Deuteronomy 5:27-31
After Fearing God's Voice, The Hebrews Are Sent To Their Tents, And The Statutes Are Given To Moses "Directly From The Lips Of Christ"
“The Lord has plainly specified the duty of those He has created ... The same voice that spoke the sermon on the mount spoke to Moses from the pillar of cloud, enjoining obedience on the children of Israel: ‘Thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God . . . Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.’ . . . . These words came directly from the lips of Christ. He was just as verily the Redeemer of His people then as He was when He came to our world in human form.” Review and Herald, June 6, 1899.
Malachi 4:4-6
The Elijah Message Involves God's Statutes And Applies To Fathers And Ministers
“The light esteem in which the law of God is held, even by religious leaders, has been productive of great evil. The teaching which has become so widespread, that the divine statutes are no longer binding upon men, is the same as idolatry in its effect upon the morals of the people. Those who seek to lessen the claims of God's holy law are striking directly at the foundations of the government of families and nations. Religious parents, failing to walk in His statutes, do not command their household to keep the way of the Lord. The law of God is not made the rule of life . . . .
“A reformation in this respect is needed-a reformation which shall be deep and broad. Parents need to reform; ministers need to reform; they need God in their households.
Patriarchs and Prophets, page 143.
Deuteronomy 6:1, 2, 8
"Bind Them [Statutes] For A Sign Upon Thine Hand, And . . . As Frontlets Between Thine Eyes"
Deuteronomy 28:1, 2, 15, 45
God's Blessings And Curses Are Conditional Upon Keeping God's Statutes
Hebrews 7:5
“Tithes” Is Not Part Of The 10 Commandment “Law.”
Numbers 18:21-23
Tithing Is A “Divinely Ordained” Statute
“The tithing system did not originate with the Hebrews. From the earliest times the Lord claimed a tithe as His, and this claim was recognized and honored. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, the priest of the most high God. Genesis 14:20. Jacob, when at Bethel, an exile and a wanderer, promised the Lord, 'Of all that Thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.' Genesis 28:22. As the Israelites were about to be established as a nation, the law of tithing was REAFFIRMED as one of the divinely ordained statutes upon obedience to which their prosperity depended.
Patriarchs and Prophets, page 525 [Emphasis supplied.]
Genesis 26:5
God's Statutes Were Kept By Abraham 430 Years Before The Ceremonial Law Was Given To Moses
Leviticus 3:17
The Prohibition Against Fat And Blood Is A Statute
Thousands who profess to believe the Scriptures, are confused on the health message because they do not understand God's statutes; it is simpler to explain the health message through the statutes, than through the writings of Ellen G. White!
“In seeking to cast contempt upon the divine statutes, Satan has perverted the doctrines of the Bible, and errors have been incorporated into the faith of thousands who profess to believe the Scriptures. The last great conflict between truth and error is but the final struggle of the long standing controversy concerning the law of God. Upon this battle we are now entering-a battle between the laws of men and the precepts of Jehovah, between the religion of the Bible and the religion of fable and tradition.
The Great Controversy, page 582.
Leviticus 10:9
The Prohibition Against Alcohol Is A Statute
Leviticus 10:10, 11
The Prohibition Against Unclean Beasts Is A Statute
Genesis 7:2
Noah Was A Statute-keeper. He Brought The Clean Beasts By Two, And The Unclean Beasts By Seven
“The great plan of redemption results in fully bringing back the world into God's favor. All that was lost by sin is restored . . . For six thousand years Satan has struggled to maintain possession of the earth. Now God's original purpose in its creation is accomplished . . . . The sacred statutes which Satan has hated and sought to destroy, will be honored throughout a sinless universe. Patriarchs and Prophets, page 342.
Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41
God Says Four Times That His Feasts Are Statutes For Ever!
Leviticus 23:1-3
The Sabbath Is The First Of God's Feasts. If We Nail The Feasts To The Cross, We Must Also Nail The Sabbath!
Why Did Mrs. White Prophesy That Nominal Adventists Would Be Enraged, As The Sabbath Is Proclaimed More Fully?
“And at the commencement of the time of trouble, we were filled with the Holy Ghost as we went forth and proclaimed the Sabbath more fully. This enraged the churches and nominal Adventists, as they could not refute the Sabbath truth. Early Writings, page 33.
As God's people realize that the Sabbath is the first of God's feasts, churches and nominal Adventists are enraged because they cannot refute the Sabbath truth. As a result, feast-keeping has become the most controversial and explosive topic in Adventism!
God's Feasts Were Kept By Christians Until A. D. 325 At The Council Of Nice
Mrs. White wrote 40 years before her death that God's “statutes were explicitly given to guard the ten commandments.” It is a historical fact that the Apostolic Church kept God's feasts for 325 years after the cross. It was not until the Council of Nice, in A.D. 325, that God's feasts were replaced by pagan feasts. Once the "guards" were down, the Catholic Church, in A.D. 364, at the Council of Laodicea, enacted the first Sunday Law.
“In 325 the Council of Nice was held . . . Great disputes had arisen as to the time of celebrating Easter. Moreover, the Church was not fully established, many Christians being still simply Jewish sectarians. A new rule was therefore made, which, while still keeping Easter dependent on the moon, prevented it from coinciding with Passover. . . .
“Under the reign of Constantius (337-361) the persecutions of the Jews reached such a height that all religious exercises, including the computation of the calendar, were forbidden under pain of severe punishment. . . .
“The persecutions under Constantius finally decided the patriarch, Hillel II. (330-365), to publish rules for the computation of the calendar, which had hitherto been regarded as a secret science. The political difficulties attendant upon the meetings of the Sanhedrin became so numerous in this period and the consequent uncertainty of the feast-days was so great, that R. Huna b. Abin made known the following secret of the calendar to Raba in Babylonia: Whenever it becomes apparent that the winter will last till the 16th of Nisan, make the year a leap-year without hesitation.
“This unselfish promulgation of the calendar, though it destroyed the hold of the patriarchs on the scattered Judeans, fixed the celebration of the Jewish feasts upon the same day everywhere.” -The Jewish Encyclopedia, Volume 3, page 500.
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