If you Love Me - KEEP My Commandments

[BobRyan]

Some of my most heated exchanges in the Eschatology section of this forum came from a person who had written books from the Dispensational point of view.

My posts had a tendency to expose the history of John Nelson Darby's doctrine.

Therefore, my viewpoint could reduce his book sales if most Christians came to understand the truth about modern Dispensational Theology.

fine -- I know people who own businesses that are open on God's Bible Sabbath. They have a huge monetary incentive to reject whatever the Bible might say in favor of the TEN Commandments not being delete-able bendable etc.

But by far the larger group are those that are employed in jobs that require them to work weekends or at the very least on part of Friday evening. A huge "conflict of interest" and disincentive to be honest and objective when it comes to asking "What does the Bible say in favor of God's Ten Commandments"?

You will agree with me I am sure - that these are far more likely scenarios than finding someone who as "written a book" and has book sales to deal with - or even finding a pastor here or there.

(BTW - I am not endorsing Darby on this )


Since the love of money is the root of evil, a paycheck does tend to color the perspective of some.

A pastor of any denomination whose is drawing a paycheck from that denomination is less likely to admit that there is a problem with the teachings of that denomination, in my humble opinion.

Agreed - but we are far more likely to be dealing with those whose jobs require some Sabbath breaking - than to be debating a bunch of pastors here. Wouldn't you agree?

 

[BABerean2]

I know people who own businesses that are open on God's Bible Sabbath. They have a huge monetary incentive to reject whatever the Bible might say in favor of the TEN Commandments not being delete-able bendable etc.

Is it permissible to work at an SDA institution on the Sabbath?
(A hospital would be an example.)

Are there any limits to how far you can travel on the Sabbath?

Can you drive your car on the Sabbath to meet and worship?

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[BABerean2]

7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
8 And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

No where in these versus does this say they were gathered together to worship, it says to break bread (a meal).

At the local SDA meeting I attended, on the day of the Old Covenant Sabbath, the preacher preached to us.


You are trying to explain away the text, because you do not like what it says about your doctrine.



Shut Door Documents from the estate of Ellen G. White
http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/shutdoor.html

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[Jan001]

Hmmm I was unaware that heaven and earth have passed away.... when did that happen?

Perhaps you missed my post which addressed this topic.

The heaven and earth (covenant world) of the Jews completely passed away in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away when their temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

The Jewish historian, Josephus, witnessed the destruction of the Jewish world: the destruction of their city Jerusalem and their temple within it. Their covenant world (their heaven and earth) which was centered in Jerusalem in their temple, with its sacrifices and religious practices, passed away in 70 A.D.

Josephus First, Book III, chap.6, section 4:
"Now the room within those pillars was the most holy place; but the rest of the room was the tabernacle, which was open for the priests. However, this proportion of the measures of the tabernacle (temple) proved to be an imitation of the system of the world (earth); for that third part thereof which was within the four pillars, to which the priests were not admitted, is, as it were, a heaven peculiar to God." Of the veil at the holy of holies, he said, "This veil was very ornamental, and embroidered with all sorts of flowers which the earth produces; and there were interwoven into it all sorts of variety that might be an ornament, excepting the forms of animals" 1 Corinthians 7:31, Hebrews 8:13



Josephus War 5.1.4 19-20
The darts that were thrown by the engines [of the seditious factions] came with that force, that they went over all the buildings and the Temple itself, and fell upon the priests and those that were about the sacred offices; insomuch that many persons who came thither with great zeal from the ends of the earth to offer sacrifices at this celebrated place, which was esteemed holy by all mankind, fell down before their own sacrifices themselves, and sprinkled that altar which was venerable among all men, both Greeks and barbarians, with their own blood. The dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of the priests, and the blood of all sorts of dead carcasses stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves. Oh most wretched city, what misery so great as this didst thou suffer from the Romans, when they came to purify thee from thy internal pollutions! For thou couldst be no longer a place fit for God, nor couldst thou longer survive, after thou hadst been a sepulchre for the bodies of thine own people, and hast made the Holy House itself a burying-place in this civil war of thine. Yet mayst thou again grow better, if perchance thou wilt hereafter appease the anger of that God who is the author of thy destruction. But I must restrain myself from these passions by the rules of History, since this is not a proper time for domestic lamentation, but for historical narrations.

