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Modern Sabbatarians insist that Saturday is the Sabbath of the Bible because they believe that the seven-day week has cycled without interruption ever since Creation. One reason for this belief is the fact that when the Julian calendar changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1582, no days of the week were lost. Thursday, October 4, 1582, on the Julian calendar was followed by Friday, October 15, on the new Gregorian calendar. Therefore, it is assumed, because no days were "lost" when the calendars transitioned from Julian to Gregorian, the modern week is identical to the Biblical week. This assumption is proven false in the historical facts of the Julian calendar itself. The calendar of the Roman Republic, like all ancient calendars, was originally based on lunar cycles. Pagan Roman priests, called pontiffs, controlled the calendar by announcing the beginning of months. These pontiffs, who could also hold political office, shamelessly manipulated the calendar for political r...

Most people are used to hearing the heavenly Father called "God." That is not His name, though! In Bible times, He was never called that. "God" was the word the pagan Teutonic people of Northern Europe used for their demonic objects of worship. When they were Christianized, they simply switched the word from their demon gods to the Creator. Hardly a way to honor the heavenly Father! When a word is transferred from one language to another, it is either translated or transliterated. When it is translated the meaning of the word is transferred. When it is transliterated it is the sound of the word that is transferred. The transliteration of the Father’s personal name, as given in scripture, is actually YHWH, pronounced Yahuwah. The translation of this name is I Am That I Am. It implies that the One who bears the name is self-existent from eternity past to eternity future. When Moses asked how he should answer when the Israelites asked who had sent him to them, the re...

As we await the eclipse of 2017 AD, this post examines the possibility that the dramatic repentance of Nineveh in Jonah 3:1-10 may have been galvanized by a total solar eclipse there that dates to June 15, 763 BCE, during the probable lifetime of Jonah. All sorts of details kick in to make this possibility highly plausible! We here in southern Illinois are about to be at the center of the umbra for the eclipse of a lifetime. I’ve been waiting for this one ever since I heard about it when I was growing up here 48 years ago. Ozzy Osbourne will be performing near SIU-Carbondale at a music event called Moonstock. People are planning to flood the entire totality path to see it happen. It’s been ages since a total solar eclipse tracked all the way across America from Pacific to Atlantic. We’ll see what the forecast holds. We’ll also see whether the mathematical projections of the shadow’s path by astronomers prove to be accurate; I find it mind-boggling to think that they can measure an...

The Jews of Yahushua’s day did not use the eight-day Julian week for their calendar. They still used the calendar of Moses, the same luni-solar calendar that had been handed down from Creation. The apostles and the earliest Christians all worshipped on the seventh-day Sabbath of the Biblical calendar, although by the second century, some Christians had been influenced enough by Mithraism to worship on Saturday or Sunday of the pagan, planetary week. This diversity of worship days with some worshipping on the seventh-day lunar Sabbath of the Biblical calendar, others on Saturday, still others on Sunday, continued until the Council of Nicea. At that time, the ancient calendar was set aside for religious purposes. The Council decreed that henceforth the pagan Julian calendar was to be used for all religious observances. This unilateral declaration could be enforced because the Council was backed by the imperial might of Constantine the Great. Jewish scholars recognize the impact Nicea...

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Aloisius Lilius was the “chief architect” of the Gregorian calendar. Lilius was a Roman Catholic physician and professor of medicine. His manuscript on calendar reform was presented to the Roman Curia in 1576, by his brother, Antonius. His ideas were used by Jesuit astronomer-priest, Christopher Clavius, for the new calendar. The calendar itself is named after Pope Gregory XIII. It is a papal device, through and through. Although the world today is united in its use of the Gregorian calendar, when it was first introduced, it was initially widely rejected by Protestant countries as a Catholic institution. A papal bull, Inter Gravissimas, issued Feb. 24, 1582, ordered Catholic clergy to accept it and exhorted Catholic monarchs to do the same. At the time, the only countries that accepted it were the Catholic countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Poland and most areas of France. It took nearly 350 years before all countries adopted the pope’s calen...

"There is no excuse for any one in taking the position that there is no more truth to be revealed, and that all our expositions of Scripture are without an error.  The fact that certain doctrines have been held as truth for many years by our people, is not a proof that our ideas are infallible.  Age will not make error into truth, and truth can afford to be fair.  No true doctrine will lose anything by close investigation."  (E. G. White, Review & Herald, Dec. 20, 1892.) "Those who cling to old customs and hoary errors have lost sight of the fact that light is ever increasing upon the path of all who follow . . . [Yahushua]; truth is constantly unfolding to the people of . . . [Yahuwah].  We must be continually advancing if we are following our Leader.  It is when we walk in the light that shines upon us, obeying the truth that is open to our understanding, that we receive greater light.  We cannot be excusable in accepting only the light which o...