Before you accept or reject the lunar Sabbath, you owe it to yourself to examine what the Bible actually says. In this teaching, you’ll discover why this topic has challenged the assumptions of countless sincere believers and why it deserves a careful, Scripture-first investigation.
If you are a passionate believer seeking the absolute truth about the Sabbath, you have likely run into major contradictions between modern calendars and scripture. In this video, we examine the lunar Sabbath from a Messianic and Christian perspective, comparing Scripture with tradition and encouraging you to test every claim against the Word of Yahweh.
This teaching is designed to help you:
Understand what the Lunar Sabbath doctrine is.
Examine the strongest biblical and historical evidence surrounding the Lunar Sabbath.
Distinguish between tradition, personal ambition, and what Scripture actually teaches.
Strengthen your Bible study skills by learning how to evaluate difficult passages in context.
If you’re passionate about biblical truth, the Sabbath, Scriptural education, and in-depth Bible study, this teaching is for you. Whether you agree or disagree with the conclusions, our goal is to encourage you to search the Scriptures diligently and let the evidence speak for itself.
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Teaching Introduction
What if the Sabbath that you hold to and that you’ve always assumed isn’t actually biblical? Well, regardless of what we believe, what we’ve always been taught, we need to test everything to the scriptures. And in this video, we’re taking another part of the lunar Sabbath doctrine, the lunar Sabbath model, and testing it to the scriptures. We’re going to be looking at the fall of Jericho, David fleeing from Saul and eating the showbread, and also some controversy or non-controversy, and the brought. So, if you want to learn more about the lunar Sabbath doctrine, then make sure to stay tuned because we’re about to learn the God-honest truth about the lunar sabbath doctrine.
Video Start
This teaching is going to be all about the lunar Sabbath doctrine. It’s going to be part two in what’s turned out to be a series on the lunar Sabbath. And last week we went over a few things. Now, we’re going to continue in the flow that I had planned out and uh there’s going to be a lot of information in this particular teaching and there’s a lot of information last time and there’s going to be a lot of information coming up in the next episode as well. And if you want more information about this particular particular topic, make sure to go to our website at www.godhonesttruth.com, click on the post for this particular episode and there you’ll be able to find the on demand video. You’ll be able to find the draw slides that you see here on your screen with all the diagrams and scriptures and the references and all that. You also be able to find the AI monograph research report that we had generated which goes very in-depth and very detailed and got some good information there. So go check that out. And once this lunar Sabbath series is done, we will then publish the notes that we have taken for this subject. so you can see even more information than what we’re able to present here because we’ve cut it all down for time. Um, so if you want more information, you can definitely go check all that out. And as always, we invite you to do your own research on your own as well. That’s all right there on godhonesttruth.com. There’s also a link down below in the description and that’ll take you directly to that article post on our website and that link should be down there whether you’re watching on a video platform or an audio podcast platform. So, go check out that link and check out the article post on our website today.
Series Overview
All right. So, like always, let’s go over a quick review of the series in the Shabbat series that we’ve done so far. Number one, in episode one, we have went over the Shabbat and the Tanakh. And that is all the way from Genesis up through Malachi in the standard rendering or Genesis up through 2 Chronicles and other renderings. But yeah, you get it. Shabbat in the Tanakh or Old Testament as modern churchianity puts it. Episode two we went over Shabbat in the Brit Chadasha or aka New Testament as churchianity puts it and that was very interesting as well. In episode one laid the foundation where it’s commanded and regulated and all that. Then we saw in the second episode about the apostles and Yeshua and how they observed it. And then in episode three we went over Shabbat in the early centuries. And there’s a lot of information there as far as where things kind of turned and took a change in ways it shouldn’t have and why it took those turns. So definitely some very interesting information there. Go check that out. Episode three in this particular Shabbat series. Episode 4, we looked at Shabbat the Reformation and all the way up until today. And there’s probably some information there you didn’t know before, especially Andreas Karlstadt that we looked at. Absolute powerhouse. You don’t want to miss that if you’ve never heard of that name. He is even bigger than Martin Luther, but you never hear about him. All you hear about is Martin Luther. So, go check out episode 4 for more information. Episode five got really fun. We looked at the arguments for Sunday, and that was the first episode of that particular teaching. Very good stuff, very in-depth and uh very educational. So, if you have any doubts about Sunday versus the biblical Sabbath, go check that out. arguments for Sunday. Uh episode two, that was episode six in the entire series. Uh we kind of finished up the various Sunday arguments that are used from scripture there in that one. And then in episode 7, we started the lunar Sabbath teaching and we went over what the lunar sabbath is. We went over um the arguments that make up the foundation generally for the lunar Sabbath doctrine and the model there. And that was last week, but we couldn’t fit it all in. So, we had to cut it off for the sake of time. And then today, we’re doing our second episode. We’re going to continue in testing some scriptures that uh against the lunar Sabbath doctrine and whether or not um it holds up and it’s going to be your decision one way or the other. Again, every man makes up his own decision. This is not a a papacy, right? It’s like you learn for yourself and make your own decision for your own household, you men. Anyways, but yeah, we’re going over some more scripture in tonight’s uh teaching on the lunar Sabbath. And then next week, hopefully we’re going to be wrapping it up with our third and final episode in the lunar Sabbath teaching. And then we’re going to get into next week hopefully we’re going to finish up some the rest of the scripture teaching or scripture portion that I’m wanting to do with the lunar Sabbath and then move into some historical information on the lunar Sabbath as well as some logic um as far as the lunar Sabbath goes as well. And then finally, we’re hoping to do a series wrap-up eventually here coming up in a few weeks and just going over the main points of the Shabbat series in each episode and then maybe even have some guests on, but we’ll have to see how that works out.
Objective
So, our objective for this particular episode and as it is the three-part series in this particular teaching on the lunar Sabbath, we’re going to be looking at and defining what the lunar Sabbath is. the or lunar Sabbath doctrine anyways is we’re going to examine the foundations that are used for the lunar Sabbath and we’re going to be testing the lunar Sabbath doctrine against scripture. Now these three objectives we did last week and we didn’t get through all the scripture part. So, we’re going to be continuing that this week. And then next week, we’re going to be examining the lunar Sabbath doctrine in light of logic, some historical information about the lunar Sabbath, and then take a consideration as to what at least I think it all means and how it all kind of wraps together. Uh, so it’s going to be really interesting that last part. Anyways, um, again, trying to do my due diligence and give it the attention that I think it deserves. So that’s why it’s kind of grown and ballooned into what it is instead of just the one um episode that we originally had planned.
Before Moving On
But before moving on, let’s look at some things to keep in mind as we go through this particular teaching last time and also next time as well. Uh number one, this is not a salvation issue. If you are, you know, if you hold to the lunar Sabbath doctrine or if you don’t hold to the lunar Sabbath doctrine, it doesn’t make you more or less saved either way because this is not a salvation issue. You’re reading Romans chap 10 verse 9 and you know it says nothing about if thou just believest in the correct Sunday or Sabbath doctrine, thou shalt be saved. No, nothing like that. This is not this is not a salvation issue. So, let’s understand that first. And well, like I said, all lunar sabotarians and non- lunar sabotarians are all brothers and sisters in Messiah. It’s all saved anyways. We’re all saved anyways, no matter what side you’re on. If you’re not willing to consider something different than what you already know and look at some evidence for the lunar Sabbath, then please click off this video. If you’re not willing to consider some evidence testing the lunar Sabbath, then also please click off this video. I think it was um Augustine who said it was the the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain something he disagrees with without accepting it and basically be able to hear them out and know their position and but you don’t have to accept it, right? You’re just listening. You’re understanding it, but you’re not accepting it. That’s what we’re trying to get at here. Regardless of what side you’re on, just listen, learn, and make up your own mind afterwards. But don’t automatically dismiss it just because it’s different, right? Also, this is not about an appeal to majority. Like, if the majority of people, the popular opinion believes something, we’re not going to appeal to that because we’ve seen that go wrong many times in history. And this is also not an appeal to the minority. And uh that goes along with the ideas like, okay, well, this is a small amount of people who believe a certain thing, therefore it must be right because they’re being oppressed for the truth. No, that’s not it either. This is not about an appeal of the majority or the minority. This is about looking at scripture first and foremost and then secondary and tertiary evidence as well. Some various terminology we’re going to go or just establish real quick. Uh because the um as far as lunar sabbath adherence go it’s not a monolithic block. They don’t all believe the same thing. They don’t use all the same terminology. So just to make sure we’re all on the same page, let’s define our terms. And during this particular teaching on the lunar sabbath both last time and this time and next time, uh the term we’re going to be using a lunar sabbath or lunar sabotarian is someone who holds to the belief that the weekly Sabbath is governed by the moon and that the week resets with every new lunar month and therefore also the um Sabbath as well as it comes from scripture. A seventh day Sabbath or seventh day sabotarian. This is going to be the other term that we use and this is the belief that the weekly Sabbath operates on an uninterrupted continuous 7-day cycle that repeats indefinitely without regard to the moon. Now again, some people might use different terms, but for the purpose of this particular teaching series, these are the terms that we are going to use. And again, feel free to use your own terms if you need to.
