WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.949 --> 00:00:23.313 Welcome, once again, it's good to see everyone here this morning. 2 00:00:23.323 --> 00:00:32.844 Today, we are going to talk about the blood of Jesus in a certain context. 3 00:00:32.854 --> 00:00:40.039 I titled today's presentation, The Blood of the Sabbath. 4 00:00:41.189 --> 00:00:54.916 So we're going to understand this relationship between Jesus's blood and the Sabbath and what that means to us today. 5 00:00:54.926 --> 00:01:05.239 In order to come to that, we need to do a little bit of a dive into the calendar of God. 6 00:01:06.010 --> 00:01:14.379 So first I'm going to talk about the calendar, just briefly, but some of the important parts, 7 00:01:14.390 --> 00:01:21.579 and then we will look more at how that relates to the blood and to the Sabbath, 8 00:01:21.590 --> 00:01:24.640 connecting those things together. 9 00:01:26.299 --> 00:01:32.830 So first of all, we are familiar with what is known as the Gregorian calendar. 10 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:36.437 The Gregorian calendar is a solar calendar, 11 00:01:36.447 --> 00:01:46.310 it means every year on the Gregorian calendar we come back and the sun is in the same place as it was the year prior. 12 00:01:47.620 --> 00:01:58.472 But the Bible calendar is not strictly a solar calendar, but a lunar calendar, with some influence from the sun as well, 13 00:01:58.482 --> 00:02:02.180 we will talk about that in a little bit. 14 00:02:04.459 --> 00:02:15.199 But there is a great deal of confusion, honestly, surrounding everything relating to any Hebrew or biblical calendar, 15 00:02:15.209 --> 00:02:25.205 because there's so many different possibilities and ideas that people have for how these things are defined. 16 00:02:25.215 --> 00:02:33.099 Unfortunately, many of them, or most of them, are lacking a truly biblical foundation. 17 00:02:34.719 --> 00:02:43.537 There aren't, in certain cases, a lot of details given in the Bible about the calendar, 18 00:02:43.547 --> 00:02:51.746 and that leaves many people to feel free to read into the Bible their own ideas, 19 00:02:51.756 --> 00:02:59.448 instead of extracting from the Bible what the information is that is there, 20 00:02:59.458 --> 00:03:03.300 giving understanding of the calendar. 21 00:03:05.219 --> 00:03:15.357 So looking at Exodus chapter 12, this is where the children of Israel were just about to come out of Egypt. 22 00:03:15.367 --> 00:03:19.810 The plagues had fallen, they're ready to leave. 23 00:03:20.530 --> 00:03:32.412 And then the Lord speaks to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month shall be unto you the beginning of months. 24 00:03:32.422 --> 00:03:36.810 It shall be the first month of the year to you. 25 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:41.042 So God is giving his people a calendar. 26 00:03:41.052 --> 00:03:50.881 They didn't have, or if they had one, they lost it from before, so they had been in slavery for hundreds of years. 27 00:03:50.891 --> 00:03:56.389 Now he's giving them anew the calendar, and he says, this month. 28 00:03:57.150 --> 00:04:03.415 Now if I ask you, what is this month, you'll say, well, it's April. 29 00:04:03.425 --> 00:04:06.979 You don't need any reference for that. 30 00:04:06.989 --> 00:04:12.580 But in the Hebrew thinking, they were not abstract thinkers. 31 00:04:14.370 --> 00:04:16.636 They were very tangible. 32 00:04:16.646 --> 00:04:24.014 And when God told Moses this month, he was, as it were, pointing to something. 33 00:04:24.024 --> 00:04:27.310 There was something tangible there. 34 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:36.374 And in fact, the word month is translated as month, but it's the very same word as moon. 35 00:04:36.384 --> 00:04:47.734 So this could equally well be translated, this moon shall be unto you the beginning of moons, or the beginning of months. 36 00:04:47.744 --> 00:04:52.790 That's how they measured the months was with the moon. 37 00:04:54.639 --> 00:05:05.298 So it becomes clear then that the object in reference for the month was the moon. 38 00:05:05.308 --> 00:05:08.335 He pointed to the moon. 39 00:05:08.345 --> 00:05:22.800 When the new month was registered in Israel, it was the first time they could see the moon after the new moon. 40 00:05:23.300 --> 00:05:39.835 So every month, the moon disappears, and then the first sliver of light, when you can just see the moon, that is then when that new moon, 41 00:05:39.845 --> 00:05:42.611 that new month begins. 42 00:05:42.621 --> 00:05:51.070 And it's interesting because that happens when you first see the moon. 43 00:05:51.080 --> 00:05:52.629 It's too dim. 44 00:05:52.759 --> 00:05:58.651 It's so thin, you can't really see it until the sun sets. 45 00:05:58.661 --> 00:06:07.342 And then when the dusk is dark enough, you can start to see that sliver of the moon. 46 00:06:07.352 --> 00:06:11.569 But the moon is at the same time setting. 47 00:06:12.230 --> 00:06:24.301 So there's just a short period of time when you have this opportunity to see the moon in that first day of the month. 48 00:06:24.311 --> 00:06:29.459 And that defines how they would observe the month. 49 00:06:29.910 --> 00:06:36.901 And it also points to when they would see it, then they would say, okay, this is the first day of the month, 50 00:06:36.911 --> 00:06:39.750 and it was that day that began with sunset. 51 00:06:40.579 --> 00:06:49.613 So when the sun set, then they observed the moon, okay, this is the first day of the new month. 52 00:06:49.623 --> 00:06:57.326 So that's just the basic operation of how a couple of parts of the calendar work. 53 00:06:57.336 --> 00:07:00.740 The new moon defining the new month. 54 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:14.655 But we see there are some other aspects that will come out when we study the calendar with respect to the cross. 55 00:07:14.665 --> 00:07:18.141 That's what we're going to do. 56 00:07:18.151 --> 00:07:30.180 Just briefly, looking at a prophecy in the Bible that points to the time when Jesus was to be crucified. 57 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:35.007 I'm not going to go into a lot of detail about this prophecy. 58 00:07:35.017 --> 00:07:39.851 It's a rather complicated and difficult prophecy in some respects. 59 00:07:39.861 --> 00:07:43.649 But I'm just going to draw a few key points from it. 60 00:07:43.649 --> 00:07:47.618 It comes from Daniel chapter 9, verse 25 to 27. 61 00:07:47.628 --> 00:07:50.668 It's known as the 70 weeks prophecy. 62 00:07:50.678 --> 00:07:58.522 Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the commandments to restore and to 63 00:07:58.532 --> 00:08:06.449 rebuild Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks and three score and two weeks. 64 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:09.529 In other words, 69 weeks. 65 00:08:09.539 --> 00:08:13.912 So we have the time frame being defined here. 66 00:08:13.922 --> 00:08:17.790 From a commandment to restore Jerusalem. 67 00:08:17.860 --> 00:08:25.904 This prophecy was given to Daniel at a time when they were captive in Babylon. 68 00:08:25.914 --> 00:08:28.390 Jerusalem was destroyed. 69 00:08:28.400 --> 00:08:39.210 And so the prophecy was that there would come a commandment to rebuild and restore the city of Jerusalem. 70 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:45.133 And that would be a marker in time at the beginning. 71 00:08:45.143 --> 00:08:51.720 And then 69 weeks, then would come Messiah the Prince, that is, Jesus. 72 00:08:53.309 --> 00:09:03.160 The prophecy continues, the street shall be built again and the wall even in troublous times and after three score and two weeks, 73 00:09:03.170 --> 00:09:05.451 that's the 69 weeks in total, 74 00:09:05.461 --> 00:09:07.436 shall Messiah be cut off, 75 00:09:07.446 --> 00:09:09.039 but not for himself. 76 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:17.700 So after that time, Jesus would be cut off or he would give his life, but not for himself because he gave his life for many others. 77 00:09:18.389 --> 00:09:23.398 And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary 78 00:09:23.408 --> 00:09:27.640 and the end thereof shall be with a flood and until the end of the war, 79 00:09:27.650 --> 00:09:29.289 desolations are determined. 