Christian Church; the Early Rain. (After Christ’s Death)

Celebrate Present Focus on our spiritual transformation thru the Holy Spirit.

Look to 2^nd Coming Proclaim the ingathering message of “come out of her My people” Revelation 18:4.

Heaven The Bride party gathers in heaven.

Date 50 days after First Fruits day; 3^rd holy day

Trumpets Past Prepare for literal Judgement Day for Israel.

Celebrate Present 3^rd Angel’s Message that Judgement is coming.

Look to 2^nd Coming Prepare for the final Judgement Day.

Heaven Calling all other nations to the wedding.

Date 7^th month 1^st day; 4^th holy day

Day of Atonement Past Literal Judgement Day, for Israel, prior to the cross.

Celebrate Present Daily sanctification and look forward to the end of God’s trial.

Look to 2^nd Coming Seventh Trumpet is the Close of Probation, the end of God’s trial.

Heaven Revelation 11:15 second party in heaven with the Most Holy place open.

Date 7^th month 10^th day; 5^th holy day

Tabernacles Past Christ’ birth day, He is our Tabernacle (covering)

Celebrate Present Christ’ birth day, looking forward to the final ingathering.

Look to 2^nd Coming S. C., Final Ingathering, First Resurrection of the righteous dead.

Heaven All nations gather to prepare for the wedding supper.

Date 7^th month 15^th day; 6^th holy day

Last Great Day Past 8^th Day, Christ’ Circumcision. (8 = Infinity = New Eternal Life) Celebrate Present Look forward to the Second Coming and going to Heaven.

Look to 2^nd Coming The Day the redeemed enter Heaven!

Heaven The wedding supper of the Bride and Groom,

Date 7^th month 22^nd day; 7^th holy day. 7 perfect annual holy days.

Other Jewish Feast Days

Feast of Dedication

Feast of Dedication known by the Jews as Hanukkah also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday, but not a feast of God. This is a feast of celebration when the Jews re-dedicated their temple after Antiochus Epiphanies was taken out of the way, for desecrating the temple by offering swine on the altar. The whole sanctuary needed to be re-dedicated, including all the furniture, but they had only enough olive oil for 1 day’s supply for the lamp stand. The olive crop was not ready to harvest for another 7-8 days. God worked a miracle for them and the one day of oil lasted for 8 days, till the olives could be harvested and pressed into oil. Therefore, this is an 8 days feast, known as Feast of Dedication or Feast of Lights (for the lamp stand). It is also interesting that the Chinese have a similar Festival, the Festival of Lanterns around the same time of year.

John 10:22 Then came the Festival of Dedicationat Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Christ (attended this Feast) was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.

Feast of Purim

Feast of Purim -- usually falls around mid-Feb -- this is another traditional Jewish feast, which celebrates their deliverance from the Medo-Persian Haman that wanted to get rid of the Jews in the time of Esther. This deliverance always remembers what Esther did, her appeal to the king to save her people. But it is not a Feast of God, even though everything about the feast points to His deliverance for us from sin. No harm in keeping this feast either.

We should keep this feast in mind because Queen Ester’s story will be repeated during the 6th Trumpet, Revelation 9:13 which is the death decree. We will be given a choice, worship the Mark of the Beast or have the Seal of God; to be killed or not to be killed; follow God’s commandments or Satan’s commandments. This will result in the separation of the wheat and the tares, the sheep and the goats, God’s children and Satan’s children. Then the 7^th Trumpet, Revelation 11:15, which is the closes of probation for the world, followed by the Seven Last Plagues and the Second Coming.

God’s Holy Annual Feast Days:

The Making of a Baby!

By J. R. Church

(Biblical texts and comments add by E.L. Anderson)

(God's Feast Days and the Birth of a Baby: As written 3500 years ago ... Amazing !!!!)

Zola Levitt discovered an amazing correlation between Jewish Annual Holy Days and the gestation of a human baby, from conception to birth. While preparing for writing a book for new parents, Zola contacted a gynaecologist for some help in understanding gestation. During that session, the gynaecologist showed him a series of pictures, pointed to the first one (an egg and a sperm) and said,

"On the fourteenth day of the first month, the egg appears."

The statement struck a chord in his Jewish mind because that was the date of Passover; the 14^th day. He remembered the roasted egg on his family table every Passover. Now, for the first time, he knew what it meant! Not wanting to lead the gynaecologist off from the subject at hand, he didn’t say anything, but continued to listen.

(Leviticus 23:4 These are God's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: ⁵⁾ God's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.)

The gynaecologist continued: "The egg must be fertilized within 24-hours, or it will pass on."

This reminded Zola of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the seed or grain that "fell into the ground and died" in order to produce a harvest, the Firstfruits of which was presented to God.

(Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of that month God's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.)

Next, the gynaecologist said, "Within two to six days, the fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the womb and begins to grow."

And, sure enough, the Jewish evangelist thought, "The Feast of Firstfruits is observed from day 2 to 6 after Passover!"

(Leviticus 23:7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. ⁸⁾ For seven days present an offering made to God by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.)

Next, he was shown a photo of an embryo showing arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, a head, eyes, etc. The caption said, "Fifty days."

The gynaecologist continued, "Around the fiftieth day, the embryo takes on the form of a human being. Until then, we don’t know if we have a duck or a tadpole."

Zola thought, "That’s Pentecost!"

(Leviticus 23:15 From the day after the Sabbath, 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 God.)

The next picture showed the embryo at seven months.

The gynaecologist said, "On the first day of the seventh month, the baby’s hearing is developed. For the first time, it can hear and distinguish sounds outside the womb."

Zola knew that was the date for the Jewish Festival of Trumpets.

(Leviticus 23:23 God said to Moses, ²⁴⁾ Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.)

The gynaecologist continued, "On the tenth day of the seventh month, the haemoglobin of the blood changes from that of the mother, to a self-sustaining baby."

Zola thought, "That’s the Day of Atonement, when the blood was taken into the Holy of Holies!"

(Leviticus 23:26 God said to Moses, ²⁷⁾ "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement.)

Next, the gynaecologist said, "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the lungs become fully developed. If born before then, the baby would have a hard time breathing."

And Zola thought, "That’s the festival of Tabernacles, a time of celebrating the Temple, home of the Shekinah glory or Spirit of God." In the New Testament, the Greek term pneuma, normally translated as "breath," is applied to the "Holy Spirit."

(Leviticus 23:33 God said to Moses, ³⁴⁾"Say to the Israelites: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month God’s Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.)

Birth takes place on the tenth day of the ninth month.

Eight days after birth, in Jewish families, a son is circumcised. Zola noted that the eight days of Hanukkah are celebrated right on schedule, nine months and ten days after Passover.

(Feast of Dedication known by the Jews as Hanukkah also known as the Festival of Lights is an eight-day Jewish holiday, but not a feast of God. This is a feast of celebration when the Jews re-dedicated their temple after Antiochus Epiphanies was taken out of the way, for desecrating the temple by offering swine on the altar. The whole sanctuary needed to be re-dedicated, including all the furniture, but they had only enough olive oil for 1 day’s supply for the lamp stand. The olive crop was not ready to harvest for another 7-8 days. God worked a miracle for them and the one day of oil lasted for 8 days, till the olives could be harvested and pressed into oil. Therefore, this is an 8 days feast, known as Feast of Dedication or Feast of Lights (for the lamp stand).

John 10:22 Then came the Festival of Dedicationat Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³ and Christ (attended this Feast) was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.

(Did you know that Christ was conceived during the Festival of Dedication time period and that he was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles? For solid proof see: http://www.biblelight.net/ and go to "What Day was Christ Born". Many feast keepers today also celebrate Feast of Lights -- in place of the pagan Christmas. It's a very happy joyous occasion, with special lighting of an 8-candle menorah, and the exchanging of small gifts for the 8 days -- not just one day like Christmas. Also 8 means infinity and a new beginning; which it was for Christ who is infinity. All the "lights" point to the Light of the World, Christ. It is interesting to note that the Chinese have a similar Festival of the Lanterns in December; I wonder where they got this idea?)

The Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah, is observed for eight nights, starting on the 25th day of the 9^th month.

1^st month, 15^th day to 9^th month, 25^th day = 9 months + 10 days … (Wow !!!)

No human being could have understood the gestation period 3,500 years ago.

This more proof that God exists!!!

Its correlation with the human gestation period is not only remarkable; it proves "Intelligent Design." It proves the existence of intelligence beyond this world.

(It proves that there is a Creator God that guides the affairs of man. There is much more to God’s Holy Annual Sabbath days than we realize; so why have they been discarded by the majority? )

History of Gods Holy Days

Prior to Sin

Genesis 1:14 KJV 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 ⁴¹⁵⁰, and for days, and years.

NEV For festivals and for seasons and years.

GNB Let them serve for the time when days, years and religious festivals begin.

“seasons” = Strong’s # ⁴¹⁵⁰ Mo’edim = Sacred Season, Set Feasts

“seasons” = Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V 1 p 213 states:

Yearly returning festival periods and other definite times.

The Sacred Season, Set Feasts were prior to sin. Originally God’s Holy days had nothing to do with sin; prior to the fall of man. Now, the Feasts are the Plan of Salvation from sin, given through wonderful object lessons.

Zechariah 8: 19 Thus saith God of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore, love the truth and peace.

How can joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts be nailed, destroyed or abolished?

Review and Herald, June 17, 1890 Satan claimed to be able to present laws which were better than God's statutes and judgments, and he was expelled from heaven. He has made a similar attempt upon earth.

God had statutes and judgments in heaven prior to sin.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 41 God's government included not only the inhabitants of heaven, but of all the worlds that He had created;

The Law and the Covenants

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 363 Adam and Eve, at their creation, had a knowledge of the law of God; they were acquainted with its claims upon them; its precepts were written upon their hearts. When man fell by transgression the law was not changed, but a remedial system was established to bring him back to obedience. The promise of a Saviour was given, and sacrificial offerings pointing forward to the death of Christ as the great sin offering were established. But had the law of God never been transgressed, there would have been no death, and no need of a Saviour; consequently there would have been no need of sacrifices.

Signs of the Times March 14, 1878 {1 Bible Commentary 1104.5} The law of God existed before the creation of man or else Adam could not have sinned. After the transgression of Adam the principles of the law were not changed, but were definitely arranged and expressed to meet man in his fallen condition. Christ, in counsel with His Father, instituted the system of sacrificial offerings; that death, instead of being immediately visited upon the transgressor, should be transferred to a victim which should prefigure the great and perfect offering of the son of God.

Signs of the Times April 15, 1875 {1 Bible Commentary Bible Commentary 1104.4}

Worded to Meet Fallen Intelligences.

The law of Jehovah dating back to creation was comprised in the two great principles, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these." These two great principles embrace the first four commandments, showing the duty of man to God, and the last six, showing the duty of man to his fellowman. The principles were more explicitly stated to man after the fall, and worded to meet the case of fallen intelligences. This was necessary in consequence of the minds of men being blinded by transgression.

Signs of the Times April 15, 1875 {1 Bible Commentary 1104.6} Precepts Given to Guard Decalogue.

In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the ten commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law.

Prior to the Flood

2 Manuscripts Releases, p 307, 4, 29, 1886 “Men may trace in the broken surface of the earth the evidences of the flood. Men thought themselves wiser than God and altogether too wise to obey His law and keep His commandments and obey the statutes and precepts of Jehovah.”

Patriarchs and Prophets p 364 Adam taught his descendants the law of God, and it was handed down from father to son through successive generations. But notwithstanding the gracious provision for man's redemption, there were few who accepted it and rendered obedience. By transgression the world became so vile that it was necessary to cleanse it by the Flood from its corruption. The law was preserved by Noah and his family, and Noah taught his descendants the Ten Commandments. As men again departed from God, the Lord chose Abraham, of whom He declared, "Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws." Genesis 26:5.

Moses was commanded to write, as God should bid him, judgments and laws giving minute instruction as to what was required. These directions relating to the duty of the people to God, to one another, and to the stranger were only the principles of the Ten Commandments amplified and given in a specific manner, that none need err. They were designed to guard the sacredness of the ten precepts engraved on the tables of stone.

After the Flood

Centuries before Sinai

Psalms 81:3 Joseph: Blow the trumpet in the new moon, (Feast of Trumpets) in the time appointed on our solemn feast day. ⁴⁾ For this is a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

Genesis 19:3 Lot: And he pressed upon them greatly and they turned in unto him and entered into his house and he made them a feast and did bake unleavened bread and they did eat.

Genesis 26:5 Abraham: Because that Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My Statutes and My laws.

The law is eternal and the statues are eternal because God is eternal. Cain killed Able because of the statues. Genesis chapter 4.

At Sinai

God’s Appointed Feasts

Leviticus 23:1 And God spoke unto; Moses, saying, ²⁾ Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [concerning] the feasts ⁴¹⁵⁰ of God, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy ⁶⁹⁴⁴ convocations ⁴⁷⁴⁴, [even] these [are] my feasts. Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, concerning the feast of God, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My feasts.

feasts ⁴¹⁵⁰1) appointed place, appointed time, meeting a) appointed time 1) appointed time (general)

2) sacred season, set feast, appointed season b) appointed meeting c) appointed place

d) appointed sign or signal e) tent of meeting

Holy ⁶⁹⁴⁴1) apartness, holiness, sacredness, separateness a) apartness, sacredness, holiness

of God

2) of places 3) of things b) set-apartness, separateness

convocations ⁴⁷⁴⁴ 1) convocation, convoking, reading, a calling together a) convocation,

sacred assembly b) convoking c) reading

Sabbath Feast

Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of God in all your dwellings.

Note that the Seventh Day Sabbath is the first of the holy Feast days; and all are holy convocations; if you do away with all the Feast days you must do away with the Seventh Day Weekly Sabbath as well. We know that has not happened because the weekly Sabbath is part of the 10 Commandments.

The Passover and Unleavened Bread

Leviticus 23:4 These are the feasts of God, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. ⁵⁾ In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is God’s Passover. ⁶⁾ And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto God: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. ⁷⁾ In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. …

Leviticus 23: 14 + 21 + 31) [it shall be] a statute ²⁷⁰⁸ for ever ⁵⁷⁶⁹ throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

statute ²⁷⁰⁸1) statute, ordinance, limit, enactment, something prescribed a) statute

for ever ⁵⁷⁶⁹1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world a) ancient time, long time (of past) b) (of future) 1) for ever, always 2) continuous existence, perpetual 3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity

The Rest of the Feast Days

⁹⁾ Firstfruits ¹⁵⁾ Pentecost ²³⁾ Feast of Trumpets ²⁶⁾ Day of Atonement ³³⁾ Feast of Tabernacles

(Also called Feast of Weeks)

If anyone tells you that the Day of Atonement was nailed to the cross; ask them: “Has the scape goat been put out in the wilderness yet? If these annual Feast days were nailed to the cross, why are we waiting for Pentecost?”

Christ and Feast Days

Christ Attends the Feast of Passover

Luke 2: 40 And the child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him. ⁴¹⁾ Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.⁴²⁾And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Christ Attends the Feast of Tabernacles

John 7: 2 Now the Jews feast of tabernacles was at hand. … ³⁷⁾ In the last day, that great day of the feast, Christ stood and cried, saying, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. ³⁸⁾ He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Christ did not have to offer sacrifices nor offerings because he had no sin. However; as our example, He kept the weekly seventh day Sabbath and the Annual Sabbaths; more examples of weekly Sabbath keeping are: Mark 1:21, Mark 6:2, Luke 4:16, Luke 4:31, Luke 13:10, and examples of annual Sabbath keeping are: Tabernacles - John 7:37, Passover - Luke 2:41-42, John 2:23, John 7:8, 14.

Bible Echo, October 31, 1898 par. 7 Christ, the True Example “Christ passed through all the experiences of His childhood, youth, and manhood without the observance of ceremonial temple worship. He held no office; He assumed no rank. He passed through the experience of infancy, childhood, and manhood without a stain upon His character. He consecrated Himself to God that He might benefit and bless others, to show that in every period of life the human agent can do the Master's will.

He did not keep the ceremonial laws but He kept the Holy Annual Feast Days. If we want to be like Christ, who is the same yesterday, today and forever, we must kept the annual feast days too.

After the Cross

Galatians 1:11 I (Paul) want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ¹² I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Christ.

1 Corinthians 5:8 Therefore let us (Paul, you and me) keep the festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Philippians 4: 9 Do as I do! Those things, which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me; do; and the God of peace, shall be with you.

Apostles taught the statutes after the Cross

New Testament Old Testament

1 Corinthians 5:1 Deuteronomy 27:20.

Romans 1:27 Leviticus 20:13

Romans 1:27 Leviticus 20:13.

2 Corinthians 6:14 Deuteronomy 7:3

Romans 2:29 Deuteronomy 10:16

James 2:9 Leviticus 19:15

James 2:8 Leviticus 19:18

There are many more; thus, Christ could not have told the apostles that the Mosaic Laws were abolished.

The Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost

Acts 2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. ²⁾ And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting. ³⁾ And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them^{. 4)} And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues (other intelligible, understood, earthly languages.) as the Spirit gave them utterance.

God, (Holy Spirit), came on His Holy Pentecost Day after the cross!!!

Acts 15: 21 For Moses (First 5 books of the Bible) of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath day.

The Apostles did go to the ends of the world: Thomas went to India; Thaddeus went to Iran; Bartholomew went to the Middle East; Mark to Egypt; Matthew to Africa; Simon to Northern Africa; James to Spain; another Simon to England; Andrew to Europe; Paul to Rome and Peter stayed in Jerusalem. All they had was the Old Testament and the teachings of Christ.

Timothy Joins Paul and Silas

Acts 16:1 Then came he to Derbe and Lystra and behold a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess and believed but his father was a Greek; ²⁾ which was well reported of by the brethren that were a Lystra and Iconium.

Paul at Corinth and Ephesus

Acts 18:20 When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not; ²¹⁾ but bade them farewell, saying “I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem; but I will return again unto you if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

Paul’s Confession

Acts 24:14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law (Torah, the first 5 books of the Bible) and that is written in the Prophets.

Acts 24:17 I have committed nothing against the customs of our fathers.

2 Tim. 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day

I constantly remember you in my prayers.

The Acts of the Apostles, p 269, After leaving Corinth, Paul’s next scene of labor was Ephesus. He was on his way to Jerusalem to attend an approaching festival and his stay at Ephesus was necessarily brief.

Keep the Feast

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrifice for us: ⁸⁾ Therefore; let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Paul is telling us there are slight changes in the way we keep the feast because their animal sacrifices are no longer required. Keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Do not Travel on Feast Days

1 Corinthians 16:7 For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if God permit. ⁸⁾ But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Paul tarried, stayed, because you do not travel during the Sabbath and he wanted to keep the feast with them. He sails away after the feast days of Unleavened Bread.

Acts 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread and came to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

The Feasts are not part of the ceremonial law; they are statutes and statutes are part of Torah; God’s eternal law.

Sketches From the Life of Paul, p 104, “The most convincing proof was given [by Paul] that the gospel was but the development of the Hebrew faith. Christ was come for the special benefit of the nation that was looking for His coming as the consummation and glory of the Jewish system.

The Jewish system = Feast Days, weekly and annual with the sanctuary service.

Sketches From the Life of Paul, p 191 He then shows them that after his conversion he had no opportunity to receive instruction from man. The doctrines which he preached had been revealed to him by the Lord Jesus Christ. After the vision at Damascus, Paul retired into Arabia, for communion with God.

Sketches from the Life of Paul, p 154 United with Christ, who was the greatest of all teachers, Paul had been enabled to communicate lessons of divine wisdom, which met the necessities of all classes and conditions of men, and which were to apply to all times, all places, and all people.

Sketches from the Life of Paul, p 161 He (Paul) plainly informed them that the sacrificial offerings

and ceremonies of the Jews were no longer to be observed, and preached to them Christ and him crucified.

Apostles kept the Passover all over the World

Bible Commentary V 9 p 362 Therefore we keep the day undeviating, neither adding nor taking away, for in Asia (Minor) great luminaries sleep and they will rise on the day of the coming of the Lord, when He shall come with glory from heaven and seek out all the saints. Such were Philip and two of his daughters. There is also John who lay on the Lord’s breast, And also Polycarp at Smyrna, both bishop and martyr, and Thraseas, both bishop and martyr, from Eumenaea, also Sagaris, Papirius, and Melito. All these kept the fourteenth day of the Passover according to the gospel, never swerving, but following according to the rule of faith. And I also, Ploycrates, the least of you all, live according to the tradition of my kinsmen, and some my family were bishops and I am the eight, and my kinsmen ever kept the day when the people put away the leaven. Therefore, brethren, I who have lived sixty-five years in the Lord and conversed with brethren from every country and have studied all the Holy Scripture and am not afraid of threats, for … “It is better to obey God rather than man.

2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my prayers.

The Acts of the Apostles, p 269 After leaving Corinth, Paul’s next scene of labor was Ephesus. He was on his way to Jerusalem to attend an approaching festival and his stay at Ephesus was necessarily brief.

1 Corinthians 16:7 Do not Travel on Feast Days For I will not see you now b y the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if God permit. ⁸⁾ But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Paul Keeps the Passover

The Acts of the Apostles, p 291 “For over three years Ephesus was the center of Paul’s work, a flourishing church was raised up here, and from this city the gospel spread throughout the province of Asia, among both Jews and Gentiles. The apostle had now for some time been contemplating another missionary journey. He purposed in the spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, after I have been there, I must also see Rome. In harmony with this plan he sent into Macedonia two of them that minister unto him, Timotheus and Erastus but feeling that the cause in Ephesus still demanded his presence, he decided to remain until after Pentecost.”

The Acts of the Apostles, p 389 Having completed his work at Corinth, he determined to sail directly to one of the ports on the coast of Palestine. All the arrangements had been made and he was about to step on board the ship, when he was told of a plot by the Jews to take his life. In the past these opposers of the faith had been foiled in all their efforts to put an end to the apostle’s work. The success attending the preaching of the Gospel aroused the anger of the Jews anew. From every quarter were coming accounts of the spread of the new doctrine by which Jews were release from the observance of the rites of the ceremonial law and Gentiles were admitted to equal privileges with the Jews as children of Abraham. Paul, in his preaching at Corinth presented the same arguments which he urged so forcibly in his epistles. His emphatic statement, determined that his voice should be silenced. Upon receiving warning of the plot, Paul decided to go around by way of Macedonia. His plan to reach Jerusalem in time for the Passover services had to be given up, but he hoped to be there at Pentecost. … At Philippi Paul tarried to keep the Passover.

Bible Commentary V6 p 386 This tarrying enabled Paul to keep the Passover at Philippi. …

Paul seems to have stayed intentionally at Philippi because of the ‘Jewish feast’.

Paul tarried, stayed, because you do not travel during the Sabbath and he wanted to keep the feast with them. He sails away after the feast days of Unleavened Bread.

Acts 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread and came to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Sketches from the Life of Paul, p 105 Paul did not bind himself nor his converts to the ceremonies and customs of the Jews, with their varied forms, types and sacrifices; for he recognized that the perfect and final offering had been made in the death of the Son of God.

P 208 He (Paul) had done all in his power to remove the prejudice and distrust so unjustly excited because he presented the gospel to the Gentiles without the restrictions of the ceremonial law.

The Feasts are not part of the ceremonial law; they are statutes and statutes are part of Torah, which is God’s eternal law.

All Christians Kept Annual Holly Days Until 325 AD!

Sunday and the Mosaic Sabbath, p 4

“Constantine … four years after his Sunday edit, was able to control the church as represented in the general council of Nicaea, so as to cause the members of the council to establish their annual festival of the Passover upon Sunday.”

If God’s Feast Days were abolished, nailed to the cross; then the Pope (Little Horn, Anti-Christ of Daniel 7:25) would have nothing to “think to change”.

T. Enright, CSSR, the Catholic Bishop of St. Alphonsus Church, St. Louis, Missouri, 1905

“Dear Friend,

I have offered and still offer $1000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am bound, under grievous sin to keep Sunday holy. It was the Catholic Church which made the law obliging us to keep Sunday holy. The church made this law long after the Bible was written. Hence said law is not in the Bible. Christ, our Lord empowered his church to make laws binding in conscience. He said to his apostles and their lawful successors in the priesthood “Whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be binding in heaven.” Matthew 16:19. Matthew 18:17. Luke 16:19. The Catholic Church abolished not only the Sabbath, but all the other Jewish festivals. Pray and study. I shall be always glad to help you as long as you honestly seek the truth.

Respectfully, T. Enright CSSR.”

No one has received the $1000, thus; no one has proved him wrong.

Scotland – 11th Century

History of the Scottish Nation p 650

“Queen Margaret tried to get the Scottish people to change from observing Passover to observing Easter. The points raised (against the Church of Scotland) were these: The Lenten fast, the observance of Sabbath, the celebration of the Eucharist, and the observance of Easter. The Scottish Church and her clergy were charged on all these points, as being in error. Does (this) not cut the ground from beneath the feet of those who assert that the Scottish Church by this time (11^th Century AD) was one with Church of Rome in doctrine and worship?”

Ethiopia – 1410

Queen of Ethiopia to the Pope

“We do observe nothing but what we find in the Law and the Prophets.”

Waldenseeans – Into the 1600’s

They sang songs about keeping the Feasts well into the 1600’s.

1844

The 1843 Seventh Month Movement believed in the Feast days because of their interpretation of the Day of Atonement falling on October 22, 1844, thus, feast days were not nailed to the cross.

1 Bio 50.6 A careful study of types and antitypes led to the observation that the crucifixion of Christ took place on the very day in the yearly round of ceremonies given to Israel when the Passover lamb was slain. Would not the cleaning of the sanctuary typified in the Day of Atonement falling on the tenth day of the seventh month, likewise take place on the very day in the year celebrated in the type? (See Great Controversy, p 399). This, according to the true Mosaic reckoning of time, would be October 22. Early in August, 1844, at a camp meeting at Exeter, New Hampshire, this view was introduced and it was accepted as the date for the fulfillment of the prophecy of the 2300 days.

Today

A Call to Keep the Statutes Today

Letter 259, 1903. Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary, V1 p 1103 The instructions given to Moses for ancient Israel, with their sharp, rigid outlines, are to be studied and obeyed by the people of God today.

Signs of the Times Feb. 3, 1888 & Sermons and Talks, V2 p 184

In these last days there is a call from Heaven (Not from Sister White but from Heaven) inviting you to keep the statutes and ordinances of the Lord.

ST, April 15, 1875 In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated (it was in existence already) in awful grandeur from Sinai, Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the moral law and definitely explained that law.

Letter 3, 1905 1 Bible Commentary 1110.4 1 Bible Commentary - S.D.A. Bible Commentary

Vol. 1 (1953) / Leviticus

We are to become familiar with the Levitical law in all its bearings; for it contains rules that must be obeyed; it contains the instruction that if studied will enable us to understand better the rule of faith and practice that we are to follow in our dealings with one another. No soul has any excuse for being in darkness. Those who receive Christ by faith will receive also power to become the sons of God.

God’s Feast Day Camp Meetings Still Needed Today

Colporteur Ministry p 343 Would it not be well for us to observe holidays unto God, when we could revive in our minds the memory of His dealing with us? Would it not be well to consider His past blessings, to remember the impressive warnings that have come home to our souls, so that we shall not forget God? … The world has many holidays, and men become engrossed with games, with horse races, with gambling, smoking, and drunkenness. They show plainly under what banner they are standing. They make it evident that they do not stand under the banner of the Prince of life, but the prince of darkness rules and controls them. … Shall not the people of God more frequently have holy convocations in which to thank God for His rich blessings?

Signs of the Times Feb. 2, 1882 When Israel marched out of Egypt, they made their first encampment under the shelter of green boughs at Succoth. And for more than fifteen hundred years the Hebrew nation by the command of God left their houses, and dwelt one whole week in Tabernacles of green boughs, to commemorate the encampment of their fathers under the palm branches of Succoth. These seasons of sacred recreation were fraught with both physical and spiritual blessings to Israel. God’s people still (today) need seasons of quiet and reflection–seasons in which the soul may undisturbed commune with its Maker. The great work which has been committed to our hands cannot be best carried forward in excitement and confusion. That calm deliberation so essential to sound judgment can often be best secured in some quiet retreat where the thoughtful mind and pure heart can be prompted by the still, small voice. These forest and mountain homes have great blessings for those who are wearied physically or mentally.

Testimonies for the Church, V3 p 510 But there has been a great neglect of duty. Many have withheld means which God claims as His, and in so doing they have committed robbery toward God. (Robbery of Time) Their selfish hearts have not given the tenth of all their increase, which God claims. Neither have they come up to the yearly gatherings (plural, more than one = 3) with their freewill offerings, their thank offerings, and their trespass offerings. [Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles.] Many have come before the Lord empty-handed.

The Ministry of Healing p 281 The journey made three times a year to the annual feasts at Jerusalem, the week's sojourn in booths during the Feast of Tabernacles, were opportunities for outdoor recreation and social life. These feasts were occasions of rejoicing, made sweeter and more tender by the hospitable welcome given to the stranger, the Levite, and the poor.”

Why would one think that ‘God’s’ Feast Days were done away with? They haven’t been told otherwise.

Christ’s Object Lessons, p 220 Christ was here repeating the instruction He had given to Israel through Moses. At their sacred feasts the Lord had directed that ‘the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat, and be satisfied.’ Deuteronomy 14:29. These gatherings were to be as object lessons to Israel. Being thus taught the joy of true hospitality, the people were throughout the year to care for the bereaved and the poor. And these feasts had a wider lesson. The spiritual blessings given to Israel were not for themselves alone. God had given the bread of life to them, that they might break it to the world.

God’s Holy Days were also to be the means of sharing the gospel with the world.

Christ’s Object Lessons, p 220 The Lord desires us to make mention of His goodness and tell of His power. He is honored by the expression of praise and thanksgiving. He says, ‘Who so offereth praise glorifieth Me.’ Ps. 50:23. The people of Israel, as they journeyed through the wilderness, praised God in sacred song. The commandments and promises of the Lord were set to music, and all along the journey these were sung by the pilgrim travelers. And in Canaan as they met at their sacred feasts God's wonderful works were to be recounted, and grateful thanksgiving was to be offered to His name. God desired that the whole life of His people should be a life of praise. Thus His way was to be made ‘known upon earth,’ His ‘saving health among all nations.’ Ps. 67:2.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 711 The service of song was made a regular part of religious worship, and David composed psalms, not only for the use of the priests in the sanctuary service, but also to be sung by the people in their journeys to the national altar at the annual feasts. The influence thus exerted was far-reaching, and it resulted in freeing the nation from idolatry. Many of the surrounding peoples, beholding the prosperity of Israel, were led to think favorably of Israel's God, who had done such great things for His people.

