WHAT DAY IS THE SABBATH DAY AND IS IT LOST IN CALANDERS?

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The HEBREW word for sabbath simply means every "SEVENTH DAY".

Actually, Sabbath means to “cease,” or “rest.” It is Shabbat in Hebrew; seven is the Hebrew word shebiy’iy. There’s no relationship between these words found in either etymology or semantics.

But, short of following the scriptural guidelines for determining when the Sabbath should be, Saturday seems to be what is generally accepted by Jewish people.
 
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Actually, Sabbath means to “cease,” or “rest.” It is Shabbat in Hebrew; seven is the Hebrew word shebiy’iy. There’s no relationship between these words found in either etymology or semantics.

But, short of following the scriptural guidelines for determining when the Sabbath should be, Saturday seems to be what is generally accepted by Jewish people.

Hi there NPP nice to meet you here and thanks for sharing your view. Yes interesting thoughts you have shared here similar throughts are in discussion on another thread linked here in ORIGIN OF THE 7th DAY SABBATH IN CREATION if your interested. Your definition here is a little shallow though. Please see the linked post.

God bless
 
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Actually, Sabbath means to “cease,” or “rest.” It is Shabbat in Hebrew; seven is the Hebrew word shebiy’iy. There’s no relationship between these words found in either etymology or semantics.

What, did you get that from Strongs or something? Yom HaShvi'i...Sheva...
 
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Hi there NPP nice to meet you here and thanks for sharing your view. Yes interesting thoughts you have shared here similar throughts are in discussion on another thread linked here in ORIGIN OF THE 7th DAY SABBATH IN CREATION if your interested. Your definition here is a little shallow though. Please see the linked post.

God bless

LOL, thanks... I usually try to keep my responses “shallow,” as I’m not always aware of the level of understanding of those to whom I reply.

I’ll certainly view your recommendation.
 
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God's 4th commandment is not based on a yearly or monthly cycle but on a weekly continuous seven day cycle which is every seventh day as defined in GENESIS 1:3 to GENESIS 2:1-3. Your refernces are to the annual sabbath cycles for the feast days not God's 4th commandment.

The Luna weekly Sabbath theory is proven false mathmatically false in GENESIS
The Luna sabbaths are in application to the annual sabbaths in feast days not God's 4th commmanment which is tied to weekly seven day continous cycle not a monthly or yearly cycle linked to full moons.

For example the new moon in creation was created on the 4th day of the week while God's seventh day weekly Sabbath was created on the seventh day of the week *GENESIS 1:4-18; GENESIS 2:1-3. This is a continuous weekly seven day cycle given by God at creation right? Do the maths. If the moon was created on the 4th day of creation and the Sabbath on the Seventh day of creation then it is impossible that a new moon can determine the Sabbath according to GENESIS as the Sabbath would always be three days latter after the begining of the new Moon.

As shown earlier there are luna sabbaths but these are the annual sabbaths in feast days tied to a monthly and annual calander cycle. This does not effect God's 4th Commandment seventh day Sabbath which is tied to a continually weekly cycle which is simply every seven days. So mathmatically it is impossible according to GENESIS account of the seven day week for the seventh day weekly Sabbath to be a luna sabbath.

You can try using the same mathematics applied to the Luna weekly sabbath theory with Pentecost in Leviticus 23:15-16, we find the specific instructions for how the Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost) is to be calculated. "And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number FIFTY DAYS."

So the "7 Sabbaths", plus the "day after the last Sabbath" is to equal "50 days". Let us test both the 7 day weekly Sabbath and the Lunar sabbath against this and see which one fits:

WEEKLY 7 DAY SABBATH: "7 Sabbaths" X 7 days = 49 days. PLUS "day after last Sabbath" = 50 DAYS yep works out fine according to the scriptures.

Lets try now with the Luna seventh day sabbath theory?

LUNAR SABBATH: At least one sabbath cycle will have 9 days, so 6 sabbaths X 7 days = 42 days + 9 days for 1 sabbath PLUS "day after last Sabbath" = 52 DAYS!

So which one fits the Biblical model? The WEEKLY 7th day Sabbath.

Even if you say to support the Lunar sabbath above that the 1 cycle should be 8 days, not 9, it would still come to 51 days, NOT the 50 days that God set. The weekly 7th day Sabbath is the only one that fits. The institution of the weekly sabbath had no bearing on the moon and the moon had no bearing on the weekly sabbath. The moon was created on day four and there is no mention whatsoever that it would have any bearing on when the sabbath day would be. Instead, God simply setup a weekly seven day cycle from creation that continued. And it is this that determined the seventh day sabbath, not the cycle of the moon.

