Program 71: Saturday is not the Sabbath … and the Jews know it!

Learn from the writings of Jewish scholars that Saturday is not the biblical Sabbath.

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* * *Part 1: (Miles & Dave)

Miles Robey: Hello! Welcome to World’s Last Chance Radio! I’m your host, Miles Robey.

Dave Wright: And I’m Dave Wright. We’re glad you’ve joined us today.

Miles: We’ve got a really interesting topic planned for today. It’s going to take some of you by surprise, because this is a fact of history that’s been covered up, or at least, forgotten. The scholars have always known the truth, but it’s been hidden from the rest of us.

And that is: Saturday is not the Bible Sabbath, and the Jews know it. So, if you think, “The Jews would never worship on anything but the true Sabbath,” you’d be wrong. They are worshipping on the wrong day; they have been for 1700 years, and what’s more, Jewish scholars know it.

Dave: If you worship on Sunday, this has implications for you as well. It’s not just about the Jews and the Sabbath. Theologically, there is only one reason the vast majority of Christendom honors Sunday, and that is because, as the first day of the week, it is believed that is when Yahushua was resurrected.

But if Saturday is not the actual seventh-day Sabbath of Scripture—and it’s not—than Sunday is not the actual day of Yahushua’s resurrection.

Miles: And there goes any possible justification for worshiping on Sunday.

Before we get into that, though, I want to explain to our first-time listeners that at WLC we use the actual names of the Father and the Son. “Jesus” comes from the Greek attempt to transliterate the name, Yahushua. Greek had no y-sound.

God and lord are simply generic titles. The actual name of the Father is Yahuwah, or Yah.

Dave: Eloah is a Hebrew title that refers to the Father.

Miles: Okay. In an earlier program, Dave shared with us some fascinating history about the early Julian calendar—that it was actually eight days long in the time of Christ. If you missed that program, you can still listen to it. We have previous programs posted on our website as well as on YouTube. Just look for the one entitled “Julian Calendar History.”

But it goes deeper than that. More recently, Dave shared with us how the luni-solar calendar, established by Yah at Creation, was actually outlawed.

Dave: That’s right, Miles. Constantine the Great wanted to unify his empire, and the way he did it was by uniting Christians and pagans on the same calendar. The pagans already venerated the day of the Sun—

Miles: Or Sunday: also known as the “Lord’s day” since it’s assumed that Yahushua was resurrected on Sunday, since the Bible says He was resurrected on the first day of the week.

Dave: But what we haven’t known, was that the Jews weren’t using the Julian calendar. They were still using the luni-solar calendar of Creation. So, yes. Yahushua was resurrected on the first day of the week, but that was NOT Sunday.

The weekly cycle on the Julian calendar, just like today’s weekly cycle, was a continuous cycle. There were no interruptions. For example, if the last day of the month is a Tuesday, the first day of the next month will always be a Wednesday. It won’t jump back to start over again at Sunday. This is what I mean by a continuous weekly cycle.

That’s not how it works on the Biblical calendar, though. On the Biblical calendar, the weekly cycle restarted each month. So, for example, Sabbath, the 29^th day of the first month, would be immediately followed by a work day. The next day would be New Moon, the first of the next month. New Moon day always interrupted the weekly cycle. The day following New Moon day was always the first day of the week. Always. Every single month.

Miles: I get it. The first day of the month did not rotate through the week like it does today.

Miles: If you missed our recent program talking about Constantine’s outlawing of the Biblical calendar, look for it on our website or YouTube. It’s called “Constantine’s Deception.”

Now, I see this whole situation as kind of double-edged. On the one hand, the facts of the Julian calendar, and what Constantine did, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Sunday is not the day on which Yahushua was resurrected.

Dave: But remember: that’s what Constantine and the paganized bishops wanted. They wanted to distance themselves from their Jewish roots. Read this quote from Heinrich Graetz.

Graetz was himself a Jew and wrote the first comprehensive history of the Jews. This quote is taken from volume two of his History of the Jews and reveals the Christian agenda at work at the Council of Nicea in the fourth century.

