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1. Every time a Sabbatarian sees the expression "the commandments" or "My commandments", they automatically think exclusively of the 10 commandments! Yet here are many passages where these common expressions refer to what Sabbatarians would call "the Ceremonial Law of Moses" and NOT the 10 commandments!

 The phrases "commandments", "The commandments" "my commandments", "the Lord commanded", "what Moses commanded" are uses so many times in the Old Testament in reference to what Adventists call the Ceremonial law to the exclusion of the 10 commandments, it would take 10 pages to list all the verses!

Lev 27:34 These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.

Num 36:13 These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded

Deut 30:10 obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law

Jesus defined the commandants to include the Law of Moses: Mt 19:17-19 Jesus said: "keep the commandments." The man replied "Which ones?" And Jesus said, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself"

2. Every time a Sabbatarian sees the expression "Statutes, Ordinances and Decrees", they automatically exclude the 10 commandments and apply it only to what they falsely call, "the ceremonial law" Yet here are many passages where these common expressions refer to the 10 commandments exclusively: (or at least in part include)

II. 10 proofs that the 10 commandments are called "Statutes, Ordinances and Decrees":
(In no particular order so read them all carefully.)

This verse is most powerful, because the very first statutes and the ordinances Moses speaks is the 10 commandments! "Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. " (Deuteronomy 5:1)

This is powerful because the weekly Sabbath is referred to twice as "my statutes and my ordinances". "I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness." (Ezekiel 20:19-21)

This is powerful because Malachi closes the book with an admonition to keep God's law and only mentions statutes and judgments that obviously must include the 10 commandments. It would be unthinkable for him to give a grand call to keep God's law and leave the 10 commandments out of this call! "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments." (Malachi 4:4)

This is powerful because the ten commandments given at Sinai, specifically the weekly Sabbath, are called "right judgments, true laws, good statutes, commandments" without differentiating between any of them. Sabbatarians will argue that the Jews would apply "commandments" to the Sabbath and "statutes" to the cerimonial law, but such a distinction was never used by the Jews, nor can it be proven in the Bible. This distinction is a Sabbatarian myth unsupported by the Bible and the record of history. "Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:" (Nehemiah 9:13-14) They had the "the book of the law of the Lord their God" (9:3) read to them and all the people "all they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God" (9:4) and said, you gave us the weekly Sabbath! In other words, they learned about the Sabbath from the book of the law!

Lev 19 is perhaps the most powerful chapter in the Bible to prove the Sabbatarian distinction between the ten commandments and the ceremonial law is a false distinction.

1. The chapter represents a complete unit of thought. This proven by the fact it opens with "Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying" and closes with "Thus You shall observe all My statures and all My ordinances".
2. There is no distinction between the 10 commandments and the ceremonial law in this chapter. Such a distinction simply does not exist and cannot be shown in any way. The laws are randomly given as a well shuffled deck of cards.
3. In the very middle of the section, it calls the contents: "My statures"
4. The section concludes by calling the contents of the chapter "My statures and all My ordinances".
5. To the horror of Seventh-day Adventists, the words "law" and "commandment" is not found even once. It is almost as if the Holy Spirit wanted to prove once for all that there is no distinction between what Adventists call the 10 commandments and the ceremonial law.
6. Of course Adventists would love to merely call the references to Sabbath in this text as the yearly feast day Sabbaths, and boldly proclaim there is no reference to the weekly Sabbath. But that won't help in Lev 19, because the section quotes a total of 5 of the ten commandments, the weekly Sabbath being only one. So if the section does not refer to the weekly Sabbath, there are 4 of the ten commandments left that are still called, "My statures and all My ordinances".
7. The final nail in the coffin, of the false doctrine that there is a distinction between what Adventists call the 10 commandments and the ceremonial law, is the fact that Deut 5:1 starts off by saying, "Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully. " (Deut 5:1) Then to the horror of all Sabbatarians, the very next thing Moses says is the 10 commandments!

