Marking Time
Jul 9, 2024 10:34:17 GMT -8
Post by The Ninevite on Jul 9, 2024 10:34:17 GMT -8
Let us begin by noticing the divisions of the Bible into chapter and verse. Chapter One of Genisis describes the events of the first six days of world history. In chapter two, God ordains the Sabbath, and the scribe then proceeds to repeat in detail the first sermon. The first sermon in the Bible, delivered in chapter two of Genesis after the Sabbath is announced, reiterates and explains the events of the sixth day of creation and tells the meaning of them. Contained within this first Sabbath service, we also find the first ordinance of a sacrament, namely marriage. God marries Adam and Eve in a communion on the seventh day of world history. This needs to be committed to memory, as it will become important again in the Gospels, when Jesus speaks of the "Marriage Supper of the Lamb", as it is called, and there are both biographical stories and parables pertaining specifically to marriage.
Be careful when reading the Bible in English, because some words used in it are transliterated phonetically from the original Hebrew language. One of these is the word "Eden", which is Hebrew for "earth". When God created the world, it was a garden. This is to say that God did a careful job of making the world, it was designed and planned in advance of His beginning got speak, and He assiduously cultivated it at each stage of His project. It is fashionable in mystical circles to look at the map of the world as it exists today and wonder where the Garden of Eden was located, and to compare rivers existing on the seven continents formed by Noah's flood to the original rivers recorded by Moses in Genesis. Mysticism is a fallacious spiritual practice, however, and the Garden of Eden was the globe, in its entirety, as it existed from the Seventh Day during which God rested and Hallowed, and in geophysics but not in spiritual reality until the flood.
Biblical timekeeping is done on the basis of counting Sabbaths and genealogies. All major festivals observed yearly which God instituted in Exodus are celebrated seasonally on seventh day of the week synagogue Sabbaths. The Exodus Sabbaths both memorialize the events of Israel's travels from Cairo to Jerusalem and the observant citizen with a reminder in astronomy of the flood, by virtue of occurring at seasonal intervals. Remember that the axial tilt of the Earth is also the cause of global seasons, before the axis tilted, both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres exhibited the same weather patterns and temperatures were evenly distributed around the circle of the Earth. Note, and I will spend time using the Torah to illustrate it, that the major Sabbaths of Israel, which are religious national holidays, both all fall on Levitical Sabbaths and occur over intervals of time which include the two solar equinoxes, and the two solstices, and the four intermediary intervals between the solstices and the equinoxes. This fact is not universally known, and in fact very few non-Jewish people celebrate the procession of the signs and seasons in the starry heavens; few people other than astronomers even record them and keep them on the Calander. But the fact that Israel's major religious Sabbaths coincide with the seasons is important to understanding the country, it religiously keeps in mind the flood, which caused the seasons and the weather changes as the earth spins on it's now tilted axis. Iseral is a world nation, as your United States History teacher used to say about his own country, "it emerged onto the world stage". Israel emerged during the Exodus march from Egypt to Cannan, and the United States emerged at a much later date by means of political revolution in the new world. When the Messiah said to his followers, "Be in the world but not of it." He was speaking to his country. Israel, with its sacramental Sabbaths contained in a liturgical year, repeating each year, is a world power. Foreign citizens and subjects, who may live far away and speak English, German or French, can also observe the solar seasons, and respecting creation as they do, if they ever find themselves in Israel during a Sabbath, they will be able to understand immediately that the nation is gathering at an appropriate time for its civil or religious affairs.
Thus, we find "in the world but not of it" illustrated by the Sabbath ceremonies, which fall on astronomically discernable dates, but which memorialize proprietary history in the state, with religion.
Be careful when reading the Bible in English, because some words used in it are transliterated phonetically from the original Hebrew language. One of these is the word "Eden", which is Hebrew for "earth". When God created the world, it was a garden. This is to say that God did a careful job of making the world, it was designed and planned in advance of His beginning got speak, and He assiduously cultivated it at each stage of His project. It is fashionable in mystical circles to look at the map of the world as it exists today and wonder where the Garden of Eden was located, and to compare rivers existing on the seven continents formed by Noah's flood to the original rivers recorded by Moses in Genesis. Mysticism is a fallacious spiritual practice, however, and the Garden of Eden was the globe, in its entirety, as it existed from the Seventh Day during which God rested and Hallowed, and in geophysics but not in spiritual reality until the flood.
Biblical timekeeping is done on the basis of counting Sabbaths and genealogies. All major festivals observed yearly which God instituted in Exodus are celebrated seasonally on seventh day of the week synagogue Sabbaths. The Exodus Sabbaths both memorialize the events of Israel's travels from Cairo to Jerusalem and the observant citizen with a reminder in astronomy of the flood, by virtue of occurring at seasonal intervals. Remember that the axial tilt of the Earth is also the cause of global seasons, before the axis tilted, both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres exhibited the same weather patterns and temperatures were evenly distributed around the circle of the Earth. Note, and I will spend time using the Torah to illustrate it, that the major Sabbaths of Israel, which are religious national holidays, both all fall on Levitical Sabbaths and occur over intervals of time which include the two solar equinoxes, and the two solstices, and the four intermediary intervals between the solstices and the equinoxes. This fact is not universally known, and in fact very few non-Jewish people celebrate the procession of the signs and seasons in the starry heavens; few people other than astronomers even record them and keep them on the Calander. But the fact that Israel's major religious Sabbaths coincide with the seasons is important to understanding the country, it religiously keeps in mind the flood, which caused the seasons and the weather changes as the earth spins on it's now tilted axis. Iseral is a world nation, as your United States History teacher used to say about his own country, "it emerged onto the world stage". Israel emerged during the Exodus march from Egypt to Cannan, and the United States emerged at a much later date by means of political revolution in the new world. When the Messiah said to his followers, "Be in the world but not of it." He was speaking to his country. Israel, with its sacramental Sabbaths contained in a liturgical year, repeating each year, is a world power. Foreign citizens and subjects, who may live far away and speak English, German or French, can also observe the solar seasons, and respecting creation as they do, if they ever find themselves in Israel during a Sabbath, they will be able to understand immediately that the nation is gathering at an appropriate time for its civil or religious affairs.
Thus, we find "in the world but not of it" illustrated by the Sabbath ceremonies, which fall on astronomically discernable dates, but which memorialize proprietary history in the state, with religion.