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Suggested
Sabbath Readings
2010
To aid beginning
fellowships in conducting weekly Sabbath services, The
Philadelphia Church has instituted a suggested or possible
selection of complimentary readings, with limited commentary and
selected hymns. You will need to have
RealPlayer downloaded on your computer in order to hear the
music for the hymns.
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Readings for
2009 can be found here.
Readings for
2008 can be found here.
Readings for
2007 can be found here.
Readings for
2006 can be found here.
Readings for
2005 can be found here.
3rd Quarter 2010
August 14,
2010 Sabbatarian Christians who don’t understand spiritual birth as a real birth after the pattern of the first Adam’s birth have no business posturing as teachers of Israel—they need to keep silent and learn for if they have been born of spirit, they are still spiritual infants in need of a teething ring rather than a pulpit.
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August 7,
2010 If Christ Jesus came not by water [of the womb] only but by water and blood [i.e., came as a human being], then Calvary is as important as the birth of Jesus.
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July 31,
2010 There is no getting around the reality that whoever
practices righteousness, which is manifested outwardly through
keeping the commandments, is righteous as Christ Jesus is
righteous (1 John 3:7). It isn’t keeping the commandments that
makes the person righteous, but the inner desire to please God,
whom the righteous person believes.
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July 24,
2010 Neither the Father nor the Son judges the world, or
judges disciples. Rather, both the world and disciples judge
themselves by whether they keep the words that Jesus spoke, with
Jesus only speaking the Father’s words. The wrath of the Lamb
that comes upon humankind during the Affliction (Rev 6:16–17)
comes because neither Christians nor the world will keep the
words of the Lord.
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July 17,
2010 For Jesus to deliberately provoke a confrontation with
Pharisees—and then denounce them in one of their homes—was a
so-called teaching moment: Jesus knew that He was being tested,
that Pharisees were wanting to see Him deliver a sign from heaven
(Luke 11:16), and as the crowds increased while He spoke, Jesus
said that He would give no sign but that of Jonah (v.
29).
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July 10,
2010 The seventy [seventy-two] are sent to Islam to warn the
ideology not be succumb to the blandishments of the man of
perdition, an Arian Christian aligned with the western prophet …
when the false prophet comes to the already existing office of
prophet, many Muslims will find in this demon who has been given
the mind of man (see Dan 7:4) the one for whom they have long
waited.
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July 3,
2010 The underlying construct of Philadelphian typological
exegesis is retrocausality: the events of a later time in history
affects what has happened earlier, with this backward-causation
allowing an effect to occur before its cause. In Physics,
retro-causation is usually seen in thought experiments involving
time travel, because in this known physical world “causes”
precede “events,” or reversed, effects follow causes. But the
things of God are not of this known world. In retrocausality, the
visible lawlessness of ancient Israelites stems from the inner
lawlessness of born of God Israelites [Christians], with shadows
ceasing to be cast when the spiritual Body of Christ died from
loss of its divine breath—without life in the heavenly realm,
Christians can cast no shadow in this realm.
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2nd
Quarter 2010
June 26,
2010 The men of Judah were condemned because they did not
bring forth justice & righteousness. Christians were also
condemned for the same reason in the 1st-Century, and they will
be likewise condemned in the 21st-Century when they rebel against
God.
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Pentecost
2010 But it wasn’t John who spoke on that day of Pentecost
following Calvary; it was Peter—and in his explanation of what
was occurring, Peter skips over much of what Joel prophesies, for
on this day of Pentecost, there were no wonders in the sky above:
the sun did not turn dark, nor did the moon turn blood red.
Waters didn’t turn bitter and to blood. Fire and hail were not
cast down upon the earth. There were no columns of smoke. So what
occurred on Pentecost could only have been a foreshadowing of the
opening of the seventh seal (Rev chaps 8–10), with this opening
of the seventh seal being the reality of what Joel
prophesies.
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June 19,
2010 Paul knew that these Galatians were not born of God—he
discloses that he knows by not citing the foremost of the
commandments, disciples are to love God with heart and
mind.
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June 12,
2010 Abraham, after journeying to the Promised Land then down
into sin and back to the Promised Land, wanted the son that was
promised to him. He was not a novice; he was not a new convert.
He had journey far in faith … if every Christian would journey as
far in faith as Abraham journeyed, the Church would again be the
sect of the Nazarenes, a sect of observant Judaism.
