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To: tenn2005
I believe that you need to read Ex. 31:16-17
Therefore, the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual convant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever;...
God clearly states that the Sabbath is to be kept by the childen of Isreal. There is nowhere in the Bible where Gentiles are commanded to keep the Sabbath.
Jesus was a Jew and lived under the Jewish law, therefore, He kept the Sabbath.

If you are a Christian, then you are a child of Israel. The new covenant is made ONLY with the house of Israel and/or the house of Judah:

Heb 8:8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Heb 8:9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

If you are a Christian, you are a member of the house of Israel, a child of Israel. If you are NOT, then you are do not know the God of the universe. He is a stranger to you. You are not, and cannot be a party to his holy covenant.

192 posted on 04/12/2006 8:28:46 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
Keep studying. You are getting closer to the truth all the time. You make reference to a "new covanent" and you are entirely correct. The old covenant was made with the children of Israel and did not include the Gentiles. The new covenant includes both the Jews and the Gentiles.

You like the book of Hebrews and so do I. So now you need to read Heb. 8:13 and understand that the new covanent has made the old covanent obsolute.

193 posted on 04/12/2006 8:37:48 PM PDT by tenn2005 (Birth is merely an event; it is the path walked that becomes one's life.)
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