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The author Ch. Jamkhokai Mate is a Scientist ARS (Agricultural Research Service) under ICAR, son of (L) Ch. Jamkhosei Mate married to M. Das Mate. He
obtained his Graduation B. Sc (Agri) from Central Agricultural University (CAU) Imphal, Master programme through JRF under Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR) from Pusa Institute, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi and pursuing his Ph.D programme from IARI, New Delhi. I
thank God the Almighty Father for His abundant love as I can write and present the true word of God. I feel immense pleasure to convey my heartiest thanks to
my wife for her constant support. The main purpose of this edition is to create awareness among Christians. It answers why Christian under new covenant are not
obliged to keep the Jewish Sabbath. It contains lot of facts supported by scholars and theologians back by hundred of documents not only from the bible. It is not
abook of condemnation to any denomination, not a book for new denomination, but justification of Christian faith and belief; with this, one is anticipated to
differentiate facts from fakes. Dozens of crucial issues will be discussed; the answers are given for all the questions put up by some cults and the answers are
from inside the bible. All the topics are discussed in brief and reference pages are cited in each case, i pray that this book shall serve as a simple reference for the
readers. May God bless you by reading this book!

1. False issues of SABBATH, on which day are we to worship

This is one of the most controversial issues of the modern churches after the birth of Ellen G. White the founder of Seventh Day Adventist in 1880s. After her
the modern churches witness many more denominations like Assembly of God, Church Of God, Jehovah witness, and even Sacred Name Movement (Hebrew
Root). We must be kept in mind before entering this topic of debate that the proofs cited in refutation of Sabbath keepers are self-explainatory from the bible.
The whole issue of Sabbath came into continuation after the birth of Ellen G. White with her false conception of Sabbath. She claimed that Angel Gabriel
visited her and gave her the sign that the Ten Commandment was to be reinforced again particularly the Fourth commandment which is the Sabbath. She is
credited for writing many myth and mythologies. She is also the Author of famous myths like Desire of the Ages,American in prophecy, Almost Almegedon,
Lost Dominion etc.SDAs (Seventh Day Adventist) claim that Christians kept the Sabbath from 33-320AD, but due to the devil interruption, Christians went
into apostasy until Ellen White. The SDA prophetess, claimed to have a vision that the Sabbath law was not nailed to the cross. This is contrary to Colossians
2:14. In 1844 the first Adventists known as Millerites started keeping the Sabbath day. SDA states that Ellen. G. White was Gods Inspired Prophetess. Before
1980 all SDAs viewed Ellen G White as an inspired prophetess and only in 1980 when Walter Rea proved and published that 80-90% of her inspired writings
and visions were plagiarised copied from other sources James White. One funny thing to notice here is that the writings of James White were again a copied
form of J N Andrews. They first claimed that Christ would begin an Investigative Judgment in 1844. According to her 1844 is the end of the prophetic period of
2300 days this is her greatest lie. She said Christ would enter the second and last phase of His atoning ministry in the same year which is also false which
proves that Christ sacrifice was not enough for sinner. She said it is a work of investigative judgment which is part of the ultimate disposition of all sin. In this
book we will have in depth study of Sabbath related issue.

2. Sabbath as a Day of Rest and as worship Day

The first thing we will have to deal is about the principle of Sabbath. Often Sabbath keepers argue that Sabath should be day of worship. But is SaturdaySabbath really was a day of worship or a day of Rest? It is preety obvious that initial intention of Sabbath was puerely Rest.
Exo 16:23 He said to them, "This is what the LORD commanded: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of rest, a holy Sabbath (Shabbath) to the LORD. So bake what you
want to bake and boil what you want to boil. Save whatever is left and keep it until morning.'" discern its specifically a day of rest and not a day of worship.
There is no absolute credibility to add our confidence that Sabbath is a day of Worship. The word Rest (yisbot=purely rest in Hebrew) is never to be confused
with worship (yaavdu or abad and ibdu for worship or serve depending on the sentence). This is long before tabernacle was eracted. Commandment for
building Tabernacles was given only at Chapter 20. If Sabbath keepers wanted to honor Sabbath as old covenant they must not boil or cook anything which
means they must not used any form of fire or even electricity.
Exo 16: 22-30 And it came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. Then the LORD said to Moses, How
long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions? See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore He gives you bread for two days on
the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So they rested on the seventh day. Notice the word let no
man go out if the true intention of Sabbath as an old covenant is to be applied SDA or Sabbath Keeper are breaking this part of the bible by going to distance
churches.
Ex. 20:8-11: Remember the Sabbath (Shabbath) day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your
stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and RESTED the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. The word Work means any activities including religious activities. Nobody within our gate
can go out, meaning if Sabbath keepers are going out for gathering, they are breaking it. The main reason to keep it holy is because God kept it holy by His rest,
so in resting we honour and hallow His word.
Exo 23: 12 "Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may Rest and the slave born in your household, and
the alien as well, may be refreshed. God is restricting his people and even their animals to work but rest, he never asked them to worship him on this day, by
resting on the day they honoured him. The word work is melachah in Hebrew to include all types of occupation be it physical work or any religious works. In
order for Israelites to observe as Holy it was necessary for alien or slave residing within their campus otherwise may interrupt the Israelite rest.
Exo 31:13 Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I
am the LORD, who makes you holy. God said this was a sign between Him and Israel perhaps its talking about seventh day Sabbath (Shabbath). It does not
say for all mankind, rather the context demands for his children, the Israelites.
Exodus 31:15 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath (shabbath) of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on
the Sabbath day must be put to death. God makes it much hard by commanding to kill anyone who defiled his Sabbath. The word complete rest in Hebrew is
Sabbatovin which means rest of anything, no cooking, no travelling etc. According to Old Covenant today Sabbath keeper deserved to die by breaking Sabbath
when they go to distant place for worship.
Exo 34:21 "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the ploughing season and harvest you must Rest. The word REST
never means worship.
Exo 35:2 For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of Rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be
put to death. The bible obviously makes it clear that seventh day Sabbath (Shabbath) was purely a day of Rest in the ancient Jewish law. The word work is
melachah in Hebrew to include all sorts of occupation including temple services.

Exo 35:3 Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day." If this is taken plainly as the Sabbath keeper cannot even start their machines or a
vehicle which means they cannot travel using any vehicles that runs by combustion. If we really want to honour the Sabbath as a true old covenant we cannot
even use electricity. I think God wants us to keep His Sabbath not with worship by going around the city but by resting the Sabbath we honour his Law. If we
are to observe it as an old covenant it must be purely a day of Rest and not a day for worship and without fire means without food, without TV or without any
form of entertainments.
Deuteronomy 5:14: But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your
manservant or maidservant, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates so that your manservant and maidservant may
Rest, as you do. Over and over time, Shabbath which is the seventh day Sabbath was never designated as a day of worship but Day of Rest. The only way they
can keep Sabbath without interruption was when alien within their gate should keep. But Gentiles were not obliged to keep when they are not with the Jews.
Alien or stranger intended here is those proselytes (converted to Judaism) after circumcision. We have seen that in all the verses where Seventh day Sabbath
(Shabbath) is mentioned, the word associated is REST which was never a day of worship, however Sabbatarians are quick to answer by referring only one verse
from the entire OT which refer to Sacred convocation when referring to seventh day Sabbath. Let us examine if the bible speaks the truth or else the bible itself
contradicts. In Lev 23: 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of Rest a holy convocation; you shall do no work on it: it is the
Sabbath of the LORD in all your Dwellings Th e word for dwelling is moushad which means resident, house). The word Sabbath Rest is
Shabbatovin=completely Holy by Rest. Does the verse contradict with other verses which exclusively said as a day of rest? Notice the word in your dwelling.
That means by keeping it as day of Rest in each place where they stayed, they declared it a holy convocation with the LORD. Also you shall do no work on it
means since its a day of REST. The phrase "day of sacred assembly" is "sacred occasion," as well as a "sacred assembly" or convocation. The weekly Sabbath,
as well as the annual festivals, was occasions to worship and praise God for the abundance of his physical blessings and for saving Israel from bondage in
Egypt. But this worship and praise could be given to God in the Israelites participation in rest itself (thus experiencing the blessings of LORD through rest), as
well as in contemplation and conversation at home. The actual meaning is completed in their respectively dwelling.

3. Strangers who were required to keep Sabbath with the Israelites

Many people misinterprete certain passage in the OT which speaks about Strangers obliged to keep Sabbath as an indication of modern Gentiles necessary
obligation. But one must notice that there is no verse in the OT that specifically command stranger outside the Israelites land to keep Sabbath. Not all
gentiles/strangers were asked to be under OT law particularly Sabbath. It is true the Torah was opened to every human and bound under it only after
circumcision which is a sign of entrance into the Jewish Torah. When we read certain passage which command Jews to keep Sabbath with the strangers, they
are those either converted to Judaism or those living with Jews particularly their gentiles slaves. It was necessary for the stranger within their gate to observe
this statute without which Jews could not perfectly kept as per the law. Also Hebrew word render as stranger here is Gere which is translated as Prosleytes in
Greek Septuagints. Hebrew word for complete foreigners who were not a part of Jews community is Nokri-used for those strangers who have no relation with
Jews people.
Exo 12:38: And a mixed multitude went up also with them (Isrelites); and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
Number 11:4: And the mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh
to eat?
Lev 24:11: Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman's son and a man of
Israel struggled with each other in the camp. 11. The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed.
Lev 19:34: The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD
your God.
Deu 10:19: Love you therefore the stranger: for you were strangers in the land of Egypt
Number 15:15: If an alien sojourns with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and he wishes to make an offering by fire. The
community is to have the same rules for you and for the foreigner residing among you; this is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
Joshua 8:35: there was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and
children, and the foreigners who lived among them.
So strangers spoken in these verses were Egyptians, and some of other nations that had resided in Egypt, and who, on various accounts, might choose to go
along with the children of Israel; some through intermarriages with them, being loath to part with their relations, see Leviticus 20:10, others on account of
religion, being proselytes of righteousness, and others through worldly interest, the land of Egypt being by the plagues a most desolate place; and such wonders
being wrought for the children of Israel, they saw they were a people that were the favourites of heaven, and judged it safest and best and most for their interest
to keep with them; the Targum of Jonathan computes the number of those who leaved Egypt with the Israelites to be two hundred and forty thousands. Most
probably they were proselytes (converted to Judaism). Not only this, after the conquest of the land many of the gentiles were added to their population who
became assimilated as native born Israelites.
Joshua 17:12: Yet the Manassites were not able to occupy these towns, for the Canaanites were determined to live in that region.
Judges 1:19: The LORD was with the men of Judah and they took possession of the hill country but they were unable to drive the people from the plains,
because they had chariots fitted with iron
Judges 1:21: The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites
Judges 1:28: When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely

I King 9:21: Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews,
and they continue in that role to this very day.
Neh 9:2: Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners.
Ezekiel 14:7: For when anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners who reside in Israel separates himself from Me.
Ezekiel 44:9: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary
Neh 13:3: When the people heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who were of foreign descent.
Neh 10:28: The rest of the people--priests, Levites, gatekeepers, musicians, temple servants and all who separated themselves from the neighboring peoples for
the sake of the Law of God
Gen 17:12-13: And every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who
is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.13. A servant who is born in your house or who is bought with your money shall
surely be circumcised..

4. Where did the Israelites worship if they were not permitted to do so in their dwelling?
The bible clearly mentions that besides the seventh day Sabbath there were many other days of worship when all the males were to be present before the LORD:
Passover, Pentecost, Feast of Tabernacles. The worship and sacrifice were daily activities around the tabernacles that ceased only on weekly Sabbath.
Worship only at a designated place in ancient Israel: We can see a very explicit instruction about the place to worship in Deuteronomy 12:5-26. Israel
is told: "You are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must
go". 7. And there you shall eat before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice in all to which you put your hand, you and your household.See also verses
11Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause His name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your
burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD, 13 Take heed to
yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in every place that you see: 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of your tribes, there you
shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you, 17. You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your corn, or of your wine, or
of your oil, or the firstborn of your herds or of your flock, nor any of your vows which you vow, nor your freewill offerings, or heave offering of your hand: 18
But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses26. Only your holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you
shall take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose. They were commanded to worship only at a designated location. In addition we see in
Deuteronomy 16:6-16 Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place which the LORD shall choose to put His name 7. Eat that meat at the one place which
the LORD God chooses (Passover and Unleaven Bread). 11. Be joyful in the LORDS presence together with yourchildren, your man servant and your maid
servants, the Levites and strangers and the fatherless widows who are among you at the place the LORD God choose to make His name abides. Do this at the
one place which the LORD choose to put His name (Pentecost). 15. For seven days celebrate the festival to the LORD your God at the place the LORD will
choose. For the LORD your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete (Feast of Tabernacles). 16
Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks
and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed. All their important offering and Feasts such as Passover, Pentecost,
Feast of Tabernacles were to be done only at the place which the LORD God chooses to put His name.
The reasons for this were numerous. One consideration was that the Israelites should not alter the worship format and purpose that God had given them;
otherwise, they would easily lapse into worship that was directed to pagan deities. We can see how this occurred several times in bible; in the wilderness when
Moses left the people to receive the Tablets of Stone (Exodus 32), and after the wilderness when the Israelites broke politically from Judah and set up its own
religious system, including new worship formats and places in 1 Kings 12:25-33. Jeroboam built new place of worship at Bethel, an unappointed place of God
thus resulted to the defiling of the worship format and finally leading to a mixed race called Samaritan with different patterns and place of worship in the NT. It
is not surprising that the worship place was solely at Jerusalem. But in Nehemiah 13:15-22 and Jeremiah 17:19-27, the two passages, though they refer to
Jerusalem in relation to Sabbath do not mention anything about failure to attend worship services or "sacred assemblies," but only work on the Sabbath as a
desecration of this day. So, it is apparently clear to us that the Israelites worshiped their God with an offering on some other daysand not onthe weekly Sabbath.
Hence, we can see the weekly Sabbath as a day of Rest and their worship system always associate with offering and sacrifice.

5. Jerusalem was the only place which God choose to put His name forever.
2 Chrcle 6:6: But now I have chosen Jerusalem for my Name to be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 12:13: King Rehoboam established himself firmly in Jerusalem and continued as king. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he
reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name
1 Kings 14:21: Rehoboam son of Solomon was king in Judah. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem,
the city the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel in which to put his Name.
2 King 21:4: He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my Name."
1 Kings 8:29: May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer
your servant prays toward this place. (Solomons prayer)
Zechariah 2:12: The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land and will again choose Jerusalem.
Ezra 7:17: and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Since God required their offering and Sacrifice only at Jerusalem where he put His Name forever, sceptics who love to keep OT feasts in modern day cannot be
justified by keeping in other place than Jersalem. There are no prophesies or verses which says Jerusalem is to be shifted to somewhere else. We cannot
interprete some part of the bible verses literally and ignore the other part of the same verses.

6. Synagogue worship system in NT not commanded by Law of Moses:

One might point to the New Testament and say, but Jesus and Paul attended the synagogue on the Sabbath. Doesnt this indicate that worship services were,
indeed, integral to Gods command to keep the Sabbath holy? The fact is, so far as we know from Scripture or Jewish history, there was no national system of
Sabbath-day worship sites or places of communal instruction throughout Israels history in the Promised Land up to the captivity of Judah in the 530sB.C and
the return of a remnant to Judea 70 years later. There were no synagogues before the exile; there were no local meeting places in Israel before the exile, because
there was no commandment for weekly meetings. But after their captivity the synagogue system allowed Jews to meet together in local towns and villages for
prayer, reading of the Holy Scriptures and for fellowship. The synagogue became a miniature sanctuary to replace the loss of the Jerusalem Temple. We do not
know when the synagogue system originated. Neither the Old nor New Testaments provide any information about this development. It is generally believed that
the synagogue system developed when worship at the Temple in Jerusalem became impossible and when Jews were scattered throughout the nations.But the
Jews added the synagogue worship system, not based on biblical command, but on need due to the loss of the Temple and the scattering of the people far away
from the Promised Land. To repeat, nowhere in the Old Testament will you find a command to have local worship sites other than Jerusalem. There wasnt
anything necessarily wrong with the Jews setting up synagogues. They became an important centre both for fellowship and for instruction of their faith. The
New Testament does not condemn the practice nor does it support, but it is nowhere commanded in the OT and NT. Regarding the day on which the Jews had
their worship service, its natural that it should occur on the Sabbath becausethere were no other days; the only way they could meet after their exile was
Synagogues on the Sabbath. After all, the people worked the other six days and the Sabbath was a convenient time for them to meet. But, to repeat, there is no
biblical command to set up local worship sites and to make the weekly Sabbath "holy convocations by meeting." The Old Testament does not indicate that the
Sabbath was kept as holy through a meeting. Rather, it was kept as holy through rest.In one occasion they rested the Sabbath according to the
commandmentin Luke 23:56, is clearly mention. In fact the Scribes and Pharisees during the NT modified the Sabbath to such an extent that if your home is
within a Sabbath day journey you can go to any synagogues or temple without breaking the Law in Acts1:12 which the bible neither condemns nor
approves. It appears to us that the worship on Sabbath was not even instituted in NT era and this method of meeting on Sabbath emerged long after the apostles
were dead.

7. Sabbath before Moses:

The very first thing I notice is that He (God) rested (Way-yesbuta=Rest) and we see no hint toward man being included in this rest. It was God alone who
rested, since it was God alone who worked in creating. At this time He did not give it to man to keep. This counters the argument of the Sabbath meaning a day
of obligated worship for two reasons. One- we clearly see only God resting. Two- God did not worship; He is the first to keep the Sabbath, it means to rest not
worship. God did not sanctify first and keep it but he sanctify because he rested first. The first commandments that are mentioned in Genesis are: Do not eat of
the tree for in the day that you do you will die.The Sabbath is not a creation ordinance for man or we would all be obligated to keep it. For example marriage is
a creation ordinance (Gen. 2:18-25) and it is still not mandatory because the New Testament gives people the option to be single and is even considered
superior, since one can devote themselves fully to the Lord's work (1 Cor.7:1,7). We do not commit murder not because of the fear of the 10 commandments but
because God restricted us so at the beginning of time through Cain. So if one does not follow the 10 commandments it is still wrong to murder. There were
many moral laws that were instituted for mankind. Some of these were included in the 10 commandments when they were given to the nation Israel. As we
continue to go through the book of Genesis and look at the early history recorded in the Bible, something becomes very clear, no where do we find the word
Sabbath or a law instituted for its day (It is always called the 7th day.) When we come to the time of Job which most scholars put in the Abrahamic period, we
see a tradition of sacrifices and burnt offerings consistent with man of faith, but no Sabbath. Interestingly Job is called blameless and upright; God said there is
no one more righteous. We see him sacrificing for himself and his family as a high priest in his home, but there is no Sabbath renowned. Even Abraham who
was called out of a pagan setting never found to observe Sabbath; there are only the mentions of promises, covenants and sacrifices. When he met Mechizedek
he brought about a tithe, had communion but not once kept Sabbath. There had been a vast phase of 430 years from God calling Abraham until Moses but not a
single time mention of ANYONE keeping the Sabbath. Neither Abraham's sons Isaac and Jacob nor anyone of their time ever kept Sabbath yet they are all
measured as man of faith. Why would this be missing if it was so crucial to obey? Everything else that was kept by man is mentioned, why not the Sabbath day?
The answer is not mysterious but simple, it wasn't kept at all. For a period of over 2,500 years there is no mention of 10 commandments or Sabbath. Not even
one verse gives clue of Sabbath observance; Ellen G White made an assumption here of Sabbath being as an intergral part of ordinance for all people. But not
Adam, Seth, Noah, Shem, Jacob or any of the 12 patriarchs kept so called creation ordinance. Certainly if this was crucial for man to observe this day we would
see at least one patriarch keeping it or refering to it along with their sacrifices and offerings. We would also find both Gentiles and Jews obligated to keep this
day since Abraham the father of the Jewish nation came later with no distinction before him. All this goes on until Moses time where (Ex.16:23) it first
mentioned to man. The Biblical truth is that the word Shabbath (Sabbath) does not appear once (after God rested) until Moses' time and there is no record of
any Jew or Gentiles keeping this day as an observance to God. The first occurrence is found in Ex.16:23-30: Vs 23 tomorrow is a Shabbath Rest a Holy
Shabbath to the LORD; where the full term is used Shabbaton Shabbat Kodesh a Holy Sabbath which means to cease or Rest. Verse 27 now it happened
that some of the people went out on the 7th day to gather, but they found none. In vs.28 -30 And the LORD said to Moses, How long do you refuse to keep my
commandments and my laws? See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man
remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. So the people Rested on the seventh day. They were not only scolded for breaking the

Sabbath but all the laws he gave. It was about their going out the next day to gather manna because they were not accustomed to resting since they worked 7
days a week in Egypt. This was the part of the disobedience. They were given twice as much the day before so they would not have to gather. Intresting point is
given in Nehemiah; Nehemiah 9: 13, 14 Thou comest down upon the Mount Sinai and gave them just ordinances and true laws good statutes and
commandments. You also Make known unto them thy holy Sabbath by the hand (beyad) of Moses . The bible says God made known to Israelites only at
Sinai which was 2500 years after the creation and that also by the hand of Moses not before this. Notice the word howdata brand new knowledge make
known means before this they had no knowledge of Sabbath. Deu 4:32 (concerning the giving of Law at Sinai): for ask now concerning the days that are past,
which were before you, since the day that God created man on earth, ask from one end of heaven to other ask whether any great things like this happened or
anything like this has been heard. That day of giving Law was the most important day for them, it is apparently clear that God did not give any of this type of
commandment directly to man. Another point of assault from Sabbath keepers is from Ex.20: 8-11Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. Sabbatarians make
a big hooplah out of this being the only commandment that says to remember but they are indisposed to search the truth. They will make a statement to prove
their Sabbath theory by saying it is the only commandment with the word Remember and not for the rest of the Ten Commandments. The truth is Israelites
were told to remember because it was given to them previously but forgotten (not obeyed) according to Exo16:23-30 when some wen out to collect Manna even
after warning was given to them. Sabbatraians are so imprudent to ignore Num. 15:40: and that you may remember and do all My commandments, and be
holy for your God. They were instructedto remember all the commandments, not just one, for the simple reason they were a unit. The word Remember
Zakar is used 232 times in the OT, always referring to all instructions, not just Sabbath. In the book of Deuteronomy the phrase do not forget is used many
times for other thing (8:11, 9:7) which is literally the same as remember.Mal 4:4: Remember the law of Moses My servant, even the statutes and ordinances
which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel. Did Sabbath Keeper remember to do everything written in the book of Law? NO.
Deut. 16:3 "You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the
land of Egypt in haste), that you may remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life."
In Deut. 9:7: "Remember do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. Mal. 4:4-6: "Remember the Law of Moses, My
servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." Deut. 8:11: "Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by
not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today. There are dozens and dozens times the word remember is
associated for entire Law and decree, its not logical to form one denomination just because it says Remember for Sabbath. If Remember is used to enforced
the Sabbath why not remember to keept every thing in the Law of Moses which include Circumcision, sacrifice, offering, drink offering, meat offering,
sabbatical years, Jubilee year. Even the word Holy is not assigned only for Sabbath but even materials like utensils, water placed before the altar, candle used in
temple were declared most holy by God.
8. The word Remember in NT:
The NT does contain the word rememberseveral times and not necessary for Sabbath alone. Some examples are:
In Acts 20:35: "And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
1 Cor.11:25 this do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
Matt 26:13: "Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told I remembrance of her.
Just because the word remember is associated with Sabbath does not necessary holds the Sabbath as a special key to attain Gods favour. The word remember
is very much associated with the NT new commandments from the Lord and apostles.

9. Sabbath is Holy so what?

Many Sbbatarains points toward the word Holy to established their doctrine. They assert that Holy is used and has to be hallowed it in special manner. In the
OT many things were decalred most Holy by God hismef beside the Seventh Day Sabbath. Psalm 65:5 Temple is Holy), 1 King 9:3 ( I have hallowyour
house), Exo 40:9 (the vessel you shall hallowed it), Number 31:6 (talks about holy articles), Exo 39:30 ( the crown engraved with Holiness to the LORD), Exo
28:2 (Holy Garment), Exo 30:37 (incense shall be Holy to you), Exo 30:29 (the anointing oil is to be the most Holy things), Jubille year is Holy (Lev 25:12).
Example of many things can be listed. If Sabbatarians are claiming that Sabbath is decalred Holy nad should be hallow did they hallow the rest articles which
God said yo must Hallow it?

10. Sabbath is forever so what? There are many commandments given as an everlasting statute. The Hebrew word translated as everlasting or forever
is olam. This word does not necessarily me eternal ritual that cannot be fulfilled by Christ. When the word Olam is used it signifies a specific time frame to be
in effect until the main purpose is accomplished. Circumcision was everlasting covenant (Gen 17:13), tabernacle lamp must burn forever (Exo 27:21), Feast of
unleaven Bread that eating of bread shall last forever (Exo 12:14), Preisthood of Aaron was forever (Exo 29:9), the presit shall wash their hand forever (Exo
30:21), All sons of Aaron must eat forever (Lev 6:18), Day of atonement celebrated by sacrificing bull forever (Lev 16:29), Bread to be set in row forever (Lev
24:8), preist garment to be wear forever (Exo 28:43), Holy water to be set forever (Exo 30:18) etc etc

11. There is no record or even hint that anyone prior to Ex 16 kept the Sabbath: Yet the Patriarchs were instructed regarding:
1) Offerings: Gen 4:3-4, 2) Altars Gen 8:20 , 3) Priests: Gen 14:18 , 4) Tithes: Gen 14:20, 5) Circumcision: Gen 17:10 6) Marriage: Gen 2:24 & Gen 34:9, Why
would God leave out the "all important" Sabbath command???

12. Facts about no Sabbath in the OT before Moses (not Moral Law)
In Genesis 50:10, He observed seven days of mourning. Here Joseph if he kept Sabbath why would he mourned till seventh day being time to rest? Exodus
7:25: Seven days past after the LORD has struck the rivers.. Here also no mentions of people keeping Sabbath. Again, in Judges 14:10-18, we read that

Samson's marriage feast lasted for seven days, another reference to breaking Sabbath. Why did the feasts last for seven days instead of six days and rested the
seventh Day? Once again, in Job 2:13, we are told that Job's three friends sat and grieved with him for seven days and seven nights why dont they grieved for
six days and then rest on the Seventh Day? If they knew about Sabbath why cant they do that for six days and then cease on the seventh Day?
13. Sabbath is not a moral Law, the rest nine are all Moral
Sabbath is not a moral law because the priests were allowed to profane it in Matt 12:5; Num 28:9-10; Josh 6:15 (Israelites break Sabbath by walking seven
days).; 1 Ki 20:29 (Battle with Syrian last for seven days); Jn 5:10. The Sabbath is not a moral law because man could break it without being sinned to save an
animal from a pit. The Sabbath is not a moral law because Jesus broke the Sabbath but He was sinless according to John 5:18. The Jews misunderstood what
God intent to do with Sabbath that they even rejected the only Messiah because they thought Messiah must keep the Sabbath; however the true principle of
Sabbath is found in Jesus. Jesus said, Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27) to illustrate that Sabbath was ordained for man to
enjoy the benefit of Gods providence and not to be bondage. Jesus is free to break the Sabbath and change it, after all he is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matt
12:8, Mark 2:28), or the master of the Sabbath. He was the one who gave it to Moses.

14. Sabbath was not sanctified until after God rested first: Gen 2:2; Ex 20:11
1) First God rested, then AFTER HE RESTED then He sanctified it. This proves that the Sabbath was not part of God's eternal law in heaven prior to creation!
Gen 2:3: God bless the seventh Day and sanctified it because in it he rested from all his works which God had created and made. Notice God sanctified it
because he rested first, he did not sanctify first. The Bible no where says WHEN he sanctified it, just that it was after God rested. Even if God did sanctify the
Sabbath day in Eden, God still did not revealed the Sabbath in Eden because there is absolutely no evidence that anyone kept the Sabbath prior to Ex 16. God
did not rest the following Seventh day again, he did not rest every seventh Day. Adam and Eve first day was the Gods sixth Day, Gods Seventh Day was their
First Day.
Gen 2:2-3 tells us the reason, not the time that God sanctified the Sabbath. Genesis was written during the time of Moses, not before. Neither Adam or Abraham
had the book of Genesis! For the first time God told the Jews in the wilderness about the Sabbath! Before this the author never used this term except when it
was applied to the children of Israelites. Likewise, Christ was chosen as the sacrificial lamb from before the foundation of the world, (1 Pe 1:20; 2 Tim 1:9) but
did not revealed to man some time later, (at least 6 days) and then only after man ate the tree of life. Specific details were not revealed for some 4000 years until
Christ walked the earth. In fact God set Jesus apart as the sacrifice for man long before God actually GAVE His son. The Sabbath would be unsuitable for

Adam while in the Garden of Eden: first, Work and labour were only existed after Adam sinned: Gen 3:19. Secondy, "strangers with your gates, servants"
make no sense in the garden regarding the Sabbath. Thirdly, the only two commandments God gave Adam were to keep the garden Gen 2:5 and not eat the
forbidden fruit.