Miles: Okay. It says, quote:

At the Council of [Nicea] 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 [Sanhedrin] in Judæa for its celebration; but in future its observance was to be rendered altogether independent of the Jewish calendar…

“For it is unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals we should follow the customs of the Jews. Henceforward let us have nothing in common with this odious people; our Saviour has shown us another path. It would indeed be absurd if the Jews were able to boast that we are not in a position to celebrate the Passover without the aid of their rules (calculations).” These remarks are attributed to the Emperor Constantine . . . [and became] the guiding principle of the Church which was now to decide the fate of the Jews.

Dave: So there you have it. Constantine’s desire to unify his empire aligned perfectly with the paganized bishops desire for greater political power. They achieved this by outlawing the use of the Biblical calendar for Christian worship, and instead enforced the use of the pagan Julian calendar. This is how Christians and pagans were forced into an amalgamated unification.

Miles: Could you tell us how this impacted the Jews? I know I’m not alone in mistakenly assuming that Saturday is the Biblical Sabbath. After all, that’s when the Jews worship!

But this quote is tantalizing. What did Graetz mean when he said that this decree outlawing the Jewish calendar was, quote, “now to decide the fate of the Jews”?

Dave: Well, what happened was swift and intense persecution against anyone who still wanted to use the Biblical calendar.

Miles: This would be both Jews and apostolic Christians.

Dave: Absolutely. Because there were still Christians who wanted nothing to do with the pagan Julian calendar. If you believe that The Precise Day does matter, whether you think that’s the seventh-day Sabbath, or the day of Yahushua’s resurrection, then the calendar by which you count to that Precise Day, matters as well.

The apostolic Christians knew this. Polycrates, an early church father, strenuously protested the use of the pagan calendar. He knew the Saviour wasn’t resurrected on “Easter Sunday”! And he pointed back to the apostles’ use of the Biblical calendar as proof!

And don’t kid yourself—apostolic Christians felt very strongly about this. There are suggestions that bishops who refused to go along with the Emperor’s agenda were exiled and some even murdered. So it was a real, hot-button topic.

Miles: It’s amazing that a topic so important people actually lost their lives over fighting for the truth, is something most of us have never even heard of!

Dave: I know. It’s very sad. But it’s the truth.

Have you heard of David Sidersky?

Miles: No. Sounds sort of like a Russian hockey player.

Dave: Bzzzz! Wrong answer. You don’t win the trip to Aruba.

Miles laughs: Well, who was he?

Dave: Sidersky was an historian, a chronologist. Constantine’s son, Constantius, took his father’s act one step further and outlawed the use of the Biblical calendar for Jews as well. Sidersky wrote, quote: “It was no more possible under Constance to apply the old calendar.”

The significance of that one, short sentence is huge! It means that persecution against everyone who clung to Biblical calendation had reached such a height that it simply wasn’t possible to use it anymore.

Miles: For it to reach the point that a historian could say it wasn’t “possible” to use the old calendar, you know people lost their lives over this.

Dave: Oh, I’m sure. Absolutely. Here’s another quote I’d like you to read.

This is from Grace Amadon. Back in the 1930s, 1940s, she was part of a committee that looked into Biblical calendation. She corresponded with scholars, rabbis, chronologists, and astronomers from all over the world to research out just how the Biblical calendar worked.

Go ahead and read where it’s marked. It’s talking about this period of history directly following the Council of Nicea.

Miles: Okay, it says, uh …

In subsequent years, the Jews went through “iron and fire.” The Christian emperors forbade the Jewish computation of the calendar, and did not allow the announcement of the feast days. Graetz says, “The Jewish communities were left in utter doubt concerning the most important religious decisions: as pertaining to their festivals.” The immediate consequence was the fixation and calculation of the Hebrew calendar by Hillel II.

Dave: Today, we have calendars printed on paper we hang on our wall. We have calendar apps on our phones and computers. But back then they didn’t have that. Originally, the high priest had been in charge of declaring when a new month began.

After the destruction of Jerusalem, the president of the Sanhedrin took on that job. Anciently, signal fires would be lit all across Israel, letting the tribes further away from Jerusalem know the priest had declared the beginning of a new month.

By the fourth century, they used runners and men on horseback. Following the oppressive declarations of Constantine’s son, Constantius, the empire went out of its way to disrupt this flow of information. The messengers who were to communicate that the Sanhedrin had declared the beginning of a new month, were arrested and sometimes even killed.

