Participants: Pr. John Lomacang (Host), Pr. John Stanton
Series Code: HCL
Program Code: HCL090002
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00:01 Hello friends, grab your Bible and a friend
00:03 and sit back as we explore God's word together 00:05 on this edition of House Calls. 00:22 Welcome to House Calls, another very exciting program, 00:25 my name is John Lomacang and I'm not alone 00:27 I have with me John Stanton. 00:29 Good to have you here John. 00:31 It's great to be here John, studying the word of God 00:32 and spending sometime, some very fun time, 00:35 that's right, exploring a very important topic 00:37 that we have today so no one will wanna miss this one. 00:39 That's right, they just do not wanna miss 00:42 this program friends, you know 00:43 God has a message for you today. 00:45 And I wanna encourage you to get that record button 00:47 and really prepare yourself for this program, 00:51 but John before we do anything 00:52 I think it be nice if you have some prayer 00:54 for us, what do you say. 00:55 Father in Heaven we depend upon you today 00:59 as we always do Lord to lead and guide us 01:01 and we just pray that you will be with every heart, 01:03 every mind, every person here gathered 01:05 for this program. And lead us Lord in this discussion 01:08 that you will be glorified, in Jesus name, amen, amen. 01:12 Friends, as you know that your questions 01:15 and your comments make a big difference 01:17 on this program, thank you for following our advice 01:20 on our last program and the program before that 01:22 and the program before that 01:24 and you've sent in your Bible questions, 01:25 if you have any questions you like to send in again 01:28 or maybe for the first time send them to 01:31 Housecalls@3abn.org that's Housecalls@3abn.org 01:36 and we download them and answer them, 01:38 praise God for your questions and thank you 01:40 for your faithfulness in keeping 01:43 this program on the air. 01:44 John, what do you have for us today? 01:45 I've got a question from a person in 01:49 in Trinidad and Tobago. Tobago. Is it Tobago? 01:52 Yeah, you're gonna get a million e-mails, 01:54 like Winnebago, it's Tobago, Tobago, 01:57 you call them Tobago man, don't come and get you. 01:59 Well, I've heard some others call it Tobago, 02:00 so I've been officially corrected. 02:02 You've been officially corrected, 02:04 thank you for that. Now I'm not gonna 02:07 give the name of the person because it's very unique 02:08 and it probably is a very few of them there, 02:10 but anyway good question, the Bible says: 02:14 And out of the ground the Lord made every tree grow 02:16 that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; 02:19 the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, 02:21 and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 02:23 That's from Genesis 2:9, I understand that God 02:26 literally created every tree of the ground, 02:29 some of which were for food and some were aesthetic, 02:32 how about the tree of life 02:34 the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 02:36 Were they also literally created by God 02:40 or are they symbolic of something 02:41 and if the two trees are symbolic, 02:43 what do they symbolize? 02:45 John, interesting question because 02:47 it's kind of a trick question, 02:48 they were literally created to provide a quick answer 02:51 and they're symbolic of something, 02:53 right, so they're both, and here is why 02:57 I say that first of all the literal part, 02:59 clearly these tress are there that Adam and Eve, 03:04 they're in the garden of Eden. 03:05 That Adam and Eve have an experience with, 03:08 in another words they are physical, they exist, 03:11 they're part of the garden 03:13 and clearly they had fruit on them. 03:17 The fruit for the tree of life was to give them 03:22 immortality and vitality, 03:24 it was to enhance their life experience. 03:27 Of course we depend upon life from God. 03:30 So, but he used this tree as a mechanism to bring 03:34 about their dependence upon God, 03:37 so in a way the tree of life is a way to tell 03:40 Adam and Eve and will be one day restored 03:42 for all mankind, is a way to tell us that 03:45 no matter what, we need God to provide for our needs. 03:48 That's right, we depend upon him 03:50 and so that was the tree of life. 03:53 Now in both its literal sense and its symbolic sense. 03:56 Now, let's talk about the tree of knowledge 03:57 of good and evil, yes there's a literal tree, 04:01 the serpent was in it. Eve came to its proximity, 04:09 so it exited in a place in the, 04:10 which is in the middle of the garden, 04:11 or the midst of the garden. Also it symbolized, 04:14 it symbolized as a test to Adam and Eve. 04:21 It symbolized faithfulness and loyalty to God or not. 04:25 And so in another words God gave it to them 04:27 as a test to see whether or not they would trust him 04:30 and follow him and so they were to eat 04:33 of the tree of life, but they were not to eat 04:35 of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 04:37 to make sure that they did not disobey God. 04:38 So in that way the tree of knowledge 04:40 of good and evil was symbolic. 04:42 But here's something I wanna say about this question 04:46 because there are other questions we receive 04:48 that are very similar to this in another way. 04:50 I fear today John, that many teachings of the church 04:57 from scripture, splinter groups, all kinds of things, 05:01 they want to spiritualize the Bible, 05:04 to the point of reading the meanings rather than 05:10 actually taking things literally and I believe 05:13 it's a challenge, that's not even the right word. 05:16 It's a strategy of the enemy. 05:19 That he is trying to get us to spiritualize things 05:24 away rather then seeing the literal aspect 05:27 of much of scripture and here's why I say that, 05:31 because when we spiritualize, 05:34 we often integrate our own thoughts and ideas 05:38 as to what something means. But when we take 05:42 God's word literally and we look for the meaning, 05:45 the spiritual application of the literal 05:47 we're looking in scripture for the symbols 05:51 and the meanings okay. But often if you go then to, 05:55 to some of these things like even for instance 05:57 this here the tree of knowledge of good 05:59 and evil, if you spiritualize that away 06:02 then the whole story of the fall of man is just, 06:06 it loses it's oomph, it loses it's value, 06:09 it's loses it's lesson. Because you're taking, 06:12 you're calling it something spiritual, 06:14 we actually, the question I would have to ask 06:16 then would be well then how did Adam and Eve fall? 06:20 If the knowledge of true knowledge of good and evil 06:23 is just about a symbol of being faithful to God, 06:25 well then how are they unfaithful? 06:27 If it wasn't a real fruit that they ate from the tree, 06:30 that's right, see so in many ways I think today 06:34 and I believe prophecy we're seeing this 06:36 in a way too, even in the book of Revelation 06:38 and John and I, you and I've studied this, 06:39 it's one of our hobbies. 06:40 But I believe someone spiritualize or you know, 06:45 that's the word, spiritualize away, 06:47 so much that they miss the literal application 06:52 of what a lot of the word of God is really saying. 06:57 And I think it's dangerous, that's why when you look 07:00 at the symbolic application of what you've just 07:02 talked about there and making a important 07:04 you know in Matthew 7 verse 17 the Bible says: 07:08 Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit, 07:12 so that tree that, the tree of life is a good tree, 07:16 it brought forth good fruit. 07:18 But the tree of the knowledge of good 07:20 and evil was not a good tree right. 