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Does Matthew 24 describe the rapture?

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Ask yourself why the Sabbath was created.
it was rest.
God RESTED on the 7th day. That's why it's Holy.
Because He Rested.
Thats the issue, I do not need to ask myself, because my words matter not, what God say does

Gen 2: 1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning for holy use because God rested from all of His work which God created and made.

Why God started the Sabbath commandment with Remember- because you don’t remember something that just started, He is taking us back to Creation and each Sabbath is a memorial to everything God created for man without man so we never forget Who made us and where we came from. The Sabbath commandment also contains the seal of God Exo 20:11

Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

We can find throughout the Bible the Sabbath was meant to bless man Isa 56:2 and sanctify man Eze 20:12 because man can’t sanctify themselves Isa 66:17 no matter how hard they try, we need God and its a sign between God and man Eze 20:20. The Bible is filled with ways to keep the Sabbath day holy and how not to keep it and what it does to Jesus when we profane His Sabbath, you can find all of these Texts in our Bibles. I have already provided many, most with thus saith the Lord, but people brush aside and post their own opinions as if thats equal to what God says.



You have turned the reason for the Sabbath existing from rest, to religion and law.
The Sabbath commandment is law - it’s God’s law personally written and spoken by God. I know of anyone greater than He, do you? Exo 20:8-11 Exo 20:6 Deut 4:13
The goal was rest. Not going for worship and religious ceremonies.

Now in Leviticus 23, yes they call it a holy convocation but...
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings

Why do you think following the example of Jesus to worship Him with like-minded people work. This is your own reasoning, nothing in the Scriptures.

The Sabbath rest is a holy convocation- the Sabbath of the Lord is in all dwellings i.e. peoples homes it doesn't mean one has to stay home and not go outside, would make it difficult since its a holy convocation i.e. holy gathering which is how we Jesus kept the Sabbath who is our example to follow Luke 4:16 1John 2:6. The Sabbath is in my dwelling the entire day, not just when I go to church, the whole day is about God on the Sabbath Isa 58:13

now compare that, the 7th day Sabbath of rest.. to all the other sabbaths within Leviticus 23
The weekly Sabbath is not the same as the feast days, God identified the weekly Sabbath as My Sabbath, the holy day of the Lord. The yearly feasts/sabbath(s) days as your sabbath(s) and they came after the fall of man, the weekly Sabbath was part of Creation and part of God’s perfect plan for mankind.
but the Sabbath of rest on the 7th day?

There was nothing about doing any work, even religious work. They were commanded to stay home and-11

Where is it commanded to not leave your house on the Sabbath?

Exo 20: 8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Than Jesus broke the Sabbath when preaching God’s word on the Sabbath in the churches of that time Luke 4:16-30 . I do pray you are not calling Jesus a sinner and breaking the Sabbath commandment like He was accused by the Pharisees when He said He kept the commandments including the Sabbath and did not sin John 15:10 Luke 4:16 John 8:46-47
 
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There was not calendars in the Bible times, they could tell where they were in the month by the moon. A new moon, just means the beginning of a new month
Yes, I know. That's why that verse is just another way of stating month to month and week to week. A continuous cycle.
 
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Yes, I know. That's why that verse is just another way of stating month to month and week to week. A continuous cycle.

The cycle is continuous from one Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another. God knows the difference between every week on the Sabbath and every new month from every second. The saints will not be worshipping before Him 24/7 as shown by Scripture, they will be building houses and tending to vineyards (working) but on the Sabbath coming before the Lord to worship Him in His presence, the way it was always meant to be before sin separated us Isa 59:2. Keeping the Sabbath now in the same cycle, the way God commanded us prepares us for heaven plus it shows we honor and worship Him by obeying Him the way He asked, not what sounds good to us.
 
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Thats the issue, I do not need to ask myself, because my words matter not, what God say does

Gen 2: 1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

The Sabbath was sanctified from the beginning for holy use because God rested from all of His work which God created and made.

