God did not command the
sacrifices, burnt offering of the Instruments commanded by
David.
2Chr. 29:27 And
Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon
the altar.
And when the burnt
offering began,
the song of the LORD
began also with the trumpets,
and with the
instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
The word CODE is not in the text: the
ORDINANCES were blotted outy BY nailing or slaying.
Col. 2:14 Blotting out the
handwriting of ORDINANCES that was against us,
which was
contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cros
The "progressives" never
need to read the text!! Dogma includes the traditions of the
elders. The Civil-Military-Clergy did not follow the Law of
Moses but were abandoned to their own vain imagination and
Babylonianism.
Dogma is
the Greek Autonomia or
Self made laws: 3. dogmatism it
includes POETRY poi-etikos or
poetic license. AW.
A. freedom to
use its own laws,
independence,
DOGMATIC IN CHURCH
means self-composed sermons almost never teaching "that
which has been
taught" or self-composed silly ditties violating the
command to use
"that which is written" Paul defines as Scripture
Dogma
is: Poi-etikos A.capable
of
making, creative, productive Opposite to praktikos or useful. Strong,
vigorous. with mousikoi II.
of
persons, skilled in music, musical, melody, used
to
speak
before a mob, elegant, delicate, effeminate. Hedone
Dogma
is: Hedone
A. enjoyment, pleasure,
first in Simon.71, S.l.c., Hdt.1.24,
al.;
prop. of sensual pleasures, desires after
pleasure,
pleasant lusts, X.Mem.1.2.23,
Ep.Tit.3.3,
al.
Dogma
is: Charizo:
[Grace] In erotic sense, grant favors, to a man, comedy,
gratify or indulge a humor of passion. Give
up as a favor by dropping a law aimed at
him,
Autonomia is
used with: theor-etikos A.able
to
perceive, 2. of the mind, contemplative,
speculative, Philosophy
i. e. one who
speculates on truth and reality, 2.
of arguments,
sciences, etc., scientific, philosophic,
Has the meaning of Voluntarius I.
willing, of his or its own
free-will, voluntary.
However, that also includes
The Law of Moses.
1Cor. 9:9
For it is WRITTEN in
the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the
ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for
oxen? .
Gal. 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law
are under the CURSE: for it is WRITTEN,
Cursed is every one
that continueth not in all things which are WRITTEN
in the book of the law to do them.
Gal. 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight
of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by
faith.
Gal. 3:12 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that
doeth them shall live in them.
Gal. 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the
law, being made a curse for us: for it is wri
Gal. 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was
confirmed before of God in Christ, the law,
which was four
hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it
should make the promise of none effect.
Gal. 3:18 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no
more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Gal. 3:19 Wherefore then serveth the law?
It was added because
of transgressions,
till the seed should
come to whom the promise was made;
and it was ordained
by angels in the hand of a mediator.
Eph. 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of
water by the word,
Heb. 9:10
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings,
and carnal ORDINANCES,
imposed on them
until the time of reformation.
Heb. 9:13
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of
an heifer sprinkling the unclean,
sanctifieth to
the purifying of the flesh:
Heb. 9:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the
eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God,
purge your
conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Why would Jesus be the Mediator of the
NEW TESTAMENT if the OLD TESTAMENT is still in effect.
Heb. 9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new
testament,
that by means of
death, for the redemption of the transgressions that
were under the first testament,
they which are
called might receive the promise of eternal
inheritance.
Heb. 9:16 For where a testament is, there must also of
necessity be the death of the testator.
Matt Dabbs impugning the motives of those who feed him, Scripture and
universal church History
What I think is also behind the need to see the OT as
nailed to the cross is that if you open yourself up to
what is in the OT then things like instrumental
music get put on the table and you have to figure out
what to do with that.
THERE IS NO INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC IN THE LAW OF MOSES. While Kings,
Chronicles etal were written during the time of the Law they
were not part of the Written Ordinances which were added
because of transgression.
Chronicles details the
sacrificial system including Civil-Military-Clergy written
by the Scribes whom Jesus brands as hypocrites and the
prophets brand as liars about the Temple which God did not
command.
Amos 5:26 But ye
have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun
your images,
the STAR
of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
Acts
7:41 And they made a calf in those days,
and offered sacrifice unto
the idol,
and rejoiced in the works of their own hands
Amos 5:26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch
and Chiun your images,
the star of your
god, which ye made to yourselves.
