Believing in and understanding the days of Passover will save no one. Trusting in Jesus, the Lamb of God as your Savior (died in your place) and Lord (ruler of your life and heart) is the important thing.
Do you think about repentance and obedience at least as much as you think about moon cycles? Do you meditate on God's Law day and night so that you might understand and obey it? Do you love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and your neighbor as yourself? Do you abstain from sexual sin and idolatry? Do you warn unbelievers of the wrath of God to come against all the ungodly? Do you grieve over your sin, even if it is only a thought or feeling, and repent of it regularly? Do you love Christ's church? Are you a functioning member of His body? Do you dwell on whatever is pure and right and good and worthy of praise? Do you flee even the appearance of evil? Do you separate yourself from the world or do you love the world? Do you walk in the Spirit (minding the things and deeds of the Spirit) or do you walk in the flesh (minding the things and deeds of the flesh)? Do you love what is good and hate what is evil? Do you see in yourself fruits of the Spirit or fruits of the flesh?
Walking in the Spirit
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,[c] fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders,[d] drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
BTW, I am not Catholic.
A lot of quesions you asked ghost-
Let me try to answer them, but maybe a different way..
I live for the Fruits of His Spirit.I pray He continues to bring them to my heart. I used to be fleshy.we can measure ourselves everyday with His Word. That ‘temperature taking’ is important.
I pray for my heart to be continually formed to His. That my mind be continually transformed to His and my will be continually conformed to His.
I meditate of God’s Word and law everyday..I dwell on both His Creative and Redemptive work.
I love that I can know what today is to Him- and reject what today is to the world.
True freedom to commemorate and worship Him who made Heaven,the earth, the sea and all that is in them- an angel in Revelation 14 warns us to do that very thing.
And each day He has on His calendar points to Him. It is all Him.
I can read things like psalm 119 and not skip over the parts about His Law (which is the whole thing)
What is His Law? That was a great eye opening experience when He showed me in this journey.. A journey preparing for His Kingdom to come..
A journey that gets started when we say yes to Him..
And it is because He has paid my debt that I now am moved to follow Him. And He has rules and commandments and His Kingdom is going to have the same rule to come..
I understand what my sin did and does. And that is a Work He does for us.
I pray for His Kingdom to come and I think most may say it, but they may not like how different it would be from what they do now.. I have lived the simple calendar that will be in place in the Kingdom, and even when it can be shown to point directly to the King, people will question,reject and dismiss it as unimportant. And it is until one realizes how the enemy works.
When He started showing me the battle that happens in the world and in our minds and hearts, I knew what I was to repent from. He does that work.
Here are some good questions given His gospel was all about the Kimgdon -
And His call to repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
What is a Kingdom?
What is repentance?
What are we to repent from?
What is sin?
Do we know what His Law/Commandments are?
Do we know why He gave 30/60/100 in His Kingdom Parable of the Sower and how they relate to His Law/Commandments?
Do we know who will be called Least in His Kingdom?
And Who will be called great in His Kingdom? And do we know how they relate to His Commandments and that parable of the Sower?
Do we know why the enemy wars with those who keep the Commandments of God AND bear testimony to the Lamb in Revelation 12?
Why is the patience of the saints in Revelation 14:12 not just ‘faith’ but also the keeping of the Commandments of God?
Do we know why in Revelation 22:14 it says blessed are they that do His Commandments, that their right may be to the tree of life and enter into the gates of the city? (most recent translations have changed those words BTW- my Geneva bible is the Quote- recent translations say ‘wash their robes’)
Can we know now why the enemy causes people to break His Commandments in revelation 13? (If one can see them in there)
Do we know why the enemy puts a mark on the forehead and the hand in Revelation 13?
Do we know why God speaks of putting a sign on the forehead and the hand in Deuteronomy 6:8?
All of that I didn’t have good answers to 3 years ago. Today I do..
But I pray for His wisdom,knowledge and understanding everyday..
That is why I hate the world. Even the religious world. Not the people,but I hate the powers and principalities..
I feel lots of compassion and sadness for all the people because I see how the enemy works.
He let me see how Satan deceives the whole world. And how the whole world wonders after the beast..this very day. In the past too.. And also in the future... That is knowledge,understanding that only comes from Him.
And as Ecclesiastes 1:18 says, in much wisdom is much vexation.
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow..
But the hope is in Him.. And it isnt just about being saved.. He showed me a completely different way to see His Kingdom..
And I am not of the belief anymore that those who are ‘marked’ as revelation 13 says, are doomed to eternal punishment.
That would be very sad with what I have learned from Him..but it is written His mercy and loving kindness endures forever and I believe, unlike my tulip neighbors, He did take the sin of the whole world away..
But again,I see the lake of fire as a purification place now. A place one need not go but should rejoice that death and hades go there.. Not a teaching of damnation but of restoration and longsuffering and His Will that none of us perish, but all would repent and have eternal life..
But I am different,I totally admit that.. And He is one who gets all the praise, honor and glory for it.
Lastly, if one is not a Catholic, it is far easier to see how the enemy has used and is using Rome as a vessel. ‘doubting Rome’ should be an inherent trait of a protestant.
realizing one follows Rome even when they are not a Catholic is a punch in the gut- at least it was to me..
And a meeting with a nice Catholic man,who gave me a set of rosary beads, probably lit this fire to ‘doubt’ the world.
And because of all this, I think Satan has used Rome to cause people to sin. The sin that is associated with the transgression of His eternal Kingdom law and Commandments.. And sin is simply the transgression of His law.
The Law He thundered down from Sinai after 60 days in the wilderness.
And the Law He wrote on 2 tablets,with His own finger, that Moses brought down from Sinai after 100 days in the wilderness.
There is His 60 and 100 that He used in His parable of the Sower. Christianity and Judaism can’t teach that.
A big part of a Christianity has explained those Commandments away. Especially certain ones .
Convinced themselves that love is how they would define love and not what He says love is..
And Judaism looks to Christianity to see when His Sabbath is and accepts it without testing...and willing to move His set appointments when it is convenient for them. Things He said were ‘forever’ ..
They both get the dates wrong for one of His Feasts ( what they call the church’s ‘birthday’)but they are in tune with the same false teachings, so it is the blind leading the blind.
I see that as prophetic given what He shows me..
Billions of people won’t see this..I dont know why... I just am thankful He has blessed me to see it..
But it came first from trusting Him with all my heart,leaning not on my own understanding. And in all my ways,acknowledging Him.
And His promise says He will direct our paths.
The farther He leads me, the narrower it gets..
I am either completely being hoodwinked and deceivd by calling today His 1st Day, or being blessed for doing so..
I know how I feel about it,but we have personal journeys and most may not be led to that extreme.
But it is that extreme that has shown me that doubting things the world agrees on may not be a bad thing, if His Word and His Creation can say and show something different..
When ‘christianity’ rejects Rome, they will be able to really see and show and teach others why Israel was taught to do all they were taught to do..how each appointment and thing they observe pratice today. Shadows Him..
And what they mean in the Kingdom we pray will come.
Proving the Savior and Messiah did come and is coming back to establish said Kingdom.
A ‘fullness of the gentiles’ may not be a number or quantity, but a ‘condition’ and a quality where the gentiles will have full Truth that will cause scales to come off the eyes and the hearts to soften of those who have rejected truth..if they reject Rome’s Jesus because they expect a little Torah in the Word made flesh, is that a bad thing?
To romam christianity, yes..to me, it is an opportunity to show people how He is Torah made flesh- with no help from Rome..
Us gentiles would do well to take our truth from Him and not Rome.
He led me to do just that..