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<h1>Did Paul Abolish The Sabbath?</h1>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Under the Law given Moses, most commands do not apply to sojourners / foreigners (<em>i.e.</em>, Gentiles), but only to Israel. For example, circumcision only mentions sons of Israel. (See Leviticus <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+12&amp;version=NIV">12:1-3</a>.)&nbsp;One of the exceptions was the Sabbath command. The Sabbath command equally applies to Gentiles living in community with Israel as to any member of Israel.&nbsp;See <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut%205:12-15&amp;version=YLT">Deut. 5:12-15</a> ("sojourner within thy gates");&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2025:6&amp;version=YLT">Lev. 25:6</a> ("sojourner settling with thee"); <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2023:12&amp;version=YLT">Exo 23:12</a> (sojourner). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">In fact, God conditioned His promise of salvation in the New Covenant for&nbsp;Gentiles, eunuchs, etc., upon them, among other things, keeping the Sabbath. Specifically, the promise in Isaiah 56 of salvation and blessings to such ones -- just after ch. 53 says salvation is through Messiah's sacrifice -- was predicated on two things: "<em><strong>keep the Sabbath</strong></em> from profaning it and <em><strong>keep his hand from doing evil</strong></em>" (Isaiah <a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-2.htm">56:2</a>) and "who <em><strong>keep My Sabbaths</strong></em>, and choose things that please Me, and<em><strong> take hold of my covenant</strong></em>." (Isaiah <a href="http://bible.cc/isaiah/56-5.htm">56:4,6</a> -such a Gentile&nbsp;will be given an eternal name).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But Paul said anyone in Christ's movement did not have to follow the Sabbath any longer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul wrote in Col.<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=col.%202:16-17&amp;version=KJV"> 2:16-17</a>:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><sup>16</sup> Let no man therefore<em><strong> judge you</strong></em> in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of <em><strong>the sabbath days</strong></em>:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><sup>17</sup>Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.</span></p>
<h2>Luther Agrees Paul Abolished Sabbath</h2>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Martin Luther in a sermon entitled <em>How Christians Should Regard Moses</em> given August 27, 1525&nbsp;says of this passage:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;" class="Quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a name="pgfId=464139"></a>Again one can prove it from the third commandment that Moses does not pertain to Gentiles and Christians.&nbsp;<em><strong>For Paul [Col. 2:16]...abolish[ed] the&nbsp;sabbath</strong></em>, to show us that the sabbath was given to the Jews alone, for whom it is a stern commandment.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;" class="Quote"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Martin Luther, "How Christians Should Regard Moses,"&nbsp;<em>Luther's Works: Word and Sacrament</em> I (Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1960) Vol. 35 at 161-174; Martin Luther, <em>Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings</em> (ed. Lull &amp; Russell) (Fortress Press, 2005) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Ve7Sybjp5s8C&amp;lpg=PA127&amp;dq=luther%20For%20Paul%20and%20the%20New%20Testament%20abolish%20the%20sabbath&amp;pg=PA127#v=onepage&amp;q=luther%20For%20Paul%20and%20the%20New%20Testament%20abolish%20the%20sabbath&amp;f=false">127</a>.</span></p>
<h2>Calvin Agreed Paul Abolished Sabbath</h2>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">Calvin wrote on Colossians 2:16: "We see now that the Sabbath is done away with and the people are&nbsp;free from it."&nbsp;(John Calvin, <em>Commentaries on the Epistles o f Paul the Apostle&nbsp;to the Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians</em> (trans. John&nbsp;Pringle) (1948) at 191.) Calvin added that this passage meant "Christ has by his death abolished ... the observance of rites" (<em>i.e.</em>, Sabbath).</span></p>
<h2 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 33.6363639831543px; font-size: 24px; color: #66869a; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tertullian Agrees Paul Abolished Sabbath</h2>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Tertullian read Col. 2:16 the same way Luther and Calvin read it. Tertullian believed that Paul abolished all the Law (even though Tertullian says he does not want to discuss the validity of that conclusion), commenting: "We do not now treat of the<em> Law</em>, further than (to remark) that<strong><em> the apostle here teaches&nbsp;clearly how it has been abolished</em></strong>, even by passing from shadow to substance - that is, from figurative types to reality, which is Christ."&nbsp;&nbsp;(Tertullian, "Against Marcion" 5, 19, ANF III, 471, 472&nbsp;(emphasis supplied).)</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Numerous Christian scholars agree Paul abolished Sabbath in Colossians 2:16-17: Paul K. Jewett, C.S.Mosna, J. Danielou, and W. Robertson Nicholl.</span></p>
