p. 763 | 61-NEW MOONS AND SABBATHS

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 8, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 48.

61—NEW MOONS AND SABBATHS

Why were the new moons kept years ago? Why are they not now kept? And why will they be observed in the new earth? Isaiah 66. L. W. M.

The feasts of new moons anciently were designed to keep monthly remembrance of the Giver of all blessings, as it was from the moon that the yearly feasts were reckoned. A nation could keep such a feast much better than could individuals scattered all over the world, under all kinds of limitations, as Christians have always been. The sacrifices of that day, too, like all others, met their fulfilment in the fulness of our Lord. The Scriptures do not say that a new moon festival will be held in the new earth. There will simply be the monthly gatherings for worship marked by the new moon, when the tree of life yields its various fruits. Compare Rev. 22: 2. One of the best answers for the observance of ancient feasts in the present dispensation is that nowhere does the Lord require it. Isa. 66: 23 could be rendered, “From one month to another, and from one Sabbath to another.”