5. The Sabbaths were designated as a time for the earth to tremble
before the Lord
This process is
accomplished by hearing the word of God and tremble at His word. To tremble at
the word is part and parcel of true act of worship as illustrated by the
prophet Issiah who wrote; “Thus says the LORD: " Heaven is My throne, and earth
is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the
place of My rest? For all those things My hand has made, and all those things
exist," says the LORD. "But on this one will I look: On him who is
poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word” (Isaiah 66: 1-2).
The Sabbaths were
ordained by the Lord as a time for His people to be instructed in His word and
allowing the word to discover our condition as we have been duly admonished
saying; “Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall
according to the same example of disobedience. For the word of God is living
and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the
division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His
sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must
give account” (Hebrews 4: 11-13).
If all believers would know, understand, believe and apply the basic
principles of the first great commandment and take into consideration the huge disparity
that exist between the holiness of God and the sinfulness of man and the part
which Jesus Christ the only Mediator between God and man played and continue playing we would all be speaking the same thing, and there would be no
divisions among us, but instead we would be perfectly joined together in the
same mind and in the same judgment.
The sad reality is, the
same mechanism which God established to keep the church and families perfectly
joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment so that all could speak
the same thing, and that there be no divisions among them but has blatantly
ignored, it is the same mechanism that Satan will use to bring humanity together
under one banner to honor and worship him.
The Lord established His
festivals for the unification of the church and families as He unequivocally
stated saying; “The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy
convocations, these are My feasts.” And, 'These are the feasts of the LORD,
holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times” (Leviticus 23:2; 14).
Because the intent, the
purpose, the rationale, the objective for the Lord’s festivals is for the
church and family members coming together to commemorate and to express their gratitude, reverence, love, respect, appreciation and adoration to the Lord for
what He did for humanity on that particular day and thus perpetuating it from
one generation to another as we have been duly admonished saying: “You shall
rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male
servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the
stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are among you, at the place where
the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide” (Deuteronomy 16:11).
To make His name abide
is to perpetuate it from generation to generation and ascribing to the Lord the
glory due to His name and therefore to ignore this basic principle and
instruction is irreverence and observing other days instead of the days
specified by the Lord is blatant idolatry and this is the root cause for the
disunity and discombobulation that exist in the church.
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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