WEBVTT 1 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:20.820 Welcome, once again, it's good to see everyone here this morning. 2 00:00:22.660 --> 00:00:34.120 Today, we are going to talk about the blood of Jesus in a certain context. 3 00:00:36.130 --> 00:00:40.030 I titled today's presentation, The Blood of the Sabbath. 4 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:49.070 So we're going to understand this relationship between Jesus's blood and the Sabbath and 5 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:52.870 what that means to us today. 6 00:00:54.070 --> 00:01:05.010 In order to come to that, we need to do a little bit of a dive into the calendar of 7 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:05.270 God. 8 00:01:05.770 --> 00:01:13.010 So first I'm going to talk about the calendar, just briefly, but some of the important parts, 9 00:01:13.010 --> 00:01:23.290 and then we will look more at how that relates to the blood and to the Sabbath, connecting 10 00:01:23.290 --> 00:01:24.590 those things together. 11 00:01:25.990 --> 00:01:33.270 So first of all, we are familiar with what is known as the Gregorian calendar. 12 00:01:33.890 --> 00:01:41.270 The Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar, it means every year on the Gregorian calendar 13 00:01:41.270 --> 00:01:46.210 we come back and the sun is in the same place as it was the year prior. 14 00:01:47.290 --> 00:01:57.230 But the Bible calendar is not strictly a solar calendar, but a lunar calendar, with some 15 00:01:57.230 --> 00:02:02.230 influence from the sun as well, we will talk about that in a little bit. 16 00:02:03.730 --> 00:02:14.170 But there is a great deal of confusion, honestly, surrounding everything relating to any Hebrew 17 00:02:14.170 --> 00:02:21.110 or biblical calendar, because there's so many different possibilities and ideas that people 18 00:02:21.110 --> 00:02:23.610 have for how these things are defined. 19 00:02:26.190 --> 00:02:33.010 Unfortunately, many of them, or most of them, are lacking a truly biblical foundation. 20 00:02:34.530 --> 00:02:43.290 There aren't, in certain cases, a lot of details given in the Bible about the calendar, and 21 00:02:43.290 --> 00:02:52.090 that leaves many people to feel free to read into the Bible their own ideas, instead 22 00:02:52.090 --> 00:03:03.190 of extracting from the Bible what the information is that is there, giving understanding of the calendar. 23 00:03:05.070 --> 00:03:13.910 So looking at Exodus chapter 12, this is where the children of Israel were just about to come 24 00:03:13.910 --> 00:03:15.010 out of Egypt. 25 00:03:16.150 --> 00:03:27.230 The plagues had fallen, they're ready to leave, and then the Lord speaks to Moses and Aaron 26 00:03:27.230 --> 00:03:33.310 in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be unto you the beginning of months. 27 00:03:33.930 --> 00:03:36.830 It shall be the first month of the year to you. 28 00:03:37.490 --> 00:03:40.430 So God is giving his people a calendar. 29 00:03:41.150 --> 00:03:48.710 They didn't have, or if they had one, they lost it from before, so they had been in slavery 30 00:03:48.710 --> 00:03:50.050 for hundreds of years. 31 00:03:50.470 --> 00:03:56.390 Now he's giving them anew the calendar, and he says, this month. 32 00:03:57.050 --> 00:04:04.230 Now if I ask you, what is this month, you'll say, well, it's April. 33 00:04:05.230 --> 00:04:07.430 You don't need any reference for that. 34 00:04:07.430 --> 00:04:12.310 But in the Hebrew thinking, they were not abstract thinkers. 35 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:15.329 They were very tangible. 36 00:04:16.550 --> 00:04:25.150 And when God told Moses this month, he was, as it were, pointing to something. 37 00:04:25.410 --> 00:04:27.290 There was something tangible there. 38 00:04:27.830 --> 00:04:37.970 And in fact, the word month is translated as month, but it's the very same word as moon. 39 00:04:39.370 --> 00:04:45.770 So this could equally well be translated, this moon shall be unto you the beginning 40 00:04:45.770 --> 00:04:48.670 of moons, or the beginning of months. 41 00:04:49.070 --> 00:04:52.830 That's how they measured the months was with the moon. 42 00:04:53.810 --> 00:05:02.970 So it becomes clear then that the object in reference for the month was the moon. 43 00:05:03.230 --> 00:05:05.370 He pointed to the moon. 44 00:05:08.760 --> 00:05:20.760 When the new month was registered in Israel, it was the first time they could see the moon 45 00:05:21.340 --> 00:05:22.820 after the new moon. 46 00:05:23.020 --> 00:05:30.920 So every month, the moon disappears, and then the first sliver of light, when you can just 47 00:05:30.920 --> 00:05:37.520 see the moon, that is then when that new moon, that new month begins. 48 00:05:41.260 --> 00:05:48.600 And it's interesting because that happens when you first see the moon. 49 00:05:50.140 --> 00:05:52.640 It's too dim. 50 00:05:52.640 --> 00:05:57.560 It's so thin, you can't really see it until the sun sets. 51 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:07.100 And then when the dusk is dark enough, you can start to see that sliver of the moon. 52 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.520 But the moon is at the same time setting. 53 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:18.640 So there's just a short period of time when you have this opportunity to see the moon 54 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:22.240 in that first day of the month. 55 00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:29.420 And that defines how they would observe the month. 56 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:35.220 And it also points to when they would see it, then they would say, okay, this is the 57 00:06:35.220 --> 00:06:39.580 first day of the month, and it was that day that began with sunset. 58 00:06:40.400 --> 00:06:47.600 So when the sun set, then they observed the moon, okay, this is the first day of the new 59 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:48.400 month. 60 00:06:51.140 --> 00:06:57.320 So that's just the basic operation of how a couple of parts of the calendar work. 61 00:06:57.700 --> 00:07:00.780 The new moon defining the new month. 62 00:07:01.380 --> 00:07:12.460 But we see there are some other aspects that will come out when we study the calendar with 63 00:07:12.460 --> 00:07:14.540 respect to the cross. 64 00:07:17.540 --> 00:07:18.860 That's what we're going to do. 65 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:28.500 Just briefly, looking at a prophecy in the Bible that points to the time when Jesus was 66 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:30.020 to be crucified. 67 00:07:30.020 --> 00:07:34.080 I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about this prophecy. 68 00:07:34.260 --> 00:07:39.940 It's a rather complicated and difficult prophecy in some respects. 69 00:07:40.540 --> 00:07:43.860 But I'm just going to draw a few key points from it. 70 00:07:44.460 --> 00:07:49.280 It comes from Daniel chapter 9, verse 25 to 27. 71 00:07:49.820 --> 00:07:52.640 It's known as the 70 weeks prophecy. 72 00:07:53.770 --> 00:07:59.340 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandments to restore 73 00:07:59.340 --> 00:08:05.600 and to rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and three score 74 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.300 and two weeks. 75 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:09.300 In other words, 69 weeks. 76 00:08:10.260 --> 00:08:13.980 So we have the time frame being defined here. 77 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:17.720 From a commandment to restore Jerusalem. 78 00:08:17.940 --> 00:08:25.780 This prophecy was given to Daniel at a time when they were captive 79 00:08:25.780 --> 00:08:26.640 in Babylon. 80 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.700 Jerusalem was destroyed. 81 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:38.400 And so the prophecy was that there would come a commandment to rebuild and restore the city 82 00:08:38.400 --> 00:08:38.960 of Jerusalem. 83 00:08:39.940 --> 00:08:43.200 And that would be a marker in time at the beginning. 84 00:08:43.560 --> 00:08:51.360 And then 69 weeks, then would come Messiah the Prince, that is, Jesus. 85 00:08:52.800 --> 00:08:57.380 The prophecy continues, the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublous 86 00:08:57.380 --> 00:09:05.500 times and after three score and two weeks, that's the 69 weeks in total, shall Messiah 87 00:09:05.500 --> 00:09:08.920 be cut off, but not for himself. 88 00:09:09.060 --> 00:09:15.300 So after that time, Jesus would be cut off or he would give his life, but not for himself 89 00:09:15.300 --> 00:09:17.520 because he gave his life for many others. 90 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:22.660 And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and 91 00:09:22.660 --> 00:09:28.560 the end thereof shall be with a flood and until the end of the war, desolations are 92 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:29.320 determined. 