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The Thing Most Sabbath Keepers Do not Talk About.

Not according to God, He says He has a people who overcomes and keep His commandments

Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
I just addressed this verse. Whose commandments?
Sadly, the core of this teaching that we can’t keep God’s commandments is that the devil has more power to keep one in sin, than God does to keep us from sin, if we are connected to Him. It’s saying the devil is more powerful than God. It’s not what I believe.

Regard Dan7:25 which is prophetic no I didn’t forget the next verse, it doesn't change the meaning on the verse I quoted. There is a beast power who thought to change God’s times and laws. The only law that is both a time (every seventh day Exo20:10) and law (4th commandment) is the Sabbath commandment and clear history of it being changed not by God.
And yet God gave us a new covenant where Jesus is the Lord of Yhe sabbath and now we rest in Him not in a particular day.
So temporary while on earth, this power changes God’s times and laws, the Sabbath, that most the whole world has followed or wondered after (thinking like)

God will take His dominion back

26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Why the Sabbath continues for worship for eternity in the New Heaven and New earth thus saith the Lord Isaiah 66:22-23
““For just as the new heavens and the new earth, Which I make, will endure before Me,” declares the Lord, “So will your descendants and your name endure. “And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from Sabbath to Sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the Lord.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭66‬:‭22‬-‭23‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

This merely means from week to week. This was a common phrase used by the Jews during biblical times.

4. = week(?): שֶׁבַע שַׁבָּתוֺת Leviticus 23:15 (H), seven sabbaths or weeks; שֶׁבַע שַׁבְּתתֹ (ה)שָּׁנִים Leviticus 25:8 (twice in verse); (H) seven sabbaths or weeks (of years), uncertain (see Mark 16:2, 9; Luke 18:12; Matthew 28:1, compare Jewish-Aramaic usage); possibly שַׁבָּת Isaiah 66:23 = week (Du).
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TRUMP "MISSED THE DEADLINE" TO CALL OFF TX GERRYMANDERING; CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS”

So once again the Democrats are copying what they complain about. Newsome in essence is saying 'see we can be just like the Republicans'. Democrats, the party of if you can't beat em, join em. Newsom is even trying to sound like Trump lol.
I don't know if most democrats have noticed this, but there really are no ideals or principles. It's whatever becomes "popular" in the here and now, is all they do.

...But that's actually logical, because the very word "democrat" is based on the popular vote. So they take it to the next level - the absolute extreme! It's the opposite of universal morality and long term goals - rather, it's always going to be whatever is most popular, at any given time, that wins the party.

At least they're true to their name! Even if it is a very dangerous game they play.
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The auto-pen scandal is going to be massive

Blame who you like but...

"I love the poorly educated!!!"
-Donald Trump

"Smart people don't like me".
-Donald Trump


Considering how much is dad left him at the time, it's widely consider he did very mediocre.

I mean since he's been president he's been doing very well because his supporters are cool with him enriching him and his family while in office. Kind of deranged actually.
Blame the democrats for nominating such a terrible candidate. (Look who she lost to)
The talk about him inheriting all his wealth is just because he's disliked. He's actually done quite well, Whether you like him or not
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SO HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE SAVED ??

This post asks “So how do you know you are saved??”

John 3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. NKJV


I know that I am saved because I believe God sent His Son to save me if I believe in Him. To dispute that circumcision is needed to be saved. I am not circumcised as my parents could not afford to pay the price the hospital required to circumcise baby boys in 1942.


we are saved by Jesus when we make that confession.

Initially, you concluded that "I know that I am saved because I believe God sent His Son to save me if I believe in Him"

The use of past tense seems to indicate a present salvation, after you believe.

Matthew 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. 33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. …...............................................................................
37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? 38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You? 39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.' NKJV



The above judgment is when those who give a drink of water to the brethren of Jesus get rewarded. The Matthew 25 judgment is the same as the judgment in Revelation 20:11-15. In revelation 20:15 those in the book of life (not the Lamb's book of life) enter into eternal life on the new earth, as flesh and blood and not spiritual beings, and cannot enter heaven. They are not begotten of God.

