By Rabbi Samuel Thompson

(Please note this article was originally written by Creation Calender Ministries and has additions made by Rabbi Samuel Thompson with their permission)

Psalms 104:19 He created the moon for moadim: the sun knows its going down. Genesis 1:14 And Elohim said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the shamayim to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for moadim, and for days, and years:
Psalm 104:19. Here David very nearly quotes Genesis 1:14, only hes very specific about the role of the moon. Seasons here in Psalm 104:19 is the same Hebrew word found in Genesis 1:14; moadim, appointed times or set feasts. If I made you a general in my army, does that mean you did not exist until I pinned the stars on your lapel? No, it means I advanced upon and appointed you as a general in my army. You existed prior to your appointment. In Genesis 1:1, Yahuwah created the earth and other celestial bodies at a certain point in time. He doesnt call it a day of the work week at the end of verse 2 because it WASNT a week day; it was the first segment of time of the first month of earth's history. The first "day" of the month is new moon, a non-week day. Looks something like this... 1 2 9 16 23 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 8 15 22 29

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The week days are in black ending with a Sabbath each week. In fact if we look into the Hebrew we will notice that the first Day so to speak was not numbered as Day One at all or the Hebrew word which is Yom Rishon or Day One.
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The actual word used is Echad. In my opinion this was not Day one as we would know it, but Rosh Chodesh or New Moon Day when Yahuwah switched the lights on. The count would have started on day two where we see the Word Yom Shaynee (Day 2). The Word Echad means:

H#259. 'echad ekh-awd' A numeral from 258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:--a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any (-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
This was a day unlike any other day and thats why Moshe uses the word Echad instead of Rishon which means the first day there were six working days for the week this is confirmed in Ezekiel 46:1

This says the Master Yahuwah; the gate of the inner courtyard that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Shabbat it shall be opened, and in the day of the Rosh Chodesh it shall be opened.
Here it states that there is six working days separate from the Rosh Chodesh (New Moon Day) and Shabbat Day. So in light of this it is in my opinion that we could say that the first week looked like this Yom Echad (Day One/Rosh Chodesh) this is when Yahuwah turned the lights on and then the Moon would have begun it lunation. Day 2 (Work Day 1) Day 3 (Work Day 2) Day 4 (Work Day 3) Day 5 (Work Day 4) Day 6 (Work Day 5) Day 7 (Work Day 6) Day 8 (Shabbat) The sun, moon, stars and all the heavens were created when Yahuwah spoke the earth into existence in Genesis 1:1. Then on the first day of the week, Yahuwah lights the sun creating light and, of course, day and night as a result.
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The sun was lit on the first work day dividing day from night, light from darkness (which ONLY the sun can do as seen from earth), so the moon was illuminated that night as well, in fact all the heavens were there and illuminated. This was THREE days before the 4th day of creation, yet there were three DAYS and three NIGHTS of this work week all before day 4. You cannot have a day (Yom) without the sun as Yom means heat (as from the sun). Since the sun was there before day 4, so was the moon because they were all created at the same time in Genesis 1:1. This is what the Hebrew SAYS in context. So on the fourth work day, Yahuwah advanced upon the luminaries that He had created earlier [when He created the heavens and the earth and then illuminated on day one], and ordained them, appointed them as time keepers. The moon rules the week/Sabbath (signs) and the month (seasons). The sun rules the day and the sun and moon rule the year. The moon is listed as having a roll in the Creation Calendar as well as the sun, so the Creation calendar is NOT solar only; it is a lunar-solar calendar. Objection 6: The weekly seventh-day Sabbath has never been lost. By this, the objector means that satyrday has been the seventh-day all the way back to Creation and has never been lost track of. The implication here is that the nay-sayer believes that Yisrael or the "Jews" have always kept the Sabbath, and they have never lost sight of the Sabbath, and they keep satyrday presently. The problem with this notion is that they all do err, not knowing Scripture.