The Upward Look, p 232 It is impossible to enumerate the advantages the Lord prepared for the world in making the Jewish nation (Now Spiritual Jewish nation) the repository of His rich treasures of knowledge. They were the subjects of His special favor. As a people who knew and worshiped the true God, they were to communicate the principles of His kingdom. They were instructed by the Lord. He withheld from them nothing favorable to the formation of characters which would make them fit representatives of His kingdom. Their feasts, the Passover, the Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles, and the ceremonies attending these gatherings, were to proclaim the truths that God had entrusted to His people. At these gatherings the people were to show gladness and joy, expressing their thanksgiving for their privileges and the gracious treatment of their Lord. Thus they were to show to a world that knew not God that the Lord does not forsake those who trust in Him. With joyful voices they were to sing, ‘Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God’ (Ps. 43:5).

Israel was to show Gods Love to the world via the Annual Feast days … shouldn’t Spiritual Israel do the same.

In these Last Days God’s camp meetings are of important

Testimonies V2 p 573 God gave directions to the Israelites to assemble before Him at set periods, in the place which He should choose, and observe special days wherein no unnecessary work was to be done, but the time was to be devoted to a consideration of the blessings which He had bestowed upon them. At these special seasons they were to bring gifts, freewill offerings, and thank offerings unto the Lord, according as He had blessed them…Besides these special religious feast days of gladness and rejoicing, the yearly Passover was to be commemorated by the Jewish nation… God requires no less of His people in these last days, in sacrifices and offerings, than He did of the Jewish nation…. Let all who possibly can, attend these yearly gatherings. All should feel that God requires this of them. …Come, brethren and sisters, to these sacred convocation meetings, to find Jesus. He will come up to the feast. He will be present, and will do for you that which you most need to have done….These camp meetings are of importance.

How much more do they need it now!

Testimonies, V6 p 39 Anciently the Lord instructed His people to assemble three times a year (The Lords time table not mans.) for His worship. (Annual Feasts meetings.) To these holy convocations the children of Israel came, bringing to the house of God their tithes, their sin offerings, and their offerings of gratitude. They met to recount God's mercies, to make known His wonderful works, and to offer praise and thanksgiving to His name. And they were to unite in the sacrificial service which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Thus they were to be preserved from the corrupting power of worldliness and idolatry. Faith and love and gratitude were to be kept alive in their hearts, and through their association together in this sacred service they were to be bound closer to God and to one another...if the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do you need them in these last days of peril and conflict! And if the people of the world then needed the light which God had committed to His church, how much more do they need it now!

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V1 p 1120 There must be no withholding on our part, of our service or our means, if we would fulfill our covenant with God, `This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes.’ Deuteronomy 26:16…In this late age of the world’s history, we are not, because of the selfishness of our hearts, to question or dispute the right of God to make these requirements, or we will deceive ourselves, and rob our souls of the richest blessings of the grace of God…God will have no controversy with us in regard to these binding precepts. It is enough that He has said that obedience to His statutes and laws is the life and prosperity of His people.

Elijah Message Just Before the Second Coming

Remember the Law with the Statutes

Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, [with] the statutes and judgments.

Malachi 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of God. ⁶⁾ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

These are the last words of the Old Testament… Wow … This will be the last message just before the Second Coming. There you have that famous word of the 4^th Commandment, Remember; we have remembered the weekly Sabbath for over 100 years, but we have forgotten to remember Gods’ Holy Annual Sabbaths. So, let’s also remember the Law of Moses with the statutes and judgments!

Have you ever studied the statutes and judgments? Only a little .. well I guess you’d better start studying more if you want to Remember the law of Moses with the statutes and judgments!

The Southern Watchman, March 21, 1905 The closing words of Malachi are a prophecy regarding the work that should be done preparatory to the first and the second advent of Christ. This prophecy is introduced with the admonition, ‘Remember ye the law of Moses, my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.’

Prophets and Kings, p 570 The principles set forth in Deuteronomy for the instruction of Israel are to be followed by God’s people to the end of time.

Commencement of the “Time of Trouble”

Feast Days to Commence at the Time of Trouble

Early Writings, p 33 & A Word to the Little Flock, p 18

I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have not rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we (Seventh Day Adventist’s) went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists as they could not refute the Sabbath truth.

This Sabbath message is not talking about the weekly Sabbaths because even nominal Adventists would not be enraged about the weekly Sabbath more fully.

This is fantastic information!!! This means that the Biblical Truth, Sabbath more fully, Feast Days, will not be fully proclaimed until the time of trouble which is the Seven Trumpets which is just before the time of great trouble which is the Seven Last Plagues. (For details on the sequence of events see my book “The Last 1335 Days”) This means that the nominal Adventists will be shaken out at this time.

What does “more fully” mean? Webster’s 1828 dictionary: “completely, entirely, without lack or deficit, things partially known will be fully disclosed.”

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 310 That the obligations of the Decalogue might be more fully understood and enforced, additional precepts were given, illustrating and applying the principles of the Ten Commandments…Unlike the Ten Commandments, they were delivered privately to Moses, who was to communicate them to the people.

The Mosaic Law helps us to understand the Ten Commandments more fully. God’s Holy Days are part of the Mosaic Law. God’s Holy Days are the Seventh-day Sabbath more fully.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 311 Again, the people were reminded of the sacred obligation of the Sabbath. Yearly feasts were appointed…”

If the yearly feasts were appointed to remind God’s people of the sacred obligation of the Seventh-day Sabbath, then the yearly feasts are included in the fourth commandment along with the Seventh-day Sabbath. God’s Holy Days must be at least part, if not all, of the Sabbath more fully, which God’s people proclaim in a big way at the beginning of the Great Tribulation as stated in the above quote.

Second Coming

The Ten Commandments and the Mosaic Law were put into the Most Holy Place. The Most Holy Place was only used on The Day of Atonement, making every item in the Most Holy Place connected with The Day of Atonement. Judgment happens on the Day of Atonement, and we are judged by the Ten Commandments. The Mosaic Law is simply the Ten Commandments in greater detail. Judgement of the Living Lost comes at the Second Coming of Christ.

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V1 p 1104 In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law.

If we want to know what law we are going to be judged by, then we should study the Mosaic Law, since the Mosaic Law explains the Ten Commandments. The Mosaic Law is a Day of Atonement message, and God’s Holy Days are part of that law.

Review and Herald, October 13, 1904 The Closing Work The prophecies in the eighteenth of Revelation will soon be fulfilled. During the proclamation of the third angel’s message, ‘another angel’ (Fourth Angel) is to ‘come down from heaven, having great power,’ and the earth is to be ‘lighted with his glory’…During the loud cry…the light of present truth will be seen flashing everywhere…The Word declares:…’I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes’ [Ezekiel 36:25-27]. This is the descent of the Holy Spirit, sent from God to do its office work.

This quote is saying that God will cause His people, during the last generation, to especially keep His statutes and that keeping the statutes is the work of the latter rain of the Holy Spirit. Since the Holy Days are statutes, then this means that keeping the Holy Days will be part of the latter rain. These Holy Days are of utmost importance for the last generation.

Isaiah 24:5 Because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Prophets and Kings, p 678, In the time of the end every divine institution is to be restored. The breach made in the law at the time the Sabbath was changed by man, is to be repaired.

Not every divine institution is restored at this time, but the Annual Sabbaths will be proclaimed more fully to restore the final breach.

New Earth

Feast Days

Isaiah 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith God, so shall your seed and your name remain. ²³⁾ And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith God.

Feast of Tabernacles

Zechariah 14:1 The day of God is coming ⁵⁾ … Then God my God will come and all the holy ones with him. … (Time Frame ~ Third Coming) ¹⁶⁾ Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, God Almighty and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. (Time Frame ~ New Earth)

Read this whole chapter to see that the context of this chapter is in the new earth. We will be keeping the Feast of Tabernacles forever in heaven, just as Leviticus chapter 23 tells us to, where God says four times that we are to keep His feast days forever. If we are keeping the Seventh-day Sabbath and the Feast of Tabernacles in heaven, as the last two verses state, , then surely we are to keep all of God’s Holy Days today!

Eternal Life in Keeping Annual Feast Days

Signs of the Times Sept 8, 1887 God will not take into his kingdom and give eternal life to those who will not come under his laws and statutes in this life.

Signs of the Times Dec 15, 1887 None will ever enter the city of God who do not reverence the statutes of his government.

Passover In Heaven

Here is even more evidence; Christ says that we will keep the Feast of Passover in heaven.

Luke 22:15 And He said unto them, with desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it (Passover) be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

Mark 14:12 And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the Passover, his disciples said unto him, “Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the Passover? … ²²⁾ And as they did eat, Christ took bread and blessed and brake it and gave to them and said, “Take, eat: this is my body.” ²³⁾ And he took the cup and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them and they drank of it. ²⁴⁾ And he said unto them, “This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many. ²⁵⁾Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”

Christ is saying that Passover is fulfilled in heaven. The only meal that the Bible mentions us eating in

heaven is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb is the ultimate fulfillment of

Passover. The Marriage Supper is the celebration of God’s Church, His Bride, survivors from all the nations,

Zechariah 14:1, being united with her Bridegroom, Christ. See Matthew 25:1-13 and Revelation 19:7-9. So

Passover will forever be celebrated in heaven as the anniversary of the Marriage Supper!

Do we want to celebrate the time when we passed out of sin forever to be with our Bridegroom throughout eternity? We certainly do!

Pope’s Power

Catholic Catechism – Bishop Enright 1905 “The Catholic church abolished not only the (weekly) Sabbath but all the other Jewish festivals.” (The annual Holy Feast days) .…“The new law has its own spirit and its own feasts, which have taken the place of those appointed in the Law of Moses (Torah). If we would know the days to be observed, we must go to the Catholic Church, not to the Mosaic Law.”

Canon and Tradition, by Holtzman The Church (the Catholic Church) has changed Sabbath into Sunday, not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority.

Catholic Doctrine as defined by the Counsel of Trent, by Nampon Tradition, not Scripture, is the rock on which the Church of Jesus Christ (the Catholic Church) is built.

The Temporal Power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, p 27 He (the Pope) can pronounce sentences and judgements in contradiction to the rights of nations, to the law of God and man, He can free himself from the commands of the apostles. The Pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ.

The Catholic Holy Days as Legal Holidays for the World:

Codeword Barbelon p 500 by P D Stuart: (published 2010) In the 2001 Catechism of the Catholic Church, page 212, para. 2188, the Catholic hierarchy stated,

"Christians should seek recognition of Sunday and the Church's holy days as legal holidays."

Catholic Catechism Enlarges on Third [i.e., Fourth] -- entries #210, 211 and 212.

There it states the church's annual holy days are:

Babylon’s Tradition God’s Commands

1) December 8 The Immaculate Conception Counters Feast of Dedication

2) December 25 Christmas Counters 1st day of Feast of Tabernacles

3) January 1 Circumcision of our God Counters last day of Feast of Tabernacles

4) 40 days after Easter = Ascension of Our God Counters Pentecost

5) August 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin This doesn't directly counter any of God's feasts, but 30 days before Feast of Trumpets, the people would make special preparations.

6) November 1 All Saints' Day Which goes along with a horrid pagan day of October 31^st. This day doesn't seem to connect as a counter to any of God's feasts, but it is a very "high" day in the occult and pagan practices, just as Day of Atonement is the most holy day of the year.

Note: all of the above Babylon’s traditions days are to be kept sacred as the Sunday. There are only 6 holy days listed, and I thought Easter was one of them, but it appears not to be.

7) Easter Counters Passover

Mark 7:6 Christ explains what defiles. He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ‘These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me In vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ ⁸⁾ You have let go the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” ⁹⁾ And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions.” (Christmas c/w tree, Easter)

The Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine: By John Henry Newman, 1878

“The use of temples and those dedicated to particular saints and ornamented on occasion with branches of trees (wreaths) incense, lamps, candles, votive offerings on recovering from illnesses, holy water, holy days and seasons (the entire calendar) use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the ring in marriage, chants, the Kyrle Eleision: are all of Pagan origin and sanctified by adoption into the Church.”

The Greatest Conspiracy on Earth

Revelation 13:8 The Beast out of the Sea All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.

How will the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church become the Little Horn of Daniel 7, the Anti-Christ, the Beast out of the Sea of Revelation 13, the Spiritual Leader of the World so that the whole world will wonder after the Pope? Let’s read the answer straight from Catholic’s themselves.

Codeword Barbelon Book 1 p 514

“Writing in 1826, the Jesuit educated Comte de Montlosier, a Catholic, gave this thunderous assessment of his Church’s secret work to restore its lost supremacy: (was 538AD until 1798) “A vast system – no, let us not mince words, a vast conspiracy – has arisen against Religion and Society. I saw it in its first stirrings, I have followed its progress, I see now as it prepares to crush us beneath its ruins. We can count on this prediction of Montlosier with the accuracy of a calculating machine. As the Jesuit Edmund Campion bragged, in 1851, ‘Be it known to you that we have made a league, all the Jesuits in the world … The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun … it cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted: So it must be restored (i.e. the temporal supremacy of the Pope). Those who still make a stubborn difficulty in believing these things should recall the words of Ignatius Loyola to his sons, ‘ We are called to win to God, not only a single nation, a single country, but all nations, all the kingdoms of the world, with the Pope ruling with the Dictatorship of a Father’. To achieve this singular goal the Jesuits jobbed into office Hitler, Franco, Lenin, Marx, and Mussolini, ‘sons of the Catholic Church,’ and disturbers of the public peace, enemies of the people and of all free States, to foment revolutions, bringing Europe and the world to the edge of the abyss.”

Black Pope (From Google Web)

The Superior General of the Society of Jesus is the official title of the leader of the Society of Jesus—the Roman Catholic religious order, also known as the Jesuits. He is generally addressed as Father General. The position carries the nickname of Black Pope, after his simple black priest's vestments, as contrasted to the white garb of the Pope; nickname, the White Pope. The current, 2010, Superior General is the Reverend Father Adolfo Nicolás. Saint Ignatius of Loyola served as the first Superior General in 1556.

(In reality the Black Pope is Satan’s warlord and the White Pope is Satan’s public relations man.)

Jesuit Oath (Part of the Jesuit Oath from Google Web)

The Leader states:

"Go ye, then, into all the world and take possession of all lands in the name of the Pope. He, who will not accept him as the Vicar of Jesus and his Vice-Regent on earth, let him be accursed and exterminated." ….. My son, heretofore you have been taught to act the dissembler: among Roman Catholics to be a Roman Catholic, and to be a spy even among your own brethren; to believe no man, to trust no man. Among the Reformers, to be a Reformer; among the Huguenots, to be a Huguenot; among the Calvinists, to be a Calvinist; among other Protestants, generally to be a Protestant; and obtaining their confidence, to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope; and even to descend so low as to become a Jew among Jews, that you might be enabled to gather together all information for the benefit of your Order as a faithful soldier of the Pope. … You have been taught your duty as a spy, to gather all statistics, facts and information in your power from every source; to ingratiate yourself into the confidence of the family circle of Protestants and heretics of every class and character, as well as that of the merchant, the banker, the lawyer, among the schools and universities, in parliaments and legislatures, and the judiciaries and councils of state, and to be all things to all men, for the Pope's sake, whose servants we are unto death. You have received all your instructions heretofore as a novice, a neophyte, and have served as co-adjurer, confessor and priest, but you have not yet been invested with all that is necessary to command in the Army of Loyola in the service of the Pope.

The New Jesuit states:

I do further promise and declare that, notwithstanding, I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church's interest; …. to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex nor condition, and that will hang, burn, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants' heads against the walls in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same cannot be done openly I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honour, rank, dignity or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or Superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.

This confirms that every religious organization has been infiltrated by Jesuits. The Jesuits job is to prevent any one church from have the full truth about the Bible and End Time Events.

Pope Calls for World Feast Day Sunday

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 26, 2010 (Zenit.org).-

Here is a translation of the letter Benedict XVI sent to the president of the Pontifical Council for the Family regarding the 7th World Meeting of Families, which will be held in 2012 in Italy.

The Aug. 23 letter was released by the Vatican on Friday. Venerable Brother, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family,

At the conclusion of the 6th World Meeting of Families, which took place in Mexico City in 2009, I announced that the next gathering of Catholic families from around the world with the Successor of Peter would take place in Milan in 2012 and have as its theme “Family: Work and Celebration.” Desiring now to initiate the preparation of such an important event, I am happy to specify that, if it pleases God, it will take place from May 30 to June 3, and also to furnish some more detailed indications about the topic and the unfolding of the event.

Work and celebration are intimately connected in the life of families: they condition choices, influence relations between married couples and between parents and children, affect the relation of families with society and with the Church. Holy Scripture (cf. Genesis 1-2) tells us that the family, work and the feast day are gifts and blessings of God to help us to live a fully human existence. Daily experience attests that the authentic development of the person includes the individual, familial, and communal dimension, activities and functional relationships, as well as openness to hope and to the Good without limits.

In our days, unfortunately, the organization of labor, conceived and realized in function of market competition and maximizing profit, and the concept of feast as an occasion for escape and consumption, contribute to the break-up of the family and the community and to the spreading of an individualistic lifestyle. Thus, it is necessary to promote reflection and efforts at reconciling the demands and the periods of work with those of the family and to recover the true meaning of the feast, especially on Sunday, the weekly Easter, the day of God and the day of man, the day of the family, of the community and of solidarity.

The next World Meeting of Families constitutes a privileged occasion to rethink work and celebration in the perspective of a united family open to life, well integrated into society and the Church, attentive to the quality of the relationships and to the economy of the family unit itself. If the event is to be truly fruitful, it must not remain isolated, but must connect to an adequate journey of ecclesial and cultural formation. It is my wish, therefore, that already in the course of 2011, the 30th anniversary of the apostolic exhortation “Familiaris consortio,” the great charter of family pastoral care, might be taken as a valid guide with initiatives at the parish, diocesan and national level, aimed at throwing light on experiences of work and celebration in their truest and most positive aspects, with particular regard to the effect on the concrete life of families. Christian families and ecclesial communities of the whole world should thus feel called and involved and enter solicitously onto the path toward “Milan 2012.”

From Castel Gandolfo, August 23, 2010 [Translation by Joseph G. Trabbic]

Pope Changes Weekly and Annual Feast Days

ST, Nov., 4, 1919, Quoting Catholic Catechism – Bishop Enright 1905

“The Catholic church abolished not only the (weekly) Sabbath but all the other Jewish festivals.” (The annual Holy Feast days) .… “The new law has its own spirit and its own feasts, which have taken the place of those appointed in the Law of Moses (Torah). If we would know the days to be observed, we must go to the Catholic Church, not to the Mosaic Law.”

The Mark of the Beast

Testimonies, V8 p 159 “The mark of the beast is exactly what it has been proclaimed to be. (Sabbath changed to Sunday) Not all in regard to this matter is yet (future) understood (What was not understood was the Annual Sabbath Feast Days) and will not be understood until the unrolling of the scroll.” (future, last generation)

The Wine of Babylon

Revelation 14:8 Babylon is fallen, because she made all nations drink of the wine of

the wrath of her fornication.

What is that wine? She has given to the world false Sabbaths; weekly and annual …

“teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”

1888 Materials, p 1078 The Sabbath is the Final Test.

Historical Sketches, p 215 The third angel’s message is that which we are to present to the world. Here God has a test for us, and if we come up to the standard, we shall be a peculiar people. Whoever obeys the fourth commandment will find that a separating line is drawn between him and the world. The Sabbath is a test … God’s test. It is that which will distinguish between those who serve God and those who serve him not; and upon this point will come the last great conflict of the controversy between truth and error.

Deuteronomy 14:2 For thou art a holy people unto God, and God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

The weekly Sabbath will not be a test for Seventh Day Adventist’s but Annual Sabbaths will make them a peculiar people.

Following the Mother of Harlots

1888 Great Controversy p 383 Babylon is said to be ‘the mother of harlots.’ By her daughters must be symbolized churches that cling to her doctrines and traditions and follow her example of sacrificing the truth and the approval of God.

Great Controversy p 536 If we turn from the testimony of God's Word, and accept false doctrines because our fathers taught them, we fall under the condemnation pronounced upon Babylon; we are drinking at the wine of her abomination.

The Man of Sin Revealed

2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no man deceive you by an means; for that day shall no come, except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, ⁴⁾ who opposeth and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God sitteth in the temple of god, showing himself that he is God.

Apostasy of the Early Church will be Repeated in the End Time Church

Great Controversy p 443 It was apostasy that led the early church to seek the aid of the civil government and this prepared the way for the development of the papacy, the beast. Said Paul: There shall ‘come a falling away and that man of sin be revealed” 2 Thessalonians 2:3, So apostasy in the church will prepare the way for the Image to the beast, and the Bible declares that before the coming of the Lord there will exist a state of religious dissension similar to that in the first centuries.

Great Controversy p 49 Little by little, at first in stealth and silence and then more openly as it increases in strength and gained control of the minds of men, the mystery of iniquity carried forward its deceptive and blasphemous work. Almost imperceptibly the customs of heathenism found their way into the Christian church. The spirit of compromise and conformity was restrained for a time by the fierce persecutions which the church endured under paganism.

Tradition will not stand on Judgement Day. Any Church that accepts the days, Sunday instead of Sabbath and Christmas, Easter, instead of God’s Feast days, given by the Catholic Church is paying homage to the Catholic Church rather than God and His Bible as the source of authority in their lives.

Is the Seventh Day Adventist Church following the traditions (Christmas, Easter, etc.) of the

‘the mother of harlots’; are you?

God’s Feast Days

The Appointed Festivals ~ Weekly Sabbath

Leviticus 23:1 God said to Moses, ² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of God, which you (Jew’s and now Spiritual Jew’s) are to proclaim (to the world) as sacred assemblies. The Sabbath 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 God.”

God gave his Holy days, His holidays, His festivals, to the Israelites to share with the entire world. Please take note that God’s very first Holy festival day is the weekly Sabbath. I believe this is the most important appointed festival because it represents the part of the great controversy type and anti-type. We are to work six days and rest on the seventh day; this great controversy of sin is to last 6000 years on earth and then we will rest the Sabbath millennium of 1000 years in heaven.

Christ is the Author and Enforcer of the Law

Review and Herald, May 6, 1875 Christ, to enforce the will of His Father, became the author of the statutes and precepts given through Moses to the people of God. Christians who extol Christ, but array themselves against the law governing the Jewish church, array Christ against Christ.

Signs of the Times Jan. 13,1898 Let not man mock the ancient Jewish economy, of which Christ was the Originator, and the One to whom the types and shadows pointed. In these types and shadows is revealed the everlasting Gospel.

Anyone who believes the Annual Feast days are abolished is mocking Christ and the everlasting gospel.

Annual Feast Days present the Plan of Salvation

Fundamentals of Christian Education p 238 The system of Jewish economy (Annual Feast Days) was the gospel in figure, a presentation of Christianity which was to be developed as fast as the minds of the people could comprehend spiritual light. Satan ever seeks to make obscure the truths that are plain, and Christ ever seeks to open the mind to comprehend every essential truth concerning the salvation of fallen man. To this day there are still aspects of truth which are dimly seen, connections that are not understood, and far reaching depths in the law of God that are uncomprehended. There is immeasurable breadth, dignity, and glory in the law of God; and yet the religious world has set aside this law, as did the Jews, to exalt the traditions and commandments of men.”

We are guilty of setting aside God’s law if we do not keep the annual Holy Days.

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V6 p 1095 The gospel of Christ reflects glory upon the Jewish age. It sheds light upon the whole Jewish economy, and gives significance to the ceremonial law. The tabernacle, or temple, of God on earth was a pattern of the original in heaven. All the ceremonies of the Jewish law were prophetic, typical of mysteries in the plan of redemption.

Passover

The Spring Holy Days

There are two sets of Festivals; spring; which met their anti-types at the First Coming and the fall, will meet their anti-type at the Second Coming.

O.R.L. Crosier, Day-Star Extra, Feb. 7, 1846 That some of the legal types have met their antitypes is beyond controversy. By learning the manner of their fulfillment, and the principle as to time on which they are fulfilled; we can the more understandingly proceed to the investigation of the other types. There are two classes of yearly types--the Vernal (Spring) and the Autumnal (Fall); Leviticus 23. The former met their antitypes at the first advent, but the latter are to be fulfilled in connection with and after the Second Advent. The vernal types were the Passover 14th 1st month, the feast of unleavened bread, 15th to 22^nd 1st month, waving of the first fruits 16th 1st month, and the feast of weeks or Pentecost 50 days after in the 3d month. Leviticus 23:1- 21.” … “It is ascertained that the Paschal antitype began at the crucifixion; but where must it end? Let the Saviour answer. Luke 22:15-18; And he said unto them, “With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say unto you I will not anymore eat thereof till it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.”

The Passover will be fulfilled when we get to heaven; thus, it was not nailed to the cross or abolished.

Leviticus 23:4 These are God’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: ⁵ God’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Luke 23:44 The Death of Christ It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, ⁴⁵ for the sun stopped shining. And the veil of the temple was torn in two. ⁴⁶ Christ called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Passover: Past Present Future

Escape from Egypt Escape from daily sins Escape to Heaven

Escape to Canaan Escape from guilt of sins Escape to the Promised Land

Looked forward to Cross Look back to the Cross Look forward to Eternal Life

The Passover pointed forward to the death of the Messiah. Christ died at three o’clock the exact time that the Passover lamb was to be slain. The veil in the temple was ripped from top to bottom and the Passover lamb escaped at the very time that Christ died.

Passover has 3 meanings:

Exodus 12:21 #1 Passover is the Lamb: Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them, ‘Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the Passover.

Exodus 12:8 #2 Passover is the Whole Meal: And they shall eat the flesh (of the year-old, blemish-free, male lamb) in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it … And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire … And thus, shall ye eat it; with your loins girdled, your shoes on your feet, and staff in your hand and ye shall eat it in haste: it is God’s Passover.

Leviticus 23:5 #3 Passover is the Day: In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is God’s Passover.

Which was nailed to the cross; lamb, meal or day?

Review and Herald, July 19, 1898 par. 7 Jesus is our surety. “Behold the lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed for us. Every drop of blood shed by the Jewish sacrifices pointed to the Lamb of God. All the typical offerings were fulfilled in Him. Type met antitype when He died on the cross.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 539 On the fourteenth day of the month, at even, the Passover was celebrated, its solemn, impressive ceremonies commemorating the deliverance from bondage in Egypt, and points forward to the sacrifice that should deliver from the bondage of sin. When the Saviour yielded up His life on Calvary, the significance of the Passover ceased, and the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was instituted as a memorial of the same event of which the Passover had been a type.

The Type is Done – But Not the Commemoration!

1 Spirit of Prophecy p 201 The Passover pointed backward to the deliverance of the children of Israel and was also typical, pointing forward to Christ, the Lamb of God, slain for the redemption of fallen man. The blood sprinkled upon the door-posts prefigured the atoning blood of Christ and also the continual dependence of sinful man upon the merits of that blood for safety from the power of Satan and for final redemption. Christ ate the Passover supper with his disciples just before his crucifixion and the same night instituted the commemoration of his death. The Passover had been observed to commemorate the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt. It had been both commemorative and typical. The type had reached the antitype when Christ, the Lamb of God without blemish, died upon the cross. He left an ordinance to commemorate the events of his crucifixion.

The commemorative Christ’s Supper replaces the “death of the lamb.”

Crosier's article on the Law of Moses:

Redemption is deliverance purchased by the payment of a ransom, hence it cannot be complete till man and the earth shall be delivered from the subjection and consequences of sin; the last act of deliverance will be at the end of the 1000 years. To this the shadow of the Law extended.

The full redemption of the earth is not until the end of the millennium, at the Third Coming.

The last act of deliverance is not until the end of the millennium. "To this the shadow of the law extended"!

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of that month God’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. (Yeast = Sin) ⁷ on the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. ⁸ For seven days present a food offering to God. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

We are to remove all leaven from their houses on Passover. This represents our removing sin from our house (our body) with God’s help in preparation for going to heaven. It’s a great object lesson to us as we try to find all the yeast in our house; just when we think we have removed all the yeast, we find more. It is the same way with sin in our life, just as we overcome one, God shows us another.

Being a Christian, striving to be like Christ, is simple but not easy. It’s our lifetimes work.

Judgments

Exodus 21:1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them:…”

Exodus 23:14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto Me in the year. ¹⁵ Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: thou shall eat unleavened seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month of Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before Me empty. ¹⁶ And the feast of harvest [Pentecost], the first fruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering [Feast of Tabernacles], which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field. ¹⁷ Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before God.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Keep Unleavened Bread

1 Corinthians 5: 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is scarified for us: Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Passover Isn’t Fulfilled Until Heaven

Luke 22: 15 And He said unto them, ‘With desire I have desired to eat this Passover (the meal) with you before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”

Passover Has a New Element

Matthew 26: 27 And He took the cup and gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, “Drink (this Passover) ye all of it; for this is My blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”

Passover’s greatest meal will be fulfilled in heaven!!!

First Fruits

Leviticus 23:9 God 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 you harvest. ¹¹ He is to wave the sheaf before God so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath. (The day of Christ’s Resurrection) ^… ¹⁴ …

This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.”

1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the Firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹ For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. ²² For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. ²³ But each in turn: Christ, the Firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.²⁴ Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.

This Feast Day pointed forward, and now back, to the resurrection of Christ at His First Coming and also now, forward to the Second Coming when Christ resurrects the dead in Christ which are also called Firstfruits.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 539 The Passover was followed by the seven days’ feast of unleavened bread. The first and the seventh day were days of holy convocation, when no servile work was to be performed. On the second day of the feast, the first fruits of the year’s harvest were presented before God. Barley was the earliest grain in Palestine, and at the opening of the feast it was beginning to ripen. A sheaf of this grain was waved by the priest before the altar of God, as an acknowledgment that all was His. Not until this ceremony had been performed was the harvest to be gathered.

Revelation 14:3 And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. ⁴ These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as Firstfruits to God and the Lamb. ⁵ No lie was found in their mouths; they are blameless.

O.R.L. Crosier, Day-Star Extra, Feb. 7, 1846 First Fruits. This was a handful of the first ripe fruit or grain. 1 Corinthians 15:4, 20, 23; Ac. 16:23, show that Christ ‘rose again the third day according to the scriptures,’ ‘the first fruits of them that slept,’ thus laying the foundation of the resurrection to life.

More Biblical proof that God’s Feast days have not been done away with. The first fulfillment happened when Christ was resurrected the day after the cross; thus, the Feast day was not nailed to the cross the day after. The second fulfillment will come when the 144, 000 are chosen and third fulfillment will be at the first resurrection of the Saved at the Second Coming.

1^st First Fruits Christ 3 days after His death.

2^nd First Fruits 144,000 The Living Saved go through the Great Tribulation.

3^rd First Fruits Dead in Christ At the first resurrection.

Pentecost

Pentecost came exactly 50 days after Firstfruits day, the day Christ was resurrected; this was known as the Early Rain. The Later Rain will come just before the Second Coming to call out the saint and it will be exactly on the day of Pentecost.

Leviticus 23:15 From the day after the Sabbath, 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 God.