Why God started the Sabbath commandment with Remember- because each Sabbath is a memorial to everything God created for man without man so we never forget Who made us and where we came from. The Sabbath commandment also contains the seal of God/

Exo 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

We can find throughout the Bible the Sabbath was meant to bless man Isa 56:2 and sanctify man Eze 20:12 because man can’t sanctify themselves Isa 66:17 no matter how hard they try, we need God and its a sign between God and man Eze 20:20. The Bible is filled with ways to keep the Sabbath day holy and how not to keep it and what it does to Jesus when we profane His Sabbath, you can find all of these Texts in our Bibles. I have already provided many, most with thus saith the Lord, but people brush aside and post their own opinions as if thats equal to what God says.




The Sabbath commandment is law - it’s God’s law personally written and spoken by God. I know of anyone greater than He, do you? Exo 20:8-11 Exo 20:6 Deut 4:13

3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings

Why do you think following the example of Jesus to worship Him with like-minded people work. This is your own reasoning, nothing in the Scriptures.

The Sabbath rest is a holy convocation- the Sabbath of the Lord is in all dwellings i.e. peoples homes it doesn't mean one has to stay home and not go outside, would make it difficult since its a holy convocation i.e. holy gathering which is how we Jesus kept the Sabbath who is our example to follow Luke 4:16 1John 2:6. The Sabbath is in my dwelling the entire day, not just when I go to church, the whole day is about God on the Sabbath Isa 58:13


The weekly Sabbath is not the same as the feast days, God identified the weekly Sabbath as My Sabbath, the holy day of the Lord. The yearly feasts/sabbath(s) days as your sabbath(s) and they came after the fall of man, the weekly Sabbath was part of Creation and part of God’s perfect plan for mankind.




Where is it commanded to not leave your house on the Sabbath?
I literally posted it, Exodus 16.
It says on the 7th day, not to even leave your place (your home), abide in your place and rest.

if the Sabbath was created for man it was created for rest.

If man was created for the Sabbath, then yes, you can expect that the Sabbath was created for God and we were created to do religious work on God's Sabbath that He created for Himself.
 
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I literally posted it, Exodus 16.
It says on the 7th day, not to even leave your place (your home), abide in your place and rest.

if the Sabbath was created for man it was created for rest.

If man was created for the Sabbath, then yes, you can expect that the Sabbath was created for God and we were created to do religious work on God's Sabbath that He created for Himself.
Its out of context, let me bring what the context its referring to…

Exo 20:23 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ” 24 So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 25 Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

27 Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses
, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

It’s referring to going out of their place for food, because there would be none. God gave a double portion of manna on the sixth day, the preparation day for the Sabbath, that how important the Sabbath is to God that didn’t end in the NT. Mark 15:42 The Sabbath is a holy convocation which means gathering Lev 23:3 how Jesus and the apostles kept the Sabbath. Jesus never sinned and broke the Sabbath, at least if we believe His own Testimony John 15:10 John 8:46-47

I pray this helps
 
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if the Sabbath was created for man it was created for rest.
Exactly. That's my main point. It was created for rest period after 6 days of labor. Traditions of men have turned into what day of the week should one get up and go to a physical church. And again, we don't need a physical church to worship God. We can boldly go to his throne at any time.

Thank God today we have the sabbatimos rest.
 
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Exactly. That's my main point. It was created for rest period after 6 days of labor. Traditions of men have turned into what day of the week should one get up and go to a physical church. And if you've traveled some distance to go to that church -you've already broken the OT Sabbath.

