CALENDAR COUNTERFEIT UNMASKED Babylon is falling! THE KEYS. Introduction & Content. Researched & Produced by: Odette Boily

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1 CALENDAR COUNTERFEIT UNMASKED Babylon is falling! THE KEYS Introduction & Content Researched & Produced by: Odette Boily Box RPO BB Mississauga, Ontario L5N 3G For Seminars, Conferences, Questions: For further studies: U-tube: calendar counterfeit unmasked 1

2 Calendar Counterfeit Unmasked: Introduction What is the primary purpose of calendation? Some say: economical, agricultural, political, to appoint times and seasons. Or maybe all of the above. According to the following research, the main reason for creating calendars was and is still today, religious: to worship God or gods at appointed times! And someone, somehow, does not want you to find out when to worship the Creator. He counterfeited the whole Biblical way to calculate time. The suspense is kept until Key 9. Who? Why? When? Where? did we loose the way to establish real time calendation? Table of Content Key 1. The Mystery of the Biblical Calendar Is the Biblical Calendar Lunar Only? Key 2. Christ in the Sanctuary Genesis 1 to 3 and the Crucifixion Timeline. Key 3. Christ s Crucifixion Exodus 9 and 12 and the Crucifixion Calendar. Key 4. The Creation Sabbath And on the Seventh day. Genesis 2:1-3. Key 5. Which Day is the 7th day Sabbath? Biblical Examples: Manna, Jericho, Passover. Key 6. The Two Biblical Calendars Civil and Religious. Key 7. The Flood Chronicle Civil Calendar - Fall Season. Key 8. The Unimpeachable Calendar Today Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation. Key 9. Babylon is falling! Who counterfeited the Biblical Calendar and why? He who rules over the calendar, rules over the nations! 2

3 CALENDAR COUNTERFEIT UNMASKED - Babylon is falling! Method Used: The Bible is its own interpreter. The method used to prepare this series of study on Calendar Counterfeit Unmasked is based on the Sanctuary Calendar found in Leviticus 23 and the prophecy of Daniel 8:14 Unto two thousand and three hundred days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed as revealed through the Millerites in the 1844 era Years of Lies Additional data s on astronomy, chronology and history help to resolve the mystery of the calendar counterfeit throughout 1700 years of lies, to today. The Grace Amadon Collection was the main reason behind this research. How to Use this Material 1. Read the attached Power Point Text Form along with the Power DVD or, 2. Use the Power Point Format on DVD to present to others along with the Power Point Text Form. A Religion of Fable and Tradition Upon this battle we are now entering - a battle between the laws of men and the precepts of Jehovah, between the religion of the Bible and the religion of fable and tradition. The Great Controversy, E.G. White, p. 582, excerpts, (emphasis supplied). The true ground of divine worship The Sabbath therefore lies at the very foundation of divine worship, for it teaches this great truth in the most impressive manner, and no other institution does this. The true ground of divine worship, not of that on the seventh day merely, but of all worship, is found in the distinction between the Creator and His creatures. This great fact can never become obsolete, and must never be forgotten. J.N. Andrews, History of the Sabbath, chapter 27. It was to keep this truth before the minds of men, that God instituted the Sabbath in Eden; and so long as the fact that He is our Creator continues to be a reason why we should worship Him, so long the Sabbath will continue as its sign and memorial. The Great Controversy, E.G. White, p. 437, 438, excerpts, (emphasis supplied). Babylon is Falling: Radical Collection All of this evidence needs to be re-examined in the light of the radical Grace Amadon Collection, for it is so bold, so utterly non-conventional, and so potentially upsetting, radically altering the central aspects of the Biblical, Astronomical, Chronological, Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political understanding of most people, it should not be ignored. I hope this presentation will begin a most interesting debate and critical discussion of all relevant issues, for the last great conflict may have just begun. Odette Boily, Research and Production, June 2010 Note: The Grace Amadon Collection was obtained at the Centre for Adventist Research at Andrews University, in The Collection was written from 1939 to 1945 and contains more than 3000 pages. 3

4 Key 1: The Mystery of the Biblical Calendar Revealed The Key: The sanctuary The Sanctuary is the key that opens the Mystery of the Biblical Calendar 1. The Sanctuary: A Complete System of Truth And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. Exodus 25:8. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God. Psalm 77:13. The Sanctuary is indeed the most complete, connected, and harmonious system of Truth of the whole Bible. In the Sanctuary, the calendar is revealed. 2. The Sanctuary Calendar: Luni-Solar Reckoning The Sanctuary calendar was based on: 1. The Luni cycle (moon) of 354 days 2. The Solar cycle (sun) of 365 days 3. The Barley Harvest Season. 3. The New Year: New Moon Crescent and Barley Ripe In the Sanctuary, 1. The New Year always started with the New Moon Horned Crescent or New Month in the spring, 2. Combined with the Barley being ripened in April. 4. Jewish Reckoning: Ingenious, Elegant Method Scaliger, a well-known chronologist of the 16th century, declared the method of Jewish reckoning as the most ingenious and most elegant of all systems of chronology. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 6, (emphasis supplied). 5. Meaning of Abib: Barley is Ripe The first month of the Jewish year pointed to the season of Barley. In Exodus 9:31, 32, Moses gives a very important detail under the 7th plague: And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled [beginning of April]. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up. [around June]. All Scripture: King James Version, (emphasis supplied). 6. Hebrew Calendar Regulation: Month by the Moon, Year by the Sun and Solar Season Sidersky wrote: The aim of the Mosaic command was to regulate the months according to the course of the moon and the whole year in accordance with the course of the sun -- by assigning as a starting point the lunar month coinciding with the beginning of a determined solar season. Sidersky, Chronology of the Jews, page 615, (emphasis supplied). 7. The Solar Season: Barley - Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendar That determined solar season was still the barley harvest in the time of Christ. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 7, (emphasis supplied) 8. Passover Festival: Ceremony of the Barley The ceremony of the barley was the divine rule by which the position of the month Nisan [Abib] was located. If by the first of Nisan, the barley was not sufficiently advanced for the passover festival, then a leap-month was added, and the feast period of the year was delayed until the following month. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 8, (emphasis supplied). 4

