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16 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 8

8. How LONG did he stay in Troas? TRUE Sabbath day to keep it Holy. By counting
Same verse. six work days after the New Moon day -- and
COMMENT: Paul and his associates then resting the seventh day after the six work
sailed away from Philippi AFTER the Days of days according to the Fourth Commandment -- it
Unleavened Bread -- on the 22nd of Nisan. FIVE will ALWAYS fall on the 8th day from the New
DAYS later (on the 26th of Nisan) they joined Moon, as it was in the beginning in Genesis 1.
the others in Troas where they abode for 7 YEHOVAH God rested on the seventh
DAYS. The 7th day was the 2nd day of the new day, or after the six work days, but it was the
month (Iyar), and Paul calls this SECOND DAY 8TH DAY from the beginning. This is because
of Iyar the 1st day of the week. That makes the YEHOVAH created the heavens and the earth
1st day of Iyar THE DAY OF THE NEW BEFORE He worked on them on the 1st work
MOON -- which is a worship day in which no day.
work is to be done. 10. Notice how the Sabbath was
Counting the 26th of Nisan as the FIRST regarded by converts in the early Church. Did
DAY of their stay in Troas (the Hebrews used Paul preach to the Judahites AND Gentiles on a
INCLUSIVE counting), we count the 27th as the Sabbath Day? Acts 13:14-16. After the
SECOND, the 28th as the THIRD, the 29th as JUDAHITES left the synagogue, did the
the FOURTH, the 30th as the FIFTH, the 1st (of GENTILES ask him to preach to them again on
Iyar) or the NEW MOON as the SIXTH day of the next Sabbath? Verse 42. On the next
the stay, and the 2nd day of Iyar as the Sabbath, how many from the city of Antioch
SEVENTH day of Paul’s stay at Troas. came to hear Paul? Verse 44.
9. Read Acts 20:7. What is this
SECOND day of Iyar called? CORINTH -- Where Paul preached to Gentiles on
COMMENT: It is called the 1st day of YEHOVAH’s Sabbath days.
the week because they only stayed seven days.
The seventh day of their stay fell on the first day
of the week, and the SECOND day of the month
is ALWAYS the first work day of the week,
following the New Moon day.
If the 2nd day of Iyar was the first work
day of the week, that clearly PROVES that Paul
kept the weekly Sabbath on the 8TH DAY OF
IYAR -- which means he also kept the 15TH,
22ND and 29TH! We should follow Paul as he
followed the Messiah!
The apostle Paul was remembering the

NISAN

21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th

Last Paul Arrival 2nd 3rd 4th 5th
Day sailed 2nd 3rd 4th in Day of Day of Day of Day of
of from Day of Day of Day of stay in stay in stay in stay in
voyage voyage voyage Troas
U.B. Philippi Troas Troas Troas Troas

YEHOVAH God’s TRUE Sabbath Day -- Part 2