News from The Kingdom

Can you keep the knowledge and fear of God without keeping the Sabbath? My answer is “NO!” Israel went into captivity for breaking the Sabbath (Ezekiel 20). The first thing God revealed to Israel when they came out of Egypt was importance of the Sabbath (Exodus 16.)

In our sinfulness and weakness, we human beings are subject to forgetting things in the process of time, including – if not to say mainly – the things of Elohim (God). Psalm 78:39 says He remembered them, but verse 42 says they remembered not Him. Scripture therefore is filled with many things that were done or made to be memorials; the Sabbath is one of those. Sabbath was given to mankind at the close of creation by Yahweh God as a memorial of His creative power (Genesis 2:1-3). That is, He sovereignty chose it to be the thing whereby man would be linked to God by a weekly day of rest. And not just any day, but the seventh day, whereby man’s loyalty to his Creator would be tested, and as a mark of man’s sanctification (Exodus 31:13; Ezekiel 20:12). It begins at sunset on Friday, and ends Saturday evening (Genesis 1:5; Leviticus 23:32). (more…)

Traditional Church leaders have tried to find ways of convincing themselves and their flocks that Christians are not required observing the Sabbath and holy days. “Feasts and the worship day are not important,” I’ve heard yesterday from someone who spends a considerable part of his days on studying the Bible: “it is nailled on the cross!”. One of their favourite scriptural targets in this quest is Colossians 2:16-17. Some teach that a heretical group of “Judaizers” in the Colossian church was trying to enforce obedience to Jewish practices such as the laws of clean and unclean meats and of observing the holy days, “just as the Theocratics are traying to do today”. (more…)