I hope everyone had a great Sabbath. As my wife and I were in fellowship listening to the message we were reminded of many good things. Hard times are ahead for the believers. Everyone needs to prepare and get ready for the end time. Messiah told us to pray that you would be worthy to escape things coming to pass and stand before the son of Adam. May we all be worthy. The Book of Revelation reveals that the woman, who is the body of Messiah will be given the wings as of a great eagle to fly into the wilderness. This is where she will be kept for 3 and 1/2 years during the Great tribulation. There are some who will go through it but I don't want to be one of them.
Here is First Fruits Ministries sermon for today, called "Eating & Drinking, Part 2": https://firstfruits.cc/blog/20....24/08/31/eating-drin
Part 1 is available via the same link.
Shalom, friends,
We invite you to join us live on Zoom and YouTube at 4pm Central Standard Time on this Sabbath afternoon, 08/31/2024, for scripture study and prayers. The lesson for the day is titled:
"31 Commands of Shemirath Halashon"
This week's study is one you won't want to miss, as this is the second in the series concerning Shemirath Halashon - Guarding the Tongue.
Do you think you know what Lashon Hara (Evil Speech) is, according to scripture? Do you think you are truly Torah observant as regards this terrible sin? Odds are, you do not and are not. Why don't you join us this Sabbath day and find out what the Torah commands?
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https://sabbathkeepersfellowship.org/library
https://www.youtube.com/live/BIQUKNH8L7o
Joshua Myers
I found it ironic that they kind of laugh at the fact that mention that HR calls some of what MJ does traditions of men, and then uses those traditions as proof-points that HR is doing things wrong. Such as the Name. MJ doesn't pronounce the Sacred Name: A tradition from Judaism. We see throughout the Bible people pronouncing the Name and sometimes in everyday conversation such as with Boaz. (Ruth 2:4) So to say Biblically we are to not pronounce the Name is in error.
My biggest concern with most MJ lines of belief I have run into is shown in the titles of the later points: Can Gentiles do X. There is no Jew or Gentile in Messiah. Many MJs still draw that line. The whole point of the book of Acts is the removal of that line. Paul even goes further into it giving us the quote I started with and more detail.
When I got started on this walk, Greg Hershburg, a MJ in Georgia, was one I listened to quite often. However, he eventually started down this path of "if you are a Gentile you don't need to do this stuff". Making that distinction. We don't see Caleb or Ruth being told they don't need to do this stuff. Our Messiah is of Ruth's lineage. When did that lineage stop being "Gentile" enough to need to do these things?
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Mark Price
For example, they say it is wrong to use the sacred name just because Yeshua and the Apostles didn't use it. I think they were just accommodating the sensitivities of their time as Romans 14:21 tells us to do. This was not a blanket ban on believers to not use sacred name.
Another error is the idea that Sabbath observance began with Mount Sinai and is only for Jews. The Sabbath has been around since the 7th day of creation week and is for everyone, not just Jews.
They also believe that there is nothing wrong with non-Jews celebrating Christmas and Easter. I understand that we must share light and not heat when it comes to correcting people, but to outright defend the practice of celebrating Christmas and Easter is wrong.
The elevate Jewish traditional too much. Yeshua criticized the Pharisees in Mathew 15:1-20 for putting their traditions above Yehovah's word.
Ephesians chapter 2 makes it clear that when you are a believer, you become part the commonwealth of Israel and are no longer a Gentile. I'm not saying that makes us Jews, but it does make us part of spiritual Israel.
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Mark Price
They also said on time index 50 minutes, that being a Jew does not refer to the tribe of Judah at all, but the Kingdom of Judah. According to them, most Israelites in the northern kingdom migrated to Judah and became Jews that way, regardless of what tribe they came from.
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