Sabbath Day

*Sabbath Day*

Are you a Christian?  Do you believe in Jesus as your saviour?  Do you believe that people who follow a Sabbath Day have forgotten that Jesus died for their sin?

The truth is this.  The Sabbath day is for man, not man for the Sabbath.  Jesus himself did good on the Sabbath days.  (John chapter 5)

Maybe you are not a Christian and have not found your soul to be at rest.  You feel as if you must have a good reputation and keep business going all days of the week.  If life feels like it is always a burden, your health is failing and you have no time for family and friends, maybe it is time to seek the rest that the Lord would like to offer you.

-When Is the Sabbath Day?-

The first day of rest was the seventh day of the week after God created all things in this universe.  (Genesis 2:2  And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.)  How do we know what day of the week is the Sabbath day?  We can judge this based on when the moon and stars coordinate with specific timing with nature and seasons.  Nearly all languages around the world have names for the days of the week (1-7).  Nearly all languages and cultures around the world use astronomy and understand conditions in nature since the ancient days.

-When is the Sabbath Day mentioned in the Bible?-

By using a computer, a search will calculate that the Sabbath day is mentioned 146 times in a KJV bible.  It is mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments.  However, other words are mentioned more in the bible.  Words like -Heart- and -Jesus- are mentioned many more times.  This means that our Heart needs to change to follow Jesus on Sabbath days and non-Sabbath days alike.  Instead of being angry, deceitful and cross on the Sabbath day, our heart should be light, good and delighted in serving our Lord (Isaiah 58:13  If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:)

Other places indicate that forgetting Sabbath Day is sorrowful:  And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. Lamentations 2:6,  Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. Lamentations 1:7

Remembering the Sabbath Day is important to God.  He put it fourth in the basic 10 commandments: Exodus 20: 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

If God is sad when we forget his Sabbath day, I am sure we also are sad when we do not get rest.  We are also sad when people steal, lie and commit adultery against us.  God's commandments and words are important words for us.

-How do we know that Jesus' Resurrection indicates the coordination with Sabbath Day?-

When a person decides to study the Qumran Calendar, there is a pattern that shows up.  It shows us that Jesus was in the grave for three days and three nights.  The First day of the First month always started on the Fourth Day of the week.  It never started on any other day of the week.  The First month, named Abib in the bible, was when Passover occurred, for the first Passover celebration.  The Jewish people ALWAYS knew and still practice today that the first month Abib starts when there is Barley harvest (Exodus 9:31 And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.)  In the Qumran Calendar the first month in the first cycle of three cycles, starts when there was a full moon on the Fourth day of the week.  It takes a little bible study and biblical scholarly studies as well as astronomy study to understand this Qumran Calendar, but it is not too difficult, once you see the pattern. 

Because the First month of the bible calendar starts on the Fourth day of the week, the 14th day of the bible calendar month of Abib would need to be found on the Third Day of the week.  All Abib 14th start on the Third Day of the week in all three Qumran Calendar cycles.  When Passover occurred on Abib 14, perhaps it was a first calendar cycle, Jesus ate the Last supper with his friends the disciples and one traitor.  That evening after supper Jesus went to the Garden Gethsemane(Matthew 26), and Judas came with Roman soldiers to take him to be crucified.  The next day he was beaten, bruised and killed on the cross.  A dark solar eclipse occurred from the 6th hour to the ninth hour sundial time ( Matt. 27:45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour).  So Jesus was dead on the 15th, 16th and 17th days of the bible calendar month Abib.  But on the 18th day of the month was the seventh day.

Jesus was not seen as a resurrected saviour until the first day of the week.  Many Christians have celebrated this way and believed that Mary saw Jesus arise from the tomb on the first day of the week.  But in reality Jesus had already arose specifically for the Sabbath Day.  The disciples and other followers of Jesus were probably resting and did not visit the tomb on the seventh day of the week!

-What did the first-century Christians practice?-

Many of the first Christians were Jewish.  The bible itself says that Paul taught even on the Sabbath days.  Infract entire towns came to hear God's word preached on Sabbath days (Acts 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.)  There is no indication that the people were afraid of their salvation because of Sabbath days.  They feared the Lord and wanted to serve him.  They wanted to hear God's word preached to them.  Many of these First Century Christians died for their faith by Roman persecution and trusted in  Jesus Salvation.

Later in time, a confusion came into the church.  Constantine was a pagan idolater who lived from 272 to 372 AD.  He did not love God's word appropriately because he did not want to follow God's word exactly as it called him to do.  He was a man of war, not a man of peace.  He created a style of Christian living that was not really Christian but had pagan elements mixed with Christian biblical truths.  His influence hurts men and women today because people get distorted views of religion and bible truths.  His influence even affected and created practices in the Muslim and Middle Eastern world to this day.  Constantine did not encourage a celebration of the Sabbath day, but at the end of his life it is believed he finally gave his life to Jesus.

