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Creation Week Begins-"the first day" Genesis 1:5
Sunday October 21, 4101 BC at 6:00 PM, in what is now called Israel, is “The Beginning” of Creation Week that begins with 2 Calendars that start on the same day. While I cannot say with any authority that this is the precise and exact moment that Creation began, I can say that this date in Time is the correct synchronization of the 364-Day calendar (BR) consistent with Scripture and the Gregorian calendar used today by most of the world. According to the current Gregorian desktop calendar and the numbered dates in Scripture, this is the best current estimate of the moment that Time began as it anchored into Eternity. Earth' Calendar is created on "the fourth day" when the sun and moon are created according to Genesis 1:14-19. From this moment Mankind can measure Time on a clock and a calendar that measures the sequence of 24 hour days in Earth’s history.
To put this on a global perspective, when it is 6:00 PM in what is now called Israel; it is 3:00 AM on the International Date Line. The last 6 hours of Sunday on a solar calendar are the first 6 hours of Monday on a Hebrew calendar. The 364-Day Bible Reference Calendar (BR) and Gregorian-Hebrew Calendar (GH) start on the same day at the same time of the day. At 6:00 PM it becomes Monday October 14 on the 364-Day (BR) Hebrew Calendar and the start of Day 1 of Creation. Day 1 begins with the First Sunset ("Evening") followed by the First Sunrise ("Morning") which completes the definition of a normal 24-hour day.
Creation Week is completed when Adam and Eve are created full-grown on Saturday October 19, the 6th Day of Creation. God rests on the 7th Day of Creation which is Sunday October 20, 4115 BC (BR). This same day and date on the (BR) Calendar in the year 5 BC would be the date in history on which Jesus The Christ is Born. Mainly due to the fact that there are approximately 1.25 days difference in the length of a year in the two calendars, the 364-Day Calendar and the Gregorian calendar start 7 years and 7 days apart. On the Gregorian-Hebrew Calendar (GH), the date for Day 7 of Creation is Sunday October 28, 4101 BC. This same date, Monday October 28 - Heshvan 8 in 5BC on the (BR) Calendar, would be the date on which Jesus would be circumcised.
The Sunday-to-Sunday Days of Creation Week run parallel to Easter Week when the calendar at the time of Creation and the 6-month adjusted calendar at the time of the Exodus are placed side-by-side (Exodus 12:1-3). As previously stated on the web page regarding the 364-Day Calendar, the Sunday-To-Sunday Days of Creation Week have no corresponding days on the current Hebrew Secular Calendar (HS). These 8 Sunday-to-Sunday days are added to the 356 Days of the Hebrew calendar to create the 364-Day Calendar consistent with Scripture. On the 364-Day Calendar the days of Creation Week occur between the end of the first month of Tishri and and the beginning of the second month of Heshvan at the time of Creation. Sunday October 13 becomes Tishri 31 at the end of the first year on the 364-Day Calendar. The following list shows the Day# for calculating the Date From Creation (DFC) and the corresponding Gregorian-Hebrew (GH) date consistent with the numbered years in Scripture.
Dated Event #1 of Scripture
Creation of Time Starts with the Creation of Light – “the first day” of Creation
DFC Day #362 = Monday October 14 – Creation Day 1, 4115 BC Genesis 1:3-5
Monday October 22 – Heshvan 1 in 4101 BC (GH)
On the “first day” of Creation Week God begins by creating Time by the creation of Light. Days 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Creation Week can be described as days of separation creating order in the material universe. Days 5 and 6 become focused on filling the air, sea, and land with fully mature life forms each "according to its kind." In verses 3 God simply speaks Light into existence out of nothing when God says, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” Before Light was created, “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters” according to Genesis 1:2. Time is the first thing needed to precisely measure the events of Creation and can only be measured with the existence of light that is divided from darkness. Unlike Eternity, Time has a “Beginning” and an “End” and is measurable on a clock and calendar once the Sun, Moon and Stars are created on "the fourth day." Time is measured in portions of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. A Day is clearly defined in Scripture as beginning with an “evening” period of darkness at 6:00 PM, followed by a “morning” period of light at 6:00 AM. Since the Earth is always evenly divided in “darkness” and “light,” it is reasonable to assume that these periods of light and darkness average out to be equal in length when viewing the Earth as a sphere in its totality.