And He [Yahuwah] hath violently taken away His tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: He hath destroyed His places of the assembly: Yahuwah 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 As I have said hundreds of times, when Yahuwah causes you to forget, you FORGET! The historical landscape is littered with Yisrael's apostasy. Every time they apostatized they forgot the Sabbath, followed after other gods, and worshipped in groves upon the high places. Yahuwah sent the prophets to restore the knowledge of the Torah, His Book of Instructions. The point is, you cannot remember something that has been TAKEN from your memory. The other point is that satyrday has only been the seventh day of the week since 321 A.D.
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Whoever is in charge is in charge of the calendar. The calendar you keep tells you when to work and when to worship. WHEN you worship tells heaven and the onlooking universe WHO you worship, so getting the day right is THAT serious. In the 4th century, Constantine was in charge, and he rearranged the calendar week, bumping satyrday from the first day of the week to the seventh (see Objection #1). The final point is that these are men changing man's calendars. No one can change Yahuwahs calendar but He Himself. When Yisrael was in apostasy, Yahuwah always raised up a prophet to restore Torah. The Creator is only going to return for Yisraelites (either blood or those who have joined themselves to Yisrael). Both the OT and NT make this crystal clear. There is not a single denomination on the planet that can grant you entrance unto this body of people that Yahuwah calls His Chosen. In fact, the four-walled churches are Babylon, a confused mess, either not teaching the Torah or being partial in the law (Malachi 2:8-9). They teach for doctrines the commandments of men. In order to (re)claim your birth right, you are going to have to come out of her my people. Jeremiah 31:35-36 records just how important the ordinances of the moon and stars are to Yahuwah. With this knowledge comes responsibility.

Thus saith Yahuwah, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; Yahuwah of hosts is His name: If those ordinances [of the moon and stars] depart from before Me, saith Yahuwah, then the seed of Yisrael also shall cease from being a nation before Me forever.
If the ordinances of the moon and stars depart from before Yahuwah, if they are forgotten entirely, then Yahuwah is not coming back (ever) because Yisrael shall cease from being a nation before Yahuwah, forever. The ordinances of the moon are pretty important, dont you think? The reason the ordinances of the moon and stars should be important to YOU is because YOU are important to Yahuwah.

Objection 7: The falling of manna in the wilderness proves that the Sabbath cannot be based upon the lunar cycle. Manna fell for 6 days and Yisrael collected a double portion on the 6th day in preparation for the Sabbath. There is no mention of the lunar Sabbath. The issue of the manna does not affect the Lunar Sabbath. It does only in the minds of the nay-sayers who get upset when we ask that they have an open mind when examining the evidence supporting the Sabbath of Creation. History reveals that Yisrael fasted on new moon day. Hutton Webster writes, ...the

establishment of a periodic week ending in a Sabbath observed every seventh day was doubtless responsible for the gradual obsolescence of the new moon festival as a period of general abstinence, since with continuous weeks the new-moon day and the Sabbath Day would from time to time coincide (Rest Days, p. 255).

Satyrday Sabbatarians have tried to use the story of the manna as proof that the Lunar Sabbath is false. They say the narrative in Exodus 16 offers no instruction for Yisrael to pick up manna (or not) during the new moon phase during their 40 years in the wilderness. These same folks admit that the new moons were observed, but because there is no mention of them in conjunction with the falling of the manna, they say that this proves that the seven day weeks are not interrupted by the new moon days and therefore, manna MUST have fallen on the new moon days. In the same breath, these same well-meaning folks insist that the days of the week go 1-2-3-4-5-6-7 uninterrupted all the way back to Creation, and with no evidence other than our present Gregorian calendar and their tradition, say that Satyrday IS that seventh day. Let me propose that this is not the casefor several reasons. (1) (2) When Yisrael was walking in the Torah, they always observed the same lunar-solar calendar established in Genesis 1. With this calendar, the days of new moon are described as a third category of day in Ezekiel 46:1, II Kings 4:23, Isaiah 66:23 and Amos 8:5. Since new moon is a third category of day (neither one of the six working days nor Sabbath) elsewhere in Scripture, then it was a third category of day during Yisraels wilderness sojourn. By insisting that Yisrael gathered manna on new moon days during their wilderness sojourn, they are adding to Torah, in violation of Deuteronomy 4:2. Scripture does not say whether Yisrael gathered or ate manna on new moon days, so satyrday Sabbatarians cannot use this lack of information as proof of anything, they can only speculate. When Scripture is silent, our silence is golden.
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Satyrday is only the seventh day of the week by virtue of Emperor Constantine. In 321 A.D., he venerated the day of the sun which moved satyrday from its coveted position as the first day of the week (where it had been since at least 600 B.C.) to the seventh day of the week, making room for Sunday to move to the first day column.

