this is unsubstantiated accusations. I can just turn around and quote the same verses to you and claim you follow other gospel/traditions of men. it does not critically engage the topic, you just seem to want to point an accusatory finger but with no firm evidence to support your claim.
I disagree, because what I preach I do and it's written. On the other hand you are under the Roman Christianity doctrine. The word of God is given to the Israelites not the Gentiles or any other nation of people. The Hebrew Israelites the ones in captivity to this day is to teach the rest of the sons of Adam. The lord have not changed his ways.
For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed (Malachi 3:6) or Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Let’s go into Romans 11: 1
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, 3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life. 4 But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the
fulness of the Gentiles be come in. Paul says in Romans 9: 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4
who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the
giving of the law, and the
service of God, and the
promises; 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
I understand this, but the Lord allow the Gentiles to run the earth and now they have tried to over take his word and that's a problem. Because they don't understand a lot of it, and have added and took away from it. But let’s go to Joel 3: 1
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall
bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, 2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will
plead with them there for
my people and
for my
heritage Israel,
whom they have scattered among the
nations, and parted my land. 3 And they have
cast lots for my people; and
have given a boy for an harlot, and
sold a girl for wine, that they might drink. 4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly
and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head; 5 because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things: 6 the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border. 7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
So in the near future the Lord (Jesus), at his second coming, will bring a very great war in the vally of Jehoshaphat or the Vally of Migiddo. But we also see in the past Israel was sold for merchandise or a medium of exchange during slavery. This is facts real uncut word of God.
Jesus did not say the seventh day was made for man he said the Sabbath was made for man. This is different as it applies to instruction because the 4th commandment is instructions for man in remembrance of the 7th day but the 7th day itself has no instructions for man and is action of God using "sabbath" as a verb, more properly ceasing his work of creation since it was complete. If you want to take a more abstract angle and speak of spiritual rest to say the 7th day points to giving us spiritual rest thus applies to man I would agree, but it defeats your argument of the universal commandment of the 4th day working outside it's covenant boundries.
Jesus calls himself the Lord of the Sabbath. This means he has authority over the Sabbath and one with authority gives and takes things as they wish. remember the 4th commandment, it is spoken to those with authority over the household with instruction to ensure everyone in the household keeps the sabbath including the servants and the animals. the thing with animals is that have no authority to rest and can only rest when they are given rest by one with authority. Jesus has the authority and he gives us rest, he however does not require the ceremony of rest that is the 4th commandment to receive it. He is the one that was there during the first sabbath, it is his to give and his to take away as he sees fit. This is what Lord of the Sabbath means. It's like someone caught trespassing on private land by a groundskeeper, the groundskeeper demands the trespassers be removed but then the owner comes out and says it's his land and he will decide who gets to stay or not then invites the people to stay. the groundskeeper is trying to follow a set of rules, he has no authority to do anything else, the owner however has the authority to invite whom he wants even if it doesn't formally follow a set of rules. He's the master, what he says is the rule.
the sabbath is indeed beyond physical rest and points to spiritual rest that can only be found in Christ. A spiritual focus with God through prayer, bible study, and fellowship with other believers is not a sabbath unique instruction, that is Christian living practice. for example, just read Acts 2:42-47
this seems like your Sabbath-day practice description, yet to the early church, this was observed daily. These communal-devotional characteristics you are connecting with are your typical once-a-week gathering tradition for the modern church. For yourself it's on the Sabbath which I assume is friday sundown to saturday sundown, to others it's on a sunday and still others on other days of the week. It would be a mistake to restrict spiritual devotion to one day of the week and it should be encouraged as unbroken daily practice. The 4th commandment does not give this sort of instruction that you are puffing it up to be, you seem to have introduced tradition into your idea of Sabbath and that is what you keep.
The book say in (Ex.31:16-17) (v.16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. (v.17) It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. You see that the Sabbath day is a sign between God and His people forever. Israel was His people then and whoever chooses to obey Him now are His people. Let take a look those who choose to be with the lord and obey him. Let’s go into Isaiah 56: 1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation
is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed
is the man
that doeth this, and the son of man
that layeth hold on it; that
keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
keepeth his hand from doing any evil. 3 Neither let the
son of the stranger, that hath
joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I
am a dry tree. 4For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose
the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 6
Also the sons of the stranger, that
join themselves to the LORD, to
serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that
keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and
taketh hold of my covenant; 7 even them will
I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
shall be accepted upon mine altar;
for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
There is no such thing is a Sabbath Sunday. That's adding to the word of God, can't do that! It's written in Rev. 22: 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. 20 He which testifieth these things saith,
Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
The Biblical Sabbath, however, is and has always been on the seventh day of the week, or Saturday. Despite the prevalence of Sunday worship in Christendom, we must look to the Bible as our authority and keep the seventh day Sabbath ordained by God.
Ample evidence from history shows that the celebration of Sunday originated from pagan practices of SUN WORSHIP. In March of 321 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was at first a sun-worshiper and later a Christian convert, issued the first decree declaring Sunday to be a legal day of rest. In 336 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church officially changed the observance of Sabbath to Sunday for political and economic expediency. Since then, the original Sabbath gradually gave way to Sunday observance and the practice remains to this day.
Sure we all could accuse each other of giving in the to doctrines of Satan but doing that would be demeaning rhetoric, I'm not even sure why you think it would be appropriate to even say that here, it is incredibly hurtful language. rather than hollow accusations, critical engagement is far more appreciated.
I'm trying to get people in the kingdom of God and help people with this word of God. I know and understand it's hard to change. Don't be upset, please focus on what I'm saying and what the book is saying to do. I'm here to help not hurt. The book say in Revelation 18:
1 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. 2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is
become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. 3 For
all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the
kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,
Come out of her, my people, that ye
be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
peace in Jesus name
