LOVE AND BLESSING ROYAL FAMILY DO NOT FORGET TO KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY. !Besime Ab, WeWolde, WeMenfesQidus, Ahadu Amlak, ameyn777
#God
When the president of the United States gets
involved in heated world affairs, people somewhere in the
world will protest.Whether he’s right or wrong, they will
protest.And, these protests often include a likeness of the
president, an effigy, on which protesters vent their raucous
emotions.Because the protesters rebel against his policies
but can’t get at the man, they settle for a stand in.They
attack him by attacking his effigy.
With this in mind, it is sobering to read that God
identifies his Sabbath with himself and treading on it with
treading on himself.He complains about his own priests,
saying they have “shut their eyes to the keeping of my
Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them” (Ezekiel
22:26).He doesn’t say, “the Sabbath is profaned” but “I am
profaned” by their Sabbath-breaking
Then, he gets more explicit, stating clearly, “They
have also done this to me… desecrated my Sabbaths” (Ezekiel 23:38).Human rebellion against God reveals itself
in how you and I treat his Sabbath.How you treat the
Sabbath is how you treat God.
What does this dizzying thought imply? In both of
these verses, the Hebrew word for the violence done to
Sabbath is the same.It ranges in meaning from “fatally
wound” to “pierce” to “pollute” to “dishonor” to “make
common.” But the explicit idea given to it in this context is
having made “no distinction between the holy and the
profane” and having “not taught the difference between the
unclean and the clean” (Ezekiel 22:26).
In other words, violence is done to God when we
fail to recognize his elevation above common things.When
we treat his Sabbath as common, we do him the same
dishonor we have done to it.God is at the center of Sabbath
and it has everything to do with his relationship to us.It
was born as a reminder that he created us and as a
connecting point with him.
Violence to Sabbath is violence to God.The
sobering reminder is there because rebellious humans need
shaken awake to search their hearts for evil.Yet, a down
side always implies an up side.
#God
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