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That is, on the Seventh Day [of the week,] our Lord’s, the Creator’s, own Sabbath,

Sabbath #4, “in the midst of” the 7 Sabbaths culminating with the Pentecost Sabbath (!,)

The 29th of the 50 days ending with the day of Pentecost, that Seventh Day Sabbath,

which is designed for being a most special annual Feast in reminiscence of all God’s Sabbaths,

wherefore that day is known not only as the Feast of Weeks or as the Day of Pentecost,

but more appropriately the Day of Sabbaths,

the 16th day in month #2, Zif 16,

in the 5930^th year, more or less, after the beginning recorded in Genesis 1:1

and in the 2026^th year after the beginning recorded in Luke 1:26-33

[Friday evening, commonly called the 5th day, May 1 in the 2010th year of Caesar Tiberius reign (i.e. Gregorian)]

Beloved Brethren and Sisters among the siblings of Yeshua, Jesus,

Beloved Siblings of our beloved Seventh Day Adventist family

,

The Seventh Day Sabbath is truly a day that all of us have learned to love and look forwards to from week to week and from year to year… Or isn’t that so?

As Seventh-day Adventists we have been granted many reasons for joy, but most especially all that which we associate with this Seventh Day each and every week. We truly have much cause for praising our Lord and Savior, or isn’t that so? Praise the Lord!

I have a little present for You that I hope You’ll appreciate, value, and grow with for the remainder of Your life… Do You want to guess?

I believe I have good reasons for believing that You in particular – more than most people today upon this planet – will treasure this little present that I’m bringing along to You! Yet, there is no obligation, nothing to force You or anyone, within this present! God’s own Sabbath is all about God guiding His own People out of coercion and oppression, into the Country of Freedom. We are all on the road towards the realization of the kingdom of God among us, aren’t we?! We are looking forwards to, and long for, the fulfilling of the promise of Jesus’ Second Coming in each our lives here and now, are we not? Thus, for anyone ever to feel obligated, or forced, into doing or being, any of that which is of our Creator and Savior, is necessarily a contradiction of terms, is it not? Or isn’t enforcement quite the opposite of freedom of choice? Thus, to force anyone into being free just wouldn’t work…

What then might this little present for You be? This present that You are free to treasure and eternally grow with and value for ever? This present that, of course, You’re equally free to reject, forget, and do nothing at all with…

Naturally You’re quite familiar with the concept that children of love have many names. God’s children are not to be found only among those of us identifying with the term Seventh-day Adventists. Yea, sometimes I wonder why the Pentecostals have chosen that name of theirs for themselves??? You and I surely know why we call ourselves Seventh-day Adventists… So, how come they call themselves Pentecostals? At times I’m also curious as to why Paul, the apostle, seemed so much to favor the Feast of Pentecost? We’ve been reading of him repeatedly traveling to Jerusalem for the Feast of Pentecost. I cannot recall any Bible passage re him visiting Jerusalem for either of the other two special annual convocations… Was Paul a Pentecostal? If so, why and in what respect?

As You may know, for a number of years now, I’ve been focusing upon an in depth Bible study re things in the Bible touching on time and dates. While doing that, I’ve made a few treasured discoveries that I highly value. I’ve made discoveries that I’ve never heard or read anything about within or from today’s society. It seems to me that much has been forgotten or else distorted into oblivion through the centuries passing since our Savior Yeshua was walking in our midst, and even more so since the first beginning of Creation…

Allow me, please, to help You open this little present of Yours… I’ve found three New Testament passages touching on a very special Seventh Day Sabbath. You’ll find those passages in Your own Bible, but let me quote them here out of the King James version:

Luk 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Act 13:14 But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

Act 16:13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

You’ll notice that each of those passages is a record of an event “on the sabbath day,” and, as we Seventh-day Adventists well know, this Sabbath is none other than the Seventh Day of the week. There aren’t many that question this fact, and no wonder! Yet, there is more in these passages than most translators has been aware of… There is something very special re these three passages that distinguish these particular passages, and these particular Sabbaths, from among the sixty New Testament passages in the Greek manuscripts using the word ‘Sabbath.’ You may easily enter into a deeper study of Your own re this particular, and I have no desire to attach this little present for You to myself or to the details of my own discoveries. Certainly not here and now. Perhaps You’re already using Your own free copy of e-Sword, that excellent Bible Study resource? Yet, that certainly isn’t what this little present is all about…