80 00:09:30.179 --> 00:09:38.860 And then it says this, and he shall, that is Jesus, the Messiah, shall confirm the covenant with many for one week. 81 00:09:39.299 --> 00:09:40.889 That's the 70th week. 82 00:09:40.899 --> 00:09:44.230 So there's 69 weeks and then this 70th week. 83 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:51.110 And in the midst of that 70th week, he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. 84 00:09:51.110 --> 00:10:00.528 So it's saying specifically when Jesus would die in the middle of that 70th week, 85 00:10:00.538 --> 00:10:09.597 which comes that 70 weeks after the command to restore and rebuild Jerusalem. 86 00:10:09.607 --> 00:10:18.899 So in total, 69 plus half a week is when Jesus would give his life on the cross. 87 00:10:19.210 --> 00:10:25.791 The last bit of the verse here, I didn't finish, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, 88 00:10:25.801 --> 00:10:27.242 even to the consummation, 89 00:10:27.252 --> 00:10:30.309 and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. 90 00:10:30.659 --> 00:10:38.166 So that's just talking about other aspects of the prophecy, not so much our concern at the moment. 91 00:10:38.176 --> 00:10:44.763 But the question is, what decree is it talking about to restore and rebuild Jerusalem? 92 00:10:44.773 --> 00:10:47.300 Because there were more than one. 93 00:10:47.310 --> 00:10:51.570 In fact, there are three of them described in the Bible. 94 00:10:52.120 --> 00:11:00.383 In the book of Ezra, there's one in chapter one, one in chapter six, and one in chapter seven. 95 00:11:00.393 --> 00:11:07.679 Each of these has some element of a command to go and restore or rebuild Jerusalem. 96 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:19.266 But in particular, I'm just doing an overview here, so I'm not going to go over the details. 97 00:11:19.276 --> 00:11:30.850 But historically, in 457 BC, King Artaxerxes of Persia gave the command that is the relevant one. 98 00:11:31.870 --> 00:11:48.244 And when we calculate the 69 weeks, of course these are weeks of years in this prophecy, then that's 483 years, 99 00:11:48.254 --> 00:11:53.259 and that comes to the year 27 AD. 100 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.055 And what was significant about that year? 101 00:11:58.065 --> 00:12:07.669 The prophecy said that was the time when Messiah the Prince would come, and indeed, this was the year when he began his ministry. 102 00:12:08.580 --> 00:12:13.246 But it was the beginning of that 70th week. 103 00:12:13.256 --> 00:12:26.271 In the middle of that 70th week, that would be after three and a half years from AD 27, that would be in the year AD 31, 104 00:12:26.281 --> 00:12:30.610 that would be when Jesus was crucified. 105 00:12:31.250 --> 00:12:45.292 So what we have is a biblical foundation that gives us the year through understanding the prophecy when Jesus was crucified, 106 00:12:45.302 --> 00:12:48.350 and that's very important. 107 00:12:50.570 --> 00:13:03.422 Unfortunately, many people don't understand this relationship, and it's not completely without reason, because this is just the year, 108 00:13:03.432 --> 00:13:10.379 but we also want to know the time of the year that Jesus was crucified. 109 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:12.352 What day was it? 110 00:13:12.362 --> 00:13:20.889 Well, it's clear in the Bible that Jesus was crucified on a certain feast day in Israel. 111 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:24.185 What feast day was that? 112 00:13:24.195 --> 00:13:26.142 Passover, exactly. 113 00:13:26.152 --> 00:13:36.319 So Jesus died on Passover, and we have a biblical definition for when Passover should be held. 114 00:13:36.329 --> 00:13:42.139 Passover is on the 14th day of the first Hebrew month. 115 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:45.465 Now here's the thing. 116 00:13:45.475 --> 00:13:56.271 When we look at the calendar, the first month, Hebrew month, is called Nisan, and that happens to come in March, 117 00:13:56.281 --> 00:13:59.259 thereabouts in March of AD 31. 118 00:14:01.379 --> 00:14:13.043 And in that year of AD 31, on the Julian calendar, this was before the Gregorian calendar, we find the Julian calendar, 119 00:14:13.053 --> 00:14:15.493 March began on Thursday, 120 00:14:15.503 --> 00:14:19.610 and this would be the calendar for March. 121 00:14:19.610 --> 00:14:33.508 So in the faded gray is March, and then black shows when the first month of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar would begin. 122 00:14:33.518 --> 00:14:45.149 And so that would be here, and then you would count until the 14th day, and it comes on a Tuesday. 123 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:58.534 So if this is the correct time when Jesus was crucified, we know he was crucified on Passover, the 14th day of the first month, 124 00:14:58.544 --> 00:15:01.289 that would have been a Tuesday. 125 00:15:03.330 --> 00:15:09.989 Well, that doesn't fit with the Bible, because the Bible makes it clear he died on what? 126 00:15:09.999 --> 00:15:11.740 On the Preparation Day. 127 00:15:11.750 --> 00:15:16.820 Good Friday we celebrate, because that was the day that Jesus died. 128 00:15:16.830 --> 00:15:20.129 He gave his life on a Friday, not a Tuesday. 129 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:28.107 So there must be a problem with this, it wasn't in March. 130 00:15:28.117 --> 00:15:41.669 And what we find is a first principle, you'll notice here we have March 21st, what's special about March 21st? 131 00:15:42.409 --> 00:15:45.090 That's the spring equinox. 132 00:15:45.100 --> 00:15:56.429 Okay, it can vary a little bit, but that's the official beginning of the year, at least on the solar calendar. 133 00:15:57.059 --> 00:16:09.032 And so we see this combination that this isn't the actual beginning of the Hebrew year, because if it were, 134 00:16:09.042 --> 00:16:19.549 the first day of the month would begin a full week before the sun even registered the spring. 135 00:16:20.990 --> 00:16:23.992 So we say, okay, let's look at April. 136 00:16:24.002 --> 00:16:27.399 What does the calendar look like in April? 137 00:16:29.149 --> 00:16:42.010 Well, here is the April calendar, the Julian calendar for April in gray, and then when the first crescent moon was seen, 138 00:16:42.020 --> 00:16:44.903 that would be on Thursday, 139 00:16:44.913 --> 00:16:46.833 counting 14 days, 140 00:16:46.843 --> 00:16:49.726 and you come to Wednesday, 141 00:16:49.736 --> 00:16:51.870 still not a Friday. 142 00:16:53.620 --> 00:16:56.441 So what does that tell us? 143 00:16:56.451 --> 00:17:00.249 The Bible gives us another insight. 144 00:17:00.259 --> 00:17:10.559 When God was pointing out the moon to him in Exodus chapter 13, and Moses said unto the people, 145 00:17:10.569 --> 00:17:15.871 remember this day in which ye came out of Egypt, 146 00:17:15.881 --> 00:17:17.605 out from Egypt, 147 00:17:17.615 --> 00:17:20.750 out of the house of bondage. 148 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:26.339 This day came ye out in the month Abib, okay? 149 00:17:26.339 --> 00:17:41.759 That's the same as Nisan, it's just Nisan is the later term for the same month, but this is the Hebrew word, and in Hebrew, 150 00:17:41.769 --> 00:17:47.150 this word Abib refers to the fresh barley. 151 00:17:47.579 --> 00:18:01.250 When they had barley that would grow, the grass in Israel, plenty, and when it would be fresh and green, that was called Abib. 152 00:18:01.250 --> 00:18:17.769 That was how they knew when it was that month, is when the season, when the grass showed, it's Abib, then they knew that was the month. 153 00:18:18.359 --> 00:18:30.664 So it wasn't strictly just by observing the moon, but they would observe the moon, and if there was barley that was Abib, 154 00:18:30.674 --> 00:18:34.325 then that would be the first month, 155 00:18:34.335 --> 00:18:35.546 but if not, 156 00:18:35.556 --> 00:18:39.410 then would wait until the next month, 157 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:42.970 and that would be the Abib barley. 