<h2>Paul In Romans Abolishes Sabbath Again</h2>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul will repeat this abolition of Sabbath in&nbsp;Romans<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans%2014:5-6&amp;version=KJV"> 14:5-6</a>.&nbsp; Paul writes: "One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Christian commentators explain this means regarding Sabbath: "Christians are permitted to make up their own minds about a special day."&nbsp;Dan Corner,<em> Six Facts For Saturday Sabbatarians To Ponder</em> at <a href="/Dan Corner, Six Facts For Saturday Sabbatarians To Ponder at http:/www.evangelicaloutreach.org/sabbath.htm">http://www.evangelicaloutreach.org/sabbath.htm</a> (last accessed 2005).</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a href="file://tsclient/C/Writings%20in%20Process/JWO%20Redo%20Formatting/Final%20Framemaker%20Archive/chapter%205html.html#pgfId=464154" class="footnote"></a>You can take it or leave it. It is up to you.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Likewise, scholar, J.Danielou, sees this clearly the same way: "St.Paul<strong><em> proclaimed the end of the Sabbath</em></strong> (Rom.14:6)." (Jean Danielou, <em>Bible and Liturgy</em> (Light &amp; Life: 1956) at 228.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">However, many commentators are sheepish on this topic. When they realize Paul would be a false prophet by definition found in the Law and Prophets for so teaching (Isaiah <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%208:20&amp;version=KJV">8:20</a>; Deut. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut.%2013:1-5&amp;version=KJV">13:1-5</a>), they try to do a retreat. But Luther, Calvin, Danielou and Corner are correct -- Paul claimed Sabbath was henceforth abolished.</span></p>
<h2 class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ehrman Says Paul in Galatians Curses Those who Obey Sabbath</span></strong><br /></span></h2>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">In Galatians, Paul bemoans Galatians who wish to keep sabbath and observe the new moon as provided in the Law. Paul then says "anathema" -- cursed -- are those who wish to be just / justified by keeping such parts of the Law, <em>i.e.</em>, sabbath, monthly festivals, etc. For otherwise, Paul argues, they will have to keep "all" of the Law, and not selected parts. (Gal. 1:6-12; Gal. 2:14-16 (cursed if not continue in all points of law); Gal. 3:9-12 (under a curse, misquoting Deuteronomy, as explained at this <a href="/topicindex/360-paul-misquotes-of-scripture.html">link</a>), Gal. 3:21.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">Paul's words are a clear echo of Col. 2:14-16 that effectively abolished obeying any "holy day, new moon or Sabbath day."<br /></span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">In Galatians, Paul adds to this an attempt to freighten the reader that to keep the Law meant the males had to also be circumcised -- a painful operation for a Gentile adult of that era. Unfortunately, Paul did <strong>NOT</strong> help assuage such fear by recognizing James' rationale in Acts 15 for not extending to Gentiles the law on circumcision. It was because<strong><em> Leviticus 12:1-3 on circumcision clearly says it applies only to "sons of Israel,</em></strong>" and did <strong><em>not extend to Gentiles</em></strong> unless they wished to partake of passover dinner. But Sabbath clearly extended to "sojourners' (non-Jews in community with Israel) under the Mosaic Law.</span></p>
<p class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">Regardless, Paul not only curses those who are resting on Sabbath to observe the Law's demand but also those who teach us to obey this command to obey Sabbath from the 10 Commandments. As Bart Ehrman, a professor on the New Testament, explains:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;" class="BodyAfterHead"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times; font-size: large;">“Paul is absolutely clear [in Galatians] that he thinks non-Jews are not to do these things [<em>i.e</em>., keep Sabbath, holidays, etc.] once they believe in Christ. In fact,... <strong>he lays a curse on anyone who thinks that Gentiles who come to believe in Jesus should engage in such practices</strong>.” (Bart D. Ehrman, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary Magalene (2006) at 117.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Hence, if Paul curses those Gentile Christians who obey Sabbath and those who spread knowledge of the Sabbath's application to Gentiles, this confirms Paul abolished Sabbath, at least for Gentiles who joined the community of God's people.</span></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: large;">Mainstream Anti-Sabbitarians Defend Paul Abolished Sabbath</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Unaware of the implication that Paul is invalidated as an inspired voice by abolishing Sabbath (<span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 20px;">Isaiah&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%208:20&amp;version=KJV" style="color: #517291; text-decoration: underline; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; line-height: 20px;">8:20</a><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; line-height: 20px;">; Deut.&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut.%2013:1-5&amp;version=KJV" style="color: #517291; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 16.363636016845703px; line-height: 20px;">13:1-5</a>), a defender of Sunday as the new Sabbath, William Armstrong, wrote of these passages from Paul in his book <em>Is Saturday or Sunday the Christian Sabbath?: A Refutation of Sabbatarianism</em> (Philips &amp; Hunt, 1880) at <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qpYQAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA90#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">90</a>. He articulates<em><strong> how clearly Paul intends indeed to abolish the Sabbath command</strong></em> from the Ten Commandments. Armstrong is completely unaware how <strong><em>the Bible then condemns Paul as a false prophet</em></strong> because the Bible says the Law including this Sabbath command would be "eternal for all generations" -- repeated 12 times in Scripture, <em>i.e.