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Leviticus
26:17 
And I will set my face against you, and
ye shall be slain before your enemies:
they that hate you shall reign over
you; and
ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
Ezekiel 20:26 ……
that I might make them
desolate, to the end
that they might know that I am the LORD.
A Message From Peter James
Let
No Man Judge You
Colossians 2:16 ¶ Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or
in drink,
or in respect of an holyday, or of
the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to
come; but
the body is of Christ.
We can see that all these things
mentioned are simply a shadow of things to come,
as it is stated in verse 17.
When Christ establishes His kingdom on earth, what we eat,
drink, or observe,
such as Sabbaths and New Moons will have only the very
slightest resemblance
to what those who try to pay attention to these things
experience today.
You can tell very little about a person from their
shadow.
Similarly the difference between what we now do so
inadequately will be of the same
order of magnitude to what we will do in the future.
It is absolutely imperative that we understand that All
the commandments of the
Eternal God, have a single objective.
They are to enable us to be blessed, to prosper and be in
health.
It is very simple.
By prosper I mean to have the work of our hands blessed.
The first thing that we are told is do not be judged ‘in meat’.
When the word ‘meat’ is used in the bible it is often
referring to ‘food’.
It can actually be fruit, etc.
Genesis 1:29 And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,
which is upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree,
in the which is the fruit of a tree
yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
In spite of what pseudo science would have you believe
about the lie of evolution.
It was imperative that the Eternal God who created, and
maintains the whole creation,
would tell His creation what was good for food, and
what was not.
If He did not do this, in a very short time man would
cease to exist.
Therefore
He had to tell His inexperienced new creation what was edible and what was not.
In Colossians we are not given any specifics about any particular
‘meat’ or ‘drink’.
We are being told not to let others judge us ‘in meat or
in drink’.
Although throughout the bible we are told a great deal
about what we should eat,
there is very little told us about what we should
drink, except for water, even living water.
In the many verses referring to drink, the majority of
times it is referring to drinking water,
then wine, then strong drink.
One of the things that this verse can be telling us is
that we should be moderate in what
we eat and what we drink, so that we do not cause
offence to non-believers, who brand us
as gluttons, and drunkards.
Christ was called a glutton and a drunk.
Luke 7:34 The Son of man is
come eating and drinking; and ye say,
Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
sinners!
We are
also told that we can expect the same treatment as was dished out to Jesus.
1) Let us first consider the matter of meat, for those who
think that it is referring
to animal flesh.
When Christ was on earth, did He
ever declare that His Birth, His Death, His Resurrection,
or His Ascension changed the physiology, which is the
physical make up,
of any creature on the earth, making them different from
the time of their creation?
Did any of the apostles do this?
Did the finely formed fins of the fish get changed?
Did the wonderfully made light weight almost hollow bones
of the birds get changed?
Did the strong bones of the ox get changed?
Did the flesh of all these creatures under go change?
Did the scavengers and predators of the land and the
sea, undergo changes so that
that they no longer carried out their created purpose?
Did the pig cease to be a living rubbish bin?
Did oysters,
mussels, and such like stop their created purpose of being living water
purifiers,
or filters?
The list goes on and on.
The answer is ‘NO’.
It therefore follows that the animals, birds, and fish were
essentially the very same
as the day that they were created, after their kind, and
they are all carrying out
their God ordained functions. There were no loose ends in
the creation.
Every single creature and thing had a specific place and
function.
Everything was meticulously balanced, right down to the
smallest detail.
As God made man, it does not require a degree in science
to work out that besides
being God, He is best equipped to tell man what He should
eat and drink.
He wanted only the very best for the pinnacle of his
creation.
We use the lame excuse that these laws about meat and Sabbaths, only apply to the ‘Jews’.
In case we did not notice, it is not only the Jews that
eat!
However, in our rebellion, which has now become normal,
and indeed universal,
we have declared that which has not been defined as food,
not only to be food,
but to be delicacies.
There are endless TV programs and articles stating that
we really need to spice
up our sex lives by eating aphrodisiacs, such as oysters
and eels.
Others show us how to deliciously cook and serve a
variety of things
which do not classify as food.
We are in such ignorance that we are not even aware that
the laws were given to the
entire nation of Israel and not just to a single tribe.
We have not figured out the anatomy of the Jew and the
Gentile is exactly the same.
Poison does not distinguish between the various races.
What is toxic to the Jew is certainly toxic to the
Gentile.
We seem to be unaware that the bible is written here a
little there a little.
Isaiah 28:10 For precept must
be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line,
line
upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Because
we have been blinded to the fact, we have fallen backward, been broken,
snared
and taken.
