The Sabbath – Page 2 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

June 15–21, 2024

June 13, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Great Controversy, Sabbath School Commentary, The Sabbath

Lesson 12: “Earth’s Closing Events” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson, based on chapters 37 and 38 of The Great Controversy, reminds readers that […]

7. Galatians and the Law

June 6, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Let’s move from here then to the book of Galatians whose stated purpose is to respond to “Judaizing Christians” who were urging traditional Jewish worship on the newly […]

6. What About Paul and the Sabbath?

May 30, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician In the past, as a Sabbath keeper, I used the argument that since Paul kept the Sabbath, that was evidence that we should too. However, the Bible does […]

5. The Law Fulfilled

May 23, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So, I think you’ll agree that what Jesus is stating in Matthew 5:17 is that He has come to fulfill the entire Old Testament. Then in verse 18, […]

4. Jesus and Rituals

May 16, 2024 Guest Books, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Should our desire to follow Jesus’ example translate into Sabbath-keeping? I’d like to highlight a couple of points about how Jesus related to the rituals of his day. […]

3. Israel Learns of the Sabbath

May 9, 2024 Guest Books, Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician There is no record of Joseph getting in trouble in Potiphar’s house or in jail for keeping Sabbath. No record of Pharaoh desecrating the Sabbath by making the Jews […]

2. Did Abraham Keep the Sabbath?

May 2, 2024 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So we come to Abraham. God communes with him and they develop an amazing relationship. Paul says his faith was credited to him as righteousness, as […]

Is Sunday Sacred?

April 25, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Question: What do you say to people who advocate Sunday “sacredness” or keeping Sunday as a measure of one’s gratitude to God? This […]

1. Sabbath Not Changed

April 25, 2024 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Answering the question of why I no longer “keep” Sabbath in the manner I was raised is fairly common for me now days. Almost all other […]

What About the Ten Commandments

April 18, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Chris Badenhorst, Feature, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

CHRIS BADENHORST | What is the role of the Law in the Christian life? Are the Ten Commandments still binding on believers in Jesus Christ? Is the Decalogue still the […]

What Commandments Do Christians Follow?

March 7, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2007-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, New Covenant, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Law of God, The Sabbath

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: If the Ten Commandments came in with Moses and lasted only until Christ, as you say the new covenant teaches, then what […]

March 2–8, 2024

February 29, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary, The Sabbath

Lesson 10: “Lessons of the Past” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson looks briefly at several psalms which recount God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt and […]

Jesus Broke the Sabbath and Declared Himself God

February 22, 2024 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL with COLLEEN TINKER | Honestly, I find it difficult to read some online posts by Seventh-day Adventists with their spirit of superiority and their ridicule of the doctrines […]

Proof That We Must Keep the Law?

February 15, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2016-1 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Law of God, The Sabbath

DALE RATZLAFF Isn’t Matthew 5:17-19 proof that we have to continue keeping the law? Matthew 5:17-19 has been a proof text for many groups. It has also been a text […]

Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?

February 1, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]