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What is Truth?

On thinking of why I became a Lunar Sabbatarian, a series of events occurred. Will now attempt to place these in their proper order.

(1) A friend in Christ (Sis. Jacqueline Ebanks) told me, “We might even be keeping the wrong day.” Immediately, I thought, “No one can tell me which day is the Sabbath! I’ve been keeping the Sabbath (Saturday) for 38 years.” But did not say these words out loud.

(2) Soon thereafter, she gave me a book: the Great Calendar Controversy by Elaine Vornholt & Laura Lee Vornholt- Jones. Sis Jackie also gave me a number of DVDs from Worldslastchance web site. I read two-thirds of the book that night and the next morning completed it. I’ll have to admit that I didn’t have a total handle on all the reading; but my soul was stirred to its very depths, and I knew there was truth here and had to study this out!

We had prayerful in-depth Bible studies on the Lunar-Solar Sabbaths for a year (meeting twice each week). We also went into Yahuwah’s feast days, etc. etc. It was all quite fascinating to learn these truths; a lot of which went contrary to Adventist history / teaching.

(3) Then I read articles in a church publication called “The Old Paths” by Pastor Allen Stump. He spoke against the Lunar-Solar Sabbaths vehemently and gave rather convincing evidence (at the time) as to why it is “The Big Lie.” My head was reeling! Again, had to fall on my knees and seek my Lord. Also combed the Scriptures for “What is truth?” in this matter. My heart was again deeply convicted that the Lunar-Solar Sabbath is foundational truth. The Spirit of the Lord was emphatically leading me onward and upward!

(4) Next the Lord started giving me short and long articles to write and distribute. One was based on Genesis 3: 20-24:

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, The man is become one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and He placed at  the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. (As Adam and Eve sat on the ground lamenting their demise; immediately, the LORD God also handed each of them a Gregorian Calendar, so they would not forget which day of the week they had fallen into sin.)

Note: Wording in parenthesis can not be found in our Pro-testant King James Version Bible.

(5) Was also compelled to respond to Pastor Allen Stump’s articles in a letter sent via USPS. Copy enclosed. See Article #5.

(6) After Pastor Stump’s letter, the Lord moved upon me to write: Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, let us reason together, saith the LORD”. Copy enclosed. See Article #6

(7) Next came “Vital Questions For Such A Time As This” done in two parts. Copy enclosed. See Article # 7(a) & 7(b).

The writings speak for themselves the conviction of what the Lord has placed on my heart. It is my humble prayer that this testimony will move upon your heart as strongly as the Spirit of the lord moved upon mine. There are a lot of truth-seekers in this world. May Yahuwah find each of us prepared and doing his bidding until Yahushua returns, as we are most certainly in the eleventh hour. Let us seek the Lord through His Word – KJV of course!

Sincerely, your sister in Yahushua,
Laura J. Edens.
5 /6/6001

Greg. Date: Aug. 1, 2014

P.S. Have shared all of these writings (studies in the Word) and more with a number of SDA’s – the Laodicean church, but to no avail.

Rev. 3:17: Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing: and knowest that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.


Article #5:

Symrna Gospel Ministries
He 64 Box 128-B
Welch, WV 24801-9606

 8/4/6000

Dear Pastor Stump,

Was awakened at 2:22 AM to write you. Earlier, was reading in the “Old Paths” – ‘The Big Lie’. Talk about a twisting of the English language!

May I ask you a few simple questions? Have you fallen on your knees and inquired of God, “Lord, do you have a calendar?” Have you truly humbled your own intelligent mind and your ‘pride of opinion’? Pastor Stump, are you quite certain that you aren’t leading the sheep astray?

Acts 5:38-39: And now I say unto you, refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought. But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

Do you honestly believe it is safe to trust any thing that comes out of Rome? For instance--- a calendar based on pagan sun worship?

“… For error itself bears a constrained testimony for the truth …” Ellen G. White, Original writing Spirit of Prophesy, Vol. III, Pg. 225

I challenge you, Pastor Stump (for yet another perspective) to please place the following in your upcoming newsletter:

Ex. 20:5-11 “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy… the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God...”

Oh yes, please remember to determine which day is My Holy Sabbath by referring to the seven day week continually cycling calendar hanging on your kitchen wall; which my foe… the Devil, inspired Pope Gregory XIII to devise. After all, Satan could not possibly be so devious as to contrive a counterfeit of my calendar in the heavens! Now, could he???

Pastor Stump, don’t we all realize that it’s not just the calendar on the wall. It’s the media, our cell phones, our computers! The school systems, most people’s jobs, the governments of the entire world are based on the Gregorian calendar. Our very lives are planned around the supposed weekend!

What better way to have the world wonder after the ‘beast’?

Rev. 13:3 “And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast."

Pastor Stump, please (prayerfully) read 1st Samuel chapter 20. You may (with your mind set) have to read it three or four times. But it makes it crystal clear that the moonth starts with the day of the New Moon. What vast implications does this have!

The New Moon starts the cycle for the upcoming four weeks and more specifically the four Sabbaths of that particular moonth which always falls on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th ‘dates’ of the Creator’s Calendar (which is different from the Gregorian).