07:23 In the sense that the results of taking 07:25 of its fruit were not good results right. 07:28 Now, the Lord made the tree as a test, 07:32 the tree was not a bad tree but anymore then, 07:36 hey great illustration, anymore then your car 07:40 doesn't belong to me, 07:41 doesn't make your car a bad car. 07:45 But it makes my taking of it, right, 07:47 a bad act and so that's the context over here, 07:50 somebody we went to dinner with him yesterday 07:53 at the Chinese restaurant and you know 07:56 we got our sesame tofu and our brown rice 07:59 and our lo mein, are you getting hungry? 08:00 And when they were leaving they said well 08:03 where are my keys and they couldn't find it 08:06 when they went outside out here in the Midwest. 08:10 They discovered their keys were still in the ignition 08:14 and I thought if they were in New York, 08:16 it wouldn't be there. If they were in any major city, 08:21 New York, Los Angeles, Florida, any metropolis 08:25 somebody would have noticed those keys there 08:27 and in the same example they would have taken 08:30 from something that doesn't belong to them. 08:32 Nothing wrong with that person's car, 08:35 the car is not bad but the act of taking from it 08:37 when it doesn't belong to them made the act bad. 08:40 The fruit, the end result, the fruit became 08:42 evil fruit, nothing wrong with the car. 08:45 And so in the same way you have to keep in mind 08:47 that that's not a spiritual act 08:49 but it has a spiritual consequence, 08:52 it's a literal act with the spiritual consequence. 08:54 A literal tree with a spiritual consequence, 08:57 right, right yeah, very important, very important 09:00 and we need to be careful, I would say 09:02 with the spiritual aspects we need to be careful 09:04 at having private interpretations of scripture. 09:07 Make sure that if you were gonna spiritualize 09:09 or you're going to the, you look at the symbolic 09:12 meaning of something that you're doing it 09:13 in the harmony with the rest of scripture, 09:15 the scripture itself is revealing 09:17 to you what that meaning is. 09:19 Here is another question which is a very good one, 09:21 how can you tell Biblically that the church 09:25 of this time is Laodicean and when it begin, 09:28 what time period do the other six churches cover? 09:32 There is a wonderful, there is a wonderful piece 09:36 of literature that you can get from 09:38 seminars unlimited, you may go 09:41 seminars unlimited on the Internet. 09:43 And there is some material under 09:48 the Revelation seminar materials that have the 09:50 literal outline of the seven churches 09:53 and their time periods. 09:54 To be very candid and just to concise them, 09:57 Ephesus was the first one, the New Testament Church, 10:00 Laodicean is the last one and between the first 10:03 and the last there were the five others, 10:05 right okay that's just the very quick summary. 10:07 As for the beginning of the date of one 10:10 and the ending date of the other, 10:11 obviously there are no 8th, 10:13 there is no 8th church, not mentioned in Revelation. 10:17 So, the 8th church is not gonna be 10:19 in the condition of any other first seven, 10:22 the 8th one is gonna be the church triumphant. 10:25 Right now from one all the way to seven 10:29 is the church militant, 10:30 they're in the midst of a battle, 10:32 a battle between sin and life. 10:35 A battle between truth and error, 10:38 a battle between light and darkness, 10:40 but the worse condition is Laodicea 10:42 and to be very candid about that, Laodicea, 10:45 my history maybe a little out of whack here 10:47 but after the disappointment of 1844 10:50 when the early advent, not Seventh-Day Adventist, 10:54 right. But the early advent believers believed that 10:58 Christ was coming in 1844 after that disappointment 11:01 began a period of Laodicea, where the church 11:03 went through many, many faces. 11:05 The church began to grow and what happened 11:07 the church grew in two different directions 11:09 those who were pure in their motives 11:11 but those who literally rejected truth 11:14 but considered themselves to still be pure 11:17 and that's the description 11:18 that you find in the church of Laodicea. 11:21 If you have your Bibles go with me to 11:22 Revelation chapter 3 and verse 14 11:24 and notice the application of how 11:26 the Lord describes this, what is diabolical about 11:29 the church of Laodicea and by the way 11:31 it's the last one, so I'm suggesting to you 11:35 it began somewhat after 1844, 11:37 the time period that began 11:40 the final push of the final gospel. 11:42 We're living in the last days we're living 11:43 in the time of the Laodicean condition. 11:46 And let me broadened that, not just, 11:49 this is no particular denomination, but this is 11:52 Christianity or Christendom in general, 11:55 notice the description. Verse 14: 11:59 And unto the angel of the church 12:00 of the Laodiceans write; 12:02 These things says the Amen, 12:04 the faithful and true witness, 12:07 the beginning of the creation of God; 12:09 I know thy works, thou art neither cold nor hot: 12:15 I would thou were cold or hot. 12:18 So then because thou art lukewarm, 12:21 and neither cold nor hot, 12:22 I will spew you out of my mouth. 12:25 And here's the condition, because you say 12:28 I'm rich verse 17 and increased with goods, 12:30 and have need of nothing; 12:31 look at the churches today John. 12:33 Wealthy churches, magnificent temples, 12:36 magnificent stadium nice churches, 12:38 we called them mega churches nowadays 12:40 and somebody even use a phrase gigachurch, 12:42 I think a mega church is five thousand members, 12:44 when you get to 20 and 30,000 12:46 and that's a gigachurch. That's huge, 12:48 that's a stadium, I mean how do you visit 12:49 30,000 members yeah, but the condition is we believe 12:54 that we are rich and increased with goods 12:56 and have need of nothing. 12:59 But the saddest of all is that we don't know 13:02 that we are wretched, miserable, poor, blind 13:07 and naked, that's the condition of the church, 13:09 it doesn't even know how in despair it is. 13:11 So, we're living in that day and age 13:13 but there is a remedy for the church of Laodicea 13:16 and the Lord is saying: 13:17 'Buy from me gold tried in the fire, 13:19 have true faith that you may be rich. 13:22 Have true righteousness, white raiment 13:25 and also anoint your eyes that you'll really 13:28 see the truth rather than thinking that you see 13:30 but your eyes are really covered over.' 13:32 And the reason why this message is so 13:35 directed because the Lord says: 13:36 "As many as I love, I rebuke and I chasten. 13:39 So, therefore be zealous and repent." 13:41 So the church is in a bad condition John 13:44 and God is saying to us all it's time to repent 13:47 and he's standing at the door, Jesus is standing 13:49 at the door knocking for the church to wake up. 13:52 And that's in these last days, 13:53 so many churches are asleep, 13:55 that's why the truth doesn't seem to be 13:57 popular opinion or a popular focus 13:59 for the churches of the last days, right. 14:01 And the reason why we believe that each church 14:03 represents a time period, a time period 14:06 as we go from Christ ascension down through 14:09 the very end of time where he returns 14:11 is because of the Bible's own historicist 14:14 approach to prophecy itself, right. 14:16 We read in Daniel, we see the four kingdoms, 14:18 consecutive kingdoms, one after the other. 14:20 That's an historicist approach to Bible 14:23 interpretation of Bible prophecy. 14:24 So we know that with the seven churches 14:26 they're historical throughout time 14:28 and we're in those last days we're Laodiceans. 