Then you use this passage to conclude that you are rewarded when you "give a drink of water to the brethren of Jesus" and that reward is eternal life in heaven.

So eternal life require belief and this work?
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Does Regeneration Precede Faith?

I noticed you didn’t answer my question about your background in Greek. Since your argument rests heavily on grammatical claims, it would help to know what level of training you’ve had in the language.
I didn't answer because it's not relevant. My credentials neither validate nor invalidate the argument. You can verify or refute any grammatical claim I've made by consulting any Greek grammar. Or pick a claim you question and I'll substantiate with references.

Διαβάζω την Κοινή Ελληνική άπταιστα, και τα καταφέρνω αρκετά καλά και στα Νέα Ελληνικά. Διαβάζω την Κοινή εδώ και δεκαπέντε χρόνια. I studied Greek formally at university and seminary beginning 20 years ago, tutor students, and have translated and diagrammed most of the New Testament.

Now, if you have a substantive objection to something I actually argued, let's hear it.
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BUSTED - 12 False theories refuted:

The differences are plainly in the text for anyone to read; they are simply not the same object.
Zechariah 5:1-4, describes what we know today as a ICBM rocket.
Zech 5:5-11, is not another different object. It goes on to tell about what that rocket has inside it.

Any other explanation, simply makes a mess of what Zechariah Prophesies.
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Mexican authorities thwart Iranian plot to kill Israel's ambassador

Exactly, it's not like the Israelis ever assassinated anyone.
Uh, well the Mexican Ambassador surely hasn't. I don't think she's done anything wrong to anyone.

...Kind of ridiculous to plot an assassination on someone just because they're an easy-target-Jew.
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AI Art

This one is better. There are ways to force the AI to render things correctly.
I made all caps and placed spaces between the letters of the longer words to force each letter to be rendered separately.
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Maine elects woman convicted of killing Canadian tourist to city council: ‘So broken’

But you see, 34 is more than 1. So if we give them 34 pennies, they will gladly give us 1 $100 bill.
I've fallen for that trick before, and I'm not falling for it again. Good day Sir!
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Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

Did God give it to you or did your ancestors take it from the indigenous people here first?
My ancestors? I don't know them. And in 100 more years, nobody alive can say they ever knew either of us. We won't even be a memory for anyone.

...But right now, in this time, this country belongs to the living citizens.
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I can't handle it, is there any way to avert this mentality?

Sorry, I was frustrated when I wrote that.

No need to be sorry LB. I get it. There just comes a point in time where we have to just go with the honor system. Be assured that the Lord knows. I’m one of those people that won’t take communion because I do not want to heap anymore condemnation on my head. I know there are a lot of Catholics that may not even be aware of that.
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A guest opinion : Trump Is Pushing Us Toward a Crash. It Could Be 1929 All Over Again.

Everything was fine then Trump. Except, everything was not fine.

After the 2008 financial crash, which economists completely missed, some people were calling for a rethink on economics from the ground up. That never happened. Too bad. It should have.

Hyman Minsky: Stability is destabilizing.

Let that sink in. Stability brings shenanigans.

After around 70 years of stability, the wheels start falling off the cart. Trump would be a minor player in this. The damage has already been done.
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The Lutheran Hail Mary and the Orthodox Angelic Salutation

It is well known that Calvin opposed the ubiquity of Christ's body, because he thought that even in the resurrection Christ's human nature had normal human limits. While I admit that we don't know what precisely a resurrection body is like, I'm trying to imagine how a human would deal with the prayers of a billion people.

This is probably a peculiarly Reformed point of view.
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Be Instructed Judah

Your entire theory is based on replacement
It is what can be called - The Jesus Theory.
Jesus came and offered Salvation to all who would accept it. Paul made it clear that ethnicity for Christians doesn't count anymore.

But God does have a secret, that is; He knows exactly who are the descendants of Jacob are today. Amos 9:9
But we don't and it isn't for us to know, so why try to make out that a group of mixed race non Christian peoples, who have formed a nation in a small part of the holy Land, are Gods people?
They are not and the OP tells us of their virtual demise.