5 9. Firstfruits Festival Based on Barley Moses commanded that they should not even reap their barley until the first fruits of it had been offered to the Lord at the time of the Passover. Waved Barley Sheaf at Firstfruits: Sixteenth of the first month, according to Leviticus 23:11. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 7, (emphasis supplied). 10. Control of the Year: Barley Harvest Rule By this rule [Barley Harvest], we know that the Nisan [Abib] paschal moon could not come until the rains were over and the barley ripe in Palestine, March is the month of the latter rain, and that barley ripens in April....Scaliger says that in the time of Christ the paschal moon limits were April 8 and May 6. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 8, 9, (emphasis supplied). 11. The Sanctuary Calendar: Appointed Times of Leviticus 23; Numbers 28 and Passover - Abib 14 (first month) 2. Unleavened Bread - Abib 15 to Firstfruits - Abib Pentecost - Sivan 9 (third month) 5. Trumpets - Tishri 1 (seventh month) 6. Day of Atonement - Tishri Feast of Tabernacles - Tishri 15 to The Sanctuary and the Festivals: Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Mosaic Law Calendation Three conditions: (1) the ending of the latter rain, (2) the regular period of the ripened barley, and (3) the fulling of the one moon possible in that limited time after the first week in April exactly determined the paschal feast and all the other festivals of the Jewish year. The results were dependable and specific The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 21, (emphasis supplied). 13. Change of Jewish Calendation: After the Destruction of Jerusalem after the dispersion of the Jews, The Sanhedrin did not content itself to observe the maturity of the barley, but added to it the observation and calculation of the equinox. The Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 7, 8, (emphasis supplied). 14. Christ observed the: Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendar of the Sanctuary Christ is the fulfillment of the Sanctuary. And all the appointed times according to the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Mosaic Law Calendation. See Key 2: Christ in the Sanctuary 5

6 Key 2: Christ in the Sanctuary 1. Adam and Eve: Knowledge of The Law 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. 2. A Remedial System: Continual Atonement, Continual Intercession When man fell by transgression the law was not changed, but a remedial system was established to bring him back to obedience. 3. The Promise of a Savior: The Lamb of God The promise of a Saviour was given, and sacrificial offerings pointing forward to the death of Christ as the great sin offering were established. Patriarchs and Prophets, E. G. White, p The Sanctuary Calendar: Pointing to Christ the Lamb Altar of Burnt Offering and Laver These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover. Leviticus 23:4, 5, (emphasis supplied). All Scripture: King James Version 5. Christ in the Sanctuary: The Passover Lamb He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. Isaiah 53:7. Even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. 1 Corinthians 5:7, (emphasis supplied). 6. The Sanctuary Calendar: Pointing to Christ the Bread of Life, Table of Shewbread And on the fifteenth of the same month [first month] is the feast of Unleavened Bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. Leviticus 23:6. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein in the seventh day is an holy convocation: [twenty-first] ye shall do no servile work therein. Leviticus 23: Christ in the Sanctuary: The Bread of the Presence that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. Deuteronomy 8:3. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. John 6:35, (emphasis supplied). 8. The Sanctuary Calendar: Pointing to Christ the Firstfruits Altar of Incense And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,...when ye be come into the land which I give unto you,...and ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD [at the altar of incense], to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath... [the sixteenth of the first month]. Leviticus 23:9 11, (emphasis supplied). 9. Christ in the Sanctuary: The Firstfruit of the Resurrected But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ s at his coming. 1 Corinthians 15:20, 22, 23, (emphasis supplied). 6

7 10. The Sanctuary Calendar: Pointing to Christ s Comforter - The Candlestick And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days [Pentecost] Leviticus 23:15, 16, (emphasis supplied). 11. Christ in the Sanctuary: The Gift of the Holy Spirit And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost Acts 2:1, 4, (emphasis supplied). All Scripture: King James Version 12. The Sanctuary Calendar: Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Reckoning Spring Feasts Christ not only kept the festivals but He fulfilled the Spring Appointed Times as He: Died on AD 31 Abib 14 - Passover Rested on Abib 15 - Unleavened Bread Resurrected on Abib 16 - Firstfruits Sent the Holy Spirit fifty days after Firstfruits - Sivan 9 - Pentecost 13. Christ in the Sanctuary: In the Fullness of Time Every fact connected with the crucifixion of Christ may be verified without a doubt and prove the validity of the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation. 14. The Sanctuary Calendar: Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Reckoning Christ s Crucifixion based on the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendar is demonstrated in Key 3. 7

