Deception
of Man's timekeeping - Bible evidence
review
Genesis
1 relates GOD creating timekeeping at the
first day before the globe was created, so
God's time- keeping was absolute (same
time everywhere) not mapped onto different
times for different parts of the
globe(local time). Man devised local time
many millennia later without God's
authority and set up different Jewish and
international time systems neither of
which conform to the Bible, yet most
people use them , even for Holy days,Gods
signs to His people, this is seriously
wrong. Bible evidence summarised below:
----Genesis
2:2: And on the seventh day God ended his
work which he had made; and he rested on
the seventh day from all his work which he
had made. 2:3: And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it
he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
[Notes:
At the end of the work of creation the
seventh day is blessed (made happy ,
blissful) quite unconditionally, solely
because God rested, so simply by keeping
this day there is a blessing at this time.
The day is also made separate from other
days for God's purpose(sanctified), but
there is no commandment to keep it at this
time and no agreement to keep it is sought
from the creation. The day is made
available to the whole creation, there are
no restrictions on who can make use of it
if they should ever choose to at this
time]
----John
1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and
the Word was with God, and the Word was
God. 1:2: The same was in the beginning
with God. 1:3: All things were made by
him; and without him was not any thing
made that was made
----John
1:14: And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth. 1:15:
John bare witness of him, and cried,
saying, This was he of whom I spake, He
that cometh after me is preferred before
me: for he was before me .
---John1:29:
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto
him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world.
1:30: This is he of whom I said, After me
cometh a man which is preferred before me:
for he was before me.
---Mark
2:27: And he said unto them, The sabbath
was made for man, and not man for the
sabbath: 2:28: Therefore the Son of man is
Lord also of the sabbath
[Notes.
Jesus Christ was the Word and he said that
the sabbath was made for man, there are no
conditions here, no agreement or covenant,
no commandment to keep sabbath, no
punishment for not doing so. A simple
statement that the sabbath was made for
man. Everyone therefore can take part in
the sabbath, partaking of its blessing, a
time made separate to God's purpose
(sanctified), confirmed by Christ as for
everyone - but not as a commandment, the
blessing and keeping separate time for
God's purpose are optional for anyone who
is not in a covenant with God to keep the
sabbath. Israel, the chosen people of God
, however had made a covenant with God
which among other things was to keep the
sabbath, - but they failed to keep to it
and the covenant was finally terminated at
Christ's death, [the abomination of
having their own messiah killed that
brought desolation on Israel], the end
of their old agreement with God - but note
that this only concerns Israel, not
everyone else - the sabbath in particular
is still an option for everyone (
including Israel), it is only the
commandment to keep it by an agreement
with God by Israel that ended at Christ's
death (together with the other rules of
the covenant) - so no-one is forced to
keep it any more, but they may if they
wish to, it is easy to confirm that the
sabbath continues after Christ's death
(see below).
---Isiah
56:1: Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye
judgment, and do justice: for my salvation
is near to come, and my righteousness to
be revealed. 56:2: Blessed is the man that
doeth this, and the son of man that layeth
hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from
polluting it, and keepeth his hand from
doing any evil. 56:3: Neither let the son
of the stranger, that hath joined himself
to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath
utterly separated me from his people:
neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree. 56:4: For thus saith the LORD
unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths,
and choose the things that please me, and
take hold of my covenant; 56:5: Even unto
them will I give in mine house and within
my walls a place and a name better than of
sons and of daughters: I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off. 56:6: Also the sons of the stranger,
that join themselves to the LORD, to serve
him, and to love the name of the LORD, to
be his servants, every one that keepeth
the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh
hold of my covenant; 56:7: Even them will
I bring to my holy mountain, and make them
joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt
offerings and their sacrifices shall be
accepted upon mine altar; for mine house
shall be called an house of prayer for all
people. 56:8: The Lord GOD which gathereth
the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I
gather others to him, beside those that
are gathered unto him.
and:
Matthew
24:13: But he that shall endure unto the
end, the same shall be saved. 24:14: And
this gospel of the kingdom shall be
preached in all the world for a witness
unto all nations; and then shall the end
come. 24:15: When ye therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation, spoken of
by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy
place, (whoso readeth, let him
understand:) 24:16: Then let them which be
in Judaea flee into the mountains: 24:17:
Let him which is on the housetop not come
down to take any thing out of his house:
24:18: Neither let him which is in the
field return back to take his clothes.
