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Doctrine & History

The Church of God (Seventh Day) represents a line of believers dedicated to restoring and preserving the faith and practices of the apostolic primitive church. Grounded firmly in the Holy Scriptures, our journey is defined by a commitment to scriptural truth, the observance of the biblical seventh-day Sabbath, and the proclamation of Jesus Christ as Savior. Through decades of fellowship, we continue to trace our roots back to the early believers who faithfully kept the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

Doctrine & History

JERUSALEM
Condensed From the Book
"THE HISTORY OF THE TRUE CHURCH"
-- BY DUGGER AND DODD
Reprinted by A.N. Dugger,
Editor of The "Mount Zion Reporter",
a Monthly Magazine, published at Jerusalem, Israel.

DOCTRINE AND HISTORY OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH

It is a well known fact to all who have read the Holy Scriptures that the "Chosen People," blessed and led of Heaven, are known as "ISRAEL," How they were miraculously led from Egypt through the wilderness and into the promised land is familiar history. The Prophet Isaiah informed us in advance that the name Israel was to be changed. He said of the Jews that they would be removed info far countries. Also he said, "Their seed shall be known among the Gentiles .... and all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed". Isaiah 61:9. Then in the following chapter (62:2), He says, "And thou shalt be called by a NEW NAME, which the MOUTH of the LORD shall name". Then a little farther on in chapter 65:12-15 He says, "Therefore I will number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter. Because when I called you did not answer, and when I spoke you did not hear, but did evil before mine eyes ... And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the Lord shall slay thee, and call HIS SERVANTS BY ANOTHER name".

THE NEW NAME

Was to be given WHEN the Gentile received the Word, Isaiah 62:2. Was to be given by the mouth of the Lord. Isaiah 62:2. Was to be given to HIS SERVANTS. Isaiah 65:15. Was to be given after the Messiah came, and Israel was scattered and punished, Isaiah 65:9-15. The Messiah was this inheritor. Verse 9. He came from the seed of Jacob.

NAME GIVEN PROPHECY FULFILLED

This inheritor came forth from Judah and was born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2). Then the Jews were given up. Verse 3. He was and is the son of the Heavenly Father. Isaiah 7:14, also 9:6-7, and 11:1, and the 53rd chapter. He is the Lord Jesus (Yehshua), and he gave the NEW NAME to the church. Note the words of the prophet, --- The mouth of the Lord shall give the new name, Isaiah 62:2. He gave the new name. Read St. John 17:6, 11-12, 16, where he repeatedly informs us that he gave the name of the Father for the church. The reason is very simple indeed, tha the children of this one family are to be given the name of their Father. The apostle Paul understood this when he said, "I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of WHOM the whole family in heaven and earth "Is named." Ephesians 3:14-15. How wonderfully was this prophecy fulfilled and the new name given. Just 12 times in the New Testament we find the name "The Church of God." The text are as follows, 1 Cor. 1:2, and 10:32, also 11:16, 22, and 15:9. 2 Cor. 1:1, Gal 1:13, 1 Thes. 2:14, 2 Thes. 1:4, Acts 20:28, and 1 Tim. 3:5, 15. In the Hebrew New Testament it is Assembly, Congregation, or Church, (Hebrew Kenesyah).

FAITH AND DOCTRINE

The Messiah called unto himself 12 apostles, (Luke 6:14-16 and taught them for three years and a half, until he, as the lamb was sacrificed on the cross, Isaiah 53, and Hebrews 9:22 and chapter 10. Then after his ascension the Spirit was sent forth to the ten commandments are repeatedly spoken of and emphasized as the standard of right and wrong, but the transgressors receive justification and pardon by faith in the blood shedding of the Messiah instead of by the old system of pardon given by Moses. This old pardon law by the animal sacrifice is stoutly condemned throughout the New Testament, and spoken of as the law of bondage, given only until the seed should come which was the Messiah. Gal. 3:19. Paul's conclusion after giving a discussion of the law is, --- "Do we then make void the law through faith. God forbid, yea we establish the law." Rom. 3:31.