Thank God today we have the sabbatimos rest.
Show where traveling to church is in violation of the Sabbath. How can it be a holy convocation thus saith the Lord Lev 23:3, if it in violation. I guess thats why you didn’t provide Scripture. This sounds similar to what the Pharisees taught because they didn’t understand the Sabbath and came up with all these man-made rules they added to God’s Sabbath, we are told not to add or take away from God’s commandments Deut 4:2

I think people are going to be in for a big surprise that they did not enter Christ rest while clinging on to sin and rebellion. Heb 3:7-8 Heb 4:6 Heb 4:11 Isa 48:18. Sin is breaking God’s law 1 John 3:4 His version Deut 4:13 James 2:11-12 Heb 8:10 because He promises not to alter His Words Psa 89:34 not a jot or tittle Mat 5:18-19. Whoever we obey is who we serve Rom 6:16 Jesus told us quoting OT live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, which of course includes Exo 20:1 Exo 20:8-11
 
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Show where traveling to church is in violation of the Sabbath.
I had already changed my post before seeing your reply but I meant according to Jewish Law. And again, you seem to line up with traditions at times.
I think people are going to be in for a big surprise that they did not enter Christ rest
Funny I think the opposite and believe many will be surprised to find out Hebrews 4 was about sabbatimos and not sabbaton. We enter into His rest by belief not by worshipping a single day.

Hebrews 4:3 "For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, "As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest:" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world."
 
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I had already changed my post before your reply but I meant according to Jewish Law which you seem to cling to at times.
The Sabbath is God’s law, Exo 20:6 Deut 4:13 are you referring to Jewish law outside of Scripture? I go by what the Bible says.
Funny I think the opposite and believe many will be surprised to find out Hebrews 4 was about sabbatimos and not sabbaton. We enter into His rest by belief not by worshipping a single day.
We enter through faith Heb 4:2 and those who enter His rest also (which means in addition to) cease from their works as God did from His Heb 4:10 on the seventh day Heb 4:4 Exo 20:11 Gen 2:1-3

Guess we will both find out soon enough. Be well.
 
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Its out of context, let me bring what the context its referring to…

Exo 20:23 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil; and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until morning.’ ” 24 So they laid it up till morning, as Moses commanded; and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 25 Then Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none.”

27 Now it happened that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. 28 And the Lord said to Moses
, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws? 29 See! For the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

It’s referring to going out of their place for food, because there would be none. God gave a double portion of manna on the sixth day, the preparation day for the Sabbath, that how important the Sabbath is to God that didn’t end in the NT. Mark 15:42 The Sabbath is a holy convocation which means gathering Lev 23:3 how Jesus and the apostles kept the Sabbath. Jesus never sinned and broke the Sabbath, at least if we believe His own Testimony John 15:10 John 8:46-47

I pray this helps
They weren't commanded to go to the Tabernacle on the Saturday Sabbath.
they were commanded to not do work.

tbh how did this discussion get sidelined to legalistic Sabbath keeping rather than whether or not Matthew 24 had rapture references in it?
 
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They weren't commanded to go to the Tabernacle on the Saturday Sabbath.
they were commanded to not do work.

tbh how did this discussion get sidelined to legalistic Sabbath keeping rather than whether or not Matthew 24 had rapture references in it?
Lev 23:3 Luke 4:16-17 Acts 15:21 Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4 Isa 66:23
Sorry you feel it’s legalistic, gathering before the Lord in one accord to worship.

Not sure how it got in this topic either, but I’m okay getting back on topic.

Appreciate the chat.

God bless!
 
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Lev 23:3 Luke 4:16-17 Acts 15:21 Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4 Isa 66:23
Sorry you feel it’s legalistic, gathering before the Lord in one accord to worship.

Not sure how it got in this topic either, but I’m okay getting back on topic.

Appreciate the chat.

God bless!
It's legalistic because it's stressing a law.
I don't know how that's not legalistic.

Question: Is our salvation based on our law keeping?

Did Peter and Paul put the laws that they themselves as Israelites could not keep?

Acts 15
5 But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.
6 And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.
7 And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Uh oh, not even Peter and the Apostles could keep the laws!

So what burden did the Apostles place upon the Gentile Christian converts?
28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
No Sabbath keeping there.
Not even the other 9 commandments.

So let's bury this aspect with that in mind.

