Weekly Sabbath Days are Determined by the Moon Food for Thought guys and gals! We KNOW that God did not want the Sabbath observed on "Sun Day" The Gregorian Calendar did not even exist in those days! So HOW could we know when the Sabbath was??? I'm no biblical scholar.... But I believe that he gave us the answer! I'm just a guy searching for TRUTH! It is found right where one would expect to find it – in the record of the fourth day of Creation. “And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years” (Gen. 1:14.) The word here translated “seasons” is mo’ed (#4150.)1 It means: Congregation, festive gathering; appointment, signal. . . . Mo’ed often designates a determined time or place without any regard for the purpose. Since the Jewish festivals occurred at regular intervals, this word becomes closely identified with them . . . Mo’ed is used in a broad sense for all religious assemblies. It was closely associated with the tabernacle itself . . . God met Israel there at specific times for the purpose of revealing His will. It is a common term for the worshiping assembly of God’s people.2 Genesis 1:14 reveals that God created the “lights in the firmament” to be the means by which His people may know when His mo’ed’s occur. This is supported by Psalm 104:19: “He appointed the moon for seasons.” Again, the word here translated “seasons” is mo’ed. All of God’s worship days in the Bible are called mo’eds. Leviticus 23 lists all of them. The very first one listed is the seventh-day Sabbath: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts (mo’ed) of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts (mo’ed). Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the Sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.3 From there, God goes on to list the rest of His mo’eds – Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles. They are all called mo’eds. People who keep the feasts, figure them by the moon, but the very first “feast” listed is the weekly feast (mo’ed) of the seventh-day Sabbath. Anciently, the Jews waited to observe the first crescent of the moon and then the day following that sighting was New Moon day. The Hebrew month was lunar,4 beginning with the evening on which the crescent moon appeared. The 1st day of the month was called the new moon (1 Samuel 20:24-27) . . . At first, visual observation was used to determine the appearance of the crescent. If the crescent was seen on the evening following the 29th day of the month, a new month had begun; if not, another day was added https://www.ministersnewcovenant.org/uploads/9/1/6/1/9161032/ls_book_2013_1.0.pdf Share Emoji