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Director, Biblical Research Institute of Seventh Day Adventist, Maryland, USA
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The Lunar Sabbaths 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, The Big Lie(If it opens in the same window, please right click and click "Save as")
Lunar Sabbath Exposed
The Challenge
We know that the biggest deception is yet in the future—when Satan impersonates Christ. Why does Satan do so? He does it in a desperate attempt to get one class of people who have not been a prey to his guiles. They are ready to receive the seal of the living God and be declared secured for eternity. He wants to have a last go at them. In vivid details the pen of inspiration lays down this warning message. “As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Satan himself will personate Christ…. he claims to have changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to hallow the day which he has blessed. He declares that those who persist in keeping holy the seventh day are blaspheming his name by refusing to listen to his angels sent to them with light and truth. This is the strong, almost overmastering delusion” {GC88 624.1}. We are warned about great perplexity and confusion creeping in as a part of the enemy’s strategy to derail the precious faith of the saints.
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When Does a Day Begin?
We Say a Biblical day begins at sunset. It’s from sunset to sunset. The lunar Sabbatarians say a Biblical day begins from sunrise. They say it’s from sunrise to sunrise. Let us investigate What was there first—darkness or light in the first chapter of the Genesis creation record? Genesis 1:2 “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Darkness was there even before the light was introduced. Logically speaking, light that came later cannot be placed ahead of darkness, in regard to time. That is exactly what the word of God says about each creation day—darkness first, light next.
Two or Three Categories of Days
If there are three categories of days—new moon days, six work days, and Sabbath days—then the possibility of Sabbaths being fixed on 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th of every lunar month are right. But if there are only two categories of days (six work days and seventh day Sabbath) then the lunar Sabbath theory falls apart! The lunar Sabbatarians say that there are three distinct categories of days. They quote the Ezekiel 46:1 “Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.”
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The New Moon and the Translation Day
For the lunar Sabbatarians the months alternate between twenty nine and thirty days. Where is it found in the Bible that the months alternate between twenty nine and thirty days? On the other hand the Bible is clear every month has exactly thirty days each. Look at Noah’s flood account. The Bible states that it took 150 days for the waters to decrease. “And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.” Genesis 8:3 Now Moses gives the starting point and the ending point of the 150 days.
Does the Moon Regulate the Weekly Sabbaths?
It is argued by the lunar Sabbatarians that the weekly Sabbath is regulated by the moon. They compare a few texts and come to this conclusion. Let us investigate their view. “From Scripture we find that the Sabbath is the seventh day of the Creator’s week and that there is a luminary that regulates the appointed times, including the Sabbath (Genesis 1:14, Psalm 104:19, Leviticus 23:1-3).” www.creationcalendar.com, “The Moon Regulates the Weekly Sabbath.” Let us look at those texts and see what connections they are making. Genesis 1:14 “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years” Psalm 104:19 “He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.” Leviticus 23:1-3 “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
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