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June 5,
2010 For too long the glorified Jesus saying, I am the Alpha
and the Omega, has been interpreted to mean that Jesus is
everything, the complete alphabet, with alpha and omega
representing every letter in the Greek alphabet, but this is not
the case: Jesus would build His church on the movement of breath
from the physical breath breathed in through the nostrils (the
front of the mouth) to the spiritual breath of God that makes
alive the inner self.
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May 29,
2010 If a person has to ask who his neighbor is, the person
doesn’t have much love for anyone except those like the person.
The lawyer had knowledge, godly knowledge, but no
love.
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May 22,
2010 Unlike Paul’s epistles and Peter’s first epistle,
Peter’s second epistle is not to spiritual infants, lambs [John
21:15], but to saints on solid food, sheep. … Jesus’ death at
Calvary is the greatest gift Israel could give to the Father, and
Jesus’ resurrection from death is the greatest gift God could
give to men.
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May 15,
2010 No Christian can walk as Jesus walked or imitate Paul as
he imitated Jesus and attempt to bodily enter into God’s presence
on the first day of the week—and that is what Sabbath observance
represents, bodily entering into God’s rest.
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May 8, 2010
The weak are not unbelievers, but are spiritual infants,
toddlers, small children that have the right to expect protection
from parents and elder siblings, with Christ Jesus being the
Firstborn of many brothers (Rom 8:29), all firstborn sons of God.
Those who are strong are to judge the Church and are to put out
the idolater, the greedy, the willful lawbreaker, the teacher who
would have disciples neglect the commandments. Yes, they are to
pass judgment on those inside the Church (again, 1 Cor 5:12),
even to forgiving or withholding forgiveness of sin (John 20:23),
binding the sins of idolaters to them and turning loose the sins
of those who are weak in faith, with these decisions being
recognized in heaven (Matt 16:19).
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May 1, 2010
No person in this present age can come to Christ unless the
Father first draws the foreknown and predestined person, but once
the spirit is given en masse to first Christians [Israel]
following the Second Passover then to the world [Gentiles] when
the kingdom is delivered to the Son of Man, it is the person who
chooses righteousness who shall be saved.
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April 24,
2010 The Sadducees and Pharisees of Jesus day would follow
this teacher or that teacher, but would not follow Jesus—and
those Sadducees and Pharisees form the shadow and type of
Sabbatarian Christians in this present era.
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April 17,
2010 As Sabbatarian Christendom has questioned the
authenticity of the greater Christian Church—of those Christians
who worship on Sunday, and who are by their rejection of the law
the seed of the Adversary—Sabbatarians have spoken of, and
treated Sunday-keeping Christians as second class Christians,
mockingly referring to them as “Churchianity.” Sabbatarians have
had similar contempt for Sunday-keepers as Pharisees had for
uncircumcised Gentiles. And indeed, because Sunday-keeping
Christians have made no journey of faith to heavenly Jerusalem,
they have not cleansed their hearts by faith; their hearts are
not circumcised. They are, in comparison to Sabbatarians, truly
as uncircumcised Gentiles were to outwardly circumcised Sadducees
and Pharisees.
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April 10,
2010Scripture records that even after Josiah commanded the
people to keep the Passover as written in the Book of the
Covenant, that “no such Passover had been kept since the days of
the judges” (2 Kings 23:22), “the Lord did not turn from the
burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled
against Judah, because of all the provocations with which
Manasseh had provoked him” (v. 26). Zephaniah gives voice to that
wrath as does Isaiah chapter 24.
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April 3,
2010 Sin is a cruel taskmaster, forcing the disciple to do
what the disciple does not want to do, but the yoke of Christ is
easy and light. It requires that disciples enter into the rest of
God that is represented in this world by Sabbath observance, that
period when the mind does not focus on the things of this world
but on God. The body rests; the mind has peace; and God is
pleased to the extent that the disciple believes
Him.
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1st Quarter 2010
March 27,
2010 Understanding prophecy is important, even if not for
salvation. Understanding prophecy prevents a disciple from being
deceived by unfolding events in this world and in the Abyss, and
understanding prophecy will give those disciples a work to do
throughout the last 1260 days, which, unlike the Affliction, will
pass fairly quickly.
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March 20,
2010 The first beast or king of Daniel chapter 7, the demon
that is like a lion who had its wings plucked off and was made to
stand like a man and was given the mind of a man (as
Nebuchadnezzar was given the mind of a beast), is the rider of
the white horse, the rider with a bow and a crown who goes forth
conquering and to conquer (Rev 6:2). He is the false prophet, and
his emergence from the stump of the first horn of the king of
Greece is the removal of the first seal. The second king of
Daniel 7, the beast that is like a bear, this beast being
Apollyon, is the rider of the bright red horse, the rider
permitted to take peace from the earth, the rider with the great
sword. At the end of the 1260 day long ministry of the two
witnesses, this king will finally be permitted to kill these two.
