Hey raven,
Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the SIX working days; BUT on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.
Each new month on His calendar begins with the New Moon. That is day one of every month...
Then, according to what He gave Ezekiel, there would be six work days after that first day of the month. (That brings us to seven days in His month-yet we have not hit His Sabbath)
Then, the ‘seventh day sabbath’ is actually on the 8th day of His month. Sounds confusing but only if we think that time has been followed the gregorian way.... but scripture tells us different...
So Day 1of His month-new moon day
Day 2-7 of His month- the six work days.
Day 8 of His month- weekly Sabbath.
That is what Scripture says..
And that pattern continues- count six more work days (because there is only one new moon day each month) and you come to the 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of each of His months as being weekly Sabbaths..
And we know from science that the moon phase is average of 29.5 days today.
Which fits into His calendar as every month will have at least 29 (some 30) days.
The 15th and 22nd are highlighted in scripture as days of feasts and Sabbaths in the first and seventh mont- they were detailed a few times in Exodus too..
(Israel’s first sabbath occurred in exodus on the 22nd day- that is what the manna was all about-not only feeding them, but teaching them His timekeeping- it doesn’t say the 22nd.. scripture gives us the 15th and then we can count six days of manna and you get to the 22nd as the sabbath...
Israel has a pope appointed sabbath that conflicts with the Sabbath He gave them..
They will even postpone His feasts on years that His Sabbath will bump up with their weekly world appointed Sabbath..
This is the point. our continual seven day week is not scriptural... our Sovereign explained to Ezekiel it breaks every new moon- as those new moons were sort like our thanksgiving meals, but once a month-not once a year..they weren’t full work days as cooking and cleaning were allowed for the banquets to be held... special offerings at the temple were detailed on those days when the temple was around..markets were closed as Amos details (so maybe they were not like our thanksgiving feast)... but bottom line, they were the head of their months... (on the solar only based gregorian, the moon is completely ignored)
The new moon day, according to scripture, is not one of the six working days or the Sabbath...
But you cannot find His Sabbath without it, nor know what is a working day without it...
and Israel ignores the moon (except for the two months they think the feasts are) and uses just the sun-just like all the rest of us do, or did..
The moon is appointed to ‘seasons’- that isnt our winter, spring, summer fall- but His appointed times, times He gave to Israel to worship Him...
Somewhere they abandoned His timekeeping for the world and kind of sorta get into the spirit for a couple months a year(unless it conflicts with their saturday)that is why passover, etc, can all fall on different days of the gregorian week.
Best example of His calendar at work is the battle of Jericho that proves the gregorian and its continual seven day weeks is counterfeit..
The book of jasher, referenced in His Word, details that the marching began on the new moon day...
That means the seventh day and bloddiest day of the battle/march occurred on the sixth ‘work day’ and never conflicted with His Sabbath..
The gregorian cannot explain how after 40 years in the wilderness, our Heavenly Father gave Israel a ‘mulligan’ on their sabbath at Jericho.
He didn’t...
If we understand His timekeeping..
Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the SIX working days; BUT on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.