As previously mentioned, the text of Scripture is very clear that the Days of Creation Week are ordinary 24 hour days. Each Day of Creation Week has an “evening and the morning” and a number. No other accurate interpretation of the text is possible to define the length of a Day in the Genesis account. Anyone who teaches that the Days of Creation Week are different than ordinary 24 hour days has immediately identified themselves as a Teacher with a low opinion of the Biblical text. All of Scripture and Truth rests on the foundational historical accuracy of the correctly translated text of Genesis and the rest of Scripture. It is very clear that the Book of Genesis claims to be the accurate reporting of real history and real people in real measurable Time. The God described in the Biblical text is clearly the Author of the text. It is impossible that the 40 human authors of Scripture could have put down the words and numbered dates of Biblical history so accurately. From Creation to the Crucifixion, there are no gaps or overlaps of time. The events can be accurately displayed on Earth's calendars using only the numbered dates and information found in the text of Scripture. The God who authored the Bible is the only eye-witness of the events of Creation Week and the only possible source of accurate information.
Dated Event #2 in Scripture
Space and Matter are Separated – “the second day” of Creation Week
DFC Day #363 = Tuesday October 15 – Creation Day 2, 4115 BC Genesis 1:6-8
Tuesday October 23 – Heshvan 2, 4101 BC (GH)
The "second day" of Creation Week is another day of separation and order. On this Day the Earth that is covered in water is separated by a space called the “firmament” which God calls “Heaven” in Genesis 1:8. This “firmament” is the sky and space above that we see when we look up from the Earth. Above this space called "Heaven," there is also a great amount of water in the form of thick clouds which some writers refer to as a water canopy around the Earth. The exact nature of this water area above the area called “firmament” or “Heaven” cannot be precisely known as it has apparently changed since the time of Noah’s Flood. The 40 days of rain begins Noah's Flood when “all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” according to Genesis 7:11. This “firmament in the midst of the waters” divides “the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.” Like everything else created by God during Creation Week, the firmament was simply spoken by God into existence ex nihilo or out of nothing. Psalms 148:4 makes reference to the division of these heavens when it says, “Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!” Today we would probably refer to this “firmament Heaven” mentioned in Genesis 1:6-8 as our atmosphere which supplies our needed oxygen. The clouds above also continue to supply water from clouds but fortunately not to the extent seen at the time of Noah’s Flood. We can speculate that this “firmament” could now be called the “first heaven” with the stars and other heavenly bodies being the “second heaven.” What Paul calls the “third heaven” in II Corinthians 12:2 would be the real place that we normally refer to as Heaven. The “third heaven” is where God’s followers go when they die and the place where God resides.
Dated Event #3 in Scripture
Land & Water Divided – First Life Forms Created – “the third day” of Creation
DFC Day #364 = Wednesday October 16 – Creation Day 3, 4115 BC Genesis 1:9-13
Wednesday October 24 – Heshvan 3, 4101 BC (GH)
On "the third day" of Creation Week God makes His last main separation by dividing the water from the land. The Day starts with an Earth covered by water and ends with the water gathered in one place and the appearance of dry land. It is reasonable to assume that there may have been fresh water lakes and rivers on the land since fresh water “floats” on top of salt water because it is lighter with less salt content. Salt water lakes may have also been found at lower elevations. This would also be true after the water covered the Earth for the second time at the time of Noah’s Flood. The description in Chapter 1 of Genesis seems to imply that at the end of this Third Day there is one piece of land surrounded by one body of water. This appears to be consistent with what is seen by looking at a globe of the Earth. The current continents appear to have once been one piece that was broken up like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle at the time of Noah’s Flood. God simply speaks His Word and the waters separate and the land appeared. “God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas.”
