The Serious Hurdles.
[1] Feast of Weeks Pentecost Shavuot:
The Feast of Weeks:
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Leviticus 23:15
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:16
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:17
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:18
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. Leviticus 23:19
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Leviticus 3:20
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. Leviticus 23:21
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 23:22
These texts reveal that the Lunarian calendar can never be proclaimed Scriptural, nor functional while this feast is listed as it is in the Bible. Here's why:
The Scriptural calendar [simplified, averaging 30 days; see further textual evidence below for why the calendar looks like this, under point The 3 Days & 3 Nights of Jesus:]:
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 1 Aviv/Nisan
[xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [01 S]
[02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08 S]
[09] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15 S]
[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22 S]
[23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29 S]
[30]
Schedule: [08] - Bethany, Lazarus House, 6 days Prior; [09] - Triumphal Entry; [10] - Cast Out Moneychangers, Second Temple Cleansing; [11] - Battle With The Religious Leaders; [13] - Last Supper; [14] - Trials, Passover, Crucified, Died; [15] - 7th Day Sabbath, and feast sabbath combine, First day of Unleavened Bread, Tomb; [16] - Second Day of Unleavened Bread, Wavesheaf/Firstfruits Offering, Being counting 50 Days with this being Day 1, and enumerating exactly 7 Sabbaths, being 49 Days, then go one more Day to the 50th Day, being Pentecost, Resurrected, Appearances, Road to Emmaus; [17] - Appears At The Room In Jerusalem At Night; [21] Last Feast Day Of Unleavened Bread, feast sabbath; [22] - First Pentecost Sabbath; [29] Second Pentecost Sabbath.
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 2 - Zif
[xx] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06 S]
[07] [08] [09] [10] [11] [12] [13 S]
[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20 S]
[21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27 S]
[28] [29] [30]
Schedule: [06] - Third Pentecost Sabbath; [13] - Fourth Pentecost Sabbath; [20] Fifth Pentecost Sabbath; [27] - Sixth Pentecost Sabbath;
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 3 Sivan
[xx] [xx] [xx] [01] [02] [03] [04 S]
[05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10] [11 S]
[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18 S]
[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25 S]
[26] [27] [28] [29] [30]
Schedule: [04] - Seventh Pentecost Sabbath, end of 49 Days from and including the 16th Day of the Month Nisan; [05] - Pentecost.
As Scripture teaches, in the Scriptural calendar, there is exactly 50 days for Pentecost, with 7 Sabbaths of their days [being 7 days per Scriptural week], being 49 consecutive days, with the 50th day being the very next day [thus consecutive with the 49 others] after the last, of the 7th Pentecost Sabbath.
The Lunarian calendar can never do that because of the 1st Day of their month, being set apart from the other 7 days in their first week and the 30th day adds additional time to their clock which is truly unaccountable, unless there is manipulation of their 'days', or of the Scripture itself, which is what some of the Lunarians do.
Some Lunarians actually do not begin counting the 50 days, until after the 7th Sabbath is over, and here is the text that is [mis]used:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:16
Then they will highlight these words from the text, ... the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days ..., and say 'See, this proves the count beings the morrow after the seventh sabbath.' Yet, does it?
That is simply a great misunderstanding, or misdirection [but giving the benefit of the doubt for misunderstanding, or even oversight], please read the text again, and please notice the 'timing' in the first two words, being Even unto [Hebrew: עַד; Transliterated: ‛ad, meaning "[1] as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as ... [Strong's Concordance]] - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H5704&t=KJV ].
The words mean Up unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, shall ye number 50 days., with the words unto delimiting the terminator, or end of the count, ending at the 50th day, thus ending at the morrow after the seventh sabbath, and not beginning from the 50th Day or morrow after the seventh sabbath. This is verified in the previous verse, by its beginning the 50 days count from [Hebrew: מִ; Transliterated: mi, meaning From, out from, out of, etc - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4480&t=KJV ] the very Wavesheaf Day, ...ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete .... For what would be the purpose of counting 7 sabbaths, which in itself is 49 days [7 x 7] and then from the morrow after the seventh sabbath begin counting 50 days? That would then total altogether, 99 days.
Pentecost [Greek: πεντηκοστή; Transliterated: pentēkostē] itself literally means the 50th day - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G4005&t=KJV . Why would the Lunarian count 7 sabbaths [7x7] from the Wavesheaf Day, then begin counting from the very next day, which would be the 50th day, and then say to begin the count of 50 days from that day, being the Scriptural Pentecost day?
The Lunarian which says to count 50 days after the seventh sabbath [thus ending sometime in their 4th 'month'], has, indeed, left those words Even unto out of their theology, though they ever remain in the text itself, even a witness against such. This is one reason why not all Lunarians use this reckoning [for the others end their counting of the 50 days sometime in their third month], and yet again, since not all do, we see yet another disunity, and disharmony among Lunarians. Wasn't the whole reason for the Lunarians 'sabbaths' to bring unity? It is obviously not doing so.
Shall they not rather seek the True Seventh Day Sabbath of the LORD thy God, which the Seventh-day Adventists as a movement keep, and be in atonement with God and His remnant people?