8 Key 3: The Biblical Calendar and Christ s Crucifixion 1. The Biblical Calendar: Crucifixion Timeline Every fact connected with the crucifixion of Christ may be verified without a doubt to prove the validity of the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation. 2. The Biblical Calendar: Agricultural Season in Exodus 9 Biblical Agricultural Season: And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up Exodus 9:31, 32. All Scripture: King James Version 3. Agricultural Season: At the time of the 7 th plague, the flax and the barley were smitten because both were grown up. Barley is ready in Egypt and Palestine, in the Spring. 4. The Biblical Calendar: Month of the Year in Exodus 12 Biblical Month of the Year: This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Exodus 12:2. 5. Biblical Month of the Year: Month of the Year in Exodus 12 Month of the Year: The time of the 10 th plague of Egypt was in the spring around the month of March - April. The religious year started around that time. Abib means: Barley is Ripe. 6. The Biblical Calendar: Day of the Month in Exodus 12 Biblical Day of the Month: In the tenth day of this month [Abib] they shall take to them every man a lamb And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and shall kill it in the evening. Exodus 12:3, The Biblical Calendar: Day of the Month in Exodus 12 Day of the Month: At the time of the 10 th plague of Egypt, every family had to choose a lamb on the 10 th and kill it on the 14 th Day of the First Month. 8. The Biblical Calendar: Hours of the Day in Exodus 12 Biblical Hours of the Day: And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. Exodus 12:6. 9. The Biblical Calendar: Hours of the Day in Exodus 12 Hours of the Day: The evening corresponded to about 3 to 6 p.m. - the hours before sunset. These were the hours of the evening sacrifice later observed in the sanctuary. 10. The Biblical Calendar: Spring Appointed Times: Leviticus 23 Biblical Appointed Times: 1. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD s Passover. Leviticus 23:5, (emphasis supplied). 8

9 2. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of Unleavened Bread unto the LORD... In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation in the seventh day is an holy convocation [Sabbath] Leviticus 23: The Biblical Calendar: Spring Appointed Times: Leviticus Then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: and he shall wave the sheaf on the morrow after the sabbath [Abib 16] Leviticus 23:10,11. (emphasis supplied). 4. Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days Leviticus 23:16. [Pentecost]. 12. The Biblical Calendar: Spring Appointed Times: Leviticus 23 Appointed Times: The appointed times were holy convocations unto the LORD which were proclaimed in their Seasons. Seasons: (H4150) - feasts, solemn assembly, holy convocations, time, appointed times. 13. The Biblical Calendar: Christ s Crucifixion Timeline According to the 4 Gospels, Christ: Died Abib 14 - Passover Rested Abib 15 Unleavened Bread Resurrected Abib 16 - Firstfruits Sent the Sivan 9 - Pentecost Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1-13). 14. The Biblical Calendar: Calculation of New Moon Phases The Jewish Feast period began with the month of barley harvest; and its paschal moon, or moon of Nisan [Abib], was the appointed moon of barley harvest The Biblical Calendar: Calculation of New Moon Phases New Moon on Abib 1:...The Passover was numbered according to the moon, that is, the days of the month were the same as the days of the moon. Indeed the Hebrew word hodesh for month, means new moon The Biblical Calendar: Calculation of New Moon Phases New Moon on Abib 1:...It was the actual [horned crescent] new moon, not any fictitious new moon that regulated the great festivals, for it was an observed moon... [This study requires a basic knowledge of astronomy. For further study on the Lunar and Solar Cycles, visit: The Biblical Calendar: Full Moon on Abib 13: If we accept the testimony of Aristobulos, 200 years before Christ -- that the Passover of the Jews followed the sunset of the day when the full moon rising in the east faces the setting sun in the west -- we can reasonably conclude that the Jewish Passover, which is repeatedly described in the Bible as the 14 th day of Nisan [Abib] 9

10 18. The Biblical Calendar: Abib 14 th : Paschal Festival was the day following the full moon date, and not on it... [or was] the day after the evening when the moon stands diametrically opposed to the sun, as everyone can see at the time of full moon. The Grace Amadon Collection, Part V, Crucifixion Date, 29, 4, 38, (emphasis supplied). 19. The Biblical Calendar: The Full Moon: Abib 13 th, AD 31 New Moon and Full Moon in AD 31: 1. New Moon Conjunction: April 10 th, at 14:51 (astronomical new moon). 2. Horned crescent: April 12 th - evening at sunset, changing to April 13 th. 3. Full moon: April 25 th, on Wednesday, at 22: The Biblical Calendar: The Full Moon: Abib 13 th Following the rules for the calculation of the full moon, the full moon date is placed on the 13 th of Abib and the hour of 22:45 is between sunset and midnight and changing to the 14 th at sunset. 21. The Biblical Calendar: The Full Moon: Abib 13 th The Full Moon on Abib 13, AD 31: Therefore, in AD 31, the full moon would have been the evening of April 25 th, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, Wednesday. 22. The Biblical Calendar: Facts Connected with the Crucifixion The Luni-Solar Barley Calendar: Compare Exodus 12 and the 4 Gospels. Fact 1. Christ was selected to die: the 10 th day Fact 2. Christ died on: the 14 th day of Abib Fact 3. Christ died at: hours evening sacrifice Fact 4. Christ died at: the 9 th hour: 3-6 p.m. Fact 5. Christ died at: the Feast of Passover Fact 6. Christ rested on: the Feast of Unleavened Bread and a Sabbath Fact 7. Christ resurrected at: Firstfruits Fact 8. Christ died in: AD 31* *For further study on the year AD 31 and the book of Daniel, chapters 8 and 9, see: - files 14 & The Biblical Calendar: Crucifixion in April, AD 31 Amazing Facts based on the Full Moon: Christ died: the day after the full moon. Full Moon was: Wednesday April 25 th Therefore: Christ died: Thursday, April 26 th rested: Friday, April 27 th resurrected: Saturday, April 28 th 24. The Biblical Calendar: Facts Connected With the Moon Crucifixion Week: Fact 1. The Full Moon in AD 31, was on April 25 th, a Wednesday corresponding to Abib 13 th, changing to 14 th at sunset. Fact 2. The evening of April 25 th corresponded to the Last Supper and the night in the garden of Gethsemane. Fact 3. The following day, April 26 th was Abib 14 th, the day of the crucifixion. 10