1. Most importantly please notice that these two chapters, that deal exclusively with the 10 commandments, starts off with "statutes and the ordinances" and does not use the word "Law" or "Commandments". This is most troubling and confusing to Sabbatarians who view the 10 commandments as "Law" or "Commandments" and not as "statutes and the ordinances"
2. The word "Law" is never found in the two chapters!
3. It begins calling the 10 commandments statutes and the ordinances (5:1) and concludes the section calling the 10 commandments "God commanded us to observe all these statutes"
4. Through out the two chapter section the following 5 terms are used interchangeably: "statutes", "ordinances", "commandments", "judgments", "testimonies".
5. Most troubling for the Sabbatarian who want to create a false distinction between 10 commandments and the ceremonial law, all these 5 terms are applied exclusively to the 10 commandments, yet Adventists would normally apply 4 of the 5 terms exclusively to what they falsely label the ceremonial law.
6. Within the two chapters, the exclusive context is the 10 commandments and no "ceremonial laws" are recorded! This means that Seventh-day Adventists cannot try to say, as they do in other passages, that the term, "commandments" applies to the ten commandments and the terms, "statutes", "ordinances", "judgments", "testimonies" refers to the ceremonial laws listed in the two chapters. But none are listed, only the 10 commandments!

Lev 23 The Weekly Sabbath is lumped in with all the yearly Sabbaths without distinction and they are all called "The Lord's appointed times" and "holy convocations".

1. The section introduces and concludes calling the all the special days, "The Lord's appointed times" and "holy convocations".
2. The Weekly Sabbath is lumped in with all the other yearly Sabbaths without distinction!
3. It also concludes saying, "These are the appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each day's matter on its own day— besides those of the sabbaths of the Lord".
4. This is critical to proving there is no distinction because the weekly Sabbath was revealed weeks before the yearly Sabbaths.
5. So the expression, "besides those of the sabbaths of the Lord" shows that the yearly Sabbaths are more of the same kind of holy day without distinction.
6. The final proof is that all these days, including the weekly Sabbath had animal sacrifices directly associated with them, without distinction, hence they are all called "appointed times and holy convocations" ... "to present offerings by fire to the Lord".

Ezek 20 calls the first and fourth commandment, My statutes and My ordinances:

1. 100% of the context deals with the first and fourth commandments. There are only two sins discussed, Idol worship and breaking the weekly Sabbath!
2. There are no "ceremonial laws" in the section even hinted at.
3. Neither the word, "law" or "commandment" are found in the section.
4. The words, "feast, festivals, holy days" etc are not found in the section.
5. The 1st and 4th commandment (the weekly Sabbath) are called "My statutes and My ordinances".

1. Interchangeability of terms in Nehemiah 8:1-18 proves there is no distinction found in the Old Testament laws of God and Moses! Nehemiah 8 uses interchangeably without distinction the following terms: "the book of the law of Moses", "the law", "the book of the law", "the law of God", "book of the law of God".
2. Nehemiah is seen reading from the book of the law, which contained two copies of the ten commandments, every day. V18. This went on for some time.
3. Within the same section of thought, on one particular day of reading "the book of the law of the Lord their God" (9:3) the people "all they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God" (9:4).
4. They then write a document that runs from 9:5-9:37. "Now because of all this We are making an agreement in writing; And on the sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests." Nehemiah 9:38.
5. Most significant is Nehemiah 9:13-14: "Then You came down on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven; You gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments. "So You made known to them Your holy sabbath, And laid down for them commandments, statutes and law, Through Your servant Moses. " (Nehemiah 9:13-14)
6. They had the "the book of the law of the Lord their God" (9:3) read to them and all the people "all they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God" (9:4) and said, you gave us the weekly Sabbath! In other words, they learned about the Sabbath from the book of the law!
7. This proves that the section in Nehemiah 8 does refer to the 10 commandments, yet Nehemiah 8 uses interchangeably without distinction the following terms: "the book of the law of Moses", "the law", "the book of the law", "the law of God", "book of the law of God".
8. This effectively refutes the Sabbatarian notion that Neh 8 deals only with what they falsely call the ceremonial law.

Col 2:14 & Eph 2:15 refer to the whole of the Old Covenant law including the ten commandments

Col 2:14

Eph 2:15

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