Heaven is going to be empty. A little more than 1,000 years after Jesus leaves, God Himself is coming to dwell on the earth, in the Holy City New Jerusalem.
..... so?
Did you think I said we WERE immortal??
That's one of the most mainstream Christian doctrines today ..... you don't REALLY die. It came first from Satan. It's still a lie.
The Scriptures, in stark contrast, teach Dead = NOT live.
Well, useful for the BIGGEST Christian Church anyway.
"We shall be CHANGED";
1 Cor 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1 Cor 15:51-53 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Phil 3:21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body
yup we put on immortality...like a coat...we are not made immortal...only ONE is immortal even His Son was begotten AFTER Him...and now Eternal but not Immortal...
Nope. Go back and re-read that. The tree of life WAS (PAST TENSE) for the healing of the nations. It's talking about during the 1,000 year reign of Jesus.
WAS there because John was shown that it was there...
Agreed!
Nope. We are to compare ALL Scripture on ANY topic, BEFORE we come to any conclusions.
good and good...
No he didn't say "not just Jews". His point was the Sabbath was made a commandment precisely to give man rest, and NOT to keep man from eating, rescuing his sheep, or oxen, or healing the sick.
yup given to man like everything else created that week...given as a gift to WHOSOEVER He loved...given as a first act of grace for times of toiling by the sweat of his brow...to help man like the woman also created for man given as a gift...some men reject both woman and the sabbath...choosing substitutes
Incorrect. All of those commandments are repeated in the New Covenant/Testament/Law.
right...exactly...and taught and modelled by Him as part of the New Covenant lifestyle BEFORE He signed it in His blood and SEALED it with His death...after the testator dies the testament and last will CAN NOT BE CHANGED...even in the secular world...and yet man changed it brazenly changing both times and laws...
The entire Mosaic Law was completed, as in fulfilled, and finished, on the cross.
and by fulfilled you mean made void removed no longer there all forms of destroying it which He EXACTLY said NOT to think...
The greek word for fulfill PLEROSIA is used 3 other times:
Matt 3:15 it is to us to fulfill all righteousness
Romans 15:13 the God of hope fill you with all
Colossians 1:25 to fulfill the word of God
Now read back DESTROY into those texts...is righteousness destroyed? The God of hope destroys you? To destroy the word of God?
Certainly NOT...we establish Law...His
Jesus "took it out of the way",
sabbath was NOT in the way...breaking the Law made a curse against you...and ordinance specific to you like a ticket...or bill...THAT was took out of the way...as it was handwritten and held against you...
he "broke down the middle wall of partition."...right...the WALL and NOT THE SABBATH...in fact of ALL the commandments it was the ONLY one that included goyim to receive it...animals too...so even the Sabbath broke down the middle wall of partition that seperated goyim from jews...giving both rest...WHAT GRACE
Jesus' instructions regarding the Sabbath and the destruction of the temple was mercy, inspite of Jewish belligerence ....
He specifically instructed DO as the pharisees teach from Moses’ seat not as they do...they taught Sabbath keeping...
it was not a repeat of the Sabbath commandment,
right it didnt need repeating as it was NEVER IN QUESTION as to being kept
which Jehovah/YHVH had taught to Israel at Sinai.
yes as they forgot who they were and what they were to do as Abraham’s seeds descendant from Adam whose first full day was a sabbath...it was a sign of His people...perpetual...Isaiah even affirms future Sabbath keeping in the new world to come...
You do realize the commandments are descriptions of what life is like where “I AM” yes? So where Yah is there is NO stealing murdering adultery lying coveting another god to worship idols false names or parents dishonored...see?
So some of us understanding that are practicing for that time when it is “on earth as it is in heaven” when His will IS done...
By contrast, the apostles, and the holy spirit, concluded that the ONLY aspects of the Mosaic Law that were to be kept did NOT include the Sabbath, nor did it include the dietary laws, or the priesthood, or Capital punishment, or ANY kind of corporeal punishment to be administered by the Church.
Oh my...4 things were required of the goyimm crowding the synagogue ALL FOUR of which were already in the OT required of goyim saved with them from Egypt...
3 of the 4 dealt EXACTLY with the dietary laws...please don’t rationalize that NOT offering swine to an idol or NOT strangling a swine but killing it kosher and draining all of its blood made the swine clean to eat...
Oh and James the brother of Yahushua concluded that these believing goyim crowding into synagogues would INDEED hear Moses preached in every city on EVERY SABBATH...
So SPECIFICALLY the dietary Laws and the Sabbath WERE INDEED expected as part of the goyim’s lifestyle in the New Covenant age...the irony