Both, Exodus and Our Lady of LaSalette (1846) warn, keep God's Day a day of worship and rest

As usual, none of my five siblings or their families go to Holy Mass on Sunday. A Commandment is a Commandment, in the New Covenant assembling to worship God on Sunday is divine law. Does anyone else have family who skip Church on Sunday? Our nation is going further and further away from God. Are we seeing the beginning of God's just judgment?

* Hidden in Scripture, message from Mary: the dire effect of violating Sabbath *

We all know the requirement to attend Mass every weekend. Few realize, however, how seriously Heaven takes this.

"You must also tell the Israelites: Take care to keep my Sabbaths, for that is to be the token between you and Me through the generations, to show that it is I, the Lord, Who make you holy. Therefore, you must keep the Sabbath as something sacred. Whoever desecrates it shall be put to death."

And granted, Christ came with a new covenant (one that in many ways was gentler).

But the Bible is the Bible and that the Sabbath is important seemed in ample evidence also when the Virgin Mary appeared in 1846 at LaSalette, France, and specifically warned that there was a chastisement coming because people were violating the law of weekly worship.

"I gave you six days to work, I kept the seventh for myself, and no one wishes to grant it to me," said Mary in September of 1846 to two visionaries.

"If the harvest is spoiled, it is only because of the rest of you. I made you see this last year with the potatoes; you took little account of this. It was quite the opposite when you found bad potatoes; you swore oaths, and you included the Name of my Son. They will continue to go bad; at Christmas there will be none left. A great famine will come. Before the famine comes, children under the age of seven will begin to tremble and will die in the arms of those who hold them."

The Blessed Mother warned that the potatoes would rot and there would be a famine and she said they had been given a warning the previous years when they found some bad potatoes.

And, incredibly: it was the onset of what became known in Ireland and this part of France as well as elsewhere as the Great Potato Famine.

Where a third of potatoes were "bad" the year before in Ireland (afflicted with blight), by the end of 1846 -- the year of the apparition -- three-quarters were thusly ruined.

And while few died in 1846, huge numbers were to succumb during the winter of 1847-1848, when more than a million died in Ireland alone, their bodies weakened and susceptible to diseases like cholera, which, true to Mary's words (which were approved by the Church) caused the young to tremble.

There is a pattern. We are warned. This comes through small "disasters." We heed the warning or are warned again -- this time with more serious events. And so forth.

What is the warning now? Should we note the droughts in Australia and North America? When we look at how weather events have been intensifying we see the same principle -- including with droughts that, as happened with blight, threaten widespread crop shortages. Says 2 Chronicles 36: "Until the land has retrieved its lost Sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled."

Right now, corn farmers in the Midwest are praying (as we should also) for rain.

Serious, indeed, especially when we look at our own time and the way the Sabbath is treated now. In the U.S., weekly Mass attendance is at about 22 percent, according to one study.

Is it as bad as back in 1846, in rural France, or worse -- even far worse -- when it comes to disrespect for the Lord?

“Where does the bible say we are to collect in a building with many others while being lead by clergy?”

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I know you don’t mean it is bad to attend Church. We follow
Our Lord’s example, He kept the Sabbath. He went to worship
God in the Temple...in community. Judaism, the roots of
the faith were liturgical.

In the New Covenant, the Sabbath is changed to the Lord’s
Day in honor of Our Lord’s resurrection. Worshiping God
on Sunday is not a private thing, say a “home church.”
Unless, I am not sure, sadly, it’s another split, somebody starting up another Protestant community. To me, it’s an
excuse not to go to Church. There are already plenty of
Protestant churches everywhere. Church comes from the
word “assembly.”

Sharing the verse about Our Lord:

Luke 4:16
And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up: and he went into the synagogue, according to his custom, on the sabbath day; and he rose up to read.

In Acts we read no such thing about home ministries or eucharists. Nearly every instance of gathering to hear the Word of God is referred to as being held in a synagogue with the exceptions of a few times it was held on a hillside. It was and still is the custom to gather for oneg (potluck) after worship services as the Sabbath ends at sundown.

That is what the Apostles were doing, gathering for a daily meal and continuing in discussion/midrash of that weeks teaching of Moses. (Acts 15:21)

God's Sabbath is from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown and since Messiah was put in the grave prior to sundown on Wed because Thurs was a High Holy Sabbath of Unleavened Bread and Scripture tells us that he raised “ON” the 3rd day, our Messiah raised on the Sabbath which is his day and why he is called the Master of the Sabbath. This is corroborated by Scripture as Mary, the mother of Messiah, kept the Sabbath Feast of Unleavened Bread, the next day she bought spices, then observed the weekly Sabbath and it was that evening after the weekly Sabbath had ended that they went on their way to the tomb. According to God's calendar, the new day dawns as sunset, not sunrise. Scripture says it was “dawning” towards the 1st of the week when they headed out to the tomb, which means the 1st day of the week had not actually come to be yet. It was still Saturday evening.