15. The Sabbath was not sanctified on day 6, but is an example of Prolepsis:
Prolepsis: "the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred." Webster's Dictionary.
1) Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. (This is said before the birth of Cain.)
2) Genesis 4:20-21: And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
3) His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute. (but not at that time in the narration)
4) Matthew 10:4 Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. (The betrayal did not occur until 3 years later.)
5) 1 Sam 4:1 is a arration that happened only later (1 Sam 7:12)
6) Lk 6:16 (Judas who would become traitor)
7) Gen 11:9 (2218BC connected with 1492BC) confusion of language took place hundreds of years after the floods.
8) Gen 10:4-5 There were no Gentiles in Noah's day, connected with 1492BC, it happen only after thousand years after the birth of Jacob who would then
become Israel nations.
9) Gne 2:13 land of Cush is mentioned but Cush was born 1000 years who begot Nimrod in Gen 10:8. Also Cushites are mentioned in 2 Sam 18:21.
10) Assyria appears in Gen 2:14 but this nation come into existence after 1000 years later.
11) Gen 2:24 says man must leave his father but there were no mothers and fathers at that time!
12) Jn 11:1-2 anointing did not take place until later in Jn 12:3
13) When Moses wrote "Genesis" to the Jews, he brought up the reason they kept the Sabbath in the Creation account, although it was not finally revealed until
the events recorded in Exodus. Interestinly Moses who edited and wrote the five book of law (Genesis-Number) mentioned many people and land in the book of
Genesis although they did not exist when those events took place. He could have mentioned the word Shabbath as he did other but he kept it because it was
given to Jews alone only at Exo 16:23
14) Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy... For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and
rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. "

16. The first time any Jewish holy day is mentioned in scripture, it always lacks the definite article (a Sabbath).
1) All the Jewish holy days are never introduced the first time in scripture with the definite article "the" but with the indefinite "a" or "an".
2) The indefinite article is used both before and after something has been instituted, but the definite article (THE Sabbath) is never used the first time something
is introduced.
3) This powerful argument proves that the weekly Sabbath did not exist before Ex 16:23 (a Sabbath).
4) What makes it irrefutable, is the fact that every Jewish Holy Day follows this same pattern!
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After Instituted

tomorrow is a Sabbath: Ex 16:23

"the" Lord has given you the Sabbath: Ex 16:29

A solemn rest "a" holy Sabbath: Ex 16:23;

Exo 20:18: the Sabbath

a" memorial: Exo 12:14, 15 unleaven bread

Exo 12: 17 The Feast of unleaven bread

an" holy convocation: Lev 23:21

the day of Pentecost: Acts 2:1

A feast of unleaven bread Exo 12: 17

The Feast of unleaven bread Lev 23:6

In gathering a feast Num 29:12

The Feast Zec 14:16

an" alter Gen 8:20

The altar Gen 8:20

Examples of this type can be seen in many places

17. Typical case of how Sabbatarians try to prove the 10 commandments existed before Moses. Here is their favorite proof text:
"because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes and My laws." (Genesis 26:5) Now the first mistake is that every time
they see "my commandments" they assume it is the Ten Commandments. Ok lets run with this for a minute. Assume they are right. Then what does My
statutes and My laws refer to? Well the ceremonial law of Moses of course! If "my commandments" refers the to 10 commandments, then My statutes and My
laws refers to the ceremonial law of Moses! If ceremonial law and Sabbath already existed before Moses then God is lying to us because he made known by the
hand of Moses. Sabbath Keepers read into the text the text the 10 commandments, but ignore the obvious reference to what they call the ceremonial law of
Moses. The verse proves too much for them, so they merely ignore everything but the phrase "my commandments". Actually Abraham come into seen from
Chapter 12. God asked Abraham to do Him many favours; leave his city and travelled to unknown world, he circumcised his Son family and slaves, he paid
tithes, he offer sacrifice and offering, He offered his son as Gods commanded him, put his faith in the LORD for which he was called righteous etc etc. These
were what God told him as commandments, statutes and law. It has nothing to do wih Sabbath and law of Moses.
18. SABBATH was for Jews and not For Gentiles:
Exo 31:12-13 it is a sign between Israel and God.
Exo 31:13-15 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath.
Ezekiel 20:20: Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us.
Exo 31:17 'It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever. The other reason why God told them to remember Sabbath was to remind of their
redemption from slavery: Deu 5:15 you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God brought you from there...therefore the LORD
your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath. Sabbath was specifically ordained for Israel to show their physical rest from their bondage. Christain were
never a slave of Egypt, nor is there any connection of Egypt and Sabbath being spoken of in NT to convey Sabbath as ordinance for believers. God told the
prophet Ezekiel that Israel was chosen from among the nations to be His people (Ezekiel 20:5) and that the command, especially the Sabbath, was given to
Israel as a sign of the covenant between Him and them and not to other nations in Ezekiel 20:10-12: therefore I also made them go out of Egypt and brought
them into wilderness. I also gave them by statutes and showd them My judgement if a man does he shall live by them. Moreover I also gave them my Sabbaths
to be sign between me and them that they may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them. Notice I also gave them my Sabbath, we can see that God gave
them two set of commandments which is His statutes and judgement which if any man keep shall live but in addition to this He separately listed Sabbath as a
sign between Him and Children of Israelite. In this context Sabbath is listed not as a moral law which Gentiles should observe. In Lev 18:1-29, Statutes and
Judements are called moral law. Many times in the OT God declared Sabbath as a sign between Him and His children Israel? In reviewing the laws of God,
Moses stated that they were unique among the nations and God does not give this to Gentiles: Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as
righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today? (Deuteronomy 4:8). Just prior to restating the Ten Commandments, Moses introduced them
with these words, The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all of us
alive here today. (Deuteronomy 5:2-3). Not only were the commandments unique to the nation of Israel; Moses plainly stated they did not exist in the past but
only to those who were alive when it was given and applied to them who were alive those day when it was given. As such pre-Mosaic people must have never
knew Sabbath and their Jewish feasts. NT also states that the Law were only for Jews specifically and Gentiles were not a part of that covenant. Psalm 147:19:
He declared his word to Jacob, his statutes and judgement to Israel. He has not dealt this with any other nation, as for his judgements they did not know
them. Roman 9:4: To Israel belong sonships, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, services of God and the promises. Paul himself also restated
again and again in Ephe 2:12 Gentiles were aliens to the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of the promises. Sabbatarians object to this
assertion arguing that Jesus kept the Sabbath. Yes, Jesus observed the Sabbath as did all other faithful Jews. He also was circumcised and kept the festivals,
such as the Passover and the Feast of the Tabernacles. Yet, all of these have passed away as well. You see Jesus lived under the Law of Moses. He showed, as
no one prior was able, that the law was observable. With His death, the Law passed away (Colossians 2:14), but during Jesus' life it was still in effect. The new
Law of Christ did not become effective until His death in Heb 9:16-17 for where there is covenant, there must be also necessity be death of the covenant
maker. For a covenant is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the covenant maker lives. So before Jesus died the Law was in effect
but suseqently after his death the Law is terminated and new Law or new Covenant which is Law of Christ (Gal 6:2, 1 Corthn 9:21) is brought into force. It is
true that in some part of the old covenant like the prophet Isaiah and other prophets declared a blessing for Gentiles if they keep the Sabbath however careful
analysis of the prophetic saying is not the actual keeping of our modern day Sabbath but inner spiritual fulfilness in Jesus who is even the Lord of the
Sabbath in Mark 2:23-28, the real rest for our soul.

19. God sanctified Sabbath for Jews; He sanctified only the Israelites
Gen 2:3: By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh
day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. God did not sanctified first, he only sanctified because
he rested first; he did not sanctify on that 7th day itself. The bible does not specifically say when he sanctified the seventh Day, probably after long gap. God
rested first and then sanctified and gave it to Israelites. God did not give it to Gentiles because he never sanctifies other nations. He sanctified the Jews and
chose them from among nation to be his possession. Exo 20:11: therefore, the LORD blessed the seventh Day and hallowed it. Exodus 31:13: "Say to the
Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who
sanctify you.
Lev 20:8: And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the LORD which sanctify you.
Lev 22:32: I am the LORD who sanctifies you
Deu 26:10: He will set you in praise above all nations that you will be Holy people to the LORD
Eze 20:12: Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctifies them.
Ezekiel 37:28: Then the nations will know that I the LORD who sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forever.'"

20. Israelites was to be priestly Nation if they keep all the Law
Israelites were specifically chosen by God to intercede for other nations. It was through them that gentiles shall see the true revelation of God. All the laws they
observed were not for salvation but for their better living and that points toward better one coming in the future. It was through them that God will execute his
divine plan of salvation to all mankind.
Exodus 19:5: Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession although the whole earth is mine.
And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel."
Deu 7:6: For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people,
his treasured possession.
Deu 14:2: for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the LORD has chosen you to be his treasured
possession.
Deu 26: 18-19: The LORD has today declared you to be His people, a treasured possession, as He promised you, and that you should keep all His
commandments; And to make you high above all nations which he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people unto the
LORD your God, as he has spoken.
1 King 8:53: For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance, just as you declared through your servant Moses when you,
Sovereign LORD, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.

21. Jewish Sabbath temporary: Ezekiel 37:28: Then the nations will know that I the LORD who sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them
forever. Guess what there is no sanctuary for sacrifice and offering, no temple for their feasts celebration, no temple for their offerings and sacrifice. Therefore,
they are no more holy nation and since Sabbath was given after their sanctification and that they are no more sanctified by God, logical conclusion is Sabbath
observation is irrelevant. If Sabbath observation is necessary for now why would God allow his choosen nation to be without priests and holy temple as
offerings and sacrifice were the essential parts of the Sabbath observation?

22. The Law was given to them not for etenal salvation
Exodus 19:5: Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession although the whole earth is mine.
And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'. After this Ten Commandments was given chapter 20. It was given for their earthly blessing.
Deu 28:9: The LORD will establish you as his holy people, as he promised you on oath, if you keep the commandments of the LORD your God and walk in
obedience to him. Here commanments spoken is in Deu 27:1-26, in vs 10 all his commands are called statutes, and commandments though not Ten.
Deu 4:1: Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess
the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you The whole chapter includes many other commands including Ten Commandments in vs 13, and vs
40 concludes by saying commandments, statutes and ordinances.
Deu 4:40: .Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live
long in the land the LORD your God gives you for all time. Here it includes many others thing including Ten Commandments.
Deu 6:3: Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as
the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.Here Commandments spoken in vs 3 is specifically is from vs 2-9. Of course is the greatest
commandments spoken.
Deu 11:8-9: You shall therefore keep every commandment which I am commanding you today, so that you may be strong and go in and possess the land into
which you are about to cross to possess it; 9 so that you may prolong your days on the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give to them and to their
descendants, a land flowing with milk and honey Here the commandments spoken is listed from 11-32 yet they are also called Statutes and Judgements in vs
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Deu 12:28: Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be
doing what is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God. Here commandments, statutes and ordinances are used but does not necessarily be Ten
Commandments.
Deu 5:29: Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!.
In this chapter the context is about Ten Commandments but called as commandments statutes and ordinances.
Deu 5:33: Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you
will possess. All commandments were specific for the land which they were about to posseses. So from above statements Law given to them was only for their
well being in their daily life, it was not for eternal salvation.

23. What does the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath means
Many Sabbath keepers falsely used this statement that Jesus wanted us to honor the Sabbath. This is not what Jesus really wanted to convey. Actaully his
statement is in response to Pharisees over the accusation made against his disciples when they pluck a corn on the Sabbath. Jesus was not defending that his
disciples were not breaking instead he was affiriming that they break. He also used the ceremonial aspect to defend that Sabbath was not a moral law but
ceremonial law from David and OT Priest. Matthew 12:5: He(David) entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which
was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. vOr have you not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the
Sabbath, and are blameless? 6but I say to you, that in this place is one greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not
sacrifice and you would not condemn the guiltless. For the Son of Man is also the Lord of the Sabbath
When the Jews accused Jesus of violating the law, Jesus pointed to David as an example of the same thing. We really have no choice but to conclude that God
himself, did not count it against David, for then Jesus would be arguing, "Hey, if David got away with sin, why can't I?" Rather Jesus argued, "David was
excepted because "mercy over sacrifice" is God's law! The double offerings required on the sabbath day (Nu 28:9) could not be presented, and the new-baked
showbread (Le 24:5; 1Ch 9:32) could not be prepared and presented every sabbath morning, without a good deal of servile work on the part of the priests;
Firstly he cited two examples which involved breaking. David sinned threefold. Firstly eating the consecrated bread which was meant only for Temple Preists
(Lev 24:9) from the holy place; second he also sinned by eating the old bread with his companion, in the OT no strangers were allowed to eat only the priest.
Thirdly he ate the bread without replacing with the new one himself. Jesus cited the ceremonial aspect of Sabbath so show that his disciples were guiltless
because they were not really breaking any moral law. David could bread the Sabbath law as he was the coming King of Israel, coming priest as well. This
forshadow the future Messiah whoo would be both King and Priest. Jesus is both King and priest as such he was free to break and justify his disciples. Jesus
also cited his defends against disciple by stating that Sabbath is really not moral Law. The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.The work of the priests, as
described, e.g., in Numbers 28:9-10, viz., slaying victims, placing the shewbread, using Fire, involved an amount of labour which, in work of any other kind,
would have broken the Sabbath rest; yet no one blamed the priests, for they were serving in the Temple of the LORD performing the ceremonial aspect. If
Sabbath was moral Law, such as thou shall not commit adultery, they would be blamed but since it was not moral they were justified even if they work on the
Sabbath. In addition to this they were in the presence of the LORD, in the Holy place. Jesus was giving two fold protections to his disciple for breaking. First
by saying it was not moral law because priests can break and David can break still be guiltless. Second, even if it is applied as legalistic term, they still be
justified as much as Priest and David who were in the Holy place. That is why Jesus adds the term but I say to you, that in this place is one greater than the
temple. Priest is justified when they stand in the holy place, yet more Holy is Him and so his disciples who standing before the Holy One much holier than
Temple can be justified. Jesus is talking about his Own Body greater than the Temple where they sacrifice burnt offerings. He is connecting His body related to
the Rest when the Pharisees and Sadduces asked about breaking the Sabbath. His disciples were guiltless although the Jews thought them guilty (But if you had
known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice and you would not condemn the guiltless). Jesus quoted Hosea 6:6, "I desire mercy and not a
sacrifice". The only way to interpret this passage in the context of Sabbath breaking, is that the Sabbath law (sacrifice) could be overruled by the human need of
the moment. (compassion- "situation ceremonial ethics") In common law today, this principle is known as the "law of greater good". It means that a civil law
can be suspended if there is a greater good achieved by breaking it. In any case Jesus has the over all authority to judge and applies Sabbath Law to himself; he
has the authority to decide how it must be apply to anyone that is why He said the Son of Man s the Lord of the Sabbath. Or Master over the Sabbath. As a
Lord (master) of the sabbath had a power of dispensing with it, and made use of it in the cases of David and his men, and of the priests in the temple formerly;
the Pharisees ought not to think it strange, that the Son of man, who is equally Lord of the sabbath, dispensed with it in his disciples now. Being Master OVER
the Sabbath law perhaps even its author, He knew exactly what constituted breaking the Sabbath in God's mind. Jesus, as the perfect judge of all men (John
5:22), understood what was permitted on the Sabbath and what was not. He also knew, when the "law of greater good" was correctly applied and when it was
not. Often the term Sabbath was made for man not man made for Sabbath in Mark 2:27 is used by critic to say that it is all for mankind. Even if it is taken
literally it means Sabbath was made for benefit of man to enjoy the Rest which God has given us through Jesus, the eternal rest just as their ancestor required
Sabbath to rest after their Slavery. It is to be understood that the term for man is referred to Jews. Gentiles were never call man in the Bible but dogs. Jesus
himself said this in Matt 15:26. In Ezek 34:31 Israel is addressed as my my sheep.the sheep of my pasture, you are Man, I am your God. Jesus statement is
confine to Jews as man, if Jesus includes all man he would said mankind, all man just as other passages used example Matt 28:19 (all nations), Acts 2:17 (all
flesh), John 3:16 (the world), 1 Timothy 2:4, Titus 2:11 (all amn) etc..
24. Christians/ Church is now priestly nations
1 Peter 2:9: But you are choosen generation a royal priesthood, a holy nation His own special people..
1 Peter 2:5: you also as living stones are being built up as spiritual house a royal priesthood..

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Rev 1:6: has made us kings and his priests to His God and Father.
25. Believers are a part of Christ Body
1 Cor 12:27: Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
Romans 12:5: so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.
Colossians 1:18: And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the
supremacy.
Accodring to the OT Law, priest can profane Sabbath because they were in the Holy place serving the LORD. In the NT believers are now the eternal priest, our
leaders being Christ himself the High priest. Since Christ the the Holy One, much holier than the temple we who are in union with him as one member of the
body, Christ being the head, we can be justified even if we break Sabbath. As a member of Christs body we are holy ones of God, choosen race, heavenly
priest not of the order of Aaron. When we accept Jesus as our personal savior, he dwells in us and since we are with the Holy One, we are always justified when
we break the ceremonial law which is Sabbath. Even if this is moral Law, we have the Holy One with us and we are his priest; Sabbath has nothing to do with
us.

26. No cooking, selling, buying or watching TV etc on Sabbath (profaning)

From the book of Nehemiah we can observe that the Sabbatical law comprises the prohibition of selling and buying and even carrying any kind of load whether
light or heavy. But it is quite contradict on part of the conduct of the Sabbath keepers who sell and buy video tracts, audio cassettes, materials of monetary value
and collect money on the Sabbath in the name of God. "And if the people of the land bring anything or any victuals [food] on the Sabbath day to sell, that we
would not buy it of them on the Sabbath, or on the Holy Day..." (Nehemiah 10:31). Even the most ordinary work of line or business, be it in any form of money
is sternly forbidden in the associate verses. Chapter 13:15-22 explians the out lawing of normal dealings like selling and buying of things or exchange of goods
of any sort. From verse 15-22, we know, vs 15: At that time I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sacks of grain,
loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads. They brought them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I rebuked them on
the day on which they were selling foodvs 16: People from Tyre who lived in Jerusalem were bringing in fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them
in Jerusalem on the Sabbath to the people of Judah vs 18 Didn't your ancestors do the same things, so that our God brought all this calamity on us and on this
city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath." Vs 19: And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be
dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants
set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day. The fact that Sabbath was so strict that any kind of monetary system and
carrying any kind of load was prohibited is also seen in Jeremiah. Jeremiah 17:21: thus say the LORD, take heed not to carry any burden on the Sabbath day,
nor bring it in by the gate of Jerusalem vs 22 Nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work but hallow it as I have commanded
your fathers. If you continue reading we can see that God punished the Israelites for conducting business on the Sabbath, carrying burdens on the Sabbath and
selling to Jerusalem and any sort of exchanges vs 27: if you not heed me to hallow the Sabbath day such as carrying a burden when entering the gates of
Jerusalem on the Sabbath DayI shall kindle a fire in its gate.. But as a part of their blessing if they honor the Sabbath, as mentioned above God promises
something in vs 27: and they shall come from the city of Judah and from the place around Jerusalem from the land of Benzamin and from lower land from
mountain and from the South bringing burnt offering and sacrifices grain offering and incense, bringing sacrifices of the praise to the house of the LORD. It
clearly illustrates that the Sabbath was designed for rest because if it were a day of worship then the surrounding Jews outside Jerusalem must have had hard
time adjusting themselves to the changing schedule. The only way they profane was by conducting business, exchanges of goods and carrying burden which
Sabbath Keepers are doing today. Another point to consider: Ex. 16:23 This is what LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is the Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to LORD.
Bake what you will bake today and boil what you will boil [in other words, cook today's portion] and lay up for yourselves all that remains to be kept until
morning. We have seen that the Israelites were provided the twice amount of manna on the sixth day (vs 5) so that they may rest and would not go out to
gather food on the Sabbath. Consequently, the Sabbath keepers are not allowed to buy even food as they must take rest on the Sabbath at any cost. This may
sound ridiculous but Sabbath custodians are hard pressed to believe that they are sharply denying the true intention of Sabbath. Exo 35:3 Do not light a fire in
any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.if Sabbath is to be observed purely as scripture says we cannot do pravelling, nor cooking which means Sabbath
Keepers who went to met somewhere are actually breaking which is reinforced in Exo 16: 22-30 ..Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his
place on the seventh day. In Isaiah 58:13, "If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a
delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: It
forbids travelling and normal exchanges of our daily businesses and transactions, telephonic conversation with friends, watching TV etc. as these activities are
done purely for our own pleasures (thy pleasures). So this is difficult for any Sabbath keeper to keep the Sabbath most deligently and accurately; they often
alter the true intention and modify the Sabbath of Lev 24:8-10 and Num 28: 9-10, giving an entirely different meaning to it. Sabbatarians are confused with the
above-said verses as the stanzas display a priest making offerings on the Sabbath therefore providing them a way to conclude the Sabbath as a day of
worship!Well!! The priests duty was mostly to offer sacrifices even on Sabbath and that was his main job. Morever, Jesus confirms to us that the Priest alone is
blameless on Sabbath in Matt 12:5. In Hebrew 10:11, we see how the priest stands every day, even on Sabbaths, to proffer sin offerings of the people but
nowhere in the passage found people coming to the temple on the Sabbath to worship. This confirms the Sabbath as aday of rest and not a day of worship. But
now that we are under grace, we need not give to the priest an offering of two lamb son every Sabbath (according to Levitical law in Lev 28:9) and we need not
place the bread to be eaten by Aaron (according to Levitical law in Num 28:9-10); Christ is our High Priest, he is our ultimate sacrifice for sins and he is the
living bread. Hebrew 9 brings to us that such law were instituted for a symbolic representation of the true substance. Christ has substituted all the requirements

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for salvation and there is no point fighting the Author of Life.The Sabbath keepers must not break even a single prescribed law if they love to be a law keeper
but should stop claiming to be loyal as they honestly defile the scriptures.

27. Sabbath principle is about the eternal Rest in Christ (Sabbatical years)
It must be understood that when God gave Sabbath to Isarelites, he was giving the principles of rest, not the specific cycle of days. Sabbath simply means Rest
not worship. We can also see that Gods intention of giving this rest was what they would expect when they reach the Promised Land.
Ex. 20:8-11: Remember the Sabbath (Shabbath) day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the
LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger
who is within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and RESTED the seventh day. Therefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. The same is said in Exo 31:15, Exo 35:2 etc
Deuteronomy 5:14-15: But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you nor your sons or daughters, nor
your manservants or maidservants, nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor the alien within your gates so that your manservant and maidservant
may Rest, as you do. And remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God brought you from there...therefore the LORD your God
commanded you to keep the Sabbath.
You see the difference in Exodus and Deuteronomy? In exodus Gods intention was confined to six lieteral creation, it all speaks about creation. God was
conveying the principle of his sanctification of Sabbath on after he reste first. However in the book of Deuteronomy the principle changes from creation to
slavery in Egypt indication of their rest what they would attain when they reach the promise land shortly after they cross Jordan River in Deu 9. So we can see
that the real principles of Sabbath changes from time to time. Gods real intention was not about eternal observation in literal sense. Not only this, He gave the
principle of rest even to the land, cattles and crops. Obviously animals, crop and land did not worship God they only enjoy the blessing of the rest-intendedanother proof that Sabbath principle is not about worship but Rest.
Sabbatical years: Lev 25:3-5: Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop, 4. But during the seventh
year the land shall have a Sabbath rest, a Sabbath to the LORD; you shall not sow your field nor prune your vineyard. 5. 'Your harvest's aftergrowth you shall
not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a rest. Israel was agricultural by occupation; the only mean of their
sources was from farm, livestock and animal husbandary. If Sabbath is really required today Sabbath keeper should also observe Sabatical years by not go to
Office which is their sources of income for every seventh year cycle. If they really want to honor God by keeping Sabbath they must not cultivate or do farming
or any sorts of business every seventh year. They must give rest to their office, land and business. If they say Sabbath is a day of worship, they must also stop
worshiping God on every seventh year. Does it look so silly how they twist the scripture? YES..
Not only Seventh Day is important, seventh year Sabbath is also equally important. Sabbath keepers should not neglect this because God promise to punish if
they fail to keep this. Levitcus 26:3335: I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid waste, and
your cities will lie in ruins. Then the land will enjoy its Sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land
will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the Sabbaths you lived in it. We can see
when Israelites failed to keep God punishment was severe. 2 Chrncle 36:21: The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the
seventy years were completed in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah. So Sabbath keeper must keep this also if they keep the seventh Day
Holy.

Jubilee year and its importance:

Lev 25: 10-11: You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each
of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family. 11. You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap
its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.
Every 50 years was to be a year of Jubilee throughout all the land. The Jubilee year had huge economic, social and family implications. During the Jubilee,
slaves were to be set free. The land was to be restored to its original owner, and families were to be reunited. The year of Jubilee would restore the families
and free the land from the bondage of debt as all mortgages were canceled. The purpose of this year was to break the oppression over the people. The Jubilee
would come every 50 years or a generation, and it would put an end to financial oppression. Slaves were set free and mortgages ended. All bondage was
broken and the people would be free to start fresh. It was also a year of agricultural rest as there would be no farming during this year. God promised to
abundantly bless the crops and orchards, and the people were to rest from their labor. It was a year to focus on God and not farming, money and social
problems. It was a time of restoration.
Leviticus 25:13 In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. (17) Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear
thy God: for I am the LORD your God. The object of the year of Jubilee was liberty and to break all oppression. The Jubilee was a type or forerunner of what
it would be under the reign of King Messiah. The Jubilee was to set the stage for the coming of King Messiah as His reign would be one continual Jubilee. All
oppression would end under His rule. Justice and truth would reign. All financial bondage would end. There would be peace and an abundance of crops.
There will be real liberty under the rule of the Messiah. The following verses give the picture of the Jubilee under the rule of King Messiah: Isaiah 2:3: And
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and
we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. (4) And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither
shall they learn war any more.

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Ezekiel 36:34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by. (35) And they shall say, This land that was
desolate is become like the garden of Eden;
The initiation of the year of Jubilee is critical to the connection with the coming of King Messiah. Jesus began his ministry with a clear reference to the year of
Jubilee. In the synagogue at Nazareth he read these words from Isaiah: The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the
poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lords
favour (Isaiah 61: 1, 2 and Luke 4: 18, 19). Then Jesus said today this is fulfilled. Which is reinforced again in Matthew 11, 28-30: Come to me all you who
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for
your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. The Biblical New Year begins on first day of the seventh month. This holiday in the Bible is called
the Feast of Trumpets and occurs in September. The Jubilee year should begin at this feast. Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the
seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. The Jubilee does not begin on
the New Year, but it actually starts 10 days later during the Day of Atonement. There is an extremely important reason for this. The Day of Atonement is when
all of Israel s iniquities, transgressions and sins were forgiven and the people were clean before the LORD. The Day of Atonement was the day when the
people were free from the penalty of their sin! The people were to face the reality of sin on the Day of Atonement. They had to realize an innocent animal had
to die in their place for sin. The shed blood of these animals had to be sprinkled in Gods presence for the sin to be forgiven. At the end of the Day of
Atonement, the people were free from the penalty of sin. Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth
day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls...(30) For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your
sins before the LORD. The Day of Atonement is directly linked to the beginning of the Year of Jubilee and shows the complete picture of King Messiahs
rule. The people would be free from all bondage. The weight of debt and social problems would be done away along with the peoples enslavement to sin.
There would be complete liberty under the reign of King Messiah. What a beautiful picture the Jubilee gives to the freedom and liberty under the reign of King
Messiah! There will be no bondage at all during this time. Leviticus 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the
seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. The dividing of the 69 weeks into and 49 and 434 year
segments was a clear way to focus on the Jubilee year. At the end of seven weeks or 49 years, the people were to celebrate the Jubilee year with the anticipation
of the coming to King Messiah. On this 50th year, they were to proclaim liberty throughout the land, repent their sin, and realize they needed to be permanently
freed from the bondage and penalty of that sin. Jesus of Nazareth, King Messiah, will bring complete liberty in land and freedom from sin. He will be the
Jubilee.

28. Sabbath was always observed with sacrifices and offering

In the OT, sacrifice and offering were always a part of their daily activities including the Sabbath. In the book of Exo 20:8-13, Sabbath was commanded to be
observed but provisions for sacrifices and offerings were not given because tabernacle was not made yet although provision for construction was commanded. It
is obvious that when Sabbath was given initially before Tabernacles was erected, offerings and sacrifice may not be commanded.
Number 28:9-10: On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of twotenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink
offering
2 Chronicles 2:4: Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for
setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the
appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13: according to the daily requirement for offerings commanded by Moses for the Sabbaths, the New Moons and the three annual festivals--the
Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles .
Ezra 3:5: After that, they presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the LORD,
as well as those brought as freewill offerings to the LORD.

29. Sabbath is called Feasts (Ceremonial Law)

We can see from Levi 23:1-27, God called Sabbath (seventh day weekly) his feast along with other feasts as ceremonial feasts. Lev 23:2: Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. For six
days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest (Shabbatwn Shabbat Qodesh), a holy convocation. You shall not do any
work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. 5. The LORD's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. If you continue
reading all the feasts are listed Pentecost, Trumpet, Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles. The point is Sabbath is called Feasts along with other annual feasts.
Seventh Day Adventist who believed that Sabbath Saturday as moral is refuted here. In the OT, all the feasts points toward Messiah and along with annual
feasts Sabbath points toward Christ.

30. Jesus Broke the Sabbath (John clarifies)

John 5:15-18: For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath. In his defense Jesus said to them, "My
Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working. Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the
Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. This is a story of a man who had been sick for morethan 30 years. Vs 5: there
was an certain man who had an infirmity 30 years. We can imagine what could be his condition lying for 30 years. He must have a huge pack of mattress lying
for more than 30 years. Notice Jesus word: vs Jesus said take up your bed and walk immediately the man was made well and took up his bed and walked.
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Here Jesus was accussed of breaking the Sabbath because on Sabbath any kind of load lifting was prohibited, the man must have had a huge stuf to carry that is
why he was accused. According to OT law, carrying any kind of load heavy and light was totally prohibited. Neh 13:15-16: At that time I saw in Judah some
who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sacks of grain, loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads.
We can also see very cleary that Jesus was breaking the very commandment of the OT provision of Sabbath rule: Jeremiah 17:21: thus say the LORD, take
heed not to carry any burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gate of Jerusalem vs 22 Nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor
do any work but hallow it as I have commanded your father. If Sabbath is a moral Law Jesus would be guilty of breaking, as he actually broke directly. Jesus
did not deny that he was beaking by working, he did not say I am not working rather he affirms that he was indeed working as he claimed: vs 17: My Father is
always at his work to this very day, and I too am working. Notice John statement: vs 18: Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only
had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. Here the word for breaking is Eluen-this is durative,
impertfect indicative which means repeated action. And even the word calling is elegen which is also imperfective active indicative. And the word for
making is pioion which is present active indicative. In other word John is saying: Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he was not only
continuously breaking the Sabbath, but also continuously calling God his Father, making himself equal with God. John was not saying that the Jews thought
he was breaking, rather he is reporting that fact that Jesus broke Sabbath for which they sought to kill Him. If His statement was what the Jews thought he could
have clarify as he clarify else where. We will cite some examples where John clarify if the Jews or audience thought wrongly. John 9:21-11: but how he now
sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself." 22 His parents said this because they were
afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue. Here John clarifies why
his parent said this. John 21:18-19: Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself and walk wherever you wished; but when you
grow old, you will stretch out your hands and someone else will gird you, and bring you where you do not wish to go." 19. Now this He said, signifying by what
kind of death he would glorify God. John here also clarifies what Jesus really means. 21. Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this
disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?" Jesus himself
clarify when he is falsely accused what he did not mean: John 8:48-49: The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan
and have a demon?" 49. Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me. Here Jesus deny when he is falsely accused but
when he was accused of breaking Sabbath, he did not say I am not working or I am not breaking, instead he said my Father is working and I am also working.
Luke 13:14: and the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said to the people, There are six
days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.According to the OT Law, healing or doing any type of
work was considered profaning Sabbath. Jesus was accused of breaking Sabbath which he never rejects. Jesus could have done his miracle some other day
Sunday-Friday if he really regards Sabbath breaking as sin yet he choosed Sabbath for a reason. The force of Christ's reasoning is this, that if it was lawful, on a
sabbath day, to lead out a beast to watering, to quench its thirst, that so it may not suffer so much as one day for want of water, how much more reasonable must
it be, that a rational creature, one of Abraham's posterity, and a religious person, who had been for eighteen years under a sore affliction, through the power of
Satan over her, by divine permission, should be freed from so long and sore an affliction on the sabbath day? if mercy is to be shown to beasts, much more to
men and women. Since it is not moral Law it is fine for us to break to meet our needs and wants therefore not binding as a moral obligation. Similarly, when his
disciples were accused of breaking the Sabbath by plucing corn from the field, Jesus justify that what they did was not a sin instead he declared them guiltless.
If Sabbath is moral Law Jesus must be wrong yet he was blemish and without sin. Matthew 12:2-8: But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, "Look,
Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath. But He said to them, "Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his
companions, entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread--which was not lawful for them to do, but only for the priests. V5
Or have you not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? 6but I say to you, that in this
place is one greater than the temple. But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice and you would not condemn the guiltless. For
the Son of Man is also the Lord of the Sabbath. When disciples were accused Jesus demonstrate that his disciple are not guilty even if they break, He did not
say they did not break rather he said even the priest and David broke yet they are guiltless, likewise his disciples were not guilty of breaing the Sabbath. Jesus
always used the ceremonial aspect to show that Sabbath by nature is not moral law binding to all mankind. Detail explanation is done above on this Matt 12:2-8.
But what is interesting is Jesus knowingly breaking the Sabbath even after they accused Him. If you read few verses later from 9-13 we see he healed another
man again on the Sabbath. This proves that he intentional broke to show that Sabbath is not moral law. In his defense against his accusation he often used the
OT ceremonial law associated with Sabbath to prove that Sabbath is not Moral law. Jesus being the Lord of the Sabbath he has the authority to free us from the
Law John 8:36 if the son make you free, youshall befree indeed.

31. Sabbath can hidered us to Christ:

When Jesus heal a blind man on the Sabbath in John 9:1-14, he healed the blind man intentional on the Sabbath vs 14 (now it was a sabbath when he made the
clay and open his eyes) he did not reject that his healing was a work, instead he said vs 4 I must work the work of Him who sent me. The Jews cannot believe
in Jesus as their Messiah because they believed that their promised messiah should keep the Sabbath While Jesus broke it. They considered Sabbath to be the
testing truth of Gods wills. How many of the modern day Sabbath keepers strumble in Christ when they give more prefrance to Sabbath -Saturday than Jesus
who is the real rest for our soul? The same condition was during his time, the Jews reject their own Messiah because of Sabbath: vs 16: some of the Pharisees
said this cannot be from God because he does not keep the Sabbath Sabbath hindered the Jews, the same is the case for modern day Sabath keepers. When you
get a wrong view of Sabbath and wrong view of Jesus, when Sabbath become more important than Christ, you have the wrong gospel and you are of the same
category as the unbelieving Pharisees.