Study Principles
Now, we’re going to go over some of these study principles. Again, just real quick, we did this in previous episodes of our Shabbat series. So, we’re just going to fly through this so we can get to tonight’s teaching. But anyways, go over some basic hermeneutics. Number one, the literal principle. Taking the scriptures that we read in a literal fashion and less proven otherwise. That’s where we start out with. Then we take the passage or the verse into context because anything taken out of context can be turned any number ways. So, we’ve got to take the context of the passage into consideration when we’re looking at a particular passage. And we’re going to be doing that tonight as well. All these tonight we’re going to be doing. And then we take the principle of scriptural harmony. Meaning that scripture does not contradict scripture. If one thing seems out of place or contradicting the another part of scripture, that’s more of our misunderstanding than it is with a contradiction in the Bible. So scriptural harmony. Got the grammatical principle. And things get lost in translation. And if we get into a discussion on the Godhead, I can show you plenty of stuff there. But yeah, the grammar can um make a big difference sometimes. So we got to take that into account, the language that it was originally written in. There’s also the historical cultural principle uh taking the um particular passage into account as far as the history and the culture of the time it was written. the genre. Certain texts like Psalms are poetic as well as the apocryphal texts uh like Daniel, certain parts of Daniel and the um Revelation. I can’t even think tonight. Oh, this is easy stuff and I’m already forgetting it. But anyways, yeah, you got to take the genre into account as well. Not everything is meant to be literal. Some is allegorical or symbolic or metaphorical or poetic. So, make sure to take the correct genre approach to a passage. And then we got the progressive revelation principle. And this doesn’t mean that, you know, after the Bible was written, there was, you know, things left out and we needed the Catholic councils and the Book of Mormon and all this other stuff filled in. No, that’s that’s not what we’re talking about progressive revelation. We’re talking about here is that at the beginning of the Bible, not everything is already laid out and explained. So, you don’t know everything on Genesis 1:1, right? But as you go through scriptures, you progressively learn more and more and you understand more and more. And eventually by the time we get through the entire set of scriptures, we have a fuller revelation of everything that we’re supposed to be knowing hopefully. Anyways, then we got the authorial intent and that is what the author meant when they wrote it and also how the audience would have taken it when they read it at that particular time in history. So that’s important to take into account as well. Sola scriptura is also paramount here. Um, scripture alone is infallible and should be our guide and our standard for our doctrines and our beliefs. And one little caveat when we talk about scripture being infallible and our guide, we’re talking about the original autographs, not necessarily the translations we have today because the translations we have today are sometimes flawed. But the when we talk about sola scriptura, we’re referring to the original autographs, the very original writings when they first wrote it down. Then we got the principle of distinguishing between descriptive and prescriptive. Descriptive would be something that describes what happened. Prescriptive is something that would command you to do something or not do something. Um, think about the Ten Commandments. Those are prescriptive. Do this, don’t do that. That’s prescriptive. Then you’ve got other things such as the Exodus and Book of Numbers, uh, stuff like that. There’s a lot of passages in there where it says so and so did this and they went here and did that. That’s just describing what someone did. It doesn’t mean you have to do it. It’s just, you know, it happened. That kind of thing. Then we’ve got the concept of distinguishing between exegesis and eisegesis. Exegesis is the um method of going in and drawing out what the text actually means and allowing the text to teach you and change you. Eisegesis on the other hand is taking your own preconceived notions or traditions or thoughts, whatever, and reading it back into the text to try and make the text say what you want it to say. Eisegesis is bad. Don’t do that. Exegesis is where it’s at. The text, the Bible should change us. We should not be trying to change the Bible. And we’ve got anachronism. That’s the error of making um or placing things that are out of time in back before they even existed. Like, you know, the quote from uh Abraham Lincoln is saying that you shouldn’t believe everything on the internet. Of course, the internet wasn’t around back during the time of Abraham Lincoln. So, that would be anachronistic. Then, we’ve got the issue of confirmation bias. And I want to put this in there because this applies to everyone. Me, you, the person sitting beside you, everyone. If we go over and we read something that or someone says something that uh goes along with where what we already believe, then we kind of automatically start taking it as truth because it aligns with what we already believe. That’s confirmation bias. It doesn’t mean it’s right. It doesn’t mean it’s true. It’s, you know, it’s just what we already believe and it makes us feel good. But we should be testing that and be on the lookout for confirmation bias so that we can get to the truth whether we believe the truth already or not. So be on the look for your own confirmation bias as well as others as we go through various studies tonight and also other studies in your life.
What is the Lunar Sabbath?
So now let’s go over a quick recap of what is the lunar Sabbath. We went over this in a little bit more in depth last time. So, if you want u more information on that, go back and watch last week’s episode or look for our upcoming interview with an actual lunar sabotarian coming up hopefully here in u a little bit. Anyways, in a few weeks. But real quickly, what is the lunar sabbath? Well, the lunar Sabbath doctrine is a calendar system doctrine which asserts not that not only does the month start with the sighting of the first sliver of the new moon, but also the beginning of the week and therefore the counting for the week and Sabbath as well. According to the majority of lunar sabotarians, the first day of the month is a non-work day and not a standard weekday or weekly Sabbath. The second day is a workday, a regular weekday, and the first day of the first week of the month. Then the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th are the following weekly Sabbaths for that respective month. This is all in reference to the concept of the Hebraic or biblical calendar and not the common Gregorian calendar. There’s a stark difference there. But like I said earlier, the lunar sabotarians are not a monolithic group and they believe different things depending on uh who it is and the model that they adhere to. Some believe that the month starts with the conjunction of the moon or with some with the full moon. So just know that they’re not a monolithic group. And also some believe that the uh first the I’m sorry I’ve got that wrong. The uh 7th uh 14th and 21st and the 28th are um Yep. I should have done that differently. I have to correct that. the 1st, 14th, 21st, and 28th are Sabbaths and it’s just a day different than the model that we’re looking at and going through. So, just know there are some slight differences there and the um those who hold to the lunar Sabbath doctrine are not a monolithic group. So, to put it in more simply and more in a nutshell, just real quick, the core claim is that the month and the week resets with a monthly lunar cycle rather than running on an unbroken 7-day cycle. Day one is the new moon, a non-work day, not a standard work day or a weekly Sabbath. Days two through seven are the six standard work days where day two is work day number one. The fixed Sabbaths for the month are the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of every lunar month. And the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of every biblical month must always be weekly Sabbath. Rest of which no regular work or heavy labor is to take place. Now again, the reason I’m doing um this model of the lunar sabbath is because during my research, this is the most common I found. So that’s the one I chose here, the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days as the Sabbaths for every month. Just to give you a visual representation because I am more of a visual learner myself. Here’s a visual representation of the lunar Sabbath doctrine where you’ve got the first day, which is the first sliver of the new moon, and then going on down through there. Now, keep in mind, too, that a biblical month does start with the new moon and a um biblical month is a lunar one. So, every time the new moon comes around, that’s a new month. And a biblical month could be either 29 days or 30 days. So the real question we’re going uh examining throughout this entire teaching on lunar sabbath all three so far uh teaching on sabbath the real question that we’re kind of examining here is not does the month start with the moon because that we can see that and we agree with that not does the month start with a new moon but does the week reset due to the new moon that’s the real question we’re examining here um overall anyways so yeah that is what the lunar sabbath is so what are some of the uh foundations that the lunar sabbath doctrine is built on.
Foundations of the Lunar Sabbath
Well, this comes from scripture and it’s not some prophet like you know Ellen White or you know Joseph Smith or anything like that. No, lunar sabot lunar sabotarians don’t have that thankfully but they go to the uh scriptures which is great and that’s why we’re testing a lot of scriptures anyways and spend a lot of time on that. But the foundations of the lunar Sabbath doctrine do come from scripture. And the first one we’re going to look at is in the book of Genesis. And this is Genesis 1:14-18. And Elohim said, “Let lights come to be in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs in appointed times and for days and years. And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth. And it came to be so. And Elohim made two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night and the stars. And Elohim set them in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth and to rule over the day and over the night and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.” So what lunar sabotarians point um I’m sorry point to here is that the sun and moon were created um during the creation week and that they were said here in this particular passage to be for signs and appointed times or signs and times. And the word here for appointed times is the word moed or moedim in the plural. Anyways, and that’s going to come into play here in these next couple sections of um scripture as we go through there too. But another uh piece of um scripture they use for the foundation for the lunar sabbath doctrine is Psalms 104:19. Here it says, “He made the moon for appointed times. The sun knows it’s going down.” And again, the word here in Hebrew for appointed times is moedim, just like in the book of Genesis that we just read. And then we look in Leviticus 23:es 2-3. Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, “The appointed times of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim it as set apart gathering. My appointed times are these. Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set apart gathering. You do no work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.” So here this is another um set of scriptures or another passage used as the a foundation for the lunar sabbath doctrine. And here in Leviticus 23 it starts out by saying the appointed times of Yahweh or the moedim of Yahweh that you are to proclaim my appointed times are these. And it starts out right after saying that six work days is done but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest. You do no work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh. So here it starts out uh saying these are my appointed times. The very first thing it says is the Sabbath. So that’s the these are the uh most foundational um pillars of the lunar sabbath doctrine. We’ll put it that way. And they when you first look at them they are really convincing. And then you go and look at some of the passages that they put forth to kind of back up the lunar Sabbath doctrine. And one of the main ones, especially one of the main ones we looked at last week, is the book of Exodus chapter 16 and various passages here. And we won’t go over it because we went over it last week. And if you want to look at that, go back and look at it. But here basically what they’re saying or basically what this passage is saying is that the children of Israel when they come out of Egypt they came to a place um they went from a place called Elim to the wilderness of Sin. And it says here they did that on the 15th day of the second new moon after coming out of Egypt. And then they set up everything but they were complaining about not being able to eat. And then Yahweh said, “Okay, I’m going rain down manna in the morning and quail in the evenings, and I’m going to give you bread for six days, and then on the seventh day, there’s going to be no manna, so make sure to gather twice as much on the sixth day.” And then it goes through the story of that first week there. And then it says there’s no Sabbath on the second day, on the seventh day, I’m sorry. And the way this all works out and I agree with the the way this works out and just a plain reading of it is that this works out to be on the 22nd because you start on the 16th and then the 22nd would be the seventh day making the 15th if you count backwards a Sabbath day as well. So I agree with that. The 15th would have been a Sabbath day and the 22nd would have been a Sabbath day. I agree with all that. Um, but there’s also disagreements I have with it as well as far as being a proof text for lunar sabbath doctrine. And if you want to know that contention, go back and watch the previous episode um on the lunar sabbath episode one. But that is in a just real quick in a nutshell what the lunar Sabbath doctrine is and also the foundations that are used for the lunar sabbath model or lunar sabbath doctrine. And last week, we also looked at what the new moon is that we’re going to skip over this time since we did it last time.
