Worship: For Heaven’s Sake The Passover and the Day of Atonement are two examples of ceremonial sabbaths or holydays, from which we get the term holidays. These are sometimes confused with the weekly Sabbath, about which exists 13 myths Pastor Flemons is debunking with Bible truths. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake For the first ten generations before the flood, man’s average lifespan was 912 years. The first ten generations after the flood, man’s average lifespan dropped to only 317 years. What made the difference? (Read more below.)
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1 Philippians 1:29 For unto you it is given in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.
Psalm 91:7-8 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
MYTH #6, The weekly 7th day Sabbath was one of the ordinances nailed to the cross.
Only those ordinances that pointed forward to the ministry of Christ were done away with at the cross, as referred to in Ephesians 2:15 and Colossians 2:14-17, says Pastor Flemons. Discussing these passages in detail, Pastor Flemons mentioned that these were described as “a shadow of things to come,” according to verse 17. They pointed forward to some aspect of Christ’s ministry. Once meeting their fulfillment in Christ’s ministry, they no longer had purpose and so were ended. The weekly Sabbath, on the other hand, points backward to the week of creation. It continues to have purpose as a sign that God is our LORD who sanctifies us, as revealed in yesterday’s broadcast.
Included in those ordinances were meat offerings and drink offerings that were part of the ceremonial sabbaths like Passover, which pointed to or represented Christ’s death on Calvary.
These are the seven ceremonial feast day sabbaths and what they symbolize:
#1 The Passover Sabbath represented Christ’s death on Calvary.
#2 The 7 Days of Unleavened Bread Sabbath represented the period of disappointment when Christ appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus and when “their hearts burned within them.”
#3 The Pentecost Sabbath represented the coming of the Holy Spirit as Christ’s Representative, just as Jesus promised.
#4 The Feast of Trumpet Sabbath represented the Great Awakening around the world in the 1800s, when people began to understand more about prophecy and declare as with a trumpet call that Jesus was coming soon. (Search on and read about the Great Awakening.)
#5 The Day of Atonement Sabbath represents a judgment before Christ comes that was predicted by Apostles Peter and Paul.
#6 The Feast of Ingathering Sabbath represents the final ingathering of souls who, in the last days, are preparing to meet Jesus.
#7 The Feast of Tabernacles Sabbath represents the seven-day trip to heaven with Jesus after His second coming. In the feast, the children of Israel were required to camp for seven days. This seven-day trip insures that either the saved saints will keep a Sabbath on the way to heaven or will enter heaven on a glorious Sabbath to worship God.
All the seven feast days were or are forward pointing to some aspect of the ministry of Jesus. They were ceremonial sabbaths that could take place on any day of the week. The weekly Sabbath points backward to creation and is both a memorial of God’s creative power and a sign of God’s creative, sanctifying power in our lives. The sabbaths that were nailed to the cross were declared to be those “which are figures of things to come” and are thus separated from the weekly Sabbath that commemorates the creation of all good things in the past.
MYTH #7 We really don’t know which day is the real Sabbath.
No one contends that Jesus rose from the grave on any day other than Sunday. The worldwide Christian community acknowledges that and most congregations hold sunrise services commemorating that fact. Interestingly, people will insist on not having any real evidence that points to Saturday as the seventh day of the week or being the true Sabbath. Yet, the Bible is clear.
Matthew 28:1 In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
“Although there have been changes to the calendar, the weekly cycle has never been disturbed. In your lifetime,” says Pastor Flemons, “man has not lost sight of what day of the week it is. You may forget, and think Tuesday is actually Monday, but the entire world has kept it right your entire lifetime. Some reading this study are almost 100 years old. If there was any doubt, we all accept that Jesus rose on Sunday morning. The Bible says that is the day after Sabbath.”
Pastor Flemons ended the day’s discussion with John 7:17, Jesus said, “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”
(Read yesterday’s blog or listen to the recording for a discussion of the first five myths.)
For Health’s Sake…
Eating the flesh of dead animals made the difference.
It may be news to some, particularly those whose diet consists heavily of meat and animal byproducts and very little else besides potatoes and other starches. Eating meat was not the original Garden of Eden diet. There was no death then, including the death of animals. The death of the first animal recorded is found in Genesis 3:21, when God clothed Adam and Eve in coats of skins for their nakedness, after they had sinned.
Still, man’s diet did not include the flesh of animals from that time until the after the great flood. Knowing that all sources of foods for man’s original diet would be destroyed during the 40-day flood, God directed Noah to put certain “clean” animals on the ark for food. (Read Genesis 7 and 8.) Since that time, man’s lifespan has continued to drop. Today, man’s average lifespan worldwide is only 71 years. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy.)
The standard American diet, or SAD diet, consists mostly of what is not the original diet for man and opens the door for disease, sickness, and early death. The only foods not linked to any disease are those of the GLAD diet: God’s life-activating diet. Genesis 1:29 describes this original diet, our God-given meat: nuts, grains, fruits and vegetables.
Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.