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Q. Isaiah 66 talks about the Sabbath and the New Moons. It says God is never changing, so we will always keep the Sabbath. Is this New Moon the same as it was given to the nation of Israel?
This passage reads, "And it shall come to pass from one New Moon to another, from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before Me." And the answer is yes and no.
First of all, there's no question that God is saying that from one week to another, and one month to another, we will all come and worship before the Lord. The Jewish weeks were divided by the Sabbath. Their months were divided by the New Moons.
Now one theory is that the seasons of the world were altered by the flood. I think our earth went through a catastrophic upheaval during the flood, and the earth did not cycle through the seasons we have each year now. I think the earth tilted on its axis, which is what gives us our seasons. It may be that the month in the new earth will have exactly 28 days, and if that's the case, it means that every new moon will also be a Sabbath.
However, God is not telling us anywhere in the Ten Commandments that we need to keep the New Moons. The New Moons were separate from the Sabbath commandment in the Bible.
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