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32. Circumcision is more important than Saabbath: In the OT, Circumcison was ceremonial Law. We can also see how Jesus defends his
breaking of Sabbath by citing the ceremonial connection in John 7:21-23: Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel."For this reason Moses
has given you circumcision (not because it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a man. "If a man receives circumcision on
the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses will not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made an entire man well on the Sabbath?Jesus is explaining the
importance of Circumcision than Sabbath. If we accept the text as above, the question arises - Does it refer to the parenthetical clause or to the principal verb?
The bible renders as follows: "Therefore Moses gave you circumcision, not because it originated with Moses, but (because it originated) with the fathers, and so
ye circumcise," etc., making the precedence of the law of circumcision to the sabbatic law part of the very purport of his appointment. But many others, "For
this cause" - to teach this lesson - Moses, who gave the ten commandments, one of which involved the sabbatic rest, took up into the Law which he gave you
the still older law of the Abrahamic covenant, and laid down the stringent rule that the rite must be performed on the eighth day (Leviticus 12:3). In other word
when a Jews male child is born he must be circumcised on the eighth day but if it fall on Sabbath they have a delimma. Since Sabbath is to be hallowed without
shedding blood yet a child need to fulfill the law of circumcision, they prefer the circumcision as the child cannot be a part of the Moses Law before undergoing
circumcision first. This illustrates to us that the law of Circumcision is much more important that Sabbath law which implies that Sabbath is not moral. In the
NT the more important Law circumcision was also abolished and it should not surprise if Sabbath be abolished. Jesus main point was Moses did not give
circumcision because it was of the fathers, - at least that is not the point; but Jesus argues that he gave circumcision as a mode of legislation which will involve
a modification of his own sabbatic regiment. It is obvious that in the OT circumcision was instituted not as a moral law but as a ceremonial law. All the
ceremonial laws of the OT were given only to Israelites alone and that was which makes them the chosen race. When Gentiles wanted to celebrate any
ceremonial feasts they can only participate if they circumcised. However, this law was often neglected by Jews themselves. Many of the Israelites did not
circumcise in the wilderness. So they have to be circumcised including the old and the young, both small and big by Joshua in Joshua 5:2-8. This shows that it
is pure ceemonail otherwise they will be quilty of breaking for 40 years

33. Circumcision was an entrance sign of the Law of Moses

Circmcision was a sign of entrance into the Law of Moses. Unless a Jews boy is circumcised he cannot participate or be a part of the covenant. Acts 15:1:
Certain people came down from Judea to Antioch and were teaching the believers: "Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom taught by Moses, you
cannot be saved.
Gal 5:3: Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.
Roman 2:25: Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised
Since, circumcision is a mark of entrance into the Law, and Yet Paul says it will profits you nothing, it means a man need not keep all the Law of Moses as he is
not circumcised. Gal 5:2: Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. Circmcision and
Law observance is one unit of operation.
James 2:10: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.Acts 16:3 Paul circumcised Timothy for the Jews
in Greece knew Timothy was Gentiles for his mission.
Circumcision was no mandatory for Paul but he did to so that he can carry out his mission effectively to Jews. But he refuse to circumcise Titus to enforce the
law of grace than Mosaic Law (Gal 2:3-5).

34. Sabbath and work related according to the OT Law

The 39 Prohibited Activities: As based on the Mishnah Tractate Shabbat 7:2, the 39 activities are:Sowing, Plowing, Reaping, Binding sheaves, Threshing,
Winnowing, Selecting, Grinding, SiftingKneading, Baking Shearing wool, Washing wool, Beating wool, Dyeing wool, Spinning Weaving, Making two loops,
Weaving two threads, Separating two threads, Tying Untying, Sewing stitches, Tearing, Trapping, Slaughtering, Flaying, Tanning, Scraping hide, Marking
hides, Cutting hide to shape, Writing two or more letters, Erasing two or more letters, Building, Demolishing, Extinguishing a fire, Kindling a fire, Putting the
finishing touch on an object , Transporting an object between a private domain and the public domain, or for a distance of 4 cubits within the public domain.. In
Jews concept everything was consider work. In the book of Neh 13:12-18 and Jer 17:21-27, travelling, buying, exchange of goods, carrying any type of loads
heavy or light etc etc are totally prohibited. All these were prohibited on Sabbath, but other Festival holidays although they kept it as Holy, servile works like
cooking, killing of beast and making of bread were permitted.

35. How did Jesus fulfill the true purpose of the Sabbath?
Mathew 11:28-30: Come unto me he who are weary and heavy laden Ill give you Rest (anapauso). Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am
gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Jesus is not talking about our
physical work but our spiritual needs for eternal rest; Anapauso (Rest) is a Greek term for Sabbath Rest in Septuagint. The term yoke is always used for the
Law in Acts 15:10 and Gal 5:10. Jesus is promising to give us his Law which is lighter, easy unlike the Law of Moses. Only when we take a closer lookwe will
be able to discern what the scripture wants us to understand. God rested on the seventh day of Creation to establish the principle of the Spiritual Sabbath rest for
His people. In Exodus 20:8-11 and Deuteronomy 5:12-15, God made the Israelites conscious about the fourth Commandment. They were to remember the
Sabbath day and keep it holy. One day out of every seven, they were to rest from their laboursand give rest to their servants and animals as well. This was not
just a physical rest, but a cessation of all types of occupations. Whatever work they were engaged, be it a religious or agricultural, was to be locked for a full
day each week. The various elements of the Sabbath symbolize the coming of the Messiah, who would provide a permanent rest for His people, both physically
and spiritually. The Jews were constantly labouring to make them acceptable to God. Their labours included obeying a myriad of dos and donts of the
ceremonial law, the Temple law, the civil law, etc. Of course they couldnt possibly keep all those laws, so God provided them an array of sin offerings and
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sacrifices so that they could come to Him for forgiveness and restore fellowship with Him one more time, so long as they were not found guilty by the law
again. Just as they began their physical labours after a one-day rest, they had to continue offering Sacrifices beginning from the very first daytill the Sabbath
according to the Levitical Law. Hebrews 10:1 tells us that the law can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those
who draw near to worship. But these sacrifices were offered in anticipation of the ultimate sacrifice of Christ on the cross, who after He had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right of God (Hebrews 10:12). Just as He rested after performing the ultimate sacrifice for all sins when he said it
is finished on the cross, He ceased from His labour of atonement, leaving nothing more to be done, ever. Because of what He did, we no longer have to
labour in law-keeping in order to be justified in the sight of God. Jesus was sent so that we may rest in God. Another element of the Sabbath day rest is, God
blessed it, sanctified it, and made it holy. Here again we see the symbol of Christ as our Sabbath restthe holy, perfect Son of God who sanctifies and makes
holy all who believe in Him. God sanctified the seventh day that represented the pre-symbolic depiction of our eternal rest in Christ, and sent Christ into the
world (John 10:36 the father sanctified and sent the son into the world) to be sacrifice for our sins so that we may have eternal rest by his blood. Just as he
sanctified the seventh day he also sanctified his Son before he sent so that he can be the true Sabbath-rest for us, He did not sanctify our weekly Saturday. We
must believe that God does not live in time like us, for him yesterday, today and tomorrow are the same. As far as God was concerned, the Lamb was already
slain even before the foundation and creation of the world and the eternal rest of mankind in Christ through grace was already givento us according to I Peter
1:19-20; Revelation 13:8. This can only be possible if God knew well that he would have to provide the future rest by his own blood and not by the deeds of
the law. With this knowledge he made everything in six days, the seventh day was set apart particularly as a symbol of his redemptive holiness by sanctifying it
as a Holy even before he came in flesh. This is because God declared something already doneeven before he actually brought in the fulfilmentaccording to
Isaiah 46:9-11(...declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all
My pleasure,' calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I
have purposed it; I will also do it). Ephe 1:3-6 talks about our predestined holiness even before the creation. Roman 9:22-24 is another definitive passage that
talks about our predestined glory. In Christ, we find complete rest from the labors of our self-effort, because He alone is holy and righteous God made him who
had no sin to be sinners for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). We can now cease from our spiritual labours to
be acceptable to God and rest in Him, not just one day a week, but always. Jesus is our Sabbath rest because He is Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:8) which
means he has the authority over the Sabbath and he has the right to change and fulfill the true meaning. As God incarnate, He decides the true meaning of the
Sabbath because He created it, and He is our Sabbath rest in the flesh. When the Pharisees criticized Him for healing on the Sabbath, Jesus reminded them that
even they, sinful as they were, would not hesitate to pull a sheep out of a pit on the Sabbath. Because He came to seek and save His sheep who would hear His
voice (John 10:3,27) and enter into the Sabbath rest He has provided by paying for their sins, He could break the Sabbath rules. He told the Pharisees that
people are more important than sheep in regards to salvation. His providence was more important than the rules. By saying, The Sabbath was made for man,
not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27), Jesus was restating the principle that the Sabbath rest was instituted to relieve man of his labours about the laws and
commandment which they had to follow to be righteous; He came to relieve us of our attempting to achieve salvation by our works. We no longer rest for only
one day, but forever cease our labouring to attain Gods favour because he has substituted the law with Grace. Jesus is our rest from works to be accepted to
God now, just as He is the door to heaven, where we will rest in Him forever. Consequently, Hebrews 4 is a perfect passage regarding Jesus as our Sabbath
rest that God pre-figured with the Seventh day byhis sanctification, Jesus is the true substance which the Sabbath had pointed forward since the time it was
instituted. The writer of Hebrew compares the Jewish Sabbath as the shadow of the true Sabbath that God instituted at the creation to be fulfilled by Him
through sonship.The writer to the Hebrews exhorts his readers to enter into to the Sabbath rest provided by Christ not by observing it in Hebrew 4:11.
Particularly Hebrew 3:11-19 is telling us that Jesus is superior to the angels and that He is our Apostle and High Priest, he pleaded with them to not harden
their hearts against Him, as their fathers hardened their hearts against God in the wilderness. Because of their unbelief, God denied that generation access to the
holy land, saying, They shall not enter into My rest. They did not enter the rest because of unbelief acording to Hebrew 3:19. The Israelites who did not enter
the Promised Land must have kept the Sabbath but because of their unbelief they were denied by God to reach that land. Eventually the writer of Hebrew
explains in Hebrew 4:1-3 that there is still a promise to enter that rest in future, just as the same gospel was preached to them but this did not profit them as
their heart was not mixed with faith in vs 2. The authors goes on to say, as for us who have heard the gospel and believed him we have enter that rest by
believing in him, but even to this the unbelievers shall not enter the rest. Obviously, the author is talking about Seventh day Sabbath with its symbolic meaning
in spiritual sense in vs4. To this, entering is by faith in vs 3 for we who have believed enter that rest. The word who have believed is pisteusantes is aorist
active indicative means a completed action, which happen at time point of time, when one believed he that enter that rest. In the same way, the writer of the
Hebrews begs themand usnot to make the same mistake by rejecting Gods Sabbath rest in Jesus Christ. There remains, then, a rest (sabbatmois which is
eternal rest) for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort
to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disbelief (Hebrews 4:9-11). Let us read carefullyonce again and see what the authors
wants us to understand about what God means to do with Seventh day Sabbath that pre-figured our spiritual rest and eternal rest in Christ. Heb. 4:2-11: For
unto us a gospel is peached as well as unto them but the message they heard was of no value to them not mixed with faith..For we who have believed do enter
that rest, as He has said: So I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world For He has
spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: And God rested on the seventh day from all His works; and again in this place: They shall not
enter My rest Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of unbelief, again He designates
a certain day, saying in David, Today, after such a long time, as it has been said: Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts. For if
Joshua had given them rest, then He would not afterward have spoken of Another day. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. For he who has

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entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the
same example of unbelief. The word Unbelief here is Apeithen. If the context is demanding about Sabbath observation as ritualas as some thought, then
disobedience to Sabbath keeping or disobedience to law is designated by parakoes used in Roman 5:19 (For as by one man's disobedience) and in many
other places. But what we see from Hebrew is Apeithen that is solely for disbelief. The question that needs to be answered is: is God telling us to keep the
Sabbath day or something much more? The writer is imploring us to obey the gospel which is preached in the NT with faith unlike them who heard but witout
faith which leads them not to enter. The Sabbath rest should not be equated with the keeping of the 7th day Sabbath of the Old Covenant, because the
Israelites who did keep it did not enter this rest.Also God says they shall not enter my rest is not something related to Sabbath observation because the
Israelites did keep the Sabbath. The writer explains there is Another Day. Since Joshua and Israel kept the 7th day Sabbath and entered the Promised Land,
this must mean something other than what Sabbatarians interprete. Joshua did not bring them into this day nor did he enter it himself, as such the author advices
us to be deligent in entering that rest which the Israelites cannot attained by deligent observation of Sabbath. We can see that Joshua bring rest to the land
according to Joshua 1:13, Joshua 22:4, Joshua 21:44 (the LORD give them rest everywhere), Joshua 23:1 (the LORD give rest). Israelites served the LORD
through out the life of Joshua according to Joshua 24:23, and The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua (Judges 2:7), they keep all
commandments under Joshua as Judges 2:17 says they quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the LORD's commandments.
Before reaching the Promised Land Israelites did not believed and have faith in entering the promised. They feared their enemy superiority than fearing their
God. For that God swear that they shall not enter the Promised Land as they have no faith in their God (Number 13:26-33, 14:1-10, Deu 1:19-34). This faith is
what Hebrew 4 is talking about, comparing with true rest which God intend to do with seventh day rest in Christ. Furthermore, David spoke of another day of
rest in Heb.4:7-8 saying in David, TODAY, after so long a time, as it is said, TODAY if you will hear his Voice, harden not your hearts.For if Joshua had
given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of ANOTHER DAY? There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. Joshua whose Hebrew
name is equal to Jesus spoke of someone who would come to deliver this true rest. This was another day not a specific day like the 7thday but a life that is given
to all through the Messiah. If there is another day then it isnt Saturday becuse the author is refering to another rest in the future. The Israelites did not enter
God's rest because of unbelief as their hearts were not mixed with faith but they did keep all the law including the Sabbath under Joshuain Judge 2:17. They had
the rules, regulations and oracles and kept it perefectly but they cannot enter that rest which means Rest spoken in Hebrew is not Seventh Day but what God
intend to do with in Christ the true eternal rest fulfilling Seventh day Sabbath by his death. God always look at our heart, our attitude in the Spirit and not our
outward ritual observation. Today Jesus is our Sabbath, our every type, commandments; ordinance in the Old Testament was fulfilled by him without any
lacking; now we need not struggle for law and ordinances for justice, even the Sabbath, because Christ is the fulfilment of all.There is no other Sabbath rest
besides Jesus. He alone satisfies the requirements of the Law, and He alone provides the sacrifice that atones for all sins. He is Gods plan for us to cease from
the labor of our own works. We dare not reject this one-and-only Way of salvation (John 14:6). Gods reaction to those who choose to reject His plan is seen in
Numbers 15. A man was found gathering sticks on the Sabbath day, in spite of Gods plain commandment to cease from all labor on the Sabbath. This
transgression was a known and willful sin, done with unblushing boldness in broad daylight, in open defiance of the divine authority. And the LORD said to
Moses, The man shall surely be put to death (v. 35). So it will be to all who reject Gods provision for our Sabbath rest in Christ as it is written How shall we
escape the punishment if we neglect this great a salvation according to Hebrews 2:3. Therefore, the saying There remain a rest in Hebrew 4:9-11 is
sabbatimois which is never used in OT when referring to observing Sabbath day but in the sense of spiritual and the eternal rest that never ends however
katapausis is used in for God resting in Acts 7:49, and in Hebrew 3:11, 18 for physical resting. The Greek word for Sabbath keeping or observance is
Akinto sabatizo in Exo 16:30 and many portions of OT in Septuagint and NT in Greek. On the contrary the Sabbath rest (Sabbatmois) refered to in Hebrew is
Eternal Sabbath or rest in Christ used exclusively in Hebrew 4:1-9. The rest (sabbatismos) that remain for Gods people in Hebrew 4:6 is the same rest that
people enter when then put their faith and believed in Jesus (Hebrew 4:3 we wh have believed enter that rest (katapausin)-which is aorist tense meaning
completed action-hence when one believed in Christ he already enter and attained that rest). Here is the whole clarification: the rest spoken in Vs 3 which
believers enter after believing on the Jesus is katapausin, which is the same rest God did in on the seventh Day in vs 4. The future rest spoken Sabbatismos
in vs 9 is that same rest which God did in vs 4 on the Seventh Day which is the same rest that attain after we believed in Christ as vs 10 clarifies: there remain
therefore a rest (sabbatsimos) for the people of God, for he who has enter His Rest (Gods rest-katapausin) has himself ceased from his work as God did from
His. So, the author of Hebrew is making the following statements:- The rest which God intended on the seventh Day is the rest (katapausin) that Jesus would
give and has given (vs 3 we who have believed enter that rest-katapausin), that rest is eternal rest for our soul; the Isralites did not enter that tyical type of rest
which God promised because they did not have faith to enter the promised where they would rest. Also even Joshua the righteous and and elders did not enter
that rest; David himself did not enter that rest as he spoke of another Day. This means Seventh day rest which God intended is Jesus Christ. The book of
Hebrew is a comparison of Jesus being the more perfect form of salvation and life superceeding the Mosaic Law. The epistle of Hebrew was addressed to the
Jews who were very much aquainted with Sabbath observation. The Sabbath which was given to them through Moses was their rest related to their slavery, later
on it was given to them to point to their rest in the Promised Land. Later it was given as an indication to rest from all their laws and sacrifices which they did
everyday but still be acceptable to God. This was already a sign of God providence that he would give them the true Rest so that they need not be justified by
offering, observation of laws and commandments but through Christ. Sabbath instituted at the creation was the symbolic Rest that would later be provided to
those who would believe in Jesus when the fullness of time would come becauseNow faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen (Hebrew 11:1). Even in OT there was already a plan of God regarding changing of Israelites method of worships, Feasts, Sabbath and new moon when
the true substance would come, below are few example:

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Isaiah 1: 13 Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is
iniquity, even the solemn meeting. This prophecy confirms thatevery customs and traditions they practiced were not enough in the sight of God because he
hada greater plan to substitute with Christ where He reconciled himself to the world. Incenses-put upon the sacrifices, and burnt on the altar of incense, type of
prayer (Ps 141:2; Rev 8:3), New moons-observed as festivals (Num 10:10; 28:11, 14) with sacrifices and blowing of silver trumpets: Sabbaths-both the
seventh day and the beginning and closing days of the great feasts are called Sabbath (Lev 23:24-39), "I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting," that is,
the meeting associated with iniquity-literally, the closing days of the feasts, so also the last great days (Lev 23:36; Joh 7:37).
Hosea 2:11 I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days--all her appointed feasts. This was a prophetic saying that
was fulfilled by Christ.
Hosea 5:7They are unfaithful to the LORD; they give birth to illegitimate children. Now their New Moon festivals will devour them and their fields.
Isaiah 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. The appointed feast is their
Passover, Tabernacles, and Atonement etc. which were celebrated at the appointed time. All these feasts were only a shadow and had a symbolic meaning, but
now the true substance has come and therefore they are no longer needed.
Isaiah 66:23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me," says the LORD. This was
fulfilled after the death of Christ; as Christ told the Samaritan woman, we can also now worship God everywhere not necessary in Jerusalem. The fulfilment is
also in Christ as the believers can now worship God everyday, anytime and anywhere. From Sabbbath to another literally means the whole week and not just on
Sabbath. Unlike the old covenant where God dwelt only in temple, the New Covenant cerfifies our body as a Temple of God Our body is the temple of the
God, God is in every believers hearts in 1Corthn 6:19 and in II Cor 6:16 I will dwell in them and they will be my people. Mal 1:11 from rising of Sun to
the to the going down my name shall be great among the Gentiles. This is not literally saying only at the point of rising and point of going down, it simply
means whole day meaning everyday. The Sun rises every day, so His name shall be great everyday.
Habakkuk 2:14: For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. This was already fulfilled on the
Pentecost when the Holy Spirit revealed His works to all nations irrespective of tongues.
Zephaniah 2:11:The LORD will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the land. The nations on every shore will worship him, everyone in its
own land. This prophecy pointed toward the victory in Christ and now the real salvation is opened to all nations. For Christians we need not go to Jerusalem or
Mecca and Meddinah as the Jews and Muslims.

36. Does Matthew 24:20 promotes keeping of Sabbath?

Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath" (Matthew 24:20)
Many moderrn Sabbath keepers quote this verse out of context and claim that Sabbath is necessary for us as Jesus probihit travelling on Sabbath. If Sabbath
observance was not a concern for Christians when Matthew wrote his Gospel, why did he mention Jesus words about fleeing on the Sabbath? Some people
claim that this implies that Christians ought to keep the Sabbath rest. Is this true? When you read with the context with what Jesus mean, he was actually
rejecting Sabbath for many reason. This statement was given by Jesus when asked by his disciples about the end time. Jesus is predicting about the destruction
of Jerusalem temple. In Luke he states Luke 21:20-21: But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is near. 21"Then
those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of the city must leave, and those who are in the country must not enter the
city. 23 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days. For there will be great distress in the land and the wrath upon
this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword.. Jesus did not say they must not flee, instead he said the people of Judah must flee as well and those
who are in the midst of her (Jerusalem) must leave. The same picture is explained in detail by Him in Matthew. Matthew 24:17-20 Let him which is on the
housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe to them that are with
child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day. He also described the difficulty
of a pregnant woman would face. Not that it should be criminal for them to be with child, or a judgment on them but this expresses the miserable circumstances
such would be in, who, by reason of their heavy burdens, would not be able to make so speedy a flight, as the case would require. The terrible scene is also
understood from Jesus statement that those who already escape must not come back to get some stuff as their life is more important. Let him which is on the
housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes
But pray you that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: Long journeys were prohibited by the law on the Sabbath, Exodus 16:29. The
Law of Moses did not mention the distance to which persons might go on the Sabbath, but most of the Jews maintained that it should not be more than 2000
cubits. Some supposed that it was 7 furlongs, or nearly a mile. This distance was allowed in order that they might go to their places of worship. Most of them
held that it was not lawful to go further, under any circumstances of war or affliction. Jesus teaches his disciples to pray that their flight might not be on the
Sabbath, because on the Sabbath the Jews and religious leaders would not allow them to flee as they thought that it may break their Sabbath Law. The religious
leaders would not allow them to escape by doing long distance walk. As a result they would get killed along with those unbelieving Jews inside the Jerusalem.
The reason why they would not allow escaping on Sabbath is that on Sabbath day all the gates of Jerusalem remain closed which was instituted by Nehemiah in
Neh 13:19: And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and
charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the
sabbath day. The Jews hold this idea so deeply that they would prefer to die than escape by breaking their Sabbath Law. Jesus was not supporting Sabbath
observation rather he listed the difficulty his follwers would face if their escape takes place on Sabbath. The only conclusion we can draw from this chapter is
Sabbath, pregnant woman, winter, nurturing woman are listed in the category of hindrance when apocalypse occurs that is why Jesus say pray that your flight

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may not be on Sabbath. Note: Christ description of this apocalypse is a judgment over the unbelievers Jews. Luke 21:23: there will be great distress among
THIS PEOPLE (unbelieving Jews). He warns his followers that they may be arrested by theJews (Mark 13:9-10).

37. Does Isaiah 56:2: teaches Sabbath observation for Gentiles?

Isaiah 56:2: Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing
any evil. When we read the bible, we must allow the whole bible to speak and see what the context means. We must not dereived our doctrine from
apocalyptic book, parables or prophecy which points something else. Our doctrine of faith should be from clear and didactic teaching and statement. Let us
examine cautiously with its explanation: here is the full picture: Isaiah was written 700 BC before Christ. Probably it was written for the exiled Jews to cultivate
new hope for the arrival of their King Messiah. This was written when the Jews were still under Law and obviously the passage must reflect the condition of
that time. Isaiah 56:1-8 Thus says the LORD: "Keep justice, and do righteousness, for My salvation is about to come, and My righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who lays hold on it; who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and keeps his hand from doing any evil." Do not
let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD speak, saying, "The LORD has utterly separated me from His people"; nor let the eunuch
say, "Here I am, a dry tree." For thus says the LORD: "To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, and choose what pleases Me, and hold fast My covenant, even to
them I will give in My house and within My walls a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not
be cut off. Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants - everyone
who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, and holds fast My covenant - even them I will bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." The Lord GOD, who
gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, "Yet I will gather to him others besides those who are gathered to him. Are these verses saying something about Sabbath
for Gentiles? NO, this is not a proof of Sabbath as an obligation to Gentiles. Actually the context is saying something else and not as to what Sabbatarians often
explained. This was the condition what a Gentiles were supposed to do when they were living in the Jews community; as the Jews abstained from profaning
Sabbath, the Gentile living among the Jews were also obliged to keep for a reason that Jews could keep perfectly. Otherwise it is impossible for them when
foreigner living with them were involved in daily business. that even your Visitors (stangers) should keep the Sabbathin your dwelling in Exo 20:8-11.
However, stranger or Gentiles outside Jews community were never commanded to keep in the first place. The Gentiles spoken here in Isaiah is gere converted
Gentiles after circumcision. Notice the word Gentiles who has joined the LORD-which is clearly talking about converted Gentiles. Under the old covenant
Gentiles can participate in feast like Passover only after circumcision a sign of entrance (Number 9:14, Exo 12:48-49). It is also to be understood that many
foreginers were along with the Israelites when they left Egypt; Exo 12:38: And a mixed multitude went up also with them (Isrelites); Number 11:4: And the
mixed multitude that was among them had a strong craving: and the children of Israel also wept again, Lev 24:11: Lev 19:34: The foreigner residing among
you must be treated as your native-born etc. However, there wasnt any provision for unconverted Gentiles to enter the sanctuary (no son of a stranger,
uncircumcised in heart nor uncircumcised in flesh shall enter into my sanctuary, Ezekiel 44:9, 44:7 etc). God was promising to both Jews and Gentiles a time
will come when even uncircumcised Gentiles would be allowed to enter His sanctuary and therefore become even a priest. Until then they must kept all the
necessary regulation before his salvation (Christ first coming) comes. Moving further, the true meaning of My house of prayer, Sacrifices and offerings are
what God pre-figured for the newly believers for his Holy Spirit to dwell. These phrases House of prayer, Sacrifice and offeringsare not to be mistaken as
God refering to physical Jerusalem because the context says nothing about physical place where we are supposed to go. The context demands the Spiritual
aspect that Peter explains to us.1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up
spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ... The core of the above messageof Isaiah 56:1-8 is the beginning of the verses 1 My salvation is
about to come, and My righteousness to be revealed. This is what Jews and Gentiles who joined to the LORD (converted to Judaism) must do before his
salvation actually comes. The true reflection of future arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ to replace all the offerings and Sacrifices so that there will be no
difference between Jews and Gentile; all will be acceptable before the Lord. We can tell from verse 7 that this is a time of change the burnt offerings and
sacrifices will be acceptable on Gods altar. The above passage of Isaiah 56: 1-8 can not be speaking of a time after the New Covenant was firmly established,
because we know Christ is our sacrifice, and that believers in Christ are to offer up spiritual sacrifices, and sacrifices of praise: giving thanks, and sacrifices for
doing good and sharing. If the passage is talking about literal observance of Sabbath after Christ coming, then sacrifice and offering are still to be kept, which
ofcourse invalidates the death of the Christ in many places like; 1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy
priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Besides this, lets look at Hebrew 10:12, 18:He, having offered one
sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.
Unmistakably we need not offer sacrifice and offering as the Jews did now but we are redeemed by his blood.The above prophecy of Isaiah 56:6-8 is talking
about the future acceptance of foreigners by God of their Offering and burnt sacrifice to His altar in Christ through Spiritful filled in 1Peter 2:5 and Hebrew 10:
12, 18 as shown above. Looking at the ancient world, there is no doubt that even the Gentiles were absorbed into Judaism in OT. Then many of the people of
the land became Jews, because fear of the Jews fell upon them (Esther 8:17). There were people who are called proselytes (converted Jews) in the New
Testament Acts 2:10, when Luke listed different nations under heaven. Therefore, the passage in Isaiah is an assurance to these people who could not have full
access to the Temple in the OT, now in future they could still be acceptable to God in NT when their rights will be fully restored like the Jews through
Christ.There is also a reason why eunuchs (barren man and women) are also listed above because they too could not enter the temple. In the OT Eunuch and
son of forbidden couple (Deu 23:2) were denied to enter the Tabernacles. Du 23:1: No one who has been emasculated by crushing or cutting may enter the
assembly of the LORD. But in the new covenant they are now accepted by God in fulfilment of Isaiah 56. One example is Ethiopian Eunuch. He was a Gentile
to whom the apostle Phillip preached in Acts 8:27 Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her

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treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet Isaiah. The following
verse said he was baptised and became the partaker of Lords covenant. This man although he was Gentile came up to Jerusalem to worship. And not only this,
the NT encountered many non-Jews who were very much affilated to Jews worship. Gods prophecy of Isaiah 56 was fully under process during the NT when
the gospel of salvation was witnessed by all the nations.It may also help us to realize that in the Old Covenant prophets used Old Covenant language to express
partial truths as a prophecy. The prophets spoke so that the people could understand but not fully comprehend. There is no way they could have explained to the
Israelites that when the long-awaited Messiah came he would remove their beloved worship and sacrifices and supercede their religion making it obsolete. The
prophets themselves did not have the full and final revelation to deliver. They only had partial truths to reveal. For example, Amos 9:11 says, In that day I will
restore David's fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be. The Israelites hearing the prophets words would
naturally think that Amos was referring to the full restoration of the Davidic kingdom of old. Yet they would be wrong. For the actual meaning is that the tent
is the Christian Church composed of both Jews and Gentiles that James coded in Acts 15:14-18 after this i will return and rebuild the tebernacles (Tent) of
David which has fallen. The tent as he explain is the newly church that Christ built on the rock that cannot be broken.We are now the same tent or the house
that God spoke about in Isaiah 56:1-8. The same is understood by Peter when he said about the fulfilment of Prophet Joel in Acts 2:16 this is what was spoken
by prophet Joel in the last day Says God, that i will pour out my Spirit on all flesh your sons and daughter shall prophesy, your young man shall see visions
on the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit began working. The Old Covenant prophets were not purposely deceiving the people. Those prophets revealed only
partial truths because that is all they had with them. The fullness of the truth would have to wait until the coming of our Lord.
A) In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son,
whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe (Hebrews 1:1-2).
B) Colosian 1:26 Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit, so that I might fully carry out
the preaching of the word of God, that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,
C) Roman 16:25-26 states the mystery kept secret and finally revealed to us for obedient to God through faith
D) Ephesian 3:5 which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has been revealed by the Spirit to His Holy apostles and
prophets.Therefore, we must look to the New Covenant for Gods full and final revelation to mankind. When we do that we find the Sabbath observance is not
a moral obligation for Gods people today. Apostles Paul was fully convinced that whatever the revelations in His time were the accomplishment of all the OT
prophecies. The NT is the complete fulfilment of OT writings, prophets and Psalms as the bible maintains that all the Law and prophets were prohesied until
John in Matthew 11:13. After John the Baptize, the final fulfilment of the old prophecy and Law regarding the Messiah and his role began to unfold. Finally, it
is not a sound practice to interprete the prophecies to something different meaning like the Sabbatarians. Whenever Sabbath observation is said they are quick to
acknowledge the literal meaning but when Sabbath observance is repelled by the prophecy they however interpret differently to suit their doctrines. It is bad
practice to interprete Sabbath as literal observation for future while interpreting the offering and sacrifices in spiritual aspect which are in the same category of
prophecy.
Isaiah 58:13 if you turn away your foot from Sabbath from doing your pleasure on my Holy Day and call Sabbath a delight not doing ypur own way nor
finding your own pleasures: Someone reading this text can come up with wrong conclusion and applies this to all mankind. When we read the bible, we
must read the context and see the moral principles taught. This verse is not given to Gentiles, vs 1 began by addressing his people, the Israelites not Gentiles vs
1: tell my people ther transgression and the house of Jacob their sins.So this Sabbath hallowing is given to Jews that was their covenant they made with God
at Sinai. This verse has nothing to do with Gentile observing Sabbath for salvation.
Ezekiel 44:24: They shall keep my Law and my Statutes in all my appointed meetings, they shall hallow my Sabbaths. This is also an address to Levitical
preist. Because vs 23 points what they should do as a priest anointed by God they shall teach my people the difference between holy and unholyNot only
this vs 10 began addressing the Levites in particular. Vs 11-23 clearly describe what a preist should do. This verses no way teach Sabbath as an obligation to
Gentiles. Do you notice what god said in vs 9: no foreigner uncircumcised in flesh or in heart shall come near to my sanctuary, nor foreigner living among
Israel. Obviuosly this is not talking about future law after Christ died and cancelled the bond because NT, every Gentile can approach God.

