NOTES ON THE GREGORIAN AND JULIAN CALENDARS

The original goal of inventing the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of the pagan festival Easter. Before pope Gregory introduced his calendar, Europe followed the Julian calendar, which was invented by Julius Caesar in 46 BC.  Julius Caesar had miscalculated the length of the solar year by eleven minutes.  This eventually resulted in the date of the pagan festival Easter to move away from the spring equinox with each year.

During the reign of Constantine [306-337 AD], the Romans observed the calendar of Julius Caesar, the Julian calendar.  It was Julius Caesar, in 46 BC, who separated the months and weeks from the moon and made a continuous eight day cycle. In the Bible, the word "month" refers to the moon 250 times. New moon literally means "new month". Julius Caesar separated the months and weeks from the moon making their lengths fixed.  

The Julian calendar originally was an eight day calendar which had a seven day Saturday thru Friday weekly cycle followed by an eighth day called "Market Day". Saturday originally was the first day of the week, Sunday was the second day, Monday was the third, and so on.  Saturday, which is kept as the Sabbath by many Jews, Messianics, and some Protestants, was never the biblical seventh day Sabbath.  Saturday aka Saturn's day had always been the first day of the pagan week since Saturn was the high god. Even ancient Israel, when in rebellion against YHVH, worshiped the pagan god Saturn and worship him on his "sabbath" day (Saturday/Saturn's day) which was on the first day of the pagan week.  Anyway, whichever pagan god/goddess is the high god, his/her "sabbath" is placed as the first day of the pagan week. Since Saturn was the high god, his day (Saturday) was first on the pagan calendar. 


Notice on the Julian calendar below how the pagan god Saturn is first.  His "sabbath" was the first day of the pagan week.

Saturn with sickle

So the question is, why do so many of God's people keep Saturn's day as the biblical seventh day Sabbath?  

WHY I BECAME A LUNAR SABBATARIAN

When Yeshua (Jesus) asked me to come out of paganism, I had no idea just how much I had to give up.  And right when I thought I had my spiritual life in order, He showed me something else that needed to go.  There was still paganism in my life that I was trying to use to honor and worship Him.  Scripture teaches that we are not to pollute YHVH's holy name thru the observance of paganism.  Yeshua showed me that the same devils behind the pagan holidays are the same devils behind pagan calendars.  The Gregorian calendar, which is a papal calendar, was satanically inspired to honor and worship the pagan gods and goddesses of Christ's Mass (Saturnalia), Easter, Halloween, Valentine's Day, etc.  Just as the Creator's calendar was designed in honor and worship of Him, the pagan calendars, such as the Gregorian and the Julian calendars, were made by man to honor and worship satan.  Just as YHVH has His set apart rest and worship days, satan has his set apart (from Torah) rest and worship days.

The Torah calendar described in Genesis 1:14 is a luni-solar calendar with the moon determining YHVH's holy days.  In Genesis 1:14 (kjv) the word "seasons" in Hebrew is mo'edim. 

Mo'edim - festivals, appointments, signs, signals.

In Psalm 104:19 it says that God appointed the moon for seasons (mo'edim), which means His holy days are determined by the phases of the moon.  I have heard by those who oppose the lunar Sabbath say that God's annual feasts are lunar but His weekly Sabbath is not. They also believe the Creator has two calendars; one for the Sabbath and one for everything else. There are not two calendars in the Torah.  YHVH has only one time measuring system; the luni-solar calendar with the moon determining all of His holy days.

The biblical 7th day Sabbath cannot be found using a pagan calendar. God's Sabbath day can only be found using His calendar.

"The present Jewish calendar was fixed in the fourth century." -Louis Finkelstein

"The New Moon is still, and the Sabbath originally was, dependent upon the lunar cycle." -"Holidays", Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410

"Declaring the new month by observation of the new moon, and the new year by the arrival of spring, can only be done by the Sanhedrin.  In the time of Hillel II [4th century A.D.], .... the Romans prohibited this practice.  Hillel II was therefore forced to institute his fixed calendar." -The Jewish Calendar, Changing the Calendar.

"Originally, the New Moon was celebrated in the same way as the Sabbath; gradually it became less important while the Sabbath became more and more a day of religion and humanity, of religious meditation and instructions..." -"Holidays", Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, p. 410

To be continued....