The Fall of Jericho
So, now we’re going to move on and go back into testing the lunar Sabbath doctrine and testing it scripturally first before we go into the logic and also the history in next episode. But this time, we’re going to continue our scriptural testing. And we’re going to start out with looking at the fall of Jericho. And this is something that has been put forth in several different um websites, publications, and videos about the lunar Sabbath and to try and show that the um Bible upheld a lunar Sabbath and why the lunar Sabbath is true. So this story of the fall of Jericho really plays big within the lunar Sabbath community as it were. So let’s examine that and test it scripturally. So, here is the gist of the situation. We’re going to look at Joshua chapter 6 and various verses 3-4, 6-7, and 12-15. And you shall go around the city, all the men of battle, going around the city once. Do this for 6 days, and let seven priests bear seven shofarot of the yovelim before the ark. And on the seventh day, go around the city seven times, while the priests blow with the shofar. And Yahoshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven shofarot of yovelim before the ark of Yahweh.” And he said to the people, “Pass over and go around the city and let him who is armed pass over before the ark of Yahweh.” And Yahoshua rose early in the morning. And the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. And seven priests bearing seven shofarot of the yovelim before the ark of Yahweh were walking going on. and they blew with the shofarot. And the armed men went before them, but the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh going on and blowing with the shofarot. And the second day they went around the city once and returned to the camp. Thus they did six days. And it came to be on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning of the day and went around the city seven times in this way. Only on that day they went around the city seven times. And of course on seventh day they had the battle and they you know did what they were supposed to do as far as the inhabitants and livestock and all that goes. But anyways this is the battle of Jericho when they walked around this city and then on the 7th day all the walls fell down you know Joshua fought the battle of Jericho. Jericho. Yeah let’s not do a singing here but anyways that’s the battle of Jericho as it comes from scripture. Now the um assertion or the points that lunar sabbaths generally put forth are as such and this is just my rendering of their argument. So if it’s incorrect I apologize and let me know and we’ll correct it. But this is how I put forth their argument as far as the uh fall of Jericho goes. But anyways the argument goes something like this. The march around Jericho is not something Yahweh would have permitted or commanded on a weekly Sabbath day. However, under a lunar Sabbath model, the seventh 7-day march around Jericho would not have fallen on a weekly Sabbath day, and this validates the lunar Sabbath belief while disproving the position of those who propose continuously repeating weekly Sabbaths. Yahweh would never command his army to violate his own Sabbath law by marching, blowing war horns, carrying heavy equipment, and slaughtering a city on the seventh day. And again, someone speak up in the uh chat room if that is not something’s way off with that. Um that’s pretty much the um proposition put forth by lunar sabotarians as far as the um fall of Jericho goes. In a nutshell, let’s uh bullet down some bullet points here as far as what the lunar sabbaths um adherence are proposing here. uh the march took the march around Jericho as we read from scripture it took 7 days it’s plain from scripture right under a continuously repeating seventh day 7-day Sabbath model the people would have been violating Sabbath regulations regarding rest and travel distance because you go for seven days there’s no getting around that one of those days would happen on a Sabbath under a repeating 7-day Sabbath model. So considering a lunar Sabbath model, the march began on the new moon day which is a nonwork day and not a Sabbath. The marching uh continued for the next six days after this, which would have been six working days of the first week of the month. This total seven days. This total seven days, which would not have violated the Sabbath regulations. Therefore, this could only have been done without violating Torah if the lunar Sabbath doctrine is true. So another way of looking at this visually anyways again I’m a visual learner as well here is a model of a lunar sabbath calendar or at least the model we’re looking at anyways and this is how they’re proposing that this uh the fall of Jericho would have happened the first day of marching would have been on a new moon day and then you’ve got the next six days as the six days of that first week so you got all seven days that fall there without hitting a Sabbath. Therefore, not violating a Sabbath command to rest on the Sabbath. And there’s a visual representation of it. So, the question kind of comes down to how did the Israelites march around Jericho for 7 days without violating the weekly Sabbath regulations? And also, did the Israelites march around Jericho for seven days and not violate the weekly Sabbath regulations? That’s what we’re really kind of asking right here. And at first glance, this really fits in and makes sense. But let’s go further into detail. You know me, I like to get nerdy. And it’s going to go really deep because we’re going get into a lot of scripture. We’re get into a lot of um secondary or even tertiary sources here also. So just bear with me and then make your own decision at the end of this particular section. So let’s break it down in detail. Let’s look at Joshua chapter 6 in detail, verse by verse. And you can read along with me in your own translation if you’d like. But in Joshua chapter 6, starting in verse 1. And Jericho was shut up tight because of the presence of the sons of Israel, none going out and none coming in. And Yahweh said to Yahoshua, “See, I have given you Jericho and its sovereign mighty brave men into your hand, and you shall go around the city, all the men of battle, going around the city once. Do this for six days. And let seven priests bear seven shofarot of the yovelim before the ark. And on the seventh day go around the city seven times while the priest blow with the shofar. And it shall be when they make a long blast with a horn of a yovel. And when you hear the voice of the shofar that all the people shout with a great sound, and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight before him.” And Yahoshua son of Nun called the priest and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven shofarot of yovelim before the ark of Yahweh.” And he said to the people, “Pass over and go around the city and let him who is armed pass over before the ark of Yahweh.” So this particular passage looking at Joshua 6:es 1- 21. And let’s break this down a little bit verse by verse. Jump down to verse three here. Notice it says, “Men of battle.” So, not everyone was going to be doing the marching. It doesn’t mention anything about battle armor or artillery or chariots or anything of the sort like that is mentioned. Only those who are armed, men of battle, the makes me think of, you know, swords, spears, things like that. Nothing that’s would be nearly as heavy as like heavy armor or anything like that. Then we look at seven or verse four. And here it says seven priests. So again, it’s not all the army. It’s not all the priests. It’s only seven priests. So it’s not everyone. And also we look at verse 5 and it says all the people shall all the men go up. But it’s only when the longhorn blast. And that’s not day one. It’s not even days two through six. It’s only going to be on day seven when that happens. So even then during this whole process, not all the people are being involved yet. It’s only that last day that they get involved. Then we look at verse seven. The people are to surround the city, but only the armed men march before the ark. So again, we’re getting nerdy. We’re getting in the weeds. We’re breaking this down. So as we can see from at least so far, just verses 1-7, it’s not everyone. It’s only the armed men of the ar not all the army. It’s just the armed men, right? And then we don’t have not all the priests, only seven priests. There was there was definitely more than seven priests, right? So just a very few select men. Um the armed men, a very few select priest that going around with the ark, which was, you know, described as something very powerful when they actually had that marching before the army. So didn’t need everyone actually. And then it says that the people were to surround Jericho, but they really weren’t doing anything except staying out of sight until the last day. Now, the last day, yeah, we can put everyone in the mix then, but not days 1 through six. So, keep that in mind. It was a lot lighter than, you know, you first take it as very, very few people were u actually doing something on days 1-6. And notice also in verse three where it says march around the city once every day for six days. When they marched around the city days 1-6, they only did it one time. And think about this, a city is a big, big place, right? You think about Atlanta, you think about New York, you think about Los Angeles, Dallas. These are huge places. But it wasn’t like that back then. In fact, the towns and stuff, the cities, quote unquote, cities during that day were basically anyone, any little town who had a wall up, that was considered a city. And Jericho was no different. Jericho was actually small in size as well. We look at the um Amplified Study Bible and the footnote they have here for Joshua 6:15 says as such quote in ancient times any walled town was called a city and its ruler was called a king but the fact that Joshua’s army could march around Jericho seven times in one day shows that it was a very small place. Though the walls were formidable, the area they enclosed only measured 7 acres. the whole circumference of the city was about 650 yards. End quote. So it’s not very far around. Any single person could make this march in one day. 650 yards. That’s what six, we’ll call it seven football fields. Anybody could do that. So Jericho and all these cities, they were smaller than we would think at first, especially, you know, reading with our own mindset. And again, we want to avoid anachronism and assuming they are big cities like we have today would be anachronistic. No, they were small and Jericho was only about 650 yards around. But you may be thinking, what about the whole seven or Sabbath day journey? There were restrictions on how far you could go during the Sabbath, right? Well, was there really? No, not really. There is actually no command in Torah about a Sabbath day journey as it were. There’s no regulation saying you can only go this far on a Sabbath day or you can only go that far. Nothing like that. And a lot of what people point to as far as this reference goes is all the way up in the Brit Chadasha where it says in Acts 1:12 then they went back to Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives which is near Jerusalem a Sabbath days journey. So from that they reckon that there is some kind of restriction but that was just Jewish