Bible Answers Live with Pastor Doug Batchelor and Pastor Jean Ross, Ep24 (09/24/2023)
Answering question such as “Is the true Sabbath calculated by the phases of the moon?” and more!
TIME STAMPS:
00:00 – Intro
01:37 – Program Begins
07:28 – Can science prove the Biblical record of the sun standing still and moving backwards?
09:04 – Revelations 21 verse 4 says we will not remember the former things. What are the former things?
10:47 – Regarding Matthew 26 verse 28, what covenant are we currently under?
13:36 -What does Revelation 14 verse 13 mean when it says, “Blessed are those who die in the Lord from henceforth?”
15:23 – Who are the 24 elders in Revelation?
17:54 – Biblically speaking, what does the word “glory” mean and what is it?
21:01 – Is the true Sabbath calculated by the phases of the moon? How can we be sure which day of the week it is?
24:17 – Does the pope’s sixth encyclical have any significance?
26:03 – Is it okay to ask someone that is not a Sabbath-keeper to cover my work shift?
32:20 – What does the Bible say about hell and the judgement of the wicked?
37:16 – What does Matthew 5 verse 48 mean when it says “Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect”?
40:28 – Can you sell your soul to the Devil and, if so, is it reversible?
43:25 – Regarding 1 Corinthians 5 verse 8, what does Paul mean by saying “keep the feasts”?
45:29 – At the second coming, if a woman is pregnant will the child be raised in heaven?
47:01 – According to Matthew 12 verse 45, are there different levels of wickedness with evil angels?
49:46 – According to the annual feasts in Leviticus 23: verses 1-3, does the weekly Sabbath change?
54:21 – Did Ellen G White predict the second coming?
55:35 – Is 1 Samuel 16 verses 16 and 23 saying that evil spirits came from God?
58:02 – Is Satan an angel?
58:28 – Does a person need to be baptized to get into heaven?
59:10 – Can anyone perform a baptism?
59:41 – Do we know anything more about the mark that was placed on Cain when he killed Abel?
1:00:18 – Why are there gates in the New Jerusalem if there’s nothing evil on the outside?
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I appreciate that Pastor Dough did not fully dismiss the 7th day Sabbath set by the conjunction of the sun and moon. I also appreciate and would like to expound a question that was answered at the end of the video as well that gives us a” thus saith the Lord” that the Sabbath is set by the conjunction of the sun and moon each month. I myself do not keep the "feasts of the Jews" as the Bible depicts them but I do keep the feasts that we can see were before a Jewish nation existed and what we do keep in heaven; and that is the new moon day and Feast of trumpets. We find this in Psalms 81:3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. So these verses show us clearly that Joseph was sent to Egypt before the nation of Israel existed to teach them God's calendar. Even in history you can see that the Egyptians kept a solar calendar and about the time of Joseph they incorporated God's calendar where the moon marked each month. The Bible tells us there is no new thing under the sun so it goes to show simply that when Isaiah 66:23 says we keep the new moon in heaven it was already being done from the creation account if we believe a literal creation account (got to read that account much, much slower…) Now let me try to keep this short in dealing with the Sabbath as it is “a thus saith the Lord”. I will give the verse: Leviticus 23:11
“And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.”
So this verse plainly shows that for 1600 ish years the Isrealites were to keep the 7th day Sabbath before the day they were to harvest the barley sheaf which is referred to as the wave sheaf… To know when the Jewish people were to offer this wave sheaf which represented Jesus' resurrection on the 3rd day it would not have been something guessed at. Now we have until recently just accumulated all the feast days and called them Sabbaths; but God gives us explicitly in Lev 23 which days He called Sabbaths. Up until this point in Lev 23 the only Sabbath mentioned is the 7th day Sabbath. In the passage the day before the First Fruits or Wave Sheaf which was the feast of unleavened bread the passage tells us is always the 15 day of the first month. In its description God never called a the day of Unleavened bread a Sabbath but only a “no servile work” day unlike the Sabbath which was a no work day period. The Bible also said the last day of that feast was a no servile work day as well. Now if we are honest when we look at this passage we have 2 no servile work days and a 7th Day Sabbath that we know span throughout this passage and if we were to say that the no servile work days are Sabbath, common sense would put the First Fruits or Wave Sheaf at the end of the feast during the last no servile work day which would put Jesus resurrection on the 8th day after the crucifixion. This is what would only make sense with the chronological flow of the passage. What makes this more understandable is that when we read further on and the Bible tells us that Feast of trumpets was a Sabbath and the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles was a Sabbath and the last day of the feast of tabernacles was a Sabbath and also the day of Atonement was a Sabbath and adds that these are also no servile work days… So why did God not call the 2 days in the feast of unleavened bread Sabbaths? Firstly God needed to plainly put in the Word of God when the Sabbath day actually is. In the passage the 2 no-servile work days we see, one day did not fall on a Sabbath as there were only 6 days between them.
Secondly, God wants people to search the scriptures to find the jewels in the mines of truth. I did a video taking a 7 day repeating cycle from our time back to 31 AD (16 hours long…) and it shows without a doubt that Saturday is not the Sabbath in 31 AD. The Bible and EGW, math science and nature, and history all attest to this… Oh and there are some Jews that actually keep this Sabbath too and not just Saturday… The Bible has much to say about the Sabbath if we just search the Bible and SOP without a bias…
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21:00 If the Sabbath followed the Moon cycles then what about the first one? What phase was the moon in on the first Sabbath? It was 4 days old so it was 4 days past whatever phase it was in when it was created. It's just silly to think we have to follow the moon.
Read Geneais 1:14. The sun moon and stars were made and placed in the heavens as "signs" and "seasons" as witnesses to earth for Heavenly Father's true sabbath and feast days.
Let no man deceive you!
I am curious, how does someone who breaks Gods commandments every week get into heaven without asking for forgiveness or repenting for breaking that commandment?