Mark 2:27. "......The Sabbath was made for man."

     Mark 2:27  "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath:"

Note:  Now, do Y O U read in the above verse, that the Seventh day Sabbath was made for the Jews?
           BUT. . . .but is this not the standard excuse among men?
      WHY?
      Why is it, that 90% ? of "Christians", follow the the laws of men from Rome, and worship on the First day of the week?  Who knows this is SUN-god- DAY? THE VENERABLE DAY OF THE SUN?  Hadrian, who ruled Rome, during the 120's A. D. passed a law, that No Jew was to worship on the 7th day of the week, Saturday, of course by this law, that impacted all Christians as well, as they followed the examples set by Christ Jesus and His 12.
      The Head of the Church in Rome, went along with this law, and it was re-enforced by the degree of Constantine in 321 A.D., Who sought to improve his standing, by declaring...."All shops shall close on the first day of the week,, for it is a Feast day in honor of The Venerable day of the Sun" .This began the Six days shall all work but the Day of the sun is a Feast day, that much of Christendom, still adheres to, to this very day! Look at any Roman coin, minted during this Emperor's rule, and find his face on one side and the sun god on the other, as he was head of both religions!

                    SO, WHY. . . THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH, OF THE BIBLE?

1.  BECAUSE, GOD SAID SO!  [ that's too simplistic right?]

2.  Genesis 2:1-3 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

Note: God BLESSED AND SANCTIFIED IT..... Sanctified means to set aside for a Holy purpose!  Now think Y O U that man or men, can make any common day Holy? Can man or men, make anything Holy?   But look......

    Luke 23:52-56 " This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. And that day was the preparation, and the Sabbath drew on. And the women also, which came with him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. "

A.  "And that day was PREPARATION DAY  [Friday, and the Sabbath's begin, at Sundown of Fridays]AND THE SABBATH DREW ON.   BUT PLEASE THINK AND CONTINUE....

     Luke 24:1-3  "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them. And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre. And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus."

    Friday  Christ died, and buried, women gathered cloth, oil and spices but THE SABBATH DREW ON!   This meant that sunset was near,  Watches were not yet invented, and sundials no common.

SABBATH/SATURDAY Christ "RESTED", in the tomb, from late Friday until early on the First day, Sunday.

B. Therefore does not Luke place the Sabbath between Friday, Preparations day, in the which all work was to be done and finished, for the Sabbath on the SEVENTH day, followed by the First day of the week. Thus the Sabbath is place squarely between Preparation day , Friday,and the first day of the week, Sunday!

     Mark 16:1-2 " And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him. And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun."

   WHY?   WHY DID GOD CHOSE A TIME, A MEASURE OF TIME FOR HIS SABBATHS?

    YES. . .HIS, SABBATHS......

     Mark 2:27-28  "And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath."

     Note:  If God had chosen a place, or a specific location, He would have needed to place it where all humanity could easily reach it, right?  So seeing the difficulty even today to travel to a spot on earth, that would not be possible, thus not practical even now, let alone then!
      But our Heavenly Father, in His infinite wisdom, and goodness, made time, a very specific time frame, the Sabbath.  Therefore, no matter where one is, if in Tibet, or in a prison cell, TIME will always catch up and surround each one of us, within any of the man-made hour zones, around the world!
     As, all shall witness, or be present, on Friday's SUN-SET, and the start of the Seventh day Sabbath!
     Therefore, the Seventh day is the Sabbath, and the Sabbath is the Seventh day!.


    Mark 7:6-9  "He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. "

     So what will Y O U do now? Will you honor the traditions of men, or Follow the dictates of YOUR CREATOR?  There shall, soon, come a time when men, under the dark one's deceptions, shall force, you to choose!
    God uses but love and truth, but Satan never will, but he'll use everything else![Revelation 13.]

    Exodus 20:8-11 " Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it."

     John 15:14-16  "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you."

With your God-given free-will, each is free to choose, Jesus Christ, or man, or self!