14:31 That's right, also seven conditions very good part, 14:34 what I want to do today John a little differently 14:36 and instead of go into another question 14:37 unless you have a short one. 14:40 No, let's go right into our topic, 14:41 let's go into our topic today friends, 14:43 we have a topic that is so vitally important, 14:45 we didn't wanna get away from a matter of fact 14:47 possibly completing the most, most important aspect 14:51 of this topic today which is about shadows. 14:54 Shadows of things to come. 14:56 So if you have any questions you like to send 14:58 to us, you can send those questions to 15:00 House Calls, that's housecalls@3abn.org, 15:03 that's housecalls@3abn.org and we thank you again 15:09 for you questions and your comments 15:11 and even those who get excited and try to write 15:14 us a thesis we appreciate those too. 15:17 It always gives us something 15:18 to think about, right John? That's right. 15:20 Now, our springboard text, passage 15:24 I should say is Colossians chapter 2, okay, 15:27 why don't you read that again for us. 15:28 And so I'm gonna read here from 13 onto 17 15:31 we'll read Colossians 2 and we'll go a little 15:34 different direction here that we went 15:35 last time in our last program: 15:37 "And you, being dead in your trespasses 15:39 and the uncircumcision of your flesh, 15:41 He has made alive together with Him, 15:43 having forgiven you all trespasses, 15:46 having wiped out the handwriting 15:48 of requirements that was against us, 15:50 which was contrary to us. 15:52 And He has taken it out of the way, 15:54 having nailed it to the cross. 15:55 Having disarmed principalities and powers, 15:58 He made a public spectacle of them, 16:00 triumphing over them in it. 16:02 So let no one judge you in food or in drink, 16:06 or regarding festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, 16:09 which are a shadow of things to come, 16:11 but the substance is of Christ." 16:15 And if you recall last, last program we talked about 16:19 that how these things identified in verse 16 16:22 which include the Sabbaths, 16:26 were shadows of things to come 16:28 and how the Seventh-Day Sabbath, 16:31 one Sabbath, weekly Sabbath was that creation 16:35 and not a shadow of anything, right. 16:37 But was include within the Decalogue, 16:39 separate or apart from the laws of Moses, 16:43 the ceremonial laws of Moses. 16:45 So, that's how far we got last Sabbath, 16:47 I mean last program and so this program 16:50 what we would like to do is take a look 16:51 at the context little more deeply of what Paul 16:54 was really saying with regard to these ordinances 16:58 okay or requirements and John, 17:01 I think if you wanna read Ephesians 2, okay. 17:04 It does mention ordinances in the New King James 17:07 translation there and then we can go straight 17:10 from that as to what, what Paul is referring to. 17:13 And by the way as we, as we look at this text 17:16 in Ephesians chapter 2 and looking at verse, 17:19 let's start with verse 14, matter of fact verse 13 17:25 even gives us once again a glimpse into the shadow, 17:28 yeah okay, here we go. 17:30 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off 17:34 have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 17:39 We're gonna talk about that blood in just a moment, 17:40 the blood is a shadow. For he himself is our peace, 17:44 who has made both one, and has broken down the 17:49 middle wall of separation or the partition, 17:52 remember, I think we mentioned this, 17:54 it's the veil, the veil and the temple 17:56 was torn revealing the inside, presence of God, 18:02 by the presence of God the altar of sacrifice, 18:05 the altar of burned offerings where that 18:06 lamb was about to be killed. 18:07 It was, it was torn from top to bottom, 18:09 no longer a wall and notice the impact 18:13 in the description of what exactly happened. 18:15 Verse 15: Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, 18:22 that is the law of commandments contained 18:26 in ordinances, so as to create in Himself 18:29 one new man from the two, thus making peace, 18:33 and that He might reconcile them both 18:36 to God in one body through the cross, 18:39 thereby putting to death the enmity. 18:43 What I wanna point out here is notice 18:45 how he says the law of commandments, 18:48 but he doesn't stop there and one of the problems is, 18:51 one of the problems is people think of the 18:54 law of commandments as the Ten Commandments. 18:56 No, the law of commandments contained in ordinances. 19:01 Go with us right now to Hebrews 9 19:03 and then we're gonna jump around a little bit here 19:05 but I remember pointing out and I will use my 19:08 illustration again, if you didn't get the other 19:10 program I wanna use it again but Hebrews 9 John, 19:12 I want you to look at verse 1 19:14 and what we're gonna do friends here 19:15 Colossians 2 referred to it as shadows, 19:18 Ephesians 2 referred to it as ordinances 19:22 and both of them by the way depending 19:24 on the translation talk about handwriting 19:28 of requirements or ordinances 19:30 that were against us, right. 19:31 And before, the second law, 19:33 the companion law of the two, 19:36 the Decalogue and the Law of Moses 19:38 and the ceremonies, before you read that 19:40 I wanna make this point, when the Lord established 19:42 the ceremonial laws in the Old Testament. 19:44 You may remember even before, 19:47 even before Sinai sacrifices were given, 19:50 Abraham and Isaac, he took Isaac to the mountain 19:53 to sacrifice him and the question was ask by Isaac 19:56 Lord, Father, where is the lamb, 19:58 where is the sacrifice? 20:00 And Abraham said, God will provide himself a lamb. 20:04 Now, I want you to get that, depending on where 20:06 you put the comma, it could be God 20:08 will provide himself a lamb, you see the lamb 20:12 was the focus and it is the focus, 20:14 but the lamb, the literal animal lamb 20:17 was the focus in the Old Testament, 20:19 but that lamb prefigured was the shadow 20:21 of the Christ to come. So, when John saw 20:24 Jesus coming, he says behold the lamb of God 20:27 that taketh away the sin of the world. 20:29 There was no need, John didn't baptize 20:32 a four legged creature he baptized Jesus, 20:35 that's right. You see and everyone within the year 20:38 short of that, the image of the lamb 20:41 that sacrificed in these ceremonies that they had 20:44 been doing for 1500 years at least formally, 20:47 that written in the Law of Moses, 20:49 those things immediately came to mind 20:53 and so those were powerful words of John. 20:56 It jumped out at them yeah, they knew the lamb, 20:59 the Jews that were at the banks of the river, 21:02 the lamb, what do you mean the lamb? 21:04 How could this man be a lamb? 21:06 They didn't catch it right away, but go ahead 21:08 and read Hebrews 9 and verse 1, verse 10, 21:12 down to verse 14 follow us very carefully friends. 21:16 We're talking about ordinances here. 21:17 Verse 1 of Hebrews 9: 21:20 Then indeed, even the first covenant 21:23 had ordinances of divine service 21:25 and the earthly sanctuary. 21:28 So, the first thing we need to say there is 21:30 that the old covenant was based on the earthly 21:32 sanctuary as differentiated from the heavenly 21:37 sanctuary which is spoken of in great detail 21:40 here by the author of Hebrews. 21:42 Verse 10 concerned only with foods and drinks, 21:48 various washings, and fleshly ordinances 21:50 imposed until the time of reformation. 21:55 Okay, Galatians 3:19, remember that yes: 21:58 The law was added till the seed should come, 22:00 right, the law was added till the seed should come 22:03 and you find the same language in the verse 22:05 you just read, recap that so we don't run pass that. 22:08 Which one you're talking about? 