I think it's really ridiculous that so many Christians would answer "of course not" when asked if now that they are New Testament Christians and saved by grace, it is allright to kill your neighbor, or to steal from your neighbor or to worship idols (or break any of the ten commandments).
BUT when you ask if they need to keep the Sabbath, these same Christians suddenly express the belief that the Sabbath is the only commandment that doesnt need to be kept anymore. It doesnt make any sense at all.
What gives anybody the right to think THEY can put themselves in the place of God and decide that one of the commandments should be discarded? There is no biblical basis for this whatsiever.
The worst thing about it is that they seem to have no concept about the fact that its the Sabbath commandment, the fourth commandment, that identifies God as our CREATOR... which is the very reason why we owe our worship and respect to His authority in the first place. The Sabbath commandment identifies God, our CREATOR as the true God who "created the heavens and the earth and all that in them is" and spearates Him from all false gods. It is the very core of the ten commandments. The very commandment Satan absolutely hates and wants to obliterate the most.
Revelation 14:
6: And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7: Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
8: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
9: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10: The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11: And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12: Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
If those who are identified here as "God's people" are "they who keep the commandments of God" then even a child ought to be able to discern that then those who have the mark of the beast DO NOT keep the commandments.
And which is the very commandment that the angel is pointing out is being broken and needs to have people pay attention to?
Verse 7:"Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and
worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters ."
The angel quotes right out of the old testament, the fourth commandment:
Exodus 20:
10: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11: For in six days
the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Deuteronomy 6:
1: Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
8: And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
The ten commandments were to be a
"a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes."
on the hand and on the forehead. God's sign. the commandments... God's people.
Rv:13:16: And he (the beast) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond,
to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure this out.
The Bible says that the beast (little horn power) would "think to change times and laws.) Daniel 7:25.
Dan:7:25: And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws
Let us read a most challenging statement made by the Catholic Church. They have done exactly what God predicted they would do.
"The Pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret, even divine laws....The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth with most ample power of binding and loosing the sheep."-From the Prompta Bibliotheca published in 1900 in Rome by the press of the propaganda.
"The pope has power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ."-Decretal de Translat, Episcop. Cap.
The pope's will stands for reason. He can dispense above the law, and of wrong make right by correcting and changing laws."-Pope Nicholas, Dis. 96.
We can read what the issues are in the end times... and even now. And it is just ridiculous to accuse Seventh Day Adventists of being a "Cult" because they simply are capable of actually reading and accepting what the Scriptures so plainly say. Thats the easy way out, instead of just facing the truth. The Christian Church has been under a terrible deception and needs to come out of it. The Catholic Church has just plain put itself in the place of God and has changed the Sabbath commandment and obviously God is not happy about that.
Rv:18:4: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
Rv:12:17: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Rv:22:14: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
So people can claim the Seventh Day Adventist Church is a "Cult" all they want but it doesnt change the facts. And it doesnt change the warning message that God has seen fit in His infinite wisdom and mercy to give to us all.
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Claudia Thompson
http://www.christiangraphics.org
http://www.countrymanordesigns.com
http://www.religiouscounterfeits.org
[ June 20, 2005, 12:21 AM: Message edited by: Claudia_T ]
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