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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
[Re: James Peterson]
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07/18/19 09:46 PM
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What does Ex 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
mean to you? The seventh day is the last day of the week, whatever one's span of seven days. Since the week is cyclical, the Sabbath is not A PARTICULAR 24-hour period as in, "Excuse me, these hours are holy but the second before the first hour is not, neither are the ones after the last!" There is no such thing as an inherently holy minute. A period is deemed holy by one who treats it as such. Hence, for many Christians, Sunday is holy and sacred. And for a few, Saturday is the same. Muslims like to think that Friday ought to be instead. See Romans 14:5. ///
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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
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07/19/19 11:34 AM
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Well that seems logical and reasonable. But then what does Ge 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
mean to you? Do you think God had a specific and PARTICULAR 24-hour period in mind when He did that?
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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
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07/19/19 11:53 AM
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Well that seems logical and reasonable. But then what does Ge 2:3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
mean to you? Do you think God had a specific and PARTICULAR 24-hour period in mind when He did that? This is beginning to veer off topic, but God did NOT bless July 13, 2019 nor did He sanctify tomorrow the 20th. He blessed and sanctified the last day of the first week, for sure! And made it a pattern for us: six days labour, seventh day rest; hence the cyclical week. ///
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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
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07/19/19 07:34 PM
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He blessed and sanctified the last day of the first week. And made it a pattern for us: hence the cyclical week.
Would that cyclical week have started with the first week?
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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
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07/19/19 10:02 PM
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He blessed and sanctified the last day of the first week. And made it a pattern for us: hence the cyclical week.
Would that cyclical week have started with the first week?
Not necessary and irrelevant. God merely said, "Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day [ of the week] is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work ..." Exod. 20:9 It was called the Sabbath of the Lord because the Lord rested after working six days as well. THE seventh day is the seventh day of the week, and not some universal and particular 24-hour holy period. So for instance, you may go forth and conquer a little village and say to the poor, frightened and trembling folk gathered about before you, "Hear ye now, ye little people, I am now prime minister and ye are all my subjects. Today is the first day of the year. Ye shall worketh diligently for me six days but on the seventh day, ye may rest. I am generous; I hope ye see that! Ye rest just as I rest, so we shall rest together like one big happy family whether ye like it or not. Harken unto that, lest ye die promptly." ///
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Re: Paying Tithe on the Sabbath
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07/22/19 12:31 PM
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Sounds like you are saying the Sabbath is the Lord's Sabbath, He instituted the 7th day being His cycle, and rests on the 7th day of each and every week. By giving your example, you are saying that since we are the Lord's subjects, and that all the more so as we are not some little village being conquered, but being the result of His own creation, then we are obligated to keep the same weekly cycle which the Lord keeps.
Am I missing something?
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