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Two or Three Categories of Days
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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.”
Their argument goes like this. “What happens if new moon falls on a Tuesday (on man’s calendar)? Is the gate open or shut? There is no right answer. The solution is that the new moon NEVER falls on a work day because it is NOT a work day. It is a third category of day. The gate is closed on all SIX work days. This passage in Ezekiel is the only one in Scripture that mentions all three types of days in the same passage, but the following passages very clearly imply that the work days are separate from the new moon days and Sabbaths.” www.creationcalendar.com, “There are three distinct categories of days.”
“Do the math—you will discover that there are 3 separate categories of days in YHVH’s calendar: new moon days, work days, and Sabbaths. Since Scripture indicates that these days cannot take place at the same time, do not overlap or share the same space, then we need to rework our understanding of the calendar.” www.creationcalendar.com, “There are three distinct categories of days.”
Their argument sounds logical. If the new moon falls on Tuesday (or any of the work days of the week) in our calendar, and if we open the gate because it is new moon, then we are violating the other part of it which says, the gate has to be closed on the six working days. The same is true the other way round. If we close it because Tuesday is a work day, then we are violating the other instruction to open it on new moon days.
If the new moon day is a third category of a day the problem is solved because then it will never overlap. Then the command in Ezekiel can always be obeyed.
Then all the dates of the months are fixed permanently to the day of the week. 1st is new moon, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th are Sabbaths, and the rest of the days in the month are work days.