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Bob Ryan wrote:
God says specifically that the gentiles are blessed when they "keep from profaning the Sabbath" - which means there is such a thing as profaning the Sabbath for gentiles and the ones blessed in Isaiah 56 are the ones not doing that.
True. I did write that
God never says to them "I applaud you for profaning the Sabbath" or "well done in desecrating the Sabbath" ... not even once in all of scripture.
Isaiah wrote this --
6 “Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord,
To be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the Sabbath
And holds fast My covenant;
7 Even those I will bring to My holy mountain
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be acceptable on My altar;
For My house will be called a house of prayer for all the peoples.” NASB
Is 56
And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord
to minister to him,
to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold fast to my covenant—
7 these I will bring to my holy mountain
and give them joy in my house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and sacrifices
will be accepted on my altar;
for my house will be called
a house of prayer for all nations.”
After analyzing verses 6 and 7 I have come to the conclusion that Isaiah wrote there something like he did in chapter 65 where he wrote glimpses of the new Earth.
That is chapter 56... not chapter 65. And unlike Chapter 66:23 where we have the context of the New Heavens and New Earth (also quoted by John in Rev 21) chapter 66 has ALL mankind in obedience and keeping the Sabbath for all eternity.
But in Isaiah 56:6-7 it is local context only - it does not claim that all gentiles .. even the pagans are engaged in Sabbath keeping.
In the Isaiah 56 local context - animal sacrifices are in use for forgiveness of sins. That's how it was - before the cross.
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