The Earth that was once “without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep,” described in Genesis 1:2, now has the shapes formed by Earth (land) and Sea that can be seen due to the presence of light. The land and the water are now both divided shapes of matter that can be filled with all forms of life “according to its kind.” God spoke again and “the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seeds according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind” according to Genesis 1:12. All plant life was fully grown and able to reproduce itself. The fruit, seeds and plants would also produce food for the animal life that would be created on "the fifth day" and the "sixth day" of Creation Week. We can reasonably assume that there was also plant life in the seas as well as the land. Even though the Sun would not be created until the next Day, the process of photosynthesis in plants that produces oxygen for water and land animals would have started due to the presence of the Light that was created on Day One of Creation Week.
This "third day" would be “ground Zero” on the calendar numbering system for calculating the Dates From Creation (DFC) dating of events. DFC dates are explained on the web page entitled "5 Year + 1 Day Rule." The next Day, "the fourth day," would be Day #1 on the DFC counting calendar and the first day that would appear on any of Earth's calendars. As the year would end, "the third day" of Creation would become Day #364 on the DFC counting calendar. This 364-Day Bible Reference Calendar (BR), with its DFC numbered days, is used to accurately date events in Scripture. This Bible Timeline research will show that this 364-Day Calendar (BR) is the "Engine" spawns the Gregorian and Julian solar calendars of Earth.
Dated Event #4 in Scripture
Sun, Moon, Stars and Seasons Created – “the fourth day” of Creation Week
DFC Day #1 = Thursday October 17 – Creation Day 4, 4115 BC Genesis 1:14-19
Thursday October 25 – Heshvan 4, 4101 BC (GH)
The "fourth day" of Creation Week becomes the completion and fulfillment of the events of "the first day." On "the first day" the separation between darkness and light is created by the creation of Time and Light. On the "fourth day" the light created on "the first day" is attached to the heavenly bodies such as stars, moons, planets, comets and our Sun. These “lights in the firmament” do not create their own light but function as transmitters of light. Some people think that the universe must be millions or billions of years old because some stars are millions of light years away. A light year is the distance light travels in a year which is about 6 trillion miles. Scripture is very clear that the light was created first and attached to the heavenly bodies “to divide the day from the night” on Day# Four of Creation Week. The glowing heavenly bodies also became a guide to people on Earth to measure “seasons, and for days and years.”
On Day# One of Creation Week, Time began with the creation of Light. Now time can be measured in seconds, days, years and seasons. This is only possible because the patterns of movement of the Earth, Moon, Sun and stars can be measured and are dependable and unchanging. Like the other Days of Creation Week, this all happens because God says, “Let there be” as He speaks the heavenly bodies of light transmitters into existence out of nothing in Genesis 1:14. As previously stated, Time and Light and Darkness are created on Day One. Day Four becomes the first day on the calendar that measures the passage of Time since there could not be a calendar before the Sun and Moon were created. With a calendar it becomes possible to identify and label the repeating 7 days of a week, repeating weeks, months, seasons and years. The Sun and stars appear to produce their own light as they burn matter. Planets, moons, comets, and asteroids reflect light from stars.
The Sun appears to be made up of 98% helium and hydrogen and burns many thousands of tons of this matter every second. It has been known for many years that the Sun is shrinking in diameter at a rate of about five feet per day. One scientist has estimated that if the Sun were 50,000 years old, the oceans on Earth would have boiled unless the sun was a much greater distance away. Several scientists have concluded that based on the speed of the shrinking Sun and the decreasing strength of Earth's Magnetic Field, it seems impossible that the Earth could be older than about 7,000 years. Many scientists who recognize these well known facts are still staunch Evolutionists. These scientific facts about the most pressing natural dangers to planet Earth will probably not be mentioned in the Science textbooks found in your children's school. The reader is encouraged to do your own research of the facts in order to properly discern scientific fact from Evolutionary theory that is not based on true scientific investigation.