THE NEW TESTAMENT LAW AND COMMANDMENTS

Salvation does not come to people through the keeping of any law, but only through the power of the Holy Spirit, drawing the sinner to repentance, changing and regenerating his heart, sanctifying and causing a complete separation from the world for service. Then through the Word, the will of God is revealed, and he will walk in the light of truth. St. John says, "But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son cleanseth us from all sin". 1 John 1:7. Note carefully also in the next chapter just a few verses on, we are told to keep the commandments, Chapter 2:3, 5, and also that sin is the transgression of the law Chapter 3:4. The power of the Holy Spirit in the life gives us overcoming victory, so we can crucify the flesh and keep the commandments. The natural man cannot keep the law, for the law, Paul tells, "Is Holy, Just and Good". Rom. 7:12. This is why we are told that only through the power of the Spirit, can we be obedient servants. Romans 8:7. Please notice the following scripture, --- Matt. 5:17-19, and 7:21-23. Romans 2:13, and 3:31, also 7:12, 22, Rom. 8:7, 1 Cor. 7:19, 1 John 2:3-4, and 3:4, also 5:3, Rev. 12:17 and 14:12, also 22:14.

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

All of the congregations in Judea in the days of the early church were know as --- "The churches of God", (Keneseyah), --- 1 Thes. 2:14. This name together with the creed or doctrine of the commandments and the faith of Jesus, (Hebrew Yehshua), has been preserved down through history unot the present time, and the same body with the same faith still exist today. It is also restored back to Jerusalem and the Holy Land from whence it sprang nearly two thousand years ago, and remained until 70 A.D. Then the members fled with the Jews at the time of the Roman invasion. Now as the Jews have returned, the same church with the same doctrine has returned with them.

In speaking of the church in Palestine at that time, "Hue Smith's Church History" says, "The church escaped the horrors of the siege of Jerusalem by following the warning of Christ (Matt. 24) and fleeing to the mountains beyond the Jordan. This timely retreat was made to the small town of Pella." We read in the book, "Hulbert's Story of The Christian Church" --- Pages 41 and 42, as follows, "From the utterances of Yehshua, the church received warning, escaping the doomed city found refuge at Pella in the Jordan valley".

In the history of the "Christian Church by Hugo" --- Pages 50, and 51 we read, "The first fifteen Bishops of Jerusalem were all Jews excepting possibly one (St. Mark), and the congregation over which they presided united the teachings of Moses with the doctrine of Christ." In the "Anti-Nicean Fathers volume 1 we read," In the second century Ignitus wrote to the Smyrnaeans thus, "To the Church of God in Smyrna" --- Page 79. Also "The Church of God in Philadephia." This was in the 4th century A.D.

We quote from "The International Standard Dictionary" recently purchased at Jerusalem, volume 3, Page 1613 as follows, "When Hadrian visited Jerusalem in 130 A.D. one of the few buildings left standing was the little "Church of God" on the site where the apostle returning after the ascension of the Savior from Olivet had gone up to the upper room, for there it had been built, that is to say on the quarter of Zion."

We quote from the "Church History by Lewis" --- page 8 as follows, "The ancient synod Laodicea made a decree against the Sabbath 321 A.D. (Chapter 29) Pope Gregory the great, affirmed that it was Judaizing." From "Hulbert's Story of The Christian Church" page 45, we quote as follows, "As long as the church was mainly Jewish, the Hebrew Sabbath was kept, but as it became increasingly Gentile the first day gradually took the place of the seventh day."

In the "Ecclesiastical History" --- Volume 1, chapter 2, Section 30, we read, "While the Jewish christians of Palestine retained the entire Mosaic law, and consequently the Jewish festivals, the Gentile Christians observed also the Sabbath and the Passover. (1 Cor. 5:6-8)."

Another book, "Church History Apostolic Age to 70 A.D. by Lewis S and S" --- Page 135 "While the Christians of Palestine who kept the whole Jewish law celebrated of course all the Jewish festivals, the heathen (Gentile) converts observed only the Sabbath."

DR. ARIUS

R. Arius, the most talented and intellectual spiritual leader of the 4th century was a staunch observer of the 7th day Sabbath and observed the Lord's Supper (Article Creation - Not completed) Still in progress.
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