I will give a few conclusive proofs from Scripture and Historical evidence why the day
"CAN NOT" possibly begin at sunrise.
IF ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IS RIGHT, IT DOES AWAY WITH THE MORNING TO MORNING DOCTRINE. The first one will show that the day BEFORE the seven days of unleavened bread began at evening. The Last Supper was eaten on the night of the 14th and we all know that our Saviour was crucified on the day light portion of the 14th and therefore the 14th day had to have begun at evening. i.e. there was evening and there was morning day 14 of the first month and the 14th is the day "Before" the 7 days of Unleavened Bread which BEGINS on the 15th which begins on the 14th day at even and goes until the 21st day at evening. Ex-12:18 If you can accept any one of the following, it kills the sunrise theory.
"Exhibit A" He ate the last supper on the day that the lambs are to be slain (Luke 22:7-71 and Mark 14:12-17) and we know from the Old Testament Scriptures (Lev-23 etc.) that the lambs are slain on the 14th and both Luke and Mark teaches that they came together at evening on the day that the Passover lambs are slain therefore they had to have came together on the night that began the 14th, because the 14th is the day that the lambs are slain, and he died during the day light portion of the same 14th and according to this the Scriptural day begins at evening.
The Scripture teaches that the first day of unleavened bread is on the 15th day of the first month (Leviticus 23:6) and continues for seven days (Exodus 12:15). The Scripture teaches that these seven days shall be observed from the 14th day at evening until the 21st day at evening (Exodus 12:17-18).
Notice that it is conclusive that the first day of these seven days which is the 15th begins on the 14th day at evening.
I would like to point out that "If" the first day of unleavened bread "is" on the 15th and the 15th begins on the 14th day at evening, then by default and by deductive reasoning, the "14th day" would begin on the "13th day" at evening, and this chain reaction or domino effect will go all the way back to creation. This is an absolute and the following will prove it. Side note, the same applies to the Day of Atonement.
It is easy to say things like this, same as it is easy to say the day bens at sunrise, but I will prove from Scripture that the 14th day began on the 13th day at evening, same as I have proven from Scripture that the 15th day began on the 14th day at evening.
Our Saviour ate the Last Supper on the 14th, and then was crucified on the same 14th after sunrise during the daylight, and this could only happened if the day began at evening, therefore the 24-hour day CAN NOT began at sunrise if the Last Supper was eaten at the end of the 13th (at evening) which is the beginning of the 14th BECAUSE He was crucified on the "SAME" 14th during the day. i.e. If the 24-hour day does not begin until sunrise, how could He have ate the last supper at evening on the 14th "Before sunrise" and died around three o'clock on the same 14th after sunrise???
The following Scriptures will prove that He ate this last meal on the 14th at evening on the day that the lambs are be slain. The Last Supper was at the beginning of the 14th and most everyone rightfully agrees that He was crucified on the 14th which is the preparation day and the Sabbath (15th) drew on.
We know from Mark and Luke that the supper took place at the beginning of the 14th , which is after the 13th day at evening, because it says in Mark 14:17-18, "And in the evening He cometh with the twelve. And as they sat and did eat"
Notice this would have to be at the end of the 13th day at evening which is the beginning of the 14th because it says in Luke 22:7 "Then came the day of unleavened bread when the Passover must be killed"? and we know the Passover is killed on the 14th therefore they had to have ate the Last Supper on the beginning of the 14th day which is the same day that the lambs are to be killed.
Mark 14:12 reads "And the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the Passover. We know from Scripture that the Passover lambs are killed on the 14th and eaten that night/15th with unleavened bread and the 15th began on the 14th day at evening and as I have shown and will show that the 14th began on the 13th day at evening, same as the 15th began on the 14th day at evening.
Some say the word "First" in Mark 14:12 can and should have been translated "Before" and then the verse would read "Before the first day of unleavened bread when they killed the Passover" but it is not my intent to deal with the seemingly contradictions here but to show that they ate the Last Supper at the beginning of the 14th which actually begun on the 13th day at evening, same as the 15th day actually begun on the 14th day at evening at evening which is the first day of the seven days of unleavened bread.