Dated Event #5 in Scripture
Sea Animals and Birds Created – “the fifth day” of Creation Week
DFC Day #2 = Friday October 18 – Creation Day 5, 4115 BC Genesis 1:20-23
Friday October 26 – Heshvan 5, 4101 BC (GH)
On "the fifth day" of Creation, God speaks swarms of living creatures into the Sea and fills the expanse above the Earth with birds. Day# Five of Creation Week is the first day of conscious life forms. On Day# Three plants were made that were living but without consciousness or the ability to move freely as an individual. God commands all living creatures in the Sea and Heavens to “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth” according to Genesis 1:22. The same command is given to all the animals on land and to Adam and Eve on Day# Six of Creation Week. The ability to reproduce in obedience to God’s command is only possible because each species has its own DNA coding. On Days# 3, 5 and 6 the phrase “according to its kind” is used a total of 8 times in Genesis 1:11-25.
On Day# 3 of Creation Week it is very clear that grass, herbs and fruit trees produce other plants with the same genetic coding. Grasses do not become fruit trees. There is no evolutionary process of one species becoming another. There is no mention in Scripture of simple life forms evolving upwards to form more complex living organisms. Like the other Days of Creation Week, God simply speaks His Word and an uncountable number of living creatures fill the sea and the air. All creatures are created full grown with their own unique genetic coding completely formed. According to Genesis 1:20-21, this all happened on Day# Five because, 20) “Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens. 21) So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.”
It is very clear from Scripture that birds do not evolve from reptiles as is commonly touted by some evolutionary scientists. While there is variation and change within a species, this has absolutely nothing to do with the instantaneous creation of an all species of birds and water creatures in one 24 hour period. Science, with its vast amount of information, has absolutely no way of explaining or contributing to our understanding of the incredible events of Creation Week. Evolutionary explanations defy every form of rational processes and known true science. There are two main reasons that Science has difficulty explaining Evolution. Evolution is biologically impossible and there is no evidence for it because it never happened.
Dated Event #6 in Scripture
Creation of Land Animals and Adam and Eve – "the sixth day" of Creation Week
DFC Day #3=Saturday October 19 – Creation Day 6, 4115 BC Genesis 1:24-31, 2:7-25, and 5:3-5
Saturday October 27 – Heshvan 6 in 4101 BC (GH)
God begins the "sixth day" of Creation Week by creating all land-based creatures “according to its kind” according to Genesis 1:24-25, The Land animals are divided into “cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth.” Cattle would probably include all four-legged domestic animals. The beasts of the earth would refer to all other land based animals including the dinosaurs. Creeping things would refer to all forms of animals that walk or crawl on the earth. This would also include all forms of insects that fly or move in some manner on the ground. Day# Six of Creation Week is finished with the creation of Adam and Eve.
With reference to Adam and Eve, Scripture does not use the phrase “according to its kind.” Instead Genesis 1:26-28 states, “26) Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27) So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28) Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” It is very clear that God created Adam and Eve to be the only animal in creation that can reproduce offspring that will be in the “image of God.” Eve, the first woman, was also created on Day Six of Creation according to Genesis 2:18-25. Adam and Eve were the first and only man and woman created fully mature and were not born of a woman. The DFC Event #16 date of Adam’s death would fall on Sunday April 20 - Iyar 3, 3184 BC (BR). The DFC life span of Adam would cover 930 Years plus 183 days according to Genesis 5:3-5. The Sunday date of Adam's Death on April 20 - Iyar 3 is also the DFC birth date of John the Baptist in 5 BC. John the Baptist was born 6 months before his cousin Jesus.