11 Fact 4. That day, Christ died at the 9 th hour, between 3 to 6 p.m. corresponding to the hour of the evening sacrifice, Abib 14 th. Fact 5. The same evening at sunset, Christ rested in the tomb, which corresponded to Abib 15 th. Fact 6. Christ rested on Unleavened Bread, Abib 15 th. 25. The Biblical Calendar: The Creation Sabbath When there shall be a restitution of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began (Acts 3:21), the creation Sabbath, the day on which Jesus lay at rest in Joseph s tomb, will still be a day of rest and rejoicing. Desire of Ages, E.G.White, page 769, (emphasis supplied). 26. The Biblical Calendar: Creation Sabbath: the 7 th Day Sabbath Conclusion: 1. Christ rested on the Creation Sabbath, Abib 15 th, the 7 th day Sabbath. 2. Christ resurrected the first day of the week, Abib 16 th. 3. Christ fulfilled the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Mosaic Law Calendar. 4. Christ fulfilled the Calendar, Biblically, Astronomically, Chronologically and Historically. 27. The Biblical Calendar: Christ rested on the Creation Sabbath As confirmed by the word of inspiration, the Creation Sabbath is included in the week of the Crucifixion. The week of the Crucifixion is based on the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation Therefore, the Creation Sabbath is based on the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Calendation. When is the Creation Sabbath? Use Key 4 to find out. 11

12 Key 4: The Creation Sabbath 1. The Creation Sabbath: And on the 7th Day 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. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. Genesis 2:1 3, (emphasis supplied). Have you ever noticed the word Sabbath is not mentioned in Genesis 2:1-3? What makes the 7 th day of Creation, the true Sabbath? 2. The Creation Sabbath: Genesis 2:2, 3 Although the word Sabbath is not mentioned in Genesis 2:2-3 On the Seventh day, the Creator 1. ended His work 2. rested on it 3. blessed it 4. sanctified it 3. The Creation Sabbath: Exodus 16 and the Manna Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the LORD. Six days ye shall gather it [manna]; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Exodus 16:23, 26, (emphasis supplied). The word Sabbath is mentioned in the Bible for the first time in Exodus 16 at the time of the manna. 5.called it: the rest of the Holy Sabbath - the seventh day which is the Sabbath. 4. The Creation Sabbath: The 4th Commandment Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. Exodus 20:8-11, (emphasis supplied). The word Sabbath is repeated in the 4 th commandment, in Exodus hallowed it (consecrated it). 5. The Creation Sabbath: To be a Sign Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. Ezekiel 20:12, 19, (emphasis supplied). 7. A sign that sanctifies us and that we may know that He is the LORD our God. 6. The Creation Sabbath: The 7 Reasons On the Seventh day the Creator: 1. ended his work 2. rested 3. blessed it 4. sanctified it 5. called it: the rest of the Holy Sabbath the seventh day which is the Sabbath. 6. hallowed it (consecrate it) 7. to be a sign that sanctifies us and that we may know that He is the LORD our God. 12