Isaiah 28:13 But the
word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept,
precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
little;
that
they might go, and fall backward,
and be
broken, and snared, and taken.
When
you take this as a base and then add how all our food, water and even the air
which
we breathe has been polluted, it is a wonder that anyone is alive today.
Eradicating
all things from our diet that are not declared to be food from our diet,
will
cure many of the ills which beset us. If we then try to avoid all the
contaminants
in
the food, drink, cleaning agents etc., our health will dramatically improve.
The
vast majority of Doctors, have no idea about the issue of clean and unclean
foods.
A
long time ago when my brother was very seriously ill, he was making a
reasonable
recovery,
when he took a dramatic turn for the worse. His doctor walked into the
ward
in the hospital. He did not go near him. He looked at him and said,
you
had pork for lunch didn’t you. My brother said yes.
You
have to admit that was quite a diagnosis.
I
have worked with a lady who actually hallucinated from eating pork.
From
the abundance of scriptures this verse cannot mean that we can now eat
anything
that we can put into our mouths.
Other
verses which are distorted to support, the eat anything lie, are dealt with
elsewhere
on
the website www.peterjamesx.com.
2) Did Christ ever claim that the blessing attached to the
seventh day had been moved
to the first day?
Did any of the apostles explain that this had happened?
Do we have any history that confirms either of these two
points for the first 200 years AD?
The answer is ‘NO’.
Holy Days, New Moons and Sabbaths
are specific periods of time, that cannot be changed,
simply because we literally do not have the physical
capacity to change them.
We are told precisely when the Holy Days are.
We cannot make the New Moon appear at a time other than
the scheduled time of the New Moon.
The Sabbath, is the seventh day.
Seven can never be made into another number.
If by some sort of manipulation you were able to do this,
then it would no longer be 7.
It is really quite simple.
If you do not think of the Sabbath as a joy and a
blessing, much less observe it, you sin.
I have explained this in the video about the Law And The
Festivals.
Is there any penalty for ignoring the Sabbaths?
Of course there is.
You suffer physically in a variety of ways, as the body
is pushed beyond its design limits.
The window of blessings passes you by.
Of course you can rest on another day, but that day has
no blessing attached to it.
Once missed, time cannot be recalled, therefore the
attendant blessings
of the Sabbath are completely lost forever, once the
Sabbath has passed.
The result is that all sorts of illnesses, and all sorts
of medication are tried to annul the penalty
of Sabbath breaking.
The very same applies to the 7th year land
Sabbath.
The penalty for ignoring the land Sabbath is poor crops,
plant diseases, pests, etc.
Of course we can try to get around this by using more
fertilizer and more pesticides.
The net result is that the depletion and destruction of
the soil is speeded up.
Is the Old Covenant just filled with lots of commandments
in order to see if we can
survive a complicated obstacle course, and if we fail we
are condemned to hell?
The answer is ‘NO’.
All the commandments are for our personal and universal
benefit.
The Eternal God is not a respecter of persons.
Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his
mouth, and said,
Of a truth I perceive that God is
no respecter of persons:
When we
are told that the desire of the Lord is that we prosper and be in health,
He means
it. This is the health and wealth gospel which is preached today worldwide.
Health
and Prosperity requires obedience.
That is what
all the laws, statutes and commandments are all about.
Numbers 14:41 And Moses said, Wherefore now
do ye transgress the commandment
of the LORD? but it shall not prosper.
Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and
do them,
that ye may prosper in all
that ye do.
Joshua 1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous,
that thou mayest observe
to do according to all the law, which Moses
my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the
right hand or to the left,
that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
We need to be very clear in our minds that
what is required is not an intellectual
understanding, but rather the practical
application of what we are told, in our
daily lives.
Furthermore, if we are not obedient
believers, but rather intellectual proud, superior,
unforgiving ‘Christians’, we will be
encouraging non-believers to judge us,
and we will be bringing the name of Christ
into disrepute, and causing others to stumble.
The sad fact is that there are relatively
very few genuine obedient believers today.
To prosper and be in health is what the
Eternal God wants for each one of us.
Sickness is not from God period.
It needs to be crystal clear in our consciousness, that the Eternal God will not break
His laws to accommodate us.
We are the ones who will have to make
dramatic changes to our lifestyles,
in order to enjoy the blessings that the
Eternal God wants to bestow on us.
If you are someone who is suffering, and
everything else has failed why not make
the necessary changes and put the Eternal
God to the test?
If we are found to be wanting, that is to put
ourselves into a position where
we can be judged, it is clear that we will
not be blessed.
