The Repairer of The Breach
Part 15

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Final Proof

That the Sabbath was

Not

“Nailed to the Cross”

Read Matthew 24:20! The disciples asked Jesus as to when the temple would be destroyed. Jesus told them that when its destruction seemed imminent flee into the mountains! Jesus said, “Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath Day”! The Jewish historian Josephus witnessed and recorded the Roman destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, and this happened in 70 A.D!

Total proof: 70 A.D. was nearly 40 years after Christ’s ascension, and the Sabbath was still intact! The Jews stoned Stephen to death in 34 A.D. for teaching that Jesus had risen from the dead and truly was the long-awaited Messiah, and this happened approximately three and half years after Christ was crucified!  Then the Bible tells us that the gospel was taken to the Gentiles… (See Acts 7:59, 8:1, 13:46) … Now, common sense should tell you this: If the apostles were spreading the word that “Sunday” was the “New Day to Worship,” there would have been

1. Huge controversies over it!

2. None of the Apostles or their converts would have lived out the year!
   

Remember, the Jews stoned people for Sabbath-breaking! If the Apostles taught that “Sunday” was to replace Saturday, the Bible would be filled with the violet Jewish reaction to it! Do you really think the Jews would have tolerated the teaching of another weekly Holy Day? No Way!

Here is what Jesus said about the “Ten” Commandments: “For verily I say to you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or title shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Matthew 5:18. All other Bible verses in the New Testament about the Sabbath must agree with this simple and direct statement!

• The book of Acts covers a period of 23 years after Jesus’ ascension, and mentions the Sabbath in 8 different chapters without a hint of any change!

• Christians Gentiles kept the Sabbath! Acts 13:42! In addition, verse 43 goes on to say that the Sabbath keeping Gentiles were living under Grace!

• Paul told Felix that he believed “all things which are written in the law and in the prophets”! Acts 24:14

• Paul testified to Festus that he had offended in nothing “against the Law of the Jews”! Acts 25:8! And Acts 26:22 says that Paul taught “none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come”!

How did the heathen converts receive instruction as to knowing what day was holy? Its simple! They read the numerous references to the Sabbath in the writings of the Apostles – sixty of them! (And only one mentions abolishing certain “Sabbath Days”…)

The heathen converts also read the Old Testament and had no problem understanding that the Seventh Day was God’s Hoy Day of the week! Moreover, they kept it!

Part 16

God’s Test of Loyalty

Question: Is it ok to pick just “any 7^th day” to keep holy?

Answer: God never let anybody “choose” which day they wished to keep holy!

Read Exodus 16:4! God tested mankind to see “whether they will walk in my law, or no” when He provided the Manna in the desert for 40 years! Moreover, the Lord performed three continuous miracles to show and prove that not “just any 7th day” is holy...

1. No Manna fell on the 7^th day of the week!

2. If “extra” Manna was gathered, it spoiled by the next day!

3. A double portion gathered on the 6^th day did not spoil when kept over!

Does God’s blessings make a difference? Of course it does! A person asks God to bless your children, etc! It matters a lot, as whether or not the Lord blesses someone or a day! Notice how God chose the Sabbath Commandment as the Great Test of His Law… It is still the Great Test!

Part 17

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first…” II Thessalonians 2:3. This is the “falling away” that Paul wrote of, a falling away from truth that was taught by Jesus and His disciples! Had things progressed correctly, with no “detours” then true Christianity would have remained intact from the 1^st century up to today! However, as Paul foretold in Acts 20:29, “grievous wolves” did descend upon the simple and pure teachings of Christianity! Dozens of supposedly “holy” doctrines were instated – and not until the Reformation were these errors corrected, one by one! The Sabbath is the last of these “neglected Bible truths” to be reinstated!

See, when people form a certain set of rules, they can end up locking themselves into a “rigid” set of teachings, and this can keep them from following newly rediscovered truth! I am sorry to point out that this is what has happened repeatedly in the history of the Church… When God sent His Son to the people of Israel, they rejected the new light and new truth (Matthew 27:25: “Then answered all the people, and said, ‘His blood be on us, and on our children.”) So there came the necessity of creating a New Church among the Gentiles…

After the Church of Rome turned cruel and apostate to God’s truth, Martin Luther gave new light, but the Catholic Church refused it! So was born the Lutheran Church… When God brought more light to Konrad Grebal about Baptism, most Lutherans did not accept it! Therefore, the Baptist church emerged… When additional truth came through John Wesley, many Calvinists and others turned him down – so we have the Methodists…

This story goes on and on! It’s sad human tendency to “depend upon the past,” to draw a circle around our beliefs and call it a creed – yes, these original creeds helped reinstate the correct doctrines of true Christianity, but they did not make provisions for advancing light! This is why there are so many denominations!

In the New Testament, the word “Church” from the Greek word Ekklesia, simply means God’s “called-out ones.”

The Bible says that “God is not author of confusion” (I Corinthians 14:33), yet how is it that there can be over 200 different denominations when all of these Churches claim only one source for “truth,” The Bible?

A question: Why do people go to the Church that they go to each week? Some go ‘because it’s close,” some because “I like the preacher,” some because “I like the special activities,’ or “they have a beautiful building,’ or, probably the most common answer: “I go because my parents did. I was brought up in this Church…” Are these good reasons? The Bible says in I Peter 3:15 that we should be able to give a sanctified reason for the hope that is within us, because of what we believe in… Moreover, Jesus said in John 17:17 to “Sanctify them through thy Truth, thy Word is Truth”! Truth, sanctifying truth, is revealed through the Word of God, the Bible! So therefore, we can conclude that our beliefs, the reason for the hope within us, should be based upon God’s Word! Finally, when we “belong” to a Church, (And we end up “endorsing” the teachings of that Church), we should endeavor to seek and find that church which is uncompromisingly teaching and practicing Bible truth!

Remember that text in Proverbs 4:18?

“But the

path of the just

is as a shining light

that shineth more and

more unto the perfect day.”

Remember, the Reformers came out of the Dark Ages! Would you expect that all truth would be immediately rediscovered? Should people say, “If Luther didn’t believe it, I won’t either…” Many people stand guard over what our forefathers taught – “If my parents believed it, it’s good enough for me…” Without ever realizing that in those days, some truths were still undiscovered still buried under centuries of tradition!

Part 18

The Council of Laodicea

Study the history of the Church!The earliest Catholic Church council to deal with Sundayas a day of rest was a regional one, meeting in Laodicea in 364 A.D. They stipulated in Canon 29 that: “Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday, but shall work on that day; but the Lord’s day they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, do no work on that day. If, however, they are found Judaizing, they shall be shut out from Christ.”  Christians in Ethiopia still today what was common Christian habit back in the 2^nd and 3^rd centuries – they kept both Saturday and Sunday!

Socrates wrote in 439 A.D. “although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition (Pagan Sun-Day Worship), have ceased to do this.” See it was from these two Paganized Catholic Pseudo-Intellectual Centers that came “Canonized” worldwide orders to stop Sabbath observance! Read these history books! Find out the truth yourself.

Did you know… that the word “Saturday” in approximately 160 ancient and modern languages comes from the word “Sabbath”! Here are examples:

“Sabato” (Italian) * “Sabado” (Spanish) * “Sobota” (Polish) * “Shubbuta” (Bulgarian) * “Sabbaton” (Greek) * … and many others!

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