93 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:36.960 And then it says this, and he shall, that is Jesus, the Messiah, shall confirm the covenant 94 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:38.840 with many for one week. 95 00:09:39.020 --> 00:09:40.900 That's the 70th week. 96 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:44.700 So there's 69 weeks and then this 70th week. 97 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:51.020 And in the midst of that 70th week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. 98 00:09:51.140 --> 00:09:59.980 So it's saying specifically when Jesus would die in the middle of that 70th week, which 99 00:09:59.980 --> 00:10:07.040 comes that 70 weeks after the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. 100 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:18.680 So in total, 69 plus half a week is when Jesus would give his life on the cross. 101 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:24.620 The last bit of the verse here, I didn't finish, and for the overspreading of abominations, 102 00:10:24.740 --> 00:10:29.900 he shall make it desolate, even to the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the 103 00:10:29.900 --> 00:10:30.260 desolate. 104 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:35.520 So that's just talking about other aspects of the prophecy, not so much our concern at 105 00:10:35.520 --> 00:10:35.860 the moment. 106 00:10:37.520 --> 00:10:46.480 But the question is, what decree is it talking about to restore and rebuild Jerusalem? 107 00:10:46.540 --> 00:10:47.800 Because there were more than one. 108 00:10:48.060 --> 00:10:51.440 In fact, there are three of them described in the Bible. 109 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:57.600 In the book of Ezra, there's one in chapter one, one in chapter six, and one in chapter 110 00:10:57.600 --> 00:10:58.380 seven. 111 00:10:58.380 --> 00:11:07.580 Each of these has some element of a command to go and restore or rebuild Jerusalem. 112 00:11:08.320 --> 00:11:15.340 But in particular, I'm just doing an overview here, so I'm not going to go over the details, 113 00:11:15.340 --> 00:11:30.400 but historically, in 457 BC, King Artaxerxes of Persia gave the command that is the relevant 114 00:11:30.400 --> 00:11:43.380 one, and when we calculate the 69 weeks, of course these are weeks of years in this prophecy, 115 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:53.040 then that's 483 years, and that comes to the year 27 AD. 116 00:11:54.760 --> 00:11:56.620 And what was significant about that year? 117 00:11:58.100 --> 00:12:05.140 The prophecy said that was the time when Messiah the Prince would come, and indeed, this was 118 00:12:05.140 --> 00:12:07.600 the year when he began his ministry. 119 00:12:08.500 --> 00:12:11.620 But it was the beginning of that 70th week. 120 00:12:11.620 --> 00:12:19.920 In the middle of that 70th week, that would be after three and a half years from AD 27, 121 00:12:21.260 --> 00:12:30.400 that would be in the year AD 31, that would be when Jesus was crucified. 122 00:12:30.930 --> 00:12:42.060 So what we have is a biblical foundation that gives us the year through understanding 123 00:12:42.060 --> 00:12:48.280 the prophecy when Jesus was crucified, and that's very important. 124 00:12:50.500 --> 00:12:57.780 Unfortunately, many people don't understand this relationship, and it's not completely 125 00:12:57.780 --> 00:13:08.040 without reason, because this is just the year, but we also want to know the time of the year 126 00:13:08.040 --> 00:13:10.200 that Jesus was crucified. 127 00:13:10.760 --> 00:13:11.640 What day was it? 128 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:20.860 Well, it's clear in the Bible that Jesus was crucified on a certain feast day in Israel. 129 00:13:21.520 --> 00:13:22.700 What feast day was that? 130 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:25.920 Passover, exactly. 131 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:35.440 So Jesus died on Passover, and we have a biblical definition for when Passover should be held. 132 00:13:36.340 --> 00:13:42.120 Passover is on the 14th day of the first Hebrew month. 133 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:44.300 Now here's the thing. 134 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:52.080 When we look at the calendar, the first month, Hebrew month, is called Nisan, and that happens 135 00:13:52.410 --> 00:13:59.120 to come in March, thereabouts in March of AD 31. 136 00:14:01.270 --> 00:14:08.500 And in that year of AD 31, on the Julian calendar, this was before the Gregorian calendar, we 137 00:14:08.500 --> 00:14:19.440 find the Julian calendar, March began on Thursday, and this would be the calendar for March. 138 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:32.260 So in the faded gray is March, and then black shows when the first month of Nisan in the 139 00:14:32.260 --> 00:14:34.420 Hebrew calendar would begin. 140 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:43.960 And so that would be here, and then you would count until the 14th day, and it comes on 141 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:45.020 a Tuesday. 142 00:14:47.450 --> 00:14:56.030 So if this is the correct time when Jesus was crucified, we know he was crucified on 143 00:14:56.030 --> 00:15:01.130 Passover, the 14th day of the first month, that would have been a Tuesday. 144 00:15:03.010 --> 00:15:08.950 Well, that doesn't fit with the Bible, because the Bible makes it clear he died on what? 145 00:15:09.850 --> 00:15:11.190 On the Preparation Day. 146 00:15:11.290 --> 00:15:15.990 Good Friday we celebrate, because that was the day that Jesus died. 147 00:15:15.990 --> 00:15:20.030 He gave his life on a Friday, not a Tuesday. 148 00:15:21.110 --> 00:15:24.670 So there must be a problem with this, it wasn't in March. 149 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:39.840 And what we find is a first principle, you'll notice here we have March 21st, what's special 150 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:41.540 about March 21st? 151 00:15:42.300 --> 00:15:44.160 That's the spring equinox. 152 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:53.780 Okay, it can vary a little bit, but that's the official beginning of the year, at least 153 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.280 on the solar calendar. 154 00:15:57.060 --> 00:16:08.120 And so we see this combination that this isn't the actual beginning of the Hebrew year, because 155 00:16:08.640 --> 00:16:17.880 if it were, the first day of the month would begin a full week before the sun even registered 156 00:16:17.880 --> 00:16:19.560 the spring. 157 00:16:20.680 --> 00:16:23.340 So we say, okay, let's look at April. 158 00:16:24.380 --> 00:16:27.280 What does the calendar look like in April? 159 00:16:28.360 --> 00:16:39.180 Well, here is the April calendar, the Julian calendar for April in gray, and then when 160 00:16:39.180 --> 00:16:48.100 the first crescent moon was seen, that would be on Thursday, counting 14 days, and you 161 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:51.720 come to Wednesday, still not a Friday. 162 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.420 So what does that tell us? 163 00:16:58.670 --> 00:17:02.440 The Bible gives us another insight. 164 00:17:04.300 --> 00:17:13.040 When God was pointing out the moon to him in Exodus chapter 13, and Moses said unto 165 00:17:13.040 --> 00:17:19.339 the people, remember this day in which ye came out of Egypt, out from Egypt, out of 166 00:17:19.339 --> 00:17:20.680 the house of bondage. 167 00:17:21.560 --> 00:17:26.240 This day came ye out in the month Abib, okay? 168 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:34.220 That's the same as Nisan, it's just Nisan is the later term for the same month, but 169 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:47.080 this is the Hebrew word, and in Hebrew, this word Abib refers to the fresh barley. 170 00:17:47.080 --> 00:17:55.700 When they had barley that would grow, the grass in Israel, plenty, and when it would 171 00:17:55.700 --> 00:18:01.200 be fresh and green, that was called Abib. 172 00:18:01.260 --> 00:18:12.840 That was how they knew when it was that month, is when the season, when the grass showed, 173 00:18:13.390 --> 00:18:17.700 it's Abib, then they knew that was the month. 174 00:18:18.280 --> 00:18:25.180 So it wasn't strictly just by observing the moon, but they would observe the moon, and 175 00:18:25.930 --> 00:18:36.180 if there was barley that was Abib, then that would be the first month, but if not, then 176 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:42.920 would wait until the next month, and that would be the Abib barley. 