Leviticus 23:21 On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance (a statute) for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 540 Fifty days from the offering of first fruits, came the Pentecost, called also the feast of harvest and the feast of weeks.

Acts 2: 1 The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost (First Coming)When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. ² Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³ They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. ⁴ All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. … ¹⁶ No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: ¹⁷In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. (Second Coming)

Joel 2:28 The Day of God (Second Coming)And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

Matthew chapter 13 compares Christian growth to seeds. When they are first planted, they need an Early Rain and then later to mature, have the complete truth, they need a Later Rain.

Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants.

Early Writings, p 85 The commencement of that time of trouble,’ here mentioned does not refer to the time when the plagues (7 Last Plagues) shall begin to be poured out, but to a short period just before they are poured out, while Christ is in the sanctuary. At that time, while the work of salvation is closing, (During the 7 Trumpets; the 7^th Trumpet is the Close of Probation.) trouble will be coming on the earth, and the nations will be angry, yet held in check so as not to prevent the work of the third angel. At that time the ‘latter rain,’ or refreshing (the 4^th Angels message of Revelation 18:1, the annual feast days message) from the presence of the Lord, will come, to give power to the loud voice of the third angel, and prepare the saints to stand in the period when the seven last plagues shall be poured out.

Pentecost Isn’t Fulfilled Until Second Coming

Great Controversy p ix. In immediate connection with the scenes of the great day of God, the Lord by the prophet Joel has promised a special manifestation of His Spirit. Joel 2:28. This prophecy received a partial fulfillment in the outpouring of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost; but it will reach its full accomplishment in the manifestation of divine grace which will attend the closing work of the gospel.

Review and Herald, July 21, 1896 . The great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole earth with his glory, (Revelation 18:1, 4^th Angels Msg) will not come until we have an enlightened people who know by experience what it means to be labourers together with God. When we have entire whole-hearted consecration to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of His Spirit without measure; but this will not be while the largest portion of the church are not labourers together with God.

The Seventh Month Movement is growing and we are whole-hearted consecration to the service of Christ.

More Biblical proof that God’s Feast days have not been done away with because Pentecost was partially fulfilled 50 days after Christ died on the cross when the Holy Spirit descended upon God’s people at the Early Rain at Pentecost; and will be fully fulfilled just before the Second Coming at the commencement of time of trouble.

Trumpets

The Fall Holy Days

Leviticus 23:23 God said to Moses, ²⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of Sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.”

On the 1^st day of the 7^th month the Israelites would sound the trumpet, to warn the people that judgement day was coming, the Day of Atonement, the day every individual had to make right, atone for their sins. The next 10 days of the Feast of the Trumpets were to be a probation period, a time to recall and repent all their known sins. This is an example of what will be repeated at the end of earth’s history when the people of earth will be given a probation period of 3 ½ years. (Revelation 11:3; 13:5; Daniel 12:7) The people living during the time just prior to the Second Coming will have this probation period to ‘come out of her, my people.’ Revelation 18:4. This probation period will close with the 7^th Trumpet of Revelation 11:15.

The first fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets and are in the future as per Revelation 8, 9 and 11; thus, could not have been nailed to the cross.

Ezekiel 46:1 This is what the Sovereign God says: “The gate of the inner court facing east is to be shut on

the six working days, but on the Sabbath day and on the day of the New Moon it is to be opened. ² The prince

is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost. The priests are to

sacrifice his burnt offering and his fellowship offerings. He is to bow down in worship at the threshold of the

gateway and then go out, but the gate will not be shut until evening. ³ On the Sabbaths and New Moons the

people of the land are to worship in the presence of God at the entrance of that gateway.”

This does not say which New Moon. The Feast of Trumpets is the logical Holy Day to announce the final probation period before judgment day, the Day of Atonement.

Orion Trumpet

An astronomer stated that the open space in Orion is in the shape of a trumpet and the end of the trumpet is pointed right at Planet Earth and it is the only constellation that can be seen form both northern and southern hemispheres.

Matthew 24:27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Revelation 7:2 Then I saw another angel coming up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and the sea:

Maranatha, p 279 The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God.

Christian Experience and Teachings p 111 Dark heavy clouds came up, and clashed against each

other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion,

whence came the voice of God. The holy city will come down through that open space. (Third Coming)

The Feast of the Trumpets is the only feast that falls on the New Moon. Christ loud cry, loud voice, trumpet

sound, will come to earth from the east, from Orion, on the 1^st day of the 7^th month, the Feast of the Trumpets

just before the Second Coming. At the Third Coming, Christ will bring the New Jerusalem the same way.

Trumpets and Daniel 12

Trumpets Are Fulfilled in the Future

The Trumpets of Revelation start the End Time Events. The 1^st Trumpet, Revelation 8:6, is the start of the last 1335 days, Daniel 12:12, which ends at the Second Coming. The 7^th Trumpet, Revelation 11:15, is the Close of Probation for the world; everyone living during the end times will have chosen which side they want to be on; the sheep the goats, the wheat the tares, God’s people Satan’s people. Then the 7 Last Plagues, Revelation 16:1, will fall and the Lost ‘still did not repent’ Revelation 9:20.

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the daily (sacrifice) (supplied word) is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be (Context = till Second Coming) one thousand two hundred and ninety days. (1290 literal days) ¹² Blessed is he who waits, and comes to (Context = till Second Coming) the one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. (1335 literal days)

Daniel 12 for the “Last Scenes of Earth’s History”

The Seven Trumpets of Revelation are Judgments of God in the End Time, not historic church military history as some would have you believe.

1^st Trumpet

Revelation 8:6 Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them. ⁷⁾ The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with Blood, (Meteorite Shower) and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up. And all the green grass was burned up.

Because the book of Revelation is a symbolic prophetic book, the agent, the symbolic principle, the actor, in the message is symbolic and the results will be literal to the point of sound principles of prophetic interpretation. That is, that the general points of picture are given in the literal interpretation, they are not exact and are described as best that the writer could with the knowledge of the times. The agent, “There came hail and fire mixed with blood” is symbolic for a meteorite shower. This is what E.G. White saw in her

great balls of fire visions.

Great Balls of Fire

Evangelism p 29 A View of Great Destruction. Last Friday morning, just before I woke, a very impressive scene was presented before me. I seemed to awake from sleep but was not in my home. From the windows I could behold a terrible conflagration. Great balls of fire were falling upon houses, and from these balls fiery arrow (Meteorite Shower) were flying in every direction. It was impossible to check the fires that were kindled, an many places were being destroyed. The terror of the people was indescribable. After a time, I awoke and found myself at home. Letter 278, 1906

9 Testimonies p 28 An Impressive Scene. In the visions of the night a very impressive scene passed before me. I saw an immense ball of fire fall among some beautiful mansions, causing their instant destruction. I heard someone say: “We knew that the judgments of God were coming upon the earth, but we did not know that they would come so soon.” Others, with agonized voices, said: “You knew! Why then did you not tell us? We did not know.” On every side I head similar words of reproach spoken. (You now know; we must warn the world before it happens.)

2nd Trumpet

Revelation 8:8 The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, (Asteroid, causing a Tidal Wave) was thrown into the sea, a third of the sea turned into blood, ⁹⁾ a third of the living creatures in the sea died and a third of the ships were destroyed.

The agent is an Asteroid. This is what is being referred to in:

Luke 21:25 There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. (Asteroid) ²⁶⁾ Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.

The present-day tsunami’s are a small example of what will happen during the end time events.

What Luke saw in 21:25, the roaring and tossing of the sea, is E.G. Whites vision of “destruction of thousands of cities”, and Revelation 8:8, Asteroid, causing a Tidal Wave, are all the same.

Thousand of Cities Destroyed

Review and Herald, Sept. 10, 1903 Destruction of Thousands of Cities. O that God’s people had a sense of the impending destruction of thousands of cities, now almost given to idolatry.

Manuscript 53, 1910 Large Cities Will Be Swept Away. Every where there are men who should be out in active ministry, giving the last message of warning to a fallen world. The work that should long ago have been in active operation to win souls to Christ has not been done. The inhabitants of the ungodly cities so soon to be visited by calamities have been cruelly neglected. The time is near when large cities will be swept away (2nd Trumpets Asteroid thrown into the ocean will cause a Tidal Wave that will sweep away thousands of cities.) and all should be warned of these coming judgments. But who is giving to the accomplishment of this work the wholehearted service that God requires?

The Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy is not promoting this work of warning so we must warn the world.

Trumpets Are Fulfilled in the Future

The first fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets are in the future as per Revelation 8, 9 and 11; thus, could not have been, done away with, abolished, nailed to the cross.

Revelation 11:3 And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days,

(Literal days not a day for a year) clothed in sackcloth.

Last Days Events, p 95 Read every verse of Revelation eleven, it is yet (Future) to take place.

Manuscript Releases 1518 (May 10, 1906). { Last Day Events 95.4}

Let all who would understand the meaning of these things read the eleventh chapter of Revelation. Read every verse, and learn the things that are yet (Future) to take place in the cities. Read also the scenes portrayed in the eighteenth chapter of the same book.

Revelation chapter 11 has dual application; historic, the French Revolution, see Great Controversy p 265 Chapter 15, is to be repeated in the future End Time Events.

Revelation 11:1 I was given a reed like a measuring rod and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the; altar and count the worshipers therein.

7 Testimonies p 219 The time has come when everything is to be shaken that can be shaken, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Every case is coming in review before God; He is measuring the temple and the worshipers therein.

This is the same event as Revelation 11; which is in the future.

Daniel Chapter 12 the “Last Scenes of Earth’s History”

Testimonies to Ministers p 114 Twice Daniel enquired, ‘How long shall it be to the end of time? ....

Testimonies to Ministers p 115 The book of Daniel is unsealed in the revelation of John and carries us forward to the last scenes of this earth’s history.

Maranatha, p 284 My imagination anticipated what it must be in that period when the Lord's mighty voice shall give commission to His angels, 'Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth’...Revelation 6 and 7 are full of meaning. Terrible are the judgments of God revealed. The seven angels stood before God to receive their commission. To them were given seven trumpets. The Lord was going forth to punish the inhabitants of the earth.

The Seven Trumpets of Revelation are Judgments of God in the End Time, not historic church military history as the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference would have you believe.

5 Testimonies p 463 The work, which the church has failed to do in a time of peace and prosperity, she will have to do in a terrible crisis under most discouraging, forbidding circumstances. The warnings that worldly conformity has silenced or withheld must be given under the fiercest opposition from enemies of the faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

The Bible says there will be ‘Peace and Safety’ (not atomic warfare) then ‘sudden destruction’. The SOP states peace and prosperity and terrible crisis this sounds like we will have to give the loud cry during the 7 Trumpets.

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V7 p 982 Trumpet after trumpet is to be sounded, vial after vial poured out one after another upon the inhabitants of the earth. Scenes of stupendous interest are right upon us.

Evangelism p 27 If Heaven’s Warnings Go Unheeded. I am bidden to declare the message that cities full of transgression, and sinful in the extreme, will be destroyed by earthquakes, by fire, by flood. (The 4^th Trumpet Revelation 8:12) All the world will be warned (still a chance, 7 Trumpets Loud Cry) that there is a God who will display His authority (wakes up the world) as God His unseen agencies will cause destruction, devastation, and death. All the accumulated riches will be as nothingness.

Calamities will come, calamities most awful, most unexpected; (1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, the first 4 Trumpets of Revelation 8:6-12) and these destructions will follow one after another. If there will be a heeding of the warnings that God has given, and if churches will repent, (still a chance, 7 Trumpets time frame) returning to their allegiance, then other cities may be spared for a time.

Manuscript 35, 1906 Strictly will the cities of the nations be dealt with and yet they will not be visited in the extreme of God’s indignation, (which is the 7 Last Plagues, Revelation 15:1) because some souls will yet break away from the delusions of the enemy and will repent and be converted, (during the Seven Trumpets, Revelation 8:6) while the mass will be treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath.

Out of these calamities (not atomic warfare) will come people that will repent and be saved; therefore, they happen before the 7 Last Plagues and must be the 7 Trumpets. The day of wrath, 7 Last Plagues I believe is figurative and means a short time period, say 30 days.

Day of Atonement

Judgement Day

Leviticus 23:26 God said to Moses, ²⁷ “The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present a food offering to God. ²⁸ Do not do any work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before God your God. ²⁹ Those who do not deny themselves on that day must be cut off from their people. ³⁰ I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. ³¹ You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. ³²It is a day of Sabbath rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. (Fast in the evening.) From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening (10^th Day) you are to observe your Sabbath.

The Day of Atonement is an example of God’s judgment day to come and our life record will be reviewed. The first fulfilment was in October 22, 1844, as per Daniel 8:14, 2300-year prophecy when the judgement of the dead began. If the judgement of the dead started on the Day of Atonement, then the second fulfilment should be the end of the judgment of the Living; which is the Close of Probation, the 7^th Trumpet and the next day is the Day of Atonement.

Daniel 7:9 As I watched, "thrones were set in place. The Eternal God took his seat. …

¹⁰⁾ The court was seated. And the books were opened.

Leviticus 16:30 For on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before God.

Hebrews 4:14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Christ the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

On Judgement Day the Saved will, be given a new nature with an eternal body, changed in the twinkling of an eye, and taken to live with Christ for eternity. For the Saved, Judgement Day, the Day of Atonement, is the most wonderful day of their lives, no more struggling with our sinful, satanic, human nature.

On Judgement Day for the Lost, they will be put to death, not torture; the wages of sin is death.

Acts 3:17 My friends, I know you didn't realize what you were doing. Neither did your leaders. ¹⁸ But God had given a promise through all the prophets. And this is how he has made his promise come true. He said that his Christ would suffer. ¹⁹ So turn away from your sins. Turn to God. Then your sins will be wiped away. The time will come when God will make everything new. ²⁰ He will send the Christ. Christ has been appointed as the Christ for you. ²¹ He must remain in heaven until the time when God makes everything new. He promised this long ago through his holy prophets. ²² Moses said, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me. He will be one of your own people. You must listen to everything he tells you. ²³ Those who do not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.'

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Let’s all plan to meet in Heaven.

Tabernacles

The First and Second Coming of Christ

Leviticus 23:33 God said to Moses, ³⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month God’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. ³⁵ The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular (supplied word) work. ³⁶ For seven days present food offerings to God, and on the eighth day (The Great Day of God) hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to God. It is the closing special assembly; (Wedding Supper in Heaven!!!!) do no regular (supplied word) work. ... ⁴¹ Celebrate this as a festival to God for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. ⁴² Live in temporary shelters (earth is our temporary shelter) for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters ⁴³ so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am God.’”

This Feast is called ‘Tabernacles’ primarily because all feasts, annual festivals, are related to the Sanctuary. Both the Sanctuary and the Annual Feast days have the complete plan of salvation build into these examples. The Feast of Tabernacles is also called the Feast of the Harvest because after the Close of Probation, the 7^th Trumpet, the harvest is ready for gathering. The wheat and the weeds (tares) have been separated and this is celebration time to gather God’s people to go to heaven.

Did you know that Christ was conceived during the Festival of Dedication, the eight days of Hanukkah, time period, early December and that he was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles? It would be a reasonable assumption that Christ was conceived on the first day on Hanukkah because Hanukkah is eight days long. For solid proof see: http://www.biblelight.net/ and go to "What Day was Christ Born".

This confirms that the annual feasts days cannot have been nailed to the cross because the annual feasts in the

seventh month, fall feasts, have never yet had their fulfilment. You cannot do away with something that has

yet to take place.

Patriarchs and Prophets, p 541 The Feast of Tabernacles was not only commemorative but typical. It not only pointed back to the wilderness sojourn, but, as the feast of harvest, it celebrated the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and pointed forward to the great day of final ingathering.

Great Controversy p 399 Chap. 22 - Prophecies Fulfilled

Arguments drawn from the Old Testament types (annual feasts) also pointed to the autumn as the time when the event represented by the "cleansing of the sanctuary" must take place. (Future) This was made very clear as attention was given to the manner in which the types relating to the first advent of Christ had been fulfilled. The slaying of the Passover lamb was a shadow of the death of Christ. Says Paul: "Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us." 1 Corinthians 5:7. The sheaf of first fruits, which at the time of the Passover was waved before the Lord, was typical of the resurrection of Christ. Paul says, in speaking of the resurrection of the Lord and of all His people: "Christ the first fruits; afterward they that are Christ's at His coming." (Future) 1 Corinthians 15:23. Like the wave sheaf, which was the first ripe grain gathered before the harvest, Christ is the first fruits of that immortal harvest of redeemed ones that at the future resurrection shall be gathered into the garner of God. These types were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time. On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and month on which for fifteen long centuries the Passover lamb had been slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with His disciples, instituted that feast which was to commemorate His own death as "the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." That same night He was taken by wicked hands to be crucified and slain. And as the antitype of the wave sheaf our Lord was raised from the dead on the third day, "the first fruits of them that slept," a sample of all the resurrected just, whose "vile body" shall be changed, and "fashioned like unto His glorious body." Verse 20; Philippians 3:21. In like manner the types which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic (p 400) service. Under the Mosaic system the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great Day of Atonement, occurred on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month (Leviticus 16:29-34), when the high priest, having made an atonement for all Israel, and thus removed their sins from the sanctuary, came forth and blessed the people. So, it was believed that Christ, our great High Priest, would appear to purify the earth by the destruction of sin and sinners, and to bless His waiting people with immortality. The tenth day of the seventh month, the great Day of Atonement, the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary, which in the year 1844 fell upon the twenty-second of October, was regarded as the time of the Lord's coming. This was in harmony with the proofs already presented that the 2300 days would terminate in the autumn, and the conclusion seemed irresistible.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 540 The Feast of Tabernacles was not only commemorative but typical (pointing forward). It not only pointed back to the wilderness sojourn, but, as the feast of harvest, it celebrated the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and pointed forward to the great day of final ingathering, when the Lord of the harvest shall send forth His reapers to gather the tares together in bundles for the fire, and to gather the wheat into His garner. At that time (Feast of Tabernacles) the wicked will all be destroyed." … Well would it be for the people of God at the present time to have a Feast of Tabernacles--a joyous commemoration of the blessings of God to them. As the children of Israel celebrated the deliverance that God had wrought for their fathers, and His miraculous preservation of them during their journeying from Egypt, so should we gratefully call to mind the various ways He has devised for bringing us out from the world, and from the darkness of error, into the precious light of His grace and truth.

Bible Echo Dec. 8, 1893 Come to the Feast The forces of the enemies are strengthening, and as a people we are misrepresented; but shall we not gather our forces together, and come up to the Feast of Tabernacles? Let us not treat this matter as one of little importance, but let the army of the Lord be on the ground to represent the work and cause of God in Australia. Let no one plead an excuse at such a time. One of the reasons why we have appointed the camp-meeting to be held at Melbourne is that we desire the people of that vicinity to become acquainted with our doctrines and works. We want them to know what we are, and what we believe. Let everyone pray, and make God his trust. Those who are barricaded with prejudice must hear the warning message for this time. We must find our way to the hearts of the people. Therefore, come to the camp-meeting, even though you have to make a sacrifice to do so, and the Lord will bless your efforts to honour his cause and advance his work.

Signs of the Times June 8, 1876. This excellent meeting, with all its labor of preparation, anxiety, preaching, hearing, exhorting, confession of sins and want of Christ, its tears, deliverances, and joys, is now past. Those parents who brought their children to the meeting and saw them converted, and take the baptismal vow, are now glad that they brought them. Those who did not bring their children regretted their mistake. These annual Feasts of Tabernacles are gatherings of the greatest importance; and there should be a general turnout of all who may be benefited.

Testimonies for the Church, V3 p 393 - 396 The plan of system in benevolence God designed for the good of man, who is inclined to be selfish and to close his heart to generous deeds. The Lord requires gifts to be made at stated times [the annual feasts], being so arranged that giving will become habit and benevolence be felt to be a Christian duty…. “God required of His ancient people Three yearly gatherings. “Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall choose; in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty: every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which He hath given thee.” No less than one third of their income was devoted to sacred and religious purposes. … “Whenever God’s people, in any period of the world, have cheerfully and willingly carried out His plan in systematic benevolence and in gifts and offerings, they have realized the standing promise that prosperity should attend all their labors just in proportion as they obeyed His requirements.

1^st Coming of Christ Christ was born for the Saved 1^st Day of Tabernacles

2^nd Coming of Christ Christ returns for the Saved 1^st Day of Tabernacles

3^rd Coming of Christ Christ returns with the Saved 1^st Day of Tabernacles

The Parable of the Weeds

Matthew 13:24 Christ told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. ²⁵ But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. ²⁶ When the wheat sprouted and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. ²⁷ “The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’ ²⁸ “‘An enemy did this,’ he replied. “The servants asked him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ ²⁹ “‘No,’ he answered, ‘because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.’” …

The Parable of the Weeds Explained

³⁶ Then he left the crowd and went into the house. His disciples came to him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.” ³⁷ He answered, “The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, ³⁹ and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.⁴⁰ “As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. ⁴² They will throw them into the blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Whoever has ears, let them hear.

The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and the Pearl

⁴⁴ “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. ⁴⁵ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. ⁴⁶ When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

Eternal life is a free gift; will you take it?

The Second Coming of Christ will be on the first day of the festival of Tabernacles because the harvest is ready. Christ will take His bride, God’s Saved Children, and back travel to heaven, which will take seven days ascending, and will arrive in heaven on the eighth day, the Great Day of God. The Bride, the Saved, and the Groom, Christ, will then sit down to the Wedding Supper.

The Last Great Day

Entering Heaven

John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, (Feast of Tabernacles) Christ stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.”

On this Last Great Day, we will be drinking in heaven at the wedding table. The Feast of Tabernacles starts with a Sabbath and ends with a Sabbath; it is 8 days long. What is the significance of this 8-day Sabbath? The number eight in the Bible means infinity and new beginnings. An example of this is, after the flood God started the new beginnings with 8 people; God will start a new beginning with the new earth after

the 8^th millennium.

Spiritual Gifts, V2 p 33 We all entered the cloud together, and were seven days ascending to the sea of glass, when Jesus brought along the crowns and with his own right hand placed them on our heads. He gave us harps of gold and palms of victory.

Great Controversy p 399 In like manner the types which relate to the Second Advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service. Under the Mosaic system the cleansing of the sanctuary, or the great Day of Atonement, occurred on the tenth day of the seventh Jewish month (Leviticus 16:29-34).

Great Controversy p 378 The prophecy of Daniel pointed so unmistakably to the time of Messiah's coming, and so directly foretold His death, that they discouraged its study, and finally the rabbis pronounced a curse on all who should attempt a computation of the time.

Is this happening today? I don’t think there is a curse but certainly a deafening silence from the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference on the topic of when the Second Coming will be. The Old Testament told us the date, the year and the hour that Christ would come and die on the cross; should it tell us the same for the Second Coming. Of course, the only thing we don’t know is the year.

Genesis 8:4 On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

The Feast of Tabernacles starts on the 7^th month and 15^th days and ends on the 22^nd day. Noah’s ark came to rest on Mount Ararat during this time period; to start a new beginning.

Why would anyone want to do any with being reminded of the great new beginning?

For Seventh Day Adventist’s Only

1 Selected Messages 410 Nothing frightens me more than to see the spirit of variance manifested by our brethren. We are on dangerous ground when we cannot meet together like Christians, and courteously examine controverted points. I feel like fleeing from the place lest I receive the mold of those who cannot candidly investigate the doctrines of the Bible.

1 Selected Messages 411 Those who cannot impartially examine the evidences of a position that differs from theirs, are not fit to teach in any department of God's cause.

We must study all new doctrine, if not, you are closing your mind to new light.

Manuscript 43 1901 Lay Ellen White to one side. Do not quote my works again as long as you live until you can obey the Bible. When you make the Bible your food, your meat and your drink, when you make its principles the elements of your character, you will know better how to receive counsel from God. I exalt the precious word before you today. Do not repeat what I have said, saying, "Sister White said this," and "

Sister White said that."

Find out what the Lord God of Israel says, and then do what He commands.

I will prove from the Bible first that God’s annual Holy days are still in effect and I am keeping them; thus, I am one of the very few that can use Sister Whites writings. Do not quote my works again as long as you live until you can obey the Bible. People who are not obeying the commandments of our Christ should not be using Sister Whites writing as she puts it.

No Excuse for Wilful Blindness

Last Day Events p 217 S.D.A. Bible Commentary 5:1145 (1884). None will be condemned for not heeding light and knowledge that they never had, and they could not obtain. But many refuse to obey the truth that is presented to them by Christ’s ambassadors, because they wish to conform to the world’s standard, and the truth that has reached their understanding, the light that has shone in the soul, will condemn them in the judgment.

God’s Church is not the Seventh Day Adventist Church

The Upward Look 315.5 God has a church. It is not the great cathedral, neither is it the national establishment, neither is it the various denominations; it is the people who love God and keep His commandments. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20). Where Christ is even among the humble few, this is Christ's church, for the presence of the High and Holy One who inhabiteth eternity can alone constitute a church.

Bible Commentary, V7 p 949 The Church of the living God is in good shape, as it always has been.

"Those who keep God's commandments, those who live not by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God, compose the church of the living God.”

God’s church is not a denomination; it is all the people who keep God's commandments.

1 Testimonies 332.3 God is now testing and proving His people. Character is being developed. Angels are weighing moral worth and keeping a faithful record of all the acts of the children of men. Among God's professed people are corrupt hearts; but they will be tested and proved. That God who reads the hearts of everyone, will bring to light hidden things of darkness where they are often least suspected, that stumbling blocks which have hindered the progress of truth may be removed, and God have a clean and holy people to declare His statutes and judgments.

How can we expect God to pour out His Spirit on any church that says:

“We keep the commandments and yet nail some of the statute commandments to the cross where they don’t belong?”

Investigating New Ideas

My first meeting with Pastor David Giles at a Revelation seminar he said: “Don’t believe a word I say; …... prove all things from the Bible and history books.” I invite you to do the same. He also said: “You will always have questions .... but ... if you let go of truth ... you have nothing!” This is so true. Just like an oak tree you start off very small with a few Biblical truths and a thousand questions but as you learn more truths you get stronger and stronger and no one, not even Satan can change your mind if the truth is base on the Bible and history books.

Remember dear brother/sister ... if you have to have … all your questions answered … before you give your full will to God and follow His truths …... you never will.

If you say: “I believe what I have been taught by our great leaders of our church and do not want to study anything else unless they tell me so!” then you have the same attitude as the majority who are following the traditions of man instead of the Bible.

John 12: 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day.

Matthew 13:30 Wheat and Weeds Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time, I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.

The truth is; New Light has never come from church leadership or the majority. “New Light” has always come from the Bereans, lay people. It was the same in Christ time, in the Dark ages, 1844 and after there has been no “New Light”.

If you say: “If this is the truth then it will be shared by many people from around the world; not just you.” Do a study; there are thousands of Commandment Keepers in all parts of the earth.

If you are not following the Bible, written as instructed by God, then you are following the traditions of men.

God Bless You as we study New Light ... Prove all things ... from the Bible and the Bible only ... Hold fast to the truth.

New Light

Pastor Peter Baptiste made a true statement: Our human nature, our fallen Adam nature, our Adamic nature, which I call our Satanic nature, love’s three things: looking good, being right, and winning. We must surrender our satanic human nature to the will our God so that we can become humble and teachable to learn new Biblical truths.

When Christ came to bring new light into the world the greater majority of church leaders rejected Him and His message. There was one man who man who did not jump to conclusions that the old ways were best; his name was Nicodemus. See John chapter 3. He did not get upset and reject Christ’s teachings, he investigated them with a humble spirit and as a result he was born again. He received the new light and from that day on never looked at anything in the same way.

5 Testimonies GWT p 708, God does not favour His people if they are satisfied with their

present enlightenment.

Will you be a Nicodemus and 1 Thessalonians 5:21 Proved all things and hold fast to that which is good.

How to Test New Light

Gospel Workers p 300 Our brethren should be willing to investigate in a candid way every point of controversy. If a brother is teaching error, those who are in responsible positions ought to know it; and if he is teaching truth, they ought to take their stand at his side. We should all know what is being taught among us; for if it is truth, we need it. We are all under obligation to God to know what He sends us. He has given directions by which we may test every doctrine, -- "To the law (Torah ~ the first 5 books of the Bible) and to the testimony: (the rest of the O.T.) if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." [Isaiah 8:20.] If the light presented meets this test, we are not to refuse to accept it because it does not agree with our ideas.

The Light is Truth

John 3:19 And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰⁾ For every one that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds be reproved.

Revelation 3:15 I know your deeds that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! ¹⁶⁾ So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. ¹⁷⁾ You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

John 14:15 If you love me, keep my commands.

If you love Christ, you must be hot, on fire for your God. You must be willing to follow and

keep His commandments.

No Excuse

Review and Herald, Dec. 20, 1892 There is no excuse for anyone in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error. The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people is not proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth and truth can afford to be fair. No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation.

No Suspicion

Gospel Workers p 310 We must not for a moment think there is no more light, no more truth, to be given us …and composing ourselves with the thought, ‘I am rich, and increased with goods and have need of nothing.” “… While we must hold fast to the truths which we have already received we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.

Old truths in a New Light

1888 Materials, p 167 I have been shown that Jesus will reveal (future) to us precious old truths in a new light, if we are ready to receive them … The light may not come in accordance with plans that men may devise, but all who reverence the Word of God just as it reads, all who do His will to the best of their ability, will know of the doctrine … God calls every man’s attention to His living Oracles. Let no one quench the Spirit of God … by putting human interpretations upon His inspired Word; and let no one be kept in the dark, not willing to open their ears to hear.

Old Truths Recovered

Review and Herald, Extra Dec. 23 1890 If God’s people will become new bottles, He will fill them with the new wine (the 1888 message). God will give additional light, old truths will be recovered and replaced within the framework of truth.

Signs of the Times, April 15, 1875 In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated (was in existence already) in awful grandeur from Sinai, Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands (statutes) were enforced by the moral law and definitely explained that law.

Much New Light from the Law

Manuscript Releases V2 p 58 Said my guide, ‘There is much light yet to shine forth from the law of God and the gospel of righteousness. The message, understood in its true character and proclaimed in the Spirit, will lighten the earth with its glory.

(Revelation 18:1 the 4^th Angels Msg)

The Acts of the Apostles, p 475 “The only safe and sure rule is to do what God says. ‘The statutes of the Lord are right,’ and ‘he that doeth these things shall never be moved.’ Psalms 19:8; 15:5. It was with the word of God that the apostles met the false theories of their day, saying, ‘Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid.’ 1 Corinthians 3:11.”

Child Guidance p 506 The Holy One of Israel has made known to us the statutes and laws which are to govern all human intelligences. These precepts, which have been pronounced ‘holy, and just, and good,’ are to form the standard of action in the home. There can be no departure from them without sin, for they are the foundation of the Christian religion.

Fundamentals of Christian Education p 508 I was referred to the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy. The whole of this chapter is to be studied. Notice particularly the statement: ‘Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes, and His commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, forever.