Ezek. 44:23-24And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to My judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my Sabbaths.”

Luke 6:1 “And it came to pass on the second Sabbath after the first, that He went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.”

‘the second Sabbath after the first’ (following what event?... could it possibly have been the New Moon?)

The prayers are ascending to the throne of god in your behalf, Pastor Stump. May the Spirit of the Lord move upon you to rethink your stance!

Sincerely in Christ Jesus,
Our Lord and Saviour.
Laura Edens


Article #6:

Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, let us reason together, saith the LORD:"

Our holy God is a God of perfect order!

Why would our Creator ordain the moon (from where our month originates), and then indeterminately place the four weeks (containing four Sabbaths) carelessly within that moonth? He most assuredly would not!

The beginning of the month (new moon day) sets the cycle for the upcoming four weeks and particularly the seventh day Sabbaths of that moonth; which always fall on the 8th  15th 22nd & 29th dates of the Creator’s calendar. (To clarify, please study the 20th chapter of 1st Samuel) also (Luke 6:1-6).

Confusion set in when man named the days of the week. Thus our present Gregorian calendar put in place by ‘Sun’day worshippers is seriously flawed.

There are not and never have been seven day continually cycling weeks, without interruption from the onset of time (as we know it) for 6000 years.

Knowing that Satan has a counterfeit for everything that was ordained of God—Do we dare trust anything that has been handed down through the Papacy—like its pagan calendar?

Will we believe that the omniscient God of the universe would command the observance of 'one’ particular day and not have His very own calendar in place to ascertain which day He is referring to?

Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, let us reason together, saith the Lord: ---"

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Article #7(a):

Vital Questions For Such A Time As This!

Isaiah 41: 21 "Produce your cause, saith the Lord; Bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob."

It is said that the lunar-solar Sabbaths are nothing more than moon-worship. By the same token, can it be stated that the method of time keeping by which Sabbath or Sunday is presently calculated is nothing less than sun-worship? Our Gregorian Calendar is based singularly on the revolution of the earth around the sun! Dan. 7:25, 2nd Thes. 2:3-12

The very word ‘month’ is derived from the word ‘moon’. Time can only be measured by movement! The moon revolves around the earth once each month. Why should this motion of the moon (as a time piece) not enter into equation? Num. 10:10, Num. 28:11, Ps. 19:1-3, Ps. 89:37.

Why did the pure woman of Rev. 12:1 appear immediately after the Temple of God was opened in Heaven and the Ten Commandments revealed as in Rev. 11:19?

 Rev. 12:1-2 "And there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered."

Why is the woman clothed with the sun?  Why is the moon under her feet? Why is a crown of twelve stars on her head? What child is she about to deliver? Is what she will deliver one in the same as the seventh angel’s message of Revelation 18?

Did the Lord warn of this (forgetting His Sabbaths) in His Word? Lamen. 2:6, Hosea 2:1, Ezek. 44:23-24

While it is a generally accepted fact that the phases of the moon affect the  ‘ Tides’ of the Earth; why is it so difficult for Christians to comprehend that the new moon determines the weekly cycle on our tiny place in space? 1st Sam. 20

Did Christ observe the seventh day continually cycling Sabbath (otherwise known as the Saturn’s day) or did He keep the Sabbath according to His calendar based upon the new moon? Luke 6:1-6

Why did the Lord wait till this late date to make clear this breach in His law, which is finally being repaired; as opposed to the smoke screen of Fr, Sa, or Su days kept by the world? Why did he not reveal this to Ellen G. White?

Isaiah 55:8-9 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."

“God does not propose to be called to account for His ways and works. It is for His glory to conceal His purposes now; but by and by, they will be revealed in their true importance.” Spirit of Prophecy The Great Controversy Vol. II Pg. 288 by Ellen G. White 1877 orig. writings

Could it be, while Seventh day Adventists continue to wait for the passing of the ‘Sun day law’, that it has actually been in place for many years in the form of time-keeping known as Pope Gregory’s pagan calendar?               

“For error itself bears a constrained testimony for the truth.” Spirit of Prophecy The Great Controversy Vol. III Pg. 225 by Ellen G. White 1878 orig. writings

"At first, Truth is ridiculed. Next, it is violently opposed. Then, finally, it is accepted as being self-evident."

3/11/6001


Article #7(b):

Perhaps the most troubling of all vital questions within Adventism is, “How can the seventh day be the eighth?” Ezekiel 46:1 and Isaiah 66:23 provide the answer. There are three types of days: (1) the day of the New Moon, (2) the six working days, (3) the Sabbaths.

The only way the seventh day Sabbath can be the eighth of the month is as the New Moon (a separate and distinct category of days) is the first of the month. Next is the six working days followed by the Sabbath.

Then ( and only then) does it stand to reason that the second Sabbath will fall on the 15th; the third Sabbath on the 22nd; and the last Sabbath on the 29th in any set month of the Creator’s Calendar. There are only four Sabbaths in a month …never five (unlike our present Gregorian calendar).

“At first, truth is ridiculed. Next, it is violently opposed. Then, finally, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

3/15/6001