Good Night, Moon

All God-appointed feast days are on a specific day of the month and just like we use our paper calendar, computer, watch, PDA, cell phone ... to figure out when an important date is, the Hebrew people used the moon and only the moon.

The New Moon might seem like an odd feast--more pagan than Godly. But God's call to celebrate the New Moon each month is to honor Him as Creator of time and as Maintainer of all things for the month to come.

I Samuel 20:1-29 proves that New Moons were celebrated in King David's day. David avoided a New Moon feast with King Saul because he feared Saul would kill him.

I Sam 24-27: "So David hid in the field; and when the new moon came, the king sat down to eat food. The king sat on his seat as usual, the seat by the wall; then Jonathan rose up and Abner sat down by Saul's side, but ^(U)David's place was empty. Nevertheless Saul did not speak anything that day, for he thought, 'It is an accident, ^(V)he is not clean, surely he is not clean.' It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, 'Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?'" (NASB)

One day we will all worship on these days--in fact we will worship on all God's appointed times--whether we like it or not.

Isaiah 66:23 "'And it shall be from ^(BG)new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All mankind will come to ^(BH)bow down before Me,' says the LORD" (NASB).

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