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    Patterns of Evidence: The Israel Dilemma

    However as any Christian who studies the Bible knows, that is not the end of the story. When Jesus our Saviour comes to earth to save us, the majority of Jews reject Him again. They do not believe He is the Messiah and Jesus tells them, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets...
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    Patterns of Evidence: The Israel Dilemma

    The southern kingdom/Judah lasted more than a century before Babylon took it captive because of disobedience and rejection of God too. I posted why it took longer for Judah to be punished in the thread, True Israel. There is difference though between Judah and Israel. Judah is not completely...
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    Patterns of Evidence: The Israel Dilemma

    Lets not forget the history of Israel which is documented in the Bible. Israel had 12 tribes as we all know. They all got to the promised land where they have an up and down relationship with God. Mainly down. After Solomon dies the kingdom divides. 10 tribes form the Northern kingdom also...
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    Assorted biblical topics.

    Biblically we know that Satan does not want us to read the gospels because they prove who Jesus is. He does not want us to worship Jesus who is God because he wants to be God himself which is impossible. Islam takes the focus away from Jesus who is Saviour and paid the penalty for our sins so...
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    The Old and New Covenants.

    The Ten Commandment Law is now written in the hearts of believers under the New Covenant promise. It is often said that the Old Covenant was the keeping of the commandments, and the New Covenant is freedom from God’s law. However, there is only one Everlasting Covenant based upon the promise of...
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    The God Head according to the Bible.

    Listening to the Holy Spirit’s Warning in the Last Days. The Holy Spirit is not only our Comforter but also our guide, leading us away from danger and towards the will of God. In John 14:26, Jesus promised, "But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he...
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    The Old and New Covenants.

    Hebrews 8:13, "In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away."
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    The Old and New Covenants.

    The book of Hebrews describes the New Covenant as better than the Old Covenant: Hebrews 8:1-2, 6-7, "Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, a Minister of the sanctuary and...
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    True Israel

    Most fail to realize that it was prophesied long ago that those "outside the camp" would become worthy to seek the Lord. Jesus touched on this in His parable regarding the wedding feast when he said the following in Matthew 22:1-14, "And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables...
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    Who Changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    The seventh day is Saturday. Always has been from creation and it was meant for all mankind not only Jews. Adam and Eve were not Jews. Even the Catholic Church that changed the day of worship to Sunday says Saturday is the Seventh day of the week and it was never changed in the Bible. They say...
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    Who Changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    Examples in the Bible of work that continued on Sabbath. The Bible does show a few situations when some types of work would need to be done even if it was Sabbath. Priests worked in the Tabernacle or temple. Priests and sanctuary personnel worked on Sabbath to conduct the sanctuary services...
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    Who Changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    What Counts as “Work” on the Sabbath? God designed the Sabbath day to be a 24-hour period when we could pause and enjoy the goodness of His creation. We do this by putting aside our regular work so we can focus on spending time with Him and appreciating what He’s created (Exodus 20:8-11). That...
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    Who Changed the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday?

    The day matters. From the creation week God blessed and sanctified the seventh day not the first, second third etc. Only the seventh day. “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the...
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    Paganism and Catholicism.

    Who Do We Reverence and Pay Homage to by Keeping Sunday Holy? “From this we may understand how great is the authority of the church in interpreting or explaining to us the commandments of God – an authority which is acknowledged by the universal practice of the whole Christian world, even of...
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    Paganism and Catholicism.

    Whose Day of Worship is Sunday? “They [the Protestants] deem it their duty to keep the Sunday holy. Why? Because the Catholic Church tells them to do so. They have no other reason…The observance of Sunday thus comes to be an ecclesiastical law entirely distinct from the divine law of Sabbath...
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