158 00:18:43.619 --> 00:18:57.506 So that's the condition of the barley that would be sought, and therefore, if in April there wasn't that barley found in the right state, 159 00:18:57.516 --> 00:19:01.460 then it couldn't be the month of Abib. 160 00:19:03.730 --> 00:19:23.126 And therefore, we look one more month in May, still the springtime in AD 31, the Julian month of May began on Tuesday, and the Hebrew month, 161 00:19:23.136 --> 00:19:28.945 the sighting of the moon was on May 11th. 162 00:19:28.955 --> 00:19:33.240 There's software that helps us. 163 00:19:34.890 --> 00:19:43.787 It's based on actual observations, so it can calculate whether you would be able to observe the moon or not, 164 00:19:43.797 --> 00:19:47.660 and that helps us to identify exactly the day. 165 00:19:48.019 --> 00:19:59.460 But it's always one or maybe two days after the astronomical new moon, which was on the 10th in that case. 166 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:14.974 But details aside, counting the 14 days, lo and behold, you have a Friday for the 14th, that Passover, and therefore, 167 00:20:14.984 --> 00:20:21.970 this must be the scenario for when Jesus was crucified. 168 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:24.624 There's no more ambiguity. 169 00:20:24.634 --> 00:20:34.532 Because the prophecy points to AD 31, and this is the only month when Passover falls on a Friday, 170 00:20:34.542 --> 00:20:41.880 it must be this late month on the 25th of May when Jesus was crucified. 171 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.207 And this also confirms the need for that barley test. 172 00:20:48.217 --> 00:20:57.498 That's one of the rules of the biblical calendar, and we know that that must be a rule, because if it weren't a rule, 173 00:20:57.508 --> 00:20:59.640 then it would be in April. 174 00:21:00.180 --> 00:21:07.630 But because it must be in May, we know that that barley test is a valid rule that should be kept. 175 00:21:09.660 --> 00:21:19.976 All right, so that's how the cross points us to the correct calendar of God. 176 00:21:19.986 --> 00:21:38.710 Now, this was Passover on the 14th, but there were certain Sabbaths that were declared as ceremonial Sabbaths in the feast seasons of God. 177 00:21:39.869 --> 00:21:47.420 And there was a week of unleavened bread that began immediately after the Passover. 178 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:59.425 On the 15th day of the month, that was the first day of unleavened bread, and that was declared a ceremonial Sabbath. 179 00:21:59.435 --> 00:22:02.685 Now, here's the interesting thing. 180 00:22:02.695 --> 00:22:07.359 That ceremonial Sabbath fell on a weekly Sabbath. 181 00:22:09.190 --> 00:22:14.747 So there's two types of Sabbaths that we're talking about here. 182 00:22:14.757 --> 00:22:22.432 Every seven days, you have the weekly Sabbath, but there's also the ceremonial Sabbath. 183 00:22:22.442 --> 00:22:26.480 Those are once a year on their appointed time. 184 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:38.978 And once in a while, they coincide, where you have the feast Sabbath also on a weekly Sabbath. 185 00:22:38.988 --> 00:22:43.690 Oftentimes, they're at any other time of the week. 186 00:22:44.750 --> 00:22:56.419 But in this case, Jesus died on the cross on the 14th toward the evening on Passover, and then he was in the tomb, 187 00:22:56.429 --> 00:23:02.254 and he rested in the tomb on that 15th day of the month, 188 00:23:02.264 --> 00:23:05.837 the first day of unleavened bread, 189 00:23:05.847 --> 00:23:09.522 and then he was raised on the 16th, 190 00:23:09.532 --> 00:23:11.569 which was May 27th. 191 00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:18.330 This is confirmed in John chapter 19. 192 00:23:18.340 --> 00:23:22.362 It's speaking of his crucifixion. 193 00:23:22.372 --> 00:23:25.400 Jesus had been crucified. 194 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:31.188 It said the Jews, therefore, because it was the preparation, that is Friday, 195 00:23:31.198 --> 00:23:37.330 that the bodies of the crucified should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day, 196 00:23:37.340 --> 00:23:41.329 and then it puts this parenthetical statement in there. 197 00:23:41.950 --> 00:23:45.216 For that Sabbath day was an high day. 198 00:23:45.226 --> 00:23:54.309 The Jews, therefore, besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 199 00:23:54.329 --> 00:23:57.575 So they had the three people crucified: 200 00:23:57.585 --> 00:24:00.432 Jesus in the midst of two thieves, 201 00:24:00.442 --> 00:24:10.059 and they wanted to hurry this up so they would break their legs and get them buried before the Sabbath would come. 202 00:24:10.809 --> 00:24:19.248 And then in this statement, that Sabbath day was a high day, and high day is what they would call those ceremonial Sabbaths. 203 00:24:19.258 --> 00:24:20.609 They were high days. 204 00:24:21.450 --> 00:24:28.970 And so this is saying that high day of the first day of unleavened bread was also a Sabbath day, a weekly Sabbath day. 205 00:24:29.680 --> 00:24:39.853 That's what it's pointing out, making that distinction or clarifying that point that the two were in that time overlapping, 206 00:24:39.863 --> 00:24:43.410 the weekly Sabbath and the festal Sabbath. 207 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:58.576 Paul, in Colossians, tells us something about these Sabbaths because there's a significance in this overlapping of the Sabbaths, 208 00:24:58.586 --> 00:25:06.569 not the least of which is that Jesus was buried in the tomb on that day. 209 00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:15.425 That gives it a lot of significance, but there's also prophetic significance, and that's what Paul refers to in Colossians 2, 210 00:25:15.435 --> 00:25:16.650 verses 16 and 17. 211 00:25:16.940 --> 00:25:26.740 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days. 212 00:25:26.750 --> 00:25:33.970 And then he says, those Sabbath days or these things which are a shadow of things to come. 213 00:25:34.819 --> 00:25:41.475 That means they're prophetic of things yet to come in the future. 214 00:25:41.485 --> 00:25:45.683 But the body or the essence is of Christ. 215 00:25:45.693 --> 00:25:49.359 The significance of it is in Christ. 216 00:25:49.609 --> 00:25:52.790 So it's pointing to a future time. 217 00:25:52.800 --> 00:26:02.240 First he speaks of meat or drink or holy days, new moons, what sort of things are those referring to? 218 00:26:03.660 --> 00:26:11.090 These are the ceremonial feast days that it's talking about when these things were involved. 219 00:26:11.100 --> 00:26:14.160 And then he mentions the Sabbath days. 220 00:26:14.529 --> 00:26:17.523 So he's including both aspects. 221 00:26:17.533 --> 00:26:27.759 There's the feasts and in combination with the Sabbath, and together those are a shadow of things to come. 222 00:26:30.450 --> 00:26:37.561 Now the question is, how would we know what that prophecy is? 223 00:26:37.571 --> 00:26:40.252 What is it pointing to? 224 00:26:40.262 --> 00:26:45.742 What things is it pointing to that are to come? 225 00:26:45.752 --> 00:26:48.869 This is about the calendar. 226 00:26:48.869 --> 00:26:50.187 It's about time. 227 00:26:50.197 --> 00:26:59.667 And these Sabbaths and high Sabbaths, once we understand God's calendar, we can see how that plays out in our time. 228 00:26:59.677 --> 00:27:06.740 And so we can know exactly when the feasts are according to God's calendar in our day. 229 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:11.833 And we know when the weekly Sabbath is. 230 00:27:11.843 --> 00:27:19.874 And so we can see how those high Sabbaths are scheduled in our time, just the same. 231 00:27:19.884 --> 00:27:29.062 And just so you have a visual picture of this, the weekly Sabbath, of course, every seven days, 232 00:27:29.072 --> 00:27:33.700 each one of these marks represents one Sabbath. 233 00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:39.153 And then in blue are the annual Sabbaths. 234 00:27:39.163 --> 00:27:47.529 There are three Sabbaths in the springtime and four Sabbaths in the autumn. 235 00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:53.319 And then the high Sabbaths are when they're aligned. 236 00:27:53.890 --> 00:28:05.319 So the red mark shows the alignment between the Sabbath of the appointed feast and the weekly Sabbath. 237 00:28:05.329 --> 00:28:08.018 Similarly, on this side. 238 00:28:08.028 --> 00:28:15.180 So we have three possibilities for a high Sabbath in the spring. 239 00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:23.379 And in reality, there's only two options in the autumn because three of them are all together. 