Posted on 04/08/2014 5:08:33 PM PDT by Errant
Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
You are correct. The turning point for me was an in depth study of the Sunday Sabbath and it’s origins. The fourth commandment starts off by saying “remember the Sabbath”. Like we might forget? Also the arguments from the new testament for Sunday worship are very weak and easily disputed. An unbiased study of Sunday Sabbath origins will lead to an opening of the scriptures that will bless you. I urge all who read this to do your own study. It will lead you forward into a closer walk.
Do a study on why the Jews will not pronounce Gods name and how a Russian codex was recently discovered that mistakenly had the vowel points left in by a scribe that lets us now know the pronounciation of Gods name. Do the same for Jesus’ name. It all might suprise you.
Try this one first. I know you are capable of doing your own research :)http://www.apologeticsindex.org/687-michael-rood
Yes I am, and you are coming into this kind of late. There are threads here into the thousands mostly concerning not the message, but the character of Rood (http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3120992/posts). Do a keyword search for others.
So basically you are taking the word of a handful of people who describe themselves thusly:
Apologetics Index is published in Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands. It is operated by a small team of unpaid volunteers.
I'm not to impressed with their "creds" as you say, after seeing who the members are. Worse they base their "Rood Index" on the writings of two others whom I've already researched and shown to be less than reliable. One is Vicky Dillen:
Just a little info on Vickey Dillen who is behind the backroom website www.seekgod.ca you've linked to:
"Victoria Dillen is in a small cyber-cult of people holding Ruckmanite beliefs (believing that the 1611 edition of the King James Bible is more authoratative than the Hebrew and Greek originals). She is associated with someone called Barb Aho and her husband and two silly old women called Howard and Buester in Australia. They also have some connection with an ignorant crank in New Zealand named Tom Lamb and two individuals in Tenessee named Flanders and Engstrom who, among other things, defend Christian Cannabis smoking. Some of these sad people also are inclined towards the white superemacist anti-Semitioc Identity Movement and British Israelism.
Except for Tom Lamb (whom I regard as a well-intentioned clown) I have met none of these people. I was advised that I once met Mr. Lamb in New Zealand, but I do not recollect him as I meet many people. But I have not met Dillen.
Those whom I know who do know Dillen consider her to be a vicious liar, a vehement Jew-hater, and somewhat deranged.
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/news/australia/encounter-with-vicky-dillen
More on Ms. Dillen from the same site:
About 10 years ago I was contacted by Vicky Dillen in Canada regarding my expertise of knowledge of the phony Christian right who are very involved in Dominionism/Reconstructionism, Sun Myung Moon, and the Scientologists. Vicky wanted some specific information. I was very willing to speak with her about whatever she asked. I even bought some books from her that she’d gotten from a house sale.
At any rate, during our conversation, I questioned her about her faith and I distinctly remember that she had no idea of the doctrines of different churches, including the rapture of the Church, Israel as the wife of Jehovah, replacement theology, or any of the false doctrines by many of the churches. I was absolutely astounded.
So it is with astonishment that this woman without any formal training and with a limited amount of biblical upbringing can attack as many as she seems to enjoy doing. I’ve actually seen Dr. Arnie Fruchtenbaum attacked because of the logo of Ariel Ministries. People are nuts!
Having just seen her attack on you, and having just listened to your teaching from Steve Babko’s Prophecy Conference, I thought I’d jot you a note and tell you what I knew. Actually Vicky Dillen is not even worthy of having you respond to any of her idiotic charges…ignore her, she’s not worth the time.
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/ruckmanism/vicky-dillen-and-kjv-only-advocates
A few more links for your edification on Ms. Vicky Dillen:
The other person they use is Mike Oppenheimer, the man behind www.www.empirenet.com.
How bout a bit of bio from the man himself:
MY TESTIMONY (Mike Oppenheimer)
I was brought up Jewish, went to Shabbat quite faithfully each Friday and celebrated the holydays at the temple and with family. Our family like many others, gathered together on the high holy days in observance. I attended Hebrew school twice a week and learned the language and eventually was Bar Mitzvahed and confirmed. While attending classes I asked a lot of questions about God the Rabbi could not answer. Though I continued each year, mainly to please my parents, I became less interested in the traditional religion of my parents and feeling hindered in my spiritual development, leaped head first into my own brand of freestyle spirituality after graduation.
