His Commandment-His Law
The fourth commandment of the ten moral laws kept sacred in the ark of the covenant in the most holy place of the sanctuary.
The commandment that deals with time.
Is the following truth?
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Is this STILL the whole duty of man? Did the whole duty of man change? Are we no longer accountable for every work, every secret thing, good or evil? Why would the whole duty of man change? Why would no longer be accountable for our every work, our every secret thing good or evil? Did God STOP holding us accountable? When did that happen?
This is still truth- Rev_14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And when was it written? Old Testament times? No. It was written during the New Testament times. A prophecy and in that prophecy is connected the JUDGMENT- and the worship of HIM that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.
Now read the fourth commandment of God's moral law-
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 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:
Exo 20:11 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.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
The Lord- Him that made- heaven and earth, and sea.
Why do we fail to see the significance of the judgment and THIS particular commandment?
Dan_7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High: and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
… he shall think to CHANGE the TIMES and the LAW…
Changing the law.
Changing the times.
Yesterday we discussed that we can KNOW who would do that, and how important it is for us to know not only who, but how and why this change took place. If we are to keep God's law, if this is our whole duty- if we will be judged accordingly we sure better know what His law is and make sure we keep it.
I'm going to change tracks here for a moment before I go further with this…
I say we are to KEEP God's law that this is our whole duty and I mean it. I mean that we will be judged accordingly. However some of us will have an Advocate to stand up for us as we are judged, and some won't. That Advocate will be able to speak on our behalf because we have REPENTED and CONFESSED of our failures to keep the law of God. Does having an Advocate mean we shouldn't worry about keeping the law? No! Because the law is the standard we are to live by eternally, it is a law written out of love. If you have an attorney standing up for you in court and they can only defend you properly if you've confessed everything to them, does that mean you are free to continue breaking the law? We are NEVER free to break the moral law of God, but we know when it happens we do have an Advocate who will plead for us when our name comes up and the decision is made whether or not we are judged and found in His righteousness.
1Jn_1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
IF we confess.
Keeping the law by itself will NEVER save us, because we cannot keep the law perfectly without Christ, not ever. So as we continue to discuss the WHOLE duty of man and know that we are to FEAR God and KEEP His commandments, we must ever keep in mind that it is only through Christ and His righteousness that we are forgiven and cleansed.
Now back to the 'HE' who would think to change the times and laws of God.
Read ALL of the following- using your Bibles- making sure you PRAY for the Holy Spirit to guide you! If you can't read it all in one sitting, make it two or three sittings but do NOT neglect to read this, study this!
*******
'TEARING DOWN THE FOUNDATIONS
DANIEL SEVEN
In a vision of prophetic history, Daniel the Hebrew prophet-statesman of Babylon
was shown the rise and fall of four vast empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and
Rome. This is recorded in Daniel 2 and 7—in two parallel prophecies. About a thousand
years before the events occurred, he foresaw the dismemberment of Western Rome, the
rise of the Papacy, and the establishment of the "ten kingdoms" which have developed
into the great nations of Southern and Western Europe, Regarding the correctness of this
fulfillment, nearly all conservative Protestant students of prophecy agree.
The Seventh Chapter of Daniel especially goes into detail on the prediction of the
antichrist power that for long ages was to seek to crush God's people and do away with
His Moral Law.
Daniel 7 gives a careful description of the rise of this power. Daniel calls it the
"Little Horn." After seeing in vision a series of four symbolic animals arise out of the sea,
an angel explained: 'The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall
be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down,
and break in pieces." Daniel 7:23.
This fourth beast is further described as having ten horns arising out of its head,
and we are told what they represent: 'The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten king's that
shall arise." Daniel 7:24.
Then in the dream, Daniel, as he slept, was to watch as a little horn grew in the
midst of the ten horns. As it arose, it uprooted three of those horns. The angel explained
this to Daniel: "Another [king] shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings." Daniel 7:24. And then, continuing, he gives us the most
important verse in Daniel Seven —Daniel 7:25, the verse that explains the three basic
things the man of sin, or little horn power, would do, and how long he would have this
power:
"And he shall [1] speak great words against the Most High, and [2] shall wear out
the saints of the Most High, and [3] think to change times and laws. And they shall be
given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. " Daniel 7:25.
Elsewhere in this chapter we are told more about this little horn power: 'And
behold, in this [little] horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things. " DanieI7:8.
"That [little] horn. . had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose
look was more stout than his fellows." Daniel 7:20.
I beheld, and the same [little] horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them." Daniel 7:21. This vision of Daniel 7 is described in verses 2.14, and mentions the . . little horn power in only one verse (7:8).
But the work of this little horn in trying to destroy both God's Law and His people was so
terrible that, in the explanation that followed (verses 17-28), most of it is about this fourth
beast and its little horn.
