Jeremiah 17:27 But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
I am not a seventh day adventist, but I believe that every word of God is good for instruction to the man of God. So then how do I reconcile not being a seventh day Adventists with words like this in the Bible? The ten commandments have not been done away with. Instead I believe that the fulfillment of this command is Paul's word "I have been crucified with Christ". We abide in the death of Christ. Our old man must remain dead and buried in the tomb. The Bible says Jesus was in the tomb for three days. However, it also tells us He entered the tomb prior to sunset, so that would be the first day He was in the tomb and it was only for a short while before the second day began, and it also tells us He rose early in the morning on the third day, which is the Lord's day. So He was in the tomb for three days, but according to the record in the Bible it was not 72 hours. However, He was in the tomb for an entire 24 hours of the Sabbath day. Jesus Christ being dead, in the tomb, was the fulfillment of the sabbath day rest. The old creation must be put to death, all of our labor and work in the Lord must be in the new creation.
So then, how do we know if our old man has been put to death and we are now living and walking in the newness of life with Christ?
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death
In other words, do I treat everyone the way I want to be treated?
For example, Charlie Kirk was a brother. He was assassinated while ministering. How would I want people to behave if I was assassinated? At the time that Charlie was assassinated there were a lot of evil and hateful things said about him on the internet. I was only aware of his ministry peripherally. I had heard him speak a few times, but did not know enough to know whether or not the hateful things were true. So I examined them. I went to the links. They accused Charlie of saying things, I wanted to hear him say those things. When I did that I learned the hateful, despicable things they were saying were an evil twisting of the words. When it came out of their mouths you thought "that is terrible" but when you listened to what Charlie said you thought "yeah, I agree with that". I would hope that if people had said horrible, hateful things about me that they wouldn't just take the word of slanderers at face value but instead would check out what I actually said.
So I realized that Satan was really going all out in this case and so I went to the Memorial service a thousand miles away. The very first thing that shocked me the most were all the politicians. I thought this was going to be a Christian memorial. But the worship part of the memorial seemed to stop once the actual Memorial began and was taken over by one politician after another speaking. It was clear that some of these politicians were not Christian, talking about seeing Charlie in Valhalla. They were all respectful, deferential and it also became clear how important Charlie's ministry had been to Donald Trump's election. That was something I didn't know until I went to the Memorial. The other thing that shocked me was not who was there and had a prominent place during the Memorial but even more who wasn't there. Charlie's parents and family weren't there! Later I learned that other very close friends of his were not invited, Candace Owens being the most prominent of those. But for his mother and father and sister to not be there, that to me was shocking.
My overall feeling leaving the Memorial was that "something is very wrong here". I didn't know anything, but I just had a very bad feeling. Anyway I have been interested in the investigation into what happened. That is where the "feeling" that something was not right became a horrible experience. Like replacing a piece of drywall in your house only to discover thousands of rats living in between the walls. Who could imagine the hatred and vile rhetoric being spewed at people asking reasonable questions about the case, especially about violations of the law that would constitute tampering with the evidence and obstruction of justice?