Now take a look at the following important truth concerning the sabbath day contained in the 4th commandment.

EXODUS 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.'

Do you see what event God is pointing to in His 4th commandment? He is pointing to back to the creation week. And He is confirming that it is this creation event from where we get the seventh day sabbath, as the weekly sabbath is a memorial of God's creation and a day that shows our allegiance to our Creator God, the one true God. And as we have already shown above, the seventh day sabbath of creation was NOT determined by the moon in a seven day weekly cycle.

The is nothing wrong with the Luna Calander and it is biblical with it's application to annual and monthly cycles. They determine the times and the seasons and days for the application to the annual sabbaths in the feast days but it does not determine the biblcal continuous seven day weekly cycle given by God at creation. I believe this is the problem with your application dear brother.

God bless.
Thanks for your explanation but I think it's flawed. First your explanation does not account for history where I pointed out that the Jewish calendar was changed by Hillel II to a fixed Sabbath day.

Secondly, although I agree with you that the Sabbath is determined by the creation week it is not determined by the day that the moon was created - which was the 4th day. If we use the whole of creation week as our guide, notice that the week begins in darkness (Gen 1:2) so we must start on the 1st day which starts out in darkness - not the 4th day. The moon was created on the 4th day but light was created on the 1st day.

This 1st day of darkness in the creation account is representative of the stage of the moon known as the conjunction when the moon turns totally dark and becomes new again; thus new moon. Why is this important? Because 7th Day Adventists and others take into consideration an unbroken 7 day week consisting of 6 work days and the 7th day of rest but fail to account for new moon days as referred to in verses such as Hosea 2:11.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her Feast Days, her New Moons, her Sabbaths: All her appointed Feasts.
Thus there are 3 days that must be considered when calculating the Sabbath day including works days AND New Moon Days.
Eze 46:1 states: So says the Lord God: The gate of the Inner Court that faces toward the east shall remain closed the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the New Moon it shall be opened.
This verse which refers to a weekly cycle (not annual) references not only work and Sabbath days but also new moon days.
These 3 days of observation during the week are seem om the NT as well as seen in Col 2:16.
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
Thus work days and new moon days are connected with the Sabbath - not just work days.

With regards to counting the omer, your example does not account for the existence of high Sabbath days which differ from the weekly Sabbath days. This difference between the high Sabbath and weekly Sabbath is expounded upon by A.S. Van Der Woude:
After the time of the Old Testament there are different ideas among the Jews as to the day constituting the terminus a quo of the seven weeks (Van Goudoever, pp. 18, 29). It concerns here the exegesis of Leviticus 23:11, 15, which speaks of "the day after the sabbath." The Sadducees (and also the Samaritans) took the text as literally as possible. They understood the sabbath mentioned there as being the seventh day of the week . . . In that case the Feast of Weeks was always on the first day (Sunday). The Council of Nicea more or less went along with this and put Pentecost (even as Easter) on a Sunday. The Pharisees counted differently. Their calculation became officially accepted in Jewish orthodoxy from the second century A.D. According to them the "sabbath" in these texts refers to the first feast day of the Passover. On the following day the sheaf was to be brought and the fiftieth day was to be calculated from that. (p. 389, The World of the Bible)

Who was correct - the Sadducees (and Samaritans) or the Pharisees? For that, we can turn to Josephus and Philo in particular, who was a contemporary of Jesus.
Philo writes (Special Laws 1:162):

But within the feast [of Matzot] there is another feast following directly after the first day. This is called “The Sheaf.”
Josephus also follows this interpretation (Ant. 3:5 [250]):

On the second day of Unleavened Bread, that is to say the sixteenth, our people partake of the crops which they have reaped and which have not been touched till then, and esteeming it right first to do homage to God to whom they own the abundance of these gifts, they offer to Him the first-fruits of the barley….

Philo and Josephus both understood “after the Sabbath” as “after the first festival (yom tov) of Matzot.” According to their interpretation, the counting of the omer begins on the second day of Matzot/Unleavened Bread and not on the day after the weekly 7th day Sabbath as you believe. Philo's account is particularly instructive regarding this issue as he was a Hellenistic Jew who lived during Jesus' time and thus had personal insight into what Jesus himself would have practiced.
 