24:19: And woe unto them that are with
child, and to them that give suck in those
days! 24:20: But pray ye that your flight
be not in the winter, neither on the
sabbath day: 24:21: For then shall be
great tribulation, such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
[Notes.
There it is in Isiah and at the end of
Matt. 24:20 in the above passages still in
existence long after the death of
Christ]
Nehemiah
9:13: Thou camest down also upon mount
Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven,
and gavest them right judgments, and true
laws, good statutes and commandments:
9:14: And madest known unto them thy holy
sabbath, and commandedst them precepts,
statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses
thy servant: 9:15: And gavest them bread
from heaven for their hunger, and
broughtest forth water for them out of the
rock for their thirst, and promisedst them
that they should go in to possess the land
which thou hadst sworn to give them.
[Notes:
Note that the making-known of the sabbath
is separate from the giving of
commandments, the commandment to keep the
laws, and the promise of the land - in
particular the sabbath was in existence
before Israel and was made known to Israel
- the agreement to keep the sabbath, the
4th commandment, is separate from the
making known of the sabbath. So what is
taken away with the ending of the covenant
through persistent disobedience is the
commandment to keep the sabbath, not the
sabbath itself - the sabbath is thus a
blessing for everyone, throughout time, a
very special day, the seventh, made
separate to God's purpose and Israel were
commanded to keep it under their covenant
with God for a period from their time in
Sinai up to the death of Christ - nobody
else was commanded to keep it and Israel's
agreement to do so by the 4th commandment
has long since terminated at the time of
their worst abomination that brought
desolation finally upon them for their
disobedience to their God, almost
unbelievably to not recognise the
long-awaited messiah and to have Him
killed. The keeping of sabbath actually
carried the death penalty for disobedience
(see below) under God's agreement with
Israel, that is how important it was to
God that they maintained the separateness
of the seventh day and God set it up as a
very sign to show He was their God and
they were His people - both these show how
important is the seventh day, look at what
God is attaching to it - the death penalty
for disobedience whilst their covenant is
in force and for it to be a sign between
God and them as His people:
Ezekiel
20:11: And I gave them my statutes, and
shewed them my judgments, which if a man
do, he shall even live in them. 20:12:
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to
be a sign between me and them, that they
might know that I am the LORD that
sanctify them.
---Exodus
31:12: And the LORD spake unto Moses,
saying, 31:13: Speak thou also unto the
children of Israel, saying, Verily my
sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign
between me and you throughout your
generations; that ye may know that I am
the LORD that doth sanctify you. 31:14: Ye
shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it
is holy unto you: every one that defileth
it shall surely be put to death: for
whosoever doeth any work therein, that
soul shall be cut off from among his
people. 31:15: Six days may work be done;
but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest,
holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work
in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put
to death. 31:16: Wherefore the children of
Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe
the sabbath throughout their generations,
for a perpetual covenant. 31:17: It is a
sign between me and the children of Israel
for ever: for in six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, and on the seventh day
he rested, and was refreshed. 31:18: And
he gave unto Moses, when he had made an
end of communing with him upon mount
Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of
stone, written with the finger of God.
[Notes.-
notice again in the instructions by God to
Moses, extensive emphasis of the
importance of the sign of the seventh day
sabbath, , the one established at the
seventh day from the beginning, now as a
sign between God and Israel to be kept
under punishment of being cut off from
Israel and of death for defilement by
working on sabbath by the children of
Israel. Israel were clearly meant to take
this very seriously indeed and it is
perhaps not surprising that some became
legalistically exact in trying to divide
work from not work. Importantly, although
Israel had polluted her sabbaths and was
made desolate for disobedience, still the
sabbath was kept and not lost in the
resulting desolation, the sign of God was
still available to be kept if they would
do so:
Chronicles
36:20: And them that had escaped from the
sword carried he away to Babylon; where
they were servants to him and his sons
until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
`36:21: To fulfill the word of the LORD by
the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had
enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she
lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill
threescore and ten years.