Ezekiel 20:11: I gave them my Laws, my decree my statutes, if a man observe wil live by them Many people think that a man referred to all mankind, in
fact this is how OT refers the Israelites within the context. Ezekiel is referring to Deu 30:16-20 which is clearly a commandment given to Israelites. Ezekiel is
not talkinga about Gentiles mandatory of keeping but Jews vs 13 says ;the house of Israel rebels against me and they did not walk in my statutes, they
despised my judgement..Obviously Eze is not talking about Gentiles.
The same is seen in Lev 18:5: you shall keep my statutes and my judgements which if a Man does shall liv e by them Clearly, aman is any Israelites not
Gentiles, the OT is very clear when it spoke about Gentiles, it never referred Gentiles as man, it always referred as foreigner or uncircumcised in flesh. We
know any man refer is Israelites because vs 1 clarify this vs 1: speak to the children of Israel. Hence, any aman refers is any Israelites.
Number 18:4: they shall joined with you to attend to the needs of the tabernacles, but no stranger/outsider shall come near you. Here no outsider spoken here
is non-levites not alien or uncircumcised people.
Lev 22:1: concerning Aaron sons..vs says anyone who has touch any any such things shall be unclean.. Here anyone is used here, this is not talking about
any Israelites if you look at the context, because vs 6 says such person cannot eat the Holy things which is clearly a law for levites. So when anyone or person is
spoken we must look at the context to whom it was said, anyone or whoever may not always means Gentiles.
Isaiah 56:6: also the son of foreigners who join to the LORD to serve Him and anyone who keep from defiling the Sabbath here we see when OT talks
about Gentiles; the verse makes it plainly clear. This is dealing with the Levitical priest,, The same word is used by Joshua 9:27 where Gentiles are used as

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wood cutter or water carriers for temple services. The same word is also used for Gentiles in Isa 60:7 the ram of Nabioth shall minister you in my altars, Isa
60:10 Kings shall minister you. Obviuosly, Isa 56:6 is talking about Gentiles acceotance to be ministering priest which was fulfilled only after Christ. Isa 56:6
has nothing to do Sabbath. The entire chapter of Isa 56 is talking about God acceptance of Eunuch, Foreigner to be apart of his priestly service because he talks
about the burnt offering and sacrifices as a priest accepted to God.

38. If Israelites were not permitted to worship on the Seventh day weekly Sabbath when did they worshiped?
The bible makes it clear that the Israelites have to be present before the LORD for worship on some other days and not on the Shabbath (weekly seventh day).
Those days were the Passover, the First Friuts, Pentecost, Atonement and Tabernacles and that had to be only at prescribed place. The only confusion about the
Sabbath is, even an annual feasts such as the Day of Atonement, the First day of Feast of Trumpet and First day and Eight day of the Feast of Tabernacle are
also called Sabbath in English according to: Lev 16:3 and Leviticus 23:24 (In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath rest
(sabbatawn), a memorial of blowing of trumpets; an holy convocation (this is also called festival Sabbath). Lev 23: 34 the feast of tabernacles is seven days
feast, verse 39 the first day is the Sabbathrest (sabbatawn) and the Eight day is the also Sabbathrest (sabbatawn). The Hebrew word Sabbatawn is
translated as Sabbathrest or Sabbath in many English versions, but the actual meaning is different from the one called as Shabbath (the weekly seventh day)
that is associated with purely Rest Remember to keep the Sabbath (Shabbath) in Exo 20:8, 11. The festival sabbatawn (Sabbath observation) is on this First
day and Eight day and can fall randomly within the week. On the Temple calendar, which began the day at sunrise; the Sabbath rest was not interchangeable
with the calendar day. Sabbaths are reckoned from evening to evening, thus overlapping two days. Moreover, the Sabbath is not necessarily synonymous with
Saturday, but with an ordained rest, and that rest day might not fall on Saturday always. Within the range of 7 days of the feast they can worship but not outside
the temple, nevertheless, the 1st day, the 7th day and eight day are designated with rest as Sabbathrest (sabbatawn) and this is not to be confused with seventh
day Sabbath of weekly cycle. The word Sabbatawn is refering to festival Sabbath observation as ritual is never used for the weekly Shabbath which is
associated with purely Rest (Shabbatwn Sabbath qodesh). Therefore, the Israelites worshiped God on some other days and not on the weekly Shabbath (Seventh
day) and that too had to be at specific places with their burnt offering as we can see in Leviticus 23:7-34: In the first day you shall have a holy convocation
(assembly) on the day after the Sabbath ,you shall do no customary work on It. 'But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The
seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.' V.11 'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf;
on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it (Passover and First Fruit). 'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the
day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed and you shall offer new meat offering to the LORD (Pentecost).
Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets,
a holy convocation(Feast of trumpet). For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy
convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it (Atonement). Also on
the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there
shall be a sabbathrest, and on the eighth day a sabbathrest (Feast of Tabernacles).
39. SABBATH in the New Testament
In the New Testament epistles there are only 2 references to Sabbath (Col.2:16; Heb.4:4), in both these passages the apostle Paul clearly explains that the
Sabbath is not a required day to be observed by Christians. The Israelites were under obligation in the old covenant but this was not the case with the Jews and
the Gentiles in the new covenant. There is no command after the death and resurrection for the Church to keep the Sabbath as an obligation to Christ, every time
the Sabbath (weekly) mentioned in the OT each time it is stated as purely a day of Rest and not a day of worship. No where in the bible gives us the refrence
that says the Sabbath was set a part for worship. The New Testament holds the records of the Jews and the converted Gentiles (proselytes) meeting in the
synagogues on the Sabbath (Mark 6:2; Luke 4:31; Luke 13:10-16; Acts 13:14,27,42-44; 15:21; 16:13; 17:2; 18:4), we shall examine them minutely. Obviously,
with no work being done on the Sabbath day, the Sabbath day would be the ideal day to have organized worship services after their exile. However, the Bible
does not portray worship on the Sabbath, does not even prescribe organized corporate worship on the Sabbath either.We will deal all the above cited verses
separately. In addition to that, the Bible no where describes Christians setting aside the Sabbath day as the day of Worship. The only Scriptures that describe
Christians in any sense meeting on the Sabbath are in fact pointing to evangelistic efforts at Jewish synagogues, which met on the Sabbath day.

40. Disciples and Paul gathered everyday not just Sunday

Acts 2:46: Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts.
Acts 5:42: And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Acts 17:17: So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to
be there
Acts 19:9: Paul withdrew from them and took away the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. This took place for two years, so that all who
lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

41. Paul and Sabbath in the NT

Paul followed his doctrine to evegelize the Jews, the non-believers Salvation came to Jews first and to Gentile in Roman 1:16. The first Sabbath mentioned
after Jesus death is Luke 23:56 they rested the Sabbath as per the commandmnt. The disciples did not understand the Spiritual meaning of their Lords
death.Thus, there is no point of arguing over their Sabbath observation here. Also they rested the Sabbath and not worshiped. Let us examine some of the above
refrences for Sabbath in NT.

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A) Acts 13:14 Paul went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day and sat down. In this verse we find Paul and some of his followers going to synagogues on the
Sabbath day and sat down. Verse 15 after reading law and prophets the rulers of the synagogues sent to them saying men and brethren if you have any word of
exhortation for the people say on. As we can see from the verses, Paul utilised the opportunity and explained what the law and prophets stand for Jesus.
Notice his word in Verse 39 And by him (Jesus) everyone who believes is justified from all things which could not be justified by the Law of Moses. The
main purpose of Paul attending the synagogue was to convince his brothers, the Jews. That meeting on Sabbath was not a believers meeting, Paul was on his
mission to evangalize his brothers, the Jews who were new to the gospel of salvation. His main motive is described in verse 39. Clearly as we can see without
doubt, it was purely Jewish meeting and not Believers. Therefore, there is no point to support the Sabbath as a day of worship or gathering for the believers
because this passage is not talking in refrence to the believers.
B) Acts 13:44 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city came together to hear the word of God. This is a continuation of the above explanation. Does this
verse uphold Sabbath worship for us? No!!..Even here it is not a Christian meeting neither it says it was disciples meeting but Jewish meeting. SDAs Pastor
preaching to Catholic Church on Sunday doesnt mean he observe Sunday but he seizes an opportunity for his own work sow as Paul. Also in verse 43 many
Jews and devout proselytes followed Barnabas and Paul and ask them to repeat the message next Sabbath and PERSUED them to CONTINUE in the grace of
God so they came again on next Sabbath. They came on the next Sabbath to preach the gospel after being persued by the newly converted believers; they did
not come to observe the Sabbath.Verses 46 it was necessary that the word Of God be frst preached to you (to Jews) but as many of them rejected him, Paul got
angry over them and said to them you areall unworthy of everlasting life. As we can see from the verses, Paul was not under any obligation to observe the
Sabbath but is seen with his effortto evangilise his brothers, the Jews. Also Synagogue was the best place for him to carry his mission and that also on the
Sabbath when his fellow Jews would meet together.
C) Acts 16:13: And on Sabbath day we went out the city to the riverside where prayer was customarily made and set down and spoke to the women who meet
there notice the women who meet there. It was the custom of Jews women to meet there (river side) because there were no proper synagogues. The word
WE used by Acts writer Dr. Luke, implies that they were three, Paul, Luke and Barnabas if you look at the the previous chapter 15:36.The fact is it was not a
Christian meeting but Jewish meeting. Read verse 14 a certain woman named Lydia (Greecian name of Jews) who was God fearing and her occupation as
selling purple indicate that she was a Jews and the clothes were for mostly Levites and priests that were usually wore in temple. Also verse 14 says she began to
believe the Lord after being preached by Paul and was Baptized soo after. This makes a clear cut conclusion that it was a Jewish meeting and not a Christian
meeting. Only after Paul preached to them they were now believers of Christ. So this passage does not even support the Sabbath as a day to congregate.
D) Acts 17:2: Paul, as his custom was, went in to them and for three Sabbaths REASONED with them from the scripture, The verse says, Paul did not want to
lose the opportunity to preach and evangilize whenever he met his fellow Jews. The main purpose was to reason with them since Paul was a well learned man
and with regards to Law as he himself testified, he was the Pharisees of Pharisees (Phil 3:50). Particularly as it was his custom to keep the law before his
conversion, Paul never ignored the chance to articulate why the Law was of no significance for the believers.The truth is Paul and apostles were free men under
Christ, bound not under any bondage or Jewish law because Paul himself said to law keeper I became law keeper, to the weak I became weak,to the strong
become strongin 1Corthn 9:19-20. To summarize Acts 17:2 was not a Christian meeting but Jewish meeting as the Verse 1 explainswhere there was
synagogueof the Jews.
E) Acts 18: 4And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and Pursued both Greek and Jews Its clearly not a believers meeting as he was mainly there
to reason with them and pursued both Greek and Jews. The verse doesnt say anything about Christian meeting but Jews and the Greek who met. Now why
GREEK? Many of the Greeks living near to Jewish territory were absorbed by Jewish culture and religion and assimilated the Jewish belief. Also, not all the
Jews believed in their God for eg. Sadducees were little more like Greek philosophers; we find them reasoning with Jesus about many irrelevant topics who
will marry the divorced wife in heaven, question about wealth in heaven etc. We can even see the influence of Greek culture on Jews in Acts 6:1 (in those
days, when the numbers of disciples was multiplying there arose a complaint as Hebrew by Hellenist). This Hellenists were Jews whose cultures were purely
Greecian in all aspect. The following verse 6 of Acts 18 of the same chapter says the Jews opposed him so Paul got angry saying your blood be upon your
own head, I will go to the Gentiles. Paul initially favoured his brothers (Jews) but to his surprise, the Jews always rejected and angered him. This is the last
verse that talks about Sabbath but does not describe it as a meeting of disciples and believers. There is no foundation whatsoever to support our view for
Sabbath as a day of worship because even the NT apostles did not regard it as mandatory for believers. This is because what the Sabbath had pointed toward is
the true eternal rest that the believers are to receive from the Messiah. What the disciples kept in the NT was the fulfilment of what the ceremonial Sabbath had
pre-figured, that is, faith in Christ according to Hebrew 11:1 (faith is the real substance) .
F) Gal 1:14: I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my nation, and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
Paul is expressing his attitude and intrest for Law before his Conversion. None of his contemporaries could possibly compete with him in terms of Law keeping
but what he thought about his status as a law keeper was a waste for Christ if we continue reading.

42. In New Testament the Law of Moses is not binding to Gentile (First Apostolic council)
In the book of Acts 15 we can see how Satan infiltrated the church through Pharisees by the Law of Moses. Acts 15:5 some of the sect of Pharisees who
believed rose up, saying it is necessary to circumcise them and command them to keep the Law of Moses. This chapter shows the first Apostolic Council
meeting in Jerusalem. If you read all the verses very carefully, you can see even the disciples themselves did not keep the Mosaic Law 100% efficiently; verse
10 why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of disciples which neither our fathers nor we are able to keep? Verse 24 the Law of Moses is called the
Law. This will question us-were they allowed to steal, covet or tell alie because the Law of Moses was not binding to them? No!!. The newly Gentile
Christians must have understood the meaning of the Law of Moses which is undoubtedly the ceremonial observance of Jewish feasts and temple rites. The

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distinction made by the early Church fathers which are not binding here is clearly the law which are concerned with all the outward ritual rites (temple rites,
feasts etc) including the Sabbath that required burnt offering of two lambs on every Sabbath (Levitical law in Lev 28:9) and bread to be eaten by Aaron or
priests on every Sabbath (Num 28:9-10).These verses itself justify the fact that ceremonial observance of Mosaic Law including the Sabbath is not binding to
Christian in the first place since they are not a moral law. There is not one verse from the entire scripture that says Gentile should follow the Law of Moses and
observe the ritual and ceremonial practices of Jews. We do not find in any portion of NT that the disciples and Jesus ever participated in temple rituals which
were apart of Mosaic Law, nor did they ever follow all the prescribed Law of Moses. It will be baseless to say Mosaic Law is still binding to all believers where
Acts reports in contrast to what the Sabbatarians argue. The desciples must have kept all the necessary law of Moses that are called the moral law and not the
feasts or ritual law because we never find Jesus and desciples in the temple particularly for offering; burnt offering, drink offering, meat offering and other
temple rites. We do find them for instance going up for the feasts to fulfill the symbolic meaning that pointed toward the true substance which is Christ, like the
feast of Tabernacles where Jesus declared himself as the true living water; even Passover not as a Jewish feast of eating the Pascal lamb but they ate the newly
instituted Supper that substitute the Jewish Passover. We do not find Jesus and his disciples celebrating Jewish feast like the First Fruit, feast of Trumpet, Booth
and Atonement that were very much elements of Mosaic Law. All these feasts have a symbolic value and the true substance that cast the shadow has now come
thus, the outward ritual observation is no more needed.The First amendments was Acts 15: 20 to Abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual
immorality, from things strangled and from blood; these were the points that they should keep while mixing with the Jews, but to our amazement, Paul
explains to Timothy and Roman Christian that there is no harm consuming food dedicated to idols and even the food which are defiled. All these are dealt
separately in the later part of the book. Unlike the Moral law which were given to all mankind that is still binding, the Law of Moses which is related to Jewish
law particularly the ceremonial that includes Sabbath are not binding to all. Had Jesus left the Ten Commands or the Sabbath in effect, He would have left a
barrier between Jews and Gentiles. To accomplish His purpose, He had to remove the Sabbath and the Ten Commands because Sabbath was given as a sign
between Him and Israelites alone: a) Exo 31:12-13 it is a sign between Israel and God, b) Ezekl 28:1-20 its a sign between Israel and God. c) Exo 31:13-15
Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbathd) Exo 31:17'It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever. If Sabbath was a moral law
and binding to all mankind, we would see the pre-Mosaic Gods people keeping it but it never happened because it was not necessary. But the only thing that is
bound to all mankind is the moral law that comes down right from the generation of Adam which were later given to the Israelites explicitly apart from their
dietry law and ceremonial law.
43. First day of the Week and its Importance
There are no other day mentioned except the Sabbath and First day of the week. There is no verse that says Sabbath is changed from Saturday to Sunday. Jesus
on his mission never advocated the changing of Sabbath to Sunday. The issue of Sunday worship that emerged into the modern Christian world today can be
answered by the bible itself. First we need to notice that Jesus himself passed down his authorities to the Disciples. Many Sabbatarians groups trace the event of
changing the Sabbath to Sunday by Constantine in 321 A.D. and the council of Laodicea held in 364 A.D. This is something that seriously calls for authentic
explanation. On the contrary to what Sabbatarians presume, in the 4th century, Sunday was declared to be the day of rest and worship. This does not mean
Constantine changed the Sabbath day to Sunday; the Sabbath is still Saturday if Sunday of today is the same Sunday without alteration from First Century.
Sunday worship is not absent in the bible. Besidesthe Sabbath, another day mentioned specifically is First Day of the week more than six times in the bible.
Sunday worship was not a problem until 1880s when Ellen G.White who claimed herself inspired by God, visited by Gabriel, made many lies in her prophecies,
but finally, all her writings turn out to be a hoax. It is because of her that Jesus is made lower than God and Jesus becomes the angel Michael according to SDA
teaching. In 1980 Walter Rea proved and published that 80-90% of her inspired writings and visions were plagiarised or copied from James White who
actually copied them from J N Andrews. The remnant of this false doctrine from the Seventh day Adventists are Church Of God, Assembly of Yahweh, Jehovah
witness etc. Some Sabbatarians claim that Christians day of worship on Sunday is worshiping sun for the term Sunday contains sun in it; then we must
conclude that the Sabbatarians worship the Roman god Saturn because the word Saturday contains Saturn in it. It is also the sixth planets; it has six alphabets SA-T-U-R-N. It has Roman number 6 assigned to it. Therefore Saturn-Saturday is 666 if we apply the trick of Seventh Day. The fact is the Roman never
worshiped Mithras on Sunday; they never had a seven weekly cycle. All they had was 8 days in a week called Nundinals cycle. On the eight day, slaves were
given freedom to worship or visit their home. Also Constantine, after his conversion, made a big compromise by blending the Idea of Seven day cycle of the
Jewish method into the Roman eight days (enforced by Julius Caesar before Christ). Saturday was the first day of Roman eight day Nundinal cycle. We cannot
claim that Saturday of today calendar is the Saturday of Jewish calendar of that time. Roman has 365 days in a year and Jewish calendar on the other hand had
360 days (which is Biblical calendar) and 354 days called as lunar calendar. Jew Scribes have to add another one month after every 3 or 4 years to catch up the
solar year, also after 19 years to keep the calendar intact. Historians and scholars will tell us the actual evidence. This calendar system, if to be discussed, might
cover many more paper. There are no documentsof Roman worshiping their god on Sunday or any other day; they have festivals dedicated to their gods thats
all. Christians never have in mind that today Sunday is exact day of Christ resurrection, we only set up one day to honour him. The best example is birth day;
birth day doesnt come on the same day every year but in random and will fall on any day
44. First Day of the Week and its importance in the NT
A) Acts 1:3: to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs being seen by them during forty days This is pivotal
because within 40 days he did not show up in any day other than Sunday. This is an important fact about the importance of Sunday, the day of his resurrection.
John 20:19 The same day after his resurrection evening being the first day of the week, Jesus stood in their midst saying PEACE BE WITH YOU the next
verse says he gave them greatest commision on that same day and breath to them His Holy Spirit (the Spirit which God took away from man after the sin of
Adam). Thomas was doubtful about Christs resurrection since he missed the first meeting after resurrection. Jesus opted to meet Thomas on the next Sunday

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(after one week of his resurrection) purposefully and thoughtfully to honour his resurrection day. He wanted Thomas not to miss the meeting on Sunday with
other disciples as we can see from John 20:26And after eight days, the disciples were again within, and Thomas with them: and Jesus came, while the doors
were closed, stood in the midst, and said to them: PEACE BE WITH YOU. Eight days later means the same Sunday, counting the previous Sunday as the first
day. One question can arise, how come the disciples gathered two Sunday evening consecutively? It is because Christ could have told them about the schedule.
Thus, in the second time, they were not surprised to see Jesus unlike in the first meeting when he appreared to them (Do not forget in the previous meeting the
disciples were astounded when the Lord appeared to them). Jesus said Peace be with You (Shalom if in Hebrew) thrice on Sunday and not on Sabbath
(Saturday). Jesus poured his blessings on Sunday, so we must admit Sunday as safe or rather more special day than any other day for us.
B). Acts 20:7: On the first day of the week when the DISCIPLES came together to BREAK BREAD.......Paul, ready to depart the next day. The word together
here is sunegmenon meaning formal religious meeting inclusively, this word is used in many places; Acts 12:12 where many were gathered and prayed,
again 1Cornth 5:4 In the name of Christ you are to gather together. Again in Acts 14:27 when they came together in church; also in Acts 4:31when they
prayed in the place where they assemble together, Matt 18:20 (when two or three gather-sunegmenon) and many more. The term sunegmenon is always used
for religious gathering. In Acts 2:42 They continue tofollow the apostolic doctrine and fellowship (Koinonia) and in breaking bread and prayer.
Break Bread: The term break bread is klasei from the verb Klao and refers to communion service (Lords Supper) and is used everywhere for holy Eucharist
Acts 2:42: The believers continued to devote themselves to what the apostles were teaching, to fellowship (koinonia), to the breaking (klasei) of bread, and to
times of prayer
Acts 2:46: And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread (klonte) from house to house, did eat their meat (trophes) with
gladness and singleness of heart
1Cornth 10:16 the bread which we break is it not the communion (koinonia) of the body of Christ? This verb is always used for Lords Supper, Jesus break
(klonte) the bread in Luke 24:30, 1 Corth 11:24, Paul broke the bread (klonte), the same is used in Mark 14:22, Matt 26:26 all talking about cummonion servive.
In 1 Corth 11:17-25 Paul discuss about the conduct at Lords Supper. He used break bread for communion service and called it Lords Supper (vs 24 he bread
bread and say this is my body).
Also this Acts 20:7 cannot be Jewish celebration of festival because Day of Unleavened bread was already over. Some even try to incorporate Saturday theory
that this meeting could be Saturday evening but the verse itself contradicts with the word NEXT day Paul was supposed to depart. Had it been Saturday
evening, next day will be our Monday not Sunday because the Saturday night to Sunday night was one day (acc. Jewish calendar) if it was Saturday evening.
The truth is, it was duration of one night service that was Sunday. Also, first day of the week is always our Sunday all throughout the bible; we can see this from
John 20:26 then the same day at evening being the first day of the week. The author of John is directly relating the appearance of Jesus on the same day of his
resurrection; however he still calls it the First day. First day of the week in the bible is no other day than our Sunday which is the first day for the Jews too. We
can also see the first day of the week as Sunday and not our Saturday evening because Mark 15:9 confirms us the appearance of the Lord to Magdalene was
Early the first day which was already late morning according to John20:11-13 but if first Day means Saturday night was Jesus resurrected on the Sabbath
morning? NO.
C) 1 Cornth 16:2 Regarding collection for saints as I have given an ORDER to the church of Galatia, so you must do also. On the first day of every the week
(katamian sabbatou) let each of you lay something aside STORING UP as he prosper that there may be NO COLLECTION when I came,. And as the word
katapolin signifies every city, and katamena, every month; and in Acts 14:23 kataekklesian, in every church, so katamian sabbatou in 1Corthn 16:2 signifies
first day of every week. We can see that it was an Order which was to be carried out compulsorily.And the fact that there shall be No Collection when I
came means it was their custom to lay aside on their gathering like Sabbatarians gather on Saturday to collect their offerings. He already gave an Order even to
Galatia; it was the custom of Galatian Church that Paul enforced to Corinthian church as well. This is the first collection mentioned in the NT which Paul quotes
from the store house in Micah 3:10 Bring your offering and tithe into the Store house that there may be meat in my house. It was a common, formal
religious gathering and collection.
D) Acts 20:16 Paul wishes to be there in Jerusalem on Pentecost being the first day he valued it. Some say he was eager to celebrate the Pentecost as he was
Jew, but the bible clearly mentions in verse 10, the importance of first day again through Pentecost because inthe first Pentecost he did not witness the Birth of
the Church as he was not converted yet. After resurrection, the only important events narrated was Sunday and neverthe Sabbath. On the Pentecost, Peter listed
the nations who were the pioneers of early Church. More than 3000 believed the Lord and many were baptized on the day of Pentecost and that day was never
Sabbath but Sunday. The Psalmist talks about one particularly Day with great importance than any other day which emphasize the immensity of Sunday; this is
the Day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. O LORD, Hosanna!!Blessed is the onewho comes in the name of theLORD! We have blessed
you from the house of the LORD (Psalm 118:24) that is reflected by Luke 19:38 and Matthew 21:9 (Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest) when the Messiah rode into Jerusalem on the foel of donkey amplifies by Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of
Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a
donkey (Zechariah 9:9). As this fulfilment occured on Sunday (Palm Sunday), the Lords Day, this Day is of immense importance. Palm Sunday brought in
the fulfilment of what the prophets had foretold. Sunday is what the LORD has made for us to dedicate, let us rejoice for our LORD is the KING.
14) Sabbath and what it exactly pre-figured: Sabbath was the memorial of Gods creation given to the Israel; Sunday is the memorial of Gods wonderful
redemption to all mankind. Sabbath is the memorial for deliverance of Israelites from slavery but Sunday is the memorial of Christ deliverance from eternal sin
and death. We honour our LORD JESUS CHRIST on any day with remembrance of his resurrection, the central theme of salvation not only on Easter Sunday
but on every Sunday. Christians did not change the Sabbath to Sunday but what we are celebrating is something prefigured by the Sabbath; the eternal rest in

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Christ. If Sabbath is to be observed as an old Covenant, we cannot worship on this day because it was made for a day of Rest and not day of worship. However,
if we can remember that Sabbath along with other feasts were a Ceremonial law that pointed forward for Christ, then we are not guilty of observing it because
Christ, the true substance has come and replaced every ceremonial aspects of the Law. Sabbath breaking is not counted as sin because it is not a moral law. Levi
23:1-5 clearly states that Sabbath is a Feast along with other monthly feasts which are undoubtedly the ceremonial law that God instituted for the children of
Israel. Just as Sabbath symbolised Gods complete creation of the six days, so also the redemptive work of Christ was exactly completed on the Sixth day by
saying IT IS FINISHED(John 19:20) and left nothing to be done. Sabbath symbolised what Christ would do in his redemptive plan and now everything is
fulfilled and as such we can rest not only in Saturday or Sunday but everyday on him who gives us eternal rest.
15) The Lords Day in Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day. John wrote his revelation to the seven churchesin Asia Minor who were Greek
speaking. He didnt need to explain the meaning of Lords Day to his audience as they knewwhat the Lords Day meant.He spoke of The Lords Day as an
already established Day which was Sunday in the later part of apostolic ages. Some say it was refering to Sabbath, but not to be surprised, the writers of NT
always put Sabbath as Greek Sabbaton and never as Lords Day. The word Lords Day is KUriake hamera which was undoubtedly Sunday, given in Latin
vulgate, translated in 1st century by Jerome as Dominicus Dies. This day is no other day than our Sunday. The same Lords Supper is KUriake Diphon occurs
in 1Cornth 11:20. Lords Body in 1 Corth 11:29, the Lord table is used in 1 Corth 10:21, the Lords Supper in 1 Corth 11:2, the Lords blood in 1 Corth
11:27, the Lords disciple in Acts 9:1. So, Kuriake is denoted for Christ, and Hamera is denoted for day, that together makes a compound word Lords Day
which is Sunday not Sabbath. Some irrational people thought this day as an Emperor Caesars Day. The bible gives no room for such assumption; there is no
Lord except Lord and God Jesus Christ, Rev 1:8 and 13 confirms to us the Lord is the name assigned for the Son of Man.The Lord is who John used in Rev
1:10. Do not be confused with the Lords Day and Day of the Lord. The Lords Day is the day that Jesus rose from death but the Day of the Lord is used as a
literal term; it could be thousand years or a period of time or could be even one day. The bible says the day of the Lord will come like a thief; hence the Day of
the Lord is a time period not to be misinterpreted as Lords Day which is entirely different. The Lords Day is already an established day but the day of the Lord
is something we are expecting in future.
45. On Which Day Christians must meet?
The New Testament principle is given in Heb.10:24-25: "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling
of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." Here, Paul is explaining
how one who does not want to assemble with the rest of the believers during a service certainly reveals a spiritual anemia. Also he said Day (Hamera)
approaching not Sabbath approaching. Regarding worship, the Bible gives no restriction to any day, some churches meet on Saturday and Sunday, some on
Sunday only. The core of NT messages of worship is not restricted to any specific day. According to me, the best day to assemble is on Sunday because the
early churches used to meet on Sunday, their collection was done on Sunday. We honour the resurrection day of Christ. Not to forget that early Churches were
at home initially and not at the temple, Christians met in houses for assembling (Philemon 2, Romans 16:5, and Col 4:15).The reason why they gathered at
homes is, before Christianity was accepted as national religion of the Roman world, Christians were under fear and as such gathering in some public place
would be dreadful.
Colosian 2:14-16 Having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way,
having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through
Him.Therefore let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day- things which are a mere
shadow of what is to come; but the reality is found in Christ. This passage tells us how Paul comforted the Colossians believers who were criticized by their
Jews counterpart about their negligence of Jewish festivals and customs. Paul however granted them that everything is found in Christ as Christ has completely
fulfilled all the ceremonial aspect of Law, be it their offering and ceremonial feasts including the Sabbath. Whatever the Jews celebrated be it their festivals,
new moon oreven Sabbath was what it stood for Christ and everything is now completed in Him.In the New Covenant, specific day in a week doesnt matter to
God. Paul preached every day in Acts 17:7, Acts 19:9.
Similarly, Romans 14:5,6 states, One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully
convinced in his own mind. 6. He who observes the day, observe it to the Lord. Some Sabbatarians believed that Paul was talking about Jews Holiday. Rather
he is arguing that we can worship in any day. Notice the word everyday alike, this can be Mon, Wed, and Sunday. All we have to do is we have to do everything
to the Lord every day or any day. The observance of any specific day is not against the bible if it is for the glory of the Lord.
46. Even the Animals need Rest and Sabbath was a sign that God will restore back all creations like Garden of Eden condition.
When Sabbath was ordained in the OT, even their cattles and animals were given restand kept within their gates. That was a sign that God will restore back the
creation like before, Edenic condition with thousand year reign of Christ.The bible tells us that even the animals have to suffer because of Mans sin. Roman
8:19-22: for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of sons of God.20for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but
because of Him who subjected it in hope. 21 because the creation itself also will be deliver from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God. 22 for we know that the whole creation groan and labour with birth pangs together until now. The purpose of Gods commanding the
Israelites to give rest to their cattles in Exo is an anticipation of the fulfilment when the Son of Man reigns with us. Paul states that all the creations including
the animals will be delivered from bondage of corruption. Everything will be restored back to Garden of Eden conditions where the Lion will lay with the lamb,
the wolf with the Sheep in the future reign of Christ. Till then, the animals have to suffer for our sakes and this is also subjected by God himself for new hope of
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47. Jeremiahs proof of the abolition of Sabbath and the Ten Commandments
Jeremiah 3:14-17: Return, O faithless sons,' declares the LORD; 'For I am a master to you, And I will take you one from a city and two from a family, And I
will bring you to Zion.' "Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding."It shall be in Those Days when
you are multiplied and increased in the land," declares the Lord, "they will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' And it will not come to mind,
nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be Made again. At that time they will call Jerusalem 'The Throne of the LORD and all the nations
will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord, nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.This verse is a Messianic
prophecy fulfilled by Jesus. "The Throne of the LORD" was fulfilled in Acts 2:30-36 God would raise up Christ to sit in Davids throne....Also Isa 2:2-4
says"all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem" which was fulfilled in Acts 2:5 (and they were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews and devout men from all
nations). The prophecy of Jerusalem being the throne that was already fulfilled by Jesus is also credited by the Apostles where the good news was being
preached to all nations in Luke 24:46-47 "and Jesus said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,
and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. Similar emphasis is given in Acts
1:8 Jesus said you shall be witness for me in Jerusalem. Therefore, the throne of God is a symbolic refrence for the good news of redemption that was spread
from Jerusalem. In the thousand reign of Christ the believers shall reign with Him where the real throne of God shall be is heavenly Jerusalem. As for the Ark
of the Covenant, it contained the Ten Commandments: 1 Kings 8:21. And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the LORD, which he
made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. Hebrew 9: 4: the ark of the covenant overlaid on all side, with gold.and the Tablets
of the covenant. We see here the ark contains the covenant which the LORD made with them at Sinai. If the house of the covenant was forgotten, then the
covenant itself was forgotten including the Sabbath. Notice what Jeremiah said: they will no longer say 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' And it will not
come to mind, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be Made again. If the Israelites will say no more about the ark and if it will not come
to their mind, nor will they remember and nor it will be made again this means God is planning to give them that superceed the covenant of Sinai, a better
covenant. Ezekiel 37:26-27: moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will set my sanctray
in their midst. Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you..i will put my Spirit within you and cause yo to walk in my statues and
you will keep my judgement and and do them. This is a promised made by God to Israelites about their future relationship with Him. It is preety clear that
Israelites hearing this message would be intrigued to enter into this type of relation. In the OT the Gods Spirit dwelling in mans heart was soverign choice, it
comes and goes but not abiding in continuously, like in the case of Samson, Sal, David, etc. But God promised that a day will come when He himself will dwell
in their midst and His Spirit will abibe in ones man heart permenantly. All this things will take place only after God sprinkle clean water and removed all
filthiness in vs 25. This is a fulfillment of God everlasting covenant with the blood of Christ. When one is cleanse by the blood of Jesus and be saved, Gods
Spirit will abide on him which is really the teaching of the NT. 1 Cor 3:16: we are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in us. Aparaently, Jeremiah
is fulfilled in the church age when God began living with the believers by his Spirit.