240 00:28:23.389 --> 00:28:30.651 When there's one high Sabbath there in the Feast of Trumpets, then there's also high Sabbaths, 241 00:28:30.661 --> 00:28:34.359 two more in the Feast of Tabernacles that week. 242 00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:39.329 And then the other option is when Yom Kippur is a high Sabbath. 243 00:28:39.950 --> 00:28:44.034 So that's just to give a visual understanding. 244 00:28:44.044 --> 00:28:55.400 And you can see if you take the time, you could plot out all of those potential high Sabbaths that could happen in a given time. 245 00:28:56.750 --> 00:29:07.446 And what we've done is through all the years of the time of judgment from 18 in the 1840s all the way until 2015, 246 00:29:07.456 --> 00:29:11.516 and there's a reason why we stopped there, 247 00:29:11.526 --> 00:29:14.829 but I'm not going to go into that. 248 00:29:17.730 --> 00:29:26.924 We've tabulated all of the potential high Sabbaths according to what groups they might be in, 249 00:29:26.934 --> 00:29:33.153 whether one of the three in Nisan or one of the two in Tishri, 250 00:29:33.163 --> 00:29:36.416 and we make this big long table. 251 00:29:36.426 --> 00:29:41.359 And then you say, what do you do with all of that? 252 00:29:43.490 --> 00:29:53.498 Well, that's where it starts to get very interesting and more relevant to our discussion. 253 00:29:53.508 --> 00:30:09.244 Because just as we look up and we see in the heavens many symbols and shapes that represent different things that we might see on the earth, 254 00:30:09.254 --> 00:30:11.829 so it is in this case. 255 00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:24.460 Except it's not something that God created in the heavens, but it's something that he created on the earth on a much smaller scale. 256 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:33.597 Because this has the representation of something that looks a lot like DNA. 257 00:30:33.607 --> 00:30:43.640 You've got these two strands on the outsides representing the spring and the autumn feasts. 258 00:30:44.569 --> 00:30:52.069 And for each of those feasts there are connecting links which are the high Sabbaths. 259 00:30:52.480 --> 00:31:02.109 Which high Sabbaths there are in any given year, there are a given set of possible high Sabbaths that year. 260 00:31:03.509 --> 00:31:18.172 And this forms this long code, long sequence of codes that seems a little bit, or maybe a lot unintelligible at first, 261 00:31:18.182 --> 00:31:24.136 but in fact there's a lot of information there, 262 00:31:24.146 --> 00:31:28.609 just as there is in biological DNA. 263 00:31:29.029 --> 00:31:44.782 There are many correlations between the list of high Sabbaths and DNA, and I'm not going to talk in too much detail about that, 264 00:31:44.792 --> 00:31:50.860 but one key place where we find DNA in the body, 265 00:31:50.870 --> 00:31:55.201 the most readily available source, 266 00:31:55.211 --> 00:31:57.309 is in the blood. 267 00:31:58.460 --> 00:32:09.159 Now this is interesting because it's not actually in the red blood cells, but blood has two different major components, the red blood cells, 268 00:32:09.169 --> 00:32:13.515 and then to a lesser degree there are white blood cells, 269 00:32:13.525 --> 00:32:17.490 and it's those white blood cells that have the DNA. 270 00:32:18.230 --> 00:32:28.879 So this analogy of the high Sabbaths to DNA must relate to the function of the white blood cells. 271 00:32:28.889 --> 00:32:34.050 Who can tell me what white blood cells are for? 272 00:32:34.060 --> 00:32:44.690 Okay, it's a mechanism for defense, protecting your body, it's part of your body's immune system. 273 00:32:45.809 --> 00:32:46.622 Exactly. 274 00:32:46.632 --> 00:32:51.099 And the immune system fights off infections. 275 00:32:51.109 --> 00:33:02.970 So you get infected and your body activates these white blood cells, they multiply and they fight off that infection. 276 00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:18.345 And there's many correlations with that whole biological process of how that happens and how the DNA is used to fight off an infection. 277 00:33:18.355 --> 00:33:24.521 And of course, in the spiritual sense, the infection is what? 278 00:33:24.531 --> 00:33:24.935 Sin. 279 00:33:24.945 --> 00:33:26.230 Sin, exactly. 280 00:33:26.710 --> 00:33:36.924 So the high Sabbaths relate to blood and they relate to fighting off the infection of sin. 281 00:33:36.934 --> 00:33:51.342 That's the spiritual analogy that he who created the body with all of these special molecules and cells, he did that knowingly, 282 00:33:51.352 --> 00:33:59.170 and he put that analogy in there to draw our attention to that work. 283 00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:10.610 We've talked about what the different constellations represent, and the symbolism points to the different commandments. 284 00:34:12.079 --> 00:34:23.170 And the Sabbath is a time commandment and that points to the horologium. 285 00:34:23.180 --> 00:34:39.508 So the blood, we've seen also before how the horologium is the wine press, it represents the blood aspect. 286 00:34:39.518 --> 00:34:45.659 And the other side of the sign is Orion. 287 00:34:46.909 --> 00:34:59.142 And I've drawn it here with the judgment cycle, which is very relevant to those high Sabbaths. 288 00:34:59.152 --> 00:35:06.570 It takes the same time frame from 1846 until 2014 / 2015. 289 00:35:06.580 --> 00:35:15.150 In that time, 168 years, that was what we call the judgment cycle. 290 00:35:15.590 --> 00:35:27.190 It's the time when we looked at all of those high Sabbaths that give information about that blood, that DNA, if you will. 291 00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:32.494 It's a representative of one of the feast days. 292 00:35:32.505 --> 00:35:33.355 Which one? 293 00:35:33.365 --> 00:35:36.510 Yom Kippur, it's the day of judgment. 294 00:35:36.520 --> 00:35:43.289 In the autumn feasts, there was a day of trumpets at the beginning of the month. 295 00:35:43.730 --> 00:35:47.646 Then on the 10th day of the month, there was Yom Kippur. 296 00:35:47.656 --> 00:35:50.314 And it just means the day of judgment. 297 00:35:50.324 --> 00:35:55.480 And then there was the feast of tabernacles with two other Sabbaths there. 298 00:35:56.429 --> 00:36:02.966 So here we have in Orion represented this day of atonement. 299 00:36:02.976 --> 00:36:06.965 It's a feast day, an annual Sabbath. 300 00:36:06.975 --> 00:36:21.579 And the weekly Sabbath, the commandment, the seventh day Sabbath, represented as we saw in the Horologium with the Ten Commandments. 301 00:36:21.860 --> 00:36:32.290 So we have the weekly Sabbath represented in the Horologium, the annual Sabbath represented in Orion. 302 00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:40.354 And we're interested in the high Sabbath, which is when the two come together. 303 00:36:40.364 --> 00:36:45.528 Do you see what combines the Horologium and Orion? 304 00:36:45.538 --> 00:36:48.090 It's the river, Eridanus. 305 00:36:49.550 --> 00:36:54.268 That's the blood that flows from Jesus. 306 00:36:54.278 --> 00:36:59.118 So you see how everything fits together. 307 00:36:59.128 --> 00:37:04.190 The high Sabbaths themselves point to DNA. 308 00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:13.917 They give that visual impression with this long list of spring and autumn with connecting links of the high Sabbaths. 309 00:37:13.927 --> 00:37:15.270 It points to DNA. 310 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.239 It's about the immune system, how we overcome sin in our lives. 311 00:37:20.510 --> 00:37:25.306 And that is through the blood of Jesus Christ. 312 00:37:25.316 --> 00:37:35.118 And so that points directly to the Eridanus, that river of blood that flowed from Jesus' side. 313 00:37:35.128 --> 00:37:45.639 And that's what connects Orion, the annual Sabbath, with Horologium, representing the weekly Sabbath. 314 00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:54.186 So what we see here is that Eridanus points to the high Sabbaths. 315 00:37:54.196 --> 00:38:03.441 It points to that list of high Sabbaths or that DNA of Jesus by which we overcome sin. 316 00:38:03.451 --> 00:38:14.610 And of course, we're familiar with this part inside the sign that represents the Church of Philadelphia. 317 00:38:16.010 --> 00:38:27.982 So the Church of Philadelphia is one that combines the annual Sabbaths with the weekly Sabbaths. 