Brothers, happy Sabbath! The word "evening" is not the same as the word "night" nor is the word "morning" the same as the word "day" that God named as the two parts of the first day. To be clear, God did not say at the end of the first day: and it was night and it was day, the first day as forced is God to have said to defend a Jewish tradition. God used other words that do not mean the same: and there was evening and there was morning, the first day, because He has nothing to report during the night and limited His creating to the first 12-hours of light each day of creation week.
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law. (Deuteronomy 29:29 NIV)
United in our hope for the soon return of Jesus, Jorge
Dear guevaraj,
If you believe I am your brother, please let me speak to you as one plainly and in all love and respect. I think you may be on
your own with this belief which is not a teaching held by anyone I know from the SDA church and is
not biblical according to the scriputres. Happy to share why according to the scriptures...
In the Hebrew the word for "
day" for example "
the evening and the morning where the first day" - Genesis 1:5 has many different meanings and application in the scriptures.
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Let's first look at the Hebrew Word for
day first as it has multiple meanings and applications..
Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries w/TVM, Strong
Hebrew word for
day - H3117 יום; yôm. From an unused root meaning to be hot ;
a day (as the warm hours), whether
literally from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next, or figuratively (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverbially): - age, + always, + chronicles, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-], each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever (-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (.. . live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year (-ly), + younger.
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I was going to post the AV occurrences and different applicaitions of the Hebrew word
day - H3117 יום; yôm but found there was too many to post (e.g. there is 2212 Instances, 635 Word applications based on the various definitions above from the Strongs.)
You can see in the Genesis 1 applications alone the Hebrew word
day - H3117 יום; yôm is to both the time period making up a "
full day" which is the context defined and stated in the scriptures as both evening (night or darkness e.g the context in Genesis 1:5 states the darkness God called night and the light day) and the morning (light or daylight)
or "
day light hours alone or the heat of the day." It is the context and the within scripture definitions that determine the application of the Hebrew word meanings. This is the rule for both Hebrew and Greek language applications that define word definitions.
I believe your mistake here is not applying contextual application to the Hebrew that the scripture pre-define what is meant by a full day as sunset (darkness he called night) to sunset (daylight he called day) - "
and the evening (darkness - night) and the morning (day light) was the first day" which is Gods Word (not mine) showing a full day in God's time as being "
sunset to sunset"
What your actually promoting here is
anti-sabbath material which is
not biblical and that all of Isreal including Jesus and the Apostles got the Sabbath time wrong. May I ask that you may prayerfully consider what is being shared with you from one brother to another and receive God's blessing.
May you receive correction dear friend and be blessed.