13 7. The Creation Sabbath: Abba Father And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Galatians 4:6, (emphasis supplied). Have you ever noticed that the name of the Father ABBA as mentioned in Galatians 4:6 is included in the word SABBATH? 8. The Creation Sabbath: The And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father s name written in their foreheads. Revelation 14:1, (emphasis supplied). All Scripture: King James Version. According to Revelation 14:1, the Father s Name will be written in the foreheads of the 144,000, for they keep the commandments of ABBA and His true SABBATH. 9. The Creation Sabbath: The Connection with Christ Fact 1. Christ died at Passover, on the 14 th day of the 1 st month of the New Moon Barley Harvest Calendar. Fact 2. The Biblical Year begins with a horned new moon crescent and the barley being ripe. Fact 3. a) Passover is always the 6 th day of the Biblical week and the 14 th day of the 1 st month of the Biblical Year. b) Unleavened Bread is always the 7 th day of the Biblical week and the 15 th day of the 1 st month of the Biblical Year. Fact 4. The Biblical calendar is found in the Earthly Sanctuary, which pattern was shown from the Heavenly Sanctuary, and which existed before the foundation of the world, even from eternity. Fact 5. While Christ rested, the Statutes of the Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits guarded the 4 th commandment of the Creation Sabbath and are all part of the same calendar. 10. The Creation Sabbath: The Restitution of all Things When there shall be a restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. (Acts 3:21), the creation Sabbath, the day on which Jesus lay at rest in Joseph s tomb...will still be a day of rest and rejoicing. Heaven and earth will unite in praise, as [from one new moon to another and] from one Sabbath to another (Isa. 66:23) the nations of the saved shall bow in joyful worship to God and the Lamb. Desire of Ages, E. G. White, p. 769, 770, (emphasis supplied). 11. The Creation Sabbath: The Monthly Sabbaths Luni- Solar Monthly Calendar The Luni-Solar Calendar is composed of 29 or 30 days. The new moon starts the monthly cycle on the 1 st day of each month. The 7 th day Sabbaths are the 8 th, 15 th, 22 nd, and 29 th of each month. Unlock the Word with Key 5 to study the Weekly and Monthly Biblical Calendar. 13

14 Key 5: Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? 1. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Beginning of the Month - Introduction Fact 1. One other feature pertaining to Jewish reckoning in the first century concerns the day itself upon which the New Year was started. The Jews, Arabs, Chaldeans, and Damacenes all had the same custom in reference to the beginning of their months 2. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? New Moon: New Month they started the month with the first appearance of the new moon after conjunction. The presence of the moon in the western sky at sunset was called the phasis and marked the following day as the first of the new month. Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 9, (emphasis existing and supplied). 3. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Appearance of the New Moon Fact 2. The Jewish new moons, (that is, the new moons that marked the first day of the month), commonly exceeded the ordinary size of the phasis or first appearance of the moon. 4. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Shape of the Moon: Horned Moon While the Greeks started their month from the conjunction itself, it was a certain shape of the moon that regulated the beginning of the Jewish month. Scaliger sometimes called it the horned moon. Grace Amadon Collection, Crucifixion Date, Part V, page 9, 10, (emphasis supplied). 5. Which day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Luni-Solar Cycle Fact 3. The Lunar-Solar Barley Harvest calendation is made up of 354 days of 29 or 30 day moon cycle and 365 day solar cycle - the accommodation of the 11 days difference between the 2 cycles is made up with the embolismic year which has an additional month every 2-3 years. 6. Which day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? New Moon: 1 st Day of the Month And when the new moon was come And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month. 1 Samuel 20:24, 27. All Scripture: King James Version, (emphasis supplied). 7. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? New Moon and 7 th Day Sabbath 1 st day Sacred Festival New Moon 2 nd day of the month 1 st day of work 3 rd day 2 nd day of work 4 th day 3 rd day of work 5 th day 4 th day of work 6 th day 5 th day of work 7 th day 6 th day of work 8 th day - Sabbath of Creation 7 th day rest 8. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of the Manna: Exodus 16-1 st Example And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifthteen day of the second month after their 14

15 departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Exodus 16:1, 2, (emphasis supplied). 9. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Pause Fact 4. In the original Hebrew text, the word Sinai has a small sign under it like a V called atnah which means pause or period (.) Now the text should read: 10. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? 15 th Day of the 2 nd Month the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai (.) On the fifthteen day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt [and] the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. Exodus 16:1, 2, (emphasis supplied). 11. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Miracle of the Manna Fact 5. The Biblical pivotal date of the 15 th of the 2 nd month in Exodus 16, constitutes the Miracle of the Manna. This date establishes the pattern for the Biblical Creation Week and the Creation Month used afterwards in the sanctuary and during the time of Christ till about the 4 th century AD. 12. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Quails at Even - Manna in the Morning Fact 6. The quails came up at even on the 15 th of the 2 nd month. The manna lay around in the morning of the 16 th of the 2 nd month. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covereth the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. [manna] Exodus 16:13, (emphasis supplied). 13. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Double Manna on the 6 th Day And it came to pass, on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man... Exodus 16:22, (emphasis supplied). 14. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? No Manna on the 7 th Day And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day...and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning. Exodus 16:23, (emphasis supplied). 15. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Pattern of the First Week Fact 7. The pattern of the first week of the miracle of the manna was repeated every week for 40 years until it ceased when they encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the 14 th of the first month. 16. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Every Week for 40 Years And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover... And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. Joshua 5:11, 12, (emphasis supplied). 15