Anecdotally, and historically, Yisrael fasted on new moon days (see one quote above from Hutton Webster). I wonder why? Regardless of whether the instructions of Yahuwah about gathering or eating manna on the new moon days were written down or not, the Father always provides for His children. I find it interesting that science has shown that fasting once a month is great for your health. Satyrday Sabbatarians who have knowledge of the health message should jump up and shout, but they wont because they must also then admit defeat regarding the manna issue and the Lunar Calendar. The land Sabbaths were important enough to the Father to cause Yisrael to go into captivity for 70 years in Babylon for NOT observing them. These land Sabbaths were also in 7 year sequences (like the days of weeks). Yisrael could sow and reap for the 6 years, but on the land Sabbath, they were to abstain. The Father caused a triple portion of produce to be harvested on the 6th year to provide food for Yisrael during the 6th year, the 7th year (land Sabbath) and the first part of the first year of the subsequent 7 year sequence, since there was no sowing/reaping during the 7th year land Sabbath. Also, there was neither sowing nor reaping during the year of Jubilee. So the 48th year of the Jubilee cycle had to provide produce for FOUR years (the 48th, 49th, 50th and the first half of the year of the subsequent Jubilee cycle). My point: Nothing is said about eating manna on new moon days during the 40 year wilderness sojourn. This in no wise disproves the Creation Calendar. The Jubilee cycle may provide an answer. The day(s) of new moon interrupt the continuance of weeks, and the 50th year interrupts the seven 7 year counts; it cannot double as the first year of the following Jubilee cycle because you can sow and reap on the first year of each land Sabbath, Leviticus 25:3. No one could sow and reap during the 50th year of Jubilee, Leviticus 25:11. New moon days are a third category of day; the year of Jubilee is a third category of year. It is neither one of the six year of sowing/reaping, nor is it a 7th year land Sabbath. Ironically, the manna PROVES the Creation Calendar. Please refer to the calendar below as you read the following...
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Yahuwah met with Moshe on the 15th, (Exodus 16:1) and said that they would get quail that evening (of the 15th Exodus 16:8 and 16:12-13) and manna the next morning (the 16th Exodus 16:8) and for the 6 days following (Exodus 16:5). They were to pick up a daily amount each day except for the 6th day of the week when they were instructed to pick up a double portion (Exodus 16:5 16:22, and 16:26) because the MORROW was the Sabbath (Exodus 16:23 and 16:26). Looks like this: 1st 9 16 2nd 10 17 3rd 11 18 4th 12 19 5th 13 20 6th 14 21 7th 15 22

If the 22nd is the Sabbath, so is the 15th. Seems to me that I remember reading somewhere that in Scripture the weekly Sabbaths are always on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th days of the lunar month. The reason this has been written is because of proof texts like this. Objection 8: Keeping the Lunar Sabbath causes one to break the great Seventh-day Sabbath, the memorial of creation, which goes back in unbroken chain to that very first Creation Seventh-day Sabbath of Genesis 2. Show me. Show me the text in Scripture that says the Sabbath is the seventh day of an unbroken chain of seven day weeks that goes back to creation. Show me the passage in Scripture that says that the Sabbath is the memorial of Creation. Scripture says that the Sabbath is the seventh day, but it does not say that it is part of an unbroken chain that goes back to Creation. The new moon days interrupt the cycle of weeks every month, just as the Jubilee cycle interrupts the cycle of Land Sabbaths, see Objection #7 (My point, near the bottom). Can new moon fall on a work day or Sabbath? The new moon days never fall during the common week; they are a third category of day, which means it interrupts the week. Ezekiel 46:1 says that the gate to the temple is shut on all six working days, but open on the Sabbath and new moon. When new moon occurs on a Wednesday, if the tabernacle were still here ask the objector you are dealing with, Would the gate have been open or shut?
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If they say open because it is new moon day, you respond that Wednesday is a work day, it must be shut. If they agreed, Of course Wednesday is a work day, it must be shut, then you reply, But friend, it is new moon, it must be open. The Nay-sayers have no correct answer because they are applying a pagan/papal/Roman/solar-only/man-made calendar to this Scriptural calendar event. Isaiah 66:23, II Kings 4:18-23, Amos 8:5 are three more witnesses that the new moon cannot fall on one of the six work days. New moon, work day, Sabbath. Looks like this: 1 2 9 16 23 3 10 17 24 4 11 18 25 5 12 19 26 6 13 20 27 7 14 21 28 8 15 22 29