Isaiah 56 & 66 give the gentiles who wish to come into relationship with God specific instructions as to the Sabbath and not to profane it by doing as we please as well as guarding the commandments of God. In Mt 24, Messiah said to pray that our flight is not on the Sabbath. Now why would he say that if he did away with his Sabbath?

Also in other areas of Scripture where it says “first day of the week”, the 1st thing we must take note of is that the word “day” is in italics, which means it is an addition that is not found in any of the original texts. Second, the word week is “sabbaton” and if one takes the time to study the context, ALL of instances are found during the time after the weekly Sabbath immediately following Passover. This means the time is during the counting of the 7 Sabbaths leading up to Shavuot/Pentecost. Thus the proper rendering of these texts actually reads “one of the Sabbaths”.

Jesus was a Jewish Rabbi (teacher) and to say that his death ushered in change instead of the beginning of the restoration of his Father's House by first addressing the Father's authority which church fathers had usurped, is nothing but ignorance of an unstudied one of God's Word who twists the Words of Jesus as well as the Apostles to suit their own religious agenda that is in contradistinction to God's will for His people. (2 Pet 3:14-16)

The truth is, it was the council at Laodicea that made the Sabbath change. Interestingly enough, it is the church at Laodicea in Revelations 3 that Messiah says God is going to vomit out of his mouth. Why? Exodus 31:13; Eze 20:12 & 20. The 7th day Sabbath is the sign, the mark of God's people.

Rev 22:12 “And see, I am coming speedily, and My reward is with Me, to give to each according to his work. (See Mt. 16:27, John 5:29) 13 “I am the ‘Aleph’ and the ‘Taw’, (alpha & omega) the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. 14 “Blessed are those doing His commands, so that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of life, and to enter through the gates into the city. (See Mt. 19:17. Long before the books were compiled to form “The New Testament,” Rev. 22:14 was quoted, as it is here given, by Tertullian (CE 208), and by Cyprian (CE 251) – see the well-known Antenicene Fathers) 15 “But outside are the dogs and those who enchant with drugs, and those who whore, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and all who love and do falsehood.”

John 1:1 in the beginning was the Word .... 14 the Word put on flesh

If the Word has been from the beginning, the it was the Word who gave all the commands of God to Moses. Scripture says that God will raise up a prophet like Moses (Dt 18) who will speak only the Words the Father gives him (John 7:16 & John 14:24). Therefore it is the reason the Word of God spoke to Moses in Exodus 19:9 that God's children would believe all that was spoken through Moses, FOREVER! (Mt 23:1-3, John 5:46 & John 14)

As a final note, love God with all your heart & love they neighbor are not found anywhere in Exodus, they are found in Lev 19 & Dt 6. Long after the 10 commandments were given and the tabernacle was built. A great explanation of their context can be found by reading the Epistle of 1 John wherein John expounds on what the definition of "love" according to God is.

There is "one" house, there is "one" Shepard and there is only "one" type of people who will enter His house. (Dt 8:2-6 & Dt 10:12-13). Those who fear God and submit to His authority while in the flesh. Nearly 3 million people left Egypt but only 2 of them, Caleb & Joshua made it to the promised land. God says His people are a remnant and that throughout all time, there has always been a remnant of true believers of Messiah (Heb 11).

God's message is clear and His house is for all, native, eunuch and gentile who have it in their hearts to humble themselves, pick up their stake and walk as Jesus walked knowing that when we stumble, we are saved through the blood of the lamb, our Messiah, the only begotten Son & Word of God who is the same yesterday, today & forever. From the beginning of creation through eternity. (Mt 5:17-20, Heb 13:8-9, Dt 13)

“Well there ya go again...Puttin’ the bible above the apparitions of the god(ess)

I gave you six days to work, I kept the seventh for myself, and no one wishes to grant it to me,” said Mary in September of 1846 to two visionaries.

According to the ‘Bible’, it was God who gave us the Commandments...Little did we know...”

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Whatever Mary said when she appeared at La Salette, she above all knows it’s God’s Commandment not hers. Don’t protest. Jesus wants you, everyone to fall in love with her, spiritually speaking. Mary is mother to humanity. It’s the Trinity’s plan.

And the “goddess” objection does not work. A Protestant
minister who wrote a a famous anti-Catholic book with
Babylon written in the title, withdrew the book from further
sale because he figured this out, I think his name is
Woodrow...

Just because things are similar, does not make them the same. Jesus is referred to as the “morning star”, pagans
made some of the stars their -false- gods.

blessings to you Iscool,

stpio

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