Psalm 81:1-4 reads
1. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
2. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
3. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
The New Moon observance is a perpetual ordinance given by the God of Israel to the children of Israel to keep. We do not pray to or worship the moon, the coming of the New moon is a phase that signifies the beginning of a new month, and the ending of an old month.
Genesis 1:14 reads
14. And God said, Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.
Just as the rising of the sun brings the morning and the showing of the stars indicates that it is surely night, the moon and it’s phases has been placed to gage the months of God (Hebrew Calendar) so that we can know when to keep his feasts, Holy days, and services without error. The new moon is a feast day,
Psalms 81:3 reads
3. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Amos 8:4-5 reads
4. Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
5. Saying, 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?
This scripture is another lesson in itself but the point that should be understood is that the New Moon is treated as a Sabbath day, a feast day and an insignia of seasons from month to month.
Ezekiel 46:1 reads
1. Thus saith the Lord GOD; 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.
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