I Personally believe as the 7th Day of Creation week was keeping in same fashion as the first 6 days of Creation week, that YAH' rested a COMPLETE CYCLE...not sunrise and daylight hours only, and as such, as Genesis 2 cites the Sabbath of Creation week to be "SANCTIFED"...set apart... we are to observe it as a day of rest, A WHOLE "DAY" cycle of Rest.
If you believe me to Inspired of YAH', you have a duty to observe such positions as you wrestle in your own spirit as to what is right and wrong, and ultimately choose what is correct, not based on your relation to me, but your relation to YAH!
I seen a chart today, which further propagates this strife, the rising argument amongst "Sabbath" keepers, particularly in varied "SDA" groups.
This chart is interesting, but it is not scriptural. The "DAY" in Genesis chapter 1 is defined by 4 terms.
3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
So the first "DAY" as in COMPLETE DAY recorded in scripture in the Creation week of Yah', is defined by 4 terms...
LIGHT=DAY (daypart)
DARK=NIGHT
Evening
Morning
this chart here, and all the arguments based upon it...fail to recognize...the these units of measure to define what constitutes and actual complete "DAY" cycle, have no relation whatsoever to the SUN, or the MOON, or the STARS!
The sun, moon and stars were not created until DAY 4 of CREATION WEEK! The light that was called forth on DAY 1 was not the SUN...rather the "LIGHT OF YAH'"
Evening and morning are conjoined timeframes
The Transistion from Darkness to light or vice verce can be sudden, but in the DAY CYCLE, they are in gradient from one state to the next.
Whether one argues Evening (fading light into darkness) giving way "MORNING" iin the first hour of darkness, or argues Morning as being Darkness fading to the return of light...these things have NOTHING to do with the SUN, MOON AND STARS! They were set in place prior to the existance of the Sun, Moon in Stars, and they will be in place AFTER the sun, moon and stars have ceased their role in time keeping with the earth!
When the days are shortened by 1/3, and the nights shortened by 1/3, so the moon and sun no longer give light for a 1/3 portion of each cycle...they days will be shortened, "SO THAT SOME FLESH MAY BE SAVED"...but they still be never the less, 'DAYS".
After the SUN, MOON, and STARS...no longer give thier light, in Revelation 21, and 22, Christ will be the Light of the World, and the Tree of Life signifies time will continue, as it's timely harvest will indicate "MONTHS" with each mature harvest.
The sun, moon, and stars were created to be a "UNIVERSAL TIMECLOCK" for benefit of Mankind,
In Revelation, we see in John's vision and ANGEL proclaim as he lifts his hands to heaven, that "TIME SHALL BE NO LONGER!"
Is that angel proclaiming that everything comes to a halt, that there is no more movement, no more breath, no more life? No.
What he is proclaiming is that the UNIVERSAL TIME CLOCK, the Sun, MOON, and STARS, that TIMEPIECE, is as far as man is concerned, BROKEN! Mankind will no longer be able to use those devices to tell the time, or times.
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 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 years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
In Genesis 1:14 ALL THESE LIGHTS, not some, not a few all these lights, sun, moon and stars all inclusive were for the further DIVISION of DAY FROM NIGHT...but these things do not define DAY AND NIGHT...LIGHT and DARKNESS both existed prior to these things!
Light and Darkness will exist AFTER THESE THINGS! Thus so did, and will EVENING and MORNING!
One does not see the same stars at 4 am, in the canopy of heaven, as one does at 10 pm.
What was being divided in Genesis 1:14 was not the event of "DAY" and "NIGHT"...those things were already divided, by their very nature..."LIGHT" and "DARKNESS"...the division of Genesis 1:14 is DIVIDING NIGHT in itself, and "DAY" in itself, and both from both, the division, is that of "HOURS."
And while they do divide the DAY from the night, they also DIVIDE the day from the day, and the night from the night, and in dividing both, DEFINE NEITHER! This is the means of "HOURLY" division of the whole day Cycle.
Day, Night, Evening...MORNING...these are SEASONAL CYCLES in each daily complete "DAY" Cycle.
This expands into weeks, and months.
IN Genesis 14 it is stated:
"and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"
NOTE it does not state the SUN, MOON and stars are "for seasons and FOR DAY"...it says "AND FOR DAYS"...this is the DIVISION of MULTIPLE DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, which make up SEASONS, and YEARS!"
And while the SUN and Moon and Stars can be used to Divide the Day from the Night, that is all they can do, they cannot divide EVENING from MORNING, if one sees morning as the first hour after sunset. NOR can they be used to Divide Evening from Morning if one sees Morning as the First hour of SUNRISE?
At what point in the fading gradients of sunilght into Darkness, does evening fail to be evening, and begin to be night?
As the last vestagies of Sunlight still exist in fading gradients and degrees on the Western Horizon after the sun is no longer visible...and Light of day is still visible to the observers position over the front face of their body, and stars and darkness cloak the eastern horizon...in the fading gradients of day giving way to night and night taking rule over day...as thier is still the suns fading light upon the front of ones shoulders, and in even the last blue hues of day above, Stars appearing directly behind, and above ones shoulders...what is DAY? What is NIGHT? What is Evening? or Morning? WHO SAVE YAH' HImself can TELL?
The SUN, the Moon, The Stars, these are tools for Dividing the DAYPART from THE NIGHT PART, and dividing those parts themselves, but they do not DEFINE the "DAY"...for "THE DAY" was instituted before the Sun, Moon and Stars.
In all this arguing, all this "I AM RIGHT...THEY ARE WRONG"...all this HATE...'THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE CHOSEN OF YAH'...because they don't understand when Sabbath is...this day, that day, this hour, that hour...."
Those latter day Remnant, such as the 144,000 in Revelation 14, at a time when THE SUN, MOON and STARS will no longer be reliable for determining "THE DAY CYCLE", and there will be days consisting of approximately 16 hours to each cycle, rather than 24 hours as they are shortened by 1/3 of the sun's light, and 1/3 of the moon's light...NO ONE WILL BE ABLE to of any human volition, determine "DAY" from "NIGHT", nor "MORNING" from "EVENING", nor "THIS CALENDAR DATES" nor "THAT CALENDAR DATE"...nor Seasons...HOw then will one know "SABBATH" at that time?
How then will one know "Yom Teruah" or "Yom Kippur" or "Passover"?
By the SPIRIT OF YAH'...his RUACH ha' Chodesh!
ANd in truth, this is how we should knoe these things now!
LET NO MAN JUDGE YOU IN THESE THINGS! NOT THE WICKED...NOT THE RIGHTEOUS...Not the stranger, nor your brother...BUT YAH' ONLY!
We will all be held accountable for the level of light we have recieved. Some have more than others, some less, but all will be held accountable to the standard of how the conducted themselves with that Light they did have, the TRUTH they were confident in...SERVE YAH', and not man...and do not let these matters trouble you...for if you are led by his SPIRIT now, as to how and when to observe his Sabbath, his feasts...and you hold fast to such, you will likewise be led to know such, in the day of Jacob's Trouble, when such is outside of his Spirit, no longer knowable!
FOR the day soon approaches, when MANKIND as a species, will be "MOURNING FOR THE MORNING", and time, by means of SUN, Moon, and Stars, will no longer be discernible.
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