48. So if the Ten Commandments were abolished does this mean Christians are Free to Steal?
The answer is NO because the 1st and 2nd commandment- which prohibit the worship of other Gods (50 times) and idols are repeated (12 times) Acts 15:29,
17:16: Rom.1:25; 1 Cor.6:9-10, 10:14: 1 Jn.5:21: Rev.21:8, 22:15. The 3rd commandment is repeated 4 times in James 5:12 and some other verses circuitously
quoting the Ten Commandment. The 5th commandment- is repeated 6 timesin Eph.6:1-3 and Rom.13:1-7 and some other places without quoting from TEN.
The 6th commandment- of forbidding murder in the New Testament (4 times) in Rom.13:9; Mt.19:18 and the true intent are explained in Mt.5:21-22. The 7th
commandment- prohibiting adultery and any sexual sin is also found (12 times) in Acts.15:20; Rom.2:22, 13:13: Eph.5:3,11-12 etc. The 8th commandmentforbids one to be dishonest, stealing, is found in the New Testament (6 times) Rom. 2:21 Eph. 4:28: 1Thess.4:6. The 9th commandment- condemning a false
witness, is found in the New Testament (4 times) Lk.3:14 and 1 Tim.1:9-10. The 10th commandment- tells us not to covetis repeated (9 times) in Mk.7:21-23;
Rom.1:29, 13:9 1 Cor.5:11; 6:10; Eph.5:3. Now there is not even one verse from entire NT repeating the 4th commandment which is the Sabbath.
Where is Sabbath breaking condemned? All the nine are repeated not necessarily quoting the Ten Commandments but with much higher legal demand. The
Ten Commandments do not condemn homosexuality, drunkardness, love of money etc which are added for us when Jesus and the apostles instituted the new
covenant.

49. Sins committed by ungodly Gentiles in the NT

It is interesting that almost all moral Law in the OT are restated over and over again but we find not one verse that promotes Sabbath observation for the NT
Chucrh. Gentiles were never accused of Sabbath breaking in any verse. In Roman 1:18-32, he listed sins which the wrath of God falls upon the ungodly and
unrighteousness. He was addressing and warning the Gentile pagan for their evil practices: 19-27 he talks about idolatry, God by his providence declare his
manifestation from which pagan intentionally reject instead distort the truth by worshiping the created animals and beast than the creators which individual with
intelligent ought to know. Vs 27-28 lists about immorality practice of their culture by way of their idolatry. 29 all unrighteouness, sexual immorality,
wickedness, coveteousness, maliciousness, full of envy, strife, murder, deceit, evil mindedness, they are whispherers. Backbiters, hater of God, violaent proud,
boaster, inventor of evils,, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful: those whp practice deserve to die even those
to approve to practice. Here Paul has huge list of gentiles sins that are committed by them. It all appears to be the moral law binding upon all man. What Paul
never list is Sabbath breaking by Gentiles as Sins because it is not moral binding upon all nation otherwise Paul could have listed it.
When Paul wrote a letter to Timothy, he warned of future deception and ungodly person and sins in the last day.
2 Timothy 3:2-6: People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God-- having a
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form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible
women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires. Paul does not list future breaking of Sabbath as Sins otherwise he would
have listed it if it is the most important.
Roman 13:8-10: Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whosoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The
commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not covet," and whatever other command there may
be, are summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
In Mark 7:21-24, Jesus listed sins which defiles man: He did not list Sabbath as defiling man: Jesus listed sins including an adulteries, fornication, murders,
prides, lewdness, an evil eyes, wickedness, deceit, foolishness, theft, blashphemy, licentiousness, etc.
In Matt 5:17-48 Jesus explains and expand all the nine Commandments with greater moral application, skipping the fourth one that contains Sabbath keeping.
This is because it is not a morally sanctioned norm.

50. Sins that do not lead us to Heaven and the Law of the Spirit
Paul listed the desire of the flesh that separate man from God. Gal 5:13-21: You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom
to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself.
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit what is contrary to
the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the
works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of
rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in
time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. The fruit of the Spirit: vs 22-25; But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified
the flesh with its passions and desires.

51. JESUS Greatest Commandments are not from the Ten Commandments
Mark 12:30: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with al lyour mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You
shall love your neighbor as yourself. Paul lists the commandments in fulfilment of Jesuss word of Matt 19:17-19 in Romans 13:10 For the commandments
you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false withness, andif there be any other commandments it is summed
up, namely, love your neighbour as yourself. Vs 10 Love is the fulfillment of the law. The point is, if some other commandments are left like the Sabbath
observation, it is fulfilled by loving our neighbour as ourself. Love is most important. This commandment is so important that Jesus himself restated again
which becomes the core of the NT teaching of the apostles.
Matthew 7:12: So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. John 13:34: "A new command
I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. Romans 13:8: Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt
to love one another, for whoever love others has fulfilled the law. Galatians 5:14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your
neighbor as yourself. James 2:8: If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right.1 John 3:10: This is
how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who
does not love their brother and sister.

52. Why did Jesus Die? Was that because man did not keep the Ten Commandments and Moses Law?
The answer is NO...because we are all declared sinner even inside our mother wombs. Psalm 51:5 Behold I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my
mother conceived me

53. Jesus died because of our inherited sin and for all other sins through Adam:
Roman 5:15-16: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam,
who was a type of Him to come which means even those who followed Moses law are declared sinners. 16 But the free gift is not like the offense for if by
ones man(Adam) offense many died, much more grace of God and the gift of one man Jesus Christ abounded to many. Read Roman 5:17 For if by ones man
offense death reigned through that one, much more those who receive abundance of Grace and the gift of righteousness will reign through the One Jesus
Christ
Roman 5:19 For by one man Disobedience many were made sinner, so also by one mans obedience many will be made righteous.
Roman 3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Roman 5:12 Therefore just as sin enter through one man (Adam) and death through sin and in this way death came to all man because all have sinned Death
was declared to all creatures because of man in I Corth 15:21. The same is said in 1Corth 15:22 For as in Adam all die even so also in Christ all shall be made
alive.Jesus died for the reason that God already declared all mankind sinner through one blood in Adam, The law and Commandments were given by God to
Jews to remind of their sin that no one should be justified before the cross by deeds of the Law and therefore need someone on their behalf. Finally in the NT,
sin includes Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin James 4:17.

54. The Law of Moses not binding for Christians

There are certain people who always love to be associated with Jewish law and customs, but does the bible command the Christians to observe all the Mosaic
Law and traditions? There are no verses not even one in the NT that says the Mosaic Law applies to Christians. The authors of NT make a distinct separation of

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Moses Law by Greek word NOMOS and the Law of Christ very separate. The word Nomos also stands for entire OT writing, also refer as ha-Torah in
Hebrew. Whenever Jesus and Paul quoted OT the word is Nomos is used for Mosaic Law. There are 613 Laws given to them by God but all the law are not
applicable to everyone. For instance, there are prescribed laws and rules for priests, Levi, King and his Subject. There are also separate laws for the common
people. All this are summarized as the Ten Commandment which were applicable to all of them. The Jews called this Sinai Covenant. The only commandment
not repeated in the NT is the Fourth commandment, the Sabbath observance. Sabbatarians are slow to understand why Sabbath is not repeated.

55. The Law of Moses is called as The Law and the Law of the LORD or the book of the Law
The Sabbatarians distinguish the Law of Moses from the Law of the LORD. Their claim is that the Law abolished in the NT is only the Law of Moses. They
insist that the law of the LORD which was given by God cannot be abolished and hence this will enormously protect their claim for the Sabbath. But the
scripture maintains that Law of Moses is the Law of God: It is also called the Law
In Nehemiah 8:14 They found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in temporary shelters during
the festival of the seventh month. 18. Day after day, from the first day to the last, Ezra read from the Book of the Law of God. They celebrated the festival for
seven days, and on the eighth day, in accordance with the regulation, there was an assembly.
Ezra 7:6: this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which LORD God of Israel gave verse 10 For Ezra had devoted
himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws in Israel.
In Neh 8:1 all the people came together as one in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the teacher of the Law to bring out the Book of the Law of
Moses, which the LORD had commanded for Israel.
In Nehemiah 10:36. and bring to the house of our God the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks as it is written
in the law, for the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.
John 1:17 For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. John 7:19 "Did not Moses give you the Law, and yet
none of you carries out the Law? Why do you seek to kill Me? Thefore, the term Law of Moses is undoubtedly called the Law and the Law of the LORD.
Acts 15:5-24 the Law of Moses in vs 19 and in vs 22 the Law is used. In Acts 21:20, 24 the Law is called the Law of Moses, in Hebrew 7:11 levitical priest for
under it the priest received the Law, Gal 3:17 the Law which come 430 years cannot annul, Hebrew 8:4 the priest offer the gift according to the Law, Roman
9:4 the giving of the Law to Israelites, in John 7:19: Moses gave the law and Vs23 used the law of Moses.
Moses gave the Law of God according to Neh 10:29all these now join their fellow Israelites the nobles, and bind themselves with a curse and an oath to
follow the Law of God given through Moses the servant of God and to obey carefully all the commands, regulations and decrees of the LORD, our Lord.
I King 2:3 and observe what the LORD your God requires: Walk in obedience to him, and keep his decrees and commands, his laws and regulations, as
written in the Law of Moses. Do this so that you may prosper in all you do and wherever you go.
2 Chron 34:14. While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the temple of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the
LORD that had been given through Moses
Deut 30:10 obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law.
Lev 27:34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai (Read it from verse 1-34 we can see that the
Commandmentsrefer here are not the Ten Commandments yet a part of Law and are called the Law of the LORD).
Joshua 22:5 But take careful heed to do the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you.
In 2 Chron 35:26 now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the LORD
Malachi 4:4 says, "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Therefore, we can see that the Law of Moses is the Law of God.

56. Jewish feasts are also called the Law of the LORD:
In 2 Chron 31:3 The king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the
New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the LORD. Appointed feasts are all the Jewish Feasts (Levi 23:1-44, Neh 10:33, Isaiah 1:1314, I Chronicle 23:31).
Nehemiah 8:14: They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the sons of Israel should live in booths during the feast of the
seventh month.
2 Chronicle 8:13 he offered burnt offering according to the Law of Moses for each holidays: Sabbath, New moons festivals and three annual feasts- Feast of
unleavened Bread, the Harvest festival and the Feast of Harvest.
Psalm 81:4-5. Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. 4For it is a statute for Isarel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Thus, the Law of Moses is the Law of the LORD that includes the feasts.
Law of the LORD contain gift to the priests: 2 Chronicle 31:4 Moreover he commanded the people that dwelled in Jerusalem to give the portion of the
priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the LORD.
Ezekial 44:30:the best of all the firstfruits and of all your special gifts will belong to the priests. You are to give them the first portion of your ground meal so
that a blessing may rest on your household
The Law of the LORD contains burnt offerings: 1 Chron 16:40 present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering regularly, morning and
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Number 29:39 'In addition to what you vow and your freewill offerings, offer these to the LORD at your appointed festivals: your burnt offerings, grain
offerings, drink offerings and fellowship offerings.
Law of God includes animal sacrifice: Luke 2:23-24 As it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the
Lord; 24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons according to the law of the
Lord".
To conclude, the Law of Moses is the Law of God, given by Him through Moses because there is one Law Giver:
Only God is the Law giver:
There is one law giver, who is able to save and to destroy" (James 4:12). "For LORD is our judge, the LORD is our law giver, the LORD is our king; he will
save us" (Isa. 33:22). Moses did not give any law; he was only the receiver. Therefore the Law of Moses is the Law of the LORD.
The Law includes everything
Book of Numbers is called The Law: Mt 12:5 Or have you not read in the law, how that on the Sabbath days the priest in the temple profanes the Sabbath
and is blameless
Psalms is also called The Law: Rom 3:10-12 As it is written verse 10There is no one righteous, not even one; 11.there is no one who understands; there is
no one who seeks God.12.All have turned away,they have together become worthless;there is no one who does good, not even one.Paul is referring back to
Paslm 14:1-3.
The Prophets writing is also called The Law:1 Cor 14:21In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and
yet for all that will they not hear me, says the Lord.
The Law of the LORD contain new moon, solemn feasts in Psalm 81:3-4.
Moses gave the 10 commandments: Jesus words in Mark 7:9 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'" means Law which was given by Moses
includes the Ten Commandments.
Galatians 3:10 for as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, cursed is every one who does not abide by all things written in
the book of the law, to perform them . Since the bible says that anyone who abides in law yet cannot abides with all things written in the book of Law are under
curse, then Sabbatarians who claim to honour God by following some fraction of law and disregards other are under curse. James 2:10 says those who follow
one Law yet strumble with one, He is guilty of breaking of the whole Law.

The Law includes Ten Commandments

The word ordinance or Decree or Statutes is Mispatim. KJV used Judgement for the same word. In Roman 7:6-7 For I would have not known sin unless the
Law say You shall not covet. Paul clearly places what the law includes, you shall not covet which is apart of Ten Commandments. So the Ten
Commandments are also apart of the Law

57. None of the Law, Psalms and Prophets did fail; all were 100% fulfilled by Jesus for us and he gave us Grace in
return
Many modern Sabbath keepers adher to few verses in the bible to make their claim. Matthew 5:17-18 "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill (plerosai) For 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 (ginomai). The word destroy is kataluo means to invalidate, or make defunct. They take the half part of Jesus word and ignore
the rest of his sentence. They will point and say see Jesus said that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophet but they left out the rest of the sentence which
states until is FULFILL.. The word fulfill never means perpetuate or or in the state of continue. None of the Law did fail but all were 100% fulfilled by Jesus.
Nothing did fail, Jesus fulfilled them. The word for fulfilled is plerosai-to fill or to fulfill with no future significance or to complete or accomplished. This
word is used for prophecy fulfilled by Jesus elsewhere. Matt 1:22 (that it may be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the Prophet Behold a virgin
shall have a child and his name shall be called Immanuel), Matt 2:23: that it may be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets he shall be called Nazarene), it
is also used in Matt 2:15, 2:17 etc etc). This word is used for fulfillment of prophecy, if the Sabbath keepers believed that Jesus fulfilled the the OT they must
agree that he fulfill all not leaving the Sabbath. Another word used here is Ginomai-properly, to emerge, become, transitioning from one point (realm,
condition) to another in fulfilling. When Jesus began his ministry, right from his birth he began fulfilling all the OT Law Prophets and Psalms concerning one
by one. That is why he said in John 19:28: Jesus knowing that all the scriptures were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled said I thirst. Vs 30
he said it is finished. Jesus fulfilled everything on the cross, nothing is left.
Luke 16:17 not one Jot and Title will fail until it is fulfilled nothing failed but Christ fulfilled it 100% at the cross. Jesus rightly said not one will be left
unfulfilled as he clearly states that he fulfilled them all:
Luke 24:25-26 And He said to them, "O foolish men and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!"Was it not necessary for the Christ to
suffer these things and to enter into His glory?" And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, He explained to them the things concerning Himself in
all the Scriptures." Here, Jesus explains what the Law points toward him and its fulfillement.
Luke 24:44 "These are my words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about me in the Law of Moses and the
Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. Jesus himself declared that all the law has been fulfilled at the Cross as he said it is finished John 19:30.

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58. Jesus and His Disciple were not under the Law
Law came through Moses but Grace and Truth through Christ John 1:17. Jesus never said Moses law as our Law. Even to his Disciples, he said Their Law in
John 15:25 (might fulfilled which is written in their Law) and 8:17 (it is wriiten in your Law) and Your Law to the Jews in John 10: 34 (is it not written in your
Law). This testifies that Christ followers are not bound with the Law of Moses or the OT. The disciples and Jesus never went to temple or we dnt find in any
verses in the gospel that Jesus and his disciples participate in temple rituals, sacrifice or anything. Jesus never went to temple to confess any of his uncleanness
after touching unclean people or heal the sick (Lev 13:45). He deserved to die if Sabbath breaking was a moral according to Num 15:35 (a man was stone to
death for breaking the Sabbath). Exo 31:15 (anyone breaking Sabbath should be killed).

59. The Ten Commandments is called the Sinai covenant

Sometime Christians particularly Protestant and Catholic are being accused of changing or abolishing the fourth commandment the Sabbath by Seventh Day
Adventists. But even if we are not accused of this there can be still a question why Christians do not observe the Jewish Sabbath. The reason is simple all the
commandments of the Ten are revived by Jesus and the apostles except the Sabbath. Therefore, we can assert that a new covenant established in the NT does
not include the Sabbath. The old covenant mentioned in the OT bible is exclusively the Ten Commandments which interpret the other 613 law:
Exodus 34: 28-29: "And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments." Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai and two
tablets of covenant where in Moses hand when he came down from the mountain
Exo 19:5 God said obey my words and keep my covenant and His covenant is explained in Exo 20:1-17 which is the Ten Commandments.
Deuteronomy 4:13: "So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two
tablets of stone.
Deuteronomy 9:9: "When I went up to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you.
Deu 9:11 God gave two stone tablets on which he had written the Covenant
Deuteronomy 5:2-3: "The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb (Sinai). The LORD did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with
all those of us alive here today."
1 Kings 8:9, 21: V9 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb (Sinai), where the LORD made a covenant
with the sons of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt." ... V21 "And there I have set a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which
He made with our fathers when He brought them from the land of Egypt."
2 Chronicles 6:11: "And there I have set the ark, in which is the covenant of the LORD, which He made with the sons of Israel."
In Deu 5:1-22 Sinai covenant is clearly explained as the Ten Commandments and nothing else a recaptured of Exo 20:1-17. The last verse 22 he gave them
these commandments and no others Hence, the covenant mentioned in the epistles of Hebrew that was abolished is nothing but the Ten Commandments.

Note: Sinai is the same as Horeb. In Deu 5:2 says God made covenant at Horeb which he described the giving of the Ten Commandments which is actually
Exo 20:1-17 which is at Sinai. So, Horeb=Sinai.

60. Sinai Covenant (the Ten Commanments) interprete the rest of the regulations
In Exo 19:5 God make a covenant with them if they obey they shall be special treasure and priestly nation. In chapter 20-23 many law and commandments are
listed. In chapter 24:7 Moses took the book of the covenant which is a written statements of all the commandments including the Ten Commandments, law for
ceremonial and sacrifices, offering, feasts etc of chapter 20-23. It is only at chapter 24:12 God gave the tablets of stone to Moses and He remain forty days and
night and God continue to give many more rules and regulation from chapter 25-31. Obviuosly two tablets cannot contain all the oral word spoken by God to
Moses. The tablets of stone is therefore over all submition of all the law.
In the book of Exodus 34:10-28, we can see that the Ten Commandments is the condensed form of the entire law of Moses; it interpretes the rest of the Law.
Firstly, vs 1 God command Moses to cut two tablets of stone like the first ones and asked him to come up to Mount Sinai. Vs 11 Observe what I have
commanded you this dayvs 12 deals with idolatry for you shall worship no other god, 17: you shall not mold gods for yourself. Vs 18 talks about feast of
Unleaven Bread First fruit, vs 21 six day yo shall work but the Seventh day you shall rest. 22. Observe the Feasts of the week (Pentecost) of the First Fruits and
ingathering Feast (Feast of Tabernacles), 25: Feast of Passover, 26 First of the Friuts. In this chapter when God explained about the Ten Commandments,
He includes the feasts as part of the Ten Commandments; apparently the Sinai Covenant which is the Ten Commandments explains and interprets both the
moral and ceremonial law of the LORD. God expound and interprete that the Fourth commandment is the skeletal for Feast of unleaven Bread, Feast of
Pentecost, Feast of the Tabrenalces, Passover which are associated with rest. We can know this from vs 27: then the LORD said to Moses write these words for
according to the tenor of these words I made a covenant with you and with Israel In other word God tells Moses to write whatever he said in the above passage
in such a way that it fit within the boundary of the Ten Commandments. Vs 28: So Moses wrote the tablets of the words of the covenat the Ten
Commandments

61. The Ten Commandments is abolished in the NT

II Corth 3:7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face
of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? Note: which
glory was to be taken away? Although Moses was filled by the glory of God, Paul talks about that glory as temporary and inferior to the ministration of Jesus
and is to be done away. But what is the stone that was engraved with? Paul is talking about the time when Moses received the Ten Commandments written in
the Tablets of covenant in Exo 34:28-29 so he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nightsand he wrote on the tablets the words on the Tablets of

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the covenant the Ten Commandments. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and two tablets of covenant were in Moses hand when he came down from
mountain) that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while he talks with them. When Aaron and the children of Israelites saw Mosesthey were
afraid to come near him. Christians are not saying the Ten Commandments is abolished, it is Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit who said it. It has to be
abolished in order that new, more glorious and better one is to be instituted. That is why II Corthn 3:9 says: for if the ministry of condemnation be glory, much
more does the ministry of righteousness exceed in glory. What again is the ministry of Righteouness referring here? Is it the Ten Commandments or the Faith?
To see the answerlet us look at Roman 1:17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it
is written: "The righteous will live by faith." So, the ministry of Righteousness is nothing but righteousness through faith. Here we have a clear cut warning as
well as assurance of our eternal salvation.
Ephe 2:15: having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new
man, so making peace. The word ordinance sometime refered as decree is dogmain Greek that refered to Ten Commandments. The Law of
Commandments means the commandments which were written in the Ten Commandments of the Law for the Israelites to obey so that they could be acceptable
to God. The Law of Moses separate Jews from Gentiles, Christ cancelled this bond by his blood vs 13: but now in Christ Jesus you who once were faroff have
been made near by the blood of Christ. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1). Should a Christian practice Sabbathkeeping by not working on Saturday? If a Christian feels to do so, absolutely, yes (Romans 14:5). However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping
should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16).

62. Sinai Covenant is abolished but better one given

Hebrew 8:13:A new covenant he has made the first being obsolete and is fading away. But what was that first covenant which became absolete? If you read
down the verses in Hebrew 9 chapter it explains what became absolete after new covenant was made:Hebrews 9:1, 4: then indeed even the first covenant had
ordidances of divine service and earthly sanctary. Vs 4. The tablets of the covenant is contained in the ark of covenant. So, it explains what was in the first
covenant; it includes divine worship which means way of worship which encompasses feasts, Sabbath, offering, sacrifices etc etc which were apart of daily
divine worship services, and earthly sanctuary which is method of temple service and also ark of the covenant which contain the tablets of the covenant which is
the Ten Commandments. All these are included in the first covenant which is now absolete. Hebrew goes on to say in Hebrew 10:9 Behold I have come to do
your will o God, he takes away the first that he may establish the second. To clarfy that The Ten Commandments is called the tablets of covenant as we can
see in 1) Deu 4:13: He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets.
2) Exo 31:18 (When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai; he gave him the two tablets of the covenant law, the tablets of stone written by the
finger of God 3) Exodus 34: 28: "And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments 4) Deuteronomy 9:9: "When I went up to
the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant which the LORD had made with you. 5) Deu 9:11 God gave two stone tablets on
which he had written the Covenant. So, if the first covenant which includes the tablets of the covenant is becoming absolete, a question can still arise why did
God give something which can be absolete or was His law bad? This is answered by Hebrew 8:7: For if the first covenant is faultless then no place would
have been sought for the second. Obviously, if the first covenatwas perefect God maight not create a new but the bible clearly states that there was a fault in
the first covenant. The fault was not on the part of God but Israelites Heb 8: 8: because finding fault with them. That is why he said vs 8-13: behold the days
are coming says the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the hose Judah, not according to the coenant that I made with their fathers in that days when I
took by hands to lead.because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregards them says the Lord. For this the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel after those days says the LORD, I will put my laws in their mind and write them on their heartnon of them shall tecahe their neighbor nor his
brothers..for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins ansd their lawlessness I will remember no more. In that he say a new covenant he has
made the first obsolete. This is a quotation of Jer 31:31-34. Israel hearing this promise in the old covenant would thinks of this prophecy of their own times.
But God was talking about the NT church which he will extablish Himself. It is interesting that the first covenant, people could break that covenant. But the
second is something that they would not be able to break because God himself will intervene and he himself will draw them toward Himself by his indwelling
Holy Spirit as he said in Ezekiel 37:26-27: moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will set
my sanctray in their midst. Ezekiel 36:26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you..i will put my Spirit within you and cause yo to walk in
my statues and you will keep my judgement and and do them. This is a promised made by God to Israelites about their future relationship with Him. It is preety
clear that Israelites hearing this message would be intrigued to enter into this type of relation. In the OT the Gods Spirit dwelling in mans heart was soverign
choice, it comes and goes but not abiding in continuously, like in the case of Samson, Sal, David, etc. But God promised that a day will come when He himself
will dwell in their midst and His Spirit will abibe in ones man heart permenantly. All this things will take place only after God sprinkle clean water and
removed all filthiness in vs 25. This is a fulfillment of God everlasting covenant with the blood of Christ. When one is cleanse by the blood of Jesus and be
saved, Gods Spirit will abide on him which is really the teaching of the NT. 1 Cor 3:16: we are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in us.
Aparaently, Jeremiah is fulfilled in the church age when God began living with the believers by his Spirit. Also Jeremiah is not talking about God reviving the
OT law in the Church age rather what he promised in the OT is what the NT brings into fulfillment.
There is ofcourse mention of Ark of Covenant in Revelation 11:19 and Sabbatarians would claim the mention of ark of covenant in Rev and say Sabbath is
to be reviewed. But why did John recollect this which was already lost long back since 700 B.C? This is not to assume that Sabbath is eternal in heaven. The
verses display the glorious appearance of God in heaven like he appeared in Mount Sinai to the children of Israelites when He revealed himself. Revelation is
describing the same glory which the woman with crown appears; Catholic explains this as Mary in her cosmic coronation (not discuss here). One more thing,
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cosmic events. In heaven, God is not going to judge the sinners; heaven is for righteous people and there is no need of judging them with Ten Commandments
(ark of covenant).

63. Old Covenant of Sinai (Hagar) is bondage; the new covenant (Jerusalem) which is freedom
Galatian 4:24: Which things are symbolic for there are two covenants: one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar, the one
Jerusalem is above all which is free verse 31 So then brethren we are not children of bondage but of the free. Galatians were Gentiles Christians who were led
astray by some false teachers. Despite Pauls repeated warning they continue to observe Law of Moses. The whole point of Paul is that Christians are free and
not binding with the Law of Moses. His main focus is his teaching about the Law to his audience as their unfaithful practice vs 23: you who desire to be under
law do you not hear the Law? Paul is drawing a parallelism of two covenants as a symbolic representation. We have just listed a number of OT passages that
the Sinai Covenant is the Law of Moses. The law of bondage given to them at Sinai is symbolically represented by Hagar. Since the bible says that Hargar has
no share in Abrahams, those who are under the Law has no share in Christ. The condition give by Paul is mutually exclusicve event which means you cannot
have both the two at the same time; either you hold the Hagar or Sarah but not both. That is why He said vs 30-31cast out thy bondwoman and her son for the
son of bond woman shall not br heir with the son of the freewoman. For we are the children of free woman and not of bond woman. You got that? This
symbolic explanation teaches us that not only Sarah and Hagar are has two separate and different fates, even their children cannot be together which emphasis
the need to choose the more fiiting child. Since Ishmael did not enherit the promise of God to Abraham so also those who hold the law shall not be heir of
Gods promise. As a matter of fact you cannot keep the law and worship Christ at the same time becase his gift is totally difffernt from Law observance.
Contrary to Sinai which is Hagar, Paul eludes Jerusalem as freedom which he link to is Sarah from where gospel of Love, the free gift springs up. In Acts 1:8
told the disciples that the gospel must be preached beginning from Jerusalem to all nations. This is what the free gift God has given to all people out of
grace. In Roman 3:24 Bieng justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ. This free gift is what Galatian is talking about. In the
meantime, this doesnt mean God was ignorantwhen he made the covenant with them because He gave only a requirement to prove that His revelation in future
will be much better. They were given the Law not for the reason that they will be justified by the law but as a constant reminder of their sin. The bible says no
one is perfect and all have sinned. No one can observe all the law perfectly except Jesus
64. Jesus is the mediator of better covenant
Jesus has abolished the first covenant in Hebrew 8:13:A new covenant he has made the first being obsolete and is fading away and Hebrew 10:9 Behold I
have come to do your will o God, he takes away the first that he may establish the second. He has established a better covenant Hebrew 7:22: Jesus has
became the guarantee of a better covenant vs 25 therefore he is able to save to uttermost those who come to God through Him since he always live to make
intercession for themHis new covenant is established with better promises Hebrew 8:6: he is the mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted with
better promises Under the OT even Moses cannot enter the Holy of the Holiest, even the High priest but only once a year. But with the new covenant where
Jesus himself is the mediator we can easily access to the Holy of the Holiest, without the need of animal blood. Heb 12:20-24 says even Moses was terrified
but the new covenant is compare to Mt Zion and to the city of the living God..to Jesus the mediators of the new covenant and the blood of sprinkling.. The
moment of his death is the breaking down of the middle wall between the Holy of the Holiest (Mark 15:38-which is describe in Exo 26:33). This indicates that
we can now be accepted to God without the high preist, without sacrifice, offering.

65. Jesus has free us from all sins commited under the first covenant:
The most important thing in the entire NT is the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Not only this, Jesus has established a new covenant after he forgived all
the sins committed under the old covenant. Hebrew 9:15: for this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of of the
transgressions under the first covenant that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inherintance. Roman 3:25: Whom God has set forth
to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God . Roman 5:6:
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. Not only this, all sins under the first covenant are blotted out and cancelled by
his death, which means every sins committed including Sabbath breaking was already forgiven and not counted as a sins. Had he not first cancelled all debts
under the first covenant, he probably could not establish the new. Isa 53:11 says the Messiah shall bears all the sins of the world.

66. Abrahams seed by faith and not by the Law of Moses:

God did not give Sabbath to Abraham and so Sabbath is no way related with Abrahams seed. Secondly, the bible says anything that is not of faith is a sin in
Roman 14:23. Here are some references of faith as the real substance.1) Galatian 3:1-14: Paul address the Galatian as foolish for their ignorant of gospel. Vs
7:we are Abrahams seed by faith and not by law because by law there is a curse. And verse 8 continues to say and the scripture foreseeing that God would
justify the nations by faith preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand. Vs 9 So those who are of faith are blessed. Vs 10 for as many as are under the law are
under curse for it is written cursed is anyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the Law to do them. Vs but that no one is to
be justify by the Law in the sight of God the righteous shall live by faith. Clearly Paul is contrasting faith and Law as two separate things 12 yet the Law is
not of faith. Faith is the most important parameter for salvation that is why it is said faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen
according to Hebrew 11:1.

67. Abrahamic covenant more important than the LAW of Moses: Gal 3:17-18: What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years
later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ that should make the promise of no effect For if the inheritance is of the law it is
no more a promise because God gave it to Abraham by Faith. The law that came 430 years later is the Law of Moses and this cannot annul the previous
promise made to Abrham which was ground on faith. Gods covenant with Abraham was superior than he made with Israel. That is what all Gentiles shared

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through faith in vs 8 And the scripture foreseeing that God would justify the nations by faith preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand. Always faith is
spoken as a real substance and law as a shadow: Both circumcised and uncircumcised shall be justified by God through faith according to Roman 3:30

68. If believers are delieverd from Law why did Jesus keep the Law?
Many Sabbath often put up an accusation against us that Jesus keep the law and therefore his followers must keep what he kept. This is a rediclous assertion
because we can put many questions to them as well. If they argue Law keeping because Jesus kept, why cant they be circumcised? Why cant they fast 40 days
and 40 night as Jesus did? Jesus broke the Sabbath many times over John 5:18, John 9:1-4 etc, why cant they break Sabbath because Jesus broke it? Jesus must
keep the Law because when he was born the Jews were under the law and he has to follow all the things written in the law so that he could be the real Messiah.
So that he can redeem us from the Law. Gal 4:4-5 when the fullness of the time had come God sent forth his Son born of a woman under the law to redeem
that are under the Law. Just because Jesus or apostles kept does not necessary means it is a commandment from God. In Acts 21:26, Acts 24:18 Paul did all
the rituals of purification and enter the temple.offered an offering according to the Law. Do Modern Sabbath keepers observe this? In Jesus healing ministry,
a leper was healed in Matt 8:1-4, Jesus asked him to go and confess to the preist and an offering as prescribe by the Law of Moses. Do Sabbath keepers do this
because Jesus said to do to the leper?

