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Article #52: Does Jesus want us to keep all of the Ten Commandments?

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Jesus showed us that the Ten Commandments persecution of the Jews for Sabbath
would never change. Mathew 5:18 "For keeping became so great that many
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and Christians decided to go against the
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall clear Commandment of God and started
in no wise pass from the law, till all be keeping Sunday, so as to distance
fulfilled". themselves from the Jews. Some began
He also demonstrated that and that they using the excuse that it was in honour of
were an eternal law of love John 15:10 the resurrection, to excuse that fact
"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall that there was no biblical basis for the
abide in my love; even as I have kept my change. In 321 A.D. Constantine, who
Father's commandments, and abide in his was a pagan, became Caesar in Rome and
love". when he began to see the balance of power
So if the Ten Commandments are still shift from paganism to the Church he
valid and in place today, why is it that passed the first law enforcing Sunday
most Christian denominations only keep worship in 321 AD. Two years later he
nine, and ignore the fourth commandment joined the Roman Catholic Church and
which tells us to keep the seventh day began to intermingle paganism and
Sabbath? Christianity. It was well after 400 AD
Jesus and His disciples all faithfully before Sunday eventually took on the name
kept the seventh day Sabbath their entire of the Lord's Day.
lives. In many papers and documents written by
It has been established by many the Roman Catholic Church, they openly
historians and theologians that the books take credit for moving the sanctity of
of Luke and Mathew were written between the Seventh day Sabbath to Sunday, by
60 and 80 AD. Luke does not tell us of a their own authority, which they say is
day change, but instead he states in Luke above that of the scriptures.
23:56, "…And they rested on the Sabbath "The authority of the church could
according to the commandment." therefore not be bound to the authority
Jesus also showed that the Sabbath would of the Scriptures, because the Church had
still be kept after the cross when He changed...the Sabbath into Sunday, not by
prophesied about the forthcoming command of Christ, but by its own
destruction of the temple, which happened authority." Canon and Tradition, p. 263.
around 70 AD. Jesus said, Matthew 24:20, This means then that when we keep Sunday
"And pray that your flight may not be in as our day of worship, instead of the
winter or on the Sabbath." This shows Seventh day which was commanded by God,
that Jesus was expecting His people to be then we are putting man-made traditions
faithfully keeping the Sabbath in the above the Word of God. Can man really
future. If the day was going to change in override or ignore the power and
any way, this would have been the time authority of God?
for Jesus to prophecy about that. For more information on this topic,
Historians confirm that the seventh day please visit The Ten Commandments .
Sabbath was kept by Jews and Gentiles Debra Lohrere is the author of Christian
alike, until about 120 AD when the Investment and Prophecy Books.






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