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause
you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the
LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.
Matt Dabbs: When the denominational world uses things
like the Psalms to justify instrumental music in
debate it is much easier to find a verse that just
knocks out the whole OT than to do the heavy lifting
of what you actually do with the psalms and why things are
different in the New Testament.
Paul commanded that we SPEAK Psalms, hymns and
spiritual songs FOR OUR LEARNING. The Word or Logos is the
REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE: It outlaws personal opinions, personal
experiences, rhetoric, singing, playing instruments or
acting. In fact SPEAK is the opposite of SING and that is
why if you are interested in learning the Ode and Psallo are
in the heart meaning silent.
The Psalms were "collected"
during the period after God "gave them kings in His anger"
after their period of Grace was violated and God sent them
away into Babylon as the end-time church is abandoned to
"Babylonianism" using "lusted after fruits" as speakers,
singers or instrument players. John calls them Sorcerers
who HAD once deceived the whole world. They will be CAST
ALIVE INTO THE LAKE of Fire. The Spirit OF Christ in
Isaiah 30 uses the picture below to show how God drives
His Enemies into hell to the beat of wind, string and
percussion instruments.
That is why the Psalms defined
as performed WITH an instrument was warrior panic
songs. The translators of the Septuagint used the
PSAO or SOP words to define these psalms because they were
not ignorant.
The
tabulation of musical
passages "contains a
rather disproportionate number of metaphorical sentences,
where music
or its instruments are not to be understood literally
but are used as
similies or rhetorical figures. The most
celebrated of these poetical
passages is Paul's glorification of love in I Cor. 13."
(Interpreter's Dict of the Bible, Music, p. 466).
Psalmos also appears in
the LXX as equivalent to the Hebrew
word neginah. This Hebrew term is used to describe
a wide variety of
songs. Neginah is translated by psalmos in Lam
3:14
(song), in Lam 5:14
(music) and in Ps 69:12 (song). It is striking to observe
that in the
LXX translation of Lam 3:14 and Ps 69:12, psalmos, or its
verbal
form,
is used for songs that are not only uninspired
but are in fact the product of the wicked, even
drunkards, who mocked God and His word. The
Hebrew term neginah is used elsewhere in the Hebrew
Scriptures of: the
songs of the wicked, Job 30:9 (song); the inspired praise
of God, Psalm
61 title (Neginah-a song performed on a stringed
instrument); and the
uninspired praise of the Lord composed by King Hezekiah,
Is 38:20 (my
songs).
Acts
7:42 Then God turned,
and gave them up to worship the
HOST of heaven;
as it is written in the book of the prophets,
O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain
beasts and sacrifices
by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
Amos 5:27 Therefore will I cause you to go into
captivity beyond Damascus,
saith the LORD, whose
name is The God of hosts.
Acts 7:43
Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch,
and the star of your god Remphan,
figures which ye made to worship
them:
and I will carry you away
beyond Babylon.
Landon Saunders: Pepperdine 2017 has
collected those "marked" by making WILD SEXUALITY part
of SALVATION.
Lam. 3:14 I was a
derision to all my people; and their song all the
day.
Lam. 3:14 I became the
laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in
song all day long.
Lam. 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood.
Lam. 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,
he hath covered me with ashes.
Lam. 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace:
I forgat prosperity.
Lam. 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished
from the LORD:
Lam. 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the
wormwood and the gall.
Lam. 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is
humbled in me.
Matthew 27:29 And when they had platted
a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head,
and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the
knee before him,
and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
Matthew 27:28 And they stripped him,
and put on him a scarlet robe.
Matthew 27:31 And after that they had mocked
him, they took the robe off from him,
and put his own raiment on him, and led
him away to crucify him.
Empaizō
, fut. to be deluded II. sport in
or on, “hōs
nebros
khloerais
e.
leimakos
hēdonais”
E.Ba. 866
(lyr.); tois
khoroisin
e.
to sport in the dance, Ar.Th.975;
“tō
gumnasiō”
Luc.Lex.5.