318 00:38:27.992 --> 00:38:42.079 Although we chose our name in 2016, High Sabbath Adventist Society, long before we knew any of this relationship, 319 00:38:42.089 --> 00:38:52.800 but we did understand the high Sabbath list and that it pointed to the DNA of Christ. 320 00:38:53.599 --> 00:39:03.159 And we see that in the sign represented there in that position that we now understand to be the Church of Philadelphia. 321 00:39:03.489 --> 00:39:16.607 With the additional year that we've been talking about in recent weeks, we see those who accept the blood of Jesus, 322 00:39:16.617 --> 00:39:21.739 they continue and ultimately go with Christ. 323 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:28.925 And then on the other side, we have those who reject the blood of Jesus. 324 00:39:28.935 --> 00:39:36.769 So let's look at this relationship a little bit more from the biblical perspective. 325 00:39:37.489 --> 00:39:44.769 Let's look at the Horologium and the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath in the commandment. 326 00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:49.113 It says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 327 00:39:49.123 --> 00:39:52.050 Okay, I'll leave it there for now. 328 00:39:55.099 --> 00:40:05.508 In Orion—remember this points to the Day of Atonement, and that day is described in the book of Leviticus, chapter 16. 329 00:40:05.518 --> 00:40:09.389 That whole chapter is dedicated to this day. 330 00:40:10.920 --> 00:40:21.741 But in verse 29, it says, and this shall be a statute forever unto you, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, 331 00:40:21.751 --> 00:40:26.103 you shall afflict your souls and do no work at all, 332 00:40:26.113 --> 00:40:32.730 whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourneth among you. 333 00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:46.014 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. 334 00:40:46.024 --> 00:40:48.199 You see the relationship? 335 00:40:48.690 --> 00:41:02.307 The priest, Orion, represents Jesus as the high priest, and he cleanses us from our sins by his blood. 336 00:41:02.317 --> 00:41:16.860 And it also mentions that this day would be a day of affliction, of afflicting your souls, and a day of rest. 337 00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:22.194 When no work, so it was a Sabbath day, an annual Sabbath day. 338 00:41:22.204 --> 00:41:31.669 It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, reiterating that point, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute forever. 339 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:32.630 There we go. 340 00:41:35.050 --> 00:41:44.658 And the priest whom ye shall anoint and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office, in his father's stead, 341 00:41:44.668 --> 00:41:46.690 shall make the atonement. 342 00:41:47.829 --> 00:41:56.014 So Orion makes the atonement, if you will, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments. 343 00:41:56.024 --> 00:42:04.679 So it's the priest, it's Jesus in Orion, who gives us, he's the lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 344 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:11.383 That's what is represented in Orion, Alnitak of Orion, the wounded one. 345 00:42:11.393 --> 00:42:17.908 So I just wanted to ask you to remember this affliction of the souls. 346 00:42:17.918 --> 00:42:21.769 Don't let me forget to come back to that. 347 00:42:24.349 --> 00:42:37.295 But meanwhile, let's look back at Colossians, because he says these ceremonial Sabbaths, or the feast Sabbaths, and the weekly Sabbaths, 348 00:42:37.305 --> 00:42:41.960 they are a shadow of things to come in our time. 349 00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:54.713 Now we see that it points to the judgment period and this final time of cleansing in the blood of Jesus. 350 00:42:54.723 --> 00:43:00.599 And that's where it comes to the body of Christ. 351 00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:12.812 So what we see here, we have the day of atonement represented in Orion. 352 00:43:12.822 --> 00:43:16.149 And that comes from which law? 353 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:23.144 That's the ceremonial law, what we would call the law of Moses. 354 00:43:23.154 --> 00:43:31.329 Whereas the weekly Sabbath comes from the moral law, the Ten Commandments. 355 00:43:32.780 --> 00:43:37.287 And Jesus is represented in both. 356 00:43:37.297 --> 00:43:47.269 We have Jesus in Orion, and we have Jesus on the cross in the Horologium. 357 00:43:47.279 --> 00:43:51.241 And where are we represented? 358 00:43:51.251 --> 00:44:07.340 God's people, in general, in the middle of Philadelphia, we're in the body of Christ and receiving the blood of Jesus. 359 00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:18.410 That's the combination of Orion and the Horologium, the annual and the weekly Sabbaths. 360 00:44:18.420 --> 00:44:24.139 And that's where we find that healing represented. 361 00:44:24.149 --> 00:44:37.739 So we have Moses's law represented in Orion, and we have the Ten Commandments, the moral law represented in Horologium. 362 00:44:39.230 --> 00:44:47.641 But here in the body of Christ and his people, there is that combination written where? 363 00:44:47.651 --> 00:44:51.614 In the heart, in the blood of his people. 364 00:44:51.624 --> 00:44:55.008 So that's what this is pointing to. 365 00:44:55.018 --> 00:45:05.429 There's the two different laws on one side, but we have it written in the flesh, in the heart of the people. 366 00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:15.976 So looking back now at the commandment, it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy, six days you shall labor and do all your work. 367 00:45:15.986 --> 00:45:20.425 Now it starts to go into some of the details of the weekly Sabbath. 368 00:45:20.435 --> 00:45:24.059 But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. 369 00:45:24.619 --> 00:45:28.313 In it thou shalt not do any work. 370 00:45:28.323 --> 00:45:42.764 Thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. 371 00:45:42.774 --> 00:45:48.147 Now, how many have manservants and maidservants? 372 00:45:48.157 --> 00:45:48.940 Nobody? 373 00:45:48.950 --> 00:45:54.059 This is a description that is very particular. 374 00:45:55.420 --> 00:46:00.878 It's geared specifically toward the culture in which it was given. 375 00:46:00.888 --> 00:46:06.512 At the beginning, it says, remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 376 00:46:06.522 --> 00:46:15.599 But then he starts giving these details that were pertaining to those people specifically and their lifestyle. 377 00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:21.880 And then it continues, now it gives the reason to keep the Sabbath. 378 00:46:21.890 --> 00:46:29.788 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day. 379 00:46:29.798 --> 00:46:31.679 That's an important point. 380 00:46:32.989 --> 00:46:39.293 It's going back to creation and the rest on the seventh day. 381 00:46:39.303 --> 00:46:45.501 Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. 382 00:46:45.511 --> 00:46:52.110 Now, this blessing, you can read the whole Bible front to back. 383 00:46:53.119 --> 00:46:58.766 There's nowhere where that blessing is taken away. 384 00:46:58.776 --> 00:47:02.163 The Sabbath is blessed by God. 385 00:47:02.173 --> 00:47:16.953 If it weren't for the Sabbath day, we would have never come to the understanding of the high Sabbath and its relation to the blood, 386 00:47:16.963 --> 00:47:18.533 to salvation, 387 00:47:18.543 --> 00:47:24.400 or any of the many things that have come from that. 388 00:47:25.409 --> 00:47:33.377 It's only made possible because of the keeping of the Sabbath. 389 00:47:33.387 --> 00:47:38.528 It enabled us to make those discoveries. 390 00:47:38.538 --> 00:47:47.000 All right, let's look at this passage first in Matthew chapter 12. 391 00:47:48.889 --> 00:47:55.632 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn, that is the wheat fields, 392 00:47:55.642 --> 00:48:01.909 and his disciples were in hunger and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat. 393 00:48:02.449 --> 00:48:11.300 So they're wandering through this field, his disciples are with him and they just nibble on some of the wheat that is growing in the field. 