Miles: You can’t have any cohesion if you can’t rely on getting accurate information.

Dave: The scattered communities of the diaspora were thrown into total confusion.

Miles: The luni-solar calendar is so simple and straightforward. Why didn’t local communities just decide for themselves when the new month had started?

Dave: I don’t know. My guess would be tradition. Tradition is a powerful force. They had followed the announcements of the Sanhedrin ever since the destruction of Jerusalem. Remember, too, before the destruction of Jerusalem when the High Priest was still in charge of the calendar, the scattered Jews would travel to Jerusalem for the yearly feasts.

Miles: I can see that. Having one person in charge of the calendar insured that their calendars were all in sync and no one would travel to Jerusalem for a feast, only to discover that everyone else was observing it on a different day.

Dave: This is what Graetz was talking about when he said, quote: “The Jewish communities were left in utter doubt concerning the most important religious decisions: as pertaining to their festivals.”

Constantius’ act of forbidding the computation of the Biblical calendar impacted apostolic Christians as well.

Miles: I’m sure! We know from Tertullian that Christians were already transferring their worship to the “day of the Sun” as early as the second century. But others clung to the true Sabbath for over 1,000 years! There was no confused assumption that the “law was nailed to the cross.” That heresy came in later.

Dave: One way we can know that some Christians were still faithfully worshipping on the Biblical Sabbath, is by the various decrees issued by the early church councils.

For example, almost 40 years after the Council of Nicea, the Council of Laodicea—

Miles: When was that?

Dave: Uh … 363 to 364 CE. This was well after the Council of Nicea. At the Council of Laodicea, they released a statement demanding that Christians work on the Sabbath and abstain from work on the Lord’s day.

This decree states:

Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.

Miles: Wait a minute. This says Saturday.

Dave: Right. And I want to explain that. Karl Josef von Hefele was a Roman Catholic bishop and scholar in the 19^th century. According to him, the use of “Saturday” in that quote is incorrect. According to him—and in his research, he had access to the original documents preserved in the Vatican archives. In fact, in 1895 and 1896, he published two volumes entitled: A History of the Councils of the Church, From the Original Documents.

Miles: Interesting. So he would know what it actually said.

Dave: And, according to him, the word actually used, was Sabbath or “Sabbato”. It was not “dies Saturni” or “day of Saturn.”

Miles: All right. Hold that thought. We’re going to take a very short break and when we return, we’ll pick up right where we left off.

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* * *Part 2: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: It’s just amazing to me how, as Christians today, we’ve built this whole belief structure on the assumption that today’s Saturday is the Biblical Sabbath, and that the modern Sunday, is the day of Christ’s resurrection. And yet, that’s wrong!

Dave: I know. But Christians at the time of the calendar change were not confused. They knew that the pagan, planetary week had originally begun on dies Saturni or Saturday. They also knew that Sabbato, or the true Sabbath, was the seventh day of the week on the Jewish luni-solar calendar.

Miles: A calendar by a despised minority with which no one in power wanted to be associated.

Dave: Again, Saturday and Sabbato, or Sabbath, were two different days on two distinct calendar systems.

Now, some modern scholars have mistakenly assumed that the conflict was over Saturday versus Sunday. But the historical reality reveals that people at that time were well aware of the existence of the Biblical luni-solar calendar and how to use it. Many believers in the east or beyond the reaches of the Roman Empire refused to abandon Biblical time-keeping.

Here’s an amazing quote from a book entitled, The Celtic Church in Britain. Would you read it for us?

Miles: It says, quote: “Those Christians who were looking for a way out of their difficulty with Sabbath observance moved towards a greater regard for the first day of the [Julian] week. But others on the outskirts of the Empire, where anti-Semitism did not exist, continued their veneration of the seventh day Sabbath.” Unquote.

Huh! Interesting. So, how was this transfer of worship to the Julian calendar made? Because Jews today use the Biblical calendar just for the annual feasts. They’ve quit using it for the weekly Sabbath.

Dave: Just as Constantine was the power behind an action that ultimately led to the destruction of the Biblical calendar for use by Christians, another man, a Jew, was responsible for a reaction that had consequences just as far reaching.