-Prospaizô , 2. abs., sport,
jest, 3. laugh at, make fun or sport of, sing
to the gods, sing in their praise or
honour, 2. banter, tous rhêtoras
2 Peter 3
Marks of the End Time Mockers
Matt Dabbs: Obviously not
everything in the OT would still apply even if we nailed to
the cross the idea that the OT was nailed to the cross
(sacrifices as one example) but the shortcut is to just
ditch the whole thing, win the debate, and move on. I am
convinced that some of the stranger views that Churches
of Christ have traditionally held over the years (like
the Old Testament being nailed to the cross) developed
out of debate winning more than good exegesis that
then got repeated enough times to solidify into tradition.
Churches of Christ did not
INVENT what any Bible reader can read for
himself.
Justin
Martyr Chapter XVIII.-Christians Would Observe the
Law, If They Did Not Know Why It Was Instituted.
"For since
you have read, O Trypho, as you yourself admitted, the
doctrines taught by our Saviour, I do not think that I have
done foolishly in adding some short utterances of His to the
prophetic statements.
- Wash
therefore, and be now clean, and put away iniquity from
your souls,
- as
God bids you be washed in this laver,
- and
be circumcised with the true circumcision.
For we too
would observe the fleshly circumcision, and the Sabbaths,
and in short all the feasts, if we did not know for what
reason they were enjoined you,-namely, on account of your transgressions
and the hardness of your hearts. For if we patiently
endure all things contrived against us by wicked men and
demons, so that even amid cruelties unutterable, death and
torments, we pray for mercy to those who inflict such things
upon us, and do not wish to give the least retort to any
one, even as the new Lawgiver commanded us: how is it,
Trypho, that we would not observe those rites which do not
harm us,-I speak of fleshly circumcision, and Sabbaths,
and feasts?
Moreover,
all those righteous men already mentioned, though they
kept no Sabbaths, were pleasing to God; and
after them Abraham with all his descendants until
Moses, under whom your nation appeared unrighteous and
ungrateful to God,
making a
calf
in the wilderness:
wherefore God, accommodating Himself to that
nation,
enjoined them also to offer sacrifices,
as
if to His name, in order that you might not
serve idols. Which precept, however, you have not
observed; nay, you sacrificed your children to
demons.
And you
were commanded to keep Sabbaths, that you might
retain the memorial of God. For His word
makes this announcement, saying, "That ye may know that I
am God who redeemed you.'
ACU Summitt
2009 the Missing Exodus
32
Matt Dabb: How is our
message conflicting? The problem is in our practice we
haven’t ditched the whole thing and moved on. In fact
while saying in one breath that the OT was nailed to the
cross we say in the next breath that it is needed to prove
various doctrinal points. So we go to places like Genesis
6:14 and God’s instruction to use “gopher wood” or Nadab
and Abihu for rules on specificity of worship while also
saying the OT is irrelevant. Oddly enough both of these
examples are used to instruct worship practice while at
the same time saying other verses in the OT shouldn’t do
that very thing!
Genesis is included in the BOUND
VOLUME but it is not part of the LAW OF MOSES.
Gen. 6:12
And God looked upon the earth, and,
behold, it was
corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon
the earth.
aliquem
pecuniā
to gain to one's self by gifts, etc.; to bribe, corrumpitur
oratio
vŏluptas
master of the revels
B. Voluptates, sports, shows, spectacles,
given to the people
Gen. 6:13 And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh
is come before me;
for the earth is
filled with violence through them;
and, behold, I will
destroy them with the earth.
Gen. 6:14 Make thee an ark [coffin] of gopher wood; [kopher or "pitched wood"]
lĕvĭgo
, Make straight, light: why would anyone
want to use HEAVY wood.
rooms shalt thou
make in the ark,
and shalt
pitch it within and without with pitch.
Arca
, ae, f. arceo: “arca
et
arx
quasi
res
secretae,
a
quibus
omnes
arceantur,”
Serv. ad Verg. A. 1, 262; v.
arceo, I
a place for keeping any thing, a chest,
box.
1. A box for money, a safe,
a coffer, and particularly of the rich,
and loculi was their purse, porte-monnaie,
while sacculus was the pouch of the poor
2. A
coffin (cf. Smith, Dict. Antiq.), Liv. 40, 29; cf.