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Isaiah 51:16
"And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.​

Notice that God is speaking to Israel. He says he gave them his law, the Old Covenant, the same law Jesus is speaking about in Matthew 5:17-18, to establish heaven and lay the foundation of the earth! The foundations of the physical heaven and earth were laid during the six days of creation.

Clearly God is not saying he gave the Old Covenant to Israel to create a literal heaven and a literal earth! The physical creation of the heavens and the earth occurred thousands of years before Israel was ever given the Old Covenant.

Isaiah 51:16
And I have put my words in your mouth, and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'​

Isaiah is saying that God laid the foundations of the Old Covenant (heaven and earth) through His prophet Moses and therefore the Israelites are His people.

Who is God speaking to in Isaiah 1:1-2, "…Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth." The physical creation of heaven and earth? No, he is speaking to Israel.

And who is the witness in Deuteronomy 4:26, "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day"? God is speaking about the first/old covenant. The Old Covenant had a curse attached to it and people who do not keep the whole old/first law/covenant were cursed by this same law/covenant. The Old Covenant witnessed against the disobedient Israelites/Jews and so their own heaven and earth covenant world was destroyed by the Romans at the command of God in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth (covenant world) of the Jews completely passed away in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away when their temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

 

[Travis93]

In that case heaven and earth passed away before Jesus.
2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

Perhaps you missed my post which addressed this topic.

The heaven and earth (covenant world) of the Jews completely passed away in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away when their temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

The Jewish historian, Josephus, witnessed the destruction of the Jewish world: the destruction of their city Jerusalem and their temple within it. Their covenant world (their heaven and earth) which was centered in Jerusalem in their temple, with its sacrifices and religious practices, passed away in 70 A.D.

Josephus First, Book III, chap.6, section 4:
"Now the room within those pillars was the most holy place; but the rest of the room was the tabernacle, which was open for the priests. However, this proportion of the measures of the tabernacle (temple) proved to be an imitation of the system of the world (earth); for that third part thereof which was within the four pillars, to which the priests were not admitted, is, as it were, a heaven peculiar to God." Of the veil at the holy of holies, he said, "This veil was very ornamental, and embroidered with all sorts of flowers which the earth produces; and there were interwoven into it all sorts of variety that might be an ornament, excepting the forms of animals" 1 Corinthians 7:31, Hebrews 8:13



Josephus War 5.1.4 19-20
The darts that were thrown by the engines [of the seditious factions] came with that force, that they went over all the buildings and the Temple itself, and fell upon the priests and those that were about the sacred offices; insomuch that many persons who came thither with great zeal from the ends of the earth to offer sacrifices at this celebrated place, which was esteemed holy by all mankind, fell down before their own sacrifices themselves, and sprinkled that altar which was venerable among all men, both Greeks and barbarians, with their own blood. The dead bodies of strangers were mingled together with those of their own country, and those of profane persons with those of the priests, and the blood of all sorts of dead carcasses stood in lakes in the holy courts themselves. Oh most wretched city, what misery so great as this didst thou suffer from the Romans, when they came to purify thee from thy internal pollutions! For thou couldst be no longer a place fit for God, nor couldst thou longer survive, after thou hadst been a sepulchre for the bodies of thine own people, and hast made the Holy House itself a burying-place in this civil war of thine. Yet mayst thou again grow better, if perchance thou wilt hereafter appease the anger of that God who is the author of thy destruction. But I must restrain myself from these passions by the rules of History, since this is not a proper time for domestic lamentation, but for historical narrations.

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Isaiah 51:16
"And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.​

Notice that God is speaking to Israel. He says he gave them his law, the Old Covenant, the same law Jesus is speaking about in Matthew 5:17-18, to establish heaven and lay the foundation of the earth! The foundations of the physical heaven and earth were laid during the six days of creation.

