Weekly and Yearly Sabbaths
By Editor
An article has been sent us clipped from an old law paper, saying that the Sabbath of the Old Testament began on a certain day every month; that is, that the week began with the year. We would like to say to our readers that there is absolutely no proof of this. Exodus 12 is proof simply, at the very most, of that one year, and the holy days in connection with the Passover feast were not necessarily always upon the Sabbath. The year did not close with a defective week. Whatever changes were made in the month or the year in beginning or closing, the weeks were all full, bringing, of course, the different days of the week on different dates of the month. It is a wonderfully easy matter to fix up a theory or a diagram; but if that theory or diagram is based upon a false premise, the theory falls to the ground. Those who make such claims make no distinction between the yearly sabbaths and the weekly Sabbaths, but the Bible recognizes both (see Lev. 23:38). The "her sabbaths" of Hosea 2:11 does not refer to the "Sabbath of the Lord thy God." The seventh day is always called the Lord's Sabbath. The distinction is ever clear that that time was holy unto the Lord, and it was to be observed unto Him. The yearly sabbath, or the sabbaths in connection with the yearly feasts, were quite another thing.