Miles: Earlier, you said that the High Priest had originally been in charge of the calendar?

Dave: Correct. But following the destruction of Jerusalem, there were no more priests. So, the president of the Sanhedrin was put in charge of the calendar. He declared when a new month started, as well as whether or not the year was what we would call a leap year. But, being luni-solar, they didn’t just intercalate an extra day, but a whole extra month.

Miles: Wow!

Dave: Remember, earlier we were saying that Constantine’s son, Constantius, took it still further? Constantine outlawed the use of the Biblical calendar for Christians. Constantius outlawed its use altogether.

I’ve got here a fascinating quote from the Jewish Encyclopedia. It’s from an article on the history of the calendar. Would you read it for us?

Miles: “Under the reign of Constantius (337-362) the persecutions of the Jews reached such a height that . . . the computation of the calendar [was] forbidden under pain of severe punishment.”

Dave: This, right here, is why Jews today worship on Saturday. It was as a reaction to this situation that Hillel II, who was president of the Sanhedrin, took the extraordinary step in 359 C.E. of modifying the ancient Biblical calendar to allow the Jews to more easily coexist with the Christians.

Miles: Okay. Can you explain precisely what he did or changed?

Dave: All right. I’ll explain first what he did to the Biblical calendar, and then we’ll look at how he adapted it to the Julian calendar.

First, Hillel incorporated leap years on a permanent basis. Now, it’s likely, but I can’t prove it, that this particular cycle of leap years was used and understood prior to Hillel because it follows the 19-year metonic cycle.

Miles: That makes sense. It’s just basic astronomy.

Dave: According to another article on the Jewish calendar published on Jewfaq.org, Hillel based his calendar, quote: “on mathematical and astronomical calculations [rather than observations]. This calendar, still in use, standardized the length of months and the addition of months over the course of a 19 year cycle, so that the lunar calendar realigns with the solar years.” Unquote.

Now, a lot of people assume that is all Hillel did. But he did more. We know from Scripture that the seventh-day Sabbath on the Biblical calendar always fell on the 8^th, the 15^th, the 22^nd and the 29^th days of the lunar month, right?

Miles: Right. And it’s also obvious that the Jews today worship on Saturn’s day. They don’t worship on the Biblical Sabbath anymore.

So, are you saying that Hillel is the one responsible for the Jews worshipping on the seventh day of the pagan week, rather than the seventh day of the Biblical week?

Dave: That is what I am saying, yes.

To put it simply, Hillel allowed the Jews to keep the Sabbath on the seventh day of the Julian calendar, while continuing to use the Biblical calendar for the annual feasts. Whenever the annual feasts conflicted with worshiping on Saturday of the Julian calendar, they were to use rules of postponement.

In other words, they could use the pagan calendar for the weekly Sabbath, while using the Biblical calendar only for the annual feasts. And that is what they do to this day. They’re using two different calendars.

Miles: And this practice started back in the fourth century? No wonder everyone has assumed the Jews worship on the true, Biblical Sabbath!

Dave: There are a lot of quotes that show that Jewish scholars are well aware that today’s Saturday is not the Biblical Sabbath. For example, read this quote from the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia. It’s from an early-20^th century edition, under an article entitled “Holidays.”

Miles: Okay. Quote: “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 [New Moon] became less important, while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instruction …”

Dave: These are the writings of the Jews themselves! Now, we know that during Bible times, the Sabbath was calculated by the luni-solar calendar of Creation. We also have early Christian sepulchral inscriptions that double-date the deceased, giving both the Julian calendar date, as well as the date of the luni-solar calendar.

We also know that Constantius, in the mid-fourth century, outlawed the use of the Biblical calendar. And, finally, we know that the Jews today worship on Saturday.

Miles: So it’s logical to conclude that Hillel is the reason why the Jews today no longer worship on the original, true seventh-day Sabbath.

Dave: I believe that is what the evidence indicates, yes.

Another reason to believe this is that Hillel II was the one that introduced what are called Rules of Postponement.

Miles: Yeah, you mentioned that. What are they?

Dave: Basically, they say that the Jewish New Year, Feast of Trumpets, may not fall on Sunday, Wednesday or Friday of the Julian/Gregorian week.