Plin. 13, 13, 27, § 85;
Val. Max. 1, 1:
“cadavera
Conservus
vili
portanda
locabat
in
arcā,”
Hor. S. 1, 8, 9;
Luc. 8, 736;
Nile
boats are still built of acacia planks. Uni,
fetching
alabaster (Breasted, i. 323) from Hatnub, builds a boat of
acacia,
nearly a hundred feet long and fifty wide. Noah's ark was
built of
acacia wood (Gen. vi. 14 ‘gopher
wood’). Mimosa Nilotica a very light wood.
By definition a Christian is a
Disciple, is a student and he LISTENS to
LEARN. Why would anyone want to do a
legalistic end run around simply obeying God's
commands. Any student understands that they do
not have to use gopher wood to "speak that which is
written for our learning" by vocational elders.
THE
NADAB AND ABIHU TERMINAL SIN
Nadab and Abihu did many things but to
"offer strange fire" they would have to enter the holy
place of the Tabernacle. This is compared to a
pseudo-Levite Musical Worship Team "standing in their holy
place."
The same Preachers who are forced to
appeal to gopher wood are the same people who ignore the
dozens of condemnation of Instruments as proving that
people neither intend to SPEAK or OBEY the Words of Jesus
Christ our only Teacher. However, the Nadab and Abihu
presumption caused the addition of the Day of Atonement
and the Scape Goat which was a sacrifice to Azazel or the
Devil. God turned them over to worship the starry
host.
Num 18:2 And
thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy
father,
bring thou with thee, that
they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee:
but thou and thy sons
with thee shall minister BEFORE the tabernacle
of witness.
[never IN]
H8334
sharath shaw-rath' A
primitive root; to attend as a menial or
worshipper; figuratively to contribute to:---minister
(unto), (do) serve (-ant, -ice, -itor), wait on.
Num 18:3
And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the
tabernacle:
only they shall NOT come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar,
that neither they,
nor ye also, die.
Num 18:4
And they shall be joined unto thee,
and keep the charge of
the tabernacle of the congregation,
for all the service
of the tabernacle: [hard
bondage]
and a stranger
shall not come nigh unto you.
Num 18:5 And
ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of
the altar:
that there be no wrath any more upon the
children of Israel.
No
Levitical singer or musican could EVER enter into the
presence of the incense altar between the Holy Place and
Most Holy Place, in Hezekiah's reform (Peck preference)
EVEN to clean out the garbage left over from pagan
idolatry.
The
"civilians" could never come near the tabernacle or
temple without incurring the death penalty.
The Levites could never enter into the Holy Place
which typified the church.
No Israelite people ever engaged in "congregational
singing with instrumental accompaniment."
This was all part of the CURSE of the sacrificial
system which God quarantined to Jerusalem which was
already a Jebusite High Place.
Matt Dabbs: That is highly confusing! The
inconsistency is not lost on everyone.
Matt Dabbs: What makes that
even more problematic is that Paul himself stated the OT was
useful for many things in 2 Tim 3:16. Mose of the time that
verse is used people are referencing the whole of scripture
or, in the case of Churches of Christ and our traditional
view on the Old Testament, the New Testament itself.
The
odd thing is that when Paul wrote those words the NT didn’t
exist in its present form and Paul is even writing those
words as scripture in the very moment they are being
written. What is Paul referring to when he writes “all
scripture” here? He is referring to the scriptures, literally
the writings, as he knew them and quoted them constantly in
his letters – the Old Testament, which based on our
traditional view, would put Paul at odds with himself.
On one hand he appears to say it is nailed to the cross in
Colossians and then on the other hand says that it is useful
for so many things that the OT is indispensable in the life of
the Christian!
All of the Prophets which define the REST
of Jesus FROM religious work were copied on scrolls and
even BOUND in a book long before the time of Jesus. The
Isaiah Scroll as the foundation was perhaps a hundred
years old when Jesus was born.
The
Great Isaiah Scroll (1QIsaa) is one of the
original seven Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in Qumran in
1947. It is the largest (734 cm) and best preserved of all
the biblical scrolls, and the only one that is almost
complete. The 54 columns contain all 66 chapters of the
Hebrew version of the biblical Book of Isaiah. Dating
from ca. 125 BCE, it is also one of the oldest of the
Dead Sea Scrolls, some one thousand years older than the
oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible known to us before
the scrolls' discovery.
