Exodus 20: 8. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10But the seventh day the sabbath of the LORD thy God: 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: 11For six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
The first word used is "remember," and we have forgotten it.
Jesus said. Matt 7: 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. 19Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Most Sunday worshippers refer to the Sabbath as the "Jewish Sabbath" Which is not the case at all, seeing as it was made at the time of creation and first kept by Christ Himself. It was made long before Abraham an Amorite and Sarah a Hittite, parents of the nation of Israel.
Ezekiel 16;1.Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
Jesus wrote them all down for us personally on stone. in fact He did it twice when Moses broke the commandment tablets, after seeing what went on in the camp whilst being away and as he returned from the mount.
Exodus 31;18.And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Leviticus 23: 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.
Rev 1:10.I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
The law condemns us to death, but the grace and mercy of Christ saves us from the law, so does that mean we can just not bother trying to keep the commandments?
Romans 3:31. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
As I said, human and earthly reasoning will always be used to try and justify Sunday worship, and as an unforeseen consequence, the true Sabbath is forgotten and is consigned as just another working day.
John 14:15.IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP my commandments. 16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Matthew 22:35Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, and with all thy SOUL, and with all thy MIND.38This is the FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT.
The reasons given as to why the Sabbath day was ignored instead of remembered is quite evident from historical documentation.
Constantine wanted a cohesive and united empire he brought pagans into the church and as a result, we end up with pagan rituals, with Christians following them.
John 14: 15, Matt 22:35. Are just two reason of many that I choose to keep His commands as best I can.
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The Church had no power to remake the calendar of the state.
Well actually it did to a reasonable extent.
Gregorian calendar, the modified calendar, also known as the 'New Style', introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. It is a modification of the Julian calendar and is now in use throughout most of the Christian world. The Gregorian calendar adapted the Julian calendar to bring it into closer conformity with astronomical data and to correct errors which had accumulated because the Julian year of 365.25 days was 11 minutes 10 seconds too long. Ten days were suppressed in 1582 and, to prevent further displacement, Gregory provided that of the centenary years (1600, 1700, etc.) only those exactly divisible by 400 should be counted as leap years. The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain in 1752 by which time eleven days needed to be suppressed.
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Though the calendar states that this day is "Sun"day the meaning of it is lost to us in this era of Christian dominance. To equate this day as the "venerable day of the sun god" is to remake it from the New Testament day of resurrection and then give it back to the "sun". Could it be said that when our Lord resurrected He put all things under Him including the "venerable day of the sun god"? What better way is there to honor God for what He has done through His Son than to worship the glorious resurrection day?
The issue is what was lost, It was the true Sabbath that was ignored as a result of this change, one of God’s laws, a sign between Jesus and His people, apart from the 2nd graven image law.
Why would anyone swap a rest day for a resurrection day that argument was put way after the real reason to cover it up the Sun god issue.
That in itself is deceitful.
Does Sunday worship enhance God’s sabbath law?
Heb 4:4.For he spake in a certain place of the seventh on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. 5And in this again, If they shall enter into my rest. 6Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: 7Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. 8For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. 9There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
THE TIME.
As we get closer to the time of the end as Daniel’s prophetic pages are slowly being turned, it will become an issue. The great Satanic plan is to change God’s laws.
Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words AGAINST THE MOST HIGH, and shall WEAR OUT THE SAINTS of the most High, and THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS: and they shall be given into his hand until a TIME and TIMES and the DIVIDING OF TIME.
Being identified as the enemy this man of sin in 2 Thessalonians 2:3
2 Thessalonians 2:3
3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
This is what he does when he sits for 1290 days in the rebuilt temple.
Dan 9:27.And he shall CONFIRM A COVENANT with many for one week: and IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Many of God’s people are going be warn out and killed along with the two witnesses and Lucifer will change the times and laws. In the middle of the week and the two witnesses will be left for 3 ½ days in Jerusalem dead in the street, and half a week later, raised at trumpet seven which is at the end of the tribulation period.
MONEY.
As Pastor J Reynolds Hoffman said, "you control the pocket, you control the man."
America’s war of independence sent the French frank to the floor as a price she paid for her financial support.
Napoleon came along and offered economic prosperity but at the cost of individual freedom. Persecution with "Madam guillotine."
Disaster and war.
First world war sent the German mark in the same direction, you needed a wheel barrow full to buy a loaf of bread. Gemany after having to pay damages to other countries, was flat broke.
Adolf Hitler came along and said "hail" I have the economic answers, he offered economic prosperity. VWs were built on a mass scale large government projects were started. The states authority and needs were placed above and over that of the individuals, helping them to decide was the SS breathing down their necks, freedom was the price they paid for short economic prosperity. Persecution of the Jews followed.
Disaster, war.
If the religious fundamentalists turn OFF the oil in the troublesome Middle East, we are going to have an economic recession over night, of the likes and magnitude that has never been experienced.
Now if people don’t think that they would sign an agreement giving up their rights to keep up their living standards, then look at history.
They will turn off your water electricity and we have seen what happens to everyday life when that happens in the cities, bedlam!
When I read Daniel 11 and see the vision of war and who it will involve it is going to be a dreadful time of trouble and just as the Jews were blamed for the problems of Germany before the war, God’s people are going to cop the same.
Oil is the life blood of every industrial country and we are going to find that out the hard way.
They’re using oil like it’s going to last forever and are not looking for alternative sources of energy with any intensity or urgency required and we are left wide open for Lucifer’s take over.
Rev 13:17.And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. 16And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: 17And that NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Who are those that are to be persecuted?
Rev 12:17. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, and HAVE THE TSTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST.
We need the latter rain abundantly. James 5:7.Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 8Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
This is the sort of thing that will go on and we must know our Bible to be a force for truth.
2 Cor 11:14And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
