God incarnated to restore the omissions. Two thousand years ago He made the Nine to be Ten again. The real commandments in the Three were given; it had been made clear what they were. The correct interpretation of each of the Ten-C was given. And so the Ten-C should read like this:
2 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 1: LOVE
29 Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. MARK 12
39 Love your neighbor as yourself. MATTHEW 22
20 For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And [God] has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 JOHN 4
Commandment No. 2: HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME
3 You shall have no other gods before Me. 4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 3: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP A LOVE-RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5
Commandment No. 4: OBSERVE THE SABBATHS
13 Observe My Sabbaths. EXODUS 31
Commandment No. 5: HONOR YOUR PARENTS
16 Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the Lord is giving you. DEUTERONOMY 5
Commandment No. 6: COMMIT NO MURDER
13 You shall not murder. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 7: COMMIT NO ADULTERY
14 You shall not commit adultery. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 8: DO NOT STEAL
15 You shall not steal. EXODUS 20
Commandment No. 9: SPEAK ONLY TO BUILD AND FIRM UP LOVE-RELATIONSHIPS WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS
6 Do not let your mouth lead you into sin. ECCLESIASTES 5
Commandment No. 10: DO NOT COVET
21 You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. DEUTERONOMY 5We shall scrutinize and understand each of the commandments in the succeeding chapters of this book. Meanwhile, do not think the Ten-C suffered no more corruption. It continues to be corrupted.
Corruption in Our Age
The Catechism of the Catholic Church lists the Ten-C as follows:
1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Catholic churches and schools in the Philippines display two stone tablets that list the Ten-C accordingly. Now take note of the corruptions:
Again the LOVE commandment—Commandment No. 1—is omitted!
Commandment No. 10 is fragmentized into two (as Commandment No. 9 and Commandment No. 10) to hide the omission.
Do not commit murder in Commandment No. 5 is altered to read “Do not kill.” It makes a big difference. “Do not commit murder” gives the God-worshiper the right to defend himself and, if necessary, to kill in self-defense. “Do not kill” inculcates the wrong teaching that he should not kill at all, not even in self-defense.
Commandment No. 2 (which forbids idolatry) is cut short. These words are omitted:
4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to idols or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. EXODUS 20
In Commandment No. 4, Lord’s Sabbath is replaced with “Lord’s Day.” What’s the difference? Rest to the Lord is moved to the first day of the week (Sunday). Overruled is God’s command for everyone to rest from secular or mundane work, and to attend “sacred assembly,” on the seventh day (Saturday).
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. EXODUS 20
21 If they love their lives, they must not carry any load on the Sabbath. They must not carry anything in through the gates of Jerusalem 22 or carry anything out of their houses on the Sabbath. They must not work on the Sabbath. They must observe the Sabbath as a holy day, as I commanded their ancestors. JEREMIAH 173 The seventh day is a day of sacred assembly. LEVITICUS 23
The Seventh-Day Sabbath is only one of the Sabbaths. “Observe My Sabbaths,” says God in Exodus 31:13 and Leviticus 19:30. Sabbath observance is limited to one, to the wrong one.
Terrible Consequences
God has spoken but His Word is being corrupted. What’s the bottom line?
False teachings fill our minds. We become ignorant of the truth and accept the counterfeit as genuine.
The light of reason is obscured and the human will goes astray. Our actions and religious orientation become anomalous. They do not tally with the Word of God.
Christianity has continued but not in its original form.
False teachings keep us in bondage. We insist on observing killer lies, take pride in them and espouse them to our loved ones. We are given to practices that disobey the Word and to a mindset that says it’s okay to disobey. We think that what we are doing is righteous and acceptable to God, when in fact it is not.
Division, conflict and alienation creep in as we are given to different faiths.
God is greatly displeased. The impure stay impure. Lucifer loves it!
Second Death
Stop the corruption! He who breaks any one of God’s instructions—the Love Commandment or the Sabbath Commandment for example—sins (1 John 3:4). He shares the fate that awaits murderers, adulterers and plunderers. He shall enter the Second Death, which is the second level of the realm of the dead. The humankind currently walks on the first level.
3 “God did say, ‘You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” 4 “You will not surely die,” the serpent [Lucifer] said to the woman. GENESIS 3
12 Sin entered the world through one man… and in this way death came to all men. ROMANS 5
On the Day of Judgment, nothing impure will enter the kingdom of God (Revelation 21:27). God is a God of purity and His kingdom, a kingdom of purity. The impure will be thrown into the Second Death. Revelation 19:20 describes it as the lake of fire and sulfur. The impure will be degraded further and estranged farther from God. Their poverty and suffering will intensify.
A Catholic friend remarked, “I may be ignorant of the Word but if in good faith I remain faithful to the teachings of my church, then perhaps God would spare me. Maybe I could escape the Second Death.”
Brother, ignorance of the Word is no excuse for our sins; it’s death.17 If a person sins and does what is forbidden in any of the Lord’s commands, even though he does not know it, he is guilty and will be held responsible. LEVITICUS 5
4 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. EZEKIEL 18 kjv
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