177 00:18:43.500 --> 00:18:53.760 So that's the condition of the barley that would be sought, and therefore, if in April 178 00:18:54.370 --> 00:19:01.540 there wasn't that barley found in the right state, then it couldn't be the month of Abib. 179 00:19:03.020 --> 00:19:13.620 And therefore, we look one more month in May, still the springtime in AD 31, the Julian 180 00:19:13.620 --> 00:19:27.010 month of May began on Tuesday, and the Hebrew month, the sighting of the moon was on May 181 00:19:27.930 --> 00:19:28.730 11th. 182 00:19:29.730 --> 00:19:39.910 There's software that helps us. It's based on actual observations, so it can calculate 183 00:19:41.030 --> 00:19:46.390 whether you would be able to observe the moon or not, and that helps us to identify exactly 184 00:19:46.890 --> 00:19:57.170 the day, but it's always one or maybe two days after the astronomical new moon, which 185 00:19:57.170 --> 00:19:59.270 was on the 10th in that case. 186 00:19:59.910 --> 00:20:11.050 But details aside, counting the 14 days, lo and behold, you have a Friday for the 14th, 187 00:20:11.050 --> 00:20:21.830 that Passover, and therefore, this must be the scenario for when Jesus was crucified. 188 00:20:21.830 --> 00:20:23.490 There's no more ambiguity. 189 00:20:24.390 --> 00:20:31.710 Because the prophecy points to AD 31, and this is the only month when Passover falls 190 00:20:31.710 --> 00:20:41.750 on a Friday, it must be this late month on the 25th of May when Jesus was crucified. 191 00:20:43.530 --> 00:20:49.110 And this also confirms the need for that barley test. 192 00:20:49.470 --> 00:20:56.270 That's one of the rules of the biblical calendar, and we know that that must be a rule, because 193 00:20:56.270 --> 00:20:59.550 if it weren't a rule, then it would be in April. 194 00:21:00.110 --> 00:21:06.570 But because it must be in May, we know that that barley test is a valid rule that should 195 00:21:06.570 --> 00:21:07.530 be kept. 196 00:21:08.050 --> 00:21:19.930 All right, so that's how the cross points us to the correct calendar of God. 197 00:21:21.430 --> 00:21:33.570 Now, this was Passover on the 14th, but there were certain Sabbaths that were declared 198 00:21:33.570 --> 00:21:38.730 as ceremonial Sabbaths in the feast seasons of God. 199 00:21:39.890 --> 00:21:47.270 And there was a week of unleavened bread that began immediately after the Passover. 200 00:21:47.630 --> 00:21:53.970 On the 15th day of the month, that was the first day of unleavened bread, and that was 201 00:21:53.970 --> 00:21:56.450 declared a ceremonial Sabbath. 202 00:21:57.570 --> 00:21:59.410 Now, here's the interesting thing. 203 00:22:00.370 --> 00:22:07.350 That ceremonial Sabbath fell on a weekly Sabbath. 204 00:22:08.530 --> 00:22:12.990 So there's two types of Sabbaths that we're talking about here. 205 00:22:13.250 --> 00:22:21.850 Every seven days, you have the weekly Sabbath, but there's also the ceremonial Sabbath. 206 00:22:22.090 --> 00:22:26.450 Those are once a year on their appointed time. 207 00:22:29.860 --> 00:22:38.640 And once in a while, they coincide, where you have the feast Sabbath also on a weekly 208 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:39.060 Sabbath. 209 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:43.700 Oftentimes, they're at any other time of the week. 210 00:22:44.660 --> 00:22:53.960 But in this case, Jesus died on the cross on the 14th toward the evening on Passover, 211 00:22:53.960 --> 00:23:02.800 and then he was in the tomb, and he rested in the tomb on that 15th day of the month, 212 00:23:03.380 --> 00:23:11.400 the first day of unleavened bread, and then he was raised on the 16th, which was May 27th. 213 00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:18.580 This is confirmed in John chapter 19. 214 00:23:20.040 --> 00:23:24.040 It's speaking of his crucifixion. 215 00:23:24.040 --> 00:23:25.320 Jesus had been crucified. 216 00:23:25.780 --> 00:23:30.720 It said the Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that is Friday, that the 217 00:23:30.720 --> 00:23:38.560 bodies of the crucified should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, and then 218 00:23:38.560 --> 00:23:41.380 it puts this parenthetical statement in there. 219 00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:44.800 For that Sabbath day was an high day. 220 00:23:47.950 --> 00:23:53.050 The Jews, therefore, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might 221 00:23:53.050 --> 00:23:54.230 be taken away. 222 00:23:54.230 --> 00:24:01.130 So they had the three people crucified: Jesus in the midst of two thieves, and they wanted 223 00:24:01.130 --> 00:24:08.890 to hurry this up so they would break their legs and get them buried before the Sabbath 224 00:24:09.490 --> 00:24:10.150 would come. 225 00:24:10.790 --> 00:24:17.190 And then in this statement, that Sabbath day was a high day, and high day is what they 226 00:24:17.190 --> 00:24:19.310 would call those ceremonial Sabbaths. 227 00:24:19.470 --> 00:24:20.470 They were high days. 228 00:24:21.250 --> 00:24:27.050 And so this is saying that high day of the first day of unleavened bread was also a Sabbath 229 00:24:27.050 --> 00:24:28.990 day, a weekly Sabbath day. 230 00:24:29.710 --> 00:24:35.530 That's what it's pointing out, making that distinction or clarifying that point that 231 00:24:35.530 --> 00:24:43.410 the two were in that time overlapping, the weekly Sabbath and the festal Sabbath. 232 00:24:44.370 --> 00:24:55.310 Paul, in Colossians, tells us something about these Sabbaths because there's a significance 233 00:24:56.230 --> 00:25:05.270 in this overlapping of the Sabbaths, not the least of which is that Jesus was buried in 234 00:25:05.270 --> 00:25:06.530 the tomb on that day. 235 00:25:06.530 --> 00:25:12.170 That gives it a lot of significance, but there's also prophetic significance, and that's 236 00:25:12.170 --> 00:25:16.450 what Paul refers to in Colossians 2, verses 16 and 17. 237 00:25:16.950 --> 00:25:23.990 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of 238 00:25:23.990 --> 00:25:26.370 the new moon or of the Sabbath days. 239 00:25:26.930 --> 00:25:33.230 And then he says, those Sabbath days or these things which are a shadow of things 240 00:25:33.230 --> 00:25:34.050 to come. 241 00:25:34.490 --> 00:25:39.210 That means they're prophetic of things yet to come in the future. 242 00:25:39.650 --> 00:25:44.330 But the body or the essence is of Christ. 243 00:25:45.770 --> 00:25:49.090 The significance of it is in Christ. 244 00:25:49.610 --> 00:25:53.930 So it's pointing to a future time. 245 00:25:54.110 --> 00:26:01.670 First he speaks of meat or drink or holy days, new moons, what sort of things are those 246 00:26:01.670 --> 00:26:02.290 referring to? 247 00:26:03.250 --> 00:26:10.610 These are the ceremonial feast days that it's talking about when these things were 248 00:26:10.610 --> 00:26:11.590 involved. 249 00:26:11.890 --> 00:26:13.990 And then he mentions the Sabbath days. 250 00:26:14.530 --> 00:26:16.950 So he's including both aspects. 251 00:26:17.350 --> 00:26:25.950 There's the feasts and in combination with the Sabbath, and together those are a shadow 252 00:26:25.950 --> 00:26:27.810 of things to come. 253 00:26:30.260 --> 00:26:37.560 Now the question is, how would we know what that prophecy is? 254 00:26:37.620 --> 00:26:38.560 What is it pointing to? 255 00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:41.620 What things is it pointing to that are to come? 256 00:26:44.820 --> 00:26:48.720 This is about the calendar. 257 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:49.660 It's about time. 258 00:26:50.280 --> 00:26:59.360 And these Sabbaths and high Sabbaths, once we understand God's calendar, we can see 259 00:26:59.360 --> 00:27:01.500 how that plays out in our time. 260 00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:06.720 And so we can know exactly when the feasts are according to God's calendar in our day. 261 00:27:07.560 --> 00:27:10.300 And we know when the weekly Sabbath is. 262 00:27:10.620 --> 00:27:18.880 And so we can see how those high Sabbaths are scheduled in our time, just the same. 263 00:27:23.620 --> 00:27:29.900 And just so you have a visual picture of this, the weekly Sabbath, of course, every seven 264 00:27:29.900 --> 00:27:33.500 days, each one of these marks represents one Sabbath. 265 00:27:34.230 --> 00:27:39.820 And then in blue are the annual Sabbaths. 266 00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:47.360 There are three Sabbaths in the springtime and four Sabbaths in the autumn. 267 00:27:49.710 --> 00:27:53.370 And then the high Sabbaths are when they're aligned. 268 00:27:53.870 --> 00:28:03.210 So the red mark shows the alignment between the Sabbath of the appointed feast and the 269 00:28:03.210 --> 00:28:03.970 weekly Sabbath. 270 00:28:05.650 --> 00:28:07.430 Similarly, on this side. 271 00:28:07.810 --> 00:28:15.210 So we have three possibilities for a high Sabbath in the spring. 272 00:28:16.130 --> 00:28:24.010 And in reality, there's only two options in the autumn because three of them are all together. 