If your life does not reflect something that
others would like to emulate from what
they see and experience in your life, they
will correctly ask what is the point of what
you are doing? Why do I want to be a ‘sad’
person just like you?
Just telling them about a glorious future,
will not cut any ice.
3) So what does it mean, let no
man judge you?
It means conduct yourself in such a manner that no one
can find fault
with what you are doing.
It has absolutely nothing to do with the doing away
with laws that directly
affect our health and well being.
In my writings and videos, I am always referring to the
Eternal God.
There is a reason.
I am making it very clear that I am distancing myself
from the various other gods,
which are no gods, and are worshipped.
We can add the comment from Prince Charles who says that
he wants to be the defender
of ‘faiths’.
President Bush says that all religions pray to the same
God.
We should not be upset by either of these statements.
For a change President Bush told the truth.
Does my statement shock you?
Both of these men, were stating in public very clearly,
whom they,
and all the world’s religions serve.
Out of their own mouths they told us that they worshipped
the god of this world
I certainly do not think that was the intention.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which
believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them.
Note the word god has a small ‘g’
Satan is the god of this world.
I am saying that the God whom I worship is Eternal.
Therefore when He attaches the word ‘My’ to anything, that also
makes it Eternal.
We are told by the Eternal God, that the laws, statues
and Sabbaths are His.
He says My Laws, My Statues, My Sabbaths, My Assemblies.
He then told the priests that they should judge matters
by My Judgments.
Man cannot break any of God’s laws either physical or
spiritual.
It is impossible.
Man can disobey, or he might not conform to the law, but
what will be broken is the man,
and not the law. Therefore you disregard God’s words at
your personal peril,
and it will be painful, and you can even end up
spiritually dead.
Every part of an air plane has to conform to the laws of
physics which govern
the performance of each specific part. If a critical part
fails, the plane will crash.
A non critical part can be an annoyance and an
inconvenience.
If we only understood this simple fact, our lives and our
world would be an entirely
different place, even a happy and enjoyable place, unlike
the sad, and sick situation
which now threatens our very existence.
We have to realize that there is a difference between
the holy and the profane,
and the clean and the unclean.
Ezekiel 44: 23
And they shall teach my people the difference between
the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
24 And in controversy
they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it
according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes
in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
If I were to tell you to make sure that you drive
carefully, we have many cameras in our
are and many officials waiting to prosecute you, don’t
let anyone have to judge you about
your driving. Does it mean that the traffic laws in my
area have been ‘done away with’,
or rather does it mean that if you are unfortunate enough
to get pulled up,
that you might be ‘done away with’?
It means take care, be cautious, pay attention in
order to keep out of trouble.
Unfortunately those who have lied to, and brain washed
the ‘ Christian’ masses,
have told them that the harsh laws of the vindictive
merciless God of the Old Testament
are no longer applicable. They fail to tell those very
same people that the God
of the Old Testament is none other than the very same
Jesus Christ of the New Testament.
Most cannot tell their members because they do not know
it themselves!
John 1:1 ¶ In the
beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the
beginning with God.
3 All things were
made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
This fact alone makes
it quite clear that Christ had to keep the words of the Old Testament,
because they were His words. If He did not keep them He
would have been a liar,
a God who is confused, and does not know what He is
doing.
The reality is that He said ‘I change not’.
Malachi 3:6 For I am the LORD, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
Some erroneously say that Christ and the apostles did not
keep the Sabbath.
That is not only an outright lie.
These people
have neither read and understood the 4 gospels or the book of Acts.
If Christ broke a single commandment, we are in dire
straights,
because it means that we do not have a Saviour, because
He was not a perfect sacrifice.
Therefore we might as well all rush out and destroy our
world,
and everyone and everything on it.
4) Is it, that if it were
possible, and we meticulously obeyed all the commandments
in the bible, we would be saved, and even go to ‘heaven’?
The answer is ‘NO’.
Salvation is a gift it cannot be earned.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are
ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God:
Some like to say a free gift, but a gift by definition is free.
If you have to pay any kind of cost whatsoever, it does not qualify as a
gift.
I must mention that regarding having a
permanent home in heaven,
that is not taught in the entire
bible. Rather we are told that Christ is returning
to the earth, and the meek will inherit the earth.
Does this mean that those who are not
meek are the ones who will be in heaven?
Psalms 37:11
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall
delight themselves
in the abundance of peace.
Christ also repeated these words directly in:
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for
they shall inherit the earth.
5) Are some of the ordinances
of the Old Covenant no longer applicable?
The answer is ‘YES’.
6) Which ordinances are no longer applicable?
The answer is that all the ordinances which had to do
with the sacrificing of animals,
and the upkeep of the temple, are no longer required.