-What types of things can you do on the Sabbath day?-

Do children's bible activity, relax and study nature, rest, read positive godly literature, visit godly friends, visit elderly relatives, hand out a few bible tracts, share bible verses with strangers, listen to godly hymn music, sing godly songs, get together for a bible study, Study the bible, lightly study Christian and Jewish history, share a hot meal with a family, take prayer requests and pray for others, take a walk to a park and so much more.

You may even feel inclined to not write, eliminate electrical usage or use minimal technology on the Sabbath day.  Those types practices are not against biblical teaching.

-What things can you do to be saved?-

                      

All you need to study, is a simple KJV Holy Bible.  If you know other languages, select the bible that is free and available to the poor.  Celebration of a Sabbath does not save you as there were wicked people who condemned people and Jesus himself even on the Sabbath day. However, knowing Scripture will help you to practice Sabbath days in a way that you choose good and not evil.  By following Jesus you can overcome the evils of gambling, addictions, alcoholism, sexual impurity including homosexuality, lust, infidelity, insecurity, fornication, eating disorders, anger, greed, pharmaceutical dependency and so much more.  Study of the bible, prayer for others, serving others and worship with believers helps overcome bondages.


http://raggedycottagegarden.blogspot.com/2017/05/feast-of-unleavened-bread-miracle.html

Abib is indicated by Barley Harvest.......And the "day" actually begins in the evening.....remember now.

When did Jesus rise from the grave????

Note: On this subject, I do not believe that people who "falsely" believed in our ancestry or history are not saved or redeemed.  They did not have access to the things we have now such as technology and access to Qumran Calendar calculations.  Traditions are traditions and truth is truth.  Sometimes they mesh and sometimes they do not mesh.

The image given is taken from Stellarium at the noon hour from the view point of Jerusalem.  Notice how a possible miracle could have produced the darkened sun from the 6th hour to the 9th hour.

http://www.thecreatorscalendar.com/ad-31-calendar/

Now the website is yahweist based.  Yes, the writer of the website given does a fine job of finding details in the bible and how they coordinate with the time frame of astronomy, time methods used in the time of Jesus and scripture,but a person will need to write out detail by detail how events actually played out (so there are distortions in the website against "Sabbath day" being the seventh day).  Hence the Sabbath day was never abolished by Jesus and actually does continue to occur on the Seventh day of the week. He was in the grave on the evening before(of) the 4th, 5th and 6th day of the week.  Jesus would have rose before the Sabbath day (7th day) sun-down on the week of Passover.  He was not visible until the first day of the week as indicated by the scripture.

Abib is indicated by Barley Harvest.......And the "day" actually begins in the evening.....remember now.  Also remember that the evening was the evening before.  So a "P" on passover the 14 would look like passover occurring on the "13th" by the Gregorian calendar.  The 15th day of the month is a special "High Sabbath" and also the first day of the feast of unleavened bread. Jesus would have been visible the Celebration of "First Fruits" which is the day after the Sabbath (Lev 23:10-11).

This resource has good information about how to observe scripture for what it says and not with what religion says, the issue with this website is that it does not coordinate with astronomy: http://thewayofthemessiah.org/tsp.html


Note on the Calendar given:  The modern day Jewish-Babylonian calendar given in the image below is only ONE day different from the Messianic calendar.  The Messianic calendar would start Iyaar 1 on the FRIDAY evening or the day before the weekly SABBATH.

https://www.aroodawakening.tv/biblical-hebrew-calendar/

This image shows a planetary conjunction with the "evening star" and the moon after 3 days and 3 nights in the grave!

Order of Events (Individual research will produce best results. With Qumran Calendar and other resources available study CAN be done more efficiently):
3rd day evening: Passover Celebration ... gethsemane, arrested, Reference: Mark 14:16, Mark 14:32, Matthew 26:36-46; Mark 14:32-42; Luke 22:40-46, Lev 23:5 (always in the evening)
3rd day day:  on trial, persecuted, on cross by 9 a.m.,  Reference: Luke 22:54, Matthew 27:1-2, Mark 15:25
3rd day astronomy conditions: New moon Darkness 6th hour to 9th hour (12:00 noon-3:00), Died and placed in tomb before sundown Reference: Matt 27:45, Luke 23:44, John 19:14, Matt 27:59-61, Luke 23:52-54, John 19:31, John 19:42, Mark 15:46, Matt 27:64
4th day evening: FIRST NIGHT, high sabbath, feast of unleavened bread Reference: Lev 23:6-7, John 19:42, Nehemiah 10:31, 
4th day day: FIRST DAY, High Sabbath, Feast of unleavened Bread, Reference: Lev 23:6-7, John 19:42, Nehemiah 10:31, 
5th day evening: SECOND NIGHT, bought spices, business day, Reference: Mark 16:1 ?
5th day day: SECOND DAY, bought spices, business day, Reference: Mark 16:1?
6th day evening: THIRD NIGHT, bought spices, business day, Reference: Mark 16:1?
6th day day: THIRD DAY, bought spices, business day, Reference: Mark 16:1?
7th day evening: Jesus body ready to be raised from the grave, perhaps he actually rose, never broke Sabbath Day.  Redeemer of Creation. Reference:  Luke 23:55 - 24:1, Exodus 20:28, Deut 5:15, Matt 12:8, Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5
7th day evening: Jesus body ready to be raised from the grave, perhaps he actually rose, never broke Sabbath Day.  Redeemer of Creation. Reference:  Luke 23:55 - 24:1, Exodus 20:28, Deut 5:15, Matt 12:8, Mark 2:28; Luke 6:5
8th day evening/1st day evening: Business as usual, but could not see inside of a tomb.
8th day/1st day day:
Early the first day Jesus was seen early Dawn by Mary Magdalene. Reference: John 20:1-18, Matt 28: 6, Mark 16:9, Luke 24:6

