We here at the F.O.Y. Ministry have spent many days and several weeks praying, contemplating and restudying this subject of WHEN a day REALLY begins. Of course, the majority of us believers have come out of the Babylonian system. Most try their very hardest to learn the truth in all matters so that we may completely "come out of Babylon". Sadly, some try too hard and stumble along the way. We all have discovered many pagan traditions or ways of life that our fathers have inherited as lies. During the process of "coming out of Babylon" can be very easy to accept and make-up new ways of life. Yes, we are to be open minded, but we are also to rightly divide the Word of Truth, studying to show ourselves approved. If we fail in our studies, we will indeed be ashamed. Which means we should not automatically accept every idea or wind of doctrine that flies by our way. We have to search out the answer and every time, the answer is found in the Word!

 As we mentioned before, we are to pray for wisdom, knowledge, discernment and most importantly, understanding in order to comprehend all matters. If the Word of Truth (Yahuwah's Word) is not rightly handled, those who do not have the correct amount of studying to show themselves approved will be ashamed, as written in 1 Timothy 2:15. As we read through the numerous studies of the day cycle beginning and ending at sunrise or even midday, it was one verse after another. Some had absolutely NOTHING to do with WHEN a day REALLY begins, some did not even line up or make sense, while the others blatantly put their foot in their mouth.

  The following reasons are just a few of the MANY instances of why the day cycle of sunrise to sunrise does not line up with Scripture. While so many believers want to flee Babylon, at the same time, many are ignorantly adopting many Babylonian traditions without even realizing it.

 According to Webster's 1828 Dictionary and several other historical records we find some shocking information:

"the day may commence (begin) at any period of the revolution. The Babylonians began the day at sun-rising; the Jews, at sun-setting; the Egyptians, at midnight, as do several nations in modern times, the British, French, Spanish, American, ETC. This day, in reference to civil transactions, is called the civil day. Thus with us the day when a legal instrument is dated, begins and ends at midnight."

The same Wikipedia article cited earlier states:

"In ancient Egypt, the day was reckoned from sunrise to sunrise. Muslims fast from daybreak to sunset each day of the month of Ramadan."

  Wow, what an eye opener! The Babylonians began their day at the rising of the sun. Whereas the Egyptians at midnight and at other times the Egyptians even adopted sunrise to sunrise. What a convenient way for HaShatan to deceive the little flock of entering into Babylon through the backdoor. Truly, there is no new matter under the sun, what has been then is already here today! (Ecclesiastes 3:1). How can we, the Children of Yahuwah be completely out of Babylon if we are still following traditions straight from the whore herself? We cannot! Hear the ram's horn, we must come out!

  Sadly, many within the congregation are straddling the fence. They have one foot in and the other foot out. We can't have one foot, hand, leg, finger, eye, nose, ear or mind still in Babylon and the rest of our body in Yahuwah's Kingdom.

  There are some verses that the sun-risers' use to support their views. The following is just a few verses they used to give reason for their beliefs. The first verse they try to use to prove a sunrise to sunrise day cycle can be found in the great book of Shemoth|Exodus 10:13:

"And Mosheh (Moses) stretched out his rod over the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt), and YAHUWAH brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. Morning came, and the east wind brought the locusts." -Shemoth (Exodus) 10:13

  Just because the locusts came in the morning does not in any way shape or form prove a day to begin at sunrise. Locusts are not nocturnal insects. Obviously they are going to be buzzing in the morning. The fact that the east wind was on the land all that day and all that night also does not prove WHEN a day REALLY begins. It is referring to the different times of the day, DayTIME and NightTIME and is only to show that the east wind was blowing all that day and all that night to bring in the locusts the next morning.

  We even watched a video which suggests the fact that since the Children of Yisra'el gathered manna during the DayTIME that this supports a sunrise to sunrise day cycle. Reading the verses in Exodus chapter sixteen does NOT support any day cycle either.

 The next verse commonly used to support a sunrise to sunrise doctrine can be found in Leviticus chapter six verse twenty. They want to twist this verse by saying it tells us that a day begins at morning.

"This is the offering of Aharon and his sons, which they bring near to YAHUWAH, beginning ON the day when he is anointed: one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a daily grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it at night." -Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 6:20

   Notice, it is written as "ON the day when he is anointed". Beginning ON the day. Not beginning OF the day. Yet those in support of the sunrise dogma have managed to twist this entire meaning of the verse. How were they able to convince others the day begins at sunrise with this verse?

 By managing to switch the sentence structure! One word can indeed change the entire meaning of a sentence even more so a verse. So when looking at each verse as Scriptural students, we need to first zero in on the subject matter. Upon knowing the subject, the rest of the sentence should follow in line.