273 00:28:24.350 --> 00:28:29.810 When there's one high Sabbath there in the Feast of Trumpets, then there's also high 274 00:28:29.810 --> 00:28:34.350 Sabbaths, two more in the Feast of Tabernacles that week. 275 00:28:35.190 --> 00:28:39.370 And then the other option is when Yom Kippur is a high Sabbath. 276 00:28:39.910 --> 00:28:43.290 So that's just to give a visual understanding. 277 00:28:43.950 --> 00:28:51.510 And you can see if you take the time, you could plot out all of those potential high 278 00:28:51.510 --> 00:28:55.430 Sabbaths that could happen in a given time. 279 00:28:56.310 --> 00:29:05.670 And what we've done is through all the years of the time of judgment from 18 in the 1840s 280 00:29:05.670 --> 00:29:14.230 all the way until 2015, and there's a reason why we stopped there, but I'm not going to 281 00:29:14.230 --> 00:29:14.870 go into that. 282 00:29:17.850 --> 00:29:28.110 We've tabulated all of the potential high Sabbaths according to what groups they might 283 00:29:28.110 --> 00:29:35.130 be in, whether one of the three in Nisan or one of the two in Tishri, and we make this 284 00:29:35.130 --> 00:29:36.950 big long table. 285 00:29:38.170 --> 00:29:41.450 And then you say, what do you do with all of that? 286 00:29:43.590 --> 00:29:51.630 Well, that's where it starts to get very interesting and more relevant to our discussion. 287 00:29:54.830 --> 00:30:05.410 Because just as we look up and we see in the heavens many symbols and shapes that represent 288 00:30:05.410 --> 00:30:11.430 different things that we might see on the earth, so it is in this case. 289 00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:18.750 Except it's not something that God created in the heavens, but it's something that he 290 00:30:18.750 --> 00:30:24.470 created on the earth on a much smaller scale. 291 00:30:24.990 --> 00:30:34.110 Because this has the representation of something that looks a lot like DNA. 292 00:30:34.790 --> 00:30:43.470 You've got these two strands on the outsides representing the spring and the autumn feasts, 293 00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:51.810 and for each of those feasts there are connecting links which are the high Sabbaths. 294 00:30:52.450 --> 00:31:00.810 Which high Sabbaths there are in any given year, there are a given set of possible high 295 00:31:00.810 --> 00:31:02.090 Sabbaths that year. 296 00:31:02.090 --> 00:31:14.190 And this forms this long code, long sequence of codes that seems a little bit, or maybe 297 00:31:14.190 --> 00:31:25.800 a lot unintelligible at first, but in fact there's a lot of information there, just as 298 00:31:25.800 --> 00:31:27.980 there is in biological DNA. 299 00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:42.880 There are many correlations between the list of high Sabbaths and DNA, and I'm not going 300 00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:52.220 to talk in too much detail about that, but one key place where we find DNA in the body, 301 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:57.380 the most readily available source, is in the blood. 302 00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:04.620 Now this is interesting because it's not actually in the red blood cells, but blood 303 00:32:04.620 --> 00:32:11.180 has two different major components, the red blood cells, and then to a lesser degree 304 00:32:11.180 --> 00:32:17.300 there are white blood cells, and it's those white blood cells that have the DNA. 305 00:32:18.020 --> 00:32:29.860 So this analogy of the high Sabbaths to DNA must relate to the function of the white 306 00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:30.680 blood cells. 307 00:32:32.120 --> 00:32:34.660 Who can tell me what white blood cells are for? 308 00:32:37.890 --> 00:32:44.190 Okay, it's a mechanism for defense, protecting your body, it's part of your body's immune 309 00:32:44.190 --> 00:32:44.790 system. 310 00:32:45.450 --> 00:32:46.250 Exactly. 311 00:32:47.070 --> 00:32:51.010 And the immune system fights off infections. 312 00:32:51.730 --> 00:33:00.750 So you get infected and your body activates these white blood cells, they multiply and 313 00:33:00.750 --> 00:33:02.950 they fight off that infection. 314 00:33:04.630 --> 00:33:15.110 And there's many correlations with that whole biological process of how that happens and 315 00:33:15.110 --> 00:33:20.150 how the DNA is used to fight off an infection. 316 00:33:20.350 --> 00:33:24.330 And of course, in the spiritual sense, the infection is what? 317 00:33:24.730 --> 00:33:24.990 Sin. 318 00:33:25.170 --> 00:33:26.150 Sin, exactly. 319 00:33:26.730 --> 00:33:37.550 So the high Sabbaths relate to blood and they relate to fighting off the infection of sin. 320 00:33:38.010 --> 00:33:48.410 That's the spiritual analogy that he who created the body with all of these special 321 00:33:48.410 --> 00:33:57.190 molecules and cells, he did that knowingly, and he put that analogy in there to draw our 322 00:33:57.190 --> 00:33:59.150 attention to that work. 323 00:34:02.570 --> 00:34:09.570 We've talked about what the different constellations represent, and the symbolism points to the 324 00:34:09.570 --> 00:34:10.270 different commandments. 325 00:34:11.969 --> 00:34:19.570 And the Sabbath is a time commandment and that points to the horologium. 326 00:34:22.060 --> 00:34:33.380 So the blood, we've seen also before how the horologium is the wine press, it represents 327 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:35.639 the blood aspect. 328 00:34:36.520 --> 00:34:45.620 And the other side of the sign is Orion. 329 00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:58.970 And I've drawn it here with the judgment cycle, which is very relevant to those high Sabbaths. It takes the same time frame from 1846 until 2014 / 2015. 330 00:35:08.170 --> 00:35:09.210 In that time, 331 00:35:09.210 --> 00:35:15.130 168 years, that was what we call the judgment cycle. 332 00:35:15.590 --> 00:35:21.310 It's the time when we looked at all of those high Sabbaths that give information about 333 00:35:22.070 --> 00:35:27.210 that blood, that DNA, if you will. 334 00:35:28.310 --> 00:35:31.330 It's a representative of one of the feast days. 335 00:35:32.270 --> 00:35:32.810 Which one? 336 00:35:34.370 --> 00:35:36.670 Yom Kippur, it's the day of judgment. 337 00:35:37.390 --> 00:35:43.330 In the autumn feasts, there was a day of trumpets at the beginning of the month. 338 00:35:43.670 --> 00:35:46.370 Then on the 10th day of the month, there was Yom Kippur. 339 00:35:48.150 --> 00:35:50.250 And it just means the day of judgment. 340 00:35:51.130 --> 00:35:55.450 And then there was the feast of tabernacles with two other Sabbaths there. 341 00:35:56.390 --> 00:36:01.930 So here we have in Orion represented this day of atonement. 342 00:36:02.070 --> 00:36:05.890 It's a feast day, an annual Sabbath. 343 00:36:09.990 --> 00:36:18.330 And the weekly Sabbath, the commandment, the seventh day Sabbath, represented as we saw 344 00:36:18.330 --> 00:36:21.470 in the Horologium with the Ten Commandments. 345 00:36:21.950 --> 00:36:29.930 So we have the weekly Sabbath represented in the Horologium, the annual Sabbath represented 346 00:36:29.930 --> 00:36:31.150 in Orion. 347 00:36:35.110 --> 00:36:39.110 And we're interested in the high Sabbath, which is when the two come together. 348 00:36:41.030 --> 00:36:45.330 Do you see what combines the Horologium and Orion? 349 00:36:45.870 --> 00:36:47.950 It's the river, Eridanus. 350 00:36:49.230 --> 00:36:53.410 That's the blood that flows from Jesus. 351 00:36:53.490 --> 00:36:56.110 So you see how everything fits together. 352 00:36:57.190 --> 00:37:03.970 The high Sabbaths themselves point to DNA. 353 00:37:04.690 --> 00:37:10.490 They give that visual impression with this long list of spring and autumn with connecting 354 00:37:10.490 --> 00:37:12.550 links of the high Sabbaths. 355 00:37:12.550 --> 00:37:14.230 It points to DNA. 356 00:37:14.670 --> 00:37:20.150 It's about the immune system, how we overcome sin in our lives. 357 00:37:20.410 --> 00:37:23.890 And that is through the blood of Jesus Christ. 358 00:37:24.290 --> 00:37:35.590 And so that points directly to the Eridanus, that river of blood that flowed from Jesus' 359 00:37:35.950 --> 00:37:36.870 side. 360 00:37:37.350 --> 00:37:44.130 And that's what connects Orion, the annual Sabbath, with Horologium, representing the 361 00:37:44.130 --> 00:37:45.590 weekly Sabbath. 362 00:37:46.810 --> 00:37:55.990 So what we see here is that Eridanus points to the high Sabbaths. 363 00:37:56.530 --> 00:38:05.690 It points to that list of high Sabbaths or that DNA of Jesus by which we overcome sin. 364 00:38:05.690 --> 00:38:13.810 And of course, we're familiar with this part inside the sign that represents the Church 365 00:38:13.810 --> 00:38:14.490 of Philadelphia. 366 00:38:15.390 --> 00:38:28.250 So the Church of Philadelphia is one that combines the annual Sabbaths with the weekly 367 00:38:28.250 --> 00:38:29.290 Sabbaths. 