OtherOahspe New Year and Sabbath
by Editorial Team · 8/9/2026 · Source: Faithist Studies archive
OAHSPE New Year and Sabbath
You may not be aware that the 1882 and 1891 Editions of OAHSPE do not agree about when
we are to celebrate our Old Year/ New Year. Our New Year's Day is how we calculate our
Sabbath. There is a one day progression every year. The 1891 Edition directs us to celebrate
the Old Year / New Year calculated from the Winter Solstice. . Last winter Solstice December
2017, New Year was on Friday, making Friday our Sabbath until Winter Solstice 2018.
This year June 21st is the Summer Solstice. Those who celebrate the Old Year /New Year at
the Summer Solstice can read Chapter XIV Book of Inspiration to understand what these dates
mean and how to observe these very special Holy Days.: Old Year's Day Thursday, June 21st,
and New Year's Day Friday, June 22nd making Friday our Sabbath. Chapter XIV is below.
Some prefer to celebrate the Old Year and the New Year Sabbath calculated from the Winter
Solstice which this year is Friday. If you prefer to celebrate the Old Year and the New Year
Sabbath at the Summer solstice, New Year is Friday, June 22nd. We are all celebrating the
Sabbath on Friday. So let us celebrate both Solstice dates.
Friday will be the Sabbath for all Faithists until December 2018.
Contact me for more information on our two New
Year's Days
Chapter XIV Book of Inspiration 1882 Edition
1. These are Tae's revelations of Jehovih's times and seasons, appointed unto the chosen:
2. The northern line of the sun shall be the end of the year, and it shall be called the last day of
the old year, saith Jehovih.
3. And the first day thereafter, when the sun starteth on his southern course, shall be the
beginning of the year, and it shall be called the New Year's day.
4. These are My times of the end and the beginning of a year, which I created; and I made the
earth and the sun as My written testimony thereof.
5. And I blessed and sanctified the old year's day and the new year's day, and I appointed them
to be holy days, that men might remember the order and the system of My works.
For OLD YEAR"S DAY.....June 21st Thursday
6. And I said unto man: From one new year's day until the succeeding one shall be called one
year, for it is one completed oscillation of the earth, and of her revolution in the orbit where I
placed her.
7. Therefore, what thou hast completed within a year shall be remembered by thee, that thou
mayst judge thyself therein.
8. And, on the old year's day, thou shalt render up in full forgiveness in all things against all
people.
9. And with the setting of the sun on that day, thou shalt be purged of all animosity and claims
against every man, woman and child, in all the world.
10. And thou shalt make acknowledgement of this in words and songs and prayers, and in
tokens, of no intrinsic value, to whomsoever thou shalt have offended during the past year.
11.Tae said: For which reason the old year's day shall be named, the Most Holy Sabbath Day.
Behold, it is in accord with His heavenly kingdoms. And it shall be with thee a day of spiritual
communion, and of praise to Jehovih and His creations; with music and oratory, and
ceremonies, and processions of thy youth, orderly and well disciplined.
For NEW YEAR'S DAY ...June 22nd Friday
12. And, on the new year's day, thou shalt rejoice and sing and dance; mingling together, old
and young, even as the old year and the new year are joined together, side by side.
13. The seventh day of the new year shall be thy next sabbath day, and it shall be a day of rest
and of spiritual communion and praise to Jehovih and His creations, with singing and oratory.
14. So also shall every seventh day be a sabbath day; for which reason seven days shall be
one week, being six days for labor, and one for rest and worship.
15. For this hath been proven in all the world to be good for man.
16. These, then, shall be the moons days.
17. The first new moon's day after new year's day shall be the beginning of the first month; and
the completion of the fourth quarter of the moon shall be the completion of the first month, and it
shall be named, First month.
18. The next four quarters of the moon shall be the second month, and it shall be named,
Second month.
19. And the next completed four quarters of the moon shall be named, Third month. And so on,
to the completion of the year.
20. Such, then, shall be the month in any and every year, for these are the moon's times as
Jehovih created them.
21. Neither shall it matter or not whether the months overlap a new year's day; as they are
created and moved by the Almighty, even so shall man compute and register them.
22. (For example, a new year's day may come upon the twentieth day of the Twelfth moon or on
another moon's day, still, as they fall, so shall they be numbered in truth.)
23. As the moon's time differeth to different continents, so shall the months' times of the
inhabitants of different continents be locally unto them.
24. But, in the intercourse between different nations on different continents, the month times
shall not be enumerated.
25. But, in all such cases, the year and the days thereof shall be named.
26. (As, for example, the seventieth year and the ninety-sixth day.)