Well, that which one should especially notice in the three passages above is that the words of the original Greek is providing something more than that which the translators noticed or brought forwards. That is, in the Greek You’ll find that the word ‘sabbath’ in the above cited Bible passages is written in the genitive plural format. This fact in not being brought forth in any of the common Bible translations that’s been made available to us. Accordingly, if we make a literal translation of these Greek words we’ll obtain ‘the Day of Sabbaths,’ not a mere ‘the sabbath.’ If You think about that just a little, I am sure You’ll recognize similarities between the term ‘Day of Sabbaths’ and the term ‘Feast of Weeks,’ which term You’ll find four times in the Old Testament, but not at all in our common translations of the New Testament. Even so, in the original Greek, as You’ve now seen, this same term for Pentecost is being used also in the New Testament and not only in the Old Testament… In this setting You may notice also that each of those three passages are written by Luke. And Luke is known for being a most careful author… And the Greek of those books is considered excellent! If You are interested in learning more about Luke and the language he used for writing his books, I am certain that You’ll highly value the two hours it’ll take You to carefully listen to this video from beginning to end! If You haven’t viewed this video before I’m convinced that You’ll experience some valuable surprises that You’ll be able to enjoy and grow with for the remainder of Your life…

So then, what’s so special re all of this? Well… Did You ever wonder how it is that Pentecost is being celebrated on a Sunday? It’s like this. The last question is very much of the same quality as that question that we Seventh-day Adventists may often be posing before Sunday keepers re the Sabbath. That is, “Have You ever been considering why Sabbath is being observed on Sunday and not on Saturday?” By bringing forth a question such as that we may alert someone to a realization of something valuable that he or she didn’t notice before, or doesn’t that make sense? Could it be that the same is true re Pentecost? Perhaps there is ample reason for us Seventh-day Adventists to ask ourselves the selfsame question? That is: “Did You ever wonder how it is that Pentecost is being celebrated on a Sunday?”

Per our common calendars Pentecost this year is Sunday May 23. Indeed, even the Jews are quite generally observing their corresponding Feast, Hag Ha-Shavuot, on a Sunday each year. That’s true even for all the Karaite Jews I’ve ever heard or read about, that is, those Jews that very much emphasize standing upon the Written Torah and the Old Testament Prophets, and not, as other Jews, mostly upon the oral tradition, “the Oral Torah.” It may seem as though all are taking for granted that Pentecost has always, ever since Moses, been observed and kept upon a Sunday, and that this is in accord with the instructions given in the Torah. But, how many have ever carefully studied for themselves the original Hebrew words that define these particulars for us? How many among us is willing and motivated to question the traditions and old habits that we’ve been taught ever since we received all our nourishment from each our own mother’s breast? It’s only too easy to get stuck in the old and often traveled tracks and not always too easy to get ourselves out of such old habits in favor of paths overgrown and long forgotten…

Ok, so now I’ve been focusing upon all these things pertaining to Biblical times and dates for quite a few years already… Quite a bit that was before to me obscure has now become clear as crystal in sunshine. This is true also re the fact that throughout the time of the Old and the New Testament both, Pentecost was being observed on the Seventh Day of the week. Not on a Sunday! The change in the observance of this most special Sabbath Feast is very similar in kind to that which we know of re the change from Sabbath to Sunday. In each of these two cases Caesar Constantine of the fourth century was very much at cause and very much responsible. The powers that be allowed themselves plenty of time for these changes, thereby obviously hoping that, by means of the forgetfulness naturally associated with a number of generation shifts, they would succeed in thoroughly bringing along with them the people, or at least the “sheeple,” for their own purposes… Indeed, they’ve been most successful, have they not!? I remember being taught, during my earliest years in school, how that Sweden was being “Christened” from a prior heathen state of being. Interestingly, I’ve later discovered – though surely not by means of the teaching being served to the masses - that those “heathen” people in the deep woods of our Scandinavian Peninsula were keeping the Seventh Day Sabbath! Not Sunday! Sunday observance was a thing being enforced upon that Sabbath keeping “heathen” people, which people was our very own ancestors! Please notice the coercion and oppression that was thus being associated with the new teachings brought forth under the false flag of God and God’s law! How is it that such false teachings could ever, or in any way, be attached to the God of Freedom identifying Himself in Exodus 20:2? The coercion and oppression had its source in that which was being brought to them by the Roman Catholic priests and their roots in the Vatican of Rome!

Plain and simple: My little present to You is that God, our Creator and Redeemer, has, in fact and forever, announced a very special annual Holy Convocation in remembrance of the Seventh Day Sabbaths He has taught us from the beginning (cf. Exodus 23:14; Leviticus 23:21; Deuteronomy 4:40; 5:29; 12:28; 16:16.) That is, a most special day for each of us to focus upon and for remembering the many blessings we’ve been experiencing by means of observing God’s own Seventh Day Sabbath. That is, by means of making the Sabbath into a day for cleansing our minds, our thoughts, our lives, indeed, all our beingness in the living waters issuing out of the throne of God (cf. Genesis 2:10 and Revelation 22:1-2, and also the words “to keep it holy…” Exodus 20:8.) The words ‘sanctify’ and ‘holy’ are all about cleansing. Thus the Swedish name for Saturday, ”lördag” from ”lögardag,” meaning “day of cleansing.” Indeed, we do need cleansing from all the various forms of coercing, enforcements, oppressions, and obligations of our own making under which we’ve been placing ourselves for so long… It’s all about becoming truly free, under none but God, our Creator and Redeemer, the One God that have given, and is giving, us everything of lasting value we’ve ever had or now have… But only to the degree that each of us is willing to be willing to do the will of our Creator!