The Christian peoples, from every tribe, race, nation and language, will gather in all of the Holy Land, Ezekiel 34:11-16, + and will be divided into 12 groups, each called after a son of Jacob. As Revelation 7:1-14 describes.

Lets not hear any more opinions based on false teachings.
Address the plain Words of Jeremiah 6, - Judah will be punished and their houses given to other people.
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Why Christians can't look away from Israel

We do not need to stand with Israel for the sake of it being Israel. IMO, Israel is a political construct, not a nation. The nation ceased close to 2,000 years ago.

Mat 27:25 And the whole people answering, said: His blood be upon us and upon our children.
Well that why it’s an op-ed piece. He believes it along with many evangelicals. Does not mean anyone else needs to believe it.
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Are professed Christians that worship our Lord on Sunday instead of Saturday sinning?

There are many examples of God's laws being followed without it being recorded when God first gave them such as with Genesis 39:9 where Joseph knew that it was a sin to commit adultery, so the fact that the first recorded instance of a command against adultery wasn't until Sinai does not give justification for assuming that there was no law against adultery prior to that, and the same is true for the Sabbath.
The Ten Commandments, which Sabbath is part of, were not given until Exodus 16.

Not Abraham, not Isaac, not Jacob, none of the patriarchs kept Sabbath (Fathers prior to Egypt did not keep the Sabbath: Deut 5:2-3 "The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb. The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, with all those of us alive here today."). The first time the Sabbath is mentioned in some significant way is in the 16th chapter of Exodus, when God feeds the people manna from heaven as they wander in the wilderness.

And the manna comes every day except the Sabbath day, and the day before they get enough for that day, so that they don’t have to work on that day. And that gives them a little preview of what’s coming, because in the 20th chapter you have the Ten Commandments, and in the Ten Commandments, prescriptions are given that do set down laws for the Sabbath day. This is the first time any such laws have been given by God.

The Sabbath was not instituted for man in Genesis. It was instituted officially in Exodus, in the law of Moses. A further understanding of that comes from Exodus chapter 31. The Lord speaks to Moses in verse 12, and He says to him, “As for you, speak to the sons of Israel saying, ‘You shall surely observe My Sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

“‘Therefore you are to observe the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. For six days work may be done but on the seventh day there is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. So the sons of Israel shall observe the Sabbath, to celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

“‘It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever;’” - why? - “‘for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased, and was refreshed,’” - or rested. Here we find that Sabbath is a sign; it is a sign. That is to say, it points to something else. It is a symbol, connected to the Mosaic covenant.

When God made a covenant with Noah, He promised Noah that He would never destroy the world again, and God identified a sign. What was the sign of the Noahic covenant? Rainbow. When God made a covenant with Abraham, He made that covenant with Abraham and He designated a sign, and the sign of the Abrahamic covenant, participation among the covenant people Israel, was the sign of circumcision. And here you have in the Mosaic covenant another sign, and the sign this time is the Sabbath.

It was only a sign. Observing it with a duplicitous heart gained nothing. In fact, Isaiah 1:13 says, “Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and Sabbath.” The prophet Hosea pronounces a similar judgment on their hypocritical Sabbaths: “I will put an end to all her gaiety, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths.” It didn’t mean anything to observe it outwardly without a heart of love and devotion to God.

The Sabbath was a reminder of creation. The Sabbath was to remind the people of Israel that they had forfeited paradise; that man had forfeited paradise. The law said to them, “Obey this law and you will be blessed.” God said that repeatedly: “Obey this law and you will be blessed,” to show them that righteous behaviour would restore a taste of Eden’s paradise. Righteous behaviour would also point to a future, a future kingdom when paradise would be regained.

So, the Sabbath, every Sabbath that went by, when they rested, they were reminded of a perfect creation, a paradise of God dominated by righteousness, which had been forfeited by sin and could only be regained again by righteousness. God then institutes the seventh-day system - not for everybody in the world; in fact, specifically, it says, for Israel. Verse 17: “A sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever.” Every seventh day was a reminder that they were living in a fallen world. Every seventh day was a reminder that they had lost paradise.


The Sabbath was the sign to Israel of the Old Covenant. Because we are now under the New Covenant, we are no longer required to keep the sign of the Old Covenant. The New Testament nowhere commands Christians to observe the Sabbath.