16 17. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of the Manna 15 th day 7 th day Sabbath in Evening = quails 16 th day 1 st Morning manna 1 st day work 17 th day 2 nd Morning manna 2 nd day 18 th day 3 rd Morning manna 3 rd day 19 th day 4 th Morning manna 4 th day 20 th day 5 th Morning manna 5 th day 21 st day 6 th Morning 2 x manna 6 th day 22 nd day 7 th Morning no manna 7 th day Sabbath 18. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Creation Sabbath Fact 8. The pattern of the weekly Creation Sabbath was preserved through the miracle of the manna: With: the 1 st as the New Moon And : the 8 th 15 th 22 nd 29 th days As : the 7 th day Weekly Sabbaths 19. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of Jericho s Conquest: Joshua 6 2 nd Example Fact 9. After Joshua and the children of Israel kept the feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread in the plain of Jericho, they compassed and destroyed Jericho on the 7 th day. See Joshua 5:10-15 and Chapter Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? On the 7 th Day And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times. Joshua 6:15, (emphasis supplied). 21. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Killing on the 7 th Day And then we read in verse 21: And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. Joshua 6:21, (emphasis supplied). 22. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Killing on the 7 th Day Sabbath Fact 10. The question we may ask: Would the LORD allow the children of Israel to kill people on the 7 th day Sabbath in order to conquer Jericho? The answer is: NO, an emphatic NO! The LORD does not change. He is the same, yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever. 23. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Solution Fact 11. The solution is: a) Israel kept the Feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread until the 22 nd of the first month (7 th day Sabbath). b) Then they started to compass the city of Jericho on the New Moon of the 2 nd Month of the 41 st year. c) Starting at the New Moon, they took over the city on the 7 th day which is the 6 th day of work. 24. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Complete Solution Fact 12. The 7 th day or 6 th day of work they destroyed and conquered. The 8 th day or 7 th day Sabbath they rested. 16

17 25. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of Jericho s Conquest: the 8 th Day 1 st day compassed Jericho x 1 time on New Moon 2 nd day compassed Jericho x 1 1 st day work 3 rd day compassed Jericho x 1 2 nd day 4 th day compassed Jericho x 1 3 rd day 5 th day compassed Jericho x 1 4 th day 6 th day compassed Jericho x 1 5 th day 7 th day compassed Jericho x 7 6 th day (killed) 8 th day rested 7 th day Sabbath 26. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of the Sanctuary Set-Up - 3 rd Example Fact 13. The Sanctuary was reared upon New Moon day, the second month of the second year from their deliverance from Egypt. And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up. Exodus 40:17, (emphasis supplied). 27. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of the Consecration Fact 14. In Exodus 40 verses and Leviticus 8, the Lord gave instructions to Moses to consecrate Aaron and his sons for the High Priesthood. 28. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? ''And on the 8 th Day'' Fact 15. In Leviticus 8:31-36, Aaron and his sons were to remain at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation seven days and seven nights following their consecration. And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel... Leviticus 9:1, (emphasis supplied). 29. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Sanctuary Consecration Week 1 st day Consecration New Moon 2 nd day Consecration of High Priest 1 st day work 3 rd day Consecration of High Priest 2 nd day 4 th day Consecration of High Priest 3 rd day 5 th day Consecration of High Priest 4 th day 6 th day Consecration of High Priest 5 th day 7 th day Consecration of High Priest 6 th day 8 th day Sanctuary Sacrifices 7 th day Sabbath 30. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of Christ s Passover - 4 th Example Fact 16. Events of the Pascal Week: 1. The Sanhedrin decided Christ must die: it was Abib Christ had the Last Supper on Abib He went to Gethsemane that evening, on Abib 13 changing to Abib 14, at sunset. 4. He was crucified about the 6 th hour on Abib 14 - (6 th hour = 12:00 15:00 hr. = noon to 3:00 p.m.) 5. Died at the 9 th hour Abib Was buried in Joseph tomb Abib Rested in the tomb Abib Resurrected Abib 16 - (9 th hour = 15:00-18:00 h. = 3-6 p.m.) 17

18 31. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Week of Christ s Passover Abib 8 th Christ rested 7 th day Sabbath Abib 9 th Christ s Triumphal Entry 1 st day - work Abib 10 th Sanhedrin chose Him to die 2 nd Abib 11 th Christ Retired in Bethany 3 rd Abib 12 th With His apostles 4 th Abib 13 th Last Supper & Gethsemane 5 th (in evening) Abib 14 th Crucifixion - killed Passover 6 th (9 th hour) Abib 15 th Unleavened Bread - Rest 7 th day Sabbath Abib 16 th Firstfruits & Resurrection 1 st day - work 32. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Christ Rested at the Setting of the Sun His work completed, His hands folded in peace, He rested through the sacred hours of the Sabbath day. At the setting of the sun on the evening of the preparation day the trumpets sounded, signifying that the Sabbath had begun 33. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Christ Rested from His Work In the beginning the Father and the Son had rested upon the Sabbath after Their work of creation Now Jesus rested from all the work of redemption; and though there was grief among those who loved Him on earth, yet there was joy in heaven. 34. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Christ s Completed Work Glorious to the eyes of heavenly beings was the promise of the future. A restored creation, a redeemed race, that having conquered sin could never fall, - this, the result to flow from Christ s completed work, God and angels saw. With this scene the day upon which Jesus rested is forever linked. 35. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? Christ rested on the Creation Sabbath When there shall be a restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began. (Acts 3:21), the creation Sabbath, the day on which Jesus lay at rest in Joseph s tomb Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? From One Sabbath to Another...will still be a day of rest and rejoicing. Heaven and earth will unite in praise, as from one Sabbath to another (Isaiah 66:23) the nations of the saved shall bow in joyful worship to God and the Lamb. Desire of Ages, E.G. White, pages 769, 774, 769, 770, excerpts, (emphasis supplied). 37. Which Day is the 7 th Day Sabbath? The Other Appointed Times The Spring and Fall Festivals and the Sabbatical and Jubilee years establish the Religious and the Civil calendars and the validity of the 7 th day Creation Sabbath. To further understand the calendar, open up the Word with Key 6. 18