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Thanks for your explanation but I think it's flawed. First your explanation does not account for history where I pointed out that the Jewish calendar was changed by Hillel II to a fixed Sabbath day.

Secondly, although I agree with you that the Sabbath is determined by the creation week it is not determined by the day that the moon was created - which was the 4th day. If we use the whole of creation week as our guide, notice that the week begins in darkness (Gen 1:2) so we must start on the 1st day which starts out in darkness - not the 4th day. The moon was created on the 4th day but light was created on the 1st day.

This 1st day of darkness in the creation account is representative of the stage of the moon known as the conjunction when the moon turns totally dark and becomes new again; thus new moon. Why is this important? Because 7th Day Adventists and others take into consideration an unbroken 7 day week consisting of 6 work days and the 7th day of rest but fail to account for new moon days as referred to in verses such as Hosea 2:11.
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her Feast Days, her New Moons, her Sabbaths: All her appointed Feasts.
Thus there are 3 days that must be considered when calculating the Sabbath day including works days AND New Moon Days.
Eze 46:1 states: So says the Lord God: The gate of the Inner Court that faces toward the east shall remain closed the six working days, but on the Sabbath it shall be opened, and on the New Moon it shall be opened.
This verse which refers to a weekly cycle (not annual) references not only work and Sabbath days but also new moon days.
These 3 days of observation during the week are seem om the NT as well as seen in Col 2:16.
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
Thus work days and new moon days are connected with the Sabbath - not just work days.

With regards to counting the omer, your example does not account for the existence of high Sabbath days which differ from the weekly Sabbath days. This difference between the high Sabbath and weekly Sabbath is expounded upon by A.S. Van Der Woude:
After the time of the Old Testament there are different ideas among the Jews as to the day constituting the terminus a quo of the seven weeks (Van Goudoever, pp. 18, 29). It concerns here the exegesis of Leviticus 23:11, 15, which speaks of "the day after the sabbath." The Sadducees (and also the Samaritans) took the text as literally as possible. They understood the sabbath mentioned there as being the seventh day of the week . . . In that case the Feast of Weeks was always on the first day (Sunday). The Council of Nicea more or less went along with this and put Pentecost (even as Easter) on a Sunday. The Pharisees counted differently. Their calculation became officially accepted in Jewish orthodoxy from the second century A.D. According to them the "sabbath" in these texts refers to the first feast day of the Passover. On the following day the sheaf was to be brought and the fiftieth day was to be calculated from that. (p. 389, The World of the Bible)

Who was correct - the Sadducees (and Samaritans) or the Pharisees? For that, we can turn to Josephus and Philo in particular, who was a contemporary of Jesus.
Philo writes (Special Laws 1:162):

But within the feast [of Matzot] there is another feast following directly after the first day. This is called “The Sheaf.”
Josephus also follows this interpretation (Ant. 3:5 [250]):

On the second day of Unleavened Bread, that is to say the sixteenth, our people partake of the crops which they have reaped and which have not been touched till then, and esteeming it right first to do homage to God to whom they own the abundance of these gifts, they offer to Him the first-fruits of the barley….

Philo and Josephus both understood “after the Sabbath” as “after the first festival (yom tov) of Matzot.” According to their interpretation, the counting of the omer begins on the second day of Matzot/Unleavened Bread and not on the day after the weekly 7th day Sabbath as you believe. Philo's account is particularly instructive regarding this issue as he was a Hellenistic Jew who lived during Jesus' time and thus had personal insight into what Jesus himself would have practiced.

Hi OMT thanks for sharing your view although as posted earlier I believe mathmatically a luna weekly Sabbath theory is impossible (please see post # 60 showing the maths). The only sabbaths that are effected by a luna calander are the annual sabbaths in feast days. This fact accounts for a lot of your argument in your current post here.

This is where I believe the Luna Sabbath theory falls over. It does not consider the two cycles as separate cycles. The biblical weekly cycle of seven continual unbroken days *GENESIS 1:3 to GENESIS 2:1-3 and the monthly and yearly cycles that determine the seaons and times of the year as well as annual holy days and feast days *GENESIS 1:14.

I do not believe anything that you have posted in this post in regards to the calenders effects a seven day weekly cycle which cannot be broken no matter what changes are made to calanders. The only thing it would effect however is the timing of the annual feasts and annual sabbath and holidays but not Gods 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath which is on a continuous weekly seven day cycle that cannot be broken.

