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The gentile calendar is not Biblical, neither is the Sabbath

It just doesn't look Jewish...

https://www.almanac.com/content/how-did-months-get-their-names

First of all, January as first month of the Julian or Gregorian calendar, isn't even in sync the the season! It starts about 11 days into Winter, which means that each seasonal solstice or equinox doesn't align with the calendar month by 8-11 days, meaning that each season doesn't start at the beginning of a month. The Gregorian months also are not in sync with the movements of the moon. In the Hebrew months, the first day is the New Moon, and the middle of the month is the Full Moon, and a Hebrew month always has 29 or 30 days. The Roman calendar (similar to the Biblical calendar), used to start in the Spring, but now the Gregorian calendar starts part way into Winter.

January through August were named for Roman Gods, rulers, or culture.

Another clue that the calendar was changed is in the names of the last four months of the year:

September the Latin word Septem, = “Seven,” as in 7th month. Now it's the 9th month.

October -- Octo = Eight. It used to be the Eighth month. Now it's the 10th month.

November -- Novem = Nine. It used to be the 9th month. Now it's the 11th month.

December -- Decem means Ten. It used to be the 10th month. Now it's the 12th month.

Sneak Peek: The Sabbath was changed by the apostate early (Catholic) church, but language gives us a clue:

Interestingly, the word Saturday, which is the 7th day of the Week, is related to the planet Saturn (sounds like Saturday). These can be carefully observed with the naked eye: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn. Saturn was considered the 7th celestial body in our solar system (not counting Earth).

The first day is called Sunday (day of the Sun).

In these languages, Saturday is called: Spanish, Sabado. French, Samedi. Portuguese, Sabado. Italian, Sabato. German, Samstag or Sambaztag. Prussian German, Sabato. Russian, Subota. Greek, Sabbath. Latin, Sabbatum. English Bible, The Seventh Day or the Sabbath.

The Roman empire; its influence went far and wide.

What about Holidays?

Gentile or Secular Holidays

EASTER

From a Jewish perspective, Easter is on the wrong date, and it looks secular and pagan, making it hard for Jews to recognize the fulfillment of prophecy in the life and death of Jesus the Messiah.

https://gatheringzionspeople.blogspot.com/2021/11/easter-jewish-concerns-regarding-date.html

HALLOWEEN

Halloween cuts too deep into Satanism to be worthy of any believer in God. Save your costumes for another evening in the Fall, like Columbus Day, or Purim in the Winter.

https://gatheringzionspeople.blogspot.com/2021/11/halloween-and-entertainment.html

https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/10/just-for-october-no-halloween.html

CHRISTMAS

Christmas is likely on the wrong date, and like Easter, has some pagan roots and has become very commercialized. Since there is nothing evil about a tree, in and of itself a decorated tree is beautiful. It is the excess of wealth under the tree, and forgetting Him, and forgetting the poor, that is the problem! Read Jeremiah chapter 10.

https://gatheringzionspeople.blogspot.com/2021/11/christmas-jewish-hebraic-concerns-about.html

Hebrew - Jewish Holy days - Moedim (Appointments with God)

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

1st Biblical month. "Pesach," this is the first of the three pilgrimage festivals in the Old Testament. https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/spring-biblical-holidays-passover-and.html

2. Shavuot. Spring.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

Shavuot. They made covenant at Mt. Sinai.

3rd Biblical month. Another pilgrimage festival, The Feast of Weeks, i.e. Shavuot.

https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/spring-biblical-holidays-passover-and.html

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

Young boy blowing the shofar; apples, honey and round challah bread.

7th biblical month. The trumpets were considered a call to worship as well as a warning. https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/fall-biblical-holidays-rosh-hashanah.html

4. Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement. Fall.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

7th Biblical month. Yom Kippur, which falls in September or October, is a fasting holiday.

https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/fall-biblical-holidays-rosh-hashanah.html

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

A beautiful Sukkah booth built for the holiday Sukkot.

7th Biblical month. This is the third pilgrimage festival.

https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/fall-biblical-holidays-rosh-hashanah.html

6. Chanukah -popular but not an original festival. Late Fall or Winter.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

An 8-branched Menorah with lit candles, for Chanukah.

9th Biblical month. Chanukah, The Festival of Lights or Feast of Dedication.

https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/late-fall-and-winter-biblical-inspired.html

7. Remember the Sabbath!

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

The Sabbath was the most common holiday in all the Bible. It is kept on the 7th day in God's calendar. This was also the ORIGINAL, the FIRST festival commanded by God. See more on the rest of this page.

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

12th Biblical month. This is the story of Esther from the Old Testament and how the people's lives were saved. https://lastdaysgems.blogspot.com/2023/09/late-fall-and-winter-biblical-inspired.html

The Original Sabbath has been forgotten

Jesus' Own Words--the Law/Torah wasn't meant to be destroyed

Matthew 5: 17, 18

¶ Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. (Law/Torah, Prophets, and Writings = Old Testament).

