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Dear Brothers and Sisters in IAUA (ee-ah-oo-ah) our Father,

Greetings on this day of preparation for the weekly Sabbath. I pray this newsletter finds you in good health and happy in the service of IAUA. This is the 29th day of the 12th month of God's Sacred Calendar in the estimated year 6018 Anno Mundi.

The Spring Sabbaths begin in 2 weeks and one day. God's New Year's Day is the first Sabbath of Unleavened Bread, the 15th day of the 1st month (Sunday, April 5th of the 2015, Gregorian Calendar, at sunset Saturday, April 4th).

On God's Calendar the Sacred month begins on the world day after lunar conjunction and the sacred year begins with God's New Year's Day after the spring equinox (Spring Passover Rule). The Millerite Calendar (Spring New Moon Rule) is the same this year. The Calculated Rabbinical Calendar is one day early.


I have been pondering the extremes of the way God's Law is viewed by the Jewish religion and the Seventh-day Adventist denomination. Both are trapped in traditions that corrupt the Law of God. Judaism adds rabbinical rules to God's Law and Adventism subtracts whatever parts of God's Law they want, by calling it the Law of Moses and then nailing it to the cross. Adventism is unknowingly trapped in the traditions it inherited from the Great Apostasy. The prophet Moses was warned of this by God and he warned the people of his day. This is instructive for us today.

Deuteronomy 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Moses repeated it to emphasize the problem.

Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

It was of course God's commands through Moses and not those of Moses alone. I am remembering a powerful chapter in the Third Elijah Message book that elaborates on this subject and an interesting graphic illustrating some relationships between tradition and obedience.

http://www.ThirdElijahMessage.info/JewishTradition.html

Our Savior (prior to His incarnation) spoke to Aaron and Miriam about the special relationship He had with their brother Moses.

Numbers 12:6-8
6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
7 My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?

Those who reject the Law of Moses need to remember his special relationship to our Savior. They need to consider that last question from our Savior. Why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? They also need to remember His parting words found in the end of the Original Testament.

Malachi 4:4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, statutes and judgments.

Our Savior repeated His viewpoint on the importance of His instructions to Moses in the Renewed Testament.

Matthew 23:1-3
1 Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples,
2 saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses seat:
3 all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.

No matter how much He said against their actions and their doctrines, He affirmed that when they spoke of what Moses said, they/we should do it.

Matthew 16:6,11-12
6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
...
11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Adventism has so twisted the Word of God that someone who obeys and teaches the Law of Moses is called a pharisee.

Are you adding or subtracting from God's Law?

I pray we may all continue to seek love, peace, and unity in truth preparing for the soon coming of IAUShUO (ee-ah-oo-shoo-oh) Messiah, the Son of God.

Frank T. Clark
Eliau@IAUA.name
www.IAUA.name

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