Notes:
God has warned us that He changes the
times as recorded by Daniel: Dan 2:20:
Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the
name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom
and might are his: 2:21: And he changeth
the times and the seasons: he removeth
kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth
wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to
them that know understanding: 2:22: He
revealeth the deep and secret things: he
knoweth what is in the darkness, and the
light dwelleth with him.
Notes:
How then could God take away the blessing
of the sabbath, the very sign between Him
and His chosen when they had clung to
knowing when the sabbath was even through
desolation, it seems impossible to do,
particularly when it is necessary to keep
the knowledge of when the sabbath is for
the future restoration of the remnant of
Israel? Let us see if you will how this
was achieved without even taking away the
possibility of keeping the sabbath for
those who chose (and choose) to do so with
this motivation from
Ecclesiastes.
Ecc 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel
no evil thing: and a wise man's heart
discerneth both time and judgment why
should a man , wise of heart, be
discerning time -why is there any need to?
The answer has already been given above by
Daniel(2:21) we must expect that the times
change by God changing them. This seems
more than curious - God's sign to His
people is known just by counting the days
to the seventh and they have shown an
obsession for keeping up this
counting beyond even the keeping of God's
laws by them and even during the
punishments for their failures to keep
their agreements - the only way to change
the time of the sabbath for them is to
change the way that time is reckoned, to
change the days to something other than
God's days. Perhaps you think that people,
and especially perhaps the legalistically
exact Jews, would never fall for
this, but it really has happened and, if
you will, here is the proof of the truth
about the changing of timekeeping for
days:
First
some historical facts about timekeeping by
man: The Babylonians began their day at
sunrise. The ancient Jews began the day at
sunset. The Egyptians and the Romans were
the first to begin the day at midnight.
The only reason for changing times and
having an international date line is to
keep 12:00 noon at approximately the same
time in every part of the world. The Early
Christians and Israel used a composite
local time system based on starting days
at local sunset, not keeping sunset in
Jerusalem as their standard when on a
different longitude.
Now what
did God say about days:
Genesis
1:5: And God called the light Day, and the
darkness he called Night. And the evening
and the morning were the first day.
Leviticus
23:32: It shall be unto you a sabbath of
rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in
the ninth day of the month at even, from
even unto even, shall ye celebrate your
sabbath
[Notes:
God's days start at sunset with the
evening then - but from sunset to sunset
is NOT a fixed length of clock time, so
God's days vary in length slightly
throughout the year, this is very
different from the Roman/Egyptian system
where the days are much more constant in
length - note that the days not only start
at a different event, but are not even the
same length or variability in these two
systems, these systems are not compatible
or interchangeable. The Roman system
followed their conquests and shaped the
International time standard, but what of
Israel? It seems that from their behavior
they thought they could continue counting
local sunsets and resisting Roman
timekeeping and that was all that was
needed even as they were scattered among
other nations. This is indeed significant
because by the time of Israel's worst
abomination against their God the
knowledge of how to keep absolute time was
available, but mankind as a whole seems to
have ignored the implications until people
migrating east met people migrating west
around the globe and found that despite
all care, they appeared definitively to be
on different days - and both had a clear
call to be right by their chosen time
system - something was very wrong, and it
was the time system to blame - but still
they did not return to absolute time of
God's creation (see later) which would
have solved the problems. Widespread
recognition of the problem does not seem
to be documented until as recently as
Magellan's global circumnavigation
eastwards starting in 1522 and even he was
amazed when he was confronted with the
real consequences of the timekeeping
system - that he had gained a day somehow
- by going around eastwards, the sun had
risen and set one more time for him than
for people who stayed put - his days ,
measured by the sun, had all been
shortened by his movement towards the
sunrise all the way around the globe. The
problem strangely wasn't tackled
systematically by mankind until
in1884 when the International Meridian
Conference in Washington, DC,met and
instead of establishing absolute time
worldwide, they devised a procedure to
create 24 zones all around the world with
24 standard meridians ( every 15°
east and west of 0° (at Greenwich,
England) which were set as the centers of
the zones of different local times
and the international date line(IDL)
was invented where time was supposed to
jump by one day, this line representing
the 180° meridian in the Pacific
Ocean - but countries, islands and even
states did not want to be divided into
several zones, so the boundaries of zones
were modified considerably from just