Paul warned the Gentiles about many different sins in his epistles, but never about breaking the Sabbath.

The early church Fathers, from Ignitions to Augustine, taught that the Old Testament Sabbath had been abolished and that the first day of the week (Sunday) was the day when Christians should meet for worship.
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Why Does the Bible Tell Us to Behave In Ways We Can’t? How Can Anyone Be Saved?

The messenger of YHVH, the apostle paul, did.
Did Apostle Pal kept every single commandment of God? No. Thus he was a sinner in need of a Saviour.

Have you learnt nothing from Paul's letters?

Romans 3
“None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” - this includes Paul

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, - this includes Paul

Romans 7
9 I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. 10 The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. 11 For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. 12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. 17 So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
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Do the Ten Commandments still apply under the new covenant today?

Me, I do believe in Christ's rest to eternal life to, but not that we will all get through.

This rest isn't just physical; it's an assurance found in Christ's completed work for salvation, allowing you to cease striving and find peace in His presence and provision. To enter this rest, you must have faith in God, surrender your anxieties, and cease your own self-justifying efforts."

In Revelations 2-Jesus said not everybody will make it through and there were some commited pastors who didn't who did great work so that go against those who we all get through if we believe.

The first para says you believe faith alone is not enough.

The 2nd para says faith alone is enough

The 3rd para says faith alone is not enough.

You have to make up your mind what to believe in.
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WHY LAW OF MOSES. AND THE NEW COVENANT IS NOT TODAY V?

And ROMANS 6:14. For sin will NOT //. OV. is a DISJUNCATIVE PARTICLE. NEGATIVE , means SIN. will never rule OVER YOU. RULE

over you. are NOT //. OV is also a DISJUNCATIVE PARRICLE NEGATIVE as you are. not under THE LAW , but under GRACE !!
Paul spoke about multiple categories of law other than the Law of Moses, so it is always important to discern which law he was referring to. For example, in Romans 7-8, Paul said that the Law of God is good, that he wanted to do good, that he delighted in obeying it, and that he served it with his mind in contrast with the law of sin, which was working within his members to cause him not to do the good that he wanted to do, which was waging war against the law of his mind, which he served with his flesh, which held him captive, and which the Law of the Spirit as free us from. The Law of God leads us to do what is godly, righteous, and good (Romans 7:12) while the law of sin leads us in the opposite direction by stirring up sinful passions in order to bear fruit unto death (Romans 7:5). So verses that refer something that would be absurd for Paul to delight in doing should not be interpreted as referring to the Law of God while verses that refer to a law that is sinful, that causes sin to increase, or that hinders us from obeying the Law of God shouldbe interpreted as referring to the law of sin. For example, Paul described the law that we are not under in Romans 6:14 as being a law where sin had dominion over him and it would be absurd for Paul to delight in sin having dominion over him, but rather that is the role of the law of sin. In Roman 6:15, being under grace does not mean that we are permitted to sin, and in Romans 7:7, the Law of God is not sinful but how we know what sin is, so we are still under it. Moreover, everything else in Romans 6 speaks in favor of obedience to the Law of God and against sin.


Also , read 2 Cor 3:13-16. a killer VERSE. !!
The bottom line is that we must obey God rather than man, so if you think that Paul should be interpreted as promoting rebellion against what God has commanded, then you should be quicker to disregard everything that he said than to disregard anything that God has commanded. In Deuteronomy 13, the way that God instructed to determine that someone is a false prophet who is not speaking for Him is if they speak against obeying His law, so it is either incorrect to interpret Paul as doing that or he was a false prophet, but either way followers of Christ should be followers of his example of obedience to the Law of God. The reality is that Paul was a servant of God who therefore never promoted rebellion against what He has commanded.

And do. you have a verse HOW anyone can be saved by the NEW COVENANT ??

dan p
In Psalms 119:29-30, he wanted to put false ways far from him, for God to be gracious to him by teaching him to obey His law, and he chose the way of faith by setting it before him, so this has always been the one and only way of salvation by grace through faith alone.
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