If it does, the New Moon is postponed by one day. The other two rules deal with some astronomical fine points regarding what time conjunction falls during the seventh month of the Biblical calendar.

But, essentially, what it is doing is reconciling the continuously cycling week of the Julian (and later, Gregorian) calendars, with the weekly cycle of the Biblical calendar, which was always interrupted by New Moon.

Miles: That’s right. The Biblical weekly cycle restarted every month. Soooo—

Dave: So, what that means is, if the New Moon for the seventh lunation coincided with a Sunday, Wednesday, or Friday of the pagan weekly cycle, it created a difficulty in observing that month’s annual feasts.

The seventh month on the Hebrew calendar contained a lot of important feasts. You have Feast of Trumpets on the first of the month; then on the 10^th, (which, on the Biblical calendar, corresponded with the second day of the week) you have Day of Atonement. Finally, stretching from Sabbath to Sabbath, or the 15^th to the 22^nd of the lunation, was Feast of Tabernacles.

This wasn’t a problem when the weekly Sabbath was calculated by the same calendar as the annual feasts. But just as soon as the weekly Sabbath was calculated by a calendar that had a continuous weekly cycle, you start running into problems.

For example, they couldn’t have Day of Atonement falling on a Saturday.

Before Hillel authorized the use of two different calendars for calculating the weekly and annual worship days, these rules of postponement weren’t necessary. Remember that quote you read from the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia?

Miles: Yeah. “The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle.”

Dave: When both the Sabbath and the annual feasts are calculated on the luni-solar calendar, rules of postponement aren’t necessary. It’s only when the yearly feasts are calculated by one calendar, and the weekly Sabbath is calculated by another, that there are conflicts requiring rules of postponement.

Miles: I see. You need the rules of postponement, so the annual feasts don’t conflict with Saturday, the new “Sabbath”.

Dave: This adjustment, allowing the use of two calendars, was seen as an act of survival by Hillel II. It was made in response to the brutal persecutions of Constantine’s son, Constantius.

I’d like you to read this quote by the Jewish historian, Heinrich Graetz. He clearly understood the significance of what Hillel had done. This is from page 573 of the English edition of volume 2 of his series, History of the Jews.

Miles:

With his own hand the Patriarch destroyed the last bond which united the communities dispersed throughout the Roman and Persian empires with the Patriarchate. He was more concerned for the certainty of the continuance of Judaism than for the dignity of his own house, and therefore abandoned those functions for which his ancestors . . . had been so jealous and solicitous. The members of the Synhedrion favored this innovation.

Dave: When Hillel II authorized the use of two calendars, he, in his position as President of the Sanhedrin, effectually gave permission to the Jews to worship on Saturday for all future time.

Miles: What’s incredible is to see how, nearly 1700 years later, this action and reaction of Constantine and Hillel is still impacting hundreds of millions of people all around the world.

• Catholics worship on Sunday in honor of the resurrection, which was reinforced when Constantine decreed that Christians would no longer observe the luni-solar calculated Passover, and would instead observe the pagan, solar calculated Easter.
• Most Protestants, as spiritual descendants of Catholicism, also worship on Sunday.
• Jews worship on Saturday and Saturday-keeping Protestants also worship then because it’s the seventh-day of the modern week and they assume that since the Jews worship on Saturday, it must be the Biblical Sabbath.

Dave: And don’t forget Muslims. They honor the pagan/papal Gregorian method of calendation by going to mosque for prayers on Friday, their most important day of the week.

It’s simply not possible to find the true seventh-day Sabbath using the modern Gregorian calendar. It’s a solar calendar that’s nothing more than a pagan method of time calculation.

The early Julian calendar was established by pagans, for pagans. It was officially adopted for ecclesiastical use at the Council of Nicea. It was later adjusted by a Jesuit astronomer named Christopher Clavius, at the behest of Pope Gregory XIII.

Miles: Which is where the name comes from: it’s the “Gregorian” calendar. Did Clavius know that the Julian calendar was pagan?

Dave: Of course. The Jesuits are very well-educated. In explaining how the Gregorian calendar worked, Clavius admitted that when the Julian calendar was accepted as the ecclesiastical calendar of the Church, the Biblical calendar was rejected.

