Our months are supposed to be based on the moon and it’s cycles. However they are governed by evil and wicked men, their evil and wicked empire and their evil and wicked church. They are acting against God’s creation, against God’s will and against God’s instructions. It is pompous arrogance. These men will be dealt with accordingly in God’s own time.
The plain truth is: The moon should govern the months. That’s what it’s there for. It is one of the two world time pieces. The sun being the other.
The word moon appears 51 times in the King James Version of the Bible.
The word moons appears 11 times.
The word month appears 250 times.
The word months appears 59 times.
The expression new moon in the Bible refers to the beginning of the monthly cycle of the moon. It does not refer to some newly created heavenly body. New Moons were observed in ancient times as ordered by God. There are several references to this fact in the Bible. I will state three here.
Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the LORD your God. Numbers 10:10 (NASB)
Here we see God himself talking and saying that trumpets should blown and sacrifices and offerings made on the first days of your months, all your months.
He also appointed the king’s portion of his goods for the burnt offerings, namely, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the new moons and for the fixed festivals, as it is written in the law of the LORD. 2 Chronicles 31:3 (NASB)
Again it is stated that it is in the Lord’s law that offerings should be made on the new moons.
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of the LORD which he had built before the porch; and did so according to the daily rule, offering them up according to the commandment of Moses, for the sabbaths, the new moons, and the three annual feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. 2 Chronicles 8:12-13 (NASB)
Here it is stated as a command of Moses to offer up burnt offerings on the new moons.
We don’t offer burnt sacrifices anymore. We believe that this custom is no longer required because Jesus Christ was our true sacrifice, the animal sacrifices were but a foretaste of Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice. The blowing of trumpets custom has also disappeared. This may be an atrocity we don’t really know. The observance of these days mentioned and the praise and worship of God however is to be done into perpetuity or as long as you are able. There are some who think that the New Moons should be treated as Sabbaths. There is no evidence of this in the passages quoted as daily customs were done and Sabbaths are mentioned separately. There is no doubt whatever that months should be governed by the moon, a creation of God Almighty, and not by Roman emperors or popes.
Copyright © 2010 Jacques Gauvin