Review and Herald, Oct. 13, 1904, Bible Commentary, V 7, p 984 As men, women, and children proclaim the gospel, the Lord will open the eyes of the blind to see His statutes, and will write upon the hearts of the truly penitent His law. The animating Spirit of God, working through human agencies, leads the believers to be of one mind, one soul, unitedly loving God and keeping His commandments-- preparing here below for translation.

Life Sketches p 269 I recalled the covenant which I had made with God at my husband's deathbed,--that I would not become discouraged under the burden, but would labor more earnestly and devotedly than ever before to present the truth both by pen and voice; that I would set before the people the excellence of the statutes and precepts of Jehovah, and would point them to the cleansing fountain where we may wash away every stain of sin.

Lessons on Faith p 95 He had never appointed any feasts days, nor solemn assemblies, nor sacrifices, nor offerings, nor songs, for any such purpose as that for which these were being used. He had appointed all these as the means of worshipful expression of a living faith by which the Lord Himself should abide in the heart and work righteousness in the life, so that in righteousness they could judge the fatherless and plead for the widow; and so that judgment could run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

Signs of the Times V2 p 147 Every character will be tested by the standard of God’s Holy Law. The Great God of heaven, our Supreme Ruler, has rules, statutes, and laws…They govern every member of the human family…God will not take into His kingdom and give eternal life to those who will not come under His Laws and Statutes in this life.

Special Truth for Last Generation

2 Testimonies 692-693 Those who lived in past generations were accountable for the light which was permitted to shine upon them. Their minds were exercised in regard to different points of Scripture, which tested them. But they did not understand the truths, which we do. They were not responsible for the light, which they did not have. They had the Bible, as we have; but the time for the unfolding of special truth in relation to the closing scenes of this earth’s history is during the last generations that shall live upon the earth.

Sister White states that “special truth” will be given by those who are alive during the end time events. This means we will not find all truth given in her writings, in relation to the closing scenes of this earth’s history. However; all further truth will have to agree with the Bible and the SOP, which this study does.

We are only Babies!

Counsels to Writers and Editors p 29 Although we have in trust the grandest and most important truth ever presented to the world, we are only babes, as far as understanding truth, in all its bearings is concerned.

Selected Messages V1 p 401 The question has been asked me, “Do you think that the Lord has any more light for us as a people?” I answer that He has light that is new to us, and yet it is precious old light that is to shine forth from the Word of truth. We have only the glimmerings of the rays of the light that is yet to come to us.

Restored at the End

Prophets and Kings, p 678 In the time of the end (Our time now.) every divine institution (Not just one, many because she said every, plural) is to be (future tense, not in Sister White’s time) restored. The breach made in the law at the time the Sabbath was changed by man (by Catholic Church in the dark ages, they changed Sabbath to Sunday and the Sabbath Feast Days to Pagan Holidays, Christmas, Easter etc.) is to be repaired. God’s remnant people (Are those End Time people who follow every divine institution, they will come out of every church) standing before the world as reformers are to (future tense, not in Sister White’s time) show that the law of God is the foundation of all enduring reform and that the Sabbath of the fourth commandment is to stand as a memorial of creation, (There are statutes attached to the 4th commandment) a constant reminder of the power of God. In clear, distinct lines they are to (Future tense.) present the necessity of obedience to ALL the precepts of the Decalogue. (She is talking about ALL of God’s laws. This is a reminder that we must study all of them.) Constrained by the love of Christ, they are to (Future tense.) co-operate with Him in building up the waste places. They are to (Future tense.) be repairers of the breach (What is to be repaired? All of God’s Holy Laws.) restorers of paths to dwell in.

Seventh Day Adventist’s believe that they are the “repairers of the breach” because they restored the

weekly Sabbath but this is only partly true. Only “In the time of the end every divine institution is

to be restored.”

Few Seventh Day Adventist’ Saved

Christian Service p 40 Not One in Twenty Prepared

It is a solemn statement that I make to the church, that not one in twenty whose names are registered upon the church books are prepared to close their earthly history,

The Pastoral Ministry p 281 Pastoral Ministry Not one minister in twenty knows the real essence of Christ's ministry. --Divine knowledge may become human knowledge. Every minister should study closely the manner of Christ's teaching. They must take in His lessons. There is not one in twenty who knows the beauty, the real essence, of Christ's ministry.

Testimonies vol. 8, p. 148. Christian Service p 81, Christian Service Steps to Christ, p. 81

Not one in a hundred among us is doing anything beyond engaging in common, worldly enterprises. We are not half awake to the worth of the souls for whom Christ died.

7 Manuscript Releases p 389 We have little enough of Christ's character. We need it all through our ranks, We must reveal that love which dwelt in Jesus. Then we shall keep the commandment [that we love one another], which not one in a hundred of those who claim to believe the truth for this time are keeping. . . . Perfect unity must exist in a diversity of gifts.

New Light by ~ Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi

In 1977, Seventh-day Adventist scholar Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi published From Sabbath to Sunday: A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity, documenting the historical transition from the Saturday Sabbath to Sunday in the early Christian church due to social, pagan and political factors.

This book was his Doctrinal Paper at the Gregorian University of Rome. He was the first Protestant student to attend this Roman Catholic University which is located in Rome, Italy. He was awarded first prise of a gold medal by the Roman Catholic Church for this book. I have met Dr. Bacchiocchi and have held his gold medal.

In 1995 as Dr. Bacchiocchi studied deeper into this subject, he discovered more changes than just the weekly Sabbath. He wrote two books on this subject:

1) God’s Festivals in Scripture and History Part 1 - The Spring Festivals

2) God’s Festivals in Scripture and History Part 2 - The Fall Festivals

God’s Festivals in Scripture and History Part 1-The Spring Festivals,

Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi, p 10 - 12

“Being free from teaching commitments at Andrews University from June to December 1995, I devoted every spare moment of these seven months to writing the book . …“This research has been full of surprising discoveries for me.

“A first surprise was to find considerable interest in the relevance of Israel’s Feasts for Christians, not only

among Messianic Jews who wish to retain their Jewish religious heritage, but also among those Christians who wish to rediscover their Jewish roots. …

“A second surprise was to find a significant interest in the Feasts of Israel among Adventist members and scholars. In every church in which I presented my seminars during the latter half of 1995, I met some fellow believers who had been studying, and in some cases observing privately the annual Feasts. Similarly, at Andrews University I found several colleagues (Biblical University Instructors) keenly interested in the study of the Feasts. In fact, some of them have been observing the Feasts privately. …

“A third surprise was to find supportive statements for the Feasts in the writings of Ellen White, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

“A fourth surprise was to discover that I was wrong in assuming that the annual Feasts came to an end with the sacrifice of Christ, simply because they were connected with the sacrificial system of the Temple. I came to realize that the continuity or discontinuity of the Feasts is determined not by their connection with the sacrificial system, but by the scope of their typology. If the Feasts had typified only the redemptive accomplishments of Christ’s first Advent, then obviously their function would have terminated at the Cross. But, if the Feasts foreshadow also the consummation of redemption to be accomplished by Christ at His Second Advent, then their function continues in the Christian church, though with a new meaning and manner of observance.”

Why Ellen G. White didn’t promote Feast Days

John 16:12 I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now.

2 Testimonies p 692 The time for the unfolding of special truth in relation to the closing scenes of this earth's history is during the last generation… The present truth, which is a test to the people of this generation, was not a test to the people of generations far back.

8 Testimonies p 301 To John the Lord opened the subjects that He saw would be needed by His people in the last days. The instruction that He gave is found in the book of Revelation. Those who would be co-workers with our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ will show a deep interest in the truths found in this book. With pen and voice they (Not Sister White) will strive to make plain the wonderful things that Christ came from heaven to reveal.

Great Controversy p 536 If we turn from the testimony of God's word and accept false doctrines because our fathers (Earthly Leaders) taught them, we fall under the condemnation pronounced upon Babylon; we are drinking at the wine of her abomination.

1888 Materials p 278 I was then informed that at this time it would be useless to make any decision as to positions on doctrinal points, as to what is truth, or to expect any spirit of fair investigation, because there was a confederacy formed to allow of no change of ideas on any point or position, they had received any more than did the Jews. Much was said to me by my Guide that I have no liberty to write. I found myself sitting up in bed in a spirit of grief and distress, also with a spirit of firm resolve to stand at my post of duty to the close of the meeting and then wait for the directions of the Spirit of God telling me how to move and what course to pursue.

Some people think Sister White had all the truth that is needed for the end time events, she makes it very clear that she didn’t reveal all. It seems that God informed her of what was to take place but told her not to reveal it at that time.

We Need to Unlearn to have Unity

Review and Herald, July 26, 1892 We have many lessons to learn, and many, many to unlearn. God and Heaven alone are infallible. Those who think that they will never have to give up a cherished view, never have occasion to change an opinion, will be disappointed. As long as we hold to our own ideas and opinions with determined persistency, we cannot have the unity for which Christ prayed.

Review and Herald, Nov. 17, 1885, par. 14 Well would it be for us to have a feast of tabernacles, a joyous commemoration of the blessing of God to us as a people. We should gratefully regard the old way-marks, and refresh our souls with memories of the loving-kindness of our gracious Benefactor.

Sister White’s does not do away with the Feast Days. Why didn’t she push for Feast Days to be kept then in 1885? Because God’s knows the beginning from the end, His timing is always perfect. God did sent His messengers, Jones and Waggoner, with this message of the Annual Sabbath Feast Days, the Fourth Angel’s message, Revelation 18:1, to the Seventh Day Adventist General Conference in 1888 (complete details later). God knew that the satanic agents would reject it in 1888 delaying the message until Elijah would come.

Difficult Texts – Spirit Of Prophecy

The Desire of Ages p 652 “The national festival of the Jews was to pass away forever.”

The context is God’s Supper was established.

Question: When Christ ate the Passover with His disciples, did He eat the Passover meal (lamb), the Passover week, or the Passover day ~ the 14^th day of the 1^st month?

The Desire of Ages p 652 In Remembrance of Me "The Lord Jesus the same night in which He was betrayed took bread: and when He had given thanks, He break it, and said, Take, eat: this is My body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of Me. After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, this cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as often ye drink it, in remembrance of Me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till He comes." 1 Corinthians 11:23-26.

Two Great Festivals: The Passover Lamb and the Lord’s Supper

Christ was standing at the point of transition between two economies and their two great festivals. He, the spotless Lamb of God, was about to present Himself as a sin offering, that He would thus bring to an end the system of types and ceremonies that for four thousand years had pointed to His death. As He ate the Passover (Meal) with His disciples, He instituted in its place (The Context) the service that was to be the memorial of His great sacrifice. The national festival (singular, the Sacrificial Passover Lamb) of the Jews was to pass away forever. The service which Christ established was to be observed by His followers in all lands and through all ages. The Passover was ordained as a commemoration of the deliverance of Israel from Egyptian bondage. God had directed that, year by year, as the children should ask the meaning of this ordinance, the history should be repeated. Thus, the wonderful deliverance was to be kept fresh in the minds of all. The ordinance of the Lord's Supper was given (p 653) to commemorate the great deliverance wrought out as the result of the death of Christ.

Till He shall come the second time in power and glory, this ordinance is to be celebrated. It is the means by which His great work for us is to be kept fresh in our minds.

Christ’s death on the Cross brought to an end the system of types and ceremonies. The Passover which Christ ate with His disciples, instituted in its place the service that was to be the memorial of His great sacrifice.

Luke 22:1 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

The Acts of the Apostles, p 390 Paul tarried to keep the Passover....during the eight days of the feast

Luke 22:1 tells us that “the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.” If this was the national festival which was to pass away forever; why was Paul keeping it? Was he offering lambs? No. What was he doing then?

Life of Paul p 196 At Philippi Paul tarried to keep the Passover. Only Luke remained with him, the other members of the company passing on to Troas to await him there. The Philippians were the most loving and true-hearted of the apostle's converts, and he enjoyed a peaceful and happy visit with them during the eight days of the feast.

Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy Refuted

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The Feast Days, by Seventh Day Adventist’s Great Controversy Vance Ferrell

This book is being promoted by the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy against Feast Days states on the bottom of page 8 and top of page 9:

“Next is introduced the ceremonial laws of sacrifices, and it is pointed out that this is separate from the moral law. (Elsewhere, the Spirit of Prophecy speaks about some of the feast days as part of the ceremonial laws.)

Then, in the above quotation, we are told about a third category of laws, called the statutes and judgments, which, we are told, are not part of the moral law not part of the ceremonial laws.”

Vance Ferrell contradicts SOP; Review and Herald, May 6, 1875, Sister White explains that there are ONLY two laws, (See below) not three as Vance Ferrell would have you believe. Also he states that: “(Elsewhere, the Spirit of Prophecy speaks about some of the feast days as part of the ceremonial laws)” but never gives information where it can be found because she never made this statement. Feast days are part of the Moral law not Ceremonial laws. The statues and precepts give by Christ are part of the moral law as written in par. 14 of the below, Review and Herald, May 6, 1875. I have read Vance Ferrell entire book on “The Feast Days” that is being promoted by the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy and found that, as in the above example, he has twisted the facts and context of the Bible and SOP, this is a perversion of the Scriptures, Patriarchs and Prophets p 365. You will find the truth about God’s Holy Annual Feast Days when you compare this presentation to Mr. Ferrell’s.

The Two Laws

The Moral Law ~ (Ten Commandments) and the Ceremonial Law ~ (sacrifices and offerings).

Review and Herald, May 6, 1875 (par. 3) “God's people, whom he calls his peculiar treasure, were privileged with a two-fold system of law; the moral and the ceremonial. The one, pointing back to creation to keep in remembrance the living God who made the world, whose claims are binding upon all men in every dispensation, and which will exist through all time and eternity. The other, given because of man's transgression of the moral law, the obedience to which consisted in sacrifices and offerings pointing to the future redemption. Each is clear and distinct from the other.” “A special system of rites and ceremonies was established, which would secure the remembrance of God among his people, and thereby serve as a hedge to guard and protect the Ten Commandments from violation.

(par. 4) “The ceremonial law was to answer a particular purpose of Christ plan for the salvation of the race. The typical system of sacrifices and offerings was established that through these services the sinner might discern the great offering, Christ.” “The whole arrangement of the typical system was founded on Christ. Adam saw Christ prefigured in the innocent beast suffering the penalty of his transgression of Jehovah's law.”

The Purpose

(par. 5) “The statutes and judgments specifying the duty of man to his fellow-men, were full of important instruction, defining and simplifying the principles of the moral law, for the purpose of increasing religious knowledge, and of preserving God's chosen people distinct and separate from idolatrous nations.”

(par. 6) “The statutes concerning marriage, inheritance, and strict justice in deal with one another, were peculiar and contrary to the customs and manners of other nations, and were designed of God to keep his people separate from other nations…” …

(par. 10) The Statutes enforced by the Moral Law. “In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern the everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon man in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law.”

How can you abolish precepts and statues that “were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments?”

(par. 14) “Christ, who went before Moses in the wilderness, made the principles of morality and religion more clear by particular precepts, specifying the duty of man to God and his fellow-men, for the purpose of protecting life, and guarding the sacred law of God, that it should not be entirely forgotten in the midst of an apostate world.”

Christ is the Author and Enforcer of His Statues and Precepts

(par. 16) “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in Heaven." What is the will of the Father? That we keep his commandments. Christ, to enforce the will of his Father, became the author of the statutes and precepts given through Moses to the people of God. (Not just the Jewish Nation but to Spiritual Israel.) Christians who extol Christ, but array themselves against the law governing the Jewish church, array Christ against Christ.”

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Research Institution

Feasts have not been fulfilled yet!!!

Daniel and Revelation Committee Series V5 p 30 "Doctrine of the Sanctuary - A Historical Survey"
Copyright by the BRI in 1989

While affirming that "righteousness comes not by the law but by faith in the promises [of God]," Crosier's article advocated the relevance of the law of Moses for the period after the Disappointment. He began by modifying the seventh-month movement position by the typological significance of the spring Jewish festivals. The complete fulfillment of these festivals, he said, did not take place at a point of time at the First Advent. The incarnation of Christ was only the beginning of their antitypical fulfillment which would not be completed until the end of the "gospel dispensation" at the Second Advent.

Why does the Seventh Day Adventist Bible Research Institution agree that the Annual Festivals have not

been fulfilled and yet not teach this to the Seventh Day Adventist congregation?

Ceremonial Law Nailed to the Cross

Patriarchs and Prophets p 365 There are many who try to blend these two systems, using the texts that speak of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been abolished; but this is a perversion of the Scriptures. The distinction between the two systems is broad and clear. The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ "took . . . out of the way, nailing it to His cross." Colossians 2:14. But concerning the law of Ten Commandments the psalmist declares, "Forever, O Lord, Thy word is settled in heaven." Psalms 119:89. And Christ Himself says, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law. . . . Verily I say unto you"--making the assertion as emphatic as possible--"Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matthew 5:17, 18. Here He teaches, not merely what the claims of God's law had been, and were then, but that these claims should hold as long as the heavens and the earth remain. The law of God is as immutable as His throne. It will maintain its claims upon mankind in all ages.

Concerning the law proclaimed from Sinai, Nehemiah says, "Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments." Nehemiah 9:13. And Paul, "the apostle to the Gentiles," declares, "The law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good." Romans 7:12. This can be no other than the Decalogue; for it is the law that says, "Thou shalt not covet." Verse 7.

While the Saviour's death brought to an end the law of types and shadows, it did not in the least detract from the obligation of the moral law. On the contrary, the very fact that it was necessary for Christ to die in order to atone for the transgression of that law, proves it to be immutable.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 370 As the Bible presents two laws, one changeless and eternal, the other provisional and temporary, so there are two covenants.

One can go through the Mosaic Law and put every statute under one of the Ten Commandments, with the exception of the sacrifices and obligation laws that were, fulfilled, accomplished, and nailed to the cross.

Great Controversy p 327 In the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.’ In A.D. 31, three and a half years after His baptism, our Lord was crucified. With the great sacrifice offered upon Calvary, ended that system of offerings, which for four thousand years had pointed forward to the Lamb of God. Type had met antitype, and all the sacrifices and oblations of the ceremonial system were there to cease.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 311 These laws were to be recorded by Moses, and carefully treasured as the foundation of the national law, and, with the ten precepts which they were given to illustrate, the condition of the fulfillment of God’s promises to Israel.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 310 That the obligations of the Decalogue might be more fully understood and enforced, additional precepts were given, illustrating and applying the laws of the Ten Commandments. These laws were called judgments, both because they were framed in infinite wisdom and equity and because the magistrates were to give judgment according to them. Unlike the Ten Commandments, they were delivered privately to Moses, who was to communicate them to the people.

Perversion of the Scriptures ~ Blending the Moral with the Ceremonial Law

Signs of the Times, July 29, 1886, par. 4 There are some who do not understand the plan of redemption, but make the death of Christ an argument to prove that the law of God is abolished. Men who claim to be teachers of the people blind the eyes of the ignorant by blending the moral law with the ceremonial, and using the texts which speak of the ceremonial law to prove that the moral law has been abolished. This is a perversion of the Scriptures. There are two distinct laws brought to view. One is the law of types and shadows, which reached to the time of Christ, and ceased when type met antitype in his death. The other is the law of Jehovah, and is as abiding and changeless as his eternal throne. After the crucifixion, it was a denial of Christ for the Jews to continue to offer the burnt offerings and sacrifices which were typical of his death. It was saying to the world that they looked for a Redeemer to come, and had no faith in Him who had given his life for the sins of the world. Hence the ceremonial law ceased to be of force at the death of Christ.

Do Not Change the Law

Deuteronomy 4:2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of God that I give you.

Revelation 22:18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll. ¹⁹⁾ And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.

Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, July 15, 1890 We have the types and the shadows in the ceremonial laws, and these were to last until they should meet the reality. The sacrificial offerings were continually revealing the fact that Christ was coming to our world, and when type met antitype in the death of Christ, then the sacrificial offerings, typifying Christ, were no more of any value, but the royal law of God could not be changed.

We can subtract nothing, zero, to the word of God. The laws are forever, which is for eternity or they are

fulfilled and then they are abolished by being nailed to the cross.

You cannot prove from the Bible or SOP that any of the Feast days have been fully fulfilled or abolished.

Jesuits in Seventh Day Adventist Church

Do Not Worry, let the Wheat and the Tare grow together

The Seventh Day Adventist Church system is the best in the world for evangelizing.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church baptizes, on average, over 3000 people per day every day of the year for

over the last 10 years. They have more missionaries than all other Protestant denominations combined.

However, they are not giving the end time message of Revelation 18:1, the Fourth Angles message of God’s

Annual Feast days as of yet.

Selected Messages 3, p 402 The greater man's influence for good, under the control of the Spirit of God, the more determined will be the enemy to indulge his envy and jealousy toward him by religious persecution.

Who is Satan’s biggest enemy? The Seventh Day Adventist Church because we preach the most truth around the world. Where would Satan send the most Jesuits “to seek even to preach from their pulpits, and to denounce with all the vehemence in your nature our Holy Religion and the Pope, and among the schools and universities”? (Part of the Jesuit oath, see p 80) Logically to the Seventh Day Adventist organization and this was done long before 1888. Sister White states that satanic agents were in the Seventh Day Adventist organization in 1888, thus there is no doubt that there still are many Jesuits in the Seventh Day Adventist organization today.

Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary V5 p 1094 Satan has wrought with deceiving power, bringing in a multiplicity of errors that obscure truth. Error could not stand alone, and would soon become extinct, if it did not fasten itself like a parasite upon the tree of truth. Error draws its life from the tree of God. The traditions of men, like floating germs, attach themselves to the truth of God and men regard them as a part of the truth. Through false doctrines Satan gains a foothold and captivates the minds of men, causing them to hold theories that have no foundation in truth. Men boldly teach for doctrines the commandments of men, and as traditions pass on from age to age, they acquire a power over the human mind. But age does not make error truth; neither does its burdensome weight cause the plant of truth to become a parasite. The tree of truth bears its own genuine fruit, showing its true origin and nature. The parasite of error also bears its own fruit and makes manifest that the character is diverse from the plant of heavenly origin.

Corruption in the Seventh Day Adventist Church Since 1844

The Faith I Live By p 335 The message of the fall of Babylon, as given by the second angel, is repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the churches since 1844.

Satanic Work, 1888

Testimonies to Ministers p 80 1895 They began this satanic work at Minneapolis. Yet these men have been holding positions of trust (Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy) and have been molding the work after their own similitude as far as they possibly could.

1888 Materials p 224 It was evident that a spirit had been at work for years to bring about this state of things. It was no sudden work. Our brethren never did have and never will have any greater evidence that God was with me, working with me and by me for the benefit of His people, than they had at that conference. It was evident that a delusion was upon our brethren. They had lost confidence in Sister White, not because Sister White had changed but because another spirit had taken possession and control of them. Satan's purpose is, through his devices, to make of none effect the testimonies of the Spirit of God. If he can lead the minds of the people of God to see things in a perverted light, they will lose confidence in the messages God sends through His servants; then he can the more readily deceive, and not be detected.

Satanic Agents in Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy Today

The General Conference web site states:

The 1888 message was merely ‘the same doctrine that Luther, Wesley, and others had been teaching.

Our leading men in general gladly accepted the message: the rank and file of Seventh-day Adventist workers

and laity accepted the presentations (of Jones and Waggoner) at Minneapolis and were blessed.

The 1888 Conference stands out as a glorious victory.

How can the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy of today state: The 1888 Great Controversy stands out

as a glorious victory; when EGW states that satanic work was at Minneapolis in the 1888 Great Controversy;

unless, there is still satanic Jesuit agents working the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy today?

Russell R. Standish, Colin D. Standish, Confronts Apostasy, Hartland Pub., 2006, p 201

"Some, understanding the deliberate infiltration of men bent upon the destruction of God's church, often seek to expose the identity of such men." "Of course there are Jesuits in our church."

Seventh Day Adventist AUDIENCE WITH POPE PAUL VI

Presentation of a Gold Medal to the Pope by an Official Representative of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. On May 18. 1977, Dr. B. B. Beach, Secretary of the Northern Europe-West Africa Division, with other representatives of the religious bodies, had an audience with Pope Paul VI. The Pope welcomed these men as “representatives of a considerable portion of Christian people.” Elder W. Duncan Eva, a vice president of the General Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, reported that on this occasion, Dr. Beach presented the Pope a medallion, which “was a gold-covered symbol of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.” (Review, Aug. 11. 1977, p. 23)

Dr. Beach noted that the audience with the Pope marked the first time in history that the Seventh Day Adventist Church, through an official representative, had met with a Roman Pontiff. Dr. Beach addressed the Pope as “Holy Father.” As a loyal Adventist I am appalled and ashamed that this event occurred, however not everyone was disappointed, for not too long afterward Dr. Beach was promoted and elevated to a position in Washington D.C. at the General Conference.

B.B. Beach publicly announced on Radio Vatican; “It is a distinct honor to be present as Secretary of the

Conference in an audience here in Rome with the Holy Father,” (upon which I presented to the Pope a book

describing the work of the Adventist Church throughout the world).

Matthew 23:9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

Another example of a dynamic preacher that sounds like a Jesuit is: by Phil Moore

Dr. (Pastor) Dwight Nelson of Pioneer Memorial Seventh Day Adventist Church in a sermon on Sabbath Dec. 11, 2010, told the world on air, 3ABN and via the Internet that: "Allah is the name of the living God; Allah is the God of the universe."

This sermon was titled "Star Still Rising Over Islam" and can be heard at:

http://www.pmchurch.tv/transaction.php?category=41

See/listen for this statement at 32:27-33:21 minutes into his sermon.

Pastor Nelson further told his listeners, "Never, never, never, never, never embrace that" "Allah is the name for Lucifer" or that "Allah is a demonic god..." See/listen for this statement at 31:37 to 31:46 minutes into his sermon.

In this last statement, Dr. Nelson seems to be telling his members, "Don't even both come to me after this sermon or write to me questioning or objecting to my statement that Allah is God and not Lucifer." But how could he expect to make such an unorthodox statement, that is so contrary to Seventh Day Adventist doctrine, the SOP, and the teachings of the pioneers and not be challenged? How could he expect to make such a controversial proposition and not be called on it.

Dr. Nelson also said that "The Quran teaches the seeds of every divine truth that you and I embrace." - See/listen for this statement at 31:29 to 31:48 minutes into his sermon.

Dr. Nelson also refers to the Muslim god as "The mighty spirit of Allah..." - See/listen for this statement at 33:27 to 33:37 minutes into his sermon.

These statements, especially the first and the last two, are all false, and cannot be allowed to go unchallenged. This is a blasphemous heresy and a slur on the character and name of the true God, Jehovah (Yaweh, Adonai, Elohim).

Who is Islam’s Allah?

As everyone knows, the crescent moon is the universal symbol of Islam. It is a fact of ancient history that Allah was the moon god of pre-islamic times. Allah was the supreme creator-god of the Arabs. Professor Coon states: "The god Il or Ilah was originally a phase of the Moon God, but early in Arabian history the name became a general term for god [i.e. Allah]."

At Mecca, the moon-god Allah ("Ali-ilah) was the chief of the gods and the special deity of the Quraish, the prophet Muhammad's tribe. Muhammad transfer this childhood believe into the Qur'an (xxix, 61) where it refers to the belief of the Quraish people in Allah as the creator of the heavens and the earth.

In fact, both Muhammad's father and uncle had Allah as part of their names. And both their parents worshiped the moon god. Muhammad's father name was Abd-Allâh or `Abdullah' (meaning "Servant or worshiper of Allâh"). And at birth Muhammad was given the name: Abu al-Qasim Muhammad Ibn Abd Allah Ibn Abd al-Muttalib Ibn Hashim.

Professor Coon further says that "under Muhammad's tutelage, the relatively anonymous Ilah became Al-ilah, 'The God,' or Allah, the Supreme Being" (Carleton S.Coon, , Southern Arabia, (Washington, D.C. Smithsonian, 1944) p. 399).

The conclusion about the identity of Allah?

The god Allah was not revealed to Muhammad. The cult of the deity al-ilah (Allah) was known throughout northern Arabia [see, F.E. Peters, The Hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places, p. 27. Muhammad inherited his father's religion, the worship of Allah, but unlike his father he made Allah the only God to be worshiped. But Allah is still Allah: the moon god.

Dr. Newman concludes that "Islam proved itself to be ... a separate and antagonistic religion which had sprung up from idolatry" (N. A. Newman, The early Christian-Muslim dialogue: a collection of documents from Three Islamic Centuries, 632-900AD (1993), p.719).
Back to Dr. Dwight Nelson's sermon

So, why would Dr. Dwight Nelson say that Allah is the true God, the CREATOR, in his sermon, when all the available evidence says otherwise? Because he has an agenda. Dr. Nelson is not ignorant of the above facts. But he is allowing himself to be a mouth-piece for the G.C.'s " Seventh Day Adventist -Muslim relations" propaganda. The gulf between Rome has been closed and now they seek to do the same with that other power from "the bottomless pit" (Revelation 9:1-19).

Does the Quran have "the seeds of every divine truth that you and I embrace"?

Dr. Nelson states: "The Quran teaches the seeds of every divine truth that you and I embrace." - listen again for this statement at 31:29 to 31:48 minutes into his sermon.

Is this true? What does Islam teach about the Sanctuary? The Investigative Judgment? The Atoning sacrifice of Christ? Righteousness by faith along (in Christ)? The state of the dead? The Sabbath? The second coming of Christ? The origin of sin? The mark of the beast? The three Angel's messages? The role of the papacy in the history of God's people? The role of the Spirit of Prophecy? I could go on, but I am sure you get the point! But then, perhaps for Dr. Nelson, these are no longer fundamental Seventh Day Adventist beliefs.

What did the Seventh Day Adventist pioneers have to say about the teachings of Islam?

Here is what the pioneers regarded the teachings of Islam. J. White, husband of E. G. White wrote of Islam:

"Like the noxious and even deadly vapor which the winds, particularly from the southwest, diffuse in Arabia, Mahometanism spread from thence its pestilential influence—and arose as suddenly and spread as widely as smoke arising out of the pit, the smoke of a great furnace. Such is a suitable symbol of the religion of Mahomet, of itself, or as compared with the pure light of the gospel of Jesus. It was not, like the latter, a light from heaven' but a smoke out of the bottomless pit."

- See, James White, "The Seven Trumpets of Revelation VIII and IX", 3rd edn., 1875.

And William Miller, after quoting Revelation 9, verses 1, said:

"... Mahomet promulgated a religion which evidently came from the bottomless pit; for it fostered all the wicked passions of the human heart, such as war, murder, slavery, and lust."

William Miller next quotes Revelation 9:2 and then comments as follows: "This, then, is the true sentiment of this passage. And by reason of the Mahometan errors which would be believed or followed by a great multitude, the gospel... would be in a great measure hid or lost to the world."

- See, William Miller, "Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ," [1842].

