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Post by Natalie on Nov 21, 2017 11:45:10 GMT -6
Those are really good questions. It has been awhile since I really studied things like Leviticus. It explains what sexual immorality is, why to avoid idols, and that the life of a creature is in it's blood. My understanding is that the Law:
1)was to show that we need a Savior and cannot follow the Law on our own. 2)It was also to allow Israel access to God who is perfectly holy. 3)It kept them holy and separated them from the people around them.
God created boundaries for them with what they could eat and wear, He gave them purification laws so they could still come before Him (whereas we have been purified in Christ and no longer need to do things such as bring a sacrifice after childbirth), laws on disease to protect them (which we now have modern medicines help).
I just had a thought...I would also include that we should follow the two greatest commandments of loving God and loving others. The Law helps us to see ways to love our neighbors. For example, Lev 19 speaks of not stealing, dealing fairly with employees, being honest in court, respecting elders. (also the first 4 commandments are on loving God and the last 6 on loving others, taking in to account the heart behind those as Jesus expressed in Matt 5)
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Post by nana on Nov 22, 2017 14:50:51 GMT -6
I believe the feast were/are part of the law which we Christians are not under because we are under grace. nana Do you believe that because we are under grace, instead of looking at the words of God in the Old Testament and the New Testament, we ought to just simply engage in relationship with Him? Are we not under some sort of Law still? Or would you say it's the "law of grace", so to speak? The day the law was handed down 3,000 souls were lost, the day the Holy Spirit came 3,000 souls were saved. This tells me the law kills but grace saves. Also when Jesus rose so did 500 others, a picture of things to come, a wave sheaf so to speak. Also the curtain in the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom which was somewhere around 30 feet tall signifying man could not have done that and we no longer had to go through a priest, we have Jesus to go through.
God is an excellent bookkeeper.
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Post by dennislwatson on Nov 25, 2017 10:00:45 GMT -6
Hey brothers and sisters, I hope everyone is holding up well in late November. ... Maybe I'm off here, but I can't shake the feeling that, though literally God absolutely meant for Moses to address the actual, literal people of Israel at the time, there's a good possibility He is also meaning a simultaneous metaphorical Israel (which actually means strives with God), such as "any who are God's people" per se, the sojourners, so to speak, not native to the actual blood-relation of Abraham, but related in spirit and in truth. 5) What are your thoughts here? Am I totally off? 6) Are we to celebrate the feasts as Christians? Why don't we? They seem a lot more God-glorifying than what most Christians celebrate nowadays - Easter, Halloween, Christmas (certainly well-meaning holidays in some regard, but also definite Pagan origins). Looking forward to hearing what you think! pillarofsaultgoodman OK you are Saul T. Goodman. Great display title. Ok I feel the same way but here is how I can deal with this idea in peace. It is obvious that the Church was not to do those things physically or even literally. I think when Paul and Barnabas came back to report to the Christians at Antioch what the committee in Jerusalem said regarding, OK here is what is required to be a Christian in someplace Gentilish... Acts 15:28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well." FARE YE WELL?!?!?! Really! No requirements about passover, unleavened bread, first fruits, pentecost, yom kippur, tabernacles?!?!?!? Apparently not. However the Church has not taught the wisdom from these divine appointments and I am sure that a church today which has good teaching will be teaching about the Feasts. How many churches teach about the Feasts? Not many. Ohh but they love to teach the milk of the word. God blesses us! Oh yes those churches will focus on that and get a 10th. Yes, they will focus on that. When I taught a Sunday School class for 20 years I taught about the feasts constantly. I never went to Jerusalem to present myself at a harvest feast, but that is the point, the Temple is not there. It is currently impossible to "obey the Feasts". And by the way, when we are all in Heaven and raptured and talking and rejoicing we will have a vote and I predict that this first Church committee meeting will be voted THE BEST CHURCH COMMITTEE MEETING OF ALL TIME. After this, Church Committee meetings all went DOWNHILL! IMHO Blessings Saints. Soon we rise and shine like the firmament reflecting Jesus. (edited 11/27/2017)
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