The Spirit OF
Christ or the Breath of God REPUDIATES everything Matt
Dabbs and the Wineskinners promote:
Is. 29:18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of
the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of
obscurity, and out of darkness.
Is. 42:7 To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners
from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the
prison house.
Is. 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew
not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I
will make darkness light before them, and crooked things
straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake
them.
The eunuch was wise to
salvation because he was reading Isiah and wanted to be
baptized.
Acts 13:15
And after the reading of the law and the prophets
the rulers of
the synagogue sent unto them, saying,
Ye men and brethren,
if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.
Acts 13:27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers,
because they knew him
not,
nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read
every sabbath day,
they have
fulfilled them in condemning him.
We have shown that there was nothing in
the Curse of the Law given because of
Instrumental-Trinitarian-Perverted idolatry.
Holy Scripture is defined
as the Prophets and other prophecies concerning Christ and
His New Creation. The Complete Jewish Bible existed
maybe 200 years before Christ and His quotes are taken from
the Septuagint. The dead sea scrolls contained many
psalms and a complete Book of Isaiah with the Qumran copy
dated long before Jesus.
Scribes wrote anything of
interest and had copiests making copies to be sold before
the crowd dispersed. There is nothing in the Old
Testament as THE LAW OF MOSES which had any place in the
Synagogue or Church from the beginning.
There was no remission of
sins or Spiritual Cleansing under the Law of Moses. The
Prophets inspired by God Who breathed the Spirit OF Christ
defined the future Kingdom of Messiah both inclusively and
exclusively. The Law was read to keep you from getting
killed but the Synagogue was for reading of the Prophets.
A Church of Christ is
built upon or EDUCATED by the Prophets and Apostles which
is what makes one WISE even today.
Eph. 2:19 Now
therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners,
but fellowcitizens
with the saints, and of the household [excludes
priests and Levites] of God;
Eph. 2:20 And are built [Educated
by] upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself
being the chief corner stone;
Eph. 2:21 In whom all the building fitly framed together
groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
Eph. 2:22 In whom ye also are builded together for an
habitation of God through the Spirit.
Therefore, Paul as did
Jesus defined Holy Scriptures as the Prophets and other
prophecies CONCERNING HIM.
2Tim. 3:14
But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned
and hast been assured
of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
2Tim. 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy
scriptures,
which are able to make
thee wise unto salvation
through faith
which is in Christ Jesus.
2Tim. 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:
2Tim. 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.
THAT'S WHY THE ONE PIECE
PATTERN FROM THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS AND NEVER CHANGED.
Acts 15:21
For Moses of old time
hath in every city
them that PREACH him,
being READ in
the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts 8:28
Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias
the prophet.
Acts 8:30 And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read
the prophet Esaias,
and said,
Understandest thou what thou readest?
WHAT PAUL EXCLUDES
BEFORE MATT'S PROOF TEXT:
2 Tim 3: 10 But
thou hast
fully known
my doctrine, manner
of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering,
charity, patience,
2 Tim 3: 11 Persecutions, afflictions,
which came unto me at
Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra;
what
persecutions I endured: but out
of them all the Lord delivered me.
2 Tim 3: 12 Yea, and all that will
live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer
persecution.
2 Tim 3: 13
But evil men and seducers shall
wax worse and worse,
deceiving [wandering stars],
and being deceived.
Matt Dabbs: Either
Paul is conflicted or we are. I am going to say its us, not
you…Paul.
When people begin to refute the clear
historic text and interpretation we have to worry:
Jesus does not pray for the world, Kosmos, the
Ecumenical or the kingdom of the Devil.
God hides from the wise or sophists: those selling sermons,
songs or playing instruments.
The Ekklesia or School of Christ is the WAY that is called a
SECT: it is narrow and fools cannot even stumble in.
Jesus nor His disciples who SPEAK only the Word or Regulative
Principle are OF the World and will be hated and robbed.
Those OF the World are defined by Jesus as being from UNDER.
John 8:23 And he said unto them,
Ye are from beneath
[3.inferni ,
ōrum, m., the shades below];
I am from ABOVE: b.
on earth, opp. the world below,
ye are of this
world; I am not of this world.
--infernus , a, um,
adj. infer,
I.lower,
that which lies beneath (mostly poet.
and postAug.).