SUMMARY Most people correctly acknowledge that the 7 days of Unleavened Bread begins and ends at evening and above I have demonstrated how the "Day before" the 7 days of Unleavened Bread "Also" began and ended at evening and this domino effect would go all the way back to creation, by using deductive reasoning. i.e. if the seven days of unleavened bread begins and ends at evening and the day before the seven days of unleavened bread begins and ends at evening then by default the other days follow suit all the way back to creation where He said the evening and the morning were the first day or there was evening and there was morning day one.
From the 14th day at evening through the morning to the second day of Unleavened Bread (which also begins at evening) you have a complete day of evening and morning on the 15th, this is using the same principle as in Gen-1, the evening and morning were the first day/15th. the evening and morning were the second day/16th, and so forth to the evening and morning of the seventh day/21st.
I also demonstrated how our Saviour ate the last supper on the evening of the 14th and was crucified on the morning of the same 14th, which is in perfect harmony with creation which says there was evening and there was morning day one. Now I will move on to some abominations that those who accept the sunrise theory must be involved in.
The sunrise proponents like to say that YHWH done His creating during the day but it was "Dark" when YHWH created the heavens and the earth and He caused the light to shine "Out of darkness"? even before there was any light.
Here's a little demonstration of how the preparation day before the Passover and also the seven days of unleavened bread can be compared with the creation week.
When "Evening" was come He sat down with the 12, which was on the day that the Passover lambs are to be slain (14th,) to eat the Last Supper and when "Morning" was come He was before Pilate and was crucified between the evenings and died around three o'clock on the 14th, and there was Evening and there was Morning on the Preparation Day and the Sabbath drew on.. Or you could say "It became evening and it became morning"
Then on the 14th day at "Evening" (which begins the 15th,) they ate the Passover with unleavened bread which is the "First" day of unleavened bread and in the "Morning" they burned what was left with fire and there was evening and there was morning the "First day" of unleavened bread. Or you could say, "It became evening and it became morning day one" of unleavened bread.
When the Seventh day Sabbath/15th, or "First day" of the seven days of unleavened bread had passed that "Evening" the "Second day" of unleavened bread began , which begins the "First day" of the week, they bought more spices and brought them with them to the sepulcher very early in the "Morning" at the rising of the sun on the "Same first" day of the week, and there was evening and there was morning the "Second day" of unleavened bread. Or you could say "It became evening and it became morning day two".
When the second day of unleavened bread ended at evening, the third day of unleavened bread began and "There was evening and there was morning day three" this evening then morning continues throughout the seven days of unleavened bread same as "It became evening and it became morning" on the day before the seven days of unleavened bread and all this can be compared all this with Genesis, where it says, and "It became evening and it became morning day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7”
"Exhibit B, Exodus the 16th chapter
"(Did YHWH Break His Own Law?????) The following Scriptures conclusively proves the day could NOT begin at sunrise or YHWH would be guilty of breaking His own Law and teaching His children of Israel to do the same. YHWH is not the minister of Sin? (Law breaking)
Exodus the 16th chapter conclusively pinpoints a weekly Sabbath on the 15th day of the second month after leaving Egypt. "IF" that Sabbath day began at sunrise as some suggest, the children of Israel would have been gathering quail that "Evening", on the weekly Sabbath day, which is a against the Law of YHWH.
Exodus 16:1-13 teaches how YHWH spoke to Moses on the 15th day of the second month, (which is irrefutably proven to be a weekly Sabbath,) telling him that he had heard their murmurings and would give them quail in the "Evening" and manna in the morning.
12 "I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At "Even" ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am YHWH your Elohim.
13And it came to pass, that at "Even" the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
The reason YHWH waited until evening before giving quail is because the Sabbath day which YHWH sanctified and hallowed at creation would end at evening, and the children would not be gathering the quail in Holy Time.
He would not be delivering Quail on this Holy sanctified Sabbath day for the children of Israel to catch, clean, cook and eat, and therefore the 15th day had to have "Ended at evening" or the Creator would have broken His own Law and caused his people to commit sin by delivering the quails on the Holy Sabbath for them to catch, clean, cook and eat. It seems that some people are willing to believe this in order to protect an erroneous understanding of Genesis 1. Is this what you want?