Clearly God is not saying he gave the Old Covenant to Israel to create a literal heaven and a literal earth! The physical creation of the heavens and the earth occurred thousands of years before Israel was ever given the Old Covenant.

Isaiah 51:16
And I have put my words in your mouth, and covered you in the shadow of my hand, establishing the heavens and laying the foundations of the earth, and saying to Zion, 'You are my people.'​

Isaiah is saying that God laid the foundations of the Old Covenant (heaven and earth) through His prophet Moses and therefore the Israelites are His people.

Who is God speaking to in Isaiah 1:1-2, "…Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth." The physical creation of heaven and earth? No, he is speaking to Israel.

And who is the witness in Deuteronomy 4:26, "I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day"? God is speaking about the first/old covenant. The Old Covenant had a curse attached to it and people who do not keep the whole old/first law/covenant were cursed by this same law/covenant. The Old Covenant witnessed against the disobedient Israelites/Jews and so their own heaven and earth covenant world was destroyed by the Romans at the command of God in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth (covenant world) of the Jews completely passed away in 70 A.D.

The heaven and earth of the Jews passed away when their temple was destroyed in 70 A.D.

That is one of the most thought enlightening post concerning the
"heaven and earth/land" that I have seen and I am inclined to share your view.
The word "earth" could also symbolize "land", such as the land of Judea?

http://www.bible.ca/pre-destruction70AD-george-holford-1805AD.htm

..................While Jerusalem was a prey to these ferocious and devouring factions, every part of Judea was scourged and laid waste by bands of robbers and murderers, who plundered the towns............. Simon, son of Gioras, the commander of one of these bands, at the head of forty thousand banditti, having with some difficulty entered Jerusalem, gave birth to a third faction, and the flame of civil discord blazed out again, with still more destructive fury.................

Mat 24:6
and ye shall begin to hear of wars and reports of wars; see, be not troubled,
for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Luk 21:21
“Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart,
and let not those who are in the country enter her.

Did this darkness fall over the whole world, or just around the land where Jesus was Crucified?

Matt 27:45
Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

That might also answer the question of where the Synagogue and Throne of Satan mentioned in Reve was?

Exo 18:13
The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.

http://www.herealittletherealittle.net/index.cfm?page_name=Lazarus

Matt 23:2
saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

John 8:44
“Ye are of a father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him
John 5:45
"Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you — Moses, in whom you trust.

Reve 3:9
Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them which say they are Judeans, and they are not, but do lie;
behold! I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Reve 2:13
“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Reve 16:10
And the fifth messenger pours out his bowl upon the Throne of the beast and became the Kingdom of it having been Darkened and they gnawed the tongues of them out of the misery.


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[Original Happy Camper]

God does not send people to hell for eating ham

GOD does not send any of his children to HELL. By their disobedience they choose to be lost and suffer eternal damnation (exterminated)

John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Matthew 15:8-10 King James Version (KJV)
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

7 And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.



Shut Door Documents from the estate of Ellen G. White
http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/shutdoor.html

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Okay I will try to follow your line of interpretation.
I have attended a meeting on Tuesday evening where a preacher preached, so following your interpretation, Wednesday is a holy day.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

Deuteronomy 10:4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

Matthew 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Exodus 20 King James Version (KJV)
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 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:
11 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.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Matthew 28 King James Version (KJV)
28 In the end of the sabbath (Saturday), as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week (Sunday), came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

GOD established the 7 day weekly cycle at creation.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

And those that claimed Jesus moved to another part of heaven on October 22, 1844.
I could not find that in my Bible either.

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Exodus 25 King James Version (KJV)
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Hebrews 8:2
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man

Hebrews 9 King James Version (KJV)
9 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Psalm 77:13
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

The bible teaches that there is a Sanctuary in heaven that the Lord told Moses to use as a pattern for the worldly tabernacle. Jesus is our High Priest.

Daniel 8:14
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

If you have not studied the prophecies of Daniel, you would not understand the issue of the sanctuary in heaven.

 

[klutedavid]

GOD does not send any of his children to HELL. By their disobedience they choose to be lost and suffer eternal damnation (exterminated)

John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Revelation 14:12
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Matthew 15:8-10 King James Version (KJV)
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Hello HappyCamper.