I. In partic., underground, belonging
to the Lower Regions, infernal: “rex,”
Pluto, Verg. A. 6, 106:
“Juno,”
Proserpine, id. ib. 6, 138:
“sedes,”
id. ib. 8, 244: “tenebrae,” id. ib. 7, 325: “infernas
umbras
carminibus
elicere,”
to raise the dead by magical incantations,
Tac. A. 2, 28:
“palus,”
the Styx, Ov. F. 2, 610:
ratis, Charon's boat, Prop. 3, 5, 14
(4, 4, 14 Müll. infernas rates): rota, Ixion's
wheel, id. 1, 9, 20:
sorores, the Furies, Claud. ap. Ruf. 1, 27: “aspectus,”
Tac. G. 43.—
3. inferni
, ōrum, m.,
the shades below: “
Theseus
infernis,
superis
testatur
Achilles,”
Prop. 2, 1, 37;
2, 28, 49.—
2Th. 2:9 Even him, whose coming is after
the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders,
2Th. 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in
them that
perish; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they
might be saved.
2Th. 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie:
ŏpĕrātĭo
working, work, labor, operatio
A religious performance, service, or solemnity
What is
more, the Gospels constantly rely heavily on the Old
Testament as scripture to make their case for Jesus. You can
say that was pre-resurrection and so they were under the Law
but that misses the point. The Gospels were not written down
during the ministry of Jesus. They were written down later,
in the 60s and beyond, even after Paul’s writings. The
Gospel writers made their points about Jesus from the very
book that we say is irrelevant to Christians. The Gospel
writers knew that the OT itself was the most relevant
document in existence when it came to understanding exactly
who Jesus was and is. The same could be said for Paul. The
same could be said for Revelation, written by the apostle
John, whose story cannot be told without the Old Testament
as it is referenced or alluded to hundreds of times in that
single book.
That's Good:
God Prophesies Events in Fleshly Types.
He fulfills the SPIRITUAL Anti Type
So that literate readers can have Faith.
He leaves us a written "memory"
He outlaws further expounding
He outlaws Corrupting the Word: selling learning at retail
is prostitution
The Certified, Validated by
Signs and Wonders and left in written form for our MEMORY
cannot be Private Interpreted or Further Expounding without
refuting the Spirit OF Christ. The bound HEBREW BIBLE
is NOT the Law of Moses. That which is written by the
Scribes was NEVER God's Will and the Law of Moses. The
Law of Moses did not alter the only spiritual Covenant made
by God in Christ to Abraham.
Gen. 49:10
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet,
until Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Matt. 5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass,
one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.
Luke 22:37
For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet
be accomplished in me,
And he was reckoned
among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have
an end.
Luke 24:44 And he said unto them,
These are the words
which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you,
that all things must
be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses,
and in the prophets,
and in the psalms, concerning me.
John 19:28
After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now
accomplished,
that the scripture
might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
John 19:29 Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar:
and they filled a
spunge with vinegar, and put it upon hyssop, and put it to
his mouth.
John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
he said, It is
finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
Heb. 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast
thou prepared me:
Heb. 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou
hast had no pleasure.
God never commanded animal
sacrifices, burnt offering or the instrumental NOISE to
"make the lambs dumb before the slaughter."
Heb. 10:7
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is
written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb. 10:8 Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering
and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not,
neither hadst pleasure
therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb. 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the
first, that he may establish the second.
Heb. 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Matt Dabb takes the
Negative:
The Church of Christ (the
Rock) was for Reading and Remembering the Word of God:
excluded was vocal or instrumental rejoicing.
The prophets define the Reign of Christ both inclusively and
exclusively. Anyone wanting to sell himself as a teacher
should be able to read.
The Prophecies wou
2 Pet
1:15 Moreover
I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things alway
in remembrance.
2Pet.
1:16 For we have not followed cunningly
[sophizo] devised FABLES,
2 Pet
1:18 And this voice
which
came from heaven
WE heard, when
WE were
with him in
the holy mount.
2 Pet 1:19 WE have also a more
sure word of
prophecy;
whereunto YE do well
that ye take heed,
as unto a light
that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn,
and the day star arise in your
hearts:
2 Pet
1:20 Knowing this first,
that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private
interpretation.