There! So much for Dr. Dwight Nelson's view that: the Quoram contain "the seeds of EVERY divine truth that you and I [Seventh Day Adventist s] embrace."

Reader, we are certainly living in the very last days! Dr. Nelson is sure proof of this fact!

Now, I know that there are many Seventh Day Adventist’s who hang on every word of Dr. Dwight Nelson. But, whatever Dr. Nelson says that may be otherwise Biblically correct, one thing we know for sure is this: "If you want to know the truth about Islam, don’t go to Dwight Nelson."

Kind regards

PHIL MOORE | CRYING ALOUD!

Laodicea End Time Church

The Stumbling Block, Blind, Lukewarm, Feeble and Inefficient Church

Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; ¹⁵I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (The Shaking, Loud Cry Period) ¹⁷Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: ¹⁸I counsel thee to buy of me gold (Spiritual riches) tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, (Righteousness of Christ, in contrast with Laodiceans’ nakedness.) that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, (Antidote for their spiritual blindness; also represents spiritual grace which enables the Christian to distinguish between truth and error and between right and wrong.) that thou mayest see. ¹⁹As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous (Hot, which the Laodicean church is not.) therefore, and repent. King James Version

1 Testimonies p 188 Bible Commentary V7 p 761 It would be more pleasing to the Lord if lukewarm professors of religion had never named His name. They are a continual weight to those who would be faithful followers of Jesus. They are a stumbling block to unbelievers.

How can we be zealous (Hot)?

You’ve heard it said that to be a True Christian you must:

“Bible Study, Prayer and Share”

We are to be Ambassadors for Christ.

Prayer: Develops our love relationship with Christ.

Share: Give people a chance to choose a Trillion Billion $, which is Eternal Life.

Bible Study: What should the End Time Laodicean Church study?

The Response of Laodicea

Review and Herald, Dec. 23, 1890 par. 18 Because they did not respond to the warnings, the entreaties of the message of God but persistently said, “I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing.” Talent, long experience, will not make men channels of light. If you seek the Lord with all your heart, he will be found of you.

Maranatha p 219 In the manifestation of that power which lightens the earth with the glory of God, (4^th Angel, Revelation 18:1) they will see only something which, in their blindness, they think dangerous. Something that will arouse their fears and they will brace themselves to resist it. Because they persistently said, “I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing!

Testimonies to Ministers p 141 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and

the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.” Please read carefully the whole of the seventh chapter of Deuteronomy, and think upon the word of God. Will you turn from a plain ‘Thus saith the Lord’ after reading the history of Adam’s sin and fall? He fell because he discarded the words of the Lord and heeded the words of Satan. Will it pay to transgress? By transgression Adam lost Eden. By the transgression of God’s commandments man will lose heaven, and an eternity of bliss. These are no idle tales, but truth. Again, I ask: On which side are you standing? ‘If the Lord be God, follow Him: but if Baal, then follow him.

Seventh Day Adventist’s are Like Jew’s of Old

Review and Herald, Aug. 26, 1890 Since the time of the Minneapolis meeting, I have seen the state of the Laodicea church as never before. Like the Jews, many have closed their eyes to light and in walking apart from Christ feel need of nothing as there was when He was upon the earth.

Review and Herald, Dec. 11, 1888 The church of Christ (Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy) is the only object on the earth upon which he bestows his supreme regard; yet it has grown feeble and inefficient through selfishness.

General Conference Daily Bulletin, February 28, 1893. The church (Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy) needs now to shake off her death-like slumber; for the Lord is waiting to bless his people who will recognize the blessing when it comes, and diffuse it in clear, strong rays of light. ‘Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean. . . . And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes.

The Leadership of the Seventh Day Adventist church has been sleeping; there has been no new light,

since 1888.

The Fourth Angel’s Message

Revelation 18:1 And after these things, I saw another angel (4^th) come down from heaven, having great power and the earth was lighted with his glory. ²⁾ Babylon is fallen .. Come out of her,

My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.

Revelation 18:1 is a Life and Death Message

Testimonies, V6 p 60 The third angel’s message is to be given with power. The power of the proclamation of the first and second message is to be intensified … In the Revelation John says of the heavenly messenger who unites (the 4^th angel) with the third angel: “I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.” Revelation 18:1 … Our message is a life and death message.

If anyone says that this is not a salvation issue; Quote: “Our message is a life and death message.”

Many non-Bereans say this is not a salvational issue. They are of the Laodicea church: Revelation 3:17

“I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing!” That’s how they turn off new light and the

4^th Angel’s message.

Third Angel’s Message is Justification by Faith

To understand the 4^th Angels message, we have to understand the first 3 angel’s messages;

because the 4^th Angel’s message adds light to the messages of the first 3 Angels messages.

Testimonies to Ministers p 92 The Message of Justification by Faith: The Lord in His great mercy sent a most precious message to His people … This message was to bring more prominently before the world the uplifted Saviour, the sacrifice for the sins of the whole world. It presented justification through faith … which is made manifest in obedience to all the commandments of God … This is the message that God commanded to be given to the world. It is the third angel’s message.

Review and Herald, April 1, 1890 Several have written to me, inquiring if the message of justification by faith is the Third Angels’ message, and I have answered, ‘It is the Third Angel’s message in verity.’

4^th Angel Unites with the 3^rd Angel

The Faith I Live By p 335 I saw another mighty angel (4^th Angel of Revelation 18:1) commissioned to descend to the earth, to unite his voice with the third angel and give power and force to his message. A work of worldwide extent and unwonted power is her foretold. Great power and glory were imparted to the angel and as he descended, the earth was lightened with his glory. The light which attended this angel penetrated everywhere … The message of the fall of Babylon, as given by the second angel, is repeated, with the additional mention of the corruptions which have been entering the churches since 1844.

The Earth Lightening Message – From God’s Law

Manuscript Releases V2 p 58 Said my guide, ‘There is much light yet to shine forth from the law of God and the gospel of righteousness. The message, understood in its true character and proclaimed in the Spirit, will lighten the earth with its glory.

Manuscript Releases V 13 p 334 There was to be Special light for God’s people as they neared the closing scenes of this earth’s history. Another angel was to come from heaven with a message and the whole earth was to be lightened with his glory. (4^th Angel of Revelation 18:1 is obviously this ‘Special light’)

This is the 4^th Angels message of Revelation 18:1 Light: A Symbol of Biblical Truth

Review and Herald, V5 p 83 Eighteenth of Revelation…`Another angel.’ (4^th) ..During the Loud Cry…`I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes.’ This is the descent of the Holy Spirit … The Lord will open the eyes of the blind to see His statutes, and will write upon the hearts of the truly penitent His law.”

Psalms 119: 105 Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

Light Should Increase Continually

Proverbs 4: 18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

Review and Herald, Jan. 17, 1899 All who have had the light of truth are being tested … As a people; we have been exalted to the highest privileges. God has been revealed to us in ever-increasing light.

Light has to advance “and the earth was lightened with his glory.” Revelation 18:1

Revelation 18:1 is Pentecost Again in the Future

Great Controversy p 610 The angel who unites (4^th Angel) in the proclamation of the third angel’s message is to lighten the whole earth with his glory. A work of world-wide extent and unwanted power is here foretold … The work will be similar to that of the day of Pentecost.

Review and Herald, Aug 17, 1897 Great truths that have lain unheeded and unseen since the Day of Pentecost are to shine from God’s Word in their native purity.

What Added Light Does the 4^th Angel Bring?

Angel #1 Keep the Commandments of God

Keep the Seventh-day Sabbath

Angel #2 Be separate from spiritual Babylon

Angel #3 Be fully obedient to God through faith.

Experience sanctification.

Angel #4 Fully unmasks Babylon.

Keep the Statutes and Judgements

Keep the Annual Sabbaths too!

Malachi 2:9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people according as ye have kept My ways, but have been partial in the Law.

Maranatha p 219 In the manifestation of the at power which lightens the earth with the glory of God, (4^th Angel, Revelation 18:1) they (the Seventh Day Adventist Church leadership) will see only something which, in their blindness, they think dangerous, something will arouse their fears and they will brace themselves to resist it.

Review and Herald, p 27 May 1890 The light which will lighten the earth with its glory (4^th Angel, Revelation 18:1) will be (future) called a false light by those who refuse to walk in its advancing glory.

The Majority of Seventh Day Adventist’s Do Not Work with God

Review and Herald, July 21, 1896. The great outpouring of the Spirit of God, which lightens the whole earth with his glory, (the 4^th angel) will not come until we have an enlightened people who know by experience what it means to be laborers together with God. When we have entire whole-hearted consecration to the service of Christ, God will recognize the fact by an outpouring of His Spirit without measure; but this will not be while the largest portion of the church are not laborers together with God.

The Fourth Angels message is the End Time, Loud Cry, keep all of God’s laws; which, include

His Holy Feast Days.

What did Jones and Waggoner Say?

Are Seventh-day Adventists Doing God’s Will? p. 10 by Elder W.L. Brisbin

In 1888 in the General Conference held at Minneapolis, Minn, the angel of Revelation 18 came down to do his work and was ridiculed criticized and rejected and when the message he brings will again (future) swell into a loud cry it will again be ridiculed and spoken against and rejected by the majority.

Conclusion

Revelation 18:1 And after these things, I saw another angel (4^th) come down from heaven, having great power and the earth was lighted with his glory^{. 2)} Babylon is fallen ..

Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.

The implied Message: Be not partakers of the sins of Babylon.

What are the sins of Babylon? Weekly and Annual holidays !!!

What is the Fourth Angel’s message? Keep All of God’s Holy days !!!

The 4^th Angel of Revelation 18:1 is obviously much light yet to shine forth.

The 4^th Angel of Revelation 18:1 is obviously from the law;

The 4^th Angel of Revelation 18:1 is obviously God’s Annual Holy Laws.

Romans 3:20 For by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:7 I had not known sin, but by the law.

Know Sin Know Law

No Sin No Law

Our message is a life and death message.

1888 ~ The 4th Angels Light Put Out

Satanic Work, 1888

Testimonies to Ministers p 80 1895 They began this satanic work at Minneapolis. Yet these men have been holding positions of trust (Great Controversy) and have been molding the work after their own similitude as far as they possibly could.

Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy ~ Fools and Demons

1888 Materials p 207 This was a season of refreshing to many souls, but it did not abide upon

some. Just as soon as they saw that Sister White did not agree with all their ideas and harmonize with the propositions and resolutions to be voted upon in that (General) conference, the evidence they had received had as little weight with some as did the words spoken by Christ in the synagogue to the Nazarenes. Their hearts were touched by the Spirit of God. They heard, as it were, God speaking to them through His Son. They saw, they felt, the (p208) divine influence of the Spirit of God and all witnessed to the gracious words that proceeded from His mouth. But Satan was at their side with his unbelief and they admitted the questioning and the doubts, and unbelief followed. The Spirit of God was quenched. In this madness they would have hurled Jesus from the precipice had not God protected Him that their rage did not harm Him. When Satan once has control of the mind, he makes fools and demons of those who have been esteemed as excellent men. Prejudice, pride, and stubbornness are terrible elements to take possession of the human mind.

It seems that the majority of religious leaders that speak up for the Annual Feast Days and other prophetic topics are those who have retired and do not have to worry where their next pay cheque is coming from.

Satan Shuts Down Jones and Waggoner’s 4th Angel’s Message in 1888

1 Selected Messages p 234 An unwillingness to yield up preconceived opinions, and to accept this truth, lay at the foundation of a large share of the opposition manifested at Minneapolis against the Lord's message through Brethren E.J. Waggoner and A.T. Jones. By exciting that opposition Satan succeeded in shutting away from our people, in a great measure, the special power of the Holy Spirit that God longed to impart to them. The enemy prevented them from obtaining that efficiency which might have been theirs in carrying the truth to the world, as the apostles proclaimed it after the day of Pentecost. The light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory (Revelation 18:1, 4^th Angels Msg) was resisted, and by the action of our own brethren has been in a great degree kept away from the world.

15 Manuscript Releases p 83 Some have made confession, yourself among the number. Others have made no confession, for they were too proud to do this, and they have not come to the light. They were moved at the meeting by another spirit, and they knew not that God had sent these young men, Elders Jones and Waggoner, to bear a special message to them, which they treated with ridicule and contempt, not realizing that the heavenly intelligences were looking upon them and registering their words in the books of heaven.

Time Prolonged ~ Light Put Out

Letter 106 The whole of Revelation 18 will be fulfilled in the glorious closing of this work. It hasn’t yet been fulfilled and the light of the fourth Angel’s message began to shine in that strange and impressive way at Minneapolis. The only reasonable conclusion is that the light was put out by human instrumentalities.” … “If the people of God had walked in His counsel, the work of God would have advanced, the messages of truth would have been borne to all people that dwell on the face of the whole earth, but because the people are disobedient, unthankful, unholy, as were ancient Israel, time is prolonged. The Lord’s work has been hindered, the sealing time delayed.

Evangelism p 696 For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years.

Satan Controlled 1888

Letters - 24, 1892 I can never forget the experience which we had at Minneapolis, (1888) or the things which were there revealed to me in regard to the spirit that controlled men. They moved at the meeting by another spirit and they knew not that God had sent these young men (Jones & Waggoner) to bear a special message to them which they treated with ridicule and contempt. I know that the Spirit of God was insulted.

Testimonies to Ministers, p 96 How long will you hate and despise the messengers (Jones and Waggoner) of God’s righteousness? If you reject Christ’s delegated messengers, you reject Christ.

R&H May 27, 1890 “The third angel’s message will not be comprehended; the light which will lighten the earth with its glory (the Fourth Angels Msg of Revelation 18:1) will be called a false light by those who refuse to walk in its advancing glory.”

1888 and the Righteousness by Faith Smokescreen

What Happened in Adventism in 1888?

We have been taught that the General Conference Session in Minneapolis, MN was on Righteousness by Faith presented by Alonzo Jones and Elliot Waggoner this special message was controversial and rejected.

All G.C. sessions had a secretary c/w minute but why in 1888 can’t we find the minutes of this meeting?

1888 Rejected God’s Message and Agents

1888 Materials p. 399 You may continue to reject Christ in the person of His messengers. (Alonzo Jones and Elliot Waggoner) When men do this, the words of the apostle will find an application in their case as is the time of the Jews: “He came to His own, and his own received Him not” We are less excusable than were the Jews; for we have before us their example of rejection of Christ and His apostles and we have been warned not to fall after the same example of unbelief. Throughout the history of the church in all ages and especially in that of the Seventh-day Adventist, we have examples of those who have refused the light God sent them by His chosen agents.

You can see that people did not accept Jones and Waggoner’s message in 1888; what’s the excuse today?

1888 Most Glorious and Profoundly Unique Message

Grace on Trail p 103 What made the 1888 conference ‘epochal’ and crucial? It was both the character of the `special message (Not Righteousness by Faith) presented there and the strange manner of its reception. The message was profoundly unique, (Not Righteousness by Faith) the most glorious since the midnight cry of 1844; and its reception … the most emphatic and determined resistance of the gospel ever know within the Advent Movement.

To make this message ‘profoundly unique’ it had to be about something other than what we’ve been told: that the 1888 message was about righteousness by faith. That message has been known since Martin Luther.

1888 Materials, p 1525 Here is the secret of the movements made to oppose the men whom God sent with a message of blessing for His people. These men have been hated; the message was despised, as verily as Christ Himself was hated at His first advent.

1888 message was from the Law

Review and Herald, July 23 1889 Things new and old were brought before us. Truths were revealed that the people were scarcely able to comprehend and appropriate. Light flashed from the oracles of God in relation to the law and the gospel… which seemed to souls who were hungry for truth, as light too precious to be received.

Things new and old and Truths were revealed in relation to the law. This could not be applied to

‘Righteousness by Faith’ doctrine of Martin Luther, because it is not new or have a relation to the law.

This does apply to the annual feast days which are both new, doctrine for the 1888 time frame, and old,

From the Old Testament, and has a relation to the law, the moral law.

Letter B-2a, 1892 When I purposed to leave Minneapolis, the Angel of the Lord stood by me and said. ‘Not so, God has a work for you to do in this place. It is not you they are despising, but the messengers and the message I sent to My people.”

1888 Righteousness by Faith - This was No New Light

1888 Materials p 210 Now, Satan had a council as to how he should keep pen and voice of Seventh-day Adventists silent. If he could only engage their attention and divert their powers in a direction to weaken and divide them his prospect would be fair. Satan has done his work with some success. There has been variance of feelings, and division. There has been much jealousy and evil surmising.

Satan has been having things his own way; but the Lord has raised up men and given them a solemn message to bear to His people, to wake up the mighty men to prepare for battle, for the day of God's preparation. This message Satan sought to make of none effect, and when every voice and every pen should have been intensely at work to stay the workings and powers of Satan there was a drawing apart; there were differences of opinion. This was not at all the way of the Lord. At this meeting the subject of the law in Galatians was brought before the ministers. This subject had been brought into the conference three years before. We have a letter, extracts from which we will here present, which letter was written while in Basel, Switzerland, and sent to Brethren A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner.

We know that if all would come to the Scriptures with hearts subdued and controlled by the influence of the Spirit of God, there would be brought to the examination of the Scriptures a calm mind, free from prejudice and pride of opinion. The light from the Lord would shine upon His Word and the truth would be revealed. But there should be prayerful, painstaking effort and much patience, to answer the prayer of Christ that His disciples may be one as He is one with the Father. The earnest, sincere prayer, will be heard and the Lord will answer. The Holy Spirit will quicken the mental faculties and there will be a seeing eye to eye. "The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple" (Psalms 119:130). {1888 211.1}

Elder E. J. Waggoner had the privilege granted him of speaking plainly and presenting his views upon justification by faith and the righteousness of Christ in relation to the law. This was no new light, but it was old light placed where it should be in the third angel's message.

1888 Materials p 1575 To U. Smith Sunnyside Cooranbong, N.S.W., June 6, 1896,

An unwillingness to yield up preconceived opinions and to accept this Truth lay at the foundation of the opposition manifested at Minneapolis against the Lord’s message through brethren Waggoner and Jones. The Light that was to lighten the whole earth (Revelation 18:1, 4^th Angels Msg) with its glory was resisted and by the action of our own brethren kept away from the world. … “Satan succeeded in shutting away from our people in a great measure the special power of the Holy Spirit that God longed to impart to them.” … “The enmity prevented them from obtaining the efficiency which might have been theirs in caring the truth to the world as the apostles proclaimed it after the day of Pentecost.” … “The light that is to lighten the whole earth with its glory (Revelation 18:1) was resisted and by the action of our own brethren has been in a great degree (but not all) kept away from the world.

1888 Materials p 1578 When men like A.R. Henry and Harmon Lindsay refuse to be worked by the Holy Spirit, and yet consent to accept important responsibilities, Satan takes possession of their minds, and plans and devises for them. When these men entered upon this work, they did not foresee the results, but step by step has been taken under the generalship of Satanic agencies, who knew from the beginning what the results would be.

Satan succeeded in the 1888 Seventh Day Adventist General Conference meeting via Seventh Day Adventist leaders with satanic spirits.

Becoming like Cain

Letter 41-a 1895, Why do you cherish such bitterness against Elder A.T. Jones and Elder Waggoner? It is for the same reason Cain hated Abel. Cain refused to heed the instruction of God and because Abel followed His will, Cain killed him.”

The Real Issue at Stake

The History of the 1888 Message The real issue was “Waggoner’s interpretation of the law in the book of Galatians and Romans … Traditionally Seventh-day Adventists had always taught that the law which Paul spoke about in the book of Galatians was actually the ceremonial law .. (and that it passed away at the death of Christ)

The Return of the Fourth Angel p. 2

“…Elder Waggoner, however had studied the book of Galatians very carefully and had come to the conclusion (which he presented in Signs of the Times) that this law which Paul speaks about, actually (was) the Moral Law … (and was not nailed to the cross)

The message of 1888 was not the third angel’s message as the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy

would have you believe.

Ellen White ~ Exiled!

1888 Fanaticism

Letter May 31, 1896 I shall never, I think, be called upon to stand under the direction of the Holy Spirit as I stood at Minneapolis, (1888) but in the rooms was heard ridicule, criticism, jeering, and laughter. The manifestations of the Holy Spirit were attributed to fanaticism.

Letter, Jan. 9, 1893 They (the opposers) will be asked in the judgment, ‘Who required this at your hand, to rise up against the message and the messengers I sent to My people with light? Why have you lifted up your souls against God? When evidence was piled upon evidence, you did not humble your hearts before God, and repent of your rejection to the message of mercy I sent to you.

Ellen sent to Australia

The Return of the 4th Angel Because of her strong stand against the church in favour of the message of Jones and Waggoner, (1888) the Conference leadership began to doubt that Ellen was right. They sent her to Australia to weaken her message and influence.

Ellen White went against the Seventh Day Adventist Great Controversy and

they exiled her to Australia.

1888 Materials, 1622 I have not, I think, revealed the entire workings that led me here to Australia. The Lord was not in our leaving America. There was so great a willingness to have us leave, that the Lord permitted this thing to take place. Our separation from Battle Creek was to let men have their own way, which they thought superior to the way of the Lord.

Summary

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of (Biblical) knowledge. Because you have rejected (Biblical) knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

We know that Satan used the Papacy to take away Biblical truths from the majority in the dark ages. The Waldenseeans and others kept all of God’s laws and millions were murdered because they wouldn’t follow man made religious laws. These lost truths gradually came back one truth at a time up to the middle 1800’s when the Weekly Sabbath truth was proclaimed to the world; however, God has always had a remnant, a few faithful followers that kept Biblical truths all through the ages. Since the weekly Sabbath came forth to the whole world, there has been no new truth proclaimed on a world-wide scale.

Paul was a Feast Keeper After the Cross

Galatians 1:11 I (Paul) want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ¹² I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Christ.

Acts 28:17 I have done nothing against the customs of our fathers (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)

Acts 25: 8 Then Paul made his defence: “I have done nothing wrong against the law (Torah) of the Jews.”

Philippians 4:9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice.

(Passover, unleavened bread, etc.) and the God of peace shall be with you.”

Galatians 4:12 Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am.

If Paul was a Feast Keeper, why aren’t we?

Satan used the Pope to counterfeits all of God’s Holy Days

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and think to change the time of sacred feasts and holy days and the law; and the saints shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time. (Amplified Bible)

Signs of the Times, Nov., 4, 1919 Quoting the Catholic Catechism

The Catholic church abolished not only the (weekly) Sabbath but all the other Jewish festivals. (The annual Holy Feast days) The new law has its own spirit and its own feasts, which have taken the place of those appointed in the Law of Moses. (Torah, as spoke by our Creator.) If we would know the days to be observed, we must go to the Catholic Church, not to the Mosaic Law.

If the feasts were nailed to the cross then there is no reason to have Daniel 7:25 in the Bible because there

would be nothing to think to change.

If God’s Feast Days were abolished, nailed to the cross; then the Pope would have nothing to think to change.

Even the Catholics call the weekly Sabbath a Feast Day … all the other Jewish festivals.

Mark 7:6 Christ explains what defiles ⁶⁾ He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: ‘These people honour me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me In vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’ ⁸⁾ You have let go the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.” ⁹⁾ And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions.” (Satan’s Annual holy days, holidays, Christmas, Easter, etc)

After studying all of this; do you really want to follow the traditions of Satan!!

The Connection between the Old and New Testaments

Acts 9:15 But God said to Ananias, “Go! This man (Paul) is my chosen instrument

to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel.

God commissioned both Moses and Paul for a specific purpose.

The three missions of Moses were to: The three missions of Paul were to:

1) Deliver Israel from Egypt 1) Deliver the Gentiles from Satan
2) Teach Israel God’s commandments 2) Teach the Jewish people and Gentiles God’s commandments 3) To bring them into the Promised Land 3) Bring the believing Gentiles into the commonwealth of Israel

Be Christ Like

Christ is my example; He observed all Annual Feast days without observing the sacrificial system; thus, anyone who wants to be called a Christian, to be Christ like, must do the same.

If you do away with all the Feast days you must do away with the Seventh Day Sabbath as well because it is call a feast of God and the first one at that. We know that has not happened because the weekly Sabbath is part of the 10 Commandments; written in stone by the finger of God.

Leviticus 23:1 And God spoke unto; Moses, saying, ²⁾ “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [concerning] the feasts of God, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] My feasts.” (God Commands) King James Version

Leviticus 23:3 Weekly Sabbath Feast Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of God in all your dwellings.

The Seventh Day Sabbath is the first of the holy Feast days; and all are holy convocations.

Matthew 5:17 Christ stated: “Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the Law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. ¹⁸⁾ I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved.”

Heaven and earth have not disappeared so the Laws of the Prophets (Torah) are still to be obeyed. Christ fulfilled the blood and blood less ordnances and laws (ceremonial laws); thus, blotting them out nailing them to the cross.

Psalms 19: 7 The law of God is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of God are trustworthy, making wise the simple. ⁸ The precepts of God are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of God are radiant, giving light to the eyes.⁹ The fear of God is pure, enduring forever. The decrees of God are firm, and all of them are righteous. ¹⁰ They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb. ¹¹ By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 89:34 I will not violate my covenant or alter what my lips have uttered.

Satan is at war with that Law which is the foundation of God’s government in Heaven and in earth.

Matthew 12:8 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God.

Well there you have it. Christ said it; I believe it, what’s the problem with not keeping them?

Sister White states that there will be new light yet to come from the law.

Letter 259, 1903. Seventh Day Adventists Bible Commentary, V1 p 1103 The instructions given to Moses for ancient Israel, with their sharp, rigid outlines, are to be studied and obeyed by the people of God today.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 143 The light esteem in which the law of God is held, even by religious leaders, has been productive of great evil. The teaching which has become so wide-spread that the divine statutes are no longer binding upon men, is the same as idolatry in its effect upon the morals of the people. Those who seek to lessen the claims of God's holy law are striking directly at the foundation of the government of families and nations.

Patriarchs and Prophets p 342 The sacred statutes which Satan has hated and sought to destroy, will be honored throughout a sinless universe.

Signs of the Times Feb. 3, 1888 & Sermons and Talks, V2 p 184

In these last days there is a call from heaven inviting you

to keep the statutes and ordinances of the Lord.

Signs of the Times, April 15, 1875 “In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated (existence already) in awful grandeur from Sinai, Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments. They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were enforced by the moral law and definitely explained that law.”

Sister White state that we will keep them the Feasts in the end, so why not now? We do not have to know all the details of how to keep God’s Holy Days to keep them. What is stopping you from following Christs’ commandments, as best as you can, and keep all of His Holy Days.

True Midnight Cry, Aug. 22, 1844 “Thus we see that those types that pointed to events connected with our Lord’s first coming were fulfilled exactly at the time of their observance. And every one who is not willingly blind, must see, and feel, too, that those, which remain unfulfilled, will be fulfilled with an equally strict regard to time. Not only so, but Christ Himself confirms this argument from analogy, by saying, that one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Those types which were to be observed in the seventh month, have never yet had their fulfilment in the antitype.”

This confirms that the annual feasts days cannot have been nailed to the cross because the annual feasts in the

seventh month, fall feasts, have never yet had their fulfilment. The “events connected with our God’s first

coming were fulfilled exactly at the time of their observance”; thus the Second Coming will follow exactly

the same.

1843 Seventh Month Movement Repeated

1843 the movement looking for the Second Coming of Christ was called the Seventh Month Movement, because they looked for Christ’s return on the ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month God’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. Leviticus 23:34; which was October 22, 1844. This movement was sided tracked by Satan’s agents and many of God’s people separated and became separate churches. This Seventh Month Movement is coming back gradually but not fully until the commencement of time of trouble just before the Second Coming.

Early Writings, p 33 & A Word to the Little Flock, p 18

I saw that God had children who do not see and keep the Sabbath. They have not

rejected the light upon it. And at the commencement of the time of trouble we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we (Seventh Day Adventist’s) went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists as they could not refute the Sabbath truth.

This Sabbath message is about the annual Sabbaths; not the weekly Sabbaths because even nominal Adventists would not be enraged about the weekly Sabbath more fully.

The Mosaic Law helps us to understand the Ten Commandments more fully. God’s Holy Days are part of the

Mosaic Law. God’s Holy Days are the Seventh-day Sabbath more fully.

Prophets and Kings, p 678, In the time of the end every divine institution is to be restored. The breach made in the law at the time the Sabbath was changed by man, is to be repaired.

Today our church teaches that we keep many of the statutes, but the annual feast day Sabbaths, which are statutes also [Leviticus 23: 14,21,31,41] are nailed to the cross. This teaching cannot be proved by the Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy.

Isaiah 8:20 "To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them."

We are never safe while we are guided by human opinions, but we are safe when we are guided by a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ We cannot trust the salvation of our souls to any lower standard than the decisions of an infallible Judge.

To prove this study wrong you must do so from the Bible; and no one can.

Fundamentals of Christian Education p 393

The law is a wall of protection to those who are obedient to God’s Precepts.

The Faith I live by p. 333 There must be no neglect of the grace represented by the former rain. Only those who are living up to the light they have will receive greater light. Unless we are daily advancing in the exemplification of the active Christian virtues, we shall not recognize the manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the latter rain. It may be falling on hearts all around us, but we shall not discern or receive it.

Joshua 24:14 Now fear God and serve him with all faithfulness. … ¹⁵ But if serving God seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, …But as for me and my household, we will serve God.

Christ is my example; He observed all Annual Feast days without observing the sacrificial system; thus, everyone who want to be called Christians, to be Christ like, we must do the same.

If you would like more details or to join 1000’s of other Seventh Day Adventist’s including Pastors ie. Randy Brehms and John Van Denburge and Church Leaders like Dr. Samuele Bacchiocchi and 100’s of Seventh Day Adventist’s from Alberta and British Columbia, Canada, in keeping our God’s Annual Feast days contact Everett Lloyd Anderson at everetta@telus.net

Sabbath “Day” Starts and Ends When?

Noon ?

Sunrise ? Sunset ?

Dawn ? Dusk ?

Midnight ?

by Everett Lloyd Anderson ~ May 2010

No Excuse for Wilful Blindness

God does hold us accountable for everything that is in His Word. He has given us ample information throughout the Bible. Every one of us has access to a Bible. Therefore, we are without excuse.

Leviticus 5:17 “If a person sins, and commits any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments, though he does not know it, yet he is guilty and shall bear his iniquity.”

Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

Mix a Little Lie with Mostly Truth

Satan knows that the only way to get the majority to believe a lie is to mix a little lie with mostly truth.

We need to realize that the best deception is to deceive the deceived, into a deception, that the deceived never realizes that they are deceived. “Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” - Lutheran turned atheist Friedrich Nietzsche.

Do Not Add, Do Not Take Away

Deuteronomy 4:1 “Now, Israel, hear the decrees and laws I am about to teach you.

Follow them so that you may live (Not lose eternal life)

² Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it,

but keep the commands of YeHoVaH your Elohim that I give you.”