tradition. and it’s not actually coming from the Torah. Now, if we look at Jewish tradition and we assume a Sabbath day’s journey, how much would that actually be? Well, if you look at the footnote in the Legacy Standard Bible, the LSB for Acts 1:12, it says here that a Sabbath day’s journey is approximately 6 miles or 1 kilometer. And then we look at the footnote in the New International Bible for Acts 1:12 and they say pretty much the same thing. that is about 5/8 of a mile or about 1 kilometer. So that’s what they’re putting forth as a Sabbath a Sabbath day’s journey according to Jewish tradition. Now we’re we’re go ahead and assume that for the current discussion. Okay. If that was actually in play and there was actually a restriction on the distance you could journey in a Sabbath day then if we look at Jericho which is only about 650 yards around this 650 yards is only .369 miles much much less than that .6 miles that would have been a Sabbath day’s journey. So days 1 through six, if that one of those happen to fall on a Sabbath day, then it would still be less than that .6 of a mile that Jewish tradition limited to you to. It would actually take um let me look this up. I had to Yeah, it would actually take 1,056 yards to reach the .6 miles. And 1,056 yards is a far cry from 650 yards that Jericho was in circumference. Now a lot of people also point to Exodus 16 27-29 where it says do not let anyone go out of his place on the seventh day. Now if again we look at the study principles that we are mentioned back at the beginning of the video and one is taking things into context and when you take Exodus chapter 16 and that particular passage into context what it was actually speaking about was the um situation with the manna. It says not to go out and try to gather manna on the seventh day. Stay in your place because you should have gathered twice as much the day before. So that particular passage in verses 27-29 of Exodus 16 was specific to the manna incident and not general for all time. If you disagree, that’s fine. We can have a discussion about that. But that’s currently the way we see it. And there’s no regulation in scripture about a Sabbath day’s journey. But even if there was and going off traditional Jewish reckoning of a Sabbath day journey, the marsh around Jericho would not have equaled that. So you would not be violating the um regulation on that if there was such a regulation. Now the seventh day is another matter cuz it would take uh 1,056 yards. So you circle it twice and you’re already over that .6 miles. But they didn’t do that. days one through six they circled once and then on seventh day it was seven times. So we can have a discussion as to whether the uh seventh day was a Sabbath or not but days 1-6 that would definitely not violate the point .6 of a mile. So now let’s go back to scripture and we’ll be starting in verse 8 where we left off Joshua 6:8. And it came to be when Yahoshua had spoken to the people that the seven priests bearing the seven shofarot of the yovelim before Yahweh passed over and blew the shofarot and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went after them. And the armed men went before the priest who blew the shofar. And the rear guard came after the ark going on and blowing with the shofar. But Yahoshua had commanded the people, saying, “Do not make a sound or cause your or cause your voice to be heard, nor let any word come out of your mouth until the day I say to you, shout. Then you shall shout.” And the ark of Yahweh went around the city going around once, and they came into the camp and stayed in the camp. And Yahoshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. And seven priests bearing seven shofarot of the yovelim before the ark of Yahweh were walking going on and they blew with the shofarot and the armed men went before them but the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh going on and blowing with the shofarot. So let’s stop here and look at this particular passage. Uh this is day one by the way and we’ll get into days 2 through six next time uh in the next slide anyways. But breaking this down verses 8 through13 we see that there is no specific mention of the day of the month that the marching started. That’s important. Notice that it didn’t say that the people started on this particular day of this particular month like we looked at with the Exodus passage earlier. Now, here it just says they they started marching and that was day one. There’s no specific mention of the day of the month that the marching started. And there’s also, as we see later on, there’s not any specific mention of the day of the week that the marching ended either with day seven. It doesn’t say that day seven of the marching was on the third day or the seventh day or the fifth day. Nothing like that. It just said the seventh day of the marching that that was the seventh day. Um, and verse 10 here, we see that verse 10 it saying specifically that the people, even though they’re surrounding Jericho, they are to be pretty much out of sight and not say anything, not make a sound, not let their presence be known until the seventh day. So yeah, the people, the vast majority of the people, and remember, there was well over a million people who came out of Egypt and they’re going through the wilderness here and Joshua’s now in charge. But um yeah, the people well over a million people when they came out of Egypt and this is what some 40 years later. They’re finally going in to the promised land here and they’re trying to take over the cities and whatnot. So, who knows what the population is going up to now. Yeah, they went through deaths and wars and battles and stuff like that. But still, I would say it’s at least around a million if not more people there. And it’s only a small few who are doing the circling. The rest are to stay out of sight, to be quiet, not make their presence known until the last day. So, that’s verses 8 through13. Let’s move on. Starting in verse 14 of Joshua 6. And the second day they went around the city once and returned to the camp. Thus they did six days. And it came to be on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning of the day and went around the city seven times in this way. Only on that day they went around the city seven times. And it came to be at the seventh time when the priest blew with the shofarot that Yahoshua said to the people, “Shout for Yahweh has given you the city. And the city shall be put under the ban. It and all that is in it belongs to Yahweh. Only Rahab the is to live. She and all who are with her in the house because she hid the messengers that we sent. And you by all means guard yourselves from that which is under the ban, lest you come under the ban when you take of that which is under the ban, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and shall trouble it. But all the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are set apart to Yahweh. They go into the treasury of Yahweh.” So this particular passage here, verse 15, you can see they marched around seven times on the seventh day and that was the main battle when they finally took Jericho and Joshua’s telling them be careful. You know, everything’s under the ban and certain things go to Yahweh and to the treasury. Don’t take it for yourself. But here is when the all the people actually got together and they had a part. They may not have actually engaged in the fighting and stuff like that, but they had a part. remember the shouting and making themselves known but only on the seventh day. Every other day the people were to remain silent, remain hidden, not to be known. And the people who were doing the marching only marched around once during days 1 through six. Here on day seven, they marched around seven times. All the people got in on the shouting and stuff like that. And this is the main battle. That’s when they finally took Jericho. But again, notice that there is no specific day of the month that is mentioned when the seventh day of marching the battle took place. So now let’s move on and continue with verse 20 and 21. And we’ll wrap up here for the scripture reading anyways. Joshua 6 20 and 21. And the people shouted when the priest blew the shofarot. And it came to be when the people heard the voice of the shofar. And the people shouted with a great shout that the wall fell down flat. And the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. And they put under the ban all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword. So this is a great battle when they finally took over the uh city of Jericho. So again, it wasn’t until the seventh day that all the people got involved and it was only the armed men and seven priests who went around the city before that. So very very light relatively speaking in comparison to the seventh day the first six days were. So just keep that in mind. That’s something to keep in mind as well. This wasn’t hard strenuous carrying stuff the first six days. Again, we don’t know which days of the week this was. So all that take into account. We’re gonna kind of um we’re gonna be looking at the timeline a little bit later on, but keep all that in mind. And again, I’m looking at my notes here. Yep. All remember all the people weren’t doing this every day. They were pretty much staying out of sight, not being known until the seventh day. So all the people were not heavily burdened with battle armor. They were not heavily burdened and thoroughly exhausted when they returned to camp after seven days. Nothing like that. And when you break down scripture, you kind of start getting these things. They kind of start popping out to you when you start getting granular with it and it starts making more sense into a a fuller revelation as it were. But again, there’s no specific dates on when the marching started and there’s no specific dates on when the marching and the actual battle ended. So, how do we know when this actually took place in reference to the month? Because again, we’re looking at the lunar Sabbath, testing it scripturally, and the beginning of the month, it starts with a new moon. And according to most lunar Sabbath proponents, they say this marching of Jericho started on the new moon and fell neatly and conveniently within that first 7-day period, not violating the weekly Sabbath. So, how can we know or at least have a general outline of when this whole thing took place, the beginning of the marching, the seventh day battle and all that stuff? Well, one place that we can look at and one thing that um lunar sabbath proponents put forth is the book of Jasher. And if you haven’t heard of that, don’t worry. It’s actually not very well known, especially amongst well, I won’t say that, but it’s not very well known. Um, anyways, the book of Jasher in verses 88 and I’m sorry, chapter 88 13-4 says as such, “And Jericho was entirely closed against the children of Israel. No one came out or went in. And it was in the second month on the first day of the month that the Lord said to Joshua, rise up. Behold, I have given Jericho into thy hand with all the people thereof, and all your fighting men shall go around the city. Each one, I’m sorry, once each day. Thus you shall do for six days.” And that is what the book of Jasher says. And this is very very interesting because it neatly and conveniently places the start of the battle, the marching