All the animal sacrifices were types of the sacrifice of
Christ, therefore when He came,
and gave himself as a perfect sacrifice, no further
sacrifices were necessary.
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love,
as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself
for us an offering and a sacrifice
to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Hebrews
10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the
body
of Jesus Christ once for all.
As the temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. all the ordinances pertaining to
the temple
could no longer be applied. Many
are aware that in these end times, there is a plan
to build another temple in
Jerusalem. This temple just like the nation called Israel
is not of God, neither will any
new temple.
1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not
that ye are
the temple of God, and
that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 If any man defile
the temple of God, him shall God destroy;
for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Genuine believers are the temple of
God.
The Eternal God has told us that He
expects us to be assets, and not liabilities.
The Temple Of God, the Warrior Bride of
Christ, the Manchild overcomers,
refers to the very same group of people,
who are assets in the hands of Christ,
as they listen to and obey Him.
To be commandment keepers is just not
enough.
This is explained in ‘The Woman, The
Manchild and the Remnant’, of Revelation Chapter 12.
I have previously stated that the short
comings of the ‘Church’ are mentioned
in Revelation chapters 2 & 3.
In addition, I have now been shown how
one can be a commandment keeper, and still sadly
be part of the Remnant, which is the
worst of the three options of Revelation Chapter 12.
It all depends on what and where is your
sticking point.
What is the hurdle that hinders you.
As stated many times we must accept that
we have all been deceived as stated
in Revelation 12:9. We are being delivered out of deception is a
process.
We can all look back at the temple
ordinances in the Old Testament, and there we can
see how meticulous everything down to the smallest detail was.
We need to emulate this by the power of
the indwelling Holy Spirit, and not dead works.
7) Should we pay attention to
the Old and New Testament commands?
The answer is ‘YES’.
8) Why should we do this in this modern age of the 21st
century ?
The
answer is because they have been given to us as a blessing for our own good.
These commands and blessings are
not bound by a specific time.
It is really simple, to disregard them is to suffer
needlessly.
We have already explained this.
We can see the conclusion of the matter if we ignore the
commands, laws,
statutes and judgments of the Eternal.
Isaiah 24: 1 ¶ Behold,
the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste,
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the
inhabitants thereof.
2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with
the servant,
so with his master; as with the maid, so with her
mistress; as with the buyer,
so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the
borrower; as with the taker of usury,
so with the giver of usury to him.
3
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled:
for the LORD hath spoken this word.
4
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth
away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish.
5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the
ordinance,
broken the everlasting covenant.
6
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein
are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and
few men left.
Finally we will look at what some deem to be supporting
verses for eating anything
and doing away with the Sabbaths.
Colossians 2:20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the
world,
why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to
ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste
not; handle not;
22 Which all are to
perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
A
careless reading of these verses will certainly link it to the verses which we
have
discussed. However, we need to understand
that there are two sets of ordinances mentioned.
We explained at length that the ordinances in Colossians 2:16, were ordinances of God.
The ordinances, commandments, doctrines and rudiments
mentioned in verses 20 & 22,
are clearly stated to be
commandments and doctrines of men, and rudiments and
ordinances of the world.
Christ condemned these things.
Matthew
15:9 But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Mark 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
The true believer should not get
involved with these worldly practices.
You cannot be a believer and be involved with these
worldly practices.
The Jews have many customs that are quite unbelievable.
Special ‘elaborate ‘Kosher’ procedures, and other
intricate customs.
Catholics get involved with not eating meat on Fridays
(theoretically).
Then there is vegetarianism, which
can be demonic. (Not always)
Then there is Easter and Christmas
and Halloween.
The wearing of crosses and the ‘Star of David’, which is
occult.
It is impossible to sanitize Satanic or occult symbols.
We have been clearly told not to follow the ways of the
heathen.
It is a historical fact that the Roman Catholic Church,
has adopted the practices
of various ‘Religions’, in order to absorb them into
their church and make them ‘Christian’.
Jeremiah 10:2
Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen,
and be not dismayed at the signs of
heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
There are many such things but these few examples will
have to suffice for now.
Should we put ourselves into a position where others can
find fault with our conduct,
and therefore cause the name of Christ to be blasphemed?
The answer is NO, let no man judge you, rather be a
bright shining light
in a world that is rapidly being overcome by gross
darkness.
Rather than being judged, let your light expose and
condemn the works of our adversary,
who has already been judged.
The only way out of our dilemmas is Jesus Christ.
He is the only
way of escape.
Praise the Lord.
Come soon Lord
Jesus.
Amen.
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