Here. Go ahead and read this quote. This is from Clavius himself.

Miles: "The Catholic Church has never used that [Jewish] rite of celebrating the Passover.”

Dave: Remember, the Passover can only be calculated when you use the luni-solar calendar of the Bible. You can’t find Passover on the Julian or Gregorian calendars, because they are solar calendars.

Miles: Incredible. It’s just pagan from beginning to end, isn’t it? Constantine wanted to unify the empire and he did it through ecumenism and outlawing the use of the Biblical calendar for remembering the death of Yahushua.

Dave: Hillel II wanted to insure the physical survival of Judaism. He achieved his goal by compromising with paganism and modifying the Biblical calendar.

The result of Constantine’s action and Hillel’s reaction has been the assumption that Saturday is the Biblical Sabbath and Sunday is the day on which the Saviour was resurrected.

Miles: So, both Christians and Jews have calculated their worship days using pagan solar calendation, neglecting the true Sabbath of Yahuwah.

I know most people do this ignorantly, but it strikes me as so sad, and so dishonoring of Yahuwah to use a pagan solar calendar for calculating worship days that are supposed to be honoring Him!

Wow. What a travesty.

Stay tuned, folks. Our Daily Mailbag is next.

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* * *Advertisement * * *Daily Mailbag (Miles & Dave)

Miles: Time for our Daily Mailbag. We’ve got a question from the “Land Down Under.” Wollongong, Australia, to be precise. Phil Johnson writes: “Should pastors be paid?”

Dave: Well, Phil, if you spend very much time listening to WLC Radio, or if you visit our website, you will quickly learn that at World’s Last Chance, we believe Yahuwah is warning believers today to disassociate themselves from all organized religions and denominations. No exemptions.

Miles: Revelation 18:4 says, “Come out of her, My people.” Or, as a more accurate translation puts it, “GO out of her, My people.” It’s not an invitation, but a command because all churches have either rejected advancing light, clung to old error, or both.

Dave: I appreciate the question, though, because the Biblical principle that answers your question, applies in a number of other situations, as well.

In brief, yes. I do believe that if there were an organization that was actively laying aside error, and pursuing advancing light, that the pastors (who would be as committed to truth) should be paid.

Miles, would you read 1 Timothy 5:17-18 for us?

Miles: “Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. For the Scripture says, ‘You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,’ and, ‘The laborer is worthy of his wages.’”

Dave: The laborer is worthy of his wages. Or, as another translation puts it: the workman is worthy of his hire.

Jeremiah 9:24 tells us that Yahuwah delights in justice. This principle is so important to Yah, that in the laws given to Moses, He actually spelled out that an animal used for grinding grain had to be rewarded for its labors by being given some of the grain to eat.

Miles: And obviously, a person is worth so much more.

Dave: This principle should be applied in all areas. Yes, those who work full time for Yah are worthy of their wages as well. Whether this is a pastor employed by an organization, a Bible worker brought in to give Bible studies, or a missionary.

Now, let’s read 1 Corinthians 9:1-14. This is probably the most forceful statement in support of those working for Yahuwah being financially supported.

Miles:

Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? … Are you not my work in Yahushua? If I am not an apostle to others, yet doubtless I am to you. …

My defense to those who examine me is this: Do we have no right to eat and drink? Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of Yahushua, and Cephas? Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to refrain from working? … Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

… Does not the law say the same also? For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen Eloah is concerned about?

Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown spiritual things for you, is it a great thing if we reap your material things? If others are partakers of this right over you, are we not even more?

Nevertheless we have not used this right, but endure all things lest we hinder the gospel of Christ. Do you not know that those who minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple, and those who serve at the altar partake of the offerings of the altar? Even so Yahuwah has commanded that those who preach the gospel should live from the gospel.

Dave: Yahuwah wants all of His children to be happy. So, the way this principle applies in a broader sense is that anyone whose employ is under our control should be duly and fairly compensated for his or her work.

We don’t honor Yah when we give those who work for us the lowest possible wage, knowing they have no other recourse.

Miles: And certainly those who work for Yah in any capacity should be supported to the best of our ability as well.

I want to take this from a bit of a different angle, now. Scripture’s clear that a person who works should be given a fair wage. But for those of us who have left the fallen churches, how can we support Yah’s workers?