Do you really want to believe that the YHWH was a SINNER and broken His own Law???
Sin is this transgression of the Law and the Law teaches not to do any work on the weekly Sabbath. They were not even allowed to gather manna on the Sabbath, let alone quail.
The sunrise proponents have to believe that quail was given and gathered on the Holy Shabbat and I wont "Nothing" to do with a doctrine that forces me to believe such.
The quails arrived that night after the weekly Sabbath was over at evening, and it was on the first day of the week that the children of Israel gathered and ate them between the evenings i.e. the evening that ended the seventh day/15th and the evening that would end the first day of the week/16th. If this be not the case, a very serious death penalty sin had taken place, for them to have done this on the sacred Holy Sabbath day.
If they were not allowed to gather manna on the Holy seventh day, they would not be allowed to gather quail either. "If" the quails were given on the holy Sabbath for the people to clean and eat, then the people that went out to gather manna on the next Sabbath (22nd) could "Justifiably" say that they gathered the quails on the previous Sabbath/15th and could truthfully say that gathering manna would not be nearly as bad as gathering quails because you do not have to clean manna as you would a quail.
Of course I don't believe the quails were gathered on the weekly Sabbath/15 and neither would anyone that did not have a doctrine to protect. As I said before, the quails did not come until the evening which ended the Sabbath day and began the first day of the week and this is what Moses and Aaron says, in verse 6,
6And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that YHWH hath brought you out from the land of Egypt:�….
8And Moses said, This shall be, when YHWH shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full;
13And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. (The Hebrew word for even and evening in this verse is the same word for evening in Gen-1).
These verses show how that nothing was going to happen until evening, the reasoning for this is the weekly Sabbath would not be over until then. I would ask the question, why wait until evening unless for the reason that the weekly seventh day ended at evening?????
"Exhibit C. It Is "Impossible" To Have A 3rd Day Resurrection if you believe the sunrise theory and the Scripture clearly teaches He must rise the third day.
Here is something to consider for those who believe the day begins at sunrise or only begins in the morning and consists only of 12 hours. We agree that one definition (the narrow) of the word "Day" consists of only 12 hours, but when this same word is studied in different contexts in the totality of Scripture we see it can have several meanings.
Our Messiah died on the 14th of Aviv, the same day the Passover lambs had been slaughtered for centuries prior to his death. For those who reckon the day from sunrise to sunrise, the Messiah died on the 14th of Aviv and then the evening of the 14th came afterwards, with the weekly Sabbath beginning the morning of the 15th at sunrise. This poses a serious problem when it comes to the resurrection day of the Messiah. If the 1st day of the week will not begin until the sunrise of the 16th of Aviv, and then the Messiah would have resurrected BEFORE sunrise on the SECOND day, instead of the 3rd day.
All the gospel accounts agree that when the women came to the tomb it was very early in the morning, and the gospel according to John (20th chapter) tells us this occurred "While it was yet dark" (KJV). How can it be then that the Messiah rose the 3RD DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES if He rose before the 3rd day began????
The day of his death (14th) would be day one, and the day of the Sabbath (15th) would be day two, and day three would not begin until sunrise of the 16th for the sunrise to sunrise proponents. This means it is an impossibility for this theology to align its understanding with what the Bible teaches about the third day resurrection predicted by the Messiah himself over 10 times and corroborated by the Apostle Shaul in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.
This is not to mention that this teaching also has the Messiah rising on the Sabbath, rather than the 1st day of the week; a teaching that shows similarity with 72 hour proponents. The Scriptures make it very clear that the sheaf of first-fruits (barley) was to be waved on the MORROW AFTER THE SABBATH (Lev. 23:10-16), and NOT on the Sabbath itself. A sunrise to sunrise view has our Messiah resurrected on the Sabbath (2nd day) instead of the morrow after the Sabbath (3rd day) as the Scripture teaches.
In closing, we must also mention that for those espousing a 12 hour Sabbath, one which begins at morning and ends at dusk, has the Messiah rising on a NON-DAY, during the night. This teaching has the Messiah not rising on the Sabbath OR the first day of the week (the 3rd day, 16th), but on what they consider to not be a day at all. The 12 noon people have the same problems.