on the first day of the month, which if again we’re assuming a um lunar sabotarian model right now. And so the first day of the month would have been a new moon day and it would conveniently fit in just like we showed it a while ago. if the book of Jasher was also a adherent to the lunar sabbath doctrine. However, I don’t think that is actually the case. And here is one reason coming up. Remember the point that most lunar sabotarians put forth with the um story of the fall of Jericho is that it happened at the beginning of the month during the first seven days and then 8th day was a weekly Sabbath and therefore the seven days of marching and battle wouldn’t have violated the weekly Sabbath because they wouldn’t have done anything or the marching wouldn’t have fell on the weekly Sabbath allowing them to do nothing on the weekly Sabbath. That’s the contention and the proposition put forth by lunar sabotarians generally. However, when we look at other verses in the book of Jasher such as Jasher 81:5, it says here, “And the children of Israel traveled from Egypt and from Goshen and from Rameses and encamped in Sukkot on the 15th day of the first month.” Now keep now remember according to the lunar Sabbath um model that we’re looking at the 15th of every single month is a Sabbath a weekly Sabbath. So here the book of Jasher has the people traveling a distance. I I don’t know how far it is from um Goshen whatnot and Sukkot and all that stuff but has them traveling and setting up uh on the 15th day which would be a lunar Sabbath weekly Sabbath. So that would kind of violate the whole principle that they’re putting forth in the story of the fall of Jericho. So book of Jasher is not really um like how you said coinciding with the standard uh lunar sabbath model. And then we’ve got another reference here in the book of Jasher in chapter 81 46-48. And they journeyed from Marah and came to Elim. And in Elim were 12 springs of water and 70 date trees. And the children encamped there by the waters. And they journeyed from Elim and came to the wilderness of Sin on the 15th day of the second month after their departure from Egypt. At that time the Lord gave the manna to the children of Israel to eat. And the Lord caused food to rain from heaven for the children of Israel day by day. This goes along pretty closely to what we read in Exodus uh in chapter 16 about them coming to the wilderness of Sin. But again this is happening on the 15th. And again, according to the lunar Sabbath model, the 15th is always a weekly Sabbath. And again, the proposition as far as the fall of Jericho goes goes is they are putting that forth. And the way they put it forth in order to show that the lunar Sabbath would conveniently um allow them to do this battle of Jericho without violating a weekly Sabbath. But the book of Jasher isn’t really jiving with that. There’s it’s book of jasher is putting forth work on the 15th traveling and stuff like that all on the 15th of the month which is supposed to be a weekly Sabbath according to the lunar sabbath model. So that kind of contradicts the one of the purposes of putting forth the fall of Jericho incident with um with the lunar sabotarians. Anyways, however, I do believe that incident or the uh passage in Exodus 16, they are traveling and doing stuff on the 15th as a plain reading would kind of indicate. But again, there are exceptions to the rule as we saw um back with the study about Shabbat and the Tanakh. The priest, even though the general regulations on Shabbat are to rest, do no work, etc., etc., the priests are commanded to be on duty even on Shabbat. So they don’t get Shabbat off, you know, if it’s during their rotation. Anyways, so there are exceptions to the rule. And I think that’s what happened with the um incident when they came to Elim there in Exodus 16. We also got to understand that when the people encamp there and again a million people or more coming out of Egypt when they set up camp this is like setting up a temporary city. Now remember that because they’re a million plus people are having to feed and water donkeys are having to put up tents and have to put up tabernacles and they’re having to get the kids and set up the the little kitchen cooking station and all this other stuff. It’s it would have been of an endeavor for a million plus people to set up this little small city. It’s not just like you show up in your RV and a KOA campground and you just sit back after you pull into your spot. It’s not like that. But anyways, the book of Jasher kind of puts forth a contradiction to one of the points that the lunar Sabbath um adherence put forth with the fall of Jericho. Another thing we need to kind of take into account too is whether or not the book of Jasher is actually trustworthy, where we can actually trust it or not. Um, most of the people that I have listened to or read or anything like that on the book of Jasher, they don’t consider it to be scripture, but they do consider it to be something more of like a a historical document. You know, something that we can use for reference, but not, you know, guiding our beliefs and our doctrines. And I can understand that. That’s the way I use Maccabees. that Maccabees I don’t consider to be doctrine but I do under um consider it to be a trustworthy historical reference word if that makes sense and a lot of people um that I looked at with the book of Jasher had that same kind of opinion but can it be trusted even historically or doctrinally or anything like that well let’s look at some other passages within the book of Jasher also and especially we’re going to be looking at some of the passages with the book of Jasher and the plagues of Egypt. Now, check this out. If you know anything about the plagues of Egypt, this is probably going to jump off the page at you, okay? But anyways, in Jasher 80 13-4, it says, “And the Lord sent all kinds of beasts of the field into Egypt, and they came and destroyed all Egypt, man, and beast, and trees, and all things that were in Egypt. And the Lord sent fiery serpents, scorpions, mice, weasels, toads together with others creeping in dust.” You don’t find that in the Bible. You can only find that in the book of Jasher. That is one of the plagues that the unit that’s not in the listing in the Bible. But then we go on to look at Jasher 80:16. And all reptiles and winged animals according to their kind came to Egypt and grieved the Egyptians exceedingly. Again, there’s no in the Bible, there’s no plague of reptiles, winged animals there. There was toads, but that’s not what this is referring to. And then we look at Jasher 80 27. And God sent a burning inflammation in the flesh of the Egyptians, which burst their skins, and it became a severe itch in all the Egyptians, from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their heads. You don’t find burning inflammation in the plagues listed in the Bible, either. you find boils and the book of Jasher also lists boils but I didn’t put that in here. I’m just putting the stuff that does not coincide with the Bible. Now you may be saying okay well this is just expanding on things that were not in the Bible. Okay maybe maybe not. That’s a discussion to be had. However, there are things that are just way far out there as well. Take this next passage for example. This kind of tops it all. It takes the cake as far as the plagues go. Anyways, in the book of Jasher chapter 80 19- 21. And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm of animals, they locked their doors after them. And God ordered the sulanuth which was in the sea to come up and go into Egypt. And she had long arms 10 cubits in length of the cubit of a man. And she went upon the roofs and uncovered the rafting and flooring and cut them and stretched forth her arm into the house and remove the lock and the bolt and opened the houses of Egypt. Read that again for yourself and have that mental picture in your mind of what’s going on here. To me, when I read this, I I was imagining like that Ten Commandments movie where Charlton Heston is standing there with a rod up in his hand over the sea and he’s sort of saying like, “Loose the Kraken.” You know, is that’s what I think of when I read this particular passage of the Sulenuth, you know, release the Kraken. And it’s is it’s so weird. It’s like this big kraken thing comes out and you don’t find in the Bible and you don’t really find in all of history either. You know, maybe a giant squid. You could say that, too. But it’s, think about this. All it does is it goes into Egypt. It goes up on top of the house and it takes the houses off, the roofs off the house and the rafter. It takes the flooring out of the houses for some reason. And then it stretches its arm and unlocks the doors and that’s all it does. Like it doesn’t kill the people. It doesn’t pester the people any more than you know structural damage goes. It’s just very odd in my opinion and it is not doctrinally correct and it’s not historically correct either. And you know that is here’s a list of the plagues from the Bible versus the plagues listed in Jasher. And there’s like 15 that are listed in Jasher and 10 listed in the Bible. And I’ve put in red the ones that are not found in the Bible. It’s just really odd some of the things that are in the book of Jasher, especially in the plagues. And we’re going to look at one more here. The book of Jasher actually contains um necromancy as well. We look in the book of Jasher 42:es 30-41. And Joseph reached his mother’s grave and Joseph hastened and ran to his mother’s grave and fell upon the grave and wept. And Joseph cried aloud upon his mother’s grave. And he said, “Oh my mother, my mother, oh thou who did give me birth. Awake now and rise and see thy son. Arouse my mother, arouse, awake from thy sleep for me. Rise, oh my mother, rise, awake from thy sleep.” And Joseph heard a voice speaking to him from beneath the ground. My son, my son, Joseph, I have heard the voice of thy weeping. and she continued to speak like unto these words unto Joseph and she was still. There is clear prohibition against necromancy in scripture. We look at Deuteronomy 18 10-2. Let no one be found among you who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices divination, or a user of magic, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead, or whoever does these is an abomination to Yahweh. And because of these abominations, Yahweh your Elohim drives them out from before you. And there’s many, many more than just the examples I provided. These are some of the most powerful that I was able to come across in the book of Jasher uh in preparation for this particular teaching. But yeah, it’s not like the book of Maccabees where it’s a historical reference. This book of Jasher is not doctrinally accurate. It’s not historically accurate. And in my opinion, it’s more comparable to like the Da Vinci Code or the Book of Mormon. It’s I don’t know of anything that I could trust in the book of Jasher and especially looking at the history behind it too. There’s actually like four or five different publications that go by the name book of Jasher. There is a Jewish publication of like poems and stuff there other things and the main one the one you’re seeing here that is presented before you and the one is usually you know uh referenced in discussions like this comes from like the 1600s. It doesn’t even come from