Dated Event #7 in Scripture
Day Seven of Creation and the Jewish Sabbath
Creation Completed and God Rests – "the seventh day" of Creation Week
DFC Day #4 = Sunday October 20 – Creation Day 7, 4115 BC Genesis 2:1-3
Sunday October 28 - Heshvan 7, 4101 BC (GH)
“2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2) And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3) Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”
Day# Seven of Creation Week is certainly a Day that has been set apart from the other six days of Creation. Day Seven is the day that God “sanctified” and “rested” from His creation. God did not rest because he was tired. God rested because Creation was complete. “God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good” according to Genesis 1:31. God had created everything and it was perfect. God could enjoy His Creation on the Seventh Day of Creation until the Fall of Adam and Eve a short time later. Prior to the Fall, the Earth was a very different place. At the time of Day# Seven of Creation Week, Adam and Eve had not been disobedient to God's commands. The effects of the Fall into Sin had not entered into God's Perfect Creation at this point in Time. There was no death, dying, decay, or disease. There was no rain, tornadoes, earthquakes, bad weather or weeds. Man did not have to work to acquire the basic essential of life such as food and shelter. Childbirth would have been painless. Any plant food that was needed was readily available in some form of seed, fruit or vegetable for all of God’s creatures including Man. There was a great abundance and diversity of types of food. Killing something else to eat it was not necessary. God ceased from all His creative work because nothing else needed to be done. When Adam and Eve fell into disobedience, God then turned His attention to the preservation of a fallen world that was always plunging toward death and decay. Since He is a Holy God and “the wages of sin is death,” (Romans 6:23), God then began the process of Redemption. Because Human nature is bent toward Sin, there is nothing anyone can do on their own to satisfy the demands of a Holy God. Unless God supplies a Savior who can pay the Ransom Price of Sin, all of Mankind will be lost forever. Since the penalty for sin is eternal and spiritual death, Scripture begins to record the history of Salvation in Genesis 3:15 where it states, “He shall bruise your head.” This is the first mention of the “He” who would bring Salvation. The rest of the Old Testament history of the Nation of Israel is basically the History of the process of Salvation with the promise of the coming Messiah. The New Testament is the authoritative record of the Birth and Life of Jesus The Christ.
The significance of Day# Seven is given more clarification and commentary by Moses during the Exodus. At this time, Day# Seven of Creation Week becomes the Jewish Sabbath. The Sabbath is Saturday and the last day of the Hebrew Week. The Sabbath is a weekly perpetual reminder of Man's dependence on God for everything; especially the need for Salvation. In the Book of Exodus we have the retelling of what happened with Moses when he goes to Mount Sinai and receives The Sinaiatic or Mosaic Law. It is also sometimes called the Old Covenant in the form of the Ten Commandments. The events on Mount Sinai are described in Chapter 19 of the Book of Exodus. The rest of the book deals with the many specific aspects of Jewish Law and the building of the Tabernacle. At Mount Sinai the divine standard of righteousness is established that is needed to satisfy the requirements of a Holy God. Exodus 20:8-11 reveals part of that standard of righteousness to 8) “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9) Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10) but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11) For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” The Sabbath Day is further stipulated as a “sign” of a perpetual covenant that must be obeyed every week of one’s life. This can be contrasted to the Abrahamic Covenant with the one-time “sign” of Circumcision described in Exodus 17:9-14. The importance of keeping the Sabbath Law is again stressed in Exodus 31:12-17. The Sabbath is clearly a day to set aside normal activities and devote yourself of focusing on your relationship to God. This important aspect of the purpose of the Fourth Commandment seems to be often missed among the concern over what can and cannot be done or on which day it should be celebrated. Jesus gives more insight into the purpose of Day# 7 and the inappropriate idolization of the Sabbath Day among the spiritually blind Jewish leaders.