The subject matter in the above verse is not WHEN the day begins. The issue is WHAT the priest had to do on whichever day he began his Levitical priesthood and WHEN in the day to do it. He does a daily grain offering in the morning and evening. This is similar to saying, beginning on the day I move into a house I must clean it up. Not the beginning OF the day, but beginning ON the day.

  He was to perform two DAILY offerings; one in the morning and one in the night WITHIN the same day. It must be noted, looking back into the HEBREW, in this case, is NOT the word NIGHT, it is actually evening.

The word night is H6153 in the Strong's Hebrew Dictionary:

H6153 ‛ereb - eh'-reb: From H6150; dusk: -  + day, even (-ing, tide), night.

H6150 ‛ârab - aw-rab': to grow dusky at sundown: - be darkened, (toward) evening.

  So he was to perform one in the morning and the other at dusk or in the evening. He would do this right before the end of the day.

The following verses also proves a day begins in the evening:

"In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between the evenings, is the Passover to YAHUWAH."  -Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:5

"It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings. On the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath."
-Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:32

 Instead of just reading the verses as is, the sun-risers try to disprove these verses by adding to the Scriptures. They want to use these verses with the statement that since [according to their doctrine] every day begins and ends with sunrise, Yahuwah decided to make these two days completely different from the rest of the year. This is actually completely far from the truth and contrary to Scriptures. The children of Yisra'el had a hard time counting to seven. They were in the wilderness for 40 years until they could learn to properly follow Yahuwah's commands. As we have cleared up in the very beginning of this study, Yahuwah is not the author of confusion. How confusing would it be, "Every day you observe the Sabbath and each day with sunrise, BUT My Appointed Times (Feasts) of Pesach (Passover) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) are to be observed at evening to evening on one day and between the evenings on the other." If they were having a hard time just counting to seven then how hard and confusing would it have been to switch a routine on two high annual Sabbaths?

  There has never been a time recorded in Scripture of a day beginning at sunrise. Yet we know the pagans held their devotion services worshiping the rising of the sun:

"So He took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They had turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun." -Yehezqel (Ezekiel) 8:16

  Yahuwah has declared that worshiping toward the rising of the sun (east) is an abomination. Why would He want us to start each day off with the rising of the sun? The fact remains. You will not find one Scripture verse that states a day begins with the rising of the sun yet we have shown the many verses that clearly declares the day ends at dusk/sunset/evening!

  Another good reason why we should not reckon time from sunrise to sunrise, (despite this is not based on Scriptures) but because the Babylonians and Egyptians, at one time, adopted this method of worshiping towards the sun deity this way. It is true that even at one time the Babylonians did start a day off at sunset and we could question, did Nimrod (the founder of Babylon) do this since his Grandfather was Noah? Could Noah have taught him the correct way to begin a day? Of course, this could have easily been the case!

  Time and time again, the children of Yisra'el had been warned not to be like the nations around them. Repeatedly they were told not to worship Yahuwah as the heathens worshiped their false deities. Despite the multiply warnings the majority continued to worship the heathen gods, the queen of heaven along with the 'hosts of heaven'. Just as times of old, there still remains some within the Jewish faith that continued to worship the rising of the sun:

"Unlike the early Babylonians, whose day began with sunrise, the Jews began theirs with sunset. Some critics, Dillmann among them, attempted to find traces of the Babylonian reckoning in the early portions of the Bible, but there is no doubt that with the spread of the Law the reckoning from evening to evening became established among the Jews (see Ibn Ezra's poem on the Sabbath, in which he decries the custom of a certain sect which began the Sabbath and festivals with sunrise; Rosin's edition, ii. 78, Breslau, 1885). The eve of Jewish holidays is therefore not the evening of the festival, but theday preceding it; in conversation, the expression "'ereb yomṭob" is even extended to denote an indefinite period preceding the holiday. It is observed as a day on which is prepared (παρασκευὴ) such work as it is not permitted to do on the holiday or on the Sabbath." (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/5917-eve-of-holidays)

  Notice how a certain sect decided to bring the Sabbath along with the Feast in, with the rising of the sun? This is a direct breaking of the Command of YAHUWAH as the Feast's outlined within Wayyiqra (Lev.) 23 commanded us to start two of the annual Feast's with the setting of the sun! What this group did was no different than what Aaron and those stiff neck ones did so long ago in the wilderness:

  "And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to YAHUWAH. And they rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play." -Shemoth (Exodus) 32:4-6

  This is amazing! Not only did Aaron declare and make an added feast day but they did this upon rising in the morning! This entire ordeal infuriated Yahuwah so much that three thousand men died (Shem.|Exodus. 32:28) that very same day! 

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