Clearly, the little horn was to be a deadly power reigning among the kings of the
earth that would assume the right to control the faith and consciences of men.
Just what is this fourth beast—with its ten horns—out of which this little horn
power was to arise? Student's of history I recognize that the fourth world kingdom after
Daniel's time was the kingdom of Rome.
The Roman Empire controlled civilization in the days of Jesus Christ, and it indeed
was a power to "devour the whole earth, and. . tread it down, and break it in pieces."
Daniel 7:2,3. (compare verse 7).
But prophecy foretold that this fourth beast, pagan Rome was to be divided. Ten
horns were to grow out of its head, representing ten kings, or kingdoms, that would arise
out of the Roman Empire. Students of history will again recognize that Rome was indeed
divided—and it was divided into ten divisions: the Franks, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Heruli,
Burgundians, Suevi, Saxons, Lombards, Alamanni, and Vandals.
The prophecy said that still another horn was to arise after Rome had been divided
into its ten parts. Let us now consider this Little Horn:
(1) This little horn is to be a kingdom as the other horns are kingdoms. "The ten
horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise. And another shall rise after them,
and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. "Daniel 7:24.
(2) This little horn power is to come from the same source that the other ten horns,
or kingdoms, came from. "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among
them another little horn." Daniel 7:8. Therefore, it was to come out of Rome.
(3) We can get the approximate date when this little horn was to arise. It would gain
its regal powers after the other horns had arisen. "And another shall rise after them."
Daniel 7:24. This could not take place until the last of the ten divisions of Rome was
formed.
(4) It was to uproot three horns, or three of Rome's divisions. Seven of these
divisions have existed down to our time. Anglo-Saxon modern England. Franks—France.
Lombards—Italy. Alamanni—modern Germany. ,Burgundian modern Switzerland.
Suevi—modern Portugal. Visigoths—modern Spain. But the Heruli, Vandals, and
Ostrogoths have no modern counterpart. They were uprooted by the little horn power at
the time it was arising.
(5) "He shall be diverse from the first." Daniel 7:24. Although a kingdom, it would
be a radically different kind of kingdom. The others were civil—this one would be religious.
(6) This religion, exercising the power and force of a worldly kingdom, was to have
a leader at its head, for it speaks through the "mouth of a man." "And behold in this [little]
horn] were eyes, like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. " Daniel 7:8. A
man was to be at the head of this power, a man with human eyes and a human mouth:
(7) This mouth would speak great things. Revelation 13 is a parallel prophecy of
this apostate power and its blasphemies. And elsewhere we are told: "He opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them
that dwell in heaven." (Revelation 13:6), which agrees with the statement of Daniel 7.:25:
"He shall speak great words against the most High. " This man is to be guilty of
blasphemy. He is to speak great words against the God of Heaven.
(8) This power will try to destroy God's people for not submitting to its teachings. 'I
beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them" It was
predicted that he would "wear out the saints of the most High." Daniel 7:21,25.
(9) We are told the length of time that this power would have supremacy. "And they
shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. " Daniel 7:25. In
Revelation 13, speaking of the same power, we are told, "And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue
1. [margin: make war] forty and two months. " Revelation 13:5. . (Compare Revelation
11:2). And, again, in Revelation 12:6, the length of time (a time span parallel to 11:3) is
spoken of I as 'a thousand two hundred and threescore days." Read each of the above
passages carefully. A "day" in prophecy stands for a year (Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6). A
"time" in prophecy is the same as a year (Daniel 11:13, margin, and Revised Version).
Three and a half times would be three and a half years. This is the same as 42 months.
And both are equal to 1260 days or years. (A prophetic year was composed of 360 days or
12 months of 30 days each).
This is the symbolic time of Bible prophecy. And so as it was predicted "for over a
thousand years the Little Horn power ruled men's lives.
The decree of the emperor, Justinian, issued in A.D. 533, recognized the pope. as
the "head of all the holy churches." (Code of Justinian, book 1, title 1, section 4.). The
overwhelming defeat of the Ostrogoths in the siege of Rome, five years later (A.D. 538),
was a death blow to the third pf the three horns that were uprooted. With the year 538,
then, begins the 1260 years of this prophecy of Papal control, which would ex. tend to the
year 1798. In that year the Reign of Terror occurred in the French Revolution and the
Roman Catholic religion was set aside in France, and the French army, under Berthier,
entered Rome and took the pope prisoner. He died in exile at Valence, France, the
following year. The long prophetic time span of papal rule was ended. The "deadly wound"
of Revelation 13:3 was inflicted—a wound which prophecy says is to be healed.'
More tomorrow by the GRACE OFOUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! In HIS LOVE ALWAYS!
The fourth commandment of the ten moral laws kept sacred in the ark of the covenant in the most holy place of the sanctuary.