19 Key 6: The Two Biblical Calendars 1. The Biblical Calendars: The Religious and Civil Calendars The Religious and Civil Calendars were based on the Luni-Solar Barley Harvest Mosaic Law reckoning and may be traced from the very beginning of time. 2. The Biblical Calendars: The Religious and Civil Calendars While the Religious calendar starts in March-April, the Civil Calendar starts in September-October. 3. The Biblical Calendars: The Religious Calendar 1. The Religious Calendar starts in the Spring with the New Moon at the season of the Barley Harvest. 2. The Religious Calendar is made up of the Spring and Fall Feasts. 3. The Religious Calendar is found in Leviticus 23 and Numbers 28, The Religious Calendar was shown in Key The Biblical Calendars: The Spring Festivals The Spring Festivals are: 1. Passover - Abib 14 - first month 2. Unleavened Bread - Abib 15 to Firstfruits - Abib Pentecost - Sivan 9 - third month Abib: March - April Sivan: May-June 5. The Biblical Calendars: The Fall Festivals 5. Trumpets -Tishri 1-7 th month 6. Day of Atonement - Tishri Tabernacles -Tishri Tishri: September October 6. The Biblical Calendars: The Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee According to Leviticus 25:4, 10 the Sabbatical Year and the Jubilee Year both start in the fall on the Day of Atonement. These 2 types of Festivals are connected with agricultural and civil events such as: 1. Land: But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land. Leviticus 25:4, (emphasis supplied). 2. Possession: And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and ye shall return every man unto his possession. Leviticus 25:10, (emphasis supplied). 3. Servant: And ye shall return every man unto his family. Leviticus 25:10, (emphasis supplied). 7. The Biblical Civil Calendar: In the Fall Therefore the Sabbatical year and the Jubilee year are part of the civil calendar as they start in the fall of the year around September - October The Biblical Civil Calendar: In the Fall at the time of the Fall Festival of the Day of Atonement. 19

20 Then thou shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the 10 th day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. Leviticus 25:9 All Scripture: King James Version, (emphasis supplied). 9. The Biblical Calendars: Calendar Dates There are only a few calendar dates in the Bible less than a hundred altogether and these are not evenly distributed, some periods being marked by a comparatively larger number than others. 10. The Biblical Calendars: Time Divisions In the account of the flood and exodus, in the prophecy of Ezekiel, the post-exilic books, and the gospels, there is sufficient number of time divisions to each period to frame the form of calendar employed. 11. The Biblical Calendars: Beginning the Civil Year It can be demonstrated that these various calendars are all based upon the lunar month, but that they principally differ in one respect the time of beginning the civil year. 12. The Biblical Calendars: Lunar Month: Day at Sunset Under the administration of Moses, current time both of civil and religious was reckoned from the first month. And that this month was lunar is shown from the fact that the day ended at evening, when levitical uncleanness ceased. 13. The Biblical Calendars: No Calendaric Change This ancient chronicle covers a little more then two nineteen-year cycles, that is, to the conquest of Canaan. Biblical history does not note any further calendaric change 14. The Biblical Calendars: Kings Chronicles until the time of the kings, under whose reigns there are very few dates, but instead, long series of king lists which, for the ministry of Judah, began the regnal year in the autumn 15. The Biblical Calendars: Ezekiel's Chronology A departure occurs in Ezekiel's chronology, which is characterized by a large number of captivity dates, planted upon a regnal year The Biblical Calendars: Ezekiel's Chronology...representing both the period of the captivity and also that of the captive king. With possibly one exception, Ezekiel s dates all denote civil events 17. The Biblical Calendars: Dates Begin in Tishri but, contrary to the interpretation of some, must necessarily begin in Tishri [September-October], or else they do not conform to the chronological outline of the period. 18. The Biblical Calendars: Nehemiah and Ezra s Chronology The civil dates of Nehemiah and Ezra are outstanding because they begin the reign of Persian king Darius I upon the autumn - a fact recognized by many chronologers. 19. The Biblical Calendars: Haggai and Zechariah s Chronology On the other hand, the regnal year of Darius I is counted from Nisan [March-April], by the prophets Haggai and Zechariah. 20

21 20. The Biblical Calendars: The Flood Chronicle An earliest of all ancient reckonings, the pentateuchal flood chronicle takes its place with various forms of calendars just described. 21. The Biblical Calendars: Importance to Chronology In actual point of time, it belongs to the most primitive period of biblical history the patriarchal age The Biblical Calendars: Importance to Chronology but the large numbers of dates that occur in the description of the flood at once give it an historical character. This is of untold interest and importance to chronology 23. The Biblical Calendars: The Flood Year In any event, Moses must have had at his disposal the two recognized calendars of Egypt upon which to plant his series of dates pertaining to the flood year. 24. The Biblical Calendars: Neither Egyptian nor Babylonian He does not employ the economic Egyptian calendar with its wandering 30-day month. Neither does he make use of the empirical observations of Babylonian astronomy. 25. The Biblical Calendars: Simplest Form of Lunar Calendar Under the influence of the divine Spirit, he reckons back many centuries in time, and ties his record to the very simplest form of a lunar calendar. 26. The Biblical Calendars: Parallel Periods and Weeks He does instead number his months, after the manner of both Israel and Egypt in his own day, and fixes their length by a series of parallel period and weeks. 27. The Biblical Calendars: Lunar and Solar Constants And he thereby establishes both lunar and solar constants relating (1) to the length of the lunar month and year, and (2) to the length of the solar or tropical year. The Grace Amadon Collection, The Flood Chronicle, pages 4 7, excerpts, (emphasis supplied). 28. The Biblical Calendars: The Flood Chronicle Further studies on the two Biblical Calendar based on the Flood Chronicle in Genesis 7 and 8 reveal the day, month, year and exact season the flood took place. Discover the Flood Chronology in Key 7. 21

