Posted on 01/08/2017 5:45:52 PM PST by Gamecock
But then, who is the prince, and who is the pauper?
They’re twins. One uses Imperial Margarine. The other doesn’t.
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>> “Yet the same Constantine...” <<
Constantine was the very worst of the Roman persecutors.
The followers of Yeshua were not “christians.” Christian was Constantine and Eusebius’ term for the worshipers of Yeshua that they had conquered, and forced to stop following Torah, and instead keep their pagan days.
The appointed times are prophecy. They are our only way of knowing where we are on Yehova’s time table.
Passover was the earliest prophecy of his death for our sins. Tabernacles was the first prophecy of his birth, and of his return to rule as King in Jerusalem. Trumpets is the prophecy of his coming “in the spirit” to gather all of his Kehillah (assembly) for the wedding feast, prior to his return as King.
These feasts tell us the day and the Biblical month that these important events will happen. keeping them diligently is what he calls “watching” in Revelation 3:3.
To those that will not keep them, he will come as a thief, and they will lose all.
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Yet it was the believers in Berea who were first called “Christians”.
In Clemens’ story, they were merely identical, but not related, as far as the reader knows.
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What exactly did you think Tabernacles is about?
Could it be in regards to the Torah that the vision that Peter got from the was simply correct, in other words to not burden the gentiles?
The Bereans did not trust the disciples per se, but rather checked what they said against the scriptures. This goes to the heart of the Catholic-Protestant debate. Does the RC church's doctrines and traditions override scripture, or do we follow their interpretation? Regarding that question, then, why was the medieval RC church so determined to keep the scripture in Latin only, and forbid it to be translated to the common tongue? Look up Wycliffe and Tyndale and their experiences with this issue.
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>> “Yet it was the believers in Berea who were first called ‘Christians’.”
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Not really. Those words were added in during the 4th century, long after the Torah keeping Bereans had been tortured to death for keeping the word.
Yeshua’s followers were always called Notzerim or Netzerim, because they followed the Netzer, Yeshua.
The earliest MS found do not have the words you offered.
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I concede it was about the coming King. I just didn’t remember any passage that “ just as prophesied clearly in the scriptures.” that clearly stated in was His day of Birth. But I see the connection which along with Luke 1-5 completes the picture. Thank you for your response.
The limited set of rules was temporary to give them time to learn Torah slowly over time just as the Jews themselves had during their childhood.
Acts 15:
[19] Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:
[20] But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
[21] For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
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Which burden are you referring to? Are you under the misconception the vision was about dietary foods?
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The “time” of his birth.
The exact day of each of Yehova’s events is dependent on his agricultural calendar, thus even the beginning of the year is unknown until the Aviv barley is found in conjunction with the new moon at the mount of olives.
The reason that we cannot know the exact day of his coming in the spirit in advance is that in the fall, the weather becomes a factor in the sighting of the new moon.
When it is time, we will know approximately, but we do have to “watch.”
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Rather it is directed to folks like you who try put burdens on others which are not necessary.
It is an eternal ban.
Just do love God and neighbor and the 10 Commandments, that is it.
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Your post shows deep confusion.
Torah is absolutely necessary, but cannot be learned in a few days. It takes time, which is why the council wisely gave them a list of the worst things to avoid, while they learned “every Sabbath day.”
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No.
That is the keeping the Torah made simple, not how well the 613 Torah rules are kept.
It is grace not works.
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