By my own search in reading and attending lectures and gatherings I got involved in the New Age Movement, became a vegetarian and for 15 years practiced yoga and meditation. I ended up using psychedelic drugs for a time (LSD, mescaline etc.), as part of my regular religious observances and smoking “pakalolo” (pot) became part of my normal lifestyle. During these times I also experimented with various religions and the occult. I felt they each contained some part of the truth of the one “true” religion, just as Rosicrucianism teaches all religions are petals on the same flower.
I studied about the Ancient Masters of the East, learning about Buddhism and Zen I picked up on a number of the practices. I had a number of spiritual experiences which at the time I was sure were from God and leading me to a greater knowledge of myself and Him. I discovered and believed in the Ascended Masters that were guiding our world into a greater evolutionary path. I was involved with UFO’s and channeled messages. I was sure I was on the right spiritual path because of the various signs things just fell into place. At the same time I also read the Bible (even the New Testament), not denying my Jewish roots. I began reading over 50 books a year, having an insatiable spiritual appetite, but God was working on my exit out of this spiritual bondage.
I had also started to surf before beginning my spiritual pilgrimage. I fell in love with the sport and began traveling, surfing and entering contests. Surfing became my livelihood after I learned to shape surfboards for a living. I became the NY champion for a number of years and eventually the eastern surfing champion for two years. Hawaii proved to be an irresistible attraction due to its fantastic surf. I moved permanently to Hawaii with my girlfriend Kathy in the mid 70's. This gave me more freedom to pursue both my first love of surfing and my freelance spirituality. We thought we were becoming enlightened. Reading books about the Ascended Masters involvement and “learning” about Earth’s past history on Lemuria and Atlantis. We desired to become servants of the New age movement, convinced that if we all united we could usher in an age of spiritual cooperation and enlightenment that so many were talking about. After nine years my searching came to a head when my girlfriend Kathy and I started to pursue our spiritual hunger more seriously and became involved in the “I Am Movement” (the Saint Germaine Society of the Ballard's). Through calling on angels and powers unknown to us and by “decreeing” and using the Violet Consuming Flame to eradicate past life karma, we were learning to become active in the New Age Movement. At the time, Kathy was practicing affirmations, mantras, studying herbology, polarity therapy, kinesiology and learning about the supposed spiritual energies of the body. She also was a manager of a health store on the Island of Oahu.
I respectfully suggest that you aren't doing your own research here, you are simply going to sources that are several levels removed from the original source.
What you've done is akin to watching a youtube review by some person you don't know concerning the flight operation parameters of a Cessna Citation and instead of checking what he has said against the aircraft's manual, you find a reviewer of the reviewer, and worse, a reviewer of the reviewer of the reviewer...
When I suggested to you to do your own research, I mean go check the Almighty's manual. :-)
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
John 7:19 Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law?
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.
There is so little truth at that site that it must be a part of Huffington Post. (or a covert adjunct of the catholic church, or its imitators in ‘proddy’ land)
Satan has definitely declared war on Rood.
That isn’t ‘research,’ its a libelous attack on Yehova’s primary voice of this time.
Satan.com for sure.
.
“Satan has definitely declared war **on** Rood.”
Ooooh....you misspelled “with”.
You truly do not have even the price tag of of any clue.
Stars falling from heaven always mean the angels that were corrupted. I’ve never encountered anyone that had the slightest disagreement with that, even in the deepest dispy enclaves.
When it says “as they were stars” it is John describing the incoming missiles in a nuclear war.
.
Oooh, you have tipped your hand Satan!
(I always knew anyway, but the lurkers needed to know)
.
simple answer is yes I disagree with that.
I’m not the one pushing this Moon-worshiping occult nonsense.
Therefore incoming missiles in a nuclear war are angels falling from Heaven.
In your world, perhaps.
The occult worships the Sun, not the moon.
The moon is reserved by Yehova to describe his times and seasons. Had you ever read his Bible, you might have known that.
Were you a bible reader, you would know that the Pharisees didn’t keep the law, they replaced it with their own false law.
Those false laws were what Yeshua took to the cross with him.
Matthew 5 is for those that reject his Torah.
He was not joking in verse 48, as John later explains in his epistles, which few here ever read with any depth.
.
Indeed. In composing one of the above, I did a search and was appalled by the increased number of attacks from the last time I did such a search.
Ancient pagan cults also worshiped the moon as do Wiccans. There are no latter day prophets, not even large rocks in space.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.