And the emergence of this king from the stump of the great horn
of the king of Greece is the removal of the second seal (Rev
6:3–4). The third king of Daniel 7, the four headed beast that is
like a leopard and to whom dominion over men has been given, the
beast called Sin, the king of the South, is the rider of the
black horse. This king buys and sells men as if they were wheat
(the latter harvest of God) or barley (the early harvest), for
God has consigned all men to disobedience [sin] so that He can
have mercy on all (Rom 11:32). And the emergence of this king
from the stump of the broken first king of the king of Greece is
the removal of the third seal (Rev 6:5–6). The fourth king is the
cross-shaped beast called Death.
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March 13,
2010 Daniel’s visions were supernaturally sealed and kept
secret until the time of the end; until meaning would again be
taken from Scripture via typology … typological exegesis is the
scholarly term that encapsulates the totality of a metaphoric
reading of Scripture.
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March 6,
2010 The removal of a seal comes when Jesus permits an event
to happen; when Jesus no longer holds back an event. When seals
are not really seals but previously undisclosed events that were
concealed because Daniel’s visions were kept secret until the
time of the end—the marker soon take place limits John’s vision
to the same timeframe as when Daniel’s visions are set—then the
scroll that is the Book of Revelation was unsealed by Christ
Jesus when Daniel’s visions were unsealed.
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February 27,
2010 A discussion of the third woe begins with the
declaration that for the human being (regardless of what this
person’s religious affiliation presently is) who endures to the
end of the age without taking upon the person the tattoo of the
cross during the last 1260 days of the age—for this person, the
third woe is not “a woe,” but a blessing.
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February 20,
2010 To walk in light requires the disciple to walk as Jesus
walked. To walk any other way is to stumble, fall backwards, be
snared by the Adversary, and to be broken by Christ when
judgments are revealed.
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February 13,
2010 John and Christ, together, formed one unit in the
1st-Century CE, with this unit or entity being a representation
of the Elijah to come. The two witnesses plus the Lamb and the
Remnant, together—two witnesses + (Lamb & Remnant) will form
one unit in the 21st-Century, with this entity being the reality
of the Elijah that is to come. The last Elijah isn’t simply a
man, or a ministry.
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February 6,
2010 A purity of heart cannot be obtained through the things
of this world; it cannot be purchased. There are no venders
selling purity. Yet it is of more worth to God than all of the
material things that have been created in the Abyss. And this
purity of heart is very rarely seen in this era. It has been long
forgotten by Christian America.
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January 30,
2010 A purity of heart cannot be obtained through the things
of this world; it cannot be purchased. There are no venders
selling purity. Yet it is of more worth to God than all of the
material things that have been created in the Abyss. And this
purity of heart is very rarely seen in this era. It has been long
forgotten by Christian America.
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January 23,
2010 Philadelphia cannot not-warn Christendom that it is only
those who endure in faith to the end that will be saved. Of the
remainder of humanity—that is, of the third part of the little
ones (from Zech 13:9)—all who endure to the end shall be saved;
all who endure will not take the mark of death upon
themselves.
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January 16,
2010 This is a position [the person who will be justified
produces the works of the law] quite far from what Luther wrote
about Christians receiving righteousness entirely from outside
themselves. Luther never understood that grace is the garment or
mantle or covering of Christ Jesus’ righteousness, and faith
alone is insufficient for salvation and is incomplete until it is
manifested in works. Luther was simply wrong when he said that
faith alone makes someone just.
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January 9,
2010 Christians are to judge righteously, beginning with
themselves then extending that righteous judging to the
congregation. They are to use the law lawfully to purge
unrighteousness from the assembly of the Lord, and they are to
suffer the disciple weak in faith without placing a stumbling
block before the disciple, a situation made difficult by those
who are weak in faith succumbing to the Sacred Names Heresy,
which will have the weak judging the strong and polluting infant
sons of God. If the person who is weak cannot keep quiet in
services, then this person must be put out.
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January 2,
2010 The inner new self dwelling in a tent of flesh in this
world is analogous to an Israelite dwelling in a house in Egypt,
and needs to be understood by the model of an Israelite in Egypt.
And as an Israelite in Egypt was circumcised on the 8th-day, the
inner new self is circumcised of heart when the heart has been
cleansed by faith, with the occurrence of this circumcision
disclosing that spiritually the disciple is as an eight day old
infant is physically.
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in taking the good news that all who endure to the end will be
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