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Also, Scripture never calls the Sabbath the memorial of Creation. Psalm 111:4 does say that Yah made a memorial for His created works but it does not say that this was the 7th day Sabbath. The only days specifically mentioned as having some memorial connected to them are, interestingly enough, all annual feast days: Passover => Exodus 12:14, Day of Atonement (by implication) => Exodus 30:16, Feast of Trumpets => Leviticus 23:24, and New moons and feasts collectively => Numbers 10:10. The Sabbath is a sign or seal, Exodus 31:13, Ezekiel 20:12 and 20:20. Sign Strongs, Hebrew #226 (wth), which means signal, flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, mark, miracle, ensign, or token. Interestingly, in all 3 verses above, the word used is Sabbaths, not Sabbath. For example: And I gave them my statutes, and showed them my judgments, which if a

man does, he shall even live in them.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them that they might know that I am Yahuwah that sanctify them. Ezekiel 20:11-12
(verses 19-20 say the same.) So what is Yahuwahs Memorial? By this time, you should not be surprised by the answer:

And Moshe said unto the Almighty, Behold, when I come unto the children of Yisrael, and shall say unto them, The Mighty One of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, what is His name? What shall I say unto them? And the Almighty said unto Moshe, I AM THAT I AM: and He said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Yisrael, I AM hath sent me unto you.
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And the Almighty said moreover unto Moshe, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Yisrael, Yahuwah the Elohim of your fathers, the Mighty One of Abraham, the Mighty One of Isaac, and the Mighty One of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is My name for ever, and this is My memorial unto all generations. Exodus 3:13-15 Thy name, O Yahuwah, endureth for ever; and thy memorial, O Yahuwah, throughout all generations. Psalm 135:13
Note: Please understand that in every place in Scripture where LORD or GOD is written in all capital letters there has been a theft. It should have been Yahuwah. The translators have stolen His Name.

Even Yahuwah the Mighty One of hosts; Yahuwah is His memorial. Hosea 12:5 in
all three of these passages the word Memorial is Strongs, Hebrew #2143 (Zker), which means a memento, commemoration, memorial, memory, remembrance, or scent. Scent! More memories are triggered by scent than any other sensory receptor. Fascinating!

A sign shows an observer who you are. Example: a boy wears a bright orange belt and stands on a corner near a school. He is A--not very fashion conscious. B-selling Girl Scout cookies. Or C--a crossing guard. By being Torah observant Sabbath keepers, we show the world that we are children of Yah. We bear His sign or seal. A memorial reminds the observer of, or helps us remember who someone else is/was. Example: When you go to the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., are you reminded of Abraham, the father of many nations? How about Martha Stewart? No? Maybe Attila the Hun? <grin> You get the idea. Yahuwahs memorial is not the LORD. It is Yahuwah. By keeping Yahuwahs Sabbaths, both Yahuwah and the world recognize us as His children. But by remembering the Name Yahuwah, we memorialize Him as our Sovereign Creator. Objection 9: Lunar Sabbath keeping is utterly incompatible with the Fourth Commandment, which says nothing about establishing the weekly, Seventh-day Sabbath on a lunar cycle, but rather establishes the Seventhday Sabbath on the seven day cycle of Creation Week. Really? And wouldn't this be the OBVIOUS question that any of us would ask when contemplating this message? The person making this claim is once again guilty of answering the matter before they hear it (Proverbs 18:13). By this way, they bring shame and folly to themselves.
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This is easy. Everyone is familiar with Exodus 20:8-12. The nay-sayers use it as a club while ignoring Deuteronomy 5:12-15, the second time the 4th commandment is repeated in the Torah...

