Where have I "ignored" that there are sabbaths that take place on certain days of the 'month' in the year? I specifically showed that delineation at least twice now.
Leviticus 23 is written in sequential order. You cannot take which comes later (vs 4) and apply it backwards into verse 3. Leviticus 23 is rooted in Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15. The "feasts" "in their seasons" are not begun to be listed until vs 5, beginning with "Passover" which was based in the lunar cycle.
Lev 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:3 has nothing to do with "moon", "moons", "month", "months", "new moon", "new moons", "lesser light", "season", "year", "years", etc. It is very specific. "six days" and "the seventh day" "the sabbath of the LORD" (Genesis 2:1-3; Exodus 20:11). It is God's sabbath, His rest.
The days of the week are not associated with the "moon" at all. The "moon" could fall out of the sky (so to speak) and the 7th day would come every seven "days". The "lesser light" (moon) was "made" on Day 4. It does not delineate the timing of the days of the week. The sabbath of the LORD is rooted in God Himself from Day 1. The sabbath commandment encompasses all of the Creation of Genesis 1 & 2, "Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.", not just the "moon". Leviticus 23:3 does not deviate from this in the least.
If you are attempting to associate the 7th day the sabbath of the LORD with 'lunar phases' you are greatly mistaken.
That is because you are in error and in disagreement with the plain English reading of the text. You are merely referring to your belief, rather than to what the scripture plainly says.
You seem to believe in the so-called 'lunar sabbath' ideology in regards "7th day", which is completely contradictory to scripture:
Lev 23:15 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:
Lev 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Lev 23:17 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.
Lev 23:18 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.
Lev 23:19 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.
Lev 23:20 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.
Lev 23:21 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.
Lev 23:22 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.
In a so-called 'lunar-sabbath' (7th day) reckoning, this passage (Leviticus 23:15-22) becomes broken, and has to be "wrested".
The problem is your misunderstanding of the text an that which you expound, not the text itself.
Nothing 'special' about the plain reading of the text.
Leviticus 23:3 is delineated by the text itself, and set apart from that which follows vs 4. It is even again re-iterated in vs 38, "besides the sabbaths of the LORD".
Read:
Lev 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Lev 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
[1] Passover - month 1
[2] Unleavened Bread - month 1
[3] Firstfruits/Wavesheaf - month 1
[4] Pentecost - month 3
[5] Trumpets - month 7
[6] Atonement - month 7
[7] Booths/Tabernacles/Ingathering - month 7
Nothing about the 7th day the sabbath of the LORD, in vs 3. The feasts as liste from vs 5 onward deal with months, moons, the lunar cyucle, but nothing of the sort in vs 3, at all. You are imagining it there.
Not at all as I have demonstrated on numerous occasions now. That you simply 'deny' this, and place your own aprioi onto the field of discussion, is not evidence against what has been shared with you from the plain text itself on several occasions now.
This is only in your present imagination, not in reality as has been posted. Please, read what I have shared, even now. Thank you.
The 7th day is a holy convocation, a time of gathering.
The 7th day is a day of rejoicing and time with God and family.
Who said otherwise?
The point made is that Leviticus 23:3, the 7th day the sabbath of the LORD is not associated with lunar phases, moons, etc at all.