May I suggest that You, if You so desire, take hold upon this little present, this most special annual Sabbath, and that You make it be something more like that which God, our Creator, originally intended for it to be for You! Enjoy! “Call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable!” Isaiah 58:13. A day such as was shown our first parents even from their very first day of life (Genesis 2:1-3.) A day when You remind Yourself in a very special way of such things as You Yourself associate with keeping the Seventh Day holy, what it is now, as well as what it has been for You throughout the past year and more!

With a wish for God’s Sabbath peace to rest upon each our families and homes, and for a most unique and special Sabbath blessing associated with this special Feast, the Day of Sabbaths, that begins with the approaching darkness on Friday night, May 21, 2010,

Gunnar Anders Smårs Jr ©

PS. If You wish to partake of my more detailed Bible studies re this Scriptural annual Feast, You are most welcome to study the following web pages of mine. Once again, please enjoy with me from the riches of God’s Word:

1. More re the fundamental Biblical instructions re the Day of Sabbaths.

2. More details re the New Testament passages touching upon the observance in apostolic times of the Day of Sabbaths.

3. An email I sent a few days ago to Toby Joreteg re his Newsletter #7 in his series re Daniel’s Messiah, an email re how Toby’s understanding of Daniel 8 and 11 may help each of us recognize a link between the lessons inherent in the Day of Sabbaths and how that those lessons may help each of us a giant step forwards towards a realization of that which is the essence of Yeshua, the Messiah, his life and his work, and towards a realization of that which was likewise intended for each of us to be once and forever… (cf. Revelation 14:6, Genesis 3:15-16, 1:26-30…) Indeed, the focal point of Toby’s Newsletters is to bring forth Daniel’s Messiah out of the book of Daniel. That is, something that definitely should be associated with Jesus’ Second Coming…

PS2: I received a mail this morning [Wed May 5] from a good friend in America. His name is Ice. He sent me this link to a video about some very interesting bible passages touching the USA. As the third link in a chain of associated videos I also found this one… Sometimes I wonder what is truly going on behind the curtain of our society, don’t You? But is that enough, that is, to “wonder?” Whatever steps are You taking in Your walk together with the One whose name is “I am who I am…”?

Or is it that each of our States, Sweden as well as any state within USA or elsewhere, is not a state under all the others under that which is being called “the One World Government?” Isn’t Sweden now a State submitted under the European Union at Brussels, which itself is submitted under, and empowered by, the 2^nd Vatican Council in Rome? Did You see that Story, below, re a Mouse, before? Another good friend of mine, who is faithfully and patiently doing his best for reflecting the rays of God that he is seeing, sent me that one. His name is Okey. Here it is:

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall

to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

"What food might this contain?"  The mouse wondered.
He was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard,

the mouse proclaimed this warning :

"There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The chicken clucked and scratched,

raised her head and said, "Mr. Mouse,

I can tell this is a grave concern to you,

but it is of no consequence to me.

I cannot be bothered by it."

The mouse turned to the pig and told him,

"There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The pig sympathized, but said,

"I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,

but there is nothing I can do about it

but pray.

Be assured you are in my prayers."

The mouse turned to the cow and said,

"There is a mousetrap in the house!

There is a mousetrap in the house!"

The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you,

but it's no skin off my nose."

So, the mouse returned to the house,

head down and dejected,

to face the farmer's mousetrap

. . . Alone. . .

That very night

a sound was heard throughout the house

-- the sound Of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer's wife rushed to see what was caught.

In the darkness, she did no see it.

It was a venomous snake

whose tail was caught in the trap.

The snake bit the farmer's wife.

The farmer rushed her to the hospital.

When she returned home she still had a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever

with fresh chicken soup.

So the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard

for the soup's main ingredient:

But his wife's sickness continued.

Friends and neighbors

came to sit with her

around the clock.

To feed them,

the farmer butchered the pig.

But, alas,

the farmer's wife did not get well...

She died.

So many people came for her funeral

that the farmer had the cow slaughtered

to provide enough meat for all of them

for the funeral luncheon.

And the mouse looked upon it all

from his crack in the wall

with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear

someone is facing a problem

and you think it doesn't concern you,

remember ---

When one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life.

We must keep an eye out for one another

and make an extra effort

to encourage one another.

YOU MAY WANT TO SEND THIS

TO EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER

HELPED YOU OUT...

AND LET THEM KNOW

HOW  IMPORTANT THEY ARE.

- REMEMBER -

EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD

IN ANOTHER PERSON'S TAPESTRY.

OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER

FOR A REASON.

One of the best things to hold onto

In this world is a FRIEND.

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