Post by jimmie on Mar 16, 2010 7:58:45 GMT -8
This has been a very interesting read. Here are some of my thoughts:
Deut. 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
II Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
It appears to me that these Shunammites where quit accustomed to using an ass to travel to meetings on the new moon and sabbaths. If they are given to us as an example, why bicker over how one gets to a meeting? Where one would cross the line of the law is not starting the engine but buying gas to put into the engine on the sabbath. That would be like going out and gathering sticks on the sabbath. There would be no question of one’s intent to kindle a fire in that case.
Mark,
I can think of no creative ways to calibrate the 4th of July on a sabbath or any other day when the nation that you would be honoring condones the systematic murder of 1.5 million babies per year. Maybe prayer and fasting would be more appropriate than fireworks and feasting.
Deut. 5:14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
II Kings 4:22 And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
24 Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.
It appears to me that these Shunammites where quit accustomed to using an ass to travel to meetings on the new moon and sabbaths. If they are given to us as an example, why bicker over how one gets to a meeting? Where one would cross the line of the law is not starting the engine but buying gas to put into the engine on the sabbath. That would be like going out and gathering sticks on the sabbath. There would be no question of one’s intent to kindle a fire in that case.
Mark,
I can think of no creative ways to calibrate the 4th of July on a sabbath or any other day when the nation that you would be honoring condones the systematic murder of 1.5 million babies per year. Maybe prayer and fasting would be more appropriate than fireworks and feasting.