The Scriptures will all harmonize if we can only see that the word "Day" in Scripture has a broader definition, and not only one narrow definition of the daylight hours. With an evening to evening day, which the Bible clearly teaches (Gen. 1:5;Ex. 12:17; Lev. 23:32) the Messiah can be impaled on the 14th, rest on the Sabbath for the entire 15th day, and as the next day begins (the evening of the 16th) he resurrects (ready to work) before morning, but yet still on the 3rd day " according to the Scriptures (1 Cor. 15:1-4) " on the morrow after the Sabbath (Lev. 23:10-16).
PS. Some may object to our line of reasoning by saying that the Messiah resurrected the split second the daylight hours began on the 16th, but this is unsound for the following reason(s). All four gospel accounts agree that the women came to the tomb very early in the morning, with John's gospel elaborating a bit further that this was while it was yet dark, and another says, as it began to dawn toward the 1st day of the week. All gospel accounts show that the women were amazed that he was not there, and as the angelic messenger(s) proclaimed "HE IS NOT HERE, HE HAS RISEN. This proves beyond doubt that our Messiah had already risen prior to the daylight hours, but yet, as noted above, this was still on the 3rd day according to the evening to evening view, but the 2nd day according to the sunrise or 12 noon view.
We see from the above that the sunrise proponents can NOT have a third day resurrection and this alone kills the sunrise doctrine.
"Exhibit d" SPICES
The next proof that the day COULD NOT scripturally begin at sunrise is taken from the New Testament and is much like the case in Ex- 16. The women bought spices "After" the Sabbath was over and brought these spices with them to the grave on the first day of the week while it was yet dark (before sunrise) on the same first day of the week.
If the Sabbath was not over until sunrise, how is it possible to bring spices that they bought after the Sabbath was over and bring them (while it is yet dark) on the first day of the week BEFORE sunrise?? Or even at the rising of the sun on the first day of the week?
There would be no time to buy spices after the Seventh day was over and bring them on the first day of the week at sunrise if the day began and ended at sunrise. This is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE . Yet the sunrise proponents must believe this, and it is a real embarrassment to their doctrine.
"Exhibit E" "Historical Evidence" Another way to find the truth as to how the Jews of our Saviors day understood when a day begins and ends is to go to someone that was there. We should not accept "Modern" history but when you go back to the time of the Messiah and read the writings of those that lived in that day, it gives us an understanding of how the writers and those who read the writings understood things.
The following Historical evidence teaches the seventh day ended at evening/night.
Josephus writes in
WARS OF THE JEWS book 4 CHAPTER 9 (582)
THAT VESPASIAN, AFTER HE HAD TAKEN GADARA, MADE PREPARATION FOR THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM; BUT THAT, UPON HIS HEARING OF THE DEATH OF NERO, HE CHANGED HIS INTENTIONS; AS ALSO, CONCERNING SIMON OF GERASA
"(580) but having the advantage of situation, and having withal erected four very large towers aforehand, that their darts might come from higher places, (581) one at the northeast corner of the court, one above the Xystus, the third at another corner over against the lower city, (582) and the last was erected above the top of the Pastophoria, where one of the priests stood of course, and gave a signal beforehand, with a trumpet, at the "Beginning" of every seventh day, in the "Evening twilight, as also at the "Evening" when the "Day was finished, as giving notice to the people when they were to "Leave off work, and when they were to go to "Work again. (583) These men also set their engines to cast darts and stones withal, upon those towers, with their archers and slingers.
In the above Josephus is saying that the trumpet was blown at evening which is the beginning of every seventh day and at the evening at the end of every seventh day for the people to go back to work again. Remember Josephus is writing this during the time of the destruction of the Temple when the priesthood was still active and the Temple still standing which conclusively proves the Jews at this time understood the day begins and ends at evening and the day consisted of 24 hours. I know the sunrise proponents will not like this because it does not leave them any wiggle room at all.
