Weird God would have one will for Jews and one will for everyone else despite being told in scripture there is only one Gospel. Jesus taught about the Sabbath throughout the NT- but I guess those examples are meant only for Jews too. Best to just toss the Bible out because according to your philosophy it wasn’t written for you. Meanwhile, since I am of God’s people and part of God’s Israel (spiritually) I will continue to believe in the whole bible, not just parts of it that I feel do not apply to me.
Already posted responses on most of that. There is one gospel. And gentiles are included in the promises per Peter. However, the council made it clear that gentiles didn't have to follow the law of Moses.
Moreover, Adventists do not in fact do all of the Bible, or all that was required of Israel. The following are statutes forever for Israel:
Lev 23:14 And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute
forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Lev 23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
The Jewish believers continued keeping the whole law per Acts 21, and were zealous for it. And Paul still wanted to try to go to the pilgrim feast:
Act 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.
We will be worshipping Jesus on the New Earth on His Sabbath Isaiah 66:23 so I guess Jesus is only saving Jews or do you think heaven will be segregated -Jews worship Him on Sabbath on the New Earth and everyone else any day they choose? How confusing would that be?
We may well be, since Jewish believers continued to keep all the law. But Adventists are not assembling on the new moon, and the text includes that as well.
And it includes some other elements Adventists don't see in the new heaven and new earth:
Isa 66:19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Isa 66:20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD.
Isa 66:21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the LORD.
Isa 66:22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.
Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Isa 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Adventists don't believe that in the new heaven and new earth there will be dead bodies, because they believe that the fire will consume them and the earth will be purified.
Adventists know Jesus is not of the tribe of Levi, and God won't need "some" to be Levites and priests because we are all priests in the new covenant who go directly to Jesus at the throne of grace.
Adventists don't assemble on the new moon.
Adventists don't think in the new heaven and new earth that the gentile nations will bring back exiled Jews to Jerusalem. They believe that the new Jerusalem will come down and all the saved will already be in it.
This text is clearly talking about something else. I spelled out in the other thread what I thought that was.
Now it may not make sense to you that Jews and Gentiles, though under one gospel, had different guidelines given by the council. But it certainly made sense to them.
The Jewish believers would not make any headway in evangelizing fellow Jews if they were not observant of the law. And Jesus is what the law pointed to, so they continued keeping all of it.
On the other hand gentiles would not benefit from requiring all to be physically circumcised, begin observing appointed times, etc. so it was not required.
But both were in Christ, and both were serving Him faithfully. And both continued to meet together. And yes, often that was on Sabbath, in the synagogue. Because that was where the Scriptures were read, and scrolls were expensive and hard to come by, and many could not read. So until they were put out of the synagogue they would usually go there.
And the text in Acts 20 does suggest regular meeting on the first day, though the question mark there is that Paul was leaving the next day. But the initial part sounds like a formula, and we know this happened soon after anyway from other sources.
They needed a time for specifically Christian instruction which wasn't available in most cases in the synagogue. Sunday in the evening portion was a time that would allow those who were common workers to still meet and not miss work.
Now the Sabbath is listed among the appointed times, as I noted earlier, in Ezekiel 45. And it is included in the list of appointed times in Colossians. It was a sign with Israel of their sanctification (Ex. 31) (ongoing and forward), of their redemption from Egypt (Deut 5), and of creation (Ex. 31 and Ex. 20). It is a shadow as were the rest, as the whole law was given to direct us to Christ.
We still understand that the moral aspects of the law are required. But the Sabbath was ceremonial, a sign, and had sacrifices associated with it, and is not one of the laws that if one does them they will live. It was a sign with Israel in addition per Ezekiel 20.
There are moral laws in the ten, and moral laws outside the ten.
There are ceremonial laws outside the ten, and there is one clearly ceremonial law in the ten, the sign given to Israel.
Romans 14 also spells out:
Rom 14:4 Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Rom 14:6a He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it
There will be no sin in Heaven which is why Lucifer was tossed out. God kept the Ten Commandments in the most holy of holy in His Temple, by design. It’s His will which includes the 4th commandment that is the only commandment that has the word “holy” in it and the only one God specifically said “REMEMBER”.
OF course they were to remember, as it was a sign with them. And we keep the righteous requirements of the law through the Spirit.
The only difference in what you are doing and what we are doing is that you do not see the Sabbath as an appointed time. But it was. And it was a shadow.