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Untrue.
The Sabbath was set by the moon originally. It was a Lunar Sabbath. The true weekly seventh day Sabbath of the scriptures is always observed on the same days of the moon each month - on the new moon and then on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th after the new moon.
LunarSabbath.org
LunarSabbath.com
Satyrday is just another deception that came from the Romans. But, with the work week as it is now... few can follow the "original" Sabbath dictated by the phase of the moon.
I think you will find if you research that the Jews resisted going to Satyrday for over a century before relenting to that day because of the work week calendar instituted by the RC church.
I agree with this: "Every day is a day of Love and Adoration to OUR LOVING LORD." If you can take a Sabbath on the true lunar day, it is an extra blessing for sure.
I'm with Sparrow: "Jesus is my sabbath rest- every day."
So true. He knows our hearts. As long as we take a day of rest for Him, that is what is most important.
Good word, Kama.
The Sabbath was set by the moon originally. It was a Lunar Sabbath. The true weekly seventh day Sabbath of the scriptures is always observed on the same days of the moon each month - on the new moon and then on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th after the new moon.
LunarSabbath.org
LunarSabbath.com
Satyrday is just another deception that came from the Romans. But, with the work week as it is now... few can follow the "original" Sabbath dictated by the phase of the moon.
I agree with this: "Every day is a day of Love and Adoration to OUR LOVING LORD." If you can take a Sabbath on the true lunar day, it is an extra blessing for sure.
I'm with Sparrow: "Jesus is my sabbath rest- every day."
Thanks TN Dove, I agree and I'm learning a lot these days about the bogus calendars. Thank God we can still tell time from the moon!
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Website: www.lunarsabbath.com/
Scuggers,
The best source I've found for this is a Karaite Jew named Nehemiah Gordon.
Here's his take on Abib:
Abib (Barley)
Biblical Leap Years
The Biblical year begins with the first New Moon after the barley in Israel reaches the stage in its ripeness called Abib. The period between one year and the next is either 12 or 13 lunar months. Because of this, it is important to check the state of the Barley crops at the end of the 12th month. If the barley is Abib at this time, then the following New Moon is Hodesh Ha-Aviv ("New Moon of the Abib"). If the barley is still immature, we must wait another month and then check the barley again at the end of the 13th month.
By convention, a 12-month year is referred to as a Regular Year while a 13th month year is referred to as a Leap Year. This should not be confused with Leap Years in the Gregorian (Christian) Calendar, which involve the "intercalation" (addition) of a single day (Feb. 29). In contrast, the Biblical Leap Year involves the intercalation of an entire lunar month ("Thirteenth Month", also called "Adar Bet"). In general, it can only be determined whether a year is a Leap Year a few days before the end of the 12th Month.
Where is Abib Mentioned in the Hebrew Bible?
The story of the Exodus relates "This day you are going out in the the month of the Abib." (Ex 13,4).
To commemorate that we left Egypt in the month of the Abib, we are instructed to bring the Passover sacrifice and celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzot) at this time of year. In Dt 16,1 we are commanded:
"Keep the month of the Abib and make the Passover (sacrifice) to YHWH your God at night, because in the month of the Abib YHWH your God took you out of Egypt". [click here to hear the verse in Hebrew!]
Similarly, we are commanded in Ex 23,15:
"You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I have commanded you, at the time of the month of the Abib, because in it you went out of Egypt."
The same is commanded in Ex 34,18:
"You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as have I commanded you, at the time of the month of the Abib, because in the month of the Abib you went out of Egypt."
What is Abib?
Abib indicates a stage in the development of the barley crops. This is clear from Ex 9,31-32 which describes the devastation caused by the plague of hail:
"And the flax and the barley were smitten, because the barley was Abib and the flax was Giv'ol. And the wheat and the spelt were not smitten because they were dark (Afilot)."
The above passage relates that the barley crops were destroyed by the hail while the wheat and spelt were not damaged. To understand the reason for this we must look at how grain develops. When grains are early in their development they are flexible and have a dark green color. As they become ripe they take on a light yellowish hue and become more brittle. The reason that the barley was destroyed and the wheat was not is that the barley had reached the stage in its development called Abib and as a result had become brittle enough to be damaged by the hail. In contrast, the wheat and spelt were still early enough in their development, at a stage when they were flexible and not susceptible to being damaged by hail. The description of the wheat and spelt as "dark" (Afilot) indicates that they were still in the stage when they were deep green and had not yet begun to lighten into the light yellowish hue which characterizes ripe grains. In contrast, the barley had reached the stage of Abib at which time it was no longer "dark" and at this point it probably had begun to develop golden streaks.