22:10 The verse you just read until. 22:12 Yes until concerned only with foods and drinks, 22:15 various washings, and fleshly ordinances 22:17 imposed until the time of reformation. 22:19 And now look at this: But Christ came as High Priest 22:23 of the good things to come, with the greater 22:27 and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, 22:30 that is not of this creation. 22:32 Not with the blood of goats and calves, 22:34 but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place 22:37 once for all, having obtained eternal redemption. 22:40 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, 22:42 and the ashes of the heifer sprinkling, the unclean 22:45 sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: 22:47 How much more shall the blood of Christ, 22:49 who through the eternal Spirit offered himself 22:52 without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from 22:54 dead works to serve the living God. 22:56 Okay, notice he talks about, the Bible talks about 22:59 dead works here, the dead works were which for what 23:02 dead literally dead, dead animals, that's right. 23:05 Bullocks and goats and pigeons, literally dead, 23:10 I mean in the sense these things could 23:13 never excuse me, could never make those who 23:16 perform this clean of course these were dead animals. 23:20 But what they meant just like that Jordan River 23:23 when Naaman was told to dip seven times, 23:26 his complain was that Jordan is muddy. 23:30 It wasn't the Jordan; it was the faith 23:32 and what it meant, obedience in Christ, 23:35 right was where the cleansing came from. 23:37 So, in the same way these animals 23:38 were not clean in of themselves, 23:40 they had to be without blemish, 23:41 they couldn't have broken legs, 23:43 they couldn't have cuts, they couldn't have disease 23:44 because they had to represent Christ. 23:47 But I wanna also add something John, 23:49 did you read down to verse 14? 23:51 Yes, but this whole passage friends and we didn't 23:56 read verse 9 did we? No, read verse 9 23:59 because there is a part there that really emphasis 24:01 how important this shadow was. 24:03 It was symbolic for the present time in which 24:06 both gifts and sacrifices are offered 24:08 which cannot make him who perform 24:10 the service perfect in regard to the conscience. 24:12 Okay, so it was for the time then present yeah, 24:15 exactly. In fact if you look at 1 chapter before that, 24:21 in fact look at Hebrews 8 verse 13: 24:25 In that He says, A new covenant, 24:27 He has made the first obsolete. 24:30 Now what is becoming obsolete and growing 24:32 old is ready to vanish away. 24:34 There it is, so the former things, 24:36 those ceremonies are what is vanishing away 24:39 or what has become absolute, why? 24:42 Because Jesus, the high priest is here in type, 24:46 other words reality, the real is here 24:49 it's not a shadow anymore. 24:50 Jesus is here by his own blood, 24:52 he now ministers not in the earthly sanctuary John, 24:55 let's talk about this in just a minute right. 24:57 In the heavenly sanctuary, now this is a concept 25:00 that most of Christendom does not 25:03 have a developed theology for okay. 25:07 We hear a lot on systematic theology, 25:11 the systematic theology without the sanctuary, 25:13 you're missing most of it. 25:16 You're missing the system, 25:17 you're missing the system, good point 25:20 and so the issue here is that the system of the old 25:23 is meant to teach them what Christ is gonna do anew. 25:27 But when Christ comes you don't need to do the old 25:30 anymore but you have the new and I think today 25:33 what Christendom has done in this faulty 25:38 systematic theology is that they've, they've taken 25:42 the old, Old Testament, Old Covenant, ceremonies 25:46 and they've totally done away with it 25:48 to the point where doing away with 25:50 it isn't what this is intended to mean. 25:51 They put it out of their mind, 25:53 they say it has no application, 25:55 that there is no instruction in it, 25:57 but what we're saying to you today 25:59 is that God's plan of salvation began then 26:02 and is a plan that has been carried out over time 26:05 that includes Christ in the New Covenant, 26:08 it is one grand covenant, it's the everlasting 26:12 covenant in old and new phases. 26:15 And it's important for us to understand the old 26:17 and the new although the old is absolute 26:19 with it's performance it does have good application 26:23 with understanding the new ministry, 26:24 the new covenant ministry of Christ. 26:27 And so that when anybody tells you and John, 26:31 I've heard this before and I know you have too. 26:33 When we're talking about you know the Sabbath 26:35 or we're talking about the commandments are important 26:38 to keep you know a lot of people will say, 26:41 a lot of folk will say well I'm New Testament Christian. 26:44 Oh! John I was very waiting for you to stop talking 26:46 so I could say that, okay but that's how 26:48 the Lord is connecting with us. 26:49 I'm a New Testament Christian, isn't that amazing? 26:51 Yeah, you're gonna say the same thing go ahead 26:54 but you say it right now, praise the Lord. 26:55 I'm a New Testament Christian 26:57 and what are they actually saying by that. 26:59 They're saying I don't adhere to anything 27:02 or don't really read the Old Testament 27:05 or think of it in terms of instructing 27:09 my overall Christian faith and experience. 27:11 Right, I've heard people say that well 27:12 in the Old Testament people died and were waiting 27:15 for the resurrection but now since Jesus rose, 27:17 he deals with them differently, 27:19 they go to Heaven right now. 27:20 It's ridiculous you know and the Old Testament 27:23 one way and the New Testament the other no. 27:25 The Old Testament is law, they had to keep the law 27:28 to be saved, but the New Testament 27:29 is by grace through faith. 27:31 I'm sorry but Abraham was saved by his faith in Christ 27:34 and by the grace that God bestowed upon him. 27:38 Right, it's always by grace, read Hebrews chapter 11 27:41 over and over again, Abraham, Noah, 27:43 reverse order Moses, all of them listed 27:48 were by faith, by faith, by, faith, by faith 27:51 over and over again by faith 27:52 they weren't saved by works. 27:54 No, never has salvation been by works, 27:56 the works that were through the ceremonial law 28:00 were to let people know that when Jesus comes 28:04 it'll be easy to identify him. 28:06 Because that lamb that you just killed 28:08 he's gonna be the final lamb, that high priest, 28:12 look at the shadows now, I wanna talk about this, 28:14 this is gonna my, this is gonna be my shadow hand, 28:16 this is gonna be, let me use Christ as the right hand. 28:19 This is the shadow is the left hand, 28:21 the earthly high priest was the man who had to 28:24 provide a sacrifice for his own sin. 28:27 Jesus is the man who is our high priest, 28:32 who doesn't have to provide a sacrifice 28:34 because he has no sin, that's perfect. 28:37 The high priest had to take the life of a lamb, 28:40 the earthly high priest, the high priest Jesus 28:43 is the lamb and he's a lamb 28:47 without blemish and without spot. 28:49 You find that in the book of First Peter, 28:51 I'm gonna talk about that in just a moment. 28:53 You had the most important part of the furniture 28:56 in the entire sanctuary now, the most important piece, 28:59 you may wonder what that was and many people 29:01 think it's The Ark of the Covenant, 29:02 you know The Ark of the Covenant had no value 29:05 if there was not a sacrifice that was acceptable 29:07 on the altar of burn offerings. 29:09 And the altar burn offerings is symbolic 29:12 clearly of the cross, okay that shadow. 