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There
has been a new doctrine floating about
Sabbath keeping Christians the last few
years that I honestly thought would never go
as far as it has when I saw it rear its ugly
head in my neck of the woods back a couple
of years ago. But then, I do understand we
are very near the end. Therefore I also
understand why certain doctrines will be
allowed to flourish. The Lord needs to find
out who among us are truly seeking to follow
Him and His truth instead of the world and
its lies. As prophesied, a shaking must
occur so that the wheat can be distinguished
from the tares to facilitate the gathering
into the Lord's barns. So, every wind of
doctrine will come upon us to see who is
truly on the straight and narrow and who is
on the wide path to destruction. The Lord
needs unity in the church to allow
the Latter Rain to do its prophesied
work. Just like the apostles before us, who
too were in disagreement for 10 days before
the former rain fell on Pentecost, we too
will have to decipher what is truth from
what is error before being blessed with that
outpouring that brings about the necessary
blessings that will give rise to a better
harvest of souls.
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Ephesians 4:13-15, "Till
we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fulness of Christ:
That we henceforth be no more children,
tossed
to and fro, and carried about with every
wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men,
and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie
in wait to deceive;
But
speaking the truth in love,
may grow up into him in all things,
which is
the head, even Christ:"
If you
were to do a search online for "Lunar
Sabbath" you will come up with many websites
preaching this error. What you will find
right off is how none of them seem to agree
with the other nor do any have a handle on
their own strange doctrines. Like the Roman
Catholic church, they not only mix truth
with error to draw people in, they have much
confusion within their ranks as well. It's
literally impossible to find one Lunar
Sabbath preacher that agrees with another.
At first, when I came across one I assumed
they would all be on the same page. So I
started to do an in depth study of their
doctrinal statements so as to take it apart
step by step by using precept upon precept
as well as line upon line as Isaiah the
prophecy says is the proper way to learn
doctrine.
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Isaiah 28:9-10, "Whom shall he teach
knowledge? and whom shall he make
to understand
doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. For
precept must be
upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a
little, and there a little:"
Problem was, after doing an in depth study
on this Lunar Sabbath theology on one
ministerial wesbite, I came across another
ministry that preached it, but they neither
agreed on certain points. Worse yet, both
came up with strange new twists on the Truth
that made it impossible to address them
simultaneously. As I looked further I found
there was another.. then another.. then
another. So, I scrapped the study based on
the first one because it was clear to me
now. The demonic spirit of Sanballat the.
Horonite from Nehemiah's day was very active
in this end time falderal. I wasn't about to
run around chasing rabbits on this one. It
became quite clear that I would end up
writing a book on how they are in error if I
were to go verse by verse and twist by twist
on each website. So.. instead I opted rather
to simply show why their idea for a weekly
Sabbath based on the moon were completely
impossible using Scripture that bluntly
spoke out against their false doctrine. You
see.. this is why it is so important to read
your Bibles daily. Lies like this Lunar
Sabbath doctrine would never gain ground if
the soil of the heart is well nourished by
the Word of the Creator God. And by the way.
I know that as this page becomes known by
the Lunar preachers, I will be inundated
with emails filled with new theories and
twists that seek to defend their strange
doctrine from yet another point of view. So,
I expect this page will grow in size as time
goes on.
One
thing these Lunar preachers do seem to agree
on is they believe the weekly seventh day
Sabbath is always observed on the same days
of the month each and every month. 99% of
them agree these dates to be the 8th, 15th,
22nd, and 29th. I say 99%, because I
actually found one site that claims the
dates should now be the 7th, 14th, 21, and
28th. Once such Lunar preacher actually goes
so far as to offer a $10,000 reward to
anyone who can pinpoint a weekly Sabbath on
any other day than by the phases of the
moon. And one that used to be a friend of
this ministry before falling for Roman SDA theology
is offering $1 million dollars to anyone
that can prove him wrong on this. From what
I discovered, it has been exposed as error,
but none have been able to receive the
money. So, recently he removed the offer.
Most
Lunar preachers also agree that these Lunar
weekly Sabbaths always land on the
previously mentioned dates without exception
each and every month without fail, even
during a leap year. One site creates a
"non-day" that helps to manipulate their
findings so as to fit their doctrine since
the inexact orbit of the moon changes twice
a year. And one Lunar Sabbath website goes
so far as to say that the weekly Sabbath is
determined only upon the phases of the moon
and not by the counting of days one through
seven. And finally, another website states
every week always begins after the new moon
worship day, therefore allowing for the
creation of "non-days" to fix the broken
weekly cycle.
In
short, their theology suggests that with
each month the Sabbath will then fall on a
different day of the week thanks to the
afore mentioned dates. In other words, it's
not about the seventh day Sabbath as much as
it is about the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th
day Sabbath. So, does the Word of God
suggest this to be a valid doctrine? ...
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