Proverbs 30:5 Every word of YeHoVaH is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

⁶ Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.

Do Not Do as You See Fit

Deuteronomy 12:1 “These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that YeHoVaH of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. …

³ Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles⁸⁴²

(sacred trees or poles set up near an altar, today we have Christmas Trees) in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

⁴ You must not worship YeHoVaH your Elohim in their way.

⁸ You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,

³¹ You must not worship YeHoVaH your Elohim in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the YeHoVaH hates.

³² See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.”

2^nd Book Index ~ Sabbath “Day” Starts and Ends When?

Page 133 Front Page

134 No Excuse for Wilful Blindness

135 Indes

136 Introduction YeHoVaH’s Last Call

139 Day at Creation? Genesis 1:1-5

140 Light Started Time on Earth

141 Light and Darkness Defined

142 Evening and Morning Defined

144 Night Starts When

144 Day always precedes Night

145 Sabbath or Sabbath Day

145 Permanence of YeHoVaH’s Covenant of Day and Night

146 New Earth,

146 Evening to Evening

147 Day of Atonement; Leviticus 23

148 Dawn Chart

149 Summary

150 Confirmation Texts; Passover and The Death Angel

Exodus 12:1; Leviticus 23:4

151 Manna From Heaven; Exodus 16:21; Num. 11:32

151 Holy Night or Holy Day; Luke 2:8

152 Day Begins at Dawn; 20 Texts

154 Yesternight, This Night and Tomorrow. Genesis 19:33, Exodus 32:5;

Samuel 19:11

155 When did the “Day” start in Christ’ time?

Matthew 27:45; John 19:18; Matthew 28:1; Luke 23:52; John 6:16

157 Difficult Bible Texts;

Exodus 12:18; Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1; John 20:1; Nehemiah 13:19; Colossians 2:16

159 Mark 16:1-9 ~ Another Look

160 Second Definition of “risen”

162 Jerusalem Closed the City Gates at Sunset;

Nehemiah 13:19, Colossians 2:16

163 Nehemiah Chart

164 Origin of Sunset to Sunset

165 Questions on Day and Night, by Elesha Yisrael

167 Is this a Salvational Issue?

Introduction

YeHoVaH’s Last Call, an Eternal Life Message

Do you love Christ? Do you really love Him more than anyone or thing else?

Matthew 10:37 “Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (or their church)

John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commandments. …

²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words.”

Ezekiel 20:11 “I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live. ¹² Also I gave them my Sabbaths⁷⁶⁷⁶ (plural, weekly and annual Sabbaths) as a sign ²²⁶ (a distinguishing mark) between us, so they would know that I YeHoVaH made them holy. … ²⁰Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign (a distinguishing mark) between us.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 What ever you do, do it all for the glory of YeHoVaH.

Matthew 11:30 “For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Following Him and His Truth sets you free.”

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Sunset to Sunset or Dawn to Dusk

This topic will play an important part in YeHoVaH’s final call for people to come out of Babylon.

Revelation 18:1 “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!”

Revelation 18:4 “Come out of her, my people.”

Revelation 18:4 is YeHoVaH’s last call for people to come out of Babylon, which is, false worship.

What’s false worship?

“You worship Me in vain!

You follow rules taught by men!

You have let go of My commandments!

You are holding to the traditions of men!” Mark 7:7

In vain, false worship are people who follow rules taught by men, holding to the traditions of men.

Breaking God’s (YeHoVaH’s) commandments, by omission or commission is definitely a salvational issue.

Which if you follow them, you let go of God’s commandments and are holding to the traditions of men!

Thus; you worship Christ in vain! Resulting in you losing eternal life!!!

Whatever law you follow, you pay homage to that law maker.

1. “Weekly” The majority are paying homage to the Roman Catholic Church by worshiping

(in vain) on the First day, Sunday instead of seventh day, Sabbath (Saturday).

2. “Annual” Sabbath keepers are paying homage to the Roman Catholic Church by worshiping

(in vain) by not keeping God’s Holy Annual Holy days, sin of omission rather than commission.

3. “Day” Weekly Sabbath keepers and Annual Feast keepers are paying homage to the Jewish

tradition by worshipping (in vain) by not keeping the Holy days as God directed in Genesis 1:5 and Genesis 2:3 to keep the “day” Holy but not the “night”.

Jewish History Confirms

The Jewish Festivals: History & Observance (by Hayyim Schauss - Shocken 1938)

The Jews added the late Friday afternoon hours to the Sabbath (p.13)...

Every Church denomination has been infiltrated by the Roman Catholic Jesuits. Part of the Roman Catholic Jesuit Oath from Google web site.

I am dispensed with to assume any religion heretical for the propagation of the Mother Church's interest;

This means, every Church denomination; including SDA, Messianic, Church of God, Armstrong, etc. Some “Weekly” Sabbath keeping and some Sabbath keeping and “Annual” Feast keeping Church’s; but,

none are following God’s “Day” ~ “Dawn to Dusk” commandments!!!

This is an Eternal Life Issue!!!!

We must be like the Bereans:

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans (the people reading this message) were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the scriptures everyday (you are to) to see if what Paul (Religious Leaders) said was true.

Satan Changes All Holy Times

Daniel 7:25 NKJV shall intend to change times and law.
YLT it hopeth to change seasons and law.

GW plan to change the appointed times and laws.

WYC he can change the times for the feasts, and the laws.

We know that Satan has counterfeited everything that YeHoVaH said is good, ~ what about the 24-hour time!

Everyone knows, including Sunday keeping Pastor’s that the weekly Holy Sabbath day was been changed from Saturday to Sunday, (the Seventh Day to the First Day of the week), the start of the New Year has been changed for Spring to January 1, and the Annual Holy Sabbath days have been changed to Christmas, Easter etc. All these time changes started as early as 325 A.D. by the Roman Catholic Church.

What about the start of the day, has it been counterfeited by Satan too?

I’ve been taught that the Sabbath day starts at Friday sunset and ends the following sunset but I`ve never had an in-depth Bible study on this subject; have you? Let’s do that right now.

Context is Extremely Important

Many people get off the topic by giving many definitions of the word “day” “evening” and “morning” e.g.:

Q. When will you be here?

A. Tuesday the 10^th; during the day.

Context is on 10^th day (24-hours period) during the day light hours, (light hours only) not during the night.

Q. When will you be here?

A. In the evening.

Context of “evening” can mean late in the day light hours or if in the winter it could mean in the dark. So the meaning of “evening” could be “light” or “darkness” depending on the context. To have sound doctrine we must confirm the time frame and stick to the topic. We must stick to the context of the Bible verse.

The topic is: When does a day begin? “Sunset, Midnight, 6pm, Sunrise or Dawn”

Psalms 113:3 “From the rising of the sun to its going down, YeHoVaH’s name is to be praised.”

Dawn Dusk

This one verse should put an end of this debate but we will study on.

Day at Creation

When does the Holy Sabbath Day start and finish? To answer this question we must start at the beginning of the Bible not in the middle to have sound Biblical context, which will set the stage for proper interpretations in the rest of the Bible. We will go through each of the first 5 verses of the Bible in detail.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. ²⁾ And the earth was without form

and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the water. ³⁾ And Elohim said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. ⁴⁾And Elohim saw the light that it was good and Elohim divided the light from the darkness. ⁵⁾ And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and the earth.

YeHoVaH created the heavens and the earth on the first day. This is confirmed in Exodus 20:11.

This statement begins with what YeHoVaH started with on the first “day” prior to the details of each of the 6 days of creation; which starts in Genesis 1:3 and ends with the verse Genesis 2:1 'Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished'.

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days YeHoVaH made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, YeHoVaH blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”

Genesis 2:3 Elohim blessed the seventh day and made it holy. (He did not bless and make “night” holy.)

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the water.

This speaks of the condition of the earth on day one prior to the details of creation week.

Genesis 1:1 and 2 is a totally different topic; which you can study in Creation’s Chronicles another time.

Light Started Time on Earth

Genesis 1:3 And Elohim said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 to Genesis 1:31 tells us specifically what Elohim created each day, in the daylight hours; He didn't do any creating in the dark. He created the light; then, light started time!!!

All time is measured by light.

Genesis 1:4 And Elohim saw the light that it was good and Elohim divided the light from the darkness.

You may say that darkness was prior to the light thus night comes first, but all darkness is not night. To have night you first must have light.

Time started with ‘Let there be light’; time cannot start with darkness, even though darkness was over the earth, Genesis 1:2, without light you have no time. If time started with night (sunset to sunset theory) then Christ (YeHoshuVaH) would have been hung on the cross on the 18^th hour instead of the 6^th hour and died on the 21^st hour instead of the 9^th hour.

The sun and moon were not part of the 24-hour time system; only “light” and “darkness” were until the sun and moon were created on the fourth day!!!

Genesis 1:14 And Elohim said, ‘Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them (lights) serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years’,¹⁵⁾ and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶⁾And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day³¹¹⁷, and the lesser light to rule the night ³⁹¹⁵: [he made] the stars also. ¹⁷⁾And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, ¹⁸⁾and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that [it was] good. ¹⁹⁾And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

What did YeHoVaH give us to determine our days and our years, lights or darkness (nights)?

Lights; Genesis 1:14, not darkness (nights), but “lights”. Night is not an indicator of time!

Light started time and the greater light, the sun and its light, starts prior to sunrise, at dawn, and ends after sunset, at the end of dusk.

Dawn: The sun was not lit until the 4th cycle in the creation week. Therefore the dawn of the

first 3 cycles and possibly the 4th cycle was not from the sunlight. We are not told if the sun was lit to

make the dawn of the fourth cycle or if the dawn was from the light of YeHoshuVaH as He approached the

scene of creation. Going by faith I must believe when Scriptures documents there was a dawn in the first 4 cycles, it must have been from the Light of YeHoshuVaH.

Evening: The evening twilight on the first 3 cycles must have been from the light dwindling from

the action of YeHoshuVaH leaving the scene of creation. We are not given this explanation, yet we are

told the evening twilight did occur.

Light and Darkness Defined

Genesis 1:5 “And Elohim called the light ²¹⁶ Day³¹¹⁷, and the darkness ²⁸²² he called Night. ³⁹¹⁵^“

And the evening and the morningwere ¹⁹⁶¹ the first day.

This also proves that the 24-hour period of time is divided into two parts; “day” and “night”. It would seem that evening came before the morning thus the first day started with evening, but is it?

We have to use YeHoVaH’s dictionary, the Bible, for sound doctrine.

The following is Strong’s (man’s) translation of Bible words. Strong’s is very good but it is not the Bible.

Light ²¹⁶1) light a) light of day b) light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars)

c) day-break, dawn, morning light d) daylight

Day ³¹¹⁷1) day, time, year a) day (as opposed to night) b) day (24-hour period)

1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 as a division of time

Darkness ²⁸²²1) darkness, obscurity a) darkness b) secret place

Night ³⁹¹⁵1) night a) night (as opposed to day) b) of gloom, protective shadow

Were¹⁹⁶¹1) to exist, that is, be or to become, come to pass

Strong’s has many definitions of one word; the correct one will fit the context.

Genesis 1:5 “Elohim called the light, Day, and the darkness he called Night.” (Time Frame, Creation Week)

Therefore, all “light”²¹⁶, which includes “light” prior to sunrise and after sunset is part of the “Day”³¹¹⁷; thus proving what I’ve been wrongly taught; that the Biblical day, the Sabbath day, starts at sunset Friday to sunset Sabbath; thus sunset to sunset is not Biblical … because there is still “light” after sunset. Did you know that the Hebrew language has no word for a 24-hour period, only for day season and night season?

You may say the following and you would seem to have a good point.

“OK, but the day still starts with the “evening and the morning were the first day.”

“Also, evening comes before morning, thus, darkness started the first day, 24-hour period.”

“Day started at “Light” followed by “And the evening and the morning were the first day”; so day started then evening and then night; thus equalling the first day; 24-hours.

“The darkness existed first, and light was created afterward; thus darkness starts the 24-hour period.”

But … this doesn't mean that the "new day" begins at "evening" the night before. It just means that "evening" is connected to the light part of the day, because it actually has light. Let’s study on.

Evening and Morning Defined

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning Elohim created the heaven and the earth. ²⁾ And the earth was without form

and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the water.

³⁾And Elohim said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. ⁴⁾ And Elohim saw the light that it was good and Elohim divided the light from the darkness.

⁵⁾ And Elohim called the light Day and the darkness he called Night.

And the evening ¹²⁴² and the morning ¹²⁴² were ¹⁹⁶¹ the first day.

You may say:

“If "evening and morning were the first day" as Genesis 1:5 states, then evening starts the first day, which is followed by night and then by morning; thus a “Day” is from sunset “evening” to sunset; right?”

“Also, if "evening and morning were the first day" as Genesis 1:5 states, then how could the first evening precede the first day. Since evening comes at the end of a day, this can work for all subsequent days of creation week, but it can't work for the first day. For the first evening to begin the first day, it would have to come at the end of a day that proceeded the first day - making the first day no longer the first day - by definition.”

Great questions! We know that Elohim is orderly; thus there must be a good explanation. The answers are in the definitions of the Hebrew words and the preceding texts. Let’s look at them. First we have to keep things in order; what came first?

Genesis 1:2 1. Darkness over the earth.

Genesis 1:3 2. Light started time.

Genesis 1:4 3. Light and Darkness divided.

Genesis 1:5 4. Light and Darkness = Day = 24-hour cycle.

Genesis 1:5 5. Evening and morning were the first day.

Genesis 1:5 5. Evening followed morning the first day. Correct Translation

If Light and Darkness is a 24-hour cycle; and light is only 12-hours as Christ stated in John 19:3,

then how can evening and morning be called “day”? Confused, I was, until further study of the primary

definitions of these words. Let’s study them now.

Evening ⁶¹⁵³ereb The primary definition is Dusk, evening

The secondary definition is: Noon to Dusk

Morning¹²⁴² boqer The primary definition is Dawn, morning

The secondary definition is: Dawn to Noon

Mixture ⁶¹⁵⁴erevThis term is also noted as:“erev”

A mixture of light and darkness = dusk = evening

A mixture of darkness and light = dawn = morning

Were¹⁹⁶¹ hayah to exist, that is, be, become,

Order of Events

1. Light started time and was called day, no mixing of light and darkness.

2. Evening, a mixture of light and darkness, followed light

3. Night, no light, followed evening.

4. Morning, a mixture of darkness and light, followed night.

The key to understanding these verses is that the first “day” of creation did not start with morning, a mixture

of darkness and light, but “day” all light, which was then followed by evening, night, morning.

Another key is to read these verses literally. Evening and morning were the first day; not part of the first

night, because morning and evening both have light; they are part of the “day” and not part of the “night”.

Do not read more into to this then there is. It does not say that the day ended with “night” it only states what happened during the “day” otherwise YeHoVaH would have stated “day” and “night” because He already gave the definition of “night” already at the start of this verse.

The Hebrew word “erev⁶¹⁵³” here means: dusk (evening ⁶¹⁵³). “Layil” the Hebrew word for night³⁹¹⁵ and “erev” are not synonymous.

There are a few definitions of the word ‘erev’; the correct one will fit the time frame and be consistent with the rest of the Bible.

The term “even” or “evening” (Hebrew “erev⁶¹⁵³”) is not as a fixed moment in time as we would like it to be; a point where something begins and/or ends.

In other places evening means about 3 pm. Exodus 12:18; Exodus 29:39; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3; Numbers 28:16; Deuteronomy 16:6; Joshua 5:10; 2 Kings 16:15;

1 Chronicles 16:40; Ezra 9:4;

In other places it means about the time the sun hits the horizon. Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 11:27-28; Leviticus 11:31-32; Leviticus 11:39-40; Leviticus 11:46; Leviticus 15 and Numbers 19:2

Samuel 1:12; 2 Chronicles 18:34.

In other places evening is the twilight time phase from sunset until darkness. Proverbs 7:9;

Ezekiel 12:7; Genesis 29:23

Furthermore, there is a Hebrew phrase that means sundown. It is shemesh (sun) bow (down or set). The phrase shemesh bow is used to mean three differing points of time: before sunset, as the sun is setting and after sunset.

Genesis 15:12 Before the sun has set or: above the Horizon

Exodus 17:12 As the sun is setting or: mid-way of the Horizon

Genesis 28:11 After the sun has set or: below the Horizon

If the Hebrew word erev (evening) means sunset (just before, during or just after) why didn’t Moses use the

word erev in the three verses above? Or why didn’t Moses use shemesh bow in all the places “evening” is used?

Night Starts When

In the Jewish mind set, darkness, night, was not to be considered until there were three stars visible.

This fact will put new “light”, if I may, on a dark subject! Scriptural support on this:

Nehemiah 4:21 So we laboured in the work and half of them held the spears

from the rising of the morning⁷⁸³⁷ till the stars appeared.

Morning⁷⁸³⁷ shachar 1) dawn a) dawn b) at dawn (as adverb)

Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23 and 31. Verse 5 states explicitly that the two twilights make up the day.

Genesis 1:1-5 explains clearly that the beginning of this earth started with the light of YeHoVaH when

He arrived on the scene.

Day always precedes Night

The following twenty five verses declare the day proceeds the night by simply stating “day and night.” These are each translated correctly.

Genesis 8:22; Exodus 13:21; Leviticus 8:35; Deuteronomy 28:66; Joshua 1:8; 1 Kings 8:59; 1 Chronicles 9:33; 2 Chronicles 6:20; Nehemiah 1:6; Nehemiah 4:9; Psalms 1:2; Psalms 32:4; Psalms 42:3; Psalms 55:10; Psalms 88:1; Jeremiah 9:1; Jeremiah 16:13; Jeremiah 33:20; Jeremiah 33:25; Lamentations 2:18; Luke 18:7; Acts 9:24; Revelation 7:15; Revelation 12:10; Revelation 20:10.

Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, … day and night shall not cease.”

Exodus 13:21 “And YeHoVaH went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and

by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.”

Revelation 12:10 “who accused them before our YeHoVaH day and night,”

Revelation 20:10 “they will be tormented day and night”

Sabbath or Sabbath Day

YeHoVaH gave us His definitions in the Bible. In Genesis 1:5 He called a 24-hour period, day and night. His creation time of working He called evening and morning the ___ day. He didn’t command us to keep the Sabbath Holy, 24-hours, He commanded us to keep the Sabbath day Holy.

Genesis 2:3 Elohim blessed the seventh day ³¹¹⁷, and sanctified ⁶⁹⁴² it.

Sanctified ⁶⁹⁴²1) to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate

This also proves that YeHoVaH sanctified the seventh day not the seventh night. Thus, only the “day” is “sanctified” made holy, not the “night”. The “light” part of the 24-hour time period; is the only part that was sanctified. The 24-hour cycle is made up of “light” and “darkness”, “day” and “night”.

This is YeHoVaH’s Biblical definition of His 24-hour time period, cycle, at the time frame of the creation week.

Other places in the Bible do refer to the 24-hours as a day, but for this time frame and context is “day” is basically a 12-hour time frame. If you want to have sound doctrine of Genesis 1:5, then: the light part is called day, the dark part is called night. Christ (YeHoshuVaH) confirms this:

John 11:9 Christ asked: “Are there not 12-hours in a day?”

So do as YeHoVaH commands you. Worship Him from the first rays of the rising of the sun, dawn, till the last rays of the sun, dusk, and remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day ³¹¹⁷, to keep it holy.”

YeHoVaH has commanded us to “Remember the Sabbath day,” not the seventh night.

If the sun was made to rule over the day, then how can a day begin at night when the sun is not ruling?

Psalms 136:8 The sun to govern the day, …. ⁹ the moon and stars to govern the night;

Permanence of YeHoVaH’s Covenant of Day and Night

Jerimiah 33:19 And the word of YeHoVaH came to Jeremiah, saying, ²⁰ “Thus says YeHoVaH: ‘If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season, ²¹then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levites, the priests, My ministers. ²²As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”

Job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season:

Psalms 22:2 I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; And in the night season, and am not silent.

Day and night have separate seasons.

Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astounded at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the

hypocrite. … ¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Scriptures state that YeHoVaH knew hypocrites would change the night into day!

New Earth

Isaiah 66:23 “From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says YeHoVaH.”

Psalms 113:3 “From the rising of the sun to its going down, YeHoVaH’s name is to be praised.”

If the celebration of our Sabbath days and our new moons begin in the evening when the sun is down, why would Our Creator state that all nations shall praise His Name and worship Him?

If the Sabbath started in the evening, then this verse would make no sense whatsoever.

Isaiah 66:23 and Psalms 113:3 both confirm that there are no commandments to keep the “Night” Holy.

Evening to Evening

There is only one place in the Bible that YeHoVaH has given instructions to keep the “Sabbath” at “night” but “night” is still not holy and that is in:

Leviticus 23:32 From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your Sabbath.

This is not a good example of sound doctrine there is no other scripture to validate this anywhere else because it is a single point that is only specific to the Passover and for this reason it cannot apply to when the other Sabbaths start. Also, because you have this subject wrong, you will also have the Passover subject wrong.

Isaiah 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little.

People used this text as their proof that the day starts in the evening and ends in the evening, a 24-hour day, but let’s read the context in Leviticus 23:26, Day of Atonement.

Day of Atonement

Leviticus 23:26 YeHoVaH said to Moses^,²⁷⁾ "The tenth (day) (supplied word and also Not Night) of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. … ³⁰⁾ I will destroy from among their people anyone who does any work on that day. (Not on the 9^th but on the 10^th single day) ³¹⁾You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. ³²⁾It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves (by fasting, Acts 27:9). From the evening of the ninth (day) (supplied word) of the month until the following evening (the tenth day see verse 26) you are to observe your Sabbath⁷⁶⁷⁶." (Sabbath = 24-hours not Sabbath day = 12-hours)

Many try to make Leviticus 23:32 say that “Day of Atonement,” specifically called a “day,”

is to begin at “night.”

The context is when we are to start the Day of Atonement, Annual Holy Sabbath, with “deny or afflicting yourselves” which means to fast and review your life and your known sins to get ready for Judgement Day. To consecrate yourself on the evening, dusk, of the ninth day to be ready for the tenth day, starting at sunrise, dawn, which is the solemn Day (Not Night) of Atonement, Judgement Day. This “fast” for the Annual Sabbath, the Day of Atonement, starts on the evening of the 9^th day and finishes on the evening of the 10^th day. This is for the Annual Sabbath Day of Atonement ONLY! This also confirms that the Sabbath day ends at evening and not at sunset.

Acts 27:9 Much time had been lost and sailing had already become dangerous because

by now it was after the Fast. (That is, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur)

The Sabbath and every “day” starts with the first light. There is no starting of anything at sunset or sunrise.

You have some light before the sunrise and you have some light after the sunsets.

Sabbath = 24-hours = day and night

Sabbath Day = 12-hours = day light only

“Elohim calls Light ~ Day”

“Elohim calls Dark ~ Night”

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that everything Elohim does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it or taken from it.

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our Elohim endures forever.

The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people is not a proof that our ideas are infallible. Age will not make error into truth.

It is a principle of scripture that “what YeHoVaH’has joined together, let no man separate.” Mark 10:9.

Likewise, what YeHoVaH has separated, no man should join together. Claiming the day begins at sunset joins together what the Creator has separated.

Dawn Chart: New Day Order by YeHoshuVaH

Layil, Stars, Darkness, Day ends, Night begins

Dawn’s new light begins next new Day

Zion Standard Time Roman Standard Time

Between the 2 evenings

The 2 evenings

Dawn, First New Light- New Day Ereb Evening
Nesheph (Morning Twilight)
SUNRISE
Morning Sacrifice

12 hours

SUNSET

0 hours 3^rd hours 6^th hours 9^th hours 12^th hours
6 AM 9 AM 12 Noon 3 PM 6 PM

Nesheph, #H5399, twilight, Ereb, # H6153 EVENING,

Matthew 27:45 Matthew 27:45,46
Mark 15:25 Mark 15:33 Mark 15:34
Luke 23:44 Luke 23:44

Genesis 1:5
And YeHoshuVaH called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night.
And the EVENING followed the MORNING were the first day.

John; using Roman Standard time reckoning (today’s standards also):
John 19: 14 >> And it was the Preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour:
and he saith unto the Jews Behold your King! (YeHoshuVaH was not sentenced yet! 6
Hours from midnight, Roman reckoning {today’s standard} is 6 AM or “about the 6^th
hour”).
John 20:1 >> The First Day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was
yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
Yes it was the first day of the week when it was yet dark in Roman Standard Time.
Pilate’s wife attests to this also, (Matthew 27: 19). When was her dream on “this day”?
It is a FACT that Roman Standard time reckoning starts a new day at midnight. In fact
you live it today whether you realize it or not. Her dream was after midnight and before
Pilate sat down on the Judgment seat as Dawn was approaching. Scrutinize it
methodically! It is written in your Scriptures in simple English and upheld by Inspiration.

Summary

Genesis 1 Biblical definition for "day" = the Light part of the day, including the evening and morning that has any light from the morning sun, or the evening sun when it is below the horizon.

Genesis 1 Biblical definition for "night" = is the Dark part of the rest of the 24-hour period.

YeHoVaH states: "the evening and the morning were the __ day." Whatever, is left over belongs to the night.

The 24-hour period of time is divided into two parts; “day” and “night”. Genesis 1:16

Day is divided into two parts: morning, dawn to noon and evening, noon to dusk.

YeHoVaH has commanded us to “Remember the Sabbath day ³¹¹⁷, to keep it holy”, not the seventh night.

Leviticus 23:26 and 32 confirms that the Sabbath day ends at evening.

Psalm 113:3 “From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of YeHoVaH is to be praised.”

All other Biblical texts on this subject must not contradict these YeHoVaH given definitions.

If you do not quote “thus says YeHoVaH” there is not truth in your message. Isaiah 8:20

Sunset to sunset is not Biblical; it is a doctrine of man.

Mark 7:7 Christ Stated: “And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸For laying aside the commandments of YeHoVaH, you hold the traditions of men.”

In vain (you will lose eternal life) do they worship at ... Sunset!!!!

We have to follow the Bible and not the traditions of the Jews or anyone else because:

Malachi 3:6 “I YeHoVaH do not change.”

Hebrews 13:8 Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

The sanctified holy part of the 24-hour period, cycle, is from dawn to dusk only!

Confirmation Texts

Christ’s Passover and The Death Angel

This is a very persuasive Scripture … to understand when the Death Angel passed over; we must understand the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The Death Angel passed over, Passover day, at midnight of the 14th and the Feast of Unleavened Bread started on the 15^th, at dawn, the next day.

Exodus 12:1 The Passover “And YeHoVaH spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, ²^”This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: ^… ⁹Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. ¹⁰And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is YeHoVaH’s Passover. ¹²For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, (14^th) and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am YeHoVaH. ¹³And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day (15^th) shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to YeHoVaH throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.”

Leviticus 23:4 The Passover and Unleavened Bread “These are YeHoVaH’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: ⁵⁾ YeHoVaH s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.⁶⁾On the fifteenth day of that month YeHoVaH’s Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast^{. 7)}On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. ⁸⁾ For seven days present an offering made to YeHoVaH by fire. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.”

The Passover, 14^th was not a Annual Holy Day, but the next day, the 15^th was the first day of the Annual Holy day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread; thus, if the Feast Sabbath begins at evening, then the Death Angel went over Egypt on the Feast Sabbath (Abib 15) the day after Passover). The act of judgment and vengeance is work; it is not a Sabbath activity.

Exodus 12:6-10 tells us that Israel was to kill the lamb on Abib 14^th, at evening. They were to put the blood on the door posts and they were to eat it that night (the night the Death Angel would pass over). That night was part of Abib 14^th. They were not to leave any of the lamb remaining until morning (the next day). Question: Did that night belong to the next day (Abib 15) or that day (Abib 14). Clearly the night after the evening belonged to Abib 14 because it is called that night, not the next night or tomorrow night. This is another witness in Torah (The first 5 books of the Bible written by Moses) indicating that the day begins in the morning, not in the evening.

Manna From Heaven

Exodus 16:21 “Each morning everyone gathered as much as he needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. ²² On the sixth day, 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 YeHoVaH commanded: 'Tomorrow (not tonight) is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to YeHoVaH. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.' "²⁴So 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 YeHoVaH. You will not find any of it on the ground today.”

This is the first place in Scripture that uses the word, ‘Sabbath’. This is the last day of the first six days that manna fell. YeHoVaH stated that tomorrow is the Sabbath. Israel was to prepare today (the 6^th day or preparation day) and lay up for themselves all the remained, to be kept until morning. So they laid up until morning (verse 24) and it did not stink as it had all the other mornings when they had tried to collect enough for two days. Verse 25 says; eat that today, for today is the Sabbath. It does not say: “eat that this evening, for this evening is the Sabbath.’ It does not say this evening or this night is the rest of the Holy Sabbath unto YeHoVaH. It says tomorrow. Neither the Sabbath nor “tomorrow” began that evening, it began the next morning.

Numbers 11:32 All that day (12-hours) and night (12-hours) and all the next day (12-hours) the people went out and gathered quail.

If the day began at “evening”, was it not possible for Moses to write the word “next” before the word “night”?

He wrote the word next before the word day! The day cannot begin at evening or it would have been written that they stood all that day, all the next night and all the next day. The following presents the same argument.

Holy Night or Holy Day

Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. ⁹And, lo, the angel of Christ came upon them, and the glory of Christ shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. ¹⁰And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ¹¹For unto you is born (past tense) this day ⁴⁵⁹⁴in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ. ¹²And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, (already born) lying in a manger.

this day ⁴⁵⁹⁴sēmeron 1) this (very) day) 2) what has happened today

We have been taught that Christ (YeHoshuVaH) was born at night and thus we sing “Oh Holy Night” but when you take a closer look at the wording the truth of the matter is He was born during the day and not during the night. By saying “this day” 12-hours, makes the time of the announcement, night, part of the

24-hour period of that 24-hour period day.

Day Begins at Dawn

70 Confirmations

There are over 70 passages in Scripture that reveal or give supporting evidence that the day begins at dawn.

Here are just a few:

Genesis 32:24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and YeHoVaH made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

Exodus 18:13 The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.

Leviticus 7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of His peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning that is connected to a new day?

Numbers 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails

Numbers 28:3 “… day by day, as a regular burnt offering. 4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening,

Joshua 6:15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times …

Judges 19:26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

1 Samuel 19:24 He lay naked all that day and all that night.

1 Samuel 28:20 His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and all that night.

2 Samuel 2:32 They took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.

Job 3:9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

Job 7:4 The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

Job 17:12 They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

Psalm 22:2 My Elohim, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest. What is the season of the day and what is the season of the night? The season of the day is when the sun reigns, and the season of the night is when the moon reigns.

Jerimiah 31:35 This is what YeHoVaH says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day3119,

who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night3915

Jerimiah 33:19 YeHoVaH speaks about the evil that He would bring upon the house of David and kingdom of Israel if they broke His covenants that there should not be day or night in their season.