394 00:48:12.250 --> 00:48:20.440 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the Sabbath day. 395 00:48:21.739 --> 00:48:29.300 So here we're getting into details of how to keep the Sabbath, or at least that's what the story is about. 396 00:48:29.310 --> 00:48:39.000 And there was a disagreement between the Pharisees and how they would keep the Sabbath and how Jesus and his disciples kept the Sabbath. 397 00:48:39.820 --> 00:48:53.869 Because Jesus didn't say, Oh, sorry, my disciples shouldn't have been eating or getting the grain out of the kernels on the Sabbath day. 398 00:48:54.480 --> 00:49:02.718 But Jesus said unto them, Have you not read what David did when he was an hungered and they that were with him? 399 00:49:02.728 --> 00:49:12.961 How he entered into the house of God and did eat the showbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, 400 00:49:12.971 --> 00:49:14.889 but only for the priests. 401 00:49:16.469 --> 00:49:20.053 Now, what law is Jesus talking about this? 402 00:49:20.063 --> 00:49:23.647 He says it wasn't lawful for David to eat. 403 00:49:23.657 --> 00:49:27.050 It's a ceremonial law, the law of Moses. 404 00:49:27.239 --> 00:49:33.289 There it's written in the essence that that was only for the priests. 405 00:49:34.170 --> 00:49:36.789 And then he continues and he says, 406 00:49:36.799 --> 00:49:46.495 Or have you not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless? 407 00:49:46.505 --> 00:49:49.509 And what law is he talking about there? 408 00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:50.269 Which law? 409 00:49:51.539 --> 00:49:53.717 That's the fourth commandment. 410 00:49:53.727 --> 00:50:03.079 He's talking about profaning the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath, because the priests, they always had work on every day of the week. 411 00:50:03.730 --> 00:50:05.339 They would be working. 412 00:50:05.349 --> 00:50:13.688 And therefore, that work was profaning the Sabbath because the Sabbath says you shall not work on the seventh day. 413 00:50:13.698 --> 00:50:16.969 And yet Jesus pointed out they are blameless. 414 00:50:18.170 --> 00:50:30.059 But Jesus continues, If ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. 415 00:50:30.069 --> 00:50:35.519 So again, he reiterates that his disciples are also guiltless. 416 00:50:35.900 --> 00:50:41.317 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day. 417 00:50:41.327 --> 00:50:45.150 Now that's a power-packed statement. 418 00:50:45.160 --> 00:50:51.619 And I would like to look at that in a little bit more detail. 419 00:50:52.280 --> 00:50:58.840 So first of all, he says, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. 420 00:50:58.850 --> 00:51:08.160 We talked a couple of weeks ago about how that connects with the sign of the Son of Man. 421 00:51:08.170 --> 00:51:11.027 Where is mercy represented? 422 00:51:11.037 --> 00:51:11.960 In Orion. 423 00:51:12.590 --> 00:51:19.159 And sacrifice, that's represented in the Horologium. 424 00:51:19.169 --> 00:51:32.688 And of course, we have already seen how the Sabbath, the weekly Sabbath, is represented there at the cross. 425 00:51:32.698 --> 00:51:38.636 And Jesus said, take up your cross and do what? 426 00:51:38.646 --> 00:51:39.880 Follow me. 427 00:51:40.260 --> 00:51:45.688 And where did Jesus go from the cross? 428 00:51:45.698 --> 00:51:52.840 Yeah, following K2, he was buried and resurrected. 429 00:51:52.850 --> 00:51:57.829 After the cross, he took his cross. 430 00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:06.207 If we are to take his cross and follow him (of course, we first come to the cross), but after that, 431 00:52:06.217 --> 00:52:10.039 we take the cross through burial and baptism. 432 00:52:10.380 --> 00:52:18.834 And then in resurrection, the newness of the life of Christ. 433 00:52:18.844 --> 00:52:37.860 So what this represents is a process from going from sin, the sacrifice, the sacrifice that was made for sin, Jesus dying on the cross, 434 00:52:37.870 --> 00:52:40.255 through baptism, 435 00:52:40.265 --> 00:52:43.072 that death to self, 436 00:52:43.082 --> 00:52:46.594 and then having freedom, 437 00:52:46.604 --> 00:52:49.130 freedom from sin. 438 00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:53.754 That's the process that is illustrated. 439 00:52:53.764 --> 00:53:00.791 And that's what Jesus means when he says, take up your cross and follow me. 440 00:53:00.801 --> 00:53:05.559 He's saying, leave sin behind and be free from sin. 441 00:53:06.360 --> 00:53:16.471 And when we're free from sin, that's when we have the law written in our hearts. 442 00:53:16.481 --> 00:53:25.329 It's when we no longer need the written law because it's in the flesh. 443 00:53:25.339 --> 00:53:28.099 The Sabbath is a rest. 444 00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:35.744 It points to our rest in Christ, in his sacrifice. 445 00:53:35.754 --> 00:53:37.772 We come to rest. 446 00:53:37.782 --> 00:53:48.480 And that rest brings us the freedom from sin that we have through Christ's sacrifice. 447 00:53:49.400 --> 00:53:55.820 Now, there's something that Paul said that drives this point home. 448 00:53:55.830 --> 00:54:08.659 In Galatians chapter 3, he says, wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster, the commandments, the law was our schoolmaster to do what? 449 00:54:10.179 --> 00:54:19.143 To bring us to Christ, to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 450 00:54:19.153 --> 00:54:26.400 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 451 00:54:29.460 --> 00:54:43.013 So the law, whether Moses' law or the Sabbath or the Ten Commandments, the law was given as a schoolmaster. 452 00:54:43.023 --> 00:54:45.176 That's a teacher. 453 00:54:45.186 --> 00:54:56.059 When a teacher is teaching something, they use props or illustrations to make a point. 454 00:54:57.340 --> 00:55:06.108 And we saw how even in the Sabbath commandment, and it's also the case in some of the other commandments, 455 00:55:06.118 --> 00:55:11.619 the wording there is not very relevant to us in the 21st century. 456 00:55:13.099 --> 00:55:20.428 Most people, at least in our modern societies in the cities, don't have cattle. 457 00:55:20.438 --> 00:55:28.219 And if they do have cattle, like we have some cows here, we don't use them for work. 458 00:55:28.940 --> 00:55:35.540 Like the Sabbath commandment was talking, refrain from making your cattle work. 459 00:55:35.550 --> 00:55:47.070 But in those days, the cattle were the strong animals and they would use them for work— the oxen to plow the field or to thresh the grain. 460 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:50.159 They would do that kind of work using the animals. 461 00:55:50.530 --> 00:56:02.545 And therefore, God was writing in the commandments targeting those people who were in that kind of a lifestyle and saying, don't do that. 462 00:56:02.555 --> 00:56:06.579 They had servants, men servants, maidservants. 463 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:12.599 And therefore, he was showing how it applied to them. 464 00:56:12.609 --> 00:56:22.398 There was an underlying principle in the law that he was using that he wanted to teach them. 465 00:56:22.408 --> 00:56:27.389 And that's what the purpose of the law was for. 466 00:56:27.389 --> 00:56:35.084 It was a tool to teach them that underlying principle. 467 00:56:35.094 --> 00:56:40.223 I want to back up here a little bit. 468 00:56:40.233 --> 00:56:49.190 In Orion, we mentioned that it represents the Day of Atonement. 469 00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:53.205 That was that feast day in the beginning. 470 00:56:53.215 --> 00:56:55.212 I said, don't let me forget. 471 00:56:55.222 --> 00:57:00.340 And that's what I want to come to now about the affliction of the souls. 472 00:57:00.900 --> 00:57:02.265 All right. 473 00:57:02.275 --> 00:57:14.428 This Day of Atonement, it was one day out of the year, but that was in the ancient times. 474 00:57:14.438 --> 00:57:31.760 In the end time history, it points to a whole clock cycle, actually 168 years that represents that time of afflicting the soul. 475 00:57:33.429 --> 00:57:47.581 And this is the same time when the schoolmaster was needed again, when God saw fit to bring his people back to the law, 476 00:57:47.591 --> 00:57:50.673 back to the schoolmaster, 477 00:57:50.683 --> 00:57:55.429 because they had forgotten some things. 478 00:57:56.219 --> 00:58:00.294 They didn't have his law in their heart anymore. 