Even The Dead Sea Scrolls proves the day begins at "Sunset"
To prove day ends at evening and the weeks were originally connected to the moon we read fragments of lunar days 4 through 25 which were uncovered at Qumran describing the moon's appearance and movements in relation to the sun and the ancient weeks, it also reveals how they under stood when a day begins. Wise, Abegg and Cooke, in their book The Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation, translate the fragment for lunar day 8 as follows "
4Q317
"On the eighth of the month [chodesh], the moon rules all the day in the midst of the sky...and when the sun sets, its light ceases to be obscured, and thus the moon begins to be revealed on the
FIRST DAY OF THE WEEk" (pp. 301-303).
This not only Proves that the 8th of the month was always the 7th day of the week but this is conclusive evidence from the Dead Sea Scrolls that the "9th" day of each month is the first day of the week and
begins at "Sun set". This is an absolute when using deductive reasoning.
The scroll teaches it is the 8th day before sunset and when the sun sets it begins the 9th at sunset. This proves they understood the day passes from the 8th day to the 9th day at sunset, NOT sunrise. Remember all this is in harmony with the scriptures I gave above.
We also have eyewitness from Philo the Jew who actually lived at the same time our Saviour did. In his writings Philo spoke very highly of a group of Orthodox Jews, referring to them as the disciples of Moses and how they had forsaken all, and devoted their whole lives following the law of Moses and even stated that they could not be deceived.
ON THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE Chapter V11-(63) … through Chapter V111 (65) page 704. We read,
"But they are despised by the disciples of Moses, who in the abundance of their wisdom have learnt from their earliest infancy to love truth, and also continue to the end of their lives impossible to be deceived.
VIII. (64) But since the entertainments of the greatest celebrity are full of such trifling and folly, bearing conviction in themselves, if any one should think fit not to regard vague opinion and the character which has been commonly handed down concerning them as feasts which have gone off with the most eminent success, I will oppose to them the entertainments of those persons who have devoted their whole life and themselves to the knowledge and contemplation of the affairs of nature in accordance with the most sacred admonitions and precepts of the prophet Moses.
(65) In the first place, these men assemble at the "
end " of seven weeks, venerating not only the simple week of seven days, but also its multiplied power, for they know it to be pure and always virgin; and it is a prelude and a kind of forefeast of the greatest feast, which is assigned to the number fifty, the most holy and natural of numbers, being compounded of the power of the right-angled triangle, which is the principle of the origination and condition of the whole
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(66) Therefore when they come together clothed in white garments, and joyful with the most exceeding gravity..(81) And when each individual has finished his psalm, then the young men bring in the table which was mentioned a little while ago, on which was placed that most holy food, the leavened bread, with a seasoning of salt, with which hyssop is mingled, out of reverence for the sacred table, which lies thus in the holy outer temple; for on this table are placed loaves and salt without seasoning, and the bread is unleavened, and the salt unmixed with anything else, (82) for it was becoming that the simplest and purest things should be allotted to the most excellent portion of the priests, as a reward for their ministrations, and that the others should admire similar things, but should abstain from the loaves, in order that those who are the more excellent person may have the precedence.
XI. (83) And after the feast they celebrate the sacred festival during the whole night; and this nocturnal festival is celebrated in the following manner:
Notice this sacred festival begins at the "
end of seven weeks
which was at night/evening when the day ends which conclusive proves the Jews of our Savior's day understood the
day ends at evening and another 24-hour space of time begins. I could give many more Scriptures and Historical records that conclusively prove the 24hr day CAN NOT begin at sunrise but this should be enough for the honest hearted and that is who this is for.
To this day I have not had anyone produce any conclusive Historical evidence of the day beginning at sunrise.
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Exhibit F. The sunrise doctrine is a new doctrine and is not sound because it is not found is Scripture or History, so I will show how they got off and are not thinking this thing through.
First of all the sunrise theory is based on an assumption that on day one when He said "Let there be light", the light that appeared was the beginning of day one and the darkness that was upon the earth was "Not" part of the first 24-hour day. Are they forgetting something????? YES!
When light appeared on one side of the earth whether on day one, day four, or day seven and began to move around the earth, would not there still be darkness on the other side of the earth on day one, four, or seven???? i.e. when He began resting on the seventh day, what side of the earth was He speaking from???? Remember on day 7, it was dark on one side and light on the other and one side would have night then day and the other side would have day then night on day 7.