I have studied this quite a lot from the scriptures and elsewhere and for me I believe mathmatically the scriptures only support a seven day unbroken weekly cycle to determine God's 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath and the luna weekly sabbath theory is not biblical applied to God's 4th commandment. It is biblical however when applied to the annual sabbaths and feast days as defined in GENESIS 1:14.

So on this one dear friend please forgive me but we will have to agree to disagree. I thankyou though for sharing your view although as you can possibly tell I do not believe it is biblical.
 
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No, not Strong’s. I actually got that from a Hebrew text.

What "Hebrew" text was that? I have never seen it written like that, looks like a phonetic spelling or trying to be phonetic..."shebiy'iy" ?? Are you trying to write "shvi'i" as in Yom HaShvi'i? Shavua Tov...good week. Shavuot...feast of weeks.
 
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Hi OMT thanks for sharing your view although as posted earlier I believe mathmatically a luna weekly Sabbath theory is impossible (please see post # 60 showing the maths). The only sabbaths that are effected by a luna calander are the annual sabbaths in feast days. This fact accounts for a lot of your argument in your current post here.

This is where I believe the Luna Sabbath theory falls over. If does not consider the two cycles as separate cycles. The biblical weekly cycle of seven continual unbroken days *GENESIS 1:3 to GENESIS 2:1-3 and the monthly and yearly cycles that determine the seaons and times of the year as well as annual holy days and feast days *GENESIS 1:14.

I do not believe anything that you have posted in this post in regards to the calenders effects a seven day weekly cycle which cannot be broken no matter what changes are made to calanders. The only thing it would effect however is the timing of the annual feasts and annual sabbath and holidays but not Gods 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath which is on a continuous weekly seven day cycle that cannot be broken.

I have studied this quite a lot from the scriptures and elsewhere and for me I believe mathmatically the scriptures only support a seven day unbroken weekly cycle to determine God's 4th commandment seventh day Sabbath and the luna weekly sabbath theory is not biblical applied to God's 4th commandment. It is biblical however when applied to the annual sabbaths and feast days as defined in GENESIS 1:14.

So on this one dear friend please forgive me but we will have to agree to disagree. I thankyou though for sharing your view although as you can possibly tell I do not believe it is biblical.
Yes, we agree to disagree. As always thank you for the pleasant discussion as iron sharpens iron!
 
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What "Hebrew" text was that? I have never seen it written like that, looks like a phonetic spelling or trying to be phonetic..."shebiy'iy" ?? Are you trying to write "shvi'i" as in Yom HaShvi'i? Shavua Tov...good week. Shavuot...feast of weeks.

Ah, I see my error... I mistakenly referenced a phonetic spelling of “seventh,” and not a transliteration of “seven.” In the rush to respond, I neglected to confirm the accuracy of my choice... (Shame on me, that’s poor phonetics.) Thanks for catching that.

Aside from that, my point was that seven and Sabbath are not the same word, and that someone’s comment that Sabbath means “seventh day” was incorrect.
 
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Ah, I see my error... I mistakenly referenced a phonetic spelling of “seventh,” and not a transliteration of “seven.” In the rush to respond, I neglected to confirm the accuracy of my choice... (Shame on me, that’s poor phonetics.) Thanks for catching that.

Aside from that, my point was that seven and Sabbath are not the same word, and that someone’s comment that Sabbath means “seventh day” was incorrect.

I must say NPP, I believe this is one of the most refreshing and nicest Christian posts I have ever seen. Not that you made a mistake but that you were able to see it and say so and be honest about it. I have not come across this many times within Christian chat sites I have visited in the past. God bless you as to me you seem like someone who is humble and honestly wants to know God's Word to follow what God says. If I was able to rate your post it would be a winner.

God bless and nice to meet you.
 
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I must say NPP, I believe this is one of the most refreshing and nicest Christian posts I have ever seen. Not that you made a mistake but that you were able to see it and say so and be honest about it. I have not come across this many times within Christian chat sites I have visited in the past. God bless you as to me you seem like someone who is humble and honestly wants to know God's Word to follow what God says. If I was able to rate your post it would be a winner.

God bless and nice to meet you.

I do appreciate the kinds words. I agree there is quite a bit of combativeness amongst Christians, to which I have occasionally succumbed as well. The irony of the rarity of humility amid the “humble“ elect reminds me to be vulnerable.

“Age is the instructor who quietly teaches us that we didn’t really ‘know it all’ in our youth.”

God bless you.
 
