When Does A Day Begin, When Does The Month Begin? David Field September 16, 2012
Your day has always begun when you roll out of the sack. And your day ends when you retire to same. So why would scripture mean anything other than this natural occurrence?
Psalms 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon (chodesh), in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
The root word for the Hebrew "chodesh" is concealment. Meaning a new moon begins at conjunction, when the earth, moon and sun are in alignment. When the moon is dark, not at the sighting of a sliver of the moon.
Geneses 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening (ereb) and the morning were the first day.
Evening in English is typically understood to be the time just before dusk. So the Hebrew word "ereb" is falsely interpreted to the English "evening". The Hebrew word "ereb" is not a point in time. Ereb is all night, all of sundown. It simply means night.
A day begins at daybreak, not the evening before. A day is a day and a night is a night. What fellowship does darkness have with light? Any Sabbath begins when you get up from sleep, when you begin your day, when the roaster crows, when the sun comes up, and lasts until the sun goes down, or your head hits the hay.
Even orthodox Jews dont get this. But there are a lot of things they dont get, so dont worry about what the Pharisees do. It is no measure of correctness the number people who think differently than the truth of sound simple logic.