69. New covenant comes into enforced only after Jesus died:
Heb 9:16-17: For where there is a covenant, there must also be necessity be the death of the covenant maker. For a covenant is in force after men are dead
since it has no power at all while the the covenant maker lives. In order for the new covenant to be enforced, the covenant maker has to die first only then the
new covenant can be enforced. When Jesus lived he has to be obedient to the law without fulfilling the first he cannot give us the new covenant.
Hebrew 9:15: for this reason He is the mediator of the new covenant by means of death for the redemption of of the transgressions under the first covenant that
those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inherintance.
70. No one can keep the Law perfectly (sinners); Only Christ kept
Gal 3:10: for as many as are under the law are under curse for it is written cursed is anyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book
of the Law to do them. The bible says no one can keep the law perfectly. It also says that there is none that do good in the sight of God (Roman 3:10: there is
none righteous not one. Roman 3:23 All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God).
Since Galatain 3:10 says one has to be justifid by observing everything written in the Law if one has to observe the Law yet the bible declare all unrighteous, it
must be that no one can keep law 100% correctly. Those who keep some part of the Law and reject the other are under curse. Paul is giving the extrme limit of
his warning to those Law keepers. This is reinforced again in James 2:10: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of
breaking all of it.

71. The whole Law is summed up in Love:

Gal 5:13-14 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
14.For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." As the bible is concerned with love for all humanity, Sabbath
observation is not at all counted as an important. The word neighbour is plesionwhich includes even strangers who are not of the same faith

72. Jesus is our covenant Keeper; we are saved by his life not by our own Life
Roman 5:10: For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, we shall
be saved through his life. Jesus is our covenant keeper, he kept the covenant for us very perefectly; all we have to do is put our faith in Him. We shall not be
saved by our own life and our own effort but by the life that Jesus had done for us. This is given in future passive indicative which means it is a promise for
future not just for present or past. Hebrew 7:25: Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to
intercede for them. Roman 8:34 Jesus always intercedes for us
2 Corth 5:21: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. The life that Jesus led, the life that he
gave us is what that saves us, it is by his death we attain the righteoness of God by faith in Him.
2 Corth 5:18: All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation
Roman 5:11: And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation.
Ephesian 3:11-12: according to the eternal purpose which he accomplished in Chrit Jesus our Lord. In whom we have boldness and access with confidence
through faith in HimIn the OT the high preist can enter the Holy of the Holiest once a year. But in the new covenant we can access diect to God by FAITH in
Jesus Christ. Paul who was Pharisees of all Pharisees said he obtained his righteousness not from the law but by his faith. Philip 3:9: and be found in Him not
having my own righteousness which is from the Law but that which is through Faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by FAITH
Roman 3:25: Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God. The apostle here uses the same word translated as propitiation, which the Septuagint often render "the mercy seat", by; and
Philo the Jew calls it by the same. It means Christ death was the final atonement for all sins under the OT which the preist under the Old covenant sacrifice the
offerings under the mercy seat. The sin committed in the past is not the sins committed by the believer before he embraces Christ, but the sins committed under
the old covenant, before Christ came to "put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself which shows the insufficiency of legal sacrifices done before his death.
73. Violation of New Covenant with greatest punishment
Hebrew 10:28-29: anyone who reject Moses law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29. Of how much sorer punishment, suppose
ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, where with he was sanctified, an

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unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? In the OT, those who reject and revolt against the Law were stoned to death particularly Sabbath
observation. In the NT, the scenario is totally different; the OT Law of the Sinai covenant was instituted by sprinkling the blood of animals so that they can be
under the covenant. Exo 24: Moses wrote all the word of the LORD..then he took the book of the covenant and read in the hearing of the people..Moses took the
blood sprinkled it on the people.. Even the OT covenant were with not without blood, much higher is Christ his own blood that sprinkled on us when he made
the new covenant on the cross. The blood of Christ washed away all our sins and nothing is left behind and now we are counted righteous by faith and not by
the deeds of the law. By trying to be justified with the deeds of the Law we overtly challange the authority of his blood.

74. The Law is abolished

1) Gal 5:4 you have estranged from Christ you who attempt to be justified by the Law, you have fallen from grace.
2) Roman 3:20: therefore by deeds of the law no flesh shall be justified for by law is the knowledge of sin
3) Gal 2:16 knowing that man is not justified by the work of law but by faith in Jesus
4) Roman 7:8 for sin taking occasion by the commandment deceived me and kill me. For without the law sin was dead.
5) Roman 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10. I found that the very commandment that
was intended to bring life actually brought death. The law means all the laws and the commandment means all the commandment contain in the Law, Paul is
talking about the Ten Commandment. The law in OT Hebrew is Ha-Torah (entire OT) given as Nomas in Greek.
6) Roman 7:6 But now we have been delivered from the Law so that we can serve in the newness in Spirit 7) Roman 7:4therefore my brethren you also
beendead to the law through the body of Christ
8) Gal 4: 10-11how can you want to go back to elemental things and obeserved days month and season?
9) Law was just tutor before coming of Christ: Gal 3: 24-25 therefore the law was just our tutors to bring to Christ but after faith has come we are no longer
under law
10) Israel attained no righteousness because they seek not by faith but by the work of the law in Roman 9:31-12.
11) Roman 10:4 For Christ is the end of the law for the righteousness to everyone who believes 12) Gal 2:21if righteousness can be obtain by Law Christ
died in vain
13) Gal 3:19 law was added till the seed should come to whom the promise was made
14) 1Corinthn 15:56 The sting of sin is law
15) Gal 3: 21 the law was not for Righteousness.
Therefore, we have seen that there is no legitimate proof to sustain the Law of Moses as a binding element for the Christians.
Gal 5:18 if you are in spirit you are not under the Law. Acts 13:39 And by him everyone who believes is justified from all things which cannt be justified by
the Law of Moses.
Gal 3:10 Cursed is anyone who are under the law.
Gal 3:13Christ has redeemed us from the law.
1Cornthn 15:56 the strength of sin is the Law.
Roman 3:20: by deeds of the Law no flesh shall be justified in His sight for by law is the knowledge of sin.

75. Law keepers are Dog:

Paul compares the JEWS or those who only hope in Mosaic Law as Dog in Phil 3:2:Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision.
The Jews regarded the Gentiles as "dogs" (Mt 15:26); but by their own unbelief they have ceased to be the true Israel, and are become dogs (compare Isa
56:10, 11).

76. Before the Law was given, Sin was not charged agaist
Roman 5:13-14: for until the Law sin was there in the world but sins is not charge against when ther is no Law.Nevertheless, death reign from Adam from
Moses even those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression..

77. The Law hampers Christs glory

2 Corinthian 3:14:But their mind were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of OT because the veil is taken away in Christ.
Even today when Moses is read a veil lies in their heart. Following OT defiles and diminishes the death of Christ.
1Corinthn 3:5-6Rather our qualification comes from God who has indeed qualified us as minister of new covenant not of the later but of Spirit. Jesus
established the new covenant for us unlike the old one but of the spirit as he says in Mark 14:24 This is my blood which is a new covenant. He has given us a
new covenant through his blood by grace and not by the deeds of law.

78. What was the purpose of the Law?

It is not that the Law was useless rather God intention of giving the law was to identify sins and that all may be condemn before him.
1) Gal 3:23 but before faith come we are kept under the guard by law kept for faith which would be afterward revealed.
2) Gal 3:19 the law was added because of the transgression till the seed should come to whom the promise was made. Luke informs us that the law and
prophets were just to look forward for the revealation of the true substance in Luke 16:16 the law and prophet were until John, since that time the kingdom of
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3) The Law was just to identify that everyone is sinner before the cross:
Roman 3:19 the law says therefore, those under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before Christ.
4) The Law was employed till reformation. Which [tabernacle of Moses] stood only in meats and drinks andcarnal ordinances, imposed on them UNTIL
[but only until] the time of REFORMATIONChrist being come (Heb 9:10 and 11). Christ has given us the new Law
5) Law was just tutor before coming of Christ: Gal 3: 24-25 therefore the law was just our tutors to bring to Christ but after faith has come we are no
longer under law

79. The Law needs to be changed:

Hebrew 7:11-12 Therefore if the perfectness were through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law) what further need was there that
another priest should rise to the order of Melchizedex and not be called according to the order of Aaron? Paul is comparing the priesthood of Christ with the
priesthood of Jewish law, Jesus is not a Levites but he is also much more perfect Priest in all respect. Verse 12 for priesthood being changed there is also a
change of the law. This is not talking about just sacrificial law but entire law. In the OT Levitical priest was the mediator between Israelites and God. The
Priest offered up all their sacrifices, offering, their sin offering, drink offerings, their Sabbath offerings, and their feasts day offering etc. The writer of Hebrew
is bringing in the fulfillement of Psalm where Jesus is both the Messiah and the High Priest for the new Law. Christ fulfilled all the law for us with his birth
under the law and has redeemed us and give us grace when he instituted the new covenant. The Author of Hebrew tells us that for the new covenant to be in full
swing, the covenant maker (Christ) had to die first. Heb 9:16-17: For where there is a covenant, there must also be necessity be the death of the covenant
maker. For a testament is in force after men are dead since it has no power at all while the covenant maker lives. Since Christ has given us His new Law and
covenant also called Law of Christ in Gal 6:2, and in 1 Corthn 9:21, also called royal law in James 2:8, we no longer have to be under the old Law of Moses
which Christ had fulfilled for us.
Psalm 110:4 You are a Priest forever according to the order Melchizedek. This has nothing to do with Jesus coming to fulfill only the sacrificial law as
thought by Sabbataraians; the context is the whole Law of OT.

80. The Law can Change

Roman 7:2-4: For the married woman is bound by law to her husband while he is living; but if her husband dies, she is released from the law concerning the
husband. 3.So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the
law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man. 4Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of
Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God. 5. For while we were in the
flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. 6 But now we have been deliverd
from Law, having died to what we were held by so that we can serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. Paul compares our life
with a married woman. When a woman is married to another man, the law of her husband also changes. Just as the law changes from her former husband to the
new husband, so also the law of Christ our new husband also different from our previous husband, the law of Moses. While her husband live, if she joined to
another man she would be called adultress. The same way we are death to the Law and joined to new man as such even if we break the previous law (Mosaic
law) we are not condemned for we have a new law, a new husband. Paul was not talking about Roman civil Law or any other law but OT law for he quote the
OT Ten commandments in vs 7 you shall not covet. Obviously he is talking about the OT law.

81. Example of Law changes in the OT and NT

Cain case: Gen 4:8 Cain killed Abel but according to the Moses law, Cain deserve to die under Noahic covenant where God said Gen 9:6: whosoever shed
mans blood by man his blood shall be shed Moses reinforced again Deuteronomy 19:21: Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for
hand, foot for foot. In the NT Matt 5:44: love your enemy and bless those who curse you. A question that needs to be asked is why was God sparing Cain
although he took his brothers life? The answer is the law for for life for life, tooth for tooh was not given yet. That is why God put a mark on Cain. Also Cain
married his own sister which is against Deu 27:22: Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother... But
Cain was not charged for this because the Law was not given yet. Contrary to this Jesus completely changed the law for us in the new covenant.
Noahs case: Gen 9:21: When Naoh drank some of its wine, he became drunk and lay uncovered inside his tent Deu 21:18-21: .If someone has a stubborn
and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him They shall say to the elders of his city, 'This
son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 21"Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall
remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.. If Moses law was to be applied Noah must die for drunkard yet he was not as the law
condemning his act wasnt given yet. By the way do we stone drunkard today? No we love them instead.
Abrahams case: Gen 20:12: Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife. Sarah was
actually Abraham brother in true sense. If this were after the Law was given, Abraham would be guilty because this is considered as sin. Lev 20:17: 'If a man
marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their
people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.
In Leviticus 18:9: Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether she was born in the same
home or elsewhere. We can also see this restriction in Lev 18:11: If the Law of Moses is to be applied even Abraham was sinner, but the LAW of his time and
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Jacobs case: we know Jacob married two sisters Leah and Rachel of the same father at a time. But in Lev 18:18: Do not take your wife's sister as a rival wife
and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.. Jacob could be declared sinners for violating Moses law but since the law did not exist he cannot
be convicted. I mean the law given was different. The same is the NT for polygamy is totally banned by Jesus.
Bastard: Deu 23:2: No one born of a forbidden marriage or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, not even in the tenth generation.
In the NT this is practically impossible. Number of examples can be cited. The Law given at that time was specific to the condition, but since NT gives us new
law those law are no more in effect. So law and judgement depend on the people who are under that covenant.
OT Law enacted by God from the people
Onans Case: Gen 38:8 Judah said to Onan go unto your brothers wife and marry her and raise up an heir to your brother. Onan emmited on ground and this
displease the LORD and the He killed him. This was not a specific commandment given to Judah from the LORD, rather Judah initiated this. God in order to
justify Judah enacted this into the Law of Moses. Judah being the tribe from which Messiah should come cannot be rejected by God. Deu 25:5: if brother
dwells together and one of them dies and has no son,her husband brother shall go in to her and take as his wife.
Davids Case: David initiatedbuilding of Jerusalem temple, it was not God preplan idea. 2 Sam 7:2: David said to Nathan the prophet, "Here I am, living in a
house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent." Nathan replied to the king, "Whatever you have in mind, go ahead and do it, for the LORD is with you."
In reply God told David: 5. Are you the one who should build Me a house to dwell in? 6. For I have not dwelt in a house since the day I brought up the sons of
Israel from Egypt, even to this day; but I have been moving about in a tent, even in a tabernacle. Wherever I have moved with all the Israelites, did I ever say
to any of their rulers whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, "Why have you not built me a house of cedar?. God never said to anyone before
David to build Him a house or Temple. But God was pleased with David and promised his kingdom to be forever. However to build that temple was not given
to him but his son Solomon. The whole point is what David intent to do for the LORD was genuine and good in the sight of God. Therefore, God place his
approval and Jerusalem become the city of God and city of David.
Divorces: Moses allow divorce but this is against Jesus commandments in Matt 19:9 (anyone who divorce except for immorality has commit adultery)
Polygamy condemned: Polygamy was allow in the OT but the NT over and over again prohibit polygamy (Mark 10:8, Ephe 5:3)

82. We are under Grace

1) Roman 6:14 for sin shall have no dominion over you for you are not under the law but under grace

2) Titus 3:7: that having been justified by his Grace

we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life 3) Eph 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the
free Gift of God Not of work lest anyone should boast. 4) John 1:16: Law given through Moses but Grace through Christ and No condemnation in Christ
in Roman 8:1. 5) Titus 3:5: not by the righteousness which we have done but according to His mercy he saved s through the washing and regeneration and
renewing of the Holy Spirit. 6) Roman 3:28: aman is justified by faith apart from the Law 7) 2 Timothy 1:9: he has saved us and called us to be Holy not
according to our works but accorsing to His own purposes and grace which was given to us in Christ before time began.
8) Romans 4:5 to him who does not work but believe on Him who justifies the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness;

83. The law is for unrighteous

2 Timothy 1:9-10: knowing this thing the Law is not made for righteous person but for the lawlessness and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for the sinners
for the murderer of the fathers for fornicators for sodommites for kidnapers, for liar, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine.

84. Good works spoken in Ephesian 2:8-10: for by grace you have been savednot of works lets anyone should boast..for we are his
workmanship created in Christ Jesus for Good works which God predestined beforehand that we should walk in them. Many false teachers within the Sabbath
keepers take this verse and expound it to mean law keeping (Mosaic law). What is good work spoken by Paul anyway? Obviously Paul says nothing about Law
observation as a good work. He else where says Roman 9:31-33 Israel cannot attain Law of righteousness because they did not seek with faith but as it were
by the works of the Law. He also says in Gal 2:15-16: a man is justified by faith not by the works of the Law. Roman 3:20: by deeds of the law no flesh shall
be justified. Roman 3:28: a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Apparently the good works spoken is not OT law and rituals. Good
work must be something else. In Titus 2:7 it says in all things show yourself of good works. The good works spoken is given in vs vs 1-6: that older man be
sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love in patience, the older women likewise that they may be reverent in behvaiour, not slanderer, not giving much
to wine, tecahers of good things, to be descrete, chaste, home makers, good, obedient to their husband that the word of the Lord may not be blasphemed.
..likewise he exhort the young woman to be sober... This is a full picture of good works. In 2 Timothy 2:22-26 listed what are the good works: flee also your
youthful lust, but persue righteousness , faith, love, peace with those on the Lord out of the pure heart. But avoid foolish and ignorant dispute, knowing that they
generate strife. In Col 3:12: put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, long suffering, bearing with one another, forgiving one another, if anyone has
complaint over the other let them forgive. Titus 2:11-12: For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness
and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age. Roman 7:4 says you were dead to Law in oreder to bear fruit to God. James
2:14: Faith if it has no work is death. This is often misunderstood to be working of faith with Law. The whole point is about Love which you show by your
actions of work. Vs 15 says about brother without foods or destitute, 16 someone will say depart from me in peace without helping him, this type of faith is
meaningless because it is not based on love. The whole context of James is about work by love shown toward brother and sisters. In fact as we see OT law is
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85. Law of Righteousness is the new Law in Christ, not of Moses:

In the NT, the bible clearly states that the OT law of Moses is no more applied to the NT believers. This can lead us to wrong conclusion as to why bible
removes the OT law which includes moral teaching. The fact is various laws were given again in the NT, which is not included in the OT law. Just because
some laws are restated again in the NT does not mean that all the OT rituals and Law are applied in the NT. Christ has fulfilled all the law and has given us his
blood so that we can be accepted to God through Him. He kept the law for us without any lacking, all we have to do is rely on Him for he always live to
intercede for us. We are not under the OT law but under the New Covenant, under grace under the new Law of Righteouness.
Romans 1:17: For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed--a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will
live by faith."
Phili 3:6: concerning righteousness which is in the Law I am blameless 7. I count them as rubbish. 9. to be found not having my own righteousness which is
from the Law but which is through faith in Christ, the righteoness which come from God through faith.
Roman 8:4: the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in s who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit (vs 2 the law of
the Spirit of life in Christ has made me free from the law of sin and death)
Paul goes on to say in Roman 8:2:The law of spirit in Christ has made me free from law of sin and death. Not to be surprised, Gal 5 explains the Law of Spirit
and the Law of flesh. Gal 5:18 but if you are led by Spirit you are not under the Law. The law of spirit includes vs 22-23: Love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.. The Law of Spirit is not by observing Jewish feasts and Sabbath. But what is Law of Sin and death
refered by Paul in Roman 8:2? The answer is found in Roman 3:20 For by Law is the knowledge of sin and death. Hence law of sin and death is the Law of
Moses. On the contrast the righteousness is through faith; In Roman 3:22: Even righteousness of God through faith in Jesus. Similarly, in Galatian 3:11the
just shall live by faith. Focus your mind also in Romans 2:26-27 If those who are not circumcised keep the law's requirements, will they not be regarded as
though they were circumcised? The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code
and circumcision, are a lawbreaker. This passage is often mistaken by Mosaic Law keepers. Explanation: Notice that he doesn't say the uncircumcised, or the
Gentiles kept the law, but he says they have kept the requirement of the Law by faith because the will of God is outside the Law (Roman 2:18-know his will
approve all things that are excellent being instructed out of the Law). The difference is huge, because anyone can keep the law of righteousness through faith in
Jesus Christ. But no one can keep the righteousness by keeping the Law. In Romans 3:21-25 Paul says, "But now righteousness from God, apart from law, has
been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no
difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. From
the above explanation the law of Righteousness refered by Paul is not about the Law of Moses but the righteousness through faith in Jesus Christ. Paul tells in
Phil 3:9 that righteouness which from God by faith. As for us who are redeemed by blood, we must believe the whole law of Moses is fulfilled by one love
your neighbour as yourself in Gal 5:14. Paul specifically tells us to walk in the Spirit not in law in Gal 5:18-21: the work of the law which is flesh, they are:
adultery, fornication, uncleaness, idolatry, envy, drunkardness etc etc all these will not inherit the Kingdom of God. They are acts of sinful flesh but Sabbath is
not listed as sin. Those who are in Christ have crucified these and hence will walk in Spirit. In contrast to flesh, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, kindness,
longsuffering, goodness, faithfulness etc..

86. Righteouness accounted by Faith not by works

Roman 4:2-7: If Abraham was justified by works he has something to boast but not before God. For the scripture says Abraham believd God and was credited
to him as righteous. Now to him who works the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believe on Him who justifies the
ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness. Just as David also said the blessedness of a man to whomGod imputes righteousness apart from works.
blessed are those whose lawlessness deed are forgiven and whose sins are covered
Gal 3:6: Abraham believed in God and was counted as righteous. If we look at Gen 15:1-5: God promise Abraham a promise that he will have a son 6.
Abraham believed and credited him as righteous. Cornelius was also declared righteous before he got the baptism. He was the eye witnesses of Jesus death
and resurrection. That is why Peter said Acts 10:37: that word you know which was proclaimed through out Judea He was the reciepient of salvation, Peter
was sent in order that he could be apart of Christians body.

87. The Law of Christ

Gal 6:2 Bear one another burden and so fulfil the law of Christ.
James 2:8: If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, "Love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing right. The entire NT teaching is based on Love,
Love is the foundation of gospel, Love covers everything.

88. Paul was not under any Law of Jews but under the new law of Christ: 1Corthn 9:20-21: And to Jews I became Jews but those
under the law I became law keeper to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God but under the law of Christ) that i might
win those who are without Law. Paul wants us to understand that he is not bound by the Jewish Law but he is under the law of Christ toward God.

89. Covenants and their implications

We have just about law and their application. We are yet to define and establish what covenant stand for and what it signifies. The word covenant is bryith in
Hebrew, an agreement sign between two parties. And the sign of that covenant is owth. First we have to know little bit of sign and covenant and their
implication. Covenant is like a contract sign between two parties, where both the parties agree to fulfill ones desire and need by mutual understanding. It is like
a marriage where husband and wife enter into agreement like covenant. And the sign of their marriage is a marriage ring. So long as their marriage last the

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marraiage rings has its value. But once marriage is divorce the rings has nothing value. The same principle applies to the covenant spoken in the bible. The fisrt
covenant signed was by God and Noah.
a) Noahic Covenant Gen 9:17: And God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the
earth. God made covenant with Noah for the whole human race. That covenant was Gods soverign choice without rejection from Noah. His promise was that
he would never destroy the world by flood again. Under that covenant God told Noah that all animals shall fear him, Noah was told to eat everything, but with
one condition and that was not to eat the blood of animals, he was also told not to shed any blood. God promised to multiply him and fill the earth. God and
Noah enter into that covenant. And the sign of that covenant was rainbow (vs 2-8). Ofcousre Noah covenant is binding upon all mankind. The sign of that
covenant is Rainbow.
b) Abraham Covenant: Abraham was the descendant of Noah and eventually the previous covenant binds him. In addition to that God also made separate
covenant with Abraham. Gen 17:11-12: This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among
you shall be circumcised. 11"And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12"And
every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money
from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants. If we read the preceeding verses from va 1-10, God promised to bless Abraham, multiply him exceedingly,
and through him all nation shall be blessed, He also promise to give the land of Cannan. In return Abraham was told to circumcise all his households both slave
and his descendant. The sign of that covenant was circumcision. Unlike the Noahic covenant, this covenant is limited to Abraham descendant and Abraham
household.
c) Covenant with Israelites:
Exo 31:13: Speak also unto the children of Israel, saying, verily my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign (owt) (owt) between me and you throughout your
generations; that you may know that I am the LORD that does sanctify you. 16: The Israelites must observe the Sabbath, celebrating it throughout their
generations as a perpetual covenant (bryith). 17. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever. Eze 20:12: Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign
between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy. A question that can arsie is what was the agreement signed between the Israelites and God?
For this, we need to briefly understand what happened at Mount Sinai. Detail description is given yet for brief information he states here. When Israelites came
out from Egypt they were under two covenants Noahic and Abrahamic covenant. Israelites under circumcision because of the Abrahamic covenant (even Moses
was circumcised Acts 7:20).
d) Children of Israel agreed to enter into that covenant: Exo 19:5-8 now therefore if you obey my covenant then you shall be a special treasure to me
above all people..you shall be a kingdom of priest and a holy nation..then all the people answered together and said all that the LORD we will do. So Moses
bring back the Israelites agreement to the LORD. If you read down God told what Moses was suppose to say to the Israelites which is recorded in chapter 2023. In chapter 24 vs 3 Moses told all the word of the LORD which was spoken in chapter 20-23, and the people reaffirms their agreement all the people
answered with one voice, all that the LORD said we will do In vs 7 Moses took the book of the covenant and read in the hearing of the people and they said all
that the LORD said we will do and be obedient And Moses took the blood and sprinkle it on the people and said behold the blood of the covenant which the
LORD has made with you. In this way the people of Israel enter into covenant or agreement with God. In return if the Israelites faidl to do all the statutes and
commandments, the punishment was death in Lev 26:1-46-both blessing and cursing are given. Lev is about Sinai because Lev 26:46 says this are what God
made with Israelites in Sinai, the same is said in 27:34.
e) The sign of Moasic Covenant: the sign of that covenant was Sabbath. It is like national flag, when someone rebels against government or country; the
only way he can demonstrate is by burning a flag because the flag represent the country and its governance. Likewise when the people reject and profane
Sabbath it is an indication of their breaking of the covenant with God made at Sinai. That is the reason why God was so strict about their Sabbath. Sabbath was
a sign of their covenant with God. Exo 31:13: Speak also unto the children of Israel, saying, verily my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign (owt) (owt)
between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD that does sanctify you. 16: The Israelites must observe the Sabbath,
celebrating it throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant (bryith). It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever
f) Sabbath was a sign of the Sinai Covenant given only to Israel: God sanctify Israel after they enter into covenant in Sinai, he gave it to them the
Sabbath as a sign of his sanctification. He did not sanctify other nation.
Exo 31:13: my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign (owt) (owt) between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the
LORD that sanctify you. The Israelites must observe the Sabbath, celebrating it throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant (bryith). 17. It will be
a sign between me and the Israelites forever. Eze 20:12: Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD sanctify
them

g) The NT Covenant: in the OT the coevant was made between two parties which was between God and Mankind. Unlike the other covenant the
covenant made by God is totally different. Under the new covenant a pact or an agreement is between God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. In the NT, Jesus
himself is the covenant while in the OT the covenant was a set of commandments, statutes and decrees. He is the Word of God whom we have to obey and
believed. Right from the past God had a divine plan of making an everlasting covenant with mankind through His son Jesu Christ. In other word in the NT the
Father and the Son are partners of the covenant; a covenant is between the Father and the Son.

h) Jesus is the Covenant: In Isaiah 42:1, 6: Behold my servant whom I uphold my chosen one, in whom my soul delight I have put my Spirit upon Him
and he shall bring forth justice to the Gentiles, He will not cry out nor raise his voice nor cause his voice to be heard6. I the LORD have called you in
righteousness and will hold your hand, I will give as a COVENANT to the people and as a light to the Gentiles. This is not Israel but Messiah which is quoted
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by Matthew 12:18 apply this to Jesus. In Isiah 49:8: thus says the LORD in the acceotable time I have heard you, in the day of salvation I have heard you, I
will preserve you and give you as a COVENANT to the people to restor the earth.These verses are quoted by Paul in 2 Corthn 6:2 and apply to Jesus. So in the
NT, the partner involved are different, Jesus is that Covenant, he himself is the keeper of that Covenant, he himself is the mediator of the new covenant. Unlike
the old covenant which required complete odedient to ever words, commandments and decree; the NT covenant on the otherhand required faith in the Covenant
maker.

i) Jesus is the Covenant Keeper, our mediator: Jesus is the Covenant Himself; he kept the Covenant for us. All we have to do is have faith in
him and rely on him. We are not save by our life but by His life, by what he has done: Roman 5:10: For if, while we were God's enemies, we were reconciled
to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved through his life
Hebrew 7:25: Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them. Roman 8:34 Jesus
always intercedes for us
2 Corth 5:21: God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. The life that Jesus led, the life that he
gave us is what that saves us, it is by his death we attain the righteoness of God by faith in Him.
Roman 5:11: And not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the reconciliation. The Law is not
the testing truth but it is Jesus the testing truth of our eternal life. Jesus has abolished the first covenant in Hebrew 8:13:A new covenant he has made the first
being obsolete and is fading away and Hebrew 10:9 Behold I have come to do your will o God, he takes away the first that he may establish the second. He
has established a better covenant Hebrew 7:22: Jesus has became the guarantee of a better covenant vs 25 therefore he is able to save to uttermost those who
come to God through Him since he always live to make intercession for themHis new covenant is established with better promises Hebrew 8:6: he is the
mediator of a better covenant which has been enacted with better promises Heb 12:20-24 says even Moses was terrified but the new covenant is compare to
Mt Zion and to the city of the living God..to Jesus the mediators of the new covenant and the blood of sprinkling.. In the OT, when God made covenant with
Israel, the children of Israelites were terrified so they asked Moses to intercede between them and God. Moses became their Mediator in Exo 20:18-21, but
when Jesus become the mediator of the better covenant we can approach to God without fear because Jesus always lives to intercedes for us.

j) He intercedes for us always

Roman 8:34: Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is
also interceding for us.
Hebrew 7:25: Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
1 John 2:1: My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous.

k) Why sign and covenant

We must understand that when God made a covenant with people in the OT, they were already decalared righteous before they were given the sign of that
covenant. Noah was declared righteous before the sign of that covenant was given after the flood. Because he was righteous God spared him and saved him
from His Judgement of the ungodly. Likewise Abraham was declared righteous before he was circumcised which was given as a sign of covenant. Roman 4:911: ..for we said faith was accounted to Abraham righteousness. How then was he accounted? While he was circumcised or uncircumcised? Not while
circumcised but while uncircumcised. And he received the sign of circumcision a seal of righteousness of faith which he had while still uncircumcised that he
might be the father of those who believe though they are uncircumcised There are certain things which we need to address here. A Seal is a spiritual thing
which vs 11 says Abraham received before circumcised after he was accounted righteous by faith. In other word we can say a seal is something which a person
received after he is saved or decalred righteous. A sign is however an outward ritual that Abraham did by circumcision to show that he had received the seal of
rghteouness.

l) The Seal and Sign in the NT: In the new covenant aperson is saved after his belief on the Lord Jesus Christ. John 3:16 (saved by believe in Him);
Acts 16:31(Believe on the Lord and you shall be save); Romans 3:21-30 (righteousness through faith, justified freely by his grace, a man is justified by faith
apart from work; Romans 4:5 (to him who does not work but believe on Him who justifies the ungodly his faith is accounted for righteousness); Romans 10:9-10
(believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and that God had raised him from death you will be saved); Ephesians 2:8-10 (for by grace you have been saved through
faithit is the gift of God not by work lest anyone should boast); Philippians 3:9 (not having my righteousness which is from the Law but that which is through
faith in Christ, the Righteousness from God by Faith; Galatians 2:16 (Justified by faith in Jesus Christ not by the works of the Law). Salvation is not by work but
it is a free gift, we dont struggle to attain that gift. When a person is saved he received the seal of God which is the Holy Spirit.

m) Gospel that saves: And what gospel encompases is given by Paul. 1 Cor. 15:1-4: Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to
you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise,
you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was
buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. The gospel is defined as the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus for our sins.

n) Seal of God: The Holy Spirit is the seal of God. A) Eph 4:30 do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed. B) II Corth 1:21-22
Now he who establishes us with you is Christ and has anointed us is God who also has Sealed us and given us the Spirit in out heart as a guarantee. C) In
Eph.1:13 Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of
those who are God's possession. Finally, in John 6:27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will

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give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval." If we believe the Lord Jesus Christ we have the seal of approval from God not the
Sabbath.

o) The Holy Spirit is a sign of being saved

Roman 8:9: you however are not in flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in You, anyone who does not have the Spirit Christ does not
belongs to Him
2 Cor 1:21-22 "He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come." 2 Corthn 5:5: now
he who has prepared us for this very thing is God who also has given us His Spirit as a gurantee
Eph 1:13-14 "Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the
redemption of those who are God's possession-to the praise of his glory.". John 6:27: Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life,
which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
1 John 3:24: we who keep His commandments abides in us and he in us by this we know that He abides in us by the Spirit he has given us
1 John 4:12-13: No man has seen God at anytime if we love one another God dwell in us and His love is perfected. By this we know that we abides in us and
He in us because he has given us His Spirit.

p) Baptism is an outward sign after sealed with the Holy Spirit when one is saved
Like circumcision and Sabbath which is an outward ritual sign prform after declared righteous, Baptism plays a similar role just as circumcision. Baptism is an
outward sign performed when a person belived and declared righteous.
Acts 10:44-47; While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were
astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues,
and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Acts 8 for the Samaritans the order was they believed and were baptized vs.12-17 then they had the apostles lay hands on them and received the Holy Spirit.
Acts 9:17-18 when Paul received salvation he did not speak in tongues until later, yet no one would contest he was saved. When he gives his testimony he
refers back to the Damascus road encounter as the time of his Spiritual birth. In vs. 17 it tells us when Ananias laid hands on him he was filled with the Spirit
then he was baptized.
Acts 15:8: Peter recounts how the gentiles heard the word of the gospel and believed, God seeing their hearts acknowledged them by giving them the Holy
Spirit just as he did us
Gal. 3:2"Did you Received the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Faith comes by hearing the word.

q) Baptism is an outside sign in the New Covenant like Sabbath and Circumcision in the Old covenant
Col 2:11-12: In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hand by putting of the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of
Christ, buried with Him in Baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God who raised Him from death Baptism is an
outward sign done after one is being saved after he belived on the Lord Jesus Christ. In the NT the sign of new covenant is Baptism not Sabbath or Circumcisio
that is why Jesus stresses so much important on Baptism. Similarly, 1 Peter 3:21 also say the same.

s) How do we know if someone is saved?

