Idolatry

We have seen Christian people on television saying that when they kept the Sabbath day God blessed them financially. They say that they kept the feasts of the Old Testament and therefore God blessed them with cars and boats. They say this to lure people into their trap.

They say we must keep these Old Covenant feasts days, not by going to Jerusalem as the Old Testament demanded, but by giving offerings instead. They claim that each feast day we are to give offerings to the ministries. Not only is this falsely preaching the law, but it is done to gain money. These are doctrines of covetousness, idolatry:

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgement now for a long time lingers not and their damnation slumbers not. (2 Pet 2:3).

There are many who have followed Balaam, who prophesy and invent doctrines for reward: “Woe to them, for they…ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward…” (Jude 11).

Let no man judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: which things are a shadow of the things to come; but the body (substance) is of Christ. (Col 2:16-17).

Holding the shadow and not the person of Christ is adultery. We have met sabbatarians who hold the shadow, who hold the law and they are deceived by the enemy and are in adultery against Christ, in who dwells the fullness of the Godhead. They are in bondage to the Sabbaths and to rejecting of foods, but do not keep all the law and so are under a curse.

Many others invent doctrines to get money out of people and then for a fee they go around the world using those teachings to raise money for other ministries. The television has plenty of this today. Most of what they preach is using scripture out of context.