479 00:58:00.304 --> 00:58:03.860 And so they needed that instruction again. 480 00:58:03.860 --> 00:58:08.027 And so he brought a certain church. 481 00:58:08.037 --> 00:58:16.966 He raised up a church in this time frame, the Seventh-day Adventist church. 482 00:58:16.976 --> 00:58:30.417 And they had an understanding of the law, the Sabbath, and they observed the weekly Sabbath throughout this time, 483 00:58:30.427 --> 00:58:36.840 in addition to some other aspects of the law as well. 484 00:58:37.309 --> 00:58:47.011 And that was, as Paul said, as a schoolmaster, bringing God's people back again to Christ, 485 00:58:47.021 --> 00:58:53.048 coming back from the law to being written in the heart. 486 00:58:53.058 --> 00:58:57.478 And so that's the affliction of the soul. 487 00:58:57.488 --> 00:59:00.809 That's what it's talking about. 488 00:59:00.989 --> 00:59:09.673 Traditionally, the Jews would fast on the Day of Atonement, on that Judgment Day. 489 00:59:09.683 --> 00:59:23.610 And so even that is represented in some special dietary habits that God gave to the Seventh-day Adventist church during that time. 490 00:59:26.010 --> 00:59:33.376 But the question is, do you fast forever, or is it an allotted time? 491 00:59:33.386 --> 00:59:46.699 It's always an allotted time, and that time was specified, in fact, very clearly, identified as from evening until evening. 492 00:59:46.960 --> 00:59:55.355 Just that Day of Atonement, that was their time when they would afflict their souls. 493 00:59:55.365 --> 01:00:06.449 But afterward, they were freed from that affliction, from that burden of heart and sorrow of heart, as it were. 494 01:00:08.960 --> 01:00:10.728 And therefore, 495 01:00:10.738 --> 01:00:21.659 what we see is this period of time when God intentionally brought the law back so that 496 01:00:21.669 --> 01:00:32.579 it would serve as a schoolmaster to re-teach what his people had lost over the years. 497 01:00:33.010 --> 01:00:44.508 Because unfortunately, what tends to happen is when the law is used to bring us to Christ, that's good. 498 01:00:44.518 --> 01:00:48.202 That's how it's supposed to work. 499 01:00:48.212 --> 01:01:01.030 But it can be abused in that we say, okay, I'm not under the law, and therefore, I don't have to do certain things. 500 01:01:02.150 --> 01:01:05.732 And then the human nature kicks in. 501 01:01:05.742 --> 01:01:16.074 And then instead of doing God's will and having his law written in our hearts, which is the same law, 502 01:01:16.084 --> 01:01:27.123 it's the underlying principles of the commandments and the underlying principles that went into Moses' law, 503 01:01:27.133 --> 01:01:30.090 that's written in the heart. 504 01:01:31.159 --> 01:01:42.360 But if we use that as an excuse to do what our own fleshly heart wants to do, then we get into trouble. 505 01:01:43.099 --> 01:01:53.561 And then ultimately, we need the rules again to say, no, you follow the rule, and if you don't, you get a spanking. 506 01:01:53.571 --> 01:01:56.199 That's more or less the idea. 507 01:01:56.900 --> 01:02:10.788 And so, what we have is, although we are no longer under the schoolmaster, if we have the law written in our hearts, because we have Christ, 508 01:02:10.798 --> 01:02:14.260 and we receive him into our heart, 509 01:02:14.270 --> 01:02:18.130 then we're not under the schoolmaster. 510 01:02:18.789 --> 01:02:26.559 And then we can ask ourselves if we are at peace with him. 511 01:02:26.569 --> 01:02:39.820 We go from the tables of stone, the Ten Commandments, to singing the song on the ten-stringed harp. 512 01:02:40.820 --> 01:02:51.300 That's what is represented in the Revelation when it talks about the 144,000 singing a new song with their harps. 513 01:02:52.369 --> 01:03:01.697 It's pointing to the Ten Commandments, the law of God, being written in the heart of his people. 514 01:03:01.707 --> 01:03:08.412 And when you're singing a song, what happens if you forget the words? 515 01:03:08.422 --> 01:03:11.900 You have to look at it again, right? 516 01:03:12.090 --> 01:03:19.306 If you don't know it, we say in English at least, by heart, then you have to look at the words. 517 01:03:19.316 --> 01:03:21.130 It's the same principle. 518 01:03:21.130 --> 01:03:29.150 The words on the commandments give us a tangible way to understand the principles. 519 01:03:29.160 --> 01:03:36.289 It's just the teaching aid to show us what God really wants in the heart. 520 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:51.054 Now, the reason this is very important, this understanding of the Sabbath and how it points to the law being written in the heart, 521 01:03:51.064 --> 01:03:54.099 especially the High Sabbath. 522 01:03:56.150 --> 01:04:06.420 This is very important, especially for this time that we're living in, because of the things that are happening in the world. 523 01:04:09.429 --> 01:04:17.751 We've been keeping watch on the developments with the bird flu, 524 01:04:17.761 --> 01:04:29.110 and now it has progressed to the next step where they say it's been detected in milk. 525 01:04:29.860 --> 01:04:38.059 Even fragments of the virus have been found in a certain amount of the even pasteurized milk. 526 01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:53.831 So, little by little, they're building it up to make a case, it looks like, for another big pandemic with this bird flu situation. 527 01:04:53.841 --> 01:04:58.342 Every day, it's developing more and more. 528 01:04:58.352 --> 01:05:04.809 And we see this in connection with the digital health pass. 529 01:05:04.809 --> 01:05:18.809 We talked about that also with, you remember, the 666 in the crossings of the Horologium, as we've seen before. 530 01:05:19.510 --> 01:05:30.752 And the times when it crosses, they were relevant to when the world was putting out this digital health pass at the beginning, 531 01:05:30.762 --> 01:05:32.090 February 20th. 532 01:05:32.100 --> 01:05:36.820 And then, again, in May, they will be voting on that. 533 01:05:38.900 --> 01:05:49.409 And this is very relevant to us, because there's even parts of the world today where this can be implemented overnight. 534 01:05:50.550 --> 01:06:05.522 In fact, in China, it already is implemented, where to do various forms of business, you have to have your QR code scanned. 535 01:06:05.532 --> 01:06:16.599 Everybody scans their QR code in China, and that links to their status with the government. 536 01:06:16.789 --> 01:06:25.942 And if they don't have a green pass, they don't get their product or service or whatever it is that they are going to get. 537 01:06:25.952 --> 01:06:33.519 So that is very severely limiting to those who, for example, have criticized the government in China. 538 01:06:34.539 --> 01:06:44.280 Those people then are degraded from a green pass to a yellow pass, and now the companies don't want to serve them. 539 01:06:44.820 --> 01:06:47.777 That's how things are going. 540 01:06:47.787 --> 01:06:48.949 That's now. 541 01:06:48.959 --> 01:07:00.038 And in another part of the world, in Italy, just this week, there was, I think it was yesterday, in fact, 542 01:07:00.048 --> 01:07:09.639 was the first day that they instituted a fee for visiting the city of Venice as a tourist. 543 01:07:10.179 --> 01:07:16.648 Yes, a five-euro fee that you have to pay, and they also have a QR code. 544 01:07:16.658 --> 01:07:27.429 You just go and you get this QR code, and then wherever you go throughout the city, they scan this QR code that you got. 545 01:07:28.400 --> 01:07:39.252 And it makes it convenient in some ways, but at every place you scan it, immediately they know where you've been, at what time, 546 01:07:39.262 --> 01:07:44.550 and so they can track your movements all throughout the city. 547 01:07:44.980 --> 01:07:55.119 And in China's case, who are much more advanced in this idea, they can track you wherever you are in the whole country, pretty much. 548 01:07:56.260 --> 01:08:11.968 So we see this is where things are going, and it's not much of a stretch to say one other aspect in addition to your tourist QR code, 549 01:08:11.978 --> 01:08:15.157 they have the health pass, 550 01:08:15.167 --> 01:08:18.109 the digital health pass. 551 01:08:18.449 --> 01:08:26.199 So you add that on there, and then, oh, you haven't gotten up to date on your latest booster shots. 552 01:08:27.140 --> 01:08:36.284 Well, then you can't access the things that you are accustomed to doing. 