29:15 The lamb put on the altar of burn offering sacrificed 29:17 for the people and for their sins was Christ 29:21 prefigured Christ on the cross sacrificing 29:24 his own life and giving his own blood 29:26 for the forgiveness and the cleansing of sins. 29:29 Matter of fact the Bible says: for where there is no 29:31 shedding of blood there is no remission of sin, 29:33 so we could have all that furniture but no sacrifice. 29:38 And that's what Isaac asks, father, 29:41 where is the sacrifice? You know John this is 29:45 how strong it is and one very well known 29:49 theologian within, within the Adventist church said 29:51 it this way and I thought it was very good, 29:53 very strong but very true that without, 29:57 without the mediation of Jesus in the heavenly 30:02 sanctuary without him applying his blood, 30:04 and mediating in behalf of you and I, 30:06 throughout time from his ascension 30:08 until the end when he finishes all things, 30:10 that the cross is utterly meaningless, 30:14 it is utterly meaningless, it does no good to us 30:17 unless Jesus takes the benefits of that 30:22 atoning sacrifice and applies them to us 30:25 for forgiveness and for cleansing, 30:27 what do you think First John 1:9 says: 30:29 If we confess our sins, that God is faithful 30:32 and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us, 30:36 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 30:38 You see it didn't just end 30:39 when Jesus went into the heavens, 30:41 into the heavenly sanctuary as our high priest, 30:44 it didn't just end with the forgiveness of the cross. 30:46 He needed to apply that and forgive us 30:48 as time went on for our transgressions 30:50 but also finally at the end he need to cleanse us. 30:54 You see so even the New Testament is, is just repeat 30:58 with imagery pointing back to the old covenant system. 31:02 And if you don't understand 31:03 the imagery of the old covenant system, 31:05 the New Testament can be quite confusing, 31:07 that's why people read Colossians 2, 31:10 it is confusing, they read Colossians 2 31:11 without their church leaders teaching them 31:13 about the sanctuary services and they think aha! 31:17 Seventh, where did I hear the word 31:19 Sabbath before oh and creation, 31:21 so the Sabbath was done away with. 31:23 They are totally, honestly ignorant 31:27 I don't wanna say willingly ignorant, 31:29 many of the members are honestly ignorant 31:31 about what that whole system was all about. 31:33 So, when they hear the word Sabbath they link it 31:35 to creation or the Seventh-day Sabbath 31:37 and they say that's what it meant, 31:39 the Sabbath is no longer, 31:40 it was for the Jews, it was for the Jews, 31:42 so now that's why we keep Sunday. 31:44 'Cause the Sabbath was done away with, 31:45 right completely, completely false matter of fact 31:48 I made the point if there was no acceptable sacrifice 31:52 you can never get to the most Holy place, right. 31:54 Listen to Hebrews. Hebrews 10, let's go back again 31:58 and let's look at the word again shadow here. 32:00 I want you to catch this friends and then 32:02 we're gonna show you some shadow Sabbaths, 32:04 because a lot of times people think that the Sabbath, 32:06 the shadow Sabbath is the Seventh-day Sabbath 32:08 of creation, wrong, I've got to just say it that way, 32:11 yeah. Not, being arrogant, wrong, 32:13 that's not the shadow Sabbath. 32:15 The shadow Sabbaths were the and I will tell 32:17 you about them in just a moment, 32:18 but the ceremony of Sabbath, let's look 32:19 at this Hebrews 10 starting with the verse 1, 32:22 look at this. For the law, having a 32:27 shadow of the good things to come, 32:30 and not the very image of the things, 32:33 can never with these same sacrifices, 32:37 which they offered continually year by year, 32:40 make those who approach perfect. 32:43 For then, verse 2 of Hebrews 10: 32:46 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 32:50 For the worshipers once purified, that's cleansed, 32:54 would have had no more consciousness of sins. 32:58 But notice the faultiness of the sacrificial system, 33:01 which is not the fault, 33:03 which has nothing to do with Christ. 33:05 Let me just rephrase it, 33:06 the faultiness of the earthly system gave away 33:10 to the faultlessness of Christ, okay. 33:13 Look at verse 3: But in those sacrifices there 33:17 is a remembrance of sins how often John? 33:19 Every year, for it is not possible 33:24 verse 4 of Hebrews 10: that the blood of bulls 33:27 and of goats could take away sins. 33:30 That's the shadow, now go to the, go to the, 33:32 go to the image now John, go to verse 5 and break it. 33:36 Therefore when he came into the world. 33:38 Wait, wait, wait, when he came, 33:40 that's right come preacher. 33:43 When he came into the world, you got it, he said: 33:46 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, 33:48 but a body you had prepared for me. 33:51 In burnt offerings and sacrifices 33:53 for sin you had no pleasure. 33:55 Then I said, behold, I have come and the volume 33:57 of the book it is written of Me 33:59 to do Your will, O God." 34:02 Now, John, in the volume of the book okay, 34:04 okay friends, did you hear that, point at John 34:07 again and say in the volume of what? 34:09 In the volume of the book it is written of Me. 34:11 In other words, in the book of Moses, 34:14 the Law of Moses, Moses points to through 34:17 these ceremonies, points to Jesus and His ministry 34:19 and he says I'm here I came to do it. 34:22 And if you wanna find out about the Jesus, 34:24 look at the volume of the book, the volume. 34:27 In the book that was placed at the side 34:30 of the Ark of the Covenant, yes that was the volume. 34:33 In that volume all the ceremonies pointed to 34:36 Christ, notice how he personalizes, 34:38 notice how this verse is filled. 34:40 And notice how Jesus quoted here, 34:43 is telling the New Testament church 34:45 to go back and look at the book, 34:48 look at the book and you know who I am. 34:49 He's not saying it's Old Testament stuff, 34:51 he's not saying oh it's Old Testament 34:53 you know that was just for the Jews. 34:55 He saying the New Testament church go back 34:57 and look at the book because then 34:58 you will establish your theology correctly, 35:00 there you go. John this is powerful look at 35:03 verse 8: Previously saying, "Sacrifice and offering, 35:07 burnt offerings and offerings for sin 35:10 You did not desire, nor had pleasure in them 35:13 which are offered according to the law." 35:16 Now, if you look at the Ten Commandments 35:17 friend you will find absolutely nothing about 35:19 a sacrifice, right, nothing about a burnt offering, 35:23 nothing about any kind of offering in the 35:26 Ten Commandments, this is the perfect standard, 35:28 it's just the standard of Christ's righteousness, 35:30 it's the moral law not the ceremonial law in the 35:36 Ten Commandments you find absolutely 35:38 nothing temporary. Let me go and illustrate, 35:41 at what point do we now take the name of 35:44 the Lord in vain? We never do, now watch me, 35:51 after the cross those who say the commandments 35:55 were done away with, can we now as Christians 35:56 take God's name in vain. No, you can't, so you're 36:01 showing by saying yes, by saying no you can't 36:04 you are showing clearly that you admit that the 36:07 commandments, the first four applying to our 36:10 obligation to God are clearly intact. 36:14 But the biggest obligation of that was the one 36:16 that shows who is our creator and that's the 36:19 one that Satan used Colossians 2 to try to 36:21 get rid of and that's the word of the Sabbath. 