way back when. The book of Jasher isn’t even an Apocrypha issue either. You can say, well, the Apocrypha used to be included and then it was taken out for such and such a reason and that’s a discussion to be had. You know, Enoch, Jubilees, Sirach, etc., etc. We can make a discussion as to whether or not that’s actually scripture and should be included in the standard canon. But the book of Jasher wasn’t even in the Apocrypha. So take that into account as well. You do you. You make your own decisions. But as far as me and mine go, I from everything I’ve seen, I have enough reason and enough cause, enough evidence to completely dismiss and disregard the book of Jasher. So I’m not even using the book of Jasher for dating the um battle of Jericho. We can actually do that through the Bible and we can also do that through um historical sources as well. We’ll get into that here in just a moment. So, if there is no specific date in Joshua chapter 6 for when the marching started and when it ended, being able to place it, you know, on a calendar and be able to verify it like that. There’s no specific date given in Joshua chapter 6. Can we know about the time when they started marching against Jericho or doing the circling, all that stuff? Yes, we can. And here we go. So, again, we’re getting nerdy again, but we’re going to go back one chapter in the book of Joshua to Joshua 5. And we’re going to be reading verses 10-2. And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal and performed the Pesach on the 14th day of the new moon at evening on the desert plains of Jericho. And they ate of the stored grain of the land on the morrow after the Pesach, unleavened bread and roasted grain on this same day. And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the stored grain of the land. And the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. This is Joshua 5:es 10-12. They said they they camped in Gilgal. Take note of that. That’s important. Okay. They encamped in Gilgal and they performed the Pesach. When is Pesach? When is Passover? It’s on between the evenings of the 14th and 15th day of the first month. So, it’s in the middle of the first month they’re doing the Pesach with me so far. And that’s in Gilgal. And Gilgal, it says here plainly in the scriptures that Gilgal is in the desert plains of Jericho. Gilgal is very very close to Jericho. Like 1.6 miles away from Jericho. That’s how close they are to Jericho when they’re doing the Pesach. Keep that in mind. It’s going to be important. And then they rested on the next day and they ate the um um they ate the stored grain on the next day after they ate the Pesach. And then the day after that the manna ceased and then there’s no further uh indication of a time change between that point and Joshua 6 when we look in verses 28 12 and 14. And Yahweh said Yahoshua, see I have given Jericho and its sovereign mighty brave men into your hand. And it came to be when Yahoshua had spoken to the people that seven priests bearing the seven shofarot of the yovelim before Yahweh passed over and blew with the shofar and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh went after them. And Yahoshua rose early in the morning and the priest took up the ark of Yahweh. And the second day they went around the city once and returned to the camp. Thus they did six days. So it looks like they camped at Gilgal. They had the Passover on the 14th. They ate stored grain on the 15th. And then the manna ceased on the 16th. And then that’s when they started against Jericho. That’s the way I read a plain reading. And here is a simplified chart of how I read it. The battle of Jericho and when it was relatively speaking from the evidence we have from scripture. They camped at Gilgal performed the Pesach that was Aviv 14. They ate stored grain the day after Pesach that would have been Aviv 15. The manna ceased the day after that. So that would have been Aviv 16. Joshua was given the quest and the way I read it from a plain reading that was still on Aviv 16. So then it says the seven priests in the vanguard go around Jericho and I took that to be on Aviv 16 as well. Then it says, the way I take it also, they went around again and that would have been day one. That would have been on Aviv 17. And then the seven priest and the vanguard go around Jericho uh once for the next five days and that would have been days 2 through six. And that would have happened on Aviv 18 through the 22nd. And then the seventh time when they went around seven times around uh Jericho and the people shouted, the walls fell and Jericho was theirs. they took over Jericho. That would have been on Aviv 23. That’s how I as I went through verse by verse a plain reading of the text from Joshua 5 10 through Joshua 6 24. That’s how I read it in the timeline I came up with. If you have something different, by all means, let me know. Uh we can definitely uh look into that. And iron sharpen iron again. Um, but yeah, that’s the way I read it and that just kind of makes sense. And it wouldn’t have been on the first day of the month. It wouldn’t have been on a new moon day when they started because there would have been what another six or seven days before the new moon started according to this timeline reckoning. And we can get further information and further kind of um idea about when this whole fall of Jericho happened from a writer named Flavius Josephus. And he writes in the antiquities of the Jews book 5 chapter 1 section 4. So the Hebrews went on farther 50 furlongs and pitched their camp at the distance of 10 furlongs from Jericho. But Joshua built an altar of those stones which all the heads of the tribes at the command of the prophets had taken out of the deep to be afterwards a memorial of the division of the stream of this river and upon it sacrificed to God. and in that place celebrated the Passover and had great plenty of all the things which they wanted hitherto. End quote. So here uh Josephus is stating that they pitched their uh camp and made their camp in Gilgal. Again, that’s what scripture told us. And it was only 10 furlongs from Jericho. Well, a furlong according to Wikipedia is a measure of distance that is equal to about 660 ft or an eighth of a mile. So if they’re 10 furlongs away, that’s 1.25 miles away from Jericho. They’re very very close when they do the Passover make their camp. So they they wouldn’t have been that far away and they could have started very quickly after the whole Passover thing. Anyways, so it’s kind of lining up with how I do a plain reading of the scriptures and that timeline there. But Josephus goes on and says even more information about the timing here of the battle of Jericho. Josephus writes in Antiquities of the Jews book 5 chapter 1 section 5. He says here quote now while the Israelites did this and the Canaanites did not attack them but kept themselves quiet within their own walls. Joshua resolved to besiege them. So on the first day of the feast of the Passover, the priest carried the ark round about with some part of the armed men to be a guard to it. End quote. So here Josephus is saying the first day of the feast, which you know the first day starts after the Passover meal the next day, right? Yeah. Well, you get what I’m saying. It’s evening and evening. I get that. But the 15th would have been the first day. So the way Josephus recounts it is that the 15th of Aviv is when they started on day one of the marching. So me and Josephus are about one day off. That is a far cry from the six seven days or two weeks of the start of the march that is put forth by lunar sabotarians. Now if we don’t go by the book of Jasher or if we discount that is there any evidence that the marching started on a new moon? Not at all. In fact most of the evidence that we see that we can actually trust the the timing from the Bible. Then we get a secondary um source of information from Josephus which is not um is good for historical reference but not for doctrine. Let’s put that way. It’s not Josephus is not scripture, but we can get more confirmation there. And by the mouth of two or three witnesses, let a matter be established. So, we’ve got two witnesses here. We got scripture and we got Josephus. And it’s not on a new moon day when they start. That’s the picture that we get. So, Josephus certainly didn’t believe that the siege began with the new moon. A plain reading of the Bible tells us that the siege did not begin on the new moon. And yeah, once we look at it and we look at it in detail from what scripture tells us, when we look at all the sources and the evidence, it just does not fit within a lunar Sabbath timeline like they commonly put forth. And again, like I said last time, this it is something that bothers me. It’s the truth and it shouldn’t bother me. It’s just the evidence that’s out there. But again, I uh a lot of the Lunar Sabbath people I’ve come across are very good people and you know, it is what it is. Anyways, but um yeah, it it really doesn’t fit with the Lunar Sabbath timeline like they normally put forth. And um oh, I was going to say something else too. I forgot. Oh, yeah. Um the concept that um the lunar Sabbath adherence put forth is that it happened you know in that the first seven days of a lunar Sabbath month in order to not violate the Sabbath the regulations about resting. Well, they wouldn’t have validated Sabbath doctrine or Sabbath regulations on resting anyways because there are exceptions to the rule especially when Yahweh tells you to do it. Think about the priest working on the Sabbath. Think about the command to not kill or not murder. Again, not murder. Let’s get that correct. But there are many times in scripture where Yahweh commands pretty much the wiping out of an entire people. Take the Amalekites for example, among others. Take the uh flood story for example. Yahweh is our standard. Yahweh cannot sin. Whatever he does is not sinful. But in the flood story, there are lots of people who were wiped out in the flood. And some of those just by, you know, sheer logic and common sense would have been young children, babes, infants that died in the flood. And there is no such thing as original sin. So they weren’t born sinners. So they would have been innocent and they were wiped out in the flood. So again, there are exceptions to the rule a lot of times, but you don’t just go out and do what you want and call an exception rule. You got to have a basis for it, right? And the basis here is that Yahweh said to do it. It’s my belief that the it doesn’t say when the weekly Sabbath happened during that whole 7-day siege, but it would be my contention and my belief that the weekly Sabbath would have happened in days 1-6 sometime, not the seventh day, because that would have been more strenuous obviously with the walls falling and them coming in and sacking everything and whatnot. Um, so I don’t think Yahweh would have, you know, told him to do that. But if he did, again, exception to the rule. I think Sabbath probably would have fallen during days 1-6, but I can’t prove it because there’s nothing in scripture saying anything near that. So we now have both the Bible and Josephus giving evidence uh towards this timeline of the um siege of Jericho not happening within a lunar Sabbath timeline like is put forth a lot of times. So that is the fall of Jericho, the battle of Jericho, whatever you want to call it.
