The Repairer
of The Breach
Part 13
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Isaiah 58:12-14
Discusses an amazing prophecy that
proclaims the glory and importance of
the Lord’s Seventh –Day
Sabbath and tells that in the last
days it will be restored!
“And they
that shall be of thee shall build the
old waste places: thou shalt raise up
the foundations of many generations:
and thou shalt be called the repairer
of the breach, the restorer of paths
to dwell in. If thou turn away thy
foot from doing thy pleasure on my
holy day; and call the Sabbath a
delight, the holy of the Lord,
honorable; and shalt honor Him, not
doing thine own ways, nor finding
thine own pleasure, nor speaking
thine own words: “Then shalt
thou delight thyself in the
Lord!”
The Seventh-Day
Sabbath was introduced in the Garden
of Eden, and was intact for
God’s people up until the Roman
Catholic Church took control of
Christianity!
In the early third
century, this Church introduced
worship on one Sunday a year in honor
of the resurrection, then when
“Lent” was established they
instigated Sunday-worship on each
Sunday during the forty days –
But up to 300 A.D. Both Saturday and
Sunday were kept!
Then came the
“worship-on-Sunday-upon-pain-of-death”
orders from Constantine, the
world’s first Sunday Blue Laws
in 321 A.D! This was soon followed up
by Popes wishing to do away with the
supposedly “Jewish”
Saturday Sabbath that the Christians
kept, so they made Saturdays a day of
enforced fasting and mourning, while
feasting and celebrating the
resurrection on Sundays! In
addition, this helped the Church to
convert the sun-worshipping pagans
who wished to keep their
“Sun-Day!
Therefore, there is
the breach! Brought about by no one
else but the Papacy! The
“Breach,” the period during
which most of the Christian world
ignored the Lord’s Holy Sabbath!
Now, some of you may
say that, “there was no weekly
Sabbath between the time that God
sanctified the Seventh Day at
Creation till the time of
Moses.” Yes, the first mention
in the Bible of God expecting his
chosen people to rest on the seventh
day was when they received the manna
in the desert on their way to the
promised land, and then came Mount
Sinai experience where it was
“put in writing”! So some
may think that there was no weekly
Sabbath until around 1400 B.C. But:
Does that mean that the knowledge of
God having blessed the Seventh Day
was “non-existent”?
Luke 3:23-38 lists the
genealogy of Jesus all the way back
to Adam, and its fair to assume that
every one of those righteous godly
men passed on what they had seen and
known! In addition, there is no doubt
that God informed Adam that Seventh
Day was Holy! Accordingly, every
ancestor of Jesus undoubtedly knew
the Seventh Day was Holy!
A point to keep in
mind is that writing was a rare and
“unknown” art to men up
until Moses’ day – this was
the first chance man had, really to
put God’s story into writing! In
addition, the fourth commandment
begins with “Remember”.
Remember the Seventh Day… See,
during the two hundred-year Egyptian
captivity there would have been
little chance to practice actually
keeping the Sabbath: They were
enslaved in Egypt! So, were they told
to remember something that they had
never known? The truth is they were
being told to remember what they once
knew! Proof: In Genesis, 26:5 it
says, “Abraham obeyed my voice,
and kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws”!
Abraham kept the Lord’s Sabbath!
If you still have
“doubts” that the Ten
Commandments were in effect previous
to the Sinai experience? If so, here
are four proof texts that guarantee
to get across this “chasm”
of “doubt.”
- “Sin is
the transgression of The
Law.” 1 John 3:4
- “Where no
law is, there is no
transgression.” Romans
4:15
- “The
wages of sin is death.”
Romans 6:23
- “Death
reigned from Adam to
Moses.” Romans 5:14
Do you follow the
logic? Its simple” There could
be no “death” without sin,
and there could be no “sin”
without a law! Therefore, it is as
clear as day that the Ten
Commandments existed “from Adam
to Moses”!
Part 14
What was “Nailed
to the Cross”?
Colossians 2:14-16
tells us that the Handwriting of
Ordinances was “taken out of the
way,” that it was nailed to the
cross, and that we should “let
no man therefore judge you in meat,
or in drink, or in respect of an
holiday, or of the new moon, or of
the things to come…”
Christians who endorse Sunday worship
say that this is proof text in which
God negated the Holy Weekly
Sabbath… However, this
interpretation is totally incorrect!
The Law of Ordinances
that was nailed to the cross was the
Ceremonial Law! The
“shadowy” yearly Sabbaths
that were described in Leviticus
23:4-44! These Sabbaths pointed to
the death of Christ, these ceremonies
were to have no further meaning
beyond the cross, and this was why
Paul said they were contrary to the
Christian!
The veil in the temple
was torn in half from top to bottom
when Christ died on the cross
(Matthew 27:51), and this indicated
the end of the ordinances requiring
animal sacrifices! Ephesians 2:15
clearly state that Christ abolished
“The Law of Commandments
contained in Ordinances”!
As an example, The
Passover… The Passover, honors
the exodus from Egypt, but several
parts of this ceremony point to
Christ.
- The woman of
the house lights the candles,
symbolizing that the light of
the world, Jesus, entered the
world via a woman!
- Three pieces
of unleavened bread are
placed in three compartments
in a bag… (The Trinity:
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost)
- The middle
piece of bread is removed,
broken in half, then this
bread is placed in a white
linen bag, and then the bag
is placed under the table,
“buried”!
- About two
hours later, this bag is
brought up, the bread taken
out, and then broken into
smaller pieces…
…All while
passing around the 3rd cup of wine
eats a piece… This is Communion!
The unleavened bread even bears the
stripes and holes that Christ bore
for us! That middle wafer is Christ!
The Ten Commandments were never
called “Ordinances”!
God knew that most of
the Jewish people would re-ject His
Son, and there was no need in over
burdening the Gentiles with numerous
symbolic ceremonies that they
themselves never historically
participated in – so Jesus
“simplified” the ceremony!
Today we:
1.
Accept Christ as our personal Savior,
and live by faith in Jesus,
2.
Are baptized by His death and
resurrection,
3.
Take communion, and obey God’s
Laws!
…In addition, the
rest of the ceremonies were
“Nailed to the Cross”!
Critics also like to point to Romans
14 to say that God no longer
considers the Seventh Day of the week
as “Holy,” or sanctified,
but Paul’s letter to the Roman
Church was merely addressing the
problems that were welling up between
the two main groups of the first
century Christians. Jewish Christians
and Gentile Christians were
constantly judging each other…
Meat that was offered to idols was an
item of contention, as was the
reluctance of the Jewish converts to
let go of the age-old symbolic
shadows and ceremonies!
That’s why Paul
wrote “one man esteemed one day
above another: Another esteemed every
day alike. Let every man be fully
persuaded in his own mind.”
(Romans 14:5) However, this had
nothing to do with the Seventh Day
Sabbath of the moral law of God that
was indeed a holy day in itself! The
only logical conclusion… The
Sabbath of Creation Week was never
“A Shadow of Things to
come”! “Types” and
“Shadows” came into
existence as a result of sin, and
pointed forward to the deliverance
from sin! The Sabbath was made before
sin existed! Therefore it was never a
type or shadow! The Seventh Day
Sabbath was never “nailed to the
cross”! Nor any of the other Ten
Commandments! See Matthew 5:17.
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