Why would a Christian wear a Prayer Shawl?
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No it doesn't.
All God's commands are given to express love for God and man. The physical command can change but the heart of the command never does. God commanded circumcision to separate the men who were His, sharing love. When it no longer did God took the command back. God said divorce was OK because of how the heart of man was, but it did no change the purpose of marriage.
God gave us the prayer shawl, it is Holy. One person can put on a prayer shawl with payer, and it is not used as a prayer shawl but only a scarf over the head, another can put on a prayer shawl and it shuts out the world so they are alone with the Lord. Same shawl, worn the same way, completely different results.
We only know the people of the Corinthian church were mostly gentiles recently converted from their pagan ways and we don't know what head coverings meant to them.
If wearing a prayer shawl means disobeying God to you, then God does not want you to wear one.
All God's commands are given to express love for God and man. The physical command can change but the heart of the command never does. God commanded circumcision to separate the men who were His, sharing love. When it no longer did God took the command back. God said divorce was OK because of how the heart of man was, but it did no change the purpose of marriage.
God gave us the prayer shawl, it is Holy. One person can put on a prayer shawl with payer, and it is not used as a prayer shawl but only a scarf over the head, another can put on a prayer shawl and it shuts out the world so they are alone with the Lord. Same shawl, worn the same way, completely different results.
We only know the people of the Corinthian church were mostly gentiles recently converted from their pagan ways and we don't know what head coverings meant to them.
If wearing a prayer shawl means disobeying God to you, then God does not want you to wear one.
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The unfished fringes represent a living faith "in the works" .The four corners universal mankind all nations. Blue to represent the temporal flesh. Gold the unseen measure of faith. The living water of the gospel
Just like in the Wilderness when God who previous used mankind as a representative temple .The new temporal was moveable to give the vision or walking to the other nations of the world. Again to give the picture of a unseen work of God who works in those who believe walking with them.
When they came to the promised land it was the end of walking temples (tabernacle) .and the order returned to mankind not made with human (will) We are the temple as well as those who came before that demonstration . Anything outside of the temple of His design is the abomination of desolation . Which is things seen the temporal corrupted standing in the unseen place of his glory .The golden measure of faith .Its right above the blues skies
Just like in the Wilderness when God who previous used mankind as a representative temple .The new temporal was moveable to give the vision or walking to the other nations of the world. Again to give the picture of a unseen work of God who works in those who believe walking with them.
When they came to the promised land it was the end of walking temples (tabernacle) .and the order returned to mankind not made with human (will) We are the temple as well as those who came before that demonstration . Anything outside of the temple of His design is the abomination of desolation . Which is things seen the temporal corrupted standing in the unseen place of his glory .The golden measure of faith .Its right above the blues skies
Prior to the reformation. Neither Jewish woman or gentiles were allowed to participate in the ceremonies .High walls separated them from each other and the ceremonies . (men's club)
It was new to the whole world because of reformation just as well as the Jewish men who did perform the ceremonies.
The ceremony involves two to represent one and together represent the wedding commencement ceremony. the bread and blood of grapes . If man covered his head of hair it signified shame as if it was shaven off . If one half mocks both parts suffer.
By looking at different priesthoods (Jew , Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox today its easy to see which obey or disobey the ceremonial law. Some mock it as a sign of self edification glorying in their own flesh .
lately there seems to be a connection between the old testament Nazarene vow which was limited to men under the influence of the Spirit of Christ. It would seem the one found in 1 Corihtinans is a fulfillment. Men and woman, Jew and Gentile working together as one new creation displaying a wedding invitation to all the nations.
Bring the oil its dark along the way. .
It was new to the whole world because of reformation just as well as the Jewish men who did perform the ceremonies.
The ceremony involves two to represent one and together represent the wedding commencement ceremony. the bread and blood of grapes . If man covered his head of hair it signified shame as if it was shaven off . If one half mocks both parts suffer.
By looking at different priesthoods (Jew , Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox today its easy to see which obey or disobey the ceremonial law. Some mock it as a sign of self edification glorying in their own flesh .
lately there seems to be a connection between the old testament Nazarene vow which was limited to men under the influence of the Spirit of Christ. It would seem the one found in 1 Corihtinans is a fulfillment. Men and woman, Jew and Gentile working together as one new creation displaying a wedding invitation to all the nations.
