Ah. I had just skimmed, and recalled something about Sunday. Made a guess as to exactly what it was, and obviously guessed wrongly!
[Edit: It was this that made me think at least one of the documents was defending Sunday: "Too long have Jews and Saturday Sabbatarians looked pityingly or contemptuously upon Roman Catholics and Sunday-keeping Protestants. Saturday Sabbatarians who have leveled charges of hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and inconsistency against those who worship on the first day of the week, are now learning the truth of the Biblical principle: “Do not judge lest you be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you.” " (
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I remember studying up on whether the Weeks got reset at the start of the new moon, and I was unconvinced by such an interpretation.
If the weeks were reset at the start of the new moon, then how on earth would we be able to calculate the day that the feast of weeks fell on?
According to Leviticus 23, we're to count "seven Sabbaths", and in Deuteronomy "seven weeks" from the day of firstfruits in order to get to the right day/date for the Feast of weeks. If there was no "week" to think of, how would we get the 50 days needed to get from firstfruits to the Feast of weeks?
Seven weeks of seven days fits exactly right for 49 days, and then the day after the 49th day, being the 50th day, as the right date for the Feast of weeks.
If there was a "reset" of the week during this time (and there will have been), then being able to count it would be nigh on impossible.
I also don't see how it can coincide with what's said in Exodus 20:8-11:
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it set-apart. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahuweh your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days Yahuweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahuweh blessed the sabbath day and made it set-apart.
If the weeks were reset every new moon (or pretty much every 30 days), then in a month we'd have 4 7 day weeks, and then a two day "week" at the end. Or would we have a 9-day week, with the week carrying over onto the next week? My main trouble was being able to see how the reset "week" worked at all with what Yahuweh states in the above verses.
I obviously need to read the two documents above
Actually, I guess my main question therefore would be this: What day do the documents actually say is the Sabbath day? If it doesn't more or less coincide with our Saturn's day, where exactly does it fall?