straight north-south lines - and the
boundaries and dateline have continued to
be changed repeatedly since then (latest
was I believe Kirbati altering the IDL in
1995. ) The Jews might have noticed the
sunset simply did not occur for timing
days all over the globe, they might have
seen that the dateline must violate the
separateness, length and even existence of
Holy days, but no, they invented their own
chalakhic date line with all the
same abominations but the line was in a
different place to the IDL - then when
Jews moved east of the line (fleeing from
the Nazis), it was moved further east, and
then once again as Jews moved further
east.. Every time the line was moved
across someone, their week immediately did
not have 6 working days and one sabbath,
there was a day difference, the counting
just didn't work any more - the system of
local times corrupted God's
structure of time for the week, keeping
local times made a mockery of the very
local time sign of God to His people (but
this wasn't the real sabbath or the real
sign which are absolutely distinct and
Holy) - people understandably got
confused, many started keeping double Holy
days so as not to miss one - not realising
that they were not keeping the Holy days
only because of the false local time
system Local timekeeping is an incomplete
mapping of time onto a globe that
necessitates forming a date line on that
globe... It cannot exist without a globe -
the account of Genesis 1 shows that the
globe was created at the third day - but
time was created at the first, the very
first day, so there was not any
possibility of a dateline for time when it
was made because there was no surface to
map it onto, no globe. Therefore the time
that God created was absolute time and
could not be local. Local time was created
only by mankind late in his history -
complete with its paradoxes and artificial
datelines, it was and is no good,but in
particular it is disastrous for man
because it gives the wrong time for Holy
sabbaths over most of the earth and
violates the distinctness, length, and
even existence of the apparent sign of God
to His people under local time.
We have
been warned to avoid BOTH Jewish fables
and commandments of men ( Note at this
point that Jews have their own defined
chalakhic dateline separate from the
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE and that there is
no authority of God for either - and that
both date lines have changed many times,
these lines each pretend to demarcate the
Holy sabbath in space on the globe rather
than time (as its Biblical definition
is).. you can cross these lines and enter
or leave the sabbath at any time of day
according to this ambiguous and varying
tradition/fable of mankind - this is not
God's way of entering and leaving sabbaths
):
Tts 1:14
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
commandments of men, that turn from the
truth.
We are
exhorted over and over to discern the
truth, yet the standard International
timekeeping system that most use for
something as important as timing Holy days
is full of paradoxes, does not define time
everywhere, allows days to start and end
at any time of day by crossing the
dateline (thus defiling the sanctity of
Holy days, allows up to two sabbaths per
week or even seven working days in a
week), in short it is a lie and an
abomination before God as it deceives
about His sign to His people by setting a
false parody of that sign:
1Jo 2:21
I have not written unto you because ye
know not the truth, but because ye know
it, and that no lie is of the truth.
2 Thes
2:10: And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.2:11: And
for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a
lie:2:12: That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth, but had
pleasure in unrighteousness.
2Ti 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth.
2Ti 3:7
Ever learning, and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth. they shall
turn away [their] ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Jhn 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the
true worshippers shall worship the Father
in spirit and in truth: for the Father
seeketh such to worship him.
Isa 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor
[any] pleadeth for truth: they
trust in vanity, and speak lies; they
conceive mischief, and bring forth
iniquity.
Jer 5:3
O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon
the truth? thou hast stricken them, but
they have not grieved; thou hast consumed
them, [but] they have refused to
receive correction: they have made their
faces harder than a rock; they have
refused to return.
Jer 9:3
And they bend their tongues [like]
their bow [for] lies: but they are
not valiant for the truth upon the earth;
for they proceed from evil to evil, and
they know not me, saith the LORD.
Jer 9:6
Thine habitation [is] in the midst
of deceit; through deceit they refuse to
know me, saith the LORD.
Pro 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind
them about thy neck; write them upon the
table of thine heart:
Isa
59:13 In transgressing and lying against
the LORD, and departing away from our God,
speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving
and uttering from the heart words of
falsehood. Isa 59:14 And judgment is
turned away backward, and justice standeth
afar off: for truth is fallen in the
street, and equity cannot enter. Isa 59:15
Yea, truth faileth; and he [that]
departeth from evil maketh himself a prey:
and the LORD saw [it], and it
displeased him that [there was] no
judgment.