We're not saved by lawkeeping, we're saved because we're law breakers, by the Grace of Jesus Christ.
 
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It's legalistic because it's stressing a law.
I don't know how that's not legalistic.
According to God its love Exo 20:6 John 14:15 1 John 5:3 John 15:10
Question: Is our salvation based on our law keeping?
Our salvation is by grace through faith. Keeping God’s law is because we love Jesus and is a consequence of Jesus changing our heart and our salvation in Him Rev 14:12 John 15: 4,5,10 having faith in what He asks, not just to hear Him, but to do. James 1:22 Mat 7:21-23 Rev 22:14 No one who disobeys God without a change in heart and change in direction i.e. die of self being reborn in Christ is going to see God’s Kingdom according to Scripture Mat 7:21-23 Rev 22:14-15 Heb 10:26-30 Gal 5:19-21
So what burden did the Apostles place upon the Gentile Christian converts?
Do you really believe only worshipping God, and not murdering our neighbor is too much of a burden to want to keep? It’s not something Jesus or the apostles taught
Acts 15


No Sabbath keeping there. Not even the other 9 commandments.
Acts 15:21.
 
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According to God its love Exo 20:6 John 14:15 1 John 5:3 John 15:10

Our salvation is by grace through faith. Keeping God’s law is because we love Jesus and is a consequence of Jesus changing our heart and our salvation in Him Rev 14:12 John 15: 4,5,10 having faith in what He asks, not just to hear Him, but to do. James 1:22 Mat 7:21-23 Rev 22:14 No one who disobeys God without a change in heart and change in direction i.e. die of self being reborn in Christ is going to see God’s Kingdom according to Scripture Mat 7:21-23 Rev 22:14-15 Heb 10:26-30 Gal 5:19-21

Do you really believe only worshipping God, and not murdering our neighbor is too much of a burden to want to keep? It’s not something Jesus or the apostles taught

Acts 15:21.
Verse out of context.

In context, the apostles were considering what to tell the Gentiles in regards to whether or not they had to practice the religion of Moses with all the commandments.
They settled on a rather short list.
and it didn't include Sabbath keeping.
Noah was not commanded to keep the Sabbath. Moses was.
 
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Noah was not commanded to keep the Sabbath. Moses was.
This kind of depends on whether you believe Genesis 1/2 to be literal historical records. If so, then God called the 7th day holy before even Noah.

If we accept that Genesis 1/2 were written during the Babylonian exile around the 8th century BC as a mythical prologue of the Law, then we can set it aside together with the Law.
 
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Sure, the Ten Commandments are included in the law of Moses because God's law is for all people Rev 14:12 including Moses

No, that's not true. God separated the Ten Commandments from all the other laws, statues, judgment etc. Only the Ten Commandments was placed inside the ark of the covenant Exo 40:20 all the other laws was placed outside Deut 4:31:24-26.
What do you think, that those other commandments came from someone other than God? How can you deny that those are all commandments from God?
 
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What do you think, that those other commandments came from someone other than God? How can you deny that those are all commandments from God?
I think you might be misunderstanding what I am saying. First not everything is a commandment Neh 9:13

There are two main set of laws in the OT. All came from God, but God by design separated His law i.e. the Ten Commandments, this is a standalone unit Deut 4:13 Exo 34:28 Deut 5:22 personally finger written and spoken by God on stone for its eternal nature, it is His personal Testimony Exo 31:18, only the Ten Commandments was placed inside the ark of the covenant Exo 40:20 in His Most Holy which is also in heaven Rev 11:19 and all the other laws, statues, judgments ordinances other commandments were placed outside the ark handwritten by Moses on paper in a Book, placed outside as witness against Deut 31:24-26 and held all of the curses and blessings for breaking God's law the Ten Commandments.

