The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-09-06
Saturday Sabbatarians Noticed
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1t was the patchwork of renegade
Jews and Gentiles attempted SUBJ
stitution for their ignorance of Gods
calendar, that the 18th Of the first
month was required to be Il weekly
Sabbath is further proved: thus Lev.
1882 the Lord says: "These are my
feasts.' The first then mentioned is
the weekly Sabbath, verse, 3; and the
next is mentioned verse 46: The
feast of unleayen bread unto the Lord "
for seven days." AS this was to be
feast unto the Lord and for his people,
seven days annually, he connected it
with his weekly Sabbath, had a Taber-
nacle made a table to be set in it, and
ordered that - cakes be set in order
upon it) before the Lord every Sab
bath continually. Lev. PISS.
This Bible proof that the annual feast
unto the Lord began on weekly Sab
bath, can never he truthfulIy denied.
Therefore the Elder, p. 60, meets it
with q false statement, that the pre-
cept, Lev. %: SIS, was not given till
some time after Moses set up the Tab
ernacle. "But Moses writes, Exodus
1923, and he set the bread ip order
upon it before the Lord: us the Lord
had commanded Noses" Now which
is to be credited, Moses or the Elder
Indeed this command is also recorded
in Ex. $3.50 and referred to again Elk.
40:4, and ordered every time, before
the first day of the first month in the
second year began, verse Il.
The Elder makes another false state
ment on page GO, that Aaron had enter
ed the most holy place at all times be-
fore he was told not to do it. Lev. 16: -.
OF the truth of this there is no evi.
dence for Gods laws precede either
their obedience or disobedience. There
fore, Moses knew when to set bread
on the Lords table; and Josephus
knew that the 10th of the first month
was the second day of the feast Of I'M
leaven bread, when the count Of so
days began; which even the Elder ad-
mits was the morrow after the weekly
Sabbath. Can the Elder tell how the
Lords feast could begin the 18th and
no "shew bread" he set or his table
that day?
On PIP. 57-5S, the Elder says my
"argument from Joshua 5, 9:11, is an
entire failure" Let us see. The 10th
verse says: "Thcy kept the passover
on the 18th day of the month at even"
The Septuagint says at evening-lamp-
lighting. In Greek opA Esperos. The
law fixed the time of eating for that
night succeeding the afternoon, or even
ing Of the fourteenth day, in which
afternoon the lamb was to be killed,
roasted, etc.; the unleaven bread, Bit
ter herbs, ETC., had to be provided; and
all this before night began, when the
eating commenced. Elk. -, SIS.
This made the eating, Or "fenst Of un
leaven bread unto the Lord always
come on the 18th of the same month,
see Gen. |, 5, Lev. 1886, and this
proves the necessity that that first day
Of the feast should always be the week
~ Sabbath, that the Lords bread may
be set before him. Lev. "a, 8, the
Lords passing over at midnight at the
Exode was also after the 18th day be-
gan. Yet because of the great and
special preparation of everything need
ed, as required before the close Of the
18th and their early eating the passo-
yer the IS, the day Of Israels deliver
ance is called the morrow after the pass
over. Nun. 80, 3. But no one can truth
fully deny, as above proved, that the
eating by Israel and passing over of the
Lord occurred each on the fifteenth.
These facts are unnoticed by the
Elder. Therefore, he says, the pass
over was upon the 18th day. I say,
its preparation alone was on that day.
For it could not be kept without eating
it; and the tenth verse of Josh. 5 SAYS
it was kept at even, and this, the scrip
lures prove, as above stated, made it
the 18th. Then the llth verse makes
the eating Of the '"corn Of the land,
on the morrow after the passover, un-
leavened cakes and parched corn IN the
selt-same day. occur on the 10th day
Of the month, and "a day of unleavened
bread, as JosephuS says, before quoted.
This occurred scripturaily, therefore,
"on the morrow after the Sakbath, ;"
Lev. %, l0-ll-l4
Of course they went through each days
work according to the law, and they
must have made lawful bread in cooking
the 18th, eating it the 18th, and then
on the 10th they must have offered the