553 01:08:36.294 --> 01:08:41.120 So that's where we're going with this. 554 01:08:41.130 --> 01:08:51.270 And what are the things in the world that are subject to regulation in this way? 555 01:08:52.260 --> 01:09:05.846 We talked about the inoculations, and there's also if you speak against the government, say, in China, but in general, 556 01:09:05.856 --> 01:09:14.826 if you speak against LGBT or anything that could be construed as hate speech, 557 01:09:14.836 --> 01:09:21.619 then these things will be tallied up and held against you. 558 01:09:22.079 --> 01:09:33.446 And it's a very convenient way for the government to regulate what you can do or not do, whether you can buy or sell, 559 01:09:33.456 --> 01:09:36.457 in the terms of Revelation 13. 560 01:09:36.467 --> 01:09:41.033 And the other one is the climate change agenda. 561 01:09:41.043 --> 01:09:46.949 He called the Pope called the climate deniers fools, you say. 562 01:09:47.079 --> 01:09:47.616 Yes. 563 01:09:47.626 --> 01:09:49.637 So interesting. 564 01:09:49.647 --> 01:10:06.250 There's, of course, a huge push for climate habits that are supposedly good for the climate, lowering your carbon footprint. 565 01:10:07.050 --> 01:10:09.197 The last World Youth Day, 566 01:10:09.207 --> 01:10:19.336 they already rolled out a system also on the cell phone where they track everybody's food and their carbon footprint, 567 01:10:19.346 --> 01:10:20.367 ultimately, 568 01:10:20.377 --> 01:10:27.670 but looking at all the different ways according to what they did during that period. 569 01:10:29.539 --> 01:10:35.799 And so these are the things that matter to the world today. 570 01:10:35.809 --> 01:10:40.149 The Sabbath points to all three of those. 571 01:10:40.899 --> 01:10:48.469 We've seen that before, how in the— Let me back up a little bit here. 572 01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:56.486 We've seen before how in the river, we understand now why that's the DNA. 573 01:10:56.496 --> 01:10:59.000 It's the DNA of Christ. 574 01:10:59.260 --> 01:11:10.656 But this part where Cetus is taking hold of the river, that corresponds to the vaccine. 575 01:11:10.666 --> 01:11:15.109 And that foreign DNA, if you will. 576 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:31.720 Then there's also, you can't see it so well there, but that's a statue, an image, the image of the beast, if you will, 577 01:11:31.730 --> 01:11:38.170 that represents the false sexuality in the LGBT movement. 578 01:11:38.979 --> 01:11:45.793 And then there's the furnace representing the climate change. 579 01:11:45.803 --> 01:11:54.850 So we have these three aspects all here represented in the presence of the river. 580 01:11:54.860 --> 01:12:00.090 And the solution is to stick with Jesus' blood. 581 01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:08.340 But we have to be decided about that because these are very serious things. 582 01:12:08.350 --> 01:12:18.950 And when they cut off our ability to buy groceries, then it's going to be very challenging in those times. 583 01:12:18.960 --> 01:12:24.840 And we have to be ready, psychologically prepared for that. 584 01:12:25.699 --> 01:12:32.801 And that's a matter of deciding in advance who we stand with and what we stand for. 585 01:12:32.811 --> 01:12:40.930 The underlying principle of the Sabbath goes back to the creation, to the creator, and to rest. 586 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:53.760 Resting in Christ, trusting in the DNA that he gave us, the immune system that he gave us that will empower us to overcome sin. 587 01:12:54.890 --> 01:12:59.779 That's what the Sabbath represents. 588 01:12:59.789 --> 01:13:08.439 That's what the weekly rest was to drive home to God's people. 589 01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:16.436 But just as a teacher wouldn't use an illustration in the classroom to teach the students, 590 01:13:16.446 --> 01:13:23.340 and then all the students go out and the only thing they know is that illustration. 591 01:13:23.989 --> 01:13:27.635 They want to teach a principle, right? 592 01:13:27.645 --> 01:13:29.948 So it is with God's law. 593 01:13:29.958 --> 01:13:39.340 He wants to teach us that underlying principle of honoring the creator and finding rest in Christ. 594 01:13:39.510 --> 01:13:46.479 Yes, it's that narrow entrance, the narrow way into that rest of Christ. 595 01:13:46.739 --> 01:13:53.247 Jesus said, come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest. 596 01:13:53.257 --> 01:13:58.060 So there's a lot of deception in the world about these things. 597 01:13:58.070 --> 01:14:05.100 And a correct understanding of the Sabbath highlights those issues that are most important. 598 01:14:05.899 --> 01:14:13.039 So to that end, I want to remind everyone of what Jesus said. 599 01:14:13.049 --> 01:14:23.340 This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 600 01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:40.060 That's the blood that we're talking about, that high Sabbath blood that represents our trust in his ways as the creator. 601 01:14:41.609 --> 01:15:00.601 And we have on May 24th, after sunset, we are calling for a Lord's Supper to celebrate his gift of his sacrifice, his body, 602 01:15:00.611 --> 01:15:08.630 and his sacrifice is the blood that he gave for us. 603 01:15:09.579 --> 01:15:14.990 And so I just want to remind everyone of that. 604 01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:23.351 This is the anniversary of his own last supper on the 24th of May in A. 605 01:15:23.361 --> 01:15:23.597 D. 606 01:15:23.607 --> 01:15:23.930 31. 607 01:15:25.100 --> 01:15:26.065 All right. 608 01:15:26.075 --> 01:15:28.007 I hope that's clear. 609 01:15:28.017 --> 01:15:28.479 Good. 610 01:15:29.539 --> 01:15:32.489 Let's stand for a word of prayer. 611 01:15:32.499 --> 01:15:39.729 Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for the message that you give to us in your word. 612 01:15:40.819 --> 01:15:57.113 Thank you for your ways that are higher than our ways and how you have given the law in the past to your people, the Jews, 613 01:15:57.123 --> 01:16:00.720 and to lead them to Jesus. 614 01:16:03.279 --> 01:16:13.373 And then for many centuries, your people went without the letter of the law, but they lost their way. 615 01:16:13.383 --> 01:16:15.981 They lost sight of Christ. 616 01:16:15.991 --> 01:16:18.670 They lost their first love. 617 01:16:20.090 --> 01:16:36.353 And so you raised up a people who went back to the law, who gave regard to your commandments, and fulfilled, as it were, 618 01:16:36.363 --> 01:16:39.471 the letter of the law, 619 01:16:39.481 --> 01:16:46.789 so that it could be once again taught to your people. 620 01:16:48.119 --> 01:17:03.932 And now we're in this time when it must be in our hearts, because you're not after the superficial details of our lives, 621 01:17:03.942 --> 01:17:07.226 but you want our hearts. 622 01:17:07.236 --> 01:17:16.449 And you want your law that governs your kingdom written in our hearts. 623 01:17:20.689 --> 01:17:26.365 And when that law is written there, it protects us, 624 01:17:26.375 --> 01:17:38.271 because through it we understand what is good and right and what is necessary in this world for this time, 625 01:17:38.281 --> 01:17:40.720 because it is living. 626 01:17:42.039 --> 01:17:46.252 It is in the blood where there is life. 627 01:17:46.262 --> 01:17:51.760 So we thank you for writing your law in our hearts. 628 01:17:53.760 --> 01:17:56.601 And we still make mistakes, 629 01:17:56.611 --> 01:18:09.232 and we just ask that you will help us in every way where there might be something that is not fully surrendered to you, 630 01:18:09.242 --> 01:18:14.180 that we would give that up and do so promptly. 631 01:18:15.909 --> 01:18:23.119 Because we need to be available for your service, to draw many to you. 632 01:18:26.149 --> 01:18:29.845 That your will may be done on earth. 633 01:18:29.855 --> 01:18:40.013 So we praise you for your works, because it is in your works that we trust, that we have our faith, 634 01:18:40.023 --> 01:18:44.630 as it is seen in the sign of the Son of Man. 635 01:18:46.810 --> 01:18:55.009 We praise your name for these things, in the name of Jesus Alnitak, the wounded one of Orion. 636 01:18:55.019 --> 01:18:55.449 Amen. 637 01:18:57.510 --> 01:19:00.630 Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you again next week.