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like a righteous judge or die trying. And that 2) The seventh day sabbath observed by the
judgement says that they go to Satan's Syna- Jews in the time of Christ was correct with re-
gogue in Satan's World and honour Satan's gards to its timing.
puppet-god Saturn every pagan Saturday.
3) That the Jews have preserved the oracles
-- Message Board Posting by David Hinkley (including the calendar) of God does not nec-
essarily mean that they have continued to ob-
After 7 weeks, (admittedly though planetary serve them correctly. We know that they do
ones not lunar), of studying and praying for un- have error particularly in their Sabbath obser-
derstanding I finally came to a point last week- vance so we need to be careful about assuming
end where I was able to resolve the lunar vs that they have kept its proper place in the cal-
planetary week Sabbath issue for myself. I endar. And, without a careful historical re-
have to say it's been a heavy weight on me, a view, it does come down to an assumption.
cornerstone like this one has a lot of inertia.
4) The only calendar given by God is based on
The whole lunar argument seemed logical the sun and the moon. We long ago recognized
when I first read it but so did some of the ini- that we could not determine the annual Holy
tial 'changes' in WCG. I like to keep an open Days from our modern pagan calendar. Why
mind but am always wary of something that have we assumed that God's other weekly ap-
'seems' right especially when it starts chipping pointment is fine where it is, completely disso-
away at the foundations. Having initially toyed ciated from the only calendar He gave and
with, then tested and found WCG's changes to nailed firmly onto the self-perpetuating Roman
be false, the lesson of proving all things was week?
brought home soundly. So it's taken a little
while for me to process everything. 5) The Bible doesn't repeatedly mention some-
thing without it having significance. Why then,
What have I found? Well, I'm obviously not the have the New Moons and their Sabbath asso-
only one feeling some inertia. Although not as ciation gone relatively unnoticed? I remember
much as some judging by some of the posts [on talking to a WCG minister one time about the
the Message Board] here over the last 7 annual Holy Days and he could tell me when
weeks. I read the arguments against the lunar they were but not how the lunar calendar
Sabbath but was disappointed to find that worked. I thought then that it was odd consid-
rather than disproving by Biblical authority ering that it was God's calendar after all and
they mostly reflected a hard line position that shouldn't we be looking to it first?
is its own authority. If we are to make an ob-
jective study of the matter then the central 6) The Bible is fairly short on actual dates so
points, as I see them, are as follows: when it does give them as in Exodus 16 we
ought to take some notice.
1) The Bible clearly defines the seventh day as
the sabbath but does not map that day to our 7) 1 Sam 20 gives a clear account of a double
current week. Hence, Saturday cannot be new moon. KJV has it as "second of the month"
proved or disproved by a seventh day argu- but my Strong's definitions for 4283, 2320 &
ment alone. 8145 literally give "the morrow of the new
moon double". Sounds to me like this new
moon was a double one.

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