Psalms 104:20 You bring darkness, it becomes night, A night is not considered a day.

Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved,

Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee,

Why do we start our new day worshipping the Almighty YeHoVaH with the "night?" We are not children of the dark, we are children of the light. Darkness and night most always represent the evil side, not the holy side.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

Our Creator is orderly ... When Sabbath starts in the evening; Friday afternoon becomes a mad house especially for women ... trying to get everything in order for the coming evening Sabbath... in the Northern part of the world it is a much heavier burden. The sad truth is: everyone is rushing to get ready for the Sabbath at sundown and wishing there was more time.

Think about this: In reality, watching the sun go down is sun worship instead of Son worship!!

YeHoVaH hates stress ... that's why the Sabbath starts at dawn ... Friday evening/night women can take their time to finish preparations for the Sabbath, have a restful sleep, then awake refreshed for the Sabbath. Everyone can relax the whole Sabbath day, then retire Sabbath night refreshed, thanking YeHoVaH for a stress free Sabbath day.

This is sound doctrine because it is filtered through His character ... is fits His character better than any other doctrine on this subject. This teaching also aligns with:

Matthew 11:30 “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Yesternight, This Night and Tomorrow

So far, we have only looked at time in one direction: forward. Let’s examine it backward now.

Genesis 19:33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn (oldest) went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. ³⁴⁾ And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our Father. ³⁵⁾ And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Lot’s oldest daughter tells her sister that she had lain with her father Lot “yesternight” and ...

It was the younger sister’s turn to lay with her father tonight.

Yesternight belongs to yesterday, not today.

Again, the day cannot begin at even or the oldest would have said “tonight” I have lain with Father and it is your turn to lay with father “tomorrow” night.

In Scripture, “Tomorrow” never begins at even. e.g.: Exodus 32:5.

Exodus 32:5 And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, ‘Tomorrow is a feast to YeHoVaH.’ ⁶⁾And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

“Tomorrow” – in Scripture – always begins at the break of day, early in the morning.

This thought is preserved elsewhere ... in fact, everywhere else in Scripture:

Exodus 18:3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

1 Samuel 19:11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain.

Ester 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

When did the “Day” start in Christ’s time?

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Strong’s states that the sunrise starts Biblical time; the 6^th and the 9^th hour Biblical time translates to noon and 3 pm in modern time. Bible time starts the 24-hour day with sunrise not sunset.

Question: Why do we start the Sabbath at sundown, approximately 12-hours before the start of the day?

It must be another of Satan counterfeits.

Matthew 27:57 When the evening³⁷⁹⁸ was come¹⁰⁹⁶, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Christ’s disciple: ⁵⁸⁾ He went to Pilate, and begged for the body of Christ.

evening³⁷⁹⁸1) late 2) evening a) either from three to six o'clock p.m.

b) from six o'clock p.m. to the beginning of night

was come¹⁰⁹⁶1) to become, i.e. to come into existence, begin to be, 2) to become, i.e. to come to pass,

Think about this: Joseph did not ask for Christ’ body because the Sabbath was soon to start after the 9th hour;

John 19:38 states he asked because he was afraid of the Jews. See John 19:38 below:

John 19:38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Christ. Now Joseph was a disciple of Christ, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.

Matthew 28:1 In the end³⁷⁹⁶ of the Sabbath, (Sabbath 24-hours, day an night, not just the Sabbath day of 12-hours) as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

end³⁷⁹⁶ 1) after a long time, long after, late

a) late in the day, i.e. at evening

b) the Sabbath having just passed, after the Sabbath 1) at the early dawn of the

first day of the week.

Luke 23:52 The Burial of Christ This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Christ^{. 53)} And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. ⁵⁴⁾ And that day was the [Passover] preparation [day] and the [Feast of Unleavened Bread] Sabbath drew on²⁰²⁰.

drew on²⁰²⁰1) to grow light, to dawn

It is very plain to see that in Christ’s time, “In the end of the Sabbath, (= 24-hours; not day = 12-hours)

as it began to dawn toward the first day” that the Sabbath ENDED when night became DAWN;

The same time frame as the creation days.

John 6:16 Christ Walks on the Water When evening³⁷⁹⁸ came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁷ where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark⁴⁶⁵³, and Christ had not yet joined them. ^… ²² The next day¹⁸⁸⁷ the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore.

dark ⁴⁶⁵³1) darkness 2) the darkness due to want of light

next day ¹⁸⁸⁷1) on the morrow, the next day

From this we can confirm, again, that the day starts at dawn.

What is expected from us at night?

John 9:4 “Imust work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one

can work.”

Difficult Bible Texts

Exodus 12:18 “In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.”

The “eating” of Unleavened bread also begins in the evening. This set the “pattern” for the “fast” of Day of Atonement. There is nothing here that says the evening begins the Sabbath. It only tells when to begin eating the unleavened bread.

Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1 and John 20:1 We know the Bible never contradicts itself, thus the story of Mary going to the tomb must be the same in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. If not, we have to study to find out why.

The first three gospels tell the same story; the Sabbath 24-hours ends while it was still dark and the first of the week starts at the first rays of light in the morning. John’s gospel is different. People have picked John to be their proof text against the other three. Why? Three against one? Who wins? Let’s look at it closely.

Matthew 28:1 In the end ¹¹⁶¹ ³⁷⁹⁶ of the Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹, (24-hours) as it began to dawn ²⁰²⁰ toward ¹⁵¹⁹

the first ³³⁹¹ {day} (supplied word) of the week ⁴⁵²¹, came Mary Magdalene and the other

Mary to see the sepulchre.

Matthew 28:1 After the Sabbath, (24-hours) at dawn on the first (day) (supplied word) of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

Matthew 28:1 In the end of the Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹, (Sabbaton) as it began to dawn toward the first [day] of the week ⁴⁵²¹, (Sabbaton) came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

End ¹¹⁶¹ = de = 1) but, moreover, and, etc. ³⁷⁹⁶opse = 1) after a long time, long after, late

a) late in the day, i.e. at evening

b) the Sabbath having just passed, after the

Sabbath

1) at the early dawn of the first day of the week

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Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹Sabbaton 1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work

a) the institution of the Sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week

b) a single Sabbath, Sabbath day

2) seven days, a week

Dawn ²⁰²⁰epiphōskō 1) to grow light, to dawn

Toward ¹⁵¹⁹eis 1) into, unto, to, towards, for, among

First ³³⁹¹mia 1) only one, someone

Week ⁴⁵²¹ Sabbaton Same as above!!!

You will note that both Bible versions have translated; Sabbaton to be = “the first day of the week” which is

wrong.

Strong’s translates the first Sabbaton Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹ correctly but translates the next the first [day] of the

week ⁴⁵²¹ incorrectly.

Here are some more-correct, literal, English translations.

Matthew 28:1 Now it is the evening of the Sabbaths. At the lighting up [dawn] into one of the Sabbaths came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to behold the sepulcher.

(The Concordant Literal New Testament)

Matthew 28:1 And on the eve of the Sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the Sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre.

(Young's Literal Translation)

Matthew 28:1 But late in the Sabbaths, at the dawning into the first of the Sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene

and the other Mary came to gaze upon the grave.

(King James Literal Translation)

It is pretty obvious that these events happened early in the morning starting while it was yet dark and while it was still Sabbath. They continued on and:

John 20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first {day} of the week ⁴⁵²¹, (Sabbaton) when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Christ and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

Now we have an event happening the same day and still on Sabbath, mistranslated, in both cases, as "first day of the week. It is later in the day yet still on Sabbath. "Evening" is used here either because it is at the point of sunset (about to become the next day) or it is referring to evening as late in the afternoon (before sunset). Clearly, in scripture, "evening" can refer to the time the sun sets:

Mark 1:32 And at evening, when the sun did set, (dark) they brought unto him all that were diseased, and them that were possessed with devils.

Mark 16:1 When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go to anoint Christ’s body.² Very early on the first {day} (supplied word) of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb.³and they asked each other, “Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?” … …

1, Translation ⁹ When Christ rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene

2, Translation⁹ When Christ rose, early on the first day of the week he appeared first to Mary Magdalene

Here is a side issue of when Christ rose; Sabbath or the first day of the week depends upon where you place the comma.

Mark 16:1-9 ~ Another Look

The context of Mark 16: 1-9 is about the women that came to the tomb of Christ. Mary Magdalene is the main character. This context should be specifically noted before trying to understand exactly what is happening

in verse 9.

Note: Any word in the King James Version that is written in non-italics has been added by the translators.

Mark 16:1 And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. ²⁾And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. ³⁾And they said among themselves, who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre? ⁴⁾ And when they looked, they saw that the stone was (past tense) rolled away: for it was very great. ⁵⁾ And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted. ⁶⁾And he saith unto them, ‘Be not affrighted: Ye seek Christ of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him. ⁷⁾ But go your way, tell his disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you^{. 8)} And they went out quickly, and fled from the sepulchre; for they trembled and were amazed: neither said they anything to any man; for they were afraid. King James Version

Mark 16:9 Now when Christ was risen ^NT#450early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Note: Just reading verse 9 as it is written in the King James Version, it looks like Christ rose early on the first day of the week – known to most of the Christian world as Sunday.

Is that what the verse is really saying? How can this be checked out?

Let’s do a word study on the word “risen” to see if this could be referring to Christ.

First Definition of “risen” – NT#450

risen NT #450 - from 303 and 2476; to stand up (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive): --arise, lift up, raise up (again), rise (again), stand up(-right).

NT#303 - a primary preposition and adverb; properly, up; but (by extension) used (distributively) severally, or (locally) at (etc.):--and, apiece, by, each, every (man), in, through. In compounds (as a prefix) it often means (by implication) repetition, intensity, reversal, etc.

NT#2476 - a prolonged form of a primary stao stah'-o (of the same meaning, and used for it in certain tenses);

to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively):--abide, appoint,
bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up).

Compare 5087. NT#5087 - to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from 2476, which properly denotes an upright and active position, while 2749 is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate):--+ advise, appoint, bow, commit, conceive, give, X kneel down, lay (aside, down, up), make, ordain, purpose, put, set (forth), settle, sink down.

Summary of definition for - NT#450: to stand up; lift up; raise up – with the understanding from NT#303 as a repetitive motion. Example: to raise up from sleep; to raise up from a chair; to raise up from a kneeling position – an action that is done on a repetitive basis.

Second Definition of “risen” – NT#1453

Mark 16:6 And he saith unto them, “Be not affrighted: Ye seek Christ of Nazareth, which was crucified:

he is risen; ^NT#1453he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

Risen NT#1453 - probably akin to the base of NT#58 (through the idea of collecting one's faculties);

to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence): --awake, lift (up), raise (again, up), rear up, (a-) rise (again, up), stand, take up.

NT#58 - from ageiro (to gather; probably akin to 1453); properly, the town-square (as a place of public resort); by implication, a market or thoroughfare: --market (-place), street.

Summary of definition for - NT#1453: to waken or rouse from the sleep of death.

The definition of “risen” #1453 as “raising from the sleep of death” fits the description of Christ, who was crucified, and was no longer in the place where He was laid.

Christ rose from this “sleep of death” only once. It was not a repetitive action; therefore, the definition of “risen” in NT#450 would never apply!

Two different definitions of the word “risen” is obvious. Therefore, the word “risen” in Mark 16:9 must be carefully considered, according to the context of the verse. Remember, that the context of the first 8 verses is about the “women” with Mary Magdalene as the main character.

Fact #1: Christ did not rise from the tomb on the “first” day of the week – or Sunday!

Fact #2: Italicized words were added by the translators.

So, let’s look at verse 9 again … removing the italicized words.

Mark 16:9 Now when _____ was risen [NT#450 – raising up in a repetitive motion] early the first ___ of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Consider:

Christ did not rise from the tomb more than once as NT#450 would indicate.
The word “risen” [NT#450] must then refer to another person other than Christ.
The context of the first 8 verses was the women, with Mary as the main character.
Mary Magdalene continues to be the main character in the last half of verse 9.
Let’s read the verse with the name “Mary” inserted instead of the name “Christ” inserted by the translators.

Mark 16:9 Now when Mary was risen [NT#450] early the first ___ of the week,

he [Christ, obviously] appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom

he [Christ] had cast seven devils.

If a name of a person must be inserted in the first blank, then “Mary” is the only person that fits the context and definition of the word “risen” [NT#450] in this verse.
In verse 5, the women entered the sepulcher – likely in a stooped position, perhaps some were even kneeling at the empty spot where He once was laid.
Verse 6: The angel gave them instructions that were to be given to the disciples.
Vs 8: “They” went out quickly.
Vs 9 – Notice: New Paragraph! – Obviously, Mary did not follow the other women, as she was alone when Christ appeared to her. She had “risen up” for her position – a position that she had “risen up from” many times before. Upon her “rising up” “he appeared [--] first [--] to Mary Magdalene …”
There is no need to move, or remove any punctuation.
Understanding the proper noun as Mary [not Christ] brings clarity to the verse.
Understanding the proper noun as Mary also does away with the fact that Christ rose only on the first [day] of the week.
Understanding the proper noun should be “Mary” also stays within the context of the verses before and after verse 9.

Luke 24:1 On the first {day} (supplied word) of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb.

John 20:1 Early on the first {day} (supplied word) of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb.

The word {day} is an added word. Take out the word "day" and you have:

John 20:1 Early on the first of the week, ⁴⁵²¹ while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb.

Mary started walking to the tomb while it was still dark (approximately a 2 km walk) arriving very early in

the morning on the first of the week. This explanation now fits with the other three writers. The incorrect

translation of week ⁴⁵²¹, (Sabbaton) to mean = the first [day] of the week ⁴⁵²¹, instead of “one of the

Sabbaths”, also makes Matthew 28:1 fit with the other 3 accounts.

Is week ⁴⁵²¹ , μία σάββατον, "Sabbaton”, always to be translated to mean the Sabbath or one Sabbath?

Now, here are examples:

1 Corinthians 16:2 On the first ³³⁹¹ [day] of the week ⁴⁵²¹, you should each put aside a

portion of the money.

If this word “week” is translated Sabbath, we are then commanded to do the work of “put aside a portion of the money” on the Sabbath Day; which is not a Holy Sabbath activity.

Mark 16:2 And when the Sabbath ⁴⁵²¹ was past¹²³⁰, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the [mother] of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. ²⁾And very early in the morning ⁴⁴⁰⁴ the first ³³⁹¹ [day] of the week ⁴⁵²¹, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.

The time is told twice, Sabbath was past, and at the rising of the sun; both state early Sunday morning.

The bottom line is: the Bible never contradicts itself and we must be very careful in our commitment to sound Biblical doctrine; which is to be filtered though the character of YeHoVaH.

Jerusalem Closed the City Gates at Sunset

Nehemiah 13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath, (does not say Sabbath day) I commanded that the gates should be shut and charged that they should not be opened till after the Sabbath: and some of my servants set at the gates that there should no burden be brought in on the Sabbath day.

You cannot bring burdens in if the gate is closed, thus must refer to when the gates are open, during the day.

This appears that the Sabbath starts on the evening; but the context does not say that the Sabbath began at evening; it says that as it became dark the gates were shut and the Sabbath had still not yet begun. If the Sabbath begins at evening (which is the transition period between day and night) then the Sabbath would begin before darkness fell, which is called night. Nehemiah says that the darkness had begun and it was still not yet the Sabbath, which this darkness was falling “before” the Sabbath. When does the Sabbath begin?

Five minutes after dark?

You cannot get evening to evening Sabbath out of this. Evening and dark are two separate things. Daylight is for working and night is the transition period to prepare for the Sabbath, which is coming at dawn.

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.

It does not say … you shall not keep holy days, new moons, or what time the Sabbath starts!

Nehemiah’s Chart

Nehemiah commands the Gates closed,

YeHoVaH’s style, & The 3 Hebrew watches. (pre-Roman)

Midnight/End 24 hour/ New day – Roman reckoning

Day season #2

Day season #1

Zion Standard Time - Blue Roman Standard Time - black
Preparation Day, Noon.
9 hours / (3 PM) evening sacrifice.
Nehemiah commands to shut the gate BEFORE the Sabbath. Nehemiah 13:19.
...shutting of the gate, when it was dark... Joshua 2:5
Nehemiah worked “till the stars appeared” – Nehemiah 4:21
Beginning watch- Lamentations 2:1
Middle watch – Judges 7:19
12 hours Morning watch- Exodus 14:24, 1 Samuel 11:11
Sunset Dawn 0 hours (6 AM 006 hours (Noon) 9 hours (3 PM) Sunrise 3 hours (9 AM)

SUNSET THEORY (TRADITION), 12 HOURS YeHoshuVaH’s CREATION
A NEW DAY HAS ALREADY SABBATH BEGINS. Genesis 1. BEGUN !!!!!!

BEFORE the Sabbath according to Nehemiah, {the one who is
known for restoring the Feasts / Sabbaths!}

Origin of Sunset to Sunset

This, approximately, is the picture we have of the Sabbath in those very old days, when both kingdoms, Judah and Israel, still existed.

The Jewish Festivals: History & Observance (by Hayyim Schauss - Shocken 1938)

http://www.amazon.com/The-Jewish-Festivals-History-Observance/dp/0805209379

It was a festival on which there was a cessation of daily work, and the people assembled in the sanctuary to celebrate the “DAY.” The strict rest of later days was not yet a part of the Sabbath (p.6)...At any rate, beginning with the Babylonian Exile, we find the Sabbath attaining a new significance and a deeper spiritual content....in the Babylonian Exile...The Sabbath attained a “higher state of development among the exiled Jews in Babylonia, and it was these exiled Jews who enforced on Palestine, their Sabbath, with its stricter observance and its universal rest (p.7).

The Jews in Palestine, about a century after the Babylonian exile, did NOT as yet know the strict Sabbath of the Babylonian Jews (p.8)...At The Beginning of the Common Era...In order to assure against profanation of the Sabbath the Jews added the late Friday afternoon hours to the Sabbath (p.13)...The Sabbath in general, thus attained its peak in the first two centuries of the Common Era, the age of the Tannaim (70 A.D.-200A.D.), as the Jewish teachers and sages of that period were called. However, there were no Friday Night services as of yet. This most beautiful part of the Sabbath observance developed somewhat later in the age of the Amoraim (350 A.D.-500 A.D.), as the sages of the Talmud from the third century on were called, and it did not attain its highest peak until much later, at the very threshold of modern times. In the time of the Tannaim there was no Friday Night Services in the Synagogues (p.14)...Later it became customary to hold communal services in the Synagogue on Friday Night ...”(p.15).-----

More Historical Evidence

Here is some historical evidence that supports the Biblical Truism that a day begins at sunrise:

“Meaning of "day" (Hebrew, "yom"): In the Bible, the season of light (Genesis 1:5), lasting from dawn (literally “the rising of the morning”) to the coming forth of the stars" (dusk) (Jewish Encyclopedia, page 475)

"If we look at the essentials of a day of rest and reflection which has a religious orientation, it is possible to justify the shifting of Sabbath worship to Friday evening, the celebration of the vigil/night watch was moved back to the eve of the Feast as early as the Middle Ages..." (Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, p. 518).

"Following the reign of King Josiah (c. 640-609), and especially after the Babylonian exile, a number of significant and enduring changes occurred in the Israelite calendar showing that the Jews gradually adopted the Babylonian calendar of the time...The day however, was counted from evening to evening, after the Babylonian fashion...." (New Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 11, section titled “Later Jewish Calendar”).

“…shortly after the beginning of the Greek period, [236 BC] came the change in the method of reckoning the day, from evening to evening instead of from morning to morning as of old…” (The Calendars of Ancient Israel, p. 146).

Questions on Day and Night

By Elesha Yisrael

Elesha YisraEl has formulated 21 questions to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt when the day begins and ends and that “evening” is part of the day. He believes that if any serious student of the Scriptures attempts to honestly answer these questions that he will come to the same undeniable conclusion that day and night are totally the opposite of one another, and that they are two distinctly different times altogether.

According to Genesis 1:14, what did YeHoVaH, Our Creator, give us to determine our days and our years. Lights or darkness (nights)?

Lights. Genesis 1:13, notice not darkness (nights), but lights.

If a day starts in the evening when it becomes dark, then when does a night begin?

They do not both start simultaneously, if so, they would be the same. A day starts when it becomes light (Jude 16:2), and night starts when it becomes dark (Ps 104:20). They are totally the opposite of one another. Genesis 8:22.

Is 12:00 midnight the middle of the night or the middle of the day?

It is the middle of the night, because the middle of the day comes after the morning and before the evening. 1 Kings 18:26-29.

When the Bible speaks about the break of day, or the dawning of the day, in 2 Samuel 2:34, Judges 19:25 and Job 7:4; is this speaking about the beginning of a day, or the end of a day?

It is speaking about the beginning of a day.

Was the sun made to rule over the day or was it made to rule over the night?

Genesis 1:14-18. The day – the sun is not up at night.

The Creator said many times in the Bible, that He divided the day from the night, or the light from darkness (Genesis 1:3-4 and 1:14-18). When did He put them back together?

He has not and will not! Ecclesiastes 3:14 and Isaiah 40:8.

In Ex 18:13 it states, “And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.” When does morrow begin; in the evening, night or in the morning?

Morning – as all of Scripture clearly indicates. I have never found a Scripture where the morrow starts in the evening or the night. The morrow always begins at dawn.

Is it possible for me to remain at your house all day without spending the night?

Yes, because when a day ends, the night begins. Ps 104:20

In Num 11:32, it says that the children of Israel gathered quail all that day, and all that night, and all the next day. How many days and how many nights did they gather quails?

2 days and 1 night, (but if a day begins at night then they would have gathered quails 2 days and 3 nights.

In Leviticus 7:15, it says, “the flesh of the sacrifice of His peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning.” Does the word “morning,” in this verse indicate the morning that is connected to the previous evening, or the morning that is connected to the new day?

Connected to the new day. Num 28:3-4 also proves the evening is part of the previous day, not the beginning of the new day.

According to Ex 16:22-25, when does the rest of the holy Sabbath unto YeHoVaH begin, in the night, evening or in the morning?

Morning or morrow, as all new days begin.

If a night is considered a day, then what did YeHoVaH mean when He said that He caused it to rain forty days and forty nights?

A night is not considered a day. Ps 104:20.

If a day starts when it becomes dark, then why is darkness always pertained to as night, and never pertained to as day? (Ps 104:20); the only notable exception is when it is speaking about the “Day of YeHoVaH’s Wrath” being a dark day?

A day does not start when it becomes dark, because YeHoVaH totally separated the light from the darkness. Genesis 1:18.

In Genesis 1:4, does the word day mean light, or does it mean light and darkness?

The word day means light ONLY. Genesis 1:3-4.

In Jerimiah 33:19-21, YeHoVaH speaks about the evil that He would bring upon the house of David and the kingdom of Israel, if they broke His covenants that there should not be day or night in their season (Ps 22:2). What is the season of the day, and what is the season on the night?

The season of the day is when the sun reigns, and the season of the night is when the moon reigns. Jerimiah 31:35.

In Job 17:8-12, the upright men, the innocent men, and the righteous men and everyone who has clean hands have stirred up themselves against the hypocrites. Why is it that the people who changed night into day are referred to as hypocrites?

Because the hypocrites are saying that YeHoVaH, Our Creator, told a lie when He said He separated the day from the night. Genesis 1:14-18.

If a day always started at night, then how could anyone change the night into day?

B. It is not possible, but by trying to do so, the wicked could possibly bring about the total destruction of the House of Israel. Jerimiah 33:19-21.

According to the Words of the Most High, what is the difference between a day and a night?

Here is what we find ... Day equals light, and darkness equals night. Jerimiah 31:35 and Ps 136:7-9. [Genesis 1:4-5]

Genesis 8:22 reads, “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” The Most High gives us four different times and conditions. Are these times and conditions the same, or are they totally the opposite of one another?

Totally the opposite of one another.

According to Leviticus 3:35, Aaron and his sons were to remain at the door of the Tabernacle, day and night, seven days. How many nights did they remain?

Six nights. Count them ...

1D—N—2D—N—3D—N—4D—N—5D—N—6D—6N—7D

Outside of the way that many of you might interpret Genesis 1, is there anywhere else in the Bible that says that evening and morning are a day?

No! Because it is not, neither is Genesis 1 saying that.

If the celebration of our Sabbath days and our new moons (Is 66:23) begins in the evening when the sun is going down, why would Our Creator state that all nations shall praise His Name and worship Him from the “rising of the sun until the going down of the same (sun)”? Ps 113:3. If the Sabbath started in the evening, as many of our people believe, then this verse would make no sense whatsoever.

Is this a Salvational Issue?

Friday night season, equally anti Torah as observing Sunday.

We accuse the Sunday keepers as making up their own laws against God’s commands.

Where is the difference in making, Friday, the 6th night season "holy" also? There simply is no difference.

Now that you have been exposed to this light; it is a Salvational issue for you?

Sanctified 12 or 24 Hours

By Everett Lloyd Anderson ~ June 2012

3^rd Book Index ~ Sabbath Sanctified 12 or 24 Hours

Page 168 Front Page

169 Index

170 Law of First Mentioned

Simple and Direct Quotes

Sound Principles of Biblical Interpretation

172 Blessed, Sanctified and Holy

173 Day of Atonement Leviticus 23

Sabbath Day and Night

174 Difficult Text Exodus 16:23, 31:14, Nehemiah 9:13, Isaiah 30:29, 45:7,

Matthew 28:1

176 Summary x 25

177 Satan Try’s to Change Times and Laws

177 Jews Started “Sunset to Sunset” Worship

178 Prophecy Fulfilled

What hours of the week did God Sanctify?

179 God defines Day and Night

180 Christ Confirms 12-hour Day and Night

180 Evening and Morning

First Version

182 Second Version

183 Third Version

184 When did the “Day” start and end in Christ’s time

John 6:16, 11:9, 19:38, Matthew 27:57, 28:1, Luke 23:52

185 New Earth Isaiah 66:23, Psalms 113:3

186 Summary

188 Day Begins at Dawn

189 Night Starts When Nehemiah 4:21

189 Silent Night Holy Night or Day Luke 2:8

190 How to Prove Scriptural Questions ~ Sound Doctrine

Law of First Mentioned

Law of First Occurrence ~ Law of First Precedence

The principle that requires one to go to that portion of the Scriptures where a doctrine is mentioned for the first time and study the First Occurrence of the same in order to get the fundamental inherent meaning of that doctrine.

When this law is applied the simple precedes the complex.

A history of the development of anything will show that it sprang from something in threw very simplest form. (For example: steamship, automobile, airplane.)

In the Scriptures the growth of a term it may have increased its meaning and undergone

certain changes, yet the basic, original, fundamental thought is never lost.

The fundamental concept controls or is dominant in coloring every shade of idea expressed by a term in its current usage.

http://www.biblicalresearch.info/page48.html

When we thus see the First Appearance, which is usually in the simplest form, we can then examine the doctrine in other portions of the word that were given later. We shall see that the fundamental concept in the first occurrence remains dominant as a rule, and colors all late additions to that doctrine in view of this fact.

It becomes imperative that we understand the “Law of First Mention.”

http://www.biblicalresearch.info/page56.html

We know that Scriptures never contradict itself; thus, we must read Scriptures without preconceived notions, ideas, or what you have been taught in Church and don’t add to or take away, Deuteronomy12:28, from the Scriptures is the only way to have sound doctrine.

Why I Don’t Believe!

Cognitive Dissonance

Is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who hold two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas or values.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove All Things. (Yourself from the Scriptures) Hold to the good.

Truth is always higher than our belief; unless they are the same.

Simple and Direct Quotes = Sound Doctrine

John 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.”

Christ is our Shepherd; and all humans are symbolized as sheep; which need simple instructions. That’s why we must follow Shepard logic and not sheep logic. (Isaiah 8:20)

Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word,

it is because there is no light (no truth, deception, sheep logic) in them.

His Sheep know that if sound doctrine is not explained in simple terms or direct quotes:

“Thus says God” then the doctrine is of the Devil. You can explain all eternal life sound doctrine from simple terms or direct quotes from God. The 10 commandments, the feast days, dietary laws, sanctification of the day; all are direct quotes from God. When does the New Year start? Simple, the day after winter ends. His name is YeHoshuVaH not Jesus.

Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, ^(12-^hours⁾ and He called the darkness Night. ^(12-^hours⁾

John 11:9 Christ confirms: “Are there not twelve hours in the day?”

Genesis 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, (day not night)

Sound Principles of Biblical Interpretation

Number one rule is: Scripture must not contradict Scripture. If it seems to; then we must

re-examine the Scripture so that they all line up; 12 and 24-hours sanctified Sabbath doesn’t.

We must interpret difficult passages in a way that doesn’t contradict other Scriptures and is in harmony with other Scriptures, especially direct quotes from God.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it (day) holy. (a direct quote from God.)

Here is a seemingly conflict. The 10 Commandments doesn’t say to keep the

Sabbath night holy; but it also doesn’t say not to keep it holy. But Exodus 16:23; 31:14, 16; Nehemiah 9:14 seem to state that all Sabbaths (24-hours) are Holy; but we are not to add to His word. Deuteronomy 12:28

From this there is only one harmonious conclusion:

Psalms 89:34 “My covenant I will not break, nor alter the word

that has gone out of My lips.” (Once is enough, He speaks it is finished.)

These difficult texts are taken out of context and must be re-examined. Their context is not “What is Sanctified?” The next 4 pages will look at what is “Blessed, Sanctified, Holy” and Day of Atonement, difficult texts; followed by a more detailed and historic study on this topic.

Blessed, Sanctified and Holy

Blessed ^H1288, sanctified ^H6942 and holy ^H6944; are they the exact same words?

Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed ^H1288 the seventh day^H3117 and sanctified ^H694² it,

Exodus 20:11 Then God blessed^H1288 the Sabbath day^H3117 and hallowed ^H694² it.

John 11:9 Christ confirms: “Are there not twelve hours in the day?

Blessed H1288 בּרך bârak baw-rak'

A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration)

Sanctified H6942 קדשׁ qâdash kaw-dash'

A primitive root; to be (causatively make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally): - appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy (-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify (-ied one, self), X wholly.

Hallowed H6942 קדשׁ qâdash kaw-dash'

Holy H6944 קדשׁ qôdesh ko'-desh

From H6942 hallowed, a sacred place or thing; rarely abstractly sanctity: - consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy, saint, sanctuary.

Sanctified and Hallowed use the same H6942; Holy is H6944, same 3 Hebrew letters.

Sanctified and Hallowed are interchangeable.

Context: The Seventh cycle Sabbath day is blessed, sanctified, hallowed.

Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the Sabbath day^H3117 to keep it holy ^H6944.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day^H3117to keep it holy ^H6944.

Context: day not night

is to be to keep it holy ^H6944.

Day of Atonement ~ Not Day and Night of Atonement

The Holy Day of Atonement is the only exception of all Sabbaths that is to be observed longer than 12-hours; and it is even longer than 24-hours. It starts late Friday evening; which is part of the day season and goes all Friday night and all Sabbath day and end at the start of the Sabbath night season, but doesn’t include Sabbath night. Sabbath night is not holy.