Before turning to the New Testament to get an updated perspective on the importance of the Sabbath, I need to share a concern. The reader may have asked or is probably beginning to ask why I am saying that Day# Seven of Creation Week is a Sunday rather than a Saturday. It has long been assumed due to ancient Hebrew calendar teachings that Day# 7 of Creation Week is the Jewish Sabbath which falls on Saturday. As previously explained, this Jewish tradition was established when Moses received the Ten Commandments. The Jewish Sabbath does fall on Saturday and is the day that is to be “blessed” and “sanctified” according to Mosaic Law described in Exodus 31:12-18. This Jewish custom is in obedience to God’s commandment to set aside one day of the week to give a special focus on devotion and worship of God. The reader may or may not be aware that the days of the week, such as Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., are never mentioned in Genesis or any other part of Scripture. The 7 Days of Creation are simply given a number for a very practical reason that I will attempt to explain. I wish to begin by saying that I did not come to this conclusion simply because I am a Christian. I came to this conclusion because that is the conclusion dictated by my research data. The idea that Day 7 would turn out to be a Sunday never entered my mind as I simply began to try to find out how old the Earth was according to the numbered years and dates in Scripture. I hope the reader will bear with me a moment and not turn off until you have at least heard me out.
Why are the days of Creation Week nameless and only numbered?
In explaining Creation Week and Day# 7 as a Sunday, I wish to avoid an experience that I had early on in my research of the Bible Timeline. I was working as a Security Guard and one of my fellow employees was a Seventh-Day Adventist. One day during lunch, I showed him one of my early versions on the Timeline Poster and he was very interested. He was enthusiastically asking me many questions about Daniel and Noah’s Ark and was clearly someone who believed that the Bible was the Word of God. His enthusiasm came to a screeching halt when he saw on my Poster that Day# 7 of Creation was a Sunday. It was no comfort to him that Day# 1 started at 6:00 PM on a Sunday on a solar calendar but that is the start of Monday on a Jewish calendar. From that point he clearly withdrew from the conversation and would only talk about it as a sort of “courtesy” to me. I made several attempts to explain my researched findings but it seemed to be to no avail. I prayed many times that God would show me my error if there was one or help me to explain it better. I had always thought there was some connection between the 364-Day Calendar and the Gregorian and Julian solar calendars in use today. Over a year later, I began to see the connection between the linear non-solar 364-Day Calendar consistent with Scripture and the digital solar Gregorian calendar in use today.
The 364 Day calendar is a linear calendar that lays down fifty-two consecutive 7-Day weeks much like railroad ties on a train track. At the end of the year, the process starts over so that January 1 is always Tevet 12 and always falls on a Tuesday on the 364-Day Calendar. The last day of the year, on this same 364 Day calendar, falls on December 30 which is always Tevet 11 and is a Monday. On a digital Gregorian calendar, January 1 will fall on a different day of the week every year depending on what day is the last day of the year and whether it is a leap year or not. The same is true for any date on the currently used secular Hebrew calendar that is a different Hebrew calendar from the one consistent with Scripture. The 364-Day calendar resulting from this research has both Gregorian and Hebrew calendar nomenclature.
As previously mentioned, the problem with any Hebrew calendar is that the 8 Sunday-to-Sunday days of Creation Week, do not have any corresponding nomenclature dates on the Hebrew Secular Calendar. Since the Hebrew calendar only has a total of 356 Days to choose from, the Hebrew Secular calendar resorts to adding an extra 29 day month called Adar II every so many years. There are actually 6 different length years in use by this Hebrew Secular calendar. It is interesting to note that the secular Hebrew Calendar starts 340 years after the numbered years in Scripture would dictate. It is also interesting to note that the first day of Tishri 1 on the Hebrew secular calendar is Monday September 7, 3761 BC on the Gregorian calendar. The same event of the same year on the Julian calendar is October 7. These 8 Sunday-Sunday days are added to the 356 Days of the Hebrew calendar to create the 364-Day Calendar consistent with Scripture. On the 364-Day Calendar the days of Creation Week occur between the end of the first month of Tishri and and the beginning of the second month of Heshvan at the time of Creation. Sunday October 13 becomes Tishri 31 at the end of the first year on the 364-Day Calendar.