Parched Abib
We know from several passages that barley which is in the state of Abib has not completely ripened, but has ripened enough so that its seeds can be eaten parched in fire. Parched barley was a commonly eaten food in ancient Israel and is mentioned in numerous passages in the Hebrew Bible as either "Abib parched (Kalui) in fire" (Lev 2,14) or in the abbreviated form "parched (Kalui/ Kali)" (Lev 23,14; Jos 5,11; 1Sam 17,17; 1Sam 25,18; 2Sam 17,28; Ruth 2,14).
While still early in its development, barley has not yet produced large enough and firm enough seeds to produce food through parching. This early in its development, when the "head" has just come out of the shaft, the seeds are not substantial enough to produce any food. At a later stage, the seeds have grown in size and have filled with liquid. At this point the seeds will shrivel up when parched and will only produce empty skins. Over time the liquid is replaced with dry material and when enough dry material has amassed the seeds will be able to yield "barley parched in fire".
Abib and the Harvest
The month of the Abib is the month which commences after the barley has reached the stage of Abib. 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the month the barley has moved beyond the stage of Abib and is ready to be brought as the "wave-sheaf offering" (Hanafat HaOmer). The "wave-sheaf offering" is a sacrifice brought from the first stalks cut in the harvest and is brought on the Sunday which falls out during Passover (Hag HaMatzot). This is described in Lev 23,10-11:
"When you come to the land which I give you, and harvest its harvest, you will bring the sheaf of the beginning of your harvest to the priest. And he will wave the sheaf before YHWH so you will be accepted; on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest will wave it."
From this it is clear that the barley, which was Abib at the beginning of the month, has become harvest-ready 15-21 days later (i.e by the Sunday during Passover). Therefore, the month of the Abib can not begin unless the barley has reached a stage where it will be harvest-ready 2-3 weeks later.
That the barley must be harvest-ready 2-3 weeks into the month of the Abib is also clear from Dt 16,9 which states:
"From when the sickle commences on the standing grain you will begin to count seven weeks."
From Lev 23,15 we know that the seven weeks between Passover (Hag Hamatzot) and Pentecost (Shavuot) begin on the day when the wave-sheaf offering is brought (i.e. the Sunday which falls out during Passover):
"And you shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day you bring the sheaf of waving; they will be seven complete Sabbaths."
Therefore, the "sickle commences on the standing grain" on the Sunday during Passover, i.e. 2-3 weeks after the beginning of the month of the Abib. If the barley is not developed enough so that it will be ready for the sickle 2-3 weeks later, then the month of the Abib can not begin and we must wait till the following month.
It should be noted that not all the barley ripens in the Land of Israel at the same time. The wave-sheaf offering is a national sacrifice brought from the first fields to become harvest-ready. However, the first-fruit offerings brought by individual farmers can vary in ripeness anywhere from "Abib parched in fire" to fully ripe grain which may be brought "crushed" or "coarsely ground". This is what is meant in Lev 2,14:
"And when you bring a first-fruit offering to YHWH; you shall bring your first-fruit offering as Abib parched in fire or crushed Carmel" (Carmel is grain which has hardened beyond Abib to the point where it can be "crushed" or "coarsely ground").
All of the above passages have been translated directly from the Hebrew and it is worth noting that the King James translators seem to have only understood the various Hebrew agricultural terms very poorly. In Lev 2,14 they translated Carmel as "full ears" and "Abib" as "green ears" whereas in Lev 23,14 they translated Carmel as "green ears"!
In summation, barley which is in the state of Abib has 3 characteristics:
1. It is brittle enough to be destroyed by hail and has begun to lighten in color (it is not "dark").
2. The seeds have produced enough dry material so it can be eaten parched.
3. It has developed enough so that it will be harvest-ready 2-3 weeks later.
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His website is: KaraiteCorner.org
He is located in Israel & goes physically out into the land with others looking for barley in spring, as well as the monthly sightings of the new moon.