36:23 Now, John go ahead and register and 36:25 I am gonna show some, well lets say if there is 36:27 any commandment to go after as Satan you 36:30 know to attack the authority of God himself 36:33 who he is, it's the forth, in fact I would 36:36 suggest that, some have suggested I would say 36:38 and I would suggested as well that the four 36:41 commandments the first four are on one tablet 36:44 and second five were on the other but I will 36:47 suggest the four commandment itself 36:48 is more of a bridge between the two. 36:51 'Cause it establishes the authority of the one 36:54 giving the commandment, that's right, very good 36:57 point and you know the other thing I wanted 36:59 to weigh on too here and I know it's, 37:01 I don't wanna be too disjointed here as 37:03 we marsh right over it, of the chapter 10 37:07 of Hebrews, it says in verse 2: For the 37:12 worshipers once purify wouldn't have had no 37:14 more consciousness of sins. There is an illusion 37:18 here of one overall plan, that when it's complete 37:23 we've no more consciousness, 37:25 and we've no more sin, we've nothing more to 37:27 worry about because it's done. Okay, if you 37:32 understand where I'm going here okay, 37:33 so what's happening here what he's saying 37:36 is that in that early system that was from 37:39 year to year in the copy of the plan that God 37:43 had overall from the year to year, they repeated 37:46 the ceremonies that ended on the Day of Atonement, 37:49 or the ended with the Day of Atonement 37:50 which is the one is the reconciliation with God 37:52 and the eradication, the cleansing of sin from the 37:55 sanctuary itself and from the camp. 37:57 That happened every year and there was a 38:00 reminder of sins constantly and what he saying 38:02 is if that was the real, if that's all there was 38:06 then people would after that time not have any 38:09 more consciousness of sin 'cause that's what 38:10 intended, it's intended to get rid of sin. 38:13 And so what he's saying by that is now the real 38:17 plan that's ministered from the heavenly sanctuary 38:20 with Christ as the high priest is intended when 38:24 completed at the end of time. When completed 38:27 with a anti-typical date of Atonement, 38:29 the real Day of Atonement that when that cleansing 38:32 happens, when those sins are purify when the 38:34 heavenly sanctuary is cleansed, when God's 38:36 people are eradicated from, when sin is eradicated 38:39 from their lives. That when Jesus comes and 38:41 ends it all there is no more consciousness of sin, 38:44 because there is no more sin. Now, I know this 38:47 comparison John that's powerful and I'm glad it's 38:50 being recorded. Friends, you do need to get a copy 38:52 of this if you're not recording it, you need 38:54 to get a copy of this and share with your friends. 38:56 And you can contact 3ABN for a copy of this 38:58 particular program it's called shadows, that's 39:01 the topic of this, of this discussion but 39:04 here what I wanna point out is John you read 39:05 that verse and I'm glad you brought us back to 39:07 it because it opens up something else that is 39:09 talked about later on the very same passage. 39:11 It says every year people are reminded 39:16 of their sins, because it's a continual thing, 39:18 every year they've to come down to the 39:19 Day of Atonement, everyday they have 39:20 to provide daily sacrifice, right. 39:22 But what happen after Jesus, look at verse 9 39:26 of Hebrews 10, verse 8: Previously saying, 39:34 "Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, 39:36 and offerings for sin You did not desire, 39:38 nor had pleasure in them which is offered 39:41 according to the law. He said, "Behold, I have 39:45 come to do Your will, O God. He takes away 39:47 the first that he may establish the second. 39:51 He takes away the type that he may establish 39:54 the anti-type. Anti doesn't mean against, 39:56 it means in place of, Jesus came in place 39:59 of ceremony etc. So, He abolished what? 40:01 Not the Sabbath, He abolished the old covenant 40:06 ceremonies, right and sacrifices, the sacrificial 40:10 system from the old covenant that's what 40:12 he abolished right. I'm tying this back to 40:14 Colossians chapter 2 right. That's why I mentioned 40:17 let no one judge your meats and drinks and 40:21 new moons and Sabbath days, I've yet to show 40:24 you the Sabbath days that were applied to that 40:26 system and I will do that before this program 40:27 is done. But look at verse 10 now, verse, 40:31 verse 10 yeah: By that, by that will, 40:39 by that will we have been sanctified through the 40:42 offering of the body of Jesus Christ, how often 40:45 John? Once for all. Once not yearly yeah, once, 40:50 for all, and every priest this is the earthly one, 40:53 stands ministering how often? Daily and offering 40:57 repeatedly the same sacrifices which can 41:00 never take away sins. But verse 12: here's 41:05 the actual, here's the image, here's the not 41:07 the shadow, here's the man but this man after 41:10 he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever 41:14 sat down at the right hand of God from that 41:18 time waiting till his enemies are made 41:21 his footstool. For by one offering he had perfected 41:26 forever those who are being sanctified. 41:30 And you clearly see there in verse 18 where there 41:32 he is talking about the remission of sin. 41:34 So, Christ was the one that all this blood 41:37 sacrifice is pointing to, and by the way friends 41:40 in the Old Testament many of these services 41:43 were referred to as Sabbaths. 41:44 Let me show you some of them yeah, 41:46 go with us now to the book of Leviticus, 41:49 Leviticus has a number of them talked about, 41:51 lets see the book of Leviticus, we're gonna 41:53 break down some of these. So, that you don't walk 41:56 away from here saying that Jesus did away with 41:58 the Sabbath that he, that he crowned creation with. 42:02 He didn't do away with that Sabbath at all, 42:04 because that Sabbath was establish when there 42:07 was no sin. All that was, was a crowning act 42:10 and here's the problem, here's the weakness 42:12 of that argument. If Jesus did away with the 42:15 Seventh-day Sabbath then we have absolutely 42:19 no reason for the Seventh-day to exist 42:21 because he did create something on the 42:24 Seventh-day that was not physical but 42:26 it was spiritual. The spiritual blessing of the 42:29 Seventh-day was so that we could have physical 42:31 rest and spiritual refreshment, 42:34 what where I say, Leviticus, okay here I'm. 42:37 Leviticus chapter 23 and I'm gonna start with, 42:41 let's give you an obvious one okay. 42:45 And by the way when you look at all of Leviticus 42:48 it's just a really, let's first start with the 42:51 weekly Sabbath okay. Let's first start with 42:53 the weekly Sabbath, Leviticus chapter 23 42:56 verse 1 down to verse 3: And the Lord spoke 42:59 to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, 43:01 and say to them: 'The feasts of the Lord, 43:04 which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations 43:08 these are My feasts. six days shall work be done, 43:13 but the seventh day notice this seventh day 43:16 and get the language here, is a Sabbath of 43:20 solemn rest, but which one is it? 43:23 A holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; 43:28 it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. 43:32 It's one of them but it's not, but it's the Sabbath 43:36 and notice this here, yeah it is not included 43:39 among the feast, no it's not because if you look 43:41 at the next verse, verse 4 it says: 43:43 'These are the feasts of the Lord, and he starts 43:45 figuring that, so for some reason the Lord was 43:48 very clear to differentiate between that's right, 43:51 between the feast Sabbath and the Sabbath. 