368 00:38:29.290 --> 00:38:40.830 Although we chose our name in 2016, High Sabbath Adventist Society, long before we knew any 369 00:38:41.210 --> 00:38:49.130 of this relationship, but we did understand the high Sabbath list and that it pointed 370 00:38:49.130 --> 00:38:52.550 to the DNA of Christ. 371 00:38:53.250 --> 00:39:01.090 And we see that in the sign represented there in that position that we now understand to 372 00:39:01.090 --> 00:39:03.050 be the Church of Philadelphia. 373 00:39:03.390 --> 00:39:10.990 With the additional year that we've been talking about in recent weeks, we see those 374 00:39:10.990 --> 00:39:21.570 who accept the blood of Jesus, they continue and ultimately go with Christ. 375 00:39:21.570 --> 00:39:28.370 And then on the other side, we have those who reject the blood of Jesus. 376 00:39:29.530 --> 00:39:36.630 So let's look at this relationship a little bit more from the biblical perspective. 377 00:39:37.390 --> 00:39:44.450 Let's look at the Horologium and the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath in the commandment. 378 00:39:44.530 --> 00:39:47.970 It says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 379 00:39:48.930 --> 00:39:52.050 Okay, I'll leave it there for now. 380 00:39:54.940 --> 00:40:03.420 In Orion—remember this points to the Day of Atonement, and that day is described 381 00:40:03.420 --> 00:40:06.280 in the book of Leviticus, chapter 16. 382 00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:09.360 That whole chapter is dedicated to this day. 383 00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:18.200 But in verse 29, it says, and this shall be a statute forever unto you, that in the seventh 384 00:40:18.200 --> 00:40:25.700 month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work at 385 00:40:25.700 --> 00:40:32.800 all, whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourneth among you. 386 00:40:34.300 --> 00:40:42.660 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you, that ye may be clean 387 00:40:42.660 --> 00:40:45.060 from all your sins before the Lord. 388 00:40:45.780 --> 00:40:48.060 You see the relationship? 389 00:40:48.740 --> 00:40:58.000 The priest, Orion, represents Jesus as the high priest, and he cleanses us from our sins 390 00:40:58.580 --> 00:41:00.520 by his blood. 391 00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:14.580 And it also mentions that this day would be a day of affliction, of afflicting your souls, 392 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.740 and a day of rest. 393 00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:22.080 When no work, so it was a Sabbath day, an annual Sabbath day. 394 00:41:23.520 --> 00:41:30.500 It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, reiterating that point, and ye shall afflict your souls 395 00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:31.800 by a statute forever. 396 00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:32.720 There we go. 397 00:41:35.010 --> 00:41:42.350 And the priest whom ye shall anoint and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's 398 00:41:42.350 --> 00:41:46.650 office, in his father's stead, shall make the atonement. 399 00:41:47.930 --> 00:41:55.830 So Orion makes the atonement, if you will, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the 400 00:41:55.830 --> 00:41:56.970 holy garments. 401 00:41:57.310 --> 00:42:03.650 So it's the priest, it's Jesus in Orion, who gives us, he's the lamb slain from the 402 00:42:03.650 --> 00:42:04.630 foundation of the world. 403 00:42:04.690 --> 00:42:10.330 That's what is represented in Orion, Alnitak of Orion, the wounded one. 404 00:42:12.630 --> 00:42:18.810 So I just wanted to ask you to remember this affliction of the souls. 405 00:42:19.110 --> 00:42:21.810 Don't let me forget to come back to that. 406 00:42:24.250 --> 00:42:35.990 But meanwhile, let's look back at Colossians, because he says these ceremonial Sabbaths, 407 00:42:36.090 --> 00:42:41.650 or the feast Sabbaths, and the weekly Sabbaths, they are a shadow of things to come in our 408 00:42:41.650 --> 00:42:41.990 time. 409 00:42:42.030 --> 00:42:52.370 Now we see that it points to the judgment period and this final time of cleansing in the blood 410 00:42:52.370 --> 00:42:53.550 of Jesus. 411 00:42:54.670 --> 00:43:00.350 And that's where it comes to the body of Christ. 412 00:43:04.650 --> 00:43:13.310 So what we see here, we have the day of atonement represented in Orion. 413 00:43:14.050 --> 00:43:16.430 And that comes from which law? 414 00:43:19.230 --> 00:43:23.130 That's the ceremonial law, what we would call the law of Moses. 415 00:43:23.630 --> 00:43:31.210 Whereas the weekly Sabbath comes from the moral law, the Ten Commandments. 416 00:43:32.690 --> 00:43:37.610 And Jesus is represented in both. 417 00:43:38.550 --> 00:43:46.810 We have Jesus in Orion, and we have Jesus on the cross in the Horologium. 418 00:43:49.370 --> 00:43:52.970 And where are we represented? 419 00:43:55.510 --> 00:44:02.270 God's people, in general, in the middle of Philadelphia, we're in the body of Christ 420 00:44:02.270 --> 00:44:07.110 and receiving the blood of Jesus. 421 00:44:08.350 --> 00:44:19.910 That's the combination of Orion and the Horologium, the annual and the weekly Sabbaths. 422 00:44:19.910 --> 00:44:27.770 And that's where we find that healing represented. 423 00:44:29.260 --> 00:44:35.390 So we have Moses's law represented in Orion, and we have the Ten Commandments, the moral 424 00:44:35.390 --> 00:44:37.690 law represented in Horologium. 425 00:44:38.750 --> 00:44:48.810 But here in the body of Christ and his people, there is that combination written where? 426 00:44:50.130 --> 00:44:53.970 In the heart, in the blood of his people. 427 00:44:54.270 --> 00:44:55.950 So that's what this is pointing to. 428 00:44:56.450 --> 00:45:03.290 There's the two different laws on one side, but we have it written in the flesh, in the 429 00:45:03.290 --> 00:45:05.470 heart of the people. 430 00:45:06.570 --> 00:45:11.830 So looking back now at the commandment, it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it 431 00:45:11.830 --> 00:45:15.430 holy, six days you shall labor and do all your work. 432 00:45:15.430 --> 00:45:19.870 Now it starts to go into some of the details of the weekly Sabbath. 433 00:45:21.330 --> 00:45:24.110 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 434 00:45:24.630 --> 00:45:27.130 In it thou shalt not do any work. 435 00:45:27.870 --> 00:45:34.610 Thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy 436 00:45:34.610 --> 00:45:36.410 stranger that is within thy gates. 437 00:45:38.410 --> 00:45:43.070 Now, how many have manservants and maidservants? 438 00:45:43.890 --> 00:45:44.490 Nobody? 439 00:45:48.150 --> 00:45:53.770 This is a description that is very particular. 440 00:45:55.170 --> 00:45:59.890 It's geared specifically toward the culture in which it was given. 441 00:46:00.910 --> 00:46:05.210 At the beginning, it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 442 00:46:06.210 --> 00:46:14.050 But then he starts giving these details that were pertaining to those people specifically 443 00:46:14.050 --> 00:46:15.510 and their lifestyle. 444 00:46:16.390 --> 00:46:21.270 And then it continues, now it gives the reason to keep the Sabbath. 445 00:46:21.470 --> 00:46:28.430 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested 446 00:46:28.430 --> 00:46:29.610 the seventh day. 447 00:46:30.290 --> 00:46:31.710 That's an important point. 448 00:46:32.610 --> 00:46:38.310 It's going back to creation and the rest on the seventh day. 449 00:46:39.150 --> 00:46:43.690 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 450 00:46:46.310 --> 00:46:52.170 Now, this blessing, you can read the whole Bible front to back. 451 00:46:53.170 --> 00:46:58.750 There's nowhere where that blessing is taken away. 452 00:46:59.910 --> 00:47:04.130 The Sabbath is blessed by God. 453 00:47:04.650 --> 00:47:14.810 If it weren't for the Sabbath day, we would have never come to the understanding of the 454 00:47:14.810 --> 00:47:23.290 high Sabbath and its relation to the blood, to salvation, or any of the many things that 455 00:47:23.290 --> 00:47:24.430 have come from that. 456 00:47:24.930 --> 00:47:33.190 It's only made possible because of the keeping of the Sabbath. 457 00:47:33.690 --> 00:47:39.490 It enabled us to make those discoveries. 458 00:47:40.110 --> 00:47:47.010 All right, let's look at this passage first in Matthew chapter 12. 459 00:47:48.470 --> 00:47:55.090 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn, that is the wheat fields, 460 00:47:55.730 --> 00:48:01.870 and his disciples were in hunger and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 461 00:48:02.410 --> 00:48:06.990 So they're wandering through this field, his disciples are with him and they just nibble 462 00:48:06.990 --> 00:48:11.330 on some of the wheat that is growing in the field. 463 00:48:12.310 --> 00:48:15.410 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, 464 00:48:15.510 --> 00:48:20.430 Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. 