An Ancient Measurement Of Time

A Full Moon, signifying the end of a lunar cycle.

How did ancient biblical people measure time? How did Adam, Abraham, Moses, the prophets and Yahusha know when to keep the Shabbats and the Appointed-Times of Yahuah? We cannot know for certain, as none of us were there, however, we can draw on historical and biblical evidence to reach a decisive conclusion: they would not have relied on calendars devised by man. Rather, having understood the guidelines set forth by Yahuah during the Creation, they would’ve simply looked up at the night sky:

‘And Yahuah said, “Let lights come to be in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and appointed feasts, and for days and years: and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, and it was so.”

And Yahuah made את eth-two great lights; את eth-the greater light to rule the day, and את eth-the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And Yahuah set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Yahuah saw that it was good.’ ~Genesis 1:14-18~

One of the oldest measuring devices was the sundial, in use in the 2^nd

^{Temple, during the reign of King Herod, the Great, 37-4 BCE.}

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