</em>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2027:21&amp;version=KJV">Ex. 27:21</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus%2030:21&amp;version=KJV">30:21</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%206:18&amp;version=KJV">Lev. 6:18</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%207:36&amp;version=KJV">7:36</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2010:9&amp;version=KJV">10:9</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2017:7&amp;version=KJV">17:7</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2023:14&amp;version=KJV">23:14</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2023:21&amp;version=KJV">21</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2023:41&amp;version=KJV">41</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=leviticus%2024:3&amp;version=KJV">24:3</a>; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers%2010:8&amp;version=KJV">Num. 10:8</a>. Armstrong writes:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span class="gtxt_body"> Much has been written on this text, and many commentators, <strong><em>fearful of its effect on the institution of the </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>Sabbath</em></strong></span><span class="gstxt_hlt">, </span>have referred this&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Sabbath </span>(not&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Sabbath </span>days as the translators have rendered it) to the</span><span class="gtxt_body"><em><strong> annual Sabbaths</strong></em></span><span class="gtxt_body">, while other commentators, as learned, among which are </span><span class="gtxt_body"><em><strong>Whedon, have referred it to the weekly day</strong></em></span><span class="gtxt_body">. I agree with the latter. The use of the words, "Shadow of good things to come," is </span><span class="gtxt_body"><em><strong>no evidence</strong></em></span><span class="gtxt_body"> that the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Sabbath </span>in the text refers at all to</span><span class="gtxt_body"><strong><em> the annual Sabbaths </em></strong></span><span class="gtxt_body">which are all included under the words, holy day. We have the new moon, the annual holy convocations, and the&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Sabbath, </span>all expressed in the text. The&nbsp;<span class="gstxt_hlt">Sabbath </span>day was a shadow of good things to come.... We have seen that the Jewish [Sabbath] day was a commemoration of deliverance, and as such was a shadow of the deliverance through Christ....</span><span class="gtxt_body">The<strong><em> Saturday </em></strong><span class="gstxt_hlt"><strong><em>Sabbath</em></strong> </span>being a sign of the Mosaic covenant, and of the deliverance from Egypt, </span><span class="gtxt_body"><em><strong>must pass away with that covenant</strong></em></span><span class="gtxt_body">. </span><span class="gtxt_body"><em>Id.</em>, at<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qpYQAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA90#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false"> 90</a>.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">Thus, this author who trusts Paul as inspired admits Paul abolished Sabbath. The author unwittingly thereby proves&nbsp;<strong><em>Paul is a false prophet under the Word of God that preceded Paul</em></strong>. Paul taught believers in Christ (whether Jew or Gentile) not to follow a command from God in the Ten Commandments (aka 'the Testimony') -- the Sabbath command -- which <strong><em><span style="color: #ff0000;">proves him a false prophet.</span></em></strong> (Deut. <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=deut.%2013:1-5&amp;version=KJV">13:1-5</a>.). See also Isaiah <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%208:20&amp;version=KJV">8:20</a> ("To the law and to the testimony [<em>i.e.</em>, the Ten Commandments]: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.")</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: large;">What About Sunday? Any Necessity To Go To Church or Rest Then Either?</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">And, importantly, if one accepts Paul's reasoning in Romans 14:5-6, what happens to Sunday as our replacement-Sabbath? Our substitute? If you follow Paul, no one has to adhere to that either. It is just custom, and unlike the true Sabbath, Sunday has utterly no Biblical support for it as a day of observance of rest. As Peter Ditzel confesses from a Pauline-approving perspective:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Let’s face it. Paul makes no exception. He says it is <strong><em>perfectly acceptable to esteem every day alike, which is the same as esteeming no day in particular</em></strong>. He gives no hint whatsoever that either the seventh day or the first day are exceptions to what he is saying. (Pete Ditzel, "What is the Christian Sabbath?"<a href="http://www.wordofhisgrace.org/christiansabbath4.html"> Part 4</a>.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The only denomination that follows this Pauline principle to its letter are the Jehovah Witnesses:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The Jehovah's Witness <em><strong>do not observe any day as the sabbath</strong></em>, they meet on different days of the week as is convenient... Usually Sunday, but not always, as they <em><strong>believe that the old testament was done away</strong></em> with which includes the Torah and the 10 Commandments. ("<a href="http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_day_is_Jehovah's_Witnesses_sabbath">Which Day Is The Jehovah Witnesses' Sabbath</a>,"&nbsp;<em>WikiAnswers&nbsp;</em>(12/14/2012).)