Subject: When did the day of worship change? |
Bible Note: I can agree with your perspective about the perfection of sacrificial law at the Jesus death. The point is that this law is no longer valid. The Ten Commandments are moral. See their nature (Exodus 20). None of them could be taken away as the sacrifice of a lamb can be, for example. The Sabbath is inside the Ten Commandments, therefore its a moral issue. ¿Do you want to see the difference between these two laws? Well first of all, I ask the Holy Spirit guides us. He will respond your question. Lets see Deuteronomy 31: "24 After Moses finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end, 25 he gave this command to the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD: 26 "Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. There it will remain as a witness against you." ¿Do you see? God himself give clear instructions to Moses about one Law, the one Moses wrote: "place it beside the ark of the covenant" On the other hand, God give clear instructions about the 10 Comm. See Deut 10:1-5: "1 At that time the LORD said to me, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden chest [or an ark] 2 I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the chest." 3 So I made the ark out of acacia wood and chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I went up on the mountain with the two tablets in my hands. 4 The LORD wrote on these tablets what he had written before, the Ten Commandments he had proclaimed to you on the mountain, out of the fire, on the day of the assembly. And the LORD gave them to me. 5 Then I came back down the mountain and put the tablets in the ark I had made, as the LORD commanded me, and they are there now." Obviously there were two laws. both are different. One was put ASIDE the ark the other was put INSIDE the ark (by the way ¿do you know waht does it mean the ark?). The difference between them roots in its nature. The 10 Comm, first given in Exo 20, are preceed by His declaration as the Saviour of Israel (see Exo 20:2). As you can see the very nature of Sabbath is moral. Read the Commmandment: Exodus 20 8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. What is the reason to keep Sabbath? The verse 11 gives the answer: because "the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day." And continues reafirming the reason "Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy." The Lord made it holy and saint. Its a time to communion with Him,to remember Him as our Creator and Saviour. There's nothing ceremonial with that. Its totally moral. A relation with our Almighty Lord can not be "ceremonial" but moral. Something deeply personal. ¿Don't you agree? God bless you brother, Yehoshua God said to Moses |