43:54 That's why he mentions the Sabbath here, 43:56 almost looks like someone could reverse interpret 43:59 this, they could say well these are the feasts 44:00 of the Lord, see the Sabbath is there. 44:02 But that's not what he's saying not at all, 44:04 he's saying: These are the feast of the Lord, 44:05 then he differentiates the Seventh-day Sabbath 44:08 from the feast and comes back and says 44:10 in verse 4: These are feasts of the Lord and 44:13 then he goes onto talk about them, 44:14 Just like in Revelation 20 verse 5 and 6 44:16 where it says, this is the first resurrection, 44:19 you know he reads about the second death and 44:21 say this is the first resurrection, right, 44:22 you got to understand the way the Bible writes, 44:24 the way that the Bible writers emphasis what 44:26 they write. But now in this chapter here 44:28 where I wanna point out and I have my 44:30 glasses on because I need to see up close 44:32 there are now I mention to you the Sabbaths 44:34 that are mentioned here. We're gonna first cover 44:36 Passover then the Feast of Unleavened Bread, 44:39 then the Sabbath of First Fruits, then Pentecost, 44:42 then the Trumpets, then the Day of Atonement, 44:44 then the Feast of Tabernacles, that's the 44:46 way it outlines it. But now lets go down to 44:48 verse 20, verse 37 to verse 42, I wanna go ahead 44:53 and give you one, so you could actually see 44:54 the words. John, why don't you read that 44:57 since I read the last one, start with verse 37 45:00 okay, down to verse 42, actually 37 to verse 45:05 let me see where I'm, it's about right, 45:08 yeah till verse 42 go ahead and we'll stop 45:11 when you get to the word Sabbaths. 45:12 These are the feasts of the Lord which you shall 45:14 proclaim to be holy convocations, that's right 45:17 and that's why they're called Sabbaths by the 45:19 way because the Sabbath day was 45:21 a holy convocation, a day of worship to come 45:23 together to worship the Lord from week to week. 45:27 Now, I wanna, before you go any further, 45:29 I want you to notice friends as John is reading, 45:31 the Sabbath, Seventh-day Sabbath is capitalized 45:35 the Sabbaths or small letters, in most, in many 45:41 modern translations now in the old ones 45:43 you don't get that like that, right, 45:44 Kings James version, but right, okay. 45:47 And it says here to offer an offering made 45:50 by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering and 45:52 a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink 45:54 offerings, everything on its day. 45:56 Beside the Sabbaths of the Lord, beside 46:00 your gifts, beside vows, and beside all your 46:02 freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord. 46:04 Right, Also on the fifteenth day of the 46:07 seventh month, you will have gathered in the 46:09 fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the 46:11 Lord for seven days: On the first day there shall 46:14 be a Sabbath rest; on the what day? 46:16 The first day, okay, now if you want an argument 46:19 that the first day of Sabbath this is the 46:20 strongest one you're gonna get, right. 46:22 But this has to clearly connected to the ceremonial 46:24 system so that, sorry. And the next one it says, 46:27 on the eight day Sabbath rest, okay see the 46:29 ceremonial Sabbaths could fall on any day, 46:32 that's right. Sometimes they may fall, but it's 46:35 coincidental, right that it would fall on the 46:37 Sabbath day Sabbath, the Sabbath. 46:39 But these Sabbaths could fall on any day 46:42 but notice their first day shall be a Sabbath rest, 46:45 eight day a Sabbath rest, right, okay. 46:47 Keep going: And you shall take for yourselves 46:49 on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, 46:52 branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, 46:56 and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice 46:59 before the Lord your God for seven days. 47:01 You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for 47:04 seven days in the year. It shall be a statute 47:07 forever in your generations. 47:08 You shall celebrate it in the seventh month, 47:11 okay and notice that you find two Sabbaths 47:14 mentioned there, not including, not including 47:17 the Passover which was also referred to as the 47:20 Sabbath and there is no way I could go 47:22 through Numbers, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 47:25 but as you do your research you'll discover 47:26 the Passover was refer to as a Sabbath. 47:29 The feast of unleavened bread as a Sabbath, 47:32 the ceremony of first fruits and Pentecost, 47:36 and trumpets, and the Day of Atonement, 47:37 and the feast of tabernacles, these 47:39 were all spiritual convocations, and the 47:42 word convocations in it's right also it's translated 47:46 Sabbaths, you find clearly these were ceremonial 47:49 in their nature, not replacing, not omitting 47:52 the Seventh-day Sabbath. 47:55 But let's go on further go to Leviticus chapter 25, 47:58 I want you to see another Sabbath. 47:59 Leviticus chapter 25, I have verse 3 down to 48:04 verse 12, let me see if I could narrow that 48:08 down some. Let's go ahead and start with 48:13 well this is good John I think you have enough 48:15 time to read that go ahead and read that for us 48:17 because you could read pretty quickly I mean 48:19 I could too but. Starting verse 3 let's start with 48:21 verse 3: Six years you shall sow your field, 48:23 and six years you shall prune your vineyard, 48:25 and gather its fruits; but in the seventh year there 48:28 shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, 48:30 a Sabbath to the Lord. Okay, notice a Sabbath 48:33 what's resting here the land is resting, 48:37 that's right and if you follow that, let me just 48:39 say something friends there is a principle here 48:41 that if you follow that as a farmer today, 48:43 if you allow your land that has been harvested 48:45 for six years in a row to rest the seventh year. 48:48 You will discover that the land itself is gonna 48:50 replenish itself with the minerals that it needs 48:52 to re-grow after you, if you let it rest for 48:55 one year and plant and then a skip here 48:58 you will discover that land is gonna replenish 49:00 itself so notice it was a Sabbath rest, 49:02 but it was a seventh year Sabbath, keep 49:04 going John. Where am I, verse 5, yes, 49:09 What grows of its own accord of your harvest 49:12 you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of 49:14 your untended vine, for it is a year of rest 49:17 for the land. And the Sabbath produce of the 49:20 land shall be food for you: for you, your male 49:23 and female servants, your hired man, and the 49:25 stranger who dwells with you, for your livestock 49:28 and the beasts that are in your land all its 49:31 produce shall be for food. And you shall 49:33 count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, 49:36 seven times seven years; and the time of the seven 49:40 Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. 49:43 Okay, see notice that, seven Sabbaths, seven 49:45 years, see this, and seven times of that and 49:48 seven times of that. Now, look at verse 9: 49:50 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee 49:53 to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month 49:56 on the Day of Atonement you shall make the 49:58 trumpet to sound throughout all your land. 50:01 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, 50:04 and proclaim liberty throughout all the land 50:07 to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee 50:10 for you; and each of you shall return to his 50:13 possession, and each of you shall return 50:15 to his family. Okay, and just verse 11 and 12 50:18 and I'll summarize it real quick. 