Everyone is disobedient, that's why Christ died for us.

You accept that through Christ's fulfillment of the law and the prophets.
That the law which you refer to as ceremonial law, has passed. Hence
why would eating ham be an offence?

 

[BABerean2]

Exodus 25 King James Version (KJV)
25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

Hebrews 8:2
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man

Hebrews 9 King James Version (KJV)
9 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.

22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Psalm 77:13
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

The bible teaches that there is a Sanctuary in heaven that the Lord told Moses to use as a pattern for the worldly tabernacle. Jesus is our High Priest.

Daniel 8:14
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

If you have not studied the prophecies of Daniel, you would not understand the issue of the sanctuary in heaven.

Your dates are off just a little...

164 BC is when the temple was cleansed and rededicated after Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated it by setting up a statue or Zeus and having a pig slaughtered on the altar during 167 BC.

This is celebrated with the Jewish feast of Hanukkah.
It is found in the verse below.

Joh 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.


After the "Great Disappointment" of October 22, 1844 William Miller admitted he had been wrong.

However, some just could not let it go...



Shut Door Documents from the estate of Ellen G. White
http://www.whiteestate.org/issues/shutdoor.html


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[Original Happy Camper]

Hello HappyCamper.

Everyone is disobedient, that's why Christ died for us.

You accept that through Christ's fulfillment of the law and the prophets.
That the law which you refer to as ceremonial law, has passed. Hence
why would eating ham be an offence?

When Moses was on the Mountain GOD Gave him four sets of laws. The Royal Law GOD wrote with his own finger on two tables of stone.

The other three GOD spoke and Moses wrote them down.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

They are the Sanctuary Law, Dietary Law and the Civil law. All of these can be found in the old testament.

Jesus fulfilled the Sanctuary law, with his sacrifice on the cross for our sins.
Matthew 5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

The dietary law had nothing to do with the Sanctuary (ceremonial) Law.

The Royal, dietary and civil law can not be fulfilled only kept.
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Jesus is perfect and cannot change.

 

[Albion]

Jesus is perfect and cannot change.

God is unchanging, but it's clear from Scripture that his dealing with Men have changed and developed through time. The response of God to Adam's sin represents a change and so does the redeeming act of Christ dying on the cross for our sins. Then we have the New Testament explicly setting aside some of the demands of the Law and the Old Covenant. People can quibble over certain elements in this progression but not the progression itself.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

God is unchanging, but it's clear from Scripture that his dealing with Men have changed and developed through time. The response of God to Adam's sin represents a change and so does the redeeming act of Christ dying on the cross for our sins. Then we have the New Testament explicly setting aside some of the demands of the Law and the Old Covenant. People can quibble over certain elements in this progression but not the progression itself.

You said "God is unchanging" then you said "The response of God to Adam's sin represents a change and so does the redeeming act of Christ dying on the cross for our sins." which is it GOD changes or he does not?

Prior to Eve's and Adam's sin (disobedience) GOD said
Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

As sinners they were put out of reach of the tree of life or else the would be immortal sinners.

The Sanctuary law was in place prior to sin.
Revelation 13:8
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

 

[Albion]

Ah yes, but God's decision concerning his response to Adam's sin was a change. Although Adam did the sinning, it was God who changed the relationship between himself and Mankind as a result. Similarly, the Law that he later gave to Moses represented a change to the extent that it had not been given to Mankind previously.

 

[Original Happy Camper]

Ah yes, but God's decision concerning his response to Adam's sin was a change. Although Adam did the sinning, it was God who changed the relationship between himself and Mankind as a result. Similarly, the Law that he later gave to Moses represented a change to the extent that it had not been given to Mankind previously.

I disagree.
Why did Cain kill Able? if the Sanctuary Law was not in place at the beginning. Was the killing a sin if there was no Law.

For sin is the transgression of the Law.

Later, I am now going to worship the Creator on His Holy Sabbath Day.

Happy Sabbath.

 

[Jan001]

In that case heaven and earth passed away before Jesus.
2 Chronicles 36:19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

That Scripture was in reference to the first temple and it chronicles the destruction of it.