The commandment that deals with time.
Is the following truth?
Ecc 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
Ecc 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Is this STILL the whole duty of man? Did the whole duty of man change? Are we no longer accountable for every work, every secret thing, good or evil? Why would the whole duty of man change? Why would no longer be accountable for our every work, our every secret thing good or evil? Did God STOP holding us accountable? When did that happen?
This is still truth- Rev_14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And when was it written? Old Testament times? No. It was written during the New Testament times. A prophecy and in that prophecy is connected the JUDGMENT- and the worship of HIM that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.
Now read the fourth commandment of God's moral law-
Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exo 20:10 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:
Exo 20:11 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.
Exo 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
The Lord- Him that made- heaven and earth, and sea.
Why do we fail to see the significance of the judgment and THIS particular commandment?
Dan_7:25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High: and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
… he shall think to CHANGE the TIMES and the LAW…
Changing the law.
Changing the times.
Yesterday we discussed that we can KNOW who would do that, and how important it is for us to know not only who, but how and why this change took place. If we are to keep God's law, if this is our whole duty- if we will be judged accordingly we sure better know what His law is and make sure we keep it.
I'm going to change tracks here for a moment before I go further with this…
I say we are to KEEP God's law that this is our whole duty and I mean it. I mean that we will be judged accordingly. However some of us will have an Advocate to stand up for us as we are judged, and some won't. That Advocate will be able to speak on our behalf because we have REPENTED and CONFESSED of our failures to keep the law of God. Does having an Advocate mean we shouldn't worry about keeping the law? No! Because the law is the standard we are to live by eternally, it is a law written out of love. If you have an attorney standing up for you in court and they can only defend you properly if you've confessed everything to them, does that mean you are free to continue breaking the law? We are NEVER free to break the moral law of God, but we know when it happens we do have an Advocate who will plead for us when our name comes up and the decision is made whether or not we are judged and found in His righteousness.
1Jn_1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
IF we confess.
Keeping the law by itself will NEVER save us, because we cannot keep the law perfectly without Christ, not ever. So as we continue to discuss the WHOLE duty of man and know that we are to FEAR God and KEEP His commandments, we must ever keep in mind that it is only through Christ and His righteousness that we are forgiven and cleansed.
Now back to the 'HE' who would think to change the times and laws of God.
Read ALL of the following- using your Bibles- making sure you PRAY for the Holy Spirit to guide you! If you can't read it all in one sitting, make it two or three sittings but do NOT neglect to read this, study this!
*******
'TEARING DOWN THE FOUNDATIONS
DANIEL SEVEN
In a vision of prophetic history, Daniel the Hebrew prophet-statesman of Babylon
was shown the rise and fall of four vast empires: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and
Rome. This is recorded in Daniel 2 and 7—in two parallel prophecies. About a thousand
years before the events occurred, he foresaw the dismemberment of Western Rome, the
rise of the Papacy, and the establishment of the "ten kingdoms" which have developed
into the great nations of Southern and Western Europe, Regarding the correctness of this
fulfillment, nearly all conservative Protestant students of prophecy agree.
The Seventh Chapter of Daniel especially goes into detail on the prediction of the
antichrist power that for long ages was to seek to crush God's people and do away with
His Moral Law.
Daniel 7 gives a careful description of the rise of this power. Daniel calls it the
"Little Horn." After seeing in vision a series of four symbolic animals arise out of the sea,
an angel explained: 'The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall
be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down,
and break in pieces." Daniel 7:23.
This fourth beast is further described as having ten horns arising out of its head,
and we are told what they represent: 'The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten king's that
shall arise." Daniel 7:24.
Then in the dream, Daniel, as he slept, was to watch as a little horn grew in the
midst of the ten horns. As it arose, it uprooted three of those horns. The angel explained
this to Daniel: "Another [king] shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings." Daniel 7:24. And then, continuing, he gives us the most
important verse in Daniel Seven —Daniel 7:25, the verse that explains the three basic
things the man of sin, or little horn power, would do, and how long he would have this
power:
"And he shall [1] speak great words against the Most High, and [2] shall wear out
the saints of the Most High, and [3] think to change times and laws. And they shall be
given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. " Daniel 7:25.
Elsewhere in this chapter we are told more about this little horn power: 'And
behold, in this [little] horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great
things. " DanieI7:8.
"That [little] horn. . had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose
look was more stout than his fellows." Daniel 7:20.
I beheld, and the same [little] horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them." Daniel 7:21. This vision of Daniel 7 is described in verses 2.14, and mentions the . . little horn power in only one verse (7:8).
But the work of this little horn in trying to destroy both God's Law and His people was so
terrible that, in the explanation that followed (verses 17-28), most of it is about this fourth
beast and its little horn.
