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This Sabbath was absolutely wonderful. My husband has never been meticulously observant but goodness did that ever change this week. Yesterday I had mentioned a email I received from one of the ladies in my Hebrew Roots group about a some people that thought they had discovered Noah's Ark. This piqued my husband's curiosity and he googled it. He found a site about a discovery of the Ark and sat on here for a couple hours yesterday reading through information and watching the videos. When he finished reading this site it directed him to another site called Covenant Keepers. It had a really interesting presentation on a man's theory about the Ark of the Covenant. Jason read through the first part and told me to come read through the rest of it with him. As I began reading through it I kept telling him they had some interesting points but their theology was lacking. By the time I had got to the third section I told Jason this is going to be a 7th Day Adventist site. Jason assured me no this man had no denominational affiliation. Sure enough by the fifth section,when they've got you hooked with the intro info,they throw out their "prophet" and other SDA theology. We had a nice laugh over it since he always made fun of me for getting pulled into one of their prophecy seminars and now he to fell for something like it. Although I disagree with a lot of the SDA theology I have to credit them with opening my eyes to the validity of the Sabbath and OT which led me to where I am. Ironically, the same thing happened with Jason. We discussed the "faulty" theory they have that the 144,000 and remnant that are spoke about in Revelation are the true believers(i.e. SDA). Jason asked me what it was talking about if it wasn't talking about the church. So I pull out my Bible and pull up a couple of sites and show him that it is talking about the Jewish people. This led to a discussion on replacement theology and what a true church should look like. I told him my opinion was that it should be like the 1st century church before the Roman corruption when it was a sect of Judaism. I do not believe ,nor does the Bible say, that Jesus came to abolish the Law(Torah). He came to fulfill it and live the perfect Torah lifestyle as a example of how we should all strive to live. He was the final sacrifice needed and he opened Salvation up to the whole world so we could have the opportunity to be grafted in to the tree of G*d's chosen people. The Bible says that G*d allowed some branches(Jews) to fall off and for other branches(Gentiles) to be grafted in until the fullness of the Gentiles or when the last Gentile who would believe did. After that all of Israel will have the blinders G*d placed on them removed and they will see Yeshua as their Messiah. The crazy thing is that when we,gentiles,were grafted in we proceeded to cut off the Jewish root of the tree. Where did that get us? Well look at the church today,the thousands of denominations, there is no "root" to hold the tree together and they all fall off and grow wild. My answer to Jason's question about the "true church" is Messianic Judaism. I truly believe we are meant to follow the Law ,Jesus followed every jot and tittle, and the Bible states over and over we should strive to live as Jesus did. Now let me say,so as not to offend others, that I don't think you have to be a Messianic Jew/Torah-observant Christian to gain salvation. We are saved through grace and Jesus knows what is in our hearts. Two thousand years of corruption in the church has many sincere believers blinded to G*d's original plans. By the time we finished this discussion it was pretty late and we went to bed. After breakfast this morning I asked Jason if he was going to finish up on the house next door but he just grinned and said,"Nope,its the Sabbath." and he disappeared into the living room. I read this week's Torah Portion,Haftara,and NT verses to the kids. They completed their FFOZ activity books and headed off to play for awhile. I came in the living room to find Jason reading through a site about Messianic Judaism. Now this might not seem like a big deal to some but my husband does not read,not that he can't,he just hates to. So him doing research/reading both Friday and Saturday was a huge shock!! He usually just relies on me to tell him what I'm learning. I clearly did not want to interrupt him so I grabbed my Bible and FFOZ materials and went to study in my room. I finished about and hour later and came in here to find him still reading. He kept turning around and saying Megan you won't believe this. Did you know the church changed yada yada yada. Of course, I couldn't do anything but laugh,it hasn't been that long since I was at that point,and had to read everything I could get my hands on about it. Who am I kidding I'm still at this point!! I went to fix lunch and came back to find him frantically searching for a Messianic congregation in the area. He still isn't comfortable with the idea of a home meeting, although he said he may be in the future, but for now he wants to find a congregation. He found a few in Knoxville and said a hour and a half wasn't to far away. Again this elicited a chuckle from me since this is a man that said Cleveland ,a 20 minute drive, was to far to drive to go to church. He brought up the topic of modesty over lunch. Now let me just tell you its amazing what our L*rd can do because this is a topic that I've been mulling over for a week or two. I had not discussed this with Jason at all and yet he brings it up out of the blue. We talked about whether women/girls should wear dresses and I shared with him my thoughts on headcovering during Bible study and prayer. I had been reluctant to do this previously,although I felt led to do so, I didn't want to do anything my husband doesn't agree with or is not comfortable with. However, we agreed this would be ideal and now I am going to gradually start going to dresses only for Hope and I. It just amazes me what G*d is doing. On another note we have been having problem out of our water heater for a few weeks and we either had lukewarm or no hot water. When I turned the water on this morning we had very hot water. Nobody had done anything to it but it started working properly and has ever since. Now some will probably say I'm being far-fetched but it just seems ironic to me that my husband thus far had been lukewarm in his belief,kind of like that water, but when he woke up today and opened his heart to the L*rd, that water started running hot.It amazes me how much the kids are taking in as well. When we went grocery shopping this week Hope threw some bacon into the cart. Juan picked the package up and placed it back in the freezer. He told Hope that was made of pork,which we didn't eat,and proceeded to help her find turkey bacon. Tonight Jason asked when I was cooking dinner and Hope told him that we could not cook until the Sabbath ended. She has also taken to calling it Sabbath day instead of Saturday. I find it really cute but my mother did not. When Hope mentioned it to her on the telephone she proceeded to give me a "tongue-lashing" for taking this whole thing "to far" (something I never thought I'd hear from my mom) and confusing the kids. She said the Sabbath is on Sunday and I should tell the kids that. I was polite about it and basically just avoided the comment. Everything in me wanted to tell her to find me just one place in the Bible that said the Sabbath day was changed. However, I didn't want to cause a argument and I've had this discussion with her she can't find one because there isn't one.
We had a snack at about 6 p.m. and headed to Cleveland at 9 for a late supper. We timed it just right as the sun was setting as we arrived at Applebees. Its been a long time since we've been out to eat a "nice dinner". The kids were really well-behaved and we had a really nice time. All in all this Sabbath was fantastic and I praise the L*rd for answering my prayers.
Well that is all tonight. I'm sorry for grammatical/spelling errors but I am very excited and getting really sleepy. It doesn't make for the best circumstances to blog under but I had to share how G*d is working in my life.
