Is Lunar Time Keeping or Saturday for Sabbath found in Scripture?
Lunar time keeping for Sabbath in scripture Nowhere in scripture is Saturday or Sunday mentioned as the Sabbath day. It is the tradition of men and scripture does not support this tradition. The Sabbath was instituted at creation so what better than creation to keep track of it. Elohim states the lights in the heavens are for signs and appointed times, also translated as seasons, from the Hebrew word Moedim. Gen 1:14 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 and appointed times (Moedim), and for days and years, Seasons is an unfortunate translation as people usually assume it means spring, summer, fall and winter. Appointed times is the more appropriate translation since the yearly holy days as well as Sabbath are called Moedim in the original Hebrew and they are times appointed by YHWH to be set apart (holy). Sabbath is one of these Moedim Lev 23:2 �Speak to the children of Yisra�?l, and say to them, �The appointed times (Moedim) of YAHUAH, which you are to proclaim as set-apart gatherings, My appointed times(Moedim), are these: Lev 23:3 �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 YAHUAH in all your dwellings. Scripture also states clearly the moon was made for these appointed times, (Moedim). Psa 104:19 He made the moon for appointed times; The sun knows its going down. Saturday and Sunday were not invented until the fourth century AD. Saturday originally was designated as the first day of the week, not the seventh. The ancient Semites kept track of time not in unending cycles of seven found nowhere in nature, but by the cycle of the moon as commanded by scripture Genesis 1:14 says the lights in the heavens are for signs. Sabbath is also called a sign Exo 31:13 �And you, speak to the children of Yisra�?l, saying, �My Sabbaths you are to guard, by all means, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, YAHUAH, am setting you apart. Scripture speaks of the time when Sabbath will be forgotten. Lam 2:6 He has demolished His booth like a garden, He has destroyed His place of meeting. ???? has made the appointed times and Sabbaths To be forgotten in Tsiyon, And despises sovereign and priest In His raging displeasure. And of one who would try to change the appointed times and the law; Dan 7:25 and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times and law, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.