You can sign up for his Abib report here.
Well, I have to toss in my 2cents worth on this too. Well, mine and Jack Kelly's. 
I really liked this article by Jack on the Sabbath. He can really relate his ideas concisely, and gives some good food for thought on this topic.
"What Did God Do On The Eigth Day?
A Bible Study by Jack Kelley
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (Genesis 2:2-3)
These two verses are much different from those describing the preceding days in the creation account. All of them included the phrase “it was evening and it was morning, day … “. Not so for the seventh day. Also the Hebrew word translated rested is Shabath (pronounced sha-BAT). We get sabbath from this word. It appears 71 times in the Bible, and 47 of those times it’s translated “ceaseâ€. It only means rest 11 times.
Will This Day Ever End?
Now obviously, the seventh day had a beginning and an end just like all the days before and after it. But the fact that there is no mention of this in the text of the creation account indicates that in a spiritual sense this day has never ended. There is no eighth day of creation. God has never taken up the work of creation again, and that’s why a word that also means ceased was used in describing His Sabbath rest.
Now don’t accuse me of promoting the “Great Watchmaker†theory of creation. That’s the one where God created the world and all that’s in it, then set it in motion, and has been just sitting there watching it run down ever since. Let’s look at what God has been doing since He stopped creating. We’ll begin in John’s Gospel.
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working.†For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
Jesus gave them this answer: “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. (John 5:16-19)
This tells us that both the Father and the Son have so much to do that they work every day, even on the Sabbath. So what are they doing? Matthew 11:5 explains. “The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.â€
Almost as soon as the Creation was finished, it was subjected to sin. From that day to this the Father and the Son have been battling to protect us from the effects of sin in our lives.
So they haven’t been just sitting around waiting. They’ve both been working every day from that day to this, including the Sabbath. But my point is, God has never again taken up the work of creation. Where the creation is concerned he has never ceased his Sabbath rest.
In Numbers 15:32-36 we read of a man who was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath. It was a violation of the commandment, but the Israelites didn’t know what to do with him. When they inquired of God, He told them to take him outside the camp and stone him to death. God was serious about not working on the Sabbath.
What’s External And Physical In The Old Becomes Internal And Spiritual In The New
But when we get to the New Testament we find that the commandment to rest on the Sabbath is the only one of the 10 Commandments not specifically repeated. In fact the most frequent reference to the Sabbath commandment in the New Testament concerns the Lord’s frequent and flagrant violations of it. On six different occasions, the Lord defended working on the Sabbath, each time showing the religious leaders of the day that their rules for keeping the Sabbath were man made, arbitrary, and counter to God’s purpose. For example the priests in the Temple desecrated every Sabbath (Matt. 12:5), and the people could water their animals (Luke 13:15) or rescue them from danger (Matt. 12:11) but they couldn’t heal a person (Luke 13:14).
In Romans 14:5 Paul taught that we have the right to either consider one day holier than the others or to regard all days the same, based on our personal convictions. And in Colossians 1:16-17 he said not to let anyone judge us in regard to a religious festival or a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. He said that these things were only a shadow of things that were coming, that the reality was found in Christ.
Somehow the Sabbath commandment was supposed to teach us something about our relationship with Jesus. So let’s find out what it is.
God created the Heavens and the Earth. They didn’t do anything to help, He did it all. At the end of six days, He rested (ceased) from His work because it was finished. He never again took up the work of creating. He made the seventh day, a day without end, holy. There was no eighth day. Then He created a memorial. From that time forward the seventh day was a day of rest where no work was permitted to remind us that when His work was finished He rested.
Since we’re trapped in the dimension of time, we can’t have any days without end. So when God set up our calendar He made every seventh day holy, and then the calendar began again. There’s never an eighth day. This was to help us to see that the seventh day, the day of rest, never ends. To underscore the importance of this, He made working on the seventh day punishable by death.
But man missed the point. We thought it was about working on the Sabbath when it was really about resting when the work is finished. Here’s how that relates to Jesus.
