LT, I am very sorry to hear you are gradually being enslaved to the Hebrew Roots movement.
Christ came to set us free, and when you say you are obeying the Jewish ritual of sunset to sunset resting, including not preparing meals, you have crossed over to the realm of the Orthodox Jew.
"So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed." John 8:36
As Paul said at the first Christian council (the Jerusalem Council) to the Judiazers:
"Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? [SUP]11 [/SUP]But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.” Acts 15:10-11
This council determined that even Peter had lost his way, going back to his "Hebrew Roots". In the end, they decided the Gentiles were required to do 4 things:
"For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: Therefore my judgment is that we should not trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, [SUP]20 [/SUP]but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood." Acts 15:28-29
I will pray that God will deliver you from your delusions, LT!
It wasn't four things they decided. You left off the last one.
Act 15:19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they
abstain from pollutions of idols, and
from fornication, and
from things strangled, and
from blood.
Act 15:21 For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
And what was the reason that they should hear Moses every sabbath in the synogogues? Because as Jesus said, "Mat 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,
Mat 23:2 Saying,
The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:
Mat 23:3
All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do;
but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
So what's up with the four things and hearing verbatim the law read by the scribes and the Pharisees while they are sitting Moses' seat? It all comes from knowing the Torah, prophets, psalms and writings of the Old Testament.
1) Abstain from Polutions from idols so that you are not found to be UNHOLY:
- Exo 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
- Exo 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Exo 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Exo 20:6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
- Exo 20:23 Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
- Exo 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
- Exo 34:13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- Exo 34:14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Exo 34:15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
- Exo 34:16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
- Exo 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
- Psa 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
- Psa 106:35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
- Psa 106:36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
- Psa 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
- Psa 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
- Psa 106:39 Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
- Psa 106:40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
(Leviticus 19:4)
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
(Leviticus 26:1) Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image,
neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye
set up any image of stone in your land,
to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
(Leviticus 26:30) And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols,
and my soul shall abhor you.
(Deuteronomy 29:17) And ye have seen
their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them
SOME PRETTY STRONG WORDS SPOKEN BY OUR LORD AND GOD. I know, Jesus is the Word and all that is commanded in the Old Testament about idols is still the LAW OF CHRIST. So take your Christmas tree and all its ornaments and burn them like the trash they are to God. Take down your pretty effeminate pictures of a white Jesus. Take down and burn all your crosses. Thou shalt not have any idols. And no egg laying bunny rabbits and chocolate bunnies and dyed easter eggs. These are an abomination to mix the pagan with the holy, therefore like yeast, it is made completely unholy because of the mixing in of pagan customs and no matter how much you plead that is not what it means to me, for you will find that God is not going to accept it.
2) Abstain from fornication
G4202
πορνεία
porneia
por-ni'-ah
From G4203; harlotry (including adultery and incest);
figuratively idolatry: - fornication.
3) Abstain from eating animals that have been strangled and not bled (eating blood)
G4156
πνικτός
pniktos
pnik-tos'
From G4155; throttled, that is, (neuter concretely)
an animal choked to death (not bled): - strangled.
4) Abstain from blood, this includes eating anything that has blood, or semen or phlegm (snot/boogers) and this includes murder and getting blood on you:
- Gen 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
- Gen 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man.
- Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Lev 7:26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
And I can keep posting many many more scriptures from OT as well as the NT.
Then the last point, every Sabbath they will hear the rest of the Torah and the prophets read verbatim. Taking the INSTRUCTIONS in a little each Sabbath makes eating an elephant manageable. I've only been observing Sabbath for a little over a year. Every Sabbath we have the reading from both the OT and NT. Every Sabbath. We hear the word of God. (When I was in a Baptist churches, it made me sleepy to hear the preacher quote a verse or two and then never get to a point that related to the scriptures he read.) The Torah readings we go by includes Isaiah 53, which the Jews leave out.
So, I guess I am so frustrated with ignorant sinning because if it is willful sinning there is no more sacrifice after Jesus for willful sinning.
So keep your spiritual sabbath rest, esteeming none of God's Holy Days as He commanded. In the end, the Sabbath breakers will be pounded with hailstones from God Himself. Stoning was the penalty for Sabbath breakers in the Torah. But God has reserved the final stoning for Himself.
(Revelation 8:7) The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
(Revelation 11:19) And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
(Revelation 16:21) And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
