4. A VITAL QUESTION: DO WE KNOW WHAT SIN IS? - WHAT IS THE
ESSENCE OF THE JUDGMENT?
Revelation 21:8, cited above, gives us a fairly detailed identification of sin. Many
other verses provide more detail.
In essence, the basis of the Judgment is defined in Exodus 20:
Exodus 19:16-20 & 20:1-19
"16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the
trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with Yah
{God}; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yah the eternally self
existing {the LORD} descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended
as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and Yah {God} answered him by a voice.
20 And Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} came down upon mount
Sinai, on the top of the mount: and Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD}
called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.
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CHAPTER 20
1 And Yah {God} spake all these words, saying,
2 I am Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} thy Mighty One {God},
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other mighty ones {gods} before me. (1)
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness
of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I Yah
the eternally self existing {the LORD} thy Mighty One {God} am a jealous Mighty
One {God}, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my
commandments. (2)
7 Thou shalt not take the name of Yah the eternally self existing {the
LORD} thy Mighty One {God} in vain; for Yah the eternally self existing {the
LORD} will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. (3)
8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of Yah the eternally self existing {the
LORD} thy Mighty One {God}: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy
son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor
thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} made heaven and
earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore
Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed
it. (4)
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} thy Mighty One {God}
giveth thee. (5)
13 Thou shalt not kill. (6)
14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. (7)
15 Thou shalt not steal. (8)
16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. (9)
17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy
neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,
nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. (10)
18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise
of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they
removed, and stood afar off.
19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not
Yah {God} speak with us, lest we die." (KJV, adjusted)
This is the only time in recorded history that i know of where the Almighty has
come down on a mountain in fire and smoke and SPOKEN to a large group of
human beings about His commandments.
Since the people asked that it never happen again, it seems likely that it has
never happened again.
Furthermore, in Deuteronomy 10:4 Moses (Moshe) states "And he [Yah the
eternally self existing] wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten
commandments, which Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} spake unto you
in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and Yah the
eternally self existing {the LORD} gave them unto me. (KJV, adjusted)
The Almighty, Himself, recorded the ten commandments on the tables (tablets)
of stone.
Stone indicates that these commandments will NEVER pass away.
It therefore seems clear that those commandments are the most important words
the Almighty has spoken to mankind. It is the writers clear understanding that
the entire basis of the Judgment and the essential basis of whether a person will
spend eternity in Heaven or the lake of fire will be based on these ten
commandments.
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