***THE SEVEN DAY CYCLE HAS REMAINED UNTOUCHED SINCE CREATION??? SATURDAY IS THE SHABBAT??*** The [early] Hebrews employed lunar seven-day weeks, which ended with special observances on the seventh day, but none the less were tied to the moons course. (Rest Days, p. 254-255 by Hutton Webster) ...the Jewish festivals being regulated solely by the moon, may fall on ANY day of the [Roman] week. (Oxford English Dictionary, 1971 Edition, Vol. 2, “Pentecost.”) [emphasis mine] The invention of the continuous week was therefore one of the most significant breakthroughs in human beings’ attempts to break away from being prisoners of nature [and from under God’s law] and create a social world of their own.” (The Seven Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, Eviator Zerubavel, New York: The Free Press, 1985. p.11.) “Most theologians and some scholars assume that mainstream Jewish society, at the time of Jesus...was practicing a fixed seven-day week which was the same as the modern fixed [cycling planetary designations] seven-day week. This is extremely doubtful. The change, from a lunar to a fixed week, was brought about by the power and influence of Rome. As long as the Nazarenes held power in Jerusalem, all Roman practices and customs, including that of the consecutive week, were held at bay.” (Shawui Sabbath: Ancient Sabbath Observance) In the mid-1st century B.C. Julius Cæsar invited Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, to advise himabout the reform of the calendar, and Sosigenes decided that the only practical step was to abandon the lunarcalendar altogether. Months must be arranged on a seasonal basis, and a tropical (solar) year used, as in theEgyptian calendar. (“The Julian Calendar,” Encyclopedia Britannica.) These imported [from Babylon] superstitions eventually led Jewish rabbis to call Saturn Shabbti, the star of the Sabbath. [and] it was not until the first century of our era, when the planetary week had become an established institution, that the Jewish Sabbath seems always to have corresponded to Saturns Day [Saturday]. (Rest Days, p.244 by Hutton Webster) NO FURTHER QUESTIONS SATURDAY IS NOT THE SHABBAT
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