NCCG.ORG, FAQ 390. Does Messiah's Death Disprove the Creation Calendar?

Q. A. In recent years, there has been been a new teaching about how weeks are determined. Some believe that the seven day cycle called a week is reset every month. There is a claim that the Bible supports this and that every sabbath mentioned in scripture falls on the eighth, fifteenth, twenty second, and twenty ninth of each lunation or lunar month. In addition, the first day or new moon of each month is not a part of any week.

Scriptures easily disproves the idea of the �Lunar Sabbath.� Scriptures related to the death burial and resurrection will show that the weekly Sabbath does not always fall on the eighth, fifteenth, twenty second, and twenty ninth of each lunation or lunar month.

In fact it is easy to prove that Messiah died on the fourteenth day of the first biblical month and was resurrected near sunset of the seventeenth day of the first month, and that that seventeenth day was a weekly Sabbath.

The Messiah Himself stated that he would be in the grave for three days and three nights. It specifically mentions both days and nights to make it very clear the exact amount of time between burial and resurrection. Matthew 12:40 states, �For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.�.

It is proven by scripture that the Savior died in the middle of the week by reading Daniel 9:27.

Daniel 9:27 states, �And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.�

It is also proven by scripture that the upcoming Sabbath following the day on which the Savior died was not a weekly Sabbath but rather a high Sabbath. Leviticus 23 and many other scripture prove it.

John 19:31 states �The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.�

Mark 16:1-2 states, �And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun.�

The rest of the chapter continues to explain how the Savior was already risen. John Chapter 20 provides a very descriptive illustration of the account for the resurrection. Our Savior had already arisen before the people came to the tomb. He arose at the end the weekly sabbath exactly as described in scripture."

A. To begin with, the idea of a Luni-Solar or Creation calendar is not a "new" teaching but a very ancient one indeed, as the learned rabbis of Judaism attest in their writings which you will find detailed on our extensive website on the Creation Calendar. Please also see the prequel to this response and the material on the length of Yah'shua's (Jesus') stay in the tomb prior to His resurrection:

In my experience most people who come to us with their objections, as you have, have not actually bothered to work their way through our extensive materials because they are out to defend a tradition that runs back all the way to the Babylonian exile where the captives - and in particular the rabbis - came under significant influence of the pagan religion there. Indeed, as our writings show, the idea of a sunset-to-sunset Saturday sabbath (for example). But even if the 'Passover question' raised doubts it would not explain the mountain of other scriptural and historical evidence that stands firmly opposed the calendar of modern Judaism and its Messianic imitators. As the enquirer has limited himself to the Passover matter, we shall do the same, leaving the rest of our material in overwhelming confirmation.

The Daniel 9:27 Question

Let's begin with the first objection: "It is proven by scripture that the Savior died in the middle of the week by reading Daniel 9:27." in response to which I would like to make two observations:

1. If Daniel 9:27 is about "the Savior" (in this case, the first century man from Galilee spoken of in the Messianic Scriptures/New Testament), then the rest of this passage in context must also be about this "Savior".
First of all, 'Savior' is never mentioned in this passage. Messiah is mentioned several times, but there were many different messiah's in Scripture - see my article, The Elect of Yahweh: Messiahs and Set-Apart Women
'Messiah' (mashiach) means 'anointed' in Hebrew. All the cohenim (priests) were anointed ('messiahed'), King Saul, David, even the pagan Mede King Cyrus was called Yahweh's 'messiah' (anointed) in Isaiah 45:1:
2. There are two 'messiahs' in this passage in Daniel 9. If you have a Green's Interlinear, you will notice two different Hebrew spellings (vowel pointings). If there are two spellings, then there are two different messiah's in this passage, not one. Please note that the underlined portions must also refer to the "Savior" in the argument above because if verse 27 is prophetic, so is the rest...

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If this person will do this, then the rest of his argument immediately becomes suspect. Daniel 9:27 cannot, therefore, be advanced as a prooftext dismantling the case for the Creation/Luni-Solar Calendar which otherwise convincingly refutes all other models. See especially the prequel to this response.

All the other links/materials cited in bold extensively answer the remainder of the objections made.

Continued in Part 3

Acknowledgements

[1] Exegetical material supplied by Troy Miller, and acknowledged with thanks

Comments from Readers

[1] "The impairment disproves the planetary week" (DK, USA, 3 January 2020)

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