When the Father established the Night and Day factor of days on earth, He set it up to have approximately 12 hrs of darkness and 12 hrs of daylight. Each occurring simultaneously on opposite sides of the earth.
The question is, which one is the "beginning" of the 24-hr day? YHWH could have chosen either side of the earth He wanted as the "beginning" of the 24-hr day, right?
My position is that the overwhelming majority of Scriptures indicates a "darkness" or evening beginning rather than a daylight beginning.
Such strong indication is found in the use of language in Scriptures that pinpoint "evening" as a point of reference to the beginning and/or ending of a day,
NEVER is sunrise pinpointed as beginning or ending of a day.
If you had scriptural language that said things like, they shall be
unclean until sunrise instead of evening, keep the 10th/Day of Atonement from the ninth day at sunrise and from sunrise to sunrise shall you keep my Sabbaths instead of from evening to evening shall you keep my Sabbaths, and at sunrise he shall be clean instead of at evening he shall be clean, unleavened bread is on the 15th and shall be observed from the 14th day at sunrise until the 21st day at sunrise
instead of evening, the gates of Jerusalem began to grow "Light" before the Sabbath
instead of "Dark" before the Sabbath, the list goes on and on but I think you get the point.
The earth is the same age on both sides of it and time began on both sides of the earth at the same time. Someone might say that is not the way it happened so I will move on to day four when He appointed two great lights and placed them in the firmament to not only give light on the earth and to divide the light from the darkness but to be for days and years and signs and seasons/appointments, would not one side of the earth be light/day on day four and the other side of the earth be darkness/night on day four at the exact same time???? i.e. at the beginning of day four on one side of the earth it is light and the beginning of day four on the other side of the earth it is night, so which side of the earth do you recon He reckoned the 24-hour day from, evening then morning, or morning then evening???? The same is true with day one.
If someone was standing on the dark side of the earth on day four, they would have night first then day and if someone was standing on the light side of the earth on day four, they would have day first then night. i.e. one side of the earth has it's fourth day of night/evening BEFORE it has it's fourth day of light/morning and the other side of the earth has it's fourth day of light/morning before it has it's fourth day of night/darkness unless you count the darkness that was here before he said let there be light. But some will say you cannot count that darkness but I will show evidence from Scripture where Moses could have counted it as part of day one.
It is day four on both sides of the earth because the earth is the same age on both sides and yet it is light on one side and dark on the other
Is there any evidence as to which side of the earth the creation is taken place from or from what perspective did the writer of Genesis view this?
I believe there is evidence that YHWH was speaking from a westward perspective of the earth when he said let there be light and if the light came from an eastward direction headed west around to where He was speaking from and the sun sets in the west 12 hours later, then the west began receiving its light on the first day, after 12 hours of darkness.
There is evidence to support that YHWH spoke from a westward perspective and the creation took place from a westward perspective because it teaches in Genesis 2:8 that the man was created westward of the Garden of Eden and he was carried eastward and placed in it.
" And the YHWH God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. "
Notice that the Garden was planted eastward of where YHWH was speaking from and He placed the man there. This seems to indicate that the man and YHWH was westward of the Garden of Eden and if the sun originally appeared in the East at creation when he said let there be light, then the west would have had 12 hours of darkness before they received any light.
This is only one possibility and shows there are other ways of looking at Gen-1 and when looked at in this way it lines up with Ex-16, The Spices, A third day resurrection, last Supper and MANY more Scriptures, not to mention the Historical evidence and The Dead Sea Scrolls that shows how it was done in our Saviour's day.
The Prophet Moses, in Exodus 20:11 when he says "For in six days YHWH made "heaven" and earth, "The sea", and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day:
Notice "Heaven" is included in the six days therefore the darkness/night that came before the light/day could be counted/included as part of the first day of the six days.
When the Spirit moved on the face of the water, it was "AFTER" heaven and earth was created in darkness, therefore heaven could have been counted in the six days that Moses spoke of, therefore the darkness that was on the face of the deep was counted in the six day time period and this would proves the 24-hour day begins at evening/darkness. I don't believe this is what happened, just throwing it out there for a possibility.