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as Yahuwah thy Elohim hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yahuwah thy Elohim: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that Yahuwah thy Elohim brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore Yahuwah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day. Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Here the fourth commandment is linked to Yisrael's deliverance from Egypt. And what day were they delivered? The 15th day of the first month. All the weekly Sabbaths in Scripture that can be date identified always fall on the 8th, 15th, 22nd or 29th days of the lunar month. This is another witness of this fact. Objection 10: Yahuwah never calls the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath a moed or one of the Moadim. This is a term used to describe the annual feasts. Um, read Leviticus 23:1-3.

And Yahuwah spoke unto Moshe, saying, Speak unto the children of Yisrael, and say unto them, concerning the feasts (moadim) of Yahuwah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. (moadim)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 Yahuwah in all your dwellings.
If I'm reading this as it is written, Yahuwah calls the Sabbath one of His moadim TWICE in verse 2. Moed means set feast or time appointed. And if I can read Genesis 1:14 and Psalm 104:19, the MOON regulates Yahuwahs calendar appointments in time. Objection 11: There are 1.530588 days left over every lunar month which messes up the seven day week, every month. Tell the objector in your life that, yes, it does mess with the seven day week, every month. It interrupts it. The New Moon segment is a third category of day; it is NOT a week day.

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Ask the objector where they would put it? As for me and my house, we will serve Yahuwah by accepting His Word as supreme and not adding or diminishing aught from it. According to the prophet, the gate to the inner court of the tabernacle will be closed on all SIX working days, but open on the Sabbath and new moon (Ezekiel 46:1). I don't care how you slice it, new moon will never occur during the work week. Other prophets are in agreement. Amos 8:5, Isaiah 66:23, II Kings 4:23. It is the tradition of men that forces satyrday sabbatarians to THINK that the Sabbath is every seven days in an unbroken sequence. Scripture does not say this. The calendar in the heavens does not say this. Only the pagan/papal calendar on the wall says this. If they would take their eyes off the solar-only calendar of men, and LOOK at the luminaries in the heavens, they might actually learn something. Ask the nay-sayer why he keeps his/her Sabbath based on the authority of a pagan/papal calendar. Ask them why Yahuwah had to wait until the Gregorian calendar was invented in 1582 before His calendar was correctly presented on a calendar. Ask them why Yahuwah embedded His annual Sabbaths (the feasts) in the cycles of the lights in the heavens, but Yahuwah had to wait until 321 A.D. when satyrday was made the seventh day of the week by Constantine before His Sabbath could be correctly observed. Seems a shame to hide the correct day for Sabbath observance from mankind until 321 A.D. The new moon interrupts the weekly cycle JUST like the Jubilee interrupts the land Sabbath cycle. The Jubilee cycle proves the Lunar Calendar, and invalidates the nay-sayers complaint against new moon. Interestingly enough, the Jubilee is in perfect harmony with the Creation Calendar and its Lunar Sabbaths. 1. The seventh day is the Sabbath, a cycle that is interrupted every month by new moon day. 2. The seventh year is a Sabbatical year. The land Sabbath cycle is interrupted every 49 years by a 50th year (the year of Jubilee), Leviticus 25:8-10. Seven times seven years interrupted by ONE year that was not part of the 7 years before it or the 7 years after it. You cannot sow or reap during the land Sabbaths (Leviticus 25:2-5), and you cannot sow or reap during the 50th year (Leviticus 25:11).
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3. Seven weeks after the Sabbath of Unleavened bread you have Shavuot. You number 7 Sabbaths complete. This is a Hebrew idiom (figure of speech) for a complete week of 7 days. New moon days are not week days and interrupt this count. See Leviticus 23:15-16. It does not say to number 50 days from wave sheaf, it says to number WEEKS from wave sheaf. When you get to morrow AFTER of the 7th Sabbath is complete THEN it says to number 50 days, not just one day. The weeks (7) and the days (50) are two different segments of time measured sequentially, and their respective starting points are NOT both at wave sheaf. (7 weeks + the morrow after + 50 days). The 7th Sabbath is actually 51-52 days from wave sheaf if the new moon days are included, but it does not say to count new moon days, it says to number 7 Sabbaths complete.

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