Posts

Redeeming The Time: Halloween

Halloween, when properly understood, is only a pagan festival if the thoughts & intents of its celebrants are directed via their own intentions (James 1:14 - 15) at/toward one or more pagan pseudodeities &/or the demons & the Demonic Realm.   It is, in fact, an extension/outworking of Purim, not merely on the basis that traditions like wearing costumes & the distribution & consumption of candy are outwardly similar, but because there is corresponding quasi-historical/literary rationale for both.  Contrary to the claims of the legalism class, a redemptive-historical administration & observance of All Hallow’s Eve is a great big act of inductive & intuitive prophecy that answers any number of pagan festivals like Samhain & the Day Of the Dead.  Esther provides the rationale for Purim.      The story of Esther takes place during the time of the Jews Exile in the days when Media-Persia ruled an empire that stretched from India to...
Post a Comment
Read more

Philippians 3:12 - 14

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. This Is The Way!  O LORD, Hear Our Prayer(s)!
Post a Comment
Read more

The 4th Commandment (Part 7)

The Common Holidays are soon upon us, & with it come those who complain about strict 7 Day Sabbatarianism, Christmas Trees, Halloween, & the food laws.  As a matter of review, these & other practices are encompassed by the 4th Commandment.  The 4th Commandment declares that the people are to work 6 days & set aside the 7th day out of a 7-Day cycle. It does not prescribe a Friday @ sunset to Sat. @ sunset day to the exclusion of any others. You ought to be able to deduce that the actual day or days of the week can be legally expanded.   Sabbath regulations are a package deal.  If Rigid Sabbatarianism is true, there can be no expansion of the Hebrew feast/festival calendar in Lev. 23.  There is no command to observe Purim, yet Esther gives the rationale for it.  Yeshua attended the Festival of Lights — and He did so without sinning.  Changing the times & the Law isn’t limited to the abolition/repeal of worship & rest regulations. ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Isaiah 43:18 - 19

Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Post a Comment
Read more

Tackling Tradition 97: Left Behind

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.  14  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  15  For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  16  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  17  Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  18  Therefore encourage one another with these words.  ( 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 , ESV) The above text is one of the most of cited if not  the  m...
Post a Comment
Read more

Jude As The Eschatological Covenants in Chronological Order

Think of the outline below as a theatric script    written as an Apocalyptic narrative as God’s eschatological judgment unfolds through redemptive history from the beginning to the present day & beyond.   Edenic & Adamic 1  Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: Adamic & Noahic  2  May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Noahic & Abrahamic  3  Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.  4  For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. Abrahamic & Mosaic  5  Now I want to remind you, although you ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tackling Tradition 96: Do You Have To Believe In The Trinity To Be Justified?

Question : Is the following statement true?  Whoever desires to be saved should above all hold to the catholic faith. Anyone who does not keep it whole and unbroken will doubtless perish eternally. Now this is the catholic faith: That we worship one God in Trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confounding their persons nor dividing the essence. For the person of the Father is a distinct person, the person of the Son is another, and that of the Holy Spirit still another. But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Such as the Father is, such is the Son and such is the Holy Spirit.The Father is uncreated, the Son is uncreated; the Holy Spirit is uncreated.  The Father is immeasurable;  the Son is immeasurable;  the Holy Spirit is immeasurable. The Father is eternal; the Son is eternal; the Holy Spirit is eternal; And yet there are not three eternal beings; there is but one eternal being. So too there are not ...
Post a Comment
Read more