{"id":477,"date":"2022-05-22T08:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcusdavison.net\/bookoflife\/?p=477"},"modified":"2022-05-22T08:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:16:34","slug":"if-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.marcusdavison.net\/bookoflife\/if-then\/","title":{"rendered":"if &#8230; then"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"238\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcusdavison.net\/bookoflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rembrandt_Christ_in_the_Sto-e1649181332814.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-464\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.marcusdavison.net\/bookoflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rembrandt_Christ_in_the_Sto-e1649181332814.png 480w, http:\/\/www.marcusdavison.net\/bookoflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rembrandt_Christ_in_the_Sto-e1649181332814-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2116 22141.5782242<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u05e9\u05c1\u05d1\u05bc\u05ea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday, 05.21.2022 \u2013 Iyar 20, 5782<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments so as to carry them out, then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit. Leviticus 26:3-4 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;And if by these things you are not turned to Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins. Leviticus 26:23-24 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. Leviticus 26:27-28 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their forefathers, in their unfaithfulness which they committed against Me, and also in their acting with hostility against Me\u2014 I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies\u2014or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land. Leviticus 26:40-42 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD. Leviticus 26:2 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel could not harvest manna on the Sabbath &amp; we should not harvest on the sabbath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What person who has ever walked the earth know the most about Yahweh\u2019s Sabbath?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The one who says, &#8220;I have come to know Him,&#8221; and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. 1 John 2:4-6 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Not everyone who says to Me, &#8216;Lord, Lord,&#8217; will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. &#8220;Many will say to Me on that day, &#8216;Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?&#8217; &#8220;And then I will declare to them, &#8216;I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.&#8217; Matthew 7:21-23 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In your sanctuary, who\u2019s sabbath do you keep?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rule #1 \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. Genesis 2:3 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it the Creator\u2019s Sabbath \u2026 Constantin\u2019s sabbath \u2026 or your own sabbath?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Step #1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:16-21 NASB&nbsp; &#8220;For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. &nbsp;17&nbsp; &#8220;For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. &nbsp;18&nbsp; &#8220;He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. &nbsp;19&nbsp; &#8220;This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. &nbsp;20&nbsp; &#8220;For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. &nbsp;21&nbsp; &#8220;But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Odds are if you are raised in any of the current religious institutions and\/or doctrines, you are condemned to fail on an individual and corporate level never achieving spiritual fulfillment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that is a stumbling block!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2 Timothy 2:15 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Only you, the individual, can prevent destruction \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Of your family<\/li><li>Of your sanctuary<\/li><li>Of your city<\/li><li>Of your state &amp; 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Leviticus 26:23-24 NASB<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"5\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If our country does not repent, then it will only get worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"4\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Yet if in spite of this you do not obey Me, but act with hostility against Me, then I will act with wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will punish you seven times for your sins. 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