Jesus came to Earth with one job to do. It was to die for the sins of the people so that we could be redeemed and live forever with Him (John 1:29). He was making us into a new creation (2 Cor. 5:17) We didn’t do anything to help, He did it all. When He went to the cross, His work was done. That’s why His last words before He died were, “It is finished.†Then He bowed His head and gave up His Spirit (John 19:30). He never had to do the work of redemption again, for by that one sacrifice He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy (Hebr. 10:14) When He ascended into Heaven, He sat down at the right hand of the Father. In effect, He rested. The work of our new creation was finished.
This is why some theologians refer to the Lord’s “completed work†at the cross. It’s is also why the writer of Hebrews said that going back into the Jewish sacrificial system is relegating His death to the same status as animal sacrifices and subjects Him to public disgrace. (Hebr. 6:6) It meant that they didn’t believe the work was finished.
What Is Our Work?
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?†Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.†(John 6:28-29)
When you believe that Jesus went to the cross for you, and that by His death all of the sins of your life are forgiven, you’ve done what God requires and the work of your salvation is finished. You will inherit eternal life. “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.†(John 6:40) When you believe that, you have entered into your life-long seventh day, your Sabbath Rest.
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. (Hebrews 4:9-10) Just as God never again took up the work of creation, and Jesus never again took up the work of redemption, you need never again take up the work of salvation. You’re a new creation and the work is finished. Now you rest, as they have rested.
Please read this very carefully. As we can see from the above, the folks who keep asking whether Saturday or Sunday is the correct Sabbath for Christians are asking the wrong question. The question we all need to ask is whether we’re keeping the Sabbath or not. It doesn’t matter that you say you’re born again. Any work you do to earn or keep your salvation after saying that you’ve accepted the work that Jesus did for you is evidence that you don’t believe the work is finished. This subjects you to the penalty of the Sabbath breaker in Numbers 15. His was a physical death, but yours will be a spiritual one, because by continuing to work after the work is done you’re saying that Jesus didn’t finish the job so you have to complete it and save yourself. It means you don’t believe He saved you, and that means you haven’t done the one and only thing He told you to do; “Believe in the One He has sent.†It means you aren’t saved.
If you believe that you can lose your salvation because of your behavior, it means that you don’t believe Jesus took all of the sins of your life to the cross (Col 2:13-15), and therefore you don’t believe He saved you completely (Hebr. 7:25). It means that you don’t believe God has accepted responsibility for keeping you saved (2 Cor. 1:21-22) and you have to finish the job yourself by meeting some standard of behavior. That means that you’re working to keep your self saved after your work of salvation was finished, which means you’re subjecting yourself to the penalty of the Sabbath breaker in Numbers 15. It means that you aren’t saved.
There isn’t much time left for the Church. The Lord could come while you’re reading this. Please consider these things carefully. Make sure you’re really saved by grace through faith. Not by works, lest anyone boast. (Ephes. 2:8-9) You can’t be working to become saved and you can’t be working to stay saved. You are either forever saved or you were never saved. Remember, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness. (Romans 4:5) There is no eighth day. You can almost hear the footsteps of the Messiah. 05-24-08"
http://gracethrufaith.com/selah/tough-questions-answered/what-did-god-do-on-the-eighth-day-2/#more-3454
That is what my mind keeps going back to. How can it be 'Jesus and...'? I keep asking the Lord, 'was your work on the cross not enough? Do our works send us to, or keep us out of, Hell? How can that be? What a joke this has been if that is true? Your sacrifice for all my failings isn't enough'?
Now I am not talking about walking in blatant, unconfessed sin. I walk with the Lord daily, and live as holy a life that I possibly can. I confess my sin even when I have not done anything overtly sinful because who knows, maybe there has been something, a fleeting thought, sinful motivation that I am not aware of. I want to be spotless, especially at this late of an hour when He could call His Bride home at any moment. I pray that I may be found worthy to walk with Him in His kingdom in white as He tells us to do in Luke 21:36. I have been born again for 28 years, and think of myself as a pretty solid Christian, but when I read some of that book, I began to question if I was even saved. Is that not sad?
I so do not want to end up in Hell, and if this book is true, I could. I have also been telling Him that if this is true, we are all doomed except maybe those people in that church in Korea that are having face to face experiences with Him, and the other spiritual elites that get to see Him face to face, because I have never had any kind of an experience like that. I know we would all like to, but I haven't. 
