Subject: U.S.A. the Babylon of Revelations 18? |
Bible Note: But doesn't that make a liar out of the Messiah? Is it not true that he stated that heaven and earth would pass before even one jot or tittle would pass from the law until all is fulfilled? This is one of the commands that Yah'shua says to keep. "Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." Remember that John also testified that no man ever saw the Father, that it was the Son who did all. Joh 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Joh 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God. Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Joh 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. Joh 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. Who indeed according to John spoke with Moses and gave the commands? Was it Moses who commanded or was it the pre-existant Son declaring for the Father to Moses? And if the Son gave and kept the commands of the Father, did he not also expect us as believers to keep the same commands? It certainly looks so to me in John 15:10 Simply because a group of people get together and declare something to be a ceremonial law does it invalidate said law. Were the gentiles required to keep it? Read the following and tell me: Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; Rom 2:13 (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Rom 2:14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) To me it looks like those without the law perished because of sin against the law. Similarly heathens also have laws, but can their laws save them? Nope, neither does obedience to the 10 commandments save. It's an interesting thing, faith saves, but violation of the law kills. Faith without works is dead. Read and understand James 2. Good works towards man was a very important part of Torah. It was the kindness that was built into it. James likens faith without works to a body without life. It's a useless body indeed. Gal 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Gal 2:17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. Lookie there, if we seek to be justified by the Messiah, and then are sinners, who then is our master? Is Christ our minister while we sin? 1John 3:4 defines sin as transgression of the Law. Since Messiah did not abolish the law, nor did Paul (he couldn't), it stands to reason that the law including the Sabbath command is still binding on civilization. Don't build on a sand foundation, because all your building will crash eventually. Build on the foundation of the Word of the Almighty. His Word was Torah, and his Word was made flesh in Yah'shua Messiah. Follow him! |