50:19 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; 50:21 in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows 50:24 of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of 50:27 your untended vine. For it is the Jubilee; 50:31 it shall be holy to you; you shall eat 50:35 its produce from the field. Okay friends, now 50:37 let me go ahead and give you the type of this, 50:39 this is the very powerful you covered a lot there 50:41 and you know if you never read this before 50:42 you could think your brain is probably 50:44 right now fried, okay. Let me go ahead 50:46 and summarize this whole thing, the day 50:49 of Pentecost was the fiftieth day, 50:56 Pente fiftieth day, pentagon five sides 50:59 that's why the Holy Spirit was poured out 51:01 on that day on the day of Pentecost 51:04 the fiftieth day. You will also discover that they 51:09 talked about seven times seven 49 but in 51:12 the fiftieth what's gonna happen in that 51:15 last round of the entrance into that 51:18 Seventh Sabbath you will discover now that the 51:21 land if I own land, I bought land from you, 51:25 I have to return it back to you in the 51:28 Jubilee year, I have to give it back to the one 51:30 who was the rightful owner in the very beginning. 51:32 Now, follow this very carefully friends, 51:34 seven cycles, in the seventh cycle after 51:37 return it back to the owner, now this is powerful. 51:40 One of the reasons why there is gonna 51:42 be a thousand years of rest called the millennium, 51:46 it's because that's the end of the seventh, 51:49 that is the entrance of the seventh thousand 51:52 year of the existence of human history. 51:56 And the land goes back to the rightful owner, 51:59 who is the rightful owner of the earth? 52:00 Jesus, okay and the land rests for a thousand 52:04 years and at the end of the thousand years 52:06 what happens, the land is replenished, 52:09 that's when the world, that's when the earth 52:11 is recreated, that's when sin is completely 52:15 eradicated finally and how was the fields purified, 52:20 if you live in Sacramento, California you know 52:23 the answer you will see in the distance all, 52:26 all the chaff into fields, all the tears into 52:30 fields, the fields have been purified and the 52:32 smoke is bellowing up as the fields are being 52:34 purified, that's one of the reasons why you 52:37 find the same language in Revelation. 52:41 The same language in Revelation, 52:43 at the end of six thousand years of sin 52:45 the earth is going to rest for a thousand years, 52:48 at the end of the thousand that last thousand year, 52:51 the end of millennium is gonna be the seventh 52:54 thousand of period then there is the fire from 52:56 God that comes out of Heaven to burn up 52:59 all sin and all sinners and after the purification 53:03 of this earth then the earth is replenished 53:06 and the recreation of a sinless society begins 53:10 all over again. But what I wanna point out is 53:13 the Sabbath that I referred to in the book 53:16 of Colossians and Ephesians has to do 53:19 with these things that we have pointed 53:22 you to today not the Seventh-day Sabbath 53:24 and here is the reason why the Seventh-day 53:26 Sabbath has not been done away with 53:28 I think I've saved the best for last. 53:30 John go to Isaiah before you, make your 53:32 comment while you're turning, I was gonna 53:33 say as we're going there Isaiah chapter 66, 66. 53:37 This is just a thought here but know as that 53:42 Jesus calls the Sabbath in the fourth commandment 53:48 His, He says there are my Sabbaths, okay which 53:53 is why at the end of the seven thousand years 53:55 when you get to the millennium he is restored 53:58 as the rightful owner or I would say creator 54:01 that's right, that's why creation is the issue 54:03 with regard of the Sabbath. 54:04 It is, it is not the issue, the Sabbath is not an 54:08 issue with regard to resurrection as some 54:10 would suggest to you, it's not because Jesus 54:12 rose on the first day of the week that we keep 54:13 that Sabbath, Sabbath has nothing to do with 54:16 resurrection, it has everything to do with 54:17 ownership, creator, that's why the jubilee 54:21 was a Sabbath, okay. So, after the cycle it returns, 54:26 this earth returns to Jesus who was the 54:28 original creator and that's why He says they're His, 54:32 that's right, this is my Sabbath, the other 54:34 Sabbaths, the ceremonies they're yours, 54:37 that's right. The other Sabbaths they're yours 54:40 this one and that's why Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 58, 54:43 if you will turn your foot away from my Sabbaths, 54:48 from doing, from you doing your pleasures on 54:51 my holy day okay. That's His holy day, 54:55 these others were all temporary and to show 54:57 you that it had not been destroyed, is evidenced 55:00 in Isaiah chapter 66 verse 22 and 23, 55:04 read that for us. If it had been destroyed 55:06 you wouldn't show up here, that's right. 55:08 For as the new heavens and the new earth, 55:11 which I will make, shall remain before me, 55:14 says the LORD, so shall your descendents in 55:17 your name remain. And it shall come to pass, 55:20 that as during this time in the new heavens 55:21 and the new earth, that's right. 55:23 it shall come to pass, that from one new moon 55:25 to another, and from one Sabbath to another, 55:28 all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. 55:32 Notice that, from one new moon to another, 55:35 and from one Sabbath to another, shall all 55:37 flesh come to worship before me. 55:40 So, the Sabbath of creation week has never been, 55:44 has never been abrogated, has never been 55:48 destroyed, has never been taken out of the way, 55:51 has never been nailed to the cross that's why 55:53 and here's your evidences of that, in the lives of 55:56 the Apostles. Read the book of Acts and take 55:59 your dictionary, take your Bible concordance 56:02 and do yourself a favor and look at this very 56:05 simple exercise. You'll find the word Sabbath 56:08 mentioned sixty times in the New Testament, 56:11 you'll find the phrase first day only mentioned 56:13 twelve, eight of those have to do with the 56:16 resurrection, one has no application to any 56:19 particular day at all, just simply saying meet on 56:21 the first day when you go into town, 56:23 the other three have to do with getting together 56:26 and breaking bread on the first day, 56:27 but no new Sabbath mentioned there. 56:29 The other one has to do with the sermon Paul 56:31 preached until the first day of the week, 56:33 no new Sabbath mentioned there 56:35 and the last one has to do with an offering 56:36 picked up for the Jews who were poor in Jerusalem, 56:40 no new Sabbath mentioned there. 56:42 Its was not a collection taking in church and 56:44 so you see friends to try to get rid of the 56:46 Sabbath is of futile exercise because it 56:52 continues from the beginning through the 56:55 Old Testament, through the Apostles, 56:57 through the church today and throughout eternity. 56:59 John. I know I will echo this from the forth 57:02 commandment, the Seventh-day is the 57:04 Sabbath of the Lord thy God so the real issue 57:06 here is not so much the day, 57:10 it's the God that's right, that you serve. 57:12 The question is who is your God? Because 57:15 God has a day, God's day is the Seventh-day, 57:18 remember. And if it's another one then 57:21 that's not the creator God of heaven and earth. 57:23 That's right friends, you can tell, 57:25 hopefully we've answered many of your questions 57:27 if you haven't, send us an email. 57:29 Until we see you again, may the Lord of the 57:31 Sabbath be the Lord of your life. 57:33 See you on our next program. |
Revised 2014-12-17