David and the Showbread
And now let’s go ahead and move on to another section in scripture. And this is going to be the situation with David and the showbread. And this is David. He’s not king yet. Saul is still on the throne, but David is fleeing for his life from King Saul. And let’s start out here. And we’re going to look at Matthew 12:es 2-5. This is the words of Yeshua, by the way. And here in Matthew 12 2-5. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath.” But he said to them, “Have you not read what Dawid did when he was hungry? He and those who were with him, how he went into the house of Elohim and ate the showbread, which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priest. Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priest in the set apart place profane the Sabbath and are blameless?” So here’s the words of Yeshua. And before we really get into this, I want to point out here it says that Yeshua is saying that the priests profane the u Sabbath, but they’re blameless. Again, Yeshua is pointing out this ex there’s exceptions to the rule, which I was just saying earlier. That’s number one to start out with. Number two, he’s recounting this story of David and when he was hungry and he ate the showbread and he’s saying this all in the context of a Sabbath debate. But again, well, I’ll put that off for later. This is all in the context of a Sabbath debate. And what is he actually referencing? Let’s go back and look in the book of 1st Samuel 20. We’re going to look at verses 5:18, 24, 26- 27, and 34-35. That may sound like I’m picking and choosing, but I’m not. I’m cutting out all the stuff that doesn’t really pertain to um what’s being taught here. Go back and read everything for yourself. And if there’s any contradictions there, you know, point it out, you know, illuminate. But trust me, this is just for this particular teaching to get across the point. Anyways, verse 1st Samuel 20 5:18, 24, 26- 27, and 34-35. And Dawid said to Yah Jonathan, “See, tomorrow is the new moon, and I ought to sit with the sovereign to eat, but let me go, and I shall hide in the field until the third day at evening.” So Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you shall be missed, because your seat shall be empty.” And Dawid hid in the field. And when the new moon came, the sovereign sat down by the food to eat. But Shaul spoke uh not a word that day, for he thought, “It is an accident. He is not clean, for he has not been cleansed.” And it came to be the next day, the second day of the new moon, that Dawid’s place was empty. And Shaul said to Yonathan his son, “Why has the son of Yishai not come to eat either yesterday or today?” And Yonathan rose up from the table in the heat of displeasure and ate no food the second day of the new moon, for he was grieved for the because his father put him to shame. And it came to be in the morning that Yonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David and a small youth was with him. So a little bit more filling in here. On the first day, David doesn’t show up because he’s wondering if Saul is wanting to kill him or not. So he doesn’t show up the first day. That’s the new moon. It says right here in scripture directly and specifically that is the new moon day. So that would been the first day of the month. No doubt we all concede that. We all accept that part, right? That’s the first day of the month, the new moon day. So, usually they eat with the king and King Shaul sees David’s not there and he says, “Oh, well, maybe he’s ceremonial unclean, that’s why he didn’t come today or something like that.” So, anyways, goes into day two and David’s still not there. David’s wondering, you know, is Saul trying to kill me? Well, Saul recognizes David’s not there on day two, and he gets angry. He’s conversing with his son Jonathan, and he even ends up throwing a spear at Jonathan during this whole discourse. And that’s what the shame of Jonathan is. It’s referencing here. And uh that’s when they knew that uh Saul was actually seeking to kill David. So then on day three, Jonathan went out into the field with the youth that was with him and he shot arrows in order to convey to David who was hiding in the field. He wanted to convey to David that his life was in danger and he needed to flee. So then David fled. Then we go on and look in chapter 21 of 1st Samuel. And David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech trembled when he met Dawid and asked him, “Why are you alone and no one is with you?” And Dawid said to him, “Ahimelech the priest, the sovereign has commanded me a word and said to me, let no one know whatever of the word about which I send you, and which I have commanded you, and I have directed my young men to such and such a place. And now, what do you have on hand? Give five loaves into my hand or whatever is found.” And the priest answered Dawid and said, “There is no ordinary bread on hand, but there is set apart bread, provided the young men have kept themselves from women.” Then the priest gave him set apart bread, for there was no bread there except the showbread which had been taken from before Yahweh in order to put hot bread in on the day it is taken away. So to give some more context to this particular situation, Dawid fled after Jonathan revealed to him his life was in danger and he fled from Gilgal because there was no um palace or anything like that in Jerusalem or anything at this point. So Shaul his seat of power, his throne, stuff like that was at his home in Gibeah. I’m sorry, Gibeah. There we go. Gibeah. So, it starts out in Gibeah and Dawid flees to Nob. And Nob is not very far away. Nob is actually I got a couple different distances here. And one source said it was 2 to three miles away from Gibeah. Another source said it was 5 miles. Either way, it’s something that someone could do within a day, easy, less than an hour. Way less an hour. And in the Marine Corps, we had three miles in less than 30 minutes. That was pretty much the standard. in 18 minutes uh doing three miles. That was flatout sprint. So it’s doable. It’s due in a day, no doubt. So Dawid fled from Gibeah to Nob. And when he got there, the priest, they didn’t have anything to eat except for the holy bread, the holy showbread that they had just taken off and they were about to exchange. Why were they exchanging it and putting hot bread on there in in place of it? There’s scripture for that. Let’s look at that. Why it was changed. There was actually command that it be changed. And when was it supposed to be changed? Keep this in mind. Let’s look at Exodus 25:30. And you shall put the showbread on the table before me continually. And then we go into further detail on this showbread in Leviticus 24:es 5-9. And you shall take fine flour and bake 12 cakes with it, 2/10 of an ephah in each cake. And you shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the clean table before Yahweh. And you shall put clear frankincense on each row. And it shall be on the bread as a remembrance portion, an offering made by fire to Yahweh on every Sabbath. He is to arrange it before Yahweh continually from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant. And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in the set apart place, because it is most set apart to him from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire, an everlasting law. So there’s an actual command here about the showbread in the book of Leviticus. They’re to do 12 different loaves. They put them in two rows, six in each row with frankincense on top, and they are to change them out every weekly Sabbath. We got that. They’re take the old ones off from the previous week and put fresh ones on every weekly Sabbath. The old one the the fresh ones are supposed to stay on there all week until the new ones come in the next week, the next Sabbath. And the ones they take off of there, it’s only supposed to be for the priests, the set apart sanctified ones. They’re serving in the temple. They’re the one the only ones that are supposed to eat the bread that’s taken off because it’s holy bread. It’s sacred bread. But David comes up and he gets there on the day that they’re changing the the showbread. And that’s all they’ve got there is the old bread that they’re taking off to put the hot bread on. That’s what the priest told him. And when does the showbread get changed? On the weekly Sabbath. Well, when is David fleeing from uh King Saul? He’s fleeing on day three of the month. Now, take note that according to the lunar Sabbath model that we’re taking into account that the weekly Sabbaths are the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th, always unchanging according to that lunar Sabbath model. Others have the 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th. Okay? Either way, it’s never on the third day of the month. And here we can clearly see that David fled on the third day of the month. And then we can also see that it is a Sabbath because the priest is changing out the showbread which is only done on the Sabbath. Clear undeniable proof. So the core claim again let me reiterate this because it’s it’s worth saying again even though I jumped ahead. It’s worth saying again. The uh core claim is that the month and the week always reset with the sighting of the new moon. Again, we can see that the month does, but the the week is where we have the contention here. On day one of the lunar Sabbath model, day one is the new moon day, and it’s a non- working day. Neither a standard work day nor a weekly Sabbath. Days 2 through 7, always standard work days. Day two is work day number one, remember? And the fixed Sabbaths are always the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of every month. Again, according to this is the lunar Sabbath calendar. The the weekly Sabbaths are over there on the right after the first. Of course, the first doesn’t count as weekly Sabbath, right? In a lunar Sabbath model, but all the Sabbaths are over there on the right. The third would never under a lunar Sabbath model, never would the third be a weekly Sabbath, but it would be under a seventh day repeating uh Sabbath like is traditionally. put forth and is the position that we take because the days of the month it would float. It could, you know, Sabbath could be on a 3rd, a 19th, uh 15th, any time, right? Because it the week doesn’t reset. Just the month resets with a new moon. But the third would never fall uh would never be a Sabbath on a lunar Sabbath model. So, here is this timeline of the story of David fleeing from King Saul under a lunar sabbath model. This a visualization because again I’m a visual learner as well and it really helps me to visualize stuff like this. Here you got David and Jonathan talking that first part we read and that was the day before the new moon. So that’s new moon minus one. We don’t know if that was day 29 or day 30 of the previous month, but it really doesn’t matter because Don David and Jonathan are talking about the next day, which is the new moon day. So then we get to the new moon day. That’s feasting day one. That’s where Saul is thinking that, you know, David is unclean or something like that. That’s why he didn’t show up to eat with Saul. Then we got feasting day two. That’s when Saul is mad, hurls the spear at Jonathan, and they know that David’s life is in um jeopardy. Then day three is when Jonathan tells David and David flees to Nob and eats the showbread. And it’s clear that showbread is being changed and it’s only changed on the week of the Sabbath. So it’s clear from scripture that the third day of the month is a weekly Sabbath and it doesn’t fit. It’s completely out of line with a lunar Sabbath model as you can see here from the visualization. If you didn’t get it from the text or from the logic or from the evidence, look at the visual visualization. It does not fit whatsoever. However, there’s zero problem with a repeating 7th day Sabbath that, you know, we’re all used to. So, yeah, I think that’s one of the clearest and most substantial pieces of evidence um contrary to the lunar Sabbath model. But one objection that may be raised and I want to put this out there because we’re trying to examine all aspects even if it’s you know not um particularly useful to you know our position. Okay. One thing that could be raised one objection that could be raised is that what if the third day that’s talking about here in uh the scripture with David fleeing from Saul. What if that third day was instead a festival Sabbath and not a weekly Sabbath? Well, that’s can’t happen either because I’ve done the math, looked it up, done the research, and a festival Sabbath such as the first day and last day of Passover or the first day and last day of Sukkot, things like that could never even shave could never happen on the third day of any month. Think about it. Passover is the 15 14th and between the evening is the 14th and 15th of the first month. It goes for seven days. It doesn’t get into the third day of the next month. And you count 50 days from you know how you supposed to do it from um Passover and you could do either reckoning either the uh first day after the beginning day of Passover or the first day after the weekly Sabbath that falls during Passover. Either way, you still don’t get a third day of the month for Shavuot. So again, a festival Sabbath cannot ever happen on the third day of the month. It’s only the weekly Sabbath that could happen on the third day of the month. And again, it’s when it’s talking about there in Leviticus about changing the showbread. It’s not talking about a festival Sabbath. It’s talking about the weekly Sabbath. Even look it up in the Hebrew, too. It’s it’s just simply not there. It’s the weekly Sabbath. So, we know that this wasn’t a festival Sabbath due to Leviticus referencing the showbread being changed on the weekly Sabbath, not festival Sabbaths. There are no feast days on the third day of the month. And again, look me up on that. I mean, verify it. Think for yourself. Plan out and look through all the festival days and when those um minor Sabbath or high days happen for those festival days, the festival Sabbath as it were. None of those fall on the third day of the month. Yeshua even used this example of David eating the showbread on the Sabbath, the same day that Yeshua considered to be the Sabbath also. And they were in the middle of a discussion on observance of the Sabbath on the Sabbath day with the Pharisees. So again, this was a weekly Sabbath and all the evidence points to that and that weekly Sabbath happened on the third day of the month which could not happen under a lunar Sabbath model. The controversy in the story with Yeshua was about the observance of the Sabbath, not which day of the week or not which day of the month that the Sabbath was to occur. David, Ahimelech, the Pharisees, and even Yeshua himself all operated under the same continuous repeating 7-day weekly cycle, proving the Sabbath has always cycled independently of the monthly lunar phases. Now, again, I want to reiterate this. We can see the point and completely agree even with the point that the new moon starts the month. It resets the month if you want to say it that way, but it has no effect on the week. It doesn’t reset the week and it doesn’t reset the uh Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath. And that’s the contention or the um uh controversy between the traditional uh rendering seventh day every seventh day and the lunar sabbath model.