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

D&C 121:12 -- The test for the gentiles

12 And also that God hath set his hand and seal to change the times and seasons, and to blind their minds, that they may not understand his marvelous workings; that he may prove them also and take them in their own craftiness; {Modern English: God caused or allowed the calendar and holidays to be changed in order to test people so that they may become ensnared in their own wrongdoing if they don't repent.}. The Sabbath was changed, the Feasts were removed, and the New Moon observance went away. Covenants were removed. See also 1 Nephi 13:26-28.

1 Nephi 13:28 (Read verses 19-29, 32) truth suppressed

28 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.

(Verse 26 mentions that Covenants were taken out also. The Sabbath is a token and covenant.)

Jesus also mentioned the truth-dismantling process that was going on in his day, with the leaders of his day distorting the truth. See Luke 11:52. Portions of chapters 11 and 12 were a stern rebuke of the hypocrisy and wickedness of the leaders. Stripping away and suppressing truth is a hallmark of wickedness.

Words in other languages, for Sabbath. Check This Out!

{See http://www.oneinmessiah.net/4thSab.htm for more languages.}

The first day is called Sunday (day of the Sun).

Scriptures about the Sabbath

Zechariah 14:16-19 The Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated in the Millennium by ALL nations--So why will the nations keep the Feast of Tabernacles, but not the 7th Day Sabbath? The Biblical calendar is still relevant.
Genesis 1:31; Genesis 2:1-3 The Sabbath was created in the beginning.
Exodus 20:8-10 "Remember" the Sabbath, but it has mostly been forgotten.
Leviticus 23:3 and Mosiah 13:18. These reaffirm the 7th Day as the Sabbath.
JST Mark 2:26-27 / compare with Mark 2:27-28 The Lord owns the Sabbath.

The Devil takes away light through traditions D&C 93: 1-3, 31,39,40

May 6, 1833.

1 Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my commandments, shall see my face and know that I am;

2 And that I am the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world;

3 And that I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are ONE--

31 Behold, here is the agency of man, and here is the condemnation of man; because that which was from the beginning is plainly manifest unto them, and they receive not the light.

39 And that wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience, from the children of men, and because of the tradition of their fathers.

40 But I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth.

Article of Faith #8 Can we trust biblical translations? God is correct. Is man?

8 We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

Bombshell: Was this translated correctly? Acts 20:7

FYI: there are 49 days after the 2nd day of Passover, until the 50th day, Shavuot (which in Acts 2 is called Pentecost). This period is in the early to mid Spring.

Acts 20:7 is used as justification for supposed apostolic celebration of Sunday as the new Sabbath.

In Acts chapter 20, part of the chapter talks about Paul's travels between Passover and Shavuot "Pentecost."

6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread {Passover}, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.

16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

{Pentecost = Shavuot. See Exodus 34:22, Leviticus 23: 15,16. Acts 2 re: Pentecost.}

When would the disciples possibly be "breaking bread?" Ideas:

1. During Passover - ritual storytelling, unleavened bread. Verse 6 says it was after Passover. Eliminate this choice.

2. On the Sabbath, blessing the bread as an ordinance. The custom for Jews is to break bread Friday night at the beginning of Sabbath.

3. Simply eating together as brethren. Bread was an important food.

4. Other non-regular Sabbath, Hebrew holiday.

Note that Verse 16 says that Paul was planning on keeping Shavuot (Pentecost) in Jerusalem, a pilgrimage festival commanded in the Old Testament. He is still observing Jewish law; he had been a teacher of Jewish law (a strict Pharisee). Why then would he break the 7th day commandment and change the Sabbath to Sunday, when there is NO such recorded revelation? If Paul was still keeping the biblical feasts, surely he would not break the Sabbath. Nor was there any statement that it was okay to travel a lot on the Sabbath.

The Jewish Sabbath started at sundown, Friday night, and he would've been leaving on the morrow (next day or morning). So was it Saturday or Sunday that he spoke to the people? The easiest answer so far based upon the text, was that it was Sunday, Paul arrived that day from traveling at least 5 days, (probably stopped for the Sabbath), and preached in Troas until past Sunday midnight. He planned on leaving again, Monday.

It said that he was preaching, giving a speech until midnight. Chapter 20 went on to say that he actually ended up speaking until dawn because a young man was so tired he fell out of the window sill, fell three stories to his death, but Paul brought him back to life (that's a super interesting read because an Old Testament prophet healed the same way). If you want to know more, read the Greek-English (Strongs number) for those verses at blueletterbible.org or biblehub.com.

It's interesting that like Jews, those who observe Shavuot, stay up all night studying Torah, Paul also preached all night. The text said though that he hoped to observe Shavuot in Jerusalem.

I attempted to discern when this "first day of the week" might have fallen between Passover and Pentecost. I could not determine without certainty due to missing details about how many days after Passover that the disciples might've departed on their trip.

Within a couple of weeks after Passover, was the commencement of the new Biblical month, the 2nd month, called Iyar (or spelled Iyyar). This falls upon the New Moon and each New Moon was always a mini observance. Maybe this would be eliminated as a festival for breaking bread??