Bring the oil its dark along the way. .
S
I had to look up prayer shawls.
The Bible does not command wearing of a unique prayer shawl or. Instead, it presumes that people wore a garment of some type to cover themselves and instructs the Children of Israel to attach fringes (ציצית tzitzit) to the corners of these (Numbers 15:38), repeating the commandment in terms that they should "make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself" (Deuteronomy 22:12).
This means that the prayer shawl is a man made invented tradition and not the DESIGN of God at all and that you are suggesting tradition of men replace the commandment of God. I would be careful about crediting God with a religious tradition invented by men and associating some kind of devine God inspired intentions such as creating a private prayer room and other things you have said.
Your intention might be innocent but this is how the Pharisees got so far off track not to mention the Roman Catholics and their myriads of un-biblical traditions.
The Bible does not command wearing of a unique prayer shawl or. Instead, it presumes that people wore a garment of some type to cover themselves and instructs the Children of Israel to attach fringes (ציצית tzitzit) to the corners of these (Numbers 15:38), repeating the commandment in terms that they should "make thee twisted cords upon the four corners of thy covering, wherewith thou coverest thyself" (Deuteronomy 22:12).
This means that the prayer shawl is a man made invented tradition and not the DESIGN of God at all and that you are suggesting tradition of men replace the commandment of God. I would be careful about crediting God with a religious tradition invented by men and associating some kind of devine God inspired intentions such as creating a private prayer room and other things you have said.
Your intention might be innocent but this is how the Pharisees got so far off track not to mention the Roman Catholics and their myriads of un-biblical traditions.
S
If you think about it, the prayer shawl is an example of.....and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: A man made tradition not after the pattern of the scripture you quoted and an imagination after your own heart and your own eyes and thus a form of idolatry and spiritual whoredom.
This tells me you don't study the word of God. In the word we are told to go to our closet to pray. We are told the tizitzit has symbolic meaning. We are told about prayer and being alone with God is part of the prayer we are told of. None of this rules out a prayer shawl. It isn't from men that I have read these things, evidently not in your bible, but it is in scripture.
The Pharisees got off track when they wanted to elevate their own ego rather than worship the Lord. Men's ideas instead of the Lord's were the demons influencing man and adding the occult into the church, changing scripture. The decision to listen to scripture about closing yourself off from the outside world to concentrate on the Lord with a shawl that represents (titiztiz) the Lord cannot by the most imaginative mins be compared.
The Pharisees got off track when they wanted to elevate their own ego rather than worship the Lord. Men's ideas instead of the Lord's were the demons influencing man and adding the occult into the church, changing scripture. The decision to listen to scripture about closing yourself off from the outside world to concentrate on the Lord with a shawl that represents (titiztiz) the Lord cannot by the most imaginative mins be compared.
S
The fringes in their clothing was a shadow and type. The reality is that of the indwelling Holy Spirit post death, burial, resurrection, and pentecost. Inventing a prayer shawl is just another type and shadow. However you have no authority to invent another type and shadow and claim the fringes in the garment under the Moses Law as your source. You have departed from the pattern given to Moses and created a different type and shadow suggesting it represents the reality of prayer? It is a man made tradition and you have no authority to change the instruction of the fringes sewn in the clothing and call it something God said to do. Surely you can see this?
All the many ways our Lord uses symbolism to explain the spiritual world to our carnal being is a shadow and type, do your really think we should not listen to our Lord as He uses symbolism?
Certainly we are to know the spiritual meaning of the symbolism, but the Lord never once gave an order not to listen to His use of symbolism.
The church has no authority to do things like invent a new Sabbath or change Passover to something with a name taken from the occult gods: Easter. But using what the Lord tells us that relates to a prayer shawl is NOT adding to scripture like these things are.
Certainly we are to know the spiritual meaning of the symbolism, but the Lord never once gave an order not to listen to His use of symbolism.
The church has no authority to do things like invent a new Sabbath or change Passover to something with a name taken from the occult gods: Easter. But using what the Lord tells us that relates to a prayer shawl is NOT adding to scripture like these things are.