The following conclusively proves that in each 24 hr day, the EVENING came BEFORE the sunrise/morning.
1In the beginning YHWH created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of YHWH moved upon the face of the waters.
Notice that when heaven and earth was created it became three things, it became without form and void with darkness upon the face of the deep.
3And YHWH said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And YHWH saw the light, that it was good: and YHWH divided the light from the darkness.
Notice the darkness that the light is divided from is the darkness that was here before the light, not some future darkness as some suggest.
5And YHWH called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. (24hr period)
Notice that the darkness that he called night is the "Same" darkness that was here "Before" the light that he called day and "That" darkness was called "Night. Therefore it became night BEFORE it became light, in the day that YHWH created the heavens and earth and the process is repeated up unto this day in which we live. And when Moses is giving the account of creation and looking back and says it became evening and it became morning day one, he is referring to the evening darkness that came before the light came, not some darkness that came after the light.
In order to get a sunrise to sunrise day, you must "Ignore" the darkness that he called night and refuse to believe that it was here before the light because it is vital to the sunrise theory. They have to deny the darkness that was here before He said let there be light and say it was not part of the first day. But they are so many Scriptures that disprove the sunrise theory, as all the above Scriptures prove.
"EXHIBIT G. By the word of His mouth the world was framed by His Word the heavens and earth etc. everything took place when He started speaking and he started speaking at night and therefore the night that He said let there be light as part of the six workdays.
In order for the sunrise theory to work, the seven days of work then rest in creation MUST begin at sunrise, "NOT" at night, and end at sunrise seven days later, and the darkness that He called "Night" that was upon the face of the deep, before He said let there be light, would not be counted in the six days of work, BUT does this square with Scripture?
No it does not BECAUSE Scripture teaches that the work "BEGAN" at "Night", after the heavens and earth were created, when the Spirit of YHWH "MOVED"? upon the face of the waters while it was still dark/night, and YHWH said "Let" there be" light and there was light which He divided from the darkness. The word "Let" is the same creative word when He said "Let" the waters bring forth, "Let" the heavens, "Let" the this "Let" the that etc. Yes YHWH began working at dark/night/evening and ended His work 6 days later at evening NOT at light/day/morning and ended His work 6 days later at morning/day/light. This is an absolute, i.e. if the 6 day creative process began at dark, it would end at dark 6 days later, and we know that YHWH began moving upon the face of the water while it was dark and said let there be light, while it was dark and therefore the work began at dark and would have ended six days later at dark.
If it began at light it would end at light 6 days later, i.e. if there was light upon the face of the deep and He began moving upon the face of the water in the light and said let there be darkness, He would have been speaking or working in the light and the six days would have ended in the light six days later but we know that was not the case.
The light appeared "AFTER" He moved or advanced upon the face of the water and SAID "Let there be light". He began "Working in the darkness, that He called night, when he created the light and therefore He ended His 6 days of work in the darkness and the darkness is counted in the six days that was spoken of by the Prophet Moses when he said, "For in six days YHWH "Made" heaven" and "Earth. "The sea", and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day" in Exodus 20:11.
The Hebrew word "Made" here can mean "Advanced upon" but the question is, "WHEN" did YHWH began advancing upon heaven and earth? Was it at sunrise, 12 noon, or dark/night??? In darkness.
This not only disproves the sunrise theory but also the 12 noon theory and the 12hr day only theory BECAUSE scripture teaches that YHWH began working at "Night" and caused the light to shine OUT of darkness, therefore the night was not only included in the 6 days but was the beginning of the 6 days spoken of by Moses, the man of YHWH.
In closing I would like to say that anyone who keeps the day from sunrise to sunrise instead of evening to evening is just as guilty of breaking the weekly Sabbath as the people who keeps Saturday or Sunday. The above conclusively proves the day "CAN NOT" begin at sunrise. For more Info you can call (404) 483-8542 or go to
www.lunarsabbath.info or you can write to Brother Arnold at 3466 Hightower Trail Conyers, GA 30012. Upon request I will send my notes on this subject and others that I have collected which is crammed full of proof that the day CAN NOT begin at sunrise and that it is a new doctrine of men.