22 Key 7: The Two Biblical Calendars: The Flood Chronicle 1. The Flood Chronicle: Genesis 7 and 8 - Josephus and the Autumn Season Josephus dates the flood season in the autumn. He says: This calamity happened in the six hundredth year of Noah s government, in the second month, [October-November] called by the Macedonians Dius, but by the Hebrews Marheshvan; for so did they order their year in Egypt. 2. The Flood Chronicle : Philo Numbers Tishri as the 1st Month Philo is another important witness supporting the order of months in Genesis. He himself numbers Tishri [September-October], as the first month. (It is numbered seven in the modern Jewish calendar.) 3. The Flood Chronicle : Passover Month as the 1st Month But Philo recognizes that at the time of the exodus God commanded Moses that the Passover month should be designated as the first. 4. The Flood Chronicle : The Paschal Month With reference to the paschal month, Philo writes: This month, being the seventh both in number and order, according to the revolutions of the sun is the first in power; on which account it is also called first in the sacred scriptures. 5. The Flood Chronicle : Josephus, Philo, the Talmud These statements of Josephus and Philo are further confirmed by the Talmud, and they appear to be consistent for the following reasons: 6. The Flood Chronicle : The Flood Began in the Autumn a. If the flood months began in the autumn, they would then coalesce with the seasons as they have always been in the Near East -- rain in fall and spring, and drought in summer. 7. The Flood Chronicle : Astronomical Tides and Months b. According to the numbering of the months the astronomical tides harmonize with the events described. If the order of the months is reversed, the tides do not check. 8. The Flood Chronicle : The Numbering of the Months c. The numbering of the months [from Tishri] is a key to the length of the months when compared with the periods; but by reversing the order of the months, and numbering from Nisan, the key thereby becomes useless. 9. The Flood Chronicle : Seeding Time d. If Noah had left the ark in Iyar [April-May] as the second month, he would obviously have had to wait at least seven months before seeding the ground. 10. The Flood Chronicle : Seeding the Wheat and Barley But coming forth in Hesvan, [October - November] he could immediately prepare for the November seeding of wheat, as is customary in the Near East, and soon after, for the January sowing of barley. 22

23 11. The Flood Chronicle : Seasons Fully Established That the seasons were fully established after Noah left the ark is implied in Genesis 8:22: While the earth remaineth, seeding and harvest, and cold and heat; and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 12. The Flood Chronicle : The Divine Law e. The divine law in Exodus 12:2 that from the time of the first Passover the months were to be numbered from Abib (Deut. 16:1), indicates that previously they had been differently numbered. 13. The Flood Chronicle : Calendar Opposite of Egypt The lunar calendar used by Moses, both in the case of the exodus and in that of the flood, had its new year at the nadir (opposite pole) of the Egyptian economic scheme of counting time. 14. The Flood Chronicle : The Flood Began in the 600 Year of Noah The deluge began in the year 600 of Noah s life (Genesis 7:6), and the year changed to 601 on the first day of the subsequent first month (Genesis 8:13). This change of year on the 308 th day of the flood is indisputable evidence that the calendar was intentionally based upon both the lunar and the solar years. 15. The Flood Chronicle : Lunar and Solar Year For, by adding the 46 days in Tishri and Hesvan before the rain began, to 308, we get 354 days, which represents the number in a common lunar year; while, by adding to 308 days the 57 days from the change of years to the time Noah left the ark 16. The Flood Chronicle: Earliest Historical Records we get 365 days, which correspond to the solar year. Thus we have the earliest historical records for the length of the lunar and solar years, and at the same time the earliest precedent for beginning the Jewish civil year in the autumn 17. The Flood Chronicle : Common Year - Not Leap Year If the lunar portion of the flood period had been a leap year, then it would have contained 13 months, and the 13 th month would have been introduced as an additional Adar. 18. The Flood Chronicle : The Ark Rested in Abib If Adar, then Nisan [Abib] in which the ark rested would necessarily have been numbered the eighth month instead of the seventh. 19. The Flood Chronicle : Noah Left the Ark the Second Month And furthermore, in event of a lunar leap year, Noah would have left the ark on the 27 th day of the first month, instead of the second The Flood Chronicle: Common Lunar Year Not a Leap Year...if he were to carry out the obvious intention of the annalist to mark off the 365 days belonging to the solar year. It is therefore conclusive that the length of lunar year is [a] common lunar [year], and not a leap year. [ or embolismic] 21. The Flood Chronicle : A Year of 354 Days Hence the consistent conclusion that the lunar portion of the flood year was a common lunar year, equaling 354 days, and not 365 days... 23