Jesus prophesied about the destruction of the second temple, the temple He taught in. Josephus, the Jewish historian who was alive in 70 A.D., chronicled the actual destruction of this second temple by the Roman armies. This first/old covenant Jewish world, their heaven and earth, completely passed away in 70 A.D. when the temple was destroyed. The Jews' heaven and earth passed away, vanished away in 70 A.D.

 

[Jan001]

That is one of the most thought enlightening post concerning the
"heaven and earth/land" that I have seen and I am inclined to share your view.
The word "earth" could also symbolize "land", such as the land of Judea?

http://www.bible.ca/pre-destruction70AD-george-holford-1805AD.htm

..................While Jerusalem was a prey to these ferocious and devouring factions, every part of Judea was scourged and laid waste by bands of robbers and murderers, who plundered the towns............. Simon, son of Gioras, the commander of one of these bands, at the head of forty thousand banditti, having with some difficulty entered Jerusalem, gave birth to a third faction, and the flame of civil discord blazed out again, with still more destructive fury.................

Mat 24:6
and ye shall begin to hear of wars and reports of wars; see, be not troubled,
for it behoveth all these to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

Luk 21:21
“Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those who are in the midst of her depart,
and let not those who are in the country enter her.

Did this darkness fall over the whole world, or just around the land where Jesus was Crucified?

Matt 27:45
Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

That might also answer the question of where the Synagogue and Throne of Satan mentioned in Reve was?

Exo 18:13
The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people, and they stood around him from morning till evening.

http://www.herealittletherealittle.net/index.cfm?page_name=Lazarus

Matt 23:2
saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

John 8:44
“Ye are of a father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him
John 5:45
"Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you — Moses, in whom you trust.

Reve 3:9
Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them which say they are Judeans, and they are not, but do lie;
behold! I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Reve 2:13
“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Reve 16:10
And the fifth messenger pours out his bowl upon the Throne of the beast and became the Kingdom of it having been Darkened and they gnawed the tongues of them out of the misery.


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I agree that the earth according to the Jews can also mean the land of Judea.

 

[Jan001]

Deuteronomy 10:4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

Matthew 4 King James Version (KJV)
4 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred.
3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Exodus 20 King James Version (KJV)
20 And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 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:
11 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.
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
13 Thou shalt not kill.
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.
15 Thou shalt not steal.
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Matthew 28 King James Version (KJV)
28 In the end of the sabbath (Saturday), as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week (Sunday), came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
2 And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3 His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

GOD established the 7 day weekly cycle at creation.

Jesus was a Jew and Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were Jews, so of course, they called Saturday their Sabbath day. The Sabbath day was required for Jews and for Greek converts to Judaism only, but not for non-Jews.

In the NC, the apostles were commanded to make no distinction between Jew and Greek. The Jews became like the Greeks in that the Sabbath is not binding. No Greek is ever saved by keeping the Sabbath of the Jews. Keeping the Sabbath is a work of the law of Moses for Jews.

Galatians 2:15-16
We ourselves, who are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners, 16 yet who know that a man is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ, and not by works of the law, because by works of the law shall no one be justified. rsv​

Galatians 3:23-26
Now before faith came, we were confined under the law, kept under restraint until faith should be revealed. 24 So that the law was our custodian until Christ came, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a custodian; 26 for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. rsv


Romans 10:12
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and bestows his riches upon all who call upon him. rsv

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. rsv

Colossians 3:11
Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scyth′ian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
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The Greeks did not ever keep the Sabbath of the Jews unless they were converts to Judaism. Christian Greeks did not ever keep the Sabbath of the Jews. The Christians kept the first day of the week, Sunday, as their day to worship together each week because that is the day that the apostles and disciples were commanded by Jesus to meet together to worship. If Jesus had not commanded them to worship/break bread on the first day of the week, the leaders of His Church certainly would not have gathered together to worship/break bread on the first day of the week which Scripture shows us clearly they did.

Luke 22:19
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. rsv​

Acts 20:7
On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the morrow; and he prolonged his speech until midnight. rsv

1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that contributions need not be made when I come. rsv​