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I do appreciate the kinds words. I agree there is quite a bit of combativeness amongst Christians, to which I have occasionally succumbed as well. The irony of the rarity of humility amid the “humble“ elect reminds me to be vulnerable.

“Age is the instructor who quietly teaches us that we didn’t really ‘know it all’ in our youth.”

God bless you.

Thanks NPP wisely said. God bless you as you teach a lot with your words and actions. God bless and thanks for sharing both your words and example. What a great witness.
 
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Is the word of God your God?

Is the Sabbath day your God?

Exodus 31
12 YAHWEH said to Moshe, 13 Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘You are to observe my Shabbats; for this is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you will know that I am YAHWEH, who sets you apart for me. 17 It is a sign between me and the people of Isra’el forever; for in six days ADONAI made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he stopped working and rested.’
 
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Hi All,

This is actually an interesting topic. While I was away for a while, I was visiting another forum somewhere else and some people there were claiming that no one today knows the true seventh day Sabbath because the Julian calender changed to the Gregorian calander in 1582 and 10 days were deleted from the yearly calander.

The above was their argument to claim no one today knows what the true seventh day weekly Sabbath is.

Well we know this is a silly arguement as the JEWS have been keeping God's 4th commandment Sabbath for 6000 years already right? But when I was looking around for a more detailed explanation I found this to add to the Jewish keeping of the Sabbath...

When the Julian calender changed to the Gregorian calander in 1582 the days lost from the yearly calander did not effect the seven day weekly cycle at all because Thursday October 4 on the Julian calander was followed by Friday October 15 on the new Gregorian calander which keeps the continous weekly cycle in tact and unbroken. I was able to also verify this with a US NAVAL report posted below which I will share here for anyone interested if it may be helpful.

The U.S. Naval Observatory reports that there has never been any change in the continuity of the weekly cycle (see below).
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God bless
 
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Is the word of God your God?

Is the Sabbath day your God?

No but my God wrote His Word
No but my God made the Sabbath day and deemed it holy
 
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The lunisolar Hebrew calendar

Hebrew calendar - Wikipedia

Weeks


The Hebrew week (????, Shavua) is a cycle of seven days, mirroring the seven-day period of the Book of Genesis in which the world is created. Each day of the week runs from sunset to the following sunset and is figured locally.

The weekly cycle, which runs concurrently with but independently of the monthly and annual cycles."
 
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No but my God wrote His Word
No but my God made the Sabbath day and deemed it holy
And the same God called the law of the Sabbath and its surrounding laws the ministry of death, temporary and fading away. 2Cor 3:6-11
 
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And the same God called the law of the Sabbath and its surrounding laws the ministry of death, temporary and fading away. 2Cor 3:6-11

2 Corinthians 3 (CLV)
1 Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or need we not, even as some, commendatory letters to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, engraven in our hearts, known and read by all men,

Interesting the letter isn't a thing; it's a who. Who might that be?

Does the last verse of the previous chapter give us a clue?

17 For we are not as the majority, who are peddling the word of God, but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God in Christ, are we speaking."


3 for you are manifesting a letter of Christ, dispensed by us, and engraven, not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets, but on the fleshy tablets of the heart."

A letter of Messiah written in the Ruach of YHWH, engraved on our hearts. That's quite a letter!

(CLV) Jer 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, averring is Yahweh, when I will contract a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.


(CLV) Jer 31:32
Not like the covenant which I contracted with their fathers in the day I held fast- into their hand to bring them forth from the land of Egypt, which covenant of Mine they themselves annulled while I was Possessor over them, averring is Yahweh.

(CLV) Jer 31:33
For this is the covenant which I shall contract with the house of Israel after those days, averring is Yahweh: I will put My law within them, And I shall write it on their heart; I will become their Elohim, And they shall become My people.




(CLV) Ro 2:15
who are displaying the action of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying together and their reckonings between one another, accusing or defending them,


4 Now such is the confidence we have through Christ toward God 5 (not that we are competent of ourselves, to reckon anything as of ourselves, but our competency is of God),

Those who walk in the ways of YHWH, do it not of their own power; but by YHWH's power through Messiah.

6 Who also makes us competent dispensers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit,

The Ruach Ha'Kodesh reminds you of YHWH's Law, when your eyes aren't on it.

Well either that, or we're abolishing the law of YHWH, written in the Ruach of YHWH, engraved on our hearts.

