Showing posts with label sabbath. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Apostate



In the Artscroll Chumash commentary, in Parshah Bo, it says an "alienated person" may not partake of the Passover (Seder). An alienated person is then defined as someone who is not Jewish, or an "apostate".

An apostate is defined as someone who: worships idols, desecrates the Sabbath, or denies the validity of any of the Torah's commandments.

This reminded me of something Rabbi Paul said in his second letter to Thessalonica. In reassuring those of the Way that the Mashiach would not come until several things happened first, he wrote that there was to be a "falling away". The Greek word here transliterated is apostasy. With a Jewish filter, we see that the apostasy of the Last Days will include: the worshipping of idols, the desecration of the Sabbath, and the denial of the validity of Torah commandments!