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CHAPTER 15 | WHEN DOES SABBATH BEGIN? THE BIBLICAL DAY
only part of the Law that is a time. Does that include when the day begins? Let’s test. What is the Torah Calendar? Lunar or Solar?
In our publishing of the Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar, we find the Qumran community of Levite Temple Priests, the sons of Zadok who managed the Temple and kept the Bible since the days of King Solomon, called Jubilees the source for the “exact determination of their times.” They recorded Bible calendar for Feasts and keeping His law, was “strictly defined” in the Book of Jubilees. They used it’s calendar and so should we. “The Damascus Document, 4Q266, fr. 8 i, 6-9, 50 B.C.–100 A.D.: (For God made) a Covenant with you and all Israel; therefore a man shall bind himself by oath to return to the Law of Moses, for in it all things are strictly defined. As for the exact determination of their times to which Israel turns a blind eye, behold it is strictly defined in the Book of the Divisions of the Times into their Jubilees and Weeks. And on the day that a man swears to return to the Law of Moses, the Angel of Persecution shall cease to follow him provided he fulfills his word: for this reason Abraham circumcised himself on the day that he knew.” [21]
Realize, they just called this book Torah and told us Israel was turning a “blind eye” to this portion of Torah even then under the Pharisee rule. Remember, Hasmoneans and Pharisees defiled the Temple and usurped the priesthood which practice continues to this day in what we call Rabbinic Judaism. This is why they earned the title from Messiah as the “synagogue of satan” who say they are Yahudim and are not but do lie (Rev. 2:9, 3:9). We are told to follow their calendar which is rebuked by the legitimate Temple Priests they exiled to Qumran/Bethabara even at the time that they did live in Israel. In other words, this is The Torah Calendar thus our title for that book. This is not according to us but this was the practice in the Temple preserved by these sons of Zadok who continued this worship system