Sabbath is not a sign or seal that indicate who is being saved. Not that a person when saved will start keeping the OT rituals and Law. Rather it is the fruit of the
Holy Spirit that indwells in us that will began to produce good fruits. The only way to judge is by the fruit they produce. Jesus said this in Matthew 7:16-20:Ye
shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? (17) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree
bringeth forth evil fruit. (18) A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. (19) Every tree that bringeth not forth
good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. (20) Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.. Matthew 13:23: But he that received seed into the good
ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Paul
compares between someone led by the law and someone being saved and inwell by the Spirit. He said in Gal 5: 18-21: But if you are led by the Spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry and witchcraft; hatred,
discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. But when some one walked in
the Spirit he is under the control of the Spirit. The Spirit will give him the desires to do good things. The Spirit living in Him after being being saved will
manifested the following fruits, that is why Roman 7:4 says you were dead to Law in oreder to bear fruit to God. Paul listed down what are the fruit of the
Spirit in Gal 5:22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
24: And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. To be filled with
the Spirit means that someone will act spiritual that they are under the control of the Spirit and the fruit of his presence will show. They will not lash out or
anger quickly they will be patient and longsuffering, joy, meekness,etc etc this is how one knows they are in the Spirit and not the flesh. Someone walking in
Law will have the tendency of their flesh desires to commit sins because it is not from their heart rather it is because of certain law governing them. Man by
tendency wanted to do something which is prohibited but those who walk in Spirit are free and this freedom in Christ make them more confident and have no
desires to lust for their flesh. The Spirit delling in will produce a desire to do good. The result is not by oneself but it is purely the work manifested by the Spirit.
There is huge difference person not commiting sin by fear of the law and person commiting no sin by his own conviction and understanding.

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90. Are Christian Free to Sins if Law of Moses is abolished?

No one in the history or any apostles ever taught that Christian cannot fall away. It is abviuosly clear that man by natural tendency desires to lust his flesh.
Christian after being saved can still fall away or may fall into sin when they have no power to resist the temptation. The bible never says that believers cannot
sin after being saved. 1 John 2:1: My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father-Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He says not to encourage in sin, but to comfort under a sense of it: He is speaking of a BELIEVER'S occasional sins of
infirmity through Satan's fraud and malice. The use of "we" immediately afterwards implies that we all are liable to this, though not necessarily constrained to
sin. 1 John 1:7-9: the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If
we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Have," not "have had," must refer not to
the past sinful life while unconverted, but to the present state wherein believers have sin even still. Observe, "sin" is in the singular; "(confess our) sins" (1 John
1:9) in the plural. Sin refers to the corruption of the old man still present in us, and the stain created by the actual sins flowing from that old nature in us. 1 John
3:4-6: Whosoever commits sin transgresses also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. This verse is taken out of context and smuggled by Law to
assume that so far as we break OT Law we are still under sin. Well this is not what the text says. All it says is a general definition of what sin is. And this verse
does not end here read vs 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin.. Notice the past tense appeared, because
sin is breaking of the law, human always break the law, Jesus appeared to take away the sins which we commit in day to day life, inborn sin. Vs 6 Whoever
stays in him sins not: whoever sins has not seen him, neither known him.. Not that he has no sin in him, or lives without sin, but he does not live in sin, nor
give up himself to a vicious course of life. In so far as he abides in Christ or have communion, so far is he free from all sin. When we sin after being saved we
are not totally damned. The Holy Spirit inside us does not leave us instead we grive him when we sin Ephe 4:30 dnt grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom
you were sealed for the day of redemption even when we sin, we are still sealed with it all we do is grieve the Holy Spirit. Under the NT when we fall away
we are not completely fallen away but there is a safe net type of arrangement down us that can hold us which is grace. With that grace we can still stand up and
walk just like a person walking in single tie rope fitted with net down him. The good thing in the NT is the Spirit within us will guide us to get up and move
further taking our fall point as a steping stone unlike the OT law where God judges with punishment. By definition sin is breaking Law but not all sin lead us to
death because greater things is done by Jesus by his blood. 1 John 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death

91. Most important commandment (Love) that show we are saved

John 13:34-35: "A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are
my disciples, if you love one another. This is restated over and over like in John 15:10 (if you keep my commandments you will abide in my Love, just as I
have kept my Fathers commandments , this my commandments that you love one another as I have Loved you), 1 John 4:21, etc.. 1 John 3:14-15: we have
that we have passed from death unto life (after being saved) because we love the brethren. He that loves not his brethren abides in death. Whosoever hates his
brother is murder and you know no murderer has eternal life. The only external evidence to show that we are saved is by our outwad love we show to other.
The same is said in 1 John 4:12-13: No man has seen God at anytime if we love one another God dwell in us and His love is perfected. By this we know that we
abides in us and He in us because he has given us His Spirit. In James 2:8-16 deals with Royal Law which is a commandment to love our neighbor as
ourselves. This is the basic frame for the entire NT. The writer of James goes on to say that faith without works is death which he means by work done out of
love. 2 John 1:5-7: I wrote to you not a new commandments but that you heard from the beginning that we love one another. This is love that we walk
according to His commandment. This is the commandment as you have heard it from the beginning you should walk in it.when one is saved, the Spirit will
create a desire for good fruits such as love, mercy, meekness, self -control etc. when we have true love in us it is an indication of being saved.

92. What is Commandments mentioned in Revelation?

Another potential source of confusion created by Sabbatarians is in Rev 12:17who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ But
what is commandments of God refered to? Remember the writer of Revelation is the one who wrote 1 John, 2 John and 3rd John. Does commandemnts refer to
Ten Commandments? Apostles nowhere used Ten Commandments as Jesus commandments. Just because Commandments is when used does not necessary
means Ten Commandments. Look at I John 3:21-24 because we keep his commandments (entole-plural) and do those things that are pleasing to His sight.
And this is His commandment (singular): to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. Those who obey His
commandments (plural) live in Him, and he in HIm . By this we know that he abides in us by the Spirit he has given us. So, Commandments mentioned in Rev
12:17 is what I John 3:21-24 talking about. The word Commandmentsused by John is Entole in Greek which simply means Teachings or instructions. In
contrast, John unmistakably used Nomos when he refered to the Mosaic Law.In the book of Roman 7:6-7, Paul talks about commandment which is undoubtedly
the Ten Commandment because he is referring to the Law of Moses. Similarly, in I Jn. 5:2-3: By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
God and keep His commandments. V.3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. The
Sabbatarians argue these Commandments as the Ten Commandmentsbut a close look to this will bring us to the light that the passages do not even talk about
the Ten. Let us look at what Jesus taught us about his commandments For My yoke is easy and My burden is light (Mt. 11:30). This brings us to the fact that
the Commandments are not burdensomementioned in I John 5:2-3, cannot be Moses Law but of Jesus. In Acts 15:28 the apostles decided that it seemed
good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things. Therefore, if I John 5:2-3 be taken literally, it cannot be the
Moses law as it was regarded as a burden. 1 John 5:3 commandments not burdensome is Love one another. Read 1 John 4:20: if someone say I love God and
hate his brother he is a liar, for he he who does not love his brother whom he has seen how can he love God whom he cannot see? And this commandment we
have from Him that he who loves God must love his brother, 1 John 5:1: whoever believe that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him
who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him, by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandemnts. And his
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commandments is not burdensome. Obviuosly this comandments which is not burdensome is Love in faith. Vs 4-5: for whoever is born of God overcomes the
world. This is the victory that has overcome the world-our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world but who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Apparently
commandments not burden is by our faith and our believd that Jesus is the Son of God.

93. Why Did God tell Isrealites for an annual Sacrifice?

Hebrew 10:1-3 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices
repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship 2. Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers
would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins. In plain
Aramaic: for the written Law had only a shadow in it of the good things that were coming. The coming of good thing is present active participle melloton
that is present and continuously ongoing action. As we can see they were given all the norms and the law, sacrifice and offering commandments so that they
were constantly reminded of their sins. If Law is the shadow, i dont think it is logical enough to observe it where the reality has already replaced it. If the OT
rituals are so important for God, why would he allow his Temple to be destroyed and left his people with priesthood? This will be only logical if God have
fulfilled them all in Christ. The good things mention is better covenant with better promises (Heb 8:6), the promise of eternal inheritance (9:15), and faith is the
substance of things hope for and the evidence of not sin (Heb 11:1). Hebrew 9:11: But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that are now already
here The good things are past, present and for future. The word appeared or being come is paragenomenos-second aoristco middle deponent particple which
is completed action that last with its effect. And some versions translate as things to come but the verb there is Aorist middle deponent participle or completed
action genomenon with future effect (past continuous tense), this is not dealing about good things to come in future but completed action of good things that
are present. In Aramaic it says Messiah who has come has become the high preist of the good things that he did. But what are the good things spoken here
from previous things? we can see this in Vs 6-10; which deals with daily divine service and worship outside the Holy place, vs 7 the Holy Spirit has indicated
by this that way to Most holy for antonement made once a year by high priest (vs 6), gift and offering sacrifices cannot take away their sins (vs 9), foods, drinks,
and various washing imposed until the time of reformation(vs 10). All this were what that cast the shadow of good things that Jesus did. This verses are not
promoting future observation of the shadow which is the Law.

94. What does Jesus mean the Will of His Father?

Here again another gigantic leap is made by Sabbath keepers. They believe that the will of the Father is Moses Law and hence include the Sabbath keeping.
They are trying desperately to fit the Sabbath one way or the other. We must know that the Greek word for will is thelema, not nomas which is used for the
Law of Moses. Mathew 12:50: For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.49 Pointing to His disciple he said thse
are my brother and sister. The disciple never kept Sabbath, nor did they ever participate in OT ritual in the temple. In Mark 3:34 he point at the crowd who
listen to Him as his brother and sisters. He did not point at Pharisees who keep the OT ritual and Law.
What is the will of God? And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day For my
Fathers will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day John 6:39-40. Believing
in Jesus is the actual will of the Father; it has nothing to do with Ten Commandments and Moses Law. Roman 2:18 states Fathers will is outside the Law. Jesus
did not honour the Sabbath; he in fact knew the spiritual meaning by not an outward observation according to John 5:18.

95. Commandments is not only Ten Commandments in the stone Tablets

Lev 27:34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai. The Commandments includes everything,
read from verse 1-34, they are all refered to as commandments. Similar passage is seen in Num 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which
the Lord commanded. You can read for yourself, the commandments include not only the Ten as we can see from verse 1-13. The same is said in Deut 30:10
obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law. In Deu 6:1-25 many things are listed many
things and called it my commandments statutes and judgements from vs1. In vs 24: the LORD command us to obey all these commandments all thses
statutes. The entire chapter is not about Ten Commandments but is called Statutes, Decree and judgement. Similarly in Deu 4:1-40 also call many
commandments as statutes, judgements which are not Ten Commandments. By reading the whole chapter of Deu 30, it evidently removes our doubt that
commandments do not mean only Ten Commandments.There are several hundreds of commandments given to them by God. Jesus defined the commandments
to include all Law of Moses: Mt 19:17-19 Jesus said: "keep the commandments." The man replied "Which one?" Jesus listed all the nine Commandments (dont
commit adultery, murder, dont steal no bearing falsw witnesses, honoring Father and mother) along with one extra commandment which was not in the list Ten
Commandments, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself". In the meantime, if Sabbath is a moral law and very essential for us why did Jesus skip over? The
reason is simple, it is not moral law and hence not required. There are many commandments that God gave to Israelites besides the Ten Commandments.
Nevertheless, to differentiate from the other commandments, the Ten Commandments are called the Sinai Covenant made by God with their ancestors at Sinai
which is a bridge edition of all the commandments. God promised in Jeremiah 31: 31-38 to establish a new covenant to Israel not like the old covenant he
made through Moses which was fulfilled in Matthew 5:2-48 on Mount when Jesus made the final fulfilment of the Law and taught the beautitudes, revised
the Commandments with higer legal demands. In Matthew 5:2-48 Jesus explained the law in detail and enforced them not like the old covenant but with much
stricker form in spiritual perspects. The old covenant is none other than the Ten Commandments given to them at Sinai which are replaced with new covenant..

96. The word Decree and Ordinances are called Ten Commandments.
Every time Sabbatarians see the expression "Statutes, Ordinances and Decrees", they automatically exclude the 10 commandments and apply it only to what
they falsely call, "the ceremonial law." Yet here are many passages where these common expressions refer to the 10 commandments exclusively: Ephe 2:15
Having abolished in his Flesh the enemy that is law of commandmnents contained in ordinance, so as to create in himself one new man from the two thus
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making peace. The word Ordinance or Decree is the same word used for mispatim. There is another word used by KJV as Judgement for the same word
Ordinance. They are all the same in meaning. In Deut 5:1-21 all the Ten Commandments are called "My statutes and all My ordinances". In Ezekiel 20:19-21
the weekly Sabbath is called "My statutes and all My ordinances". Exo 23:32Then you wait here near me and I will give you ALL the commandments, the
statutes and decrees you must teach them, that they may observe them in the land." In Mal 4:4 the chapter closed with a call to keep "statutes and ordinances"
which obviously include the 10 commandments! In Neh 9:13-14 the weekly Sabbath is included without distinction: "right judgments, true laws, good statutes,
and commandments". See in Lev 19:1-37 the Ten Commandments and the ceremonial law are mixed together without distinction and called "all my statures
and all my ordinances. Neh 10: 29: all His commandments the LORD our God his Ordinances and Statutes. Here statutes and ordinance include Sabbath,
read down the verse in 33. In Deut 30:10obey the LORD your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law. In
Num 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded. The whole two chapters of Deut 5:1-6:25 that deals exclusively
with the 10 commandments and the following 5 terms are used interchangeably without distinction: "statutes", "ordinances", "commandments", "judgments",
"testimonies. The OT is full of commandments besides the Ten Commandments. The above word commandments in Number 36:13 is not refering to the Ten
Commandments because besides the word commandments there are words associated along with this and they are statutes or ordinances or decree (they are all
the same).
97. The Commandment and His commandments differences in NT
First thing we must accept that Jesus never said keep the Ten Commandments, all he said was keep my commandments. Some Sabbatarains make a gigantic
mistake in the NT whenever the word commandmentsappear. Here is the truth: His Commandments is Jesus Commandments. Matt. 28:20:Teaching them to
observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Jesus never commanded to keep the Sabbath in his
teaching during His ministry. Not even once by the apostles too. Acts 1:2 Until the time he was taken, after he through the Holy Spirit had given
commandments to the apostles he had chosen. In other word, whatever the apostles taught were the true commandments of Jesus. Some deny this because
there is no mentioned of the Sabbath. Interestingly, Paul says in Rome. 7:10-12and the commandment which was to bring life I found death, sin taking
occasions by the commandment, deceived me and kill me". Paul is talking about the Ten Commandment. He doesnt say His commandments because he is
elaborating the significance of the Ten Commandments which used to guide him has now become an objectof strumbling block to him.This chapter deals with
the Ten Commandments which is still apart of the law. Jesus word in John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you,
so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.The word new means new, not old. There was no
such commandment like to love one another in the Ten Commandments. 1 John4:19-21 We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet
hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this
command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother." Another remarkable speech of apostles is1 John 2:3-11"We know that we have come to know him if
we obey His (Jesus) commandment. The whole chapter deals with Love which was earlier neglected but newly instituted by Jesus. John 14:15-18 If you love
me, you will obey what I command. Also in John 14:21 "Whoever has my commandments and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. The same is in John
15:14-15 "You are my friends if you do what I command." Jesus commandments in John 15:12-13 "My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you."
Jesus told the disciples that the true doctrines will be revealed after the Holy Spirit came besides his commands in John 14:26-27:"But the Counsellor, the Holy
Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you" and that John 16:13 tells us: But
when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. The commandments that the apostles gave us are the inspired commandments for us.

Jesus commandments are Gods commandments: 2 John 1:9: whoever transgress and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have
God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both God and the Son.John 14:24: he who does not love me does not keep my words and the word which
you heard is not mine but my Fathres who sent me. In John 12:49 Jesus says what he spoke I of the Father. John 15:10: if you keep my commandments you
will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abides in His Love John 14:3: the world may know that I love tha Father as the
Father gave me commandment so I do. 2 John 1:9; whoever abides not in the doctrine of Christ does not have God but he who does has both the Father and
the Son.

Paul Commandments is from Jesus himself: Gal 1:12: I neither received it from man nor was I taught but it came through revelation of Jesus
Christ. In other word whatever Paul wrote in his epistles are all direct revelation from Jesus Christ.
98. Paul and St. Luke used Commandment (Singular) to denote the Ten from the other commandments of Jesus
Roman 7:8: for sin taking occasion by the Commandment, produce to me all manner of evil desire kill me. For without the law sin was dead. 5) Roman 7:911For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.10. I found that the very commandment that was intended
to bring life actually brought death. 11. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me and kill me. Before going through we need to look into
what this commandment really means. The main purpose of God for giving the Ten Commandment was to make them conscious about their sins (verse 13 that
the sin through commandment becomes exceedingly sinful). By Commandment Paul means the Ten Commandments which were part of the Law. Now
consider the verse 7 says for i would not have known covetousness unless the Law say thou shall not covet. In Luke 23:56 they rested the Sabbath
according to the Commandment. Both Luke and Apostle Paul unmistakenly used the same word Commandment (singular) for the Ten Commandments to
distinguish from the commandments (Plural) of Jesus. Therefore, when the word Commandments (Plural) is used in the NT, it refers to the commandments of
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99. Apostles commandments are GODS commandments

a) 2 peter 3:2 You should remember the words spoken beforehand by the holy prophet and the Commandmnents of the Lord and Saviour spoken by your
apostles. b) 1Corth 14:37 If anyone thinks himself to be prophets or spiritual let him acknowledges that the things which I write to you are the
commandments of the Lord c) In Acts 1:2 After that he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments unto the apostles. See in d) Colosian 4:10
Aristarchus my fellow prisoner greet you, with Mark the cousin of Barbabas (about whom you received the commandments). e) Mathew 28:20 Jesus said
teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you. Jesus never advocates observation of Ten Commandments but all his commandments
which superceed the former. f) 1John 5:1-3 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone who loves Him who is begotten of Him. By
this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God we keep His commandments, and
His commandmentsare not burdensome. By believing Jesus and following all his commandments, we declare our love for God.
Some commandments and instructions of Jesus Christ
1 Repent"
2. "Come unto Me"
3. "Seek first God and His righteousness"
4. "Forgive if ye have ought against any"
5. "Deny Yourself"
6. "Askseekknock"
7. "Strive to enter in at the strait gate"
8. "Believe the Gospel"
9. "Ye believe in God, believe also in Me"
10. "Believe on Him who He (God) hath sent"
11. "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me"
12. "Believe the worksI do"
13. "While ye have light believe in the light"
14. "Believe that ye receive"
15 Ye must be born again"
16. "Abide in Me and I in you"
17. "Have salt in yourselves"
18. "Be baptized"
19. "Take this(communion) in remembrance of Me"
20. "Continue ye in My love"
21"Pray always"
22. "Pray that ye enter not into temptation"
23. "Praythe Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth labourers"
24. "Pray for them which despitefully use you"
25 "Pray to the Fatherin my name"
26 "After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father, which art in heaven"
27 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works"
28 Preach the gospel to every creature"
29 "Repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His (Christs) name"
30. "Baptize disciples, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and the Holy Ghost"
31"Teach them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded"

Matt. 4:17;
Rev. 2:5
Matt. 11:28
Matt. 6:33
Mark 11:25
Matt. 16:24
Matt. 7:7
Luke 13:24
Mark. 1:15
John 14:1
John 6:28-29
John 14:11
John 10:37-38
John 12:36
Mark 11:2
John 3:7
John 15:4
Mark 9:50
Matt. 3:13-15;
Matt. 28:19
Luke 22:17-19
John 15:9
Luke 21:36
Luke 22:40, 46
Luke 10:2
Luke 6:28
Matt.6:6;
John16:24,26
Matt. 6:9-13
Matt. 5:16
Mark. 16:15; Matt.10:7
Luke 24:46-47
Matt. 28:19
Matt. 28:20

100. Devoid of Moses law never means ungodly?

Roman have their own code of conduct and law, they executed the criminals, theives, and law breakers. Every religion teaches good things, not only the Torah.
Even before the Ten Commandments and Law were given, sin was recognised and with that God destroyed the world by a flood. Marriage was instituted in
creation but even this is not mandatory, many of the apostles were single. The fact is, Mosaic ceremonial Law is never equated with the eternal moral law
which has been operated from the very beginning of human history although they were not written down until Mount Sinai. The moral Law were understood
and honored by the earliest patriarchs. Even Cain knew that it was a sin to kill, because God told him that sin lieth at the door (Genesis 4:7) before he
murdered his brother. It is impossible for sin to exist where there is no law. The Bible teaches, for where no law is, there is no transgression (Romans 4:15).
Again we are told, Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. (1 John 3:4). This principle is amplified
further by Pauls statement that I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet (Romans
7:7). These verses nail down the truth that no sin can be imputed where the moral law is not in effect. Gods statement to Cain about sin lying at the door was in
reference to his plan to kill Abel, a violation of one of the Moral Law. This is absolute proof that the moral law was in effect at that early date. Later, Joseph
revealed that he was aware of the binding claims of that same law. He said to Potiphars wife, how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
(Genesis 39:9). He knew adultery was sin before Moses was born. Abraham was highly praised by God in these words: Because that Abraham obeyed my
voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws (Genesis 26:5). It is very obvious that the law which Abraham faithfully obeyed was
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not the Law of Moses, because that law was given 430 years later. This is not dealing about Mosaic ceremonial law, his statutes and ordidanaces are what he
performed when God told Him. From Gen 9-26. Gen 18:19 says: for he will command his children and household after him to keep the way of the LORD.His
obedient to the LORD is by moving from his native to Ur to Canan, his sacrifice of Isaac, his odedient to circumcision, his belief in God promises etc etc. Also
he did not keep the Sabbath as it was not known to him because God gave the Sabbath only to the Israelites at Sinai: Neh 9:13-14: Then You came down on
Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven; You gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments. 14 So You made known to
them Your holy Sabbath. Therefore, what God talks about the Law kept by pre-mosaic people were undoubtably the moral Law. And we have just established
that the moral law existed before Abraham, condemning even Cain for murder. Neither is it possible for us to conceive that great, godly Abraham was not
acquainted with the basic issues of right and wrong that were later contained in the Ten Commandments in the Israelietes moral Law. It is absolutely certain
that the other laws were added 430 years later, and it was in addition to the one (the moral law) Abraham kept so diligently. What I mean is this: The law,
introduced 430 years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God in Christ that should make the promise of no effect (Galatians
3:17). The context of this verse indicates that Paul is talking about the Law of Moses which was given 430 years after Abraham. Paul goes on to say that this
newly instituted Law does not affect the previous covenant that God made with Abraham by his faith. Abrahamic covenant was more important than Sinaitic
covenant because the Abrahamic covenant was under faith that points towards Christ (vs 16). Paul goes further that Mosaic covenant was added only till the
Abrahamic covenant was fulfilled in Christ vs 19: The law was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promised was made.
Sinai covenant was given basically to keep the people in tract till the main purpose was accomplished by Christ. Whatever it may be we are justified by faith
which is the gospel preached by Paul. Not only this, we can clearly see that the moral law was ever binding to mankind and not the ceremonial law that includes
the Sabbath. Hence, we conclude that the moral law was ever binding to all Gods holy people from the beginning of the time although it was later handed
down to the Israelites in a written form.

101. Jewish Feasts are No more valid for Believers

Ephe 2:15: having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new
man, so making peace. The word ordinance sometime refered as decree is dogmain Greek that refered to Ten Commandments. The Law of
Commandments means the commandments which were written in the Ten Commandments of the Law for the Israelites to obey so that they could be acceptable
to God. The Law of Moses separate Jews from Gentiles, Christ cancelled this bond by his blood vs 13: but now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have
been made near by the blood of Christ. There is freedom in Christ (Romans 8:21; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1). Should a Christian practice Sabbathkeeping by not working on Saturday? If a Christian feels to do so, absolutely, yes (Romans 14:5). However, those who choose to practice Sabbath-keeping
should not judge those who do not keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16).
Galatians 4:9-11, "But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye
desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, seasons, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." This was
the word of warning by Paul to Galatians who were convinced and taught by some fanatic Jews. The word season is kairos which is Moedim Hebrew word
for appointed feasts used in Lev 23:4, Num 9:3. The sequence of festivals is nothing but the Jewish holidays as we can see in 1 Chron 23:31Sabbaths and at
New Moon festivals and at appointed feasts (weekly-monthly-season wise). Paul was familiar with the OT Hebraic pattern used it in the NT. We can see the
sequence is from the OT as weekly-monthly-seasonal-yearly as in a) 2 Chron. 2:4 on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our
God.b) 2 Chron. 8:13according to the daily rate, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, on the New Moons, and the solemn
feasts three times in the year--even in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles (Masoretic text).
c) 2 Chron.31:3 the Sabbaths, New Moons and appointed feasts as written in the Law of the LORD. d) Neh.10:33 Sabbaths, new moons, set feasts. In both
Ezekiel and Hosea we find the pattern reversed as seasonal-monthly-weekly: a) Ezekiel 45:17 feasts, new moons, Sabbath.
b) Hosea 2:11feast days, new moons, Her Sabbaths Therefore, the explanation of Gal 4:10: You observe days and months and seasons and years. Here
the thesequence is you observe, days (weekly Sabbaths, Holy days), months (new moons), seasons (the 7 feasts as commanded in the law) and years is Jews
Sabbatical years.
Colosian 2:16: Having wiped out the hand writing of requirements of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the
way, having nailed it to the cross. So let no one judge in question of food or drinks or religious festival, new moon or Sabbath which are shadow of thing to
come but the reality is found in Christ. What is the handwriting Paul is referring to? To help us let us see Deuteronomy 4:13: So He declared to you His
covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone. . So, the hand written that was
contrary to us is the wriiten OT law on the tablets of stone which will judge us and punish us if we rebel. Firtsly, There are two views for these verses. First, we
see this reflects Ezekiel 45:17: the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings at the feast, new moon and Sabbaths. If we assume Col 2:16 is
referring to Eze 45:17, it is teaching us that those regulations are already obsolete for the reality is Christ. Many Sabbath keepers argue that Col 2:16 is rather
teaching us to obseve despite of other judgement on us. But the thing is Paul is contrasting the shadow and reality, which one is more true to hold? the shadow
or the substance? Obviously, the substance! Paul will not say something to be obseve if it was contray to us in the first place. Granting that this verse is
affirnming Sabbath observation did the Sabbath keepers still keep drinks and food offering of the OT listed along with Sabbath here? Do they practice offering
drinks offer everyday? Absolutely they dont. But what is drink offering? We read in 1) Exo 29:40 And with the first lamb a tenth measure of fine flour
mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 2) Number 28:7: And the drink offering thereof shall be the
fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you cause the strong wine to be poured to the LORD for a drink offering. 3) Num 15:5: With
each lamb for the burnt offering or the sacrifice, prepare a quarter of a hin of wine as a drink offering. This is a daily drink offering to be offered. Did Sabbath

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Keeper keep this if they say Col 2:16 affirm Sabbath observation? What about Meat (food) spoken here? Taking with Ezekiel context, we read Exo 29:41:
Sacrifice the other lamb at twilight with the same grain offering and its drink offering as in the morning--a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the
LORD. Etc. Why is Sabbath observation an affirmimg word yet drinks and food offering a negative part of observation? So even if Col 2:16 is interpreted in the
light of OT ritual law of Eze 44:11, this does not teach Sabbath observation. As a matter of fact Col 2:16 cannot be the possible connection with drink and meat
offered only at feasts and Sabbth. If it is the writer could say like this: let no man therefore judge you in food and drinks along with their offering time at feasts
new moon and Sabbath. So we are to conclude that this is not making refrence to Ezekiel. Instead this is referring to meat (bromo-OT prohibited meats, and
drinks is ceremonially unclean drink that the priest avoid Lev 10:9 (dont drink wine) Ezekiel 44:21 (no preist to drink wine), and may even refers to
ceremonially unclean drink Lev 11:34 (not to drink water from vessel which is contaminated by unclean animals or ceremonially unclean things). Broadly
speaking Col 2:16 is dealing with any meat considered unclean under OT and meat offerings, and any type of drinks consider ceremonially unclean be it by
unclean things or wine. All these have their value before the true substance arrives but when the true substance came they are no more needed to be observed or
kept. The idea wine is now permitted is not because we can drink wine for lust rather in the OT it was totally prohibited for priest now is not mandatory for us
as we practice Lord;s supper with wine. By offering can also see the sequence as above referring to Seasonal- monthly-weekly. Finally, Pauls letter to Titus is
a crystal evidence of Jewish feasts and tradition being not at all obligatory for those in Christ. Finally, Paul cautions us to be deligent in avoiding certain
traditions particularly Jewish in Titus 1:14 Not giving heeds to Jewish traditions and commandments of man who turn from the truth.
102. Sabbath was seen as a goddess in Ancient Israel
Shabbat Hamalka" by Ilil Arbel, Ph.D. Excerpts: "Her origin is extremely ancient, and as the centuries rolled by, Shabbat Hamalka acquired magical qualities,
combining the character of Queen, Bride, and Goddess. In addition, she took on strong erotic/romantic and cosmic/spiritual significance. The usual Judaic
connections to Akkadian myths exist in her image, because the word Shabbat resembles the name of the Akkadian feast of the full moon, Shabbatu. The
romantic character of the two holidays also had much in common. For example, marital intercourse on Friday night was considered a sacred duty, exactly like
the sacred sexual activity during Shabbatu. However, the Akkadians never had a weekly day of rest - the idea seems to start in the second chapter of Genesis."
Among the goddesses representing either the female side of Yahweh or his consorts, such as Asherah, Shekhina, Anath, and Lilith, Shabbat Hamalka has a
unique personality and origin. The name means Queen of the Sabbath, and the entity is the personification of the Jewish day of rest, Saturday. She still
possesses a prominent position in Judaic mythology. For example, Israelites children, even in completely non-religious surroundings, still sing songs to her
every Friday afternoon (in Hebrew 'Erev Shabatt' meaning the Sabbath Eve)before the Queen descends from Heaven to grace the world for twenty-four
hours. The "Queen of Heaven" can be found in the Old Testament. She is referred to in Hebrew as Malkath haShamayim ( ) in the Book of the
Prophet Jeremiah, written in 628 BC. Jeremiah 7:18:"The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough and make cakes of
bread for the Queen of Heaven." Jeremiah 44:15-18 We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and
will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our fathers, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time
we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm. But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink
offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine. Ancient Israelites worshiped a female diety when they turned away from
God. This Female diety was called Asherah or Sabbath Hamalaka. So Sabbath Shalom is something that the Jews have the custom of wishing on the pre-arrival
of Sabbath from centuries. Even today Jews never know the plurity of God which is the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit rather considered God or elohim as both
female and male deity. Plurality of God (Elohim) in the OT was finally revealed in the NT where the blessed Trinity of Godhead was fully revealed.

