安息日を今日でも宗教的義務として順守すべきと説く人へ
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以下、フェイスブックで安息日順守派の人々に提起した問題点。
Jesus came to fulfill "Law or Prophet" and proclaimed "Fulfilled" on the cross, so the laws of the Old Testament have been fulfilled completely in Him. It is wrong to support the law of keeping Sabbath still now. When Jesus said "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest", He said that the Sabbath system was fulfilled once and for all in Him. So we are always in the Sabbath, or perpetual rest, IN JESUS CHRIST. If we insist that we should keep the Sabbath still now, we must keep the system of the Biblical calendar exactly, where a year started from the day that the Chief Priest decided by checking the shape of the Moon because each month began with a new moon. And in the system, the days of week and the date were fixed with each other (e.g., Jan 14 must be Friday. exod 12:18), while we are living in the different one, where they are changeable. And we should keep one Sabbatical year coming every 7 years and two years every 50 years. How could it be possible for us to keep them living in the modern industrial society? The system of the calendar during the Old Testament period was a type that symbolizes the salvation given by Jesus Christ: the freedom from the slavery caused by sin.
The types of the Old Testament symbolizing the works and personality of Jesus Christ were fulfilled and abolished eternally. Otherwise, we must continue the circumcision, establish the God's Temple in Jerusalem, where we should offer sheep and cattle to God, which the Bible strictly forbids us to do, and we should not eat the meat of pigs, fish without scales and so on. We can obey the laws of those types through recognizing the works of Jesus Christ as the essence of them. So we can obey the Sabbath law through recognizing Jesus as a giver of comfort to us. The dispensations of the OT changed completely in the NT era, so that the OT laws have changed to be applicable to every era and every place in order that every nation shall be the disciple of Jesus. Again I say, if we should obey the Sabbath laws, we should reestablish the system of calendar of OT.
すべて、疲れた人、重荷を負っている人は、わたしのところに来なさい。わたしがあなたがたを休ませてあげます。(マタイ11・28)
イエスは私たちの先駆けとしてそこに入り、永遠にメルキゼデクの位に等しい大祭司となられました。(ヘブル6・20)
祭司職が変われば、律法も必ず変わらなければなりません(ヘブル7・12)
2017年4月19日
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