[1] Feast of Weeks Pentecost Shavuot:
The Feast of Weeks:
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Leviticus 23:15
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:16
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:17
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:18
Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. Leviticus 23:19
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. Leviticus 3:20
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. Leviticus 23:21
And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. Leviticus 23:22
These texts reveal that the Lunarian calendar can never be proclaimed Scriptural, nor functional while this feast is listed as it is in the Bible. Here's why:
The Scriptural calendar [simplified, averaging 30 days; see further textual evidence below for why the calendar looks like this, under point The 3 Days & 3 Nights of Jesus:]:
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 1 Aviv/Nisan
[xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [xx] [01 S]
[02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07] [08 S]
[09] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15 S]
[16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22 S]
[23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29 S]
[30]
Schedule: [08] - Bethany, Lazarus House, 6 days Prior; [09] - Triumphal Entry; [10] - Cast Out Moneychangers, Second Temple Cleansing; [11] - Battle With The Religious Leaders; [13] - Last Supper; [14] - Trials, Passover, Crucified, Died; [15] - 7th Day Sabbath, and feast sabbath combine, First day of Unleavened Bread, Tomb; [16] - Second Day of Unleavened Bread, Wavesheaf/Firstfruits Offering, Being counting 50 Days with this being Day 1, and enumerating exactly 7 Sabbaths, being 49 Days, then go one more Day to the 50th Day, being Pentecost, Resurrected, Appearances, Road to Emmaus; [17] - Appears At The Room In Jerusalem At Night; [21] Last Feast Day Of Unleavened Bread, feast sabbath; [22] - First Pentecost Sabbath; [29] Second Pentecost Sabbath.
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 2 - Zif
[xx] [01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06 S]
[07] [08] [09] [10] [11] [12] [13 S]
[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20 S]
[21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27 S]
[28] [29] [30]
Schedule: [06] - Third Pentecost Sabbath; [13] - Fourth Pentecost Sabbath; [20] Fifth Pentecost Sabbath; [27] - Sixth Pentecost Sabbath;
[01] [02] [03] [04] [05] [06] [07 S] God's Pattern Cycle; Genesis 1-2; etc.
************************** Month 3 Sivan
[xx] [xx] [xx] [01] [02] [03] [04 S]
[05] [06] [07] [08] [09] [10] [11 S]
[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18 S]
[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25 S]
[26] [27] [28] [29] [30]
Schedule: [04] - Seventh Pentecost Sabbath, end of 49 Days from and including the 16th Day of the Month Nisan; [05] - Pentecost.
As Scripture teaches, in the Scriptural calendar, there is exactly 50 days for Pentecost, with 7 Sabbaths of their days [being 7 days per Scriptural week], being 49 consecutive days, with the 50th day being the very next day [thus consecutive with the 49 others] after the last, of the 7th Pentecost Sabbath.
The Lunarian calendar can never do that because of the 1st Day of their month, being set apart from the other 7 days in their first week and the 30th day adds additional time to their clock which is truly unaccountable, unless there is manipulation of their 'days', or of the Scripture itself, which is what some of the Lunarians do.
Some Lunarians actually do not begin counting the 50 days, until after the 7th Sabbath is over, and here is the text that is [mis]used:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Leviticus 23:16
Then they will highlight these words from the text, ... the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days ..., and say 'See, this proves the count beings the morrow after the seventh sabbath.' Yet, does it?
That is simply a great misunderstanding, or misdirection [but giving the benefit of the doubt for misunderstanding, or even oversight], please read the text again, and please notice the 'timing' in the first two words, being Even unto [Hebrew: עַד; Transliterated: ‛ad, meaning "[1] as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as ... [Strong's Concordance]] - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H5704&t=KJV ].
The words mean Up unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath, shall ye number 50 days., with the words unto delimiting the terminator, or end of the count, ending at the 50th day, thus ending at the morrow after the seventh sabbath, and not beginning from the 50th Day or morrow after the seventh sabbath. This is verified in the previous verse, by its beginning the 50 days count from [Hebrew: מִ; Transliterated: mi, meaning From, out from, out of, etc - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H4480&t=KJV ] the very Wavesheaf Day, ...ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete .... For what would be the purpose of counting 7 sabbaths, which in itself is 49 days [7 x 7] and then from the morrow after the seventh sabbath begin counting 50 days? That would then total altogether, 99 days.
Pentecost [Greek: πεντηκοστή; Transliterated: pentēkostē] itself literally means the 50th day - https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G4005&t=KJV . Why would the Lunarian count 7 sabbaths [7x7] from the Wavesheaf Day, then begin counting from the very next day, which would be the 50th day, and then say to begin the count of 50 days from that day, being the Scriptural Pentecost day?
The Lunarian which says to count 50 days after the seventh sabbath [thus ending sometime in their 4th 'month'], has, indeed, left those words Even unto out of their theology, though they ever remain in the text itself, even a witness against such. This is one reason why not all Lunarians use this reckoning [for the others end their counting of the 50 days sometime in their third month], and yet again, since not all do, we see yet another disunity, and disharmony among Lunarians. Wasn't the whole reason for the Lunarians 'sabbaths' to bring unity? It is obviously not doing so.
Shall they not rather seek the True Seventh Day Sabbath of the LORD thy God, which the Seventh-day Adventists as a movement keep, and be in atonement with God and His remnant people?
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