465 00:48:21.350 --> 00:48:28.410 So here we're getting into details of how to keep the Sabbath, or at least that's what 466 00:48:28.410 --> 00:48:29.850 the story is about. 467 00:48:30.050 --> 00:48:36.010 And there was a disagreement between the Pharisees and how they would keep the Sabbath and how 468 00:48:36.010 --> 00:48:38.990 Jesus and his disciples kept the Sabbath. 469 00:48:39.710 --> 00:48:48.990 Because Jesus didn't say, Oh, sorry, my disciples shouldn't have been eating or getting the 470 00:48:48.990 --> 00:48:53.850 grain out of the kernels on the Sabbath day. 471 00:48:54.470 --> 00:49:01.370 But Jesus said unto them, Have you not read what David did when he was an hungered and they 472 00:49:01.370 --> 00:49:02.190 that were with him? 473 00:49:03.170 --> 00:49:09.850 How he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for 474 00:49:09.850 --> 00:49:14.710 him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests. 475 00:49:15.990 --> 00:49:19.690 Now, what law is Jesus talking about this? 476 00:49:19.810 --> 00:49:24.130 He says it wasn't lawful for David to eat. 477 00:49:24.410 --> 00:49:26.850 It's a ceremonial law, the law of Moses. 478 00:49:26.850 --> 00:49:33.090 There it's written in the essence that that was only for the priests. 479 00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:38.910 And then he continues and he says, Or have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath 480 00:49:38.910 --> 00:49:44.510 days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? 481 00:49:44.910 --> 00:49:46.470 And what law is he talking about there? 482 00:49:49.680 --> 00:49:50.180 Which law? 483 00:49:51.180 --> 00:49:52.560 That's the fourth commandment. 484 00:49:52.620 --> 00:49:59.040 He's talking about profaning the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath, because the priests, they 485 00:49:59.040 --> 00:50:03.080 always had work on every day of the week. 486 00:50:03.700 --> 00:50:04.520 They would be working. 487 00:50:05.060 --> 00:50:10.720 And therefore, that work was profaning the Sabbath because the Sabbath says you shall 488 00:50:10.720 --> 00:50:12.440 not work on the seventh day. 489 00:50:13.060 --> 00:50:16.780 And yet Jesus pointed out they are blameless. 490 00:50:17.780 --> 00:50:26.240 But Jesus continues, If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, 491 00:50:26.860 --> 00:50:30.040 ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 492 00:50:30.580 --> 00:50:35.400 So again, he reiterates that his disciples are also guiltless. 493 00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:40.420 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day. 494 00:50:41.960 --> 00:50:45.480 Now that's a power-packed statement. 495 00:50:46.320 --> 00:50:51.640 And I would like to look at that in a little bit more detail. 496 00:50:51.640 --> 00:50:58.780 So first of all, he says, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. 497 00:51:00.040 --> 00:51:06.940 We talked a couple of weeks ago about how that connects with the sign of the Son of 498 00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:07.180 Man. 499 00:51:07.860 --> 00:51:09.480 Where is mercy represented? 500 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:11.920 In Orion. 501 00:51:12.580 --> 00:51:17.380 And sacrifice, that's represented in the Horologium. 502 00:51:18.060 --> 00:51:28.660 And of course, we have already seen how the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath, is represented 503 00:51:28.660 --> 00:51:31.900 there at the cross. 504 00:51:32.820 --> 00:51:37.980 And Jesus said, take up your cross and do what? 505 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:39.820 Follow me. 506 00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:43.020 And where did Jesus go from the cross? 507 00:51:46.540 --> 00:51:53.820 Yeah, following K2, he was buried and resurrected. 508 00:51:54.580 --> 00:51:57.680 After the cross, he took his cross. 509 00:51:57.920 --> 00:52:04.040 If we are to take his cross and follow him (of course, we first come to the cross), 510 00:52:04.180 --> 00:52:09.900 but after that, we take the cross through burial and baptism. 511 00:52:09.900 --> 00:52:16.800 And then in resurrection, the newness of the life of Christ. 512 00:52:18.510 --> 00:52:30.520 So what this represents is a process from going from sin, the sacrifice, the sacrifice 513 00:52:30.520 --> 00:52:41.840 that was made for sin, Jesus dying on the cross, through baptism, that death to self, 514 00:52:42.520 --> 00:52:49.180 and then having freedom, freedom from sin. 515 00:52:49.580 --> 00:52:53.840 That's the process that is illustrated. 516 00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:59.160 And that's what Jesus means when he says, take up your cross and follow me. 517 00:52:59.160 --> 00:53:05.560 He's saying, leave sin behind and be free from sin. 518 00:53:05.980 --> 00:53:14.320 And when we're free from sin, that's when we have the law written in our hearts. 519 00:53:14.820 --> 00:53:24.620 It's when we no longer need the written law because it's in the flesh. 520 00:53:25.700 --> 00:53:27.960 The Sabbath is a rest. 521 00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:35.060 It points to our rest in Christ, in his sacrifice. 522 00:53:35.660 --> 00:53:38.200 We come to rest. 523 00:53:38.760 --> 00:53:48.040 And that rest brings us the freedom from sin that we have through Christ's sacrifice. 524 00:53:49.300 --> 00:53:55.480 Now, there's something that Paul said that drives this point home. 525 00:53:55.480 --> 00:54:04.740 In Galatians chapter 3, he says, wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster, the commandments, 526 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:08.740 the law was our schoolmaster to do what? 527 00:54:09.520 --> 00:54:18.320 To bring us to Christ, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 528 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:26.340 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 529 00:54:29.350 --> 00:54:37.990 So the law, whether Moses' law or the Sabbath or the Ten Commandments, 530 00:54:38.830 --> 00:54:43.470 the law was given as a schoolmaster. 531 00:54:43.590 --> 00:54:44.770 That's a teacher. 532 00:54:45.690 --> 00:54:47.880 When a teacher is teaching something, 533 00:54:48.350 --> 00:54:56.020 they use props or illustrations to make a point. 534 00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:05.140 And we saw how even in the Sabbath commandment, and it's also the case in some of the other 535 00:55:05.140 --> 00:55:11.580 commandments, the wording there is not very relevant to us in the 21st century. 536 00:55:13.380 --> 00:55:21.940 Most people, at least in our modern societies in the cities, don't have cattle. 537 00:55:22.820 --> 00:55:28.180 And if they do have cattle, like we have some cows here, we don't use them for work. 538 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:36.160 Like the Sabbath commandment was talking, refrain from making your cattle work. 539 00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:41.560 But in those days, the cattle were the strong animals and they would use them for work— 540 00:55:41.580 --> 00:55:47.080 the oxen to plow the field or to thresh the grain. 541 00:55:47.260 --> 00:55:49.920 They would do that kind of work using the animals. 542 00:55:50.860 --> 00:56:00.560 And therefore, God was writing in the commandments targeting those people who were in that kind 543 00:56:00.560 --> 00:56:02.500 of a lifestyle and saying, don't do that. 544 00:56:02.760 --> 00:56:06.420 They had servants, men servants, maidservants. 545 00:56:06.420 --> 00:56:11.300 And therefore, he was showing how it applied to them. 546 00:56:11.860 --> 00:56:22.190 There was an underlying principle in the law that he was using that he wanted to teach them. 547 00:56:23.690 --> 00:56:27.250 And that's what the purpose of the law was for. 548 00:56:27.390 --> 00:56:32.810 It was a tool to teach them that underlying principle. 549 00:56:33.250 --> 00:56:36.370 I want to back up here a little bit. 550 00:56:40.890 --> 00:56:49.130 In Orion, we mentioned that it represents the Day of Atonement. 551 00:56:50.130 --> 00:56:52.710 That was that feast day in the beginning. 552 00:56:53.630 --> 00:56:55.130 I said, don't let me forget. 553 00:56:55.850 --> 00:57:00.190 And that's what I want to come to now about the affliction of the souls. 554 00:57:00.950 --> 00:57:01.130 All right. 555 00:57:02.430 --> 00:57:10.310 This Day of Atonement, it was one day out of the year, but that was in the ancient times. 556 00:57:11.000 --> 00:57:27.470 In the end time history, it points to a whole clock cycle, actually 168 years that represents 557 00:57:27.470 --> 00:57:31.670 that time of afflicting the soul. 558 00:57:32.750 --> 00:57:48.470 And this is the same time when the schoolmaster was needed again, when God saw fit to bring 559 00:57:48.470 --> 00:57:55.270 his people back to the law, back to the schoolmaster, because they had forgotten some things. 