Then there is the scripture in I John 4 that immediately begins by talking about testing the spirits. I surmise that if these people in Korea love the Lord, they must have tested these spirits before participating in all of these experiences. It also goes on in that chapter in I John 4:12 to say that no man has seen God at any time. Now is that God the Father, or God the Son?
It seems that there are so many people that have had many of these kind of experiences. Mary K. Baxter, Bill Wiese, Choo Thomas, and many more accounts that are out there. I just don't know what to think.
I am shocked, myself, that I am struggling with this. It has really hit me hard.
Email: mccauley15@comcast.net
That is what my heart tells me, and then I question it because not only are they going to Hell, but they are going to Heaven. How can that be?
How could Satan create a place of unspeakable beauty, love, and worship of God? I pray the Lord works me through this quickly because I hate walking in this desolate place.
Thank you all for your encouragement. I appreciate it so much.
I hate to seem like a whiner because I am usually the one encouraging others. This is a new role for me. Very humbling.
I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to take the stand that Job did, 'Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face'. Job 13:15
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How could Satan create a place of unspeakable beauty, love, and worship of God? I pray the Lord works me through this quickly because I hate walking in this desolate place.
Thank you all for your encouragement. I appreciate it so much.
Satan is the FATHER of lies AND he has been to Heaven, so he knows what it looks like.
Take heart, my sibling in Christ - you are in the right place with Jesus. Your heart is yielded towards Him, you are keeping it tender and repentant towards Him, and He will NOT let you go, or send you to hell for any sin. That would totally negate His work on the cross, and if anyone tells you anything different then it is a lie and deception!
Diane C
Good word Diane
Dear HTTLord - I think so many of us are finding out reading these "Gone to hell and back experiences" are playing on our minds and spirits more than they should - a sure sign Satan has a hand in this. I have had to stop reading all of these stories and experiences - just dwell on the goodness that is waiting for you in Heaven - you are a child of God and nothing will pluck you out of His hand - that's a promise from Him!
Holy to the Lord -
Just wanted to reemphasize what Diane and others are saying -
When you chose the name: "Holy to the Lord"...I assume this is what you meant. You are now Holy in the sight of the Lord, solely because of what He -
the Spotless Lamb - our Savior and Redeemer - did on the cross...finished.
This means you are positionally - in Christ! What an awesome thing. (And I don't use that word "awesome" often.) True, we are all sinners. But, thank the Lord! - Christ took care of that problem forever. Halleluja! (And I don't throw that word around lightly as well[8). Did I spell it right?)
I hope I didn't ramble on like a fool (yet...it is a "wise man" that seldom understands
)
I did listen to that sermon 'Ten Shekels and a Shirt', and I agree, it was truly anointed. Our motivation at all times should be to glorify the entire Godhead in all we think and do, and that is what I try to do. I know that I fail miserably at times because I am a sinful human, just as we all are.
My constant prayer is that the Lord would give me eyes to see and ears to hear what thus saith the Lord, and to make me aware of the snares and traps of the devil. Maybe this is one that He is trying to make me more aware of. I do have a tendency to read many of these because I so want to be there with Him, and I am fascinated by the things of Heaven. The accounts do titillate my spiritual eyes, ears and imaginations. I guess kind of like the worldly magazines do for those that love the details about the going's on in Satan's kindgom.
I think I too am going to stop reading these accounts and just stick with the written word. If He wants me to know more about it...He is going to have to tell me Himself, and I will test the spirits.
Thanks kman and RJ for the timely words of wisdom. And yes...I get it.
Email: mccauley15@comcast.net
HTTLord, I think you're right on the money with that quote. I think the Lord is making you aware of the snares and traps of the devil through this. You said in a post above that you are usually the one who is comforting others - and I believe God is using this experience so you can have some new, personal insight into this subject so you can help others.
If you are one who comforts others, then that is probably because you have been through a bunch of hard stuff in your life and you have learned things from the experiences that can help others. I think this "hell" thing is going to be the same for you - as it was for me.
Blessings!
The Sabbath was set by the moon originally. It was a Lunar Sabbath. The true weekly seventh day Sabbath of the scriptures is always observed on the same days of the moon each month - on the new moon and then on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th after the new moon.
LunarSabbath.org
LunarSabbath.com
I think you will find...
Guys,
The Lunar Sabbath idea has been debunked ... it is bogus!
Website: www.biblebelievers.com/