      2 Peter 1:3 "According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:"
    

   Yet Y O U must remember, IF GOD had not died for our sins, yours AND mine, Satan would have destroyed humanity eons ago! True Christianity IS the only Faith, in which God died for human sins, there 's NO other of earth's , many, many religions, that fact can be learned! Allah has no son, nor Buddha, nor any other man-made god, died nor their son!  Only the Great I AM!

Thanking YOU for your time.

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LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU!

      Yes, the closer we get to the times of the end, Satan  and his, will increase their deceptions, in both scope and severity!

       1 Corinthians 13:12 "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

      No flesh being, shall nor can know, all there is to learn and know from the word of God, the Holy Bible, period!  Plus NO HUMAN is infallible, no matter who makes the claim, just read the above verse and know what our Father said! Just read what His Son Christ, our Savior said.....

     Matthew 24:4-5  "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many"

    Note: Jesus said this three times and referred to twice more, all in this 24th chapter!.That, and that alone must make it important for all humanity, agree?

                                    MOST COMMONLY TAUGHT ERRORS.

(1). The human souls is immortal.    [This is Catholicism 101 and most Protestants follow it] Man has a material body plus God's spirit- breath of life, period! Without breath the body returns to dust

       Genesis 2:7  "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul."

Note: "...and man became"..."  a what?  A LIVING SOUL! Thus dust + God's "Breath of Life" = a soul. Then at dead the opposite MUST be true  Death = a body, minus the  breath of life! A soul is NOT an added feature!

     1 Timothy 6:16  "Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and power everlasting. Amen."

Note:  Can you see that it is ONLY God and the Godhead that has immortality, NOW?

     Ecclesiastes 12:7  "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

Note:  Breath of Life, Spirit, both are one of the same! Thus our death is just that death! As in not living, no life within.

     Genesis 3:19 " In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

     Ecclesiastes 12:6-7  "Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

    Job 27:3  "All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;"

    Ecclesiastes 9:5  "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten."

   Revelation 22:11-12  "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."

If this is what Y O U have been taught, then ask your "Teacher" If all the dead are in Heaven or hell, why does Christ need to return to earth? Plus the why of this passage......

      1 Corinthians 15:51-53  "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality"

(2) What is Religion?

       

     Mankind has made a "Religion" of many things, a house, a yard, a car or toys, be bigger the better, right? "He who has the most toys in the end wins!" Wins what?

   Biblical Religion is our accepting God and His word as written with out lasting doubts and in full truth/faith in The Father via Christ who gave us salvation, IF we accept Him with obedience due to knowing Him from the Word and having learned to return His love back to Him in a Personal relationship!.

    John 14:15 " If ye love me, keep my commandments."    John 15:14  "Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."

    Hebrews 11:1  "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

 Note:  Using the above as our criteria, Evolution itself must also be a religion of faith.

But how can we get faith?

     Romans 10:17  "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."

Note: We must first be willing to obey that silent small voice, that some call our conscience, but if in fact the Holy Spirit drawing us to The Father in christ Jesus.  If any continuously ignores the calling, they will be guilty of.....

    Ephesians 4:30  "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

Note: The Holy Spirit does the "Sealing"  to "inoculate", us against evils and its deceptions of either Satan and man, or both working as one.

     Luke 12:10  "And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven."

Note: Why is this so bad for us?

    John 14:17  "Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you."

    2 Thessalonians 2:13  "But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:"

Note: See that all one loses by grieving the Holy Spirit? Plus why we should not take into our bodies things that are not good for us, as alcohol, tobacco, drugs not prescribed to us in prescribed doses, nor do stuff to permanently change our appearance by inks or objects or grinders and scalpels. He made us in HIS image after all.

(3) Heaven-Hell- Purgatory- Limbo.  ETERNAL PUNISHMENTS?. 

     Of all the human errors about the Holy Bible this is about the worst, making God more like an ogre, than a Loving Father-God! Let's take the points, above one at a time....