If we do not have a good understanding of these two sets of laws, will make Paul almost impossible to understand, because he will often just use the word law and sometimes is referring to the Ten Commandments like Rom 7:7 Rom 7:12 and other times referring the law of Moses such as Gal 2:3 Gal 3:10 etc

There is one law that is perfect for converting the soul Psa 19:7 holy, righteous and good Rom 7:12 that God said He will not alter Psa 89:34 not a jot or tittle Mat 5:18. Would this be the only law God wrote and God spoke, His personal Testimony personally written by our perfect Savior or something handwritten by man that was to be a witness against us. I am hoping we have a good understanding of the character of God to know how to answer this question.

The law of Moses was written on paper as paper fades and we clearly see laws from this unit that were temporary until the Seed came like all of the animal sacrifices for sin Heb 9:10-14 Heb 10:1-22 Eph 3:15 etc there has to be two sets of laws because one set define what sin is when broken (God's law) 1 John 3:4 James 2:11-12 Rom 7:7 Mat 5:19-30 etc and the other that was added (animal sacrifices) because of transgression for breaking God's law. God in the Ten Commandments connects His law to Creation Exo 20:11 because where there is no law there is no transgression Rom 4:15 Adam and Eve sinned so therefore broke God's law. Not just the command to not eat from the tree of good and evil but broke God's law when she saw the fruit was pleasant to the eye (Gen 3:6 ) so was coveting the fruit when God told her not to even go near. She stole the fruit when she took and ate it as it didn't belong to her. She broke the very first commandment when she ate because the other spirit told her she would be like god. All of the commandments are interconnected why breaking one, we break them all James 2:11-12. Cain knew it was sin to murder Abel, where is thou shalt not murder in? Where there is no law, there is no sin, why God's law is the standard for His people the way Jesus taught the intent behind the law Mat 5:19-30.

We can see the difference in these two sets of laws in the NT as well.

For example...

1 Cor 9:9 For it is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it oxen God is concerned about?

There is nothing in the Ten Commandments about not to muzzle an ox

And Jesus said quoting from the Ten Commandments it is a commandment of God and had a pretty stern warning about replacing God's law quoting from the Ten Commandments, with mans traditions. This of course would apply to all of them.

Mat 15:3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; (quoting from Exo 20:1-17) , ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.
9 And in vain they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”


10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”

No wonder why Jesus taught not to break or teach others to break the least of these commandments again quoting directly from the Ten Commandments Mat 5:19-30

God's Testimony is for all people Rev 14:12 Rev 12:17 Rev 22:14 and we should keep them the way He asked because we need the faith of Jesus who kept John 15:10 them as our example and He came not just to die for our sins, but came to show us the righteous way to live following in His footsteps 1 John 2:6 1 Peter 2:21-22 Heb 4:15
 
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Verse out of context.

In context, the apostles were considering what to tell the Gentiles in regards to whether or not they had to practice the religion of Moses with all the commandments.
They settled on a rather short list.
and it didn't include Sabbath keeping.
Noah was not commanded to keep the Sabbath. Moses was.
I think you are misunderstanding Acts 15. The premise was about circumcision keeping for salvation Acts 15:1 Either Acts 15 its an exhaustive list or its not. Do Gentiles not have to keep the greatest commandments to love God with all thy hear and soul and love thy brother? It wasn't listed there either. Most people who use Acts 15 as the only laws they need to keep don't even keep these 4 laws. They listed one from the Ten Commandments and we are told when we break one we break them all James 2:11-12 so when one is mentioned is means all of them. They show in Acts they were already keeping every Sabbath Acts 15:21

Both the Jews and Gentiles were keeping every Sabbath Acts 15:21 Acts 13:42 Acts 13:44 Acts 18:4
 
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Noah was not commanded to keep the Sabbath. Moses was.
Where does it say Noah never kept the Sabbath? The Sabbath started at Creation Exo 20:11 Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man and the word He used was mankind. God's people of all ages keep God's commandments Rev 14:12 His version, not mans, because its best to let God be God and us be His humble servant living by every Word Mat 4:4

Amway, I am going to leave it as agree to disagree.

Happy Sabbath all. :twohearts:
 
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