A depiction of David receiving shewbread from the High Priest.
Today, reply is on the spiritual meaning and value of keeping the ancient Sabbath laws recorded throughout the Bible. The fighter using the ID "Violation Nation" (Level 5 with 8, 833 points; a member since November 08, 2014) in the "Yahoo! Answers" Religion and Spirituality forum posted the following:
Why can't atheists admit when God was telling us to stone people who work on the sabbath to death, he only meant in the past?
It was moral then and served His divine plan that doesn't mean we have to do it today but I gotta admit it really makes me angry to see people working all the same?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believer are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses. (Acts 13: 38-39, King James Version, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Did The Prophets Know? (05/23/2018); Sabbath Acknowledges Divine Personhood (05/14/2018); We Establish Covenant Relationship (05/01/2018); Being A Holy Nation (02/20/2018); Sacred Law and Practice (02/12/2018); Conditions Set By Covenant? (09/13/2017); Deeds Of The Law? (09/10/2017)
"Violation Nation", among the many Christian believers who realize the ancient promises and prophecies provided through Israel are continued through the revelation of Jesus Christ, the divine law speaking to the Sabbath is increasingly acknowledged as forward-looking, and a vital tool to correctly prepare men for the Second Coming of Jesus as the King of Glory. The character and nature of divine fullness (we also say, the GODhead; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit) is not fully revealed focusing only on punishment and wrath against sin. Included also must be completeness, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness, mercy, personhood, righteousness, and wisdom. Communication between the Creator and the created requires a peculiar vocabulary that embraces spiritual events and sacred substance. Aspects of the sacred operations and eternal purposes of GOD may not be communicated without using the clear features of birth, death, existence, resurrection, and the second death.
The sacred requirements for judgment make it that, among believers, accountability and duty extend beyond simple obedience. The Ten Commandments (we also say, the Covenant) were provided to accomplish more than simply the transformation of twelve tribes and a mixed multitude (Gentiles) from Egypt into a divinely ruled sovereign nation by focusing on specific behaviors and conduct. The Decalogue continues to clarify and crystallize the perpetual relationship between mankind and divinity that became corrupted through the disobedience of Adam. Given the law is an expression of sacred intent and divine will, the law is to be embodied within conscience and self-will of the living as divine content and "life essence" (i.e., breath; spirit; word). Consider the following that uses language from the Bible:
(1.) Exodus 23: 10-12, King James Version (KJV): 10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof: 11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy olive yard. 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
(2.) Isaiah 58: 13-14, KJV: If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: 14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord Hath spoken it.
(3.) Matthew 12: 1-8, KJV: 1 At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day. 3 But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him; 4 How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless? 6 But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple. 7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
There is far more to be acknowledged and received as part of ones own spiritual fullness. (For example (4.) Luke 14: 1-6,KJV: 1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? 6 And they could not answer him again to these things.) Even so, to the rebuke of the Adversary and the furtherance of the faithful in Jesus Christ, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
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