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Dehiah a mainly fulfills the following three religious requirements: Yom Kippur (Tishri
10) shall not occur on the day before or after the Sabbath and Hoshana Rabbah (Tishri 21)
shall not occur on the Sabbath.

As Mr. Dankenbring has pointed out, there is no human authority to change the appointed
times of God. This is holy time that He has set aside and only He can sanctify it. Adding or sub-
tracting from His Word is a serious offence and we ought to carefully consider any man-made
regulations no matter the source. Postponements are a scheme designed for one overriding pur-
pose: to try to make the Sabbaths less of a burden. Is the Sabbath a burden? The Word Of God
says it is not!

Mark 2:27-28: And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

Matthew 11:28-30: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and
ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matthew 23:1-4: Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying, The
scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you ob-
serve, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For
they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders;
but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

It was the Pharisees who made the Sabbath a burden in the first place. It is not surprising
then that they should devise still more regulations to try to make their other additions to the Sab-
bath workable. This is clearly man's work, not God's. Man continually tries to improve upon and
perfect God's already perfect designs. We have ample evidence of this throughout human history.
Indeed, no time has been more defined by these "improvements" as our very own today. But as
students of God's ways know, almost every so-called advance man makes is made at our own
peril. The Sabbath has not been overlooked in this self-righteous desire to improve upon God's
plan and to assume its interpretation and administration unto ourselves. The Sabbath, as a corner-
stone of God's plan for mankind and a test commandment for His people, has been attacked and
distorted in the most diabolical ways. What could be more critical for Satan to shroud in decep-
tion than the day in which God established His very presence!

We have one obvious perversion of the calendar in the reassignment of the date of the new
year itself. The Jewish calendar holds Rosh Hashannah, Tishri 1, as the beginning of months.
God's Word establishes the new year in the spring, in the month the Jews now call by its Babylo-
nian name Nissan but was originally known as Abib:

Exodus 12:2: This month (Abib) shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the
first month of the year to you.

I don't know of any clearer evidence that this calendar oracle, while faithfully preserved in
Biblical text, has certainly not been preserved in deed. We must differentiate, as Christ Himself

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