The "15th" Is "Referred" To As The "Seventh
Day".
There is scripture
that clearly teach that the 1st day of Unleavened bread/15th is the 7th day of the week each year and we have overlooked them
because of our traditions. This verse alone proves the Lunar Sabbaths because there is no way to have the 15th day of the
month/moon be a weekly Sabbath each year unless the weeks are lunar. The following will show that the 15th day of the month/moon
is referred to as the first day of the feast AND the seventh day of the week.
Leviticus 23:6-7 shows the 15th day being called the first day, it says, and on the
15th day is the feast of Unleavened Bread and you must eat unleavened bread seven days. In the first day you shall have an
holy convocation.
Notice the first
day is referring to the 15th day and this is an absolute and you can say that the 15th is the first day of unleavened bread.
This one is easy but the next one which shows the 15th being referred to as the SEVENTH day requires some
thinking. Throughout the Scriptures when we see the word SEVENTH, many times it is referring to the Sabbath
but is called the seventh day instead of Sabbath. In the first five books, from Genesis through Deuteronomy, seventh
day is mentioned approximately 57 times and over half of them is referring to the Sabbath day even though
it is called the seventh day. Example, and Elohim rested the seventh day. We know this seventh
day is referring to the Sabbath. Another one says the seventh day is the Sabbath/intermission. Sabbath means intermission.
There are many others which say things like, in the seventh day you shall rest, in seed time and in harvest etc. again, the
seventh day is referring to the Sabbath. There are to many to mention everyone of them but my point is that seventh
day was a household term and when people heard it they associated the words seventh day with Sabbath unless
it was obviously speaking of the carnal number seven. Having said all this, I will go to Exodus 13:6 which
says the feast/Chag is in the seventh day. How would someone back then have understood that statement, the
feast is in the seventh day? What feast is in the seventh day?
Exodus 13:6 says,
"Seven
days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the "seventh day" shall be “A” "feast" to the
YHWH. 7Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days;"
Notice! it says, "A" feast is "in" the SEVENTH DAY, "SINGULAR"
i.e. the feast/Chag is on ONE of the seven days of unleavened bread. When we understand that the Hebrew word for feast here
in this verse is Chag and the 15th is always called the Chag, then we can understand the verse as they understood it and that
is the Chag/Feast is on the weekly seventh day.
We
have asked ourselves, is the "seventh day" that the feast/Chag is in, refering to the seventh day of the feast/21st
or the seventh day of the week/15th?????
Remember
one of the seven days of the feast has to be the seventh day of the week, this is an absolute. Did these people understood
that seventh day was referring to the 15th day? Philo a Levite Priest who lived at that time certainly did because he teaches
there are TWO seventh days during the feast, one that begins it and one that ends it. See THE DECALOGUE
XXX (159)
Philo also teaches that
both of the seven-day feasts ( Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles) have been assigned to the FOURTH COMMANDMENT SEVENTH DAY
OF THE WEEK/15th. THE DECALOGUE XXX (161) And he also, referring to the first day of Unleavened Bread, and calls it the SEVENTH
DAY OF SEVEN DAYS. THE SPECIAL LAWS, II XI (41)
The Greek Septuagint refers
to the wave sheaf as being waived on the next day after the first day of unleavened bread/16th in Leviticus 23:11 and in verse
15, it refers to the first day of unleavened bread as a WEEKLY Sabbath by using the Hebrew word Sabbath which refers to the
weekly Sabbath.
Dr. Samuel Bacchiocchi in his attempt to show the wave sheaf is to be
waived on the morrow after the weekly Sabbath, which I agree, shows how the word Sabbath in the Greek Septuagint refers to
the weekly Sabbath or the week it's self. This shows that the scholars that translated the Septuagint understood that the
15th day in the first month each year was a weekly Sabbath which is in harmony with Exodus 13:6, and would
explain how the people that read from the Septuigant were at Pentecost on the same day as those that read from the Hebrew
Text.
This is found in Dr. Samuel Bacchiocchi's book God’s Festivals in Scripture
and History, Part 1 * The Spring Festivals, page 168. I have not verified this because I did not want to play $25 for his
book. Perhaps someone has it and can check it out and let me know. I do have the Septuagint and I have verified that it calls
the 15th a weekly Sabbath by using the Hebrew word for weekly Sabbath.
He writes,
"But
in verse 15 of the same chapter we read, "You shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath." The word "Sabbath"
in Greek, when used by itself, can mean only the seventh day of the week or the week as a whole, but not an annual feast."
So on one hand the Septuagint appears to endorse the Holy Day as a Sabbath in verse 11, and then linguistically implies
this Sabbath is a 7th day Sabbath.
He wrote,
The
Festival Sabbath reckoning.
“First, let's go back to Leviticus 23:11-15.
We saw earlier how the Septuagint
translates verse 11 this way…"the priest shall wave the omer on the morrow after the first day [of Unleavened
Bread].
However the Septuagint itself contradicts the translation of this scripture. Here is how the Septuagint translates
verse 15. "You shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath". According to the structure of this Greek translation,
the word "Sabbath" in Greek, when used by itself, can only refer to the 7th day of the week or the week as a whole.
But, it can never refer to an annual feast. This is what Dr Samuel Bacchiocchi mentions in his book entitled God’s Festivals
in Scripture and History, Part 1 * The Spring Festivals, page 168.
