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5) The Bible doesn't repeatedly mention something without it having significance. Why then, have
the New Moons and their Sabbath association gone relatively unnoticed?

6) The Bible is fairly short on actual dates so when it does give them -- as in Exodus 16 -- we
ought to take some notice. Here the Sabbath rest is re-instituted as occurring on the 15th of the
month after centuries of captivity in Egypt. We have already learned that periods of Jewish exile
introduce foreign practices contrary to God's Law and it takes supernatural intervention to sort it
out again.

7) Historical sources reveal the true origin of our planetary week. We KNOW from that, if not
from the names of the days alone, that whatever its alignment with creation week, it is NOT an in-
vention of God's. That by itself ought to trigger a closer look at its history.

With postponements exposed for the fraud that they are, what does this mean for the Jewish
calendar as it now stands? 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004 and 2005 all include postponements! In 1999
Abib 1st was postponed from March 17th to March 18th so any annual Sabbath calendar based on
this year's Jewish calendar will be off by one day as will the weekly Sabbaths. Clearly we can no
longer go by the Jewish calendar without subtracting all postponements. We ought also to see that
this postponement idea didn't come out of nowhere. Circumstances changed that brought Yom
Kippur into a conflict with the weekly Sabbath that could not have existed before. There is no ef-
fect without cause and no other explanation satisfies the cause of the postponements. The Pharisai-
cal Sabbath regulations go back long before 359 AD and yet no postponements were needed
before then. Therefore they cannot be sufficient cause to justify changing the times of the annual
Sabbaths. The smoking gun is the dramatic Roman calendar change of 321 AD and the genera-
tional gap between it and the introduction of the postponements.

In the Next Issue...

Was Jesus Christ Really in the Grave for Three Days and

Three Nights?

Most of Christianity believes Christ was crucified on a Friday and resurrected on a Sunday --
while a select few believe that Christ was put to death on a Wednesday and rose from the dead
on a Saturday. Who is right? Or, are both groups wrong? A correct understanding of the original
Greek and the lunar-based calendar as employed by the Jews and Christians of the 1st century,
reveals that the days of the week, as we know them today, were not in use and that Jesus died
on a Wednesday and rose from the dead on a Friday as we reckon the days in the pagan Gregor-
ian calendar of today.

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