Penny Chores

There is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Children need something to do in their life.

They don't need harrassment.

They need chores.

Chores are not harassment, they are a way to keep the child healthy and strong.  Capable of overcoming obstacles.

In our home, we use the "penny jar" method of fulfilling chores.

Each "little task" that a child completes, allows the child to get one penny.

If the child spray's one appliance, the child gets one penny.  If the child does it with a sour face.  He still gets one penny.  If he sprays and wipes down the appliance with a smile on his face and joy in his heart, he gets two pennies.  One for doing the job and one for good attitude.

If a child solves a rubix cube or some other intellectual challenge, the child gets one penny.  If the child has a smile on face and decides to do another challenge like study astronomy, the child gets two pennies.

See where I go with the penny jar approach.

The child will get one penny for cleaning toilet, folding a certain number of towels, helping cook some soup and other such things.  The child will get an additional penny for positive attitude.

I'd give a penny for other positive things in the childs life too, like going sledding, brushing teeth, solving a bible crossword, baking some cookies for a neighbor in need and so forth.

Are there times where the penny can get taken away?  Yes and no.  If the child does something bad, he will have to do "penny chores" he doesn't like.  If the child was "cheating" and didn't really do the chore or something else sneaky, the penny gets removed.

Giving and sharing gospel during the different Bible Feasts.

Here is a unique way to give this Holiday Season (yes, you can celebrate Messianic or "plain people" style as well).

I had ** extra dollars I saved up to give to some one special. I believe "Jesus is the Reason for the Season" and the reason we learn kindness. In John 10:22-23 (KJV Holy Bible) it says Jesus Walked and Taught in the temple in Jerusalem at the "Feast of Dedication." This time of year would be the nineth month in Jewish Calendar and the 24th day of the month. I would like to wish you a blessed Holiday Season. All I ask for you in return is to put God's word in your heart and "Pay it Forward" yourself. Spread Gospel truth, keep the chain going.

Listed and included in "gift form":

Churches that support bible study.

Online resources to gain knowledge of bible.

A simple KJV "Holy Bible" with bible study guide.

**Personally** I'm listing KRJE 89.9 FM radio for Jesus from Hawkeye, IA

Use this idea for other Bible Feasts as well.  Include a way to encourage the receiver to study the bible.

Calculate the time of Christ on the cross....Calculate "Feast of Dedication"

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE0001-0100.html

Look at the Naza....NASA website.  Find the year "31."  Look for lunar Eclipse.

Now once you have found that, reduce the possibility of a "new moon" over Jerusalem.

Surprise Surprise, the new moon was timed at 9 Apr year 31.

Look at the free planetarium program from http://www.stellarium.org/.  Look up 9 Apr year 31 from location in Jerusalem.

Look in sky and find the moon near the sun, for a possible miraculous Solar Eclipse qhile Christ was on the cross.  This makes the scripture TRUE!

This timing coordinates with the Qumran Calendar and how the calendar calculates the month of Abib and the timing of Passover, so long as the Full moon is the beginning of the month for the first calendrical cycle.


Look at the passage in the bible for "feast of Dedication" as indicated in John 10:22.  Notice the events that follow from "feast of Dedication" to the next passover, which is Jesus final Passover.

So the feast of dedication when Jesus was on earth, would follow the Third cycle in Qumran calendar calculations.  Knowing when the leap year happened to fall would indicate how to calculate what the sky appeared to be doing during the feast of dedication.  http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2003/qumran.html

The Feast of dedication is biblically indicated to occur on Kislev 24 according to Haggai chapter 2.  There should be a total of 30 * 3 + 1 and 7 days from the "Feast of Dedication" to the first day of Abib or to the First day of the Leap year.


Check moon phases to see if it matches the pattern of Qumran Calendar.....