Ecclesiastes
12:14: For God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whether
it be good, or whether it be evil.
Many
people on earth are so confused by the
dateline that they celebrate their Holy
days twice, trying to avoid disobedience
to God, but of course failing, it is the
acceptance of the time system that causes
this confusion and God is not author of
confusion: 1Cr 14:33 For God is not
[the author] of confusion, but of
peace, as in all churches of the saints.
In 1995
the island country of Kiribati in the
Pacific Ocean decided to move the
International Date Line so that their
country wouldn't be divided by the line
any longer. Previously, in the eastern
part of the country it would be Tuesday
while the western part of the country was
Monday. Recognition of the change is
slowing coming about. Now consider what
happened in the week of the change, for
half the island that week changed its
length by a day.. are we to say that God's
week can have other than seven days - that
is what actually happened here if you
accept the system of the International
date line, is it hard to discern that this
is a false system, that it is lying to us.
Surely we know God's week has seven days -
it cannot be changed, messed around with
in this manner- and the dateline has moved
very many times - as has the Jewish
dateline.. which do you believe in and
why?.. I cannot believe in any dateline
because of these disagreements with God
caused by the very system of datelines,
worst of all that they deny the very
separateness of the sign of God - and have
only the varying authorities of men to
support them, men who can't even agree on
just one line or even that such a line
should be invariant. Once again I have to
say this is not the work of God and it
speaks against God's truth in many ways,
we cannot use such a system of lies for
timing our keeping of Holy sabbaths..this
is the horrendous truth, MOST people are
being deceived into trying vainly to do
exactly this. God unconditionally blessed
the seventh day and sanctified it,
separated it for his purpose: Gen.2:3: And
God blessed the seventh day, and
sanctified it: because that in it he had
rested from all his work which God created
and made. If we want this blessing we have
to keep God's Sabbath - although by
Christ's sacrifice we are not under the
original ordinance to do so under pain of
death if we don't -but receiving this
blessing relies on our keeping God's
timing, not the false timekeeping of local
times with datelines - but instead the
natural sense of time that it is the same
for everyone, that everyone has the same
time - it even sounds obvious to say it,
but it really doesn't happen in the world
for most people - we therefore need to
re-synchronise to a single time for
everyone worldwide that agrees with the
events of the Bible and abandon the system
of lies at the very least for the timing
of Holy days.. The instruction in the
Bible is to celebrate Sabbath from evening
to evening but evening does not occur
daily all over the world - so this must
have referred to a specific place, where
the instruction is given, not to imply
that local sunset was everywhere the start
of days.
Local
sunset does not exist for many people,
they cannot time days that way! The
various arbitrary and variable datelines
on the globe make wholly arbitrary
man-made divisions of days and peoples.
Let us all on the planet return to
celebrating the real absolute sign of God,
His holy and blessed weekly Sabbath - at
the same time worldwide for everyone by
acknowledging that that which is holy
should not be made into a false sign,
indistinct and violable, by man's date
lines and local timekeeping.
Isiah.56:1:
Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and
do justice: for my salvation is near to
come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
56:2: Blessed is the man that doeth this,
and the son of man that layeth hold on it;
that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting
it, and keepeth his hand from doing any
evil. 56:3: Neither let the son of the
stranger, that hath joined himself to the
LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly
separated me from his people: neither let
the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
56:4: For thus saith the LORD unto the
eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose
the things that please me, and take hold
of my covenant; 56:5: Even unto them will
I give in mine house and within my walls a
place and a name better than of sons and
of daughters: I will give them an
everlasting name, that shall not be cut
off. 56:6: Also the sons of the stranger,
that join themselves to the LORD, to serve
him, and to love the name of the LORD, to
be his servants, every one that keepeth
the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh
hold of my covenant;
56:7:
Even them will I bring to my holy
mountain, and make them joyful in my house
of prayer: their burnt offerings and their
sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine
altar; for mine house shall be called an
house of prayer for all people.
In love
of God and people and truth,
R.
W. C.