Leviticus 23:27 The tenth day (supplied word, implied from 7 words later) of this seventh month is the Day^H3117 (Not Night) of Atonement. It (day not night) shall be a holy ^H6944 (sacred) convocations ^H4744 (a public meeting) …

³²It is a Sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves (by fasting, Acts 27:9) … from the evening of the ninth day (supplied word, based on the fact that evening is part of the “day” and not part of the “night”) of the month until the following evening (the tenth day, verse 27) you are to observe your Sabbath^H7676

Sabbath H7676 שׁבּת shabbâth shab-bawth'

Intensive from H7673; intermission, that is, (specifically) the Sabbath:

- (+ every) sabbath.

Context: The Day of Atonement, is an annual Holy intermission; which is to be

observed: from the evening of the ninth day until the following evening (the tenth day, see

verse 27) you are to observe your Sabbath^H7676 = intermission; which is more than 24-hours,

starting Friday evening and ending Sabbath evening. Sabbath night is not included or

sanctified. Friday evening and Friday night are not sanctified but is an intermission to be

observed by fasting ^{Acts 27:9} in preparation of the sanctified Day of Atonement.

The Day of Atonement annual Holy day is an intermission that lasts around to 25 hours.

Nights are never sanctified in Scriptures.

Day = 12-hours and Night = 12-hours = Sabbath = 24-hours

Day H3117 יום yôm yome

From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours)

Night H3915 לילה ליל ליל layil lêyl lay^elâh lah'-yil, lale, lah'-yel-aw

From the same as H3883; properly a twist (away of the light), that is,

night; figuratively adversity: - ([mid-]) night (season).

Night, in the difficult and controversial texts above and below: (Genesis 2:2; Exodus 20:8; 16:23; 31:14, 16; Leviticus 23:32; Nehemiah 9:13) are never mentioned, nor blessed, sanctified or hallowed. A side note; Scriptures never say you shall do no work at night either?

Difficult Texts

The following verse are given in support of a 24-hour Sabbath, dawn to dawn; however, they are all taken out of context. “What is Sanctified?” is not their context.

Exodus 16:23 Tomorrow (Context starts) is a Sabbath rest, (when, “day” inferred vs ¹⁵⁾

a holy Sabbath to God. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’”²⁴ So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it.²⁵ Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to God; today you will not find it in the field. (Context: what you are to do to prepare for the Sabbath. Day, is inferred and confirmed in verse 26, 27, 29 and 30. Night is not mentioned or inferred.)

²⁶ Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day ^H3117, the Sabbath, there will be none.” ²⁷Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day ^H3117 to gather, but they found none. ²⁸ “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? ²⁹See! For God has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day ^H3117.”

³⁰ So the people rested on the seventh day. (no Sabbath rest on the night)

Exodus 31:14 You shall keep the Sabbath, (Context starts: when) therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

¹⁵Work (Context) shall be done for six days, (when) but the seventh is the Sabbath (day: inferred) of rest, holy to God. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, ^H3117 (Context: what will happen to you if you do any work on the Sabbath day, ^H3117) he shall surely be put to death.

¹⁶ Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath (Context: Day, is inferred and confirmed in verse 15, 17 and 18.

Night is not mentioned or inferred.) throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷ It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel (and Spiritual Israel) forever; for in six days God made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day ^H3117 He rested and was refreshed.’” ¹⁸ And when He had made an end of speaking with him on Mount Sinai, He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God. (Day was written in stone; not night.)

Nehemiah 9:13 You came down also on Mount Sinai, (Context starts: when) and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them just ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments. ¹⁴ You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, (Context starts: 10 Commandments on stone does not refer to night as being Holy, only day.) and commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, by the hand of Moses Your servant.

Isaiah 30:27 (Context) Judgment on Assyria at Second Coming

²⁷Behold, the name of God comes (Second Coming) from afar, burning with His anger, and His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, And His tongue like a devouring fire.

Isaiah 30:29 You shall have a song as in the night ^H3915 (layil) (Context: be happy during this adversarial, dark, times) when a holy festival (Tabernacles, first day, 2^nd Coming) is kept, and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of God, to the Mighty One of Israel.

³⁰God will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and show the descent of His arm, with the indignation of His anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, tempest, and hailstones. (Context: End Times, 7 Last Plagues)

As in the night H3915 לילה ליל ליל layil lêyl lay^elâh lah'-yil, lale, lah'-yel-aw

From the same as H3883; properly a twist (away of the light), that is,

night; figuratively adversity: - ([mid-]) night (season).

The context is what you shall do during the adversarial dark times, just prior to the

Second Coming, which, is a holy festival, the first day of Tabernacles, the Second Coming. You are to be very happy with song and a flute, music, because Christ is coming!!!

Nowhere is the context: “What is Sanctified?”

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, ^H216 (ore) and create darkness:^H2822 (chôshek)

Context, ore and chôshek; also has nothing to do with: “What is Sanctified?”

Light,^H216ore From H215; illumination or (concretely) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.): - day, light, morning, sun.

Darkness:^H2822chôshek From H2821; the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness: - dark (-ness), night, obscurity.

Sabbath is 24 Hours

Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1 and John 20:1 We know the Bible never contradicts itself, thus the story of Mary going to the tomb must be the same in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Matthew 28:1 In the end of the Sabbath, (24-hrs) as it began to dawn toward the first {day}

Yes, the Sabbath is 24-hours, along with the other 6 cycles of the week. This doesn’t make a

24-hour sanctification period. All 7 cycles have a day and night, 24-hours in them.

Summary ~ 25 Proofs

1. Do Scriptures contradict each other? 2 Timothy 3:16 NO!

2. Does God alter, change, His spoken word? Psalms 89:34 NO!

3. Does God change anything? Ecclesiastes 3:14 NO!

4. Did God join “day and night”? Genesis 1:4 NO!

5. Did God call “day” 24-hours? Genesis 1:5 NO!

6. Did God call “night” 24-hours? Genesis 1:5 NO!

7. Did God call 24-hours “day”? Genesis 1:5 NO!

8. Is “evening and morning” part of the night? Genesis 1:5 NO!

9. Is “evening and morning” in harmony with other Texts? 1 Samuel 17:16 etc NO!

10. Did God sanctified “night”? Genesis 2:1 NO!

11. Did God bless “night”? Genesis 2:1 NO!

12. Did Christ call “day” 24-hours? John 11:9 NO!

13. Is there “24-hours” sanctified anywhere in Scriptures? NO!

14. In 6000 years has Sabbath night being sanctified? NO!

15. Is there a word for “24-hours” in the Hebrew language? NO!

16. Is “day and night” one season and one covenant? Jerimiah 33:20 NO!

17. Does the “Day of Atonement” include the night? Leviticus 23+32 NO!

18. Can you put darkness for light? Isaiah 8:20 NO!

19. Can you change the night into day? Job 17:12 NO!

20. Did Christ use “patterns” for sound doctrine? Luke 24:27 NO!

21. Can we to use anything but Scripture for sound doctrine? Isaiah 8:20 NO!

22. Is the context “What was Sanctified?” in: Isaiah 30:29 NO!

23. Is the context “What was Sanctified?” in: Isaiah 45:7 NO!

24. Is the context “What was Sanctified?” found in the: New Testament? NO!

25. Do Jews call Sabbath night Holy? (They call Friday night Holy Sabbath.) NO!

These are 25 confirmations to confirm that God sanctified only the “day”, light hours of the Sabbath and not the “night” hours of the Sabbath. Scriptural proof follows:

Satan Try’s to Change Times and Laws ~ “12 to 24”

Daniel 7:25 He (Satan’s agents) will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and tries to change (counterfeit) the set times and the laws.

We know that Satan has counterfeited everything that God said is good.

God’s Truth Counterfeit Changed by

Sabbath Day Sun day Pope

Annual Holy Days Christ-mas, Easter, etc. Pope

Spring New Year Moon New Year Jew’s

Day starts at Dawn Day starts at Evening Jew’s

12-Hours sanctified 24-Hours sanctified Jew’s

Satan counterfeited the 12-hour sanctified day when the Jew’s tries to change it from 12-hours to 24-hours; by adding, not exchanging, Friday night 12-hours; the following is proof.

Satan’s Counterfeit ~ Jews Started “Sunset to Sunset” Worship

This, approximately, is the picture we have of the Sabbath in those very old days, when both kingdoms, Judah and Israel, still existed.

The Jewish Festivals: History & Observance (by Hayyim Schauss - Shocken 1938) (Google)

It was a festival on which there was a cessation of daily work, and the people assembled in the sanctuary to celebrate the “DAY.” The strict rest of later days was not yet a part of the Sabbath (p.6)... (p.7). The Jews in Palestine, about a century after the Babylonian exile, did not as yet know the strict Sabbath of the Babylonian Jews (p.8)...At the Beginning of the Common Era...In order to assure against profanation (reason for the change)of the Sabbath the Jews added (not exchanged) the late Friday afternoon hours to the Sabbath (p.13)...The Sabbath in general, thus attained its peak in the first two centuries of the Common Era, the age of the Tannaim (70 A.D. - 200A.D.), as the Jewish teachers and sages of that period were called. However, there were no Friday Night services as of yet. This most beautiful part of the Sabbath observance developed somewhat later in the age of the Amoraim (350 A.D. - 500 A.D.), as the sages of the Talmud from the third century on were called, and it did not attain its highest peak until much later, at the very threshold of modern times. In the time of the Tannaim there was no Friday Night Services in the Synagogues (p.14)...Later (1600s AD) it became customary to hold communal services in the Synagogue on Friday Night ”(p.15).

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If the Sabbath night was sanctified the above mentioned should read exchanged Sabbath night sanctification to Friday night sanctification; instead of added Friday night hours.

The Jews call Friday night their Sabbath night. They say Friday night is holy and they say Sabbath night is not holy. They say Sabbath day ends when 3 stars are seen; which starts Sabbath night. They say that Holy Sabbath starts at sunset Friday and goes until sunset Sabbath.

When the Jew’s started sunset to sunset worship, they added Friday night hours to be

sanctified and took away the light hours after Sabbath sunset till dark. There is no history

of the Jew’s ever keeping Sabbath night, holy or sanctified. God’s covenant of the day and

night season are the same covenant as the law of gravity, they shall be forever, day and night

are forever separated, divided. No one can join them and woe to those hypocrites who try.

Jerimiah 33:20 “If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that there will not be day and night in their season.”

(divided, separate)

Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever.

Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe (cursed) to those who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;

(divided, separate, not joined)

Prophecy Fulfilled

Job 17:8 Upright men shall be astounded at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself

against the hypocrite. …

¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Scriptures state that God knew hypocrites would try to change the night into day!!!!

This exact what the Jew’s did when they cut short the Sabbath light at sunset and added Friday night.

What hours of the week did God sanctify? Genesis 2:3

Genesis 1:1 The History of Creation In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ²The earth was without form, and void; and darkness wason the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. ³Then God said,

“Let there be light”; and there was light. ⁴And God saw the light that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. ⁵God called the light Day, ^H3117 and the darkness He called Night.^H3915 So the evening and the morning were the first day. (Also see Genesis 1:17)

God did not call darkness good, only light. (divided, separate, not joined day and night)

God Defines Day and Night

Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, (12-hours) and He called the darkness Night. (12-hours)

Day ^H3117Yom From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours),

Night^H3915Layil night (season) figuratively adversity.

Scriptures is its own dictionary: Light = Day; = 12-hours

Darkness = Night; = 12- hours

Day + Night = 24-hour cycle

God called; in other words, He gave us His definitions for day and night. This is His “Law of First Precedence”. We must use Scripture to define these very important words; especially when we have direct quotes from God. In Genesis 1:5 He called a 24-hour period, day and night. His creation time of working God called evening and morning the ___ day. Genesis 1:3 to 31 tells us specifically what God created each day, in the daylight hours. He did not do any creating in the dark. He created the light; then, light started the weekly time cycles!

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God ended His work (God didn’t work at night.) which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. ³Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, (God blessed and sanctified the day; He didn’t bless or sanctify the night) because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. ⁴This is the historyof the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day (God didn’t work at night.) that the God made the earth and the heavens,

God did not command us to keep the Sabbath (24-hours) Sanctified.

God commanded us to keep the Sabbath day (12-hours) Sanctified.

Genesis 2:14 Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, (day and night have their own season and covenant ^{Jerimiah 33:20}, like the law of gravity) and for days and years; ¹⁵and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. ¹⁶Then 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. ¹⁷God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, ¹⁸and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹So the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

In Genesis 2:2-4 God states “day” 5 times. In Genesis 2:14-18 it looks like God’s has a high priority in keeping the day light and darkness divided, separate, not joined.

Christ Confirms 12-hour Day and Night

Other places in the Bible may or seem to refer to a 24-hour cycle as a day, but the context is never about sanctification. Sound doctrine of “What is Sanctified?” is “day”; basically a

12-hour time frame. Christ confirms this and that day and night are divided and not joined:

John 11:9 Christ asked: “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

John 9:4 I (Christ)must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day;

the night is coming when no one can work.

Here, Christ confirms the fact that light and day are divided and that light and darkness belong in a separate category; which this confirms Genesis 1:4: that night, darkness, is not sanctified. ^Genesis^2:3 God divided the light from the darkness. ^Genesis^1:4 In addition, Christ makes it clear that there is only 12-hours in a “day” ^{John 11:9}. Another witness to the sanctified day is:

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (Not the Sabbath night.)

Nowhere in the scriptures does Christ or anyone else state that there is 24-hours of sanctification in a day. If fact there is no word in the Jewish language for a 24-hour period!

Psalm 136:8 The sun to govern the day, …the moon and stars to govern the night;

Another point for sunset-to-sunset keepers; if the sun was made to rule over the day, then how can a day begin at night when the sun is not ruling?

Evening and the Morning

Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night,

and the evening ^H⁶¹⁵³ and the morning ^H1242 were the first day.

There are 3 opinions on what this means and how this is translated and reasons for:

(First) evening and the morning were (both were light and part of) the first day

“Evening and morning” are parts of the “day” “light” and not part of the “night”.

Do not read more into to this then there is. It does not say that the day ended with “night”; it only states what happened during the “day” otherwise God would have stated “day” and “night” because He already gave the definition of “night” at the start of this verse, and because there is no word in the Jewish language for a 24-hour period!

Morning ^H1242 bôqer From H1239; properly dawn (as the break of day);

generally morning: - (+) day, early, morning, morrow.

Evening ^H6153‛ereb From H6150; dusk: - + day, even (-ing, tide), night.

The Hebrew word “erev ⁶¹⁵³” here means: dusk. “layil” the Hebrew word for night ³⁹¹⁵ and “erev” are not synonymous. Genesis 1:1, God created the heaven and the earth but there was no light; thus, time did not start yet; light, dawn, starts the weekly time cycles.

Mixture ⁶¹⁵⁴Is interestingly also“erev”

A mixture of light and darkness = dusk = evening

A mixture of darkness and light = dawn = morning

There are a few definitions of the word ‘erev’; the correct one will fit the time frame and be consistent with the rest of the Bible.

The term “even” or “evening” (Hebrew “erev⁶¹⁵³”) is not as a fixed moment in time as we would like it to be; a point where something begins and/or ends.

4. In other places evening means about 3 pm. Ex 12:18; Ex 29:39; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:3; Numbers 28:16; Deuteronomy 16:6; Joshua 5:10; 2 Kings 16:15; 1 Chronicles 16:40; Ezra 9:4;

5. In other places it means about the time the sun hits the horizon. Leviticus 11:24; Leviticus 11:27-28; Leviticus 11:31-32; Leviticus 11:39-40; Leviticus 11:46; Leviticus 15 and Numbers 19:2 Sam 1:12; 2 Chronicles 18:34.

6. In other places evening is the twilight time phase from sunset until darkness.

Proverbs 7:9; Ezekiel 12:7; Genesis 29:23

Furthermore, there is a Hebrew phrase that means sundown. It is shemesh (sun) bow (down or set). The phrase shemesh bow is used to mean three differing points of time: before sunset, as the sun is setting and after sunset.

Genesis 15:12 Before the sun has set or: above the Horizon

Exodus 17:12 As the sun is setting or: mid-way of the Horizon

Genesis 28:11 After the sun has set or: below the Horizon

If the Hebrew word erev (evening) means sunset (just before, during or just after) why didn’t Moses use the word erev in the three verses above? Or why didn’t Moses use shemesh bow in all the places “evening” is used?

(Second) evening and (and: is a supplied word, should be “followed”)

the morning were the first day. (both part of the day, not night)

By the looks of this, according to Strong’s … “and” is a supplied word because it does not have a number attached to it. If that is the case then it would read:

Genesis 1:5 God called light Day, darkness he called Night.

Evening morning were the first day.

Thus, evening and morning are plainly just part of the first day.

Night has nothing to do with the day.

Night is totally divided and separated, not joined, from the day.

Night has its own covenant and season. ^Jerimiah^33:19

Each of these six verses below refers to the “morning” (boqer H1242) and “evening” (ereb H6153) in this order with no words between them whatsoever. Even though the word “and” appears, it is a supplied word in these verses and it is only there to connect the two words in the English language. They are correctly translated. You will also note that; after Genesis 1 all Bible verses refer to the morning preceding the evening; evening followed morning.^Genesis¹

1 Samuel 17:16 morning and evening

1 Chronicles 16:40 morning and evening

2 Chronicles 2:4 morning and evening

2 Chronicles 31:3 morning and evening

Ezra 3:3 morning and evening

Psalms 65:8 morning and evening

Exodus 18:13 morning till evening (See more: appendix – Day and Night p 20)

If “and” is not a supplied word and Strong’s did not include it with a #; then things get really interesting.

'and' H1961 Hayah (Hebrew) to exist; or to become; come to pass; beacon,

altogether; follow; happened;

There are a few Hebrew definitions of the word “and”; the correct one will fit the time frame and be consistent with the rest of the Bible. We know that the Scriptures never contradict its self; thus, evening followed morning is the only true translation.

Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night,

Original Translation and the evening and the morning were the first day.

Correct Translation It came to pass the evening followed the morning the first day.

Mark 12:38 Christ said: “Beware of the Scribes,” (Translators of Scriptures)

The word “and” does not belong between evening // morning ^Genesis^1:5. In fact it is not even a possible word choice. Hebrew writers never used connecting words such as “and”.

The only word that fits appropriately in the context is the word “followed.”

Notice how inserting the correct word actually reverses the order of the day, causing the “evening to follow the morning.”

As simple and surprising as this is, Genesis 1:5 is now in harmony with the rest of the Scriptures! The same goes for all 6 days of creation. By removing the falsified word “and,” then replacing it with the correct word “followed,” Genesis 1 is in harmony with the Sanctuary services, specifically the “morning and evening” sacrifices.

(Third) evening (evening came after God finished His work)

and the morning (came, after the night) were the first day (24-hour cycle)

People who think God wants the Sabbath to be 24-hours sanctified, dawn to dawn, explain this verse as above. Keep in mind that Scriptures never contradict each other; thus:

Isaiah 28:10For precept (context) must be upon precept, (context) precept upon precept, line (connecting) upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. (all Scriptures)

They present other controversial text: Exodus 16:23; 31:14; Leviticus. 23:32; Nehemiah 9:13; Isaiah 30:29; 45:7; Matthew 28:1; Mark 16:2; Luke 24:1 and John 20:1.

All have been taken out of context, see page 6.

Yes, the Sabbath is 24-hours, along with the other 6 cycles of the week. This doesn’t make a

24-hour sanctification period. All 7 cycles have a day and night, 24-hours in them.

Also, this (Third) explanation; the “Controversial Texts” are not presented with sound principles of Biblical interpretation. Sound doctrine must be presented in a written form for all to examine and must address all verse on the doctrine proving none contradict the others.

When did the “Day” start and end in Christs’ Time?

John 11:9 Christ confirms: “Are there not twelve hours in the day?

Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

Strong’s states that the sunrise starts Biblical time; the 6^th and the 9^th hour Biblical time translates to noon and 3 pm in modern time. Bible time starts the 24-hour day with light, dawn, not sunset. Question: Why do people start the Sabbath at sundown, approximately 12-hours before the start of the day? It is another of Satan counterfeits.

Matthew 27:57 When the evening³⁷⁹⁸ was come¹⁰⁹⁶, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Christ’s disciple: He went to Pilate, and begged for the body of Christ.

evening ³⁷⁹⁸1) late

2) evening a) either from three to six o'clock p.m. (today’s time)

b) from six o'clock p.m. to the beginning of night

was come¹⁰⁹⁶1) to become, i.e. to come into existence, begin to be,

2) to become, i.e. to come to pass,

Think about this: Joseph did not ask for Christs’ body because the Sabbath was soon to start after the 9th hour; John 19:38 states he asked because he was afraid of the Jews. See John 19:38 below: This also confirms that Joseph would take Christ’s body Sabbath night after the sanctified Sabbath day was finished.

John 19:38 Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the body away.

Matthew 28:1 In the end³⁷⁹⁶ of the Sabbath, (Sabbath 24-hours, day and night, not just the Sabbath day of 12-hours) as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

end³⁷⁹⁶ 1) after a long time, long after, late a) late in the day, i.e. at evening

b) the Sabbath having just passed, after the Sabbath

1) at the early dawn of the first day of the week

Luke 23:52 The Burial of Christ This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Christ. … And that day was the (Passover) preparation [day] and the

(Feast of Unleavened Bread) Sabbath drew on²⁰²⁰.

drew on²⁰²⁰1) to grow light, to dawn

It is very plain to see that in Christ’s time, “In the end of the Sabbath, (= 24-hrs; not day =

12-hours) as it began to dawn toward the first day” that the Sabbath ended

when night became dawn; The same time frame is in harmony with the creation days.

John 6:16 Christ Walks on the Water When evening³⁷⁹⁸ came, his disciples went down to the lake, ¹⁷ where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark⁴⁶⁵³, and Christ had not yet joined them. …

²² The next day¹⁸⁸⁷ the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore.

dark ⁴⁶⁵³1) darkness 2) the darkness due to want of light

next day ¹⁸⁸⁷1) on the morrow, the next day

From this we can confirm, again, that the day starts at dawn.

What is expected from us at night?

John 9:4 Imust work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day;

the night is coming when no one can work.

New Earth

Isaiah 66:23 From one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and

bow down before me.

Psalms 113:3 From the rising (dawn) of the sun to its going down, (dusk)

the God’s name is to be praised. (No 24-hours or night time here!)

If Sabbath is a 24-hour sanctified period that starts and end with dawn then God should have stated from the rising (dawn) of the sun to its rising of the sun, (dawn) right?

But He didn’t.

This confirms dawn to dusk doctrine will be applied on the new earth too. If the sanctified Sabbath started in the evening or lasted 24-hours then this verse would make no sense whatsoever. Isaiah 66:23 and Psalms 113:3 both confirm that there is no commandment to keep the “Night” sanctified, Holy.

Summary

We all worship our Heavenly Father 24/7, 365 days each year ^Psalms
1:2,^Nehemiah^1:6, which means we strive^{Luke 13:24}to do His will continuously; not what we feel is good and right.

Psalm 1:2 He meditates in His Torah Day and night.

Isaiah 8:20 If you do not quote “thus says God” there is not truth in your message.

Genesis 1:5 God called the light Day, (12-hours) and He called the darkness Night. (12-hours)

John 11:9 Christ confirms: “Are there not twelve hours in the day?

Genesis 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day (not night and sanctified it (not them).

Genesis 2:14 Then God: “… divide (separated) the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, (day and night have their own season and covenant ^Jerimiah^33:20, like the law of gravity, they do not change.)

All other Biblical texts on this subject must not contradict these God given definitions.

Remember the Hebrew language has no word for a 24-hour period, only for day, “yom” and night season, “layil”.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Not the Sabbath night.

Leviticus 23: The Day of Atonement confirms that the sanctified hours of the Sabbath day

end at evening and not at sunset or after the Sabbath night at dawn the next day.

Psalm 113:3 Dawn to Dusk, the name of God is to be praised. Not at night.

The Jews have never kept Sabbath night holy. They kept only dawn to dusk sanctified until approximately 1600 years when they added Friday night hours to the sanctified hours of the Sabbath day and made it law approximately 400 years ago. When they started sunset to sunset Sabbath keeping; it took away the light time after sunset on Sabbath day. They didn’t take away the Sabbath night to add to Friday night because Sabbath night was never sanctified.

Jewish history state that Friday night hours were added not exchanged for Sabbath night.

Moslems follow Abraham and keep dawn to dusk for their holy day Friday.

According to dawn-to-dawn believers Sabbath night should be sanctified; however, in 6000 years there is zero proof that anyone has kept Sabbath night sanctified, so why start now?

24-hour Sanctification is not Biblical

Mark 7:7 They worship me In vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸⁾ For laying aside the commandments of God, you hold the traditions of men.” ¹³⁾ Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.

In vain (you will lose eternal life) do they worship 24-hours sanctified Sabbath.

Deuteronomy 12:28 “Do what is good and right in the sight of God.

³² You shall not add to it nor take away from it.”

Leviticus 5:17 If anyone sins and does what is forbidden in any of God’s commands, even though they do not know them, they are guilty and will be held responsible.

We have to follow the Bible and not the traditions of the Jews or anyone else because:

Malachi 3:6 I Christ do not change.

Hebrews 13:8 Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Matthew 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments.

And His commandments are not burdensome.

You can choose to worship in vain, and to lose Eternal Life or you can strive ^{Luke 13:24} to follow Gods commandments, not man’s traditions and have Eternal Life now!

Proverbs 28:9 One who turns away his ear from hearing the law, (His commandments)

even his prayer is an abomination.

Psalms 107:43 Whoever is wise will observe these things.

Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear and increase learning. (Learn new light, new truth)

The highest form of worship and love for our Saviour is to keep His commandments!

The sanctified holy part of the 24-hour period is from dawn to dusk only!!!

Will You Keep Only “Dawn to Dusk” Holy?

(Yes I will!) J (No I won’t.) L

Appendix ~ Day and Night

Day Begins at Dawn

There are over 70 passages in Scripture that reveal or give supporting evidence that the

day begins at dawn. Here are just a few:

Genesis 32:24 So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.

Exodus 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over Egypt, and God made an east wind blow across the land all that day and all that night. By morning the wind had brought the locusts;

Exodus 18:13 The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.

Leviticus 7:15 The flesh of the sacrifice of His peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning that is connected to a new day?

Numbers 11:32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails

Numbers 28:3 “… day by day, as a regular burnt offering. ⁴ The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, the other lamb you shall offer in the evening,

Joshua 6:15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city

Jude 19:26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

1 Samuel 19:24 He lay naked all that day and all that night.

1 Samuel 28:20 His strength was gone, for he had eaten nothing all that day and

all that night.

2 Samuel 2:32 They took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb at Bethlehem.

Then Joab and his men marched all night and arrived at Hebron by daybreak.

Job 3:9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and

not see the first rays of dawn,

Job 7:4 The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

Job 17:12 They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ … in the face of darkness.

Psalm 22:2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest.

What is the season of the day and what is the season of the night? The season of the day is when the sun reigns, and the season of the night is when the moon reigns.

Jerimiah 31:35 This is what the Lord says, he who appoints the sun to shine by day³¹¹⁹, who decrees the moon and stars to shine by night³⁹¹⁵

Jerimiah 33:19 God speaks about the evil that He would bring upon the house of David and kingdom of Israel if they broke His covenants that there should not be day or night in their season.

Psalm 104:20 You bring darkness, it becomes night, a night is not considered a day.

Song of Solomon 2:17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved,

Song of Solomon 4:6 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee.

Night Starts When

In the Jewish mind set, darkness, night, was not to be considered until there were three stars visible. This fact will put new “light” on a dark subject! Scriptural support on this:

Nehemiah 4:21 So we laboured in the work and half of them held the spears

from the rising of the morning⁷⁸³⁷ till the stars appeared.

morning⁷⁸³⁷ shachar 1) dawn a) dawn b) at dawn (as adverb)

Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23 and 31. Verse 5 states explicitly that the two twilights make up

the day.

Genesis 1:1-5 explains clearly that the beginning of this earth started with the light of

Christ when He arrived on the scene. Darkness is not light.

There is no Scriptures that proves that Adam and Eve, the Jew’s and up until today that Sabbath night has ever been kept holy.

Silent Night Holy Night or Holy Day

Luke 2:8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of God came upon them, and the glory of God shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born (past tense) this day ⁴⁵⁹⁴in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ your God. And this shall be a sign unto you; you shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, (already born) lying in a manger.

this day ⁴⁵⁹⁴sēmeron 1) this (very) day) 2) what has happened today

We have been taught that Christ was born at night and thus we sing “Oh Holy Night” but when you take a closer look at the wording the truth of the matter is He was born during the day and not during the night. By saying “this day” 12-hours, makes the time of the announcement, night, part of that 24-hour cycle. Remember the Hebrew language has no word for a 24-hour period, only for day, “yom” and night season, “layil”.

Also, Christ was born on the 1^st day of Tabernacles; which means: God Dwells with us.

How to Prove Scriptural Questions

Sound Doctrine

A few text that appear to lean in a different direction than the majority doesn’t make for sound principles of Biblical interpretation. Scriptures never contradict other Scriptures.

Christ gave us His example, beginning at Moses, one subject, and all scripture and came to one conclusion. We must always follow Christ example not what feels good.

Luke 24:27 And beginning at Moses (Always start at Genesis and the remaining first 5 books of Moses) and all the prophets, (The rest of the Scriptures, only the OT at that time.) He (Christ) expounded to them in all the Scriptures (This confirms that the whole Bible is to be used) the things concerning himself. (One subject)

Isaiah 8:20 To the law⁸⁴⁵¹(Strong’s ⁸⁴⁵¹, Torah, the first five books of the Bible,) and to the testimony ⁸⁵⁸⁴(The rest of the Scriptures that testify to the Torah)if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light (no truth) in them.

(The absence of light = Darkness = Satanic doctrine.)

Isaiah 28:10For precept must be upon precept,(context) precept upon precept, line (connecting) upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little. (all Scriptures)

Context upon context, connecting each other, using all Scriptures because they never

contradict other Scriptures.

Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, (Religious Leaders) who come to you in sheep’s

clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.” (Sheep logic teachers)

Ephesians 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, … but rather expose them.

Acts 17:11 Now the Bereans (and the people reading this message) were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the scriptures everyday (you are to prove all things^.

1 Thessalonians 5:21) to see if what Paul (Church Leaders) said was true.

God wants us to reason together, study, examined the scriptures, prove all things and expose them. God’s reasons with us only through His light, His truth, His Scriptures. We must have a more noble character than the Thessalonians (people who don’t explain contradictory texts) by receiving the message with great eagerness and examined the scriptures every day to see if what Paul (Church Leaders or this writer) said was true.

Daniel 12:10 End Times: The wicked shall not understand, but the wise shall understand.