The Sabbath A Journey of Discovery

Ken McCarver

• Publisher: URLink Print & Media, LLC
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643679747
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

The Sabbath, the first in the Journey of Discovery series, will guide you through the scriptures with a perspective that you have not likely seen before. Taking a closer look at some doctrinal issues that have been long accepted as truths throughout mainstream Christianity. The question is; do they really line up with scripture? Find out what the infallible word of God truly says in areas such as;

The “Seventy Weeks” of Daniel the Prophet, and Passion Week. Looking at the topics of:

• The explanation of a 490 year probationary period to accomplish repentance.
• The precise time Christ began His ministry.
• The year of Christ’s birth.
• The day of Christ’s crucifixion.
• The year of Christ’s crucifixion.
• The confirming of the New Covenant.
• The times of the Gentiles.
• Deception in the Church and Sabbath Perception.
• Obedience to God’s Law and the understanding of God’s rest.
• The Lord’s Day and an examination of the history of Sunday Worship

As we travel through these inspiring topics we find ourselves in question. Could our lack of personal study and our dependence on our shepherds for guidance have allowed an open door for deception? Can we make the discovery for ourselves that answer, why we believe what we believe? . . . With an original answer?

To challenge our beliefs when the truth as we understand it, has been proven wrong by the Bible can cut to the core of our foundations, disrupting what we have always accepted as truth and effect what we perceive as our spiritual comfort.

You are invited to join in on this exploration of truth, to go deeper and to go farther than you may have before, below the surface of man to the underlying truth of God.

“To embark on a Journey of Discovery”

CHAPTER 1

Deception

TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU

{Matthew 24:4}

Forty years ago while still in my teen years, I found myself in an extended visit to Southeast Asia. During my visit there I had the opportunity to experience the most amazing thing I had ever heard of, “Satellite TV”. BUT… The most amazing thing to me at that time was watching the news. Watching our Commander in Chief, President Nixon in his famously commanding position with raised arms and both hands producing the “Victory Sign”, stating comments about the American presence there and what “has not” and “will not” happen there. As I watched that news report, and being an eye witness to the contrary of his statements, the meaning of the word DECEPTION started to take root in my mind at a whole new level.

All of us, at one time or another, have fallen victim to minor deception as little white lies and as much as full blown all out blatant lies, and perhaps we have even been party to such things.

However for myself, I think that was one of the first major “AH HA” moments in my life that opened my eyes and the light started to come in.

I was raised in a small Central Washington agricultural town with values somewhat different of those of larger cities. I was taught that people of higher standing such as Policemen, Politicians, Doctors and Lawyers were people of integrity and honor and could be trusted. As you may have noticed within that list, titles such as Pastors, Ministers and all manners of clergy have been omitted, after all they are representatives of God and above question.

Now I am not at all saying that these positions and titles are in anyway associated with any level of lack or corruption, after all we are all first just people. You know, I have heard it said that we are all products of our environment, we each have our own story that has been developed by the impressions that life has left on us. Of course, I have also heard it said that we are not judged by the sins we have committed, but by the amount of light we have rejected.

DECEPTION

The Revell Bible Dictionary describes that word as; misleading, lying, or promise breaking.

When Eve tried to avoid blame for the first sin, she said, “The serpent deceived me” (Gen. 3:13) That word comes from the Hebrew root nasha’, which means “to lead astray”.

We see by Eve’s statement that deception has its beginning in the beginning.

So, how and when does it all start in the story of our lives? Is it a learned trait or imprinted by others or possibly by life experience itself. Or, is it inherent in us all, taking it’s seat of rule all the way back at the Garden of Eden, deceiving even deception itself.

After all, “It was just a little white lie”, “What they don’t know won’t hurt them”, “Sometimes the truth is just to damaging”, or my all time favorite; “It’s all mind over matter, if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter”

But it does matter! How much? Well let’s see what the King has to say about it, the Almighty himself! When something is written in stone it seems to have an air of permanence and prominence about it.

In Exodus 20:16 He tell us “You shall not give false testimony” and He repeats it in Deuteronomy 5:20 {written in stone by the way}, and in Exodus 23:1 He tells us “Do not spread false reports. Do not help a wicked man by being a malicious witness. And again in Deuteronomy 19:18-19 He states it this way, “The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother, then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.

Now I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to see a pattern here. And by the way, a good way to separate sound doctrine from tradition, and here is the key, “Scripture verifies Scripture”. The Lord has a tendency to repeat himself when he is trying to make a point. So, if you have a dogma that you are dogmatic about in your dogmatism and you cannot verify it with other scripture it may be for the dogs!

As it is said; a vital key to understanding the written word of God, is to understand specific verses in the context of the rest of the Bible.

The Apostle Paul explains in:

II Peter 1:20-21 (KJV)

Knowing this first, that no prophesy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophesy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

One verse on a subject must be understood in light of other verses on the same subject. Just as in most subjects, knowledge of the Bible is cumulative and must be built by layers of study and insight, bringing us to understanding.

The Prophet Isaiah explains it this way:

Isaiah 28:9-10 (KJV)

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? Them th...

Table of contents

• The Sabbath A Journey of Discovery
• Copyright
• Kirkus Reviews
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Deception
• Chapter 2: Obedience
• Chapter 3: God’s law
• Chapter 4: Sabbath Perception
• Chapter 5: The Lord’s Day
• Chapter 6: Seventy Sevens
• Chapter 7: Jesus’ Crucifixion Day And Date
• Chapter 8: God’s Rest
• Chapter 9: Thou Shalt Not Steal
• Chapter 10: Rest for the Weary
• Chapter 11: Sunday Worship History
• Chapter 12: Jeshurun
• Epilog