<br /></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">So it is fair for us to say Paul not only abolished sabbath but all kinds of religious festivals.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The consequence is Paul must be a false prophet by God's stern criteria in Deut. 13:1-5.</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: large;">END</span><hr /></span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><b>Further Study</b></span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">See <a href="/component/content/article/1-jwo/287-millgram-on-paul-a-sabbath.html">our reprinting</a> of ch. 20 of the work by a Jewish scholar, Abraham Millgram, <em>Sabbath: Day of Delight</em> (1965) where he discusses "Paul abolished Sabbath." He discusses also how this did not catch on until the 300s when the Gentile-dominated church supplanted finally the teachings of Jesus and the original apostles who Millgram says were Torah-observant on Sabbath and other Torah-principles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">For a rebuttal claiming the Sabbath was not "perpetual" for all generations, even though OLAM in Hebrew of Original Testament is translated that way, and instead it supposedly could mean a "long time," see "<a href="http://www.wordofhisgrace.org/christiansabbath2.html">What Is The Christian Sabbath, part 2</a>." &nbsp;However, while true, the Bible said the Law would exist OLAM for all generations. This means it would endure for all generations. Thus after there is no more generations, i.e., until there is no more giving in marriage, the Law endures.<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">The same article incorrectly argues: "The only people in the New Testament who try to enforce Sabbath keeping and who accuse others of Sabbath breaking are the Pharisees and their ilk." <em>Id.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"> But the issue there between Jesus and the Pharisees was <strong><em>not about keeping Sabbath any more</em></strong>, but <strong><em>when was work a violation</em></strong>. Jesus said in essence that doing good is never prohibited on Sabbath. He did not say there is no more Sabbath, and thus no more need to even bother with the issue whether you can violate it by doing good works or not. Jesus' answers all assumed the Sabbath principle continues. Jesus just corrected the over zealous analysis by the religious leaders of what 'rest' vs. 'work' meant in interpretation of a Sabbath violation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">This same article quotes in triumph against the notion we should keep Sabbath that Luther says that if we must keep sabbath, we must also keep circumcision when we all know James interpreted we do not have to do so:</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">“Indeed, if Carlstadt were to write further about the Sabbath, Sunday would have to give way, and the Sabbath - that is to say, Saturday - must be kept holy; he would truly make us Jews in all things, and we should come to be circumcised: for that is true, and cannot be denied, that<strong><em> he who deems it necessary to keep one law of Moses, and keeps it as the law of Moses, must deem all necessary, and keep them all</em></strong>” (“Against the Celestial Prophets” as quoted in <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>T</em><em>he Life of Martin Luther in Pictures</em></span>, p. 147).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">But again, the circumcision command was only upon Israelites in Leviticus 12:1-3. Otherwise, the Bible said the Sabbath had to be obeyed by all sojourners / foreigners in community with Israel. Hence, one can defend a Gentile-Christian should keep Sabbath but that is not the same as defending a Gentile must be circumcised. Torah / the Law makes this distinction and is perfectly consistent. Those who say otherwise are simply ill-informed about the Law which is not surprising because they denigrate it as totally void.</span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;">God's Prophecy Of Sabbath in The Kingdom of God</span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">Bernard Harland makes a good point about the Sabbath in prophecy in Isaiah as contradictory of Paul's claims -- at this <a href="http://www.bernardharland.com/">link,</a> which I excerpt a portion here:<br /></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">The prophet Isaiah prophesied of a time in the future (in the Kingdom of God) when every nation will come to worship the Lord in accordance with the laws and ordinances of Moses. However, they are the same laws and ordinances that Paul says Christ nailed to his cross. If this were true (and it is not) then Christ destroyed these words of the prophet Isaiah also.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">If Christ did nail these holy ordinances to his cross, then this prophecy of Isaiah could never be fulfilled. Why would God require all flesh (the citizens of the new world) to keep a law that Christ abolished on his cross? No sane person would burn down a house that would be needed in the future!</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">The Law of Moses will be kept by the citizens of the Kingdom of God because heaven and earth will not have passed away at that time. The Law of Moses will be in effect until Rev 21:1 is fulfilled.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large; font-family: 'times new roman',times;">Revelation 21:1 says:</span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="font-size: large;">And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea</span>.<br data-mce-bogus="1" /></span></p>
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