Year of the Exodus: 1439 B.C.E.

Year of the Exodus: 1439 B.C.E.
This study aims to demonstrate that the exact year of the Exodus can be attained by utilizing the foundation of the Jubilee Years as revealed in Scriptures.

Delving into the topic’s complexity, we ask: How can a Jubilee Year be connected to the Exodus when its instructions are not given until the book of Leviticus, which is dated to the second year of the Exodus Era?

Even more confounding is the fact that the first Jubilee Year was not observed until well beyond the 40 years of the Israelites’ wandering in the wilderness.

And Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai saying, Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, Without a doubt (1a) YOU SHALL COME INTO THE LAND which I am giving to you (1b) AND THE LAND SHALL HAVE A SABBATH, A SABBATH FOR YAHWEH. (2a) YOU SHALL SOW YOUR FIELD 6 YEARS and you shall prune your vineyard 6 years and shall gather the produce. (2b) AND IN THE 7TH YEAR A SABBATH SABBATHON SHALL BE FOR THE LAND, A SABBATH FOR YAHWEH. Your field you shall not sow and your vineyard you shall not prune. That which grows of itself of your harvest you shall not harvest and the grapes of your unkept vine you shall not gather. A year of sabbathon it shall be for the land. And the Sabbath of the land shall be to you for food, to you and to your male servant and your female servant, and to your hired one and to your tenant, those living among you, and to your cattle and to the beast which is on your land, shall all the produce of it be for food. (Lev. 25: 1-7)

It is essential to notice in the above citation that the Israelites would observe two Sabbath years sometime after entering the land. We shall further demonstrate this point later in our study.
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Updated – The Sabbath & Jubilee Cycle

The publication The Sabbath and Jubilee Cycle by Qadesh La Yahweh Press
has been updated and expanded. This work further solidifies the dates for the Sabbath Years and Jubilee Years.

To remind the reader of the relevance and importance of these years, we have provided an excerpt from the Introduction:

This study presents the evidence from ancient biblical and secular sources for dating the Sabbath and Jubilee cycle.

There has been a long-standing debate over exactly which “Sabbath and Jubilee cycle” system represents the one that was actually practiced by the ancient Israelites. At first glance, this dispute may seem trivial to the novice. Nevertheless, there are two important reasons that make its solution extremely valuable. Continue reading “Updated – The Sabbath & Jubilee Cycle” →

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 3

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 3
Yahweh’s work is to be done on the Sabbath, which includes his work by the Assembly on that day.

This day also encompasses celebrating the Sabbath as a שבתון (sabbathon; special Sabbath), prostrating before (worshipping) Yahweh, teaching and study, and priestly duties.

As we have previously stated, the Sabbath day is a day to be remembered and kept sacred, as Yahweh intended. (Gen. 2:2-3)

Yahweh commands us:

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it sacred. (Exod. 20:8)

It is to be celebrated as a sabbathon, or special kind of Sabbath. Celebration of the Sabbath, accordingly, is itself a work of Yahweh.

The Hebrew word שבתון (sabbathon), on the one hand, derives from the term שבת (Sabbath), i.e., to “cease” from some action or work. Yet it means “a time of rest,” “a sabbatism or special holiday,” or more properly, “a special time of ceasing.”

A sabbathon is defined in Scriptures as “a sacred Sabbath for Yahweh.” (Exod. 16:23) A Sabbath sabbathon is “the ceasing of ceasings” or “Sabbath of Sabbaths.” Continue reading “Keeping the Sabbath – Part 3” →

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 2

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 2
Yahushua the messiah tells us:

The Sabbath was made for ἄνθρωπον (anthropon; mankind), not mankind for the Sabbath.” (Mark 2:27)

This statement means that the Sabbath Days of Yahweh were meant to assist mankind.

Therefore, Sabbaths are meant to bring mankind closer to Yahweh and eternal life. It is a time for mankind to refresh himself and rest from his work of creating a livelihood and from doing his own concerns.

The Sabbaths are a time for one to turn toward creating his or her perfected innermost self and establishing their relationship with Yahweh.

Accordingly, on that day, the discussion, work, labor, and activity required must deal with Yahweh and the work he desires that we accomplish.

There are six general categories which are allowed on the Sabbath Day: Continue reading “Keeping the Sabbath – Part 2” →

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 1

Keeping the Sabbath – Part 1
This study offers an in-depth examination of what is proper and improper for observing the Sabbath day.

Indeed, it is one thing to conclude that Yahweh established the seventh day of the week as a Sabbath. Still, it is quite another to know what keeping the Sabbath actually entails.

Work Not to be Done
According to the instructions from Scriptures, there are several things that one must not do on the Sabbath Day (whether the weekly Sabbath or a High Sabbath).

Primary to the instructions regarding the Sabbath Day is that you are not to do “מלאכת (malakath; work, employment),” or “מעשה (maseh; activity, product creation),” or any “עבד (abad; servile labor).” (Exod. 20:8-11, 23:12; Deut. 5:12-15)

Employees working for you and even livestock so employed must also cease doing such work on the Sabbath. (Exod. 20:8-11, 23:12; Deut. 5:12-15)

Per the basic principles derived from Exodus and Deuteronomy, the following restrictions apply: Continue reading “Keeping the Sabbath – Part 1” →

The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 3

The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of our quest for the location of the Scriptural International Dateline (SIDL) the stage has been set for the final conclusion.

In Part 3 our final evidence will be presented to discover the location of the SIDL.

Scriptural Definition
Our conclusion will begin by referencing the scriptural definition for the International Dateline which begins with an important passage found in the book of Job:

A חק חג (khoq khug; statute of an arch/circle) upon the face of the waters AS FAR AS the תכלית (thaklyth; boundary between) light עם (em; beside) darkness. (Job 26:10)

The word חג (khug), which, as we have already demonstrated in Part 1, means a “circle, compass, arch.” The term חק (khoq) means, a “statute, law,” “something prescribed, a statute or due . . . prescribed limit, boundary, (BDBG: The New Brown-Driver-Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon)” “prescribed, appointed . . . boundary . . . set time . . . statute, (SHL: Student’s Hebrew Lexicon)” “portion, limit (of life) . . . specific time . . . moment . . . boundary, limit (for the sea) . . . definition, rule, prescription, (CHAL: A Concise Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament)” “an enactment; hence an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage. (Strongs, Heb. #2706)” Continue reading “The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 3” →

The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 2

The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 2
We concluded our previous excursion in Part 1 by providing various references proving that Scriptures demonstrate the concept of a round or spherical earth.

As we proceed to discover the Scriptural International Dateline, in Part 2 we will investigate other sources supporting the idea of a spherical earth.

These sources will include ancient and late Jewish views along with references from ancient Greek philosophers and geographers. Also, additional citations from Scriptures will be provided.

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The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 1

The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 1
We will address one of the most important issues regarding the scriptural calendar, one upon which all other definitions must rely, the question of “What constitutes the Scriptural International Dateline?”

It is at this line that any new date begins. Despite its importance, the scriptural definition for the International Dateline is the most obscure and least understood, rarely even coming up in the calendar conversation. It has puzzled men ever since they began to sail around the globe.

The evidence will show that the Scriptural International Dateline is drawn along the line of sunset as it extends across the globe on the day of the vernal equinox at the very moment that the line of sunrise is determined from the city of Jerusalem. Continue reading “The Scriptural International Dateline – Part 1” →

The Millennial Judgment Day

The Millennial Judgment Day
It is apparent that there seems to be a widespread misunderstanding of the events occurring after Yahushua the Messiah’s death that lead up to the earthly arrival of father Yahweh.