Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
The Sabbath; M. L. Andreason takes an indepth look at the fourth commandment: “Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.” He identifies that the Sabbath question is greater than following this or that day, it is a question of following the Maste
The Creator of mankind does have a plan for you, and He reveals it through an annual cycle of festivals called Holy Days described in the Scriptures. It is an astounding plan offering an incredible future to every man, woman, and child who has ever lived. There are specific points along that thread where God chose to act in history. In the Bible, these are called, “the appointments” of God. Because they occurred in connection with events in Jewish history, the days took on the meaning of those events. But then came Jesus, and the great events of his life and work also took place on these appointments.
The Sabbath question is ripe for re-examination and restatement. It is at the front. It has come to stay. We and our children must grapple with the problem. The first key to its solution is the authority of God s Word, the Bible. The facts of history form the second key. Time itself is an attribute of God. The aggregate results in history are the decisions of God.
Description Biblical Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day. It is observed differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion in several other faiths. Though many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual tradition of “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”. Observation and remembrance of Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.
Description Biblical Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day. It is observed differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion in several other faiths. Though many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual tradition of “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”. Observation and remembrance of Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.
Biblical Sabbath is a weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day. It is observed differently in Judaism and Christianity and informs a similar occasion in several other faiths. Though many viewpoints and definitions have arisen over the millennia, most originate in the same textual tradition of “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy”. Observation and remembrance of Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments.
Occult holidays or Gods Holy Days;What is the true origin of today’s widely accepted holidays, Halloween, Christmas, Easter, etc., and how did such days come to be embraced as “Christian” dogma? Likewise, what happened to the biblical festivals God gave to ancient Israel and which were observed by the original, true apostolic Church? Through the centuries, how and why were God’s holy days recklessly cast aside as obsolete by orthodox “Christian” authorities?
Israel’s festivals were communal and commemorative as well as theological and typological. They were commemorative in that they kept alive the story of what God had done in the exodus and during the sojourn. They were typological in that they anticipated a greater fulfillment of the symbolism of the feasts. It is not surprising that each of the major feasts is in some way alluded to in the New Testament.
Yeshua said, “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.” Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and He 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 (Luke 24:44-47).”
The Book of Enoch, by CH Charles written during the second century B.C.E., is one of the most important non-canonical apocryphal works, and probably had a huge influence on early Christian, particularly Gnostic, beliefs.
Filled with hallucinatory visions of heaven and hell, angels and devils, Enoch introduced concepts such as fallen angels, the appearance of a Messiah, Resurrection, a Final Judgement, and a Heavenly Kingdom on Earth.