Clearly, the little horn was to be a deadly power reigning among the kings of the
earth that would assume the right to control the faith and consciences of men.
Just what is this fourth beast—with its ten horns—out of which this little horn
power was to arise? Student's of history I recognize that the fourth world kingdom after
Daniel's time was the kingdom of Rome.
The Roman Empire controlled civilization in the days of Jesus Christ, and it indeed
was a power to "devour the whole earth, and. . tread it down, and break it in pieces."
Daniel 7:2,3. (compare verse 7).
But prophecy foretold that this fourth beast, pagan Rome was to be divided. Ten
horns were to grow out of its head, representing ten kings, or kingdoms, that would arise
out of the Roman Empire. Students of history will again recognize that Rome was indeed
divided—and it was divided into ten divisions: the Franks, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Heruli,
Burgundians, Suevi, Saxons, Lombards, Alamanni, and Vandals.
The prophecy said that still another horn was to arise after Rome had been divided
into its ten parts. Let us now consider this Little Horn:
(1) This little horn is to be a kingdom as the other horns are kingdoms. "The ten
horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise. And another shall rise after them,
and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. "Daniel 7:24.
(2) This little horn power is to come from the same source that the other ten horns,
or kingdoms, came from. "I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among
them another little horn." Daniel 7:8. Therefore, it was to come out of Rome.
(3) We can get the approximate date when this little horn was to arise. It would gain
its regal powers after the other horns had arisen. "And another shall rise after them."
Daniel 7:24. This could not take place until the last of the ten divisions of Rome was
formed.
(4) It was to uproot three horns, or three of Rome's divisions. Seven of these
divisions have existed down to our time. Anglo-Saxon modern England. Franks—France.
Lombards—Italy. Alamanni—modern Germany. ,Burgundian modern Switzerland.
Suevi—modern Portugal. Visigoths—modern Spain. But the Heruli, Vandals, and
Ostrogoths have no modern counterpart. They were uprooted by the little horn power at
the time it was arising.
(5) "He shall be diverse from the first." Daniel 7:24. Although a kingdom, it would
be a radically different kind of kingdom. The others were civil—this one would be religious.
(6) This religion, exercising the power and force of a worldly kingdom, was to have
a leader at its head, for it speaks through the "mouth of a man." "And behold in this [little]
horn] were eyes, like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. " Daniel 7:8. A
man was to be at the head of this power, a man with human eyes and a human mouth:
(7) This mouth would speak great things. Revelation 13 is a parallel prophecy of
this apostate power and its blasphemies. And elsewhere we are told: "He opened his
mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, and His tabernacle, and them
that dwell in heaven." (Revelation 13:6), which agrees with the statement of Daniel 7.:25:
"He shall speak great words against the most High. " This man is to be guilty of
blasphemy. He is to speak great words against the God of Heaven.
(8) This power will try to destroy God's people for not submitting to its teachings. 'I
beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them" It was
predicted that he would "wear out the saints of the most High." Daniel 7:21,25.
(9) We are told the length of time that this power would have supremacy. "And they
shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. " Daniel 7:25. In
Revelation 13, speaking of the same power, we are told, "And there was given unto him a
mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue
1. [margin: make war] forty and two months. " Revelation 13:5. . (Compare Revelation
11:2). And, again, in Revelation 12:6, the length of time (a time span parallel to 11:3) is
spoken of I as 'a thousand two hundred and threescore days." Read each of the above
passages carefully. A "day" in prophecy stands for a year (Numbers 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6). A
"time" in prophecy is the same as a year (Daniel 11:13, margin, and Revised Version).
Three and a half times would be three and a half years. This is the same as 42 months.
And both are equal to 1260 days or years. (A prophetic year was composed of 360 days or
12 months of 30 days each).
This is the symbolic time of Bible prophecy. And so as it was predicted "for over a
thousand years the Little Horn power ruled men's lives.
The decree of the emperor, Justinian, issued in A.D. 533, recognized the pope. as
the "head of all the holy churches." (Code of Justinian, book 1, title 1, section 4.). The
overwhelming defeat of the Ostrogoths in the siege of Rome, five years later (A.D. 538),
was a death blow to the third pf the three horns that were uprooted. With the year 538,
then, begins the 1260 years of this prophecy of Papal control, which would ex. tend to the
year 1798. In that year the Reign of Terror occurred in the French Revolution and the
Roman Catholic religion was set aside in France, and the French army, under Berthier,
entered Rome and took the pope prisoner. He died in exile at Valence, France, the
following year. The long prophetic time span of papal rule was ended. The "deadly wound"
of Revelation 13:3 was inflicted—a wound which prophecy says is to be healed.'
More tomorrow by the GRACE OFOUR LORD JESUS CHRIST! In HIS LOVE ALWAYS!
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