When the 364-Day calendar is used as the digital Master Solar calendar (MS), all the numbered Days of Creation Week rotate the days of the week just like any other date such as January 15. The main point I am getting at is that on a solar calendar, Day# 7 of Creation Week falls on a different day of week just like any other day on a solar calendar. As previously mentioned, the year of 4101 BC was a Special year on the Gregorian calendar. A Special year is a leap year with only 365 days that functions to correct the mathematical error in the length of a solar year on the Julian calendar. In the year 4101 BC, the Gregorian calendar year ends on a Monday just like the 364-Day calendar which always ends on a Monday. On the Gregorian calendar, the first occurrence of Day# Seven during Creation Week falls on Sunday October 28 - Heshvan 7, 4101 BC on a Gregorian Calendar because that year ends on a Monday. At the time of Creation, the two calendars are 14 years and 7 days apart due to the 1.25 day average difference in the length of a year. In the year 30 AD, to two calendars become synchronized so that the 364-Day calendar becomes the digital Master Solar (MS) calendar generating the Gregorian calendar. The digital Julian calendar is directly attached to and dependent on the Gregorian dates and is also ultimately spawned by the 364 Day (BR) calendar. I hope it is now clear that Day# 7 of Creation will digitally fall on every day of the week depending on the day the year starts or ends on any solar based calendar. It functions just like any other specific day on a Gregorian or Hebrew solar calendar that falls on a different day of the week depending on the start day of January 1 of that year.
On several occasions Jesus addressed the issue giving the Sabbath Day a misplaced focus of attention. In Matthew 12:1-2, Jesus is challenged by the Pharisees when "Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!” Jesus used three illustrations from Scripture to refute the Pharisees claim. Jesus reminds them of events told in 1 Samuel 21:1-6 when David and his men ate consecrated bread from the Tabernacle that was normally used only by the Priests. David and Jesus both taught that preserving life was more important than a ritual technicality. Jesus also exposed the Pharisees hypocrisy that they work doing sacrifices on the Sabbath and consider themselves blameless (Matthew 12:5). Jesus quotes Hosea 6:6, 6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. In Matthew 12:6-8 Jesus makes it very clear that He is of greater importance than the Temple and in charge of the Sabbath";"8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
The Seventh Day of Creation was designed as a reminder of the need to obey God's righteous Law. It was not itself a moral law and it was not a means of achieving righteousness. It is a day to remember God is our Creator and that He alone is Holy. This was to be a day when the normal duties of daily life were to be set aside to contemplate and worship Him. In his sermon on "The Sabbath of Moses" (Exodus 31:121-17), John MacArthur clarifies the simple significance of the Sabbath Day. "When you remembered the Sabbath Day, all you had to do was glance up and remember your obligation to: "Love the Lord your God with all you heart, soul, mind and strength." And to look down and remember that you needed to love your neighbor with a perfect love as well. And you were reminded again that you were to have no God but the true God, and make no graven image, and so forth. And you were reminded not to kill and steal and covet and commit adultery and so forth. All of that was to be the focus of thought. That was God's intention." Whether you celebrate the Sabbath on Saturday or Sunday is not as important as the fact that you take one day out of your week to give special emphasis to worshipping and thinking about God and your relationship to Him. The problem is more of a practical one since we need to also have the fellowship of other believers. Scripture is very clear that believers need to spend time in worship with other believers. The early Christians were Jewish and went to the Synagogue on Saturday in keeping with their tradition and the felt demands of Scripture. The early Christians also gathered on Sunday since that was the day of the Resurrection. It became clear that both Jews and Christians agreed on worshiping the God of the Old Testament. There was a problem that required a separation between the two faiths. The main difference encountered then and now between Jews and Christians is the recognition of Jesus as the Messiah. The day you celebrate the Sabbath is of little importance compared to who you recognize as Lord and Savior.
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