560 00:57:56.070 --> 00:58:00.110 They didn't have his law in their heart anymore. 561 00:58:00.670 --> 00:58:03.930 And so they needed that instruction again. 562 00:58:04.750 --> 00:58:08.150 And so he brought a certain church. 563 00:58:08.870 --> 00:58:14.030 He raised up a church in this time frame, the Seventh-day Adventist church. 564 00:58:14.610 --> 00:58:25.810 And they had an understanding of the law, the Sabbath, and they observed the weekly 565 00:58:26.630 --> 00:58:36.850 Sabbath throughout this time, in addition to some other aspects of the law as well. 566 00:58:37.310 --> 00:58:47.770 And that was, as Paul said, as a schoolmaster, bringing God's people back again to Christ, 567 00:58:48.350 --> 00:58:54.710 coming back from the law to being written in the heart. 568 00:58:55.270 --> 00:58:59.310 And so that's the affliction of the soul. 569 00:58:59.450 --> 00:59:00.830 That's what it's talking about. 570 00:59:00.990 --> 00:59:09.070 Traditionally, the Jews would fast on the Day of Atonement, on that Judgment Day. 571 00:59:09.950 --> 00:59:21.430 And so even that is represented in some special dietary habits that God gave to the Seventh-day 572 00:59:21.430 --> 00:59:23.630 Adventist church during that time. 573 00:59:25.750 --> 00:59:35.390 But the question is, do you fast forever, or is it an allotted time? 574 00:59:37.310 --> 00:59:41.610 It's always an allotted time, and that time was specified, in fact, very clearly, 575 00:59:41.830 --> 00:59:46.670 identified as from evening until evening. 576 00:59:46.870 --> 00:59:52.990 Just that Day of Atonement, that was their time when they would afflict their souls. 577 00:59:52.990 --> 01:00:05.730 But afterward, they were freed from that affliction, from that burden of heart and sorrow of heart, 578 01:00:05.930 --> 01:00:06.470 as it were. 579 01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:22.050 And therefore, what we see is this period of time when God intentionally brought the 580 01:00:22.050 --> 01:00:31.790 law back so that it would serve as a schoolmaster to re-teach what his people had lost over 581 01:00:31.790 --> 01:00:32.410 the years. 582 01:00:32.930 --> 01:00:44.280 Because unfortunately, what tends to happen is when the law is used to bring us to Christ, 583 01:00:44.980 --> 01:00:45.800 that's good. 584 01:00:45.900 --> 01:00:47.200 That's how it's supposed to work. 585 01:00:47.630 --> 01:00:59.120 But it can be abused in that we say, okay, I'm not under the law, and therefore, I don't 586 01:00:59.120 --> 01:01:00.860 have to do certain things. 587 01:01:01.780 --> 01:01:06.060 And then the human nature kicks in. 588 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:17.820 And then instead of doing God's will and having his law written in our hearts, which is the 589 01:01:17.820 --> 01:01:25.380 same law, it's the underlying principles of the commandments and the underlying principles 590 01:01:25.780 --> 01:01:30.020 that went into Moses' law, that's written in the heart. 591 01:01:30.660 --> 01:01:41.560 But if we use that as an excuse to do what our own fleshly heart wants to do, then we 592 01:01:41.560 --> 01:01:42.300 get into trouble. 593 01:01:42.820 --> 01:01:51.700 And then ultimately, we need the rules again to say, no, you follow the rule, and if you 594 01:01:51.700 --> 01:01:53.680 don't, you get a spanking. 595 01:01:54.140 --> 01:01:56.180 That's more or less the idea. 596 01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:07.860 And so, what we have is, although we are no longer under the schoolmaster, if we have 597 01:02:07.860 --> 01:02:14.440 the law written in our hearts, because we have Christ, and we receive him into our 598 01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:18.060 heart, then we're not under the schoolmaster. 599 01:02:18.760 --> 01:02:25.060 And then we can ask ourselves if we are at peace with him. 600 01:02:25.620 --> 01:02:39.800 We go from the tables of stone, the Ten Commandments, to singing the song on the ten-stringed harp. 601 01:02:40.540 --> 01:02:48.140 That's what is represented in the Revelation when it talks about the 144,000 singing a 602 01:02:48.140 --> 01:02:51.180 new song with their harps. 603 01:02:52.080 --> 01:02:59.880 It's pointing to the Ten Commandments, the law of God, being written in the heart of 604 01:02:59.880 --> 01:03:00.660 his people. 605 01:03:01.140 --> 01:03:06.380 And when you're singing a song, what happens if you forget the words? 606 01:03:10.060 --> 01:03:11.880 You have to look at it again, right? 607 01:03:11.980 --> 01:03:18.140 If you don't know it, we say in English at least, by heart, then you have to look at 608 01:03:18.140 --> 01:03:18.640 the words. 609 01:03:19.020 --> 01:03:21.020 It's the same principle. 610 01:03:21.020 --> 01:03:28.740 The words on the commandments give us a tangible way to understand the principles. 611 01:03:29.420 --> 01:03:36.280 It's just the teaching aid to show us what God really wants in the heart. 612 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:48.440 Now, the reason this is very important, this understanding of the Sabbath and how it points 613 01:03:48.440 --> 01:03:54.180 to the law being written in the heart, especially the High Sabbath. 614 01:03:55.600 --> 01:04:02.800 This is very important, especially for this time that we're living in, because of the 615 01:04:02.800 --> 01:04:06.380 things that are happening in the world. 616 01:04:09.160 --> 01:04:21.160 We've been keeping watch on the developments with the bird flu, and now it has progressed 617 01:04:21.440 --> 01:04:29.100 to the next step where they say it's been detected in milk. 618 01:04:29.840 --> 01:04:37.680 Even fragments of the virus have been found in a certain amount of the even pasteurized 619 01:04:37.680 --> 01:04:38.080 milk. 620 01:04:39.520 --> 01:04:48.960 So, little by little, they're building it up to make a case, it looks like, for another 621 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:55.960 big pandemic with this bird flu situation. 622 01:04:56.500 --> 01:04:59.620 Every day, it's developing more and more. 623 01:04:59.860 --> 01:05:04.760 And we see this in connection with the digital health pass. 624 01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:18.080 We talked about that also with, you remember, the 666 in the crossings of the Horologium, as we've 625 01:05:18.080 --> 01:05:18.700 seen before. 626 01:05:19.580 --> 01:05:29.760 And the times when it crosses, they were relevant to when the world was putting out this digital 627 01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.640 health pass at the beginning, February 20th. 628 01:05:32.640 --> 01:05:36.840 And then, again, in May, they will be voting on that. 629 01:05:38.720 --> 01:05:45.360 And this is very relevant to us, because there's even parts of the world today where 630 01:05:46.700 --> 01:05:49.300 this can be implemented overnight. 631 01:05:50.460 --> 01:06:01.540 In fact, in China, it already is implemented, where to do various forms of business, you 632 01:06:01.540 --> 01:06:04.620 have to have your QR code scanned. 633 01:06:04.880 --> 01:06:16.440 Everybody scans their QR code in China, and that links to their status with the government. 634 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:22.240 And if they don't have a green pass, they don't get their product or service or whatever 635 01:06:22.240 --> 01:06:24.960 it is that they are going to get. 636 01:06:25.480 --> 01:06:32.720 So that is very severely limiting to those who, for example, have criticized the government 637 01:06:32.720 --> 01:06:33.540 in China. 638 01:06:34.100 --> 01:06:42.600 Those people then are degraded from a green pass to a yellow pass, and now the companies 639 01:06:42.600 --> 01:06:44.440 don't want to serve them. 640 01:06:44.780 --> 01:06:46.880 That's how things are going. 641 01:06:47.180 --> 01:06:47.760 That's now. 642 01:06:49.020 --> 01:06:58.920 And in another part of the world, in Italy, just this week, there was, I think it was 643 01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:07.220 yesterday, in fact, was the first day that they instituted a fee for visiting the city 644 01:07:07.220 --> 01:07:09.400 of Venice as a tourist. 645 01:07:10.040 --> 01:07:18.180 Yes, a five-euro fee that you have to pay, and they also have a QR code. 646 01:07:18.300 --> 01:07:23.240 You just go and you get this QR code, and then wherever you go throughout the city, 647 01:07:24.280 --> 01:07:27.460 they scan this QR code that you got. 648 01:07:28.180 --> 01:07:36.460 And it makes it convenient in some ways, but at every place you scan it, immediately they 649 01:07:36.460 --> 01:07:43.920 know where you've been, at what time, and so they can track your movements all throughout 650 01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:44.460 the city. 651 01:07:44.980 --> 01:07:51.380 And in China's case, who are much more advanced in this idea, they can track you wherever 652 01:07:51.380 --> 01:07:55.060 you are in the whole country, pretty much. 653 01:07:55.860 --> 01:08:04.540 So we see this is where things are going, and it's not much of a stretch to say one 654 01:08:05.660 --> 01:08:17.160 other aspect in addition to your tourist QR code, they have the health pass, the digital 655 01:08:17.160 --> 01:08:17.960 health pass. 656 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:25.560 So you add that on there, and then, oh, you haven't gotten up to date on your latest booster 657 01:08:25.560 --> 01:08:26.040 shots. 