Shabbat Study: Timing the Seventh Day

Now since we're on that subject, let's continue to the end of Barashayath (Genesis) chapter one. I am going to move ahead now to verse 31, which reads, ".....evening and morning were the sixth day." We see evening and morning were unified with, or included in (part of the composition of) day one, evening and morning were the second day, evening and morning were the third day, evening and morning were the fourth day, evening and morning were the fifth day, and evening and morning were the sixth day. The text is very careful to state in each one of these daily accounts that day one through day the sixth day of the week are defined as including [one] evening and morning. However, continuing with chapter 2, verse 1 we read, "Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day Alahim ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then Alahim blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which Alahim had created and made"...... "and evening and morning were the seventh day"...Is that what the text says? No, it does not. If I were to add those words, then I would be adding to His word.

The seventh day of the week, as defined from the beginning, is not limited to including only one evening and morning.

Yahwah is clearly careful to proclaim in the first six days of when He was establishing the appointed time (muayd) of "six days you shall work, the seventh day is a day of rest", that the first six days are comprised of (or include) one evening and one morning, and yet does not do so for the seventh day. Yahwah is the one who defines what a specific day can be comprised of, and he did not place the [single] evening and morning limitation on the seventh day. Our habit and tradition does not define a day.....His word does.

Again, the seventh day is in no way scripturally limited to one evening and morning. I am not saying it cannot be just one evening and morning, but for us to say that "it can only be comprised of one evening and morning because the first six days were" is adding to the text; adding to Yahwah's word, and I am not willing to do so. I am simply stating that the seventh day of the week can be (sub)comprised of multiple evenings and mornings, or multiple "daylight periods."

I am emphasizing this because it will be very important as we progress through the study of Yahwah's system of reckoning His appointed times....His muaydim.

So let's look at a practical application of what we've learned thus far.....How the yarakh reckoning of time is used in scripture. This is an example of one of those scriptural accounts that does not seem to make complete sense, yet comes into perfect clarity when we examine it using the proper tools.....