Evening Studyman.
I hope all is well with you.
Would you mind clarifying for me your quote below.
Are you saying that we must keep a Saturday Sabbath because God says "Keep a Saturday Sabbath"
Therefore keeping the Sabbath on a Sunday is wrong.
I will admit though that I do not fully understand Sabbath preaching.
All I know it's that on Sunday me and my family go to church.
My wife works for the church.
Today's meeting was orchestrated by my wife.
All inclusive Christmas service.
Youngsters being included to the older as well.
All giving testimony to what God has done for them.
Worship was amazing, people praying for each other and talking to each other.
So what's your thoughts?
God bless
Bill
Hello Billy,
I am quite surprised that with all the thousands of reply's on the several Sabbath treads you still don't understand the Sabbath teaching. But regardless, these are my thought. I won't quote scriptures as they have been repeated many times in just this last month.
For me it is about what God/Jesus teaches in His Word and what He warns about vs. what men teach.
Jesus was trying to tell the "Mainstream Church" of His time, the Pharisees and those who followed them, that they were following a "Broad Path" that leads to destruction because they, like their fathers before them, transgressed the Commandments of God by their own man made traditions.
These people were no different than any of us. They had Granma's and Grandchildren, and little babies laughing and playing, and they all got together in their worship of God and laughed, and loved each other and played with the laughing children. they prayed to God and had joy in worship. Jesus speaks about them "teaching in His Name", Helping poor people and helping people rid themselves of demons and doing all manner of great things, all in His name.
But these same people, when they were told by God/Jesus that it was wrong to create their own religion, wrong to create their own images of God in the likeness of man (You know what I'm talking about), wrong to create their own High Days and transgress the Commandments of God by their own traditions, these same Grandpa's and mothers yelled "Crucify Him".
These same nice loving parents who were teaching their children that it is OK to openly reject God's Word as long as you place God's name on your disobedience. It's OK to create your own righteousness, as long as you give God the credit.
And when Jesus pleaded with them to consider the God they claimed to follow, when He risked His friendship and fellowship by telling these nice mothers and fathers that they were wrong, that they were deceived into serving satan even though they thought they were serving God. And all because he loved them.
When Jesus opened to the mainstream preachers of His time, their very own Bible, and showed them in this Book where they were actually serving satan and not God, They hated Him first, then to silence Him, to keep His Light from exposing their works as coming from man and not from God, they Killed Him.
And He wasn't the first. When God sent His Prophets to tell the Mothers with children, and Fathers and Grandfathers that they were following lies about Him, that they had lost their way, these same loving humans tortured and murdered these Prophets to silence them as well.
In every case of this behavior, it was the only God of Abraham believing People on the planet that God sent these Prophet's and then His own Son to. And in every case these loving grandmothers and fathers with children chose their own traditions and religious doctrines over God's Word and instruction.
But not everyone Billy.
Abel loved God in truth. Abraham and Noah didn't resist God's Words. Caleb, even though his "Christian" brothers threatened to stone him to death, he stuck with the Word of God over the "Many". Daniel was thrown in the loins den by these grandfather's who claimed God as their God, yet walked in the imagination of their own minds.
This theme has been repeated over and over as an "Example" to us, so we don't do as they did.
Yet here were are. The same God, and the same loving mothers and grandfathers teaching their children that it is OK to reject God's Word and create your own "Path".
You and I both know that Sunday Sabbath is man's creation, man's tradition and not from God.
Yet somehow you have been convinced that your traditions are OK with God, that He doesn't really care if you reject His Word that became Flesh, and create your own word, as long as you place Jesus' name on it.
It is for these reasons that My wife, my daughter and I "turned to God" and left the Mainstream religion with their customs and traditions. And it is for this reason that I work to share what the Word of God says to me.
But Billy, I have never seen God. His Word may just be another book. God may be altogether different than what This Book reveals. Maybe He doesn't even exist. I personally can't say as a mere human.
But I have faith that He does. And I believe in Him and ALL of His Word even if those around me, who claim Him as their God, do not.
What sealed this for me is that God foretold of this exact same thing thousands of years ago. He said they would hate the "Just One" sent to save them. He spells out the heart of man better than science will ever do, and did it before science was even science. He said "many" would come in His name to deceive. And He said "MANY" would be deceived by these men who come in His name.
He told me my natural self would rebel against God and why. He told me how I would think before I was even born. I find His Wisdom far greater than that of those fathers with children or grandfathers who gathered in prayer before nailing to a cross the most perfect human ever born, even after God's own Word foretold that they would.
So I can't make anyone choose the God of the Bible over man's creation, that is not what the Word is for. All I can do is point out the fact that Sunday Sabbath is from man, and Saturday Sabbath is from God.
The choice of which one to honor is yours to make.
For some of us we need to get tired of spinning our wheels stuck in the mud more than once.