658 01:08:27.040 --> 01:08:34.100 Well, then you can't access the things that you are accustomed to doing. 659 01:08:35.950 --> 01:08:38.790 So that's where we're going with this. 660 01:08:39.109 --> 01:08:51.200 And what are the things in the world that are subject to regulation in this way? 661 01:08:51.840 --> 01:09:01.460 We talked about the inoculations, and there's also if you speak against the government, 662 01:09:01.460 --> 01:09:12.279 say, in China, but in general, if you speak against LGBT or anything that could be construed 663 01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:21.640 as hate speech, then these things will be tallied up and held against you. 664 01:09:21.779 --> 01:09:28.500 And it's a very convenient way for the government to regulate what you can do or not do, whether 665 01:09:28.500 --> 01:09:33.120 you can buy or sell, in the terms of Revelation 13. 666 01:09:35.460 --> 01:09:38.240 And the other one is the climate change agenda. 667 01:09:43.020 --> 01:09:46.939 He called the Pope called the climate deniers fools, you say. 668 01:09:47.120 --> 01:09:47.380 Yes. 669 01:09:48.020 --> 01:09:49.340 So interesting. 670 01:09:50.340 --> 01:10:03.200 There's, of course, a huge push for climate habits that are supposedly good for the climate, 671 01:10:04.000 --> 01:10:06.040 lowering your carbon footprint. 672 01:10:06.560 --> 01:10:13.100 The last World Youth Day, they already rolled out a system also on the cell phone where 673 01:10:13.560 --> 01:10:20.300 they track everybody's food and their carbon footprint, ultimately, 674 01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:27.460 but looking at all the different ways according to what they did during that period. 675 01:10:28.940 --> 01:10:33.920 And so these are the things that matter to the world today. 676 01:10:35.340 --> 01:10:40.000 The Sabbath points to all three of those. 677 01:10:40.780 --> 01:10:46.480 We've seen that before, how in the— Let me back up a little bit here. 678 01:10:48.710 --> 01:10:56.670 We've seen before how in the river, we understand now why that's the DNA. 679 01:10:57.390 --> 01:10:58.850 It's the DNA of Christ. 680 01:10:59.250 --> 01:11:08.310 But this part where Cetus is taking hold of the river, that corresponds to the vaccine. 681 01:11:09.270 --> 01:11:15.130 And that foreign DNA, if you will. 682 01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:24.880 Then there's also, you can't see it so well there, but that's a statue, an image, 683 01:11:25.580 --> 01:11:38.090 the image of the beast, if you will, that represents the false sexuality in the LGBT movement. 684 01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:43.070 And then there's the furnace representing the climate change. 685 01:11:43.170 --> 01:11:51.650 So we have these three aspects all here represented in the presence of the river. 686 01:11:53.870 --> 01:12:00.130 And the solution is to stick with Jesus' blood. 687 01:12:00.670 --> 01:12:07.730 But we have to be decided about that because these are very serious things. 688 01:12:07.730 --> 01:12:13.270 And when they cut off our ability to buy groceries, 689 01:12:13.870 --> 01:12:18.890 then it's going to be very challenging in those times. 690 01:12:19.130 --> 01:12:24.910 And we have to be ready, psychologically prepared for that. 691 01:12:25.670 --> 01:12:32.410 And that's a matter of deciding in advance who we stand with and what we stand for. 692 01:12:32.990 --> 01:12:40.750 The underlying principle of the Sabbath goes back to the creation, to the creator, and to rest. 693 01:12:41.410 --> 01:12:50.810 Resting in Christ, trusting in the DNA that he gave us, the immune system that he gave us 694 01:12:50.810 --> 01:12:53.750 that will empower us to overcome sin. 695 01:12:54.490 --> 01:12:56.830 That's what the Sabbath represents. 696 01:12:57.710 --> 01:13:08.330 That's what the weekly rest was to drive home to God's people. 697 01:13:09.070 --> 01:13:18.470 But just as a teacher wouldn't use an illustration in the classroom to teach the students, 698 01:13:18.670 --> 01:13:23.250 and then all the students go out and the only thing they know is that illustration. 699 01:13:23.730 --> 01:13:26.710 They want to teach a principle, right? 700 01:13:27.910 --> 01:13:29.950 So it is with God's law. 701 01:13:30.350 --> 01:13:39.130 He wants to teach us that underlying principle of honoring the creator and finding rest in Christ. 702 01:13:39.410 --> 01:13:46.210 Yes, it's that narrow entrance, the narrow way into that rest of Christ. 703 01:13:46.710 --> 01:13:52.450 Jesus said, come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. 704 01:13:53.250 --> 01:13:57.770 So there's a lot of deception in the world about these things. 705 01:13:58.570 --> 01:14:05.050 And a correct understanding of the Sabbath highlights those issues that are most important. 706 01:14:05.590 --> 01:14:13.930 So to that end, I want to remind everyone of what Jesus said. 707 01:14:14.730 --> 01:14:23.130 This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 708 01:14:23.250 --> 01:14:33.050 That's the blood that we're talking about, that high Sabbath blood that represents 709 01:14:34.210 --> 01:14:39.970 our trust in his ways as the creator. 710 01:14:40.530 --> 01:14:55.750 And we have on May 24th, after sunset, we are calling for a Lord's Supper to celebrate his 711 01:14:56.450 --> 01:15:08.490 gift of his sacrifice, his body, and his sacrifice is the blood that he gave for us. 712 01:15:09.350 --> 01:15:13.070 And so I just want to remind everyone of that. 713 01:15:13.970 --> 01:15:23.790 This is the anniversary of his own last supper on the 24th of May in A.D. 31. 714 01:15:24.630 --> 01:15:26.890 All right. I hope that's clear. 715 01:15:27.750 --> 01:15:30.890 Good. Let's stand for a word of prayer. 716 01:15:30.890 --> 01:15:39.730 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the message that you give to us in your word. 717 01:15:40.430 --> 01:15:50.110 Thank you for your ways that are higher than our ways and how you have given the law 718 01:15:51.450 --> 01:16:00.590 in the past to your people, the Jews, and to lead them to Jesus. 719 01:16:03.050 --> 01:16:11.410 And then for many centuries, your people went without the letter of the law, 720 01:16:12.250 --> 01:16:13.750 but they lost their way. 721 01:16:15.170 --> 01:16:16.990 They lost sight of Christ. 722 01:16:17.350 --> 01:16:18.730 They lost their first love. 723 01:16:20.110 --> 01:16:32.870 And so you raised up a people who went back to the law, who gave regard to your commandments, 724 01:16:36.030 --> 01:16:40.470 and fulfilled, as it were, the letter of the law, 725 01:16:41.890 --> 01:16:46.730 so that it could be once again taught to your people. 726 01:16:47.990 --> 01:16:56.170 And now we're in this time when it must be in our hearts, because you're not after 727 01:16:57.350 --> 01:17:06.250 the superficial details of our lives, but you want our hearts. 728 01:17:09.510 --> 01:17:16.350 And you want your law that governs your kingdom written in our hearts. 729 01:17:20.430 --> 01:17:28.840 And when that law is written there, it protects us, because through it we understand 730 01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:37.200 what is good and right and what is necessary in this world for this time, 731 01:17:38.420 --> 01:17:40.720 because it is living. 732 01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:45.700 It is in the blood where there is life. 733 01:17:47.160 --> 01:17:51.580 So we thank you for writing your law in our hearts. 734 01:17:53.200 --> 01:18:04.160 And we still make mistakes, and we just ask that you will help us in every way where there 735 01:18:04.160 --> 01:18:13.640 might be something that is not fully surrendered to you, that we would give that up and do so 736 01:18:13.640 --> 01:18:23.160 promptly, because we need to be available for your service, to draw many to you. 737 01:18:26.040 --> 01:18:28.240 That your will may be done on earth. 738 01:18:30.580 --> 01:18:36.700 So we praise you for your works, because it is in your works that we trust, 739 01:18:37.540 --> 01:18:44.640 that we have our faith, as it is seen in the sign of the Son of Man. 740 01:18:46.420 --> 01:18:53.840 We praise your name for these things, in the name of Jesus Alnitak, the wounded one of Orion. 741 01:18:55.100 --> 01:18:55.360 Amen. 742 01:18:55.360 --> 01:19:00.640 Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you again next week.