An in-depth bible study seminar on the evidences that God will give new light to His people due to circumstances and hearts being open to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Part 2

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Dennis Priebe

New Light for Adventists- Part 2

Father in heaven, as we study your word once again, and we study it on studying a sensitive subject, please help us by your Holy Spirit to understand correctly your will for this time.

All right, as you see, our subject is the feast days.

Over the past few decades, I have been receiving a large number of papers and open letters and booklets on 1 theme.

The necessity of observing the national festivals or feasts given to the Hebrews along with the Sabbath days connected with those feasts.

This movement has been gathering momentum again among those seriously preparing for final events.

Much has been written and spoken on this subject.

It's totally impossible to cover everything in 1 meeting.

And there's a fair amount of technical material based on the meanings of Hebrew words and historical practices.

So today I'm just going to address major issues, hopefully enough for us to make clear decisions about this subject.

Now as in the last subject yesterday, truth is at the basis of the claims for the feast days.

God gave Israel marvelous, a marvelous sequence of observances throughout the year to teach major lessons of the plan of salvation in every particular feast.

How God was handling the great controversy.

Every year the Israelites were to repeat these lessons so that their children growing up would understand what was happening in God's perspective.

The torch of truth would be passed on to the next generation.

These were very, very crucial teaching lessons.

And then, because of apostasy in the Christian church after the apostles had gone off the scene, and because of animosity to everything Jewish in the 2 or 3 centuries after Christ was here.

These observances were totally forgotten except by a few Jews here and there.

And they were replaced, guess what, with Christmas and Easter and Halloween, the best of all.

If Christians would have remained faithful to these observances of these feasts in terms of what they taught and what they meant, it would be very easy to understand the different aspects of the atonement, that there is 1 part in the outer court and then there's another part in the most holy place.

It would be easy to understand the reasons for a judgment at the very end of time.

It would be easy to understand Christ's new work since 1844 if Christians would have understood and remembered the lessons of the feasts that had been given to Israel.

If Seventh-day Adventists would have studied the feasts more carefully, We would not be in confusion today, for instance, about righteousness by faith, justification and sanctification, or the judgment, or the purpose of the last generation.

The feasts were and are a tremendous teaching tool for understanding God's plan of salvation.

But make no mistake, those who are promoting the feast today are saying much more than this.

These new claims in recent years are the ones I'm going to be addressing today.

This is from those who believe in the feast days.

Those who go through the end and are translated will be teaching the statutes and judgments.

The Law is the 10 Commandments and the statutes.

It is also the fundamental teaching which the 144, 000 must embrace if they are to give the loud cry.

The antediluvians were destroyed for not keeping the statutes, and this will be the ultimate factor which brings the end destruction upon mankind.

The 144, 000 will teach the statutes in the last days.

The statute message is the very heart of the message carried in the loud cry to the world.

Since the feasts are part of the statutes, Those are all those laws that were given to Moses to be written down, put in the side of the ark.

Since the feasts are part of the statutes, we are being told right here in these statements that only feast keepers will be translated, that it is necessary to be part of the 144, 000, that it is the heart of the final message to be taken to the world.

If that is not part of our message, we aren't giving the loud cry at all.

So it's become much more than a teaching tool, it has become the final test by which the 144, 000 will be determined.

For instance, regarding the hail stones that come in the seventh plague, the last plague, God now stones with hail those who refuse to keep his holy days.

So if you're not keeping the annual feast days, you will receive that plague of hail and you will be destroyed by it.

Alright, we're going to go right into it.

I'm going to do as I did yesterday and just go point by point and talk about the issues that are raised by those who believe in the feast days.

The claim is that the feasts were part of the heavenly sanctuary before Lucifer fell and that they were part of the creation of this earth before sin ever entered in.

And it is based on a Hebrew word, M-O-E-D, Moed.

Now that word can have a number of meanings in the original language.

It can mean appointment or festival and that's the term usually used, festival, or assembly, or congregation, or even appointed time.

Every time the word moed is used, they say, that's a feast that was kept in heaven, before sin, Abraham, etc., way before Mount Sinai.

And it is completely improper to assume that wherever that word is used it always refers to the Jewish feasts.

The meaning varies according to context and the usage of the subject that's being discussed.

We're really gonna hit the Bible text this morning, so I hope you have your Bible with you right now.

We're gonna go to a book that we hardly ever look up, the book of Lamentations.

And we're gonna read chapter 1, verse 15.

I'll wait a moment so that you have time to look it up.

The Lord hath trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me, he hath called an assembly, " there's that word, moed, here it's translated assembly, against me to crush my young men.

It's the assembly of Israel's adversaries.

Does this have anything to do with the Feast?

It's Israel's adversaries assembling together to try to destroy Israel.

So the word there has nothing to do with Feast.

I think this 1 you'll find very interesting because it's their assembly.

Numbers 14, verse 10, But all the congregation bid stone them with stones.

Caleb and Joshua coming back from the promised land.

And the glory of the Lord appeared, et cetera.

All the congregation, that's the word moed.

Is that anything to do with the feast days?

These are the rebels in Israel who want to destroy Caleb and Joshua.

And so that's a sample of how this word is used.

I'll give you a couple more texts we won't look up if you want to jot them down.

Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 7 and Hosea chapter 2 verse 9.

So the claim, the claim that they make that since the plan of redemption was laid at the foundation of the world And the feasts are unfolding of that plan of redemption.

Therefore the feasts were established at creation." Well, that's an interesting logical deduction.

Just 1 problem, there's no evidence of that in Scripture.

And the word moed can't be used to prove that even close.

The Passover began, as you all know, this is not a rocket science here.

It began when the Israelites were delivered from Egypt and the blood was put on the doorposts.

That's the first Passover that was ever kept.

And then the Day of Atonement had to wait until the whole system was set up at Mount Sinai with the yearly cycle and all of the feasts connected with that.

New Light for Adventists- Part 2

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