Let's see what else Paul has to say about YHWH's law:

(CLV) Ac 24:14
"Yet I am avowing this to you, that, according to the way which they are terming a sect, thus am I offering divine service to the hereditary God, believing all that is written, according to the law and in the prophets,

(CLV) Ac 25:8
Paul defending that "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the sanctuary, nor against Caesar did I any sin."

(CLV) Ro 2:12
for whoever sinned without law, without law also shall perish, and whoever sinned in law, through law will be judged.

(CLV) Ro 3:31
Are we, then, nullifying law through faith? May it not be coming to that! Nay, we are sustaining law.

(CLV) Ro 7:12
So that the law, indeed, is holy, and the precept holy and just and good.

(CLV) Ro 7:22
For I am gratified with the law of God as to the man within,


I'll just go with my first intuition.


for the letter is killing, yet the spirit is vivifying." 7 (Now if the dispensation of death, by letters chiseled in stone,

Obviously this is speaking of YHWH's Law. Why does Paul call it the 'dispensation of death'? When we break the law, the wages are death.
Is the law death? No; death is the result of disobedience to YHWH.


Those who are led by YHWH's Ruach, are obedient to the Torah. The Spirit's Law of Life frees them from disobedience to the Torah, The law of Sin and Death.

See: Paul on the Law: Romans Chapter 8

Those who die to sin; are reborn in the Ruach.


came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look intently into the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face, which was being nullified, 8 how shall not rather the dispensation of the spirit be in glory?

Why do you suppose that the glory in the face of Moses was being nullified? Moses gained that glory in the presence of YHWH's righteous glory. Moses was the mediator between YHWH and Israel; but Israel didn't want to see YHWH's glory in Moses; any more than they had a will to obey YHWH's law.

YHWH Ruach gives us the will to obedience to YHWH's Torah.

Hallelu YAH!


9 For if in the dispensation of condemnation is glory,

YHWH's law condemns those who don't keep YHWH's law.

When we turn from sin in faith; and we are washed clean through YHWH's grace; glory be to YHWH!


much rather the dispensation of righteousness is exceeding in glory."

What is righteousness?

Definition of righteous
1 : acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin
Definition of RIGHTEOUS


Righteousness is obedience to YHWH's law.


10 For that also which has been glorified has not been glorified in this particular, on account of the glory transcendent." 11 For if that which is being nullified was nullified through glory, much rather that which is remaining, remains in glory."

What was nullified? It was YHWH's glory; as Israel didn't take their marriage vow seriously. They turned away from their husband in disobedience to his authority. They refused to glorify his righteousness.

Was YHWH's righteousness nullified?

Of course not!


12 Having, then, such an expectation, we are using much boldness, 13 and are not even as Moses. He placed a covering over his face, so that the sons of Israel were not to look intently to the consummation of that which is being nullified."

Israel was blotting out their marriage covenenant with YHWH, even as it began. They were a rebellious wife.

They didn't want to be free of sin. They wanted to rebel in their own wicked ways.


14 But their apprehensions were calloused, for until this very day the same covering is remaining at the reading of the old covenant, not being uncovered."

They didn't want to hear his Torah, anymore than they could bear to see the light of his glory.


15 for only in Christ is it being nullified.

YHWH writes his law on our hearts in Yahshua. You can't just turn your eyes away, or put your fingers in your ears, as the Ruach Ha'Kodesh speaks what YHWH has planted at your core. If you walk with Yahshua; your wicked ways are behind you. The new covenant is in Messiah


But till today, if ever the reading of Moses should be reached, a covering is lying on their heart."

Israel didn't want to hear the Torah. It wasn't in their hearts. They didn't take their marriage vow seriously.

16 Yet if ever it should reach a turning back to the Lord, the covering is taken from about it.)"

Love of YHWH is keeping his Torah.

(CLV) 1Jn 5:3
For this is the love of God, that we may be keeping His precepts. And His precepts are not heavy,


17 Now the Lord is the spirit; yet where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."

Not the bondage of sin.

What is sin?

(CLV) 1Jn 3:4
Everyone who is doing sin is doing lawlessness also, and sin is lawlessness.

(CLV) Ps 119:44
I shall indeed keep your law continually, For the eon and further.

(CLV) Ps 119:45
I shall indeed walk in wideness, (at liberty) For I have sought after Your precepts.




18 Now we all, with uncovered face, mirroring the Lord's glory, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the spirit."

If we are YHWH's children; people should be able to see the Father in us. We should be a reflection of his glory.
 
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