This scripture passage about Paul appears to be problematic. Let's analyze the translations.

https://biblehub.com/parallel/acts/20-7.htm This has a bunch of translations for Acts 20:7

Most of the translations (more modern translations) called it "first day of the week" or "Sunday." However, a few older translations varied. Why would that be? Could it be that most of the translations just lined up with Christian traditions started by the Early Roman Church? Translations are done sometimes to fit doctrine, not necessarily to be true to original meaning.

Some of the translations called it: Saturday evening.

Two old translations called the phrase, "one of the Sabboth dayes" (Bishops' Bible of 1568 and the Coverdale Bible of 1535) ;

"on the morowe after the saboth daye" (Tyndale Bible of 1526) ;

Two "Literal" translations said, "on the first [day] of the weeks,"

Another translation said, "one of the sabbaths"

One of the Catholic versions said, "Then, on the first Sabbath"

The Godbey translation said, "And on the first of the Sabbaths"

Worrell translation: "And on the first day of the sabbaths,"

There were also variations in the translation for "unleavened bread" (verse 6), ranging from feast or festival of unleavened bread, Thin Bread, dayes of sweet bread, dayes of Easter, Passover, Passover week, and ester holydayes. So you see, translation could have an element subject to the outlook of the translator.

I looked at all the Greek translations for Acts 20:7 (twelve available) which were listed on biblehub.com, and they all used the word, "sabbaton", ...not Sunday, not Saturday night.

Here's an explanation of the Greek grammar, if you're inclined to study (it's hard if you don't already know Greek): https://www.logosapostolic.org/bible_study/452-sabbaton.htm It agrees here that it should be related to the sabbath due to consistency of translations with those Greek words used, elsewhere in the New Testament.

What seems most compelling to me, is that it relates to the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) (called Pentecost in the New Testament). After the Passover, there is a period of 49 days called Counting the Omer. This is when sheaves of wheat were waved before the Lord, prayers were said, (your can read about it in Leviticus 23) and days were counting until Shavuot started. There were 7 Sabbaths noted in that time period. In the Essene and Sadducee tradition, the Counting of the Omer started the Sunday after the Sabbath after Passover. So there were also 7 Sundays , meaning that Shavuot (Pentecost) would fall on the 50th day or the 7th Sunday in this time frame. This is written about by Karaite Jewish scholar, Nehemiah Gordon. I have read some of his other research items, and I respect the good work he does. This really does make sense to me in light of the older translations of Acts 20:7.

https://www.nehemiaswall.com/truth-shavuot

Thus, I do not believe that Acts 20:7 was referring to Sunday as the regular Sabbath. There were Hebrew holidays not on the weekly 7th day Sabbath, but nevertheless it was commanded that people not work. These were called sabbaths (a day of rest in order to observe the holiday).

There's no Revelation from the New Testament church, by command of the Lord, to change the Sabbath.

We only see it in terms of practice being changed by the Catholic church long after the apostles were dead. Aside from Jewish people, only small numbers of those believing in Saturday worship, do it. Ex: Messianics, Seventh Day Adventists, Seventh Day Baptists, Strangites and other small sects.

Summary: Like Joseph said in the article of faith, "as long as it is translated correctly."

Gathering Zion's People - Reuniendo al Pueblo de Sión

Identifying Israelites: Hebrew Calendar, Sabbath

God is still keeping His Calendar, and He's testing you...

The gentile calendar is not Biblical, neither is the Sabbath

It just doesn't look Jewish...

Learn through Pictures - click on the side arrows for more. The New Moon, Full Moon are time keepers, and eclipses mark some of the heavenly signs.

What about Holidays?

Gentile or Secular Holidays

Hebrew - Jewish Holy days - Moedim (Appointments with God)

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

2. Shavuot. Spring.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

1. Spring: Passover & Unleavened Bread; Shavuot (Pentecost).

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

4. Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement. Fall.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

3. Rosh Hashanah - Feast of Trumpets. Early Fall, sometimes very late summer.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

6. Chanukah -popular but not an original festival. Late Fall or Winter.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

5. Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles and the Great and Last Day (Shmini Atzeret). Fall.

7. Remember the Sabbath!

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

8. Purim. Another popular but non-Pilgrimage holiday. Winter.

Click on the pictures for additional information

A sad and forgotten part of history -- The Apostasy

Video

The Original Sabbath has been forgotten

Jesus' Own Words--the Law/Torah wasn't meant to be destroyed

D&C 121:12 -- The test for the gentiles

1 Nephi 13:28 (Read verses 19-29, 32) truth suppressed

Words in other languages, for Sabbath. Check This Out!

Scriptures about the Sabbath

The Devil takes away light through traditions D&C 93: 1-3, 31,39,40

Article of Faith #8 Can we trust biblical translations? God is correct. Is man?

Bombshell: Was this translated correctly? Acts 20:7

Summary of Hebrew festivals

The yearly cycle of the 7 Feasts of Israel

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