Hi guevaraj my man, I thought, based on our conversation here, that the key idea in your thinking was that the Sabbath started at sunset in Jerusalem. Regardless of where one lived in the world, that was the fixed time.
Are different Sabbaths true? Of course we can use the international date line for business purposes. And God may have had a hand in setting it up where it is. But my impression was that the IDL was irrelevant when calculating the Sabbath using your method. If I remember right, we basically started with sunset in Jerusalem and then found the location of Eden. It was the place where the sun rises at the same time that the sun sets in Jerusalem throughout the year.
Brother, Hebrews 3 and 4 builds up my faith in His word. It shows me that God is real and separate from the errors of the humans who were close to Him. The errors of Judaism strengthen my faith in His word, delivered faithfully despite the misunderstanding by the humans He used to give us His message. The fact that Judaism is clueless about God's definition of a day in Genesis being from morning to morning and that they do not like where the site of the International Date Line (IDL) is found, because they think incorrectly that a Sabbath in Jerusalem is a day of the week this late in our history, shows that God has been with us since the beginning. It shows that God's word does not originate in humans, the fact that He is able to correct this late in our history through His word from the beginning.
It was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying—“he disappeared, because God took him.” For before he was taken up, he was known as a person who pleased God. And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must believe that God exists and that he rewards those who sincerely seek him. (Hebrews 11:5-6 NLT)
The book of Genesis is where my understanding of Hebrews 3 and 4 began. "Evening" and "morning" do not mean "night" and "day"! God defined "day" and "night" in the prior sentence and chose not to use those defined words when He used other words at the end of the first day, because He is saying something different than what Joshua assumed based on the Sabbath that God gave in the Promised Land that falls earlier and is not the seventh day of the week in the Promised Land.
Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day. (Genesis 1:3-5 NLT)
God chose not to say "night" and "day" when He said "evening" and "morning", which He uses differently from "night" and "day" in the following passage. God is not saying below what people have assumed above with the word "evening", because He chose to say something else above using other words than "night" and "day". God does not use "evening" below, the way people use it above. He is not saying from the "night" of the ninth day of the month to the "night" of the tenth as He defined those words above to mean what He chose not to say using different words that He uses below differently from how people use them above. The way God uses "evening" below helps us understand what He means above. He means above that a "night" ends the first day from "evening to morning", because the days of the week begin with "morning to evening", which God called "day". The same word above as "evening" is translated below as "sundown".
This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves. This day of rest will begin at sundown on the ninth day of the month and extend until sundown on the tenth day.” (Leviticus 23:32 NLT)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
