Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things"
2Ti 2:7.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

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February 7, 2023  · Penang 

A seven-day week is observed by every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation of mankind, of diverse cultures and vastly different religions. What's the explanation for this universal phenomenon; where did they get the idea come from?

"Get the answer to this question and you will see just how much of a grip God has on man…."

Genesis 2
1 ¶Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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By Reggie Lee

I can understand a month… this is a lunar cycle.
I can understand a day… this is a solar cycle.
I can understand a year… this is an orbital cycle.
I can understand an hour… this is a standard unit that equally divides the day. Along with minutes…
I can understand the original second… it is the measurement of time governed by striking a crystal and timing the wave lengths… and the atomic second makes even more sense… Atomic" second

Since 1967, the second has been defined as exactly "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom" (at a temperature of 0 K and at mean sea level).

But…. 7 days forming one week?
There is nothing astronomical or geological which corresponds to a 7 day period.

Measuring out time using a week has never fit into a month, year, decade or century perfectly.

How is it that all the cultures of the world go by a seven-day week cycle?

Get the answer to this question and you will see just how much of a grip God has on man….