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 had on the ancient, Biblical calendar. The Jewish Publication Society of America published Heinrich Graetz’s monumental work, History of the Jews. In his account of the Council of Nicea, Graetz stated:
At the Council of Nice the last thread was snapped which connected Christianity to its parent stock. The festival of Easter had up till now been celebrated for the most part at the same time as the Jewish Passover, and indeed upon the days calculated and fixed by the Synhedrion [Sanhedrin] in Judæa for its celebration; but in future its observance was to be rendered altogether independent of the Jewish calendar.13
This is far more significant than most people today—including Jewish laypeople—realize. The calendar established by Father Yahuwah at Creation did indeed have a seven-day week. However, the way the weeks cycled was completely different.
The Biblical calendar, like all ancient calendars that were handed down from before the flood, was luni-solar. This meant that the months began with the observance of the new moon. In fact, the very word “month” was originally rendered “moonth”. The first day of each month was a worship day. The work week began on the second of each month. The biggest difference between the calendar of Creation and the Julian/Gregorian calendars is that the Julian/Gregorian calendars had/have a continuous weekly cycle. On the Biblical calendar, the weekly cycle restarts each month.
“The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle . . . Originally the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less important while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instruction, of peace and delight of the soul.”
(Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410)
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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 had on the ancient, Biblical calendar. The Jewish Publication Society of America published Heinrich Graetz’s monumental work, History of the Jews. In his account of the Council of Nicea, Graetz stated:
At the Council of Nice the last thread was snapped which connected Christianity to its parent stock. The festival of Easter had up till now been celebrated for the most part at the same time as the Jewish Passover, and indeed upon the days calculated and fixed by the Synhedrion [Sanhedrin] in Judæa for its celebration; but in future its observance was to be rendered altogether independent of the Jewish calendar.13
This is far more significant than most people today—including Jewish laypeople—realize. The calendar established by Father Yahuwah at Creation did indeed have a seven-day week. However, the way the weeks cycled was completely different.
The Biblical calendar, like all ancient calendars that were handed down from before the flood, was luni-solar. This meant that the months began with the observance of the new moon. In fact, the very word “month” was originally rendered “moonth”. The first day of each month was a worship day. The work week began on the second of each month. The biggest difference between the calendar of Creation and the Julian/Gregorian calendars is that the Julian/Gregorian calendars had/have a continuous weekly cycle. On the Biblical calendar, the weekly cycle restarts each month.
“The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle . . . Originally the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less important while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instruction, of peace and delight of the soul.”
(Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410)
https://www.worldslastchance.com/end-time-prophecy/jesuit-masterminds-hiding-flat-earth-lunar-sabbath.html
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