    HEAVEN: 

    Isaiah 65:21-25 " And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD."

   Revelation 21:1-3  "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God."

      Revelation 21:27  "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life."

     Revelation 22:10-12  "And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be."

   The above passage shows that our probation will close, just a closed as it is for all who pass from life into death, and All the living shall be Judged by Christ Jesus! Which is the why HIS reward is with Him, being all those who have overcome sin by the unctions of the Holy Spirit!

HELL.

     There is NO such a thing as hell nor hell-fire today, it all from Paganism in adopted by the church of Rome, as has many such ideas and superstitions, TAKEN  from Babylon to present. 

     2 Peter 2:1-7  "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:"

      Revelation 21:8  "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death."

 Note: All those within whom dwells the Holy Spirit, will taste death but one time, all others will die twice, and some even three times!

     " Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."

Note: So much for the "Secret Rapture" right? all those who were involved in His death at the cross will also see Him at His Return, only to perish at the brightness of His coming.

   Revelation 14:9-10 " And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:"

Note: The first time God purified earth was with water, the second and LAST time will be with Fire, the Lake of fire's only and one time use, to turn to ashes all sinners, and death itself, this to remove all traces of human civilization and its pollutants!, in preparation for the New Eden world-wide right here on earth  ....

    Matthew 5:5  "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth."

PURGATORY:

        There's not one word of this in the Holy Bible!  Again, but a figment of human imaginations, dating back to the Greeks inherited by Pagan Rome to present Rome!  The Vatican found out in the 14th century that people believed in this and that they were willing to pay much,  [one reason why this church is the most richest of all, it's wealth is more than many large corporations! ] to "Help" their passed on loved one out of this semi-hell! It is pure tradition of men!

  One of the reasons the Vatican stood against Martin Luther, and wanted him dead, was his stand against Indulgences! One Monk, Tetzel, by name, told many that at the sound of each coin into his indulgence box, meant another soul fleeing from purgatory to heaven! This was during the construction of St. Peter's Basilica!When a great deal of money was needed!  Please think! This could, in the Vatican mindset, even include cash for PRE-PAYMENT OF SINS!

I guess this goes to show us that only God's love is free and no cost to us!

LIMBO;

     Again man-made tradition. In the Bible the words soul, spirit, mean the same and are used interchangeably! 

      Ecclesiastes 12:7  "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

Note: IF we can say that God resided in Limbo, then..... But wherever God's Throne is, Heaven is also!

Eternal Punishment

     This is a gross misapplication of the Word of God. "A text taken out of context, is nothing more than a pretext!

      Exodus 21:6  "Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever."

Note How can anyone serve another after death?
Thus Biblically, for ever and ever, means a set span of time to accomplish God's purpose and will! Besides please read closely, "The Punishment applied will have permanent results, BUT the Punishing is not forever! From the second death, there is no come-back no resurrection possible!

    To say that God has punishments for for a person, that is then to tortured for ever is so unspeakably wrong and makes god worse of an evil being than Satan!

                           SABBATH-----SUNDAY......FRIDAY.....ALL 3 ARE HOLY TO MANY.. WHY?

SABBATH:  

     Genesis 2:1-3 " Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made"

Note: The Sabbath is written of some 61  times in the O.T, and 56 times in the New Testament.;. 

     Exodus 31:18  "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God."

Note: Y O U don't suppose even for second, that God would write this on stone with His own finger, so that men could change it at will,............ do you? 

    Isaiah 58:13 "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

     Luke 6:5  "And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath."

LORD'S DAY.

     2 Peter 2:9  "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:"

    Acts 2:20  "The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:    [This is now history...Google it!] 

      1 Corinthians 5:5  "To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."

Note: This denotes the end time woes, during which God pours out His cup of wrath upon sinners and non believers alike.  Not anything, but a loud call to rest in Him in worship and remembrance of Creation days, right?

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