The Sabbath Calendar.

There Are Three Types Of Days In Scripture:

Work Days.

(Exodus 20:9) (KJV) Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work...

Work Days are when man's work is to be done. In them you are to conduct the business of living, establishing yourself, your family, your security. You are to 'Create' (just as the ETERNAL did), whatever is your heart's desire, to prosper yourself and those around you. Since you were made in His image, and since He is a 'Creator', on these days, you should also be creative just as He is creative.

New Moons And Sabbaths.

Scripture clearly reveals, that in the eternal future, Yahweh will be worshipped on both types of days:

(Isaiah 66:23) (KJV) And it shall come to pass, that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith Yahweh.

Moreover, scripture places New Moons together with the seventh-day Sabbath, as opposed to the other six working days:

(Ezekiel 46:1) (KJV) Thus saith the Sovereign Yahweh; the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the New Moon it shall be opened.

The fact that New Moons were to be kept free from buying and selling is established elsewhere in (Amos 8) where, again, the activity preformed on the New Moons, or in this case, the work abstained from on New Moons, is linked to the same restraint from work on the seventh-day Sabbaths. In this passage, Yahweh is speaking, pointing out the sins of Israel:

(Amos 8:4-5) (KJV) ⁴Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, ⁵Saying When will the New Moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

If work were allowed on New Moons, the backslidden people would not have been longing for the days of worship to be over so that they could go back to their buying and selling.

(Exodus 16) reveals that manna gathered on the Preparation day did not spoil when kept until the Sabbath, even though on every other day, it would spoil if they tried to preserve it until the next day. Exodus 16:23 further establishes the principle that food eaten on the seventh-day Sabbath is to be prepared the day before.

(Exodus 16:13-26) (NIV) ¹³That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp. ¹⁴When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. ¹⁵When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, What is it? For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. ¹⁶This is what the ETERNAL has commanded: 'Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer* for each person you have in your tent. ¹⁷The Israelites did as they were told; some gathered much, some little. ¹⁸And when they measured it by the omer, the one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little. Everyone had gathered just as much as they needed. ¹⁹Then Moses said to them, No one is to keep any of it until morning. ²⁰However, some of them paid no attention to Moses; they kept part of it until morning, but it was full of maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them. ²¹Each morning everyone gathered as much as they needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away. ²²On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much, two omers** for each person, and the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses. ²³He said to them, This is what the ETERNAL commanded: Tomorrow is to be a day of sabbath rest, a holy sabbath to the ETERNAL. So bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning. ²⁴So they saved it until morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink or get maggots in it. ²⁵Eat it today, Moses said, because today is a sabbath to the ETERNAL. You will not find any of it on the ground today. ²⁶Six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

* One omer is approximately 3 pounds, or 1.4 kilograms.
** Two omers is approximately 6 pounds, or 2.8 kilograms.

There is no command given to not cook food on New Moons. Furthermore, there is no indication anywhere in scripture that food gathered on sixth day, Preparation, was to be held over until two days later. Neither is there any supernatural preservation of the manna indicated for New Moon day. Half of the time, the seventh-day Sabbath comes right before New Moon day. It is assumed, therefore, that manna fell on New Moon day and that it could be cooked, if so desired. Cooking is not considered work, as is buying and selling. Moreover, Feast days can fall on Work Days (The Feast of Unleavened Bread and The Feast of Tabernacles), New Moons, or Sabbaths.

Circumstantial support for this is found in (1 Samuel 20) where the practice of a family gathering together for a special meal on New Moon is recorded:

(1 Samuel 20:5) (KJV) So David said, "Look, tomorrow is the New Moon feast, and I am supposed to dine with the king; but let me go and hide in the field until the evening of the day after tomorrow."

(1 Samuel 20:18) (KJV) Then Jonathan said to David, "Tomorrow is the New Moon feast. You will be missed, because your seat will be empty".

Today, many use New Moon day as a special time of recommitment for the upcoming month. It is a day of looking back on the past month and rejoicing in blessings given while asking forgiveness for wrongs committed. It is also an opportunity to look ahead to the upcoming month. New Moon day is a wonderful time for gathering together with one's family and friends, and rejoicing in the blessings of heaven, while recommitting oneself and one's family to Yahweh.