It’s not like we’re members of an organization to which we return tithes and offerings. Any thoughts on that?

Dave: Giving to Yahuwah is one of the most rewarding and exciting ways we can show our love to Him. When we make self-sacrificing efforts to help those in need, Yahuwah keeps track and He’ll make sure He pays us back for what we have given to others. Maybe not specifically in money, but Yah will make sure that we aren’t in want for helping others.

Miles: Proverbs 19, verse 17, says basically that very same thing. I’ve always liked it. It says, quote: “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”

Dave: You can’t “out-give” Yahuwah! He’ll always give more.

Another great verse is Matthew 25, verse 40. You know that one?

Miles: Oh, yeah. That one’s better yet. It says: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

Dave: What that means is that how we treat others, is how we are treating Yahuwah. You don’t need to be members of an organization to give offerings to Yahuwah.

Perhaps there’s a young single mother who’s struggling to keep food on the table. You can share what you have and even use some of your offerings to help feed and clothe her children.

Maybe someone you know has medical expenses they can’t pay for and you can help them out. What we do to help and bless others is the same as doing it to Yahuwah because He feels everything we feel. So if we can relieve suffering or anxiety in those around us, Yahuwah Himself will feel happier as we make those around us happy.

Miles: There are a lot of ways we can help that aren’t financial. In northern climates where there is a lot of snow, snow removal can be a real difficulty for the elderly.

Dave: So, the point is, Yahushua lived to bless others. If we want to be like Him, we’ll do the same. Treating others as we would want to be treated means much more than being polite. It means that, if we have others depending on us for their livelihood, we will give them a fair wage. If we see someone who is selflessly giving of his or her time in sharing truth, we’ll do whatever we can to support them, be that financially, spiritually, or in whatever way we can help.

That’s the principle of treating others as we would want to be treated, as well as acknowledging that the workman is worthy of his hire, in all circumstances.

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* * *Daily Promise:

Hello! This is Elise O’Brien with your Daily Promise from Yah’s Word.

On June 27, 1880, a little girl was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in the United States. She may well have lived out her life and been forgotten except for something that happened when she was just a year and a half old.

Today, no one knows precisely what the child contracted—some say scarlet fever; others, meningitis—but the result was that the little girl lost both her sight and her hearing. She also lost, to a great degree, her sense of taste. Such a handicap would have been devastating for anyone, but Helen Keller did not let it hold her back.

She learned sign language and later even learned how to speak. She graduated from Radcliffe College, the female counter-part to the then-male-only Harvard University. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She traveled to over 40 different countries, frequently giving public speeches.

A contemporary publication of the time, described one of her speeches as, quote:

A message of optimism, of hope, of good cheer, and of loving service … —a message that will linger long with those fortunate enough to have received it. … The wonderful girl who has so brilliantly triumphed over the triple afflictions of blindness, dumbness and deafness, gave a talk with her own lips on "Happiness," and it will be remembered always as a piece of inspired teaching by those who heard it. [Unquote.]

Although she faced overwhelming difficulties in her life, Helen Keller never gave up and is remembered as a political activist who worked hard for the rights of women and the handicapped.

You may not face the physical difficulties Helen Keller faced, but the difficulties in your life may very well feel just as overwhelming, just as frightening and insurmountable as those facing her.

This is where faith comes in. In his Discipleship Journal, Jean-Pierre de Caussade wrote, quote:

To live by faith is to live joyfully, to live with assurance, untroubled by doubts and with complete confidence in all we have to do and suffer at each moment by the will of [Yah]. We must realize that it is in order to stimulate and sustain this faith that [Yahuwah] allows the soul to be buffeted and swept away by the raging torrent of so much distress, so many troubles, so much embarrassment and weakness, and so many setbacks. For it is essential to have faith to find [Yah] behind all this.

Whatever difficulty you are facing, whatever obstacle lays in your path, there is a way to overcome through faith in Yahuwah. Your need is itself an argument that pleads in your behalf! Keep your needs, your joys, your sorrows and fears before the Father.

You can’t overburden Him! Nothing is too small for His notice. The Bible teaches that Yahuwah is “full of mercy.” This means that His great heart is touched by our sorrows … even by our putting it into words!