103. Is Sabbath really a Saturday?

In AD 321, the Emperor made big compromisesby modifying the existing eight-day weekly cycle ofJulian Calender to Hebrew seven-day weekly cycle. He
blended the Hebrew idea of Seven- day cycle and incorporated into the Julian calendar. Sunday which was an important day for the Christians was set as a day
of worship; Saturday on the otherhand was the First day of the weekly eight-day cycle. Even their Seven-day weekly calendar (Babylonian origin) was changed
with the names assigned after their pagan gods. Pope Gregory in 1582 went one step further to our present day Calender. Julian calendar is 12 days lagging to
our modern Calendar. That is why some Greek Orthodox celebrates Christmas on 6 Jan rather than 25 th Dec. The immense
significance of this for Christians is found in the fact that today Sunday cannot be the exact day on which Christ arose from
the dead, because Sunday did not exist in the Julian calendar of Christs day. Nor can Saturday be the Biblical seventhday Sabbath because the pagan planetary week originally began on Saturday. The following drawing of a stick calendar
found at the Baths of Titus (constructed A.D.79 81) shown above, provides further proof that neither the Biblical Sabbath
nor the day of Christs Resurrection can ever be found using the Julian calendar. These seven symbols of men representing the
names of the week are from Babylonian weekly basis used by Roman substituting the name for their gods.The center circle contains the 12 signs of the zodiac,
corresponding to the 12 months of the year. The Roman numerals in the left and right columns indicate the days of the month. Across the top of the stick
calendar appears the seven planetary gods of the pagan Romans. Saturday, (or dies Saturni the day of Saturn) was the very first day of the week, notthe
seventh day. As the god of agriculture, he can be seen in this preminent position of importance, holding his symbol, a sickle. Next, on the second day of the
pagan planetary week, is seen the sun god with rays of light emanating from his head. Sunday was originally the second day of the planetary week and was
known as dies Solis. The third day of the week was dies Lunae (day of the Moon Monday). The moon goddess is shown wearing the horned crescent moon as
a diadem on her head. The rest of the gods follow in the order: dies Martis (day of Mars); dies Mercurii (day of Mercury); dies Jovis (day of Jupiter); and dies
Veneris (day of Venus), the seventh day of the week. Those who argue that Sabbath is the Saturday is brain-washed. If however the Sabbatarians are claiming
that Christian are worshiping Sun then they have to see themselves which day they worship. As suggested by many Scholars when Gregory changed the

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calendar, the original sequence was unaltered but the days had changed which create a ground for debate by many theologians. The Jewish had 354 days in their
Calendar but extra month was added after every 2 or three years before the month of Nisan so that Nisan always falls on spring season and their calendar
remains intact with the solar years. The calculation of Calendar is not a subject of debate which is a long topic, but if the claims made by Seventh Day
Adventists are true that the sequence is still unaltered since the New Testament, even then, there wasnt any early church father gathering on Jewish Sabbath or
Saturday. What we can do best is to set one day out of seven days and to worship him. The truth is we are not commanded to worship only on Sunday or
Monday or Saturday but everyday. It is ones personal choice which day he choose. A Catholic who believes that Christ was resurrected on Sunday is far more
consistent than a Sunday-keeping Protestant who claims to base all of his beliefs on the Bible and the Bible only. Catholics place tradition and the decrees of
their popes ahead of the Bible, so there is no inconsistency for them in believing that Sunday is the day of the resurrection. For them, truth is whatever tradition
and their pope decrees it to be. However, for a Protestant to denounce the Catholics for following tradition rather than the Bible, and yet still worship on
Sunday, is inconsistent in the extreme. So, it will be wrong on the part of Protestants to condemn the Catholics. Furthermore, for Jews and Saturday
sabbatarians to insist that the Precise and Correct Day does matter to God, and then keep the seventh-day by the pagan planetary calendar is even more
inconsistent! If it is important to worship on the true Sabbath day, then the original calendar established by God at creation need to be used to calculate on
which day the Sabbath falls. Anything less is dishonest: Christians have always been truthful about calendar change. This hidden truth needs to be exposed.
When the historical facts of the Julian calendar are understood, it is clearly established that Sunday is not the only worship day founded upon pagan calendars.
Saturday, dies Saturni, the original first day of the planetary week is a counterfeit of the true seventh-day Sabbath of the Bible because they are both Pagan
name of gods and system. However, what matter to us is the Person whom we Worship and Adore rather than the days or months or years. If God requires a
specific day to worship Him he could have done that long back and if He wishes us to keep the Sabbath then Jesus need not die for us. As a Christian,we are
free from the Moses law but saved under grace and with that the method of worship and time are the liberty given to us. Those who keep the Saturday as
Sabbath should not stretch mystifications upon those who worship on Sunday; they honour the resurrection rather than the Jewish Feast Sabbath which is very
much reasonable. The bible in dozens of time says the law being terminated and by keeping the Jewish feast today, they have invalidated the precious blood of
Jesus. The details of why Christians should not observe the Jewish feast is discussed in the later part of the book. Meanwhile in Genesis, the creation account is
6 days, literally 24 hours; seventh day was the symbolic day of rest because the sun was made only on fourth day. God wanted to remind us his majestic way of
creating the entire cosmos in 6 literal days and not millions or billions of years. Christians observe Seven day calendric week to show Gods wonderful work of
creation in six days with ressurection.
104. Why do Christians worship on Sunday instead of Saturday?
Sometime Christians are charged of changing the Sabbath to Sunday with their worship on Sunday but does that mean Christians are changing the Sabbath to
Sunday? The answer is NO. Christians are not changing the Sabbath to Sunday; Sabbath is still the same day Saturday if the calendar is unaltered in sequence.
Often some people term Sunday as a Christian Sabbath but this is a loose way of speaking and nothing to do with changing the Sabbath to Sunday.
However, Sunday is a distinct day that follows the Sabbath. What Christians are observing on Sunday is something else. We are not observing the Sabbath on
the Sunday. We are observing something that the Sabbath (Ceremonial Feast) points torward, the true Spiritual Rest in Christ.Sunday worship dates back to
apostolic time long before the emperor Constantine. It will be alie to say that Sunday replaces Sabbath because Sabbath is still Saturday and Sunday is still the
First Day. If however, the true intention of Sabbath according to the old covenant is to be followed, then it must be purely a day of Rest and not a worship day.
For those who think of keeping the Sabbath as a day of Worship is actually breaking the real intention of God according to the Law. Christians keep the real
object (Christ), not the Sabbath that casted the shadow.Here is the story how Sunday was established as a day of gathering: Strictly speaking, the early church
Fathers were hard pressed to establish a day for common gathering. Since the bible maintains that Sabbaths true intention in the old covenant was a Day of
Rest and not a day of worship, the early Fathers saw what could be the true solution. The Sabbath was only a ceremonial law that ended at the cross when Christ
cancelled the bond in Col 2:16, and thus they were left to choose either to observe the Jewish Sabbath as a part of old covenant or to observe what the Jewish
Sabbath pre-figured (spiritual rest) as new covenant in Spirit. Hence, the early church Fathers under the true guidelines of the Holy Spirit purposely chose
Sunday for their gathering to honour his Resurrection and to distinct themselves from the Jews who observed the Law as an old covenant. That is why the
scriptures witness the early Church Fathers gathering on the first day of the week (Sunday) in the NT. Thus it is a lie spread by Anti- Sunday people who claim
their points without proper biblical authority. Since neither Jesus nor the apostles advocates Sabbath, his followers today must not see it as a mandatory either to
observe it as a day of rest (true biblical intention) or as a day of worship (not advocated by the Scriptures). Hence, Sabbath never points toward salvation but
bondage.

105. Early Church Fathers writings of Sunday Verses Sabbath:

Sabbath keepers often said that the Pope changed the Sabbath; yet not even one Adventist can come up with the year and the name of pope who changed the
Sabbath. Not only this even the first Pope did not exist until 606 AD! (over 500 years too late), this is far too late because Christians were already meeting on
Sundays from the earliest record of church history long before 100s year of Constatine. Now they assert that it was the Catholic Church and Christian that
changed the Sabbath in 135 AD. As Christian the true followers we will show them that Sunday was the Day of worship right from the Apostles until now, with
documents from the early Fathers writings.
1. The Didache 70 AD: We enjoin you to fast every fourth day of the week, and every day of the preparation, and the surplusage of your fast bestow upon the
needy; every Sabbath-day excepting one, and every Lord's day, hold your solemn assemblies, and rejoice: for he will be guilty of sin who fasts on the Lord's
day, being the day of the resurrection, or during the time of Pentecost, or, in general, who is sad on a festival day to the Lord. For on them we ought to rejoice
and not to mourn.bk. 5, sec. 3, xx. But every Lords Day gather yourselves together and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your

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transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. But let no one that is at variance with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your
sacrifice may not be profaned (Didache 14 [A.D. 70]).
2. Epistle of Barnabas AD 74: We keep the eighth day [Sunday] with joyfulness, the day also on which Jesus rose again from the dead" (Letter of
Barnabas 15:68 [A.D. 74]).
And we too rejoice in celebrating the eighth day; because that was when Jesus rose from the dead... [Epistle of Barnabas 15]
3. Epistle of Barnabas 100 AD: Moreover God says to the Jews, 'Your new moons and Sabbaths I cannot endure.' You see how he says, 'the present Sabbaths
are not acceptable to me, but the Sabbath which I have made in which, when I have rested [heaven: Heb 4] from all things, I will make the beginning of the
eighth day which is the beginning of another world.' Wherefore we Christians keep the eighth day for joy, on which also Jesus arose from the dead and when he
appeared ascended into heaven. (15:8f, The Epistle of Barnabas, 100 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, pg. 147)
4. Pliny 110 AD: they (Christians) were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ,

as to a God, and bound themselves by a solemn oath not to (do) any wicked deeds, never to commit any fraud, theft, or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor
deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of good foodbut food
of an ordinary and innocent kind. Seventh Day Adventist often claims this fixed day as Saturday which is wrong. The Fixed Day is Sunday; it cannot be
Sabbath because Sabbath starts at sundown and ends in sundown. This is about communion meal called the Lords Supper. It is clear from Pliny the Roman
writer that he understood that day to be something new which was never observed by Jews in the first century.
5. Ignatius of Antioch AD 110: [T]hose who were brought up in the ancient order of things [i.e. Jews] have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer
observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lords Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by him and by his death (Letter to the
Magnesians 8 [A.D. 110]).
We have seen how former adherents of the ancient customs have since attained to a new hope; so that they have given up keeping the Sabbath, and now order
their lives by the Lord's Day instead - the Day when life first dawned for us, thanks to Him (Jesus) and His death. [Epistle to the Magnesians 9]
6. Irenaeus, 150 AD: The Lorddid not make void, but fulfilled the law, by performing the offices of the high priestjustifying His disciples by the words of
the law, and pointing out that it was lawful for the priests to act freely [Mt 12:5]. For David had been appointed a priest by God, although Saul still persecuted
him. For all the righteous possess the sacerdotal rank. And all the apostles of the Lord are priests. (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 4.8.2-3; ANF 1:471). Meaning
believers are now priest can be justified even by breaking Law and Sabbath.
This [custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a symbol of the resurrection, through which we have been set free, by the grace of Christ, from sins,
and from death, which has been put to death under Him. Now this custom took its rise from apostolic times, as the blessed Irenaeus, the martyr and bishop of
Lyons, declares in his treatise On Easter, in which he makes mention of Pentecost also; upon which [feast] we do not bend the knee, because it is of equal
significance with the Lords day, for the reason already alleged concerning it (Fragments 7).
Irenaeus: A.D. 150 - "The Mystery of the Lord's Resurrection may not be celebrated on any other day than the Lord's Day, and on this alone should we observe
the breaking off of the Paschal Feast." (Eusebius, Church History, Bk. V, ch. 24)
Since, then, the law originated with Moses, it terminated with John as a necessary consequence. Christ had come to fulfill it: wherefore the law and the
prophets were with them until John. And therefore Jerusalem, taking its commencement from David, and fulfilling its own times, must have an end of
legislation when the new covenant was revealed pg 926. The Law terminated with John (Chapter 4)
This same does Ezekiel the prophet say with regard to the Sabbaths: Also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might
know that I am the Lord, that sanctify them. And in Exodus, God says to Moses: And ye shall observe My Sabbaths; for it shall be a sign between Me and
you for your generations. These things, then, were given for a sign; And that man was not justified by these things, but that they were given as a sign to the
people, this fact shows, - that Abraham himself, without circumcision and without observance of Sabbaths, believed God, and it was imputed unto him for
righteousness; and he was called the friend of God. pg 956 (Chapter 16) (Irenaus refers to Ezekiel 20:12)
7. Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, 170 AD wrote to the Roman Church, "Today we have kept the Lord's holy day (kyriake hagia hemera), on which we have
read your letter (Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Bk. 4, Chapt. 23 (emphasis added).
8. Gospel of Peter 180 AD: Early in the morning when the Sabbath dawned, a multitude from Jerusalem and the surrounding country came to see the scaled
sepulcher. In the night in which the Lord's day dawned, while the soldiers in pairs for each watch were keeping guard, a great voice came from heaven. [There
follows an account of the resurrection. Early in the morning of the Lord's day Mary Magdalene, a disciple of the Lord ....came to the sepulchre. (9:34f.; 12:50f.)
9. Acts of Peter 180 AD: Paul had often contended with the Jewish teachers and had confuted them, saying 'it is Christ on whom your fathers laid hands. He
abolished their Sabbath and fasts and festivals and circumcision. (1: I)-2
10. Clement of Alexandria 190 AD: He does the commandment according to the Gospel and keeps the Lord's Day, whenever he puts away an evil mind . . .
glorifying the Lord's resurrection in himself. (Ibid. Vii.xii.76.4)
11. Epistle of the Apostles 150 AD.-I [Christ] have come into being on the eighth day which is the Lords Day.
12. Justin 150 AD: He then speaks of those Gentiles, namely us, who in every place offer sacrifices to Him, i.e., the bread of the Eucharist, and also the cup of
the Eucharist, affirming both that we glorify His name, and that you profane [it]. The command of circumcision, again, bidding [them] always circumcise the
children on the eighth day, was a type of the true circumcision, by which we are circumcised from deceit and iniquity through Him who rose from the dead on
the first day after the Sabbath, [namely through] our Lord Jesus Christ. For the first day after the Sabbath, remaining the first of all the days, is called, however,
the eighth, according to the number of all the days of the cycle, and [yet] remains the first. (Justin, Dialogue 41:4)

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13. Justin 150 AD: Those who have persecuted and do persecute Christ, if they do not repent, shall not inherit anything on the holy mountain. But the
Gentiles, who have believed on Him, and have repented of the sins which they have committed, they shall receive the inheritance along with the patriarchs and
the prophets, and the just men who are descended from Jacob, even although they neither keep the Sabbath, nor are circumcised, nor observe the feasts.
Assuredly they shall receive the holy inheritance of God. (Dialogue With Trypho the Jew, 150-165 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, page 207)
14. Justin 150 AD: But if we do not admit this, we shall be liable to fall into foolish opinion, as if it were not the same God who existed in the times of Enoch
and all the rest, who neither were circumcised after the flesh, nor observed Sabbaths, nor any other rites, seeing that Moses enjoined such observances... For if
there was no need of circumcision before Abraham, or of the observance of Sabbaths, of feasts and sacrifices, before Moses; no more need is there of them now,
after that, according to the will of God, Jesus Christ the Son of God has been born without sin, of a virgin sprung from the stock of Abraham. (Dialogue With
Trypho the Jew, 150-165 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, page 206)
15. Justin 150 AD: And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the
writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these
good things. Then we all rise together and pray, and, as we before said, when our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in
like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen; and there is a distribution to each, and a
participation of that over which thanks have been given, and to those who are absent a portion is sent by the deacons. And they who are well to do, and willing,
give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any
other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. But Sunday is the
day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world;
and Jesus Christ our Saviour on the same day rose from the dead. For He was crucified on the day before that of Saturn (Saturday); and on the day after that of
Saturn, which is the day of the Sun, having appeared to His apostles and disciples, He taught them these things, which we have submitted to you also for your
consideration. (First apology of Justin, Weekly Worship of the Christians, Ch 68)
16. Justin 150AD: Moreover, all those righteous men already mentioned [after mentioning Adam. Abel, Enoch, Lot, Noah, Melchizedek, and Abraham],
though they kept no Sabbaths, were pleasing to God; and after them Abraham with all his descendants until Moses... And you [fleshly Jews] were commanded
to keep Sabbaths, that you might retain the memorial of God. For His word makes this announcement, saying, "That you may know that I am God who
redeemed you. (Dialogue With Trypho the Jew, 150-165 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers , vol. 1, page 204)
17. Justin 150 AD: There is no other thing for which you blame us, my friends, is there than this? That we do not live according to the Law, nor, are we
circumcised in the flesh as your forefathers, nor do we observe the Sabbath as you do. (Dialogue with Trypho 10:1. In verse 3 the Jew Trypho acknowledges
that Christians 'do not keep the Sabbath.')
18. Justin 150AD: We are always together with one another. And for all the things with which we are supplied we bless the Maker of all through his Son Jesus
Christ and through his Holy Spirit. And on the day called Sunday there is a gathering together in the same place of all who live in a city or a rural district.
(There follows an account of a Christian worship service, which is quoted in VII.2.) We all make our assembly in common on the day of the Sun, since it is the
first day, on which God changed the darkness and matter and made the world, and Jesus Christ our Savior arose from the dead on the same day. For they
crucified him on the day before Saturn's day, and on the day after (which is the day of the Sun the appeared to his apostles and taught his disciples these things.
(Apology, 1, 67:1-3, 7; First Apology, 145 AD, Ante-Nicene Fathers , Vol. 1, pg. 186)
19. Justin Martyr 155 AD: [W]e too would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths, and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what reason
they were enjoined [on] you--namely, on account of your transgressions and the hardness of your heart. . . . [H]ow is it, Trypho, that we would not observe
those rites which do not harm us--I speak of fleshly circumcision and Sabbaths and feasts? . . . God enjoined you [Jews] to keep the Sabbath, and impose on you
other precepts for a sign, as I have already said, on account of your unrighteousness and that of your fathers (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew 18, 21).
20. Justin Martyr 150 AD: But Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly, because it is the first day on which God, having wrought a
change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Savior on the same day rose from the dead (First Apology 67 [A.D. 155]).
21. Tertullian 200 AD[L]et him who contends that the Sabbath is still to be observed as a balm of salvation, and circumcision on the eighth day . . . teach us
that, for the time past, righteous men kept the Sabbath or practiced circumcision, and were thus rendered friends of God. For if circumcision purges a man,
since God made Adam uncircumcised, why did he not circumcise him, even after his sinning, if circumcision purges? . . . Therefore, since God originated Adam
uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, consequently his offspring also, Abel, offering him sacrifices, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath,
was by him [God] commended [Gen. 4:17, Heb. 11:4]. . . . Noah also, uncircumcisedyes, and unobservant of the SabbathGod freed from the deluge. For
Enoch too, most righteous man, uncircumcised and unobservant of the Sabbath, he translated from this world, who did not first taste death in order that, being a
candidate for eternal life, he might show us that we also may, without the burden of the law of Moses, please God" Melchizedek also, "the priest of most high
God," uncircumcised and inobservant of the Sabbath, was chosen to the priesthood of God. (An Answer to the Jews 2 [A.D. 203]).
22. Tertullian 200 AD: "We solemnize the day after Saturday in contradistinction to those who call this day their Sabbath" (Tertullian's Apology, Ch 16)
23. Tertullian 200 AD: It follows, accordingly, that, in so far as the abolition of carnal circumcision and of the old law is demonstrated as having been
consummated at its specific times, so also the observance of the Sabbath is demonstrated to have been temporary. (An Answer to the Jews 4:1, Ante-Nicene
Fathers Vol. 3, page 155)
24. Tertullian 200AD: To us Sabbaths are foreign. (On Idolatry, 14:6)4

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25. The Didascalia AD 225: The apostles further appointed: On the first day of the week let there be service, and the reading of the holy scriptures, and the
oblation [sacrifice of the Mass], because on the first day of the week called Sunday our Lord rose from the place of the dead, and on the first day of the week he
arose upon the world, and on the first day of the week he ascended up to heaven, and on the first day of the week he will appear at last with the angels of
heaven (Didascalia 2 [A.D. 225]).
26. Origen 229 AD: Hence it is not possible that the [day of] rest after the Sabbath should have come into existence from the seventh [day] of our God. On the
contrary, it is our Savior who, after the pattern of his own rest, caused us to be made in the likeness of his death, and hence also of his resurrection
(Commentary on John 2:28 [A.D. 229]).
27. Cyprian 250 AD: 'For in respect of the observance of the eighth day of the Jewish circumcision of the flesh, a sacrament was given beforehand in shadow
and in usage; but when Christ came, it was fulfilled in truth. For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord
should rise again, and should quicken us, and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lord's Day, went
before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came and spiritual circumcision was given to us (Cyprian, Letter LVIII )
28. Ignatius 250 AD: If anyone fasts on the Lord's Day or on the Sabbath, except on the paschal Sabbath only, he is a murderer of Christ. (The Epistle of
Ignatius to the Philippians, chapter 8)
29. Ignatius 250 AD: This [custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a symbol of the resurrection, through which we have been set free, by the grace
of Christ, from sins, and from death, which has been put to death under Him. Now this custom took its rise from apostolic times, as the blessed Irenaeus, the
martyr and bishop of Lyons, declares in his treatise On Easter, in which he makes mention of Pentecost also; upon which [feast] we do not bend the knee,
because it is of equal significance with the Lord's day, for the reason already alleged concerning it. (Ignatius, Fragments)
30. Ignatius 250AD: On the day of the preparation, then, at the third hour, He received the sentence from Pilate, the Father permitting that to happen; at the
sixth hour He was crucified; at the ninth hour He gave up the ghost; and before sunset He was buried. During the Sabbath He continued under the earth in the
tomb in which Joseph of Arimathaea had laid Him. At the dawning of the Lord's day He arose from the dead, according to what was spoken by Himself, As
Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of man also be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." The day of the
preparation, then, comprises the passion; the Sabbath embraces the burial; the Lord's Day contains the resurrection. (The Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians,
chapter 9)
31. Ignatius 250 AD: If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing
the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death-whom some deny,..Let us
therefore no longer keep the Sabbath after the Jewish manner, and rejoice in days of idleness; for "he that does not work, let him not eat." For say the [holy]
oracles, "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy breadTo the end, for the eighth day," on which our life both sprang up again, and the victory over death
was obtained in Christ, whom the children of perdition, the enemies of the Saviour, deny, "whose god is their belly, who mind earthly things," who are..
(Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, Chapter IX)
32. Victorinus 300 AD: The sixth day [Friday] is called parasceve, that is to say, the preparation of the kingdom. . . . On this day also, on account of the
passion of the Lord Jesus Christ, we make either a station to God or a fast. On the seventh day he rested from all his works, and blessed it, and sanctified it. On
the former day we are accustomed to fast rigorously, that on the Lords Day we may go forth to our bread with giving of thanks. And let the parasceve become
a rigorous fast, lest we should appear to observe any Sabbath with the Jews . . . which Sabbath he [Christ] in his body abolished (The Creation of the
World [A.D. 300]).
33. Eusebius of Caesarea: They [the early saints of the Old Testament] did not care about circumcision of the body, neither do we [Christians]. They did not
care about observing Sabbaths, nor do we. They did not avoid certain kinds of food, neither did they regard the other distinctions which Moses first delivered to
their posterity to be observed as symbols; nor do Christians of the present day do such things" (Church History 1:4:8 [A.D. 312]).
[T]he day of his [Christs] light . . . was the day of his resurrection from the dead, which they say, as being the one and only truly holy day and the Lords day,
is better than any number of days as we ordinarily understand them, and better than the days set apart by the Mosaic law for feasts, new moons, and Sabbaths,
which the apostle [Paul] teaches are the shadow of days and not days in reality (Proof of the Gospel 4:16:186 [A.D. 319]).
34. Eusebius 300 AD: [The Ebionites] were accustomed to observe the Sabbath and other Jewish customs but on the Lord's Day to celebrate the same
practices as we in remembrance of the resurrection of the Savior. (Church History Ill.xxvii.5). Ebionites were cult who rejected Christs virgin birth, Christ
deity and did not believe in lot of Christian belief. They reject the writings of Paul. The first record of people keeping the Sabbath was Ebionites who were
classified as cult. Not only had this they did kept the Lord s Day as well.
35. Athanasius 345 AD: The Sabbath was the end of the first creation, the Lords day was the beginning of the second, in which he renewed and restored the
old in the same way as he prescribed that they should formerly observe the Sabbath as a memorial of the end of the first things, so we honor the Lords day as
being the memorial of the new creation" (On Sabbath and Circumcision 3 [A.D. 345]).
36. Cyril of Jerusalem: Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand aloof from
all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean" (Catechetical Lectures 4:37 [A.D. 350]).
37. The Apostolic Constitutions: And on the day of our Lords resurrection, which is the Lords day, meet more diligently, sending praise to God that made
the universe by Jesus, and sent him to us, and condescended to let him suffer, and raised him from the dead. Otherwise what apology will he make to God who
does not assemble on that day . . . in which is performed the reading of the prophets, the preaching of the gospel, the oblation of the sacrifice, the gift of the holy
food (Apostolic Constitutions 2:7:60 [A.D. 200-400]).

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38. Apostolic Constitutions 200-350 AD: How We Ought to Assemble Together, and to Celebrate the Festival Day of Our Saviors Resurrection. On the day
of the resurrection of the Lord, that is, the Lord's day, assemble yourselves together, without fail, giving thanks to God, and praising Him for those mercies God
has bestowed upon you through Christ, and has delivered you from ignorance, error, and bondage, that your sacrifice may be unspotted, and acceptable to God,
who has said concerning His universal Church: "In every place shall incense and a pure sacrifice be offered unto me; for I am a great King, saith the Lord
Almighty, and my name is wonderful among the heathen. (Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, book 7)
39. Apostolic Constitutions 200-350 AD: "Which Days of the Week We are to Fast, and Which Not, and for What Reasons: But let not your fasts be with the
hypocrites; for they fast on the second and fifth days of the week. But do you either fast the entire five days, or on the fourth day of the week, and on the day of
the Preparation, because on the fourth day the condemnation went out against the Lord, Judas then promising to betray Him for money; and you must fast on the
day of the Preparation, because on that day the Lord suffered the death of the cross under Pontius Pilate. But keep the Sabbath, and the Lord's Day festival;
because the former is the memorial of the creation, and the latter of the resurrection. But there is one only Sabbath to be observed by you in the whole year,
which is that of our Lord's burial, on which men ought to keep a fast, but not a festival. For inasmuch as the Creator was then under the earth, the sorrow for
Him is more forcible than the joy for the creation; for the Creator is more honourable by nature and dignity than His own creatures. (Constitutions of the Holy
Apostles, book 7)
40. Apostolic Constitutions 200-350 AD: Be not careless of yourselves, neither deprive your Savior of His own members, neither divide His body nor
disperse His members, neither prefer the occasions of this life to the word of God; but assemble yourselves together every day, morning and evening, singing
psalms and praying in the Lord's house: in the morning saying the sixty-second Psalm, and in the evening the hundred and fortieth, but principally on the
Sabbath-day. And on the day of our Lord's resurrection, which is the Lord's day, meet more diligently, sending praise to God that made the universe by Jesus,
and sent Him to us, and condescended to let Him suffer, and raised Him from the dead. Otherwise what apology will he make to God who does not assemble on
that day to hear the saving word concerning the resurrection, on which we pray thrice standing in memory of Him who arose in three days, in which is
performed the reading of the prophets, the preaching of the Gospel, the oblation of the sacrifice, the gift of the holy food? (Constitutions of the Holy Apostles,
book 2)
41. Apostolic Constitutions 200-350 AD: Do you therefore fast, and ask your petitions of God. We enjoin you to fast every fourth day of the week, and every
day of the preparation, and the surplusage of your fast bestow upon the needy; every Sabbath-day excepting one, and every Lord's day, hold your solemn
assemblies, and rejoice: for he will be guilty of sin who fasts on the Lord's day, being the day of the resurrection, or during the time of Pentecost, or, in general,
who is sad on a festival day to the Lord For on them we ought to rejoice, and not to mourn. (Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, book 5
42. Cyril of Jerusalem AD 350: Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand
aloof from all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean" (Catechetical Lectures 4:37 [A.D. 350]).
43. Council of Laodicea A D 360: "Christians should not Judaize and should not be idle on the Sabbath, but should work on that day; they should, however,
particularly reverence the Lords day and, if possible, not work on it, because they were Christians" (Canon 29 [A.D. 360]).
44. John Chrysostom: [W]hen he [God] said, You shall not kill . . . he did not add, because murder is a wicked thing. The reason was that conscience had
taught this beforehand, and he speaks thus, as to those who know and understand the point. Wherefore when he speaks to us of another commandment, not
known to us by the dictate of conscience, he not only prohibits, but adds the reason. When, for instance, he gave commandment concerning the Sabbath On
the seventh day you shall do no workhe subjoined also the reason for this cessation. What was this? Because on the seventh day God rested from all his
works which he had begun to make [Ex. 20:10-11]. . . . For what purpose then, I ask, did he add a reason respecting the Sabbath, but did no such thing in
regard to murder? Because this commandment was not one of the leading ones. It was not one of those which were accurately defined of our conscience, but a
kind of partial and temporary one, and for this reason it was abolished afterward. But those which are necessary and uphold our life are the following: You
shall not kill. . . . You shall not commit adultery. . . . You shall not steal. On this account he adds no reason in this case, nor enters into any instruction on the
matter, but is content with the bare prohibition" (Homilies on the Statutes 12:9 [A.D. 387]).
"You have put on Christ, you have become a member of the Lord and been enrolled in the heavenly city, and you still grovel in the law [of Moses]? How is it
possible for you to obtain the kingdom? Listen to Pauls words, that the observance of the law overthrows the gospel, and learn, if you will, how this comes to
pass, and tremble, and shun this pitfall. Why do you keep the Sabbath and fast with the Jews? (Homilies on Galatians 2:17 [A.D. 395]).
"The rite of circumcision was venerable in the Jews account, forasmuch as the law itself gave way thereto, and the Sabbath was less esteemed than
circumcision. For that circumcision might be performed, the Sabbath was broken; but that the Sabbath might be kept, circumcision was never broken; and mark,
I pray, the dispensation of God. This is found to be even more solemn than the Sabbath, as not being omitted at certain times. When then it is done away, much
more is the Sabbath" (Homilies on Philippians 10 [A.D. 402]).
45. Augustine AD 412: "Well, now, I should like to be told what there is in these Ten Commandments, except the observance of the Sabbath, which ought not
to be kept by a Christian. . . . Which of these commandments would anyone say that the Christian ought not to keep? It is possible to contend that it is not the
law which was written on those two tables that the apostle [Paul] describes as the letter that kills [2 Cor. 3:6], but the law of circumcision and the other sacred
rites which are now abolished" (The Spirit and the Letter 24 [A.D. 412]).
46. Pope Gregory I: It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy
faith, so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day. What else can I call these [men] but preachers of Antichrist, who when he comes will cause the
Sabbath day as well as the Lords day to be kept free from all work. For because he [the Antichrist] pretends to die and rise again, he wishes the Lords day to
be held in reverence; and because he compels the people to Judaize that he may bring back the outward rite of the law, and subject the perfidy of the Jews to

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himself, he wishes the Sabbath to be observed. For this which is said by the prophet, You shall bring in no burden through your gates on the Sabbath day [Jer.
17:24] could be held to as long as it was lawful for the law to be observed according to the letter. But after that the grace of almighty God, our Lord Jesus
Christ, has appeared, the commandments of the law which were spoken figuratively cannot be kept according to the letter. For if anyone says that this about the
Sabbath is to be kept, he must needs say that carnal sacrifices are to be offered. He must say too that the commandment about the circumcision of the body is
still to be retained. But let him hear the apostle Paul saying in opposition to him: If you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing [Gal. 5:2]" (Letters 13:1
[A.D. 597]). This are few quotation of early fathers writing, many can still be cited: Hence, from the History we can see that Sabbath theory of modern SDA is a
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