"But in
verse 15 of the same chapter we read, "You shall count from the morrow after the Sabbath." The word "Sabbath"
in Greek, when used by itself, can mean only the seventh day of the week or the week as a whole, but not an annual feast."
So on one hand the Septuagint appears to endorse the Holy Day as a Sabbath in verse 11, and then linguistically implies
this Sabbath is a 7th day Sabbath.
RESPONSE; in Samuel's mind, the Septuagint
is contradicting itself. If Samuel and the Jews that were debating the Pentecost count only knew that the true weeks were
originally lunar and the seventh day of the lunar week is the true Sabbath or 7th day, the Septuagint would harmonize ,
Exodus 13:6 says, "in the "seventh day" shall be a "feast"
to the YHWH. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days;"
If we put a comma instead of a period at the end of YHWH, it will read like this, "in the seventh
day shall be a feast to YHWH, Unleavened Bread shall be eaten seven days". i.e. beginning on the seventh day which is
the 15th (Chag) and it is the first day of the seven day feast, it is the ONLY day that is called a Chag.
From this verse we see conclusively that the "Chag"/feast
is in the "seventh day" and is called a feast, and at first glance someone would think that the seventh day is referring
to the seventh day of the feast/21st, that the Chag/feast is in, instead of the seventh day of the week/15th, but I will show
that the Chag is not in the last day of the feast but is in the first day of the feast which is the 15th, which is always
the seventh day of the week.
The
definition of the Word Chag is Strong's 2282
H2282
çÈâ çÇâ
Chag cha^g
khag, khawg
A
festival, or a victim therefore:—(solemn) feast (day), sacrifice, solemnity.
The Chag is simply referring to the day the Passover sacrifice or victim which is
killed on the 14th and eaten with unleavened bread in the 15th which is the seventh day of the week, and a day to be much
remembered, not the 21st or seventh day of the feast and the verse in question says that the Chag/victim is in the seventh
day which is referring to the 15th not the 21st.
It continues after saying that the feast/chag is in the seventh day by repeating " unleavened bread shall
be eaten seven days" i.e. it begins on the 15th/seventh day and continues 7 days.
"Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and "in" the seventh day
(15th) shall be a feast (victim) to the YHWH. Unleavened bread shall be eaten (with it) seven days"; (beginning on the
15th Sabbath or seventh day of the week.
Notice
that seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten is repeated twice. The verse is simply saying that you are to eat unleavened
bread for seven days and in the seventh day/15th is the Chag/victim which is eaten with unleavened bread and continues for
seven days. The 15th is the main meal in the feast in referred to as a Chag. The main meal is in the seventh day. Remember
Philo and the Jews that lived during the time of our Saviour understood that the 15th was the seventh day and began these
feasts.
Numbers 28:17 says, And "in"
the "fifteenth" day of this month is the "feast": (Chag) seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten".
Notice is says, "in" the "fifteenth" day of this
month is the "feast/Chag": Exodus 13:6 says the feast/Chag is in the seventh day. Now I ask you, is the feast in
the 15th day or is the feast in the seventh day? Could the 15th be the seventh day which would harmonize the two verses? Leviticus
23 says, on the morrow after the Sabbath/15th the Priest shall wave the sheaf. The 15th and Sabbath and seventh day or synonymous.
NO WHERE is the 21st, (7th day of the feast) ever referred to as a
chag. If the traditional Sabbath had not phased its way in, no one would think the Chag/feast was on the 21st instead of the
15th.
Numbers 28:16-17 is almost identical
wording as in Exodus 13:6.
The Hebrew
word for "feast" in this verse is Chag/victim/sacrifice, it is killed on the 14th and eaten "in" the 15th
with unleavened bread which continues for seven days, and the 15th is always called a Chag therefore the Chag or victim is
in the 15th or seventh day, as Ex. 13:6 says, instead of the 21st.
Notice it says, "in the fifteenth day of this month is the "feast":
(Chag) seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten", and in Exodus 13:6, which is our original verse, it says,
"in the "seventh
day" shall be a "feast" (Chag) to the YHWH. Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven
days" Exodus 13:6
Almost identical
wording.
Again I ask the question,
is the Chag/victim in the 15th or in the seventh day?? Or is the 15th and seventh day one and the same?????
We now have case law from Scripture that the Chag is in the "seventh
day" and there is case law that the Chag is also in the "15th" day. When We understand
that the weeks were originally by the moon and the 15th is always the seventh day of the Lunar week, the verse makes sense.
I will give you a few more Scriptures
which prove the Chag is in the 15th day which is synonymous with "seventh day" in Exodus 13:6
Leviticus 23:5-6 "In the fourteenth day of the first month at
even is the YHWH’S Passover. 6And on the "fifteenth" day of the same month is the "feast" of unleavened
bread unto the YHWH: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
Almost identical wording "again".
And again the Hebrew word feast is Chag and it says that the Chag is on the 15th which is one
of the two seventh days that Philo the Jew spoke of and says there is one seventh that don't come after the number six during
the 7 day feast but comes before it. It is the same seventh day of the week that he says the feasts are assigned to and lasts
7 days and Philo also said "it (15th) is the seventh day of seven days."THESPECIAL LAWS Xl (41) see my Philo article
at
http://www.lunarsabbath.org/Jews%20Observed%20Same%20Lunar%20Sabbath%20as%20The%20Messiah%20Did.html