Downfall of Lunar Sabbath ritual counting
There is a teaching that is absolutely ridiculous. It's called the Lunar Sabbath. This theory teaches that you keep the 7th day Sabbath on the 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th day of each month instead of the 7th day of each week. Although this is so out of context with biblical teaching there are still some people who will be tricked into observing in that way. Therefore it is necessary to point out the following:
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. (Here He creates the sun and the moon)
Gen 1:17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
Gen 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
God created or recreated the moon on this day, it was the first day of the appointment of the moon as a time clock, it was a new moon or in the stage of 4th day moon and it was on the 4th day of the week. God did NOT rest this day. He rested on the 7th day which was 3 days after the new moon. The New Moon days are commanded to be observed, there is no commandment to rest on that day. As we are commanded to keep 7 days of unleavened bread but we are not commanded to rest every day. To temple will be opened for worship on the new moons, doesn't say any commandment to rest on that day. Notice there is no rest commandment in Genesis 1 until we get to the 7th day. IT could be said that the first day of the month was either the first day God started this work or that it was the 4th day. In either case, He doesn't proclaim a sabbath until the 7th day of this month. Thus we keep counting every 7th day from then on through out all history. The count doesn't start over with each new moon. There is NO scripture that even hints that we are to start the count over with each new moon. He never proclaimed the 8th day a sabbath. He never proclaimed the 15th and the 22nd day, nor the 29th the sabbath. He is very precise. He says we are to start the Feast of Tabernacles on the 15th day of the seventh month. He gives all the dates we need for the feast days. Therefore He would have also stated that we are to keep the weekly sabbath or the monthly sabbath on the 8th and 15th day of the month every month throughout all your generations and then also the 22 and 29th. He does NOT leave it to guessing. He gives us all the instructions we need with each Holy Day and each day of rest. We are to observe. We are to observe the new moon. A new moon is a new month.
Pagans worship Sunday. It's named after the sun. To say that the 1st day can fall on any day other than Sunday is to give them license to worship this day. Sometimes to see truth, we can look to the wrongful examples of the pagans. What are they doing? The whole world keeps Sunday. The whole world is deceived. Sunday is the focus of the catholic church. They admit changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, NOT changing from the 15th, etc. To a set day of the week.
Some people will use Amos 8:5 as instruction to rest on the Mew Moons. This is not accurate. The verse indicates that the people believed they were to not sell (they should rest) on that day. However, it's the people talking, not God! And it's NOT Amos or any prophet or any man of God declaring a day of rest. We are to go by God's Commandments and instructions, not what the people in Amos time believed. This verse is not an instruction but rather the people murmuring.
And what kind of people were these that are speaking in Amos 8:5? They are people with a wrong spirit! They think the laws are grievous. Are we to use them as example of righteousness? No way! No wonder they thought the new moons were grievous, they were keeping them the wrong way AND in the wrong spirit!
The burden of proof for a Lunar Observance of the Sabbath and counting of the Sabbath to start with each new moon is upon the shoulders of them that teach such demonic doctrine. The Bible does NOT teach such Lunar counting of weekly Sabbaths.
There is NO biblical command to rest on the New Moon day although there is instruction to assemble on that day. And there is NO instruction to use that day as a day to start the weekly cycle over again.