No situation is too complex for him to unravel. In every emergency, He has a way of escape prepared.

In John 16:33, Yahushua said: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

We have been given great and precious promises. Go, and start claiming!

* * *Part 3: (Miles & Dave)

Miles: I think the thing I found most amazing about today’s topic is that an act that is entirely motivated by nothing more than an ambitious political agenda, could have such long-lasting consequences on all three Abrahamic religions. Because it’s not just Catholics that were affected by this. Sunday-keeping protestants, Saturday-keeping Protestants, Jews … even Muslims! They go to mosque on Fridays! It’s incredible.

Dave: The thing we need to be asking ourselves is: why? Because you know Satan’s behind it all.

Catholics refer to Constantine as a saint.

But he was no saint. As head of the empire’s pagan religion, his title was Pontifex Maximus.

Miles: The same title held by the pope today?

Dave: Exactly the same. And he held that position and title until the day he died. He was extremely corrupt. He even murdered his own son!

So how is it that someone so corrupt would have such an impact on all three of the world’s Abrahamic, monotheistic religions?

Miles: Well, it sounds like Satan was using him.

Dave: Exactly. This was an extremely complex maneuver for Satan to pull off. First, he had to have a counterfeit seven-day week in place. A seven-day week with a continuous weekly cycle that did not align with the weekly cycle of Scripture.

Then, not only did he have to outlaw the use of the Biblical calendar for both Christians and Jews, but he had to let enough time go by so that people would lose all knowledge of the change that had taken place.

How many Christians today even know what all took place at the Council of Nicea?

Miles: I’m guessing not many. Before I studied into it, all I knew about the Council of Nicea was the “Nicene creed.” That’s it. I certainly had no clue that there was any discussion of differing calendars!

Dave: That has been Satan’s agenda all along. You bury the truth of the Biblical calendar so deeply, that people don’t even question the modern week. Because it cycles continuously, and because time itself is continuous, people have assumed that the week as we have it today has simply … always been.

Then, you toss in another calendar change—from Julian to Gregorian—without disrupting the weekly cycle, and what have you got? This immense deception that Saturday is the Biblical Sabbath because it falls on the seventh-day of the week, and that Sunday is the day of Christ’s resurrection because it comes on the first day of the week, right after the day everyone believes to be the real Sabbath.

Miles: It’s a masterpiece of deception.

Dave: That’s exactly what it is. After 1700 years of this truth being lost, Heaven is now getting the truth out there.

Dave: In Eden, Adam and Eve were given a choice: obey Yah … or listen to the serpent and disobey their Creator.

At the end of his life, Joshua put the same choice before the people when he said, “Choose you this day whom you will serve.” [Joshua 24:15]

Over, and over, and over, the Israelites fell into apostasy. They turned their backs on Yah and worshiped other gods. Finally, Elijah on Mount Carmel, demanded: How long are you going to waver between two opinions?? If Yahuwah is god, follow Him! But if Baal is god, go obey him!

Here it’s no different. Our loyalty is demonstrated by our obedience.

Miles: That’s an excellent point. People get so hung up over insisting that obedience to Yah’s law is legalistic. They don’t understand that perfect obedience is possible only through faith in Yahushua, so it’s not a works trip at all. The only way we can obey is through faith.

Dave: And our loyalty, and our love, is demonstrated by our obedience. Yahushua recognized this, too. In John 14, verse 15, He said, “If you love Me, keep My commandments!”

This issue is much bigger than most people have ever realized. It’s not just dry, dusty facts of history.

Dave: Don’t be deceived into accepting error just because it is very old error. Don’t be tricked into disobeying simply because you don’t know the truth.

Each one of us needs to study our Bibles for ourselves. Let the Holy Spirit be our teacher. Get to know Yahuwah for ourselves. That’s the only way we’ll make it through the days ahead.

Miles: Amen. That personal relationship with Yah will always be what’s most important. For those of you interested in learning about the Biblical calendar, how it works, the evidence from Scripture supporting it, please visit our website. We’ve got dozens of articles on the subject as well as many videos.

Please. Don’t take our word for it. Study it out for yourself. It’s that important.

Join us again tomorrow, and until then, remember: Yahuwah loves you . . . and He is safe to trust!

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