Controversy in the Brit Chadasha?
So let’s go on and this is going to be a quick section here but let’s look at some controversy in the Brit Chadasha or you could even say it as lack of controversy too and if you look at the at the Brit Chadasha Yeshua has no no holding back when it comes to correcting the Pharisees whatever it was he didn’t correct them on Hanukkah we’ll get to that on the Hanukkah teaching but he had no issue correcting the Pharisees when they were wrong on something and they got into several disagreements or at least there were several recorded disagreements in the Brit Chadasha regarding the Sabbath. In fact, no pun intended, but there are actually seven Sabbath controversies recorded across the gospels. There is the plucking of grain in the fields, the healing of the man with withered hand, healing the lame man at Bethesda, healing a whole man, healing the man born blind, and healing the crippled woman. Let’s look at some of these real quick just to give you an idea, just refresh your memory as it were of these particular Sabbath controversies. Oh, there’s also healing the man with dropsy, too. Let’s look at plucking the grain in the fields. We kind of went over this earlier, but Matthew 12:es 1-8. At that time, Yeshua went through the grain fields on the Sabbath, and his taught ones were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain to eat. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your taught ones are doing what is not right to do on the Sabbath.” But he said to them, “Have you not read what Dawid did when he was hungry? He and those who were with him, how he went into the house of Elohim and ate the showbread, which was not right for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priest. Or did you not read in the Torah that on the Sabbath the priest in the set apart place profane the Sabbath and are blameless? But I say to you that in this place there is one greater than a set apart place. And if you had known what this means, I desire compassion and not offering, you would not have condemned the blameless. For the son of Adam is master of the Sabbath.” And we look at the healing the man with a withered hand. And this come, this particular passage comes from Mark 3:es 1-6. And he went into the congregation again, and a man who had a withered hand was there. And they were watching him whether he would heal him on the Sabbath so as to accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Get up to the middle.” And he said to them, “Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil to save life or to kill?” But they remained silent. And having looked around on them with displeasure, being grieved at the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other. And the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against him how to destroy him. Another one. This is the healing of healing a whole man as it’s commonly put. This comes from John 7 21- 24. Yeshua answered and said to them, “I did one work and you all marvel. Because of this Moshe has given you the circumcision, though it is not from Moshe but from the uh but from the fathers, and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the Torah of Moshe should not be broken. Are you wroth with me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath? Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.” Another one, healing the crippled woman. This comes from Luke 13:es 10-17. And he was teaching in one of the congregations on the Sabbath. And see, there was a woman having a weakening spirit for 18 years, and was bent over and was unable to straighten up at all. And Yeshua seeing her, called her near and said to her, “Woman, you are loosened from your weakness.” And he laid his hands on her. And immediately she was straightened up and praised Elohim. But the ruler of the congregation responding much displeased that Yeshua had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which men should work. So come and be healed on them and not on the Sabbath day.” Then the master answered him and said, “Hypocrite, does not each one of you on the Sabbath loosen his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead it away to water it? And this one being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound, look for 18 years, should she not be loosened from this bond on the Sabbath?” And when he said this, all his opponents were put to shame, and all the crowd rejoiced for all the splendid works being done by him. And this is just a few of the ones I listed out previously, but it’s pretty much all the same point that I’m trying to make here. Regardless of what the contention was, what they were disagreeing about, it was never, not one single instance, ever was it about which day of the week or which day of the month the Sabbath was supposed to be on. Yeshua, his disciples, even his followers, the Jews at the time, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, even the Essenes at Qumran, they all agreed and accepted the same Sabbath day when it was in the week. and also when it was the month. There was no disagreement about that. Now, it’s my contention that it was the seventh day Sabbath that we hold to every seventh day. A lunar Sabbath uh lunar sabotarian may put forth the contention that they all agreed um likewise, but it was all on a lunar Sabbath reckoning. I get that. But the point is they never disagreed on when the Sabbath was as far as what day of the week or what day of the month it was. that was not in contention here in the scriptures. We’ll look at some more evidence uh coming up next time as we examine uh some more scripture in the Brit Chadasha. It’s very very powerful stuff. Definitely tune in next time. But I mean tune in every time, but next time there’s going to be some really really powerful stuff if you’ve not gotten that already. But yeah, it was never contention over which day of the week, which day of the month that the Sabbath was on. The contentions that did arise in the Brit Chadasha however regarding Shabbat were over what could or could not be done on the Shabbat, how Shabbat was to be observed and honored and who possessed authority over the Shabbat and the Shabbat regulations. Because the Jews, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, they had their own things they come up with. They put fences around it as it’s commonly put. And it there was also the contention over who possessed authority over the Shabbat regulations and how it was observed. There was never any contention ever over when the week of Sabbath was to be observed. Neither with lunar counting nor Sunday or nothing like that. No contention about when the week Sabbath was to be observed. In every single situation regarding controversy over the Shabbat, Yeshua, the disciples, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees all spoke of and understood the Sabbath to be on the same day as their interlocutors. There we go. In the Brit Chadasha, when it comes to the absence of any controversy over the Shabbat, over when the Shabbat is to be observed, the silence is deafening. It really is. They all held to and observed the same Shabbat on the same day of the week, on the same day of the month, etc., etc. They all did it at the same time. It’s only over the observance of Shabbat. That’s what they had the controversy over.
Summary
So, now let’s wrap up this particular episode, the second episode in the Lunar Sabbath miniseries apparently that we’re doing now. Uh but in summary, when it comes to the fall of Jericho, we looked at that in great detail, but in summary of that particular story, uh Yahweh commanded Joshua, the men of war, and seven priests to march around Jericho once every day for six days and then seven times on the seventh day. Days 1-6 are simply marching by a select few. The battle only took place on the seventh day. No command in Torah about allowed travel distances. But all the same, if we assume a Sabbath day’s journey as it was, a single march still would have been less than the traditional Sabbath days journey distance that is traditionally accepted. Joshua 6 does not mention a specific date for the start or the end of the Jericho siege. And a plain reading of Joshua 5 places the timeline of the Jericho event right after the Passover, not the first of the month. The book of Jasher, as we saw, is at least from my opinion, and you make your own decision, but at least for my opinion, the book of Jasher is inaccurate and unreliable both doctrinally and historically. When it comes to the story of David and the showbread, David fled from Saul on the third day of the month. 1st Samuel 21 tells us that the day was the day the priests were changing the showbread. Leviticus 24 commands that the day the showbread is to be changed is on the weekly Shabbat. This timeline with David fleeing and the showbread is contradictory to the lunar Sabbath model and comes directly from scripture. And then in the section on controversy in the Brit Chadasha, the contentions that arise in the Brit Chadasha or aka New Testament regarding Shabbat are about what could be done on Shabbat, how Shabbat was to be observed, and who possessed authority over the Shabbat. Never are any of the Sabbath debates in the Brit Chadasha or aka New Testament, never were any of these debates over which day of the week or which day of the month that the Sabbath was on. Yeshua, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, etc. all kept the same weekly Sabbath on the same day. Regarding when Shabbat is to be observed, the Brit Chadasha offers zero controversy. And that silence again speaks volumes. And that’s just the God honest truth.
Final Thoughts
So, some final thoughts, wrap this up again with just my own uh meanderings as it were as we wind down. Again, I want to reiterate that this is not a salvation issue. I do hope that you learned something, got something out of this, but don’t feel like it’s you’re any more or less saved. And depending regardless of which side you’re on here, don’t think of other people as more or less saved because this is not a salvation issue. If this has changed your mind, great. If it’s not changed your mind, great. We’re still brothers and sisters in Messiah. You’re you and I are still saved all the same. No more, no less. This is not a salvation issue. And again, like I said last time, this is probably one of the hardest and most difficult um teachings that I’ve put together. I I really enjoyed the research. I really enjoy, you know, learning all this new stuff and learning, you know, tangential stuff and all this other stuff. And education is like just like my drug. I just want to shoot it up, right? And especially biblical education. So, I really enjoyed that part. But what I didn’t enjoy was, you know, you you you want to get both sides of the issue. And if you’re on one side, you want to examine and learn from the other side so that you’re not strawmanning them. Do you know what their position is? And that would, you know, show whether you were right or not. And at least you would be able to uh steel man them when you do a teaching on. And when I was examining their stuff, I was reading their books, I was reading their articles, I was watching their videos when they were talking about the lunar sabbath. and they came across as sincere, good-hearted, Christlike people. The vast majority of them, there’s always exceptions, granted, but the vast majority of them were Christlike people, and they put forth their information in a Christlike manner. And that’s what made it hard. They they were good people, and that it’s just it’s just the kind of person I am that doesn’t want to um I guess the best way to put it, I don’t want to hurt their feelings. And it’s um I know a lot of people out there are much tougher than that and I I get that. But um you know there’s some I don’t want them to feel like they are screw-ups like they’ve gotten everything wrong that they you know I didn’t want them to feel bad if this, you know, brought them around to my way of thinking and away from lunar Sabbath teaching. I didn’t want them to feel like that. And that’s probably one of the hardest things, one one of the hardest aspects that to this particular teaching and putting it together and whatnot. So I really do hope that if you are someone who holds to a lunar Sabbath model or the lunar Sabbath doctrine that you this came across to you in a brotherly love kind of way. I I don’t want this to come across as an attack. I don’t want this to come across as diminishing you as who you are in Messiah or anything like that. Um hopefully this came across in a cross-like manner in brotherly love. And if it didn’t, by all means, please let me know. That’s not the way I wanted to come forth. So yeah, just that’s my final thoughts on it. Just like kind of what I said last time.
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